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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 619 of 653trying to put out their tongue, it trembles; if, when lying on thbacks they settle down in the bed, and if they pass bloody, cadaverously-smelling stools, we give China 1, or Chinin. arsenicos. 1Phosph. 8, every hour or two hours (also Muriatic acid).In many cases, especially if the septic condition has to be attributed to a contagium, the adynamia is accompanied by symptomsof extreme nervous irritation ; the patients have a dry or burninheat, are tormented with loquacious or noisy delirium, their cheeshow a circumscribed redness, their thirst is very great, their pis hurried and feeble, with grasping at flocks, subsultus tendinucatching at imaginary objecta, constant desire to get up and dres736 Septicaemia.etc. For such Bymptoms we give Rhus tax. 3 every hour, even ifpetechise, bloody stools, meteorism and clammy sweats are presentIf a high degree of stupor prevails, if the skin is coi)!, the pespiration clammy, the features collapsed, the pulse small and filform, and if the petechise or ecchymoses are at the same time ofbluish-gray color, Camphora 1, in hourly doses, has power to raisthe sunken vitality and bring about a favorable reaction.For violent nosebleed, vomiting of blood, septic haematuria orhemorrhages from the vagina we administer with good successErgotin 1, every two hours.For excessive hemorrhages and their consequences we administerdoses o{ Sulphuric or Nitric ax:. 1, or Ferr. mur. 1, at rapid inFor long-lasting syncope with rapid prostration we alternate thepreviously-mentioned remedies with Moschus 1 ; at the same timewe feed the patient on broth in order to repair the waste by theloss of blood as speedily as possible.Gangrenous decubitus or gangrene of other parts is treated asunder typhus.During the burning fever we have the skin bathed with dilutevinegar or aromatic vinegar, or, if the prostration is very greatwith wine and water.As a beverage during the fever we resort to water with currentjelly or syrups. If the skin is cool and the patient very feeble,dilute wine is preferable. If the patient threatens to faint fromexhaustion, a spoonful of good wine may be given.During convalescence the rules indicated for typhus have to befollowed.1(Addenda from Kafka and from personal experience.)[19. Gastromalacla.http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt