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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 128 of 653statement to the contrary notwithstanding.Sambucus is represented by Hartmann as one of the leading remedies ; he has noticed its good effect in a striking case which,ever, does not, in our opinion, represent a high degree of spasmuglottidis. According to Hartmann, the following are the more important symptoms : The patient suddenly wakes from his slumberwith his eyes and mouth half open, he has to sit up erect in ordeto catch breath ; he can only make short, hissing inspirations, mgled with paroxysms of suffocation, during which he throws hishands about, and the face and hands look bluish and bloated, withdry heat all over, no thirst, an irregular, small and intermittenpulse ; the patient cries at the approach of a paroxysm. All thisoccurs without cough about midnight. Hartmann commends Menyanthes trifoliata without having seen any curative results fromthis drng. We consider these indications very vague and of littlepractical value.The remedies above named are either appropriate only in a simpleattack of symptomatic spasm of the glottis ; or else they are recommended on account of their marked resemblance to a singleparoxysm; Yeratrum and Arsenicum form exceptions. In our144 Diseases of the Larynx and Trachea.opinion, a Buccessful treatment implies a special consideration othe most trifling accessory circumstances without laying muchstress on the particular paroxysm ; and likewise a careful considtion of the etiological causes. Among these causes rhachiti8,^ adeficient involution or hypertrophy of the thymus gland, swellingof the bronchial glands are undoubtedly the most frequent and mosprobable, and it is with particular reference to these etiologicacauses that we recommend the following remedies :iodium is undoubtedly a very excellent Simile, and is likewiseadapted to all three above-named causal morbid conditions. Withthis remedy alone, given every other day at the fourth or sixth atenuation for four to eight weeks, we have cured five undoubtedcases of spasm of the glottis, which evidenced their malignant nature by the fact that every subsequent attack was more violentthan the preceding one. The patients w^ere children not yet a yeaold, but only one of them showed an enlargement of the thymusgland. Supported by such striking curative results, we cannot beaccused of hazardous speculation if we prefer this remedy to allothers as long as the general organism has not become too muchreduced.Cuprum was already mentioned under croup on account of itspeculiar influence over the rima glottidis. It is particularly appriate if, during the local spasm, general convulsions have supervened and the children have become very much prostrated. Amongthe significant symptoms indicating this remedy, one is particulanoticeable, we mean vomiting after the attack.Plumbum is very closely related to Cuprum in every respect, except that the general strength is still more reduced. The symptomof a spasmodic closing of the rima glottidis are more distinctlymarked in the pathogenesis of this drug than in that of any otherhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt