Borax veneta

Tough, bloody mucus. Tousy persons (Med. Sul.): frowsy hair, tangles at ends. Frightened at every noise; starts from sleep, as if to fall. Restless in afternoon. Gummy, crusty eyelids and nostrils. Raw tarsi. Acrid coryza. Red nose of young women. Dirty complexion. Puffy face. Dry cracked tongue. Palate hard and wrinkled. Eructations when painful parts are pressed. Poorly nourished, soft and flabby. Aphtous, catarrhal tendency. Clear, thick, hot, biting discharges. Heat in single parts; mouth, vagina, palms, etc. Sticking or drawing pains; intercostal, in soles, etc. Shrivelled skin or mucous membranes. Marasmus. .................... Nervous, anxious, fidgety, fickle. Fretful, before stool. Fears downward motion. Starts at trifles, sudden sounds, etc. Anxious cries during sleep. Hot head of babies; they cry and scream when nursing or before passing stool or urine. Entropion. Red about eyes. Dry, tender, aphthous mouth. Puffy, indented tongue. Griping toothache, < wet weather. Nausea when thinking hard. Catch in groin on coughing. Stools: turning green; like boiled starch. Mucous diarrhœa, then weakness. Loose, pappy, repulsive stools. Hot, acrid, smarting urine. Nephritis. Cystitis. Easy conception. Membranous dysmenorrhœa. Albuminous leucorrhœa. Clear, hot, pasty leucorrhœa. Empty feeling in mammæ, after child nurses. Averse to coition. Pain in opposite breast, as child nurses. Mother's milk is thick and tastes badly. Blood-streaked or mouldy expectoration. Limbs tremble, at 10 A.M. Itching on back of hands. Eczema. Weak calves. DRY SKIN; festers easily, won't heal. Sweat on stomach. Stitch in right chest, < deep breath and > hard pressure. Heart feels as if on right side. Violent palpitation.

DOWNWARD MOTION. Sudden noises. Cold; wet. Least uncovering. Nurslings. Children. Fruit.

11 P.M.

Occiput. NUTRITION: NERVES. MUCOUS MEMBRANES. MOUTH. Skin. Kidneys. Bladder.

Related: Bell.

Borax veneta

Biborate of Soda.

Dread of downward motion in nearly all complaints.

Great anxiety from downward motion; when lying the child down on a couch or in the crib, cries and clings to the nurse; when rocking, dancing, swinging;

going down stairs or rapidly down hill; horsebackriding (compare, Sank.).

Children awake suddenly, screaming and grasping sides of cradle, without apparent cause (Apis, Cina, Stram.).

Excessively nervous, easily frightened by the slightest noise or an unusual, sharp sound, a cough, sneeze, a cry, lighting a match, etc. (Asar., Calad. ).

Hair becomes frowsy and tangled; splits, sticks together at the tips; if these bunches are cut off, they form again, cannot be combed smooth (Fluor, ac., Lyc., Psor., Tub.).

Eyelashes : loaded with dry, gummy exudation ;

agglutinated in morning ; turn inward and inflame the eye, especially at outer canthus; tendency to ‘‘wild hairs.”

Nostrils crusty, inflamed; tip of nose shining red; red noses of young women.

Stoppage of r. nostril, or first r. then left with constant blowing of nose (Am. c.. Lac. c., Mag. m.).

Aphthce: in the mouth, on the tongue, inside of the cheek; easily bleeding when eating or touched; prevents child from nursing; with hot mouth, dryness and thirst (Ars.) ; cracked and bleeding tongue (Arum) ; salivation, especially during dentition.

Aphthous sore mouth; is worse from touch; eating salty or sour food; of old people, often from plate of teeth (Alumen).

Child has frequent urination and screams before urine passes (Lyc., Sanic., Sars.).

Leucorrhoea : profuse, albuminous, starchy, with sensation as if warm water were flowing down; for two weeks between the catamenia (compare, Bov., Con.).

Skin: unhealthy, slight injuries suppurate (Calend., Hep., Men, Sil.).

Relation. — Borax follows: Calc., Pson, Sanic.,

Sulph.

Is followed: by Ars., Bry., Lyc., Phos., Sil. Incompatible: should not be used before or after, Acetic acid, vinegar, wine.

Aggravation. — Downward motion; from sudden, slight noises ; smoking, which may bring on diarrhoea; damp, cold weather; before urinating.

Amelioration. — Pressure; holding painful side with hand.

Lecture LXIX — Borax veneta

( Staphisagria, Mercurius.

Borax. < Sepia, Pulsatilla.

( Bryonia.

> Chamomilla, Coffea.

\ Vinegar.

/ Wine.

Borax is the biborate of soda. As a medicine, it won its first laurel in the nursery, where it has long been used in the treatment of sore nipples and children's sore mouth. Like all popular remedies, it has been greatly abused. Homoeopathy has rescued it from the nursery and now offers it to the profession as a medicine of great value, telling when it may and when it may not be used. Underlying this sore mouth, which seems to be the keynote for the use of Borax, is a system or constitution which will permit of the sore mouth, that is, an illynourished system. Thus the infant becomes pale or of an earthy hue, its flesh grows soft and flabby; it cries a great deal when it nurses, screams out during sleep and awakens clinging to its mother as if frightened by a dream. It is excessively nervous, so much so that the slightest noise, the mere rustling of paper, as well as a distant heavy noise, will arouse and frighten it. This nervous excitability qualifies the pains. For instance, in the earache, you will find that each paroxysm of pain causes the child to start nervously. The earache is accompanied by soreness, swelling and heat of the ear, just as you find in Belladonna. Pulsatilla and Chamomilla. There is a mucous or muco-purulent otorrhcea. Borax is distinguished from these remedies by this starting with the pain or from slight noises, by the paleness of the face and above all by another well-proved symptom, the dread of downward motion. Thus if the little one is sound asleep in its mother's arms and she makes the attempt to lay it down in its crib, it gives a start and awakens. If she attempts to carry it down stairs, it will cling to her as if afraid of falling. This must not be confounded with the excitability of other medicines, as Chamomilla and Belladonna. It is not simply the motion that awakens the child, for the child will not awaken if it is moved without any downward motion. It must, then, be the downward motion that arouses it. The reason for this is, that the child is suffering from cerebral anaemia and this downward motion causes a feeling as though it were going to fall. This symptom may also be utilized in adults, as, for example, in the case of invalids who have been ordered to take horseback rides, but who cannot do so, because when the horse lets them down, they feel as if they were in torture. You will also find that ladies, after some exhausting disease, cannot use a rocking-chair, because when they rock backwards, they feel as if they would tumble.

The digestion in the Borax case is impaired, as you might infer from the defective nutrition. Colic precedes the diarrhoea in the child I am describing. The stools are usually green, or they may be soft and yellow, but they always contain mucus. Here you have another illustration of the affinity of Borax for mucous membranes. Aphthous inflammation of the mouth appears as a concomitant of the diarrhoea. Aphthae form in the pouches on the inside of the cheeks, on the tongue and in the fauces. The mouth is hot, which the mother notices when the child takes hold of the nipple. The mucous membrane around these aphthae bleeds easily. The child lets go of the nipple and cries with pain and vexation, or else refuses the breast altogether. Similar to Borax are the following remedies: first, Bryonia; this remedy has caused and has cured infants' sore-mouth. But the characteristic symptom in Bryonia is this: the child refuses to nurse or makes a great fuss about it, but so soon as its mouth is moistened, it takes hold of the nipple and nurses energetically. Is not this in keeping with the character of Bryonia? Those of you who know anything of that drug will remember how dry the mouth is, and how devoid of secretion is the mucous tract. Hence, when the mucous membrane of the mouth is moistened the child nurses at once.

Mercurius comes in as a substitute for Borax when, with the sore mouth, there is profuse salivation. Water dribbles from the child's mouth. The diarrhoea is accompanied by well-marked tenesmus. These are sufficient distinctions between Mercury and Borax. Again, you must remember a neglected remedy, and that is sEthusa cynapium, or the fool's parsley. This is to be preferred when the colic and crying are accompanied by the violent vomiting characteristic of this drug.

Another remedy is Arum triphyllum. This is readily distinguished from Borax by the violence of the symptoms. The inflammation of the mouth is exceedingly violent and is accompanied by soreness and scabs around the mouth and nostrils.

Another common baby symptom in the Borax case is that the infant screams before urinating. The urine when passed is hot and has a peculiar pungent foetid odor. Now this is not to be confounded with gravel, which is not uncommon in little children, and which will call for Sarsapari/la. Lycopodium, Benzoic acid, etc.; but it is the equivalent of the inflammations of other mucous membranes, so that it compares with Aconite, Cantharis and another excellent baby medicine, Petroselinum. Do not forget this last named drug. It is not generally mentioned in our materia medicas, yet it is an excellent remedy for conditions very similar to those calling for Borax when there is sudden violent urging to urinate. It may be indicated even in gonorrhoea when this sudden urging is present.

Passing from child to adult, we find that although the aphthous condition is still master, we still have many of the other symptoms of Borax, the same difficulty in digesting food, the same weakness, and the mucous membranes still the point of attack. We find, for instance, the conjunctiva, particularly the palpebral portion, affected by Borax, giving you soreness especially marked along the borders of the lids. The eyelashes grow inwards instead of outwards and irritate the eyeball. You should remember it as a remedy which will sometimes help in trichiasis or " wild hairs," and here you should compare it with Graphites.

The nostrils ulcerate in the Borax case, causing a great deal of soreness, pain and swelling of the tip of the nose.

On the mucous membrane of the throat we find Borax having an action, being indicated, like all the soda salts, for accumulation of mucus there. But under Borax, the mucus is tough and difficult of detachment.

The leucorrhoea of Borax is clear, copious and albuminous. Like all the other secretions of Borax, this, too, has an unnatural warmth or heat to it.

The action of Borax on the lungs must not be forgotten. We find it indicated when there is cough which is accompanied by sharp sticking pain, worse through the upper part of the right chest. So sharp are these pains that they make the patient catch his breath. The expectoration has a sort of musty, mouldy odor and taste. You can often use Borax in lung troubles and even in phthisis when these symptoms are present.

Lastly, we have to mention a few symptoms of the skin. The skin is unhealthy ; every little cut or scratch suppurates readily. There is itching of the skin, particularly on the backs of the fingers, here being something akin to the dorsal eczema of Natrum carb. Little ulcers form about the joints of the fingers.

The best remedy we have for these small ulcers about the joints is Sepia.

Lastly, Borax has been used in erysipelas of the face, particularly of the cheeks. The distinctive character of the drug is a feeling as though there were cobwebs on the face.

I would advise to caution your nurses, if you can do so, not to use powdered borax every time the child has a sore mouth. It may do harm if it is not indicated. I think that I have noticed after this use of the drug that the bowels suffer and the child grows paler and dwindles rapidly, which it did not do before the meddlesomeness of the nurse.

Extreme anxiety, especially from motions which have a downward direction, rocking, being carried downstairs, laid down. Anxious expression of face during the downward motions, starts and throws up hands on laying patient down, as if afraid of falling. Excessively nervous; easily frightened. Sensitive to sudden noises. Violent fright from report of a gun, even at a distance. Fear of thunder.

Borate of Sodium Gastro-intestinal irritation. Salivation, nausea, vomiting, colic, diarrhœa, collapse, albuminuria, casts and vesical spasm. Delirium, visual changes, hæmaturia, and skin eruptions have all been observed from over-dosing. Dread of downward motion in nearly all complaints. For homeopathic purposes, the peculiar nervous symptoms are very characteristic, and have frequently been verified, especially in the therapeutics of children. Of much value in epilepsy. Aphthous ulceration of mucous membranes.

Worse, downward motion, noise, smoking, warm weather, after menses. Better, pressure, evening, cold weather.

Aches, with nausea and trembling of whole body. Hair tangled at tips, cannot be separated, as in Plica Polonica (Vinca min).

Pale, earthy, with suffering expression. Swollen, with pimples on nose and lips. Feeling of cobwebs.

Lashes turn inward. Visions of bright waves. Eyelids inflamed, lids cut against eyeball. Entropium.

Very sensitive to slightest noise; not so much disturbed by louder ones.

Red nose, of young women (Nat carb). Red and shining swelling, with throbbing and tensive sensation. Tip swollen and ulcerated. Dry crusts.

Aphthæ. White fungous like growth. Mouth hot and tender; ulcers

bleed on touch and eating. Painful gumboil. Crying when nursing. Taste bitter (Bry; Puls; Cup). Taste of "cellar mould". Stomach and Abdomen.––Distention after eating; vomiting. Gastralgia, depending upon uterine disturbance. Pain as if diarrhœa would result.

Loose, pappy, offensive stools in children. Diarrhœa, offensive, preceded by colic; stools mucous, with aphthous sore mouth.

Hot, smarting pain in orifice. Pungent smell. Child afraid to urinate, screams before urinating (Sarsap). Small red particles on diaper.

Labor pains with frequent eructations. Galactorrhœa (Cal; Con; Bell). In nursing, pain in opposite breast. Leucorrhœa like white of eggs, with sensation as if warm water was flowing. Menses too soon, profuse, with griping, nausea and pain in stomach extending into small of back. Membranous dysmenorrhœa. Sterility. Favors easy conception. Sensation of distention in clitoris with sticking. Pruritus of vulva and eczema.

Hacking and violent cough; expectoration, moldy taste and smell. Stitches in chest, with inspiration and cough. Cough with moldy taste-breath smells moldy. Pleurodynia; worse upper part of right chest. Arrest of breathing when lying; is obliged to jump and catch breath, which causes pain in right side. Out of breath on going up stairs.

Feeling as of cobwebs on hands. Itching on back of finger-joints and hands. Throbbing pain in tip of thumb. Stitches in sole. Pain in heel. Burning pain in great toe; inflammation of balls of toes. Eczema of toes and fingers with loss of nails.

Psoriasis. Erysipelas in face. Itching on back of finger-joints. Unhealthy skin; slight injuries suppurate. Herpes (Rhus). Erysipelatous inflammation with swelling and tension. Chilblains relieved in open air. Trade eruptions on fingers and hands, itching and stinging. Ends of hair become tangled.

Voluptuous dreams. Cannot sleep on account of heat, especially in head. Cries out of sleep as if frightened (Bell).

Acetic acid, vinegar, and wine are incompatible. Antidote: Cham; Coffea. Compare: Calc; Bryon; Sanicula; Sulph ac.

First to third trituration. In skin diseases continue its use for several weeks. Locally, in pruritus pudendi. A piece of borax, the size of a pea, dissolved in the mouth, acts magically in restoring the voice, in cases of sudden hoarseness brought on by cold, and frequently for an hour or so, it renders the voice silvery and clear.

Borax

Borax is one of those domestic remedies that has been long used for local conditions as a soothing substance and for a healing purpose.

In "nursing sore mouth" of mother or child Borax has been used in the families of old, in the form of Borax and honey, as a wash.

The extensive use that has been made of it would make the homoeopath wonder if the people had not hit upon something, and it is a fact that Borax will rapidly heal up a sore mouth. It is not strange that it does so, for Borax, in its proving, produces aphthous conditions of the mouth, which extend to the throat and even into the stomach. It cures where the genitalia and anus are covered with these aphthous appearances.

Mind: Anxiety, fidgetiness, and sensitiveness are prominent in Borax. He is anxious about trifles. He starts at every noise, on hearing unexpected news, from music, from excitement.

This anxiety or nervousness, this indescribable feeling that is within him, is aggravated from upward or downward motion.

Such a motion as going up in one-of our elevators nearly drives him to distraction, but he is made worse going down. All complaints are aggravated from downward motion.

It has been said in routine practice, that in all cases of sore mouth in children, when the child is worse from downward motion, Borax is the remedy.

When the mother is in the act of laying the child down on the bed it often rouses up in its sleep and cries out in fright. The anxiety may be better appreciated if you will go to the top of one of these high buildings and go down in the elevator. It is natural for every one to feel, with the rapid motion, an anxious feeling in the Stomach, a sensation of falling; that is natural to the healthy man, but if you exaggerate that intensely you have the Borax condition in which the slightest downward motion, of even riding down hill or walking down stairs, or, in the child, when being carried down stairs in the mother's arms, produces a violent aggravation. All the nerves are in a fret.

We notice that Borax has an intensified activity throughout the body; all of his senses are made more acute.

His hearing is intensified, he is oversensitive to his surroundings, over-anxious. He has an excitable spirit throughout. Riding down hill produces vertigo.

On nervous excitement, fear and apprehension. This is a strong feature of Borax. It has many such symptoms, but the nervous elements, partake of this type.

As we go through the remedy many other things will be called out; but this may be said to be the principal feature of the mental state, and it is to a great extent the key to Borax cases. "Anxious feeling during downward motion or rocking."

The diarrhoea will be cured when that state is present. Aphthae will be cured when that state is present. The rheumatism, menstrual troubles and numerous other complaints will disappear upon the administration of Borax, when this key is present.

It has hysterical manifestations.

"Changes from one work to another."

It has a restless, nervous, anxious, excitable state that runs through his body. The child screeches and screams when it is dandled and tossed up and down.

The motion of the brain, the upward and downward motion, as in swinging, rocking, etc., makes the patient lose himself, he hardly knows where he is; confusion and vertigo come over him. If one rocks the child, it has an anxious expression of face.

"Very anxious on riding rapidly down hill." "Anxiety increased until 11 P.M."

That I have noticed in Borax as a peculiar time of aggravation of the anxiety. I have noticed it in women who had periods of insanity, whose nervous trouble and mental state would keep up until 11 P.M. You will notice sometimes in insane people that it seems as if they were possessed of the devil; and at once a lucid interval will come and they will talk just as if nothing had happened.

So it is in Borax that a great change may occur at 11 P.M.; this state of anxiety and nervous excitement may stop at that hour.

"Fretful, ill-humored, indolent" state increased until there is a stool and relieved by stool. "He starts on hearing an anxious cry;" on hearing an unexpected noise, on bearing something drop from a chair to the floor, or if a door opens unexpectedly.

This is all in keeping with the nature of Borax. If you compare Borax with other Natrums you will find an astonishing likeness in the nervous excitability; Natrum carb. and Natrum mur. Aggravation from noise, oversensitiveness to noise and overexcitement of the nerves run through all the Sodium family. They are wonderfully intense people.

"While engaged in thinking at his work, strong nausea."

Borax has many times cured this kind of trouble. I have seen it come up in this way; from any sort of meditation he becomes nauseated and excitable and must leave his work and rest a little while, and then he goes at it again until be becomes sick at the stomach and so must rest again.

With the aggravation from mental exertion, from noise, from excitement, from downward motion, we get the mental aspect of Borax.

A further examination of the sensorium shows: "Vertigo and fullness in head on descending a mountain or stairs."

This is a form of the same anxious feeling. This remedy has a good deal of vertigo, sometimes constant vertigo, which is made so intense on downward motion that be must sit still, and do nothing.

It has many congestive headaches, pressive headaches and much beat in the head.

Eyes: There are many eye symptoms.

"Granular lids."

"Lashes turn inward towards eye and inflame it. Entropion."

Granulation and thickening of the mucous membrane of the lid; contractions and scars and drawing inward.

"Lower lids entirely inverted."

"Difficult opening of lids"

Nose: Like all the salts of Sodium the nose suffers from chronic inflammation of the mucous membrane, a catarrhal state, with copious discharge, and crusts in the nose; stoppage of the nose. The whole Natrum family has these dry crusts in the nose, and copious discharges from the nose.

Natrum mur. predominantly produces white discharge, and so does Borax; Natr. sulph. produces yellow discharge, and so does Borax; Natr. sulph. produces yellow discharge from the nose, even yellowish-green.

Borax is laid down as producing greenish discharge; its characteristic discharge, which is a general of the remedy, is a white discharge.

Face: The face of the infant is pale, and claycolored.

"Children have small vesicles around the mouth, and on the forehead."

Natr. mur. produces herpetic eruptions around the mouth in all of its febrile states, and when the patient takes cold. Borax is sometimes forgotten, and Natr. mur. is thought of because it is better known.

When the Natrum constitution is present, then it becomes a process of individualization to determine which one of the Natrums is indicated. "Aphthae in mouth and on tongue."

"Aphthae on tongue and inside of cheek." This alone is not an indication for Borax, although Borax is one among many medicines when the mouth is so sore that the child lets loose its hold of the nipple or bottle. Many prescribers give Borax on that indication alone; but the constitutional state ought to be hunted up, so that there may be constitutional foundation for the remedy.

Sulph. ac. is more frequently indicated. "Red blisters on tongue."

"Vomiting after drinking."

This leads one to expect that this aphthous state has traveled down the oesophagus into the stomach. There are many stomach symptoms present that are likely to be the result of some such condition.

"Buccal mucous membrane highly reddened." The sore mouth, such as mothers have and such as infants have, can be cured with Borax. "After every meal flatulent distension." "Constant vomiting."

"Vomiting of sour slime."

The Borax patient with stomach aphthae will gag and retch and cough, and that is what is called a "stomach cough."

Mothers say, "It is a stomach cough," because the child gags and retches with it.

"Stomach cough with pain extending into region of spleen."

Anus and stools: Little ones often get summer complaints when they need Borax. All around about the anus you will see the aphthous appearances. Great slimy stools are passed day and night; the child keeps up a pitiful crying; the mouth is aphthous, child is emaciating, and holds its head back.

"Stools; frequent, soft, light yellow, slimy." Quantities of fluid like boiled starch are emitted from the anus; Borax has that as well as Argentum nitricum.

There are also conditions of the rectum producing thickening of the mucous membrane, with stricture, growing, smaller and smaller until finally a long thin stool is passed, no larger than a pencil. This inflammatory stricture has been cured by Borax.

Urines: In this over-sensitive child when the catarrhal state is general the urine burns so when it passes that with the first urging (which causes the child to realize it must soon urinate) it screams out; screams with the desire to urinate. That is what it means when it says "Worse before urination."

it is not that the state of the urinary organs is worse before urinating, but the child in realizing that it must urinate screeches and screams. "Frequent urination preceded by cries." The urine burns and you may know that the child must soon urinate because it commences to cry. "Orifice of urethra pains as if sore, after urinating."

"Desire to urinate without being able to pass a drop."

This remedy has cured gonorrhoea. Wherever there is mucous membrane you may expect to find the aphthous patches. There is another feature like Natr. mur. and Natr. Carb.; in both male and female it takes away sexual desire; it benumbs the patient, and hence the mind and sexual organs are in a state of indifference.

Females, mothers and children: Then we come to the most striking feature of Borax in regard to the female sexual organs; in the menstrual flow will be found membrane.

Borax cures the most violent forms of membranous dysmenorrhoea, when there are violent labor-like pains before and during the flow and it seems as if the uterus would expel itself from the vagina.

The flow starts slightly, but the same violent pains keep on, until the expulsion of the membrane. I have known Borax to cure when the membrane was a cast of the uterus. Such patients are easily startled from downward motion; let that be your guide to Borax in membranous dysmenorrhoea.

She dreads downward motion, and motions like swinging and rocking.

"During menses; throbbing in head and rushing in ears."

"Pinching and griping in abdomen;"

that word does not describe it exactly, for it is like the pain in labor; "pain extending from stomach."

Pain like the stabbing of a knife in the groin, and that may occur either before or during menstruation.

"Tired; sweat after midnight."

But, remember, with such things you must have the mental state, the nervous, ex citable state and then Borax will cure this dysmenorrhoea. Another grand feature of Borax I read in the next sentence.

"Leucorrhoea like the white of eggs." It has albuminous leucorrhoea which feels like a hot fluid, and flows down the legs.

"White albuminous or starchy leucorrhoea." "Acrid leucorrhoea appearing for two weeks." "Leucorrhoea white as mucus, without any other ailment."

Now from this acrid leucorrhoea, from the menstrual state, this false membrane forming and being thrown off, it is no wonder that women are sterile.

All these women are sterile, all who have such symptoms are sterile and Borax has cured sterility when this condition was the cause. You will find routinists prescribe Borax for all women who are sterile, regardless of the state. When a remedy is given for sterility, the state must be looked into which is peculiar to the remedy given such a state as that remedy can produce upon the healthy woman.

Another feature. Many times I have used Borax when the mother could not nurse the child; she talks about always having a little, thick milk. "The milk is too thick and tastes badly." This condition of the milk prevents the mother from nursing her child. This is a constitutional state, and Borax, if given in the beginning of pregnancy, to a Borax patient will so change the milk as well as the rest of the constitution that the mother will be able to nurse the child. I have a number of times, when a mother has brought forth several children that she was unable to nurse, given Borax and it has so affected the case that she could nurse the next child. This remedy also has loathing of the breast in infants, due to the fact that the milk tastes bad and not due to any defect on the part of the child.

You might think of prescribing for the infant, but if you examine into the case you will find that the child will not take the milk, because it is loathsome. The mother needs a dose of Borax, which will cure the child of its diarrhoea and loathing of milk.

"The infant becomes pale, nearly earth-colored." "The child throws up its hands when an attempt is made to put it down."

If the mother was a Borax mother, the child very likely is a Borax child; it is not an uncommon thing for the mother and baby to need the same remedy; many times I have medicated the child through the mother's milk if both needed the same remedy.

Another peculiar feature is that when the child is nursing, there is pain in the opposite breast. Borax is not necessarily limited to the state of confinement; there is a practical use for Borax among nervous women in all states of life. Borax has cured pleurisy that very much resembled Bryonia, especially on the right side like Bryonia; stitching or darting pains from without inward as if through the upper right lung posteriorly the stitching pains might make you think of Bryonia.

"Wilted, wrinkled skin."

"Skin pale or livid."

Emaciated; flabby child becomes emaciated. Children become marasmic along with the aphthous condition; they cannot digest. They vomit or have diarrhoea; aphthous condition that extends the whole length of the intestines; involving all mucous membranes. Oversensitive child, screams from downward motion. The aphthae involve a good many other symptoms; crying before urination, because the bladder is involved.

The aphthous condition and worse from downward motion; the oversensitiveness to noise, easily startled, anxious feeding, etc., are the most striking and characterizing features.