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remedies which, in minute doses, I have proved to be most 

 efficacious in correcting divers abnormalities of function. 

 Such drugs are :Acid. Phosph., Aeon., Bryonia, Cole. Garb., 

 Carbo Veg., Coffea, Ferr. Mur., Graphites, Ignatia Amara, 

 Nux Vom., Silicea, Thuja Occ., and others. All these are 

 perfectly harmless in the highly attenuated form in which they 

 are given, and I have found it no little satisfaction to patients 

 and their relatives to know beforehand, that if the drugs should 

 fail to do any apparent good, they certainly could not, in any 

 case, do any injury. 



Baths, and other Hydropathic Measures. 



In employing approved hydropathic measures, mildness 

 and gentleness are again the all -import ant considerations. 

 The baths are carefully regulated, and any excess of heat or 

 cold is discouraged. Medicated baths are often employed 

 with advantage, and I have obtained excellent and undoubted 

 results from a series of damp compresses, which I order to be 

 applied in turn to various parts of the body. 



Massage. 



In many cases of debility, gentle massage is a useful adjunct, 

 but here again experience has proved that violent manipula- 

 tions are apt to be followed by dangerous reactions, and that 

 this physical agent will produce most admirable results 

 only if quietly and patiently evoked. 



Physical Exercises. 



The physical exercises which I am in the habit of ordering 

 are of the gentlest possible nature, and, in the main, reserved 

 until a fairly advanced stage of the treatment, when all the 

 other measures have had time to restore the body to a normal 

 state. I rigorously exclude vigorous exercises at all times ; 

 no dumb-bells or developers must be used. Muscular develop- 

 ment, acquired at the expense of other functions of the body, 

 never fails to impair either the nervous or the vascular system, 

 or both. The hypertrophied heart and the nervous breakdown 

 of the athlete, so well known to medical men, are dangers not 

 to be trifled with. 



