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Credit: Lectures on diseases of the heart / by Edwin M. Hale. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![improperly ranked among cardiac remedies. Id cases of poisoning, no pericardial lesions were observed; in fact the pericardial sac was found emjrfi/. Muller, however, says that eolchieum is more suitable for pericarditis than endocarditis. Baehr asserts that all the heart-symptoms are secondary from loss of fluids. In Laurie's Practice a case is reported where eolchieum removed the following symptoms (after laeh. and ars.): dullness on percussion over a larger space; friction-noise at the sternum stronger than before, impulse more powerful, but the natural heart-sounds impaired and distant; great dyspnoea and faintness on the slightest move- ment; oppression after eating or drinking ever so little; no cardiac pain; position on the back, with head and shoulders raised. This would seem to prove that it was useful in the second stage. It is probable that the best indication for eolchieum in pericarditis is the co-existence of rheumatic inflammation elsewhere, and the urinary symptoms indicating that medicine. Dose: The dilutions from the 1st to the 6th. Tartar emetic, according to Russell, is a good remedy in some cases of rheumatic pericarditis, and for the following urgent symptoms: Great dyspncea, and violent pain at the heart, with cough. But he evidently does not believe it to be a specific remedy, but removes this dyspncea, etc., by its action on the lungs, and its effect on the pulmonary branches of the pneumogastric nerve, by sympathy with the cardiac. Do.se: Grain doses of the 2nd or 3rd dec. trituration. Kalmia latifolia. Of this remedy Hering says, ]STo remedy in the whole materia medica has such control over the pulse, except digitalis.'''' In diseases of the heart which alternate with rheumatism, or have originated in rheumatic attacks, kalmia must become important. ISTo clinical reports have been made to substantiate this statement, nor do we know of any reliable symptoms of the medicine indicating its use. If useful at all, it is in the first stage. Cactus grandijlora was strongly recommended by Dr. Rubini for all inflammatory affections of the heart. He does not, however, mention pericarditis among his clinical observations, but says it cures pleurisy and inflammations](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2105633x_0095.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
