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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 478 of 653Intermittens perniciosa is a form of fever where a simple increasof the ordinary symptoms becomes dangerous to life. This malignant increase often takes place in the first stage, more particulin the case of children, but more commonly during the hot stage;the danger arises either from the brain being paralyzed, or elseparalysis of the heart in consequence of the excessive vascular ecitement. If the brain is threatened with paralysis, the attack icharacterized by delirium, sopor, coma, likewise by paroxysms ofexcessive maniacal exaltation ; if paralysis of the heart threatethe cjiill increases to icy-coldness, like the coldness in cholerMany a case of fever and ague assumes the pernicious type simplybecause the paroxysms are of an extraordinary duration. [Thisform of intermittent fever is designated in our country as "Congestive chills;** it acts precisely as Hufeland's febris apoplectpernicios^. We have seen a great deal of it. During the chill weAconite or Gelsemimim^ as the case may be, and we sometimes resorto the spirits of Camphor to hasten reaction ; during the hot stawe continue the Aconite, or substitute Belladonna; and when thesweaty stage has fairly set in, we give Quinine in sufficient quaeither to keep off the next attack, or at least to secure a modiftion of the paroxysm. We do not believe that congestive chills,such as we see them in our malarious countries, can be arrestedwithout Quinine ; we believe that Quinine is the specific remedythis form of chills, although other remedies may likewise berequired. When the late Dr. Channing was still practising in thecity of New York, he had a case of congestive chills to treat, fowhich he gave the patient, a Western gentleman, a dose of tolerably highly-potentized Nuz vomica, A second chill, of course, tooplace much more violent than the first. The Doctor, with his largbrain crammed brimful with the doctrine of homoeopathic aggravations, being perfectly satisfied that the Nux had aggravated thsymptoms, gave him a drop of Alcohol to counteract the terriblemischief the harmless little globule of Nux had done; a third568 Epidemic and Endemic Infectious Diseases*paroxysm occurred, which destroyed the patient. II.] The febrescomitatae are characterized by the supervention of other threatening symptoms during the paroxysm, more particularly a severeattack of intestinal catarrh like cholera, rupture of the spleen,cessive hypersemia of the brain, inflammatory affections of vitalorgans, hemorrhages, apoplexy.Malarial cachexia in its severest form is most usually met with,if a quantity of Quinine is administered to the patient while hecontinues to be exposed to the action of the malarious miasm. Thiaction alone, without Quinine, never produces a malarial cachexiaof the same degree of intensity. Individuals who had taken agreat deal of Quinine, after moving out of the infectious districare very apt to be attacked with malarial cachexia. According tothe observations that have been made by a number of practitionersthe close connection between malarial cachexia and Quinine cannotbe denied. We will now proceed to describe the course which feverand ague takes when mismanaged by Quinine.With large doses of Quinine we generally succeed in effecting asudden cessation of the paroxysms; but the period following sucha suppression is not free from morbid symptoms; the patients comhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt