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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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then anesthetized by the application of compresses saturated .vith a solution ofcocaine. The diseased portions are then painted with: &. Methyline blue, 1gramme; Alcohol, 5 grammes; Glycerine, 5 grammes. The surface stained blueis then touched with a steel probe dipped into a 1 to 5 solution of chromic acid;this produces a purple reaction. The applications are to be made once in four days,and continued for three weeks or two months, according to the extent of the disease.— Universal Medical Journal. Sulphate of Copper in Syphilis.—Surgeon Price, U. S. N., has experimentedconsiderably with this salt in syphilis, and believes that it exercises a specific ac-tion in this disease which is especially directed to the lymphatic system. He claimsthat it prevents the development of mucous patches and throat symptoms. The av-erage dose is one-thirtieth of a grain three times a day. In syphilitic cachexia headvises one ten-thousandth of a grain once a day.—Medical Record, Feb. 3,1S94.
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MOUTllLY. JUNE, 1894. PRIMARY H0M(E0PATHIC MATERIA MEDICA. WM. A. SEIBERT, M.D., EASTON, PA. (Read before the New Jersey State Homoeopathic Medical Society, May 1,1894.) The object of this paper is not to outline a new Materia Medica ;on the contrary to protest against the multiplication of these books.Our purpose is to make briefly a few suggestions regarding primarywork in Materia Medica, and to draw particular attention to a fieldmore or less neglected because preliminary to Materia Medicaproper. In our anxiety to get at the herculean labor of mastering the im-portant matter beyond we are prone to entirely neglect the veryrudiments of Materia Medica. Proficient general preliminary edu-cation does not presuppose familiarity with technical names andmethods, and painful evidences of neglect and consequent ignorancein this respect are rife among homoeopathic graduates. The spelling,pronunciation, abbreviation, synonyms, and common names of reme-dies together with prescription writing,

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