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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 491 of 653a character of great gravity, and may cease quite suddenly; it evgenerally happens that in typhus running a very short course, theoutbreak of the disease is characterized by very violent symptomsThe complete cessation of the pathological process at the end ofthe first week, including a sudden decrease of the temperature, ia very rare event. It has been doubted whether such cases oughtto be regarded as typhus^ but these dou?)ts are unfounded. Thattyphus can abort, is most indubitably witnessed in families wherethis process of abortion takes place side by side with the mostintense forms of the disease. More commonly the fever aborts inthe second week. In such cases all the symptoms still continue toincrease at the commencement of the second week, even to a veryhigh degree: the somnolence, however, is not very marked; in itsstead we notice more frequently great nervous exaltation; thediarrhoea is never very profuse. On the eleventh day the feverdistinctly remits, the remission being sometimes preceded by asevere exacerbation. Every day the remission becomes more distincand more considerable; the appetite returns at the same time andthe tongue loses its dryness. The diarrhoea generally ceases as sas the fever begins to abate. If no striking disturbance takesplace, the patient enters on the twenty-first day upon his full arapidly-progressing convalescence. But if the patient is exposedto severe emotional excitements, or commits serious dietetic trangressions by over-eating and the like, a relapse may readily takeplace in precisely such cases, and the patient may expose himselfto great danger.A precipitated course of typhus is not a very frequent occurrenceThe disease which, at the onset, broke out in its fiercest intensincreases within the first week or even within the first three dato such a degree that life becomes extinct even without the supervention of any special complications; it seems as though theorganism sank exhausted and paralyzed under its excessive efforts584 Epidemic and Endemic Infectious Diseases.to react. This course is only met with among individuals withexceedingly robust and plethoric constitutions.A protracted course of typhus, or the so-called febris nervosalenta, is likewise only rarely met with in comparison with otherforms of this disease. It occurs more particularly among feeble,nervous individuals, hence more especially among females. Thereare two modifications of this disease. In the first place the dismay creep along imperceptibly, without a chill or any evident sigof serious illness. The patients lose their strength more and mortheir appetite leaves them all at once, they are not tormented bythirst. There is no great rise of temperature, the skin feels everemarkably cool; the pulse is at times very quick and small,upwards of one hundred and twenty, at other times strikingly slowDiarrhoea may be entirely absent, or is very inconsiderable. Thepatients look pallid, or else their cheeks show a hectic, circumseasily changing redness. The tongue is seldom coated, never fuliginous, generally of a bright-red color, smooth as a mirror, angreatly disposed to become dry. The spleen is evidently enlarged.In this way the patients may remain six, eight or more weekswithout the least change in the symptoms taking place. Recoveryalmost always takes place imperceptibly. Death either takes placehttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt