The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 252 of 653might otherwise easily occur.Hypostatic pneumonia cannot, properly speaking, be regarded as ^inflammation; it represents a peculiar hypersemia of the lungsdei.>ending upon a paralytic weakness of the circulatory and respatory organs. It only occurs as a part of other pathologicalconditions, on which account no special treatment can be assignedto it.Iiobular pneumonia is likewise a co-existing and very serious294 Diseases of the Lungs.complication of bronchitis, not an idiopathic affection, and it istill more difficult to point out for it a treatment based upon erience, for the reason that we are not in the possession of any mfor obtaining an exact diagnosis. Knowing, however, that whooping-cough easily leads to lobular pheumonia, and the results of otreatment being uncommonly satisfactory, we may assert with goodreason that we possess real remedies for this dangerous diseasewhich will prove efficient in cases that did not originate in whoing-cough. If lobular pneumonia sets in with a decisive increaseof the fever, or with a more violent fever generally. Belladonnavery often be found suitable, but still more frequently MercuriusIf the signs of cerebral hypcrsemia prevail, we have in Opium aremedy that indeed does not cause the whole process to retrogradebut exerts an exceedingly curative influence by preparing the roafor other more direct remedial agents. Ipecacuanha should be mentioned here side by side with Opium, because it likewise causesmarked hypercemia of the brain, but not sufficiently violent tocause sopor; convulsions, an exceedingly spasmodic cough withsuffocative paroxysms and asthmatic complaints which even remainafter the cough ; loud mucous rfiles in the chest, coldness of thextremities and heat of the head are the chief indications. Stillmore important for this kind of pneumonia is Veratrum albums aremedy which, in the form of an alkaloid Verainney has foundgrace even in the Old School. Its most essential indications aredyspnoea with slight rattling of mucus, dry and spasmodic coughaccompanied by marked cerebral congestions, a hurried and smallpulse, cold skin and cold sweat, together with excessive debilityThis group of symptoms may sometimes require the use of Veratrum album in croupous pneumonia. Moreover Phosphorus^ Tartaremeticy Hyoscyamus and Cuprum deserve to be mentioned in thisplace ; in general, all the medicines that have been named underbronchitis, deserve attention in lobular pneumonia. The consecutidiseases have to be regarded with special care. A rapid terminatiin recovery is comparatively rare in lobular pneumonia ; the patiremain feeble for a long time, hack a good deal or have to passthrough frequent and severe paroxysms of cough ; the assimilatingfunctions are suffering, although diarrhoea need not necessarilypresent; physical exploration reveals more or less distinctly acatarrhal condition of the most delicate bronchial ramifications.In such a case it would be a decided mistake to leave the furthercourse of the disease to Nature, as it is perfectly proper to doPneumonia. 295http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt