Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

discharge from the bowels on hearing running water". It has cured a chronic diarrhea when thatsymptom was present. Hyoscyamus "makes short, abrupt answers to imaginary questions". Imaginesthat somebody has asked a question, and he answers it; hence, you will find a patient with typhoid feveranswering questions that you have not asked. He imagines that persons are in the room and asking himquestions. You hear nothing but his answers; he is in delirium or insane. "Mutters absurd things tohimself. Cries out suddenly".There is another form of his delirium, and there are two phases of this. He wants to go naked;wants to take the clothing off, and this must be analyzed. At first you might not understand that.Hyoscyamus has such sensitive nerves all over the body in the skin that he cannot bear the clothing totouch the skin, and he takes it off. That occurs in insanity and sometimes in delirium, and he has noidea that he is exposing his body. He appears to be perfectly shameless, but he has no thought ofshamelessness, no thought that he is doing anything unusual, but he does it from the hyperaesthesia ofthe skin.There is another phase running through the insanity, which is salacity, and it is violent at times,so violent that nobody but the old doctor can form any conception of the awfulness of it, and thedreadfulness of its effects upon those in the room. With a woman, a wife or a daughter, this state ofsalacity is manifested in this way: she exposes her genitals to the view of everybody coming into theroom. There are instances where in violent attacks of salacity a woman has gathered her clothing upunder her arms to expose her genitals to the doctor as he walked into the room."Violent sexual excitement and nymphomania. Obscene things.Speech illustrated by urine, feces and cow dung", and all sorts of things come out in this state ofinsanity and delirium---and yet this is only sickness."He is violent and beats people. Strikes and bites. Sings constantly and talks hastily. Eroticmania, accompanied by jealousy. Lascivious mania. Sings amorous songs. Lies in bed naked, orwrapped in a skin during summer heat". Not because he is cold, but because of a fancy. Complaintsinvolving any of these mental phases may come on in a young woman from disappointed affections,from coming to the conclusion that the young man in whom she has reposed her confidence hasbecome wholly unworthy of her It drives her insane, and she may take on any of these phases.Patients who have come out of continued fevers, convulsions, or insanity have paralyticcondition of the eyes, of the muscles of the eyes. "Disturbances of vision. Far-sightedness. Drawingtension in some of the muscles, and paralysis in others.Strabismus". This is one of the most frequently frequently indicated remedies. The strabismusthat comes on from brain disease should be cured with a remedy.In the Hyoscyamus fevers there is so much brain trouble, and there is left behind a tendency tomuscular weakness of the eyes, disturbances of the eyes, and congestion of the retina, and disturbancesof vision. Double sight. "Obscuration of vision.Night-blindness. Distorted appearance of " the eyes. Spasmodic action of the internal recti"."Pupils dilated and, insensible to light". Sometimes contracted, but in these low unconscious states oftyphoid it is likely to be dilated. Then again, after he recovers from these low forms of disease there isquivering of the lids, and jerking of the lids, jerking of the muscles of the eye, so that the eyeball isunsteady. It moves from little spasms of the various muscles of the globe of the eye. All of thesesymptoms occur either along with the fever, or afterward. The child goes into convulsions, or hasperiods of convulsions, where, during the course of a week or ten days, there have been from fifteen tofifty convulsions, and it may be the convulsions have been remedied with Bell. or Cuprum, or any oneof a number of remedies, and afterwards these eye troubles, strabismus and disturbances of vision. "Anobject looked at jumps". The letters jump while reading. Spasmodic complaints, periodical complaints,paroxysmal complaints of a nervous character will run through the remedy in various regions, andespecially in its cough, its stomach troubles and abdominal conditions.The mouth brings forth a lot of symptoms. The mouth is very dry, "as dry as burnt leather". Thetongue tastes like sole leather, because of dryness. Sometimes the patient will say, "My tongue rattlesin my mouth, it is so dry". Very great dryness of the mouth, throat and nose, wherever the mucousmembranes are.Dry, cracked, red, will bleed in low forms of typhoid. About the second week, going into thethird, the teeth are covered with black blood, lips cracked and bleeding. "Tongue cracked and bleeding.Patient unconscious, except by much shaking or repeated calling he is roused" and slowly puts out thattrembling tongue, which is covered with blood, cracks, and is dry. "Sordes on the teeth" in low formsof fever. "Twitching of the muscles of the face upon attempting to put out the tongue". It trembles likeit does in Lach., catches on to the teeth from its great dryness, and the jaw hangs down, relaxed, themouth wide open. The whole mouth is dry and offensive. Sometimes during fever the jaw becomes