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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 510 of 653cases of which were ascribed by the unscrupulous malice of ouropponents to the secret use of Calomel." Stomach. Positive pain in the epigastrium sometimes occurred,but there was more frequently only soreness, and sense of weaknesand oppression. Thirst, burning in the pit of the stomach, and anindescribable, empty, gnawing, sinking feeling, preceded and accopanied the nausea and vomiting, which were the most troublesomeand distressing of the yellow fever symptoms. An insensibility toexternal pressure stood occasionally in strange discordance withthe gastric irritability, and other symptoms of gastro-enteritis.Acid and acrid eructations were very common. Every thing, evencold water, was said by the patient to 'turn sour on the stomach.Conjoined with these symptoms, there was sometimes a morbid,canine hunger which made the patient forget every thing else andthink that, could he only eat something, he would feel perfectlyFebris Icterodes. 607well. The nausea was provoked by eating, by motion, and, in somecases, by lying on the left side. Hiccough, which Dr. Stokes considers a strong sign of inflammation about the cardiac orifice ofstomach, occurred in some bad cases. The matters ejected variedin their nature. Black vomit likewise occurred, sometimes in greaquantities, and when the patient was much prostrated, the fluidwas merely gulped up, running out at the corners of the mouth.It is said to be distinctly acid, reddening litmus paper, and effvescing with carbonates. It is not always a fatal symptom.** GenitO'Urinary Apparatus. The uterus and vagina were by nomeans exempted from the hemorrhagic tendencies of the othermucous membranes. In a few cases the urine was at first limpid,then yellow, and, occasionally, turbid and brownish like porter.This last was sometimes largely excreted, without proving criticaSuppression of urine is perha^is more frequent in this disease thin any other, excepting Asiatic cholera. It was always a symptomof formidable character, and, when conjoined with black vomit anddelirium, presaged too certainly the approach of death." ChesL The thoracic organs were not principally deranged. Asoft, full, compressible pulse, averaging hundred, was very commothroughout the disease, whether mild or severe. In one case thewrist was pulseless for some hours, as iu Asiatic cholera, the pution returning during a partial, but transitory reaction." Nervous Si/stem. In all points of view, as the medium of themind and of the senses, as an excito-motory apparatus, both voluntary axid involuntary, the nervous system was both primarily andsecondarily implicated. The subjective phenomena were numerousand distressing: pains, nausea, vertigo, numbness, bad taste, thihunger, coldness, burning heat, frightful dreams, etc. The abdominal pains of the second stage, and even the thirst, heartburn,naupea, etc., were sometimes distinctly, but irregularly intermitlike the pains of colic, which is explained by the fact that allfunctions of the ganglionic .plexus are rhythmical in their charaAccording to Volkniann, even a current of electricity is not tranmitted continuously through them, but is broken up into a numberof successive shocks. Delirium occurring in the first stage, washttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt