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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopathy"Page 46 of 653metro-phlebitis, which it is not always possible to decide with ptive certainty. The symptoms indicating such a change are : Slighsigns of endometritis, or disappearance of the symptoms of thisdisease without any corresponding abatement of the lever, increaspainfulness of the uterus with inflammation of the femoral veins,and particularly the above-described febrile symptoms, burning healternating with frequent feverish shiverings or rigors.The following remedies may likewise be useful, although the indications for their use are not very frequent : Carbo vegetaHHs^ciim^ Platina, Stramqfiium, [See Kafka's remarks on puerperal metritis, page 32 of this work. H.]Many remedies have been recommended for phlegmasia albadolens, although we do not see upon what such a recommendationis founded. We propose: Mercurius vivus^ Phosphorus, Bryonia,Rhus toxicodendron, and Arsenicum. Mercurius corresponds to thewhite swelling of the thigh caused by an inflammation of the lymphatic vessels, the other remedies are indicated in this form ofphlegmasia as well as in that caused by an inflammation of theveins. These few remedies will, in our opinion, prove suflicienteffect a cure. [Bsehr has omitted three important remedies whichare indispensable, if we wish to treat phlegmasia arising from phbitis, as promptly and successfully as such an inflammation can bcured ; they are : Belladonna, Aconite and Hamamelis. H.]Oophoritis, Ovaritis, 454. Ooplioritis, OTaritiB.Inflammation of the Ovaries.This inflamTnation only occurs during the period when tliis organift active, between the age of pubescence and the critical changelite ; or likewise previous to the 24th year, very seldom at anytime. The exciting causes are, upon the whole, obscure : it is cetain, however, that an inflammation of the uterus during the firsweek after confinement is very apt to communicate itself to theovaries. As an idiopathic disease oophoritis is met with amongwomen on the other side of thirty, and among prostitutes who haveintercourse with men during the menstrual flow, or it may be causby a cold ; it is likewise said to occur after medicines that arefor the purpose of producing abortion. Only one ovary is inflamedat a time.Symptoms and Cottrse. We have to distinguish the acuteand chronic form. Acute oophoritis sets in with sudden pains inthe region of the ovaries ; most commonly they are dull and indefnite, stinging and burning, and aggravated by hard pressure. Aswelling at this place cannot be felt, and we only succeed now anthen in discovering a swelling by an exploration per rectum. Thesometimes spreads to the adjoining parts, radiates even to the thwhich feels numb, and is more especially increased by sudden motions, not however so as to enable the patients to aggravate thepain ad libitum. Very generally the uterine mucous lining becomesinvolved in the inflammation which manifests itself with the symptoms of uterine catarrh. Thene is no fever, or it is trifling ; oother hand various nervous derangements set in similar to those ohttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt