The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 433 of 653to a normal condition. If, after this, any efflorescences remain,they are treated according to the principles laid down above. Inmost cases the daily use of a tepid or shower-bath is sufficientcomplete the whole cure. ,We have never known this treatment which can be easily pursuedin a private family, to be followed by any of the terrible consecdiseases described in the books.Lest we should be accused of condemning what we know nothingabout, we will here state that we have tried every remedy recommended for the itch by homoeopathic practitioners, in the form oftriturations, tinctures, attenuations, high and low potencies witthe least benefit. The acari would not die and the pustules keptinci easing in number. In one case, that of a child of six monthswe fancied that SiUphur 6 did arrest very speedily the dispositioto the formation of pustules."Wo are satisfied that in making the preceding statements, weshall give offence to many homoeopathic physicians, but we shallhappy to hear all condemnations and objections, and shall deem ita pleasure and a duty to answer them.ELEVENTH SECTION.Constitutional Diseases.A. ACUTE AND CHRONIC CONTAGIOUSDISEASES.fl. Horbllll.Meades.Measles are not only a contagious, but a more or less universallyepidemic form of disease. In most cases they arise by a transferof the contagium. This is contained in the catarrhal secretions,and is transmitted by contact, and still more frequently by the aIt is not very susceptible of being indirectly transmitted by theclothing ; this theory is probably adhered to with so much zeal fno other reason than because the doctrine that measles are contagious, is to be maintained at all hazards. The incubationof the transmitted contagium is eleven to twelve days, as anybodycan easily determine for himself in any outbreak of epidemicmeasles. The contagium is most active shortly before the appearanof the exanthem upon the skin. We have observed this to be therule in the epidemic that has now been raging among us for upwardof a year. An apparently mild catarrh is taken no notice of, thechild is sent to school in spite of it, and next day the little ohttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt