ATROPHY OR WASTING. 



FATTY DEGENERATION OF HEART. 



The wasting of the muscular walls of the heart, it goes without 

 saying, ultimately results in a loss of substance, and a general 

 thinning, which of course, renders them quite incapable of per- 

 forming their functions ; it does not follow that the whole of the 

 organ shall become affected at the same time, and if one part is 

 more frequently implicated than another it is the auricles or upper 

 divisions of the heart. Weakness and feeble pulse are the most 

 characteristic symptoms, but it cannot be affirmed that these in 

 any way help the layman to discern the cause. 



Fatty degeneration of the muscular tissues involves an entire 

 change in the structure of the organ; the fibres which constitute 

 healthy muscle are softened and rendered incapable of strong 

 contractile power, by reason of the deposition of fat between the 

 Jayers of muscle, and in some extreme cases the muscular fibres 

 themselves appear to assume the appearance and qualities of fat. 



-For both these conditions Allopathy knows no remedy ; and 

 inasmuch as diagnostic symptoms are conspicuous by their ab- 

 sence there is not much chance for Homoeopathy; but if other 

 indications point to the remedy it is believed that Phosphorus -^\-^ 

 administered twice daily may ultimately arrest the destructive 

 process, if it does not absolutely aid in restoring the tissues to 

 their -healthy normal condition. Much of course will depend 

 upon the stage at which the disease process has arrived. 



ARTERIES. 



The disease conditions affecting arteries are of two kinds, the 

 one known as Embolisju, which is due to the formation of a clot 

 that plugs up the artery and interferes with the proper circulation 

 of the blood; the other as Aneurism by which is understood that 

 the walls of the artery have become diseased and expand over a 

 small surface so as to form a tumor; this may arise of itself from 



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