The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopathy"Page 70 of 653them. Quite recently the wife of a most excellent allopathic physcian of this city, who had miscarried nine times in succession inspite of her husband's best efforts to prevent such an accident,successfully carried through her tenth pregnancy by homcuopathictreatment. In the presence of so much brilliant success we have aright to say that we possess the means of preventing miscarriagewith an almost unerring certainty.We will now proceed to mention the different remedies that aremost commonly resorted to in the treatment of miscarriage, andafterwards review this treatment in a connected series.Sabina. We have shown on several previous occasions that theaction of this drug upon the uterus is specifically characterizedcongestion often amounting even to inflammation. This fact shouldnot be lost sight of in cases where Sabina may seem to be indicatIf the metrorrhagia is preceded for some time by a laboring in the abdomen, sensitiveness to pressure, increase of the sepassion, a more copious secretion of mucus from the vagina ; if themorrhage is profuse, painful, and the blood is brightoris discharged in the shape of firm coagula, Sabina is our bestsimile that will certainly help in most cases, for a confirmationwhich fact we can point to our own experience as well as to ourprinted records. This remedy suggests itself more particularly ia74 Diseases of the Female Sexual Organs.the case of robust persons of a plethoric habit, who have menstruat an early age and always were inclined to menstruate profusely."We have already stated in a previous paragraph that the specificaction of Sabina upon the uterus is known even to lay-persons, anthat this knowledge is made available for purposes of criminal abtion even by married women ; the evidence of such a crime has beeon more than one occasion furnished us in our own practice.The relation of Secale cornutum to the uterus is equally constantand characteristic. This relation is not, as Griesselich fancies,pendent upon the action of this drug upon the spinal cord ; it ismediate, but differs greatly from that of Sabina. Secale tends torapidly destroy the organic activity, without occasioning any verstriking signs of reaction which may even be entirely absent. HenSecale is particularly appropriate in metrorrhagia unattended bysymptoms of reaction on the part of the uterus, or the general orism, without any marked pains in the uterus, in the case of individuals of an anaemic or leucophlegmatic habit of body. Secale istherefore indicated in metrorrhagias occurring at the critical agor in chlorotic individuals whose constitutions are broken down bdebilitating diseases; or in post-partum metrorrhagias dependingupon atony of the uterus, or which cause or accompany the miscarriages of ansemic subjects, or which are occasioned by the deaththe foetus. The general character of the hemorrhage will prove abetter guide in the selection of Secale than mere symptomatic indcations, of which we, nevertheless, proceed to point out the mostessential: The blood has a dark color and shows very little or nodisposition to coagulate ; its discharge is either painless, or epain is very vague and undefinable ; it flows in a rather uninterrupted stream ; the hemorrhage is accompanied by great prostration, fainting fits, palpitation of the heart with intermission ohttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt