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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 456 of 653exanthem running its course upon the mucous lining, and are,therefore, without any special significance. Upon what grounds anumber of other remedies are recommended for small-pox, we areunable to conceive, and we, therefore, do not mention them lesttheir multitude should cause confusion in the reader's mind. Antimonium crudum and tartaricum have made more noise than anyother remedy, nor can it be denied that the principle of similariis in thett favor; so far, however, it has not been shown that thremedies exert either a modifying or abbreviating influence overthe disease, or that the suppurative stage is prevented by them.Among the anomalies and complications we only mention a few,since it is impossible to furnish a complete list of such occurreVariola with an adynamic type of fever is always very threateningand is characterized by an extraordinary tendency to decompositioand to an approach to typhus. At the commencement Bryonia willvery generally be indicated, on the other hand, we think that itunder these circumstances that Tartar oneiic is in its place, morespecially if the brain is involved. After the pustules are formeArsenicum is most likely the most appropriate remedy, not only onaccount of the constitutional symptoms, as on account of the putrdecomposition which is so apt to set in at this period, attendedhemorrhagic eff^usions into the pustules and ichorous dissolutionWe likewise call attention, at this stage, to Secale cornutum^ anthe mineral acids, especially Acidum muriaL This last-mentionedremedy is particularly appropriate if the pustules become associawith symptoms of diphtheritis in the mouth and fauces, and thelife of the patient is in the greatest jeopardy. Croup which setsduring the suppurative stage, is not controlled by the medicinesusually recommended for croup; it is not the ordinary croup, butsymptom of diphtheritis. We would recommend Hepar sulphurisfirst, and afterwards Phosphorus. (Edema glottidis during smallpox requires the same remedies that have been suggested for thisdisease in a former chapter.[I once saved a boy's life with Arsenicum. The child had neverbeen vaccinated, or rather eight difl:erent attempts had been madto vaccinate him, but every attempt had proved futile. The boywas attacked with confluent small-pox. The disease was runningas favorable a course as could be expected, when I was sent for oVariola. 541night in a great hurry because the disease had taken a bad turn.I found the boy in an undescribable state of apathy and lethargy.The pustules had suddenly receded and those that were still outupon the skin, looked black. Involuntary diarrhcEic evacuationstook place every fifteen minutes spreading a most horrid stenchthrough the room. The skin was cold and clammy, the pulse filiform and could no longer be counted. I gave him Arsenicum secondcentesimal trituration, one half of a grain at a dose, repeatingdose every fifteen minutes. After the third dose the diarrhoeastopped entirely, the skin warmed up, the pulse returned, theremaining pustules resumed a normal appearance, and the diseasewent on its course very favorably. After the boy had been sicktwelve days, and seemed all but well ; after the fever had entiredisappeared, and the child expected to be dressed and play aboutthe room, he was all at once taken with a severe angina, the fevehttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt