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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 609 of 653suddenness of lightning, especially in the case of ancemic and exceedingly debilitated patients. Vomiting sets in, or vomiting anddiarrhcea, or diarrhoea without vomiting, or else a sudden dysentery followed by a rapidly increasing sopor and death in twelve,twenty-four or forty-eight hours. In most cases acute ammonisemiaif it runs a moderate course, lasts a few weeks ; but the possibiof sudden efiusions into the pleura, pericardium, cerebral ventrietc.: the possible supervention of croupous pneumonia or acuteoedema of the lungs, etc., impart a high degree of danger to thedisease. Chills frequently occur during the course of acute ammonieemia, frequently with typical regularity and bearing a highldeceptive resemblance to intermittent fever.Chronic uraemia as well as chronic ammonisemia may last monthsand even years ;»they may get better and worse again according asthe determining causes decrease or increase in virulence. The worcases generally occur in consequence of iscburia or anuria. If thdesire to urinate can be restored, the danger is momentarily removed.Dryness of the mucous membrane of the mouth and fauces, ^^ asthough every atom of moisture had been absorbed by blotting paperthe mucous membrane appearing dry and glistening;" hoarsenessor even aphonia ; the plainly ammoniacal odor of the expired aira constant aversion to meat; livid color of the skin, a progressiemaciation and muscular debility constitute, according to ProfessJaksch, reliable diagnostic signs of ammonisemia which are veryseldom observed in cases of ursemia. Convulsions, amaurosis anddropsy have never been seen by Jaksch in the course of ammonisemia. However, since this condition never occurs except in thecourse of uraemia, we hold that the above-described phenomenamay likewise characterize a condition of uraemia.Light and moderate, even severe and very acute cases of uraemiaand ammoniaemia frequently terminate in recovery, provided theUixmia. 725obstacles which impede the excretion of urine, can be removed.These diseaseB, however, are peculiarly liable to relapses in whicase very serious accidents may occur.Cases setting in with a sudden and crushing violence, almostalways terminate fatally.Paralysis of the brain, croupous pneumonia or dysentery withgangrenous destruction of the intestinal mucous membrane, orserous eftusions into the various cavities of the body, or a highdegree of marasmus and general dropsy frequently lead to a fataltermination.In cases of great intensity the prognosis is most commonlyunfavorable.In mild cases of ursemia and ammonieemia the prognosis dependsupon the possibility of removing the disturbance of the urinarysecretion and excretion either totally or partially. This conditilikewise applies to the chronic form of uraemia or ammonisBmia.http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt