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was the result of syphilis. You will be guided to it especially if the pains wander from place to place,and if they go from above downwards, if they go from the shoulder down toward the fingers, from thehips toward the feet, or down the spine. It is also suitable in old cases of gonorrheal rheumatism whenthe symptoms agree.The slightest motion, the slightest effort or exertion brings on the vertigo, and this is due todisturbance of the circulation. The heart is so susceptible to any exertion that disturbance of thecirculation of the blood in the brain comes on from the slightest motion. "In a recumbent posturemental faculties and memory perfect, but, on attempting to move, vertigo". If the patient persists inmoving, nausea and vomiting will follow. It has palpitation, shaking the whole frame, audible,vehement palpitation. He cannot lie on his left side.It is suitable in old, troublesome, recurrent headaches associated with cardiac affections. Aheadache will come on daily if the sun comes out, but it will not come on if the day is clouded. He isaggravated from the light of the sun and the increasing brightness of the sun's rays.In addition to these there are paroxysms of pain that are nightly. These are the bone pains, painsin the shin bones as if the periosteum would be torn off; these pains come on at night, or the first half ofthe night. It is well known in syphilis that the < is at night. It is an antipsoric, antisycotic, andantisyphilitic, it can be selected when the symptoms agree with any of the three miasms. Pains in thepericranium, pains in the bones nearest to the surface. In bed at night the pains become very severe andlast all night. This night aggravation is especially true of the marked antisyphilitic medicines. It isfound under and but in none of the remedies do we find it so strikinglymanifested as in the disease, or miasm, syphilis itself. In syphilis the < comes with the setting of thesun. It is one of man's enemies that does its work in the night. Many of the complaints of sycosisconform to the day hours, and the pains are < from the rising to the going down of the sun. Medicinesalso have such queer whims. We must study remedies as we would human character. Some of themseem to be extremely whimsical, and it is by knowing these whimsical, strange and peculiar things thatwe are able to mark the character of the remedy. When we know these peculiarities we have found thecircumstance under which the remedy works best.There are kidney affections. All the organs are related to each other, but especially the heart andkidneys. When the kidneys are not working well, the heart is very often troublesome. All through thevarying forms of Bright's disease the heart is troublesome. Difficulties of breathing, difficult heartaction, with albuminuria. It will relieve the breathing.Again, associated with kidney affections, we have many eye complaints, difficulties of vision,and these also especially call for this remedy. It is often indicated in Bright's disease, with disturbanceof vision, occurring during pregnancy. For the pains in the eyes, the stitching, tearing pains that occurduring kidney disturbance in pregnancy, or during albuminuria, Kalmia becomes a remedy. Thisremedy is useful in neuralgia; neuralgia of the eye, neuralgia of the face, violent, tearing pains in theface. Sometimes it takes the form of a nightly < and sometimes it takes the form of daily

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