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ties, but in what they consist and upon what they depend; and it 

 will be further discovered that to treat constipation effectively and 

 so as to avoid an early recurrence, the object to be attained is not 

 alone to bring about an action of the bowels, but rather to correct 

 the disorder to which the constipation is primarily due. 



Add nitric 12. — This drug furnishes an interesting coincidence 

 of how the same remedy administered in different attenuations is 

 at one time appropriate to diarrhoea, while under somewhat differ- 

 ent conditions it is not less useful in constipation; this peculiarity 

 of circumstances provides a pitfall for allopaths and they aver that 

 it is one of the things "no feller can understand;" it is quite 

 certain anyhow that to properly appreciate such apparently con- 

 tradictory results one needs to be an intelligent student of Hahne- 

 mann; but to return to the subject, namely, when \s Nitric acid 

 useful in constipation? To Dr. Dyce Brown, of London, we are 

 indebted for the information, to whom Dr. Hughes also gives the 

 credit of the observation; constipation accompanied by a dry 

 laryngeal cough almost invariably yields to this remedy; but to 

 attain the result a high attenuation, like 12. is according to our 

 experience necessary ; the lower attenuations, such as third decimal, 

 would probably fail, if they did not actually intensify the symp- 

 toms; if general constitutional depression be very marked, this 

 furnishes confirmatory evidence of the usefulness of Nitric acid 

 under such conditions of constipation. Bearing in mind ihat this 

 drug is essentially one for diarrhoea it may be interesting to note 

 that beyond the fact that the fsecal pellets are rather large and 

 somewhat hard, there is nothing characteristic in the condition of 

 the dung, as there is in Alumina, to lead one to select it for con- 

 stipation, but in addition to the cough and the general depression 

 a foetid state of the urine is observable in Nitnc acid cases; the 

 reason for dealing thus fully with a drug that is probably but 

 rarely indicated in constipation, is accounted for by the fact that 

 some cases are exceptional, but when found extremely difficult to 

 cure; indeed, impossible with any other remedy; it furnishes a 

 splendid illustration of the necessity that frequently arises in prac- 

 tice for delicate differentiation without which no practitioner can 

 succeed in a very large proportion of cases. 



Alumina 3X. — In this remedy we have a further illustration of 

 the absolute importance of the nice discrimination that is requisite 



