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hands still or because of the itching. Because of this itching sensation in the face he carries the hand tothe face as though to brush away something.Perhaps I have not said as much as should be said about the throat. "Ulcers in the fauces,spongy, secreting a yellowish brown, badly smelling pus". It may be said that the patient is often avictim of chronic sore throat. There is this about Alumina, it has a special tendency to localize itselfupon mucous membranes. You will find in an Alumina subject bleeding from all mucous membranes.He has catarrh of the nose and red eyes, and his nose becomes stuffed up and he has many acute colds,very severe throat trouble. Discharges from all of the orifices. It is not a medicine that would beselected for a cold settling in the throat, not a remedy for acute sore throat, but it is a deep- actingantipsoric and acts for months. Its greatest usefulness is as a remedy for taking cold. In this respect it islike Sil., Graph. and Sulph. It effects tissue changes, and it does this slowly, for it is a slow-actingmedicine. While the patient himself with these deep-seated psoric affections feels better generally afterthe remedy, it will be months before his symptoms go away. He may say: "I feel better, but mysymptoms all appear to be here. I can eat better and sleep better". Then it would be unwise to changethe remedy. You need not expect to get immediate relief of the catarrhs and pains in the back and othersymptoms for which you gave this remedy. You may be satisfied if you get the results after manyweeks. You will find the same thing in the paralytic weakness produced by Plumbum. There is a newdrug that is coming into use, the proving of which is very full and rich, and it is analogous to thesymptoms of this remedy. It is Curare.I wish we had a finer proving of it, but it is rich with a great many things similar to Aluminaand Plumbum, and especially in the weakness of the hands and fingers of pianists. An old player willsay that after she has been playing for some time her fingers slow down. The weakness seems to be inthe extensors. Lack of ability to lift the fingers; the lifting motion is lost. Curare to a great extentovercomes that, causes quickness to that lifting power of the fingers. But this remedy also runs throughin a general way such paretic conditions; while Curare is especially related to a paralytic condition ofthe extensors more than the flexors, the paralysis in Alumina is of both flexors and extensors.This medicine is one of the few that have been found to be aggravated from starch, especiallythe starch of potatoes.Aggravation from eating potatoes. It has indigestion, diarrhea, great flatulence and aggravationof the cough from eating potatoes. It has also aggravation from salt, wine, vinegar, pepper and fromspirituous drinks. Alumina is a spinal remedy and aggravation from spirituous drinks is in keeping withsome other spinal remedies. You find it in Zincum. The Zincum patient cannot drink wine, for all of hiscomplaints are aggravated by it. This medicine is so sensitive and so easily overcome by a smallamount of liquor that he is obliged to abandon it. He is not only intoxicated by it, but it aggravates hiscomplaints.Now the digestion has practically given out in this medicine.He is subject to catarrh of the stomach, to ulceration of the stomach, to indigestion from thesimplest food. Sour and bitter eructations. Vomiting of food, mucus or bile. Nausea, vertigo, heartburn,much flatulence. Vomits mucus and water. Stomach is distended with gas. The liver is full of suffering.Both hypochondria are full of misery, but especially the right.When going over Alumen I called attention especially to its antidotal relation to Lead. Thisremedy also will overcome the poisonous effects of lead and sensitiveness to lead. Colic and paralyticweakness in lead workers painters and artists and in those who are so sensitive to lead that from usinghair wash containing lead they are paralyzed. Not many years ago the acetate of lead was commonlyused by women for leucorrhoea, but it was found that so many were sensitive to it that it wasabandoned. Alumina is the most prominent antidote to the affections which have come about throughthat sensitive state.There is so much under stool and rectum that belongs to the general state that there is scarcelyanything left to be presented except some important particulars. As you might suppose, this remedy hasfissures; you would naturally expect these when you consider what kind of mucous membranes andtissues this patient manufactures. He suffers greatly from constipation, he does much straining, themucous membrane is thickened and swollen, and hence we have a fissure. When you see a remedymanufacturing and producing such a state upon the economy, growing that kind of mucous membranethat would favor fissures.do not have to wait until you have cured a fissure with that remedy to find out if it will suit thecase. You do not have to resort to the repertory to see What this remedy has done in fissure. From yourgeneral knowledge of the medicine, you will see that it ought to cure the patient, as it produces such acondition of the mucous membrane and skin as would be naturally found in one who has a fissure Theskin indurates and ulcerates and becomes clumsy and unhealthy and constipation is produced, and so,