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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 607 of 653buzzing in the ears, gritting of the teeth or trismus. The buccalcavity and teeth are generally dry, the thirst is very moderate,appetite is entirely gone, the voice is rough or husky, the respition accelerated, dyspnooic or stertorous. The expired air has ofthe smell of urea or contains traces of ammonia.722 • Uramia.The abdomen is distended, at times the distention is bnt triflingat other times meteoristic, the alvine evacuations are frequentlydiarrhoeic, the skin is either dry or covered with a perspirationhas the smell of urea, or with a fine dust consisting of urea ; isome cases petechise or miliary vesicles make their appearance. Tpulse is always very hurried and small, some times irregular andfiliform. Towards the end of the disease, spasmodic tremors, muscular jactitations, subsultus tendinum and an automatic graspingand feeling around, with continued coma, tracheal rattling andfinally paralysis of the sphincters set in.Chronic ursemia develops itself gradually during continued derangements or obstructions in the secretion of urine, or in consequence of a continued decomposition of the urine that had remainebehind in the urinary ducts. Chronic ursemia is characterized bysuch phenomena as the following: Sickly, anaemic appearance; continued loss of appetite, generally with a thickly-coated tongue ;sion to meat, dryness of the mouth ; an increase of thirst, generwith a desire for sour or cooling things ; increasing lassitude,siness ; slowness of speech and thought, apathy and forgetfulnessconstantly increasing dyspnoea, muscular debility and emaciationcostiveness or serous diarrhoea; dryness and sometimes violentitching of the skin which not unfrequently appears studded witheczema, lichen, ecthyma, etc.; asthmatic difficulties, serous catoedema of the lungs, finaHy anasarca and general dropsy in consequence of the constantly increasing marasmus.Course, Terminations, Prognosis. Acute ursemia sometimesruns a very rapid course, striking the patient down with thsuddenness of lightning: if, in the course of Bright's disease, stina, in the last days of pregnancy, previous to or subsequent toconfinement, etc., the urine is suddenly retained or is reabsorbeconsequence of an effusion of urine into the cellular tissue; orthe urine remains stagnant, and an ammoniacal decomposition ofthis fluid takes place: vomiting, eclampsia or amaurosis set in,phenomena which are so speedily followed by a deep sopor, continued convulsions or symptoms of paralysis of the brain, thatdeath may result in a few hours or only at the expiration of oneor two days.In the majority of cases the disease runs a leas rapid course. Thsymptoms manifest themselves gradually, sometimes diminish andthen increase again in intensity, according as the disturbance inthe secretion and excretion of the urine improves or gets worse.Uraemia. 723Fevcre cases are characterized by a constantly increasing stuporhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt