Homeopathic principles and practice of medicine / by W.H. Dickinson.

  • Dickinson, W. H. (Wilmot Horton), 1829-
Date:
1883
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    for young girls approaching the age of puberty. The symp- toms indicating its use are: dry, hacking cough, dryness and soreness of the larnyx, hoarseness or aphonia, flushed cheeks with fever in the afternoon, stitches in apex of right lung. It may be used in alternation with phosphorus. Calc. cakb.—This remedy is specially useful for individuals with scrofulous diathesis and lymphatic temperament. The symptoms particularly indicating its use are early emaciation and debility, short, dry cough at night, purulent expectoration during the day, burning in hands and feet, moist on head and chest, exhausting sweat; tendency in females to profuse menstruation and leucorrhoea. Gale. carb. is more useful in the first and beginning of second stage. Digitalis.—Digitalis is not a remedy jper se for consump- tion, but in some of the complications which arise during the course of the disease, much benefit may be derived from its exhibition. Great debility, retarded action of the heart, passive congestion of the liver, oedema of the feet, loose mucous cough constitute the group of symptoms for which Digitalis will prove palliative. Burt prefers the 3d cent. trit. of Digitaline, especially when the disease is attended with paroxysms of asthma. Ipecac and Hamamelis for hemorrhage. Hepar sulphite.—Great sensitiveness to cold air, liability to take cold on the least exposure, dry, hacking cough, prin- cipally at night. Hoarseness. Better adapted to complica- tion of laryngeal phthisis, or in chronic pneumonia at base of right lung. Iodium.—Shortness of breath, and palpitation after exer- tion, or climbing stairs, dry morning cough from tickling in the larynx, stitches and burning in the chest, gray or white expectoration. This remedy is most useful in its combination with Ood-li/ver oil. Kali cakb.—Dry cough aggravated about 3 a. m., stitch- ing, darting, shooting pains through the chest, great liability to take cold, hectic fever, night sweats. The pains are the characteristic symptoms which specially call for the adminis- tration of this remedy. Lycopodium.—Lycojpodium is one of the most reliable remedies in the first stage of tuberculosis. I doubt its value in the second stage. Loose cough with expectoration of gray purulent mucus, of a salty taste, pulse quick, hectic fever, fever at its height about 4 p. m., night sweats. Is especially efficacious in phthisis, following neglected or