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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 229 of 653Pneumonia. 265tabercles intact, whereas in other cases it leads directly to phtWe are almost without any data for a correct interpretation of thdifferences, and for this reason alone complicated pneumonias ofnature should be strictly excluded from all statistical tables. "shall have to revert to this subject when speaking of pulmonarytuberculosis. Whenever pneumonia meets with morbid conditionsin the respiratory organs, its course generally deviates from thenormal line, and its process is much more destructive. This remarapplies principally to pulmonary emphysema, to stenosis of thelarynx, to chronic heart-disease, especially of the right heart.more these or any other affections aggravated the breathing beforthe supervention of pneumonia, the more dangerous they becometo life on account of the existing dyspnoea. As regards constitutional conditions not of a morbid kind, old age and pregnancy areof particular significance with regard to the prognosis. Old peopare often troubled with chronic catarrh and emphysema, to thepresence of which the danger in pneumonia is principally to beattributed. For all that, we ought not to despair too soon ; we cpoint to three old men between the years of seventy-eight andeighty-three, all of whom had chronic catarrh, and whom we curedof pneumonia after a somewhat protracted, but otherwise entirelyfavorable treatment. Pregnancy is exceedingly dangerous, themore so#the more advanced it is. Whether the danger is owing tothe obstructions in the respiration occasioned by the distendedabdomen, or likewise to the altered composition of the blood, weare unable to decide. If a miscarriage takes place, which is notunfrequently the case, death is almost unavoidable, on account ofthe excessive exhaustion. Such cases likewise afford a strikingpicture of the effects of venesection, for it is evident what a drious effect the loss of blood exerts upon the parturient woman,whereas parturition ought to diminish the dyspnoea and consequently lessen the danger. In order to meet objections, we willstate that we do not overlook the occurrence of two importantprocesses going on in the organism simultaneously with pneumoniaand that it is to these double functions that we attribute in a gmeasure the fatal termination.Our opinion of the success of homoeopathic treatment in complicated cases of pneumonia is to the effect that it is most commonland preeminently favorable, especially when contrasted with othermethods of treatment. We do not even except tubercular pneumonia. Thus we are able to assert without extravagance that266 Diseases of the Lungs.pneumonia does not appear a very dangerous disease to a homoeopathie physician, and that the disease may be considered comparatively devoid of danger, if we consider what an important organthe lungs are, and how intensely they are affected by an inflammation.We pursue the same course on this occasion that we have pursuedin regard to all other important pathological processes, and prema list of the most important remedies.http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt