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once impressed with the idea that there must be some profound weakness in his lung power. We knowthat it is in the power of the lungs to produce an expulsive action with the deep inspirations. They haveno such power in Antimonium tart. The chest is full of mucus and it rattles; the cough is a rattlingcough, but the mucus does not come up, or only a small quantity comes up, but it does not relieve him.His chest is full of mucus, he is suffocating and he is really passing away, dying from carbonic acidpoisoning due to a jack of expulsive power. In cases of pneumonia; when first coming down with achill, it may be a very violent attack, such an attack as from its violence produced prostration early, thatis, after three or four days. It is not indicated in the beginning during the chill,and during the high gradeof inflammation, but during the stage of exudation.But the violence of the attack leads him to a state of prostration, or he is already feeble as if hewere old, and therefor he becomes easily relaxed and prostrated from the disease. Altogether unlikeAconite, Bell., Ip. and Bry.,1> for they come down with violence - the very opposite is present inAntimonium tart. Little fever, cold sweat, coldness, relaxation, hippocratic aspect. So it is the remedythat closes out the scene with the severe cases of bronchitis, pneumonia; most of these cases die in anAntimonium tart. state. This patient is an old gouty patient,1> debilitated from long illness, alwaysshivering, pale, with enlarged joints. Every spell of wet weather brings on a catarrhal state of the chest,larynx and trachea which runs into a state of copious secretion of mucus. He is in bed at once,prostrated, with coarse rattling. In children that have frequent attacks of bronchitis, from cold wetweather. No sooner do they get over one cold than another cold comes on. The acute stage is neverviolent with them, but they keep having these passive rattling colds. Recurrent rattling in the chest, butdo not come down with weakness and are not prostrated from it, but keep on rattling, they call for Kalisulf.That is quite a distinguishing feature, the weakness at once speaks for this remedy. In very oldpeople this weakness occurs, old broken down people who have for years had catarrh of the chest.Every sharp cold spell in the winter brings on catarrh of the chest, with thick white mucus, and attendedwith great dyspnoea, driving him to bed. He must sit up in bed and be fanned; cannot lie down becauseof the difficult breathing, and filling up of the chest.Antimonium tart. will ease him over a number of these attacks before he dies. When the mucusis yellow and purulent in one of these old people, Ammoniacum will tide him over a good manywinters. We see a good many old people that suffer from catarrh of the chest during the winter; theyhave had it for years, and do not expect to be any better. When the expectoration is yellowAmmoniacum will pull them through, and Antimonium tart. when it is white and attended withprostration, sweat, coldness, pallor and blueness of the face. These are the principal uses of this remedyin practice.It has many pains and aches. To a great extent Ant-tart.builds upon the Antimonium crudum basis. It forms its chest symptoms to a great extent uponthat basis. Many of the symptoms are like Antimonium crudrum ; many symptoms are worse whenwarmed up, and from too much clothing. You will see this patient sitting up in bed with no clothingaround the shoulders or neck, and the night-gown wide open in order to breathe. Suffocates if the roomis too warm. It gets that from the Antimonium crud. It is worse from bathing in cold water, likeAntimonium crud.> Antimonium crud. Also he does not want to be meddled with or bothered.Everything is a burden. The child when sick doesn't want to be touched or talked to or lookedat. Wants to be let alone. The infant is always keeping up a pitiful whining and moaning. Many timesthe respiration is a moaning respiration. Rattling and moaning. Always in bad humor, that is, extremelyirritable when disturbed. Any disturbance seems to increase the breathing and is an annoyance andmakes the patient irritable. No wonder the patient is wonderfully anxious, because from his appearancewe would say that he must have the feeling that he is dying. He looks as if he were sinking, and if hedoes not get relief soon he certainly will die, for there is a filling up of the chest that is suffocating him,and the feeling is that of suffocation, dyspnoea, which is steadily increasing. The wings of the nosemove as in Lycopodium. Lycopodium competes with it very closely and resembles it very much.There are many headaches laid down under Antimonium tart., but Antimonium crud. is morelikely to work out for Antimonium headaches, while this medicine is more likely to work out forAntimonium chest troubles. Both of these remedies have very decided gastric symptoms. Constantnausea, vomiting and indigestion. Antimonium tart. with its difficult breathing is sick at the stomach.Loathes everything, loathes food; vomits even water. He has also a docile state and if allowed to bequiet, in spite of all the sufferings he will fall into a sleep, or go into a state of inability to feel. He willcough and sleep, and snore through the dyspnoea, so that it is in many ways like Antimonium crud., butAntimonium crud. has nothing like the copious flow of mucus from mucous membranes that areinflamed. It has nothing like the passive state of the whole economy. It is not so desperate in itsprovings, and not so dreadful to look upon.