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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 479 of 653plain more or less. A fortnight, or more commonly three weeks, lefrequently four weeks after the suppression, another paroxysm breout very suddenly. This paroxysm likewise yields to Quinine, butafter this second suppression the patient generally complains morthan after the first; for a third paroxysm, which generally breakout after a short apyrexia. Quinine now proves ineffectual. The poxysms either assume the quartan type, or else they break out witgreat irregularity, and combine with constitutional symptoms thatgradually increase in intensity. The spleen is sometimes so largeit fills one-half of the abdominal cavity ; the liver becomes enland after a while shows symptoms of fatty degeneration; the digestion is entirely deranged, the appetite is gone, the bowels are esively constipated, or else, the patient is troubled with a diarras in hectic fever. The patients seem to be attacked with a deepseated anjemia and have a strikingly sallow complexion. Thechanges in the abdominal viscera may sooner or later lead to asciIf, as we have often noticed, a catarrhal affection of the lungsin, we obtain a complete picture of florid phthisis. The emaciatiof the patients soon reaches a high degree, and, under impro|)ertreatment, death now is an almost inevitable result.The prognosis in intermittent fever revolves around the followingIntermittent Fever. 569points: If the attack is recent, the prognosis is quite favorablelonger the disease had lasted ; the more irregular the paroxysmshad become ; the more strikingly the blood had become altered, thmore protracted will be the recovery of the patient. Sporadic casin a healthy district are of very little importance. Diseases breing out while the patient continues to be exposed to the influencof malaria, get well very slowly ; but even if the patient is remfrom the further action of the miasm, the cure takes place veryslowly. An advanced as well as a very young age ; a dilapitatedorganism, and more particularly alcoholism, render the prognosisvery uncertain.To treat fever and ague according to the homoeopathic law is atask which is undoubtedly invested with great diflSculties even fthe most experienced practitioner. The homceopathic treatmentof fever and ague has undoubtedly led to many errors, for thereason that spontaneous cures were too often overlooked and appropriated as the results of the medicine that had been administeredfor the fever. In consequence of this, the number of our remediesfor fever and ague has been very much increased, to the great incvenience of the physician who is in need of a remedy for a particular case. For this reason we furnish in the subsequent paragrapha limited number of remedies with definite indications; of themore unreliable medicines we shall only give the names.In treating a case of fever and ague a few points should never belost sight of, since attention to these points will save the practioner from many mistakes.In the first place, it is an important point in the treatment offever and ague that the totality of the symptoms should never belost sight of; in other words, not only the symptoms characterizithe paroxysm, but likewise those that are perceived during thehttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt