TREATMENT OF DISEASES. ITO 



aromatica, in ^ tea-spoonful doses every 4 hours, until she was under the 

 Influence of the remedy, with a diminution of urine from the first day. The 

 dose was lessened and the interval lengthened from week to week, and finally, 

 in 3 months, the medicine was discontinued. In the meantime, strict dieting 

 laws were observed, carefully avoiding such diet as favored the sugar forming 

 process in the body. She being of a scrofulous diathesis (tending to scrofula), 

 I gave cod liver oil with hypophosphite for some time after discontinuing the 

 thus aromatica. He continues by saying: 



"I have had the same results with two cases of diabetes insipidus under 

 the same treatment ; and I am at present treating another case of diabetes mel- 

 litus, a very interesting case, which I will report in a future article." 



II. Incontinence. — In incontinence of urine, whether from atony (weak- 

 ness) of the muscular fiber, or irritation of the nervous fiber, which prevents 

 normal (usual, healthy) distention of the bladder, it is applicable. 



III. Dribbling. — I have relieved several cases in which the person was 

 unable to prevent a constant dribbling of urine; also, those cases 

 in which the patient has no control over the urine whatever; will be promptly 

 met by the action of the rhus aromatica. Dose — For adults in these cases of 

 dribbling, or incontinence, he gave 10 drop doses only, 3 times daily. For chil- 

 dren, strong tinct. rhus aromatica, }^ oz. ; glycerine, IJ^ ozs. Dose — One-half 

 lea-spoonful 3 times a day; and when allowable, drop the |morning dose, then 

 the noon, and when cured, stop all. But in all such cases have the child urinate, 

 at once, when nature calls for it, even in the night, and especially before retir- 

 ing in all cases. 



IV. For Summer Complaint of Children. — Dr. McClanahan, above named, 

 reports the case of a little boy, with chronic diarrhea and dysentery, stools pale 

 and thin, running from him like water; no particular pain, or fever. Pale and 

 emaciated; limbs, trembling, scarcely able to stand alone; skin cool and bowels 

 flabby. Gave tinct. rhus aromatica, J^ oz. Dose — Only 3 drops, in a little 

 water, after each passage; with proper diet and care he recovered rapidly. 



V. A laborer, with chronic dysentery for two months, he gave: Tinct. rhus 

 aromatica in doses of 10 drops, together with a boiled milk diet; made a com- 

 plete recovery. He gives an account of cases where almost wholly the pas- 

 sages were blood, equally successful in treatment; increa,sing to 15 drop doses, 

 after each stool, with the boiled milk diet. And also many other cases of incon- 

 tinence of urine, but these will suffice on this class of diseases. Then he 

 comes to: 



VI. Uterine HemorrJiages, Menorrhagia {profuse flowing) Leucorrhea, etc. 

 —He first cautions against the frauds of some persons putting out bad articles, 

 etc. But he thinks, and so docs the author, that Park, Davis & Co., of Detroit, 

 will furnish a genuine article of fluid extracts of the rhus aromatica, and if 1 

 failed with that, I would get the crude article of them, and make the strong 

 tincture, as Dr. McClanahan had always used, up to the time of the foregoing 

 reports. He was then called to a bad case of uterine hemorr*hage, after an 

 abortion; at least two quarts of blood lost; first gave a stimulant, then gave 

 doses of 10 drops of the strong tincture rhus aromatica. every 15 minutes, and 



