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child, or her husband. A sensitive, delicate woman, and she suffers from this grief. She has headaches,trembles, is excited, weeps, is sleepless; unable to control herself. In spite of her best endeavors, hergrief has simply torn her to pieces. She is unable to control her emotions and her excitement. Ignatiawill quiet her and tide her over the present moment. In all of these instances where all of theseconditions brought on from such troubles keep coming back, where your patient dwells upon them,dwells upon the cause, and the state keeps recurring, Natrum mur.will finish up the case. It will nerve her up and help her to bear her sufferings. Especially usefulin constitutions that have been overwrought at school, in science, music, art. Of course, it is natural forvery sensitive girls to go into the arts, such as music, painting, etc. A daughter comes back from Parisafter a number of years close application to her music. She is unable to do anything. She flies all topieces. Every noise disturbs her.She cannot sleep nights. Excitable, sleepless, trembles, jerks, cramps in the muscles; weepsfrom excitement, and from every disturbing word. Ignatia will tone her up wonderfully. Sometimes itwill complete the whole case. But especially in these oversensitive girls is Natrum mur. verycommonly the chronic. It is the natural chronic of Ignatia. When the troubles keep coming back, andIgnatia comes to a place when it will not hold any longer.Another place where Ignatia and Natrum mur. run close together. A sensitive, overtired girl,after she has been working in music, and in art, and in school, and has tired herself out, is unable tocontrol her affections. Her affections rest on some one whom she would despise. That may be asingular thing, one may not be able to understand it. A sensitive girl, though she would not let anyonebut her mother know of it, falls in love with a married man. She lies awake nights, sobs. She says,"Mother, why do I do that, I cannot keep that man out of my mind". At other times a man entirely outof her station, that she is too sensible to have anything to do with, she just thinks about him. Ignatia, ifit is very recent, will balance up that girl's mind. If not, Natrum mur. comes in as a follower. We do notknow half as much about the human mind as we think we do. We only know its Manifestations. Theselittle things belong to this sphere of the action of this medicine. The one who knows the MateriaMedica applies it in its breadth and its length, and sees in it that which is similar.Ignatia has quivering in the limbs. Nervous, tremulous excitement. "Weakness of the bodycoming on suddenly. Hysterical debility and fainting fits. Fainting in a crowd". It is especially useful inthe tearful, nervous, sad, yielding, sensitive minds. "Jerking and twitching. Convulsive twitchings".Children are convulsed in sleep after punishment. "Convulsions in children in the first period ofdentition. Spasms in children from fright". The child is cold and pale, and has a fixed staring look, likeCina. "Convulsions with loss of consciousness. Violent convulsions. Tetanic convulsions. Tetanus afterfright. Emotional chorea. After fright, or grief". Choreic girls. Emotional epilepsy, or epileptiformmanifestations. Paralytic weakness."Great mental emotion". Nursing; night watching. A loss of one arm with as perfect paralysis asif it had come from a cerebral hemorrhage. In a few hours this passes off, and the arm is as well asever. That is a hysterical paralysis. "Numbness of one or the other arm. Tingling and prickling in thearm".Ignatia is full of surprises. If you are well acquainted with sickness, well acquainted withpathological conditions and their manifestations, you are then able to say whether you should or shouldnot be surprised. You are then able to say what is unnatural, what is common to sickness. In Ignatia youfind what is unnatural, and what is unexpected. You see an inflamed joint, or an inflamed part wherethere is heat, redness, throbbing, and weakness; you will handle it with great care for fear it will bepainful. Ordinarily you have a perfect right to expect it would be painful. But you find it is not painful,and sometimes ameliorated by hard pressure. Is not that a surprise? You look into the throat. It istumid, inflamed, red; the patient complains of a sore throat and pain. Naturally you will not touch itwith your tongue depressor for fear it will hurt. You have every reason to suppose that the swallowingof solids will be painful. But you ask the patient when the pain is present, and the patient will say:"When I am not swallowing anything solid".The pain is ameliorated by swallowing anything solid, by the pressure. It pains all other times.Mentally, the patient does the most unaccountable and most unexpected things. Seems to haveno rule to work by, no philosophy, no soundness of mind, and no judgment. The opposite of whatwould be expected, then, will be found. The patient is better lying on the painful side. Instead ofincreasing the pain, it relieves the pain. "Pain like a nail sticking into the side of the head". The onlycomfort that is felt is by lying upon it, or pressing upon it, and that makes it go away.The stomach is just as strange in its indigestion. Some day or other you will have a queerpatient, vomiting everything taken into the stomach, and you will have her try gentle food, a little toast,and the simplest possible things, because she has been vomiting for days and people begin to worry