The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 553 of 653a deficient activity of the respiratory organs, as may occnr duricertain trades, which will be named by and by, or as may resultfrom tight dressing, or from a sedentary mode of life. Whether apre-existing germ is excited or created by such causes, is uncertthe former, however, seems to us more probable. It may likewisebe inherited like scrofula.Tuberculosis. 659The tubercular diathesis does not manifest itself by any positivesymptoms, and the so-called tubercular habit consists of nothingelse than the symptoms of general debility and imperfect assimilation. There die as many men without as with this habit. The onlypoint that enables us to be tolerably sure of the existence of acular diathesis, is the fact that the person was affected with scula when young.Tuberculosis is found equally distributed in both sexes, perhapsa little more among women. It breaks out chiefly between the agesof eighteen and thirty years.The deposition of tubercles, and hence the tubercular diseasegenerally; perhaps likewise, in many cases, the origin of thepeculiar tubercular diathesis, are founded in the following circumstances.A scanty supply and a bad quality of food, damp dwellings, deficient exercise in the open air. On this account the disease is chmet with in the lower walks of life, and likewise occurs more frequently in cities than in the country; among individuals whosebusiness confines them to a room ; among prisoners.Too rapid growth, more particularly if the growing persons arefed on improper nourishment, for this will occasion a condition ogreat debility.Continued depressing emotions, especially sorrow and grief, homesickness. The connection of cause and efiect between these influences and the disease is not clearly made out; but that thisconnection exists, can be shown by a number of cases ; tuberclesare often very properly designated as tears shed inwardly.Circumstances incident to pregnancy, confinement, lactation, themore certainly, the more rapidly one confinement follows another,and the longer the infant is nursed at the breast. Women withtuberculous dispositions generally pass very well through their fconfinement; they keep up the nursing business for a year, withoulosing much strength, but after that, they complain of feeling exhausted. During the next pregnancy they apparently feel better inevery respect, but immediately after confinement the symptoms ofan approaching tuberculosis multiply; while nursing her child, thmother experiences all sorts of inconveniences; the next pregnancagain brings an improvement, until phthisis suddenly breaks outin all its might, usually during the first weeks after a new confment, and very often runs a very rapid course to a fatal termination.http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt