This powder is the best of known nervines. It will produce the most beneficial effects in all cases of nervous affections, as also in hysterical symptoms. It is perfectly harmless, and may be used in all cases of disease with safety, and is much better than the dangerous and habit forming narcotics which number their victims by the millions. This powder has a tendency to promote sleep and is highly soothing, but this is due to its potency to quiet the nerves and to create a state of ease, permitting sleep during which Nature may tone up the system and heal the afflictions. Half a teaspoonful may be given in hot water and the dose repeated as often as necessary. The same quantity may be mixed with doses of any of the other numbers and also used in the Internal bath.
TH0MS0N1AN PRACTICE MODERNIZED FOR MODERN NATURAL PHYSICIAN
The Emetic—Lobelia
Lobelia can be procured in a number of forms and is a standard remedy with many of the best physicians in America and one relied upon in a great number of the most dangerous ailments.
Ellingwood, of Chicago, internationally recognized as an authority, gives it a foremost place in the treatment of many cases of diseases such as angina pectoris, anuria, apoplexy, asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia, croup, infantile convulsions, diphtheria, hemorrhagic diphtheria, dysmenorrhea, epilepsy, acute heart failure, heatstroke, hysteria, migraine, rigid os, ovarian pains, spasms in the intestines, spinal meningitis, tetanus, tonsilitis, tuberculosis, whooping cough.
Only a few years ago the liberal physician and Nature curist would not have had the courage to use Lobelia as the most ethical physicians of today employ it. Note the following item which appeared in the public press:
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