The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopathy"Page 28 of 653We recently treated an acute vaginal catarrh in a girl of nineyears. It was caused by sitting on a cold stone. The vagina andvulva were much inflamed, and the purulent and yellow-greenishdischarge exceedingly profuse. The disease was radically cured inabout a week with the Q-erman tincture of Aconite and a few dosesof Iodine. H.]A simple acute catarrh is, upon the whole, a very rare disorder.Inasmuch as, with the exception of slight differences, it is idenas far as intensity is concerned, with the virulent form of catarwe confine our description of the disease to the latter.Female gonorrhoea commences with a feeling of heat and drynessin the vagina, attended with a peculiar titillation and sensitiveto contact. Soon after, the mucous membrane is seen injected, uriation becomes painful (which is never the case in simple catarrh)the external pudendum becomes swollen and inflamed, in consequence of which walking is impeded, and a muco-purulent discharge makes its appearance the same as in gonorrhoea of the maleonly more copious and generally of a bad odor. Some individuals,according as the disease is more or less intense, experience febrmotions, lassitude, depression of strength, drawing pains in thelumbar and sacral regions, dull pains in the pelvis, sensitivenescontact, difficulty of urinating. Upon the mucous membrane, aswell as in the neighborhood of the vagina, we often notice erosioand small flat ulcers. This inflammatory stage lasts, as in the cof the male, from eight days to a fortnight. As the pains abate,the discharge becomes thinner, more milky, and, in favorable caseabates little by little until it ceases entirely in a few weeks.commonly, however, the discharge continues for months, and incase the uterus is considerably involved, the gonorrhoea becomeschronic and exceedingly obstinate. The infectiousness of the discharge does not become extinct until it has lasted a long time.Chronic catarrh very generally arises from the acute form, butin most cases takes place \^'ithout any preliminary acute stage.scanty slimy secretion from the vagina occurs in most females,Vaginitis, Catarrh of the Sexual Mucous Lining. 23either as a constant discharge, or before or after menstruation,even a profuse discharge after several confinements still constita normal secretion ; at any rate the women themselves do not lookupon it as anything unnatural. It is only when the discharge isexcessive, or when it occurs in children, that we are justified iregarding it as a morbid phenomenon. Under the operation of oneof the above-named exciting causes the discharge continues to increase in quantity and to gradually disturb the constitutional eqlibrium. The discharge is at times of a glassy transparency, attimes milky, and less frequently purulent ; it may become so profuse that the patients may not be able to leave their room ; thestains on the linen are generally stiff and grayish, less frequenyellowish ; it often excoriates the external parts and the thighsthis is not owing to the quantity of the secretion, but to its quand perhaps to the sensitiveness of the skin. The discharge isscarcely ever uniformly the same; sometimes it has remissions andeven intermissions, is generally most copious before or after themenses, and frequently even takes their place entirely. If the uthttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt