13.Collapso-therapy in giving rest to the affected lung sounds rational and is said to have rendered considerable service in the past. But we are to pause a little and consider it a bit deeply. The lungs as well as the heart are non-stop organs, and as such are meant for acting all through life The only occasion they are called on to cease functioning is at the cessation of life.
By blocking a lung for a considerable length of time, we only embarrass the other, which as the strain and stress of double duty that it can hardly perform. satisfactorily seems to catch tuberculosis earlier then it would otherwise., collapse-therapy, consequently, is doing moire harm than good. as it rapidly converts a unilateral case into a bilateral one, when the much admired collapso-therapy collapses completely.
14.Most cases require a series of remedies as indicated by their symptoms. The following scheme of remedies usually in their given order is frequently observed to operate:.
SULPHUR-CALCAREA CARB-LYCOPODIUM.
SULPHUR-CALCAREA SULPH-TUBERCULINUM.
NATRUM MUR-SEPIA-SULPHUR.
SULPHUR-THUJA-TUBERCULINUM.
THUJA-MEDORRHINUM-SULPHUR.
PULSATILLA-KALI SULPH-SILICEA-TUBERCULINUM.
NITRIC ACID-SULPHUR-TUBERCULINUM.
NITRIC ACID-SYPHILINUM-TUBERCULINUM[-SULPHUR.
TUBERCULINUM-CALC. PHOS., TUBERCULINUM.
BRYONIA-SULPHUR-CALCAREA CARB-TUBERCULINUM.
MYRTUS COM-SULPHUR-TUBERCULINUM.
PIX LIQUIDA-SULPHUR-PSORINUM.
THERIDION-SULPHUR-TUBERCULINUM.
IODINE-LACHESIS-LYCOPODIUM-SULPHUR-TUBERCULINUM.
KALI CARB-SULPHUR-KALI PHOS-TUBERCULINUM.
KALI BICHROM-SULPHUR-TUBERCULINUM.
KALI IOD-lYCOPODIUM-SULPHUR-TUBERCULINUM.
FERRUM PHOS-SULPHUR-TUBERCULINUM.
LACHESIS-LYCOPODIUM-SULPHUR-TUBERCULINUM.
GUAIACUM-PSORINUM-TUBERCULINUM.
SENECIO-SEPIA-SULPHUR-TUBERCULINUM.
The above scheme shows the predominate of the constitutionals and the nosodes, especially of Tuberculinum which is often the first or the last remedy to be administered.
But, alas! there is an insidious prick of conscience that we often feel, since we kill as many cases as we cure. Remedies are still wanting, and I wish I could discover many more that would as accurately conform to the pathological and biochemic process of tuberculosis, with their train of local symptoms, as to the back ground, which is the same as the general and the back ground, which is the same as the general and the constitutional state of the patient, considered to be of prime importance in Homoeopathy.
