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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 480 of 653apyrexia, or new symptoms, should be carefully noted. A remedyshould never be chosen exclusively according to the symptoms ofthe paroxysm or the apyrexia. It is evident, however, in view ofthe great similarity of the paroxysms, that the appropriate remedwill more . especially be determined by the symptoms during theapyrexia.lligher potencies are undoubtedly sufficient to effect a cure,although a preference is generally accorded to the lower. If aremedy that is evidently homoeopathic to the case, does not cureit is perfectly proper to try a lower atteimation before partingthis drug.570 Epidemic and Endemic Infectious Diseases.If possible the remedy should never be given during the paroxysm, but as soon as possible after the paroxysm is terminated.If, under the operation of a medicine, the paroxysms decrease induration and intensity, it should be continued as long as the gooeffects of this medicine last ; by pursuing this course we obtainmost reliable information concerning the use of special remediesfever and ague.If an epidemic breaks out in a non-malarious district, it will befound that one or two remedies are generally sufELcient to cureevery case.The following are the most efficient remedies for simple feverand ague:China or Quinine is undoubtedly the most important remedy forfever and ague, but its value is very much impaired by the factthat it is employed as a sovereign remedy not only for fever andague itself, but likewise for all intermittent diseases. We needdwell any further upon the manner in which this remedy is abused;this fact is too well known to the Profession. All we can say isthat China is the most effectual and reliable of all antiicines, but that it only helps when it is homoeopathic to the casChina is suitable in a majority of all cases of endemic and epidefever and ague, even during the whole course of the disease, wherin sporadic cases it is generally of very little use. China is paularly indicated by the following symptoms : Precursory symptomsconsisting in nervous excitement, anxiousness, headache, nausea,general irritability ; the chill is of short duration, very soonwith heat, without thirst which is only experienced at the commencement of the hot stage, and is never very intense. Sensitiveness and excessive irritability especially during the chill ; thestage lasts a long while and the perspiration is exceedingly profDuring the apyrexia we have: great debility with restlessness, loof appetite with canine hunger, bitter taste and thicklytongue. We do not attach an extreme importance to these indications, for they are often deceptive. As a rule, it is true that Ccures every case of fever and ague originating in malaria ; the cmust be of recent origin and attended with nervous irritability agastric-bilious symptoms. In inveterate cases, with marked hypertrophy of the spleen and liver, anaemia, dropsy, China will seldobe of much use; such patients have always been dosed with thishttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt