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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 566 of 653sanguine temperament ; at times they digest their food very regularly, at other times they are troubled with diarrhoea ; unless tare under some special excitement, the patients complain of weakness, although, when in pleasant company, no sign of weakness isperceptible ; the sexual system is very active, the menses are prfuse and set in prematurely and with acute pains.Under the operation of these two drugs, the use of which oughtto be discontinued sometimes for a week at a time, we sometimessee the whole disease arrested or even retrograde ; of course, thpatients have to be very particular in observing the strictest diWe need not suppose that these two remedies produce their favorable effect simply by promoting the general nutrition, since theyoften effect a favorable change even at a later stage of the diseChina and Arsenicum are two remedies that can likewise be usedat the beginning of the tuberculous process, although they are lereliable than the former. China is indicated if the pulmonary afftion seems to constitute the whole diflSiculty, but still more, icommences with the symptoms of a severe hyperemia of the liver,and if the patients very soon show a cachectic appearance. It iswell known how often pains in the liver constitute symptoms ofTuberculosis. 675tuberculosis, and how often such patients were formerly sent toCarlsbad to return home again in a dying condition. Arsenicumalbum has only been employed by us for tuberculosis in the last fyears; the cases where Arsenicum is indicated, are too few to enaus to express a positive opinion on its therapeutic value at thistime. So far we have found the remedy of use in cases of tuberculosis with almost typical, long-lasting paroxysms of coughattended with retching, and vomiting of small quantities of tenacious mucus, succeeded in a few days by an easy expectoration ofthe above-mentioned sago-like little lumps. The paroxysms ofcough are ushered in with a sensation like violent asthma and areaccompanied by severe dyspnoea. The general health is not asmuch impaired as the violent cough might lead one to expect.This so-called first stage of tuberculosis, that is, the period wthe tubercular deposits have n6t yet commenced to suppurate, isthe time when a cure of the disease can be hoped for with somecertainty. Unfortunately this stage is too often overlooked by thpatient as well as by the physician. To the above-mentioned remdies which have to be exhibited for months, a number of otherremedies have to be added that we require to use for the removalof all the trifling inconveniences inherent in the disease. Thisof the highest importance lest the nutrition of the organism shoube impaired beyond what it necessarily will be by the tubercularprocess. We cannot go into details in this particular. Codoil, a change of climate, and other methods of cure will be treatof by and by.After the supervention of the suppurative stage, the medicinaltreatment has to be considerably modified. We now have to meettwo indications, the necessity of preventing the further depositiof tubercular matter, and, secondly, of circumscribing its puruledissolution. We need hardly state that the prognosis now is muchhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt