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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 559 of 653666 Constitutional Diseases without Definite Infection.tinctly heard. In very rare cases there is no cough during thewhole coarse of the disease, although the infiltration may be extsive and numerous caverns may exist.Previous to the deposition of numerous tubercles and their purulent dissolution, the expectoration is without^ any characteristifeatures. K'evertheless a continual expectoration of clear mucusalways a suspicious symptom ; but such an expectoration acquiressignificance when it is traversed by fine streaks of a yellowishand when, moreover, it frequently appears streaked with blood.Still more characteristic is the presence of sago-like firm littland fibres. Much less frequently hard, yellow or greenish, cheesylittle lumps are coughed up at an early period; they generally tavery badly, and frequently have an offensive odor. Sometimes theexpectoration contains small lumps of calcareous matter, chalktubercles, seldom, however, previous to suppuration having fullyset in ; usually after caverns have formed. The cavernous expectoration has a yellow-gray color, less frequently a greenish color,firmly coherent; in the water it forms irregular, shaggy ballswhich slowly sink to #he bottom ; it is surrounded by a quantityof clear bronchial mucus with which, however, it does not mix.The microscope discovers elastic fibres in this expectoration, asign of existing phthisis.The larynx and trachea seldom remain intact during the wholecourse of the disease ; they show more or less marked symptomsof catarrhal irritation. At an early period of the disease, the vbecomes husky or loses its resonnance and firmness of tone; at alater period, these organs become painful, according as the abovedescribed ulcers are located, and not unfrequently complete aphonsets in.The phenomena of the circulatory organs are not by any meansconstant, but at the beginning of tuberculosis we generally finddilatation of the right heart, disposition to a tumultuous actionthe heart, blowing murmurs under the clavicle, anaamic mummrsin the jugulars, continuation of the sounds of the heart as far aboth apices of the lungs. Afterwards the heart becomes more andmore atrophied. The tendency to sudden changes of color is astriking phenomenon only at the commencement of the disease.Very soon the pulse becomes frequent and feebler than usual, it iaccelerated by every movement. In the stage of phthisis it almostalways exceeds 100, sometimes rising to 140. It is only exceptionally that the pulse of phthisicky patients is retarded, and thenTuberculosis* 667occasionally and alternating with a frequent pulse. As a rule, thpulse affords the best means of judging how far the patient's strhas already been consumed by the disease.The digestive functions are generally very much impaired.Usually at an early period of the disease the appetite grows poorhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt