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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 484 of 653nausea, pain in the stomach, abdomen, chest, dyspnoea ; the feversucceeded by severe headache.Capsicum ; the chill prevails, attended with intense thirst whichwanting or only very moderate during the hot stage ; sweat duringthe heat. During the chill : anxiety, restlessness, inability toone's-self, sensitiveness to noise ; headache, ptyalism, vomitingmucus, splenetalg' a, backache, tearing and contracting sensationthe extremities. During the heat : stinging in the head, fetor frthe mouth, colic with ineffectual urging to stool, pain in the chand back, tearing in the lower limbs.Tartarus emeticus; drowsiness during the attack; Opium is to begiven if real sopor is present.We niight increase this list, if we would name all the differentremedies that might possibly be indicated. But we do not evenregard most of the above-mentioned remedies as real fever andague remedies ; their choice depends upon the nature of the accompanying symptoms which, if a cure takes place, would have provedto be the cause, not the consequence of the fever. If we wish tobe certain of selecting the right remedy, we have to inquire withIntermittent Fever. 575great care whether the intermittent character of the attack onlyconstitutes an accidental, although very prominent symptom, orwhether the other symptoms emanate from the intermittent paroxysm as their fountain-head. In the latter case the remedies thahave been named first, deserve a preference over any other ; in tformer case the symptoms which are most prominent during theapyrexia, decide a choice of the remedy.In congestive chills as well as in the tebres comitatse the threaening accessory symptoms are the main indications. The mostsuitable remedies cannot be indicated a priori.A fever and ague cachexia is always such a complicated affection,that it is impossible to indicate therapeutic rules for its managapplicable to every case. The whole organism is involved, at timethe spleen being more severely affected, at other times the liverthe stomach and intestines, then again the lungs : sometimes thegreatest danger emanates from the ansemic condition of the patienso that it is often very difficult to hit uj)on the right remedy.China had not been abused, it will meet most of the symptoms,and will prove the best remedy in the case. If Quinine had beentaken to excess, Arsen. will help in the large majority of casesremedy should not be given up all at once, if the improvement isnot very speedy ; in such a case it is much better to change thedose than the remedy. Ferrum is adapted to all cases where theansemia and debility are highly developed, but no oedema has yetset in ; the patients complain somewhat of congestion of the chesand heart, nor is the stomach disposed to retain any nourishment.Natrum muriaticum and Lycopodium are indicated if the digestiveorgans are chiefly affected, and the derangement is characterizedsymptoms peculiar to these two drugs. Other remedies may berequired for extraordinary symptoms. We doubt, however, whetherBelladonna and Staphysagria^ recommended by Hartmann, are everhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt