The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 576 of 653These statements, which are suggested by daily practice, aresimply intended to show the manner in which we avail ourselves ofthe results of our physiological provings. These statements do noby any means present an exhaustive discussion of the subject, anddo not obviate the necessity, in extraordinary cases, of studyingthe Materia Medica with special reference to a given case, sincewe have many other remedies, such as Mercur.^ Hepar sidph.y Rhu^tox.^ Lycop.y Sepia^ Tart, emet.y Ibdium^ etc., which are capableremoving a general plethora.Regarding the diet, we recommend to plethoric individuals theuse of vegetables, abstinence from spirits and heating beverages,daily exercise in the open air for a couple of hours, avoidance oexciting or depressing emotions, of sedentary habits and protractsleeping.A spurious sort of plethora accompanying emphysema of thelungs, hypertrophy of the left ventricle, insufficiency or stenosthe bicuspid valve, goitre, stenosis of the larynx, has been fulldescribed in the chapters where these diseases are treated of.Kafka relates the case of a lady, seventy years old, with a largeand indurated goitre, in consequence of which she became cyanoticshort-breathed, dyspeptic, very feeble and somnolent. Iodine proving ineffectual for these symptoms, Arsen. 3, three doses a day,was resorted to. In a few days already a decided improvementset in. fi.]Deficiency or rather Paleness of the Blood. 6879. Anieinia, Ollgieinla.Deficiency or rather Paleness of the Mood.[It 18 only true atifiemia, or deficiency of blood consequent upoexcessive losses of this fluid, that consists in a diminution ofquantity of the blood without any simultaneous alteration in thenormal composition of this fluid. Spurious ansemia with which weshall principally deal in this chapter, constitutes a disease ofblood where the number of the red corpuscles is more or lessdiminished, in consequence of which the blood becomes paler andappears variously altered both quantitatively and qualitatively.Hence it is with a qualitative rather than with a quantitativedisease of the blood that we have to deal with, where the deficieof red blood-disks constitutes a characteristic phenomenon, on whaccount it would be more appropriate, according to Vogel, to denominate the disease digocj/thcemia.In a normal condition of the organism, the reproduction of redcorpuscles equilibrates their decay, so that, within certain limithe percentage amount of blood-disks in the blood, and their totaquantity remains unchanged.In diseases, however, this relative proportion is disturbed, so tmore blood-disks decay than are reproduced; hence arises the condition which Vogel denominates oUgocythcemia.http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt