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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 238 of 653panting breathing and a dry, racking cough with very scanty expectoration. It being very late, we made a rather hurried examination, and being satisfied that we had a case of pleurobefore us, we prescribed Aconite 2, and left him with the promiseof an early morning-visit. Next morning we found our patientworse, if any thing. Fever very high, skin dry, like parchment,complexion very sallow, dull headache, considerable thirst and extreme exhaustion. The cough was no longer dry, but mucoguinolentsputa were raised in some quantity. The patient complained of exquisite soreness at one spot in the left lower lobethe lungs. The balance of the organ seemed to be in a state ofhypereemia; percussion still yielded some resonance, very littleiiess anywhere, except in the left lobe. Prescribed Bryonia. Sawthe patient again in the middle of the day ; he was steadily failSaw him again in the evening and found him in a state ot sopor,grasping at flocks, picking at the bed-clothes, and raising profuquantities of a yellow-green pus having an exceedingly unpleasantodor. The pus was discharged from the first-named sore spot. Thesoreness now had reached a very high degree; the least pressureupon this spot caused the patient to moan ; the cough was veryshort and the patient seemed to dread it ; his tongue looked likeparched leather, his complexion bad a dark-brown icteric hue ; thdelirium was constant, bland; pulse about 140. It was evidentthat we had a large cavernous abscess before us, and that unlesswe succeeded in effecting a favorable change very soon, our patiewould be a dead man in a very short time.We now put him on Phosphorus 8d trituration. Half an hourafter taking the first powder, a favorable change manifested itseThe medicine was continued through the night every hour or whenever the patient should wake. Early in the morning we found himwith a moist skin, pulse down to 85, breathing much improved,symptoms of a general resolution apparent, passed water freely, tPneumonia. 277urine being thickly charged with decayed mucus; no headache,Bputa muco-purulent, without any bad odor; the region of theabscess no longer sensitive, only a little sore but over a smalleface. Continued the Phosphorus every two hours. In a fortnightafter our first visit, the patient was able to resume his labor;forbid symptom having disappeared. H.]Sulphur. The symptoms which this agent causes in the respiratoryOrgans are too numerous and varied to enable us to detach some of%'m from the whole list; the remedy has to be studied in itstotality, more especially with regard to the respiratory organs f^hich it is of such extraordinary importance. If Muller says thatthe writers on sulphur agree in their views concerning the actionof this agent, we cannot altogether agree with him, since the exiing differences in their opinions are somewhat striking and ofessential importance. The importance of this remedy must be ourexcuse, if we examine some of the details with more minuteness.In the first place and very generally Sulphur is recommended forpneumonias in dyscrasic individuals. Some authors mention psoraby name, others undoubtedly had it in their minds. Is the existenof psora founded in reality ? According to our own experience, wecannot admit this, esj>ecially in tubercular pneumonia where sulphttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt