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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 579 of 653palpebral conjunctiva and ears is particularly striking. The cutaneous veins appear delicate, bluish, thin and empty. The sclerotimost commonly exhibits a bluish-gray appearance. The temperature of the skin, especially that of the extremities, is in mostdiminished ; even the temperature of the axillae not unfrequentlyfalls below the normal standard. Anaemic persons exhibit a characteristic sensitiveness to cold, a fondness for warmth, and frequeshiverings increasing even to violent shaking chills. The muscles44690 Anaemia, Oligxmia,of aneemic persons are very often soft and flabby ; in many casesthe bodily weight becomes less, more particularly in anaemia of ahigher grade, which is frequently combined with atrophy, subcutaneous cedema or hydrcemia. The muscular strength is always less;after the least bodily exertion, the patients experience great latude in the extremities. When ascending an eminence, goingupstairs, dancing, or making the least attempt to run, anaemicindividuals turn remarkably pale, become short-breathed, the hearpalpitates, and, if the anaemia is of a high grade, syncope may sin. The pulse is mostly small, feeble, short and accelerated. Theincrease of the frequency of the pulse from slight exertions, walabout, and even from sitting up in bed, is a characteristic symptom. If we are in doubt concerning the degree of anaemia, we maydirect the patient to walk about; if the pulse increases in frequency after such a trifling effort, we may rest assured that theanaemia has reached a high degree.The palpitations of the heart, with which such patients are frequently troubled, are often attended with systolic blowing murmurs in the region of the heart and in the larger vessels. The mofully developed the anaemia, the feebler the impulse of the heartthat in the highest grades of the disease, as in cholera, the secsound of the heart and that of the arteries disappears entirely.The cerebral functions are generally depressed ; anaemic individuals are sad, low-spirited, monosyllabic, melancholy; they sleepa good deal, are sleepy even in the day-time, whereas at night thsometimes lie awake for hours.On making a slight bodily eftbrt, their sight becomes obscured,they are attacked with buzzing in the ears and vertigo, phenomenawhich, in high grades of anaemia, may even increase unto syncope.Such patients are frequently attacked by periodical paroxysms ofheadache, prosopalgia, cardialgia, coxalgia, sometimes by toothac(neuralgia of anaemic persons).The spinal nerves likewise become frequently involved in theanaemic condition, so that either disturbances of the sentient sytake place in the shape of frequent attacks of pain, or of the mosystem in the shape of spasms.Respiration only becomes impeded after excessive bodily exertions ; owing to the deficient oxydation of the blood, the patienhas to yawn or sigh quite frequently.http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt