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Title: The Hahnemannian monthly
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Homœopathic Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania
Subjects: Homeopathy
Publisher: West Pittston, Pa. (etc.) : LaBarre Printing Co.
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
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ad sloughed offback of the glands and adhered only at the frsenum. After removing the hair from near the granulating margin Iapplied a liberal dressing of tar-plaster and carbolized oil. Theconstitutional involvement was profound. Pulse rate 115, tempera-ture 103 degrees F., ghastly pallor of the face, tongue and buccalmucous membrane fiery red, persistent and unquenchable thirst,great prostration, restlessness, sleeplessness and complete anorexia. 380 Hie Hahnemannian Monthly. (June, Gave arsenicum, 3x trituration, every two hours. Saw him againOctober 20th, when the negative of photograph No. 1 was made. Hehad, however, removed the entire cutaneous sheath and the size ofthe penis was diminished one-half by decomposition of the deeperstructures of the organ at the time of that visit. Found the patientscondition somewhat improved and continued the same treatment,constitutional and local. Saw him October 22d and removed theentire slough. Gave arsenicum and china and continued the local
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treatment as from the first until he began to attend to business when,for the sake of convenience, the tar-plaster was omitted and thecarholized oil persisted in until cicatrization was complete. Thepatient had fully recovered in four weeks, when photograph No 2 wasmade. A balanitis was the causeof this mans misfortune, and camenear costing him his life, all because of the* negligence of theaccouchcr who was master of ceremonies on the occasion of hisbirth. HISTORY CF THE GERM-THEORY OF DISEASE. BY CARL V. VISCHER, M.D. (Lecture delivered in the Preliminary Course of the Hahnemann Medical College,Philadelphia.) Many years prior to the discovery of the microscope and itsrevelations of the lowest forms of animal and vegetable life, a theoryprevailed that certain epidemic and endemic diseases were caused byinvisible organisms. So that in perusing some of the older writ- 1891.) History of the Germ-Theory of Disease. 381 ing*3, such as Varro and Culumella, we find (hat these were of theopi

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