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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 574 of 653674 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 hypersemia, 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 effects from the drug, if it is aistered 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 complaof congestive headache; they have an excitable disposition andsanguine 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 difficulty, but still more, ifcommences with the symptoms of a severe hypersemia of the liver,and if the patients very soon show a cachectic appearance. It iawell known how often pains in the liver constitute symptoms ofTuberculosis. 675tuberculosis, and liow 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 enans 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 ofhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt