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Colostrum

Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica (3 vols) · J. H. Clarke

Open remedy: Colos.

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The milk first secreted after childbirth. Solution.

Clinical

Diarrhoea.

Characteristics

The symptoms of Colost. are purely clinical. Its use in diarrhoea was probably suggested by the purgative effect of Colostrum on the infant. Bell gives the indications as follows: STOOLS: Green; watery; yellow; watery; mucous, bilious, profuse, sour-smelling, excoriating. AGGRAVATED: In nursing infants; during dentition. DURING STOOL: Colicky pains in hypogastrium. Accompaniments: Great nervous irritability, or listlessness. Pale face. Tongue coated white or yellow. Vomiting of sour or bitter substances. Loss of appetite. The whole body smells sour. Fever. Emaciation.

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These titles sit beside the repertory: Allen’s Keynotes, Anshutz on the twelve tissue remedies, Boericke’s materia medica, Clarke’s Dictionary, Hering, Jones, Kent’s lectures, Nash, and Boger’s Synoptic Key. Philosophy includes Hahnemann’s Organon (5th and 6th), Kent, Close, Burnett, Haehl, Gibson Miller, Royal, J. H. Allen, and Anshutz. Clinical, therapeutics, regional works, and short remedy pictures follow the same shelf.

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