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another form in a man who stays at home with his good wife. He takes an aversion to his children andto his dearest friends and his wife, that is, he has lost that true and noble and orderly affection andfriendship and companionship which ought to exist, and he fights against it. An orderly man considershis wife his best friend and he would rather stay with her than go anywhere else. To him there is noplace like home.Now, when man arrives at the state when he wants to go somewhere else, that he wants to goaway from home, that he is disturbed at home, that everything annoys him at home, that he no longerloves his children as he once did, he needs Fluoric acid. "Feeling of indifference towards those he lovesbest". The Sepia state, is like this, but Sep is more frequently indicated in women. The woman will say,"Doctor, there is one thing that I regret very much, and that is, I do not seem to enjoy my children, myhome, my companions, my husband and my friends. There is a sort of alienation. Such is the way it istold where it is Sepia. In the man it is more commonly Fluoric acid, in the women more commonlySep., but this need not necessarily be so. Sepia corresponds more closely to the condition of the uterusand ovaries, and such conditions, as the woman alone can have. (Compare Calcarea.) Fluoric acid haswith this state an overwhelming sexual erethism. He is kept awake nights by erections. This state ofdesire forces itself upon him, not only when he is with the opposite sex, but at all times. At times, at thebeginning of a gonorrhea, this condition of priapism and intense uncontrollable sexual desire, withswelling of the foreskin, is overcome by Fluoric acid. There are times when this priapism demandsCanth., but that remedy differs wholly in its nature from this.Reticence and silence; sitting and saying nothing. This reticence is like Puls., and often belongto the insane who sit in the corner and say nothing all day, never uttering one single word, and hardlyanswering when spoken to. A patient sits in the corner and says nothing and does nothing, eats whenfood is offered, is led to her room when the time comes, resists nobody, answers nothing; such a state isfound in Pulsatilla, and is closely allied to this remedy. There is some insanity in it, but especially thefatigue,and mildness of a tired brain. Mental exhaustion from overwork or from vices.It is suitable after Sil. in the spinal affections that are attended with paralysis, trembling andnumbness in the soles of the feet. It will often stop the progress of structural nervous diseases andprevent the case from getting worse.An excellent and very useful feature of this remedy is its ability to produce varicose veins andvaricose ulcers. The veins become varicosed anywhere, but particularly upon the lower limbs,especially following pregnancy. Haemorrhoids protrude after a stool; the anus and rectum protrude, andthere is some bleeding, because of the haemorrhoidal condition. Varicose conditions with very oldulcers upon the lower extremities; the varicose veins ulcerate. You Might predict what kind of ulcerand what kind of a margin Fluoric acid would produce. We see the feebleness of its circulation, we seeits tendency to create hard crusts, and hardened, horny skin and eruptions. We might now easilyassume that the inflamed borders of an ulcer would become indurated, hard and glassy. The margins ofulcers are indurated and the ulcer is an old, indolent ulcer. Parts once broken will not close up. Unionwill not take place between the broken ends of bones, there is no repair. From bones and from ulcers,we have the fetid, acrid thin, watery discharges, or at times very scanty discharges, but acrid, burningthe parts all around, raising eruptions and scurfs around the ulcers.From the feebleness of the circulation one might, suppose that numbness would naturally bepresent, and it is true. The ears become numb, the scalp becomes numb, there is a sensation as if theback of the head were made of wood. The scalp loses its sensation, the hair falls out and crusts form.The extremities become numb and there is numbness of the feet and hands extending upwards;numbness, with or without dropsy; numbness in spinal affections; numbness in brain diseases.Numbness of the limb not laid on."Crusta lactea; dry scales; itches very much, bald places.Caries of the temporal bone; discharges offensive smelling pus periodically". "Whole left sideof the head retarded in growth, left eye seems smaller". That is a clinical state, but it is significant.Its use in syphilis must not be overlooked. In old cases with exostoses, caries and necrosis,cases that have been mercurialized, and treated by other drugs until ulcers have developed or thoseaffections of the nose that we have often observed in syphilitic states. He blows small pieces of boneout of the nose; great pain in the nose; nasal bones all destroyed, and the nose becomes flat as thoughonly a soft piece of flesh with perforations. The uvula is eaten off and the tonsils become honeycombedby syphilitic ulcers. Lingering, low forms of ulcers and eruptions. The teeth decay or break off orulcerate at the roots; fistulous. openings from the root of the tooth, continuing to discharge. Many atime has this remedy taken away that ulcer of the root, closed up that fistulous opening, cured the pain,saved the tooth.