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| ===== § 3. THE PICTURE OF THE DISEASE. ===== | ===== § 3. THE PICTURE OF THE DISEASE. ===== | ||
| - | {{anchor:s51}}An elaborate picture of Hooping Cough, completely finished even to the finest shadings, will hardly be expected in a work like the present. {{anchor:s52}}Such a picture would be superfluous, for the reason that everyone who may resort to these pages for connsel, will already have learned to recognize this cough, which occurs, alas, only too frequently; or if, by good fortune, he has not yet had an opportunity of learning to know it, he can easily do so, through the symptoms, which are herein presented in great abundance and in a form which admits of easy reference. {{anchor:s53}}On the other hand, a complete description would require an expansion of the work which would be out of place and would cause it, through diffuseness, to lose in comprehensibility and in facility for reference. {{anchor:s54}}Our purpose, then, will be sufficiently attained by a detail of the following principal features of the affection. | + | {{anchor:s51}}An elaborate picture of Hooping Cough, completely finished even to the finest shadings, will hardly be expected in a work like the present. {{anchor:s52}}Such a picture would be superfluous, for the reason that everyone who may resort to these pages for counsel, will already have learned to recognize this cough, which occurs, alas, only too frequently; or if, by good fortune, he has not yet had an opportunity of learning to know it, he can easily do so, through the symptoms, which are herein presented in great abundance and in a form which admits of easy reference. {{anchor:s53}}On the other hand, a complete description would require an expansion of the work which would be out of place and would cause it, through diffuseness, to lose in comprehensibility and in facility for reference. {{anchor:s54}}Our purpose, then, will be sufficiently attained by a detail of the following principal features of the affection. |
| {{anchor:s55}}The true peculiarity of Hooping Cough, and which distinguishes it most definitely from all other varieties of cough, consists in the following, viz.: the cough appears in <span grade2>paroxysms,</span> which last a longer or shorter time, <span grade2>are distinct from each other</span> and independent, and <span grade2>are repeated</span>, more or less frequently, by day as well as at night. {{anchor:s56}}During these paroxysms of cough, the individual coughs follow each other more or less quickly in a spasmodic manner and cease, only to admit of long and deep <span grade2>inspirations</span> which are laboriously effected and are accompanied by <span grade2>various</span> but, generally, <span grade2>peculiar tones</span>, whereupon the cough is resumed in a similar manner until the paroxysm is entirely at an end. {{anchor:s57}}After each such paroxysm there follows a longer or shorter <span grade2>pause</span>, during which, especially in the beginning of the disease, the patient recovers himself and a period of relative health ensues which endures until the next paroxysm. {{anchor:s58}}Only when the malady has already lasted weeks and months does a higher degree of ill-health ensue, in consequence of the repeated paroxysms; the patients, then, no longer enjoy the benefit of recovering their vigor during the pauses between the paroxysms of cough; the entire organism is sympathetically affected; the patient keeps growing sicker, weaker and more wretched; and either he passes away during a paroxysm or else the seed of one of the various, but for the most part, malignant diseases is deposited which often fatally undermine health and life. | {{anchor:s55}}The true peculiarity of Hooping Cough, and which distinguishes it most definitely from all other varieties of cough, consists in the following, viz.: the cough appears in <span grade2>paroxysms,</span> which last a longer or shorter time, <span grade2>are distinct from each other</span> and independent, and <span grade2>are repeated</span>, more or less frequently, by day as well as at night. {{anchor:s56}}During these paroxysms of cough, the individual coughs follow each other more or less quickly in a spasmodic manner and cease, only to admit of long and deep <span grade2>inspirations</span> which are laboriously effected and are accompanied by <span grade2>various</span> but, generally, <span grade2>peculiar tones</span>, whereupon the cough is resumed in a similar manner until the paroxysm is entirely at an end. {{anchor:s57}}After each such paroxysm there follows a longer or shorter <span grade2>pause</span>, during which, especially in the beginning of the disease, the patient recovers himself and a period of relative health ensues which endures until the next paroxysm. {{anchor:s58}}Only when the malady has already lasted weeks and months does a higher degree of ill-health ensue, in consequence of the repeated paroxysms; the patients, then, no longer enjoy the benefit of recovering their vigor during the pauses between the paroxysms of cough; the entire organism is sympathetically affected; the patient keeps growing sicker, weaker and more wretched; and either he passes away during a paroxysm or else the seed of one of the various, but for the most part, malignant diseases is deposited which often fatally undermine health and life. | ||
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| {{anchor:s184}}When, notwithstanding the most careful selection from among the remedies indicated for the <span grade2>first stage</span>, the transition to the second stage has proved inevitable it will be advisable, in most cases, next to direct one's attention to the following table in which those remedies are arranged, which are most frequently appropriate <span grade2>after</span> those which are <span grade2>first</span> named in each series, have been homoeopathically indicated and administered. | {{anchor:s184}}When, notwithstanding the most careful selection from among the remedies indicated for the <span grade2>first stage</span>, the transition to the second stage has proved inevitable it will be advisable, in most cases, next to direct one's attention to the following table in which those remedies are arranged, which are most frequently appropriate <span grade2>after</span> those which are <span grade2>first</span> named in each series, have been homoeopathically indicated and administered. | ||
| - | {{anchor:s185}}Aconite. {{anchor:s186}}- Arnica, Drosera, Lycopodium, Mercurius, Sepia, Silicea, Sulphur. | + | {{anchor:s185}}Aconite. {{anchor:s186}}— Arnica, Drosera, Lycopodium, Mercurius, Sepia, Silicea, Sulphur. |
| - | {{anchor:s187}}Belladonna. {{anchor:s188}}- Antimonium tart., Calcarea, Cina, Cuprum, Digitalis, Hepar, Iodium, Lachesis, Mercurius, Sepia, Silicea, Stramonium, Sulphur. | + | {{anchor:s187}}Belladonna. {{anchor:s188}}— Antimonium tart., Calcarea, Cina, Cuprum, Digitalis, Hepar, Iodium, Lachesis, Mercurius, Sepia, Silicea, Stramonium, Sulphur. |
| - | {{anchor:s189}}Bryonia. {{anchor:s190}}- Digitalis, Kali, Ledum, Lycopodium, Mezereum, Squilla, Sepia, Veratrum. | + | {{anchor:s189}}Bryonia. {{anchor:s190}}— Digitalis, Kali, Ledum, Lycopodium, Mezereum, Squilla, Sepia, Veratrum. |
| - | {{anchor:s191}}Carbo Animal. {{anchor:s192}}- Drosera, Ignatia, Silicea, Sulphuric acid. | + | {{anchor:s191}}Carbo Animal. {{anchor:s192}}— Drosera, Ignatia, Silicea, Sulphuric acid. |
| - | {{anchor:s193}}Carbo Veg. - Drosera, Ignatia, Kali, Lachesis, Mercurius, Natrum mur., Sepia, Sulphur, Veratrum. | + | {{anchor:s193}}Carbo Veg.— Drosera, Ignatia, Kali, Lachesis, Mercurius, Natrum mur., Sepia, Sulphur, Veratrum. |
| {{anchor:s194}}Causticum. {{anchor:s195}}— Cuprum, Hepar, Ignatia, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Natrum mur., Sepia, Silicea, Sulphur, Sulphuric acid. | {{anchor:s194}}Causticum. {{anchor:s195}}— Cuprum, Hepar, Ignatia, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Natrum mur., Sepia, Silicea, Sulphur, Sulphuric acid. | ||
| - | {{anchor:s196}}Chamomilla. {{anchor:s197}}- Cina, Hepar, Ignatia, Lycopodium, Magnesia, Stramonium, Sulphur. | + | {{anchor:s196}}Chamomilla. {{anchor:s197}}— Cina, Hepar, Ignatia, Lycopodium, Magnesia, Stramonium, Sulphur. |
| - | {{anchor:s198}}Conium. {{anchor:s199}}- Antimonium tart., Cuprum, Digitalis, Lachesis, Lycopodium. | + | {{anchor:s198}}Conium. {{anchor:s199}}— Antimonium tart., Cuprum, Digitalis, Lachesis, Lycopodium. |
| - | {{anchor:s200}}Dulcamara. {{anchor:s201}}- Cuprum, Ledum, Mercurius, Sepia, Sulphur. | + | {{anchor:s200}}Dulcamara. {{anchor:s201}}— Cuprum, Ledum, Mercurius, Sepia, Sulphur. |
| - | {{anchor:s202}}Euphrasia. {{anchor:s203}}- Arnica, Hepar, Mercurius, Natrum muriat., Senega. | + | {{anchor:s202}}Euphrasia. {{anchor:s203}}— Arnica, Hepar, Mercurius, Natrum muriat., Senega. |
| - | {{anchor:s204}}Ipecacuanha. {{anchor:s205}}- Antimonium crud., Antimonium tart., Arnica, Calcarea, Cuprum, Drosera, Ignatia, Sulphuric acid, Veratrum. | + | {{anchor:s204}}Ipecacuanha. {{anchor:s205}}— Antimonium crud., Antimonium tart., Arnica, Calcarea, Cuprum, Drosera, Ignatia, Sulphuric acid, Veratrum. |
| - | {{anchor:s206}}Mercurius. - Antimonium crud., Arnica, Cina, Cuprum, Digitalis, Hepar, Iodium, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Mezereum, Sepia, Silicea, Sulphur. | + | {{anchor:s206}}Mercurius. — Antimonium crud., Arnica, Cina, Cuprum, Digitalis, Hepar, Iodium, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Mezereum, Sepia, Silicea, Sulphur. |
| - | {{anchor:s207}}Mezereum. {{anchor:s208}}- Mercurius, Silicea. | + | {{anchor:s207}}Mezereum. {{anchor:s208}}— Mercurius, Silicea. |
| - | {{anchor:s209}}Nux Vom. - Ambra, Cuprum, Digitalis, Drosera, Ignatia, Kali, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Magnesia, Mercurius, Natrum mur., Sepia, Silicea, Stramonium, Sulphur. | + | {{anchor:s209}}Nux Vom. — Ambra, Cuprum, Digitalis, Drosera, Ignatia, Kali, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Magnesia, Mercurius, Natrum mur., Sepia, Silicea, Stramonium, Sulphur. |
| - | {{anchor:s210}}Pulsatilla. {{anchor:s211}}- Ambra, Antimonium crud., Antimonium tart., Arnica, Cuprum, Digitalis, Ignatia, Kali, Lachesis, Ledum, Lycopodium, Magnesia, Mercurius, Natrum mur., Sepia, Silicea, Stannum, Sulphur, Sulphuric acid. | + | {{anchor:s210}}Pulsatilla. {{anchor:s211}}— Ambra, Antimonium crud., Antimonium tart., Arnica, Cuprum, Digitalis, Ignatia, Kali, Lachesis, Ledum, Lycopodium, Magnesia, Mercurius, Natrum mur., Sepia, Silicea, Stannum, Sulphur, Sulphuric acid. |
| - | {{anchor:s212}}Sabadilla. {{anchor:s213}}- Ambra, Antimonium crud., Cina, Pulsatilla, Sepia, Sulphur, Veratrum. | + | {{anchor:s212}}Sabadilla. {{anchor:s213}}— Ambra, Antimonium crud., Cina, Pulsatilla, Sepia, Sulphur, Veratrum. |
| - | {{anchor:s214}}Veratrum. {{anchor:s215}}- Arnica, Cina, Cuprum, Drosera, Mercurius, Sepia, Stramonium. | + | {{anchor:s214}}Veratrum. {{anchor:s215}}— Arnica, Cina, Cuprum, Drosera, Mercurius, Sepia, Stramonium. |
| - | {{anchor:s216}}Verbascum. {{anchor:s217}}- Ambra, Mezereum. {{anchor:s218}}Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Veratrum. | + | {{anchor:s216}}Verbascum. {{anchor:s217}}— Ambra, Mezereum. {{anchor:s218}}Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Veratrum. |
| {{anchor:s219}}With regard to the <span grade2>indications of the remedies</span> above enumerated for the <span grade2>third stage</span>, but of which the number is far from being complete, it would be impossible to give more minute details than are afforded in the <span grade2>text</span> and <span grade2>second</span> <span grade2>part</span> of this work, without greatly exceeding the limits of this introduction. {{anchor:s220}}The reason lies chiefly in the fact that Hooping Cough patients who have been from the beginning or from a sufficiently early period under homoeopathic treatment very soon experience a diminution of all malignant (?) symptoms; and a <span grade2>third stage</span> strictly so-called, with symptoms of greater or less danger, never occurs except when the patients have been previously under allopathic treatment, or when, generally in consequence of proper aid having been too long delayed, the psora miasm is awakened into activity and then, as so often happens, a drug-cachexy, induced at an earlier period of the disease, has come to complicate it. {{anchor:s221}}For if we reflect how very great, as mentioned above, section seven, is the number of drugs, the powers of many of which are in great part <span grade2>unknown</span> - <span grade2>to us</span> at least - which are brought into requisition against this disease by the old school, and if we consider in addition, the just as numerous and various <span grade2>forms</span> of disease which owe their origin to the <span grade2>awakened psora,</span> we shall easily perceive that a treatise upon this subject, embracing, as it must, the manifold sequelae of Hooping Cough, would attain, even were it but half complete, an extent which would make it entirely out of place here. | {{anchor:s219}}With regard to the <span grade2>indications of the remedies</span> above enumerated for the <span grade2>third stage</span>, but of which the number is far from being complete, it would be impossible to give more minute details than are afforded in the <span grade2>text</span> and <span grade2>second</span> <span grade2>part</span> of this work, without greatly exceeding the limits of this introduction. {{anchor:s220}}The reason lies chiefly in the fact that Hooping Cough patients who have been from the beginning or from a sufficiently early period under homoeopathic treatment very soon experience a diminution of all malignant (?) symptoms; and a <span grade2>third stage</span> strictly so-called, with symptoms of greater or less danger, never occurs except when the patients have been previously under allopathic treatment, or when, generally in consequence of proper aid having been too long delayed, the psora miasm is awakened into activity and then, as so often happens, a drug-cachexy, induced at an earlier period of the disease, has come to complicate it. {{anchor:s221}}For if we reflect how very great, as mentioned above, section seven, is the number of drugs, the powers of many of which are in great part <span grade2>unknown</span> - <span grade2>to us</span> at least - which are brought into requisition against this disease by the old school, and if we consider in addition, the just as numerous and various <span grade2>forms</span> of disease which owe their origin to the <span grade2>awakened psora,</span> we shall easily perceive that a treatise upon this subject, embracing, as it must, the manifold sequelae of Hooping Cough, would attain, even were it but half complete, an extent which would make it entirely out of place here. | ||
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