The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 151 of 653free surface of the bronchial mucous membrane, which, in thelarger bronchia, assumes the shape of a tubular lining, and stopsup the smaller bronchial ramifications like a plug. It is most frquently a secondary disease, a result, and an almost always fatalcomplication of a croupous inflammation of the larynx and tracheaor else it may originate as a primary disease. As such the acuteform occurs very rarely, but it does occur sometimes. In such acase it presents the picture of an acute bronchitis, but with aggvated symptoms. The fever is very violent, mingled with chills,the pulse is very frequent, the prostration is disproportion;illyfrom the very beginning. The degree of dyspnoea is determined bythe fact whether the larger bronchia are alone affected or whethethe smaller are involved in the disease. The cough is tormenting,the expectoration difficult, lumpy, tenacious, and, in water, assing the form of fine tubes or arborescent ramifications. If a larportion of the bronchia is involved in this process, cyanosis, oeof the lungs and death by poisoning with carbonic acid are thespeedy terminations of the disease. The chronic form occurs almosexclusively in tuberculous individuals, and will be discussed morfully in the chapter on tuberculosis. Cases that seem idiopathicprimary diseases, are likewise caused by a less extensive and hiddeposition of tubercular matter. The chronic form is distinguisheby the violent cough that accompanies it. In this form of bronchitis the exudation is not secreted in the larger, but in the smbron