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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 477 of 653lasted for a long time, at times developing itself directly fromtertian type, while the paroxysms postpone, and at other timesfrom the quotidian fever. This quartan type implies the highestdegree of tenacity in the disease.The other types, double-tertian, sub-tertian, and whatever theirnames may be, occur too seldom to deserve special mention.It is difficult to say what constitutes the normal course of intemittent fever, for the reason that it is always modified by treatment. The following may be regarded as tolerably fixed: In afavorable case the paroxj^sms scarcely ever cease suddenly; theydecrease gradually both in intensity and duration, and are apt todiscontinue entirely at the end of seven days, the apyrexia beingmore and more prolonged and gradually becoming permanent. Inunfavorable cases, either under the influence of improper management or under the continued action of the malarial poison, butnever, or at least very seldom, under homoeopathic treatment, wehave a gradual development of the so-called malarial cachexiawhich we shall dwell upon more fully after having previouslydescribed a few deviations from the normal type.Upon the whole, these anomalies occur very seldom at the commencement of the malarious infection, but they become the morefrequent, the more the disease approximates to a malarial cachexiOne of the three stages may be entirely wanting, or, if it existsmay be scarcely perceptible. It is generally the chill and sweatystage that remain suppressed, the hot stage is almost always presSome of the stages, more particularly the heat and the sweaty stamay be separated by an apparent apyrexia of a few hours' duration. Among children, convulsions are not unusual in the first twstages, but they are not of a dangerous import, except when violeand long-lasting. An intermittent fever of long duration and undethe continued action of malaria, changes to the remittent type;this circumstance, however, points without an exception to malarial cachexia. In simple intermittent fever, the spleen never enlarges to any very great extent.One of the characteristic eiFects of malaria is intermittent neurgia ; the paroxysms set in with all the typical regularity of fevand-ague paroxysms, but without any marked febrile symptoms.During these attacks, the temperature of the body is generallyconsiderably higher than usual. [There are other intermittentparoxysms which take the place of fever and ague and may beregarded as masked forms of the intermittent disease. Some of theIntermittent Fever. 667more common forms of masked fever and agiie are : Intermittentneuralgia, dysentery, pneumonia, articular rheumatism. AVe havenever been able to get along in the treatment of these maskedforms of fever and ague without Quinine; it is not necessary togive large doses, but Quinine is indispensable. H.]The most important anomaly is the intermittens pemiciosa orcomitata. Most commonly intermittent fever adopts this form inthe subsequent course of the disease, very seldom at the beginninhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt