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

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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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$upon Bellad. and likewise Ladies.; if drawn to the left side, and Bellad. proves incilbctual, npon Nux vom. and sometimes upon Phosjyh. If convulsions are present at the same time, and Bellad. and Hyosc. have no effect, Cup\ sometimes affords excellent aid. 3. Inflammation of the Brain. Meningitis, Encephalitis. If Hahnemann states somewhere in his writings, (I do not now remember the precise passage), that true inflammation of the brain never attacks adults^ except perhaps in typhus and certain cases of poisoning, it is very likely that he was not altogether wrong. Except tubercular meningitis which, so far, has occurred in my practice only in the case of young people between the years of eighteen and twenty-two, I have never yet met, except in child- hood, with a case of truly idiopathic, and as it were spontaneous meningitis, and which was not occasioned by some accidental cause, such as a fall, sunstroke etc. Yery severe irritations of the cerebral membranes have occurred to me quite often as sympto- matic phenomena, not only in typhus and erysipelas of the face, but likewise in some cases of influenza, even after the siidden sup- pression of a simple catarrh, in consequence of the affection spread- ing to the frontal cavities; in more cases than one I have seen a symptomatic meningitis of this kind assume a very threatening form, and set in with the most violent pains and an almost furious delirium. In almost all these cases I have derived the best and speediest results from the use of Bellad.^ to which I prefer Bry. only if the delirium is milder, and the pains are severe, shooting and tearing pains. In one case where By-y. seemed powerless, Glon. afforded rapid relief, and in another case with convulsions and lockjaw, Cupr. After suppressed eruptions, Apis, according to my experience, deserves very properly and in every respect a preference over Bell., as one of our most efficient curative agents ; cerebral irritation consequent upon sunstroke yields to Glon., more speedily than to Bell., which is here likewise of great use. [The most efficient treatment for sunstroke is to rub the patient very hard with pieces of ice until the skin begins to burn and con- sciousness returns, after which Aeon, or Bell, may wind up the treatment. H.] With these two remedies I have so far succeed- ed in curing every case of sunstroke that has occurred to me in$