The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 372 of 653forms of phlebitis, from the most trifling form to that accompaniby icterus and petechise. Apis is particularly indicated, if theof the cavity of the skull are inflamed; it is less homcBopathicphlebitis of the lower extremities. Ldchesis and Secale, as wellArsenicum^ are particularly indicated by the heart-symptoms, theanxiety, dyspnoea, etc. Mercurius is especially appropriate if thphlebitis remains more localized and is attended with externalinflammation and suppuration. We do not dwell upon these remedies more in detail, because they will have to be referred toagain under pyaemia. In lighter cases the following remedies havebeen found practically useful : Bryonia, Staphysagria, Rhus toxicdendron; Bryonia if the inflammation was not very painful, butattended with marked constitutional disturbances ; Rhv^ toz., forlocal symptoms radiating from the inflammatory centre like erysipelas; Staphysagria, for phlebitis of the lower extremities. [Bdonna and Hamamelis virg. are eminently useful in phlebitis; wehave cured a very severe and threatening case of inflammation ofthe femoral vein, where the inflammation spread rapidly as far asthe hip, by means of tolerably large and frequently repeated doseof Belladonna, without the aid of any other remedy. H.]The subsequently remaining and very prominent oedema of theparts which lose their normal circulation in consequence of theobstruction of the vein, cannot be removed by treatment. It doesnot disappear until the collateral circulation is restored, whichsometimes takes years to accomplish; the uniform pressure of abandage, if it can be applied, may, if it does not effect a cure,at least a good deal of relief.b. Phlebectasia. Varices; Dilatation of Veins.In most cases the causes of these very frequent dilatations canbe determined with perfect certainty ; in other cases, however, tare involved in obscurity. These are the cases where the diseasecannot well be traced to some mechanical obstruction in the circulation of the blood. At all events, these cases are the least fquent. But even in cases where mechanical causes undoubtedlyVeins. 439co-operate, they cannot be regarded as the sole cause of the disesince individuals who are exposed to the sanie^deleterious influeremain free from any such trouble. Hence, the existence of a pecuiar predisposition in the walls of the veins, or else the subsequsupervention of a morbid change in those walls, will have to betaken for granted. The most frequent causes are : Obliteration ofthe vein owing to which the portion beyond the obliterated veindilates in its whole extent; dilatation or contraction of the ventrunk, which has the same eftect as obliterations, only in a lessdegree ; every pathological change that interferes with the flowblood to the heart, such as dilatation of the right ventricle, aftions of the liver, emphysema, tumors compressing the vein, tightclothing. In all such cases, phlebectasia is of a secondary charater ; it may likewise occur as a primary disease in a manner thatwe have not yet been able to account for, in the case of men whohave to be continually in a position that interferes with the refof the blood, persons for instance who have to be continually insitting or standing posture. In a sitting posture, the dilatationhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt