Running through the snake poisons there is a tendency to bleeding of black blood that will not coagulate.
Eyes: It has many eye symptoms.
Sparks before the eyes in connection with headaches; double vision; aversion to light.
“Large black spot floats before the eyes after sewing.”
When these symptoms have been present in such a constitutional state as I have, described the remedy has cured cataract; it has, cured the patient and finally the crystalline lens has cleared up.
Burning of the eyes, smarting eyes blood-shot eyes.
It disturbs the hearing, causing hardness of hearing and discharge of acrid fluid from the ears.
Nose: We have had scorbutic, catarrhal condition of the nose, such as described.
Discharge from the nose acrid.
“Severe pain as if the brain were forcing itself out just above nose.”
“Nose-bleed when washing face or hands in morning.”
It has many complaints from bathing, and a prominent feature is that the skin is covered with red, mottled spots after bathing.
Bathing produces surging all over, here and there, as well as nose-bleed. Palpitation is worse from bathing.
In the throat we have an appearance like malignant scarlet fever, diphtheria and other zymotic state; purple, swollen, ulcerated and bleeding, and gangrenous, accompanied by great exhaustion, with enlarged tonsils and glands.
The glands outside of the throat and neck are enlarged and felt as lumps. In diphtheria, when the nose is stopped, the child starts from sleep gasping for breath. Here again we observe its relation to Lachesis and the ophidia, for soon after the patient drops to sleep he wakes up suffocating, in diphtheria, in chest troubles with great prostration, the patient is worse after sleep.
Menses: Menses too soon.
“The menstrual blood is blackish, often in clots.”
The leucorrhoea is acrid,
“Violent tearing in abdomen and vagina.”
“Irritation of clitoris.”
Swelling of the genitals. Now, let me tell you something not mentioned here, but important, and that is a sensation of soreness in the whole pelvic viscera; at times it seems as if all her inner parts were raw.
It is a sensation of soreness; not always sore to touch. This sensation of deep-seated soreness is especially felt during menstruation.
All through the menstrual period soreness and rawness.
“Menses premature, abundant, blackish, often in clots, preceded by griping and colic.”
Chest: The remedy is full of catarrhal symptoms and cough, with much rattling of mucus in the chest and air passages.
Oppression of breathing, a catarrhal dyspnoea. Especially is this a remedy, when the symptoms agree, in hypostatic congestion of the lungs, a filling up of the chest with mucus which it is difficult to expel; great rattling in the chest and great weakness.
It is a good palliative in the last stages of consumption. A dose of Ammonium carb. when there is great coldness, prostration and weakness in the chest.
It is not unlike that sensation of weakness in the chest which is like Stannum. He can hardly cough out loud and because of the weakness he cannot expel the mucus, like Ant. tart., Short asthmatic cough.
The complaints of this remedy come on especially at three o’clock in the morning. The cough comes on at that time. Old people who suffer from catarrh of the chest have an aggravation at three o’clock in the morning with the palpitation and prostration, waking up at that hour with cold sweat and dyspnoea.
Almost pulseless; weakness of the heart. Face pale and cold.
“Great lassitude.” Defective reaction with, or at the close of severe zymotic troubles, typhoid, diphtheria, scarlet fever, erysipelas, etc.
In those complaints that should come to a crisis, if the patient goes into a state of great exhaustion under remedies fairly well selected, you have an instance where this medicine competes with Arsenicum for the nervous prostration.
You see “heart failure” spoken of in old school literature. They say the patient got along very nicely, but finally died of heart failure.
In a great many instances if Ammonium carb. were given in time it would save life.
“Averse to walking in open air.”
“Children dislike washing.”
The warmth of the bed relieves the rheumatic pains, relieves the chill.
“In a warm room the headache is better.”
“From washing reappearance of the symptoms; nose-bleed; blue hands; swollen veins.”
“Worse in cold air.”
Skin: We come now to the appearance of the skin:
“Body red as if covered with scarlatina.”
“Putrid flat ulcers with a pungent sensation.”
“Malignant scarlatina with somnolence, starting from sleep.”
“Erysipelas of old people when cerebral symptoms are developed.”
Whenever treating a severe form of disease and an eruption comes to the surface, like a carbuncle or erysipelas, and does not give relief to the patient then there is danger.
A remedy must be found soon. When a patient is coming down with severe internal troubles it is not a very uncommon thing for unhealthy looking boils to come out, or carbuncles or erysipelas blotches.
It is always serious when these are not immediately followed by relief to the patient.
It shows a pernicious state that has been pent up and cannot be held any longer and this violence is going to destroy.
This is one of the remedies that you may look for to check the progress of such states.
Any remedy, of course, which corresponds to the totality of the symptoms is the remedy to administer.
In 1881, Kent accepted a position as professor of anatomy at the Homeopathic College of Missouri, an institution with which he remained affiliated until 1888. In 1890, Kent moved to Pennsylvania to take a position as Dean of Professors at the Post-Graduate Homeopathic Medical School of Philadelphia. In 1897 Kent published his magnum opus, Repertory of the Homœopathic Materia Medica. Kent moved to Chicago in 1903, where he taught at Hahnemann Medical College.