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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 465 of 653ance of primary chancres. These ulcers may remain unchanged fora long time; sometimes they are very flat, causing very littletrouble. In other cases they show a great tendency to spread tothe nose and to the posterior wall of the pharynx and larynx. Insuch a case they may remain superficial, or else, penetrate eventhe cartilages and bones. From the losses of substance thus occasioned, and likewise from the contracting cicatrices caused by thhealing of the ulcers, great inconveniences may arise. The ulcersof the Schneiderian membrane are most commonly revealed by afetid, puriform, sanguinolent discharge.Syphilitic iritis is a phenomenon that cannot be accounted for.It occurs very frequently, and sometimes runs such a mild course,that it is entirely overlooked and is only recognized by its consquences. It only sets in after the appearance of the exanthems,never at the commencement of the secondary phenomena, and thereis an evident connection between the iritis and the cutaneous afitions; the more intense and extensive these affections, the morecertainly we may expect the supervention of iritis. It most generally affects only one eye, very seldom both eyes together, sometione after the other. The iritis sets in with violent pains in theglobe of the eye; these are scarcely ever absent and exacerbate anight, attended with more or less disturbance of the visual functions and severe illusions of light. The color of the iris seemschanged, the organ looks specked, the pupil is all but immovable,angular or ovoid, the anterior chamber looks dim as if filled witpus, sometimes slightly and at other times more strikingly. Occasionally small excrescences are noticed at the border, or dark poon the surface of the pupils. This affection generally runs a chrcourse, and is less painful in such a case; if the affection is vacute, it is attended with frightful pains, in which case the eyeapt to be destroyed. A complete cure without any disturbing remnants of disease, can scarcely ever be expected.c. Tertiary Syphilis.Under this collective appellation various alterations are comprehended involving a number of organs and being principally locatedin the osseous system. Sometimes they set in very soon after the552 Acute and Chronic Contagious Diseases.appearance of the secondary symptoms, ordinarily, however, afterthe lapse of years. During the development of these tertiary symptoms the secondary phenomena do not disappear, but generallyaccompany the former in a greater or less degree of intensity. Wecannot here undertake to examine the question whether tertiarysyphilis is caused by a gradual spread of the infection, or whethit is indebted for its existence exclusively to the use of MercurThis question it is certainly very difficult to decide in last reWe are most assuredly of the opinion that tertiary symptoms onlyset in in consequence of the improper use of Mercury ; our reasonis that we are not acquainted with a single case of syphilis whertertiary symptoms showed themselves under homoeopathic management. If, in reply to this statement, the objection should be raithat under homoeopathic treatment syphilis is cured more rapidly,we are perfectly willing to throw in tertiary syphilis, for the srior value of our treatment would not be invalidated by such anhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt