Four lectures on practical medicine, and the homœopathic treatment of bronchitis [&c.].1875 |
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3x dilution accompanied aconite action acute bronchitis acute disease acute inflammation adult attack auscultation becomes Bennett's breath bromine bronchial tubes bryonia catarrhal catarrhal pneumonia cause cent character chest child chronic complications condition convalescent cough croup croupous curative diagnosis diphtheria drop doses drug dulness dyspnoea expectoration exudation of lymph fact fatal followed forms of acute frequently give glottis half-drop doses hepatization homœopathic important indicated inflammatory larynx larynx and trachea lectures lung lycopodium medicine monia morbid process mortality mucous membrane occurring pain pathogenesis pathological pathologists patient percussion pharynx phenomena phosphorus physical signs pleura pleurisy pleuritic inflammation pneu pneumonia pneumonic inflammation practice present Prof prove pulmonary pulse racter râles relation remarks remedy respiration secondary croup serous effusion serous membrane spasm specific spongia sputa stage stethoscopic stridor structure success surface symp symptomatic fever tartar emetic temperature therapeutic tion tissue trachea tracheotomy treat treatment of pneumonia true croup
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第 46 頁 - ... pneumonia which, I assume, are perfectly familiar to most of those I am addressing. I will content myself by quoting from Dr. Wilson Fox a general definition of the disease, which more clearly and succinctly expresses the general character of the disease than any description I have met with. Definition. " A disease whose essential anatomical feature consists in the inflammation of the vesicular structure of the lungs, which is thereby rendered impervious to air through the accumulation in the...
第 49 頁 - Are we obliged to conclude, that the treatment of pneumonia ought to be expectant, because recovery takes place spontaneously in a certain number of cases ? I think not : and, moreover, when I find myself confronted with this disease, I cannot remain an inactive spectator. Whenever I am called in to a patient suffering from pure and absolutely uncomplicated pneumonia, I lose no time in intervening by antiphlogistic treatment.
第 51 頁 - ... temptation of underestimating the length of time his remedies have taken to effect recovery." Prof. Henderson then adverts to Dietl's averages, and compares the homoeopathic data with them. Dietl found the average duration of cases Treated by Venesection to be .... 35 days. „ Tartar emetic .... 28.9 „ „ Expectant method .... 28 „ The whole duration of the disease from the commencement of the fever to the complete resolution of the hepatization is ascertainable in 43 of the 50 homoeopathic...
第 20 頁 - There is one point of practical importance, according to my own opinion, with regard to bryonia, namely, that, supposing aconite had not preceded it in the treatment of bronchitis, and also in the treatment of acute rheumatism, I have almost invariably found that bryonia does not begin to produce its curative action until a few doses of aconite have been first administered.
第 25 頁 - ... is detached, the epithelium is quickly reproduced. No loss of substance occurs in the mucous membrane itself and no scar remains after the membrane is removed or disappears.
第 34 頁 - The following, in tabular form, are the diagnostic symptoms, in opposite columns, of primary and secondary croup : — Primary Croup. 1. The air passages primarily engaged. 2. The fever symptomatic of the local disease. 3. The fever inflammatory. 4. Necessity for antiphlogistic treatment. 5. The disease sporadic, and, in certain situations, endemic, but never contagious. 6.
第 34 頁 - Complication, with acute pulmonary inflammation, common. 11. Absence of any characteristic odour of the breath. Secondary Croup. 1. The laryngeal affection secondary to disease of pharynx. 2. The local disease arising in the course of another affection.
第 47 頁 - ... in mind the occurrence of early prostration, and that the pathological condition does not improve in the same ratio as the constitutional symptoms, pointing to a morbid and morbific condition of the blood, which gives to pneumonic inflammation a character somewhat resembling essential fevers. With all due respect to Dr. Hale, we beg to differ with him, for Phosphorus does not produce a genuine inflammation; there is rather only a mere accumulation...