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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 394 of 653was quietly sleeping, the skin, feet and hands for the first timebeing warm. After fourteen hours of quiet sleep, he awoke witha desire for something to eat, and from this mpde a fair recoveryDuring the treatment Digitalis acted very satisfactorily in tendoses of the tincture in strengthening the heart's action.A tailor of intemperate habits, aged about forty, after a protracted debauch became delirious, imagining that he was pursuedby demons. I was first called owing to his having jumped from athird story window. His fall having been broken by a shed, hesustained no severe injuries.He complained of seeing horrible phantasms, struggling with hisattendants that he might escape from them. However, he answeredintelligibly to inquiries, complaining of pain in the head andstomach ; his tongue was heavily coated, face pale, pulse small aquick, skin dry but cool, had eaten nothing for some days, and hahad no sleep for two nights. I prescribed the tincture of Nuxvomica, three drops every half hour. Upon calling within threehours, I found the patient sweating profusely, relieved from painin the head, and from the phantom which had been troubling him.Under the use of supporting measures his recover) v^as rapid anduninterrupted. H.]8. Roseola, Rnbcolse.This exanthem is characterized by spots of the size of lentils anof a bright-red color, more or less scattered and rarely appearin30466 Diseases of the Skin.in groups; they are not attended with fever, or else the fever isslight, and does not result in any perceptible desquamation.Roseola sometimes accompanies severe catarrh, in which case theexanthem lasts at most twenty-four hours ; if it is preceded by aslight catarrhal stage, the exanthem disappears at the latest onthird day. In this last shape roseola sometimes appears epidemically, but not over a large extent of country, in which case theeruption looks very much like a mild form of scarlatina to whichit is related like a sort of transition-link. In the same house whave seen two children laid up with the mildest form of roseola;another child, on the contrary, was attacked so violently that itseemed perfectly justifiable to diagnose scarlatina, so much moredistinct desquamation took place, and a slight degree of oedemawas noticed over the whole body. Roseola never involves anydanger.The disorder may originate in catarrh or in a marked change oftemperature, as a rule it is owing to such atmospheric conditionsas favor epidemic diseases. A species of roseola which is apt tosupervene during the course of dangerous constitutional diseases,more particularly of typhus, does not belong in this categoryOwing to the trifling character of this disease, the employmenthttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt