Homoeopathic therapeutics / by S. Lilienthal.

  • Lilienthal, Samuel, 1815-1891.
Date:
1878
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    caust., hep., lij'^osc, ipec, kal., lye, magn. ra., mez., nitr. ac, oleand., op., rhus, veratr. For loss of smell from paralysis of the olfactory nerves, we have principally : bell., caust., hyosc, lye, natr. m., n. vom., op., plumb., sep. From catarrhal anosmia: alum., calc, gels., hep., mez., natr. m., n. vom., puis., sanguiu., sep., sil., sulph. Compare nasitis, catarrh, etc.; also amblyopia; hearing, hardness of; and tlie causes and va- rieties of these affections. ANTHRAX. When caused by infection, the best remedies are: Ars., lach., unless china, ihus, sil. or puis, should be indicated. The malignant pustule generally yields to, 1, ars., bell., sil., rhus, or per- haps, chin., hyosc, mur. ac, sec, sep.; 2, anthracin, apis, carb. v., kreas., hydrastis. The common anthrax or carbuncle, which is not caused by infec- tion, generally requires, sil. or perhaps, cepa, hyosc, lye, or nitr. ac. Sometimes arnica is given with good effect at the commencement, after which n. vom. completes the cure. There is a kind of carbuncle which contains lice; this requires ars. and chin. Anthracin. Violent burning pains, not relieved by arsen. ; cerebral symptoms ; absorption of pus in the blood, gangrenous de- struction. Apis mel. Stitching, burning pains in the anthrax; erysipelas and Q?(lema. Arsenicum. Intense burning pains, as from hot coals, for some distance around the tumor; sensation in the swelling as if boiling water was running beneath the skin ; pulse small, frequent, irregular; cold perspiration. Belladonna. When cerebral complications arise with red face, shining eyes, severe heat; the parts around have a tendency to ery- sij^eiatous inflammation. Calcarea muriatica (calcis murias). Internally and externally applied. China. The asthenic character of the disease is well marked with symptoms of putrid fever ; tbe patient has been much reduced by loss of blood, or the disease is kept alive by malarious poisons. HyoscyamUS. Anthrax in nervous or hysterical persons ; great restlessness caused by the excessive nervous excitement, shaking of the head in all directions, optical illusions, constriction of pharyi\x ; itching around the part. KreaSOt. Tendency to decomposition ; great irritability, aggra- vated by rest. Lachesis. Dark-redness around the sore, which discharges dark, bloody pus ; tension of the skin around the carbuncle, as if too short; nightly burning of the ulcer, obliging one to rise and wash it with cold water. Gangrene, carbuncles from blood-poisoning. LyCOpodium. Warm poultices aggravate all the pains ; boils returning periodically ; carbuncles, with burning stitches all around, with alternate chilliness and heat of the body. Muriatic acid. Carbuncles in scorbutic individuals, with ulcers on tiie gums and profuse emission of clear urine. Phytolacca. Tendency to boils, carbuncles or malignant pustule,