Dental materia medica and therapeutics : with special reference to the rational application of remedial measures to dental diseases a textbook for students and practitioners / by Hermann Prinz.

  • Prinz, Hermann, 1868-1957
Date:
1913
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    which enter into the body from without. It is rather remarkable that tlie developmental study of diseases selected the most difficult ones—anthrax, hydrophobia, diphtheria, tuberculosis, etc.—for its initial investigation, while ordinary, sim])le infection, until lately, lias been grossly neglected. It is true that certain sera have been prepared for the purpose of combating the invasion of the pus producing micro-organisms, but they have in reality been of little benefit. Within recent years a new remedial measure has been intro- duced into therapeutics for the purpose of combating infectious diseases which is so surprisingly simple, and yet so very definite in its final result, that one can only wonder Avhy it was not dis- covered a long time ago. The object of the treatment consists in the increased utilization of the natural resources which the bodv possesses in the fight against local infection, and is known at pres- ent as the hyperemic treatment of Bier. Bier founded his con- ception of this treatment on observations which he had made in the clinic of Rokitansky in Vienna. lie had repeatedly pointed out that a lung with a chronic obstructive hyperemia resulting from some valvular insufficiency of the heart would not, in the great majority of cases, be attacked by tuberculosis. On logical reasoning Bier applied the same principle with surprisingly good results in the- treatment of chronic infections of the joints. In due time the technique of this treatment, depending largely upon the construction of suitable apparatus, had to undergo many modi- fications ; but, even with the remarkable increase of the scope of its utilization, its general application is still in its infancy. According to Mej’^er-Schmieden,^ the aim of Bier’s hyperemic treatment is to bring about “the increase of the beneficial inflam- matory hyperemia resulting from the fight of the living body against invasion,” and the most important principle underlying this treatment is that “the blood must continue to circulate—there must never be a stasis of the blood.” In German, Bier calls his treatment Stauungshyperdmie,- a term which expresses the cause as Avell as the effect. Stauung, translated into English, means 1 Willy Meyer-Schmieden: Bier's Hyperemic Treatment, 1908. 2 Bier: Hyperamie als Heilmittel, 1903.