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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 487 of 653slowly ; the destructive process may likewise penetrate to the detissues, perforating the intestine. The subsequent cicatrix nevercauses stricture of the intestine. The intestinal ulceration veryseldom assumes a (^hronic form, resulting in a slow, hectic feverBeside the intestinal ulcers, the spleen shows tolerably constantalterations; in the first weeks it enlarges even to six times itsnormal size, the capsule is very tense, the substance of the spleexceedingly vascular and crumbling, its color is very dark; afterwards the swelling goes down again almost to the natural proportions of the organ, the capsule is relaxed, the parenchyma pale aanaemic. Except these two almost constant phenomena, typhus doesnot offer any permanent, certainly no characteristic signs. Thebrain, especially, remains unaltered; the lungs, on the contrary,show at first symptoms of pulmonary irritation ; afterwards hypostatic, less frequently lobular or lobar pneumonia. During the fiweeks of the disease the muscles have a somewhat characteristically dark color, and the internal surface of the arteries has lika dark-red appearance. In exan thematic typhus the intestinalulceration does not exist, whereas in this form likewise the spleis considerably hypertrophied and softened, and the vessels alsohave a bright appearance as if injected. Other constantly presentanatomical alterations are not perceived.Abdominal typhus very rarely breaks out suddenly ; it is generally preceded for a few days or even a week by indefinite symptoms, such as lassitude, indisposition to worky loss of spirits,impaired appetite, very seldom hunger almost bordering upon avoracious desire for food; wandering rheumatoid pains in thelimbs, especially in the back, headache of an indeterminate type,sleep full of dreams.The disease is generally ushered in by a chill of moderate violence, or by a marked fainting sensation which is soon followed bthe characteristic feeling of illness, namely: an inability to sterect or move about, and a desire to lie down. Very seldom oaeof these conditions is entirely wanting, so that it is difficultTyphus. 579out the real beginning of the disease; instead of one severe chil.we often meet with a succession of very feeble chills. The diseanow develops itself in the following manner: The patients feelweak, have neither the strength nor the desire to rise from theirbeds; headache, at times more frontal, and at other "times, in thmore violent cases, in the occiput, throbbing and very distressincomplete loss of appetite; altered, generally pasty taste; vomitinot very frequent; bowels quite torpid in the first week; restlessleep; when waking early in the morning, the patients commencevery soon to complain of phantasms which they cannot avoid; yetthey talk very rationally and are perfectly conscious of seeingphantasms. The pulse is generally full, very seldom exceeding onehundred beats, very often dicrotic; the temperature is high, theskin feels burning-hot. The breathing is almost constantly hurrieanxious, the patient talks hurriedly, yet, if desired, he is abletake a long breath. The spleen is generally swollen, the swellingincreasing rapidly in size, and is not unfrequently painful. Theabdomen does not show any constant alterations, but when the iliocoecal region is pressed upon, the patients complain of pain in thttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt