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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 118 of 653dry titillating cough sometimes prevails by way of exception. Theexpectoration is never very copious except when it is mixed withmucus from the lungs, of a white or grayish color, firmly coherinand globular, sometimes slightly streaked with blood. If it has apurulent appearance, we may almost feel sure that the expectoratidoes not alone proceed from the larynx and trachea.The difficulties of breathing, an oppressed, wheezing respirationand even an asthmatic dyspnoea are occasioned by a swelling andconstriction of the glottis, hence do not show the degree of intebut the seat of the disease. These difficulties are of importancea physician for the additional reason that they excite the most fful apprehensions in the minds of most patients.This disease generally runs a protracted and even obstinatecouree. It is mostly determined by the existing anatomical lesionA simple affection of the mucous membrane is easily cured ; whatrenders the final result doubtful is, when the patients expose thselves to influences that rekindle the disorder as soon as it besto mend. A simple ulcer is likewise within the reach of remedialinfluences, whereas the more deeply-penetrating ulcer and the fun132 Diseases of the Larynx and Trachea.goid exeresccnces of the mucous membrane resist all treatment somuch more obstinately as their diagnosis is more uncertain. It isonly in very rare cases that laryngotracheal catarrh is dangerousto life, not immediately, but in consequence of some pulmonaryaffection that may have been superinduced by the diflSiculties whthe air encounters in passing through the larynx. Laryngealphthisis without tubercles is a very rare occurrence, in which cait most generally depends upon other dyscrasic conditions. Thetubercular laryngeal catarrh will be described when we come tospeak of tuberculosis ; here we will only state that almost all dgerous and obstinate laryngeal catarrhs, especially if attended wemaciation or fever, are caused by tubercular infiltration.Treatment* We deal with an affection that may occur in themost diversified forms, complications and degrees of intensity, awhich on this account alone renders the selection of a large numbof remedies expedient. We could not possibly mention every drugthat may be required for the treatment of this disease, and haveconfined ourselves to an enumeration of the more important remedies, referring the reader to a good Repertory as an indispensabauxiliary, if a remedy is to be chosen for a single symptom of chacteristic value.Tartarus stibiatus and Antimonium crudum. The former is especiallindicated when the acute form passes into the chronic, more particularly in the case of children and old people. There is a freqdesire to cough, attended with an audible rattling of mucus in thair-passages, a thick and white phlegm being brought up after asevere paroxysm of racking cough. Or the cough may set in indetached violent paroxysms accompanied with dyspncea and endingin gagging and forcing up mucus. Both kinds are principally metwith among children and old people. For hoarseness as an isolatedsymptom, Tartarus stibiatus may not be appropriate ; Antimoniumcrudum will be found preferable. The following symptoms indicatehttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt