Professor of General, Special, and Surgical Anatomy, Late Professor of Surgery, Obstetrics, and Diseases Females and Children, in the W. H. College, Author of the "Homœopathic Practice of Surgery," &c., &c. CLEVELAND, OHIO: JOHN HALL, 72 SUPERIOR STREET. CHICAGO, ILL. HALSEY & KING, 162 CLARK STREET. 1859. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, By B. L. HILL, M. D., In the Clerk's office of the District Court in and for the Northern District of Ohio. Pink

In this table I have affixed to the remedies figures designating the dilutions or the attenuations, at which, under ordinary circumstances, I would advise their use. The strongest, or mother tinctures, marked with an apha (0), the dilutions or triturations to be of the decimal degrees of attenuation, are marked 1, 2, 3, &c., to designate that they are to be used at 1-10th, 1-100th, 1-1000th, &c., the strength of the pure drugs. The list for a full Family Case contains all the rem

This work contains in a condensed form a very large portion of all that is practically useful in the treatment of the diseases ordinarily occurring in this country. The symptoms are given with sufficient minuteness and detail to enable any one of ordinary capacities of observation to distinguish the complaint; and the treatment is so plainly laid down, that no one need make a mistake. If strictly followed, it will, in a very large proportion of cases, effect cures, even when administered by thos

The remedies are either in the form of tinctures saturated, more or less dilute, in Pellets or Powders. The Pellets may be taken dry upon the tongue, allowed to dissolve and swallowed. The dose for an adult is from 4 to 7; for an infant, from birth to one year old, 1 to 3; from one to three years, 2 to 4; from three to ten years, 3 to 5 pellets; after ten, same as an adult. 15 or 20 pellets may be dissolved in a gill of water, and a tea-spoonful dose given at a time, being particular to stir it

For sudden suppression from taking cold, as by wetting the feet, there being headache, more or less fever, the pulse frequent and variable, pains in the small of the back and cramp like pains in the pelvic region, give, in alternation, Aconite and Pulsatilla , as often as every fifteen or twenty minutes in a violent case, and at longer intervals as the patient begins to get easy. Putting the feet into hot water, or taking a hot Sitz bath is very useful. If the patient is sick at the stomach, as

On the Use of Gelseminum Semp. in Fevers . By J. S. Douglas , A. M., M. D., Prof. of Mat. Med. and Special Pathology, in the Western Homœpathic College, Cleveland; author of "Treatment of Intermittents," &c. Such has been the general result of the treatment of the fevers of this country, that most Homœopathic physicians deny the possibility of breaking up a fever when once established. Those who labor under this impression, will be soon convinced of the error by properly employing the Ge