The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 533 of 653disease.Treatment* Owing to the peculiar vagueness and indefiniteness of the single forms of rheumatism, whether acute or chronic,we find it difficult to decide whether and what medicines haveexerted a curative effect upon the disease. The consequence is than unreasonably large number of medicines have been employed forthis disease, all with more or less pretended effect, yet in simicases the same remedy does not always produce the same curativeRheuma. 635result. The natural course of the disease is not taken into accouand a spontaneous cure is mistaken for the work of art.Another reason why our remedies for rheumatism are not perfectly reliable, is the vagueness attaching to a definition of thterm. Here we have a striking demonstration of the fact that it iinjurious to treat diseases in accordance with pathological namesand that there is, on the other hand, great advantage in individuizing cases according to the rules of Homceopathy , without troubourselves whether the morbid condition is called rheumatism orsomething else, provided the abnormal process ceases. No diseaseembarrasses the Rational School more than rheumatism whichmakes a laughing-stock of all hypothetical speculations.Although we have no very exalted opinion of the power of homoBopathic medicines over rheumatism, yet we assert without hesitatithat the homoeopathic treatment of rheumatism is more ettectualthan any other ; at the same time we admit that it is desirable twe should be able to accomplish a great deal more. In our opinionone of the principal reasons why we so often fail in curing rheumtism is the dread homoeopathic physicians seem to entertain, inadministering large doses, which rheumatism often requires, as isevidenced in the case of Sulphur.In the following paragraphs we only mention the leading remedies more fully ; of the other less important remedies we only gthe names, for we believe that too large a number of drugs is prejudicial.Aconitum is the main remedy in acute articular rheumatism if thepulse is not only frequent but likewise full and hard, the temperture is considerably higher, the joint is red and exceedingly sensitive to contact; it is suitable for nervous, irritable, plethorindividuals ; or when pericarditis or endocarditis has supervenedFurther indications may be gathered from the Materia MedicaPura. Aconite has been less frequently used in chronic cases wherit sometimes acts with great efficacy. Aconite is less adapted tochronic articular than to muscular rheumatism, especially whenthe disease is located in the upper extremities. [Aconite is a spremedy for rheumatism of the deltoid muscle. H.]Bryonia alba is a leading remedy for acute and chronic rheumatism, except the arthritic form. The symptoms of this medicine arso numerous that we have to content ourselves with furnishing afew general indications, Bryonia is most suitable for rheumatismhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt