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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 335 of 653diminution, or at least of an arrest of the symptoms.Anomalies. 893China and Ferrum here occupy the first rank; the former moreespecially, if the anfiemic phenomena which are an inevitable consequence of the deficient activity of the left ventricle, are asswith frequent paroxysms of passing congestions of the brain, andif the hepatic functions are greatly interfered with. Ferrum isindicated rather by a tendency to pulmonary congestions and tohemorrhage from the bronchia, by prominent symptoms of gastriccatarrh, and, like China, by enlargements of the spleen. Ferrumis not very suitable to old people; Cldna^ on the contrary, is emnently so.In chronic ailments Arsenicum deserves more attention than inacute complaints. It may be tried in liver-complaint as well as irenal afiections; sometimes it renders good service, but more frequently it leaves us in the lurch.Baryta carbonica has already been mentioned in the bronchialcatarrh of old people ; we likewise recommend it, if the catarrhoccasioned by valvular deficiency.Carbo veget. may still afford help, if every other remedy had lefus in the lurch. This remedy embodies in its pathogenesis all theconsequences of the anomalies here treated of: a disposition to ahemorrhage; the anaemic symptoms in cyanosis; oedematous swellings, pulmonary oedema; passive hyperaemia of the brain, lungs,liver, spleen ;' chronic bronchial catarrh in every stage, pulmonhemorrhage; gastric catarrh. There is scarcely another remedythat represents so clearly a definite morbid condition. Clinicalresults have substantiated the truth of this similarity.Beside these remedies, those that have been named for fattydegeneration may likewise be ranked here, especially PlutnbumjCuprum and Aurum. For single symptoms : Lycopodium and Nortrum muriaticum are particularly efficacious. The last-mentionedremedies likewise embrace within their curative range, if help isat all possible, the last link of this series of consecutive disonamely : local and general dropsy.The mode of living has an influence upon the final result thatmust not be underrated. Bodily motions and exertions are regulated without the least difficulty ; proper dietetic precautionseasily violated. Inasmuch as the whole tendency of the anomalies,of which we have treated, is to change the blood to venous blood,since the interference with the lesser circulation only admits ofimperfect oxygenation of the blood : our whole aim should be tofamish the patient with such nourishment as will not require the894 Diseases of the Heart.assistance of the pulmonary circulation, and likewise in an easilassimilable form on account of the gastro-intestinal canal beinggenerally very much disordered during the presence of these anomhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt