The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 289 of 653be crowned with good results in so many cases that it might likewise seem proper for us to experiment in the same direction. Mostphysicians are as yet deterred from pursuing this course by theidea that this remedy is not adapted to acute affections. This opion is certainly erroneous and unfounded. It is particularly inpleuritis, for which we certainly do not possess too many remediethat Digitalis deserves special attention on account of its specirelation to the rheumatic process. If this process spreads to theplenra, or if pleuritis is from the start a rheumatic disease, no338 Diseases of the Pleura.edy 18 next to Bryonia better adapted to this form of pleuritis tDigitalis.Hepar sulphuris calcareum. "No more than we were guided in oarfirst trials with Hepar in pneumonia by the few correspondingsymptoms of this drug, has Wurmb been guided by the symptomsalo^e when he says of Hepar: "To my knowledge, Hepar has neverbeen employed in pleuritis, yet few remedies render such eminentservice in this disease as Hepar. If the effusion is rather of aplastic nature, and if the disease has lasted for some time, or islow, lentescent course is to be apprehended from the commencement of the attack, I know of no better remedy than Hepar.Under its use I have seen copious exudations, which had already eisted for a long time, disappear in a comparatively and incrediblshort period of time, nor have I ever observed a case where, undesuch circumstances, it did not exert some influence upon the exudation. A complication with pericarditis or bronchitis demands itexhibition so much more urgently ; if the effusion is rather moreserous, Hepar is of little use." We share this opinion, adding atthe same time that empyema, provided it is not too old, is aboveall calculated to substantiate the favorable action of this drug,that the evident passage from the sero-plastic to the purulent foof pleuritis points more especially to Hepar.Squilla maritima is much more talked about than actually used inpleuritis. We believe, however, unjustly, for the physiologicaleffects of this drug show that it is in special rapport with thepleura and likewise with the lungs. Squilla is decidedly one ofthe medicines that it is proper to try in the treatment of pleuriIt is more particularly adapted to pleuro-pneumonia, and is moreespecially indicated by a copious exudation of serum and even inserous pleuritis where the curative action of this drug manifestsitself by a profuse diuresis. In former times Squills enjoyed agreat reputation in this disease, and have fallen into disuse inold system of medicine probably for no other reason than becausethe medicine did not help in every case, because its more specialindications were either not sought or physicians did not know hewto seek them.We do not regard Pfiosphorus as a direct remedy for pleuritisalthough, having been mentioned as a remedy for pneumonia, it isvery likely that it may be of some use in peripneumonia, in whichcase, however, the pleuritic exudation will be very scanty. On thother hand we deem it proper, from more general reasons, to direchttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt