Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

will bring out tears that are acrid, and palpitation and pulsation that are felt to the extremities. When theKreosote sore throat is present the least pressure of the tongue depressor will establish oozing, littledrops of blood will appear. During the coryza there is nosebleed. When the eyes are red and raw andinflamed, they will bleed easily. If an individual pricks the finger the blood will not merely be a singledrop, but a good many will flow. Prolonged hemorrhage from the passages; hemorrhage from thekidneys, from the eyes, the nose, the uterus. Hemorrhage after coition. Tumors bleed easily.These are the most marked features of Kreosote. If these are fixed in your mind, we have whatmay be known as a Kreosote constitution, out of which may come all the rest of the symptoms in alltheir minute, and little symptoms and fragments in every organ. You have in this one group the strongfeatures of Kreosote. No matter how many particulars you may have in a case, if you do not havesomething of these general features you need not expect to find your patient constitutionally cured orrelieved by Kreosote. These may be considered essentials.Mentally the patient is so irritable that there is nothing that will suit him. The wants are sonumerous that nothing satisfies. The patient wants everything and is satisfied with nothing, that is, hewants something and when he has it he does not want it. That is the state of irritability and lack ofsatisfaction in a chronic condition. You see the child in the mother's arms. It wants a toy, and whengiven it throws it in the face of somebody; it wants this and that and is never satisfied, always wantingsomething new---a new toy which it throws away the moment it gets it and then calls for somethingelse. The lips are red and bleeding, the corners of the mouth are raw, the eyelids red and the skinexcoriated. If it has, in connection with all this, loose passages from the bowels and you examine thefissure between the nates, you will find it is red and raw. If the child be old enough to make suchmotions he will put the hands upon the sore genitals and fissures and cry out in a most irritable way,because of the smarting. Such is the Kreosote baby. It may be suffering from cholera infantum; it maybe subject to wetting the bed; it may have spells of vomiting, in which it vomits all its food; it is aKreosote baby. Kreosote has attacks of diarrhea and vomiting; all sorts of disturbances of the urine;great distension and trouble with the bowels; abdomen distended from flatus. You look over the wholecase at once as a Kreosote case, because of these general features that can be summed up in the aspectof the child.The Kreosote face has a yellowish pallor; it is a sickly countenance, semicachectic,intermingled with blotches that are reddish looking, as if erysipelas were going to set in. In olden timesthis countenance was called a scorbutic countenance.Take a woman with this kind of countenance; at every menstrual flow she complains of muchswelling and rawness of the genitals; the flow is copious, clotted, stops and then starts again, comes toosoon and lasts too long; at times it is black, very fetid, produces rawness upon the thighs and thegenitals, with much swelling; at every menstrual period there is rawness of the lips and fissures in thecorners of the mouth; the tears become acrid; at the menstrual period all the fluids of the body seem tobe acrid and they burn wherever they touch. Very often there is a loose stool, which is also acrid andsmarts the anus at the menstrual period. All the symptoms are worse at the menstrual period, sometimesin the early part, sometimes at the middle, sometimes all through, and sometimes at the close.Something more about the scorbutic constitution is brought out in relation to the gums; the gumsbecome puffed and red and tumid and settle away from the teeth. They become spongy and bleedeasily. In the mouth there is much ulceration and little ulcers spread from aphthous patches, smartingand burning; the tongue has ulcers upon it, which bleed easily upon touch.At the close of a typhoid fever hemorrhage from the bowels, bleeding from the mucousmembranes. The mouth becomes raw, and wherever there is a mucous membrane there is a rawness,and the fluids that ooze continue to eat and cause ulceration. If at the close of a typhoid fever, when thetime comes for convalescence, vomiting comes. Vomiting, bleedings, diarrheas. The fluids vomitedfrom the stomach are so acrid that they seem to take the skin off from the mouth, set the teeth on edge,make the lips raw. So excoriation from acrid fluids, as well as throbbing all over the body, are featuresthat you must bear in mind with Kreosote.The discharges from the body are offensive; offensive, bloody, acrid discharges from the nose;offensive, watery discharges from any part of the body; sometimes even putrid; the leucorrhoea is veryoffensive. Rapid emaciation, with spongy, burning ulceration, pus acrid, ichorous, foetid and yellow.Sometimes the inflammatory condition will run so high in an ulcer, only a small ulceration, thatgangrene will set in, and hence we have a gangrenous ulceration; gangrene of parts that are inflamed.Very low formations occur upon the margins of mucous membranes; crusts form. Indurations under thecrusts, and the crusts continue to form. The circulation is so poor, so feeble in the parts all about themargin of the lips and the corners of the mouth, and corners of the eyes, and eyelids, and upon thegenitals, and there is so much venous engorgement that crusts form and ulcerate and bleed and pile up,