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in the morning, or until after midnight. So that during the night its fever is highest. The fever comes on,and rises rapidly, to a very high temperature, sometimes 104 or 105, and runs down again to almostnormal; but not with complete apyrexia. It is not suitable in complaints with complete apyrexia, for thatmarks complete periodicity which Bell. has not.The heat, the redness and the burning characterize most of the skin symptoms. It has a fine rash;not the coarse rash, but the fine, scarlet red, smooth rash. It has inflammation of the skin, phlegmonous,a deep inflammation. First bright red, gradually grows bluish or purple, or mottled; and in this there isthe heat, redness and burning. It is not suitable generally for the erysipelatous inflammation of the skinand deeper tissues, covered with vesicles, like Rhus. Vesiculation is sometimes present, but it is theexception, while in Rhus it is the general character. Rhus begins with inflammation; it has heat, rednessand burning; but whenever Rhus begins an inflammation, just that instant it throws out a great blister,and it fills with serum.Almost any Bell. surface that is inflamed is likely to throw out a red rash. In intense fevers,where there are not scarlet fever or any of the common rashes, a red, fine, glossy eruption is likely tocome out. It is not an uncommon thing in congestion of the brain, and in bilious fevers, for this rash toappear, and it sometimes deceives the physician into making a diagnosis of one of the eruptivediseases, whereas it is a mere hybrid. The Bell.skin, while it turns red, has such a passive redness that you can write your name, almost, on theskin. As you take your finger and make a line on it, it leaves a white line behind your finger.That was an old diagnostic phase of scarlet fever, and it shows that Bell. produces upon thesurface that peculiar passive congestion very much like the scarlatina. So we have in the Bell.provings a symptom that is even a pathognomonic symptom of scarlatina. But we do notprescribe on a symptom. Of late years no homeopathic physician ever thinks of giving a medicinesimply for the purpose of bringing the pulse down, or bringing the fever down. He prescribes for thepatient. It is true that the temperature does come down, if we get the right remedy; but to prescribe aremedy to bring the pulse down is going at it wrong end to. One who thinks homoeopathically neverprescribes to remove a symptom; but guided by the symptoms he selects the remedy, no matter whatfollows. It is true the symptoms subside.Others might say he prescribed to remove the symptoms, because they subside. Learn to keepthe ideal of Homeopathy in mind, and think rationally; in order to do that you will have to ridyourselves of a tremendous amount of inheritance. We have inherited the way to think wrong end to."Yellowness of the skin from congestion of the liver, and catarrh of the duodenum". Whenpersons have been over-medicated with quinine until they take cold on every occasion, and a suddenattack of congestion of the liver comes on, with the great soreness, and the skin becomes yellow withall the sensitiveness of this remedy, Bell. will cure such cases.There are conditions that follow Bell. that relate to its chronic state. Where Bell. has beensuitable for the acute conditions, the congestions, but there is that periodicity that I have mentioned, ithas its natural followers, and Calcarea is one of them. In boys that are big-headed, plump, plethoric,precocious, that take cold easily, and come down with headaches, and congestion; school children thatget headaches which Bell. at first helped; very commonly if you look carefully into the case it will turnout to be a Calc. case. It is so common for Calc. to relate in this way to Bell. Now -a-days wefrequently find the dry, hacking cough in the hands of doctors who have given too much Lachesis.Lachesis is commonly given to over sensitive women, and it produces many of those conditions; itsometimes cures great troubles, but it leaves behind for weeks a dry, hacking cough that keeps her fromsleeping. Sometimes it comes on after the first sleep, which is commonly about 11 o'clock; a dry,hacking cough from lying down. Bell. will cure this old effect of Lach., the nervous state andexcitability and the cough. Bell..will be suitable as an antidote for Lach., that is, for the acute symptoms. Calc. is an antidote forthe more chronic effects of Lach. After the abuse of Bell., Calc. comes in as one of the naturalantidotes.BENZOICUM ACIDUM [benz-ac] [Kent’s]Whenever we see in the nature of a remedy a well-defined state and condition of the humansystem pointed out by certain distinctive groups of symptoms we may know that there is such adiseased state in the human family. They have not the power to create by themselves any diseased stateexcept there is first such a state in the economy of the human race to be aroused. They simply call up ina single individual something that the individual has, and that something belongs to the human race,and so whenever we see a diseased state in the remedy we know that it exists in correspondence to