DIRECTIONS FOR ADMINISTERING MEDICINES. 847 



second dose of tlie same remedy would not do any more 

 good than the former had done. In this case we have to 

 review the symptoms a second time, and to select a different 

 remedy. If the first dose should produce a favorable 

 change in the symptoms of the disease, and this change 

 should again be followed by an aggravation, it is proper to 

 give a second dose of the same remedy. If the symptoms 

 should become aggravated after the first dose, we should 

 not all at once resort to a different remedy ; for this aggra- 

 vation might be what we have termed homoeopathic aggra- 

 vation, which would soon be followed by a favorable re- 

 action. In all very acute diseases that run a rapid course, 

 and after one, two, or four weeks, terminate in death or re- 

 covery, such as Glanders, Pleura, Pneumonia, et cetera, the 

 dose should be repeated every five, ten, or fifteen minutes. 



In such dangerous maladies, the first dose is often fol- 

 lowed by a visible improvement, which soon ceases, how- 

 ever : this is the time to repeat the dose, and a second dose 

 may then be eminently useful. In chronic diseases that 

 run a long course, the medicine may be repeated every 

 day, or every two, three, or four days. In such cases the 

 rule is, likewise, not to interfere with an incipient improve- 

 ment by giving another dose of the same or some other 

 remedy. 



If the improvement stops, the medicine may be repeat- 

 ed, and if no improvement at all should set in after a rea- 

 sonable lapse of time, another medicine may be chosen. 

 Among the class of chronic diseases we number all ner- 

 vous and mental diseases, lingering fevers, etc. An im- 

 proper remedy does not produce any very injurious effects ; 

 for a homoeopathic remedy only acts upon a disease to which 

 the medicine is really homoeopathic : otherwise the small- 

 ness of the dose is such that the medicine cannot possibly 



