The North American Journal of Homeopathy, Volume 9

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American Medical Union, 1861
 

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Pagina 152 - Strip the body, and rub it dry ; then wrap it in hot blankets, and place it in a warm bed in a warm chamber free from smoke.
Pagina 152 - The friction must be continued under the blanket or over the dry clothing. Promote the warmth of the body by the application of hot flannels, bottles, or bladders of hot water, heated bricks, &c., to the pit of the stomach, the arm-pits, between the thighs, and to the soles of the feet.
Pagina 685 - As for the possibility, they are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
Pagina 324 - And as incredible praises given unto men do often abate and impair the credit of their deserved commendation ; so we must likewise take great heed, lest in attributing unto Scripture more than it can have, the incredibility of that do cause even those things which indeed it hath most abundantly to be less reverently esteemed.
Pagina 40 - The impulse is synchronous with, and caused by, the ventricular contraction, — and when felt externally, arises from the striking of the apex of the heart against the thorax. 2d. The expulsion of the blood from the ventricles is effected by an approximation of the sides of the heart only, and not by a contraction of the apex towards the base ; during the systole the heart performs a spiral movement, and becomes elongated.
Pagina 114 - ... spasmodic tightness of the chest, as if the lungs could not be fully expanded ; oppression to an agonizing degree; heart congested and distended, with small pulse.
Pagina 371 - China, [4322]"so that the liver be not incensed," good for such as are cold, as most melancholy men are, but by no means to be mentioned in hot. The Turks have a drink called coffee (for they use no wine), so named of a berry as black as soot, and as bitter, (like that black drink which was in use amongst the Lacedaemonians, and perhaps the same,) which they sip still of, and sup as warm as they can suffer...
Pagina 173 - I will add, that all I saw were true cases of cholera, in the various stages of the disease ; and that I saw several cases which did well under your treatment, which I have no hesitation in saying would have sunk under any other. In conclusion, I must repeat to you, what I have already told you, and what I have told every one with whom I have conversed, that although an allopath by principle, education, and practice, yet was it the will of Providence to afflict me with cholera, and to deprive me...
Pagina 179 - I made a series of observations with reference to the cretaceous masses and puckerings so frequently observed at the apices of the lungs in persons advanced in life. The conclusion arrived at was that the spontaneous arrestment of tubercle in its early stage occurred in the proportion of from one-third to one-half of all the individuals who die after the age of forty.
Pagina 152 - Put bladders or bottles of hot water or heated bricks to the pit of the stomach, the arm-pits, between the thighs, and to the soles of the feet. Foment the body with hot flannels.

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