Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

There are various conditions in the . Coughs; cold that remain in the chest, lack ofreaction and tardy recovery. The colds finally settle in the bronchial tubes; the chest feels as if it wouldburst and the cough is . I look back over many cases of patients whotook cold from exposure and now look sickly and sallow, with a dreadful cough and rattling on thechest; every change of the weather gives them a new cold, and they cannot lie on the right side; theirtendency is to go into mucous phthisis or quick consumption. The cough is worse in the night air. Thereare many pains in the chest. He has a rheumatic constitution, is always sweating, worse while sweatingand from the extremes of heat and cold. Stitching stabbing, rheumatic pains in the chest with nightsweats. Bloody, thick green expectoration. Suppuration of the lung, great quantities of pus form.Tremendous orgasms, bubbling and flushes of heat in the chest. With many complaints there is sorethroat and rheumatism and stiffness of the neck; stiff neck with swollen glands and goiter. Stiff neckwith every cold; stiffness of the side and back of the neck. Induration and soreness of the cervicalglands along with other complaints.Merc. especially affects the with much swelling, aggravatedfrom the heat of the bed and from uncovering. It is difficult to get just the right weight of clothing.Rheumatic affection with sweat, aggravation at night, from the warmth of the bed and while sweating,with sickly countenance. It especially attacks the upper limbs, but is also found in the lower. of the extremities, like paralysis agitans. Trembling of the hand withgreat weakness. Paralysis of the lower limbs, and twitching, jerking and quivering of the paralyzedparts. and Merc. have twitching of the muscles of the paralyzed limb.Soreness between the thighs and genitals. Ulcers on the Legs; abscesses. Oedematous swellingof the feet. Cold perspiration.Copious sweat during sleep. Pain and sweat come on when comfortable in bed; bone pains. Hecovers up because he feels cold, but when he becomes warm the pains are aggravated.Merc. is full of . Very seldom, however, has it a true, idiopathic, continued fever. Itstands very low for continued fever alone, but it is especially indicated in surgical fevers.at first remittent, but later continued, such as come on from the suppression of discharges. TheMerc. patient about to go into a chill is chilly even when the chill has not yet come on; sensitive to themoving air in a warm room; violently sensitive to a draught. Cold hands and feet. The sweat is profuseand offensive. The complaints in general are worse while he sweats, and the more he sweats the worsehe is. He sweats copiously and his greatest sufferings are in the sweat. Merc. does not have a clearintermittent. Between paroxysms he has liver disturbances, diarrhea, fever. In surgical fevers, biliousfevers, worm fever in children, and remittent fevers there is much aching in the bones, greatsensitiveness to the air, aggravation at night in bed when the fever runs highest, mercurial breath andsallow skin. The fever does not go so high and the skin is not so hot as in . The loaded tongueand the bilious fevers fade out after Merc. It is useful in hectic fever in the last stages of consumption,and in exhausting diseases with hectics, and in cancer when there is the aching, foul sweat, etc. It actswonderfully in catarrhal fever, grippe, etc., and when colds extend to the chest and there are thecopious discharges everywhere. It is suitable in quasi-typhoids that have come out of remittents,symptomatic typhoids, when the patient is icteric, low, prostrated, tremulous, with quivering muscles,great exhaustion and continued fever.There are many symptoms; scurfy eruptions, vesicular eruptions, eruptions dischargingpus. Vesicles burn and smart, with excoriating discharges, especially on the head. Much itching of theskin, violent, in all parts of the body, as from fleas, especially when warm in bed at night. Coppercolorederuptions as in syphilis, and mucous patches. The scurfy eruptions are especially marked.Ulcers on parts where the skin and flesh are thin over the bones. Offensive forms of eczema. Mosteruptions are moist with copious oozing. It cures shingles. The skin is sallow. Excoriating wherevertwo parts come together. Rawness between the thighs and between the scrotum and thighs. Eruptions insuch places. It has fissures at commissures, at the corners of the mouth and eyes; rawness and bleedingof the perinaeum rendering walking difficult.This furnishes a basis for the Salts of Mercury.THE SALTS OF MERCURY After studying Merc., corrosive mercury, the proto-iodide andthe bin-iodide, we may from some specific symptoms in the case say that we prefer one of the salts ofMercury. When we go to rheumatic and gouty cases with the aggravation from sweat, aggravation fromthe warmth of the bed, the mercurial odor, etc., we can commonly say that one of the willcure this case.