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fifty. From some strange circumstance which we are not able to fathom we say the individual is takingon the appearance of old age. We call it premature old age. Baryta carb. has cured lingering complaintsthat have resulted from malaria, overwork mental or physical, prolonged mental strain, when theappearance of premature old age was a prominent feature. Old age creeps upon him too soon. There isbut little difference between childhood and old age, and hence old age is called second childhood hood;but we always regret to see a man under seventy becoming childish, and yet we do see many becomingsimple and childish. It does not mean merely imbecility, but childlike behavior. Doing and sayingthings like a child. So in premature old age these symptoms lead us to think of Baryta carb.Baryta-carb. has cured fatty tumors, encysted tumors, lumps, outward growths of tuberculouscharacter, sarcoma; and it has mitigated the pains and sufferings, and has prolonged life in cancerousaffections.Mentally it is worthy of careful study, and we will see cropping out in the mental symptoms allof the phases intermingled with tissue changes. The Baryta carb. child will be seen hiding behind thefurniture when strangers come in; will hide as for shame of something, or as if afraid. It imagines allsorts of strange things, that it is talked about, or laughed at.It does not seem to advance. It does not seem to do any good to teach it, for it does the samethings over and over and remains untrained. They either cannot comprehend, or they cannot memorize,or they cannot maintain a thought, and you go over it and over it, and the mother wonders if that childis ever going to learn something, and the teacher reports that the child lacks capacity. The teachercannot comprehend it, the mother cannot comprehend it, but the homeopathic physician should knowall about it at once. If he knows his Materia Medica he should be well up in the development of a feeblechild; those who are going towards rickets, who are feeble, who are always depending on somebody,fined only for menial places. The homeopathic physician does well when he trots the little Johnnies andthe little Susies on his knee and takes a good, fair observation of their ability, and of what they lack,and understands how to build up what is lacking. Is not that in itself worth working for? It requires allof the potencies that have ever been made to master constitutions. Some will require medium potencies,some very low, some very high. Let us not deprive our little ones of anything they need. Only so welook forward to the highest use, to develop them into their fullest capacity.There is an expression here in the text, "Want of clear consciousness". Do we not see from whatI have said what that must mean in this remedy, and that it is different in this remedy from what it is ina good many others? And yet if you had read that symptom first you would not have appreciated it. "Awant of clear consciousness". especially in old age has that been useful.It is not that confusion of mind that we know to be dizziness.But he is not clear in his intellect. We see how this medicine takes hold of the intellect. It takeshold of his memory. It begins with a feeble state, and it gradually travels toward imbecility. You pressit to its extreme and it has imbecility, and up to this we have degrees all along the line from the verybeginning, from a mere matter of cloudiness in his thoughts to imbecility.When the Baryta carb. babies appear in the clinic they will keep the hand up over the face andpeek out through the fingers.Bashful. Timid. Easily frightened. Afraid of strangers. Other remedies have similar features, butit is a strong feature of this medicine. Withered face. Sickly countenance. It is the idea of hiding, theidea of timidity. The child does not want to play, and it sits in the corner. Does not pay any attention toits hammer, if it is a boy; or its doll, if it is a girl. Sits and sits. Does not seem to be thinking; a lack ofability to think.Children grow up without any distinctiveness, without any ability to perceive, and therefore failto develop. Always borrowing trouble. Like Caust., fear of something going to happen. Full ofimaginations; imaginary cares and worries. Hatching up all sorts of complaints and grievances that mayhappen. A good deal like Ars. Children in a constant whining mood; always whining. Running throughthe complaints will be the sufferings of the parts, or the mental symptoms. "The more he thinks aboutthe complaint the worse it gets". If he thinks about his troubles, his sufferings, they at once grow worse.Premature old age and brain-fag from prolonged mental work.Troublesome headaches. "Pressure in the brain". A feeling of looseness in the brain, as if thebrain fell from side to side or was rising and falling. A sensation of motion in the brain when movingthe head or from sudden jar. Seems as if the brain moves to and fro to correspond to the motions of thehead when the head is turned from side to side. "Pressing headaches". Headaches ameliorated in freshair, in the open air, and aggravated from heat. That is the opposite of its general state. The Baryta carb.general state is aggravated from cold; he is sensitive to cold, and his complaints come on frombecoming cold; but his headaches are ameliorated in cool air. The Baryta carb. patient is often sensitiveto the extremes of heat and cold. Hot weather will bring on complaints. Hot weather will cause the