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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 528 of 653farinaceous and indigestible food. In such cases Ferrum oftenagrees best after Calcarea. As a general rule this remedy is onlysuitable to chlorotic persons during the period of pubescence.Plumbum aceticum is recommended by Winter in accordance withsound reasoning; we have no personal experience with this drug.It is indicated by the following circumstances and symptoms.Severe orthopnoea and dyspnoea, inconquerable constipation, extremuscular debility, oedema of the feet. If, in addition to thesesymptoms, we take the numerous cardiac phenomena, the gastricdifficulties and the cough, we obtain a striking picture of anintense, inveterate chlorosis. Beside "Winter's, we are not acquawith any trials that other physicians have made with Lead.Sepia may be regarded as an excellent remedy for the paroxysmsof hemicrania which constitute a source of distress to chloroticfemales with brown hair and lively temperaments. Sepia is likewise adapted to chlorosis emanating from the sexual organs assecondary afi*ections.Chlorosis. 629Pulsatilla has been long regarded as a remedy for chlorosis ; however, we are of opinion that most of the cures of chlorosis thatattributed to the exclusive use of Pulsatilla^ are questionable.satilla is no remedy for primary chlorosis, although we cheerfulladmit that, like Sepia, it is a very excellent remedy in secondarchlorosis. Pulsatilla is likewise excellent for special symptoms,such as: pain in the stomach, headache, toothache; but chlorosisis scarcely ever acted upon by this medicine.The removal of the cause, including a certain preventive treatment up to a certain degree, is scarcely ever heeded with sufficiattention. We are not able to determine all the special causes ofchlorosis, but the general causes can be clearly made out, and this sufficient both to guard against the disease and to promote thcure. Let our young ladies be properly educated, and let allpremature excitement of the fancy be carefully avoided; let allfashions interfering with the respiration and the digestion be dicarded ; let our girls have an abundance of very active exercisethe open air; let the mothers' gotten tion be directed to the delpractice of onanism and to all premature sexual excitement ; andabove all, let all novel-reading be strictly prohibited. If the dhas once broken out, a radical change in the mode of living iseminently advisable; city-girls ought to be sent into the countryand country-girls to town. A change of this kind alone is oftensufficient to effect a cure. Of course, the deleterious influencewhich we have alluded, have to be strictly avoided. The patientshad better confine themselves to the use of milk, leaving oft* botea and coffee. A moderate amount of bodily exercise is necessarycontinued and fatiguing exercise is hurtful. Cheerful companypromotes the cure very much. Sleep should not be limited to afixed number of hours ; on the other hand, constant somnolenceshould not be yielded to.[Bsehr has left out three remedies that may render efficient service in the treatment of chlorosis; they are: Aconite^ if chlorosis complicated with tuberculosis ; such patients are apt to havehttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt