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continues to worry over himself, thinks he is wholly unfit for this world, and then he longs to die. Helooks on the dark side of everything, constantly expecting bad news, looking for everything to gowrong. The future looks dark to him, and he wants to die; he never will succeed, for everything goeswrong that he turns his hand to. His business is dark, his family troubles him, his friends annoy him; hebecomes extremely irritable, easily angered, is worried over trifles, and easily excited. Every little thingrouses him into anger and turmoil, he is always in a vexation. The Aurum state of mind is an insanitydreadful to look upon because of its turbulence and melancholy. It is suitable in the most profoundstates of melancholy and depression where the patient sits silent and says nothing. When disturbed he isaroused to great vehemence, anger and violence. "Melancholy, feels hateful .and quarrelsome"."Terrible melancholy after abuse of Mercury". The causes of this state of insanity are prolongedanxiety, unusual responsibility, syphilis and loss of property. Persons who have been repeatedlydrugged with Mercury, have established upon themselves a mercurial disease,with enlargement of theliver, and this is almost always attended more or less by melancholy and sadness and such hopelessnessas we find in Aurum. Aurum produces such affections of the liver as are associated with cardiacaffections, endocarditis, dropsy of the heart and rheumatic affections that have gone to the heart. Youwill notice that wherever the affections are pre-eminently disturbed in mental disease that there is eithercardiac weakness, endocarditis, enlargement of the heart, or some organic functional disease of theheart. You will very often find a history of taking Mercury that has superinduced a rheumatic state thathas been rubbed away with liniments until the heart is affected, and with this comes hopelessness,insanity of the will, disturbance of the affections. Then it appears to spread in this remedy from the willto the understanding, and the intellectual portion of man becomes involved. Think what a state it is fora man who has been in good condition of health, respected in his business circles, to have a desire tocommit suicide. You will see other kinds of insanity and a breaking down or a state of feebleness of theintellect, he cannot think nor reason; his affections are practically intact, but he finally goes into a stateof imbecility, or he becomes wild and commits suicide from impulse.That is an instance where the intellect has been affected first and spread to the will. Sometimesthis state comes on, and no disturbance in the man's intellectual nature has been observed; it is intact, itis sound. He has been sound in his business affairs, he has been a good father, he has been observed bythose around him to be intelligent, but he has silently brooded over his state and his hatred of the world;he has told nobody of it, and then he has been found hung in his room. The man's intellectual naturekeeps the man in contact with the world; but his affections are largely kept to himself. A man can haveaffection for all sorts of things and perversion of the affections, but his intellect will guide him not toshow his likes and dislikes to the world. The affections cannot be seen, but man's intellect is subject toinspection. He cannot conceal his intellect. We shall see that the affections are interior, they arecovered with a cloak, they are his innermost and are hidden from inspection; but the understanding isthe outermost garment, it surrounds and hides his affections, just as does the garment he wears over thebody. The affections that Aurum resembles are those like unto the very innermost nature of man."Ailments from grief, disappointed love, fright, anger, contradiction, mortification". "Painmakes her desperate so that she would like to jump out of the window". He mediates upon death, uponsuicide; he wants to get out of the world, wants to destroy himself, has no love for his life which hethinks is worthless.The remedy is full of rheumatic affections, not unlike such as are found in old mercurial cases;rheumatic affections with swelling of the joints; affections of the cartilages and bones, inflammation ofthe periosteum;thickening and induration of the periosteum. Indurations of glands; induration of thecartilages about the joints. These are all of syphilitic and mercurial character. It is useful in oldsyphilitics when the bones are breaking down in any part of the body; the shin bones, nose bones, earbones,any of the small bones. Like syphilis and mercury, the complaints are aggravated at night,coming on in the evening and keep up all night. The pains are violent, they tear, the bones ache as ifthey would break, not in acute fevers but in old syphilitic bone troubles. Knife-like pains in theperiosteum.Pains in the joints rendering them immovable. Inflammation of the bone itself with caries. It isnot strange that the vascular coating of the bones, the periosteum, should be greatly affected becausethere is a strange vascularity, all over the economy, in this medicine. The veins are enlarged,in a stateof congestion and inflammation, and friable. The veins become thickened and tumefied. The bleedvessels pulsate all over the body. "Erethism or vascular fullness characterizes nearly all complaints".Fullness of the veins of the extremities, this goes on until swelling appears with weakness sothat dropsy is prevalent throughout the remedy. Edema of the extremities, with pitting upon pressure,which occurs in heart and liver affections. A false state of plethora seems to exist in the body andfinally turmoil and excitement occur. violent orgasm in the body, sometimes demonstrated as violent