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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopathy"Page 89 of 653liarious manifestations of psora, is more than can be proved by abody. What happens with other abscesses, is likewise true in regato abscesses of the mammse : in some cases they heal rapidly, incases they catase vast destructions of tissue. Mastitis is most a96 Diseases of the Female Sexual Organs.to occur soon after confinement or shortly after weaning the chilmastitis occurring at the latter period is less apt to lead to thmation of abscesses.Symptoms. The disease never breaks out all at once. Generally women experience some time previous, a gradually increasingpain both spontaneously or while the child is nursing ; and a sweof one or more mammary lobules, which rapidly increases in extentand induration, develops itself soon after. As a rule the lower olateral lobes are inflamed, very seldom the upper ones, and stillless frequently both mammae. Sooner or later, sometimes in a fewdays, and at other times in some weeks, the painful spot becomesred and more sensitive, and the inflammation is intense, the wholorganism feels the effect of the inflammatory process and shows isympathy by febrile phenomena. Soon the infiltrated tissue showsthe signs of suppuration, the pus being discharged through a smalopening. As soon as the discharge, which is never complete, commences, the pain suddenly ceases and the febrile symptoms abate.The course of the inflammation depends upon a variety of circumstances. If the inflammation is confined to one lobe, the abscmost commonly discharges close to the nipple, empties itself veryrapidly and heals. If several lobes are inflamed, or the inflamedlobe is situated near the base, the suppuration, swelling and paicontinue for a long time ; months and even years may elapse beforthe abscess heals, which discharges through several openings nearthe nipple. This disorder never lasts less than two weeks, and,under corresponding circumstances, may continue for months evenin its acute form.The treatment of mastitis includes above everything else a prophylactic treatment which has to be commenced long before confinement, especially in the case of primiparse. The preservation andproper management of the nipples and of the mamm» generallyshould be a constant subject of our attention. After confinement,if women do not intend to nurse their children, they will have todispense with liquids as much as possible. Nursing women have tokeep the following points constantly in view : the breasts must nbe kept too warm, must not be enclosed in tight clothing, and musby some suitable support, be prevented from dragging down ; everytime after the baby has nursed, the nipple must be washed, but nokept moist between the acts of nursing ; the excessive use of liqwhich women fancy favor the secretion of milk, must be avoided ;the child should be put to the breast as seldom as possible, forMastitis. 97more hungry it is the more vigorously it will draw and the morecompletely the breast will be emptied. At the same time the niphttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt