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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 122 of 653For complete loss of voice, attended with catarrh : AnHmoniumcrudum^ Phosphorus ^ Carbo veg.j lodium; if depending upon disturbed innervation: Cuprum^ Opium^ Caustkum^ Phosphorus., Ignortiaj Sepia.The cure is often promoted and hastened by various dietetic andexternal means. Individuals, for instance, who have been in thehabit of keeping their necks warm, and now take cold from everylittle exposure, may resort every evening to frictions with lardthe neck with the best results ; these will diminish the dispositto take cold. The well known domestic remedy to wear aroundthe neck a rough woollen bandage, is likewise to be commended.The most decided and reliable advantage, however, is obtained frothe use of cold water, either by simply washing the neck with it,by means of wet bandages around the throat. As a matter ofcourse, too warm clothing has to be avoided. There is no betterpalliative for the distressing titillating cough, which is especitormenting at night, than inhaling the vapors of warm water. Weknow from experience that thoroughly practised singers are seldomattacked with permanent hoarseness or pulmonary diseases. Amethodical, cautious, uniform use of the voice in singing, especiif confined to the middle notes, is sometimes a better remedy forchronic hoarseness than any other means of treatment ; if the vocchords are morbidly relaxed, this use of the laryngeal muscleswould be dictated by the principles of the movement-cure. Onlyin a case of tubercular hoarseness an experiment.of this kind migprove hazardous. Talking in the midst of a noisy company, in acarriage, in rail-cars, etc., should be carefully avoided.CEdema Glottidis* 1374. CEdema Olotlidls, liarjmgltbi Sab-miicosa.CSdema, of the Glottis.By this name we understand a sadden infiltration of the sabmncous tissue of the epiglottis, and of the mucous lining of thelarynx extending from the epiglottis to the rima glottidis.(Edema glottidis is more especially a disease of adults, and inmost cases a secondary afiection. Primarily it may result fromsevere bums, by hot food or corrosive substances, but scarcely evlike oommon laryngitis, in consequence of a cold. Secondarily wedo not oitcu notice it in company with dropsical affections, butmost commonly in company with affections that occasion the formatiou of ulcers or suppurating sores on the inner or outer wallsof the larynx, like tuberculosis, typhus, variola, ulcerous larynperichondritis, croup, diphtheria, etc. ; or it may occur in a fecases as a continuation of an ulcerous angina to the larynx, as iscarlatina. Sometimes the disease seems to assume an epidemiccharacter; this may be nothing more than we observe, for instancein epidemic scarlatina, which causes characteristically violent ausually purulent anginas. Considering the manner in which thedisease originates, the most correct explanation seems to be thatsuppurative process in the neighborhood of the glottis causes cedin the same manner in which a chancre causes within a few hoursan excessive oedema of the prepuce. Our statistical tables so farthat the disease attacks men much more frequently than women.http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt