Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

check of all the cancerous affections known. It will progress most rapidly, but Conium is one of thoseremedies that will slow down that inflammation and restrain somewhat the hemorrhages. Conium hasproduced induration and infiltration of the cervix.Difficult breathing. Dry cough almost constantly, worse lying in bed. Cough when first lyingdown. Is obliged to sit up and cough it out. Taking a deep breath causes cough. Such are the strikingfeatures of a Conium cough. In the chest, violent stitches. Painful swelling of the breasts. Rending,tearing pains in the chest.In the back, weakness is a most striking thing, with some dorsal pains. Lancinating pains arespoken of. "Ill effects of bruises and shocks to the spine". After injuries, especially in the lumbarregion, pains and filling up of the veins of the lower limbs. Rheumatic pains; paralysis of the lowerlimbs; ulceration.And the sufferings and conditions are better by letting the limbs hang down. Conium differsfrom a great many medicines. It is common for pains and aches to be relieved by putting the feet up ona chair; by putting them up in bed. But the patient with the rheumatism, with the ulceration of the legsand the other strange sufferings of the legs, will lie down and permit his legs to hang over the bed up asfar as the knee. That is something that somebody ought to undertake to account for, so we could have atleast one thing we could prescribe for under pathology. But up to date we have no explanation.Tottering gait in middle-aged men.Another grand feature of the remedy; he sweats copiously during sleep. Sometimes the patientwill say that if he merely closes the eyes he will sweat. It is certainly true on closing the eyespreparatory to going to sleep he will break out in a sweat. Owing to the fact that Conium produces sucha marked induration and infiltration of tissues that have been inflamed, stenoses are apt to form whereinflammation has been present.Stricture of the urethra and stenosis of the os uteri have been cured by Conium.CROTALUS HORRIDUS [crot-h] [Kent’s](Rattlesnake) The first impression would be to rebel against the use of such substances asCrotalus, Lachesis, Apis and other animal poisons, and it" is true that " the lay mind must look withsomething like horror upon their administration; but when they are properly used and when weconsider the dreadfulness of the necessity demanding them, and also when we have ascertained thatthere can be no substitute when demanded, and again that they are potentized and changed until theyare perfectly pure, because reduced to a state of simple substance, the horror passes away from themind. It is true that the diseases that call for the use of such substances as Crotalus are very grave.When at the bedside of a Crotalus patient one feels that death is very near, the subject is horrible tolook upon, and the mother in regard to her child, or the husband, would immediately say, "Doctor, useanything in order to save the life; resort to anything in order to heal this sick one".The symptoms are peculiar in Crotalus. The remedy stands out by itself. Where can be nosubstitute for it, as there is no other remedy, taken as a whole, that looks like it. The other snakepoisons form the nearest resemblance, but this one is the most dreadful of all, excepting, perhaps, theAncistrodon contortrix (Copperhead). In the case of snake bites we get the most dire effects; we seedeath itself, we see' the ending after a very rapid course, the very highest type of zymosis. These snakepoisons are supposed to be cyanhydrates of soda and other salts. It is known that alcohol is the naturalsolvent of the cyanhydrates, and because of this alcohol has been used in great quantities in snake bites,and it has frequently prolonged and even saved life. If he lives through the violent attack he goes onforever manifesting the chronic effects, and from these we have collected symptoms. Dogs that havebeen bitten manifested the chronic effects of rattlesnake bite, and in them a peculiar periodicity hasbeen manifested,viz., every spring as the cold weather subsides and the warm days begin. I once hadthe privilege of tracing up a dog that had been bitten by the Cenchris and had survived. It was bitten inthe region of the neck, and in that region a large abscess formed every spring as long as that dog lived,until old age, when lie died from that disease. The periodicity in the snake poisons is related to thespring, to the coming on of the warm weather.Another marked general feature in Crotalus, as in most of the other Ophidians, is that the patientsleeps into the aggravation.The poison of the Crotalus horridus, in its earliest manifestations, is like unto the zymoticchanges that we find in scarlet fever, in diphtheria, in typhoid and low forms of blood poisoning, thosecases that come on with great rapidity, breaking down of the blood, relaxation of the blood vessels,bleeding from all of the orifices of the body, rapidly increasing unconsciousness like one intoxicatedand besotted in appearance.