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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 501 of 653various phenomena, but do not correspond with the whole character and course of the disease. "We will mention them as briefly apossible.If Aconitum is prescribed for the violent fever at the beginningof typhus, it is probably for no other reason than because the di596 Epidemic and Endemic Infectious Diseases.nosis 18 not yet satisfactorily cleared up ; we do not believe tlAconitum is capable of either exerting a curative or palliativeeffect in typhus.Belladonna, which undoubtedly seems to be indicated in the firstweek of the^ fever, may sometimes moderate its violence at thatperiod, especially the excessive cerebral hyperaemia, but it willscarcely ever produce a striking and incontrovertible effect. Itrenders most efficient aid against the severe bronchitis of the fweek. In the later course of the disease, it is scarcely ever indcated. [We think Bsehr underrates the great virtues oi Belladonnaas a specific remedy for typhus. We have cured many cases oftyphus where no other remedy was used except Belladonna. Wewill mention a few of them.A girl of thirteen years, of a healthy constitution and very mildtemperament, was attacked with a severe angina fancium. Nextday she was slightly delirious, complained of seeing people in throom, strange-looking faces, dogs, etc. Pulse about one hundred aten ; cheeks scarlet-red, eyes sparkling, tongue dry, like soleskin dry and hot, urine red, without any sediment ; bowels constipated ; great prostration and rapid emaciation. I gave her Belladonna 1st attenuation. On the seventh day she left her bed fullrecovered.A lady of about forty years was attacked with pleuro-pneumonia;on the third day of the disease, the symptoms of typhus were fulldeveloped. Severe headache ; eyes sparkling ; cheeks pale, withoccasional deep flushes ; tongue parched, and of a deeplikesole-leather ; skin dry and hot ; pulse about one hundred antwenty; bowels constipated, urine of a deep-yellow color with areddish tint ; grasping at flocks, picking at the bedclothes ; fudelirium ; intense thirst, but the least attempt to swallow a droof liquid caused the patient to utter a piercing cry and threw heinto violent spasms, with foam at the mouth. The patient tooknothing but Belladonna. She improved very gradually every week;sometimes no improvement became perceptible under a fortnightThe whole course of the disease extended during a period of threemonths, I mean from the first outbreak of the fever to the daywhen the patient took her first ride out in a carriageA young lady of twenty-three years was attacked with lentescenttyphus; the leading symptoms were: headache, somnolence, dryand hot skin, pulse one hundred and twenty ; tongue of a dee[>brown color, very dry but smooth as a mirror; urine of a deepTyphus, 597http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt