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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 573 of 653remaining confined to his room, the temperature of which shouldbe uniformly kept at about 60° F. On the other hand, such patientshould not be all at once confined to their beds. Aconitum whichsuitable in catarrh generally, is still more adapted to tuberculabronchial catarrh commencing with a violent fever which is characterized by great heat without much perspiration. Upon the whole,Tuberculosis, 678however, we prefer Belladonna in this form of bronchial catarrh awell as in simple bronchitis ; for particular indications we refeour remarks in the chapter on acute bronchitis. Belladonna is notonly adapted to cases with high fever, but likewise to cases withmuch fever ; no remedy is as effectual in moderating the constanttormenting cough as Belladonna. Bryonia is an excellent remedy,if the patient complains of much lassitude without a great deal ohigh fever ; the drawing-stitching pains in one apex of the lungsand the pains in the arm corresponding with this part of the lungor tearing through all the limbs, are likewise complained of; Bryonia is seldom of any use in the subsequent course of the catarrhJDigitalis has rendered us excellent service for some years pastsimilar cases as those for which Bryonia is indicated ; only if Dtalis 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 wnth 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 behoovens 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 surest guarantee fothe prevention of new and the calcification of existing tuberculadeposits. The only medicines that can now come to the support43http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt