Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

lood to mount to the head, and favors apoplectic conditions. It has many complaints of the head likeunto the stupor of apoplexy. It has some of the paralytic conditions analogous to the complaints in oldapoplectics, and it has been very useful in re-establishing the supply and flow of nerve force along thenerves. It parallels Phos:, and is an excellent remedy for old paralytic conditions that have come from arupture of a blood-vessel, and therefore pressure upon the nerve supply. The headaches are congestive.pressive headaches; a feeling of pressure in the brain.These puny infants, such as we have described, have eruptions upon the head; eczema upon thehead; and those who are born for better things have the eruption driven back by ointments andapplications. "Moist crusts upon the scalp". "Dry eruptions upon the scalp. Falling off of the hair.Baldness". Head complaints and a dwarfish state of mind. an intellectual defect, as results ofsuppressed eruptions.It is full of eye symptoms. "Granular lids. Thickening of the eyelids; thickening of all of themembranes and tissues about the eyes. Opacity of the cornea". Infiltration of the various coverings. Ithas cured cataract, it has cured various kinds of dimsightedness, but especially in those that have a hazycornea, a slight opacity of the cornea (Bar.iod.) so that things look hazy, "looking as through a fog, orthrough smoke". Ulceration of the cornea. Little white spots, causing defective vision. "Lidsagglutinated in the morning". Styes. "A sensation of weight in the upper lids". A sensation of weight inthe brow with headaches as if the forehead was pressing down over the eyes.Like Carbo-veg., Carbo-an. and Natr-mur. The patient will often grasp the whole forehead withthe hands, and say, "I feel as if the forehead was pressing down over the eyes".It has many noises in the ears, but especially cracking and flapping when breathing, swallowingand chewing; better while lying. If affects the right ear most. Rushing sounds in the ears whenbreathing. "Eruptions about the ears. Glandular swelling and eruptions about the ears". Inflammation ofthe parotid glands, with hardness. First it may be called swelling, but it is finally a permanentenlargement and induration, and it means a great growth sometimes. Other glands about the neck areaffected in association with the ear troubles. Knots of lymphatic glands down the neck under the ear(Bar.m:, Tub.). Sometimes the sub- maxillary gland is affected, being enlarged and indurated.Sometimes the tonsils enlarge and indurate. All these glands inflame and become sensitive, andget a little larger, after any exposure to cold, and from sudden changes of the weather. It is a wonderfulmedicine for the cure of enlarged glands. Clinically it is laid down in the books for suppuration of theseglands, but all my life I have failed to find it a good remedy for suppuration. The inflammation is morelikely to turn into an increased infiltration. It is laid down in the books here for suppuration of thetonsils, but from long experience it is one of the last remedies I would think of for suppuration of thetonsils. It may have done so, but it has not been my observation that it runs that way, and I am verymuch in doubt about the great value and high marking of that observation. But it certainly hasinfiltration gradually increasing from becoming cold. The enlarged tonsils will redden up and inflameand become painful, and the acute inflammation and pain will subside, but the tonsils are a little largerthan with the last cold. In that way the tonsils keep growing. In children these are often cut out. Thereare instances in which I might admit it was necessary to cut them off, when there is a wonderfulsuperabundance, creating much disturbance in swallowing and in speaking. Two or three times l haveabsolutely failed to cure with remedies selected to the best of my ability, and they have gone to thesurgeon and he has cut them off; but I believe these tonsils ought to be all cured. One thing inHomeopathy taught in Hahnemann's Organon is that unless there are symptoms to indicate the remedy,no great things should be expected from the administration of the remedy. The enlargement of thetonsils alone is not a symptom upon which a remedy can be selected, and it necessitates guessing adozen times, and perhaps not hitting at all. That is the worst sort of practice, guessing at a remedy; yetthere are children having enlarged tonsils that appear to us without any symptom whatever to select aremedy by. The symptoms to prescribe on are such as represent the patient, not the glands; not thechanged tissue. We must always regret that the surgeon must come in, for in cutting off anything it maybe done to the constitutional detriment of the patient. Yet there are things that have to be done that weknow are to the constitutional detriment of the patient. We have to keep servants on their feet to earntheir living, and operations have to be performed upon them because they cannot lie up a year or two tobe cured. The surgeon will always have a place with us, but let us do our part as physicians first.Eruptions upon the face. The face is sickly, often purple, red, and bloated, or lean andemaciated, looking old and withered. The infant looks like a little old person, like the state we find inNat. mur. and Calc. With face troubles, with teeth troubles, and especially with throat troubles,enlarged glands under the jaw and down the neck. Ear diseases following scarlet fever. Enlargementand induration of the parotids and of the sub maxillary glands after scarlet fever. Scarlet fever oftenstirs up much trouble in the economy, especially when it has not been properly treated, when it has