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arena of medicine, the first onslaught and invasion of 

 which is so sudden, its causes so obscure, its symptoms 

 and effects so rapid, and its results so disastrously 

 fatal, requires more than ordinary experience and 

 acumen to distinguish at one glance its peculiar and 

 mysterious characteristics, and apply its appropriate 

 remedies. 



In the homoeopathic Armamentarium we possess many 

 remedies of undoubted value. Among these may firstly 

 be mentioned those brilliant American medicines, the 

 Iris Versicolor, Leptandra Virginica, and Podophyllum 

 Pettntiiiii ; secondly, Aeon,, Bell., Crotalas, 

 Merc.-SoL, Nux Vom., Strychnine, and 

 with Bryonia, Lachesis, Chin., and //// ///;// as in- 

 termediate auxiliaries. With these much may be 

 done to prove that a specifically selected drug, and 

 specifically selected hygienic measures, may go far to 

 diminish much of the terrors and heavy mortality, 

 which now environ " Acute Atrophy of the Hepatic 

 Organ." In the first stage of the disease, which I am 

 disposed to look upon as "a paralysis of the gland," 

 caused by the invasion of some subtle poison, whether 

 it be fright, or a miasma, through the nervous system, our 

 primary object will be to rouse its lost functions, and 

 restore it to its normal standard. And how is this to 

 be done ? We possess in the Mandrake and Culver's 

 such remedies : they rouse to vigorous action the 

 tuii< tions of the liver, they stimulate the kidneys, they 

 augment the functions of the whole glandular system, 

 and cleanse the intestinal canal of all foreign and 

 irritating matter. Either of these remedies should be 

 administered in potent doses, and repeated at frequent 



