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will scarcely miss it. Now, you might add a myriad of little symptoms, but it does not change the aspectof things. It is Digitalis.Another group of symptoms that belongs with the Digitalis heart, the Digitalis liver and theDigitalis bowels, is a gone, sinking feeling in the stomach. It seems as if he would die, and he does notget better from eating. It is a nervous, deathly sinking that comes with many heart troubles. You wouldnot be surprised to find in Digitalis much nervous prostration.Restlessness and great nervous weakness. "Feels as if he would fly to pieces. Anxiety. Feels thatsomething is going to happen".Seems as if his whole economy were full of anxious feelings and restlessness. Lassitude,faintness, exhaustion and extreme prostration. Faints on the slightest provocation. It begins in thestomach; an awful sensation of weakness in the stomach and bowels.His sleep is full of horrible dreams, nightmare, fright.Dreams of falling --that is very common with cardiac affections.When the pulse is too slow, when it is irregular, the brain is irregularly supplied with bloodduring sleep, and there is a turbulent state. A shock goes through the body like an electric shock, likeinternal jerkings, twitchings. Sudden muscular movements, as if a current of electricity passed throughthe body. This, with slow pulse, with a sense of faintness, and great weakness. Bluish paleness of thelips in persons who suffer at times with cardiac spells--it seems at times as if the pulse would cease.Face becomes blue, the fingers become blue. Wants to lie on the back. Frequently startled in sleep;jerking at night.The heart symptoms are numerous, but none is so important as the slow pulse. The pulse is slowin the beginning of the case.It may now be flying like lightning. He is anxious, restless, has horrible dreams and sinking inthe stomach---that sounds like the advanced stage of Digitalis--but I want to know if in the beginning,the pulse was slow. The patient himself seldom knows, but someone says that in the beginning thepulse was 48; that is Digitalis. If the pulse in the beginning was rapid do not think of Digitalis, for itwill not do any good. The Digitalis pulse is at first slow and perhaps remains so for many days, untilfinally the heart commences to go with a quiver, with an irregular beat, intermits, feels as if it wouldcease to beat, and then we have all these strange manifestations, Weakness is the very character of theDigitalis pulse, and all these characteristics go along with it. First it is slow, and sometimes strong.Slow, strong pulse when rheumatism is threatening the heart. "Violent, but not very rapid pulse.Sudden violent beating of the heart, with disturbed rhythm". The slightest motion increases anxiety andpalpitation. When the pulse is going very slow, sometimes down to 40, the patient turns the head andthe pulse flutters and increases in its action. If he turns over in bed it seems as if the heart would stop. Ifhe moves he feels it fluttering all over him, and it settles back and is slow again; but, finally, it changesand flutters all the time.Palpitation of the heart originating in grief. Sudden sensation as though the heart stood still.Fluttering of the heart. The least muscular exertion renders the heart's action labored and intermittent---in a feeble heart. A person with an enlarged liver, with a slow pulse, with jaundice and pale stool. Withthat he will have a troublesome cough. Digitalis is not much of a remedy for a cough unless it is acardiac cough. Cough at midnight. Cough, with expectoration of "boiled starch". Cough, withexpectoration of bloody mucus in hypostatic congestion of the lungs. Cough, brought on by talking,walking, drinking anything cold, bending the body. These are coughs associated with other troubles.The same thing is to be said of the respiration. There are difficulties of respiration, along withcardiac troubles and liver troubles. "Respiration irregular and performed with great difficulty. Constantdesire to take a deep breath. When he goes to sleep the breath seems to fade away, then he wakes upwith a gasp. Lachesis, Phosphorus, Carbo veg. and some other remedies have that; remedies that affectthe cerebellum particularly, producing a congestion of the cerebellum. When a patient goes to sleep thecerebrum says to the cerebellum: "Now you carry on this breathing a little while, I am getting tired".But the cerebellum is not equal to the occasion. It is congested, and just as soon as the cerebrum beginsto rest the cerebellum goes to sleep, too, and lets the patient suffer; and in that way we get suffocation.The cerebellum presides over respiration during sleep and the cerebrum presides overrespiration when the patient is awake. We might learn that from the provings of medicines if we neverfound it before."Fear of suffocation at night". Now, to analyze that. He knows from experience that every timehe drops into a sleep he suffocates, and hence he fears to go to sleep for fear he will suffocate. The fearof suffocation at night is from this origin.It is the same if he falls asleep in the daytime. "Can only breathe in gasps". Digitalis is a usefulmedicine when there is a filling up of the lower part of the lung. The patient is sitting up in bed, and