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edies carefully; compare them with the patient's symptoms, and 

 select that one which corresponds most closely to the patient's symp- 

 toms ; this will be the homeopathic remedy. Give it with confidence ; 

 allow it time to act, and the result will be very gratifying. This 

 treatise is arranged as far as possible with the view of brevity and 

 clearness, and only such indications are given as are striking or 

 characteristic, and particular attention is called to symptoms where 

 italics are used, these being characteristic symptoms of the remedy, 

 and it is from these symptoms that the remedy is to be particularly 

 selected. 



A careful perusal, now and then, when not needed in sickness, 

 will render the method familiar to all, and this we would recommend. 

 If the disease progresses and the symptoms become alarming, send 

 for the best homeopathic physician, and tell him what you have been 

 giving. 



REMEDIES, DOSE, ETC. 



Procure your remedies of a reputable homeopathic pharmacist, 

 or those prepared by some reputable pharmacist, in the /Sixth 

 Dilution. A tincture means the strongest preparation and is not safe 

 to use. If pellets are preferred, No. 35 or 40 saturated with the 

 Sixth Dilution. 



DOSE. If of the dilution, four drops in four tablespoonfuls of 

 water; of this take two teaspoonfuls at a dose. Of the pellets take 

 four. The frequency of the dose will depend on the condition of 

 suffering. In acute pain the remedy should be given as often as 

 every thirty minutes, always lengthening the interval between 

 doses as improvement advances. In ordinary fever, coughs, 

 colds, etc., every two or three hours; in chronic cases one dose per 

 day. Medicine should be given half an hour before eating, or an 

 hour after. 



Glasses and spoons should be perfectly clean and should never 

 be used for more than one medicine without having been thoroughly 

 cleansed. Do not change corks from one bottle to another and 

 never return powder or pellets to vial after handling them. 



DIET. 



Avoid highly seasoned food, condiments, coffee, tobacco and 

 alcoholic stimulants, pastry, fats and oils and confectionery. Use 

 beef and mutton, and when the patient can digest it, beef and mut- 

 ton fat. When solid food cannot be taken, mutton broth, cooled and 

 all the fat skimmed off, will be perhaps the best. Gruels made 

 from rice, farina, oatmeal, barley or wheat flour may be taken. 



Of the artificial foods Murdock's Liquid food and Bovinine 

 for animal foods; Mellin's, Horlicks, and the Wells, Richardson Co.'s 

 Lactated Foods, for farinaceous food. For drinks, water, we'ak 

 black tea, mucilaginous drinks such as gum arabic water, etc. 



