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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 567 of 653more unfavorable than previously. To the remedies that have justbeen named, we now have to add a number of others actingdirectly upon the local process. The use of Ferrum, at this stagerequires still more caution than before. Other remedies are:lodium^ Phosphorus^ Kali carbon.^ Hepar sulphuris calc.^ Silicea^Digitalis^ Plumbum^ Cuprum and Natrum muriaticum. All theseremedies seem to have a marvelous effect in some cases, whereas iapparently similar cases they leave us in the lurch, so that it iceedingly difficult to establish positive indications from clinicresults. We omit them so much more readily as the slow course of676 Constitutional Diseases without Definite Infection.the disease afFords plenty of time to consult the Materia Medicafor special symptoms. A few hints will, therefore, prove sufficient.lodium is undoubtedly one of our most important remedies inconfirmed phthisis ; it only suits, however, after the expectorathas become purulent. This remedy effects, more frequently thanany other, curative results, provided we do not obstinately insisupon giving only small doses. Iodine 6 sometimes has a good effecbut Iodine 1 is often indispensable, nor need any unpleasant effebe apprehended from the use of such large doses. lodium is moreparticularly indicated if tuberculosis is the result of scrofulosthe case of young and robust individuals ; if diarrhoea is presenIodine does not act favorably as a rule.Kali carbonicum has, beside the general symptoms of phthisis, acharacteristically persistent, sharp-s'titching pain at a circumsspot in the chest. Unfortunately this remedy often disappointsour expectations.Hepar sulphuris oalc. is particularly suitable if the disease thrto run rapidly to a fatal termination ; a severe fever sets in atonset, the cough is rather dry, although the patients themselveshear a rattling and wheezing in the lungs; scrofulosis had precedthe tuberculosis. Violent diarrhoea contra-indicates Hepar.SHicea is only suitable for the slow phthisis of old people ; itseffect is questionable.Phosphorus, according to our own experience, is less adapted tophthisis as a whole than to single symptoms. It has to be usedwith caution, for no other medicine causes hsemoptoe as easily asPhosphorus ; no other medicine disagrees so completely in the lonrun. The chief indications for Phosphorus are : Continued hoarseness, with a distressing, dry cough, sore feeling in the larynx atrachea ; pain in the stomach after every meal, also retching andvomiting of mucus ; continual diarrhoea, which is excited by eating, after every meal ; excessive excitement of the sexual passioPlumbum ought to be used more frequently than has yet been thecase; the dose must neither be too weak, nor too strong. It sometimes has a good effect after every other remedy has disappointedus, more particularly if there are considerable vomicse, and thepatient is tormented by copious, watery diarrhoeic stools accompanied by severe pain.http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt