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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 481 of 653medicine to excess. If they have not, China is indicated by: anaemia, a yellowish-gray complexion; occasional attacks of diarrhoeaIntermittent Fever. 671palpitation of the heart, congestions of the head, backirregularityof the paroxysms, the single stages not succeeding eother immediately, and not being completely developed. [We havefrequently met v\rith such symptoms under the symptom-treatmentof high potentialists, where a few small doses of Quinine wouldwipe out the whole disease, after the patient had been kept sicksicker for weeks. H.] Upon the whole, a tertian type is mostadapted to the curative range of China, the quartan-type much lesfrequently. As regards dose we advise the use of the lower preparations in all recent cases, but it will scarcely ever be necesto go below the second trituration of Quinine or the first attenution of the tincture of Cinchona. Fevers that do not yield to sucdoses, are not amenable to the curative action of Quinine, and caonly be suppressed, but not cured, by more massive doses of thisdrug. In the genuine malarial cachexia, China will very seldomrender much service.Ipecacuanha is decidedly adapted to epidemic fever and ague; ifit cures one case, it will undoubtedly cure most of the other casThis circumstance at one time procured for it the inordinate praiof the Old School ; afterwards it fell into disrepute, because itnot found adapted to all epidemics, its opponents not being awarethat fever and ague epidemics differ amongst each other in character. Ipecac, is only suitable in the milder forms of intermittefever, scarcely in any other than the tertian type; the differentstages run their course without much intensity and the chill ismost marked ; it is particularly indicated, if the fever is accompanied by gastric symptoms, such as loss of appetite, loathing offood, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea with very little bile in theevacuations, or if the paroxysm is caused by dietetic transgressiIntermittent fevers of this character are generally epidemic in nmalarious districts.According to Hartmann Nux vomica is indicated by the followingsymptoms : Fever, with constipation, gastric-b'ilious symptoms ;breaks out after gross violations of diet, and is chamctcrized bynervous symptoms proceeding from the spinal cord. [We oncecured a case of fever and ague of nine months' standing with afew doses of Kux. The patient had been in one of the Ifashvillehospitals for nine months, and had taken Quinine by the ounce.He was very fond of liquor and a paroxysm broke out after everydebauch. Nux cured him so perfectly that the paroxysms did noteven return after he had been drinking. II.] Quotidian and tertia572 Epidemic and Endemic Infectious Diseases.fevers, setting in in the afternoon, evening or night, with altertion of heat and chills, enormous craving for beer, frontal headache, vertigo, nausea, bitter taste and eructations, cardialgia,weakness. — In congestive chills Nuz is likewise indicated by thefollowing symptoms: Paralysis of the extremities at the onset,http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt