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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 227 of 653else it takes place by purulent dissolution, or not at all. K Wunderlich lays so much stress upon a diminution of the fever, thatto say of the pulse and temperature, we admit that a decrease ofthe fever on the critical days implies a disappearance of the locprocesses. Nevertheless it is not unfrequently the case that thedation remains in spite of the defervescence ; we have abundantevidence of such a fact. In such a case the re-absorption goes onslowly and uniformly, or else by fits and starts ; but the patienscarcely ever recover their health very rapidly, but they remaina long time feeble, although without fever. This result has onlyoccurred to us after sanguineous depletions or, which deserves p>ticular notice, after complications with inflammatory affectionsthe heart. The same remark applies to cases where remnants ofexudation are left behind, not including the cases of tuberculousindividuals in whom it is difficult to decide whether we have remnants of exudation or tubercles before us. The setting in of grayhepatization, the purulent dissolution of the exudation may sometimes be owing to peculiar constitutional or external atmosphericPneumonia. 263circumstances ; indeed pus may form as the result of any inflammation ; in such eases it is not likely that blood will ever be dexcept perhaps in a case of pneumonia that runs its course underatmospheric influences and when one of the above-mentioned indications may indeed come into play. But if we mean the primary,uncomplicated pneumonias of persons who had hitherto enjoyed avigorous and sound constitution, no pus will ever show itself unda strictly homoeopathic treatment, but not very unfrequently aftea debilitating, more especially after a depleting treatment. In vof the observation that the pneumonic exudation can be rein a few hours under favorable circumstances, and seldom requiresmore than a few days for such a purpose, we must suppose thatevery reduction of the patient's strength, more especially by sanguineous depletions, causes a decrease of the reactive energy, cosequently a diminution of the reactive exudation required for thebusiness of re-absorption, and hence again a misdirection of theorganic activity in the removal of the exuded fibrin. A proof forthe assertions here made is furnished by the pneumonias that areassociated with severe intestinal catarrh, in whose case the resotion takes place more or less abnormally. We account for thisphenomenon simply by the excessive loss of animal fluids, on whicaccount we consider the systematic use of purgatives in pneumoniaas hurtful as bleeding. The tubercular metamorphosis of the exudefibrin, if the patients were otherwise free from tubercles, has tattributed to treatment. It is well known that tubercles andansemia are closely related to each other, hence it is not ditHcusuppose that an artificially excited ansemia may favor the formation of tubercles. All the cases known to us, where the j)neumoniexudation had this termination, had all been treated with bloodletting.These remarks show that chronic pneumonia is very commonlya consequence of debilitating treatment. We again call attentionto the fact that carditis as a complication of pneumonia is apt tocca«ii)n a malignant metamorphosis of the exudation. In sucha case it is not so much the perverse quality of the blood, whoseinfluence we are, however, not disposed to deny, but the diminislhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt