Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

or jar; eyes fixed and glassy, face flushed, but later it is pale, eyes fixed- on a corner of the room,motionless; delirium, says strange things. Pain in the occiput.High grade inflammation which it carries to the finish. Pus forms abscesses with excruciatingpain .1 Violent catarrhal inflammations, vicious, septic states. Chronicabscesses, carbuncles, boils, abscesses in the joints, the left hip-joint is a special locality. You willoften be able to abort a case of hip-disease, and even when pus is present or fistulous openings haveformed it is very useful.Fulness, suppuration, and pain in the cartilages.Stram. stands alone among the deep acting remedies, in its violence of mental symptoms.Stram. cures eye troubles and irritation of the brain from overstudy: in students who are obligedto do much night work to keep up with day lectures. The patient seems almost blind; there is much painin the eyes in dim light, relieved in intense light.The mental symptoms, cough, head ache, etc., are worse from light."Dryness of throat and fauces, not benefited by any sort of drink. Swallowing difficult andimpeded With stinging pain in the throat, with pain in the submaxillary gland with convulsions;particularly fluids from constriction of throat". Choking on attempting to swallow water. It has donesome good work in hydrophobia. 1 In old cases of suppuration ofthe lungs where the cough is worse from looking into the light, Stram. is often a great palliative andcauses no aggravation.Retention of urine, cannot pass it if he ceases to strain; old men who have lost power over thebladder, stream flows slowly, cannot make haste.Cardiac affections with great constriction of the chest, mental irritability, delusions as topersonal identity, inability to sleep in the dark, great anxiety when on a train going through a tunnel,pulse irregular, heart feeble.Sleep full of dreams and turmoil.SULFUR [sulfur] [Kent’s](Sulfur ) Sulfur is such a full remedy that it is somewhat difficult to tell where to begin. It seemsto contain a likeness of all the sicknesses of man, and a beginner on reading over the proving of Sulfurmight naturally think that he would need no other remedy, as the image of all sickness seems to becontained in it. Yet you will find it will not cure all the sicknesses of man, and it is not well to use itindiscriminately any more than you would any other remedy. It seems that the less a physician knowsof the Materia Medica the oftener he gives Sulfur, and yet it is very frequently given, even by goodprescribers; so that the line between physicians' ignorance and knowledge cannot be drawn from thefrequency with which Sulfur is prescribed by them.The Sulfur is a lean, lank, hungry, dyspeptic fellow with stoop shoulders, yet manytimes it must be given to fat, rotund, well-fed people. The angular, lean, stoop-shouldered patient,however, is the typical one, and especially when he has become so from long periods of indigestion,bad assimilation and feeble nutrition. The Sulfur state is sometimes brought about by being longhoused up and adapting the diet to the stomach.Persons who lead sedentary lives, confined to their rooms in study, in meditation, inphilosophical inquiry, and who take no exercise, soon find out that they must eat only the simplestfoods, food not sufficient to nourish the body, and they end up by going into a philosophical mania.There is another class of patients in whom we see a Sulfur appearance in the face; dirty,shrivelled, red-faced people. The skin seems to be easily affected by the atmosphere. He becomes redin the face from riding in the air, both in very cold and in damp weather. He has a delicate, thin skin,blushing on the slightest occasion, , no matter how much he washes it.If it be a child, the mother may wash the face often, but it always looks as if it had been perfunctorilywashed.Hering called the Sulfur patient .The Sulfur scholar, the inventor, works day and night in threadbare clothes and battered hat; hehas long, uncut hair and a dirty face; his study is uncleanly, it is untidy; books and leaves of books arepiled up indiscriminately; there is no order.It seems that Sulfur produces this state of disorder, a state of untidiness, a state of uncleanliness,a state of "don't care how things go", and a state of selfishness. He becomes a , andthe more he goes on in this state the more he is disappointed because the world does not consider himthe greatest man on earth. Old inventors work and work, and fail. The complaints that arise in this kindof case, even the acute complaints, will run to Sulfur. You take such a patient and you will notice that