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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 502 of 653yellow color; prostration, utter loss of appetite, emaciation; brchial irritation. The disease ran a course of twenty-one days. Thpatient took nothing but Belladonna, middle and lower poteucies.Arnica in its whole pathogenesis shows so much resemblance totyphus that it must astonish everybody that this remedy shouldnot have been employed in this disease more frequently than it haThe characteristic indications result from a merely superficial vof the symptoms. The disease is more like an inflammatory fever,the cheeks are pale, with flushes of redness, the pulse is not vemuch accelerated, the heat is unequally distributed. The patientsshow an extraordinary sensitiveness of the organs of sense, togetwith a distressing headache ; nose-bleed, bloody expectoration ;delirium without great bodily restlessness. It is questionable whArnica can do anything for bedsores. As regards. the kind andintensity of the cases to which Arnica is homoeopathic, this medicine occupies a middle rank beween Rhus and Bryonia.Carbo vegetabilis is regarded by many as an exquisite remedy fortyphus. We do not share this opinion, and simply believe Carboadapted to certain anomalous manifestations in the course of thedisease. Carbo may be exhibited if the patients are sunk in a staof apathy without any marked symptoms of reaction; if the bodyis burning-hot and the extremities are icy-cold; if the functionapower of the heart fails very speedily ; if petechise break out ilarge numbers, with extensive hypostasis of the lungs, foul anddecomposed diarrhoeic stools, frequent attacks of an ominous collapse, wide-spread decubitus, with burning pain of the sores. Caris rather suitable in cases that seem to be adapted to Bryonia orAcidum Tphospfioricum, In the subsequent course of the disease,Carbo is more particularly indicated by the bronchial catarrh, ifthere is a good deal of tenacious mucus that can only be expectorated with a great deal of diflSculty ; during the convalescencthis remedy may sometimes be required by the characteristicdiarrhoesC.Digitalis can only be exhibited in lentcscent typhus, if constipation is associated with great irritability of the stomach and paifulness of the region of the liver; the pulse is at times rapid,other times slow and feeble, and is very much accelerated by evermotion, especially by rising from a recumbent position; thesensorium is clouded but consciousness is never entirely lost, analthough there is no diarrhoea, yet the strength and the flesh waaway very rapidly. Digitalis is undoubtedly deserving of great598 Epidemic and Endemic Infectious Diseases. •consideration in typhus, were it only for the reason that its sphof action is limited and distinctly circumscribed.Closely related to the former remedy is Cuprum, concerning whosefaculty of producing a connected series of typhoid symptomsFrerichs' observation in Mengershausen (see Frank's Archiv.vol. IV.) furnishes the most conclusive testimony. Without reproducing the facts related in that publication, we recommend themto the careful study of all homoeopathic practitioners. The coppetyphus sets in and runs its course without any violent fever, buthttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt