Homœopathic domestic physician : containing the treatment of diseases, with popular explanations of anatomy, physiology, hygiene and hydropathy : also an abridged materia medica / by J.H. Pulte.

  • Pulte, J. H. (Joseph Hippolyt), 1811-1884.
Date:
1852
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    such cases, we refer the reader to the respective chapters, where the diseases of these organs are specially treated. There exists an intrinsic difference between rheumatism and gout. (See this article.) To prevent attacks of rheumatism and annihilate within us the predisposition to it, we must avoid all sudden changes of temperature and all excesses, which can create local and gene- ral debility. We ought to strengthen the system against in- jurious external influences, by cold washing and bathing, by acquiring regular habits, and following the rules, as laid down in the chapter on Hygiene. a. Acute or Inflammatory Rheumatism. This form of rheumatism, especially, developes itself after taking cold, or after any check of perspiration, sudden and severe enough to unfit the whole skin for its proper function of exhaling the imperceptible gases. First, an uncomfortable sensation and restlessness will appear, followed by chilliness and feverishness in alternation, thirst, constipation, and accele- rated pulse ; then the rheumatic pains appear in places where they either fix themselves, creating swelling, heat, and red- ness, or wander to other parts, where they repeat the same process, while those first attacked heal gradually and get well. In acute rheumatism, we sometimes find a dry skin ; at other times, a very moist one, drenched with a watery per- spiration, which does not relieve the patient. The perspira- tion, which will relieve the patient, »is greasy, thick, glutinous, and smells acrid or sour. Treatment.—Aconite—In the beginning, when the fever is high, the skin dry and hot, with excessive thirst and redness of the cheeks; shooting or tearing pains, worse at night and by the touch, extreme irritability of temper. If this remedy, after having been applied for eight or ten hours, has mitigated the fever by producing general perspira- tion, yet the local pains remain in the muscles and joints, give,