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in perfect repose. The reverse, that is, exasperation of the 

 symptoms during motion, is more unusual. 



* Rhus has great analogy with Bryonia, yet there is also con- 

 siderable difference, for it is observable that symptoms much 

 resembling Rhus, which have been caused by taking Bryonia, 

 are increased by motion, and diminished by rest. Thus, by 

 studying the symptoms of these two antagonistic medicines, we 

 may conceive how one or other of them, according to the case, 

 proved to be the best of all homoeopathic remedies, during thr 

 course of that dreadful epidemic which in the summer of 1813 

 ravaged those countries which were the seat of war. No treat- 

 ment of this typhus, founded on the common practice, availed 

 in serious cases, and in those less severe, nature would have 

 produced the cure, though slowly and with difficulty. Rims, 

 given alternately with Bryonia, succeeded in restoring great 

 numbers, when all other means failed. Never did homoeopathy 

 experience a more signal triumph. 



u Strong doses of Rhus continue to act for six weeks; weak 

 ones for shorter periods, according to their dilution. For this 

 reason, the aggravation of symptoms lasts a longer time than 

 that of most other vegetable medicines, so that it is frequently 

 twenty-four hours before amendment decidedly takes place. It 

 is absolutely necessary to conform strictly to the rules of homoeo- 

 pathy in giving it. The bad effects of a wrong selection often 

 give way to Bryonia, sometimes to Sulphur, Camphor, or crude 

 Coffee, according to circumstances," 



Clinical Observations. — Rheumatism and its consequences, 

 characterised by the pains being worse at rest. Cephalalgia. 

 Rheumatic headache. Intermittent fever. Vesicular erysi- 

 pelas. Erysipelas bullosas Chronic pemphigus. Abdominal 

 typhus. Tinea capitis. Humid herpes of the face. Typhoid 

 pneumonia. Variola. Leucophlegmasia after scarlet fever. 

 Sufferings from drinking cold water, and from external ex- 

 posure to it. Paralysis. Sprains and affections of ligamentous 

 tissues are amongst some of the chief diseases in which, with 



