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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 482 of 653prostration, weariness, trembling, fainting, vertigo, dyspnoea, ppitation of the heart, heat of the head with coldness of the bodydelirium. Nuz is undoubtedly one of our more important feverremedies; it will not be difficult to determine its homoeopathieiin given cases. In inveterate cases Nuz would not often be ourchoice. It is likewise an important remedy if the fever is complicated with bronchitis.Veratrum album is likewise one of our most important fever andague remedies; marked chill which is slowly followed by heat, witconvulsive symptoms and great thirst, vomiting or retching, quickfeeble and small pulse ; stupor during the hot stage, with blanddelirium; the third stage is not strikingly marked. In febriacomitata Veratrum album is an important remedy if the cerebralsymptoms, the pulmonary hypersemia and the profuse intestinalcatarrh are prominently developed.Arsenicum, in our estimation is still more important than China;its range of action is still more extensive. In recent cases it iindicated by the following symptoms: Intensity and long durationof the paroxysms, especially burning heat; unquenchable thirstduring the whole attack, and extreme anxiety and restlessnessexcept during the sweaty stage, attended with palpitation of theheart, and a subdued, accelerated pulse; moreover functionalderangements of single organs. Arsen, is indicated the more specifically the cleaner the tongue remains in extremely violent paroxysms, the more rapidly the strength is exhausted by the singleparoxysm and the sooner the characteristic sallow pallor makes itappearance. For this reason Arsen. is an important remedy inendemic fever and ague. In congestive chills the imminentparalysis of the heart points to Arsenicum beside Verat. alb. ; A18 likewise indicated if the fever is complicated with severe choIn fever and ague cachexia Arsen. is a sovereign remedy. Its effeis truly marvellous. With a single dose of Arsenicum 30 we havecured a cachexia of thirteen weeks' standing. The patient, a veryrobust man, presented the picture of a complete phthisis florida;he was cured even without leaving his home situated in a trulymalarious region of country. Another case of nine montlia' stand*Intermittent Fever. 673ing was cured by means of a few doses of Arsen, 30, so completelythat even the hypertrophied spleen was reduced back again to itsnatural size. The patient was a Hollander who brought the diseasewith him; after residing in our very healthy city for four monthsand swallowing large quantities of Quinine^ all the symptoms ofphthisis florida had developed themselves. — Arsen. is not only atever-remedy, but likewise an antidote to Quinine. "We need notpoint out special symptoms, for cachexia is amenable to Arsenicumin all its manifestations, which, it is true, generally resembleother very closely ; it is least reliable when the anaemia is extand the reactive powers of the organism are very much depressed.In the above-mentioned cases we have stated the dose, because weare satisfied that in cachexia small doses exert the most curativinfluence ; on the other hand we are equally satisfied that in morecent cases triturations up to the sixth are most suitable.Natrum muriaticum is very seldom indicated in recent, but so muchhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt