The British Journal of Homoeopathy, Volume 30

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Maclachlan, Stewart, & Company, 1872
 

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Página 204 - A regular record has been kept from day to day, describing the least change of symptoms, but 1 have not the space to introduce it here. Suffice it that even in this extreme case the beneficial effects of this wonderful remedial agent have been most apparent. The pain has steadily declined, the diseased parts are less tumefied and sensitive, and the discharge is very slightly offensive. The cachectic appearance of this patient has much improved, and she expresses herself as feeling altogether better....
Página 203 - ... whole tumor is very much flattened, the discharge is different and not near so offensive. The greatest improvement is in her complexion. From a tallowy, puffylooking, and somewhat bluish skin, she is regaining her old natural look, the skin shrinking, becoming wrinkled and clear. " I am so happy in the prospect of a cure that I feel like a new man, as though a ton of lead had been lifted from my heart. Is it not a little singular, it has not had any perceptible effect on her nervous system ?...
Página 204 - ... discharging a brownish, cancerous, limpid fluid; the countenance bloated, tallowy-looking, with a bluish pallor of the whole face; the lips turned blue at the least exertion, so that I have been very much alarmed, fearing a rapid crisis and dissolution; at the same time the tumor itself enlarged with fearful rapidity, so much so that I could notice the growth from day to day. " Now all is changed — the countenance has resumed its old, familiar look; she moves about with great sprightliness,...
Página 198 - by practising or professing to practise according to an exclusive theory or dogma, and by belonging to a Society whose purpose is at variance with the principles of, and tends to disorganize, the Massachusetts Medical Society.
Página 206 - It is of a gray color, slightly ribbed or fluted longitudinally from corrugation, the result of drying ; it increases in thickness in the ratio of increase of the stem — in the thicker branches constituting more than half the weight of the whole, in the thinner somewhat less than half; readily separable...
Página 263 - ... from those seen in attacks of hay-fever. Sir Ranald Martin, from whose work I have already quoted, gives the following description of the sun-fever — heat apoplexy — of tropical climates : — " First, we have vertigo and headache, with sense of burning in the eyes, the conjunctiva being injected; a full and frequent pulse, vomiting, great heat, sometimes floridness, of the skin, a devouring thirst, oppressed respiration, and swollen face. Then come lividness, sinking and running of the pulse,...
Página 437 - From the direction of the wind whenever it has fallen, and from its having always fallen during those months when the harmattan is known to raise clouds of dust high into the atmosphere, we may feel sure that it all comes from Africa. It is, however, a very singular fact, that, although Professor Ehrenberg knows many species of infusoria peculiar to Africa, he finds none of these in the dust which I sent him : on the other hand...
Página 202 - I determined promptly to test its merits by actual experiment, regardless of the charges and possible opposition to which I knew my honest efforts would be subjected by the hypercritical and ungenerous of my professional confreres. Fortunately, several cases of unequivocal carcinoma were then under treatment. Accustomed to the remorseless ravages of a malady for which even the surgeon's knife afforded no adequate relief, I approached the experiment not without misgivings of success, but with the...
Página 202 - ... else producing some slight fever. This is not a mere question of doctrinal pathology. It is among the first necessities for success in practice that, in the total phenomena of a disease observed in any patient, you should be able to estimate what belongs to the disease and what to the man. A farmer may as well expect success if he sows his fields without regard to their soils or to the weeds that may
Página 437 - The dust falls in such quantities as to dirty everything on board, and to hurt people's eyes ; vessels even have run on shore owing to the obscurity of the atmosphere. It has often fallen on ships when several hundred, and even more than a thousand, miles from the coast of Africa, and at points sixteen hundred miles distant in a north and south direction.

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