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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 240 of 653seem extremely ill, the fever may be intense or may have commenceto abate ; in this condition the disease has often continued forThis is most frequently observed in pneumonias treated with venesections. Now is the period for the exhibition of Sulphur, and it18 astonishing with what magical rapidity the organic reaction issometimes kindled by this agent. It makes no ditterence whetherPneumonia. 279the individual is otherwise diseased or not, whether dyscrasias,psora, tubercles are present or not. A deficiency of reaction andsimultaneous absence of such symptoms as point directly to thedestruction of the organic powers, constitute in our opinion theindications for Sulphur. But if suppuration has really set in, wefeel disposed to doubt the curative virtues of Sulphur. The samerelation obtains in chronic pneumonia; if it exists with symptomsof dissolution, Sulphur is most commonly capable of superthe re-absorption of the atonic exudation, whereas in pulmonaryabscess this remedy is altogether ineffectual. It is, however, coceivable that Sulphur may still have a benelicient effect in purudecomposition. Suppuration frequently sets in on a limited scale,gradually invading the infiltrated portion of lung, and it is thuconceivable that Sulphur may occasion the normal re-absorption ofthe remaining firm exudation. From this point of view we agreewith Wurmb when he advises not to delay the employment ofSulphur too long. The fifth or sixth day is generally the best tifor this medication. After what we have said, we do not deem itnecessary to institute special comparisons between Phosphorus,Mercurius and Sulphur. The relative position of these three remedies can be defined in a few words: All three are only suitablea second stage; Sulphur in the absence of all signs of reaction;Mercurius, if there is a good deal of vascular excitement, andPhosphorus, if the reaction is excessive, and is necessarily follby adynamia.Tartarus stibiatus. It is well known what extravagant praise wasbestowed, not very long ago, upon this drug as a remedy for pneumonia, and how soon it has been abandoned. These frequent changesin Old-School Therapeutics can only be accounted for by a homoepath who is acquainted with the fact that there are no general buonly individual specifics, but that these latter, when applied tolarge number of similar cases of disease, are very apt to be regaas general specifics. Tartar emetic is undoubtedly one of the mosimportant remedies in pneumonia, but only when it deviates fromthe normal course. We again forbear quoting symptoms and confine ourselves to the well established indications which the symptoms had first suggested. In uncomplicated pneumonia Tartaremetic is scarcely ever indicated in the first stage, not even atbeginning of the second stage. The sphere of action of this drugcomiraences with the resolution of the exudation. If the resolutitakes place rapidly, and the re-absorption is slow, the dyspnoea280 Diseases of the Lungs.generally becomes quite considerable, because the lungs are unablto remove the copious contents from their cells. If great dyspnoehttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt