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The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

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Full text <strong>of</strong> "<strong>The</strong> <strong>Science</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong>rapeutics: According to the Principles <strong>of</strong> Homeopath...Page 228 <strong>of</strong> 653energy <strong>of</strong> the circulation that exerts a disturbing effect upon thcourse <strong>of</strong> pneumonia. This is an additional pro<strong>of</strong> how unphysiological is the theory <strong>of</strong> depressing the pulse in pneumonia.<strong>The</strong> observation that individuals who have had one attack <strong>of</strong>pneumonia, are easily liable to a renewed attack, will scarcely i264Diseases <strong>of</strong> the Lungs.be made by a Qomoeopathic physician. If such freqT:^nt recurrences <strong>of</strong> pneumonia^, are witnessed even under homoeopathic treatnieut, the former attacks had always been treated with depletionswe account forthissusceptibility most naturally by the circumstanthat the exudation had not been completely absorbed.After this excursion into the therapeutic domain <strong>of</strong> the OldSchool, the length <strong>of</strong> which we beg the reader to excuse on accoun<strong>of</strong> the importance <strong>of</strong> the subject, we now enter uf)Ou a considerat<strong>of</strong> the prognosis <strong>of</strong> pneumonia. We might on this occasion availourselves <strong>of</strong> the existing statistics, if they were not calculatedmislead, and, on the side <strong>of</strong> Homoeopathy, not sufficiently numeroOn this account we confine ourselves to short statements; if anyone should feel disposed to doubt their corre(;tnes8, we advise hbefore pronouncing judgment, to first treat a few dozen cas^^s <strong>of</strong>pneumonia homoeopathically. An uncomplicated pneumonia, nomatter whether the patient is robust or weakly, always terminatesin recovery under homoeopathic treatment, at the same time as anabnormal dispersion or alteration <strong>of</strong> the infiltration occurs veryseldom. We can substantiate the correctness <strong>of</strong> this statement byupwards <strong>of</strong> two hundred and fifty cases <strong>of</strong> pneumonia from ourown practice and that <strong>of</strong> other physicians. Accordingly pneumoniais one <strong>of</strong> the least dangerous diseases to a homoeopathic physiciaOn the contrary, Wunderlich calls it one <strong>of</strong> the most frequent andmost dangerous diseases that can befal man ; in saying this he donot quote figures, but must have been lead by numerous deaths tomake such a statement. Among the complications, carditis,intestinal catarrh, bronchitis and tuberculosis promise the leastchances <strong>of</strong> a successful treatment. We have shown above why thefirst two complications present such ominous difficulties, althoueven in such cases we have never had to deplore a single loss.Bronchitis is dangerous on account <strong>of</strong> the dyspnoea being extremelaggravated by this complication; and a co-existing tuberculosisbecomes dangerous on account <strong>of</strong> the probability <strong>of</strong> the metamorphosis <strong>of</strong> the exuded fibrin into tubercles, or <strong>of</strong> the hastening osuppuration <strong>of</strong> existing tubercular depositions. Whether the seat<strong>of</strong> the inflammation exerts a peculiar influence during the presenthese complications, is not quite certain, but we may take it forgranted that an inflammation <strong>of</strong> the apices, which are the mostcommon locality <strong>of</strong> tubercular depositions, terminates in suppuratmuch sooner than an inflammation <strong>of</strong> any <strong>of</strong> the other lobes. It isfrequently inconceivable why the pneumonic process should leavehttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt

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