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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 334 of 653We have symptoms of intestinal and gastric catarrh ; moreover atendency to serous effusion. In short, the whole complex of thepathological phenomena points to Digitalis as our first choice intreatment of these disorganizations. Digitalis is even indicatedJ392 Diseases of the Heart.the peculiar pneumonia which is not unfrequently favored and evenexcited by the stenosis of the left auriculo-ventricular orifice.1^3t the remedy be administered in a small dose ; this is of paraimportance. Even if large doses seem to agree at the beginning,yet in the long run they exert a decidedly pernicious influence.We advise the use of Belladonna in all cases where Aconitumseems indicated by the symptoms. In this kind of disorder Aconitenever exerts a favorable influence. Belladonna is especially indiby the paroxysmally increasing pulmonary hypersemia and theheadache which sometimes reaches a terrible degree of intensity.It is less frequently eificacious in the resulting hepatic derangments.Pulsatilla cannot be numbered among the prominent remedies;we would at most employ it in the higher grades of bronchialcatarrh.Veratrum album competes with Belladonna as far as the affectedorgans are concerned ; yet there are symptomatic difterences. Itsuitable for cerebral and pulmonary congestions setting in withpallor and coldness of the outer skin, or with a decidedly cyanottinge.Opium, in small doses, in the case of drunkards is a main remedyfor celebral hyperoemia, less for the respiratory difficulties. Icases it often acts with wonderful rapidity and completeness,although the effect does not last.Tartarus stibiatus is indicated by bronchial catarrh with profusesecretion of mucus, and by a gastric catarrh the symptoms of whicmay be compared in the Mat. Med. Pura.Arsenicum which seems indicated much more frequently than itreally is, has only shown a decisive eftect in our hands againstsleeplessness which is a not uncommon symptom in these disordersit has never seemed to be of any use in affections of the respiraorgans for which it seems such an excellent remedy if these afiections are not occasioned by valvular defects. Nor does it ordinarseem to have any eftect .in drojmcal difficulties.The remedies we have named so far, are in general adapted onlyto overcoming single ailments either acute or subacute; to this lwe will add the following: Phosphorus^ Squilla^ Secale cornutuitilodium^ Ammonhim carbonictim. Another series of drugs has to beopposed to chronic secondary affections which, although necessaryconsequences of the cardiac disorganizations, very often admit ofhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt