The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 604 of 653possible, and avoid inaction as much as they can. Active exerciseat home, while attending to their domestic affairs, is advisable;idleness promotes the deposition of fat. Swimming, riding on horsback, hunting, cold ablutions, cold baths, in bad weather walkingup and down in the room at a rapid rate ; gymnastic exercises, ifresorted to in systematic order, impart great activity to the metmorphosis of the tissues.These measures, if carried out strictly, are often alone sufficieto arrest the tendency to fatness and diminish the amount of fat.The so-called panting-cure, which has been frequently resorted toin modern times, rests almost upon the same principles and has prduced good results in some cases. In pursuing a strict diet, themain point is for the patients to persevere until the mass of fathas considerably decreased and they have gained in agility and eaof motion. In pursuing a dietetic treatment, the bodily strengthincreases instead of diminishing, the blood does not grow paler bit attains a higher degree of oxygenation, and the weight and circumference of the body decrease, whereas all the physical andpsychical functions become more animated.In conducting the internal treatment, we pay particular attention to the disturbances in the respiration and circulation, thefunctions of the stomach and intestinal canal, the quality of theblood and the other coexisting abnormal symptoms.Fat persons are often short-breathed, especially when going upstairs or performing the slightest bodily work, or walking a littfaster than usual. In such cases a careful exploration of the thoand abdomen becomes indispensable. If, on percussing the regionof the heart, we discover a dulness over a larger surface, the impulse of the heart remaining vigorous and the sounds of the heartloud and distinct, we infer the existence of a larger abnormaldeposition of fat about the heart or in the mediastinum, in conObesitas, Adiposis, Polysarcia, Obesity. 719sequence of which the thoracic cavity becomes contracted and thenormal expansion of the lungs is interfered with. For these symptoms we give Arnica 2, from six to ten drops in half a pint of waa dessertspoonful every two or three hours. At the same time werecommend the diet that has already been pointed out as mostconducive to persons suffering with adiposis. By continuing thistreatment for weeks, at intervals of two or three days, we haverestored patients to an apparently perfect state of health. Wheththe Arnica acts by diminishing the pressure of the fat upon theheart, or bringing about a reabsorption of the fat-molecules, reman open question.If the dulness in the cardiac region is attended with feeblenessof the impulse, and if the sounds of the heart are likewise lessdistinct, we infer a fatty metamorphosis of the heart, for the trment of which we refer the reader to the article on fatty degenertion of the heart.If the fatty degeneration is accompanied by dilatation of theheart and pulmonary emphysema, we pursue the treatment recommended for emphysema.http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt