Therapeutics of diphtheritis : a compilation and critical review of the German and American homoeopathic literature / by F. Gust. Oehme.

  • Oehme, F. G. (Ferdinand Gustav), 1826-
Date:
1876
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    Laches., each taken one day, the diphtheritis made rapid progress. A large part of the velum, the whole uvula, and both tonsils, covered with exudate; foetororis; hoarseness; rough,dry,cough; dyspnoea; quick, weaker-growing pulse. Brom., 3, 4 dr. to half a glass of water, one spoonful every two hours. Decided improve- ment by evening, which continued during the following days, but the exudate remained unchanged. 1 dr. undiluted Carbol. acid, to 1 glass of water, for gargling every hour, removed the exudate in about ten hours (Allg. h. Ztg., 85, 4; Hirsch). Resume. Ozanan, the strongest advocate of Brom., does not seem to be clear in his own mind, because, without giving any special indi- cations for this medicine, he considers it the sole remedy against diphtheritis, and at the same time says in another place (59): The field for Brom. is the pseudo-membrane, but it has no in- fluence on the gangrenous process, which means, in other words, The field for Brom. is croup, but it has no influence on diph- theritis (see 2 6, diphtheritis is a destructive, gangrenous dis- ease). It is, therefore, not strange that his cases are not remark- able recoveries, viz., in the 1st case (65) (the best recovery of all), it required eight days to remove the exudate; in the 2d, the exu- date not quite removed in five days; in 3d (67), the next day after Brom., patient worse, then slow improvement, exudate re- moved not until the twelfth day of treatment ; in 4th (68), no change for two days after Brom.; 5th case insufficiently related ; in 6th (70), worse the next day after Brom.; in 7th (72), Brom. from the beginning of a medium case, cured in seven days; in the 8th (73), the next two days after Brom., no change. Such cases are no proof in favor of Brom., but just the opposite. They are not worth the printing, because, when a medicine is the right one, it operates at once, and the recovery is quick, no next day worse, or no change for two days. In No. 74 Brom., not answering to the totality of the disease, was unable to remove the exudate, but Carb. acid, did it in ten hours; on the contrary, Brom. re- moved the exudate quickly in No. 64, because it was given in the former case in the 3d dil. internally (dynamically insufficient); in the latter, used quite strong externally (chemical action).