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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 500 of 653the head and on the extremities. Pulse frequent, small and feebleSensitiveness of the region of the liver and stomach ; considerabmeteorism. A characteristic indication for Phosphortis is vomitinin the first, and at the commencement of the second week; thevomiting contains watery-bilious and slimy masses which arebrought up with great distress. In exanthematic typhus, Phosphorus is one of the first remedies, for the reason that the pulmnary symptoms are generally very prominent and involve the mostdanger. — Among the sequelae. Phosphorus is indicated by diarrhoewhen it acts like colliquative diarrhoea. Hartmann points to sexuexcitement as a not unfrequent indication for Phosphorus,Acidum phosphoricum renders eminent service in typhus ; even theRational School acknowledges its power in this disease without,of course, mentioning the source where this knowledge was obtained. Phosphoric acid is a truly specific remedy in lentescenttyphus, and is never indicated, if the fever is high and the nervTyphus. 595greatly excited. The patients are lying in a state of excessiveprostration and apathy, without being exactly in a state of soporthe face is rather pallid, not turgescent, the pulse very frequenfeeble and small; the tongue is not very dry; it is smooth as amirror, red. The thirst is inconsiderable ; diarrhoea moderate, tdischarges occurring only now and then; the meteorism is notvery marked. The disease does not show any tendency to a speedychange; perceptible remissions do not take place. The whole process has the appearance of a gradual extinction of the vital powewithout any decided reactive efforts being perceptible on the parof the organism. Beside the cases where Acidum phosphor, is indicated from the beginning, sometimes after Bryonia, but never,properly speaking, after Rhus or Arsenicum, Phosphori acidum canlikewise come into play, if, at the end of the fourth week, convacence seems to remain stationary, more particularly if a moderatediarrhoea is frequent.Of the other mineral acids, Acidum muriatlcum is sometimes used ;the forms of typhus requiring this acid are, upon the whole, veryrare. Muriatic acid is more particularly adapted to lentesceutputrid typhus where the decomposition of the fluids is slow andextensive, but does not set in suddenly. The general symptomsresemble those of Phosphoric acid, only the fever is more severe,the restlessness is more marked and the following local symptomsare present : Frequent diarrhoeic stools, but scanty ; the characistic fflecal discharges are mingled with shreds of intestinal mulining and with lumps of whitish mucus. The discharges are mostcommonly involuntary ; the meteorism is very great. The mucouslining of the mouth is ulcerated here and there, the ulcerationsbeing covered with a dirty- white coating. The bedsores have anindolent, pale look ; they are painless and extend very rapidly.patients' breath is very offensive; they have an aversion to anykind of food, but they crave fresh cold water. [Settling down inthe bed, is characteristic of this acid. H.]So far as our present experience goes, these remedies concludethe number of our typhus-remedies ; it remains for us now to indicate a number of other remedies that are more or less useful fohttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt