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 {{anchor:s109}}We will suppose the case to be in the first stage of the attack, what symptoms shall we be likely to meet? {{anchor:s110}}We will present, presently, the group given by Prof. {{anchor:s111}}Griesinger, of Tubingen, in Virchow's <span grade2>Handbuch der Speciellen Pathologie und Therapie,</span> 2te Band, 2te Abtheil., s. 130, as one of the latest and best pictures, from the writers of the old school of the phenomena of this stage. {{anchor:s112}}We do this, not because it is, perfect for the purpose of a homoeopathic prescription, but as, when taken in connection with translated symptoms of our Materia Medica, furnishing a convenient opportunity to answer, in part, the often repeated declaration of opponents of our school, that the phenomena of diseased action do not find a parallel in those of drug action. {{anchor:s113}}In this statement of the symptoms of the first stage of typhoid fever the author had no reference to any record of our Materia Medica, he simply intended to give a representative picture of the disease; the parallel symptoms of the Materia Medica were on the record long before Griesinger wrote. {{anchor:s114}}There was therefore no collusion. {{anchor:s115}}It is given also because of its <span grade2>representative character, i. e.,</span> it presents the symptoms the most important, as the author understands them; and the most frequently met in his practice, <span grade2>i. e.,</span> belonging to the greatest number of cases, thus furnishing a convenient opportunity, not only to present an answer to an oft repeated and groundless objection, but also the proper method of dealing with a record of symptoms where a prescription is to be made. {{anchor:s116}}It also demonstrates the truth of the principle, already stated, when having to speak of Acon., that remedies related to depressed vital force are those from which we shall find our curative, even in this first stage. {{anchor:s117}}Of these Ars. is certainly one of the chief. {{anchor:s118}}It is rare that a record of symptoms in practice can afford an opportunity for a more perfect compliance with the demands of the law of cure than these of Griesinger, when met by Ars.* [For the parallel of Griesinger and Ars., see the symptoms of An. in a future number of the Review.]
-{{anchor:s119}}But cases in practice are not constituted according to the models of the text books. {{anchor:s120}}The symptoms of each case, while presenting generalities sufficiently like these, show also special symptoms or combinations, by which it is characterized, and which constitute it an individuality. {{anchor:s121}}And in this individuality the case must be studied, and to this the remedy adapted by the law of similars. {{anchor:s122}}Typhoid fever, in its earliest existence, chiefly attacks and modifies the functions of the brain, and of the organs of the digestive apparatus. {{anchor:s123}}In its early stage these modifications are the proper objects of most careful study. {{anchor:s124}}It is in the functions of these organs that the fever, for the most part, makes its existence known, and in these it is to be combated. {{anchor:s125}}In the study of cases at the bed side, it will be found, that early in the history of the attack, a preponderance of important symptoms has shown itself in one or the other of these spheres, which marks the first step in the analysis of the case,, and that which decides whether the remedy is to be found in the class of drags which attack the brain by preference, of which Belladonna may, for convenience, be received as the representative; or in the class which by similar preference attacks the digestive apparatus, represented by Arsenicum; or if the case be mixed, <span grade2>i</span>. <span grade2>e.,</span> the two systems about equally affected, in the class of drags equally related to both, of which Bryonia may stand as a type. {{anchor:s126}}Where cases are marked with strong cerebral or abdominal preponderance, this classification may help some-what to find the right remedy. {{anchor:s127}}But as cases in practice will not make themselves up in models for our convenience, it is to be understood that in this analysis we only contemplate <span grade2>preponderance,</span> all cases being more or less mixed, in their cerebral and abdominal manifestations.
+{{anchor:s119}}But cases in practice are not constituted according to the models of the text books. {{anchor:s120}}The symptoms of each case, while presenting generalities sufficiently like these, show also special symptoms or combinations, by which it is characterized, and which constitute it an individuality. {{anchor:s121}}And in this individuality the case must be studied, and to this the remedy adapted by the law of similars. {{anchor:s122}}Typhoid fever, in its earliest existence, chiefly attacks and modifies the functions of the brain, and of the organs of the digestive apparatus. {{anchor:s123}}In its early stage these modifications are the proper objects of most careful study. {{anchor:s124}}It is in the functions of these organs that the fever, for the most part, makes its existence known, and in these it is to be combated. {{anchor:s125}}In the study of cases at the bed side, it will be found, that early in the history of the attack, a preponderance of important symptoms has shown itself in one or the other of these spheres, which marks the first step in the analysis of the case,, and that which decides whether the remedy is to be found in the class of drugs which attack the brain by preference, of which Belladonna may, for convenience, be received as the representative; or in the class which by similar preference attacks the digestive apparatus, represented by Arsenicum; or if the case be mixed, <span grade2>i</span>. <span grade2>e.,</span> the two systems about equally affected, in the class of drugs equally related to both, of which Bryonia may stand as a type. {{anchor:s126}}Where cases are marked with strong cerebral or abdominal preponderance, this classification may help some-what to find the right remedy. {{anchor:s127}}But as cases in practice will not make themselves up in models for our convenience, it is to be understood that in this analysis we only contemplate <span grade2>preponderance,</span> all cases being more or less mixed, in their cerebral and abdominal manifestations.
 {{anchor:s128}}In this paper, we propose to examine the relations of Bell., Hyos., Lach., Opium and Stram. to typhoid fevers with predominant cerebral symptoms. {{anchor:s129}}After the symptoms have been presented in groups, it will be easy for the student to perceive the resemblances and differences of the different groups, and from these differences to decide on the selection of either which may be appropriate to his case.

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