Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full of imaginations. Sees ghosts, and spirits, and officers, and wild things. In the early part ofthe fever the delirium is very violent and excitable;, but as it passes on he goes into a sleep, a sort ofhalf-slumber, a semi-comatose state. Apparently in a dream, and he screams out. Dreams horriblethings. Sees in his dreams the things that he talks about. When he has real sleep, or resting, as near as itis for him to rest, he has violent dreams; night-mare. Sees things on fire. He is in a delirium, and intorment. He becomes stupid at times, appears to lose consciousness. Loses the memory of all thingsand then becomes wild. His delirium goes on when appears to be sleeping.These symptoms often occur with cerebral congestion, the violent cerebral congestion of theinfant. If they are old enough to talk they will talk about the hammering in the head. In Bell. the infantalso commonly remains in a profound stupor, the profound stupor that goes with congestion of thebrain; pupils dilated; skin hot and dry; face red, throbbing carotids. Finally the child becomes pale asthe stupor increases and the neck is drawn back, because as it progresses the base of he brain and spinebecome involved, and the muscles of the neck contract, drawing the head backwards, and he rolls thehead; eyes staring, pupils dilated.This mental state is associated with scarlet fever and with cerebrospinal meningitis.Again, these mental states take the form of acute mania, when the patient will bite the spoon;will bark like a dog; will do all sorts of violent things; even jump out of the window. He has to berestrained, put in a strait-jacket. The face is red, and the skin is hot, and the patient at times says that heburns all over, or that the head burns, and the head is very hot. During all this time the feet are cold.Head hot, feet cold, or feet and hands cold as ice. It seems all the blood is being hurried to the head. Allsorts of delusions and hallucinations are mingled with the acute mania; ghosts; horrid monsters; strangethings, and deformed subjects. Fear of imaginary things, and wants to run away. In the delirium of Bell.he wants to jump out of the window, wants to run, wants to get away from his attendants. He thinksthey are doing him injury. Throughout the acute mania, and throughout the delirious state, all themanifestations partake of violence. Destructiveness. The Bell. patient in the most acute state must bewatched, controlled, handled, and sometimes tied.In the text it describes these states as "rage, fury". He wants to do violence. "Moaning. Insteadof eating, bit wooden spoon in two, gnawed plate, and growled and barked like a dog. A boy violentlysick ran around the room laughing immoderately. It has an insane laughter. A loud, boisterous laughter."A piece of bread, which he took to be a stone, he threw far from him. He turns and rolls in bed in aperfect rage. Aversion to noise and company". Aversion to light; is better; in the dark. At times a morepassive state intervenes between these attacks of violence.The active time is always that of violence; but there is sometimes a more passive state when thepatient will sit or lie in bed and tear the bed clothing, or break anything that she can get hands on. If itis a stick, she will break it up.Running all through the complaints, whether delirium, fever or pains, there is starting. Startingin sleep like an electric shock. Just as soon as he falls asleep a sensation like an electric shockthroughout the body. "Starts in fright at approach of others. Fear of imaginary things, wants to turnaway from them. "Great anxiety" runs through the remedy. As a patient comes out of these attacks ofdelirium, as he comes out of convulsions, fear is depicted upon the face. The patient is in greatexcitement; the circulation is in a state of great excitement; the heart is in great excitement; motion andemotion increase the beating of the heart.It may have been gleaned that Bell. is a remedy that is oversensitive; a state of hyperaesthesia;extreme irritability of tissues. This is said to be an increased irritability of the nerve centers. Thisdevelops a state of increased ability to taste, and to smell, and to feel; excitability of the sensorium.Sensitive to impressions. Sensitive to light, to-noise, to touch, to jar. The sensorium is violentlyexcited. Excessive nervous irritability stands out, perhaps, as one of the most prominent features ofBell. in contrast with medicines like Opium, that deprive the patient of all sensitivity. The morecongestion there is in Bell. the more excitability. The more congestion there is in Opium the lessexcitability. And yet they are very similar in many respects;.very similar in aspect; in the appearance ofthe eyes and face; similar in pathological states. If I were to prescribe on the pathological state, thecongestion of the brain, the appearance, without taking in the intensity of the one or other, I would notbe able to distinguish between Opium and Bell.They often antidote each other. But we do not prescribe on pathology, but upon symptoms, aftercareful individualization."Vertigo", with this intense excitability. Turning in bed, or moving the head makes him dizzy."Things go round". "Vertigo with pulsations". Moving the head increases the pulsation, and the vertigo.The patient lies in bed; cannot hold the head up. This increased sensitiveness especially applies to thesleep. We notice it particularly in the woman. She cannot have the hair bound up. It is often the case