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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 498 of 653tional power. We do not point out single groups of symptoms forthe reason that the symptoms of the disease as well as those of tremedy are too manifold.Rhus toxicodendron differs in its indications so essentially fromthose of Bryonia that it is scarcely possible to confound the tworemedies with each other. Bhus tox. corresponds to typhus of veryintense character ; it begins with a chill, followed immediatelyby burning heat and, even on the first few days, by all the symptoms that render the diagnosis certain. We may lay it down as arule that Jihus is indicated the more specifically the more speedtrue character of typhus can be diagnosed. Bhus is especially indcated by active delirium and great prostration, a dark and lividredness of the cheeks, injected eyes, early dryness and redness othe tongue, and a copious diarrhcea which sets in soon after thefever has fairly shown its true character. Cases adapted to Bhus^never run a speedy course, nor will the crisis have to be expecteprevious to the seventeenth day ; until then the medicine may becontinued w^ithout fear unless some other medicine should be indicated by particular symptoms ; the symptoms of Bhus correspondto all the stages of a most intense typhus, even to the third weeAn alleviating epistaxis, stools tinged with blood, a severe bronaffection with a dirty-looking, sanguinolent expectoration are spindications for Bhus^ which may likewise prove efficacious in pnetyphus. In exanthematic typhus Bhus generally has the advantageover Bryonia not only on account of the greater intensity of thefever, but of the whole course of the disease. Rhus is generallyindicated by excessive reactive endeavors with insufficiency ofreactive power, and an excessive irritability of the nervous systThere is scarcely another remedy that has shown its good effects80 many cases, although we must never expect to cut the fever showith this remedy.Arsenicum album is the most prominent remedy in typhus; it willeven cure cases that seemed utterly hopeless. The cases adapted tArsen. resemble those indicating Rhus, at least in the beginning.The fever is intense, the patients are very restless and show bybehavior that they are in great distress ; the least pressure onccecal region and the region of the spleen causes pain. Symptomsof decomposition of the blood set in at an early period, such asnose-bleed, bloody diarrhcEa, badly-colored, bloody sputa, petech^ Typhus, 593on the skin ; the stools have a foul odor, the exhalations emanatfrom the patient generally, are very fetid. Instead of perfect sowe have a change between great nervous excitement and completeprostration. Bedsores break out at an early period of the diseaseforming gangrenous scurfs with dark-red borders. The pulse isvery frequent, hard and tense. The patients are tormented by anunquenchable thirst. Generally Arsenicum is recommended for thesecond half of the second, and for the third week ; but we doubtwhether this is practically correct ; in our opinion we should acplish a great deal more by means of Arsenicum, if the remedy weremore frequently administered from the commencement or at leastin the iirst week of the disease, for in such a case it, might shits eftect upon the whole course of typhus. Since Arsenicum ismore than any other medicine adapted to the worst forms of allhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt