The homoeopathic treatment of acute and chronic diseases / by Emilius Kreussler ; translated from the German, with important additions and revisions, by Charles J. Hempel.

  • Kreussler, Emil.
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1854
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Credit: The homoeopathic treatment of acute and chronic diseases / by Emilius Kreussler ; translated from the German, with important additions and revisions, by Charles J. Hempel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in bed, especially at night; uneasy and frightful dreams ; irritable mood ; heat of the head ; redness of the cheeks, rather than of the whole face; violent stitching pains in the whole head; nausea; constipation some days previous to the breaking out of the disease. Hyoscyamus and Stramonium are less frequently indicated than either of the former two medicines. The symptoms which require their use, are: peculiar sort of delirium ; also loss of consciousness ; involuntary muscular motions ; illu- sions of sight. Compare Section 14, Myoscyam., Bella- donna and Stramonium. If all these remedies, were they ever so much indicated, should remain without effect, we may give Sulphur, one dose a-day, with the best eifect; the presence of psora may generally be taken for granted. Meningitis caused by sudden suppression of eruptions about the head, requires Sulphur, Mercurius sol., and Bryonia. Meningitis caused by suppression of acute exanthemata, will be referred to in a subsequent paragraph. If meningitis should have arisen from suppression of otorrhcea, it is a mistake to suppose that Pulsatilla must be given ; on the contrary, the remedies which will be found most frequently indicated, are Aconitum, Belladonna, Sulphur. If a homoeopathic physician should be called to a patient iii whom the disease has already reached a fatal stage, that of suppuration or effusion, he will have to make up his mind whether any of the above-mentioned remedies might still be tried, and he should not omit to examine them with great care. If we should have sopor with complete insensibility to external impressions, a small, feeble, intermittent pulsp, cold and clammy sweats, we may infer with certainty that effusion has already set in, and this may lead us to try Helleborus, or perhaps, Carbo veget., and Veratrum. I have never obtained any decided results from Arnica or Digitalis ; as regards Mercurius sol., which is recommended by some, I can positively assert that it is of no use in this stage of meningitis. If a sudden chill should set in, followed by heat (suppu- rative fever), and if one cheek should become red, we may conclude that the formation of pus has commenced. Coc-