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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 196 of 653Secondarily this cough often supervenes during coryza, influenza,measles, acute or chronic bronchial catarrh, emphysema, tuberculosis.Symptoms. The primary titillating cough generally sets insuddenly and without any preliminary symptoms ; it occurs mostfrequently at night after one has laid down or during the first pof the night. The patients may spend the whole day or eveningwithout being seriously troubled by the cough. Suddenly, aftergoing to bed or being on the point of lying down, the patients arattacked by a violent irritation and desire to cough which does nallow them a moment's rest and prevents them from sleeping. Theirritation is either experienced in the fauces, or in the larynx,throat-pit (in the region where the trachea bifurcates), or in th15226 Diseases of the Lungs.middle of the sternum or in the epigastrium ; the irritation seemlike a tickling and usually causes in the fauces a sensation as ilittle worms or insects were crawling about there ; in the larynxand trachea a sensation of roughness is experienced, or as if thethroat were irritated by dust, the vapors of Sulphur or Phosphoruor by feathers or hairs ; the titillatiou is sometimes so violentit causes a spasm of the glottis. If the irritation is seated inmiddle of the sternum, the patients experience a sensation of oppression on the chest and a more or less violent degree of dyspnowhich may even increase to asthma. The irritation in the epigastrium is sometimes very violent, causing considerable contractionof the diaphragm and an upward pressure of the abdominal viscera,which may result in nausea or vomiting. It is on this account thathis form of cough has been dubbed " stomach-cough."The cough is dry, continued, racking, not hoarse ; sometimes ithas a hollow sound ; at times, if the titillation is located in tlarynx, it is a dry cough ; if spasm of the glottis supervenes, tinspirations are labored or accompanied by a peculiar panting souowing to which this cough is sometimes confounded with AsthmaMillari (spasm of the glottis).A titillating cough most generally sets in in single turns, sometimes two or three short paroxysms in succession ; the subsequentinspiration is rendered difficult only if the glottis participatethe attack or if asthmatic symptoms supervene. Lighter grades ofthis cough are soon appeased ; more violent attacks may continuefor several hours or even the whole night. The patients are verymuch excited by the continual irritation and desire to cough ; thhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt