Homoeopathic domestic medicine / by J. Laurie ; arranged as a pratical work for students ; containing a glossary of medical terms.

  • Laurie, Joseph, -1865
Date:
1853
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    The DIET of the patient must be regulated acccording to the degree of inflammation present. If required, the throat maybe gargled with a little warm water, and when much pain is present, inhalation of \}\>: vapor from boiling water will often afford considerable relief, but at the same time it may be observed that all medicinal gargles, blisters, leeches, or other topical applications are rendered unnecessary by proper homoeopathic treatment. While we thus five the patient from a considerable deg] annoyance and needlei suffering, we, at the same time, by a careful attention to the symptoms, and the exhibition of the proper remedy, effect a speedy cure. In overcoming the pre- disposition to sore throat, '■ . '.-/, Baryta', m. GrapTiytes have been found useful. The latter two particu- larly, when sore throat results after every exposure to i and is always prone to terminate in suppuration. ULCERATED SOKE TIinOAT. Malignant Quinsy. Malignant, putrid, or gangrenous Sore Throat.—Angina, Maligna, Tonsilii/is Maligna, Oynancke Maligna. This serious disease is also known by the name of 8 latina Maligna, from the eruption with which it is frequently attended. It is usually epidemic, of a highly contagious nature, and generally occurs in damp and sultry autumnal seasons. It sets in with coldness and shivering, succeeded by heat and accompanied with great languor and oppression at the chest; nausea, or vomiting, and sometimes purging ; eyes in- flamed and watery; deep red color of the cheeks; the nostrils are also more or less inflamed, and secrete a thin acrid dis- charge, frequently causing soreness or excoriation of the nose and lips; pulse indistinct, or very weak, small, and irregular; tongue white and moi The deglutition is painful and difficult, and the throat, on being examined early in the disease, is observed to be of a