The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 572 of 653pathologists deny the existence of plethora ; they maintain thatnobody has too much blood and that plethora most commonlydepends upon an augmentation of the red corpuscles or upon anincreased quantity of the fibrin in the blood. But daily experienteaches us that a constitutional hypersemia does occur, althoughnot very frequently, and that it represents a derangement whichoccasions morbid symptoms.A constitutional plethora most frequently occurs in the case ofyoung people who, having a good and active digestion, consume aquantity of meat and other protein material, without taking muchexercise. It is likewise observed in the case of older persons whwhile appropriating a large supply of food, lead a sedentary orindolent mode of life. It is not unfrequently the consequence ofsuppressed flow of blood, such as Ihe menstrual or hemorrhoidalflow, etc., and is frequently coincident with a peculiar plethoriconstitution, the influence of climate or the seasons.672 Constitutional Diseases without Definite Infection.omissions. We must insist, however, that a woman suspected oftuberculosis, should never nurse her children at the breast. It bhooves us likewise to direct attention to the circumstance that tmental labor and the mood and disposition of the patient are of tutmost importance to the course of the disease. We doubt whethergrief and care can cause tubercles, but what is absolutely certaithat depression of spirits, sorrow and care, and continued chagriaccelerate the course of tuberculosis, and that a good deal of metal excitement likewise exerts a pernicious influence. Even a chafor a few weeks only from their usual surroundings to a quiet andpleasant retreat, aftects the patients beneficiently.What we have said shows how much importance we attach to acorrectly-understood preventive treatment. Various medicines arelikewise of importance during the course of occult tuberculosis;however, they need not be mentioned in this place, since the indications correspond to the most ordinary precursors of tuberculosinamely chlorosis and scrofulosis, under which respective heads thmedicines and their special indications will be found named.We have now reached the treatment of the fully developed tubercular disease. This treatment, of course, has to be chiefly medicnal, although the above stated dietetic rules should be continuedin all their force. It is difficult to furnish full and precise ition in this direction ; in the first place the groups of symptomare too manifold, and in the second place it is next to impossibldraw positive conclusions from clinical cases, for the reason thathe same remedy which helped in one case and eftected a brilliantcure, showed itself perfectly ineffectual in another, apparentlyilar case. We do not intend to supersede the Materia Medica byfurnishing symptomatic groups, and therefore prefer giving merenames, referring to the Materia Medica for the symptomatic detailBronchial catarrhs that break out as an acute disease, and afterwards assume a chronic form, first claim our attention. Their rapcure is of immense importance to the course of the whole disease.As soon as we have ascertained tliat a person attacked with catarhas tubercles, we must in the first place insist upon the patienthttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt