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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 220 of 653of debility, with disposition to a renewal of an attack of acuteinfiltration. Most likely it is owing to these remnants of nonabsorbed exudation, that individuals who have had one attack ofpneumonia, are so often liable to being attacked a second time. Oelse only part of the infiltration remains consolidated ; in oneseveral portions of the lungs we hear bronchial respiration; at tsame time another portion of the infiltration undergoes the pirocof resolution, and cough with purulent expectoration sets in, inconsequence of which the general organism necessarily 8ufl^*er8.Although fever is not always present, yet it is rarely ever absenin which case it has more or less the character of hectic fever;hence the patient has a sick, yellow-gray appearance, and veryspeedily shows signs of considerable emaciation. If the exudationdissolves, and the pulmonary parenchyma is involved in this proceof disorganization, an abscess forms distinguished from the abovementioned abscess by nothing but the slowness of its course, loryears sometimes pass away before the abscess finds an outlet throthe bronchia. Several abscesses may form, but such a thing is notoften the case. Where several abscesses form, the tendency to gangrene and ichorous dissolution is very commonly present. But theorganism need not necessarily show severe signs of sympatheticsuftering either from the presence of an abscess or that of gangrThe patients look like tuberculous individuals in whose case thepathological process makes slow progress. They are not robust,but without fever, and emaciate very slowly. At various intervalswhich sometimes last for months, some fever generally sets in, thpatients are attacked by great prostration, they have to lie downand after this condition which is most easily brought about by aslight catarrh, has lasted for a short time, they suddenly dischaafter coughing and gagging an enormous quantity of foul, badlycolored pus succeeded for a few days by a moderate expectorationthat has likewise a very foul odor. At the same time the exhaustion continues to increase until the pus has been completely evacPneumonia. V v 255/ '_ated, after which the strength returns very rapidly, hnfi^ot to tsame degree as before the breaking of the abscoS^ A cu're is possible, if the suppurating portion of the lungs is h^to& large* c^the strength is not too much reduced. Death either t^kes'^la(f^i^consequence of hectic fever or of the supervention of s^me '^cut^process. Finally we must mention a termination of pirefljudKiia \which is of rare occurrence and exceedingly troublesome, we meanthe evacuation of the pus through the walls of the thorax, 'tjiishas occurred twice in our practice. The patients were young men,and the right lower lobe was inflamed. Although the profuse suppuration at first occasioned great exhaustion, yet both were completely restored.Having said all we intended concerning croupous pneumonia, wewill now add a few remarks concerning interstitial and catarrhalpneumonia.http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt