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when mild remedies and methods fail, we are certainly justified 

 in haying recourse to others of a more severe character. 



Oalcarea Oarhonica and Arsenicvm. — In those cases where 

 the discharge arises from a sub-acute inflammatory action with- 

 in the mucous membrane of the nose, Calcarea and Arsenicum 

 generally prove of value ; they are remedies which appear to 

 act best if given night and morning, in alternation. Give the 

 Calcarea Carbonica in 2-drachm doses, and the Arsenicum in 

 like quantities. 



Aurwn, and Tincture of Chma, are remedies which appear 

 to act best if given alone. Give the Aurum in 2-drachm doses, 

 night and morning, for eight or ten days in succession. Use 

 the Tincture of China in ounce doses, two or three times a 

 day, for eight or ten days in succession ; when, if the patient 

 improves from the use of either one remedy or the other, con- 

 tinue it until its action either ceases to have a beneficial effect 

 or until the patient recovers. 



SulpJiate of Copper, Sulphate of Iron, Biniodide of Copper, 

 and the Iodide of Iron, are remedies which are generally 

 described as tonics; but whether it be strictly correct to so 

 designate them, is a matter of little importance, so far as their 

 curative action relates to the disease in question, which may be 

 summed up in the foUoWng manner : — 



I. — The action of these drugs upon the living animal, if 

 regarded as a whole, is very similar to each other ; but their 

 particular efiects are difierent upon difierent animals. 



II. — Cures of Ozena have followed upon the administra- 

 tion of each of the remedies above named ; but the remedy 

 which succeeds in one case of the disease may not produce 

 the least beneficial effect upon another, though to all appear- 

 ance they are closely similar in every respect. 



