Therapeutic guide : the most important results of more than forty years' practice, with personal observations regarding the truly-reliable and practically-verified curative indications in actual cases of disease / by G.H.G. Jahr ; translated, with notes and new remedies, by Charles J. Hempel.

  • Jahr, G. H. G. (Gottlieb Heinrich Georg), 1800-1875.
Date:
1869
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Credit: Therapeutic guide : the most important results of more than forty years' practice, with personal observations regarding the truly-reliable and practically-verified curative indications in actual cases of disease / by G.H.G. Jahr ; translated, with notes and new remedies, by Charles J. Hempel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cars, or if the vertigo is felt in the evening or while tlic person is sitting, and the face is hot and the cheeks pale, I know of no better remedy than Pulsatilla. If an attack of this kind is accom- panied by bleeding at the nose, not only Aeon, and Sulph.^ but occa- sionally Bnj..^ have afforded essential benefit to my patients. For gastric vertigo emanating from the stomach or abdomen, I always commence the treatment, if the vertigo seems to originate in derangement of the stomach, with Puis, or Ant. cr.; or if the patient is troubled with worms, I give Aeon, or Merc.^ and if the vertigo sets in after every somewhat full meal, Nux vom., and afterwards jSulph. ; for this kind of vertigo, Nux and Sulph.^ have always proved most efficacious in my hands. What is sometimes much more troublesome is the treatment of the so-called nervous vertigo which not unfrequently attacks hypochondriacs, hysteric persons, or persons with a very sensitive nervous system, or which may set in after debilitating causes, especially self-abuse, or after saddening emotions, exhausting diseases, excessive mental exertions, or even in cases where the cause cannot always be easily found out. It is not always easy to find the correct remedy for this kind of vertigo. The following remedies have proved most serviceable in my hands: If the vertigo is attended with fainting, beside Chamom.^ likewise IIoscJi. (especially among hysteric individuals), and Niix vom., also Separ. If the vision is obscured at the same time, beside ^e^Zad, likewise Acooi. and Hyosc. If the patient threatens to fall backwards: Bellad.; if sideways, especially Conium and Sulph.; if forwards, Rhus and Oraph. If the attacks set in while the patient is rising from a recumbent posture, Aeon, and Bell.—If they set in after the patient has laid down in bed, more particularly Nux vom., less frequently Phus. If the patient is very feeble, and cannot move, nor raise his head, without having another attack: Coccul. If the vertigo is brought on by raising one's eyes and looking upward, beside Puis, and Nux vom., sometimes also Calc. If the attacks are only experienced when one stoops, Calcar. sometimes helps beside Aeon.; Bellad. only helps if the patient is troubled with rush of blood to the head. For the vertigo occasioned by riding in a carriage, Coceid. and Sulph. sometimes prove u.seful, beside Hep)ar and Silic. Moreover I have often employed with excellent success: Silicea