Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

THE SYMPTOMS AGREE>. Of course it will be said that Tuberc. has cured when there are fewsymptoms; this is granted, but should not be lauded as a clinical practice.It is a common feature of tubercular affections of the brain and of the meninges to suffer fromconstipation. Stool large and hard; or, constipation alternating with diarrhea. It is a well- known clinicalfact. Constipation is a strong feature of Tuberc."Constipation, stool large and hard; nausea. Inguinal glands indurated and visible. Excessivesweat in chronic diarrhea". That symptom was brought out by Burnett. It was merely a clinicalsymptom. Burnett dwells on this phase of it; "Tabes Mesenterica"."Swelling on left side, also on right; complains of a stitch in side after running; languid andindisposed to talk. Nervous and irritable. Talks in his sleep; grinds his teeth. Appetite poor.Hands blue. Indurated and palpable gland everywhere. A drum- belly. Spleen region bulgingout". That was one of Burnett's clinical cases. That was cured by Burnett's . In mostinstances, I am informed, he used the 200th.It is a common feature of to be driven out of bed in the morning by a diarrhoea. It is avery common feature in cases of phthisis, and patients going into phthisis. In advanced stage ofphthisis, driven out of bed with a diarrhoea; or, diarrhoea worse in the morning than at any other timein the twenty-four hours. This is a common feature of phthisis that Tuberc. has cured, and it has beenverified many times, although it is a clinical symptom.General relaxation. Weakness and hanging down of the genitals. Relaxed scrotum.Menses too early, too profuse, long lasting. .Cough before, and during chill.Suffocation; worse in a warm room. Tubercular deposits in apices of lung (left).The uterus sag down and is heavy. At the menstrual period, a relaxation, as if the inner partswould come out.Dry hacking cough before the evening chill ,1 and the hacking cough lastssometimes during the chill, and sometimes during the fever, but he knows the chill is coming by thecough.The patient has been cured perhaps a number of times by remedies.Intermittent fever has been cured a number of times by remedies well selected. The fever goesaway promptly under the action of the remedy; but from slight exposure, as was mentioned, it comesback again. Now at the end of three, four or five weeks--often two or three---he says, "I know my oldchills are coming back again, because of the cough l have". The previous remedies have not beensuccessful. They are not deep enough acting, they are not long enough acting. When the homoeopathicremedy is really and truly able to cure the diseased condition it will hold that case, so that when thesymptoms come back again the same remedy will be indicated, and only a changed potency perhapswill be necessary. The same remedy is called for; but it is an indication for Tuberc. when at everycoming back of the case it calls for a new remedy. breaks up the case once, and the nexttime it comes back it calls for something else, and the next time for something else, and it keeps turningaround. Perhaps a number of times it calls for the same remedies again. Changing about. That verychanging and unsatisfied symptom image is a strong indication for this medicine.Suffocation in a warm room. Can find easy- breathing only when riding in the cold wind. Whenphthisical patients find no comfort except riding in the cold wind---which is a rare symptom, but hasbeen noticed. This was a symptom specially marked in the lamented Gregg, of Buffalo. He would rideout in the cold winds by the lake for hours. many times relieved that, but it is a strongsymptom of Tuberc. He finally died of tuberculosis.Desire for deep breathing. Long for the open air. Wants the doors and windows open. Sits in theroom covered with a cold sweat, but wants the air, wants fresh air. When covered with cold sweat hecannot have the wind blowing on him because he takes cold, he is sensitive to it, but he wants the freshair, he wants the open air. Especially when the tubercular deposits begin in the apex of the left lung,which is the indication that has been verified by quite a number of observers."Hard, dry cough. Hard, dry, shaking cough", were symptoms noticed by Boardman---regardless of phthisis. The expectoration is thick, yellow, often yellowish-green in catarrhal conditions.Hacking cough in young girls, where there is a suppression of the menstrual flow, of the firstmenses. They come on once or twice or three times, and the patient is yellow, is puny, is tired, has ahacking cough, and a suspicious chest. If the tubercular deposits have not gone too far, Tuberc. mayarrest the progress of the disease. Tuberc. often gives immunity if taken before the tuberculosis beginsin those who have inherited it. It immunes the constitution.Another marked feature recorded by Burnett was ringworms.