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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopathy"Page 45 of 653or miliaria, or badly-colored local inflammations become maniftjswhich very speedily terminate in gangrenous disorganization of thinteguments. At times the patients lie in a state of quiet, withbland delirium, and then again the delirium may be of the furiouskind, attended with miarked anxiety and a desire to leave the bedArsenicum album. Hartmann has the following remarks on thisdrug : " The disease may break out in any form whatever, yet itmay exhibit symptoms that may require Arsenic. Such symptomsare: Burning or burning-corrosive pains in the interior of theaffected part, with inability to lie on the affected part, anddecrease of the pains during motion. Again: excessive anguishattended with a general, rapid prostration of strength, excessive debility, sunken eyes, extinct look, sallow, livid complexion, sleeplessness at night, restless tossing about, and a sensation as if a burning-hot water were flowing through the veins ;or the sleep is disturbed by frightful and anxious dreams. TheArsenic-fever is always of a violent kind ; dry and burning heat,intense thirst which is quenched by frequently drinking small quatities of water ; dry and cracked lips, phlyctsena around the mounausea, loathing of food, and sometimes bilious vomiting, withviolent pressing-burning pains in the abdominal viscera, meteorisoppressive pains in the chest, dizziness and l^adache, restlessnedelirium, a small, feeble, intermittent pulse, etc." This picturenot reflect every characteristic feature of the Arsenicpuerperalfever. The position of Arsenic in this disease is bestlearned by comparing this remedy with Secale. Both show undoubted symptoms of decomposition of the blood ; but in the caseof Arsenic the reaction is violent, painful, still active, whereathe case of Secale it is almost extinct. Hence, if both remediesindicated by the symptoms, we may say that the prevalence ofsevere pain would point to Arsenic. This diagnostic distinction iparticularly applicable to existing ulcers and erysipelatous inflmations to which Arsenic is homoeopathic if they are painful, andSecale if they are painless and atonic. For further points of comparison we refer to the Materia Medica.Phosphorus deserves honorable mention in this place. Even acursory perusal of its pathogenesis shows its intimate relation tthe female sexual organs. Its curative influence in puerperal me44 Diseases of the Female Sexual Organs.tritis cannot be determined a priori without further inquiry. Thiinfluence dots not depend upon the local symptoms, but is definedby the general phenomena according to which Phosphorus holds anintermediate rank between Rhus and Arsenicum, to either of whichit bears a good deal of resemblance, and from either of which itlikewise differs a great deal. This can only be decided in everycase by a careful comparison of the symptoms. In one form ofpuerperal fever Phosphorus is preferable to any other remedy, wemean the pysemic form, more particularly if metastatic inflammations take place in the pleural cavity, the lungs, the pericardiuthe femoral veins. The violent fever is mingled with frequent rigthe conjunctiva and skin have a jaundiced appearance, and soonafter we observe the signs of pysemic inflammation in the metastatically-invaded organ. For this reason Phosphorus is likewise thebest remedy in metritis if the disease has assumed the characterhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt