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the following 24 hours, and was entirely satisfactory and lasting, by repeat- 

 ing the same doses, at an interval of a week, for 2 or 3 times. These were des- 

 perate cases, else I should not have ventured upon what I had always consid- 

 ered a desperate remedy — calomel. But, as I have always believed in "giving 

 the devil his due," I have thus set this down to the credit of calomel, notwith- 

 standing I, and my mother before me, as well as eclectics generally, have fought 

 against the use of calomel all our lives. But I would not, even now, use it in 

 large doses, especially when such very small ones have such a decided and ben- 

 eficial effect. But I always try the ordinary treatment first, and only fall back 

 upon these small doses of calomel when the first plan fails. 



But if I fail to "touch" ,the liver, as the allopaths call it, i. e., fail to 

 arouse its action, by which its usual biliary secretions are produced, with the 

 small doses, I should use them as large as 1 to 3 grs. ; or, if need be, blue mass, 

 a 3 gr. pill, followed with the salts, to accomplish the same end. I know sev- 

 eral persons who claim, and no doubt believe, tlmt nothing but a 3 grain pill of 

 of blue mass at night, qjod sometimes for a second night, will act on their liver 

 wlien out of order. Working off next morning, of course, with salts or some 

 other active cathartic. And I certainly prefer to try this plan rather than to 

 lose the life of my patient, or have him go to a doctor who will use calomel or 

 blue mass from choice; although, by their giving large doses of calomel, they 

 often fail to cure. But I always give this class of patients a 1 to 2 gr. pill of 

 quinine 3 or 4 times daily, after the bilious passages have somewhat subsided; 

 and if much sour eructations arise from the stomach while the bile is being 

 poured out so freely, I give a little bi-carbonate (common baking) soda, in half 

 tea-spoonful doses, in a little water. Certainly, however, there can be no objec- 

 tion raised to Dr. Snyder's doses of calomel, as there would be less than J^ a gr. 

 to each powder, while allopaths, in the first time of cholera in the United States, 

 gave it sometimes in ounce doses, and no doubt killed by such treatment more 

 than the cholera itself. But now, as some of them have got down to the 

 20th of a grain, or even 3^ grain doses, I will gracefully cease my warfare upon 

 it, at least, when given in the above, homoeopathic, doses. And I am now, 

 more than ever before confirmed in the idea that it was by large doses, and 

 other abuses of its use, that much of the harm it has done was brought about. 

 Where it is used, let it be in small doses only, and its action watched with great 

 care, and I trust the result will be as satisfactory tc others, as it has been 

 with myself. 



1. SYPHILIS — Alterative for, Successful in Bad Cases.— 

 Fl. ex. of stillingia, corydalis, poke root, yellow dock root and burdock root, 

 each 2 ozs. ; iodide of potash, % to % oz. ; simple syrup to make 1 pt. Direc- 

 tions — Dissolve the iodide in a little of the mixture, and mix all. Dose — 1 

 tea-spoonful 4 times] daily, one being at bed-time. Large and robust patients 

 may put in the ^ oz. iodide, weak and feeble ones only the 3^ oz. 



Remarks. — If there is any gonorrhea discharge, every other time it is made, 

 leave out the extract of poke root, and put in the same amount of the fl. ex. of 

 buchu, in its place. In very bad cases of syphilis, when the pint has been all 

 taken, get a pint bottle of Tilden's Elixir of lodo Bromide of Calcium Com- 



