The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 425 of 653patients, and who had rubbed up a good deal of quicksilver withher bare hand. Since then she was attacked with pemphygus, butwhether her handling of Mercury was the cause, is of courseproblematical. In the subsequent course of the disease other remedies have to be employed for the general consequences of theexanthem rather than for the exanthem itself. Arsenicum^ China^Sulphury Ferrum may possibly keep off the threatening decline, buthey are not homceopathieally related to pemphygus.Furunculus and Carbunculus. 503SO. Farmiealus aad Carbunculus.Anthrax.Although both furnncle and carbuncle are generally regarded assurgical diseases, yet we are perfectly satisfied that either ofpathological processes can be managed by internal treatment insuch a manner as to make all surgical interference unnecessary.A furuncle generally proceeds from a single cutaneous gland, orelse from several in close proximity to one another, and the firsdeposition of the exudation takes place into the glandular follicThe inflammation, however, is not limited to the gland, but spreato the surrounding cellular tissue, enveloping the follicle in aexudation-plug. Amid severe pains, and sometimes in companywith intense fever, pus forms in the space of three to ten and modays, and breaks through the skin. Usually the exudationcore cannot be removed until some time after the opening hasexisted. Furuncles of some size generally break out singly, especially on the buttocks, but it very commonly happens for onefuruncle to be followed by another; lay-people consider it anestablished fact that seven boils must break out one after the otwhich shows how seldom a boil is without successors. The causeof boils is very often a local irritation; but there are real furepidemics which have to be accounted for by atmospheric influenceBoils very often occur during convalescence from severe acutediseases and after the excessive use of fat as an article of dietCarbuncle or anthrax is regarded by many as a combination *ofseveral furuncles ; but in our opinion this theory is erroneous.boil is never attended with gangrenous destruction; with a carbuncle this is the rule. Carbuncle, moreover, has its favorite loities, namely the integuments along the dorsal spine, especiallythe nape of the neck ; less frequently the sternum or the inguinaregion. . Carbuncle, moreover, is chiefly met with among olderpersons ; boils, on the contrary, may occur at any age, especiallamong young people. Otherwise it is diflicult to decide what arethe causes of carbuncle, for it occurs among individuals withcachectic and deteriorated constitutions as well as among perfecthealthy and robust persons. Carbuncle begins and runs its coursewith great pain. At the painful spot a mere change is scarcelyperceived at first ; soon, however, it acquires a bluish and sicklook, but without any perceptible swelling. The pus seldom escapebefore the sixth day, generally in several places at once, whichhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt