Therapeutics of diphtheritis; a compilation and critical review of the German and American homoeopathic literature - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1877 Excerpt: ... cough will assume the croup tone, hence the name "diphtheritic croup;" but as a wrong name may lead to a wrong understanding of the disease, and possibly, to a wrong treatment, it is best to abandon the name "croup" entirely, and call the disease "laryngitis diphtheritica." Croup and diphtheritis are so entirely different in their nature, that they cannot exist together in one patient. Croup could never come to diphtheritis, as a plastic disease cannot attack an asthenic patient; but diphtheritis may, possibly, come to croup, but if so the diphtheritic fungi would find such favorable conditions" for their growth, that very few hours would suffice to have croup entirely changed into diphtheritis. 5. We may suspect diphtheritis, although we see no exudate, when a patient, with sore throat, feels very sick generally and unusually weak. The fever may be very slight, even in dangerous cases. Foetor oris is not always present. 6. Our main object should always be to treat with internal, specific remedies the general disease, the intoxication of the blood, of which the exudation in the throat is merely the local expression and consequence, not its cause; the external treatment should be of secondary consideration. (Allg. h. Ztg., 89, 46; Lorbacher.) 7. In our opinion the genetic difference of cases and the complications, caused by different constitutions, are too little, frequently not at all, taken into account in selecting the remedy. (Allg. h. Ztg., 91, 125; Goullon). Many do not even attempt to individualize, although this is strictly required in homoeopathy. 8. Local cauterization, with Argent. nitr. and other like substances, is, happily, condemned even by many allopathic physicians as useless and even dangerous; likewise the frocible removal of the exudate h...