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fumbles and you ask him what he is trying to do---"why, I am trying to get those pieces together". Henever succeeds; he is in delirium, of course. These are only examples; you will get a new phase everytime you get a Baptisia case. Most of the time he is unconscious except when roused. Sometimesmutters. You will see his lips go, and you rouse him to see what he is about, and he is trying to get thepieces together. "Confused as if intoxicated".There are stages when he is not quite so stupid, and he is sleepless and restless. That is theexception. Most generally you will find him lying upon one side curled up like a dog, and he does notwant to be disturbed. Again, when the stupor is not so great he is restless and turns and tosses. In thatcase he cannot sleep, because he cannot get the pieces together. He feels if he could once get matterstogether he could go to sleep, and these parts that are talking to each other keep him awake. His mindwanders as soon as his eyes are closed. Dullness, especially at night. Indisposition to think. Mind seemsweak. There you find the whole picture of the mental aspect in all complaints, in all acute diseases---but they all come on in a hurry. They are zymotic, of a low form such as scarlet fever, such asmalignant diseases; and yet it takes on a continued type of fever. These patients will die in from ten totwelve days if let alone.Whereas, ordinary typhoid will run for weeks, and sometimes die at the close of four weeks in acrisis. The bleedings are black and offensive. The putridity is marked. In the mouth, the mucus fromthe throat and nose is bloody and putrid. It has a diarrhoea. Thin, fecal, watery, yellow. It has a typicaltyphoid discharge; the most typical typhoid stool is like yellow corn- meal mush, coming on manytimes a day, but soft, pappy, just about the consistency of soft mush. This remedy has that stool, but itis not the commonest form---but the black, the brown, the dark. In treating a good many cases oftyphoid it was my fortune to observe a large number of Baptisia cases, which the remedy curedpromptly. The stool where the Baptisia did the most service was like ground up slate, slate colored,brownish. The odor was penetrating. In addition to that I have seen this medicine cure that kind ofdiarrhea when it was slate colored, even thin as water, if it was horribly putrid like decomposed meat;like the cadaver, attended with great prostration---I have seen it cure that diarrhea when there werenone of the elements of typhoid fever present. A simple prostrating form of diarrhea. Exhaustion.Exhaustion comes rapidly. In three days he has a deathly sinking coming over him.The headaches are nondescript. Only those congestive attacks, frontal headaches---violent painsin the head, and especially in the occiput, such as occur in the low forms of disease. I hardly ever gointo the details of headaches. Baptisia is not a headache remedy. It is not a remedy that we would singleout to treat headaches with, except such violent pains in the head of a congestive character that areassociated with this low form of fever.It has characteristic eye symptoms. Congestion. Redness. Pains in the eyes, and back of theeyes. So it has with hearing. So it has with nasal symptoms. But associated with fevers. But as soon aswe come to the face we begin to realize the Baptisia symptoms, that besotted expression. Thecountenance shows that. The eyes show it, the face shows it. And these are the symptoms: "Dark redwith besotted appearance. Hot and perceptibly flushed; dusky".That tells the whole story. Burning; heat in the face. "Critical sweat on forehead and face.Anxious, frightened look". On rousing from sleep looks as if he had a horrible dream.And then comes the mouth, and the teeth, and the throat, and the tongue, all show markedBaptisia features. The tongue is swollen, painful, offensive. Covered with black blood. Raw; denuded.Stiff and dry as leather. Described as if it was made of wood, or burnt leather; ulcerated. Ulcerationruns all through the remedy. Aphthous patches. These little ulcers that start no bigger than a pin-headbecome black and are so offensive and run together so that the whole surface of the mouth will be in astate of ulceration; raw and denuded, oozing a thick saliva that is putrid. The throat takes on ulceration;is raw and bleeding.There may be diphtheritic exudations in the throat. But round about it there are those low, dark,offensive surfaces. The throat is greatly swollen, and it is with difficulty that he can swallow. Baptisiahas been a very useful remedy in gangrenous sore mouth and sore throat. "Cancrum oris". The ulcersspread rapidly and eat rapidly. They are really phagedenic. Sordes form rapidly on the teeth. And whenhe is roused from sleep after a few hours of stupor there is a building up on the lips and around thecorners of the mouth ridges of dry blood; very offensive.Bleeds much from the mouth, throat and nose. Thick oozing.Putrid. "Tongue red, and dry in the middle. The roof of the mouth swollen and feels numb. Foulor bitter nauseous taste in the mouth. Tongue of a dark hue. Tongue dry, brown down the center.Tongue covered with a thick, brown crust. Tongue yellowish white, deeply furred". Ulcers allover the mouth. Baptisia has cured the ulcerated sore throat of young mothers---and nursing sore mouth