The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 375 of 653442 Diseases of the Arteries, Veins, Lymphatics, etc.sensitiveness does not admit of the immediate application of abandage, the patient must be kept for a short time in a recumbentposition with his leg raised ; in such a case warm cataplasms affa good deal of relief.8. Biseases of the rympbatle TesseUi and Glands.a. Lymphangioitis and Lymphadenitis Acuta.Acute inflammations of lymphatic vessels occur so seldom alone;lymphangioitis especially occurs so seldom without inflammationof the lymphatic glands, that we will treat of both these condititogether.These inflammations exist very seldom as primary diseases; evenif they seem to be of this character, yet a careful examinationshows even in such cases that the inflammation is a secondaryoccurrence. Secondarily the afiection most commonly supervenesduring the course of pathological processes that depend u{K>n somspecial infection, such as syphilis and variola, or during the coof diseases depending upon or occasioning septic processes, suchpuerperal fever and typhus. Any, even ever so trifling suppuratioon the skin may inflame the adjoined lymphatic vessel and itsglands ; sometimes this may not take place until the primary suppuration has healed, so that the inflammation in such cases mayseem to have originated as a primary disease. We may finallyobserve that some constitutions show a striking predispositon toinflammations of lymphatic vessels, whereas others are scarcelyever attacked by them.Lymphangioitis, so far as it is an object of observation, if theinflamed vessel is situated near the periphery, sets in suddenly,sometimes after an injury of the primarily inflamed parts, and aplike a fine, sharply circumscribed, rose-colored cord which is vesensitive to contact, and interferes with the free motion of theThis lasts very seldom longer than two days. Sometimes even afew hours after the appearance of the red cord, at times not tillhours have elapsed after its disappearance, one or more of the lyphatic glands in relation with the inflamed vessel begins to swelbecomes painful, and very speedily shows an inflammatory redness.It is more particularly the inguinal, axillary and posterior cervglands that are liable to becoming thus inflamed. Sometimes nokind of pain is felt at the commencement, which may not set inuntil the swelling of the gland has reached a very high degree* aLymphatic Vessels and Glands. 448suppuration has begun to make its appearance^