Ambra Grisea Ambergris. Probably a nosode or morbid product found in belly of sperm-whale. The best is that which whalers cut out, and which is usually to be had in Boston. Most of it is picked up in the Eastern seas. Used by the Arabians and since. Introduced by Hahnemann in 1827 ; especially proved by his friend, the Count...
Alumina Oxide et Aluminum-Argilla A very general condition corresponding to this drug is dryness of mucous membranes and skin, and tendency to paretic muscular states. Old people, with lack of vital heat, or prematurely old, with debility. Sluggish functions, heaviness, numbness, and staggering, and the characteristic constipation find an excellent remedy in Alumina. Disposition to colds in the head, and eructations in spare,...
Alumen Weakness: This medicine, like Alumina, seems to produce a peculiar kind of Paralytic weakness of the muscles in all parts of the body, a sort of lack of tone. The extremities are weak. This weakness is felt especially in the rectum and bladder. The stool becomes impacted from want of ability of the rectum and colon to expel their contents. The bladder...
Alstonia Scholaris Dita Bark Malarial diseases, with diarrhśa, dysentery, anćmia, feeble digestion, are the general conditions suggesting this remedy. Alstonia Scholaris Abdomen.--Violent purging and cramp in bowels. Heat and irritation in lower bowels. Camp diarrhśa, bloody stool, dysentery; diarrhśa from bad water and malaria. Painless watery stools (Phosph ac). Diarrhśa immediately after eating. Relationship.--Compare: Similar in action to Alstonia constricta, the bitter bark...
Alstonia Constricta Natural History. Bitter Bark. Native Quinine Bark. (New South Wales and Queensland. A. scholaris, growing in India and Malabar, is probably identical in effects.) N. O. Apocynaceæ. Alstonia Constricta Tincture of the bark. Clinical. Debility. Diarrhoea. Dysentery. Fevers. Lactation, excessive,...
Aloe Socotrina Socotrine Aloes. Liliacea. One of the oldest and most famous drugs, largely cultivated, and in use as a horse-medicine, hence rarely to be obtained pure from the shops. From the collection of the College of Pharmacy some of the genuine socrotine aloes was obtained. It was brought from the Sultan of Muscat, by a physician, in the service of the U....
