SECTION 110.
PHOSPHORUS.
General Indications
Clear, ivory - white complexion - soreness in the lungs - tightness across the chest - inability to lie on the left side - bleeding difficult to check - night hunger - ailments better after sleep - desire for very cold food and drink, which for a time relieves - aversion to sweets.
Minute Dose
Section 56, B - C.
Ordinary Dose
Adult, 1 to 2 drops of the tincture of phosphorus - Elixir 1 to 2 drachms - Phosphoric acid dilute 10 to 60 minims. Child, see Section 56, B.
"A preparation of Phosphorus convenient for use, may be made by putting a piece of phosphorus in alcohol, which soon becomes saturated, and of the solution, put according to the age of the patient, from 1 to 6 drops into 1/2 glass of water, and of this give teaspoonful doses, every one, two or three hours as the case may seem to require; or drop a little of the solution on sugar, and make it up into powders, to be taken dry, or dissolved in a little water to suit the convenience and taste of the patient. "
(A) I regard the tincture of phosphorus as the most valuable remedy that we possess for the treatment of Melancholy - Failing brain power - Chronic Hydrocephalus - Hydrocephaloid (keeping the child in recumbent position, with body and limb warm) - Vertigo - Petit Mal - Hysteria - Erotomania - Twitching of facial muscles - Spinal irritation - Tremor - Locomotor Ataxia - Amaurosis - Glaucoma - Photophobia - Sleeplessness - Restlessness - Somnambulism - Clairvoyance - Nose - bleed habit (Arnica) - Hoarseness - Loss of voice, especially of public speakers - Croup, almost unfailing - Cough, even consumptive, with soreness of the lungs and tightness across the chest - Pneumonia, all stages - Edema of the lungs - Diarrhea, chronic, bloody, or constant oozing from the bowels - Proctitis - Purpura Hemorrhagica - Measles - Shingles - Smallpox - Neuralgia, 40 cures in succession reported - Intercostal neuralgia - Menstrual irregularities, sudden suppression by cold or fright; excessive flow watery; painful flow, sick headache at these times - Fatty degeneration - Chronic Rheumatism and Gout - Periostitis - Bone Caries - Nerve exhaustion, sinking death - door condition in fever.
Phosphorus, adult, 1/80 to 1/15 grain doses produces a general sense of stimulation more complete than that caused by coffee, and more active than that produced by opium.
(C) Phosphorus taken in minute doses during pregnancy will prevent malformation of the offspring, such as clubfoot, twisted hand, spine curve.
(D) If a lady during pregnancy is unable to drink water, (even the sight of it causing nausea) phosphorus taken in minute doses will remove the trouble. If the milk fails to come after confinement, the same also will restore the secretion in abundance and of good quality.
Baldness - Alopecia. Phosphorus tincture 1 drachm and Castor oil 1 ounce, mix and apply to the scalp, once a day. Cleanse the scalp each time with warm water without soap, before applying the solution.
Purification of the air in rooms. Dip a bundle of phosphorus matches into warm water, and suspend it in the room; this produces ozone, and nitrite of ammonia, which purify the air directly.
(E) "Saccharated wheat phosphoids, dose for child 1/2 to 1 teaspoonful, 3 times a day in a little milk; or if the stomach is very weak, in coffee; is an excellent thing to give during teething to conduct the process safely through. It is said to cure scabby incrustation of face and head - wasting disease of the nervous - rickets - marasmus - chronic diarrhoea - scrofula - and to put the system in the most favorable condition to receive in a mild form, scarlet fever, measles, smallpox, whooping cough.".