Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

trembling. The motions of the tongue are disorderly and the child cannot talk. Convulsions. Involuntarymotions which can be momentarily controlled by volition. The restlessness is extreme., and , the the earlier impressions of the remedy.The symptoms, which still more deeply show the nature of the medicine, are rich. Amarked feature running all through is a hurried, restless, anxious, impulsive disposition.Coming in spells, in cold cloudy weather, or damp weather, the mind will not work, it is slow andsluggish and he is forgetful. This is noticed in persons who are tending toward imbecility. He cannotanswer questions right off, looks and thinks, and finally grasps it. Imbecility and softening of the brainare strong features. He becomes foolish. Delirium in acute complaints. From his feelings he thinks hemust be losing his reason. Desire to kill persons contradicting her. Impulse to kill or commit suicide,sudden anger with impulse to do violence. She has the impulse to commit suicide or violent things, andshe is fearful that she will lose her reason and carry the impulses out.Impulsive insanity, then, is a feature, but imbecility is more common than insanity. Theseimpulses are leading features. The patient will not tell you about his impulses, but they relate to deepevils of the will, they fairly drive him to do something.Given a Merc. patient, and he has impulses that he tries to control, no matter what, Merc. willdo something for him. During menses, great anxiety, great sadness. Anxious and restless as if some evilimpended, worse at night, with sweat.All these symptoms are common in old syphilitics, broken down after mercurial treatment andsulfur baths at the springs, with their bone pains, glandular troubles, sweating, catarrhs and ulcerationseverywhere.Merc. is suitable to rheumatic troubles of the , and neuralgias and brain trouble whenthere are burning, stinging pains and , and when there are headtroubles that have come on from suppressed discharges, such as suppressed otorrhoea after scarletfever, or when there are head troubles in scarlet fever. Think of Merc. if you are called to a child with, dilated pupils, rolling of the head, and aggravation at night, who has hadscarlet fever or a suppressed ear discharge. Merc. cures lingering febrile conditions analogous to thetyphoid state, but caused by suppressed ear discharge. I have cured cases that were due to packing theear with borax, iodoform, etc., the patient having first a remittent and later a continued fever. Thiswould go on for five or six weeks and be relieved only when the discharge returned after a dose ofMerc. I remember a case of this type. It was called cerebro-spinal meningitis; the head was drawn backand twisted and held to one side It began a otitis media with discharge which was suppressed. Two orthree doctors were called and could do nothing. In the night I went to the bedside and got the historyand symptoms of Merc. Merc. re-established the discharge in twenty-four hours, the torticollis passedaway, the fever subsided and the child made an excellent recovery. I can recall many such cases.There is a tension about the scalp as if it were bandaged.Nervous girls have headache over the nose and around the eyes as if tied with a tape, or as if atight hat were pressing on the head. Pressing, tearing pain in the eyes. Burning pains in the templesameliorated by sitting up and moving about, worse at night. Periosteal pains worse in , in rheumatic and gouty constitutions, with sensitiveness in the eyes and ears, sore throat andglandular swellings. Headaches in old mercurialized syphilitics; they become barometers; sensitive tothe weather. The catarrhal headaches are very troublesome; headache in those suffering from chroniccatarrh with thick discharge. The thick discharge becomes watery and the pain in the forehead, face andears very distressing. These headaches are violent. Chronic rheumatic headache from the suppressionof a discharge from any part, or from foot sweat suppressed; alternation of foot sweat and headache.When the foot sweat is gone has pain and stiffness in the joints. has that also. andMerc. do not follow each other well, when well selected; but if crude Mercury has been taken for along time, , like , is a good remedy to eliminate it when the symptoms agree.With all headaches there is much heat in the head. Bursting headaches, fullness of the brain, andconstriction like a band.Vise-like pressure. He is sensitive to the air when he has headache. This is true of Merc. allthrough. He is relieved in the room, but worse in a warm or cold room, and violently worse from adraught. He wants to be covered but is worse from heat.The hoop-like sensation is worse at night.Merc. is a wonderful remedy to ward off after measles and scarlatina;the child rolls the head and moans, and the head sweats. It is closely related is>, which is also a greatremedy after scarlet fever to ward off or cure hydrocephalus.