Borax veneta

The chfild. becomes anxious when dancing ; if one rocks it in arms it has an anxious expression of face during downward motion. Anxious feeling during downward motion or rocking. Dread of downward motion. Very anxious when riding rapidly down hill, contrary to his custom he feels as though it would take away his breath. Anxious feeling during downward motion orrocking. (Diarrhoea.) Vertigo and fullness in head on descending a mountain or stairs. Aphthæ with salivation. Aphthce in mouth and on tongue, and inner surface of cheek, bleeding easily ; with great heat and dryness of mouth ; with cracked tongue. Mouth of infant very hot. Aphthce are so tender that they prevent child from nursing. Soft, light yellow, mucous stool. Worse before urination. Frequently cries and screams before the urine passes. White albuminous, or starchy leucorfhœa. Leucorrhœa like the white of an egg, with sensation as if warm water were flowing down. Acrid leucorrhcea, appearing for two weeks, between catamenia, with swelling of labia and inflamed and discharging Duvernis glands. Sensation of warm water running down thighs. Pleuritic pain in right pectoral region ; patient cannot move or breathe without a stitch. With every cough and deep inspiration, sticking in the chest. Children may be sleeping quietly, and awake suddenly, screaming and holding on to sides of cradle, without any apparent cause for so doing. The infant frequently cries out in its sleep, and anxiously grasps its mother, as if it had been frightened by a dream. She cannot fall asleep again for two hours, cm account of heat in the whole body, especially in the head. Period of dentition and infancy. Some Curious, or Italic Symptoms Fretful, ill-humoured, indolent and discontented before the easy stool in the afternoon ; after it lively, contented, and looking cheerfully into the future. Easily startled by unusual sounds. Fright : starts in all his limbs on hearing an anxious cry. Strong nausea when thinking at his work ; with trembling of body and weakness of knees. Vertigo and fullness of head descending a mountain or stairs ; driving down hills. Hot head and chilhhess. Hair tangles at the tips, and sticks together. If these bunches are cut off, they form again. Hair rough and frowsy, cannot be combed smooth. Eyelashes turn inwards towards eye and inflame it, especially at outer canthus, where margins of lids are very sore. Eyelashes loaded with gummy, dry exudation, stick together in the morning. Lower eyelids entirely inverted. Difficult opening of lids. Tip of nose shiny red : dry crusts in nose reform if removed. Painful pressing downwards, right nostril, as if all the brain would be forced out. Cobweb sensation, face. Sensation of a bug crawling over under lip. Crawling like insects on the lips. Redness of gums above roots of teeth, front upper jaw. Cramp, numbness and stiffness of tongue, impeding respiration. Mucous membrane of palate in front seems burnt and shrivelled. Cheerful, contented mood after stool. Disagreeable sensation of emptiness in mammas after suckling. Milk too thick ; tastes badly, often curdles on being drawn. Loathing of the breasts in infants. Colic of infants : they scieam when laid down, or show signs of vertigo when carried downstairs. Child throws up hands when an attempt is made to put it down. Arrest of breath when lying in bed ; must jump up. Sticking in chest when coughing. Violent cough with slight expectoration of mouldy tastes and smell. Musty expectoration. Sensation as if heart were on right side and being squeezed. Phagedenic ulcers on joints of fingers and toes. Infant cries out in sleep and grasps its mother. Something pulls from spleen into chest. Among the drugs one has long desired to study is Bromium ; so we will attempt its portrayal for the benefit of all of us. The one occasion on which its effect was dramatic enough to stamp it on the memory, was the case of a sailor on shore with asthma. In the Repertory one finds it, thus : “ Asthma of sailors as soon as they go ashore, Brom.”, in black type, and no other remedy given. Anyway it worked promptly. And one has added it as a second remedy in that other rubric, “ Seashore ameliorates, Med.”, which some of our prescribes find an absolutely straight tip to the successful use of Medorrhinum. When a case halts, Nosodes (potentized disease products) do help one out in a very marvellous way : or, on the other hand, they may make the subsequent use of the simpler, apparently indicated drug, operative. With Brom., deep forcible inspirations are necessary from time to time. He cannot inspire sufficiently. The glottis may rloc^ with a sjîasm. Bromium, again, cannot stand dust or draughts. The two “ Worse dust ” remedies one has been able to discover are Brom. and Lyss. Asthma is a very interesting condition, which many doctors find difficult to cure ; and the chemists must appreciate the income it affords them, in its palliation. A second of the halogens, Chlorum (Chlorine) has asthma with a very definite indication, dyspnœa ; can’t exhat.e. Another suggestive symptom is “ Great dyspnœa : inspiration through the nose, while expiration was blown from the lips as in apoplexy” . Among its modalities are, ‘‘Worse lying. Better from motion and in the open air.” In the asthma of Iodum, a third of the four halogens, it is the inspirations that are difficult (Brom.) ; and Iodum is markedly better for cold in every form, and worse for heat. It has also *' emaciation with a ravenous appetite ”. The respiratory symptoms of Fluorine, which we use in the form of Fluoric acid, or rather hydrofluoric acid, appears to affect, in a minor degree—in that combination—the organs of respira­ tion, and vents its spleen on scalp, glands, veins, bones and nerves. In regard to its pains, a queer modality was once obtained from a brilliant homoeopathic chemist, " Pain better by shaking the part ”. It was an unconscious memory, as he afterwards traced it, from a burn when etching on glass. The pain in question was a sciatica which had resisted all the prescrib­ ing of light and learning: only to yîeld to that “ intuition ” or unconscious memory and a few doses of Fluor, a. 30. * * * V'here bromides are long used, to induce sleep in chronic sleeplessness, or for the suppression of epilepsy, the patient is gradually reduced to what one calls a " pimply idiot ”, In Bromism the skin is first involved, with papules like acne. Then comes a lowering of cutaneous sensibility and of the pharynx : with loss of powers, general and sexual. The intellect is dulled : the patient is depressed ; easily fatigued and unfit for work. The higher functions of the brain are depressed, before the lower —“ in the reverse order of physiological development of the functions—(the Law of Dissolution) ”, Apply all this, in potencies, to just such a patient and you will be able to use Bromium curatively. * * * We are told that “ if Bromium is introduced into a cut it becomes unhealthy looking ; a green decay forms about it, with an offensive odour. ” If you come across such a condition, again use Brom. in potency and cure. It will go straight to the spot. It has pimples on nose, on tongue, on fingers, on anus : boils on arms, etc. It has ” continued yawning with dyspnœa ” and vivid dreams, of climbing, journeying, quarrels, fighting. We will now let others, wiser and more experienced, take up the tale. * * * Guernsey says, Bromine affects particularly the internal head, left side. Important in diphtheria and croup, especially in children with thin, white, delicate skins, very light hair and eyebrows. Mood cheerful, with desire for mental labour. (Primary action.) Diphtheria begins in larynx and inns up. He talks of croupy sounds, loose rattling in larynx, but no choking with the cough, as with Hepar. Affects chiefly eyes, chest and heart. In females it has a curious symptom, “ escape of flatus from vagina ”. [We have used this symptom, in prescribing Brom, in the “ Gynæ. Dept.”] * * * Kent gives many pages to Bromium. We will extract, con­ densing. He says : “ It is so seldom indicated that most homoeopaths give it up as a perfectly useless medicine. . . .

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.