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Arnica. “ Notwithstanding all its carefully-constructed dogmas, 
its scholastic definitions, and subtle distinctions, the established 
system (7. e. allopathy) has never succeeded in discovering the 
specific properties of this plant, nor in finding any certain remedy 
for that general affection (often very serious) which results from 
severe falls, shocks, blows, contusions, etc., or from twisting or 
tearing the solid parts of the human frame. At length, after 
innumerable attempts and trials, the people discovered for them- 
selves the desired remedy in Arnica. Two hundred years ago, 
a physician, named Fehr, communicated to his brethren, for the 
first time, the discovery of this domestic remedy ; since when, 
Arnica has been called Panacea lapsorum. ‘The case has been 
similar with regard to all other specifics; the art of medicine 
owes the knowledge of them to domestic practice, and has never 
made a single discovery for itself, because those who practise 
it, have not taken the trouble to try the pure effect of natural 
substances on persons in health.” 
CiinicAL OpsERVATIONS.—Noack and Trinks (Handbuch der 
homoop. Arzneimittellehre) offer the following remarks on the 
application of Arnica, according to the homeopathic principle. 
Arnica is suitable when the nervous system, the animal as well 
as the vegetative, is in a state of torpidity. Jt is suitable for 
those stages of inflammation where the vital powers become extinct, 
where torpid fever or neurophlogosis sets in; under these circum- 
stances, it is the contrary to Aconite, which corresponds to the 
purely inflammatory, especially the synochal character. Arnica 
is especially useful in the so-called status gastricus nervosus 
stupidus ; it appears to be suitable to nervous venous conges- 
tions ; to plethoric young people with red face, or to persons of 
lymphatic temperament; to individuals weakened by disease, 
with pale, yellow, livid face. 
As A REMEDY AGAINST THE EFFECTS OF BLOWS, CONTUSIONS, 
etc., Arnica rivals Rhus toxicodendron, Conium maculatum, 
Acidum sulphuricum, Symphytum officinale, Calendula officinalis, 
Ruta, Ledum, or Ferrum muriaticum. Rhus, however, corre- 
sponds more to the consequences attending an extension of 
