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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 556 of 653the kidneys.Symptoins and Course. In describing this disease we shalladhere to the most common form, namely: chronic miliary tuberculosis.It is very difficult to say, with any thing like certainty, whenthe disease really commences. The deposition of the first tuberclespecially if not very numerous, is accompanied by symptoms thatseem too insignificant to a patient to complain of to a physicianWhen a physician is consulted, the disease is already suflicientladvanced to be discoverable by the usual means of exploration ; aits first beginning no such result can be obtained. That the diseis beginning to set in, can almost positively be inferred if indiuals who were afflicted with scrofula when young, or persons witha tubercular habit, show the following symptoms : Disposition topulmonary hyperseraia, with palpitation of the heart ; dispositioto bronchial, tracheal and laryngeal catarrh, the attacks being vobstinate, with bloody sputa, long-lasting hoarseness ; general nvous irritability, irritability and increased frequency of the puRepeated attacks of catarrh ought especially to excite suspicion,for they evidently indicate the period when the first tubercles adeposited. Very often, however, the deposition may be going onfor a long time without any apparent symptoms, in which case thesupervention of a severe bronchial catarrh which gets worse all ttime, shows the sudden outbreak of phthisis or, in other words, othe purulent dissolution of the tubercles. In young women the disease not unfrequently sets in with all the symptoms of chlorosis,which may lead to very injurious mistakes. The older the patientsthe less distinctly is the beginning of the disease recognizable.Tuberculosis. -0^ 663< J \seldom, however, the disease breaks out suddenly m^'such a mannerthat an apparent fulness of health is sad(4Wy follol!^j^d by a stof illness with all the characteristics of tube^ilosis ; a ijioresickly condition almost always precedes the outbreak. I^.would beof great importance if the first deposition of'^beiicler'pould beclearly made out by a physical exploration of the^^ng^. .S9^g onlknow of two tolerably reliable indications, early att^tim^ t6^, wmay be of the most decided importance to the treatment. Onp^ isa prolonged, although not very much louder expirat^jjy murn*te,which is particularly important if it is heard during U slow expiration with closed mouth. The second is the so-called " respiratisaccadie^'' jerking, wavy, cogged-wheeled respiration, which is mdistinctly perceived during an inspiration. In the place of an unform blowing murmur we hear an inspiratory murmur at intervals,but not otherwise altered in any respect. Another reliable sign iif, during a slight catarrhal attack, the apices of the lungs exhsymptoms of catarrhal irritation. Another sign is, when the expectoration looks like soaked sago, or is transparent, having theshape of fine, firm threads ; this is a symptom of chronic catarrof the finest bronchial ramifications.The existence of a tolerably severe, protracted, acute bronchialcatarrh, or a more or less violent hsemoptysis generally, is an ehttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt