Weak; Painful; or Swollen.
General Treatment.-This will depend on the cause of the weakness. If it is rheumatism, the patient must wear woollen clothing, and adopt all the precautions advised under that heading. If it is due to general debility, constitutional treatment will be required. In case of simple local weakness, hot salt-water or sea-water baths should be used, and proper exercises, which will be prescribed by a medical man, to develop and strengthen the parts that are weak.
Medicines.-(Two or three times a day.)
Apis. 3.-
Simple swelling.
Calcarea phos.3.-
Weakness of the ankles.
Calcarea carb. 6.-
For pale, fat rickety children.
Silicea 6.-
Thin, rickety children.
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica