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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 187 of 653of STippuration. What we have said shows that the symptoms maybe distinguished in two series. The cough is either loose, the mueasily detached, but only at times, so that at night, for instancthere is a good deal of dry cough, whereas in the morning andduring the day the cough is moist, the expectoration is mostlyBronchitis Chronica. 215white, compact, but mixed with a number of yellowish or greenishlumps showing that the mucus had been secreted in the bronchiafor some time before being coughed up ; it has a foul taste and ea bad odor, and the accompanying hoarseness and sensation ofrawness show that the larynx and trachea have become involved inthe pathological process. Or else the cough sets in in more violeparoxysms with considerable dyspnoea, is dry and spasmodic, withwheezing in the chest; it occurs most generally late in the eveniand in the night, and it is only towards morning or after risingthat a tenacious, glassy mucus is brought up after a slight coughspell. The digestive symptoms and the condition of the liver whicgeijerally appears very much enlarged in chronic catarrh, confirmthe selection of Sulphur. It has always seemed to us as if thetriturations of Sulphur did not act as well in this disease as thattenuations prepared from the alcoholic tincture, and that, as arule, the higher potencies act better than the lower. We do notinsist upon this point, for a comparatively small number of observations do not authorize the resort to apodictic assertions. Finawe have to observe that in the case of decrepit, and more especiaold individuals. Sulphur seldom does any good.Nux vomica acts in many respects similarly to Sulphur and, according to our experience is, like Pulsatilla, more efficient inthan in acute bronchitis, if the following symptoms prevail: Thecough sets in with particular violence betw^een midnight and morning, is dry, spasmodic, very persistent and racking, so as to caupains in the bowels ; it is easily excited by a change of temperaand is associated with a continual titillation in the chest andtrachea; only in the morning, mostly after, very seldom beforerising, a loose cough sets in, with easy expectoration of a simplmucus. While coughing a sensation of soreness and roughnci^s issensibly felt down the middle of the chest. The condition of thedigestive organs greatly facilitates the selection ol the right redy. In contradistinction to Sulphur, Nux vomica is much betteradapted to comparatively recent cases without any serious complications and is otherwise more particularly suitable for patientsvigorous and otherwise sound constitutions.Phosphorus, although variously recommended for chronic catarrh,is, in our opinion, only adapted to acute attacks of bronchitissetting in during the course of the malady, and when exceedinglyacute and threatening. Particulars may be found in the chapteron acute pulmonary affections.216 Diseases of the Lungs.Belladonna, though not exactly a remedy for chronic bronchitis,renders excellent service in the continued, distressing titillatihttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt