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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 198 of 653tion after the cessation of these free intervals, soon disclose tnature of the cough. Very frequently it sets in with but slight oeven without any febrile motions, and the attacks continue untilthe causes or their immediate effects are removed. Sometimes onlyone or several attacks occur, sometimes they continue for several228 Diseases of the Lungs.days, even from eight days to a fortnight, and they break out onthe least provocation.Most generally this titillating cough occurs in an uncomplicatedform ; sometimes, however, especially in the fall, winter or spriduring the prevalence of cold winds or in very cold weather, orwhen the weather is cold and damp, wet or foggy, or during theprevalence of an epidemic, the cough combines with one of theabove-mentioned acute catarrhal diseases, and with them assumesan epidemic form and runs a similar course.This disease always terminates in recovery; only when complicated with other diseases, these complications may superinducethreatening symptoms.If the primary titillating cough lasts a long time and is veryintense, emphysema or hernia may set in and may continue to theend of the patient's life.Treatment* In treating this cough we have to aim at appeasing the existing paroxysm and preventing its return.In the treatment we have to be guided by the exciting causes,the seat of the titillation, the phenomena developed by the coughin the general organism and more particularly in the organs ofrespiration, the consensual symptoms of the diaphragm, stomachand the upward action of the abdominal viscera, the circumstancesby which the attacks are either meliorated or aggravated, theperiod when they set in, and the complications.Above all we have to keep an eye on the causes that excite thetitillating cough. To this end cold and damp localities, or localcontaining acrid gases, vapors, dust or smoke, have to be abandoned, and every exertion of the respiratory organs by talking,reading, singing, blowing, etc., has to be avoided. The patientshave to avoid with great care every sudden change of temperature,sudden cooling, draughts of air, cold or damp air, cold drinks, aevery violent mental excitement; nor should they go out in windy,foggy, snowy or rainy weather. The room which the patientsinhabit, must be kept at a uniform and moderate temperature;even in the night the temperature should not fall' below 40^ or 4Fahr. ; according to our experience, a lower degree of temperaturin a room easily excites or exacerbates the'cough.Light cases of titillating cough, even if complicated with fever,do not require any medicinal treatment* A free perspiration bymeans of warm tea, warm lemonade, etc., and confinement in bedhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt