Homoeopathic Treatment of Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Cholera Morbus, and the Cholera; With Repertories for These Diseases (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849. Excerpt: ... extremely delicate thermometer, by means of which, the relation, that in the higher classes of animals, is known to exist between animal heat and aeration, is proved to hold even among different species of insects as compared with each other; those which produce more carbonic acid, possess a more elevated temperature. This may therefore be regarded as a universal law. There is no difficulty in understanding why the skin should have "a dark color, whenever the deficiency of animal heat in the body, and of the. oxygen used and the carbonic acid formed during respiration, evince an accumulation of carbon in the blood. APPLICATION TO THE PATHOLOGY OF CHOLERA. That a dark color of the blood is one of the characteristics of Cholera, is well known. To this color of the blood we are to attribute the livid color of the surface of the body--a color which is not, however, identical with that of the blood, but depends partly upon the color of the medium through which the blood is seen., In this disease, there is frequently no sensible difference between the color of the venous and that of the arterial blood. Many physicians have compared the blood to tar or treacle. The blood drawn from a patient was found by Dr. Reid Clanny to be as black as tar, and to contain more than twice as much carbon as healthy blood. It was tasteless, and contained no carbonic acid or gas of any kind. The want of taste cannot be wholly referred to the elimination of salts, but affords evidence of a defect in the respiratory function; for the stronger taste is one of the properties acquired by this liquid in4raversing the lungs; and as superior sapidity distinguishes arterial from venous blood, we might naturally expect it to distinguish venous blood from supervenous. Whether the carbon whic...