There is great deal of palpitation of the heart and pulsation in other parts of the body, especially in chlorotic young girls and women; then there is an orgasm of blood to the chest with great anxiety. The degenerative symptoms produced by Baryta carb. causing premature senility have a peculiar affinity for the unstriated muscle fibre; therefore we find it has a marked action in aortic aneurysm and apoplexies due to degenerative changes in the coat of arteries.
We find a tendency to fatty tumors on the back. There is stiffness and soreness in the back and very severe lumbar pain. The glands of the axillae become swollen and enlarged, and as a result there is pain on raising the arm.
The walk is peculiar and tottering. Here this symptom may be compared with Arg. met., Aur., Caust., Con., Picric ac., Phos. There are sharp pains in the knees which prevent him from kneeling; a sensation of tension, trembling and twitching in the muscles. The feet have a foetid sweat which naturally the patient has tried to suppress, and he is suffering the ill effects of such suppression.
These patient talk in their sleep, and children with night sweats are very apt to be delirious in their sleep.
The skin symptoms have violent itching when in a warm bed, not ameliorated by scratching; ringworm; warts in abundance, especially upon the hands.
These localized symptoms are a working out of the failure of the nutritive process, and the whole being has been stunted and dwarfed by the underlying miasmatic dyscrasia.
DERBY, CONN.
As a first argument in evidence of the verity of our Hahnemannian position, let me state that we know very little of the pathological conditions of the great majority of affections we are called upon to treat. What is the pathology of rheumatism, and in what possible way can the pathological condition of the case explain why Bryonia is indicated where the patient is worse from movement and Rhus tox. relieves the patient when better from motion? What is the pathology of diabetes, and in what way can the indication of Apis where there is an absence of thirst be explained on a pathological reasoning?
What is the pathology of sick headache, and in what way can the peculiar symptom of Sanguinaria be explained, where the patient for relief kneels down and presses the head against the floor? Or what diseased condition makes the Silicea patient better from wrapping up warmly, and the Calcarea carb. patient want cold applications made to the aching head? Given a case of bronchitis, what are you going to give for it from a pathological standpoint? Here is a patient that coughs her head nearly off on coming into a warm room, and another is equally bad on going into a cold atmosphere. Both remain comfortable in the opposite temperature. On what line of pathological reasoning will Bryonia help the one and Phosphorus the other? It is sufficient for us to know that it is so, and that help can be given in almost every case. H.P. HOLMES, M.D., 1892.
