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BARYTA CARBONICA [bar-c] [Kent’s]Baryta carbonica is an interesting study, because it is fully proved and a constitutional remedy.Such remedies are always more interesting than the short-acting superficial ones. They take hold indeep-seated, long lasting, miasmatic troubles. This remedy looks towards the development of theyoung. You will see in the text commonly expressed under this medicine, "dwarfishness". That doesnot always mean small in stature as it is spoken of in this remedy. Dwarfishness in body and mind;mental dwarfishness, and dwarfishness of organs. You realize what precocity means; young personswho are unusually brilliant; well advanced mentally. We say they are beyond their years. They areprecocious. Get this in mind first, and think what it means; and then in the Baryta carb. constitution wehave the very opposite state. That is what we mean by dwarfishness. Children are late coming intousefulness; or activity; late with their studies; late learning to talk; late learning to read; late learning tomake the combinations that enter into life; late learning to take in images, and form perceptions; to takeon their activities; to do their work. We say sometimes that Calc-carb. is late in learning to walk, butBaryta carb. is also late learning to walk, although it has an entirely different cause. To express it in acommon, old-fashioned way, Baryta carb. is late learning how to walk. even with pretty good limbs.Calc. has miserable, weakly limbs, flabby muscles, poor bones, and hence he is late learning to walk."Late walking" is Calc. "Late learning to walk" is Baryta carb. It competes also with Borax and Natrummur. All three of these medicines have a peculiar kind of tardiness in the development of the brain, sothat they are late learning to do things; late in developing. But Baryta carb. leads them all in this latecoming into the activities and uses of life.You will have patients to treat, where this slow development late learning to talk; late learningto read; late learning to make the combinations that enter into life; late learning to take in images, andform perceptions; to take on their activities; to do their work. We say sometimes that Calc. carb. is latein learning to walk, but Baryta carb. is also late learning to walk, although it has an entirely differentcause. To express it in a common, old-fashioned way, Baryta carb. is late learning how to walk. evenwith pretty good limbs. Calc. has miserable, weakly limbs, flabby muscles, poor bones, and hence he islate learning to walk. "Late walking" is Calc. "Late learning to walk" is Baryta carb. It competes alsowith Borax and Natrum mur. All three of these medicines have a peculiar kind of tardiness in thedevelopment of the brain, so that they are late learning to do things; late in developing. But Barytacarb. leads them all in this late coming into the activities and uses of life.You will have patients to treat, where this slow development think of this remedy. A singleorgan fail to mature, and the others go on; one-sidedness, a partiality of development.The next grand feature of this remedy is its affinity for the lymphatic glands all over the body.The glands all over the body enlarge and indurate the glands of the neck, the glands of the groin, thelymphatics in the abdomen are all affected---knotty chains form in the neck. With a few other thingsthat we will put together shortly we will see in this patient a peculiar figure.It has emaciation---gradual dwindling in persons who have been fat, who have been wellnourished. It has an enlarged abdomen. It has been found suitable in marasmus, for children withenlarged glands, enlarged abdomen; emaciation of the tissues, emaciated limbs and dwarfishness mind;you have there the whole Barytacarb.marasmus.The patient himself is chilly; sensitive to cold; wants to be well wrapped. Marked weaknesswith feeble pulse is a strong feature and he must lie down; he is worse standing and sitting.The weakness is worse after eating. His pains are better from motion and in the open air. Hiscomplaints are aggravated by cold. The enlarged glands take on tenderness and congestion from beingexposed. The tonsils gradually increase. The glands of the neck increase in size, and in hardness, fromevery cold and from becoming chilled."Swelling and induration of glands. Inflammation of glands with infiltration". Infiltrationbelongs to the remedy. The glands become harder and harder. Ulcers become indurated in their base.Open surfaces become indurated in their walls. When a child has almost any disease, measles, scarletfever, mumps, or even a bad cold or a malarial attack, the development ceases and dwarfishness results,a state in which he was not born but state that he has acquired, arrest of development. It brings onemaciation and dwindling of the whole body, except the abdomen, which gradually enlarges. These arephases not to be overlooked in the very beginning because the symptoms only help to establish thisbasis and these troubles and tissue changes come on as ultimates.Another grand feature in this remedy is the application of these things to more advanced years.We say this is a childhood state, this is the state of youth and arrested development. Now it does notmatter whether we have this arrested development in youth, in childhood, or at the advanced age of