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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 144 of 653unattended with cough, or the cough is very slight and is causedby the newly accumulating blood ; at the same time there is a bubbling up in the chest, with a sensation as if warm blood were ascing in the throat, gradually increasing in intensity until bloodraised. More recently I have found that a condition of this kindyields to Aconite more promptly than to Millefolium of which wedo not yet possess a sufiicient number of reliable provings." OthPneumorrhagia. 168are of a different opinion; thej recommend Millef. especially inincipient phthisis.Arsenicum album competes with Digitalis in some respects. Wewonld give this remedy only if a high degree of weakness and irritability is associated with an extraordinary degree of cardiac exability, together with all its accessory ailments. It is only inceptional cases that we shall be able to use it in phthisis.Phosphorus which was formerly a favorite remedy for pulmonaryhemorrhage, is used much less by the homoeopathic practitioners othe present day. We infer from its symptoms that only the lessergrades of hemorrhage are suited to its therapeutic range. Uponthe whole no marked results can be expected from it ; hence it rabelow all the other remedies mentioned for pulmonary hemorrhage.K it is to be used, the dose must not be too high, for even thefourth attenuation may still cause real, and therefore inconveniemedicinal aggravations.In addition to these remedies we might complete the list by mentioning a number of others ; but let it suffice if we simply namethe following: Nux vomica and Opium (for the pulmonary hemorrhage of drunkards), DroserUj Hyoscyamus^ CocculuSj Staphysagria.Corresponding with our pathological data, the medicines may beranged as follows:For hemorrhage from active pulmonary congestion: Aconite^Bellad.^ Millef. J Nnxvom.; from passive congestion: Digitalis^ Asenicum ; if caused by mental excitement : Aconite^ Kux vomica^Opium; by exertions: Aconite^ Arnica; by mechanical injuries:Arnica^ Bryonia alba; if depending upon tuberculosis: Acon.^ Am.yPtUsiLj Millef, J Ledum^ Phosphorus; if depending upon heart disease: Aeon., Digit, J Ar sen. ; upon menostasia : Pulsat; upon caBellad,^ Hyoscyam., Mercurius; upon emphysema: Arsen., Digit.^Carboveg,; portal obstructions : Ledum palustre.Regarding the effect of pulmonary hemorrhage upon the organifina, it is the same as that of all other kinds of hemorrhage, ahas to be treated in the same manner ; this effect will never beextensive. The consequences of hemorrhage to the lungs themselves, which are the most to be dreaded, often require differentremedies from those that might perhaps be chosen without regardto the local process. If extensive infarctions have become localiin the pulmonary tissue, and the restoration of health is retardeby them, our first choice may have to be Arnica, afterwards Bryaniaj IXgitalis and finally Phosphorus. Pneumonia depending uponhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt