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skin, unquenchable thirst for cold water, choleric voice, collapse 

 of pulse. Cholera in the third stage. Cardialgia. Flatulent 



colic. 



Dr. Quin {Trait. Horn, du Cholera) advises this remedy in 

 cholera acuta, cholera vomitoria, cholera spasmodica, cholera 

 asphyxia seu sicca, and cholera inflammatoria, according to the 



indications. 



Dr. R. Russell {On Epidemic Cholera, p. 225) says: " Vera- 

 trum album has a local and traditional celebrity for the cure of 

 cholera. The following cure is recorded in the works ascribed 

 to Hippocrates: 'A young Athenian affected with cholera 

 evacuated upwards and downwards, with much suffering ; no- 

 thing could arrest the vomiting or alvine evacuations. His 



voice failed j he could not stir from bed ; his eyes were lustre- 

 less and sunken ; he had convulsions of the lower extremities, 

 from the abdomen downwards ; he had hiccough, and the alvine 

 dejections were more copious than the vomitings. He took 



Veratr 



im in lentil-juice, and recovered.' Hippocrates was an 

 unconscious homoeopathist. Had he lived after Hahnemann, 

 he would have gloried in a profession of its principles, and 

 utterly disavowed those who now call themselves by his name. 



Veratrum 



during the former epidemic ; and in the prevalence of cholera 

 in Petersburg, Miiiler mentions that it was the favourite remedy 



there. Nothii 



Veratrum for cholera in general. 



Antidotes.— To large doses : strong solution of Coffee. To 

 small doses : Aconitum. Camphora. Coffea. 



