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that Bell. patients will not have the hair combed or brushed. "Lets the hair hang down the back;" sosensitive is the scalp. "Hair feels as if pulled. Does not want the hair touched". There are someremedies that correspond to extreme irritation in very sensitive natures; like Hepar, where she faintswith the pain; like Nitric acid, when cannot bear the noise of vehicles going along the street, because itcreates such violent sufferings; like Coffea, where footsteps aggravate all the complaints; he was sosensitive to pain that the noise of one entering the door when he was on the third floor aggravated hissufferings intensely, though no one else could hear it. In Nux vomica, even the sound of footstepsincreases the pain all over the body. Bell. has in its nature all this sensitiveness to pain. It is a part ofthe general sensorium; the whole bodily state is intensified. The Chamomilla patient is oversensitive topain, but we do not need to sympathize with the Chamomilla patient, he will fight it out himself. Butyou will pity the Bell. patient, you will pity the Pulsatilla patient, and the Nitric acid patient.A strange part of it also is the reactive excitability. The reaction to medicine is so quick and sosudden that I have many times heard a patient say, before I had turned my back away from the bed,"That medicine has relieved me", so quick is the reaction. In many medicines reaction is slowed down,but in Bell. it is intensified. So it is in Nux vomica and in Zincum.When the case is very acute, but sometimes also when the case is somewhat chronic, thissensibility is marked. Cuprum is so sensitive all over. It has sensitive skin, sensitive polypi, everythingsensitive; and it is so sensitive in its reaction that, when it is needed, partially indicated remedies willnot work, because the patient is so oversensitive to everything that everything overacts. The smallestdose, the mildest dose, the simplest dose overacts and everything aggravates. Odors aggravate; wellselected remedies disturb instead of cure.Cuprum tones down, relieves that sensitivity, and well-selected remedies will then actcuratively and long. Cuprum lacks it in that high state of congestion-it is not like Bell. in that; Cuprumdoes not have that sensibility along with the active fever and congestion, the throbbing and disturbanceof the circulation; but it has it in a chronic state. Women and children are so sensitive that they get nosympathy-and it is not suitable for hysterical ones either, but those that are not able to controlthemselves perfectly. Such is Cuprum. We have medicines that are suitable to sensitive people, andespecially sensitive women.Sensitive to odors, sensitive to every conceivable influence.The doctor who will go out and take care of these poor sick little mortals, who understands theirnature, perceives their quality, and relieves them of their suffering, will command the wholecommunity, in spite of the reputation of all the doctors that are there before him. He must not be onewho measures everybody by his own sensorium; he may be a pachyderm, but he will find patients thatare sensitive.This sensitivity is present in most of the Bell. headaches.There are stabbing pains, throbbing pains, shooting pains, all in connection with congestion.They are all sensitive to motion, to every jar, to light, even to the winking of the eyes; sensitive to draft.Bell. will be indicated when the head is rolling -- the patient rolling the head because the pain is sosevere he cannot keep still, although the motion increases the headache. A child lies and turns andtosses its head with congestion of the brain, screaming out with the brain cry, a sudden shriek. Afterawhile it wakes up and commences to toss the head, and every few minutes it shrieks with that braincry; it is going into a stupor, the neck is drawn back, the face is flushed, it is now becoming pale.There are times of stupor, and in that stupor the child cries out. In all brain troubles we must becareful about feeding much, or overloading the stomach, because the stomach is very feeble.It will not digest much, but. the food should be well selected and light.Great heaviness of the head. The head feels like a weight, and is drawn back. Sometimes we seethe head drawn back from contraction of the muscles of the neck when the membranes of the upperportion of the spine are involved. Again, we see Bell.patient drawing the head back himself, because drawing the head back often ameliorates theviolent headaches. This amelioration is kept up so long as he holds the head back. Aggravated frombending the head forward when sitting,from bending the head forward when standing, or stooping. Itfeels as if the brain would fall out or push forward. This increases the headache so much that itsometimes turns into knife-like, or hammering pains.These are the expressions used. Sensation of nails and hammers, jagging and tearing; but withall, pressure and throbbing. When rising from a seat these sensations are all intensified.Throbbing; pulsation, like hammers hitting the inside of the skull was one continuous sore andwas being pecked by hammers with every pulsation. Sometimes it will settle down while sitting still, orwhile lying; but rising up from a chair will set that hammer going. "Expansive" is an expression that isoften used by the patient, and it was used by provers. Expansive sensation, as if the head was enlarged;