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MEDICAL ASTROLOGY

remedies which invariably remain with the planet; such as Pulsatilla with the Moon; Sepia with Venus; Belladonna with Mercury; Aconite with Mars; Veratrum album with the Sun; Bryona with Jupiter; Rhus Tox. with Saturn; Opium with Uranus; and Dulcamara with Neptune. These drugs should be looked to in all afflictions.

WHEN TO GIVE MEDICINE.

Very little has been written upon this subject from an Astrological standpoint, and the ordinary physician usually administers his chosen drug as soon as he can prepare it; in some instances the drug has the desired effect, while at other times the drug has no effect or is immediately vomited up by the patient. Many physicians have no doubt witnessed this phenomena, but wasted no time in learning of the cause of it.

The Homeopath usually believes in administering his drug between the proxysms and not during the dangerous periods, in spasmodic affections; they have also, a favorite time of the day when to give medicine, at time of retiring, on rising, or between meals, but not to be

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