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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 362 of 653erect posture, the muscles may sustain a heavy weight ; and generparalysis does not supervene after these extremely anomalous symptoms until a period of months or even years. There is then a gradual and progressive loss of the power of co-ordination in the actof volition. An awkward, unsteady gait is the earliest indicationof such progressive paralysis. '* "At first the feet are moved inslatternly manner, the heels lounging on the ground before thetoes ; and then, as the disease advances, they are thrown involuntarily to the right or left without purpose, and without the poweof restraining their irregular movements The act of turninground is performed with great difficulty. The sensation of the feis apt to become blunted during this period of the disorder, 5o tthe patient feels as if he were always walking on a soft carpet,is therefore so much the more insecure. . . . The bladder and recare also frequently implicated .... but electro-muscular contractility is retained throughout the whole disease (see Meryon, Medico-Chimrgical Transactions, vol. 35*, page 194). The duration ofprogressive ataxia is from six months to ten or even twenty yearsIf the patient is put on his legs with his eyes shut, and his feetogether, it is seen that, although he has the muscular power, hehas not the muscular sensibility to preserve his body from fallinor to guide him in taking even a few steps forward with his eyesclosed. He will reel and tumble about like a drunken man (seeTrousseau, Meryon). It is a disease of middle age and affects malrather than females; and is apt to be hereditary." H.]7. Inflamntatioii of Joints.The articulations composed of a number of essentially differenttissues, are variously exposed, both by their functions and theirsituation, to inflammatory affections which differ greatly in thenatures, for the reason that several of these tissues may be attatogether and in various combinations. Moreover, an articular inflammation, wherever it may be located, is always of special impotance, on account of the organism falling such a ready victim toits consequences. Homoeopathy has given abundant evidence thatit is possessed of means to modify the course of these inflammatiand to impress upon them a favorable change. It has no specificremedies for articular inflammations generally, but for each specform thereof. We call attention to this point, because we cannotdwell upon every special form of articular inflammation and requethe reader to select the proper remedy for himself in a given casInflammation of Joints. 427Among these inflammationB we single out the following as themost important :a. Cozalgiaj Coxarthrocace, Inflammation of the Hip-jointThis inflammation, the chronic form of which is designated asluxatio spontanea or " voluntary limping," cannot be traced to andefinite cause. It affects principally children and young peopleduring the first years of pubescence. Its extremely frequent occurence during the years fourteen to seventeen, and in persons ofrapid growth, leads us to infer that a rapid growth of the boneshttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt