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diarrhea, the coldness, the tendency to collapse, the sinking from the emptying out of the fluids of thebody.From what I have said you will see that the Cuprum case is, above all others, the spasmodiccase. It has the most intense spasms, and the spasms being the leading feature, they overshadow all theother symptoms of the case. He is full of cramps and is compelled to cry out with the pain from thecontractions of the muscles. Camphor is the coldest of all the three remedies; the Camphor patient iscold as death. Camphor has the blueness, the exhaustive discharge, though less than Cuprum andVeratrum; but whereas in the two latter remedies the patient is willing to be covered up, in Camphor hewants the windows open and wants to be cool. Though he is cold he wants to be uncovered and to havethe windows open. But just here let me mention another feature in Camphor. It has also someconvulsions which are painful, and when the pain is on he wants to be covered up and wants thewindows shut. If there are cramps in the bowels with the pain, he wants to be covered up. So that inCamphor, during all of its complaints in febrile conditions (and fever is very rare in Camphor), andduring the pains he wants to be covered up and warm, but during the coldness he wants to be uncoveredand have the air. In cholera, then, the extreme coldness and blueness point to Camphor. Again, withCamphor there are often scanty as well as copious discharges, so that the cholera patient is often takenso suddenly that he has the coldness, blueness and exhaustion and almost no vomiting or diarrhea, acondition called dry cholera. It simply means an uncommonly small amount of vomiting and diarrhea.This is Camphor. Another prominent feature is the great coldness of the body without the usual sweatthat belongs to the disease. Cuprum and Veratrum have the cold clammy sweat, and Camphor also hassweat, but more commonly the patient needing Camphor is very cold, blue and dry and wants to beuncovered. That is striking. Now we go to Veratrum and see that we can have three remedies verymuch alike, and so perfectly adapted to cholera and yet so different. Veratrum is peculiar because of itscopious exhaustive discharges, copious sweat, copious discharges from the bowels, copious vomiting,and great coldness of the sweat. There is some cramping and he wants to be warm; he is ameliorated byhot drinks, and by the application of hot bottles which relieve pain and suffering.These three remedies tend downward into collapse and death. Now to repeat: Cuprum for thecases of a convulsive character, Camphor in cases characterized by extreme coldness and more or lessdryness, and Veratrum when the copious sweat, vomiting and purging are the features. That is little toremember, but with that you can enter an epidemic of cholera with confidence.In cholera-like states there are other remedies which relate to Cuprum and which ought to beconsidered. Podophyllum has cramps, mainly in the bowel. It has a painless, gushing diarrhea withvomiting as well, and hence is useful in cholera morbus.The cramps in Podophyllum are violent, they feel to him as if the intestines were being tied inknots. The watery stool is yellow, and, if examined a little while after, it looks as if corn meal had beenstirred into it. The odor is dreadful, smelling like a Podophyllum stool. If you say it smells like stinkingmeat that only partly describes it; it is not quite cadaveric but it is horribly offensive and penetrating.The stool is gushing. copious, and is accompanied by dreadful exhaustion."It is a wonder where it can all come from", says the mother, speaking of the exhaustingdiarrhoea in an infant or in a child.The stool runs away gushingly, in prolonged squirts, with a sensation of emptiness, sinking,deathly goneness in the whole abdomen. Phosphorus also ought to be thought of in relation to Cuprum.It also has cramps in the bowels, exhaustive diarrhea, sinking as if dying, but commonly with heat ofthe skin, with burning internally, with gurgling of all the fluids taken into the stomach; as soon as theycome to the stomach they commence to gurgle, and gurgle all the way through the bowel. A drink ofwater seems to flow through the bowel with a gurgle. Now this gurgling in Cuprum commences at thethroat; he swallows with a gurgle; gurgling in the Esophagus when swallowing.Convulsive cramps all over the body with twitching, jerking, trembling and blueness of the skin.Everything he does, all his actions are spasmodic. are convulsive. All the sphincters are convulsive. Allthe activities are irregular, disorderly and convulsive when poisoned with copper. Bear these things inmind as we study every region in Cuprum. Repression or driving in of eruptions, attended with diarrheaand convulsions, sometimes only convulsions. We note a case of measles or scarlet fever with a rashthat has been suppressed by a chill or exposure to wind and convulsions have come on. That belongs toZincum and Cuprum, sometimes to Bryonia, but to Zincum and Cuprum particularly.Twitching of the limbs from a sudden suppression of a scarlet fever, with suppression of urine,chorea, etc. Cramping of the muscles of the chest; cramping of the calves; cramping all over.,Suppressed eruptions. Discharges that have been in existence quite a long time. The individual hasbecome debilitated and worn out with excitement, but this discharge barely kept him alive. He hasgradually grown weaker, but he has kept about because had had a discharge. It has furnished him a