Truths and their reception, considered in relation to the doctrine of homoeopathy / [By M.B. Sampson] ; to which are added various essays on the principles and statistics of homoeopathic practice.

  • British Homoeopathic Association
Date:
1849
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    nevertheless enduring, and valuable on that account merely. In its secondary action it causes a small, hard, rapid pulse ; it is not therefore so suitable for patients that have a similar (febrile) pulse, but rather for such as have a pulse like what foxglove produces in its direct action—slow, soft. The convulsions it causes in large doses, assign it a place among the anti-epileptic remedies; probably it is only useful in epilepsy under certain conditions, to be determined by the other morbid symptoms it produces. During its use, objects not unfrequently appear of various colours, and the sight becomes obscured; it will remove similar affections of the retina. (Its ten- dency to produce diarrhoea, sometimes so adverse to the cure, is counteracted, as I have ascertained, by the addition of potash.) As the direct action of foxglove lasts occasionally several days (the longer its use is continued, the longer lasts the direct action of each dose; a very remarkable fact, not to be lost sight of in practice,) it is evident how erroneously those act, who, with the best intentions, prescribe it in small doses, but frequently repeated, (the action of the first not having expired before they have already given the sixth or eighth,) and thus in fact they give, although unwit- tingly, an enormous quantity, which not unfrequently causes death.* A dose is necessary only every three, * A woman in Edinburgh got for three successive days, each day, three doses, consisting of two grains of the pulverized leaves