SECTION 31.
CAMPHOR.
General Indications
Internal trembling - feeling of dread when in the dark - coldness of the skin with aversion to being covered (Secale) - pains abate by thinking of them.
Minute Dose
Section 56, B - C - D.
Officinal Dose
Adult, 5 to 60 minims of the spirits. Child, see Section 56, B.
The tincture of Camphor, adult, 1 drop on sugar, frequently repeated, cures cold in the head in a day - Controls convulsions - Arrests strangury form fly blister - Restores suppressed measles - Is the remedy, par excellence, for all complications of labor - gives force to weak, failing labor pains - Dissipates false labor pains - stops after - pains - allays nervous sensitiveness and agitation with sweat - antidotes vegetable poisons. (Strong coffee does the same.)
Cholera Infantum - also Violent Pain, Screaming Spells. Apply menthated camphor (Lambert's) very lightly to region of the navel, and cover with oil - silk or flannel. In a few minutes pain gone, child quiet.
Cholera. Of 50, 000 people of Naples, who took drop doses of the tincture of camphor, 3 times a day, as a prophylactic of cholera, all escaped it, or, if attacked, recovered; even carrying Gum Camphor about the person is a guard against taking it.
Early in the attack of Cholera - skin cold, patient tossing in agony - take 3 to 5 drops of a strong alcoholic tincture on sugar every 5 minutes, and rub chest, back and abdomen with spirits of camphor, until the coldness gives way to vital warmth. This remedy is almost infallible. The same treatment cures Congestive chill and Ague, treated in the cold stage.
(A) It is the proper treatment during the cold stage of Yellow Fever; then follow with Gelsemium tincture, 5 drops every hour, and conquer every time.
Shifting Rheumatism - Rheumatic Paralysis. Camphor tincture, 6 to 10 drops, every 4 to 6 hours, is often the only remedy needed. "Rheumatism may be rubbed out in 3 days with mixture of 1 ounce of Gum Camphor, 1 drachm of Oil of Wormwood, and 1/2 pint of alcohol; rub thoroughly 3 or 4 times a day. " In case of Rheumatism, remove the casters from the bed posts, and put thick pieces of plate glass under each post; it will produce calm and refreshing sleep.
Sleeplessness. One granule of Camphor on going to bed will induce sleep - Mono - bromide of Camphor, 2 grains, acts like a charm.
Carbuncle. Camphor spirits and lime water, equal parts, applied early aborts it. Saponated coal tar, in water, 5 parts to 20, applied to carbuncle or boil acts like an anodyne soothes to sleep. No remedy equal to it.
Sprain. Wrap the part in flannel or absorbent cotton, saturated with Camphor spirits. Nothing better.
Mumps - Shifted to the Testes. Pour spirits of camphor in a basin, and place the scrotum therein, and bathe and rub well in, over the lower abdomen, and region of the loins and thighs. In 30 minutes, away goes all pain and swelling.