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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 398 of 653occurrence of the disease has not yet, however, afforded sufficieopportunities of positively determining the remedies that are inspecific curative adaptation to it. The most suitable remedy whiccorresponds with the whole course of this pathological process, iAconitum, more particularly if the eruption is not so much accompanied by anxiety as by great nervous excitement. If there ismuch anxiety and restlessness and a burning feverish heat, Arsenicum is the remedy ; if the patient is lying in a listless conditwith typhoid symptoms, Bryonia is best suitable. Mercurius maylikewise deserve attention in this disease, and if the patient pespires to excess, Sambucus.Regarding the propriety of instituting a treatment for symptomatic miliaria, it is our opinion that it is unnecessary arid thatefforts to prevent the appearance of miliaria by medicinal agentsare of very doubtful utility. Moreover, the selection of a remedyin all acute diseases depends rather upon the more important symptoms of the disease than upon the appearance of the vesicles.Nevertheless, in order not to slight the views of our Colleagues,mention the remedies recommended by Hartmann for this exanthem : Ipecacuanha (for the precursory symptoms in diseases wherethe miliaria may be expected to break out); Bryonia (under similacircumstances) ; Arsenicum (for restlessness and anxiety) ; Aconi(for violent rush of blood); Belladonna (for accompanying congestive symptoms of the brain); Coffea^ Chainomillay Valeriana.Hartmann further remarks: "Chronic miliary eruptions whichpartially disappear in one spot in order to reappear sowewhere eland cause a good deal of itching and burning^, are most safely anreliably removed by such antipsoric remedies as Mezereum^ ClemaUSSarsaparilla^ Staphysagria^ Arsenicum^ Ammonium carb.^ Sulphur ^and Carbo vegetabilis.^^6. Pityriasis.Dandruffs DandriffThis exanthem consists m an exfoliation of the skin either in thiscales, or in larger patches : it may be unaccompanied by any othcutaneous symptoms and the exfoliating skin ma^ to all appearPityriasis, Dandruff, DandriC 471ances be perfectly sound ; or else, the process may be accompanieby trifling local or more extensive symptoms of hypersemia of thecutis. According as the skin is unchanged or looks red under thescales, the attection is designated as pityriasis simplex or rubrThe causes of this affection are very obscure; in some cases thedisease can be traced with some certainty to a derangement of thefunctions of the liver and of the female sexual organs.Pityriasis rubra, when spread over more extensive portions of theskin, not unfrequently sets in with slight febrile motions whichmay break out at every renewed appearance of the exanthem.On portions of the skin, which itch and burn very fiercely, largespots of indefinite and irregular shapes make their appearance.Accompanied by a peculiar feeling of tension, the cuticle on thesspots very soon begins to exfoliate. The eruption first manifestshttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt