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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopathy"Page 42 of 653becomes furiously delirious; sleep is generally restless, not refing. If constipation is present it will disappear, after the useBelladonna, together with the pains in the abdomen. Generallyspeaking. Belladonna deserves particular attention if a puerperalfever assumes the character of typhus, if symptoms of meningitisor encephalitis become apparent, and the affection originates inviolent paroxysm of emotional excitement." This complex of symptoms does not clearly inform us in what particular case BelladonnIB really indicated. We make this remark in order to show howimpracticable such a vast enumeration of all the symptoms of a dris in the treatment of a disease whose symptomatic manifestationsare so exceedingly varied. Hartmaim has omitted the importantsymptom of spasmodic vomiting with which an attack of metritisis so apt to set in. In our opinion Belladonna should be given ifpuerperal metritis sets in with great violence and an intense fevfor symptomatic particulars we refer the reader to our MateriaMedica. An important indication for Belladonna is the meteorismwhich may set in even if no marked symptoms of peritonitis are observed. If peritonitis is present, our chief attention should bedirected towards it. As soon as symptoms of suppuration in theuterus, or of decomposition of the exudation become manifest, othremedies will have to be resorted to.As regards Chamomilla and Pulsatilla, we do not, as Ilartmanndoes, regard them as remedies for puerperal metritis ; if eitherthese remedies is supposed to have cured metritis, all we have toBay is that no metritis was present.40 Diseases of the Female Sexual Organs." Nux vomica will frequently be found curative, for the additionareason that coftee which is made use of by women in confinementin such large quantities and so strong, often occasions the disea(Nux is likewise suitable, if the disease is caused by abuse of Cmomile-tea, provided, however, that the symptoms indicate thisremedy.) The prejudice which is even entertained by people of cultivation, that coffee facilitates the secretion of milk, or evenmilk, cannot be removed by anything physicians may say to thecontrary. If some of the following symptoms are present, the seletion is no longer doubtful : Acute pains in the small of the backloins ; stinging and bruising pain of the abdomen during motion ocontact, or when coughing or sneezing; bitter taste and eructationausea, even vomiting; dryness of the lips and tongue, slimy ordirty-yellow coating on the tongue ; sensation of weight and burning heat in the sexual organs ; suppression of the lochia ; consttion or hard stool, with burning-stinging pains in the rectum; paful urination or retention of urine; dry, parchment-like, burninghot skin, with thirst, desire for cold drinks, full and hard pulsanxiety and oppression reflected in the countenance, constant reslessness ; the secretion of milk is very seldom suspended, rathercreased, causing a turgescence of the breasts, with pressure andsion in the same." We will add that Nux has aflforded aid in theless violent and uncomplicated forms of endometritis, but never ithe more intense forms of this disease. A characteristic symptomfor Nux is the violent inflammatory pain of the swollen veins ofthe rectum, with exquisite sensitiveness to contact." Colocynthis is an important remedy in these fevers when causedhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt