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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 497 of 653demic is, to find out the general remedies adapted to each. Asecond, still more important circumstance resulting from this previous opinion is, that the remedy should never be changed unlessdistinctly new, unexpected morbid phenomena manifest themselvesTyphus. 691that are not in harmony with the normal course of the disease. Ifthis course of treatment had been pursued before, and if the natucourse of typhus had been watched and regarded with more care,our knowledge of treating typhus would most likely be muchfurther advanced than it really is. How much, for instance, canbe claimed for the efficacy of a remedy that was administered onthe fifteenth or sixteenth day of the disease, if the fever suddemoderates on the seventeenth ?We wish to call attention to another mistake that very muchimpairs the physician's professional usefulness. In treating typhor other typical diseases, we are very apt to proceed as we do intreating other diseases ; we forget the typical character. "We wato break the fever at any price, and the rage of bringing this abinduces us to administer a new remedy every day. But typhuscannot be cut short, except within the above-stated, definite boudaries ; typhus never disappears before the seventh day ; no typhterminates critically on the eighth, ninth, fifteenth or sixteentday, any more than a measle or scarlatina-eruption can be alteredby medicines.The real typhus-remedies corresponding with the whole courseof this disease, are : Bryonia alba^ Rhus toxicodendron^ ArsenicuPhosphorus^ Acidum phosphoricum and muriaticum.Bryonia alba corresponds to those forms of typhus that run a mildor moderately-intense course. The initial symptoms are sometimesso indefinite that both the selection of a remedy and the diagnosare uncertain, and our choice would properly not fall upon BryoniBut as soon as the typhoid character of the disease has becomefully established, Bryonia is indicated by the following symptomsViolent, pressive headache, buzzing in the ears, dulness of the ssorium, yet the patient does not yet lose his consciousness ; yeland thick^ white coating on the tongue whose edges are brightwithout great tendency to dryness ; acute pains in the ileoand splenetic regions ; nausea or even vomiting after every mealconstipation ; torpor of the bowels or occasional diarrhoea ; pulfull and not very rapid. Bryonia corresponds fully with theseinitial symptoms, and generally with the whole course of the disease which seldom outlasts the seventeenth day. We have oftenseen typhus cut short at the end of the second week by simply confining the treatment to the use of Bryonia. In febris nervosa lenBryonia is likewise one of our best remedies ; its use in this diIB of course more restricted, owing to the variable nature of the592 Epidemic and Endemic Infectious Diseases.symptoms. In exanthematic typhus Bryonia is a distinguishedremedy as long as the brain is not altogether deprived of its funhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt