The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 512 of 653Doctor DaviB, the pioneer of Homoeopathy in that region, treatedfour hundred and fifteen cases, with twenty-four deaths.unfavorable signs are : The more fiery crimson the tip and edge othe tongue, the more irritable the stomach, the severer the headache, the worse the prognosis of the first stage, and vice versaa streak of blood in the early vomit indicates much danger fromthe attack. In the second stage the earlier or more complete thesuppression of urine, and the more copious the ejection of blackvomit, the more imminent the danger. If the urine be scanty, andloaded with tube-casts, entangled in epithelial and coagulable mater, a light buff-colored curdy sediment indicates a complex lesiof the secreting structure of the kidneys. It is the urine symptoin its maximum of severity, and is as fatal as if the suppressionhad already occurred, A faltering of the articulation is a badprognostic, and a difliculty of protruding the tongue, enhances iThe danger of the case is enhanced by inflammatory complications,and by hypertrophy of the heart. A recent residence in a temperatclimate ; the race or complexion of the individual ; the fact ofpreviously having suftered from an attack, will enter into anestimate of his chances of recovery."Treatment. Doctor Holcombe reports: "If the chill was violent, or persisted long, I ordered the tincture of Camphor in drodoses every ten minutes, a procedure eminently successful in Asiacholera, and in the cold stage of malignant intermittents. I met,not long since, in Cullen's Materia Medica, some interesting factproof of the last substantiated view, namely, that its primary efis a great reduction of animal temperature. The operation ofCamphor is so evanescent, that it in no wise interferes with theeflicacy of subsequent remedies. Aconite and Belladonna were usedin alternation in the first stage. To run a parallel between thesymptoms of yellow fever and these drugs, would be to abstractwhole pages from the Materia Medica. I need not speculate on thepathology of Aconite and Belladonna poisonings. They evidentlyshow that profound lesion of innervation, subsequent nervous andvascular erethism, and local determination to the cutaneous andnervous membranes so strongly characteristic of the yellowpoisoning. They are complements of each other in making out thewhole morbid picture, and were therefore used in alternation, evehalf hour at first, the interval being afterwards lengthened to oand in mild cases, to two hours. In a few cases I used a drop ofpure tincture in half a tumbler of water ; but I generally conten39610 Epidemic and Endemic Infectious Diseases.myself with five or six drops of the first centesimal dilution prin the same manner, of which one teaspoonful was given at a time.A similar preparation of Ipecacuanha was commonly left, to beadministered after each act of vomiting. In very mild cases theseremedies alone sufficed." When the second stage came on, the cerebro-spinal symptomsdisappearing, or being much ameliorated, while the patient complained of nausea, prostration, acid or burning sensations, painthe abdomen, thirst, restlessness, etc., a change of remedies washttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt