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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 489 of 653untarily every day. They have a yellowish color, deposit a sediment of thick consistence over which floats a watery, opalescentsubstance. The urine is secreted in smaller quantities, it is darand is frequently voided involuntarily; sottietimes it is retainealtogether, so that the bladder becomes very much distended. Therespiration is still accelerated, yet the peculiar hurried breaththe first week is scarcely yet perceived ; posteriorly the lungserally return hypostatic dulness; catarrhal symptoms are likewisediscovered, although the patients scarcely ever cough and onlyTyphus. 581rarely bring up a tenacious, yellowish mucus. The spleen continueto enlarge, although, owing to the distention of the bowels and tconsequent displacement of the spleen upwards, the enlargementcannot well be discovered by a physical exploration. Upon theabdomen, thorax and back roseola-spots break out in greater or lenumber, some of which are usually present already at the end ofthe first week.About the middle of the second week all these symptoms generally show an increase, less frequently a remission ; both the incand the remission are, however, of short duration.In the third week, especially at the commencement, the symptoms continue to increase in intensity. The patients are now lyinin a state of complete apathy ; in the day-time they are only slidelirious, but during the night the nervous exaltation is muchworse, attended with subsultus tendinum and grasping at flocks.The prostration is so great that the patients are no longer ablesit erect; they are constantly lying on their backs, and the bodyyielding to the law of gravitation, settles from the pillow downwards towards the middle of the bed. The tongue is only slowlyprotruded after loud and repeated requests; it is quite dry, withfuliginous coating which is likewise exhibited on the teeth and athe nostrils. Deglutition is very difiicult, and it is only witheitbrt that the patient is able to swallow very small quantitiesliquid at one time. The diarrhoea continues, but the passages aregenerally less copious, and not unfrequently tinged with blood. Turinary secretions continue to decrease and paralysis of the bladis not an unfrequcnt occurrence. The abdomen is greatly distendedand is no longer sensitive to pressure. The other symptoms continue unchanged, except that the roseola-spots pale off and becomcomplicated with miliaria and sometimes with ecchymoses. Bedsores are now very apt to torment the patient. Emaciation proceeds very rapidly and his whole appearance is that of a generalcollapse. Up to the middle of the third week, the fever maintainsits intensity. In cases where the disease continues during the foweek, no remission of the fever is perceptible. In most cases, hoever, the seventeenth day is characterized by a sudden abatementof the fever and of most of the other derangements of the functioThis improvement at times is only apparent, inasmuch as in a fewhours already the symptoms again exacerbate ; but at other timesit is a real improvement marking the beginning of recovery. Ifthe patients die, it is most generally at this period ; the remishttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt