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it, with good results, in a similar form of mania It is one of the 
remedies frequently indicated in delirium, especially of children 
during teething. 
In confirmation of Hippocrates’ statement about strangury 
Dr. Groenvelt wrote a small book on the successful treatment of 
strangury, and other affections of the bladder, by the internal 
use of cantharides.* The irritating effect of cantharides on the 
urinary tract is well known, full doses inducing inflammation,' 
strangury and haematuria. 
For this method of treatment he was committed to Newgate, 
on a warrant of the President of the Royal College of Physicians, 
London, in 1694. 
Prof. Wood makes the following statement, in speaking of the 
therapeutic use of ipecacuanha : “ In sick stomach, of nervous 
origin, such as occurs in pregnancy, minute doses of ipecacuanha 
have so often met with success that there can be no doubt of 
their value. One drop of the wine, in a teaspoonful of water, 
should be given every hour.”t 
Certainly this is a homoeopathic prescription on the principle 
of similia similibus curantur, or like cures like, and the dose 
also. For we find that a drop of the wine of ipecacuanha con¬ 
tains 7,709—100,000 of a grain ; and the same author recom¬ 
mends thirty grains as a dose for an adult. Numbers of others 
have noted the fact that some remedies cured symptoms similar 
to those which they produced when taken by the healthy, but 
no one seemed to be impressed by the fact until Hahnemann, 
about 1790, while translating Cullen’s “ Materia Medica,” was 
not satisfied with his description of the action of Peruvian bark, 
so decided to take it himself to determine its effects. After 
taking it for several days he had a violent chill, fever and sweat, 
similar to an attack of intermittent fever, from which he had 
suffered a few years previously, which had been cured by 
* Titus Cantharidum in Medicina Usus Internus. Per Joannum Groenvelt, M.D., 
e. Coll. Med., Lond. Editio Secunda, 1703, 
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