The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 264 of 653808 Diseases of the Lungs.left auriculo- ventricular orifice, and hypertrophy of the rightheart; in the course of pulmonary tuberculosis, carcinoma of thelungs, Bright's disease, infiltration of the bronchial glands, etchronic cedema of the lungs is almost always complicated withoedema of the lower extremities, or with hydrothorax, ascites. Insuch cases an apparently trivial cause, such as a cold, a physicaexertion, a sudden outburst of passion, etc., is suflScient to girise suddenly to a very general oedema of the lungs of which deatmay be the speedy result.Acute oedema most frequently sets in during the death-strugglein the most diversified diseases.Symptoms* The first important and striking symptom is thedyspnoea; it may attain a very high degree, is most commonlyassociated with the sensation of an oppressive weight under thesternum which does not abate by any change of position ; at thesame time the expression in the countenance is one of anxiety, anthe 7njobility of the thorax is lesSy in consequence of which theat times sit up erect, at other times rest on their arms and agaistretch their heads forward, in order to facilitate the breathingThe cough is spasmodic, the expectoration is exceedingly profuse,of a frothy-serous consistence, sometimes pale and at other timesdark-red ; moist rfiles are heard in the whole chest ; cyanosis sitself first in the face and afterwards on the extremities.Gradually the sensation of suffocation increases in violence, theexpectoration becomes less, the rattling becomes louder and is beeven at a distance ; little by little, in consequence of the poisof the blood by carbonic acid, the patient becomes soporous, he ino longer able to cough up the sputa, because the muscular apparatus is semi-paralysed; the cough is less frequent, the breathinbecomes more and more superficial and shorter. Finally collapsesets in, the cheeks become livid, a rattling is heard in the tracand the patients die of asphyxia.K the oedema is extensive, and the air has been driven out of alarge portion of the lungs, the percussion-sound is muffled or typanitic ; as long as air remains in the oedematous portion, the pcussion-fiound remains unaltered. The local or circumscribed oedeon percussion frequently yields no alteration of the sound ; if tcells are entirely filled with serum, the percussion-sound may bedull and empty ; if situated at the apex of the lungs, this condiof the cells may be confounded with tuberculous infiltrations. Aucultation generally reveals all sorts of rfiles, except consou: n(Edema Pulmonum, Hydrops Pulmonum. 809The Bymptoms of acute cederaa of the lungs sometimefl set inwith BO much rapidity and violence that one symptom seems tochase the other.If acute oedema sets in in consequence of collateral congestion iportions of lung that had hitherto remained free from the existing pneumonia, pleuritis, etc., new febrile motions generally apphttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt