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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 201 of 653chondriacs or hysteric females.We prescribe Ignatia 3 for a dry, constant, titillating cough whisets in more particularly at bed-time; the irritation is seated ithroat-pit, as from the inhalation of fine feather-dust, or the ttion is felt in the larynx or even in the epigastrium; the coughof a preeminently nervous character and is caused by depressingstates of the mind, or by humiliating treatment, grief, care ; thcough is worse in the open air, after eating or drinking coiFoe.disease may be primary and idiopathic, or attended with coryza anbronchial catarrh. Ignatia is particularly to be commeiuled forhysteric w^omen and for children inclined to spasms.Ammonium carbonicum 8 is indicated by titillation in the larynxand a sensation in the trachea as of inhaled feather-dust, attendwith dyspnoea ; the paroxysms occur at night and are followed byhigh degree of exhaustion ; the cough is made worse by talking an0[)en air; complicated with coryza, influenza and acute and chronbronchial catarrh.Acidum benzoicum 8 for a titillating cough caused by a cold,attended with a stinging sensation in the middle of the sternumwhich is worse during a deep inspiration ; the cough is accompaniby asthmatic complaints and rheumatic pains in the joints.Rumex crispus 3 is recommended by Kafka, if the titillation proceeds from the throat-pit or the middle of the sternum, attendedwith a sensation of soreness in the trachea; if the cough sets in232 Diseases of the Lungs.bed-time or after the patient has laid down, and is caused by theaction of dry, cold air, esiDecially in the winter-season; it desespecial attention in bronchial and laryngeal catarrh. Doctor Carroll Dunham of New York has published a long and interestingarticle on the subject of Rumex crispus in the second volume of tAmer. Horn. Review, page 530, to which we refer the reader forfall and correct information concerning the therapeutic uses of tdrug in affections of the larynx, trachea and bronchi.Graphites 6 for titillation in the larynx, with a feeling of soreand burning in the throat; for nocturnal paroxysms of cough, withhard pressure on the chest; it is particularly useful in cough wichronic coryza or in the case of individuals who are at the sametime attacked with a scrofulous eczema, or in the case of womenwhen they have their menses."We prescribe Zincum metallicum 6, if the titillation is locatedthe region of the sternum ; if the cough is dry and exhausting, wstitches in the chest and oppression of breathing; if the respirais labored and talking is quite an exertion, the attack takes plaat night and deprives the patient of sleep; deserves particularattention for the cough of hysteric women and during the menses.Kali carbonicum 6 is indicated by a dry titillating cough, withstinging in the larynx, pains in the chest, choking, violent headexhaustion after the attack which commonly sets in at night ; isuseful for titillating cough during the menses and in a case ofhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt