Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

symptoms, such a state of opacity of the cornea will, after a while, begin to pass away. The patientgrows better, feels better himself. His symptoms commence to subside, and after the symptoms havesubsided pathological conditions will commence to subside. Do not be discouraged in prescribing if thepathological conditions do not go away; but if all the symptoms of the patient have gone away, and thepatient is eating well, and is sleeping well, and doing well, do not feel that it is impossible for thatopacity of the cornea to go away, for sometimes it will. I have known patients to come back, yearslater, even after I had given them up as cured, as their symptoms had all disappeared and I was foolishenough to say to the patient, "Well, I do not suppose this condition will ever go away, but you are allwell, there is nothing to prescribe on, there is not much use of your taking any more medicine", but insix months from that time the patient would come back to me and say "Doctor, do you suppose thetreatment you gave me had anything to do with this trouble going away? It has nearly all disappeared".I only tell you this in give you an idea how long it takes to restore order, for nature herself to replacethe bad tissue and put healthy tissue in that same place, to restore an organ. It takes time, and it is bestthat we should not be surprised. It may be that the medicine has done all it can do.Here is another thing I have seen even when there were no symptoms left, and after waiting aconsiderable time and there were no symptoms, I have seen another dose of the same medicine that wasgiven on the last symptoms give the patient a great lift, and pathological conditions commence to goaway. So Calcarea is a great friend to the oculist, and every physician ought to be just as good aprescriber as the oculist can be, for he prescribes for the patient. So must the oculist. In prescribing Iam in doubt whether there can be any such thing as a specialty, because the homeopathic physicianprescribes for the patient. He prescribes for the patient whether he has eye disease, or ear disease, orthroat disease, or lung disease, or liver disease, etc.In the ear we have a great deal of trouble. It produces thick yellow discharge from the ears.Cold, chilly weather brings on ear trouble; quite likely from becoming cold or chilled, from anexposure, or from a sudden change of cold damp weather he has additional complaints in the ears.While he is at his best the idea holds good here as in other catarrhal conditions, there is copiousdischarge. But from exposure and cold this slacks up a little, and when it does there is a littleinflammation, and like enough throbbing, and headache. That occurs every time from exposure.Whether the catarrh is in the nose, the eyes, or the ears, there will be headache. The Calcarea patient isso easily disturbed from cold weather and exposure, he is so sensitive to the cold, that it is next toimpossible for him to dress and protect himself. He is flabby and soft, easily disturbed, sensitive to hissurroundings. If it is an ear trouble, he may have difficult hearing, abscess of the middle ear, catarrh ofthe Eustachian tubes, etc., but all of these bring on headaches; and around about the ear the glands areall affected.The catarrh of the nose is extremely troublesome. Old lingering stubborn catarrhs, with thickyellow discharge; great crusts from the nose. In the morning he blows out enormous blackish, bloodychunks. He breathes part of the night through the nose, and then his nose clogs up so that he breathesthrough the mouth. It has cured a great many times polypi of the nose. The homeopathic physician,trusting so much to his symptoms, knows so well the remedy after studying the case, that he very likelywill prescribe for the patient on the symptoms alone. He says: This patient needs Calcarea, there is nodoubt about it. He prescribes for him and sends him away. After three or four weeks the patient comesback with a gelatinous looking tough thing on a handkerchief, and says: "Doctor, look there at whatcame out of my nose. Do you suppose your medicine had nothing to do with that?" Perhaps you did notknow he had polypus, it does not make any difference, your prescription cannot be any different if hehas polypi in the nose, and you do not know it is there; you cannot by any process of torsion remove itbefore you prescribe, so you will have to leave that torsion to those that do not know aboutHomeopathy; and hence the examination is not so important as it is to those who prescribe for thepolypi, and forget about the patient. Affections of the bones of the nose. That is, the catarrhs go on solong, and they are so deep-seated, that the bones of the nose and the cartilage of the nose are infiltrated,and they break down. Then operators cut out bones, remove cartilage, and perform operations toonumerous to mention; and every one must have the same operation; but in order for him to be cured, hemust even after that go to an homeopathic physician.He should first be cured and then if there is anything to be removed let him be operated on.The face is sickly, cold, covered with sweat. Sweats on the slightest exertion, and sometimes itsweats in the night on the forehead. "Cold sweat on the face. Face pale and cachetic", such as we see inadvanced cases of cancer, and consumption. Face sallow, pale, sickly, dropsical. Eruptions on the face.Eruptions about the lips; and the lips are chapped and the mouth is raw.The lips are cracked and bleeding. Painful swelling on the parotid glands; painful swelling ofthe sub-lingual and sub- maxillary glands. The glands all take part in the Calcarea troubles.