So it is in the lungs – in every part of the body. And then comes the loss of voice. Now, apply all that we know of its ability to infiltrate.
We have tuberculosis of the larynx. Singers, public speakers, who are broken down, nervous, of poor digestion, bad inheritance, take on tuberculosis of the larynx, and the voice is lost. Ulceration follows. And this trouble finally goes into the lungs. They emaciate and get night sweats.
“Loss of voice.” Generally of a painful character.
Again, colds settle in the larynx.
“Cannot speak a loud word; constant tickling in the larynx, provoking cough.”
Rawness and soreness in upper part of larynx. Laughing aggravates the coughing-laughing will cause tickling in the larynx, and he will scrape out quantities of gray mucus.
If the irritation is in the smaller air passages, in the lungs, laughter will set him to coughing, and he will scrape out gray mucus.
“Over the bifurcation of trachea, a raw spot; when using the voice, talking, laughing, or singing.”
In the middle of the chest a raw sensation.
“Roughness and hoarseness of the voice. Phthisis of the larynx;”
in those withered young people; a young man when he is not more than twenty five looks to be fifty. Many wrinkles as though he had had many cares.
Has a dry cough; gets up a little gray mucus. Yet he may be somewhat wiry, getting about fairly well. Has inherited phthisis. The cough is a deep cough, is aggravated from laughing, talking and in a warm room. Laughing causes cough and causes mucus in the larynx.
This remedy will turn aside this threatening phthisis, this dry teasing cough. A little dry, hacking cough especially comes under this remedy. In no instance are we likely to have those violent spasmodic shaking coughs, such as we find in Bryonia
When coughing a sore feeling in the larynx.
“The cough is accompanied with an easy expectoration.”
He does not usually cough so much to get up the mucus as he does to relieve a little irritation; but when there is mucus it generally comes up easily. It is not so difficult to detach as we find in many remedies.
“Easily detached mucus in the larynx.”
He simply scrapes it out by an effort of the larynx. Cough and scraping of the larynx during the daytime and evening, worse in a warm room and better in the open air and from motion.
It has a sense of weakness of the chest. There are two remedies having this weakness of the chest and you cannot easily tell them apart.
Weak voice, weak chest; a feeling that it is so difficult to, breathe, and so difficult to talk, and so difficult to cough, because the muscles of the chest feel so weak.
These two medicines are Argentum met. and Stannum.
Great weakness of the muscles of the chest. The patient dwells upon it much, and it is a weakness far beyond what can be accounted for in tuberculosis, a sense of muscular weakness in the chest.
A paralytic weakness of the chest. Of course, this is wholly different from the Antimonium tart., which has a dreadful weakness of the chest, but in that remedy you will remember it is in the acute affections.
It is suitable in lingering complaints, sickness of long standing, so that “great weakness of the chest” means that which I have tried to describe and it is that witch patients will often fail in their efforts to describe.
“Doctor, I feel so weak in the chest.”
Now, this remedy is full of cardiac disturbances. Palpitation when lying on the back.
“A sense of trembling in the chest.”
A sense of quivering, fluttering, or trembling, as it will be described by the different patients, trembling in the chest.
That tremulous weakness of the whole body, bands and feet; palpitation with general trembling is strong in this remedy.
“Frequent palpitation. During pregnancy, palpitation. Palpitation at night. Palpitation associated with headaches.”
With general weakness. Gradually increasing weakness. From his general weakness the knees knock together when walking. Trembling in the knees with palpitation and general weakness. The limbs become stiff,
“Numbness in the limbs, as if asleep.”
Loss of power. Many of the complaints are increased during rest. Pain in the back and limbs while sitting, better while walking. All the nervous excitement that is possible in remedies comes up in this remedy.
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.