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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 166 of 653remedy.""Very often the disease broke out in the form of sporadic cholera ; in such a case the catarrhal symptoms were unimportant, butthe prostration was very prominent. Here Veratrum helped in everycase. If an attack of this kind was followed by nervous symptoms, if the patient became delirious, had a wild and staring loocomplained of great sensitiveness of the abdomen, and the pulsewas full and hard, a few doses of Aconite were given with greatbenefit and the rest of the symptoms were removed by Pulsatilla^which ' likewise proved a remedy for the pappy and insipid tastethat sometimes remained for a time, together with a mucous coat190 Diseases of the Lungs.ing on the tongue and loss of appetite." We cannot yield onrassent to this passage. The delirium occurring in influenza, andall the other so-called nervous symptoms, are always of a typhoidtype and do not yield to Aconite, but require much rather Belladonnaj Bryonia^ JRhuSy also Stramonium and Hyoscyafnus; after theexhibition of such remedies symptoms indicating Pulsatilla willnot often remain. ."An exceedingly distressing symptom in this disease was theviolent, pressing frontal headache which, together with the accompanying cough and the loose and slimy expectoration was relievedby Bryonia^ which likewise proved an excellent remedy, if the livwas enlarged and painful on contact, or during a coughing fit ordeep inspiration ; if the cough easily ended in vomiting or causea pain in the epigastric region, in which case Bryonia C(>mpetedwith Nux, or if the pain was felt under the short ribs as if theparts had been bruised so that the patient, when coughing, had topress his hands against them; Bryonia likewise proved eflicient ithe influenza attacked old people with great distress in the chesand coldness of the limbs, in which case the disease often destrolife by paralysis of the lungs; the Bryonia was given in alternatwith Carbo vegetabilis" In such cases Tartar emetic may deserveattention. "If the cough was dry and spasmodic, if the headachebecame unbearable and was aggravated by walking, talking, brightlight and by every least motion ; if the look became staring andthe patients were troubled with fancies whenever they closed theieyes. Belladonna always afforded relief, so that in a few hoursalready this condition which seemed like an incipient meningitis,disappeared."^^Rhus was indicated if the attack had been caused in consequence of the patients getting soaking wet, and they were greatlyoppressed on the chest, anxious, they frequently drew involuntaria long breath, were very restless and had to change their positioquite often.""Sabadilla was given if the attack seemed like an inflammatoryaffection of the thoracic organs, with severe chills and externalcoldness." This indication corresponds but little with what wassaid concerning Sabadilla in a previous paragraph." China relieved the cough that was excited by a rattling underthe sternum as if mucus had accumulated there." This indicahttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt