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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 378 of 653gland may take place. It is a common occurrence for a torpidglandular swelling that had remained painless for a long time, tosuddenly become painful, and to inflame and break. Such a swellinalways discharges a thin, badly-looking pus, the swelling decreasvery slowly in size, the bottom of the abscess is filled with a wish, elastic, lardaceous substance. Very commonly several openingexist at the same time. The suppurative process is always veryslow, and, if the patient is unfavorably situated in life, may dean hectic state of the system ; or else the sore may heal with abadly-colored, radiating, retracted cicatrix, under which remnantof the indurated gland are very commonly still felt. It oftenhappens that after one gland is healed, another adjoining glandswells and passes through the same process ; this may be the cour446 Diseases of the Arteries, Veins, Lymphatics, etc.of the glands for years. An affection of this kind is at a laterperiod very generally followed hy tuberculosis. ,There is another form of lymphadenitis where the glands arelikewise swollen and where a row of such swellings extends alongthe tract of a lymphatic vessel, but the glands are soft and flucing, generally painful even if not red. There is not always anescape of pus, in consequence of which the swelling rapidly discharges and heals to return again in some other locality ; absorpsometimes takes place in spite of the evideijtly considerableaccumulation of fluid. "We have noticed a phenomenon of thiskind in the case of a child one year old which was affected withan intense ansemia and — we state this incidentally — exhibited tpeculiarity that blowing murmurs were heard over the whole extentof the skull-cap; in this case the whole body was covered withthese swellings ; they fluctuated, became inflamed, disappeared athen showed themselves again in other places. The child died ofhydrocephalus at an age of eighteen months. Another chronicform was observed in the case of a man fifty years old. In thiscase the swellings appeared in company with the symptoms of ageneral marasmus, every swelling broke, but was perfectly painlesand the patient's strength was rapidly consumed by the suppurating process. The most ordinary localities for chronic lymphadenitare the neck and the upper extremities including the axilla, muchless frequently the lower extremities, without mentioning the nonsuppurating glandular swellings in the abdominal cavity.The manner in which the swelling originates, is of considerableimportance in a therapeutic point of view, exclusive even of specglandular swellings to which no reference is made here. If theswelling remains as a rest of acute lymphadenitis, Sulphur is asovereign remedy to disperse the swelling. This agent will seldomleave us in the lurch, and compel us to look for other remedies,such as Aurum^ Iodine^ SUicea, Calcarea carbonica.For a primary glandular, swelling Baryta is one of the mosteflElcient remedies ; in many cases this agent alone has enabledto avoid the suppurative process and to effect a complete absorptespecially of glandular swellings on the neck. Conium has nevershown any marked effect. If suppuration has set in, lodium andCalcarea carboniea render the most reliable aid. Beside these tworemedies we mention Graphites^ Sulphur^ Phosphorus, Silicea, Kalihttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt