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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 339 of 653tricular hypertrophy, the subjective symptoms are generally of noimportance; the patient may feel quite well, only his countenanceis somewhat pallid. If the compensation becomes insufficient,Bymptoms of a deficient supply of blood to the brain and of realanaemia first become apparent, after which symptoms of stasis inthe lesser circulation and in the veins slowly show themselves.898 Diseases of the Heart.It is impossible to indicate a definite mode of treating thisstenosis, for the simple reason that the character of this anomalvaries too much and that it is always complicated with otherabnormal alterations. As long as the patients feel well, medicineis useless or even hurtful; the stenosis cannot be cured and allthe medicine might possibly accomplish, would be to disturb thefunctional cardiac equilibrium. If the compensation becomes insufficient, we have to resort to the remedies that were recommendfor fatty degeneration: Veratrum^ lodium^ Arsenicum and especiallDigitalis^ and with reference to the deficiency in the process ofsanguification: Ferrum^ Calcarea carbonica and China. If symptoms of venous stasis make their appearance, we have to choosesuch remedies as have been reconmiended for mitral stenosis. Theregimen to be pursued differs of course from that recommendedfor aortic insufficiency, since in view of the deficient supply oarterial blood the process of assimilation is of course rendereddifficult. Hence our chief aim should be to give the body a chancto make good blood, by furnishing it a supply of easily digestedand nourishing food and an abundance of fresh air. Even the useof wine need not be forbidden; on the contrary, it is often to berecommended, both in order to promote the process of digestionand as a direct stimulant for the heart. If the stenosis is at thsame time associated with insufficiency of the semilunar valves,the treatment becomes much more difficult, because it is often dicult to decide, the consequences of which of these two anomaliesought to be met first. Generally one anomaly wnll probably bemore marked than the other, in which case the course to bepursued in the treatment is naturally indicated.The combinations of valvular diseases of the left heart, as theygenerally present themselves, complicate the treatment by presentdifficulties for which it is, however, impossible to arrange defitherapeutic rules and practical applications of drugs. Since condtions of this kind fortunately never require the immediate intervention of remedial agents, there will always be time enough in agiven case to consider what treatment had better be pursued, andwhat remedies are most adapted to the case. Any special presentation of the symptoms characterizing such combinations is notcalled for, since anybody may construct such a series in his ownmind.Palpitatio Cordis 899«• Defects of the Orifices and Valves of the Right Heart.They occur so seldom, especially as isolated affections, that wewill coudense all we may have to say on the subject, in a few brihttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt