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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 121 of 653Arsenicum album acts in many respects similarly to the precedingremedy. We shall revert to Arsenic when treating of pulmonarycatarrh, to which we refer for the present. Arsenic, too, has gresensitiveness to cold and more particularly to damp air, likewisegreat nervousness. The hoarseness is not often considerable, andsets in at intervals ; it is accompanied by a violent burning sorof the throat. The cough breaks out in paroxysms with almobtcompletely free intervals, most generally about midnight, resembla paroxysm of whooping-cough and is accompanied by distressingdyspnoea. There is scarcely any expectoration, except that a morning-paroxysm of cough results in the hawking up of lumps of graymucus. The constitution feels the influence of the disease. Arsenicum is more especially indicated by the circumstance that theparoxysms of cough are apt to break out when the weatherchanges.Next to Phosphorus, Carbo vegetabilis is the most important remedy in inveterate catarrh, but acts less favorably than Arsenic ithe tubercular form of this disease. Here too, we have extremesensitiveness to the open air, especially damp air. In consequencof loud talking, the hoarseness may increase to loss of voice; thpatient complains of a feeling of great dryness in the throat, wisoreness and a stinging pain, together with a copious secretion otenacious mucus occasioning constant and sometimes very painfulhawking. The cough is wearins:, rough, with mucous rSles, butonly a scanty, greenish or yellowish, lumpy, tenacious expectoration, it sets in more particularly in the morning and is attendedwith dyspnoea.We will now mention a few more remedies in the following cursory series :For the simple protracted chronic catarrh representing an acuteattack : Tartarus stibiatus^ Hepar sidphuris calc.^ Spongia^ Pulsand for the more acute intercurrent exacerbations principally Mercurixis and Belladonna. The latter is sometimes eminently adaptedto a spasmodic nocturnal cough, without expectoration.For catarrh complicated with ulceration, if not too old : lodiurr136 Diseases of the Larynx and Trachea.Hepar sulpL., Manganum^ Silicea^ Calcarea earbonica ; for neglectcatarrh: Phosphorus^ Sulphur j Carbo veg.^ Arsenicum album.For inveterate simple catarrh: Sulphur j Carbo veg.j Silicea^ At*senicum album.For polypous growths: Phosphorus^ Calcarea carb.^ Silicea.For continued hoarseness and chronic catarrhs of singers, preachers, etc. : Manganum^ Phosphorus^ Carbo veg.^ Selenium^ Argentumin older cases ; in recent cases: Hepar sulph,y Spongia.For catarrh caused by Mercury: Hepar sulph.^ lodium^ and if asyphilitic complication exists : Mezereum,http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt