Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

these cases, and have no trouble. if he sees clearly beforehand what remedy the woman needs there willbe no bad cases; they will all take care of themselves. Irregular contractions that bring on abnormalconditions are all avoided if the woman is turned into order before she goes into confinement. Carboveg. is one of the medicines that prepares a woman well for confinement, that is, the symptoms callingfor Carbo veg. are often present in such conditions. She is often run down, relaxed and tired. Pregnancybrings about a great many unusual conditions. There is the nausea in pregnancy; the flatulence; theoffensiveness; the weakness; the enlarged veins. They will tell you that the enlargement of the veins ofthe lower limbs is from pressure, but it is generally not from pressure, but from weakness of the veinsthemselves.Suppression of milk; prostration or great debility from nursing. It is not natural for a woman ina healthy state to become prostrated when nursing her child. She becomes so because she is sick. Shewas in a state of debility before she began nursing, and the weakness should be corrected by anappropriate remedy. Then she can make milk and feed her child without feeling the loss of it. Such isthe state of order. Carbo veg. is a friend to the woman, and a friend to her offsprings. You will beastonished, after ten years of real homeopathic practice, that you have so few deformed babies; thatthey have all grown up and prospered; that their little defects and deformities have been outgrown, andthat they are more beautiful than most children, because they have been kept orderly. The doctorwatches and studies him, and feeds him a little medicine now and then, that the mother suspects issugar, to keep on the good side of the baby. She need not know that it is medicine, or that anything isthe matter with the baby. So he watches the development of that little one, and grows him out of all hisunhealthy tendencies.The children that grow up under the care of the homeopathic physician will never haveconsumption, or Bright's disease; they are all turned into order and they will die of old age, or be wornout properly by business cares; they will not rust out. It is the duty of the physician to watch the littleones. To save them from their inheritances and their downward tendencies is the greatest work of hislife. That is worth living for. When we see these tendencies cropping out in the little ones we shouldnever intimate that they are due to the father or mother. It is only offensive and does no good. Thephysician's knowledge as to what he is doing is his own, and the greatest comfort he can get out of it ishis own. He need never expect that anyone will appreciate what he has done, or what he has avoided.The physician who desires praise and sympathy for what he has done generally has no conscience. Thenoble, upright, truthful physician works in the night; he works in the dark; he works quietly; he is notseeking for praise. He does this when called to the house, and when members of the family bring littleones to the office. In this manner children can be studied and their symptoms observed and enquiredinto. Whenever the mother brings the child, expecting medicine, she may know that he is receivingmedicine, but when she does not ask for medicine let her suspect that Johnnie is getting sugar so thedoctor can get on the good side of him. That is sufficient.In Carbo veg. the voice manifests a great many symptoms. I described a part of them whengoing over the coryza. I explained how it began in the nose, and travelled to the throat, the larynx, andthe chest. Now many of the complaints of the larynx begin with a cold in the nose, which finallylocates permanently in the larynx---and in that way we bring out the Carbo veg.cases. It is only now and then that the Carbo veg. cold settles in the larynx first; it usuallytravels through the nose. Most remedies have a favorite place for beginning a cold. For instance, themajority of Phosphorus colds begin in the chest or larynx. Not so with Carbo veg.; its cold generallybegins in the nose, with a coryza, and the larynx is simply one of the stopping places. If the Carbo veg.cold goes down into the chest it may have its ending in the bronchial tubes or the lungs. This is afavorite place for it to settle. and it seems as if it were going to remain there. Weakness in the larynxfrom talking. Tired larynx of speakers and singers, and feeble, relaxed persons. The hoarseness comeson in the evening. The larynx may be fairly well in the morning, but as soon as it becomes evening hisvoice becomes husky. In more serious forms he may be speechless in the morning, but hoarseness andhuskiness in the evening are more characteristic. Huskiness and rawness in the evening. Rawness in thelarynx when coughing. Some will say there is burning, some will say rawness. Rawness in the larynxand trachea when coughing. A continual formation of mucus in the larynx, which he has to scrape andcough out. We see the same tendency to weakness in the mucous membranes. No tendency to repair;no tendency to recover. He goes on from bad to worse, with a catarrhal condition of the larynx andtrachea. Hoarseness and rawness from talking, worse afternoon and evening. He is obliged to clear histhroat so many times in the evening that the larynx becomes raw and sore.Let me tell you another thing about the Materia Medica. Most of the provers were laymen, andhence there is some confusion of terms in the provings. This the physicians must see. Irritation in thethroat from coughing nearly always means irritation in the larynx, though the prover said "throat". Now