Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

A mental and physical prostration that is almost paralytic in character. Scarlet fever when itbecomes putrid; typhoid when it becomes putrid, diphtheria with much bleeding and putridity. Thebody appears mottled, blue intermingled with yellow. Jaundice comes on with astonishing quickness,and the eyes become yellow, and the skin becomes yellow and mottled. Blue in spots. Black and bluespots as if bruised, intermingled with yellow. After hemorrhages the skin becomes extremely anemic. Itis yellow, pale, bloodless. The body looks like wax. Hemorrhage from the ears, eyes, nose, lungs, fromthe mucous membranes everywhere, from the bowels, from, the uterus. A hemorrhagic constitution.Crotalus is indicated in disease of the very lowest, the most putrid type, coming on with unusualrapidity, reaching that putrid state in an unusually short time. One who has been poisoned rapidly sinksinto this besotted, benumbed, putrid, semi-conscious state. There is a feeling as if death were comingover him As the blood oozes out it becomes black. It is sometimes fluid.An awful state of nervousness prevails. Trembling of the limbs; tremulous weakness. Onprotruding the tongue it comes out quivering. Tired by the slightest exertion. Sudden prostration of thevital powers. A paralytic weakness prevails throughout.Twitching of the muscles, trembling of the limbs. Sliding down in bed occurs in the typhoidconditions where this remedy has proved of benefit, the forms of yellow fever with great prostration.This species of yellow fever has been cured by this remedy.Convulsions and paralysis. It has twitching of muscles something like chorea, trembling,localized spasms, hysterical manifestations.The mental symptoms are well worth examining. The low form of delirium, muttering, talkingto himself is a peculiar form of loquacity. It differs somewhat from Lachesis. Both have loquacity. TheLach. loquacity is so rapid that if anyone in the room commences to tell something the patient will takeit up and finish the story, although he has never heard anything about it, so active is his mind. No one ispermitted to finish a story in the presence of a Lach. patient. One will" commence to tell something. Hewill say, "Oh, yes; I understand it", and he will go off on another line and finish up with somethingentirely different. Crotalus does that, too, but Crotalus will take it up and mumble and stumble over hiswords in a clumsy manner. It is a low passive state like intoxication; in Lach. it is wild excitement."Delirium with languor, drowsiness, stupor". That tells it. "Loquacious delirium with desire to escapefrom bed".It is passive, however. His motions are slow. "Muttering delirium of typhus. Sadness". Histhoughts dwell on death continually. "Excessive sensitiveness. Moved to tears by reading.Melancholy with timidity, fear. Anxious and pale, with cold sweat. Irritable, cross, infuriated byleast annoyance". On motion there is vertigo, dizziness. On keeping still there is pain. On going tosleep there is pain, and he is roused by violent pain. The longer he sleeps the more severe that pain inthe head.He sleeps into his symptoms. All the snake poisons more or less sleep into troubles. The headtroubles come on after sleep.He sleeps into head ache. The longer he sleeps the harder are the headaches. The head ache is sohard in the back of the head that it is almost impossible to raise it from the pillow. The muscles becomeso tired he has to take hold of it with his hands. This belongs also to Lach. A congestive headache withwaxy face, yellow, purple, mottled face, as if there had been bruises."Headache extending into the eyes. Bilious headache every few days". Severe sick headache,together with dizziness, throbbing in the top of the head. Dull, pulsating headaches. "Dull, heavy,throbbing, occipital headaches", or the whole head is in a state of congestion. He is confused anddazed. Head feels too large.Head feels full, feels as if it would burst. Headaches that come on in waves as if they came upthe back, a surging of blood upwards, an orgasm described as if the blood rushed upwards.Headache with surging in waves and excited by motion or jar, by turning over in bed, by risingup in bed, or by lying down.Change of position will cause this surging. In Lach. it is described, and I have "seen it verified,as beginning away down in the spine and surging upward coincident with the pulse.Hemorrhage from the eyes. Yellow appearance of the eyes."Blood exudes from the eye, burning in eyes; redness with lachrymation". Pressure in the eyesas if the eyes would be pushed out from the head. Paralysis of the upper lids.Inflammation of the mucous membrane of the lids.Surging in the ears. "Sensitive to noises". Dull aching and throbbing in the ears. Foetid, copious,yellow, offensive, bloody discharges from the ears. Blood oozing from the ears in drops in zymoticdiseases, low forms of scarlet fever, or of diptheria where there is oozing from the eyes and ears, andcopious bleeding from the nose. The nose is the most common organ to bleed in zymotic diseases. The