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need never run after the surgeon in appendicitis except in recurrent attacks. If you do not know yourremedies, you will succumb to the prevailing notion that it necessary to open the abdomen and removethe appendix. It is only deplorable ignorance that causes appendicitis to be surrendered to the knife.Offensiveness is a feature of Arnica; there is offensiveness of the eructations, and of the flatus.The stool is horribly offensive. "Nightly diarrhea". "Stool involuntary during sleep"."Stools of undigested food, purulent; bloody, slimy, mucus". Dark blood, very fetid stool. Herewe see the tendency to oozing from the mucous membranes. black watery stool with black vomit."Retention of urine from exertion", from overwork, from injury, from concussion of the brain,from some violent accident. The urine is brown, or inky, dark. "Piercing pains as from knives plungedinto the kidneys. "Urine very acid, with increase of specific gravity". Another feature of Arnica occursin pregnant women. The extreme sensitiveness, soreness or tenderness throughout the whole body isespecially felt in the abdominal viscera, in the uterus and pelvic region. Sensitiveness to the motion ofthe fetus, sore and bruised; the motions of the fetus are very painful and keep her awake all night.Arnica will remove that soreness and she will not distinguish the motion of the fetus. It is not anincreased motion of the fetus, but that she is sensitive to it. "Constant dribbling of urine after labor".A general feature also of the remedy is that the body is cold and the head hot; the whole bodyand the extremities are cold, but the head feels hot. This is a marked condition in sudden congestiveattacks, in congestive chill and congestive intermittent fevers. This, sometimes, is the very beginning ofa severe attack when there has been almost no warning except a night or two of bad dreams anddistress, fearfulness and stupefaction,with soreness in the body. If he comes out of this, an increasedsoreness in the body comes on, which grows worse and worse until he is sore and bruised all over.Children going into severe attacks of infantile fever may threaten convulsions, the head is hot and thebody cold. Most physicians will think of Belladonna, which has such cold extremities and such a hothead.Do not forget Arnica, especially in those children who seem to have an aversion to beingtouched, and scream out every time the mother takes hold of the leg or arm. Look into the history alittle and you will see that this is a soreness. and if you strip the child you may observe dusky spots,which give an added indication of Arnica.This is a whooping-cough remedy; you can easily conjure up what the indications are forwhooping-cough; aggravation from touch, sore, bruised condition, spasmodic cough with expectorationof blood, or dark blood streaked mucus, or little tiny pin-head dots all through the mucus. Vomiting offood with black mucus. The mental state of the child can easily be imagined. The child is cross andfretful. "Cough excited by cries in children when accompanied by anger and tossing about"."Paroxysms of cough at night". "Whooping cough; child cries before paroxysms as though infear of soreness. You can easily apply that which we have seen in the remedy to the various diseasesthat come on. Stitching pains in whooping cough, pleuritic pains with catarrh of the chest, withpneumonia or pleuritic, inflammatory conditions. It has also more lingering complaints, fattydegeneration of the heart. "Stitches in the cardiac region, stitches from left to right. "Weary, bruised,sore, great weakness, must lie down, yet bed feels too hard".It will be well to read over all these symptoms; there are numerous particulars in the remedy,many little symptoms that are of great interest.It follows well after Aconite and is complementary to Aconite, Ipecacuanha> and Veratrum.ARSENICUM ALBUM [ars] [Kent’s]From the time of Hahnemann to the present day Arsenicum has been one of the most frequentlyindicated medicines, and one of the most extensively used. In the Old School it is move extensivelyabused, in the form of Fowler's solution.Arsenic affects every part of man; it seems to exaggerate or depress almost all his faculties, toexcite or disturb all his functions. When all our medicines have been as well proved we will effectwonderful cures. It is a substance easily proved because of its active nature, and from its very abuse wehave learned much of its general nature. While Arsenic impresses the whole economy and disturbs allthe functions and tissues of man, there are certain prevailing and striking features in it.Anxiety, restlessness, prostration, burning and cadaveric odors are prominent characteristics.The surface of the body is pale, cold, clammy, and sweating, and the aspect is cadaveric. In chronicsickness with great debility, anemia, from long exposure to malarial influence, in the poorly fed andfrom syphilis this remedy is of great service.The anxiety that is found in Ars. is intermingled with fear, with impulses, with suicidalinclinations, with sudden freaks and with mania. It has delusions and various kinds of insanity; in themore active form, delirium and excitement. Sadness prevails to a great extreme. So sad that he is weary