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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 529 of 653dark sallow complexion sometimes with a greenish tint and deepflushes on the cheeks ; they are troubled with palpitations, dyspstitching pains in the chest. — Digitalis; in some chlorotic patithe pulse is irregular and intermittent and the heart's action ischaracterized by similar changes ; such symptoms indicate DigitalBelladonna is indicated by frequent paroxysms of headache in theforepart of the head ; the headache is accompanied by bright flus630 Constitutional Diseases without Definite Infection.on the cheeks, deep sparkling looks, heat in the head ; such patiare apt to be of a lymphatic disposition and passive turn ofmind, H.]2. Rhennia.BheurifKUisra.Under this heading we comprehend a group of morbid conditionsconcerning whose essence our knowledge is very defective ; all thhave in common is, that they are localized in the fibrous tissuesthe muscles, tendons, joints, aponeuroses, etc. We may add thatall rheumatic affections are very much aggravated by the influencof cold.Their etiology is no less uncertain and vague than their nomenclature. "Whereas the acute forms occur chiefly between the yearsof fourteen and thirty-five, the chronic forms are principally mewith after the fortieth year of age. The former are principallyoccasioned by exposure to colds and wet, the latter more particularly by damp and cold dwellings, and by continued exposure towet weather and permanently dwelling in wet localities. Thereare atmospheric conditions which frequently cause epidemic rheumatism, generally in company with extensive catarrhal diseases.One attack of rheumatism begets a tendency to new attacks. Inthe case of females, chronic rheumatism is decidedly favored bythe influences of the critical age.The rheumatic process shows itself in four distinct forms whichwe shall describe separately, although their treatment will be codensed in one, in order to avoid unnecessary repetitions.a. Acute Articular Hheumatism.This form of rheumatism often arises from a cold and from exposure to atmospheric influences ; it not unfrequently assumes anepidemic type and, in such a case, breaks out most commonly inthe fall and winter.The disease commences very gradually with a vague feeling ofmalaise, accompanied with slight catarrhal symptoms; it maybreak out after severe attacks of angina, very seldom suddenly, ascarcely ever with a chill, but with alternate chills and heat. Sneously with the fever, very seldom after, and still less seldomone or more joints become painful ; the pain rapidly increases, athe joint swells, sometimes with, and at other times without redhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt