Homoeopathy : its nature and relative value / by Archibald Reith ; with an appendix by D. Dyce Brown.

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1868
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    Trouss. and Pid. (op. cit., vol. ii. p. 700) say of the effects of the natu- ral sulphurous waters, It is rare that patients do not experience a sensation of sharp heat in the larynx and isth- mus faucium, a dry, stifling, or choking peculiar cough, with a constrictive irri- tation at the entrance of the respiratory passages, some dyspnoea, mingled with a feeling of weight and oppression in the chest, vague pains in the chest- walls, principally under the clavicles. . We have observed that persons who take the waters of Eaux-Bonnes, very readily contract. catarrh, especially the first time they use them. In per- sons already affected with chronic irri- tation, more or less deep-seated, of the respiratoi-y apparatus, the least cold produces Ironchitis and pulmonary con- gestion. They (the waters) may even produce htemoptysis. Trouss, and Pid. (op. cit., vol. ii. pp. 701, 702) say, The maladies in the treatment of which the waters of Eaux - Bonnes manifest particularly their therapeutic properties are—(1.) Susceptibility to catarrh of the isthmus faucium, of the larynx, and of the bronchi, especially the latter. (2.) Chro- nic injlammation, and confirmed catarrh of these organs, whether simple or spas- modic, whether co-existing with emphy- sema or not. (3.) In follicula sore throat. [L)lnj)hthisis. . . It is against this (phthisis) that the mineral waters of Eaux-Bonnes show a power, with which none of our officinal drugs can compare. . . . Lengthened clinical experience has pronounced on the effi- cacy of the waters of Eaux-Bonnes in these different affections. I have already quoted a passage in which these authors say that sulphide of potassium given internally has an in- contestible efficacy in chronic pulmon- ary catarrh. Of the sulphide of calcium (the hepar sulphuris of the Homoeopaths), Trouss. and Pid. (ibid, p. 695) say, It remains an acquired fact in science that chronic catarrh may be happily modified by the sul- phide of calcium. Graves recommends sulphur with cream of tartar in chi-ouic bronchitis (Waring op. cit. p. 704.) In pulmonary affections, as chronic catarrhs and asthma, sulphur is some- times useful. Pereira, op. cit. p. 343. In chi-onic catarrh, particularly attended with excessive and exhausting expectoration, it (sulphur) acts bene- ficially probably by a direct stimulant and alterative influence on the diseased membrane. It has, from the earliest times of its employment, had some reputation in bronchial diseases. Wood, op. cit. vol. ii. p. 376. See also Garrod. Mat. Med. 3d edit. p. 18, and Scoresby-Jackson, op. cit. p. 143.