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acrid discharge that excoriates the eye, making the canthi red and causing granulation with burning.The burning is better from washing in cool water and also better from dry heat. Very often ulcersappear on the globe of the eye often upon the cornea. It has various kinds of hypertrophy beginning inpatches that will form scars, and in old ulcerated patches little growth similar to a pterygium growingtoward the center of the eye and threatening blindness. The inflammations are sometimes attended withswelling, burning and excoriating discharge; this swelling is bag-like in character, and so we find"baggy" lids and little bags forming under the eyes. The face is waxy and pale, presenting theappearance of a broken down constitution or a dropsical condition.The catarrhal state involves throat and nose, and it is sometimes difficult to separate the nosesymptoms from the throat symptoms. The Arsenicum patient always taking cold in the nose, alwayssneezing from every change in the weather. He is always chilly and suffers from drafts, and is worse incold, damp weather; always freezing, chilled through. These pale, waxy, broken down constitutionswith catarrhal discharges from the nose on looking at a bright light become blind. Sneezing and coryzawith inflammatory conditions through the whole nasal cavity, throat,larynx and chest. The cold beginsin the nose and goes down into the throat, very often causing hoarseness with dry, tickling, hard,rasping cough. It is a difficult matter to find remedies for a coryza that begins in the nose and extendsinto the chest with bronchial troubles; very often you require a change of remedy, as the chestsymptoms often run to a different remedy. It is difficult to find a remedy that covers the symptoms ofboth nose and chest.Arsenicum is the remedy for old, chronic catarrhal troubles of the nose where the nose bleedseasily, and he is always sneezing and taking cold always chilly and pallid, tired, restless, full of anxietyin the night and troublesome dreams. The mucous membrane is easily inflamed, producing patches ofred and ulcers that bleed easily. Great crusts form in the back of the nose.There is a striking tendency to ulcerate in Arsenicum. If it is a sore throat it ulcerates; if coldssettle in the eyes, they may end in ulceration; catarrhal troubles in the nose end in ulceration; and thisulceration tendency, no matter where the trouble locates, is a very strong feature of Arsenicum. It is theremedy for catarrhal complaints of the nose and other places in broken down constitutions fromsyphilis or malaria, or a constitution that has gone through blood poisoning of some kind, eitherpoisoning from a dissecting wound, or from erysipelas or typhoid fever or other zymotic statesimproperly treated, or poisoning with quinine and like substances that break down the blood andestablish a state of anemia. If an ulcer comes upon the leg, if a leucorrhoea comes on, if any dischargeis established the patient is relieved thereby. Now let some of these discharges slack up and you have achronic state apparently from retained secretions, but it is a form of blood poisoning. So it is withsuppressed ear discharges, suppressed throat discharges, suppressed leucorrhoea and ulcerations.Arsenicum is one of the medicines that will conform to the anemic state that follows each suppression.At the present day it is fashionable to use the cautery, to make local applications to stop leucorrhoeaand other discharges and to heal up ulcers. Now, when these external troubles go there is an anemicstate established in the economy, the patient becomes waxy and pallid, sickly looking, and thesecatarrhal discharges come on as a means of relief because of the suppression of some other condition.For instance, since the suppression of a leucorrhoea the woman has had thick, bloody or waterydischarge from the nose. It is frequently suitable to the constitution when an ulcer has been dried up bysalves, or an old ear discharge has been stopped by the outward application of powders. The doctorthinks he has done a clever thing in stopping such discharges, but he has only succeeded in dammingup the secretions which are really a relief to the patient. Such medicines as Sulphur, Calcarea andArsenicum are suitable for the catarrhal discharges that come from these suppressions,in broken downconstitutions. Arsenic is also like unto the condition that has been brought about from the absorption ofanimal poisons. It goes to the very root of the evil, as it is similar to the symptoms brought on from adissecting wound. Arsenic and Lachesis are medicines that will go to the cause at once and antidote thepoison, establishing harmony and turning things into order.The nose symptoms, then, of Arsenic are very troublesome and furnish an extensive part of thesymptom image of an Arsenicum patient. They always take cold easily, are always sensitive to cold andthe catarrh is always roused up on the slightest provocation. When an Arsenicum patient is at his besthe has discharge more or less of a thick character, but when he takes a little cold it becomes thin; thethick discharge that is necessary to his comfort slacks up, and then he gets headache and on comesthirst, restlessness, anxiety and distress. This goes on to catarrhal fever of two or three days duration,and then the thick discharge starts up again and he feels better; all his pains and aches disappear. It hasbeen of great service in epithelioma of nose and lips.Inflammation of the throat and tonsils with burning, increased by cold and better by warmdrinks. There is redness and a shrivelled condition of the mucous membrane. When there is blood