The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 551 of 653wise to take into special account the mental development of thepatient, which should never be forced, and premature, and shouldalways go hand in hand with an abundance of bodily exercise. Inthis respect it is difficult to lay down specific rules which migadapted to one child, and decidedly contrary to the constitutionanother. The physician should carefully investigate, and afterwarremedy the defects of education, but definite laws cannot be laiddown to reach such a result. The causal indication likewise includes measures having reference to a true and useful prophylactitreatment ; hence, a physician should make it his duty to watchover the education of the children confided to his care, in everypossible direction and aspect of the case. How much trouble willa physician save himself by such a course, and how much care andanxiety to others !Except in local affections, the medicine that may be regarded asthe chief remedy for scrofulosis, is Calcarea carbonica. It nevercorresponds with a torpid, but so much more decidedly with anerethic habit. This remedy is not sufficient to alter the habit,correct mode of living is indispensable to accomplish this purposbut Calcarea is a most important adjuvans in the treatment. Inasmuch as the effect of this or any of the following remedies is alslow and never very striking, the medicines prescribed for scrofuwill have to be given at long intervals. Side by side with thisremedy, and equally efficacious for the scrofula of torpid constitions, we mention Arsenicum which we recommend upon our ownresponsibility rather than the recommendations of other physiciansince very little is said about this medicine in homoeopathic litas a remedy for scrofula. We have to observe, however, that ArsenScrofulosis. 657IB only indicated by the general symptoms, and only by a few, indeed very few local lesions. Ferrum holds the mean between thesetwo remedies ; it is adapted to the erethic as well as the torpidconstitution, provided the process of sanguification is decidedlydeficient or imperfect, as may be seen from a disposition to congtions, hemorrhages, palpitation of the heart, ataxia of the stomaand a deficient secretion of bile. Ferrum is chiefly suitable, ifscrofula is most strikingly developed during the age of pubescencit is much less adapted to the scrofula of childhood. Sulphur musnot be forgotten in this place ; it is, however, better adapted tlocalized forms of the disease than to its general and vaguely expressed symptoms. Sulphur is a distinguished remedy, if the digestion is very irregular ; if a disposition to constipation is veryif the abdomen is very much distended, the mesenteric glands canbe distinctly felt, the cervical and posterior cervical glands arswollen, but painless, the nose and upper lip are swollen, but noinflamed. Sulphur is likewise indicated in chronic bronchialcatarrh depending upon infiltration of the bronchial glands.These four remedies are the only ones that we can designate asgenerally anti-scrofulous. Other remedies require special indications. We will mention the leading remedies of this class, referrfor particulars to our former chapters on conjunctivitis, lymphadnitis, ostitis, chronic intestinal catarrh, etc.; they are: Chinalodiurrij Silicea^ Aurum rmiriaticum^ Baryta carbonica^ Hepar sutphuriSy Magnesia carbon. y Conium maculatum^ Mercurius^ Graphiteshttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt