The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 351 of 653can even be discovered in the pus between the fingers and certainunder the microscope, liut if the carious process takes place deein the interior of the bone, the pus may gravitate downwards,may form fistulous canals and finally break forth in some^motelocality.The disease always runs a chronic course, sometimes extendingOstitis, Periostitis, 413througli a series of years, unless, owing to the presence of someother disease, a radical transformation into ichor brings about arapid termination.Terminations: Recovery by means of granulations, resulting in afirm, tense, retracted cicatrix, or else death amid symptoms of shectic consumption, or in consequence of the inflammation extending to other vital organs; in less frequent cases bones continuesuppurate for years without the organism being much affected bythe loss. After the bones are healed, the destructive nature ofcaries, in case the loss of substance is great, very often leavesdeformities and other derangements depending upon the nature ofthe bone affected. Among these deformities the most importantare: Cyphosis in caries of the vertebrse, and impaired mobility othe lower extremities from caries of the head of the femur.The prognosis is very doubtful. If the patients are otherwisesound, and the pathological process is limited in extent, a curebe depended upon with tolerable certainty ; otherwise it is, afteall, questionable whether the disease will not sooner or later refatally. If the carious process takes place very near the serouscovering of important viscera, we have at all times to expect anextension of the inflammation to these parts.Necrosis is the gangrenous destruction of a bone or part of abone. It is a frequent consequence of ostitis attended with sclerand a frequent accompaniment of caries. It is a well known factthat Phosphorus may cause necrosis of the inferior maxilla. Amedicinal treatment of necrosis is of course out of the question,except in so far as secondary ostitis may be present; all that cadone, is to remove the necrosed portion of bone.Treatment. The frequent occurrence of ostitis in individualswhose constitutions are tainted with some constitutional dyscrasiinvites a careful inquiry into the presence of such a constitutiotaint, even though not manifested by any outward signs; and, inthe second place, to employ such remedies as not only correspondwith the constitutional affection, but likewise aim at remedyinglocal disease. A mere comparison of symptoms will scarcely everanswer the purpose, for the reason that the localities may differmuch ; it is only for a few definite localizations of ostitis thapossess real similia. In general we advise therefore that the gennot the local symptoms be taken as our guide ; on this account wemention the following remedies with a few short comments.Merourius is a medicine of whose specific and almost constantlyhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt