Hilario Luna Castro THE VITALISM OF THE HAHNEMANNIAN SCHOOL. The vital force or energy is immaterial, instinctive; it acts automatically, never has consciousness of its acts, and is subject to the laws of biology. It manifests itself from the ovular state in the womb of the mother till death and is subject to variations that are transmitted through heredity from an individual to another.
HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS IN MAMMARY CANCER. Mammary cancer in woman is that from of cancer which in the order of its frequency and malignity takes third place as a cause of death in statistics throughout the world, the first place belonging to cancer to the womb and the second place to cutaneous cancer.
OLIGOMENORRHEA AND ITS HOMOEOPATHIC TREATMENT. Adult oligomenorrheal patients, the subject of the present consideration, almost always come for consultations with a history of more or less defined amenorrheas, and in such cases we must investigate whether the insufficiency is total or definite because of surgical castration, or precocious or natural menopause.
NON-CALCULOUS CHRONIC CHOLECYSTITIS. Frequent unsuccessful desire to evacuate and when successful the patient expels only small quantities after each effort; weakness at the level of the inguinal regions. Spasms and rectal constriction. Loss of irregular action of peristalsis. Diarrhea alternating with constipation, especially after excessive use of cathartics or laxatives. Urgent defecation producing very intense pain throughout the abdominal region and small quantities of stool.
CARDUUS MARIANUS. This drug affects so deeply the liver that it is capable of producing in it cirrhosis of Laennecs type due to its action of hardness upon the biliary ducts; also active and passive congestions of the same liver giving place to hepatitis; cholecystitis, angiocholitis and catarrhal duodenitis. Cholestasis and predisposition to biliary lithiasis are produced by the prolonged use of Carduus marianus in massive doses.
Leptandra Virginica has been used empirically in the form of a decoction of fresh roots, for the purpose of producing purgative effects, originating copious transpirations, especially in pleurisies, having in the same way a popular reputation as a remedy for bilious fever and typhoid fever, notwithstanding its use as a cathartic it is considered very dangerous because it is capable of originating serious intestinal haemorrhages, vertigo, abortion and even death.
TUMBAVAQUEROS. Out of the groups of patients with different mental troubles selected by Dr. Ugalde, for the use of Tumbavaqueros, all of them improved very strikingly in their psychical state, reaching the following conclusions: Tumbavaqueros neither depresses the psychical function nor depresses the arterial tension having a sedative action, it is atoxic and it does not produce a habit.
All authors are in agreement in considering as very undeterminable the limit and epoch of the normal and pathological crisis in this phase of feminine life, if we take into account the gradual involution of the ovarian function always compensated by very complex glandular and nervous reactions.
The Prontosil rubrum or Sulphamido-chrisoidine, like all other sulphamidate products, presents precise indications in order to know the etiology of the case. Notwithstanding the recommendations of physicians of the traditional school, regarding the posology of the remedy (sanguineous concentration dose) the Prontosil rubrum has a therapeutic action at 3x., 6x., 30x., 100 and 200, and
Dynamic specific symptoms are those that manifest the particular and elective action of each remedy given to a healthy man and not in massive doses and that furnish a symptomatic scheme that allows us to distinguish clearly the pharmacodynamic effect of each one of them.
Calcium is found in the skeleton, in the teeth, in the soft tissues of the organism, being an essential element in all the plasma of the tissues and cells. The normal organism contains 9.0 and 11.0 mg. of calcium per 100 c.c. of serum, which quantity varies in children, this proportion increasing or decreasing in them or in the adult according to their diverse troubles.