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go to sleep because his thoughts trouble him, and he sees all sorts of things. There is no congruity in hismind. We know that strong intelligence puts aside such follies, but these are just the things thatCalcarea patients dwell upon. Talking to himself. He lies in bed, or sits, when he is alone, and carrieson a general conversation with every conceivable individual he has had to do with, on everyconceivable subject; and it multiplies and it grows, and he imagines it is all real. We see how far that isremoved from the healthy mind, and yet he is not fit for the insane asylum, with all of these strangethings, for when he is roused he does carry on a conversation, and he does as ordinary people do. Whenhe is alone, when he has nobody to talk with him, he does these strange things. He is controlled anddominated when he is in company, to a great extent, and hence these things are not brought out. Hecarries out that same idea when he becomes delirious or insane.Picks his fingers, and does all sorts of peculiar little things.Sees visions and faces of persons when eyes are closed. "Imagines some one is walking besideher". In the proving of Sil. that was observed very strongly. It has been observed in Petroleum, and inCalcarea. In a perfect state of health, with a strong, vigorous intelligence, it is not likely to be felt, butin nervous people, and especially in women, it is common. "Mental aberration with horrid visions. Seesdogs crowding around him, fights them off".Here is a sensation, occurring in nervous women, "Feels as if she would like to run up anddown, and scream". Feels as if she could not help it, she must scream. That occurs in personsoverwrought, dreadfully excited from a loss in the household by death. The mother loses her child, orhusband; or a young girl loses her intended. She is broken-hearted, and greatly excited. It is a hystericalstate. And yet I have seen the same in men. I remember one. It came upon him from business cares. Hehad that same feeling; he would walk up and down the house, he said he felt as if he must fly or jumpout of a window, or do something. That is analogous to the mental state found in hysteria, or a greatstate of nervous excitement. "She thinks and talks of nothing but murder, fire, rats, etc". That is thesame idea of talking about little things and foolish things. Things that are not interesting to anybody.And yet I have seen these things in patients and I would ask them why they did it. It is generally said,"I tried a good while to stop it, and when I could not I just kept right on at it, for it seemed to do megood". "She thinks and talks of murder, fire, rats, etc". Your patient may talk about other foolish things,but it is only to illustrate the idea that she sits and talks about foolish things, and cannot control herself;thinking, thinking, or expressing it, talking, talking, talking.Violent screaming spells. And then the Calcarea patient will refuse to talk, will say nothing. Shemay talk to herself when alone, but will decline to enter into conversation, and will sit perfectly silent.A Calcarea patient sometimes takes an aversion to work, and quits work. He will quit a most thrivingbusiness, and go home and do nothing, after being fatigued in carrying on the business until it reaches amost thriving condition. He says business is not good for him. He is tired of business, and when hegoes to his business again it seems as if it would drive him crazy. He does not want to see it, he doesnot want to know anything about it. Of course, you can readily see that it is not so much in the Calcareapatient that he is driven to weakness and fatigue from distress in business, although it has that, but thatwhich I am speaking about is that he has overworked until he has given out, and right in the midst ofhis success he quits his business and goes home, and leaves all---it looks just as if he were lazy. If youlook at him you come to the conclusion that he is lazy. Yet it is an insanity; not the laziness thatbelongs to tramp nature, though that also might be cured many times. He has been industrious, and allat once takes a turn. A great change occurs in the mind, and he takes on symptoms. It is not suchpersons as were born that way, born lazy, never would work; but those that become lazy. It is like thesymptom in a pious upright man, whose talk and conversation has been upright, but all at once he turnsand commences to swear. Of course we know that individual is insane. On the other hand, we havepatients that have been only ordinarily industrious that develop an insanity for work, and it seems theyhave ability in that insane industry to work almost night and day; they are up early and late. It is a sickstate. So when we see in the Repertory "Industry" it does not mean an ordinary industrious state butone that is exaggerated into a symptom. He has become so industrious that he has a mania for work."Whimpering. Low-spirited and melancholy". It is a strange thing to see a bright little girl of 8or 9 years old taking on sadness, melancholy, and commencing to talk about the future world, and theangels, and that she wants to die and go there, and she is sad and wants to read the Bible all day. That isa strange thing; and yet Calcarea has cured that. Ars. has cured that state, and also Lachesis. They are alittle inclined to be precocious, and they have attended the Sunday-school, and they have taken tooseriously the things they have learned. Children sad and unhappy, and old people who take on aloathing of life, become weary of life. That is a good deal like Aurum. In going over Aurum I explainedthat, and dwelt upon it, that the highest love is the love of life; and when an individual ceases to lovehis own life, and is weary of it, and loathes it, and wants to die, he is on the border line of insanity. In