The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 256 of 653we ever should have another similar case to treat, we should givetwo ren^edies in alternation, one for the whooping-cough, and theother for the pneumonia. It is true, after the inflammation has sin, the paroxysms of cough become leas frequent and less violent,but they cause a horrid distress to the patient and they do notexert a good influence over the disease. It might be well, in succircumstances, to try to subdue the paroxysms by means of Cuprum."We do not mean to be understood as though we regarded these fewPneumonia. 299remedies as the only ones suitable to this complication ; they arthe only remedies that have done us any good in such cases. Besidthese remedies all those that have been recommended in previousparagraphs for whooping-cough complicated with acute bronchitis,may have to be employed, and for the sequelae or secondary diseasanother class of remedies may come into play, which it is impossible to enumerate in this place.Pneumonia complicated with influenza, has to be treated according to the same rules that have been laid down for epidemicpneumonia.Cerebral hypersemia is a serious complication, although more frequently in appearance than in reality. Most commonly it can onlybe regarded as a disturbing symptom. But if, owing to its intensity, it should develop paralytic phenomena, sopor and coma, or ithe patient is far advanced in age, this hypersemia will requireticular attention and treatment. Among children it is of much lesimportance. It has to be treated with Belladonva^ Opium^ HyoscyaviuSy Verairum^ Digitalis^ Tartarus stibiatits. The first threthese remedies are more suitable for children, the last three forpeople. In the case of these cerebral phenomena we have to becareful in determining whether they originate in pure hypersemia,or depend upon the process going on in the lungs, and a consequent alteration of the blood, and, therefore, belong to the cateof typhoid symptoms. In the latter case, quite difterent remedieshave to be used, such as : Phosphorus^ Mercurius^ Rhus tpx.^ andothers. Sometimes a mistake is not easily avoided, especially incases where the disease had a typhoid character from the beginning. The importance of cerebral hypersemia is likewise to bemeasured by the locality of the pneumonic process; it is of muchless consequence if it arises from an inflammation of the upperlobes, for in such a case it can be readily and directly accounteby a disordered circulation, whereas, when the lower lobes are inflamed, the hypersemia appears more in the light of an idiopathicdisease whose connection with the fundamental inflammation is noteasily explained.Attections of the heart, whether they existed as chronic affections previous to the occurrence of pneumonia, or whether theyoccur as acute affections during the course of pneumonia, constitute most threatening complications. If chronic affections of theheart are present, the dyspnoea is extremely aggravated by theirpresence, an active as well as passive hyperemia of the brain sethttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt