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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopathy"Page 74 of 653It would lead us too far if we were to particularize the symptomatic indications for more remedies ; it may be well, however,classify the remedies we have named, in accordance with the distinctions which we have pointed out as characteristic features ofthe various kinds of metrorrhagia.Hemorrhages of the unimpregnated uterus previous to the critical age, require: Belladonna^ Platina^ Nuz vomica^ Calcarea carbonica^ Hyoscyamus^ Ignatia, Ferrum; very rarely Sabina^ Sepia jPhjosphorus ; hemorrhages at the critical age require : Platina^cah^ China^ Plumbum^ Arsenicum^ Digitalis^ Lycopodium^ Koli carhonicuMy Kreosotum J Carbo veg.y Crocus.^ For post-partum hemorrhages we recommend : Sahina, Belladonnay Chamxrniilla^ Bryonia^ Hyoscyamus, Secede^ TpecacuanhayChinaj Arnica.Hemorrhages during pregnancy require the remedies that willbe presently named for miscarriages.In treating miscarriages we ha^e to keep two things in view,namely the prevention of the hemorrhage by general means, thearrest of the hemorrhage, and the management of the consequencesof hemorrhage in accordance with general principles.It is undoubtedly possible to prevent miscarriage ; the case of tMetrorrhagia. 79Doctor's wife to which allusion was made in a previous paragraph,will be accepted as evidence of such a fact. The nature of theprophylactic treatment is more especially determined by the consttutional symptoms of the patient. If the patient is an anaemic,feeble, pale woman, Pulsatilla^ Ferrumy China have to be prescribin not too frequently repeated doses ; if the anaemia is attendedwith disposition to congestion, Calcarea carbonica is preferable.the woman had miscarried several times, it is best to give the prviously-mentioned remedies about four weeks before the term whenthe miscarriage is expected to take place, but neither too low notoo frequently ; perhaps a few drops every three days, and to continue this treatment until at least four weeks after the term. Weavoid strong attenuations lest the medicine should produce primareffects. The remedies proposed for anaemia should not be continueat the time when the miscarriage is expected ; at such a periodCalcarea^ Sepia or Sabina are preferable each as the patient's pesonality may indicate. Regarding the necessity of absolute rest iorder to prevent a miscarriage, views differ a great deal. It istainly well for the patient to avoid all physical and mental exciment, but careful and slow exercise in the open air cannot do anyhurt, less, at any rate than to constantly be lying down. If thispractice is excusable in the case of weakly, nervous individuals,is certainly inexcusable in the case of plethoric, robust and quipersons. Nov can a scanty, not very nourishing diet be adopted asa rule, for in anaemia we are called upon to improve the compositof the blood by a suitable mode of living ; whereas truly robustwomen are benefitted by a sort of starvation-cure, because they atormented by a voracious appetite during the first months of theihttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt