warning on phosphorus in pneumonia

TIPS FOR PNEUMONIA

Five Tips from Dr. E.A. Farrington

Warning on Phosphorus in Pneumonia
Unless you give the drug cautiously, you precipitate what you would prevent.
Be certain that it is the remedy, and do not give it too often, or you will hast
en the
process you are anxious to avoid.
Kalmia
Kalmia is especially useful when gout or rheumatism shifts from the joints to th
e heart,
especially after external applications to the joints.
The heart pains are sharp, taking away the breath, and the patient almost suffo
cates,
so severe are they.
The pains shoot down into the abdomen or stomach.
The pulse is slow, almost as slow as that calling for Digitalis.
Gelsemium and Baptisia
Both Gelsemium and Baptisia have intense muscular soreness and prostration,
drowsiness and nervous excitement with prostration and a feeling of expansion,
as though the head or some part of the body were enormously enlarged.
Gelsemium
eness,

usually precedes Baptisia when there are malaise and muscular sor

and the patient suffers from chills and crawls, which go down the back.