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talking. Most of the Calcarea headaches, as soon as they become severe, are attended with pulsation.The pulsation is so strong that the patient is not satisfied by merely saying it is a pulsation, he describesit as hammering. Most of the pains are pressive, or tearing. "Concussive headaches". Stitching,pulsating pains in the head, as if it would split. Headaches worse from walking, and from a jar.Sometimes he feels a coldness in the head, it seems as if the cold head is numb, cold as if made ofwood. He sometimes feels this numbness, and describes it as if he had a cap, sometimes as if there werea helmet, on the head. Now, all of these sensations are difficult to describe, but sometimes they are oneand the same thing. All the headaches of Calcarea are more or less congestive. It is a peculiar feature ofCalcarea, that the more marked the congestion of internal parts, the colder the surface becomes. Withchest troubles, and stomach troubles, and bowel troubles, the feet and hands become like ice, andcovered with sweat; and he lies in bed sometimes with a fever in the rest of his body, and the scalpcovered with cold sweat.That is strange. You cannot account for that by any process of reasoning in pathology, andwhen a thing is so strange that it cannot be accounted for, it becomes very valuable as descriptive of theremedy, and is one that cannot generally be left out when prescribing for a patient. That is almost ageneral state, it is so marked. It has burning in the vertex, and this is often present with coldness of theforehead, or the whole head may feel cold, except a burning spot on the vertex. Calcarea will againhave cold head and icy cold feet when walking in cold air, or in very cold weather; but as soon as thefeet get warm, they go to the other extreme, and burn so that he puts them out of bed. This has often ledinexperienced prescribers to prescribe Sulf., because that is a keynote of Sulf. All keynote prescribersgive Sulf. whenever the patient puts the feet out of bed, but a number of remedies have burning feet,hot feet, so we are not limited to Sulf. Calcarea has affections of the bones of the skull, the outer part ofthe head. Slow formation of bone. The fontanelles remain open a long time. It has hydrocephalicconditions, effusion in the membranes, and the bones do not grow and keep pace with the growth of thehead, and hence the sutures commence to separate and the head grows wider and larger all the timewith hydrocephalus. In hydrocephalic children this sweating head is a common feature. The child liesat night upon the pillow, and the sweat pours from the head and wets the pillow all around; especiallysweating at night. In persons suffering from softening of the brain, the pillow is wet all around thehead.Children going through difficult dentition have dreadful times in their dreams, they screech outin the night, and the pillow is wet all around their head. Old plethoric patients, broken downconstitutions, fat, flabby, lymphatic patients, with enlarged glands, with sweating of the head, coldsweating of the head. The hair falls out, not in the regular way such as occurs in old age, but in patcheshere and there. You see a bald spot on the side of the head, or the back of the head; a tuft of hair hascome out or in two or three places. Then it has eruptions upon the head and face; eczema that we findin children and infants. "Thick scabs on the head. with yellow pus". Offensive eruptions.The eye comes in for a share of troubles, and Calcarea is one of the best friends the oculist has,if he knows how to use it.It is not especially suitable for every inflammation, but in those fat, flabby constitutions, whereevery cold settles in the eyes, and produces an inflammation, and this goes on for a few days, andulceration begins, then study Calcarea. Vesicles are formed and break and spread into an ulcer. Fromexposure of the feet in water, from riding in the wind, from cold, damp weather he gets eye troubles.Ulceration of the cornea. In all of the complaints of the eyes and of the head the photophobia is somarked that the Calcarea subject when he is at all disturbed cannot even stand ordinary light, and to beout in the sunlight is extremely painful, and many times inflammations are started from merely goinginto a bright sunlight, from steady looking, and from straining the eyes. All kinds of exertions bring onheadaches and eye troubles. Tension, because one muscle is weak.There is a disturbance of accommodation. Worse from every exertion of the eyes; you see thatis like its generals, that is, aggravated from exertion. He cannot endure any prolonged exertion; you seethat is just as true of his parts as of the symptoms are aggravated from reading, from looking steadily atone thing. He is very much exhausted after such an exertion and will have tearing pains over the eyes,behind the eyes in the head. That is a peculiar kind of a headache, such as he is in the habit of having. Itmay be in any part of the head. Called eye-- strain. It is a wonderful remedy for eye-strain(Onosmodium).Calcarea has cured many cases of opacity of the cornea (Bar.iod.). In an old case a cure can never be promised. It is one of the results of disease, and wenever know when we are going to move the results of disease, because the intelligent homeopath neverprescribes for the results of disease. He prescribes for the patient. An opacity itself, when it is present,is not a symptom, but a result of disease. Often when a patient is prescribed for on his general