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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 565 of 653talis is to help, the cough must not be dry. It has seemed to usthat this remedy arrests, or else reduces the cough very greatlymore speedily than any other remedy. Spongia is an excellentremedy if the catarrh commences with obstinate hoarseness, thecough remains for a long time dry and barking, spasmodic, attendewith congestive sensations in the chest and asthmatic complaints.Bromine is symptomatically very similar to tubercular catarrh ;however, the clinical results that have so far been obtained withBromine, are not yet very numerous. Pulsatilla is indicated ifnothing remains of the catarrh but a racking cough vnih scantyexpectoration of mucus. For other remedies we refer to diseasesof the lungs.If, instead of breaking out with acute catarrh, tuberculosis breaout with bloody cough, we have to depend particularly upon threeremedies, namely Aconite^ Arnica and Digitalis^ the symptomaticindications of which can easily be studied in the Materia Medica.If the treatment of these initial affections has left no doubt inour minds that we have to deal with tuberculosis, it then behooveUS to treat the disease as a whole, without, however, neglectingsymptomatic appearances. It would be a great mistake, however,if after the catarrh is fortunately subdued, we were now to pursuan exclusively symptomatic treatment.The patient may seem ever so well, yet he must still be treatedas if he were sick. His whole mode of living must be strictly conformable to the rules which we have laid down ; a consistent andpersevering enforcement of these rules is the snrest guarantee fothe prevention of new and the calcification of existing tuberculadeposits. The only medicines that can now come to the support43674 Constitutional Diseases without Definite Infection.of the hygienic means, are Ferrum and Calcarea carbonica. Femim,whether it is used as a medicinal preparation or as mineral waterhas to be administered with a good deal of caution. If the patienshow an extreme disposition to pulmonary hypergemia, they arevery sensitive to the action of Iron ; any dose of unusual size etheir circulation and makes them cough up blood. Since this resulis principally owing to the dose, we have a ready explanation whythe Old School has been so averse to prescribing Iron in tuberculIf it is given in small doses, not below the second trituration,shall very speedily notice good eflfects from the drug, if it isistered for the following symptoms and conditions : Pale complexiwith disposition to a change of color, or with a yellowish tint ;deficient appetite, or perverse cravings, with disposition to paithe stomach, and constipation ; frequent palpitations of the hearand transitory congestions of the lungs ; disproportionate musculdebility; lassitude from the least unusual motion; irritability otemper excited by the least unpleasant impressions. The indicatiofor Calcarea do not differ much from those of Iron. The patientshave a florid appearance, their cheeks are very much flushed, theskin being at the same time very delicate ; they are apt to complof congestive headache; they have an excitable disposition andhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt