Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

in children, when the parts become dusky and the ulcers spread, and the mouth is putrid, andprostration is coming on rapidly.The child or the mother is growing weak with great rapidity, is becoming prostrated. Now, allthis without fever. Many of these ulcerative states in Baptisia are not attended with fever. It seemssometimes as though there were not life enough to get up a fever. Aphthous appearance in typhoid, inchildren, and with nursing mothers. Canker sores in the mouth. "Putrid ulceration of the whole buccalcavity". Now, with all this trouble saliva pours into the mouth, is thick and ropy and runs all over thepillow; like we find in Mercury.The sore throat may be gangrenous. A strong feature of it is that the ulcers are rapid andpainless, as if numb, without sensation. But it has a painful sore throat. "Fauces dark red; dark, putridulcers; tonsils and parotids swollen. Putrid sore throat. Tonsils and soft palate swollen, notaccompanied accompanied by pain". Great swelling; great tumefaction; purplish. The darker it is themore likely would I be to think of Baptisia---but never a bright red. I have never seen the Baptisiamental state associated with a bright red appearance. That low form of mental state is associated withblood decomposition, with duskiness, with a dark appearance of the skin, and of the mucousmembranes. Not bright red, not pink, as we find in Bell. Bell. is more commonly bright red, although ithas duskiness, but nothing to the extent of Baptisia. There is nothing like the putridity in Bell. that thereis in Baptisia. "Esophagus feels as if constricted from above down to stomach". Now, we have anotherphase of it. From the sore throat the trouble extends into the esophagus, and the esophagus is at first ina state of spasm.Later it is paralyzed. Fluids will at first go down the throat, but he cannot swallow a particle ofsolids. The bolus of food will go into the upper end of the esophagus and there it chokes him and feelslike a lump, and he chokes and struggles and gags and throws it back, and then takes water or fluids.He can swallow fluids but he cannot swallow solids. Every particle of solid food gags; but he canswallow liquids. Nat. mur. and quite a number of other remedies have spasms of the esophagus comingon with nervous complaints, but in this low state I know of no other medicine having that onesymptom, having these features, and the paralysis, and the spasmodic condition of the esophagus. "Theesophagus feels as if constricted from above down to the stomach". Constrictive feeling causingfrequent efforts at deglutition; throat sore, feels constricted. Can swallow only liquids. children cannotswallow solids. The smallest solid substance causes gagging, thus he cannot use anything but milk;some times, thin, watery, offensive passages day and night; associated with putridity, with theoffensiveness, with the duskiness and with the prostration. You need to know no more, if it isdiphtheria, or scarlet fever, if it is typhoid fever, that will lead you to a certain remedy. "Paralysis of theorgans of deglutition". To draw out from every remedy that which is positive, to get the associationsthat make up a particular remedy, and that only is the duty of every clinician.The abdomen is distended; the stomach is distended. We may have these symptoms ininflammation of the liver, when this remedy would be useful. Along with the diseases that I havementioned, tympanitic abdomen. Great soreness in the right iliac fossa; so sore and tender, no biggerthan a fist; but all of this putridity, I am sure, would prevent you from using a knife to cut off that littleappendix."Foetid, exhausting diarrhea. Aphthous diarrhea;" which means that the parts of the anus thatroll out are ulcerated, little aphthous patches inside of the margin. "Involuntary diarrhea".Involuntary urine and stool in these low forms of disease. "Dark brown, mucous and bloodystools. Foetid stools". It has dysentery. After confinement the lochia stops. Great tenderness of theabdomen. All these putrid signs--breaking down of the blood, the appearance of the face, the suddenprostration, suddenly becoming stupid; and add to that the mental symptoms--- these are all signs forBaptisia in puerperal fever. Now, intermingled with this after the case has been running on a few daysthe limbs become helpless and tremulous. The tongue when it is put out is tremulous. The hand when itis raised is tremulous, and the limbs are tremulous. Quivering all over the body.Prostration increases. The jaw drops and he lies upon the back unconscious, with the mouthwide open. He gradually slides down toward the foot of the bed. A peculiar sort of paralytic weakness.This is how the prostration increases with the disease; but even yet when he is as low as this, with thesigns present, Baptisia will break that fever. Baptisia will stop the typhoid fever, when it is indicated.Prostration and trembling. Huddles down in bed, feels as if sinking away. Lies in a semi-consciouscondition when she appears dying. Excessive drowsiness. Delirious stupor. Lies in a semi-comatosestate. "Discharges and exhalations fetid". Breath, stool, urine, ulcers; all putrid.Ulceration of mucous membranes.