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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopathy"Page 35 of 653after confinement, the lochial secretion is arrested, the placentheres, or is discharged in the shape of an ichorous, fetid liquidviolent burning and a sensation of fulness in the vagina, the employment of Belladonna is called for so much more pressingly."We refrain from commenting upon the last passage, for we holdMetritis, Inflammation of the Womb. 81that if sucli phenomena occur while the placenta remains adheringto the uterus, we have a strictly puerperal disease before us, whdoes not belong in this chapter. Without doubt Belladonna iseminently suitable in cases of violent metritis, and is even prefable to Nux, more especially if the menses were arrested during tcourse of the inflammation. Nor have we a better remedy formetrorrhagia setting in at the time of the menses."A similar affection occasioned by a violent fit of chagrin, especially after confinement, yields most speedily and surely to a sidose of ChamomUla. In such a case the lochial secretion is generamore profuse, and, if it was already white, it again changes to adischarge of quantities of blackish, coagulated blood. Not unfrequently we see metritis set in after the inordinate use of Chamomile-tea, which unreasonable midwives will allow their patients iconfinement in spite of all the warnings of physicians. In suchcases Nuzj Ignatia^ Pulsatilla^ each according to the symptoms ofthe disease, will be found to be the best antidotes. We here refeto what we have said above concerning the one dose of Nux ; moreover we doubt the value of Chamomilla as a remedy in metritis.Mercurius deserves the same encomiums in this disease as inuterine catarrh. It is indicated by violent febrile heat interrupby chills; inclination to abundant perspiration; violent thirst;purulent discharge from the vagina; diarrhoeic discharge withtenesmus. These are symptoms denoting the formation of pus.Knowing as we do that this is apt to set in in the impregnateduterus, Mercurius had better be prescribed first, when the uteruspartially inflamed.Sabina may be given if the menses set in in the form of hemorrhage during the course of the inflammation, attended with laborlike pains that spread to the thighs. This remedy will likewise bfound applicable in other forms of metritis ; we are led to thisclusion because Sabina which is so often employed as a means ofproducing abortion, is apt to cause inflammatory conditions of thuterus.Other suitable remedies will be found in the next chapter onpuerperal fever ; or for the remaining traces of metritis we refereader to the remedies recommended for catarrh of the genitalmucous lining ; or finally, in case the peritoneum should be inteaflFected, the remedies for peritonitis may be consulted. It is awell to watch convalescent patients for a time lest chronic metrishould remain behind.S2 Diseases of the Female Sexual Organs.http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt