Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

poisoning going on, as in diphtheria, an exudate appears upon the mucous membrane and it becomesgray and shrivelled, ashy colored, and this sometimes covers the whole of the soft palate and thearches. It looks withered. He is prostrated, anxious, sinking, weak, not a great deal of fever, but muchdryness of the mouth.The catarrhal state goes down into the larynx with hoarseness, and into the trachea withburning, worse from coughing, and then comes constriction of the chest, asthmatic dyspnoea and dry,hacking cough with no expectoration. This teasing cough is attended with anxiety, prostration,restlessness, exhaustion and sweat, and the cough does not seem to do any good. The cough is the earlypart of it and keeps on as a dry, rasping, harsh cough for several days without doing any good; and thenasthmatic symptoms come on, when he expectorates great quantities of thin, watery sputum. There isconstriction about the chest, a great sense of tightness and wheezing, and he feels he will suffocate.Bloody mucus is expectorated at times, but the symptoms are more generally of a catarrhal character.Symptoms of pneumonia sometimes appear with the rusty expectoration. The expectoration isexcoriating. There is in the chest a sense of burning, as if coals of fire were in the chest, and it goes onto bleeding and liver color.Arsenicum is a bleeding medicine, one that predisposes to hemorrhage, and bleeding takes placefrom all mucous membranes; commonly of bright red blood, but in this region the parts take on agangrenous state and the hemorrhages become black and there are little clots like portions of liver. Thesame are found in the vomited matter and in the stools. The expectoration is horribly offensive, somuch so that you soon get the idea that there is a state of gangrene. The patient is at this time going intoa state that perhaps cannot be any better described than a gangrenous inflammation; there will be signsto indicate the inflammatory condition, and there will be the smell of the expectoration which you willdetect as soon as you open the door.The expectoration is a thin, watery fluid intermingled with clots. In the pan you will find thiswatery expectoration looking like prune juice, and in the midst of it will be clots of blood; theoffensiveness is horrible. He has gone through the period of restlessness and is now prostrated, sinking,pallid, and likely enough covered with a cold sweat.When we come to the stomach we find everything that may be called a gastritis, vomiting ofeverything taken, even a teaspoonful of water, extremely mouth; a very little hot water will sometimescomfort him for a minute, but soon it must come up; cold fluids are vomited immediately. The wholeesophagus is in a state of inflammation; everything burns that come up or goes down. Vomiting of bileand blood. Extreme sensitiveness of the stomach is present; he does not want to be touched. Heatapplied externally relieves, and there is a temporary relief from warm drinks; the heat is grateful. In thebowels we have much trouble; this remedy has all the symptoms of peritonitis; distension of theabdomen, a tympanitic state; cannot be handled or touched, yet he will keep moving because he is sorestless, he cannot keep still, but finally he becomes so weak that exhaustion takes the place ofrestlessness. Dysentery is likely to come on, with involuntary passages of urine and feces, one or both,with hemorrhage from the bowels and bloody urine. As the bowels move, we get the cadaveric odor tothe stool, a smell like putrid flesh. The stool is bloody, watery, brown like prune juice, or black andhorribly offensive. Sometimes dysenteric in character with dreadful straining and burning of the anus;every stool burns as though there were coals of fire in the rectum; burning in the bowels, burning all theway through. The tympanitic condition is extreme. Sometimes there is a gastro-enteritis that takes on agangrenous character that passed with horrible odor, all substances are vomited, the patient desires tobe a very warm room, wants to be well covered, wants hot applications and warm drinks, lookcadaveric and smells cadaveric, with a dry, pungent odor that penetrates everything, but if he wants thecovers off, wants a cool room and window open, wants to be sponged with cold water, and wants icecold drinks then he must have < Secale>.I want to warn you against the too promiscuous use of Arsenic in the summer complaints ofyoung babies, for dysentery and cholera infantum. It has so many little symptoms that are so commonto these complaints that if you do not look out and are not warned you will be likely to give yourpatient with Arsenic.There is a strong tendency to be routine and give Arsenic without on particulars and not on thegenerals of the case.This medicine is full of diarrhea and dysenteric symptoms; in these conditions there will be thepallor, the anxiety, the cadaveric aspect and the urging to stool, scanty, slimy, black, fluid, inky stoolswith cadaveric smell, great prostration, restlessness and pallor. In the bowel troubles, in low forms ofdisease, the stool becomes involuntary. This is a condition of the rectum, a relaxation of the rectum,great prostration.