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the body, restlessness throughout the limbs, and amelioration from motion are features that prevailthroughout all conditions of Rhus. While he is better from motion and better from walking, if hecontinues to walk he becomes exhausted. Any continued exertion of the body or mind exhausts theRhus patient. He suffers from rheumatic conditions with pains in the bones, lameness in the muscles,lameness in the tendons, ligaments, and joints from suppression of sweat, from becoming chilled.These occur with or without fever. Rhus is suitable in old chronic rheumatic conditions. He is stiff,lame, and bruised on first beginning to move. This passes off on becoming warmed up, but soon hebecomes weak and must rest. Then comes the restlessness and aching and uneasiness which drive himto move and which again make him better, but soon he becomes weak and these continue, so that he isnever perfectly at ease and never finds rest. Inflammation of the glands and of the mucous membranes;inflammation of the muscles. Cellulitis of the pelvis, of the neck, about the glands with much swelling.Inflammation of the skin that becomes erysipelatous; purple; pitting upon pressure with largeblisters that fill with serum, sometimes bloody. It has abscesses and carbuncles and vesicular eruptions.Inflammation of glands that are hot and very painful.They are hot and end in suppuration. Abscesses of the axillary glands and of the parotids.Scrofulous inflammation of the gland of the neck and lower jaw. Inflammation of .the periosteum andof the bones. Scrofulous and rickety affections. The prominent prominent projections of bones becomesore to touch, especially the cheek bones. Its complaints arc more or less periodical. It has cured manycases of intermittent fever, is often suitable in remittent fever, and is a most useful remedy in continuedfevers and in a low form of typhoid fever. The pains that run through Rhus are aching, tearing, andbruised pains often attended with numbness and paralytic weakness of the limbs. It has paralysis of thelimbs with loss of sensation. In infantile paralysis Rhus is a very common remedy. The nurse-girls atthe present time often bring on in the child this paralytic condition and spinal paralysis. The nurses takethe infants to the park, take them out of their carriage and put them down upon the cold damp groundand in a few days the child comes down with infantile paralysis. Rhus will cure these cases because thesymptoms take the Rhus type.Hemiplegia, especially of the right side. Twitching of the limbs and muscles. It has cured choreabrought on from taking a cold bath.Most of the mental symptoms of Rhus are such as prevail during low forms of fever, especiallyin typhoid. There is then incoherent talking; answers questions hastily. There is anxiety, apprehensions,and fear. Intense fear at night. The complaints of Rhus often come on in the night. The mentalsymptoms are worse at night. The delirium is worse at night. The fears and anxiety are worse at night.The chronic mental symptoms of Rhus are despondency, mental prostration, inability to sustain amental effort, disgust for life and thoughts of suicide. He wants to drown himself yet he has fear ofdeath. He desires to die yet he has not the courage to commit suicide. In many instances he is filledwith suicidal thoughts; sadness and weeping yet he knows not why. Irritability and anxiety as if he hadmet with some misfortune, restlessness, anxiousness and nervous in the extreme in acute and chroniccomplaints. Colds settle throughout the body and limbs. He is full of dizziness as if intoxicated;staggers when walking.The headaches are commonly such as occur in fevers, in rheumatism, and in inflammation ofthe bladder. The brain fees loose or there is an undulating feeling in the head. Pain in the head as if thebrain were torn. Stupefying headache with buzzing in the ears. Stitching pains in the head; feeling as ifthe parts were screwed together; feeling as if the brain were pressed. The muscles of the head are sore.The periosteum of the cranium is sore to touch. The pain in the back of the head is ameliorated byholding the head backwards. Tingling in the scalp. Rush of blood to the head. Humming in the ears.Formication in the scalp.Pulsating headaches. Meningitis with high fever. Great restlessness with these Rhus symptoms.Cerebro-spinal meningitis with the anxiety and restlessness. Aching in the bones; amelioration frommotion. Eruptions upon the scalp; very sensitive to touch. The scalp is very sensitive on the side lainon. Tearing, drawing pains in the periosteum of the head; pressure in the bones of the skull as ifscrewed together. From every exposure to cold, damp weather, or from suppressing the sweat upon thehead comes pain in the head; rheumatic headaches.Headaches are worse from wetting the hair. Vesicular eruptions upon the scalp; erysipelas of thescalp with large blisters; eruptions upon the scalp that suppurate. It is a very useful remedy in thetreatment of eczema of the scalp in infants; herpetic eruptions upon the scalp.Inflammation of the eyes in rheumatic subjects from exposure to cold, damp weather, fromsuppressing the perspiration, with restlessness and fever. Pustules upon the cornea; photophobia;suppuration of the eyes. Inflammation of the iris of a rheumatic character. There is much swelling andthe eyes are closed from swelling. Very acute conjunctivitis; chemosis; eyes red and aggravated in the