PHTHISIS, OR CONSUMPTION. ZH 



begins to improve, but until the character of the cough has been es- 

 sentially changed. 



Homoeopathic Treatment. — Nitrum, given at the commencement 

 of the disease, which, no doubt, is then difficult of recognition, pro- 

 duces good effects, being employed alternately with sulphur. If the 

 phthisis has already become more developed, much good may be 

 obtained from stannum and phosphorus. Mercurius vivus has also 

 been proposed alternately with hepar suJphuris. Colchicum is useful 

 for the relief of the state of meteorization or formation of gas in the 

 stomach, which often accompanies phthisis. 



