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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopathy"Page 97 of 653If the above-described phenomena of cancer of the mammae haveset in and ulceration has perhaps taken place, our treatment mustremain purely symptomatic. All we can do is to appease as muchas possible the nocturnal tormenting pains, to preserve the patieappetite and strength, to stop the hemorrhage that may set in, tocorrect the air impregnated with the pestiferous odor of the foulichor, to arrest the colliquative diarrhcea, etc.The treatment is conducted as advised by Beehr. A few additional remedies are recommended such as China 8 for extremedebility, or China and Phosphorus for the stitching pains. ArseniPhosphorus and the Arsen. of Quinine for the colliquative diarrhoAcidum sulphuricum 1 for hemorrhage at the same time applyingice-water externally, or a solution of the Perchloride of Iron, oeven touching the bleeding vessel with the real cautery.The horrid odor may be neutralized to some extent by coveringthe bottom of the sore with a thick layer of pulverized charcoalwhich absorbs the ichor; we cause the ulcers to be cleansed severtimes a day with tepid water, and we have the sick chamber airedand sprinkled with Chlore or Kreosote-water [or with the Perman106 Diseases of the Female Sexual Organs.ganate of Potash.] As regards the use of caustics of any kind,after the cancer is fully developed, we have never seen them do tleast good, on the contrary they seem to increase the pain and prmote the spread of the ulcer.If the remedies which we use, do not produce the least favorableresult, we give the patient Morphine from motives of humanity, asthe only efficient palliative at our disposal.Professor Franklin of the St. Louis College of Homoeopathyemphatically recommends a speedy extirpation of the canceroustumor and claims for the operation an almost uniform success provided every vestige of the cancer is removed, and not a singlecancer-cell is left behind. E.]EIGHTH SECTION.Diseases of the Respiratory Organs.A. DISEASES OF THE LARYNX AND TRACHEA1. liaryngotraeheitts Catarrhalia Acuta,AciUe Laryngotracheal Catarrh.Next to the catarrh of the Schneiderian membrane, a catarrh ofthe larynx and trachea is one of th^ most frequent diseases ; yethttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt