Antimonium crudum

leucorrhœa, skin, nails, etc. Strange absence of pain. Cracks in canthi, nostrils, angles of mouth, etc. Gouty metastases (Abro.). .................... Fat, fretful, cross and peevish; cries if looked at, touched (Stram.) or washed. Loathing; of life, food, bathing etc. Ecstatic, dreamy, sentimental. Pustules in tarsi. Canthi red, raw, moist (ext.). Sore, scabby nostrils. Pimples about mouth (Ast-r.). TONGUE THICKLY COATED, LIKE WHITEWASH (Ars. Bis. Bry. Kali-m. Pho.). Aphthæ. No thirst. DISORDERED DIGESTION; food leaves an after-taste or causes belching. VOMITING < eating or drinking; without nausea (Chel.) or relief. Stomach is painful to pressure; gout of. Fulness in abdomen. Pappy or watery stool, mixed with lumps. Gastro- intestinal catarrh. Voice lacks control, > using it. Aphonia from overheating. Violent cough, each bout a little weaker. Horny or split nails; growths beneath. Shiny elbows. Gouty pains in fingers. Footsweat; wilts the skin. Callosities on soles. Eruptive tendency. Warts; horny. Sleepy and weary.

COLD: BATHING. Dampness. WATER (on head). OVEREATING. Acids. Sweets. HEAT: SUMMER, of sun. Overheating. Radiated. Gross feeders (Ab-c.), showing gastric, mental and skin symptoms. Lumpy stools,

STOMACH. DIGESTIVE TRACT. MIND. SKIN. Changing sides.

Related: Sul.

Antimonium crudum

Sulphide of Antimony. ShSz>

For children and young people inclined to grow fat (Cal.) ; for the extremes of life.

Old people with morning diarrhoea, suddenly become constipated, or alternate diarrhoea and constipation ; pulse hard and rapid.

Sensitive to the cold, < after taking cold.

Child is fretful, peevish, cannot bear to be touched or looked at ; sulky, does not wish to speak or be spoken to (Ant. t., Iod., Sil.) ; angry at every little attention.

Great sadness, with weeping.

Loathing life.

Anxious lachrymose mood, the slightest thing affects her (Puls.) ; abject despair, suicide by drowning.

Irresistible desire to talk in rhymes or repeat verses.

Sentimental mood in the moonlight, especially ecstatic love ; bad effects of disappointed affection (Cal. p.).

Nostrils and labial commissures sore, cracked and crusty.

Headache: after river bathing; from taking cold; alcoholic drinks; deranged digestion, acids, fat, fruit; suppressed eruption.

Gastric complaints from over-eating ; stomach weak, digestion easily disturbed ; a thick milky-white coating on the tongue, which is the red strand of the remedy; very subject to canker sores in the mouth (Arg. n., Sulph.).

Longing for acids and pickles.

Gastric and intestinal affections : from bread and pastry; acids, especially vinegar; sour or bad wine; after cold bathing; over-heating; hot weather.

Constant discharge of flatus, up and down, for years ; belching, tasting of ingesta.

Mucus : in large quantities from posterior nares by hawking; from anus, ichorous, oozing, staining yellow; mucous piles.

Disposition to abnormal growths of the skin ; fingernails do not grow rapidly; crushed nails grow in splits like warts and with horny spots.

Large horny corns on soles of feet (Ran. b.) ; very sensitive when walking, especially on stone pavements.

Loss of voice from becoming over-heated.

Cannot bear the heat of the sun; worse from exertion in the sun (Lach., Nat. m.) ; < from over-heating near the fire; exhausted in warm weather; ailments from sunburn.

Whooping-cough : < by being over-heated in the sun or in a warm room; from cold washing.

When symptoms reappear they change locality or go from one side of the body to the other.

Aversion to cold bathing ; child cries when washed or bathed with cold water; cold bathing causes violent headache; causes suppressed menses; colds from swimming or falling into the water (Rhus).

Similar: to, Bry., Ipec., Lyc., Puls., in gastric complaints.

Follows well: after, Ant. c.. Puls., Mer., Sulph.

Aggravation. — After eating; cold bath; acids or

.36 sour wine ; after heat of sun or fire; extremes of cold or heat.

Amelioration. — In the open air ; during rest ; after a warm bath.

Lecture LV — The Preparations of Antimony — Antimonium crudum and Antimonium tartaricum

f Depresses the heart and circulation.

I Increases sweat.

Antimony. <j Mucous membranes:—catarrhs.

I Nausea, vomiting, purging, fainting, collapse.

[ Skin:—rash; pustules.

Wk take up for study to-day two of the preparations of antimony, Antimonium crudum and Antimonium iartaricum. The term Antimonium crudum does not imply that it is the metallic antimony but that it is the ore, the form in which it is most frequently found in nature. Antimonium tartaricum is a compound salt the tartrate of antimony and potash. There are other Antimony preparations used in medicine, but we shall only consider the above-named as they are the most important.

Antimony exerts a depressing influence on the heart and circulation. Respiration too is disturbed by it, and in the majority of cases, perspiration is increased. The next important seat of action of antimony is the mucous membranes, particularly that of the alimentary canal. It causes nausea, vomiting and purging, with faintness and relaxation. The vomited matters you will find at first to consist of mucus and food. I^ater they contain bile, and finally blood. It is not because antimony has a special effect on the liver that we have this bilious vomiting, but because it causes a regurgitation of bile. Cramps occur in the limbs. These are accompanied by purging and thus you have a perfect picture of collapse such as you find in cholera or cholera morbus. Now, the emetic properties of antimony are not local. Experiments have been made by which the stomach has been extirpated, a bladder placed in its stead, and antimony injected into the blood. Retching will ensue, and yet there is no stomach. It therefore acts through the pneumogastric nerves.

Antimony will cause convulsions. This convulsive action is traceable to disturbance in the circulation at the base of the brain. The lungs become engorged with blood by any preparation of antimony. It is said that hepatization of a portion of the organ may follow poisoning by it, especially by its tartrate. This has been doubted of late. It has been claimed that this so-called hepatization was in reality atalectasis.

You also find antimony causing emphysema, particularly of the borders of the lungs.

Animals fed on antimonic acid will have fatty degeneration of the liver, heart, etc.

The skin is attacked by the antimonies. The irritation they here produce is rather slow and tardy, but the result is very characteristic. There will be, at first, slight redness; this is followed by development of papules, and these papules become pustules. Pustular eruptions are very characteristic of antimony, particularly of the tartrate. These pustules resemble the eruption of small-pox, so much so that Antimonium tartaricum has been used as a remedy in that disease, and with success.

Antimony is particularly useful when pustules appear about the genital organs, whether they be syphilitic or not.

While the preponderance is in favor of Antimonium iartaricum for pustulation, Antimonium crudum carries off the palm for horny excrescences and callosities on the feet and hands.

We will now consider

Antimonium Crudum.

Bryonia, Ipecac, Nux vomica, Pulsatilla.

Chamomilla.

Antimonium 011- a • TT , \ Sulphur, Arsenicum, Hepar.

Ranunculus bulbosus.

iEthusa cynapium.

In the above schema I have placed no complementary remedy to Antimonium crudum. Scilla has been said to be complementary to it, but I have not satisfied myself that such is the case.

When Antimonium crudum is indicated, we find mental symptoms that are quite prominent. It is frequently used in children when they are cross and peevish. They will not even permit themselves to be looked at. If an adult, the patient is sulky or sad, almost like the Pulsatilla patient. In some cases, there is a slightly erotic condition of mind, connected with sexual erethism. The patient becomes ecstatic and fancies that some beautiful female is the object of his sentimental love.

In children, this peevish mental state is associated with nausea, hot and red face and irregular pulse. The child is particularly cross when washed in cold water, but not so much in warm water. Now, the symptoms often occur in children in association with those of the stomach.

The gastric symptoms of Antimony are very well marked. It is suited to gastric catarrh, whether it be developed from cold or from improper food. In the first place, the tongue is coated white, and this coating is apt to be spread uniformly over the whole dorsum of the tongue. It has well been compared to a coat of whitewash. The tongue may be dry, and often is so, as in Bryonia. Sometimes, we find this white coating assuming a slightly yellowish tinge, especially on the back part of the tongue. At other times, you will find the borders of the tongue sore and red; often, there is an accumulation of yellowish mucus in the pharynx. There are nausea and vomiting; the latter is very prominent, and occurs as soon as the child eats or drinks. Antimonium crudum is especially useful in vomiting from overloaded stomach; from eating indigestible substances; after the abuse of fat food, acids, sour wines, vinegar, etc., or from the excessive heat of summer. The vomited matters contain food; or, in the case of very young children, they consist of curdled milk. The appetite is impaired. There may be colic, in which case there is almost always a deposit of lithic acid in the urine. The bowels are affected also; there is often diarrhoea; the stool is watery and contains little lumps of faecal matter. This diarrhoea is made worse by vinegar and other acids, by cold bathing and by being overheated. If there is constipation, as is often the case when vomiting predominates, the stools will consist of white, hard and dry lumps that look like undigested curd. In older persons, particularly in the aged, for Antimonium crudum suits both extremes of life, we have an alternation of constipation and diarrhoea: the stool, in constipation consisting of hard, dry lumps; that in diarrhoea, of water mixed with faecal lumps.

Now let us make some distinctions between Antimonium crudum and its concordant remedies. sEthusa cynapium is our mainstay for vomiting of curdled milk in infants during dentition, or at other times. The vomited matter comes with a "rush," and the vomiting exhausts the little patient. It then falls into a sleep from which it awakens hungry, eats and again vomits. In Antimonium crudum, the child is hungry as soon as it rids itself of the milk. Ai.thusa is suited to severe cases that have been prostrated by a long course of bad diet, by summer complaint or by the irritation of teething. I have known sEthusa to relieve the pain and soreness in the gums of teething children when vomiting is a prominent symptom.

Like Antimonium crudum, Ipecacuanha has vomiting after a meal, after coughing and after acids; and hence it is suited to similar cases. But Ipecacuanha usually has more nausea than has the other. Vomiting and retching predominate in Antimonium cruditm, and nausea in Ipecacuanha. Then, too, the latter remedy usually has clean or slightly coated tongue; whereas the former requires a thick white coating of that organ.

Bryonia is similar to Antimonium crudum. It has white tongue, dry mouth and constipation. It is suited to gastric catarrh from over-eating in persons of irritable temperament. The Bryonia tongue is a little different from that of Antimonium crudum , in that it is white down the middle, the edges not being coated. Then, too, the Bryonia stool is large, hard, dry and brown. If there is diarrhoea, the stool is offensive and watery, and smells like old cheese.

Still another remedy is Pulsatilla. Here we find resemblances in the state of mind. We have both remedies called for in gastric ailments from the use of pork. But Pulsatilla has not the characteristic vomiting of Antimony, and the stool of Pulsatilla is usually greenish, or yellowish-green, and slimy. It is especially suited to cases after indulgence in mixed diet—ice-cream, cakes, pastry, etc.

Antimonium crudum acts upon the skin, producing thick, horny callosities in this tissue. It is often indicated in eczematous eruptions, when the skin is of this character.

It also has a marked action on the nails, causing deficient growth. If, after an accident which has split the nail, the latter does not heal readily, but grows cracked and thick, Antimonium crudum will make it grow as it should. I have also used the drug successfully in treating a split hoof, in the case of my own horse.

Children who need Antimonium crudum often have an eruption, consisting of crusts which are of a honey-yellow color. They are thick, just as we have seen with the callosities. The affected portions of the skin crack readily. This is particularly well-marked about the nostrils and corners of the mouth.

Now, I know of one case of diphtheria cured by Antimonium crudum when the symptoms were these: the child was very cross; whining and crying simply because it was looked at; this was especially soon awaking from sleep; and there were these crusts around the nostrils and in the corners of the mouth. Antimonium crudum not only removed these but cured the diphtheria.

The eyes are inflamed. They are worse from any bright glare, as the sunshine, or the glare of a bright fire, here reminding you of Mercurius. Antimonium crudum is distinguished from Graphites by the fact that the rawness is confined to the canthi, whereas under Graphites the inflammation involves the whole border of the lids.

On the female genital organs Antimonium cntdum has some action. It is useful in prolapsus uteri when there is constant bearing-down feeling, as if something were pushing out of the vagina, and tenderness over the ovarian region, particularly when the menses have been suppressed by cold bathing. The leucorrhoea is watery and contains little lumps.

There is one more use of Antimonium crudum to mention and we are done with it, and that is in adults who are tormented with gout. It is especially useful when gout has become constitutional. There will be gouty nodes in many of the joints. It here helps, provided the gastric symptoms characteristic of the remedy are present, but not otherwise.

Much concerned about his fate. Cross and contradictive; whatever is done fails to give satisfaction. Sulky; does not wish to speak. Peevish; vexed without cause. Child cannot bear to be touched or looked at. Angry at every little attention. Sentimental mood.

Black Sulphide of Antimony For homeopathic employment, the mental symptoms and those of the gastric sphere, determine its choice. Excessive irritability and fretfulness, together with a thickly-coated white tongue, are true guiding symptoms to many forms of disease calling for this remedy. All the conditions are aggravated by heat and cold bathing. Cannot bear heat of sun. Tendency to grow fat. An absence of pain, where it could be expected, is noticeable. Gout with gastric symptoms.

Worse, in evening, from heat, acids, wine, water, and washing. Wet poultices. Better, in open air, during rest. Moist warmth.

Aching, worse in vertex, on ascending, from bathing, from disordered stomach, especially from eating candy or drinking acid wines. Suppressed eruptions. Heaviness in forehead with vertigo; nausea, and nosebleed. Headache with great loss of hair.

Pimples, pustules, and boils on face. Yellow crusted eruption on cheeks and chin. Sallow and haggard.

Dull, sunken, red, itch, inflamed, agglutinated. Canthi raw and fissured. Chronic blepharitis. Pustules on cornea and lids.

Redness; swelling; pain in eustachian tube. Ringing and deafness. Moist eruption around ear.

Nostrils chapped and covered with crusts. Eczema of nostrils, sore, cracked and scurfy.

Cracks in corners of mouth. Dry lips. Saltish saliva. Much slimy mucus. Tongue coated thick white, as if whitewashed. Gums detach from teeth; bleed easily. Toothache in hollow teeth. Rawness of palate, with expectoration of much mucus. Canker sores. Pappy taste. No thirst. Subacute eczema about mouth.

Much thick yellowish mucus from posterior nares. Hawking in open

air. Laryngitis. Rough voice from over use.

Loss of appetite. Desire for acids, pickles. Thirst in evening and night. Eructation tasting of the ingesta. Heartburn, nausea, vomiting. After nursing, the child vomits its milk in curds, and refuses to nurse afterwards, and is very cross. Gastric and intestinal complaints from bread and pastry, acids, sour wine, cold bathing, overheating, hot weather. Constant belching. Gouty metastasis to stomach and bowels. Sweetish waterbrash. Bloating after eating.

Anal itching (Sulpho-calc. Alum). diarrhœa alternates with constipation, especially in old people. Diarrhœa after acids, sour wine, baths, overeating; slimy, flatulent stools. Mucous piles, continued oozing of mucus. Hard lumps mixed with watery discharge. Catarrhal proctitis. Stools composed entirely of mucus.

Frequent, with burning, and backache; turbid and foul odor.

Eruption on scrotum and about genitals. Impotence. Atrophy of penis and testicles.

Excited; parts itch. Before menses, toothache; menses too early and profuse. Menses suppressed from cold bathing, with feeling of pressure in pelvis and tenderness in ovarian region. Leucorrhœa watery; acrid, lumpy.

Cough worse coming into warm room, with burning sensation in chest, itching of chest, oppression. Loss of voice from becoming overheated. Voice harsh and badly pitched.

Itching and pain of neck and back.

Twitching of muscles. Jerks in arms. Arthritic pain in fingers. Nails brittle; grow out of shape. Horny warts on hands and soles. Weakness and shaking of hands in writing followed by offensive flatulence. Feet very tender; covered with large horny places. Inflamed corns. Pain in heels.

Eczema with gastric derangements. Pimples, vesicles, and pustules. Sensitive to cold bathing. Thick, hard, honey-colored scabs. Urticaria; measle-like eruption. Itching when warm in bed. Dry skin. Warts (Thuja; Sabina; Caust). Dry gangrene. Scaly, pustular eruption with burning and itching, worse at night.

Continual drowsiness in old people.

Chilly even in warm room. Intermittent with disgust, nausea, vomiting, eructations, coated tongue, diarrhœa. Hot sweat.

Compare: Antimonium Chloridum. Butter of Antimony (A remedy for cancer. Mucous membranes destroyed. Abrasions. Skin cold and clammy. Great prostration of strength. Dose-third trituration). Antimon iodat (Uterine hyperplasia; humid asthma. Pneumonia and bronchitis; loss of strength, and appetite, yellowish skin, sweaty, dull and drowsy). In sub-

acute and chronic colds in chest which have extended downwards from head and have fastened themselves upon the bronchial tubes in the form of hard, croupy cough with a decided wheeze and inability to raise the sputum, especially in the aged and weak patients (Bacmeister). Stage of resolution of pneumonia slow and delayed. Compare: Kermes mineral-Stibiat sulph rub (Bronchitis). Also Puls, Ipecac, Sulph. Complementary: Sulph. Antidote: Hepar.

Third to sixth potency.

Antimonium Crudum

Generalities: You will be surprised, when studying full provings of this substance, to notice that all the symptoms seem to centre about the stomach; it does not matter much what kind of complaints he suffers from the stomach takes part in it.

The pains disturb his stomach and bring, on nausea; with his headache he is sick at the stomach; with all complaints his stomach is out of order, and, on the other band, whenever he disorders his stomach he is sick all over. Complaints that manifest themselves through the stomach very frequently need this medicine. First in importance are the mental symptoms showing the type of constitution likely to need this remedy. It produces a very serious state in the mind, an absence of the desire to live. It is well known to physicians that the case is a serious one if the patient has no desire to live; life is a burden. When I hear a patient say: "Oh, doctor, if I could only die."

I do not like such a case; there is some deepseated trouble in the economy that is hard to remove. Something is threatening, and when it comes it is a common thing to see the patient actually die.

"Loathing of life."

You will find this especially in a low, lingering, continued fever, such as typhoid. This remedy has all the prostration of typhoid, and it has the continued type of fever as well as the intermittent and remittent. The prostration is similar to Arsenicum, but Ars. have overwhelming fear of death, while this medicine has loathing of life; and so they both part company. Ars, has overwhelming restlessness, this remedy is seldom restless. Ars. has an intense thirst, this medicine is thirstless. So even though both these remedies have excessive exhaustion with continued fever, we see they have features dissimilar enough to make them wholly distinct. Such a typhoid will sometimes be seen in young girls about puberty who are threatening to go into chlorosis. They have loathing of life, but it is a hysterical loathing of life.

Moments of great exhaustion, sudden attacks of weakness and fainting. You will commonly find another feature with this, not coming at the same moment. but alternating with it, or only present at times, namely, these over excitable, intense, nervous, hysterical, ecstatic young girls and women are overcome by mellow lights such as flow through stained glass windows or the mellow light from the moon in the evening. That is, what is meant when it says in the text: "Sentimental mood in the moonlight."

It is a hysterical state, a disorderly outburst of the affections, such affections as can be aroused only in one who is sick, or one who is unbalanced in the general nervous system.

This kind of patient gives us the mental state and constitution of Ant. crud., and along with such mental states the physical conditions seems to strike to the stomach, as it were.

We have running through this remedy a general state that you should keep in mind, that is, a gouty or rheumatic state, in which the symptoms change with the changes of the weather; worse in cold, damp weather, worse from cold bathing, better from the heat of a hot bath, worse from taking sour wine, and worse from stimulants of any kind.

When you use the expression "worse from wine," it is not only important to know that the patient is worse from wine, but also the character of complaints that are worse from wine.

This patient becomes easily intoxicated, but the physical symptoms are more disturbed than the mental; his gouty symptoms are worse from sour wine; all the pains and aches of the body are worse from sour wine; headaches come from this cause and the gastric disturbances are greatly aggravated from sour wine.

This patient is worse at night, worse in damp weather, worse from damp cold, better from lying down quietly, better from applied heat, but much worse from over-heating and from radiated heat, and in a warm room.

Many of the symptoms come on in the sun's rays and from the heat of an open grate. The open fire is wholly against the Ant. crud. patient. A child with whooping cough will cough more after looking into the fire. Such things are queer; they are so strange that there is no philosophical hypothesis to explain them, no theory that looks toward an explanation, but they are facts which we must accept.

Gout: The whole gouty nature of the case seems to change so suddenly that you wonder where the more exterior symptoms have gone to, for all at once in a night or a day the patient commences to vomit and you have persistent vomiting, lasting days and weeks, until the gouty symptoms come back into the extremities. It is wonderful how quickly this old-fashioned metastasis will come on, this changing from one place to another. The gout suddenly ceases in the extremities and stomach symptoms come on, and you may call it gout in the stomach if you will.

Catarrhal symptoms: There are catarrhal symptoms in this remedy; catarrh of the nose, stomach, rectum, etc., and an increased flow of mucus from any of these localities from drinking sour wine and from taking cold.

A distressing feature of the catarrh is the stuffing up of the nose at night. As soon as he gets into an overheated room, his nose gets stuffed lip. The coryza has a tendency to become chronic, because of the low and feeble circulation and the poor constitution.

When it becomes chronic it is worse at night and is associated-with headaches. As the catarrh slackens up and becomes dry the headache becomes worse; he has neuralgia in the head, crushing pains and dreadful sickness at the stomach with vomiting.

He often has an attack of sick headache and it will be called by the family a gastric sick headache, but the condition just mentioned comes on from taking cold, which slacks up the thick discharge into a dryness of the nose and the inhaled air burns the nose like fire. Sometimes these troubles pass off after an intense vomiting spell; sometimes they do not, but the headache may re for days not relieved by vomiting, or relieved only after prolonged vomiting.

Headache: There are remedies full of headache and as soon as ho vomits he feels better, but in this remedy he vomits long, and becomes relaxed and exhausted.

The headache is worse moving about, worse at night better from lying down, from keeping quiet, better in the open air, worse in warm room, worse from overheating, worse from radiated heat and light. You see now how the catarrh, the headache and gastric symptoms all belong together.

It is because the patient is sick that you cannot take symptoms separately, you must prescribe for the whole man.

There is another feature belonging to the mucous membranes, and an important one; these membranes have a tendency to throw out a milky white exudation or deposit, and it is especially noticed upon the tongue.

Mucous membranes: The whole tongue is covered with a milk-white coating. This you find in all diseases where the remedy is indicated. In the stomach disorders of children, in gastric fevers, in complaints with fever and much vomiting great irritation of the whole nervous system and in irritation of the stomach in typhoids, the tongue looks white. Upon the slightest provocation he will retch and gag. Every thing seems to disturb him. He has loathing of food; the thought and smell of food disturb him. This is like Arsenicum.

Voice and larynx: He takes a cold bath at night on going to bed and gets up in the morning voiceless cannot speak a word.

This has come on in an apparently painless manner; he does not know that it is present until he attempts to speak in the morning. This may be present with spasms, of the larynx clutchings of the throat. Colds sometimes go down into the throat and into the trachea, producing a bronchitis or pneumonia.

Cough: Dry, hacking spasmodic cough in diminishing paroxysms.

I will explain that: The first paroxysm occurs with great violence, racking his whole frame, and lasting a longer or shorter period, to be followed by one with less violence and another with less violence; perhaps after a dozen or less paroxysms of diminishing violence, he ends up with a dry, hacking cough which is not a paroxysm.

When this first cough shakes the whole body, whether it is a bronchitis or whooping cough, and the tongue is white, and there are more or less gastric disturbances, Ant. crud. is the remedy. It will change the whole aspect of the case at once. The chest remains sore, lame and bruised from the violence of the cough.

Stomach: The stomach symptoms must be particularly considered.

Constant nausea, lump in the stomach, feeling all the time as if he had an overloaded stomach, as if he had eaten too much, and that is when he had not eaten at all.

The stomach feels distended although the abdomen is flat. He feels distended and vomits the contents of the stomach; he vomits slime after he has emptied the stomach of its contents; prolonged retching, nausea, sickening load in the stomach and it seems to go on and on. The vomiting does not relieve and there is increasing exhaustion.

Liver: Inflammation and hardness of the liver or any portion of it.

Pain in the region of the gall bladder. Great pain in the region of the liver, rending, tearing pains in the liver, jaundice is associated with these symptoms at times.

Abdomen: In the abdomen we have a group of symptoms; violent abdominal pains, burning, great distension; there appears to be an increasing distension as if by a screw, gradually forcing down upon something gradually increasing the tension.

We find this state in the tympanitic condition of typhoid fever, we find it in cases of flatulence, we find it in summer diarrheas.

It will be associated with gastric symptoms and the white tongue, especially if such disturbance had been brought on by drinking sour wine, by taking a cold bath, in one who has a gouty constitution, where the nodules in the finger joints become painless and the stomach and bowels become distended and painful.

Diarrhea: This remedy has a nondescript diarrhea, but also a lumpy and liquid diarrhea. Diarrhea from sour wine. It seems to take a long time to empty the bowels. He hurries to stool and passes a little lump and some liquid, and is soon hurried again to stool and more lumps and liquid are passed, and this goes on in summer diarrheas until finally the bowel is emptied and then there is great tenesmus.

It is a diarrhea ending in dysentery; inflammation of the rectum and colon, with suffering, much tenesmus, prolonged efforts and great exhaustion.

Troublesome hemorrhoids in old gouty constitutions. They are always sore and inflamed from a cold, wet day, from cold bathing and, are always worse if he is foolish enough to drink sour wine or take sour food.

The stomach, bowel, rectum and hemorrhoidal complaints are all worse from disordering the stomach with sour wine, sour fruit or indigestible substances from cold bathing and wet weather.

Female: The pelvic viscera become greatly relaxed, especially in women, so much so that there is a dragging down in the pelvis. It seems as though the contents of the pelvis would be expelled, or would fall out. There is prolapsus of the uterus and a discharge resembling leucorrhoea .

Disturbances of various kinds at the menstrual period.

Irritable and painful ovaries, such as we find associated with hysterical girls; those who suffer from unrequited affections; dreamers.

Sweat: This medicine produces sweating; copious, exhaustive sweats, night sweats, such as we find in lingering diseases.

Sweats from the slightest exertion. If he becomes slightly overheated he fairly boils with perspiration and then takes cold.

Skin: The skin is ulcerated and has a tendency to grow warts, callosities, bad nails and bad hair. Hard, horny excrescences grow under the nail and are extremely painful. From the ends of the fingers little horn-like excrescences appear. The slightest pressure will produce a callosity, or a sore place, and in working men you will find an unusual tendency to thickening of the skin on the soles of the feet.

They are very sore to walk upon, because these callous places are sensitive and have numerous centres of little corns. The tendency to build up and indurate belongs to the remedy.

Warts grow upon the hands. The hair is unhealthy. Pustules form upon the skin with red areola.

Pustular eruptions have an inflamed base that is red, and sensitive.

Now, if you will study the proving and get the particulars of the remedy, and fit them into this framework, you will understand something of Ant. crud.