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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 180 of 653great value if the organism has become very much enfeebled bythe long duration of the disease and the violence of the paroxysmThe patients become sensible for some time previous of the approaching paroxysm, become exceedingly restless, seem tormentedby anguish; owing to their great prostration, stool and urine arepassed involuntarily. Arsenicum deserves particular considerationif the pulmonary tissue has become atrophied, or acute emphysemahas set in.Cina. It seems to us absurd that this remedy should be recommended for whooping-cough, if helminthic symptoms either precedeor accompany the attack ; they will hardly influence the nature othe paroxysm. A bettev indication is, if the children become convulsed during a paroxysm, as if they had au attack of eclampsia;another indication is, if a gurgling noise is heard after everyparoxysm from the throat into the abdomen. In some epidemicsTussis Convulsiva, Pertussis. 207other physicians have employed this remedy with a good deal ofsuccess.Conium maculatum is said to he an excellent remedy, if the paroxysms set in principally at night, especially in the case of scrofand ansemic children. Ledum palustre is said to be the right remedy, if every paroxysm is preceded by a convulsive condition whicis again succeeded by an exceedingly violent paroxysm. Numerousrecords of cures by this drug are not to be found in any of ourpublications.We might enumerate a pretty long list of remedies that havebeen used for whooping-cough ; but we not only doubt their specifadaptation to the disease, but cannot refer to any practical demostrations of their efficacy. These remedies are: Arnica^ Hyoscyamus^ Ignatia^ Nux vomica^ Lactuca virosa^ Laurocerasus^ AynJbra^Sepia, Pulsatilla, Carbo vegetabilis, lodium, Spongia, China andothers. Carbo vegetabilis deserves special consideration in caseswhere Arsenic might seem indicated, except that Carbo has a morecopious secretion and expectoration of mucus. China is variouslycommended, but no available indications are given.This list of remedies would have to be increased a good deal, ifwe would include those that may be required to meet existing complications. In this respect we prefer referring the reader to therespective chapters, for it amounts pretty much to the same thingwhether capillary bronchitis or catarrhal pneumonia sets in as acomplication of whooping-cough or as a primary idiopathic diseaseUnless the whooping-cough claims special attention on account ofinherent features of a threatening character, it is our opinion tin all complicated cases the cough itself had better be ignored athe complication attended to above everything else. This coursewill facilitate the choice of a remedy and will prove advantageouto the patient. The whooping-cough will certainly disappear assoon as the catarrh is removed.Of particular importance and involving a good deal of danger isa combination of whooping-cough with tuberculosis, whether thelatter was caused by the cough or existed previous to its occurrehttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt