Yet some physicians make their dilutions thus, and insist upon the superiority of the centecimal over the decimal attenuations.
Whatever ratio is adopted, should be accurately followed. Have true scales for weighing solids, and a graduated measure marked from ten drops up to one hundred for liquids; then always weigh or measure accurately the medicine, as well as the substance with which it is to be attenuated.
The measure and mortar, after using them for one medicine, can be cleaned preparatory for another, with scalding water, rinsing them with purified Alcohol, then drying.
Never smoke or chew Tobacco in any place, but if you are such a slave to habit, that you must do it despite your good sense and better judgment, never do either, or have tobacco or any other odoriferous substance about your person when you are preparing medicines, or they are exposed to the air. Keep the medicines excluded from the light and air as far as practicable.
Triturate the powders thoroughly for an hour or more upon each, and shake the dilution from fifty to one hundred times, more for the higher attenuations.
It is better to medicate pellets in large bottles, filling them half or two-thirds full, put in just liquid enough to wet every one, but not so as to dissolve any. Shake them until all are equally wet, and let them stand for four or five days, if practicable, shaking them up two or three times a day until all are dry.
INDEX.
- Administration of Remedies, [11]
- Ague, [22]
- Ague, preventive treatment of, [153]
- Asthma, [57]
- Aphthæ, [90]
- Asiatic Cholera, [104]
- Amenorrhœa, [129]
- Ague in the breast, [135]
- Attenuation of medicines, [151]
- Bathing, [12]
- Bilious Fever, [26]
- Preventive treatment of, [153]
- Bronchitis, [51]
- Burns and Scalds, [64]
- Bilious Colic, [19]
- Brain Fever, [70]
- Bee stings, [75]
- Bite of Rattlesnake, [77]
- Bruises, [95]
- Cholera Case, [3]
- Colic, [18]
- Colic, Bilious, [19]
- Cholera Morbus, [21]
- Cholera, Asiatic, [104]
- Preventive treatment of, [153]
- Chill Fever, [22]
- Continued Fever, [28]
- Catarrhal Fever, [28]
- Cough, [52]
- Colds, [57]
- Colds, Preventive treatment of, [154]
- Croup, [55]
- Constipation, [62]
- Chilblains, [69]
- Convulsions of Children, [72]
- Crusta Lactea, [122]
- Carbuncle, [122]
- Diarrhœa, [14]
- Preventive treatment of, [154]
- Dysentery, [16]
- Preventive treatment of, [154]
- Diet, Rules for, [13]
- Dyspepsia, [58]
- Diseases of Females, [129]
- Dysmenorrhœa, [131]
- Enteritis, [53]
- Erysipelas, [62]
- Epistaxis, [81]
- Earache, [84]
- Foreign Substances in the Ear or Nose, [144]
- Fevers, [22]
- Intermittent, [22]
- Chill, [22]
- Fits of Children, [72]
- Felon, [126]
- Flowing, [132]
- Female weakness, [138]
- Gastritis, [54]
- Hooping Cough, [58]
- Heartburn, [62]
- Hoarseness, [70]
- Headache, [78]
- Sick, [80]
- Introduction, [5]
- Intermittent Fever, Ague, [22]
- Inflammation of the Lungs, [49]
- Inflammation of the Brain, [70]
- Inflammation of the Bowels, [53]
- Inflamed Eyes, [91]
- Incontinence of Urine, [117]
- Involuntary urination (nightly), [117]
- Itch, [120]
- Itch, preventive treatment of, [154]
- Inflamed Breast, [135]
- Inflammation of the Uterus, [140]
- Jaundice, [120]
- Local application of Remedies, [145]
- Leucorrhœa, [138]
- Mammary Abscess, [135]
- Menorrhagia, [132]
- Measles, [73]
- Mumps, [74]
- Morning sickness of pregnant females, [143]
- Nursing Sore-mouth, [133]
- Nosebleed, [81]
- Neuralgia, [118]
- Nightly urination of Children, [117]
- Otalgia, [84]
- Ophthalmia, [91]
- Preparation of medicine, [155]
- Pleurisy, [48]
- Prolapsus Uteri, [138]
- Pneumonia, [49]
- Piles, [97]
- Painful urination, [117]
- Painful menstruation, [131]
- Profuse menstruation, [132]
- Preventives of Disease, [151]
- Quinsy, [53]
- Rheumatism, [30]
- Rheumatic Fever, [29]
- Remitting Fever, [27]
- Rattlesnake bite, [77]
- Scarlet Fever, [35]
- Preventive treatment of, [151]
- Sore Throat, [52]
- Scalds, [64]
- Stings of Insects, [75]
- Sick Headache, [79]
- Sore-mouth of Children, [90]
- Sea Sickness, [103]
- Small-Pox, [110]
- Preventive treatment of, [153]
- Scald Head, [122]
- Suppression of the menses, [129]
- Sore Nipples, [139]
- Table of Remedies, [3]
- Traveler's Case, [3]
- Typhoid Fever, [31]
- Tonsillitis, [53]
- Toothache, [86]
- Teething of children, [88]
- Thrush, [90]
- Ulceration of the Uterus, [140]
- Urination painful, [117]
- Urination, Involuntary, [110]
- Variola, [117]
- Varioloid, [117]
- Worms, [82]
- Wounds, [93]
- Whitlow, [126]
- Yellow Fever, [38]
- Preventive treatment of, [153]