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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 142 of 653hemorrhage which is of frequent occurrence, and add to this listfew general considerations of more than ordinary importance.Aconitum : If it were practically possible to draw a line of demacation between active and passive pulmonary hemorrhage, we couldnot mark ofi^ the therapeutic sphere of Aconite more accuratelythan by saying that it is specifically adapted to the active formpulmonary hemorrhage. This would, however, give rise to manyerrors, since many hemorrhages arising from an obstructed circulation, symptomatically resemble almost entirely an active hemorrhage. Hence the selection of the drug should be conducted verycautiously. In all active hemorrhages we meet with marked preliminary congestive symptoms ; even while the hemorrhage is goingon, symptoms of pulmonary hypersemia still continue to exist, andas we stated in the preceding chapter, no remedy is more appropriate for such states of hypereemia than Aconite. Hypersemia notonly causing but likewise maintaining the hemorrhage, Aconite inthis case effects a radical cure, and after its exhibition we somtimes see the hemorrhage arrested with wonderful rapidity. Thefollowing range of symptoms constitutes more particular indicatiofor Aconite : The accident happens to animated individuals with aplethoric habit of body, bright complexion, disposition to palpittion of the heart, incipient tuberculosis ; after a violent fit osion, or severe exertion of the lungs. The blood is raised in smaquantity, associated with a dry cough which is not violent, but tments the patient all the time ; or else the blood is expectorateafter a slight paroxysm of hacking cough, both in larger quantityand of a bright-red color. The patients are very restless, theirPneumorrhagia. 161tenanceB are at first flushed and hot, the pulse and beats of theheart very much excited ; they complain of a burning or stingingpain in the chest. After commencing with the Aconite, the symptoms of febrile excitement very soon abate, after which the hemorrhage likewise cea«es in almost every case. As a rule, it is wellcontinue the use of this drug for some time longer at more extendintervals.Belladoniia has already been mentioned in the previous chapter ;it is one of. the principal remedies for pulmonary hemorrhage, except that its indications are less positively defined. It is partapplicable in the case of robust and plethoric individuals and focongestions towards the head, without any cardiac irregularitiesbeing complained of; also more particularly if the hemorrhage wasthe result of an incipient catarrh. A constant and tormenting desire to cough points to this remedy, the choice of which dependsmuch more than that of Aconite, upon the general symptoms. Intubercular hemorrhage, this remedy has never had the least effectin our hands ; on the contrary, it has been found very efiSicacioin vicarious menstrual hemorrhages and in those of pregnantfemales, or in the hemorrhages occurring: at the critical a,se.Arnio; enjoya a high reputation in pulmonary hemorrha^, whichit deserves much less, however, than Aconite. Hartmann gives thefollowing characteristic indications : The hemorrhage is caused bsome mechanical injury, or by severe bodily exertions ; the expectorated blood is dark-red and lumpy, and is raised without coughhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt