“Ulcerated, agglutinated, painful nostrils.”
“Crusts in nose.”
“Nose feels obstructed as in dry coryza.”
With nearly all of these nose affections, the patient is bowed down with sorrow, full of grief; black clouds hang over him and he wants to die. Loathing of life and wants to find some way to commit suicide.
“Puffy under eyes.”
“Blue about nose and lips.”
“Face glowing red. ”
“Violent boring in right zygomatic process when walking.”
“Carious teeth.”
“Toothache at night.”
“Foul breath.”
“Syphilitic ulcers in palate and throat.”
“Boring in hard palate.”
Liver: This medicine has cured craving for alcohol, the craving of drunkards.
Another marked feature of this medicine is its ability to harden, enlarge and inflame the liver; induration with cardiac affections; enlargement of the heart and liver.
When you take into consideration the venous system, the portal system and its close association with the heart in establishing the circulation of blood in the abdomen, and the work that it does in the abdomen as a great receiving apparatus, you will not be surprised to find that heart and liver affections are associated with hopelessness and despair.
Notice, on the other hand, something that will set you to thinking perhaps, in cases of phthisis, none of them is hopeless they think they are going to get well; the lungs are almost gone with tubercles, but he knows if he could only get up that little something out of the throat he would get well.
Notice then that peculiar relation between the lungs and the understanding, and between the heart and the will. With every little trouble located in the heart there comes hopelessness, but when the manifestation of disease is in the lungs there is hopefulness
Dropsical conditions of the abdomen.
“Inguinal hernia.”
“Tabes mesenterica.”
All of the glands of the body are involved more or less. All sorts of disturbances of the sexual organs.
“Testes indurated.”
“Frequent nightly emissions.”
Complaints as the result of vices.
“Hydrocele.”
“Ulcers on scrotum after gonorrhoea.”
“Burning and stinging in perineum.”
“Condylomata around anus.”
“Induration of uterus.”
“Menses too late and scanty.”
“Uterus prolapsed and indurated.”
“Leucorrhoea thick white.”
Complaints in the uterus and region of the pelvis from straining and reaching up the arms; abortion from reaching up at the windows and fixing a curtain, etc.
Aurum is a medicine that is suitable for induration of the uterus and ulceration of the uterus as a result of repeated abortions.
When you study the loss of affections that is involve in such a state and the affections or lack of affections that are found in Aurum you can see a deep well grounded similitude in the symptoms, and that is the way to hunt a remedy.
It is in the sphere of the physician to examine into this state of mankind in which he can destroy his offspring and to examine into the nature of remedies producing such a state.
We see in Aurum this entire perversion of all the loves of mankind, and finally their entire destruction.
The symptoms of asthma and of difficult breathing you would naturally expect to be associated with the cardiac affections.
Notice this also, that the difficult breathing is of two kinds, such breathing as involves the lung, and such breathing as involves the heart. So it we have an asthmatic condition of dyspnoea that is cardiac in character, and dyspnoea that is purely respiratory.
These are entirely distinct in character; one belongs to such remedies as have a predominance of action on the affections, and another belonging to those having a predominance of action on the intelligence; one will involve the lung and finally bring on emphysema; the other one is entirely different in its character, with irregular heart action, and only secondarily associated with emphysema.
Study your pathology with these things in mind and you will be able to perceive the nature of sickness and its results. These things are not mere observation, whims and theories, but are the outcome of studying things from internal to external.
in this remedy the pains wander from joint to joint and finally locate in the heart. Angina pectoris is often the ending of an old rheumatism that has wandered from joint to joint.
“Difficult breathing.”
If the case goes on a little while, there will be blood spots, and if he lie on the right side the lower part will be dull on percussion and the upper part will be resonant. Palpitation with great agony. Extreme oppression in the region of the heart on walking fast and going upstairs with oedema of the lower limbs.
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.
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