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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 165 of 653when looking up. Headache, especially frontal ; sore tongue, thicyellow coating on the tongue, the pain extends as far as the thropainful deglutition ; sensation as if a piece of loose skin wereing in the throat ; bitter taste in the mouth ; complete loss ofpetite, with nausea ; dryness of the mouth without thirst ; constipation with flatulence ; in some, brown frothy diarrhoeic stoowhich floated on the water; yellowish and turbid urine; coughwith vomiting, headache, sharp stitches in the vertex, pain in thregion of the stomach ; cough of a peculiar, muffled kind ; manycough up blood ; painful lameness in the joints, especially the kjoints. All the symptoms get worse in the cold ; they exacerbateabout noon, but worse towards evening; flashes of heat in the facwith chilliness and coldness of the extremities ; the flashes ofin the face are mingled with chilly creepings over the back frombelow upwards at intervals of ten minutes; the skin is dry asparchment ; restless sleep, full of anxious dreams ; the cough appears as soon as one lies down."For the indications for Ipecacuanha and Veratrum album we referto the preceding chapter ; the latter is certainly an important rmedy in influenza. In general the remedies, which we have recommended for simple bronchial catarrh, may likewise be required forinfluenza.Influenza. 189In order not to indulge in too many subjective indications in adisease where practical experience plays a most important part, wtransfer from Hartmann's Therapeutics the passage concerninginfluenza with slight additions of our own, which will aflbrd usan opportunity for briefly mentioning a few important remedies." Smelling of Camphor several times, as soon as the first symptoms of the disease became apparent, had the effect of suppressinthe disease, but a few days later it broke out nevertheless, whicwas not the case in a subsequent epidemic where Camphor wasgiven internally in the first attenuation and proved a sovereignremedy for the disease." Ilahnemauu says in his preface to Camphor : In influenza, if the heat has already set in, Camphor only. serves as a palliative, but as a valuable one, if given in freqbut more and more attenuated doses ; it does not shorten the eonof the disease, which is not very much protracted any way, butmoderates the vehemence of the attack a great deal and conductsit, shorn of its danger, to the end." If the thoracic organs were the chief seat of the inflammation,Nux vomica always did good service if given after Aconite, Mercurius sdubilis or vivus, of which several doses were given everyday, was particularly calculated to cure the disease or even cutshort in its very germ, if the following symptoms prevailed : thebead, throat and chest were- principally aftected ; there was a dand racking cough which afterwards became loose and was attendedwith pleuritic pains; the patient was troubled with profuse sweatwhich did not aflbrd him any relief; there were symptoms of aninflammatory fever, dull pain, not very hard pulse. If the trachewas much irritated, and the irritation almost bordered on inflammation, BO that the intense pain made it impossible to speak, andthe voice was very much altered, Phosphorus was an excellenthttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt