The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 125 of 653three drops of the tincture of the root were given in a half glasof water, of which she took a teaspoonful every twenty minutes." This appeared to afford relief which, however, proved but temporary as, upon paying my morning visit, I found the patient muchworse in every respect. The leaden hue of the skin, with the intense anxiety of the countenance, showing that she had to fear thresults of deficient aeration of the blood." This condition of affairs rendering bronchotomy necessary, Ireturned to the office for the necessary instruments and assistanbut in the mean while ordered two drops of the tincture of theAconite root to be given every ten minutes." Upon returning, after the lapse of an hour, the patient was sofar relieved as to render surgical interference unnecessary, and'this the convalescence was steady, although slow and imperfect.There remains, after many months, a cough with hoarseness, owingto constitutional tuberculosis." H.]5. Spasmus Glottidls.Spasm of the Glottis.Spasmodic conditions of the glottis sometimes accompany otheracute or chronic diseases of the larynx as severe complications.this chapter we do not speak of these conditions, but of the purenervous spasm of the glottis which occurs without any materialalterations, and which is described in pathological treatises undthe names of Asthma thymicum Koppii, Asthma M illari. Asthmaperiodicum infantum, or Laryngismus stridulus. All these conditions are essentially alike.Spasm of the glottis affects pre-eminently children of a tenderage; among adults it only occurs as an accompaniment of otherpathological processes; or as an idiopathic disease it may attackfemales of exceedingly irritable nerves. Among children the largenumber of those who are attacked by the disease, are boys ; amongpersons of a more advanced age, the case is exactly the reverse.Ardent discussions have been carried on regarding the real causeof the disease ; a retarded involution of the thymus gland, tuberculosis of the bronchial glands, a rhachitic affection of the occthe non-closure of the ductus Botallii, etc., have been accused athe exciting causes of the disease, until finally pathologists haconcluded that the real cause of this peculiar spasm is as yet unknown. An hereditary disposition cannot be denied in many cases;not unfrequently the children of tuberculous mothers are attackedSpasmus Glottidis. 141by the disease; so are children who are brought up by hand.Among adults, spasm of the glottis is undoubtedly a form of hysteria. Among children the disease occurs almost without an exception in the first year of their existence.http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt