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GLEANINGS. The routine prescription of Calcium tablets during pregnancy is sometimes a cause of imperfect lactation. Many people are of opinion that drinking freely of milk will stimulate the lacteal glands. The effects is frequently the exact opposite.


1. The routine prescription of Calcium tablets during pregnancy is sometimes a cause of imperfect lactation.

2. Many people are of opinion that drinking freely of milk will stimulate the lacteal glands. The effects is frequently the exact opposite.

3. Urine is turbid as soon as discharged: Cina.

Dunham.

4. The symptoms of Cina are all worse after a meal, at night and early morning.

Dunham.

5. Disposition to inguinal hernia, with pain and soreness: Cocculus Indica.

Dunham.

6. Nitric acid has been found very serviceable in Ophthalmia from suddenly suppressed syphilitic affections.

Dunham.

7. Paralysis of deltoid, cannot raise the hand to the head: Caust.

Dunham.

8. Useful in rheumatism when fever has abated: Caust.

Dunham.

9. Feeling of suffocation when lying on left side: Viscum Alb.

Hale.

10. Haemorrhoids, half the tumour red and the other half purple: Verat. Vir.

Hale.

11. Epidemic dysentery, characterized by spasmodic tenesmus, intestinal spasms, tympanitis etc.: Xanthoxylum Fra.

Hale.

12. Vomiting from suppression of nettle rash: Urtica Urens.

Hale.

13. Pain in right deltoid muscle worse at 9 p.m. could not put on his coat without assistance: Urtica Urens.

Hale.

14. Rheumatic pains attended with urticaria: Urtica Urens.

Hale.

15. The skin symptom tended to return every year at the same date: Urtica Urens.

Hale.

16. Cheeks and hands livid in typhoid pneumonia: Sanguinaria Can.

Hale.

17. Emission of flatus relieves the pain in the bowels: Phytolacca D.

Hale.

18. Diphtheria especially with severe pains in nape of neck, ears and root of tongue: Phytolacca D.

Hale.

19. On the vomit floats a white mass like coagulated fat: Mancinella.

Hering.

20. Desquamation of the soles, at the end of the fever: Mancinella.

Hering.

21. During last months of pregnancy an indescribable pain, like a gnawing stiffness, in sacrum and hip-bone, down over the whole thigh, worse when standing: Ledum Pal.

Hering.

22. Haemoptysis alternating with rheumatism: Ledum Pal.

Hering.

23. Liver complaints at the climaxis; after ague: Lach.

Hering.

24. Aphonia in phthisis: Lach.

Hering.

25. Asthma during scabies, if the itching ceases: Lach.

Hering.

26. Epilepsy comes on during sleep, from jealousy, onanism, loss of fluids: Lach.

Hering.

27. Hyoscyamus is useful in well-marked local jerkings and twitchings of groups of muscles.

Farrington.

28. Sticta Pul. has a sensation as though the legs were floating in the air.

Farrington.

29. Asarum induces a feeling as if the body was covering in the air.

Farrington.

30. Under Aranea all the symptoms are worse during damp weather or from dwelling in damp localities.

Farrington.

31. Headache worse if others walk over the floor: Theridion.

Farrington.

32. A rather peculiar employment of theridion but one which I have had occasion to confirm, is its use in phthisis florida. It is claimed that the drug tends to stay and in some cases stop, the rapid progress of this fatal affection. One symptom I know is good, violent stitches high up in the left chest through to back.

Farrington.

33. Cantharis is a valuable remedy in the passage of renal calculi especially when the pains are very violent.

Farrington.

34. Cannabis, Cantharis and Mercurius all have the sudden urging to urinate but it is strongest under Petroselinum.

Farrington.

35. In Cantharis the erections prevent urination.

Farrington.

36. Argentum Nitricum follows Cannabis in gonorrhoea when the discharge becomes purulent, and the urethra feels sore and swollen.

Farrington.

37. Pareira has pain going down the thighs, Berberis only in the hips and loins.

Farrington.

38. In tubercular meningitis or in acute cerebral effusions, a suppressed or undeveloped eruption is a good guide to the choice of Apis.

Farrington.

39. Tellurium is useful in ringworm over a great portion of the body in interesting rings.

Farrington.

40. Nux-vom will be called for in eye affections associated with liver diseases. The symptoms are worse in the morning and some of them are relieved by cold bathing. Farrington.

N C Das
N C Das
Calcutta