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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 188 of 653cough, excited by a tickling in the throat-pit, by cold air and ltalking, without any or a very scanty, tenacious expectoration, agenerally with a marked feeling of dryness in the respiratory orgexacerbating during the last hours before midnight. This form ofchronic bronchitis is not very frequent.Calcarea carbonica is used in this disease much less frequently tit deserves. It competes in some respects with Sulphur, but islikewise fully adapted to emphysematous chronic catarrh, if thecough is dry and tormenting, sets in principally at night with aviolent irritation in the respiratory organs, and if, after coughfor some time, a tenacious and frothy mucus of a saltish or offensively sweetish taste is expectorated. We shall revert to this drwhen speaking of the catarrh of tuberculous individuals. Next toSilicea it is the most important remedy in the so-called stonephthisis.Spongia is one of the principal remedies for chronic croupousbronchitis. The patients feel quite well for days; it is only occsionally that they cough once and then only very little; all at oafter an increasing shortness of breath, and excited by cold, a vlent emotion or some other irritation, and attended with wheezingthroughout the whole chest, a violent fit of spasmodic cough setsin, by which the distinctly-perceived murmurs in the lungs are cotinually increased, accompanied by a high degree of dyspnoEja whilasts for several houre and mostly occurs in the night; the coughquite dry, or else there may be a scanty, frothy expectoration whsometimes has to be vomited up, and not till several hours after,glassy, hard, clear mucus of a globular or vermiform shape is eashawked up in small pieces. Very commonly these symptoms pointto tuberculosis, but not as a rule.Sepia may claim our attention in a similar cough as Spongia, butwe must confess that we have never derived very striking resultsfrom its use. The numerous symptoms in the pathogenesis of Sepiawhich point to bronchial catarrh, give evidence that Sepia must ba remedy for this disease. Only it is difficult, owing to the multude of symptoms, to present a characteristic group. The leadingsymptoms of the group are: Dry, spasmodic cough, or cough witha copious, saltish expectoration, which is apt to set in during tlate morning-hours. Sepia is not adapted to bronchial catarrhsaccompanied with bronchiectasia, emphysema, etc.Bronchitis Chronica; 217lodium is related to Spongia ; perhaps it acts more readily thanthe latter; the paroxysms of chronic catarrh to which Iodine isadapted, occur irregularly during the day; the expectoration isglassy and hard or tenacious, but shapeless ; the paroxysms are aaccompanied by a violent asthma which does not entirely cease during the intervals. lodium is probably never suitable in cases ofpeople.Lycopodium is suitable for old people, if emphysema and markedchanges in the bronchial mucous membrane have taken place ; thereis constant tickling in the throat, loud rfiles with scanty or unquent expectoration of a gray color and saltish taste, nightly exerbations.http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt