Haematemesis

Bleeding from the stomach is generally due to ulceration. It is sometimes mistaken for bleeding from the lungs, but the fact of it having been brought up by vomiting-blood from the lungs coming up with a cough-and that it is pure blood and unmixed with phlegm or froth shows pretty clearly its source; and if there is absence of any history of recent lung disease, and on the other hand, if there has been indigestion and pain at the stomach, the diagnosis is quite clear. Of course, the doctor will be summoned at once; but something may be done before he comes.

General Treatment.-Absolute rest. Avoidance of all solid food. Ice to suck. Iced drinks, as milk and soda-water.

Medicines.-(To be given every ten minutes.)

Ipecac. 3.-

If the blood is very dark.

Hamam. I.-

If there is not speedy improvement under Ipecac.

Arnica 3.-

If Hamamelis fails.

John Henry Clarke

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