Camphora

Better when thinking of the existing complaint. Throbbing, like beats with ahammer, in cerebellum, isochronous with pulse, head hot, face red, limbs cool, > in standing ; mostly with such as were deprived of sexual intercourse. Contraction as if laced together in cerebellum and glabella, with coldness all over. Very sensitive to cold air. Nose cold and pointed (in diarrhoea and cholera). Cold sweat, with vomiting. Tongue, cold, flabby, trembling. Anxiety and restlessness, absence of evacuations, frequently chilly or feeling as if cold air was bUming on covered parts ; great sinking and collapse. (Cholera.) Burning during urination. Newborn children ; asphyxia ; hard places in skin on abdomen and thighs, quickly increasing and getting harder, sometimes with a deep redness spreading nearly over whole abdomen and thighs ; violent fever, wi*h startings and tetanic spasms, with bending backward ; they make no water. Influenza. Cool breath, as from the grave, playing upon hand held before mouth. (Carbc 1teg.) Coldness of limbs. Congestion to chest. All sequela of measles. Cold, clammy, weakening sweat. Pulse : weak ; not perceptible ; frequent and scarcely per­ ceptible ; accelerated without fever ; very much accelerated, but undulating, and without strength ; very rapid ; full and rapid ; full and irritable ; irritable in evening ; hard or soft ; extremely . . . small and slow ; ' small and hard, becoming slower and slower ; small, weak and quite frequent ; could not be counted. Icy coldness all over, with death-like paleness of face ; diminished circu­ lation to farts most distant from heart. Effects of shock from injury: surface of body cold ; face pale and bluish, lips livid ; diarrhoea ; pulse feeble, nervous anxiety and stupefaction ; sighing respiration ; great exhaustion. * * * In the cholera epidemic of 1831 Hahnemann faced the problem, How it was to be met ; and wrote papers, widely distributed, on its treatment. He had followers, even in those days, all the world over. When an idiotic censor banned his teachings he wrote, They seem tc prefer delivering all mankind to the grave digger to listening to the good counsel of the new purified medical art.” Camphor poisoning displays all the symptoms of early cholera, and Hahnemann says, It is only when given alone at the first invasion of the disease, that it is so marvellously useful. The patient’s friends must employ it, as this stage soon ends in death or in the second stage, more difficult to cure, and not with Camphor” He gave “ one drop of the strong spirit of Camphor on sugar (or in water) every five minutes. Where jaws are locked and nothing can be swallowed, it can be rubbed into the skin, given as a clyster, or its fumes inhaled, when evaporated on hot iron. The quicker this is done, the more rapid and certain the patient’s recovery. In a couple of hours warmth, strength, consciousness, rest and sleep return, and he is saved. Even in the case of persons laid out for burial, where only a finger was seen to move, Camphor spirit mixed with oil, introduced into the mouth, had recalled the apparently dead to life.” Results—briefly. The Russian Consul-General reported that of 70 cases in two places, all were cured ; elsewhere of 1,270 cases only 108 died. In Vienna hospitals, two-thirds treated homoeo- pathically recovered, while two-thirds in the other hospitals died. In the South of France, where allopathic mortality was 90 per cent, the homoeopathic mortality was 5 to 7 per cent. A missionary (South America) was imprisoned for gratuitously curing a number of cholera patients, when the hospital treatment did not cure one. Even in this country, our results were suppressed till demanded in Parliament, ” as they would give an unjustifiable sanction to an empirical practice, alike opposed to the maintenance of truth, and to the progress of science.” i78

Tincture, in drop doses, repeated frequently, or smelling of Spirits of Camphor. Potencies are equally effective.