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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 617 of 653have a cadaverous smell. The dissolution of the blood is mademanifest by the following symptoms: readily-bleeding gums inconsequence of which the mouth, tongue, teeth and lips acquire ablack-brown appearance; frequent nose-bleed, vomiting of blood,bloody and foul-smelling diarrhoeic stools, hfematuria, hemorrhagfrom the vagina and uterus. Blood has even been known to exudefrom the canthi and ears. At the same time petechise make theirappearance, either in the shape of ecchymotic spots or of streaksof suffused blood in various parts of the body ; on parts of thebody which are exposed to continued pressure, bedsores break outwhich generally become gangrenous. At the height of the diseaseinflammations of the meningse, pleura or peritoneum frequentlyshow themselves, with sanguineo-serous exudations, occasionalswellings of the parotid glands that soon become ichorous, aphthein the mouth and throat or pains in the joints, with effusion ofbloody serum into the articular cavities.If the disease reaches the highest degree of intensity, a continued sopor sets in, with trembling of extremities, subsultustendinum, grasping at flocks, involuntary evacuations, cold perspiration and fainting fits, and the patients die from exhaustionCourse, Terminations, Prognosis. Cases consequent upongangrene or the reabsorption of ichor, are very seldom precededby preliminary symptoms; most commonly a chill occurs verysuddenly, after which the typhoid symptoms develop themselveswith intensity and more or less rapidity. Such cases generally rua very acute course, the adynamic and septic symptoms set in with734 Septicaemia*overwhelming virulence, so that a fatal termination takes placealready in two or three days. Some cases run a milder course fortwo, three or four weeks and upwards, and sometimes recover.Cases arising in consequence of a contagium or miasm or fromunknown causes, generally set in with precursory symptoms;* theintensity of the pathognomonic phenomena mostly depends uponthe violence of the exciting cause or upon constitutional tendencIf the prevailing type of disease is of a malignant character,and the individual has a feeble, sickly or debilitated constitutithe phenomena of septicaemia are generally very violent and thedisease runs a rapid course. The most dangerous cases are, if thefever remits but little or not at all, the prostration is excessithe septic phenomena make their appearance at an early period.Nevertheless, even the most threatening symptoms should not besufficient to discourage the physician: as in typhus, so in septicaemia, the disease may have reached the acme of its intensity,when all at once the fever abates while copious fetid sweats breaout, or frequent discharges of urine take place, or bloody, alsocolored and fetid stools are passed, after which the disease progresses slowly towards final recovery.In most cases death takes place by exhaustion, or in consequenceof intense and frequent hemorrhages, or by paralysis, gangrenousdecubitus, gangrene in other parts of the body, or by effusions oa bloody serum into the various cavities of the body.http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt