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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 554 of 653660 Constitutional Diseases without Definite Infection.A sudden change in the mode of living; if an occupation requiring constant exercise in the open air, is exchanged for a sedentabusiness; a luxurious mode of living is suddenly replaced by a moof living full of privations ; if the climate is suddenly changedif persoris move all at once from a warm into a cold climate.Circumstances and conditions that permanently interfere withthe breathing; tight dresses preventing a free expansion of thechest ; occupations that render constant stooping necessary, as ithe carpenters' and tailors' trade, etc.; or trades in consequencwhich the lungs become filled with fine dust.Diseases of the respiratory organs. Frequent attacks of acutebronchial catarrh, pneumonia, pleuritis ; above all, measles, whoing-cough and influenza are very common exciting causes of tubercular deposits.Most diseases that cause a rapid decline in the assimilative functions, such as: Typhus, dysentery, cholera, chlorosis, diabetes,inveterate syphilis, chronic exanthems, especially prurigo.Influences which greatly debilitate the nervous system, such aslong continued mental labor, venereal excess, self-abuse.What causes are chiefly instrumental in exciting the first outbreak of the disease, is hard to decide. If the germ is present,most trivial event may kindle the spark into a flame.Certain conditions of system afford a certain immunity fromtuberculosis ; among these conditions we distinguish : an extensipulmonary emphysema, malformation of the thorax, considerablecardiac defects, carcinoma. It is likewise certain that midtain air diminishes the chances of tuberculosis becoming a fullydeveloped disease. In the following pages we shall only give adescription of pulmonary tuberculosis, furnishing now and then ahint concerning the tuberculosis of other organs.In order to understand the meaning of the perceptible symptomsof the disease, a knowledge of the pathologico-anatomical changesis more indispensable than in most other diseases. We meet withthree essentially distinct forms of tuberculosis, namely: chronicmiliary tuberculosis, infiltrated tuberculosis, and acute miliarytuberculosis.In chronic miliary tuberculosis, the single tubercular granulesare found irregularly scattered in the lungs, sometimes singly, aat other times in large clusters, always chiefiy occupying the apof the lungs, and very often limited to the upper lobes. The singgranulation is at first of a grayish color, tolerably firm, afterTuberculosis. 661it assumes a yellowish tint and acquires a cheesy consistence, anat this point, may dry up to a calcareous little body which is lirough little stone to the feel ; or else, it may soften and be trhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt