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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopathy"Page 79 of 653accompanying the cancerous destroyer. An enumeration of all theseremedies would only lead to confusion ; hence we only mention thothat can be employed against cancer generally. Our first remedy is:Kreosotum. Kurtz recommends this remedy when the followingsymptoms ai^e present : Obstinate leucorrhoea during frequently rcurring metrorrhagias, with aching or pressing pains and a gradually appearing fetid discharge of a serous fluid or a bloody ichoThis is attended with burning or lancinating pains in the small othe back and loins. When standing she experiences a sensation asof a weight in the pelvis ; coition is painful ; all the symptomsworse at the time of the menses. On examination the vagina isfound hot, the interstices of the mucous lining enlarged, the folare hypertrophied, the vaginal portion of the uterus is swollen,the OS tincfiB is garnished with small, wart-shaped or bunchy cauflower-excrescences. Hartmann describes the following group ofsymptoms : Electrical stitches in the vagina, as if proceeding frthe abdomen, causing the patient to start ; voluptuous itching inthe vagina, with burning and swelling of the external and internalabia ; hard nodosities at the cervix uteri ; ulcerative pain durcoition ; the menses appear from four to ten days too soon, and ctinue for days, with discharge of a dark, coagulated blood, painsthe small of the back and subsequent discharge of a pungent andbloody ichor; gnawing, itching and smarting in the parts; themenses stop for hours and days, but afterwards return again in amore fluid form and attended with violent colicky pains. The pres/JCarcinoma Uteri. iO,, 85'Ping downwards and the abdominal spasms contirme aft^i/^e menses, more especially in the groin and pelvic regfap^ bftstedrog fthe uterus and a continual corrosive leucorrhoea ki^ noKwaiuhig.The pains are worse at night. Sensation of fainting on risiftc, ^a peevish and desponding mood, and livid complexion. '"^una ^^\scribes cauliflower-excrescences, Hartmann true carcinoma. C.Oitbformer several cases of cure are reported in our books, of the lanot any, or at least only palliative results. It is certain thatsotum has not answered the expectations that Wahle's recommendation had excited in our minds. A weak local application of Creosote often does more good than the internal use of the drug.Areenicum album has been given with excellent success in carcinoma uteri not so much on account of the specific action of Arsenupon the sexual organs, which is rather inconsiderable and hencedevoid of any marked significance, as on account of the remarkablcorrespondence of Arsenic with the general phenomena of a carcinomatous dyscrasia. Arsenic can only be resorted to after the whohttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt