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{{anchor:s2}}BY DR. NEVILLE WOOD.{{anchor:s3}}%%*[%%<span grade2>Monthly Homeopathic Review.</span> {{anchor:s4}}London,. 12, 6, 728.]

{{anchor:s5}}An American lady, of middle age and of a sensitive temperament, was seized with dysentery. {{anchor:s6}}She had suffered several times with the same disorder in New York and had always been under homoeopathic treatment in cases of illness. {{anchor:s7}}Merc. corr. was now prescribed, in solution, a teaspoonful immediately after each movement of the bowels. {{anchor:s8}}At the end of five days the complaint was cured. {{anchor:s9}}The same remedy was now given twice a day, for two days longer; but no sooner had the bowels resumed their natural action, than a strong ptyalism set in and lasted several hours. {{anchor:s10}}No antidote was required, as the symptom had ceased before I was informed of its existence. {{anchor:s11}}It was now elicited that the New York physician used low attenuations of tinctures and triturations, and that various homoeopathic preparations of Mercury had before induced a much more marked and obstinate salivation.

{{anchor:s12}}It is remarkable that in this, as in the previous case, the ill effects of the remedy arose only when the curative action had ceased. {{anchor:s13}}Indeed had it been otherwise, the excessive flow of saliva and the concomitant symptoms, might fairly have been considered as symptoms of the disorder. {{anchor:s14}}Had the Mercurius been discontinued immediately on the cessation of the disorder, the inconvenience might have been averted.

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^ Source: | The American Homoeopathic Review Vol. 04 No. 01, 1863, page 37 |
^ Description: | Minute Doses. |
^ Author: | Wood, N. |
^ Year: | 1863 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |