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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 158 of 653Tart, stib, and Veratrum will be much better. We have recomxaendod Baryta for light attacks during the stage without fever.180 Diseases of the Lungs.The bronchitis of children tends greatly to assume the form ofcapillary bronchitis ; for this reason it behooves us to watch anof bronchitis in children with the utmost care. At the commencement of the attack, the symptoms generally point to Aconite^ not,however, with such perfect regularity as to admit of Aconite beinregarded as an invariable specific. Belladonna often competes witAconite in this disease, in the further course of which, even inslight cases, the same remedies may have to be used that suit thecase of adults. In the more dangerous forms Mercurius may generally deserve a preference at the outset ; it is indicated if by nelse than the thick, yellowish coating of the tongue, and the frequent alternation of chills, extreme heat and exhausting sweats.If the symptoms increase in intensity, Spongia is indicated; if tis a violent, dry, suffocative cough, Hepar; if the cough soundsloose, and there are mucous r^les but no expectoration. Ipecacuanfor excessive secretion of mucus, with severe dyspnoea and convulsive phenomena, Tartarus stibiatus may be required, but it will sdom act with as much benefit as Ipecacuanha.Croupous bronchitis as a partial development of laryngeal croupdoes not require any other treatment than the latter. Even ifbronchial croup should break out as a primary disease, which isseldom the case, lodium^ Spongia^ Hepar and perhaps Bromine wouldhave to be used. In subacute and even chronic cases Arsenicum isone of the most efficient remedies to prevent and mitigate theparoxysms of cough, which, considering their violence, must beconsidered a very satisfactory result.In conclusion we call attention to a remedy which, so far as weknow, has never yet been employed in bronchitis. We meanOpium, Latterly we have witnessed good results from Opium^which, doubtless, are not exclusively due to its palliative or naaction. We were led to its use by the description in an EnglishJournal of a chronic case of poisoning with Opium, according towhich a spasmodic and dry cough is one of the most common phenomena of this agent. We have to revert to this remedy more fullywhen we come to treat of influenza and pneumonia. To judge by thephysiological symptoms of Opium as we find them in the MateriaMedica, and considering the energetic action of this drug upon thchildlike organism. Opium must be an excellent remedy in thecapillary bronchitis of children.The general management of the patient occupies a conspicuousplace in this disease. It is unfortunately a widespread custom toBronchitis Acuta. 181endeavor to obtain an increase of cutaneous perspiration even inease of incipient bronchial catarrh, without discriminating by whmeans this object is attained. We cannot encourage a proceedingof this kind. In lighter cases, where this proceeding seems to hahttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt