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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopathy"Page 90 of 653ples will not be held so long in the child's mouth, and they willbe exposed so much to the risk of being made sore by the constantnursing. By following these instructions, and more particularly bputting the child to the breast every two hours in the early periafter confinement, mastitis will generally be prevented. By pictuing this disease in its most horrid form, women can generally beinduced to comply with the course recommended by their physicianhis warning counsels in trying to prevent this disease as well asgastric catarrh of children, are generally more potent than all tmedicines of the drug-shops.If the breasts have become hard and painful, the best remedy inthe case of lying-in women is Bryonia^ less frequently Belladonnawhereas the latter medicine is better adapted to women who areweaning their infants. We sometimes succeed in dispersing thestagnation of \h^ milk by gently rubbing the indurated portionwhile the child is nursing. The same good effect is sometimes obtained by causing the milk to be drawn by an older, more vigorouschild. In no event should the infant be all at once kept from thebreast, even if nursing causes pain. It is only if the pain is veacute, and the hardness considerable that the infant should no lobe put to the diseased breast. Belladonna will now have to be administered. As soon as redness has set in, the chances of scatterthe inflammation are very slim ; in some exceptional cases we maysometimes succeed in effecting this result by a few doses of Mercrius. Warm poultices should never be omitted ; they sometimesfavor the dispersion of the abscess as much as in other cases thehasten the process of suppuration. It is best not to apply themuntil pus has begun to form. Hepar siUphuris will sometimes promote the discharge of the pus. A great many authorities teach toopen the abscess at an early i)eriod in order to prevent the furtspread of the inflammation. We doubt whether such a proceedingis justified by corresponding results ; after opening the abscesshave often seen the inflammation spread much more rapidly;in the most tedious cases of mastitis, the abscess had been openein accordance with this suggestion. On the contrary, if the abscewas not opened and the above-mentioned remedies were used, wehave never seen mastitis run a tedious course. This cannot havebeen owing to the mildness of the cases ; a coincidence of this kcannot be supposed probable. Most homoeopathic physicians avoid798 Diseases of the Female Sexual Organs.the lancing of such ahscesses, and yet can boast of excellent resThis shows that their medicines must have an effect which, in succases, our opponents are doubly disposed to dpubt and to deny. Wedo not mean to say that the abscess should not be opened if the pis distinctly seen through the skin ; what we oppose is the openiof an abscess where the tissues situated below the epidermis haveto be divided. In this respect a mammary abscess is to be treatedlike any other abscess. If the tissues through which the abscesshas to discharge, are of a nature to render every effort towardsspontaneous discharge nugatory, they have to be divided with theknife. A case of this kind occurs very rarely under homoeopathictreatment.http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt