Homoeopathy in Emergencies of Medicine

Homoeopathy in Emergencies of Medicine

Dr. Castro's Emergencies in the Practice of Homoeopathic Medicine is a comprehensive practical guide to the management of life-threatening situations confronting the homoeopaths in day to day medical practice. Each emergency is discussed with diagnostic tips, which will help the practitioners and the students to quickly diagnose the disease, aided by a few symptoms. To quote an example, 'If there is puffiness of the face, hypertension, haematuria oliguria, ache in loins with recent history of sore throat, then it is a case of acute nephritis'. It gives excellent guidelines for the quick choice of medicine with differentiating points at a glance in the patient such as those of the dreaded status asthmaticus, e.g., 'Whenever there is rattling in the chest looking like Ant-tart, but the patient is anxious, Spongia is the medicine that should strike our mind. If the patient is sitting bent forward and does not lie down for fear of suffocation, then it is Ars. alb. If the patient is extremely restless, trying to grasp to air with the hand and unable to speak, then it is Cupr. If he looks as if dying, China will save him.’ All topics falling under emergencies in medicine are dealt with in this book and the aspect of availability, requirement and non-requirement of accessory measures has been taken into consideration. The book, therefore, stresses two main functions: 1. To deal with emergencies aided by accessory measures wherever such provisions exist and are necessary. 2. To handle the emergencies with medicines alone when such facilities do not exist or are not necessary. Certain investigative procedures, such as lumbar puncture, have been described with simultaneous warning of their harmful effects with the dual hope that practising with knowledge begets confidence and choice of investigative methods is the prerogative of the physician. The numerous medicines given under each topic in various conditions will convince the reader that it is a vast treasure-house of medicines in emergencies.