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ozaena, an acrid discharge, with necrosis of the nasal bones. It is very analogous to Sit., and it is one ofthe natural followers of-Sil.- where Sil. has been too frequently repeated by persons who do not knowthat Silicea does its best in a single dose and that it is a long acting and slow medicine. It not onlyantidotes the abuse of Sil., but also follows Sil. After practicing a while you will be surprised toobserve the pendulum- like action between heat and cold in various complementary complementaryremedies. To make that clear I will illustrate it by using the series in which this remedy is set and towhich it naturally belongs. You take a patient who is hot-blooded, who is always suffering from theheat, from too much clothing and too warm a room especially in the evenings, a patient that is tearfuland sad, and may be a blonde. Why you say, I am trying to describe a Pulsatilla patient. Well, yes;anyone can see that.Puls. is a hot-blooded patient, but after using that remedy a while you notice that the patientgoes to the other extreme and becomes chilly, and wants much clothing; the heat is taken out of thecase. Sil. is the natural follower of Puls., and you would be astonished to know how often a patientleaving Puls.. runs toward Sil. Sil. goes deeper into the case, it does more curing, and it is the naturalchronic of Puls.. Other remedies of course follow Puls., but Sil. more frequently than any othermedicine. Now, that is the second step; the patient has gone from a warm to a cool state; the overheatedstate has been lost and he has gone into Sil., but when Sit. has been administered for a while it cures thecold estate, and removes the chilliness of the patient (remember, however, that Sil. has at timessomething of Puls. in it; in some of its complaints it is < from being over-heated) and the patient underSil. goes back to the warm state again, becomes hot-blooded, wants the warm covers thrown off, wantsto be lightly covered. Then it is that this medicine comes in the series. Flour. ac. follows Sil. asnaturally as Sil. follows Puls. They exist in threes. There are other remedies that exist in threes, but themost common ones you will think of will be Sulfur., Calc. and ,Lyc., Sulfur., Sars. and Sep., andColoc., Caust. and Staph., which often follow each other and rotate in this way. Do not let these factsmake you give a routine remedy unless the symptoms agree, but it does help to remember that remediesare somewhat similar. It is true that Puls., Sil. and Flour, ac. are similar all along the line as to thenature of their symptoms. Puls. corresponds to more acute disturbances, or to the earlier stages ofchronic disease, the more active or violent operations of chronic disease. It will take off the wire edgeof the disease, and it will be followed by some medicine that is complementary to it, always to bedetermined by the symptoms that arise. There are cases that would be greatly injured by so deeplyacting a remedy at Sil. if given in the beginning, that is, the suffering would be unnecessary; but if youcommence with Puls. you can mitigate the case and prepare it to receive Sil., providing the two wouldappear to be on a plane of agreement. A very serious case had better first receive Puls., and the waypacing paved by that remedy follow it up Think of the remedy, then, in vicious bone diseases, innecrosis and caries. in fistulous openings, fistula leading to the teeth, fistula lachrymalis and fistula inano; in calcareous degenerations; in deformity of the nails, hair and teeth; in affections of the thighbones and leg bones, with chronic fistulous openings leading to bone discharging pus which excoriatesthe parts all around.The Patient is over-sensitive; is made worse if the bowels do not move regularly; is distressed ifthe menstrual flow is slightly delayed; suffers if the call to urinate cannot be immediately attended to,hence, as in the text, "headaches > by micturition". That symptom is all that is given in the text; butremember something that is analogous to it, viz.: If the call to urinate be not attended to the headachewill continue to grow < until the urine is voided. That is a peculiar symptom, and it sometimes leads tothe study of Fluor. ac. Violent congestive headache with heat and fullness. Violent occipital headaches,worse from motion.Now, if we take into consideration its great depth of action.we will see furthermore that it is suitable in some brain diseases. In persons who haveoverworked, who have been working day and night to establish a business, or to keep it up, and whenthere has been constant use of the brain it is suitable. In mental depression and melancholy, with greatsadness, in young men who have destroyed the nervous system by vicious practices.by secret vice. It is particularly suitable for that disorder of the human economy where menhave continuously changed their mistresses. There is a state in which a man is never satisfied with onewoman. but continually changes and goes from bad to worse until he is a debauch. If a young mancannot keep away from women, he is not so bad off if he will only keep to one, but he goes from one tomany, until he stands upon the street corners and, in his lust, craves the innocent women that go alongthe street. Fluoric acid is suitable in that state, like Picric acid and Sepia, and these medicines areparticularly suited to that condition of enfeeblement of the mind and that disorder of the humaneconomy that makes man so low, that we have the state described as "low mindedness". It takes thatform in one who is a sort of debauch, running after all sorts of things to tickle his fancy but it takes