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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 164 of 653toms, the most prominent indication is a short, distressing, drycough, mostly at night, and excited by motion and by every littlecold current of air.Of Nux vonfiioa, Hahnemann relates in his preface to Camphorthat a very small dose often removes an attack of influenza in afew hours. We refer to the preceding chapter where we have expressed our doubts regarding the appropriateness of Nux ; we haveto repeat these doubts here in much more emphatic language. Thereare, of course, many who profess to have seen good eftects from ieven in influenza ; but it is not so very easy to speak of curatiresults in this disease with positive certainty ; as far as we ouselves are concerned, we never have been able to obtain any striking curative results with this agent.Phosphorus is of all other remedies most positively indicated ininfluenza by distinct and fixed symptomatic manifestations. It issuitable if, in addition to severe constitutional disturbances, tdisease is chiefly localized in the larynx ; it is likewise approin influenza with tendency to develop pneumonia, or if the influeattacks tuberculous individuals in whose case the medicine has tobe given with great caution ; and finally in cases complicated wisevere intestinal catarrh. Among the secondary diseases, such asaphonia or hoarseness, it is particularly Phosphorus that is charteristically indicated.Arsenicum album is suited to an affection of the upper p)ortion othe respiratory tract, the nose and larynx; it is less suited tochitis, except when it attacks individuals afflicted with emphysema. A violent coryza with copious watery, excoriating secretiona burning pain in the frontal cavities ; dryness and burning in tlarynx and trachea, with hoarseness and a few violent paroxysmsof cough are paramount indications for Arsenic. The constitutiona188 Diseases of the Lungs.Bymptoms are still more characteristic: excessive debility, withrapid pulse, continual restlessness and sleeplessness, regular minight exacerbations. Arsenicum is particularly efficient in caseswhere the conjunctiva is strikingly involved in the catarrhal process and where the disease has an unmistakable tertian type.Opium is only mentioned once in our literature for influenza ; itwas successfully given for paroxysms of a distressing and tightcough, the paroxysms being always followed by yawning. According to our own experience, Opium controls paroxysms of a drycough with congestions to the head and chest, it drives the patieto despair and breaks out particularly in the night. Opium willseldom afford help at the outset of an attack of influenza, but waflbrd speedy and substantial aid if such a cough remains after tdeparture of the fever.Sabadilla is said to have helped in two epidemics, the symptomsof which we transfer from Ruckert's "Klinischen Erfahrungen":"Excessive drowsiness in the day-time; chilliness, especially towards evening ; shudderings with goose-flesh, the chills creepingup from the feet towards the head ; lachrymation, with redness ofthe eyelids ; pressure on the eyes, especially when moving them ohttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt