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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 525 of 653fancy, especially when caused by novel-reading; excitement ofChlorosis. 625the sexual instinct by onanism, improper converse with the othersex ; deprivation of open air, and interference with the free expsion of the chest by tight dresses. In a given case it is extremedifficult to find out the proper cause ; for this reason, close ain watching the symptoms is indisj)ensable, as for instance in thcase of robust young country-girls. Chlorosis is very commonlymet with among the daughters of a tuberculous mother.SymptamH and Course. A number of observations haveestablished the fact that the number of blood-corpuscles is verymuch less in the blood of chlorotic patients ; in very deepcases this number is diminished by four-fifths of the normal quanWe do not know what the cause of this deficiency is, but thisdeficiency accounts for most of the symptoms of the disease. Itgenerally commences very slowly. The patients become more irritable, they are apt to get tired after every little eiFort ; theyliable to changes of color ; the skin soon loses its bright lustrthe patients complain of feeling chilly at an early period of thedisease. Inasmuch as the pathological picture which now developsitself, may be characterized by a variety of symptoms, we preferdescribing the derangements as they appear in each special organand system.The skin at times has the color of wax; at other times it is rathyellowish or of a dingy-white, the veins being either not at allbut indistinctly perceptible. The color of the cheeks may changequite often within a very brief period of time. The visible mucoumembranes are more or less without color. (Edematous symptomsonly occur in the highest grades of the disease, and excite a suscion that some other disease is at the bottom of these symptoms.The following symptoms occur in the digestive range : Impairedappetite, aversion to meat, longing for strange articles of diet,as vinegar, chalk, coiFee-beans ; bloating of the stomach after emeal, acidity of the stomach, generally the bowels are very torpiIn the nervous system we discover excessive irritability, neuralghysteric symptoms, fitful mood. — The breathing is accelerated;the least physical eftbrt causes an attack of dyspnoea, sometimesa very high degree. The circulation is accelerated, very seldomretarded ; disposition to transitory palpitations of the heart whare easily excited by a physical eftbrt; anjeraic murmur in the lveins of the neck. The menses are irregular, sometimes entirelysuppressed or very tardy, sometimes more profuse than usual, butalways of a lighter color or even quite colorless. Accompanying40626 Constitutional Diseases without Definite Infection.these symptoms are pains of the most diversified kind, very generally uterine catarrh. The urine has a strikingly pale color. Thepatients generally sleep very soundly and have to sleep a long tihttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt