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this way, that any indulgence is followed by weak back, sweating, weakness in general, so that he iscompelled to abstain because of the sufferings. The woman is affected in a similar way. You need notbe surprised, when you hear all of the constitutional weaknesses, that it is a common thing for Calcareawomen to be sterile. So tired, so relaxed; wholly unfit for reproduction. And the same as in the male,she suffers from lassitude, sweating, wakefulness, and weakness in general after every coition. Theparts feel relaxed. The uterus drags down. Sensation as if parts would be forced out. State of generalweakness and general relaxation of the sexual organs of both male and female. Calcarea has a tendencyto grow warts and polypoid growths, pedunculated growths, that bleed easily, that are soft and spongy.The woman flows too much at the menstrual period; too long, and, of course, this naturally brings heraround too soon. Often every three weeks lasting a week, with a copious flow. Menstrual period toosoon, lasting too long, and profuse. Calcarea is not always indicated; not unless all of the symptoms gotogether to make up the Calcarea patient. Sometimes it may occur to your mind to say, that with five orsix key-notes, certainly you would give Calcarea; but suppose you did have five or six key-notes ofCalcarea, and the patient should be a Puls. patient, would you expect to cure her with Calcarea?Suppose the patient always avoided warm things and much clothing, and wanted the cold open air, andstill had a dozen key-notes, you would find every time that Calcarea would fail. Unless you combinethe particulars with the things that are general, and the general with the particulars, unless the remedyfits the patient from within out, generally and particularly, a cure need not be expected. That is why Isay, do not prescribe on key-notes, but upon the symptoms of the patient.This great state of relaxation which we always have in every Calcarea patient is also manifestedin leucorrhoea. Copious, thick, constant leucorrhoea, discharging day and night.Leucorrhoea that is acrid, keeping up an itching, and smarting, and burning. "Leucorrhoea thickand yellow", from one menstrual period to another, and sometimes it intermingles with the menstrualflow. "Vaginal polypi. Burning soreness in the genitals" from leucorrhoea. "Itching and rawness" fromleucorrhoea. Hemorrhage of the uterus from over-lifting; from excitement; from shocks; from anythingthat greatly disturbs; from fear, from any great emotion, or from straining the muscles.Such are the conditions of relaxation and weakness. Inability to strain the muscles, or to exertherself mentally or physically.The complaints of pregnancy are generally those of great relaxation and weakness. Threatenedabortion. After delivery, weakness and prostration; sweating. Weakness from nursing.The Calcarea voice is that of painless hoarseness. The vocal cords are tired, and cannot endurestrain; almost a paralytic weakness. Sometimes a copious flow of mucus from the larynx. Muchirritation in the larynx, but weakness. Not that burning and rawness that we find in Bell. and Phos., butpainless hoarseness.In Phos. it is painful, in Bell. it is very painful. He cannot speak without pain. But in Calcareahe wonders why he has so much trouble in the larynx, because he has no feeling in it. This goes onfrom bad to worse, and with the tubercular tendency, look out for tubercular laryngitis. Given early itmay keep off such a tubercular tendency. It has cured tubercular laryngitis. Much rattling of mucus;rattling breathing; coarse rattling; that is, much mucus in the trachea, in the larynx, in the bronchialtubes, in the chest. Great dyspnoea. The dyspnoea comes on from going up stairs, from walking againstthe wind. Anything that has any exertion in it will bring on the dyspnoea. We find this in asthma, weakheart, weak chest and in threatening phthisis. That state of the lungs you will know very often by thekind of breathing; because all that are going into phthisis, are tired and weak. He is too tired to makeany effort at breathing, and he tires very easily, so that he has difficulty in going up stairs, climbing ahill, walking against the wind.The chest trouble furnishes one of our best fields for Calcarea. We have spitting of blood;prolonged cough; copious expectoration of thick yellow mucus, or even pus; ulceration, or abscess.Tickling cough. We have, in threatening chest trouble, the beginning emaciation, the pallor, thesensitiveness to cold, changes, and to the cold air, and to wet weather and to wind. He takes colds andthey all settle in the. chest; gradual emaciation in the limbs; always so tired. It corresponds to just suchconstitutional weakness as precedes, or is present in the first stages of phthisis. It stops the patienttaking cold, which is the very beginning of it. The patient will begin to feel better after taking Calcarea,and it improves his general state, and it will even encyst tubercular deposits. It turns them from caseousinto a calcareous form, and cysts have been found in the chest long afterwards. Patients have lived along time and improved, and gone into a general state of health, when quite well advanced withtubercular deposits. Of course, when any person is well into a tubercular condition, it may be expectedthat he will go. Do not believe or think favorably of cures for consumption. Every little while we havesome one coming out with something or other that cures consumption, a new cure. Every one whoknows much about the real nature of phthisical conditions, cannot have much confidence in such