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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 315 of 653Carditis. 869carditis there is generally no exudation to be removed ; for itsconseqaences are limited to losses of substance which it is diffito replace.lodium likewise deserves attention where all that remains to bedone, is to remove the exudation. Indeed, we cannot aftbrd tooverlook a single remedy of this kind, considering the small number of those that can be of any use in this direction. Besides, hever, the pathogenesis of lodium contains a number of usefulsymptoms referring to cardiac aflfections.If we would here furnish an exhaustive list of our cardiac remedies, we should have to add a considerable number to those alreaddescribed, more particularly if we were to include all the remedireferring to the remote consequences of cardiac inflammation, towhich we have devoted a separate chapter under the heading of"Valvular Diseases." Many remedies among them we do notregard as cardiac remedies and consider their employment governed by peculiar complications. Such remedies are : Belladonna^Pulsatilla^ Tartarus emeticus^ MercuriuSj RhuSj Arnica. Other remedies have not yet been sufficiently investigated in their relatito the heart, such as : Bismuthum^ Laurocerasus^ Acidum oxalicum.The efiects of the last-named remedy upon the heart are certainlyworthy of a careful study.In order to facilitate the study of these drugs we here furnisha synoptical view of each drug, with reference to the special cardiac conditions, with which it is in therapeutic accord.In pericarditis, if setting in as a primary affection, Aconite wialways be the best remedy to commence the treatment with. Howlong this remedy is to be continued, will depend upon the coursethe disease takes, more especially upon the course of the existinexudation. As soon as a copious exudation has set in, both thepains and the fever generally abate, after which some other remedmay be chosen with great propriety. Bryonia^ Spigelia^ Digitalis^and likewise Nitrum may now claim our attention. Bryonia andSpigelia may be given when loud friction-murmurs are heard, andthe patient complains of continual pain, the area of cardiac dulness is somewhat enlarged, and the pulse is accelerated and not-weakened ; Nitriim may be resorted to, if the lungs are intenselcongested, and there is a good deal of cough with bloody expectoration. DigitaliSy if the cardiac dulness is rapidly extending ova larger area^ the friction-murmurs disappear very rapidly and colapse sets in, the pulse being either very quick and feeble, or e24370 Diseases of the Heart.very slow or intermittent. Veratrum album acts similarly to Digitalis. These two remedies, in connection with Arsenicum, are mostgenerally adapted to the violent dyspnoea with cyanotic symptoms.After the true inflammatory stage has run its course, the absorption of the plastic exudation is promoted by Sulphur and perhapsIodine^ and of the serous exudation by Arsenicum^ Digitalis^ andhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt