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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 272 of 653pulse; palpitation of the heart; distension of the abdomen con.sequent upon the attack; involuntary emission of the urine; unconquerable dread of death ; the paroxysm is excited by changesof temperature, atmospheric influences, talking or laughing, goinup stairs. The consequences of the attack remain for a long time,among which excessive debility and nervousness are most prominent. When given during the paroxysm, Arsenic sometimesexerts a magical effect, so that the patients fancy they have recOpiam; although Arsenic does not by any means help in everycase, yet it had better be tried in every case that we are calledapon to treat. During the apyrexia, the remedy had better be818 Diseases of the Lungs.adminivStered at long intervals and in the higher attenuations,although the success which Old School practitioners have obtainedwith Fowler's solution justifies the conclusion that massive doseare likewise conducive to a cure. The danger is that massive dosemay affect the stomach injuriously. Whether Arsenic possessesspecific antidotal powers against asthma caused by other metalshas not yet been determined.Cuprum is likewise one of the substances which, in cases of slowpoisoning, develops asthmatic symptoms. However, it has notproved of such decisive practical value as Arsenic, for the reasothat it has not the significant indications of this agent. In ouropinion. Cuprum is indicated by the following symptoms: Theremedy is suitable to individuals with nervous, irritable, enfeebconstitutions, who are, moreover, disposed to spasms, whereasArsenic is suitable rather to vigorous and plethoric persons ; oris suitable to children, especially if the paroxysms set in at nior in consequence of exerting the respiratory organs, as for instafter a coughing fit ; the paroxysm very speedily reaches the acmof its intensity; other muscular bundles are involved in the convulsive attack ; the attack is accompanied by a constant hacking,which aggravates the asthma; the attack terminates by vomiting;pallor of the countenance, with cold perspiration. The apj'rexianot perfect, but a slight degree of dyspnoea remains, or violentoxysms of an almost dry cough set in, which likewise end invomiting. The action of Copper in whooping-cough is evidence ofits general adaptation to spasmodic affections of the lungs. Wehave never known Cuprum to be of any use for the paroxysm itself, so that we now limit the use of this drug exclusively to thintervals between the paroxysms.As regards Plumbum, it has not yet been sufficiently tried eitherphysiologically or practically to present clear indications for iin asthma. Nevertheless, the affections of workers in lead showthat thej' are very commonly affected with a violent asthma. Uponthe whole, it bears great similarity to the copper-asthma, fromwhich it is not so much distinguished by its local as by its genesymptoms. We recommend the remedy more especially in thesevere paroxysms of tuberculous individuals, and likewise for theform of asthma, which is accompanied at the outset by a profuseaccumulation of gas in the bowels.lodium is likewise one of those agents which, among its* symptoms of slow poisoning, numbers asthma as one of its constant phehttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt