ceases;
on the first day, when waked from his sleep before midnight, he had a
violent cough, especially after lying down and sleeping, with
titillation at a very small spot, deep down on the posterior wall of the
thorax, which wakes him; he feels better as soon as the least little
portion of mucous is detached; cough particularly during warmth, during
rest, and rousing him from his first slumber for several evenings."
3. 1081, 746, 790: "Chilly every afternoon at three or four o'clock; she
shudders, especially during warmth; chill across the back, the hands
feel as if dead; in about an hour she felt hot and feverish, with rough
cough, hot cheeks and hands, without thirst; this passes off gradually,
she feels heavy and prostrate; cough and labored breathing as during
croup, after violent feverish heat, with dry skin and full pulse;
disturbed sleep, with muttering, timid and incoherent talk,
whitish-yellow coating of the tongue, and painless, yellow-greenish,
slimy diarrh[oe]a, in four days the breathing become labored, a violent
abdominal respiration, red face, increasingly livid, pulse hard, cough,
with barking resonance--pains in the chest, with labored breathing."
4. 754, 770, 772, 803: "Hurried, labored breathing, with heat and
headache; chest oppressed; difficult labored breathing; sense of
suffocation even when leaning against a thing; general debility; worse
during cold weather, accompanied by asthmatic pains; cough; sense of
suffocation; pains in the chest; coldness and deadness of the
extremities, which looked bluish; sense of soreness; lameness; sense of
bruising in the chest, as after recent contusions by a blow; jamming,
etc."
These observations do not indeed show with characteristic certainty the
diseases to which Apis might correspond. But if they are contrasted with
the total character of Apis; if we consider that Apis develops a
catarrhal irritation throughout the whole intestinal mucous membrane,
affecting most deeply the nervous system and the normal constitution of
the fluids, we have sufficient ground to experiment with Apis in those
respiratory diseases which seem to be inherent in the prevailing genius
of disease, and which are characterized by the very conditions which I
have described. Who is not struck by the fact, that the same individual
morbid process is reflected by different forms of disease, _croup_,
_whooping-cough_, _influenza_, _acute and chronic bronchial catarrh_?
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