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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 561 of 653pneumonia is met with in the upper lobes of the lungs. It tendsto rapid destruction of the parenchyma, to pneumothorax, and tofistulous openings through the chest-walls. In other respects itdevelops the same phenomena as chronic miliary tuberculosis whilerapidly running its course.Acute miliary tuberculosis attacks simultaneously every nobleorgan in the body. It rarely ever breaks out in individuals who sfar had enjoyed a seemingly perfect health, more commonly afteracute, debilitating diseases, but most generally it sets in as anation of chronic miliary tuberculosis.The symptoms of this form are entirely like those of a violentattack of typhus, with which the disease might be confounded somuch more easily as it likewise runs its course by stages of sevedays. It generally sets in with violent vomiting ; after the cessof the vomiting there is loss of consciousness, and the other symtoms characterizing hydrocephalus to which we therefore refer.Treatment and ProffnoHs* Although the prognosis intubercular diseases is absolutely unfavorable ; although the prosof a tubercular disease that had been diagnosed with positive certainty, is very slim, yet the labor of ia, physician in this direis not without reward, since it may be in his power to postpone tfatal termination. Professional aid becomes still more important,if it is tendered at a period when the tubercular disease was stihidden, or had emerged into light with sufficient distinctness torecognized in its true character with a tolerably reliable degreecertainty. Although success cannot be positively promised at thisTuberculosis. 669period, yet it is our opinion that the formation of tubercles caneither be prevented, or that their further development can be staAfter all, the case may perhaps be the same as that of other acutor chronic diseases which only become incurable after they are tofar advanced. Unfortunately the aid of the physician is not soughuntil the suppurative process has already set in, in other words,the stage of phthisis, when help is exceedingly doubtful.It cannot be denied that tuberculosis is curable at any periodduring its course, although such a result happens very seldom afthectic fever has set in, and more particularly after the tuberculprocess has invaded the intestines and the larynx. For this reasono case shonld at once be abandoned as beyond the reach of successful treatment. A complete cure, that is, a complete reabsorption of the tubercular deposits, indeed cannot be expected ; remnants of the disease will remain, and a new outbreak may takeplace at any time.What we have said shows that the treatment must aim at threeobjects: preventive treatment, the treatment of tuberculosis as aconstitutional disease, and the treatment of the acute intercurreexacerbations and their most prominent symptoms.The preventive treatment has to embrace a vast range, if it is tobe of any use. Inasmuch as mistakes in the first education and caof children may promote, if not originate, scrofulosis, and inasmhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt