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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 119 of 653this remedy : the hoarseness is made worse by excitement and overheating ; disposition of the voice to give out suddenly ; sensatiof roughness in the larynx, and as if a foreign body had lodgedin it.Hepar sulphuris oaloareum is particularly adapted to neglected accatarrh, and is an indispensable remedy for singers and people whhave to talk a good deal, but is likewise suitable in many caseschronic catarrh. The following symptoms are the most essential :the larynx feels painful as if sore and burning, especially whenLaryngotracheitis Chronica. 188patients cough or talk load ; hoarseness sometimes increasing forshort time to aphonia ;• feeling of dryness in the larynx, althouthe presence of mucus is distinctly perceived ; a hoarse titillatcough with scanty expectoration and rattling of mucus in thetrachea ; hard, lumpy, yellow or greenish expectoration, very tenacious and sometimes tinged with blood. Hepar deserves particular attention in cases of chronic catarrh remaining after croupor measles, or in the case of individuals who had taken muchMercury.Spongia bears great resemblance to the former drug both symptomatically as well as in its general indications. It too is indiafter croup and measles, in cases of neglected acute catarrh, incase of singers. It is particularly required for the cough withburning titillation in the larynx, which sets in more particularlnight or after loud talking. The cough has a barking sound, themucus is hard to bring up, tenacious, yellowish, and the attacksapt to be accompanied by dyspnoea emanating from the glottis.lodium is one of the most important remedies in this afiection.Among the general indications for Iodine we distinguish the following : chronic catarrh of scrofulous and mercurialized individuals, or remaining after croup or other acute affections, or complicated with chronic pharyngeal catarrh. Th3 most prominentsymptomatic indications are the following : Disposition to take cand long' duration of the acute stage ; the larynx is painful whepressed upon ; burning, sore pains in the larynx confined to a denite spot, felt especially during cough; embarrassed respiration,wheezing inspirations causing real attacks of dyspnoea especiallynight ; a good deal of hawking, with difficulty of bringing up teacious mucus ; a high degree of hoarseness, even aphonia ; tickliin the larynx, frequently causing paroxysms of cough without expectoration, or else with scanty expectoration of a tenacious mucsometimes mixed with streaks of blood. The general organism isvery much affected by the disease. The presence of ulcers pointsmore particularly to Iodine, which will again be referred to whenwe come to speak of tubercular laryngitis.Manganum is an excellent remedy, although little has been said ofit so far. It corresponds more especially to a catarrh accompanying an incipient, not a fully developed tuberculosis, but likewisforms of catarrh not resulting from a dyscrasic origin, when thefollowing symptoms are present: Slight hoarseness, rather a roughness of the throat, caused by an accumulation of lumps of hardhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt