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Title: The American homoeopathist
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Homeopathy
Publisher: New York : A.L. Chatterton
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
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flexion of the uterus. Ferrum phos. cures Cholera In-fantum when there are frequent dischargesfrom the bowels, attended with emaciationof the child, stupor, flushed face, rolling ofthe head from side to side, and soft fullpulse. Carbo veg.—Patients who have been high livers, eating rich and highly-sea-soned food ; eaters of late suppers of variedand heavy character; drinking winefreely ; accompanied with constant forma-tion of gas in the stomach and bowels. Lathyrus in Motor Paresis of thelower extremities when there is a trembling,tottering gait—the abductors being moreaffected than the adductors—sensibilitybeing unaffected ; aggravated during rainyweather and from standing or walking. Jaborandi.—Pain often severe overpubis with distention, irresistible desireto urinate, which pain subsides on empty-ing the bladder. Ringer conjectures thatas the quantity of urine is not increasedjarborandi causes the frequent urinationby contraction of bladder. 194 THE AMERICAN HOMEOPATHIST.
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THE AMERICAN HOMEOPATHIST. 195 MEDICAL EXAMINING BOARDS VS. THEDIPLOMA. By H. M. Paine, M. D., Albany, N. Y. AN editorial on page 169 of the MedicalCurrent constitutes an argument insupport of the diploma as a recognizedstandard of proper medical qualifications,notwithstanding the fact that this standardhas been discarded for good and satisfac-tory reasons by a very large proportion ofthe members of the medical profession inthis country. Leaders of opinion agree that the objectwhich all are seeking to promote is that ofsecuring more nearly uniform standards ofmedical learning, in order that the recog-nized standing of the profession may beimproved and elevated ; that it may moretruly merit and receive from the public agreater degree of confidence and respect ;that its influence and usefulness may beincreased ; and that it may in fact as inname rank among the learned professions. These motives for permanently elevatingprofessional standing do not spring fromignoble or sinister purposes

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