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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 179 of 653the bronchia. In most cases, however, all that Belladonna accomplishes is to remove the threatening symptoms, after which thecough again sets in in all its vehemence. The congestive symptomswhich may occur during a paroxysm, should never mislead one toemploy Belladonna on this account.Drosera has been recommended as a specific for whoopingandthe most diversified indications for its use have been enumerated by our earlier writers. Hahnemann says that a globule of thethirtieth potency cures a species of whooping-cough, which probabnever occurs in practice. Many physicians are of Hahnemann'sopinion, although they may not have seen any great results fromthis drug ; others, on the contrary, deny its vaunted efficacy. Tdispute cannot be decided as long as the discussion revolves ^.rounmeaning symptoms. It is certain that Drosera is not made muchuse of at the present time, and scarcely ever against the fullydeveloped convulsive stage.ipecacuanha is one of our best remedies in this disease ; its indtions are tolerably precise and unmistakable. If, instead of theusual tenacious and scanty mucus, a large quantity of simple catarhal mucus accumulates, so that the cough is preceded and accompanied by loud rfiles ; if every paroxysm of cough is attended wivomiting, not at the end, but at the commencement ; if a paroxysmis excited by the ingestion of every trifling quantity of food ordrink: Ipecacuanha deserves a preference over every other remedy.206 Diseases of the Lungs.We shall scarcely ever meet with suitahle indications for Ipecacnanha at the beginning of the attack ; more frequently if the coughad already lasted for some time and had been neglected. We havescarcely ever had occasion to use this drug, if we conducted thetreatment from the start.Tartarus stibiatus has an excessive secretion of mucus in commonwith the former drug, but is preferable if the strength had suffea great deal and the stomach and intestines are affected with catrhal symptoms, so that frequent and tormenting vomiting and diarrhoea set in. This remedy will have to be given for the complications rather than for the cough itself. On this acount we refer treader to the last chapters.Veratrum album acts very similarly to the two last-named remedies. Here, too, we have an excessive secretion of mucus, ralesbetween and during the paroxysms, a marked disposition to vomitwater and mucus, and, at the same time, the patient is troubledwith diarrhoea. In addition we have the symptoms of a catarrhapproximating more and more a malignant bronchitis: anxiety,restlessness, a short and superficial respiration, pains in the caccelerated pulse with disposition to cool perspiration alternatiwith a burning heat, pallid countenance, sopor; the paroxysmsbecome feebler, but the general condition of the system deterioramore and more. Veratrum is calculated to become a specific inepidemic whooping-cough, if an intense intestinal catarrh sets ina complication.Arsenicum album is no real remedy for whooping-cough, but ofhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt