Oleum Jecoris Aselli

iOocLlwer Oil.)

Dbbckiption, — Oleum Morrhuaa, or Cod-Hvcr oil, is oljtained from the liver of the Gadus Morrhua and otlier species of the Gadus. The livers of the Cod are put into a large vessel and heated by ateani applied to the out- side. The liquid is drained off, allowed to stand, and the oil is finally Bkimmcd off as it rises to the top. The finest brands of oil are prepared by forcing currents of steam at high pressure through the mass of livers, tearing them in this way to pieces and melting out theii' oil.

The oil should be pezfectlylimpid, yellow, thick, and free from rancidity, and possessing the peculiaj' flshy taste.

The brov»i and black oils are rancid, nauseous, disgusting, audunfit foi administration.

Cod-liver oil is a very complex substance, containing, according to Dr. Jorgh, glycerine, oleic, magaric, butyric, and acetic acids; also iodine, bromine, phosphorvs, phosphoric acid. The iodine is In proportion of about OTie part in two thougiiTid; or, according to Dr. Jorgh, four-hundredths of a grain in one hundred grains of the oil.

Officinal Prepakations. — (1) The pure oil; (3) triturations of the oil; (3) linetaire. (Dr. Neidhard recommends a tinctnre made by digesting J i to S 1 of strong alcohol, and dilutions from this tincture.}

[For the best methods of administration, and the size of dose, see "Ther- apeutics," Vol. II.]

As Ai.oovEB.^^Ampelcpsie(f),Alnua (f), Artemcma, Bromine, Baptida{T), Oalcaria, Oieliu, {OlyeeHne,) Iodine, I'hosphorus, (HgpophogpMtci qf mda, lime, etc.,) Spongia, Sulphw".

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OtEDM JfiCOKK ASELLI. 473

(The following pathogenesis is prepared from Neidhard'a prorings and clinical experience, and arranged hy Dr. Fairbanks. All the symptomB, not otherwise credited, belong to Neidhard.]

Mind, Fretful temper.

Talks about liiniself in the third persoiL "Senaation as if out of her mind.

Dull aching pain in the forehead, also in the vei'tex. Giddiness, everything turns black.

A flow of tears when walking in the open air, worse in the left. Heaviness over the eyes; eyelids so heavy she can hardly raise

them; swelling of the lids. Blackness and bhndness before the eyes, with disposition to

° Fetid discharge from the ears, " Marked deafness in left ear, and abscess in the right.

Flushed face; burning of the face.

Tongue coated yellow.

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474 OLEDM JECOEIS ASELIX

Parclied feeling in mouth; constant thirst.

Soreness of the tongue after using the oil.

Soreness in the throat.

Tickling in throat pit, after dinner, with cough, (vvvv.)

" Great hoarseness, (chronic)

° Sligiit hoarseness in evening, worse next day.

" Choking and oppressed feeling when lying down.

° Chronic sore tliroat relieved, with expectoration of yellow mucus.

Taste and Appetite.

Loss of appetite, could not tasfc milk. {w. twice verified.)

Nausea with thirst, and loss of appetite, (jw.)

Vomiting with hitter acid taste.

Great nausea and sickness of stomach, {vw.)

Weight and oppression in pit of stomach. («.)

Heat in region of stomach, (v.)

Pressive tensive pain in stomach.

Acid vomiting, and purging with pain in stomach, (v.)

"Vomiting of bile and mucus, with bitter and acid taste — after a chill.

Soreness and heaviness in region of liver, worse from pressure or exercise. {vm>v.)

Beating pain in region of spleen, with hearing down pain in tlie side. (w>.)

Jerking, drawing pain in region of spleen, worse when breath- ing or coughing, (u)

Spasmodic pain in umbilical region.

" Tabes mesenterica. {Hale.)

Diarrhcea in the night and early morning.

Constipation, (vvv.) with burning of hands and feet (w.^— at times with cold feet.

TTrinary Organs.

Urine reddish, with pink sediment. s in region of kidneyB.

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OLEDM JEC0KI8 A8EIJJ. 475

' Discharge of yellow matter from the womb, with weak back

°°°° Meiiatruation obstructed, from taking cold.

" Menstruation pi'emature or copious.

" Soreness of both ovaries; dysmenorrhea. Eespiratory Organs.

Shortness of breath, with heavy beating of heart, {v.)

Asthma continually increasing in violence, (u)

Pain in right side, above and below scapula, arresting the breath, (vvw.)

Pain in left side of chest, through to back, with cough and shortness of breath, {vuw.)

Pain at apex of (left?) scapula.

Sharp stitch in left side, {w.) lasting some minutes.

Oppression and heat in chest, (iw.)

Stitch in right side during a long breath, lasting all day. {vv.)

Ilheuinatic pain in region of heart, also in muscles of chest, {yv.)

A sudden stitch in the heart.

Oppressive anxious beating of heart, {v.)

Soreness m. chest and, stomach, with cough — verified many times.

Weakness in the chest, witli hard coughing spells in the morning, (m}.)

Sensation of excoriation in left chest, extending to the back, (ww.)

Dry hacking cough, {vw.)

Cough all night; palpitation of heart, (•;>.)

eti'eoKth and appetite. After many other remedies liad failed, there was

escessive weakness, with expectoration of lieavj bloody mucus. Tea- spoonful doses of Oleum Jec, pure, tliree times a day for three montlis,

cured.

weather, with yellowish expectoration at times. At other times, dry and

hacking, after ineffiectual use of Calc. Hypophos 3 x , and other remedies.

^ Oleum Jec 1 x ifoell $hakeii). Drop doses tliree times a day cured in a

fbw days.

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473 OLEUM JEC0BI3 ASBLU,

Back and Ifeck.

Soreness all around the body to the back, {w.)

"Weakness and dull aching in sacral region, relieved by pres- sure, (w.)

Soreness in region of kidneys, after exercise. («,)

" Soreness from back to cbest.

° Sharp heavy aching pain in lower spine.

" Spinal irritation, sore to the touch.

°A sensation of fluttering commences in region of sacrum, and gradually ascends to the occiput. As it rises it affects the abdomen and chest, so that she can move neither hand or foot.

Expectoration of yellow mucus, {vvvv.)

Expectoration of tough greenish-yellow phlegm, with ealtish taste. (By continuing the oil it became white.) {wv.)

Expectoration of tough thin mucus in the morning, (vw.)

Expectoration of thick white phlegm, with hard cough, (vv.)

"White expectoration, with pain in side, worse when bending side inwards.

Spitting of blood. («.)

°° Pain in upper part of chest when coughing.

°° Violent cough, with retching; night and day.

°° Burning heat in left chest through to back, with cough.

"Loose cough, with yellowish expectoration.

" Cougli on raising the arm, with stitches.

* Weakness in chest and back; more in left.

" HEemoptysis. (Cured three cases.)

" Soreness in centre of chest, with barking cough and aching between the shoulders,

FevH",

Flushes of heat, {v.)

Pever and heat over the whole body, (vvvv.)

Pulse veiy frequent, varying from 100 to 120. {m.)

Great thirst; constant thirst.

Chill every evening (v.) for four days, with acid vomiting and diarrhoea. (Relieved by Iris.)

A creeping sensation ail over the body, with a rush of blood to the heart.

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OXEDM JECOKI8 A8ELIJ 477

A. tertian intcrmitterit fever, returned four times, receding two hours each time, and lasting two hours; cliill passed down the back and around abdomen. Eelieved by Enp. perf.

Fever for two liours in the night, followed by a violent per- spiration ; mainly on upper parts.

Flushes of lieat with red face, heat in stomach, and fever all over to ends of toes; lasting eight or ten hours.

Perspiration every night {v.) or ali the time.

Chills and heetic fever, with beating pain in spleen.

Chilly at bedtime, followed by fever, oppression and heat of the ch^t.

Chill at three a. m., lasting one hour, followed by fever; pulse from 100 to 120.

Chill in evening, afterwards fever and palpitation of heart.

Burning heat in the palms of the hands, mostly at night, (verified by many provings.)

Hands dry and parched, with heaviness over the eyes.

° Continued aching and sore pain in the elbow and knee joints. Lower Extremities.

Cold feet (ever since taking the oil).

Soreness of the feet; abscess on left thigh.

" Rheumatic pain in left foot.

° White swelling of knees; scrofulous hip disease.

Wakefulness and vivid dreams from the fever and excitement

Less sleepy than usual, with night sweats.

Sleeplessness after 3 a. m., with general prostration.

° Dreams of seeing objects in the room during sleep.

Boil on right side of chest.

Abscess on the left tiiigh.

A decided increase in strength and natural health. (wOT) )

She looted fatter and healthier in the face than before.

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478 OLEim JECOKIS A8ELLI.

General lassitade and prostration of whole system, (v.)

She feeJs miserable, with great nervous irritation. (After tablespoonfnl doses for weeks.)

The hot air is disagreeable to him.

° It influenees favorably the constitution of the blood; pale, ansemic patients become, while taking it, rosy and plethoric. {Sale.)

"It is especially neefiil in that condition of the system in which, with generally lowered tone, there is a tendency to cellular hyperplasia, to the tbrmation of "exudations," composed of imperfectly developed cells, which, in the majority of cases, from the very beginning are incapable of development into perfect entities, having only one potential quality, that of dying. {JT. C Wood.)

" Scrofulosis, i. e., a tendency to increase in the lymphatic glands; to multiplication of their cellnlar elements, and the formation (1) of cA^esy deposits, a slow, fatty degenera- tion, with dessication; or, (3) a rapid, fatty change, with abundance of moisture, resulting in pus and abscesses.

" A condition of cellular hyperplasia, affecting the mucoiis membrane of tlie air-passages. The patient, on the slightest occasion, suffers from catarrh, until, iinally, a multiplica- tion of cells occurs so rapidly, as to fill np a greater or less number of the air vesicles of the lungs, generally those of tlie apex, causing one of those conditions known as " consumi^ion.''^ i^^-)

" In nearly all diseases, where we find combined, a condition marked by weakness, emaoiation, and anwmm. {Hale.)

° Diseases of the hones; scrofulous; chronic inflammations of the joints; caries; necroses; aiseesse^, etc, {Wood.)

"Defective nutrition, especially in children, where there is pallor, loss of sti^ngth, emaciation, etc {Hale.)

" Chronic rhffumaiisnh, in cachectic, broken down constitutions.

" Wervous affections, neuralgia, sciatica, lumbago, in emaciated and anemic persons, with deficiency of animal heat. (/J.)

Cliiil passes down the back and around the abdomen.

I'aiTis move from before backwards, and from below npwards.

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OLKDM KICINUS C0MMDMI8. 479

PainB are worse after exercise, in either side, predominantly

the left, through to the back, Paina move from right to left, and from thence through to tlie

Cough worse when lying down, when laughing, or from a