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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 490 of 653582 Epidemic and Endemic Infectious Diseases.just alluded to, when followed by an exacerbation of the symptomsis generally looked upon as a fatal change. Death takes place witsymptoms of paralysis of the heart and lungs. In favorable casesthe fever remits every morning on the last days of the third weekwhereas the evening-exacerbations decrease in violence, the consciousness returns gradually and with it a desire for food and drAt this stage the fever scarcely ever shows a sudden and considerable decrease, with a correspondingly sudden beginning of convalescence.With the third week typhus of a medium grade has reached itsintensity in so far as signs of convalescence now begin to showthemselves, although very slowly. Every case of typhus outing the third week, may be safely regarded as very severe. Exceptcomplications take place, no new symptoms develop themselvesduring the fourth and fifth weeks. The remissions of the feverare very distinct and grow more decided in character; the pulse,on the contrary, increases in weakness and frequency. The patientlooks as if he were in a state of terrible collapse; occasionallythreatening paroxysms of collapse really take place, more particularly in the night ; in the later course of the disease, such paysms are, however, not as dangerous as they seem. In the case ofadults the consciousness usually returns towards the end of thefourth week; but, if the fever continues, delirium is still veryfrequent towards evening. The diarrhoea is at times less than itwas, and at other times more profuse ; in some cases it now ceasealtogether. The skin looks clean, with the exception of miliariahere and there. The bed-sores which are never wanting duringsuch a protracted course of the disease, grow rapidly in extent amalignancy.If the fever runs a course of four weeks, recovery takes placevery slowly. In very fortunate cases recovery goes on uninterruptedly, but most frequently its course is disturbed by all sortaccidental inconveniences, such as vomiting after certain kinds ofood, or even after any kind ; sudden disappearance of the appetithat had just begun to return; return or protracted continuanceof the diarrhoea; exacerbations of the fever. The decubitus, thenature and conduct of which aftbrd an excellent criterium by whicthe amount of progress in the recovery of the patient can bemeasured, sometimes causes a great deal of serious trouble, provithe final cure of the fever is very much delayed. Death eithertakes place in consequence of the utter prostration of the patiejTyphus. 583^r else is caused by the complications and sequelse that will bementioned hereafter. Before, however, dwelling upon them, wehave to mention various frequently occurring deviations from thegeneral course of the disease. It ought to be observed, however,that typhus varies in its manifestations more than any other disease, sometimes to such an extent that it is only with great diffculty that the attack can be diagnosed as typhus.Abortive typhus may terminate in convalescence in the first orsecond week. In both cases the phenomena of typhus may presenthttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt