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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 112 of 653all jx)wer over croup. "We are not yet able to express a decidedopinion on this subject. The symptoms indicating Bromine are thefollowing : Cough having a croupy sound, hoarse, wheezing, distressing cough which does not give one a chance to speak, attendewith sneezing and violent fits of suffocation; spasm of the glottwhence the symptoms of asphyxia; moist respiratory rale, thebreathing is at times wheezing and slow, at other times as if hewould suffocate, and then again hurried, superficial, labored, ditressed, painful and gasping. This combination of symptoms idfurnished by Attomyr, but we would like to ask whether anythingin this group points to Bromine ? Moreover we confess that weconsider a purely symptomatic treatment of croup inadequate, and'^n)' » Ao,Laryngotracheitis Croupf^a. ^ /" 125that, if croup were to be treated according t^^ere\8yra^m8, wewould have to change the medicine as often as the gymptonnfyhangewhich would be productive of a vast deal of harn)#^ v^ jij^acquainted with the effects of the remedies to be employ^^ bi>^ \i4of them is the best adapted to the exigencies of the'^fl'Se, is bdetermined by practical experience. We do not mean'tp rejectBromine, but it is only in mild cases that we would substitute ituse for that of Iodine.If, in spite of all treatment, the symptoms of asphyxia increasemore and more ; if the dyspnoea continues to increase ; if the agand restlessness of the little patient become more distressing, athe symptoms of cerebral congestion more marked, two remediesremain from which aid may be expected, namely Phosphorus andTartar emetic. The former is indicated if the cough has lost allresonance and force, and the mucous r^le has ceased; or moreespecially if the croupous process has invaded the bronchia and tlungs have evidently become hypereemic. Tartar enietic is indicatif the dyspnoea and danger of asphyxia are occasioned by movablepatches of membrane, the cough is indeed feeble and without resonance, but a mucous rale is still distinctly heard in the tracheaHowever it is not advisable to prescribe this remedy in large dosfor the favorable effect of the act of vomiting is very problematwhereas the great deprcbsion caused by the vomiting is sure to folow. Nor is it at all certain whether any emetic at this advancedstage of croup can cause vomiting. Grain doses of the second trituration are sufficiently strong; as regards Phosphorus we would nhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt