Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

excitement; the next he is in a stupor. Finally, in a typhoid state, after he has progressed some time, hepasses into quite a profound stupor. Early in the case he can be roused, and he answers questionscorrectly, and he seems to know what you have said to him; but the instant he finishes the last answerhe appears to be sound asleep. Then you shake him and ask him another question, he answers that, andagain he is sound asleep.The delirium that belongs to typhoid grows more and more profound, more and more passive,more and more muttering, until he passes into a complete unconsciousness from which he cannot beroused; in which he will lie for days sometimes, and weeks, becoming more and more emaciated; lyingthere in profound stupor unless this remedy is administered. Lying there picking the bedclothes, andmuttering. Even when he is in a stupor and realizes nothing, apparently, that is going on, he makespassive motions, mutters, talks to himself, and once in a while utters a shrill scream. Picking hisfingers, just as if he had something in his fingers when there is nothing there. He picks at thebedclothes the same way. Picking at his nightshirt, or picking anything he can get his fingers on. Or,picking in the air, grasping as if he were grasping at flies. This passive delirium goes on until he is in aprofound stupor, and lies as one dead.In an insane state it sometimes takes on something of wildness, but not often. It is more passive,talking and prattling, sitting still in one corner and jabbering, or lying down, or going about."Undertaking to do the usual thing, the usual duties". That is, the housewife will want to get upand do the things she is used to doing in the house; the cooper will want to make barrels and theunusual things belonging to that business. Wants to carry on the usual occupation in his mind, talksabout it, carries on the things of the day, and he keeps busy about it, so it is a busy insanity. Also, thedelirium takes on the type of a busy delirium.Now, to give you something of an idea as to the grading of this general type of insanity itshould be compared with Stram.and Bell. You heard in the lecture on Bell. that it is violent, its fever most intense. There ismuch excitement. In Stram., when we reach that you will see that his delirium, his insanity, isexpressed in terms of extreme violence. These three run so close together that something can bebrought out by associating them together. When considering Hyoscyamus in its mental state it is wellto realize that it seldom has much fever in its insanity. It has a fever sometimes in the low form, butwhen Hyoscyamus is thought of in relation to a febrile state the intensity of the heat would be thisorder: Bell., Stram., Hyoscyamus. Now, Bell.is very hot in its mental states. Stram., most violent and active, murderously violent, ismoderately hot in its fever, as a rule. Hyoscyamus has a low fever, not very high, sometimes none atall, with its ,insanity. When one comes to take into consideration the violence of its delirium, or themaniacal actions, then it changes the order. The order as to violence of conduct would be: Stram, Bell.,Hyoscyamus. That brings you to see that even when associated with those medicines that look mostlike it, it is at the bottom of the list. It goes as a passive medicine, while the upper ones are more active.Hyoscyamus has a passive mania. Does not go into violence. That is, the patient will sometimesbecome murderous, but it is more likely to be suicidal. Sometimes the patient will talk and prattle,sometimes sit and say nothing. "Full of imaginations and hallucinations when asleep and when awake.Religious turn of mind" with women who have been unusually pious; they take on the delusion thatthey have sinned away their day of grace. They have done some awful things. "She imagines that shehas murdered, that she has done some dreadful thing. She cannot apply the promises that she reads inthe Word of God to herself". She will say: "They do not mean me, they do not apply to me, they meansomebody else"."Thinks he is in the wrong place. Thinks he is not at home.Sees persons who are not and who have not been present. Fears being left alone. Fears poison orbeing bitten". These phases sometimes take on fear in the sense of fear, but it comes from thatsuspicion that was spoken of; he suspicions or fears these things will take place. He imagines thesething are to take place, and hence he is suspicious of all his friends.Another thing running through the remedy, in insanity and in the delirium of fevers, is a fear ofwater, fear of running water. Of course, hydrophobia, which is named because of that symptom being astriking feature, has fear of water, but some remedies also have that fear of water. "Anxiety on hearingrunning water. A fear of water". That runs through Bell., Hyoscyamus, Canth., and, of course, thenosode Hydrophobinum.Stram. has the fear of water. Stram. has the fear of anything that might look like water, shiningobjects, fire, looking-glass.Fear of things that have in any manner whatever the resemblance of fluids, and hence the soundof fluids. Hydrophobinum has cured "involuntary urination on hearing running water. Involuntary