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with mucus, rattling of mucus, expectoration of large quantities of white mucus, with asthmaticbreathing in young subjects, this remedy must be thought of.In relation to the genito-urinary organs, we have some very valuable symptoms. In chronicgonorrhea , with greenish or yellowish-green discharges. Instead of gonorrhea running off into a white,gleety discharge, it keeps up a yellowish, thick, greenish discharge. It competes here with Thuja andMercurius, both of which are anti-sycotics. When Natrum sulfuricum is indicated there is generallyvery little pain, it is almost painless. There is chronic loss of sensibility in the part.The urine is loaded with bile, is of a pinkish or yellow color, with a "corn-meal" sediment, or itlooks like stale beer and is extremely offensive. Offensive urine is not in the text.Like sulfur, it has burning of the soles of the feet at night, and the burning extends to the knees;burning from the knees down. It has also, like sulfur, great burning in the top of the head; it has tearing,rending, cutting pains from the hips down to the knees; worse at night. The stomach symptoms areworse in the morning, and so also with the mental symptoms they are generally worse in the morning.Now, upon the skin we have some eruptions; we have those cases of so-called itch, scabies orvesicular eruptions, vesicular eczema, with a thin, watery discharge exuding from the fingers, and thefingers are swollen stiff and stand out stiffened by the swelling; they are swollen so stiff they canhardly be gotten together. (Baker's itch and barber's itch come under this head).Natrum sulfuricum cures where the palms of the hands are raw and sore and exude a waterfluid. Also vesicular eruptions around the mouth and chin and various parts of the body; little, finewater blisters, very much like Natrum muriaticum and very much also like Natrum carb. So you see itruns into the Natrums. The other disease that I incidentally mentioned a moment ago---the barber'sitch---is a sycotic disease, a sycosis menti, a disease of the hair follicles. It is sometimes evencontagious. It is one of the highest types of sycosis; the next highest type of sycosis is the veneral wartknown as the gonorrheal warts. This medicine corresponds to this state and condition of the body.Now, we have said considerable about sycosis. We know in sycosis, which is a constitutionalmiasm, that we have venereal warts or gonorrheal warts; that we have another sycotic state that comesupon the female in cauliflower excrescences. We have also hereditary asthma, a constitutional diseasethat depends upon sycosis; and this peculiar barber's itch is one of the highest types of sycosis; they areall due to one cause, and some day this cause will be demonstrated to be latent sycosis.Gonorrhea will some day be known to be the true offspring of this sycosis. It is the contagiouspart of the sycosis. It is the means by which the disease is handed from generation to generation. Thisthing you will not find in the books, and it is, perhaps, only a private opinion and, therefore, worthless.But some day you will remember that I told you this. I have seen things in my observation thatastonished me. I believe I have solved what Hahnemann called sycosis, though he has never describedit. To me it is very clear from the cases I have cured, with this theory in view or this doctrine in view.The cases I have cured lead me to believe that I am on the right track.Now, I say that gonorrhea and all of these latent conditions of the body are one and the samething; that primarily they date back to one and the same source. Of course, the books will tell you thatgonorrhea is not a constitutional disease; but when gonorrhea will produce warts, and gonorrhealrheumatism, and will last throughout life, and children be brought into the world with the same disease,how are you going to get around it? There was a young man in the St. Louis City Hospital who hadbeen there many months, and who was so sore in the bottoms of his feet that he could not get around;he had to leave his business, he was a baker. Finally his old employer came to me and wanted to knowif I could do anything for that young man. I did not know anything about the nature of his disease. Itold him to bring the young man to me. He was brought, and I learned from his history that years beforehe had had gonorrhea; that it had been suppressed with injections. I put him under such constitutionaltreatment as these theories that I have just mentioned guided me to, and I cured him. In our city l havecured twenty-five or thirty cases of this peculiar kind of sycosis that dated back to a latent gonorrhea.Symptoms of a latent gonorrhea are unknown to the books. You will find nothing of it. It is known onlyto such observers as have been able to make two out of two times one--by putting things together. Byand by I shall have a complete chain of evidence to show that gonorrhea is a constitutional disease andcan be handed down from father to son, as can syphilis. It is one of the chronic miasms, and one aboutwhich very little is known. If this be true, it is as dangerous to suppress a gonorrheal discharge beforeits time, as it is to suppress a syphilitic chancre before its time. You will never know if you go ontreating these constitutional miasms by suppressing the primary manifestations---you will never knowthe harm you are doing.The most of these are calculated by the process of evolution to wear themselves out, to roll out,or to evolve themselves into symptoms that are so depleting to the disease that they leave ofthemselves, or leave the patient very nearly free from the disease. Such is the calculation of Nature in a