The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 593 of 653Exercise in the open air, and more particularly the various juvenile games, throwing the ball, trundling the hoop, jumping therope, etc., are very much to be commended. Of course, childrenmust be warned against getting heated, or cooling themselves bythrowing off some of their clothing, or drinking cold water whileheated.Under similar precautions fishing, hunting, berrying, etc., may45706 Congenital Anaemia.likewise be permitted, because a moderate exercise of this kindpromotes the metamorphosis of the tissues.Children born of tuberculous parents, or bom feeble and sickly,should not be sent to school before they are seven years old ; geerally such children have bright intellects, but their minds shounot be developed at the expense of their bodily health. They hadbetter be taught only a few hours a day ; the rest of the day maybe devoted to invigorating their constitutions.As has been said before, congenital ansemia very frequentlydepends upon some hereditary disposition which, owing to sometuberculous, syphilitic, carcinomatous or other exhausting diseasof the parents, or to some chronic uterine disease of the mother,continues far beyond the period of dentition and growth, and, incases of the sudden invasion of some acute disease, plays an important part. In such cases a single acute local aftection frequeconstitutes the beginning of a series of changes in adjoining oraffiliated organs or systems. A simple nasal catarrh, for instancmay be seen followed by palpebral blennorrhoea, or an inflammatioof the conjunctiva of the bulbus may be seen accompanied by themost violent photophobia and by ulcers of the cornea, sometimesby otorrhoea and bronchial catarrh, or diarrhcea, etc. j in shortwhole series of disorders of the mucous lining may break oat.In another case a simple tonsillitis is succeeded by hypertrophyof the tonsils ; at the same time the submaxillary, cervical, posterior cervical, axillary and even parotid glands may be seen inftrated and even erysipelatous, presenting a series of glandulardiseases.A simple pleuritis, pneumonia or bronchitis is ofben the beginning of a deposition of tubercles in the pleura or lungs; a simplintestinal catarrh is not unfrequently the beginning of subsequentuberculosis of the intestines and mesenteric glands ; a sunoften occasions the outbreak of basilar meningitis.A simple cold, or excessive fatigue may give rise to spontaneouslimping, a fall on the knee to white swelling, a fall or blow ontibia to periostitis or exostosis, an injury of the nose to ozsenFor this reason it is of the utmost importance that a physicianshould observe and appreciate such hereditary dispositions with athe attention they are entitled to. Unfortunately it is often thecase that anaemic or feeble children are neglected by their parenhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt