The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 594 of 653their sickly condition is attributed to dentition, the fact of grdevelopment, and a physician is only applied to after an acute diCongenital AnaemisuP "„/ 707'P \ease has actually broken out. In sncli a case'^e a^ctua}.^^^^^^^to be treated with great discretion, nor oughi the ^hereditary diposition to be left unconsidered. If it should appear\to f)?b phycian that an acute disease is struggling but impet^ctly into^ fulmanifestation, that the disease threatens to assume'^hi^QniOjtljror to pass through a series of other pathological form^Jhe will %to investigate at once the anamnestic circumstances of .ibhe pareand will have to employ such remedies as will weaken or counteract this tendency. Thus the judicious and methodical use of theIodide of Potassium or of the Muriate of Gold will correct the syitic tendency, that of Ca/e., Iodine^ Sulphur or Cod-liver oil thtuberculous tendency, that of Conium or Aurum mur. natr. the tendency to carcinoma. Ars. or SUic. will remove or correct the sickdisposition of children consequent upon chronic suppurations, blenorrhoeas or colliquations of the parents, and will prevent thedevelopment of chronic diseases which it may be either difficultimpossible to cure.It sometimes happens that children who look healthy and plumpat birth, in a few days already look pallid and flabby, they crymoan a good deal, do not sleep well, the lips lose their vermiliohue, the sclerotica assumes a bluish appearance, the features aresharply delineated, the palpebral conjunctiva and the ears look pand the muscles lose their tone. In a more advanced stage of thisform of ansemia the children look like old people, the muscles grperceptibly thinner, and on the neck and extremities visible signof atrophy make their appearance.An anaemic condition of this kind is most frequently caused byan insufficient supply of milk on the part of the mother or nurseIf the children pass little urine and not as often as they oughtif they do not go to sleep while nursing; if, after nursing, theygrow restless and moan a good deal, let the mother or nurse inserher finger into the child's mouth. If the finger is taken hold ofgreedily and sucked at, this is a sure sign that the child is hunand craves more nourishment.In such a case the breasts should be examined at once. If, onmaking pressure around the nipple, the milk does not spirt outreadily ; if the mother is pale and feeble ; if she had lost a godeal of blood during parturition or had been sick for a long timeduring her pregnancy, it becomes at once evident from such circumstances that she cannot possibly afford her infant a sufficient sof nourishment.708 Congenital Anemia.http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt