The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 161 of 653muscular system, accompanied by a degree of debility that almostamounts to paralysis. After a gradual, very seldom sudden increasthe disease reaches its iuU height. The catarrh is at times violeat other times very slight. The fever is intense, but so plainlymittent that the remissions sometimes appear like intermissions.debility is excessive. The headache is agonizing, and is either cplicated with sopor or with violent delirium. The digestion is entirely prostrated ; the tongue is thickly coated white or yellow,times it exhibits a sickly redness with disposition to dryness ;and even diarrhoea are often present; the bowels are confined, dirhoea is less frequent. The symptoms exacerbate in the evening anat night, the patient being very much distressed by the cough whiaggravates the headache a great deal. Thus the more violent attacof influenza simulate an acute typhus, milder cases a sovous gastric fever. Death may take place in the second week amid184 Diseases of the Lungs.symptoms of general exhaustion ; sometimes it takes place at a laperiod in consequence of the peculiar secondary diseases which frquently break out as sequelee of influenza.In the case of sound, robust individuals the disease mostly terminates its course in a fortnight, but always leaving an extremeweakness which may last for weeks. In the case of old people thedanger is always great and recovery takes place very slowly. Anabatement of the fever is always the surest sign of an improvemenThe disease very often leaves very threatening results. If thepatient had tubercles, their suppuration is an almost sure consequence of the bronchial affection, although we do not choose tohold to the opinion of many that influenza is itself capable of cing tubercular deposits. In opposition to this doctrine we mightsay that scattered tubercular deposits very often escape our notiInfluenza is very apt to leave in its track various affections ofthe respiratory organs, such as an obstinate hoarseness or evenloss of voice and a long-lasting bronchial catarrh. The stomachlikewise frequently remains disturbed, nor is a disturbance of thhepatic functions an uncommon event.Thus we see that the prognosis in influenza is uncertain, even ifthe disease sets in favorably at first, and the patient had beenthe habitual enjoyment of good health. If the individual had pulmonary disease, or in the case of decrepit subjects, a fatal termtion is not uncommon. The peculiar nature of the actually existinepidemic may likewise exert a great influence; whereas one epidemic scarcely destroys a single life, another epidemic, on the ctrary, claims a great many victims.The reason why a description of the treatment of influenza is adiflicult task, is the diversity of forms under which the epidemiappears. In influenza, as in other epidemics, remedies whose practical value had been tested by abundant experience, often have tobe abandoned as unreliable, and other remedies have to be substituted in their stead. In influenza one or two remedies sometimesprove specifics in all cases, so that the epidemic might, after Rmacher's example, be conveniently named after the medicine thatacts as its universal curative. To find out these remedies, persehttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt