The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopathy"Page 76 of 653remedies that have been recommended for simple metrorrhagia^come into play, especially : Sabina^ Belladonna^ Crocud^ Secale^caciuinhaj ChamomiUay Chinay Hyoscyamus.Carcinoma Uteri. 81Although we do not believe that a. miscarriage can be preventedby keeping the patient all the time in a horizontal posture, yetposture becomes indispensable as soon as the hemorrhage has commenced. Even after the hemorrhage has been arrested, the patientshould be kept quietly on her back for a couple of days. If a miscarriage has taken place, the patients will have to be treated liwomen in confinement, even with more care, for a return of thehemorrhage, metritis, prolapsus of the uterus are apt to take plaAbove all we have to make sure that no fragments of the foetushave remained in the uterus ; the worst consequences of the miscarriage are sometimes caused by such an oversight.[Besides the medicines recommended by Bsehr for the arrest ofuterine hemorrhage and the prevention of a miscarriage, we oftenmake use of the following with perfect success :Aconitum, if the pulse is full and bounding, the patient experiena sensation of fulness and heaviness in the uterine region, and dof blood have already begun to trickle down. We give the lo'A^erpotencies. In active uterine hemorrhages caused by a sudden concussion, a violent strain, or subsequent to the expulsion of theAconite may likewise help to arrest the hemorrhage. The pulse isfiiU and bounding or else the opposite, the patient complains ofheadache, the cheeks are flushed, the skin is warm and dry or elscold and covered with a clammy perspiration ; the action of theheart is often disturbed, there is a tremulous fluttering of theless frequently tumultuous beating.Erigeron canadense, an alcoholic solution of the oil, often helpsuterine hemorrhage, if the blood is lumpy and dark-colored.Trillium pendulum is likewise much used both in the form ot an alcoholic tincture and watery infusion. Small doses will not answerHamameJis virg. has been used with much success in passive venousand likewise in the more active form of arterial hemorrhage.Hemorrhages brought on by mechanical concussions of the uterineregion, blows, a fall, etc., require the use of AmicUy lower potesometimes in alternation with Aconite. H.]7. Caretnoma Uteri,Cancer of the Uterus.In by far the majority of cases this disease occurs beyond the agof forty, and is very seldom met with in women of a less advancedage. Its origin cannot be accounted for upon well established priciples; feeble as well as robust, married as well as unmarried wohttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt