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muscles everywhere, paralysis of the limbs. Even diphtheria has been known to induce a state verymuch like I have described as due to loss of sleep and anxiety. I remember a case of paralysis of thelower extremities that was prescribed for by a very careful homeopathic physician many years ago. Itwas one of the things that surprised me in the early days of my prescribing and observation. It was thecase of a little girl with paralysis of lower extremities after diphtheria and no hope was given. ButDoctor Moore (he was then an Octogenarian) looked over the case.I was acquainted with the family and with the doctor. He studied the case care fully and gaveCocculus c.m. It was not many days before the child began to move the legs, and the condition wasperfectly cleared up, and I have never ceased to wonder at it. It was a good prescription, perfectly inaccord with all the elements of the case. Doctor Moore was one of the pupils of Lippe and Hering.You can readily see what is coming when the mental activities are slowed down, from anxiety,and loss of sleep, such as we have in nursing. The mind appears like approaching imbecility, and asyou look upon the true Cocculus case you wonder if that patient has not been growing insane for a yearor two, because the mind seems almost a blank. He looks into space and slowly turning the eyes towardthe questioner answers with difficulty. It occurs in nervous prostration, in typhoid fever. It is so nearlylike Phos.acid that the two remedies must be carefully individualized. Time passes quickly. He cannotrealize that it has been a whole night.A week has gone by, and it seems but a moment, he is so dazed.Slowness of comprehension; cannot find the right word to express his thoughts, so slowly doeshis mind work; what has passed he cannot remember; forgets what he has just read; cannot talk; cannotbear the least noise; cannot bear the least contradiction.The tongue will not respond. There is confusion of mind and difficulty of articulation. An ideacomes into his mind and becomes fixed. He cannot convert it or move it, but it just stays there, and ifhe speaks he will say something that will cause you to realize that that same idea is holding on to him.So he appears to be in a state of imbecility. Mental derangement with vertigo. With most all the mentalsymptoms there is vertigo. He lies in a state of apparent unconsciousness, yet knows all that is going onand at times is even able to remember and describe what was going on, but does not even wink; doesnot move a muscle. There is an appearance of ecstasy, a smile upon the face.Knows what is going on, yet with complete relaxation of the muscles without speech orapparent recognition of anyone.Perfectly relaxed, and yet knowing what is going on. That resembles catatonia. Unable to think.Fears death. Feels as if some awful thing was about to happen. All this is the result of grief, anxiety,vexation, prolonged loss of sleep. The vertigo is usually attended with nausea. A Cocculus case cannotlook out of the car window, cannot look down from the boat and see water moving, without nauseaimmediately.Perhaps you can even now surmise what the head symptoms are to be. With the headachescome dizziness, extreme nausea and gastric symptoms. Headaches brought on from riding in a wagonor riding in the cars or on shipboard; headache from motion. Cannot accommodate the eyes to movingobjects; dizziness and whirling and headache. Congestion of the head, pressing, throbbing headache.Headache as if the skull would burst or like a great valve opening and shutting. Sick headache withvertigo. Headache again from working in the sun. Sick headache from riding in a carriage.Dim sightedness and disturbance of vision. Paralytic weakness of the muscles of the eyes, aswell as the muscles of accommodation. The face becomes pale and sickly. Pale as death, with pains inthe face, vertigo and nausea. Tearing pains in the face. Neuralgia of the face. Face bloated. Quiveringand twitching of the muscles of the face. Paralysis of the muscles of the face. Numbness of the face.Twitching, jerking, numbness, paralysis, tearing pains.Prostration and nervous exhaustion accompany most of the complaints of Cocculus.Stomach symptoms. Loathing of food. Metallic taste in the mouth. Bitter taste in the mouth.Sour, nauseous taste in the mouth, and no food tempts him. He lies there sick with a little fever or a"cold". Headache, vertigo, nausea, loathing.Intermittent fevers with pains in the limbs, especially in the knees and bones of the legs, withthat peculiar stiffness, nausea, and loathing of food. In intermittent fever or perhaps a low typhoid state,we have this loathing of food with nausea. You go to the bedside and you ask the nurse, "What haveyou been feeding the patient?" and the patient gags. The thought of food makes the patient gag. Thenurse will say that every time she mentions food the patient gags. That thought of food or the smell offood in the other room, or in the kitchen, will nauseate the patient. Two medicines have this--Cocculusand Colchicum.