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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 239 of 653exerts curative ettects only in very few cases. For this reason wbelieve with Muller that the indications for sulphur are chieflyup a priori, and we cannot forbear taking this opportunity of agacalling attention to the unprofitable part that psora has playedHomoeopathy. Nor can we give our assent to the proposition thatSulphur should be given in the third stage when a purulent dissolution of the infiltration is already far advanced. Practical exprience is against this proposition which is likewise contradictedthe results obtained in inflammations of other organs, where thecompletion of a purulent transformation constitutes a positivecounter-indication to Sulphur. Hartmann likewise talks of a latendyscrasia where the apparently best indicated remedies remainwithout eftect; but we would ask how it happens that there arepneumonias almost all of which sometimes act in this manner in ;the same year among all those that are attacked by this disease ?Of what use is it to at once jump at the doctrine of a latent dyscrasia? The same position is occupied by Watzke when he recommends- Sulphur in pneumonia consequent upon the suppression orretroeeesion of an exanthem. With the access of almost any veryucute inflammation exanthems disappear almost without au excep278 Diseases of the Lungs.tion either for a time or for ever, which is of no more importancthan the cessation of a coryza after the supervention of an inflatory process. The more serious affection does not tolerate thesimultaneous presence of a less serious one. Metastasis under succircumstances cannot be appealed to, nor can a definite influenceover the course of the whole disease be determined beforehand.We transcribe Miiller's chief indications: In the second and thirstages of pneumonia, especially when the inflammation is deepand extensive. Sulphur deserves particular consideration as an inpendent remedy. If after the removal of the first vascular excitement which generally results from the supervention of the exudatian exacerbation of the febrile and other symptoms sets in againafter the lapse of one to three days, as is frequently noticed inwhere no dispersion takes place, and the disease runs its coursethrough the second and third stages. Sulphur is best calculated tmeet this exacerbation, if characterized by vascular excitement,dyspnoea and intensity of the thoracic symptoms, and not by theso-called nervous symptoms, for which PhosphoruSy Belladonna^Bryojiia^ Rhus toxicodendron and other remedies are indicated.Jlence Sulphur must be indicated by extensive hepatization andsuppuration (second and third stage) where not the nervous, butthe synochal symptoms prevail, resembling those that indicateAconite in the first stage of the disease. What we have to objectto Miiller's views is that we do not believe Sulphur ever meetssynochal febrile symptoms. If we advance our own views concerning the indications for Sulphur, it is not so much in the expectaof uttering anything new, but of uniting existing opinions in onegeneral series. In our opinion Sulphur is indicated, if pneumoniapasses through its first two stages without any great deviationsthe normal course, or without any striking changes, and thenremains stationary without the supervention of any typhoid symptoms, such as occur in pneumonias to which Phosphorus is 8jadapted. It is a period of anxious expectation to a physician,because he cannot decide whether re-absorption or a purulent dissolution of the exudation will take place. The patients do nothttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt