The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 610 of 653The access of convulsions or amaurosis is generally a very badprognosticVomiting and serous diarrhoea sometimes constitute a favorableprognostic symptom in the course of ammonisemia, for the reasonthat quantities of the carbonate of ammonia are often excreted bythis means. If croupous pneumonia, oedema of the lungs, dysenteryand a deep sopor set in, the prognosis is doubtful.Treatment* Whenever the secretion and excretion of urine isinterfered with or entirely obstructed, the cautious physician wiat once be reminded of the possibility of a sudden or gradual development of unemic symptoms. These can only be prevented bythe speediest possible restoration of the excretion of urine eithby the use of internal remedies or by mechanical means or by anoperation.In very acute cases where the disease develops its symptoms withextraordinary rapidity; where the vomiting, or a paroxysm ofeclampsia, or the sudden invasion of amaurosis is speedily followby deep sopor, any kind of treatment is in the majority of casesutterly powerless. If we do not soon succeed in securing an outleto the stagnant urine and, by means of an appropriate medicinewhich has to be repeated again and again at short intervals, removing the sopor and the accompanying paralytic condition of thebrain, the patients are irretrievably doomed.If such symptoms make their appearance during the act of parturition or in the last period of pregnancy, they are caused by t728 Uraemia.obstructed excretion of Urine consequent upon the pressure of thegravid uterus upon the ureters and bladder. In such very acntecases the patient can only be saved by bold measures: artificialdelivery should at once be resorted to, after which the urine isdrawn off with the catheter. A dose of Hyosc. 3, or Opium 3, orHydrocyan. ac. 3, or Ldciuca virosa 8, may be given every five, tor fifteen minutes. In a case of this kind, occurring immediatelyafter confinement, where the symptoms of acute uraemia developedthemselves with fearful rapidity, the patient was at once relieveby the application of cold compresses to the region of the distenbladder. The organ contracted and the urine was expelled withthe fierceness of a torrent. The case occurred in Dr. Hemperspractice.If the jaws are locked, the medicine may be administered subcutaneously. If no improvement sets in in one hour, a second, anda third remedy, etc., may be injected, etc This is the only way opreventing a fatal issue.In the course of scarlatina, ursemic symptoms may set in withsudden violence in consequence of croupous nephritis resulting insudden obstruction of the urinary canals with plastic exudation.Here, help can only be afforded by the speedy removal of the inflammatory process in the kidneys. For this purpose we give everyten minutes a dose of Hepar sulpk. cede. 8 or Kali hydriod. 1. Ifhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt