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has cured prolonged and most inveterate ulceration of the stomach, when there has been vomiting ofblood.The aggravation at the menstrual period is a strong feature and she is free from symptomsduring the interim. The palpitation, the trembling, the coldness of the surface, though desiring coldopen air, blueness of the lips, coldness of the extremities, blueness and coldness of the lowerextremities to the knees and of the hands and arms to the elbows, and yet the patient wants cool things,wants something cold. This may not be seen at any other time. Here is a striking feature. "Patientcannot lie on the right side because it brings on so much palpitation". We have plenty of remedies withpalpitation worse from lying on left side, but remedies with palpitation worse lying on the right side arerare (Alumen, Badiaga, Kalmia, Kali- n., Lil-t., Platina, Spong.). It is uncommon, strange, rare andpeculiar. It is such a strong feature in this remedy that to a great extent it becomes quite general,because it is a heart symptom and is intermingled with the general symptoms. With this sensitivenesshe is compelled to get into some other position; must get up and walk, because of lying on the rightside. The patient will say he throbs from head to foot while lying on the right side; he throbs all over, ageneral pulsation when lying on the right side. Do not forget in this medic all these general things whenwe come to apply them in their particulars and the particulars in the generals. Do not forget that thismedicine is one of the most flatulent medicines in the books. He is distended to bursting; gets scarcelyany relief from passing flatus or eructations.He is possessed with the distressing idea that all his undertakings must fail. When walking hebecomes faint with anxiety which makes him walk The headaches are of a congestive character;considerable throbbing, ameliorated by cold, and tight bandaging. Headache from mental exertion,from excitement, with vertigo, nausea and vomiting. Pains in the right side of the head, jagging,cutting, stitching, pulsating. Head feels much enlarged.The eye symptoms are too numerous to mention. They are of a general character such as wefind in catarrhal conditions with ulceration, relieved by cold. All of the eye symptoms are worse in awarm room, worse from sitting by the fire. Wants cold applications, cold washing. Intensephotophobia; aversion to light, and this is worse in a warm room; wants it cold, wants it dark. There ismuch swelling and tumefaction of the blood vessels of the eye, and redness, and it has a raw denudedexcoriated appearance. "Chemosis with strangulated vessels". "Cornea opaque". "Ulceration of corneain new-born infants; profuse purulent discharge from the lids", and this is what the "Regulars" informer days and almost up to date have been using for the eyes, treating them with Argentum nitricum.Photophobia: after long looking at fine sewing, fine print. In one who has suddenly taken farsightedness, it has come on as a congestive condition; not of old age but something that should becured. All at once he cannot see print at the usual distance but must hold it away off; if it occurs insome one twenty five years of age or in a child. At close distance it is indistinguishable. Such adisturbance of accommodation producing far sightedness it has caused and cured. "Edema of lids", etc.Edema is a word which runs through the remedy. That is to say, it has a dropsical statewherever dropsy may occur.The face is the next place we find particulars worthy of note."Face: sweat stood in drops on his face". "Face sunken, pale, bluish". "Looks prematurely old"."Face blue, heavy breathing, pulseless".Then come the throat symptoms. Another feature of this remedy is it's general tendency toproduce warts. There is a tendency to favor the growth of warts and in the throat there are little wartlikegrowths; polypoid growths in the throat and about the genitals and anus; hence its great use insycotic constitutions. It has all the discharge necessary to its use in the sycotic constitution."Felt as if he had a stick in the throat when swallowing". At once you will see its close relationto Hepar. In inflammatory conditions of the throat with ulceration. In Argentum nitricum he wants tobe in a cold room, wants cold air, and to swallow cold things. In Hepar he wants warm things to drink,a warm clothing, warm room, and cannot put even his hand out of bed or his throat will begin paininghim. Things, you see, just exactly opposite, but they both have "sticks" in the throat. In dry chroniccatarrh Alumina and Natrum muriaticum have "sticks" in the throat; but in red throat with tumefactionand pain these two remedies give no relief, the former two are better. "Sticks" in the throat like fishbones.Nitric acid Hepar and Argentum nitricum are the most striking remedies for the fish--bonesensation. Many remedies have sticking in the throat but these are the most prominent. We know howArgentum nitricum has been used for ulceration in the throat, and here it comes in as one of the mostuseful remedies in congestion of the throat of long standing. Catarrhs with loss of voice. Wartygrowths, condylomata, etc. Loss of voice, tumefaction of the mucous membrane round about the vocalcords and paresis of the vocal cords.Condylomata on the vocal cords."Loss of appetite" and refuses drink. This is another feature.