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forty to fifty days. The following are the diseases in which it is used by homœopathic practitioners. (See Jahr's Manual; Vol. I, p. 386).
"Allowing ourselves to be guided by the totality of symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be used will be found to be:—Rheumatic affections, with contractions of the tendons; Paralysis of the limbs; Scrofulous affections; Enlarged glands; Bad consequence of vexation and anger: Weakness from loss of humors and other debilitating causes, also that resulting from onanism; Hysterical weakness and syncope; Warts; Varices; Intermittent fevers, also those which have changed their character from strong doses of cinchona; Typhus fever; Melancholy and hypochondria; Sufferings from excessive study; Megrim; railing off of the hair in consequence of acute diseases, also in the case of parturient women; Chronic ophthalmia and blepharophthalmia, especially in scrofulous individuals; Amblyopia amaurotica; Presbyopia; Otitis, with purulent discharge; Coryza; Crusta lactea?; Scorbutic affection of the gums; Stomacace?; Dyspepsia, gastralgia, and other gastric affections; Chronic hepatitis?; Flatulent colic; Chronic constipation; Chronic diarrhœa; Diabetes?; Chronic
