fasting
saliva, and then gently rubbing the ring thus moistened, (and probably
superficially dissolved by the saliva), along the outside of the eyelid
over the stye. Again, M. Varro assures us that Gold is a cure for wTarts.
Dr. Richard Hughes, in his noted Pharmacodynamics, has
said concerning Gold, "It is an admirable remedy for constitutions
broken down by the combined influence of syphilis and mercury. I once
gave a poor fellow thus afflicted the trituration of gold (finely
diluted with dry, powdered, inert sugar of milk). He came back to me in
a week's time looking quite another man, and exclaimed, ' Surely you
have given me the elixir of life ! '"
As
to the efficacy of Gold in melancholia, Hahnemann has said, and his
followers have fully verified the dictum, " I have cured several cases
of melancholy (similar to those produced by Gold in its provers),
promptly, and permanently, with this metal; and the cases were of such
persons as went about with the serious intention of committing
suicide." For the whole treatment of any such a case Hahnemann needed
only the ninehundredth part of a grain of pure Gold (triturated into a
powder, together with some inert substance, such as the powdered sugar
of milk). Once more : Gold has shown itself to be a capital remedy in
old age ; not that it will make an old organism young ; but,
nevertheless, it will materially benefit the senility, thus, fro tanto, rejuvenate it.
For
dental purposes Gold is used either cohesive, or not cohesive ; in the
latter case it is made solid within the hollow tooth-cavity by close
compression. Gold-leaf is the form of the metal employed (Aurum foliatum). Seeing that Chloride of Gold is a soluble salt, and the
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