The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 100 of 653The disease lasts at most nine days, but, if the cough is veryviolent, it rarely ever disappears entirely at the termination ofperiod. As a rule, while decreasing gradually, it continues for stime after, or, if the patients are again enabled to go out, it o110 Diseases of the Larynx and Trachea.disappears of itself as soon as a steady and mild weather sets inMore frequently the hoarseness continues for a longer time, wereonly just enough to interfere with singing, if not with talking.The transition into chronic catarrh is very frequent, and is favoby the circumstance that patients, not minding the trifling disorexpose themselves to renewed attacks of acute catarrh which finalassumes the chronic form. Laryngotracheal catarrh does not endanger life unless other diseases should supervene as grave complcations.Treatment. This morbid process is not sufficiently importantto require a number of remedies. It rray be that a rigid individualization of every case may facilitate the cure, but we cannot idulge in the luxury of furnishing so many details. WhateverHartmann may say to the contrary, we consider a few practicalgeneralizations more adapted to our purpose and shall thereforeconfine ourselves to mentioning the remedies which experience haspointed out as the most valuable and reliable in this disease.Nux vomica is suitable in the milder cases that scarcely ever become the subject of a physician's care ; the patients complain oflittle hoarseness, a burning tickling in the larynx, frequent couwith tickling, scanty expectoration, and especially troublesomeearly in the morning, a weary and languid feeling, chilliness, frheadache. In the more violent cases of catarrh, Nux is only usefuif, after the fever hae begun to abate, the expectoration continuto remain tenacious and hard to raise, and the patient is tormentby a constant titillating hacking cough.Aconitum is useful in catarrhs caused by exposure to a sharp andkeen dry wind. Upon the whole, this remedy does not seem oftenindicated in simple catarrhal affections, except perhaps in the cof children in whom the febrile symptoms assume a different shapefrom what they do in the case of full-grown persons. For catarrhacroup it is undoubtedly the best remedy, which, however, ceases tbe indicated, if the physician is not called till the second or tday of the disease.Belladonna may prove most serviceable in the first few days, if tcatarrh is associated with fever. The following symptoms are characteristic : fever with disposition to perspire and sleep ; violestinging pains in the larynx ; a dry, barking spasmodic cough coming on in paroxysms, exacerbating more particularly in the eveninand beiore midnight; sensation as if dust had been swallowed;feeling of constriction in the larynx; the catarrh is complicatedwith tonsillitis ; aphonia.Laiyngotracheitis Catarrhalis Acuta. Illhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt