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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    ♦ to a glass of water. It was the quiekest cure of the disease I ever made. (Ibidem; G. F. Foster.) 194. Miss A. Tonsils very much swollen, covered wholly by the false membrane; she was panting for breath; eyes staring, and her condition dangerous and distressing. Phytol. decand., 4 dr. of tincture of the root, every hour. Xext morning, found her much better, and in a few days she was convalescent. Several cases occurred in the same neighborhood, and were all cured by Phytol. (Ibidem, 783; J. Doy.) Boyce, Stearns, and others, used Phytol. also successfully. (Ibidem.) 195. Greatheadache; violent aching in the back and limbs; great prostration; cannot stand; when rising up in bed, gets faint and dizzy (Raue's Therap., 120). 196. Phytolac. decand. is suitable when the following symp- toms are present: Fever, pulse 120 to 130; general and quick prostration ; nervous symptoms with subsequent paralysis; vomit- ing ; dyspnoea ; headache; enlarged glands, and especially a false membrane on the tonsils and in the fauces; the exudate is very tough and dirty brown. Palmer considers it a great remedy, where the exudate in the fauces comes off hard. According to Boyce, many cases, which were treated with Phytol. dec, distin- guished themselves by a strongly marked adynamic condition, and in many cases a partial paralysis remained. 40 dr. of the tincture to one pint of water makes a good gargle. (AUg. horn. Ztg., 84, 134.) 197. Hughes asserts on the strength of forty-seven cases, treated in the course of ten years, that Phytol. dec. is incapable to subdue the malignant form of diphtheritis, but that it is specific where there is violent fever, pains in the head and back (AUg. h. Ztg., 84, 152). 198. A. E. Small had opportunity to observe the effect of Phy- tol. dec. in a number of cases, and obtained always good results where there was chilliness during the evening and night, and dry- ness and soreness in the throat during the morning. In several cases, where the evening chill was followed by soreness in the throat the next morning, he found a bluish-red exudate on the tonsils and fauces, difficult swallowing, and very great sensitive- ness of the tonsils, with considerable fever. Phytol. dec. 3 cured