The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 621 of 653disease, at times manifests itself in the form of cholera, at othtimes as a gastritis, again as an acute hydrocephalus and finallywith the symptoms of a typhoid condition.The cholera-form of the disease sets in with frequent vomitingof greenish, mostly sour-smelling slimy fluids; simultaneouslyoccurring alvine discharges having a green color, of watery coiisistence, sour-smelling and corroding the anus; unquenchable thirsudden collapse, fainting turns, convulsions, coldness of the extities, speedy supervention of sopor ; such an attack generally sein without any precursory symptoms and with so much violencethat the little patients are either saved or else succumb to theattack in twenty-four hours.Or the symptoms of tjastritis may set in suddenly without anyprecursory signs : the children are very feverish, cry incessantlwant to drink and to be carried about all the time, belch up windfrequently, vomit frequently without any relief, and have waterydischarges from the bowels, which corrode the anus, are attendedwith severe pain and cause the little patients to draw their limbup to the abdomen. At the same time the region of the stomachis very painful, exceedingly sensitive to contact, the abdomen ishot and distended, the skin much warmer than usual. If we donot succeed in speedily arresting the attack, the patients emaciavery rapidly, the features collapse, the skin gradually cools offcrying of the patients gradually changes to a continual moaning,and they lapse into sopor or convulsions.The hj'^droceijhaloid as well as the typhoid form never set inwithout precursory symptoms. Most commonly they consist incontinual diarrhoea, frequent eructations, occasional sour vomitiwith sleeplessness, peevish or very irritable mood, pallor and expression of suffering of the countenance, loss of appetite. In adays the fever increases, the vomiting and diarrhceic dischargesbecome more frequent, the abdomen becomes bloated;, the head.Softening of the Stomach. 789which had been hot hitherto, and the extremities gradually cooloff, whereas the trunk and especially the abdomen feel hot ; verysoon the little patients become apathetic and, with their eyes haclosed, lie in a soporous condition, from which, however, they areasily roused when spoken to. Thoy hurriedly grasp the tumbler,hold on to it with both hands and are unwilling to relinquish thehold. Very often they start from their slumber with a cry, and,after looking about wildly, they relapse into their sopor. At thesame time the children become rapidly emaciated, especially aboutthe neck ; the pulse becomes smaller and more hurried, the alvinoevacuations acquire a foul odor, become watery, are destitute offsecal matter and distinguished from the urine only by their cadaverous smell ; the respiration becomes short and labored, and isoften accompanied by a tormenting cough. Finally there is complete loss of consciousness and sensibility, the eyeballs are disspasms or convulsions set in, with symptoms of the most profoundexhaustion.This hydrocephaloid condition is distinguished from true hydrocephalus by the absence of the pathognomonic signs of the latter,http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt