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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 600 of 653functions, regulates the alvine evacuations, and is likewise indiif the patients are attacked with vertigo when walking, stooping,closing their eyes, turning the head, with a sensation as if theyhad to tumble over to one side or the other.If the patients are weak and anaemic, dyspeptic with dispositionto constipation, hypochondriac, irascible; if they are subject tovertigo and nausea; if their gait is unsteady and dragging, we giNiix vom. 3 every two hours, until these symptoms improve, afterwhich we give Quinine with excellent eftect. Ferrum carbon, ormetal, may likewise be given after Nux. In such a case we givethese remedies in daily alternation with excellent effect.For obstinate dyspeptic symptoms without any sj'mptoms of gastric or intestinal catarrh, we have sometimes given Pepsin^ in doof three to five grains.Arsen. 3, a dose every two or three hours, may be employed incases of anaemia if the patients are very feeble, faint frequentldyspeptic and thirsty, restless at night, so that they have to ge714 Obcsitas, Adiposis, Polysarcia, Obesity.and walk about ; this remedy is eminently proper if hectic feverhas set in, with fetor from the mouth and large ecchymoses on thelower extremities. A small and feeble pulse, cold extremities, paless and cadaverously smelling diarrhoeic stools, oedema of the lextremities are further indications for Ars. which may still affohelp in the most desperate cases.If this remedy is not sufficient, we resort to Chininum arsenicosum 1, three to four doses a day, and order small quantities ofpure old wine to be taken during the intervals.In all cases of incipient or far advanced marasmus, a strengthening diet is of the utmost importance. "We recommend broth, extracof beef, old wine, if possible old claret, Malaga, Port or Tokaysmall quantities either pure or diluted with water ; good j)orterlikewise appropriate. The patients must be kept warm, especiallythe feet, lest other diseases should supervene. Country and midmountain air, the use of strengthening springs and, if the lowerextremities are very weak, the use of electricity by induction, apowerful adjuvants during the treatment and promote a cure. H.]14. Obesttas, AdlpoBls, Rolysarcia, Obesity.An excessive accumulation of fat is a morbid condition that maybe attended with a variety of important derangements.A disposition to obesity is at times congenital, at other timeshereditary ; it frequently occurs already in childhood ; it is muless frequent after the period of pubescence is passed and is moafrequently noticed in advanced manhood. As a rule, women aremore frequently subject to fatness than men.An accumulation of fat in the subcutaneous cellular tissue isoften so excessive that the skin is an inch in thickness and thecumference of the body becomes monstrous. The thickest layershttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt