CHAPTER IV.
HOMŒOPATHY CONTINUED. INDICATIONS OF NATURE—BELLADONNA IN SCARLATINA—NECESSITY OF ATTENUATED DOSES—BEST DOSE ALWAYS THE SMALLEST—COMMON SALT—SILEX—ARSENIC.
A little attention may teach any one that Nature herself never acts homœopathically. If a man has swallowed poison, or other offensive material, she endeavors to throw it off by violent vomiting, or purging, and to protect the delicate villæ of the stomach and bowels by an increased secretion of mucus. If the subject is plethoric, she often relieves him by epistaxis, or hæmorrhage of some other kind. If dust has fallen into his eyes, she washes it out immediately by spontaneous lachrymation; or if the necessary amount of effete fluid is not conducted off by cutaneous perspiration, some of the mucous membranes, or the kidneys, or all of these, are exerted for its removal. Nor does she repudiate counter-irritation: an internal affection is often
