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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 581 of 653exercise, cheerful company and surroundings affect ansemic personvery favorably.An anaemic condition is most strikingly increased by the supervention of some acute disease. An occurrence of this kind is aptto bring on an adynamic condition, prostration and sopor ; such aacute attack is often attended with fibrinous or serous exudationdrags along very slowly, and convalescence is in most cases veryprotracted.All the above-mentioned circumstances are of great importanceto the homoeopathic physician, on which account we have dweltupon them very minutely.It is only anaemic conditions consequent upon acute losses of bloand other animal fluids that run an acute course ; other forms ofanaemia run a chronic course and, while the exciting cause continues, may last weeks, months and even years.The more speedily anaemia develops itself, the more rapidly thephenomena characteristic of anaemia set in.If anaemia runs a protracted course, the greatest attention isoften required on the part of the physician in order to accuratelobserve the pathognomonic symptoms of anaemia. A deficiency ofthe colored corpuscles causes a more or less vitiated nutrition,gradual vanishing of the fat and of the vital turgor, a decreasethe natural temperature and of the muscular strength, a highdegree of lassitude, indolence and ill- humor, increased beatingthe heart after slight bodily exertions, disorders of the nervoussystem resulting in attacks of pain or spasm of the most diversifkind.The termination in recovery frequently occurs spontaneously, ifthe exciting causes cease of themselves, as is often the case institutional or consecutive anaemia. Very frequently a complete cuis effected by artificial means.After acute losses of blood or other fluids, the water and saltsthe blood are often speedily restored, without the reproduction othe red corpuscles taking place with equal rapidity. In consequenof this, a hyperaemic condition is apt to set in, which is descriunder the name of serous plethora and is often accompanied withcongestions of the head, febrile irritation, violent palpitationsthe heart, sleeplessness, etc.Deficiency or rather Paleness of the Blood. 698The more complete the ansemia, tlie more the fat and muscularstrength disappear, the viscera and tissues likewise become impoverished ; the watery constituents of the blood increase more amore, and the red corpuscles decrease in proportion ; this is thereason why certain parts of the body gradually become oedematousand why serous transudations into the difterent cavities of thebody occur at a later period. This hydrsemic condition is mostcommonly observed after copious losses of blood and other animalfluids, after continued derangements of the digestive system, inconsequence of cardiac and valvular anomalies, of Bright's diseashttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt