35. In violent local determination of blood to a part or
organ, as in croup, inflammation of the brain, violent pleurisy,
inflammation of the kidneys, apoplexy and other like diseases,
one of the most important indications in the treatment, is to
overcome this undue determination cf the blood to the affected
part by relaxing the system with Lobelia, either via the stomach
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or administered by means of the Internal Bath.
36. Finally, the Physio-Medical system fulfills all the important requirements for the treatment of the ailing; and, it scientifically (with reason and understanding) applied, will bring about a balance, and equilibrium, which is, generally speaking, a cure.
EMETICS IN THE TREATMENT OF DISEASE
Physio-Medical (Thomsonian) emetics constitute the most effectual agency employed in the treatment of disease (the relief of indispositions). There is scarcely a form of sickness in which the use of emetics will not prove beneficial, and in many instances they are indispensibly necessary to the recovery of the patient.* Previous to the discovery of the medical properties of Lobelia by Samuel Thomson, poisonous articles were employed almost exclusively as emetics.
In many cases of slight or sudden attacks of disease, all that is required by the operation of an emetic is to throw off the foul contents of the stomach, which had oppressed and deranged its functions. But where disease has become seated, other important objects are obtained by the operation of such agents. They relax the system, and in this way overcome obstructions, equalize the circulation of the blood and of the nervous influence; invigorate the energies of the stomach, and remove morbid secretions from its mucous surface; restore the secretions, and in fact, assist the constitution in resisting disease, and thus aid her efforts in reestablishing a state of health.
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