The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 257 of 653800 Diseases of the Lungs.in much more readily, and the resolution of the exudation is muchretarded and is rendered much more doubtful by such a complication. The selection of a remedy likewise becomes so much moredifficult, since we cannot determine the degree of attention thatheart-symptoms may legitimately claim. Tartarus stibiatus^ J^igitalis J Veratrura alburn^ Cannabis saliva^ Sulphur^ correspond mofully with both orders of symptoms ; Lycopodium^ and Carbo vegetabilis may likewise be included in the list. At all events, suchcomplications render a most thorough investigation of our MateriaMedica indispensable. Acute diseases of the heart, if considerablfar advanced, constitute very dangerous complications, since theyalways interfere with the normal course of pneumonia. Of muchmore importance than that of bronchitis is the treatment of thiscomplication, since the heart-disease has to be removed befdre thcure of pneumonia can be thought of. We therefore refer thereader to the therapeutics of diseases of the heart.Hepatic hypersemia is a very ordinary accompaniment of pneumonia, and is generally the most severe, if the lower portion ofright lung is affected. On account of the presence of icteric symtoms, a form of pneumonia, termed bilious pneumonia, has beenadopted by pathologists ; but it is our opinion that hepatic hypesemia is too natural a consequence of an obstructed pulmonary circulation to deserve a very large share of attention. Quite recentwe attended a man who had all the symptoms of. a violent hepatitis, and yet was in reality attacked with nothing but a pneumonof the right side. This combination is in the first place met byBelladonna^ afterwards Bryonia^ and Mercurius^ and finally Phosphorus and China are the most suitable remedies. The hepaticsymptoms only require special attention, if the flow'of bile is cpletely suspended and the gastro-intestinal catarrh is kept up anaggravated by this stagnation of the biliary current.Gastro-intestinal catarrh in a higher or lower degree is an almosconstant companion of pneumonia. If violent, it contributes greattowards impressing a typhoid character upon this disease. Gastriccatarrh alone is not very important, although the modification ofthe symptoms superinduced by the catarrh, may render the exhibition of Bryonia or Mercurius^ Veratrura or Tartarus emeticus indipensable at the very commencement of the attack.Chronic pneumonia, which we will class in the same category aslentescent pneumonia, has very different symptoms and requiresdifferent remedies. If it consists mainly of the pneumonic infiltPneumonia. ' ^ /> 801tion, without any other marked morhi^ mahjfeslfalions, the consistcut use of Sulphur is alone calculated^to fetjng' a'^put a cuBut if the infiltration is partially firm and p^tially- di^d