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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 300 of 653admits of a perfect cure, which is not very uncommon, if the inflammation is not too extensive. In the other case a partial curemay take place by the insulation and inspissation of the pus, inconsequence of which callous indurations and calcareous concretions may result. If the pus escapes into the cavity of the ventricle, an acute aneurysm of the heart, or, according as the pusescapes in certain localities, valvular defects may arise, or, aspurulent endocarditis, metastatic abscesses and plugging of theblood-vessels may take place. If the abscess is located in the inventricular partition, it may lead to a communication between botventricles. Perforation outwardly results in pericarditis.Symptoms. The fact that inflammations of the heart occuralmost only as complicating and consecutive affections, and thecharacteristic peculiarity of the symptoms occasioned by these inflammations, render it not only difficult but almost impossible tdraw even a moderately-correct and striking picture of the diseasIn the following paragraphs we shall, therefore, confine ourselveto furnishing detached details, first, the symptoms that can be oserved without any physical exploration, and afterwards the physical signs. If, by pursuing this course, we are not afforded anopportunity of furnishing a perfectly coherent description of inflammations of the heart, on the other hand, we avoid the muchmore serious mistake of either describing these pathological condtions incorrectly or delineating fanciful pictures of disease.All these forms of cardiac inflammation not unfrequently runtheir course with such inconsiderable signs of disease, or even sentirely without any symptoms, that the patients either do not cosult a physician at all or that, in case carditis supervenes durithe existence of other affections, the physician does not suspectheart-disease unless he institutes a very rigorous examination. Wought even to take it for granted that many cases of carditis escthe most minute physical exploration, since we so frequently meetCarditis. 851with remains of which not a trace had beon discovered during the(if&-time of the patient.Carditis setting in most commonly during the course of someother disease, its commencement is very seldom marked by a chill,generally it is even impossible to determine from the patient's ostatements where the disease has precisely begun. Only pericarditcommences very commonly with shooting, more or less violent painsin the region of the heart. Most generally the patients complainan intense feeling of illness and great anxiety, which they descras proceeding from the pit of the stomach. If the inflammation hafully set in, the following symptoms are perceived in different cbinations and degrees of intensity: Extreme feeling of illness nocorresponding with the affection that the patient was already suffering with, and not suspending muscular power. Lassitude withconstant restlessness, weariness, yet the patient is unable to slAlteration of the expression of the countenance; this symptom isoften suflicient for the attentive observer to suspect the presenof carditis : the face generally becomes more pallid, seldom turgcent, the features assume an appearance of tension, the eye has ashy, wandering expression, and, what is characteristic of this dihttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt