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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 612 of 653If there is a particular tendency to serous diarrhoea, we resortPhosph. 8, or Arsen. 8, or Argent nitr. 8.Dysenteric symptoms yield very rapidly to Corr. subl. 2 to 8,Hepar 8. 8, or Sulph. 6.If the dysentery is attended with septic symptoms, we administerArsen. 8, or Carbo veg. 6, or China 8, or Mar. ac. 1 to 2.Intercurrent pneumonias are almost always of the croupous kind,and require to be treated with Iodine, Phosph. has never done usany good in such cases.Ammoniaemic phenomena are treated by us in accordance withthe same maxims ; so far, however, we are not acquainted with asingle reliable remedy for this species of blood-poisoning. Phosphas seemed to produce some improvement; Lyeop.^ Phosph. ac.^728 ' Pyaemia.NitH ac, have been tried by us with some good results. Arsen. andHep, sulph. pro ved useless. Asafoet 3 may perhaps do some good.We likewise recommend Kreos. and Petrol. 3 by way of experiment. Such conditions, as a general pruritus, pneumonia, bronchial catarrh, oedema of the lungs, the various exanthemata, etc.have to be treated according to the rules laid down in the chaptewhere these diseases are specially discussed.In acute unemia the diet has to be very much restricted. Patientsafflicted with chronic uraemia might partake of some meat if theyhad not an irresistible aversion to meat-diet of every descriptioIn such cases eggs, milk, vegetables, lish, a light farinaceous dand beer have to be the main articles of food.Patients who are very much debilitated, may likewise partakeof a little old wine.If such patients are tormented by itching of the skin, relief isobtained by washing the body with dilute vinegar and brandy, orby taking a tepid bran-bath two or three times a week. H.]16. Pyflemta.Purulent Decomposition of the Blood.[^Avntomical Chai*acteriHtics. Collections of pus are alwaysfound in the cadavers of pyoemic persons, most frequently in thelungs, less frequently in the liver, spleen, kidneys, in the subcutaneous cellular tissue, in the muscles and sometimes in the brThey form abscesses which are generally located at the peripheryof organs and have a cuneiform shape. Their apex is always turnedinwards, their base outwards. When first forming they representcircumscribed hemorrhagic infarctions of a dark-red or even blackish-red color and a dense consistence. Under the microscope thevessels look turgid and are filled with red corpuscles. These firspots afterwards assume a gray sickly appearance, soften from thecentre outwards and form abscesses which never consist of normalhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt