The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 521 of 653Carbo is frequently indicated after Arsenicum^ and is particularlits place in cases where every sign of reaction had seemed extincfrom the beginning.Acidum hydrocyanum has similar indications as Carbo, but differsfrom this medicine in the succession of its symptoms. It is indicated if the attack at once assumes the highest degree of intensiso that but a few hours intervene between the commencement ofthe attack and the moment when death seems to be lurking onthe threshold ; Carbo may be sufficient if the failing of the stris less rapid.Opium deserves attention in the cholera of little children ; it iseldom suitable for adults,Colchicum cannot be regarded as a remedy for cholera, for thereason that it has not the colorless stools.We name moreover : Jatropha cureas, Iris versicolor , Cicuta viroConium, Secale cornutum; these remedies, however, are eitherunreliable as similia, or because they have not been sufficientlyproved.As regards dose, almost all observers agree in recommendingthe lower preparations, even the strong tinctures, frequentlyrepeated.We have to devote a few lines to the management and diet ofcholerarpatients. Warm external applications are generally of verlittle use ; they are apt to increase the patients' restlessness,have to be resorted to very guardedly. Continued but gentle frictions with cold wet clothes are much more beneficial. At theonset of the attack, food is utterly out of the question. The besbeverage is fresh well-water; this will moderate the thirst for amoment at any rate. Small lumps of ice in the mouth likewiserefresh the patient a good deal. If Champagne can be had, it maybe administered in tablespoonful doses with great advantage.The typhoid symptoms after cholera are so changeable that it isnext to impossible to recommend a positive course of treatment fooCholera Asiatica. '^^ 621them. The most important remedies are: B^flfdort