The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 147 of 653this statement is of essential necessity for a comprehension ofvarious phenomena. In order to afford a general view of the disease, we will describe several forms of bronchitis which, howeverare not essentially distinct from each other.a) The lighter form of bronchitis, generally designated as bronchcatarrh, frequently sets in without any fever ; at any rate mostally it is scarcely perceptible ; sometimes no fever at all is pror the fever is at most indicated by a succession of creeping chiThis form of bronchitis scarcely ever exists isolatedly, but is amost always attended with catarrh of the nose and larynx. Afterexperiencing a feeling of malaise for several hours, and a markedsensation of languor, the patients are attacked with a dry andspasmodic cough attended with a raw or sore feeling on the chest;at the same time the breathing is somewhat oppressed and thereis no expectoration at the Outset of the disease. The appetite isless but not gone, the tongue is not always coated ; the patientsare able to remain up, but feel drowsy and often complain ofviolent headache. Very often the cough remains dry for a longtime, but more frequently a tenacious, greenish-yellow scanty expectoration commences already on the second day, which it is verydifficult to hawk up. Auscultation yields no particular results,percussion none at all. At the end of three to nine days, veryrarely at a later period and then only if the patients neglectthemselves, the expectoration becomes more copious, whiter, lumpyand is raised more easily, the normal feeling of health is restorand, while the cough is gradually decreasing, the disease passesThe attack seems so slight, that many patients go about as usual,but, by pursuing this course, expose themselves to relapses whichare very apt to take place and beget a tendency towards the inBronchitis Acuta. ' / 16Tflammatory form of bronchitis or else origiy^te tYt^ coinsequencethat will be more fully described in a subsequeht^ara^aph/;.b) Bronchitis ivflammaioria^ inflammatory or acute h^onc^tisy yhiform of bronchitis which is marked by much more '^iolent\phetr6*^mena, is not by any means a purely simple form of bnmchitis dfi Va higher degree of intensity. It does not ordinarily result fromexisting catarrh of the upper respiratory organs, unless fbq catarrh is suddenly and violently increased by severe neglect; butmost generally it occurs as a primary disease. It generally commences with a violent chill which is distinguished from the chillthat initiates acute inflammations, by the circumstance that it inot followed by as high an increase of temperature and that thereis a frequent recurrence of the chill, especially on motion. Thepatient feels very weary and languid, complains most generally ofa violent headache, exhibits frequent changes of complexion, experiences a rheumatic drawing in the limbs and great restlessnessand is scarcely ever capable of remaining out of bed. Very soonthese general symptoms which do not point out more particularlythe locality of the disease, are followed by a burning, sore painin the chest under the sternum at every deep inspiration, whichis felt more severely when coughing. The cough sets in at thesame time as the pain is felt ; it is more or less violent, sometspasmodic, at first dry but not hoarse, but very soon accompaniedby the above-described expectoration. There is no dyspnoea prophttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt