The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 277 of 653pleuritis with profuse exudation, likewise upon pericarditis andupon exhausting diarrhoea, is always a very dangerous symptomthat may continue for days and finally increase to convulsions.Treatment. A passing hiccup is scarcely ever noticed ; onlyif it lasts too long and becomes too severe, medical treatment mahave to be resorted to.In cases of simple hiccup it may be arrested by stopping thebreathing for some time, or by drinking a little cold water, byfixing one's attention upon a certain object, such as: holding ain one's hand, by a systematic crossing of the fingers of both haby a sudden surprise, or such domestic remedies as eating a littlsugar, magnesia, ice, etc.Infants who have taken cold, have to be warmed, after whichthey should be put to the breast; if their stomachs are acid, wegive them Calcar. 6 or Nuz vottl 6; if they are aftected withintestinal catarrh, we give them Chamomilla 8, or Rheum 8. Adomestic remedy that is frequently made use of, is calcined Magneas much as will cover the point of a knife morning and evening.S24 Diseases of the Lungs.In one case, where not one of theae renaaiiea would help, a teaspoonful of recently prepared lime-water removed the spasm.If the singultus is intense and lasts a long time, we have to selremedies that correspond to the co-existing pathological conditioor to the exciting cause. For the nervous singultus of hysteric ohypochondriac individuals, we give according to the symptoms:Nvx vomica^ Ignatia^ Belladonna and Hyoscyamus^ Nux moschataand Natrum muriaticum.For singultus consequent upon a fit of chagrin, we give: CJianumUIgnatia^ Pulsatilla.For singultus occasioned by diseases of tne stomach and liver:Bryonia^ Nuz vomica^ Pulsate Natrum muriaticum and Sulphur,For painful singultus caused by inflammation of adjoiningorgans: Belladonna^ Hyoscyamv^^ Atropine.^ Opium 1 or 2.In a case of consensual singultus consequent upon spasm of theoesophagus, accompanied by nausea, Veratrum 8 has rendered usgood service.We are much less successful in the selection and use of remediesfor singultus occasioned by exhaustion of the vital forces andcerebral anaemia. In such cases we have succeeded in relieving thpatient by Ammonium carbon. 3, Phosphorus 8, and in desperatecases by Moschus 1.As elxtemal remedies practitioners recommend: laying gratedhorse-radish upon the epigastrium, dropping ether upon the pit ofthe stomach, painting this region with the oil of chloroform, onedrachm to two drachms of almond-oil, and in desperate cases theinhalation of ether or chloroform.http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt