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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 488 of 653region, and a gurgling sensation is communicated to the finger,with which the pressure is made. The tongue is at times coatedvery thickly, at other times it only has a whitish coating, and ait looks quite clean, but the coating changes as the disease progresses. Sometimes the patients complain of a little hackingcough, and exhibit symptoms of a slight bronchial catarrh. Theurine is less in quantity, saturated, notwithstanding that thepatients often experience a very violent thirst. All these symptoremain in force only in very violent cases; most generally a sensible remission of these symptoms takes place towards the end ofthe first week.In the second week the symptoms of the disease undergo amarked change, unless the morbid process takes a turn towardsrecovery, which is very seldom the case. For the present we onlyspeak of typhus of a moderately severe type. In this stage thepatients lose their consciousness more and more; they are eitherlying in a state of lethargic apathy, or else, it is only with grdifliculty that they are able to reply to questions or to give utance to their own ideas. In the evening and during the night thissoporous prostration is generally interrupted by a state of nervoexaltation, during which the patients manifest their internal nerousness by animated talking or by a constant endeavor to escape680 Epidemic and Endemic Infectious Diseases.from their beds. Sensations of pain now cease entirely; whenasked how they feel, they answer : " Quite well ; " they expressdesire for drink, but they swallow the offered beverage hurriedlyand greedily ; when repeatedly asked to do so, they put out theirtongues slowly and tremulously, and forget to draw them in again.Another evidence that the influence of the brain is almost entiresuspended is, that the patients persevere for a long time in an ucomfortable position, and that they allow the urine and feeees toescape into their beds. At the beginning of the second, and veryfrequently already at the end of the first week, the patients complain of a violent buzzing in the ears, afterwards they are evidehard of hearing. Corresponding with these changes the countenances of the patients become altered. Although the complexionseems to shine, yet it has a livid hue; the eyes stare, or they ha vague and unsteady expression ; when raised in their beds, thepatients at once turn pale and look as if they would faint. Thevarious functions show the following deviations from their normalcondition : The fever is intense, the temperature rises in the eving to 100° or 102° Fahr., with slight morning-remissions; thepulse is seldom below 100, nor is it often $tbove 120, it is weakthan usual and sometimes dicrotic. The tongue, which alreadyshowed a good deal of dryness in the first week, now is constantldry; the streaked coating, which had marked it hitherto, nowvanishes ; it shows a peculiarly red color, and the papillae seemhave become effaced ; towards the end of the second week thetongue appears covered with a brownish incrustation. The appetite is entirely wanting, yet the patients will taste of what theoffered to eat. They do not seem thirsty, yet they drink greedilythe proffered beverage. At this stage the abdomen begins to bloatquite considerably ; when the ilio-coecal region is pressed uponhard, the patients distort the corners of their mouths. Diarrhoeanow usually sets in, from four to eight passages taking place invhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt