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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... sufficient ex122 Graphites. perience or definite data concerning its therapy, I will have to be content with what its sectarian advocates say of it and give its "indications" in brief for what they are worth, and would suggest that 1x or 2x triturations will do whatever graphite can do. "Patients inclined to an unhealthy obesity and a condition of the epidermis inclined to crack and fissure with an eruption that exudes a honey-like fluid; patient is inclined to be sad, irritable, melancholy; moist eczema on the face; erysipelas, burning and stinging; eczema capi-tas which forms massive dirty crusts, matting the hair together; unhealthy skin, every injury suppurates, and the skin oozes a watery, transparent, sticky fluid; leucor-rhea in gushes day and night; crippled nails; old sores break open; skin dry and inclined to crack. The remedy is especially indicated in females with a tendency to unhealthy corpulence, with deformed nails, menstrual troubles, and a characteristic exudation of the skin." (Wm. Steinrauff, M.D., "Materia Medica.") Locally, cerates of graphite have been employed from Hippocrates down to to-day. It is useful in fissured sores and sore nipples. Grindelia, Gum Plant or Rosin Weed. This agent is toxic in overdoses, producing a paresis of the pneumo-gastric. It is similarly used by all schools. It is indicated in asthmatic breathing and Cheyne-Stokes respiration, chronic spasmodic bronchial coughs, irregular heart action in chronic cough, and to relieve some of the symptoms of hay fever and whooping cough. Locally applied, it has some reputation in poisoning by rhus toxicodendron, although alcohol and lead acetate are displacing it for this purpose. Dose, f.e., 30 to 60 Tl.; ec. tr., 2 to 15 Tf; solid extract, 5 to 15 gr....
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