Arnica: full doses of the infusion in sthenic reaction; low doses of the tincture in asthenia.
Venesection: in early stage of sthenic cases, if aconite or veratrum viride is not at hand; also when much excitement.
Ice Poultice or Jacket: in first stage of sthenic cases.
Gelsemium: in malarial and sthenic fevers, especially in pneumonia and pleurisy.
In various conditions of high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis and even during thesthenic stage of a fever, vasodilators may be indicated.
The serious acute congestion of the lung in sthenic pneumonia in a full-blooded, sturdy person with high tension pulse may be relieved by cardiac sedatives, vasodilators, brisk purging, or by the relaxing effect of antipyretics.
It is today just as frequent to see a slowly developing and slowly resolving pneumonia as to see one of the sthenic type that attacks one lobe with a rush, has a crisis in a seven, eight or nine days, and then a rapid resolution.
As this is a disease unattended by alterations of the blood itself, although a specific fever, and is of a sthenic type, active remedies are admissible and indicated.
Health is an intermediate grade of excitement; diseases, which are either sthenic or asthenic, represent either too high or too low a grade of excitement.
Bleeding was held to be the best measure; if it did the patient good, the sthenic diathesis was assumed; if it made him worse, the asthenic was certain.
Some of its epidemics are sthenic and even inflammatory in their type, while others have the malignant aspect of rapid blood-poisoning.
The sthenic inflammations take place in robust individuals with powerful hearts and an abundant supply of blood.
These contrasts have been exhibited on a large scale, for while upon the continent of Europe the disease for the most part has presented sthenic phenomena, it has been more generally asthenic and adynamic in Ireland.
The sthenic form of inflammation was most commonly associated with pneumonia, where the obstruction to the passage of blood through the lungs was an important cause of the superficial injection of the blood-vessels.
The advent of gangrenous pharyngitis is sometimes indicated by sthenic phenomena, but usually from the first it is marked by extreme prostration, comparable in some instances to the collapse of cholera.
Acute sthenic inflammations are rarely seen, and hence these persons seldom have acute croupous pneumonias; it is rather the catarrhal variety, and of this the subacute and chronic forms, which they suffer from.
The ancient types of sthenic and asthenic or adynamic, typhoid, bilious, and malarial dysenteries belong rather to history than to modern medicine.
Now, alkalies have a Catalytic action on the blood, which may prove useful in some sthenic fevers; and therefore these salts have a double action, and are not simply Restorative.
Antimony and bleeding are appropriate in sthenic cases.
These were to be used respectively in asthenic and in sthenic disorders.
For its power therefore as a Special Sedative, by which it produces nausea, Antimony is used in sthenic inflammations generally, especially in those that are rapid, and in which we desire a sudden and powerful action.
The medicines of the first order are employed in inflammatory disorders generally, and possess an influence over the process of sthenic inflammation, however first produced.
They have sometimes been employed with advantage in fevers of the acute or sthenic kind.
Thus when Antimony is given in large doses, as is desirable in some highly sthenic and dangerous attacks, its blood-action is lost in its immediate Neurotic operation.
If the gout were of a sthenic or inflammatory nature, might we not ask, why the causes which produce it, do not produce it in the meridian of life, when they produce their greatest effect, and when realsthenic diseases are most apt to occur?
The last lecture was taken up chiefly with an account of sthenic diseases, or those depending on too great a degree of excitement, and which have been generally, but improperly, called inflammatory or phlogistic.
When a slight uneasiness or predisposition is felt, it is almost impossible to say from our feelings whether it leads to a sthenic or an asthenic state: here we must be guided chiefly by the exciting powers.
But the stimulant powers may act so powerfully, and exhaust the excitability to such a degree, that they may overstep the bounds of sthenic or inflammatory disease and bring on debility.
Although the temperature, in sthenic cases, should be a little lower than in erethic cases, it is not advisable to use the water very cold, as this would cause too strong a reaction, and consequently new excitement.
Treatment of the violent, or sthenic Form of scarlatina anginosa 50 67.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sthenic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
