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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 200 of 653in a vast number of cases to calm this cough, to quiet this coughduring the night, which often keeps children, girls and womenespecially during the menstrual period, from sleeping.Similar symptoms and complications likewise indicate Mercuriussol. Hahn,^ especially in the case of teething children ; it maywise be used if the cough has a hollow sound, the titillation isperienced under the upper third of the sternum; if the cough hadbeen caused by a cold, breaks out in nocturnal paroxysms, thepatients perspire a great deal without bein^ relieved by it, andafter the attack, there remains an unconquerable disposition tostretch the limbs.Conium 3 is used by us, if the titillation is felt in the middlethe sternum; if the cough is caused by exposure to rough weatherand the paroxysms occur at night; if the cough is dry and so violent that it causes vomiting; if the use of acids and of salt foodrawing a long breath make the cough worse; if during the coughthe chest is spasmodically constricted and if, after the subsidenof the paroxysm, the patient complains of stinging pains in thehead and a painful sensitiveness of the abdominal muscles. Itdeserves particular consideration in influenza, measles, acute brchial catarrh and in the case of hysteric patients.Rhus toxicodendron 3, for tickling and a feeling of dryness in ththroat, down the trachea ; the symptoms abate for a while after aswallow of warm tea or water and sugar, but soon reappear againin the same degree; accompanied by tearing pains in the extremities, especially if they set in at the same time as the cough insequence of the patient being exposed to the influence of a dampand cold air, or getting soaking wet ; the paroxysms occur in thenight, attended with complete sleeplessness; the cough is complicated with coryza and frequent, spasmodic sneezing, or in caseof influenza with typhoid symptoms.If the titillation and cough have set in after a walk in keen andcold air; if the tickling is chiefly felt in the larynx or extendBronchitis Chronica. 281down to the bronchia: if the cough is dry and bo violent that itcauses a spasmodic constriction of the throat and chest, and a moor less violent degree of spasm of the glottis, with an expressioanxiety in the face, cold sweat on the forehead and extremities,the patients have more and more a cyanotic look; if the violenceof the cough causes vomiting, and the paroxysms recur typically,we give Ipecacuanha 3 with decided benefit.If the titillation is felt in the throat or pit of the stomach; icough is caused by rapid walking, running, mortified feelings orsulting treatment ; if it is attended with dyspnoea and vomitingthe ingcsta ; if the attack sets in in the morning-hours and is avated by talking or eating, we give Katrum muriaticum 6, likewiseif coryza is present, with entire loss of smell alid taste, or ifcough is complicated with emphysema and tuberculosis. In the caseof emphysematous women the titillating cough is usually attendedwith sjiirting out of the urine. This remedy is likewise valuableif the titillating cough breaks out typically, or in the case ofhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt