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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 506 of 653In about six hours they were thoroughly bathed with tepid water ;the next morning scarce a vestige of the fever remained, and arapid recovery followed.602 Epidemic and Endem'c Infectious Diseases.Mr. R. was taken with typhus fever, and had the usual horaoeopathic remedies for several days. An unfavorable prognosis wasgiven and the Baptisia decided upon. It was administered and itseffects watched. In this case drop-doses of an alcoholic tincturewere used. The fever was reduced more than one half in a fewhours, and by a continuation of the remedy he was saved. A fiercedelirium was present in this case, but it rapidly gave way underthe action of the medicine.English practitioners, Drs. Hughes, Kidd, and others, speak ofthis medicine very favorably in the incipient stages of typhus, amore particularly when gastric fevers show a tendency to lapse inthe typhoid type. According to Dr. Edwin M. Hale, the followingare the characteristic indications for its use: Chilliness all daat night; chilliness with soreness of the whole body; heavy, dullbruised sensation in the head, stupefying headache, confusion ofideas, delirium at night, heavy sleep with frightful dreams, dryred tongue, or brown coated tongue, sticky mouth, fetid breath,fetid sweat, and great fetor of the discharges (urine and stool),great debility and nervous prostration, with erethism; ulcerationof a bad character, etc.According to my own expenence, Baptisia is not so much indicated in fully developed typhus as in intermediate forms of gastrintestinal fever and abdominal typhus. My experience in the useof this drug is limited, but I doubt whether any good can be expected from it after the ulcerative process in abdominal typhus hfully set in. In the first stages of exanthematic typhus, when noother medicines are indicated by characteristic symptoms, Baptisimay have a good effect in kindling a decided reaction. H.]8. FebriB Icterodes.Yellow Fever.This is an epidemic fever of a specific nature and a continuoustype, so called because the skin and conjunctiva look yellow,although cases have been known to occur where this yellowness isalmost entirely absent. Such patients complain of severe supraorbital headache, and soon become delirious. In the subsequentcourse of the disease the urinary secretions become suspended, institial hemorrhages take place, the patient passes black stools avomits a black substance ; this is the stage of black vomit, whicgenerally terminates fatally.This fever is endemic in low districts on the sea-coast, more parFebris Icterodes. 603ticularly on some of the West India Islands^ Cuba, and in some ofhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt