Calcarea acetica

Thinking is difficult. 'Visions of faces and persons, when eyes are closed. Fears that she will lose her reason, or that people will observe her confusion of mind. Anxiety, shuddering and dread as soon as evening comes on, with fear of death. Great anxiety, restlessness and palpitation. Despairing, hopeless of ever getting well, with fear of death ; tormenting all around, day and night. Children self-willed, inclined to grow fat. After exerting mind; hypercemia of head; chorea; trembling spells. Excitement brings on dysmenorrhcea ; least excitement endangers return of catamenia, or causes. Vertigo ; when climbing into high places ; on going upstairs, or up a hill ; on suddenly raising or turning head, even when at rest ; on walking in open air, as if he would tumble, especially on suddenly turning head ; with stupefaction and a sensation of falling (neurosis cordis) with inclination to fall backward or sideways ; with head­ ache ; nausea and vomiting, incarcerated flatulence ; accompanied by nausea and a feeling as though one would fall unconscious ; with unsteadiness in thighs when walking rapidly ; in Addison’s disease ; during intervals of epileptic spasms. Stupefying pressive pain in forehead, with confusion of senses and dullness of whole head, while reading ; he was obliged to stop and did not know where he was. Tearing headache above eyes down to nose, with nausea. Headache begins in occiput and spreads to top of head, so severe that she thinks head will burst, and that she will go crazy. Concussive, stitching, pulsating pains in head, as if it would split, with cough. Internal and external sensation of coldness of various parts of head, as if a piece of ice was lying against it, with pale puffed face. Congestion to head ; with heat and stupefying headache ; with red puffed face ; with toothache ; during night ; < in morning when awakening, and from spirituous drinks. Chronic hydrocephalus. Burning in vertex ; also after grief. Internal and external sensation of coldness of one (r.) side of head, as if a piece of ice was lying there : < weather changing ; in early morning ; from motion in open air ; < on lying down. Sweating of head very profuse, rolling down face in large, beadlike drops ; the pillow is wet for some distance around child's head. Tinea. Chalk-like stools. Nocturnal sweats of head. Head too large, fontanelles not closing. Rachitis. Open fontanelles, with large head and with sweating of same ; Children leuco-phlegmatic, very fat and of leaden weight ; abdomen hard and distended, with sour-smelling diarrhoea. Scratches head impatiently on getting awake or when disturbed in sleep. i6o Tinea favosa ; thick scabs covered with thick pus. Crusta serpiginoso. ; herpes circinatus. Great photophobia ; < in evening ; agglutination of lids in morning. Cataract. Horrid visions when eyes are closed. Dilated pupils ; often indicated after Sulphur. Fungus hcematodes with opacity of cornea. Dimness of cornea ; opacity ; macula. Pustules on cornea, much lachrymation and excessive photo­ phobia ; < by gaslight, or in morning, and in changes of weather. Ophthalmia ; from taking cold ; entrance of foreign body ; in the newborn ; scrofulous ; arthritic. Inflammation and swelling of outer and inner ear. Otorrhcea muco-purulent, affecting principally right ear ; en­ larged glands. Ulceration, then granulation, then polypus ; great stench. Nasal polypi, with loss of smell. Swelling of nose and upper lip, in children. Face looks old and wrinkled. Face puffed up, in children. Lips chapped and cracked ; corners of mouth ulcerated. Chewing motion of jaws during sleep. Painful swelling of submaxillary glands. Hard, painful swelling of submaxillary glands ; painful tension when chewing ; sticking pain when touched. Teeth cannot endure air or any coldness. Difficult dentition. With Rachitis. Eclampsia. Cholera infantum. Hydrocephalus. Crusta lactea. Infantile catarrh. Laryngo-tracheitis. Bronchitis. Bronchial catarrh. Marasmus. Urticaria. Chorea. Tongue dry, does not like to talk. (Compare Phos. ac. and Bellad.) Sdre throat marked ; cellular tissue around cervical glands swollen ; nose sore ; obstructed. i6 i Ravenous hunger, with weak stomach. Appetite poor, with an aversion to meat and a craving for boiled eggs. Complete loss of appetite. Longing for boiled eggs. Aversion to meat. Sour vomiting, especially during dentition. Vomiting and diarrhoea of teething children. Pit of stomach swollen like a saucer turned bottom up ; painful to pressure. Bloating in region of stomach, compelling him to undo his clothing. Tight clothes about hypochondria are unbearable. Pains more on left side, especially under left hypochondrium ; tearing stitching pains in left chest to hypochondrium. Flatulency with gurgling in right side of abdomen. Abdomen much distended ; hard. Mesenteric glands hard and swollen in children ; abdomen feels as if filled with stones or ovoid bodies. Mesenteric atrophy. Emaciated everywhere, except abdomen. Soreness of navel ; a moist excrescence like proud flesh from navel of infants. (Kali carb., Nat. mur.) Diarrhoea of sour smell. Watery stools. Tapeworm and ascarides with stool. Tapeworm ; after Graph. Polypi and varices of bladder. Increases sexual desire and provokes emissions, but unusual weakness follows indulgence and ejaculation is tardy. Impotence. Consequences of onanism or of too frequent coitus ; pressing pain in head and back ; lassitude and weakness in lower limbs ; knees seem to give way ; sweats easily ; debility ; hands tremble. Frequent nocturnal involuntary emissions. Itching and burning of genitals of both sexes. Menses will not appear ; in plethora. Menses ; too early ; last too long ; too profuse. The least excitement brings on a return of profuse catamenia. Metrorrhagia. Leucorrhœa ; like milk, with itching and burning. Before or after menses ; during micturition ; profuse at times ; in fits 16 2 and starts ; worse after exercise ; with great debility ; with stinging in os and aching in vagina ; with burning in cervical canal ; with accumulation of mucus between labia and thighs ; with chlorosis ; in scrofulous women. Leucorrhcea with pruritus ; white, milky, but not thick ; heat of farts. Leucorrhcea thick, yellow ; < by day, when urinating. Frequent leucorrhcea between menses, which are too early and profuse. Vaginal polypi and fistula. Clumsy, awkward, easily falls ; tired from short walk, from a general feeling of lameness in pelvis. Cramp in toes, or soles of feet, during pregnancy. False labour pains, running upward. Secretion of milk too abundant ; galactorrhcea. Excessive lactation ; also hectic and sweat ; debility as a con­ sequence. Breasts distended, milk scanty ; she is cold ; feels cold air very readily ; there is a want of vitality to secrete milk. Deficient milk ; mamma not swollen. Breasts hard, but not red. Milk disagrees with infant. Crusts on head in nursing children. Inflammation of eyes with newborn children. Difficult teething of children. Painless hoarseness ; could scarcely speak ; < in morning. Hoarse, hardly audible voice. Loud breathing through nose. Shortness of breath after walking and on going up slightest ascent. Mucus rattles in chest on expiration ; < when lying and in evening. Night cough. Cough ; < in morning on rising and in early evening. A cts upon upper and middle portion of right lung. Sore pains in chest, as if beaten ; < during inspiration. Tuberculous consumption. Chest painfully sensitive to touch, and on inspiration. Cervical glands swollen. Glands of neck swollen, with eruption on head. Easily overstrains himself from lifting, from which neck becomes stiff and rigid, with headache. Pressure between and under shoulder blades. Weakness and trembling in legs, especially above and below knees. Swelling of knees. Cold, damp feet. Sensation in feet and legs as if she had on cold damp stockings. Child is very backward in learning to walk, or children seem to forget how to walk. Epilepsy ; before the attack sense of something running in arms, or from pit of stomach down through abdomen into feet ; sudden attacks of vertigo ; loss of consciousness without convulsions ; pharyngeal spasms, followed by desire to swallow. Causes : vexa­ tion, fright ; onanism ; protracted, intermittent ; suppression of chronic eruption. Worse at night, during solstice and fuU moon, with hallooing and shouting. Great weakness. Easy relapses, one does not continue to convalesce. Great loss of power on walking, especially in limbs, with exhausting sweat. She was unable to go upstairs, and became very much exhausted from it. The same disagreeable idea always rouses the sick as often as they fall into a light slumber. When closing eyes, horrxd visions. Child chews and swallows in sleep. Hectic fever ; with alternate chills and heat ; frequent attacks of flushes of heat, with anguish and palpitation of heart, or constant shuddering in evening, with red cheeks ; skin dry, withered ; sweats easily ; great debility ; after prolonged or profuse lactation, loss of fluids, tuberculosis, etc. Partial sweats ; nape of neck ; chest ; hands. Intermittent fever after abuse of quinine ; chronic forms with scrofula ; chill commences in stomach, agonizing weight, increasing with chill and disappearing with it ; with people who work much in cold water ; cachectic constitutions ; suppressed eruptions ; desire for eggs. Typhoid fever, during aggravation which precedes rash (14/A day), Palpitation, tremulous pulse, anxiety, red fa^e, delirium, jerks ; short, hacking cough ; excessive diarrhoea. Morning sweat. Cold feet at night in bed. Aversion to open air ; the least cold goes right through. I&4 Worse faring full moon. Chlorosis. Varicose veins; burning in veins. Inflammation, painful smelling and induration of glanas. Cystic swellings Tardy development of bony tissu es, with lymphatic enlarge­ ments. Softening of bones ; fontanelles remaining open too long, and skull very large ; smelting of joints. Curvature of bones, especially of spine and long bones. Extremities deformed, crooked. (Rachitis.) Hip disease; second stage; scratches head on awakening ; craves boiled eggs ; swollen glands ; diarrhoea, etc. M uscles soft and flabby. Nutrition impaired, with tendency to glandular engorgements. Chaps, or rhagades, especially in those who work in water. Eczema, thin, moist scabs upon head, with swollen cervical glands ; eczema behind ears. (Graph.) Diseases of children, especially during d e n titio n . Leuco-phlegmatic temperament in childhood. Constitution. C h ild re n ; self-willed ; fair, plump ; f a t, flabby, with red face, sweat easily, and readily take cold ; large head and abdomens, open fontanelles and sutures, and crooked legs. The young who grow too fat and heavy. During dentition. Eclampsia. Nervous, hemorrhoidal, plethoric and lymphatic constitutions ; disposed to grow fat. Leuco-phlegmatic ; light complexion, blue eyes, blonde hair, fair skin. Compatible : before Lyc., Nux, Phos., Plat., Sil. ; after Cham., Nit. ac., Nux, Puls., Suiph. (especially if pupils dilate). Incompatible : before Nit. ac. and Suiph., a''.cording to Hahnemann. One looks upon this powerful medicinal agent as (Hie of Schuessler's Tissue Remedies, having been " adopted by him ", as Clarke puts it : though previously potentized and proved by various homoeo­ pathic doctors, among them Constantine Hering. Though we reproduced a short paper on Calc. Phot., by Dr. £. P. Cuthbert, U.S.A., at the end of our Drug Picture, Calcorea carbonica, in 1934, yet we seem never to have ourselves attempted its portrayal, which we will now endeavour to do. When we are treating babies and little people in evident need of their vital stimulus to enable them to assimilate the lime they need for teeth, bones, etc., we have to ask ourselves, shall it be the Calcarea made famous by Hahnemann, or the Calcorea phosphorica ascribed to Schuessler, which, with many symptoms in common, yet, owing to its phosphorus element, presents in the provings and in its range of action many striking differences. Because we must remember that, when it comes to curative work, one remedy will not do for another, and we are always thrown back on the actual symptoms of the provings as our only sure guide. Let us contrast the two drugs in the effort to help ourselves as well as others ; extracting from Nash, that accurate observer and distinguished and brilliant physician, and also from H. C. Allen’s Guiding Symptoms. Calc. carb. Deficient or irregular bone development. (Fon­ tanelles open, crooked spine, deformed extremities. Fair, fat, flabby, obese.) Calc. phos. Tardy dosing or re-opening fontanelles, in slim, emaciated children, with sweaty heads (though he says latçr, that in Calc. phos. the sweaty head is not a prominent symptom, as in Calc. carb. and Silica). Instead of " fat, fair, flabby, obese ", the Calc. phot, is typically anaemic and dark-complexioned ; dark hair and eyes ; thin and spare, instead of fat.' Children : emaciated, unable to stand, slow in learning to walk ; sunken, flabby abdomen. Both are invaluable in rickets : and in delayed or complicated teething. In Calc. carb. the head sweats profusely during sleep, wetting the pillow far around (Silica). It is only Hahnemann who has taught us how to make a correct choice, and hit the mark every time. i66 Both drugs affect the same organs and tissues, bones, glands, lungs, etc., but the individuals differ markedly. She wishes to be at home, and when at home to go out ; goes from place to place. {Compare A rs.) Headache of school girls with diarrhoea. Sensation in eye, as if something were in it ; renewed if others talk about it. Slowness in teething ; also in closing of fontanelles ; complaints during teething. Chronic enlargement of tonsils. Relaxed sore throat. Craves bacon, ham, salted or smoked meats. Much flatulence. Cholera infantum. At every attempt ►o eat, bellyache. Flabby, sunken abdomen. Fistula in ano, alternating with chest symptoms, or in persons who have pain in all the joints from any change of weather. Uterine displacements with rheumatic pains. After prolonged nursing. Chest difficulties associated with fistula in ano. Stiffness of neck after draught of air. Rheumatism of joints with cold or numb feeling. Weariness on going up stairs. Pains with sensations of crawling, numbness, coldness. Copious nightsweats in phthisis. Chronic gonorrhoea in aneemic subjects. Rheumatism pertaining particularly to cold weather, getting well in Spring and rduming next Autumn. Cannot get awake in early morning. Anœmia and chlorosis. Non-union of fractured hones. Acute affections of the lungs. Large pedunculated nasal polypi ; polypi of rectum and uterus. Rachitis ; fontanelles wide open ; diarrhoea, emaciation. Flabby, shrunken, emaciated children. Phosphatic diathesis. Child refuses the breast; milk has a saltish taste. Involuntary sighing. * * * Guernsey. A subject for this remedy does not present so clear and white a complexion as is called for by Calc. carb. Patient more of dirty white or brownish colour. Worse cold; change of weather. Some Italic and Noteworthy Symptoms Likes to be alone. Children scream and grasp with hands ; cold sweat, face ; body cold ; with open fontanelles. Anxiety of children, in pit of stomach ; with bellyache, with chest complaints ; with palpitation. Feels as if she had been frightened. Feels complaints more when thinking about them. Old people stagger when getting up from sitting. Heat in head, burning on top, running down to toes. Acute and chronic hydrocephalus. Sensation as if brain were pressed against skull. Sore pain, drawing, rending, tearing in bones of skull, mostly along sutures. Crawls over top of head ; as ice lying on upper occiput. Head is hot, and with smarting of roots of hair. Skull soft and thin, crackling like paper when pressed upon. Fontanelles remain open too long, or close and re-open. Non-union of bones in fracture of skull, especially in the aged. Cannot hold head up ; moves it from place to place ; head totters. Eyes misty : shimmering, glittering ; fiery circles ; veil over eyes. Eyeballs hurt, ache as if beaten. Cool feeling back of eyes. i68 Squinting distortion of eyeballs, as if from pressure : they seem distended, and protrude somewhat. Sweat of brows and lids. Spasm of lids. Large pedunculated nasal polypi. Swollen nose with sore nostrils. Point of nose icy cold : itching. Face ; pale, sallow, earthy ; full of pimples. Coppery face, full of pimples. Flabby, sweetish taste. Disgusting ° >te : bitter taste in morning. Tongue swollen, numb, stiff, with pimples : little blisters, sore and bum, tip of tongue. Diarrhoea from juicy fruit or cider. Colic from eating ices. Nausea from smoking or coffee. Motion in belly as of something alive. (CompareCroc., Thuja.) Abdominal wall : tingling ; numb ; quivering or aching; Diarrhoea after vexation with headache ; of schoolgirls ; offensive pus with stools. Watery, very hot stools. Stools green, loose, sometimes slimy ; soft, passed with difficulty ; hot and watery ; white and mushy. Morning, copious soft stool ; renewed urgency directly on wiping. Very offensive diarrhoea. Two provers experienced, a small furuncle to right of anus-with much pain ; cannot sit ; has to stand, or lie on left side. Discharge of bloody pus, leaving a small painless fistula. Fistula alternating with chest symptoms. Fistula ani with pains in joints every spell of cold, stormy weather. Fistula ani alternating with chest symptoms. Fissures of anus, in tall slim children, who form bone and teeth slowly. Violent pain kidney region when lifting or blowing nose. Large quantities of urine with sensation of weakness. Has been found useful in diabetes mellitus where lungs are implicated ; of very great service not only to lungs, but in diminish­ ing quantity of urine, and lowering its specific gravity. Difficulty in preventing escape of urine. Wetting bed, with general debility. Uterine polypus. Milk changeable, from alkaline to neutral or to acid ; watery and thin. Mammae sore ; feel large. Child refuses breast, milk has a saltish taste. Constantine Hering tells us that buttermilk and koumiss are invaluable foods for the aged, because the lactic acid in them dissolves the phosphate of lime and prevents the ossification in tendons, arteries and elsewhere. * * * Schuessler tells us how this drug was prepared by Dr. Hering. He says “ It is absolutely essential to the proper growth and nutri­ tion of the body. It is found in blood-plasma and corpuscles, in saliva, gastric juice, bones, connective tissue, teeth, etc. ; has a special chemical affinity for albumen, which forms the organic basis for this salt in the tissue cells, and is required wherever albumin or albuminous substances are found in the secretions. It also supplies new blood cells, becoming the first remedy in anæmia and chlorosis. It is of the greatest importance to the soft and growing tissues, supplying the first basis for the new tissues, hence necessary to initiate growth. Is curative in diseases depending upon a disturbed action of the lime-molecules in the body * such as occurs in the tardy formation of callus around the ends of fractured bones, the unnatural growth and defective nutrition of bone and other textures found in rickets, etc., . . . it is an essential food to soft and growing tissues, in cases of malnutrition and defective cell growth : hence its use during dentition, in convulsions and spasms occurring in weak, scrofulous subjects, stimulating nutrition.” If not the most modern teachings, the above may be useful in suggesting the practical applications of the drug. “ Schuessler has no use for Hahnemann's greatest of poly crests. Calc. curb. He limits his " calcareas ” to Calc. phos. and Calc, fluor, because it is only in these combinations that lime is found ultimately in the body. But life does not need, much less prefer, requirements ready-made. She has her own adequate bio­ chemical laboratory, whose function is two-fold, to break down and to build up. She chooses her materials, however provided, tearing to pieces and extracting hu requirements, and pushing out useless or harmful refuse. And when she falls on evil days, sh' has her own way of demanding the stimulus needed for regeneration, in the symptoms she puts up, and which the Law of Similars permits us to appropriately counter. As said, one remedy can never take the place of another. In the treatment of infancy and youth—and age ! one or other will be more specially indicated in different cases of unflourishing growth and development or nutrition, according to the actual, individual symptoms. No two drugs are alike : it is a case here of the one or the other, if we are to do brilliant work. lyo Later on, Schuessler threw out one of his original tissue remedies. Calc, stdph., ” because ”, as Clarke says, " it was not an actual constituent of the tissues, and he distributed its functions between Silica and Natrum sulph. But homoeopaths having no Biochemie theory to support, may continue its use without scruple, especially as it has been proved by Hering and others.” * * ♦ Nash gives Calc. phos. in a nutshell : Tardy closing or re-opening fontanelles in slim, emaciated children, with sweaty heads. But he says, further on, that in Calc. phos. the sweaty head is not a prominent symptom, . . . Rheumatic troubles, which are worse in Fall or Spring, when the air is full of melting snow. Calcarea phos. has also a very peculiar desire; the little patient, instead of wanting eggs (Calc, carb.) wants ” ham rind ”, a very queer symptom, but a genuine one. (Mag. carb. craves meat, in such children.) Diarrhoea is very prominent, and the stools are green and spluttering. . . . I have made some very fine cures in such cases where there seemed little hope for the child and hydro- cephaloid seemed impending. An excellent remedy for broken bones, where the bones refuse to knit. . . . Feels complaints more when thinking of them. * * * A doctor friend, points out in regard to Rickets : ” The orthodox treatment is based on the fact that vitamin D is necessary for the absorption of calcium. Therefore cod liver oil and sunlight treatment are given to supply vitamin D. But why is it that of two children in the same environment, and having the same food, one will develop rickets and the other will not ? " Of course the answer is, constitutional defect ; which can be readily cured b_y the appropriate remedy, such as Calcarea carb., in high potency.” One remembers well the cure of perhaps one's worst case of rickets, years ago, with a single dose of Calc. carb. cm. It was luckily not repeated, because the child, living far away, did not re-appear at out-patients for many months. Sometimes our best prescriptions have been saved by the non-reappearance of the patient. The safe rule is, where there is definite improve­ ment and continuous, nature has got the matter in hand, so just put yours behind you till the reappearance of symptoms demands further attention. lyi Gypsum. Plaster of Paris. A very useful remedy of, often, severe conditions, but not too well proved, or known. One of the indications on which one has prescribed it with success is, when the case works out almost equally to Sulphur and Calcarea ; some of the important symptoms making appeal for the one remedy, some for the other, and one suddenly realizes that there is a drug Calc, suiph., which fills the picture. Calc, suiph. was one of Schuessler’s Twelve Tissue Remedies. But Clarke tells us that, in his last edition, Schuessler discarded it because it was not an actual constituent of the tissues, and that he distributed its functions between Silica and Natrum phos. Our indispensable Calcarea curb, shares the same banishment, probably for the sairie reason, that it is not met with, as such, in the tissues of the body. . . . Just as if the body could not take what it needs from other combinations, breaking down and recon­ structing, in a manner which not even a bio-chemist can emulate. Schuessler s calcium salts are, or were, three : Calc, suiph., Calc. phos. and Calc, fluor. It is interesting to observe that they all affect the tongue, but in different ways. In Calc, fluor, the tongue is, typically, cracked and indurated. In Calc. phos. it is swollen, stiff, pimply, and white-furred ; while in our Calc, suiph. it is flabby, looks like a layer of dried clay, with the Calc, suiph. essential yellow coating at the base. It may even be inflamed and suppurating—the taste sour, soapy, acrid. The presence of pus with a vent is, we are told, the general indication for Calc, suiph. This drug greatly resembles Hepar, which it follows, “ taking up the case when the latter ceases to act ”. But, surely, one should be able to diagnose between them, so as to be actually on the spot from the first, and save time. The two drugs are alike in being combinations of Calcium and Sulphur, but the one, Hepar, is to some extent an animal product, being, according to Hahnemann’s precise directions, “ A mixture of equal parts of finely powdered oyster shells and quite pure flowers of sulphur, kept for ten minutes at a white heat, and stored up in well corked bottles.” Farrington calls Hepar ” an impure calcium sulphide ”. He says it is a valuable addition to the powers of lime and sulphur. used separately. It possesses many similarities and marked differences from its components. Now let us try to compare and to differentiate between Calcarea suiph. and Hepar suiphuris calcareum. Both are intensely sensitive to draughts and to touch : but one great distinction between them is, that Hepar is very sensitive to dry cold, and better in damp weather ; whereas Calc, suiph. is worse in wet cold weather. Hepar is also intensely sensitive mentally— angry at the least trifle, and almost murderous in its rage. Both have unhealthy skins that “ will not heal ” ; while, with Hepar, every little hurt festers. Cold, foul footsweats are a feature of Hepar, while Calc, suiph. has, characteristically, the burning soles of Sulphur. And Calc, suiph. has also the Sulphur intolerance of clothing. Like Camph. it throws the covers off when cold ; while Hepar, though it can scarcely bear a wound to be covered, because of its extreme intolerance of touch and pressure, yet must be wrapped up warmly all the time, and cannot endure the least uncovering. The pains of Hepar, again, are very distinctive ; of a sticking, splinter-like character (Nit. ac.). No drug will do equally well for another—curalively, while several may be more or less palliative, which is quite another matter. Dr. Oscar Hanson (Copenhagen) has a good deal to say in regard to Calc, suiph. Valuable in suppurations, when the abscess is perforated, or after incision, and the pus is yellow and thick. Suppurations of the tonsils. Abscesses of the cornea. Suppura­ ting wounds. Suppurating processes in the lungs. Deeper-acting than Hepar suiph. ; acts after that remedy ceases to have effect. . . . Much recommended by Dr. H. Siemson, of Copenhagen, in fibroma and myoma uteri, inoperable and with very offensive haemorrhage. Also impetiginous eczema (crusta lactea) and torpid glandular swellings. ..." I have found it very valuable ” (Hanson says) “ in dry eczema in children.” Nash says this remedy (Calc, suiphurica) is not well understood as yet, but acts much along the lines of Hepar suiph., so far as we do know. He tells of a case where there was great pain in the kidneys for a day and a night. Then there was a great discharge of pus in the urine, for several days, which weakened the patient very fast. A specialist had examined the urine a short time before and pronounced the case Bright’s disease. Nash finally gave Calc, suiph. 12, and under its action she immediately improved and made a very rapid and permanent recovery. He says that he had since found it a good remedy in profuse suppurations in different kinds of cases. Camphor is another medicine that should be in every house for emergency use :—but—keep it in the bathroom ! Don't let camphor come near any of your medicines, for it antidotes most of them. Especially is it useless to attempt to cure whooping-cough with Drosera in a child smothered with camphorated oil. One has tried it ! Camphor antidotes Drosera, and the child will return “ no better ” In our young days there was always a small flask of whisky with a lump of camphor at the bottom, ready for sudden severe chills and for diarrhoea. The whisky dissolves all the camphor it is capable of dissolving, and the lump at the bottom ensures a “ saturated solution ” Of this, a drop on a piece of sugar, quickly repeated if necessary, restores warmth to people chilled beyond easy recovery, and may avert illness. One has seen this rapid transformation many times. A child of ten, after long, happy hours of blackberrying— and gormandizing—was vomiting unhappily for days, till at last a drop of camphor on sugar cured. Give camphor always on sugar. In water it nauseates. On sugar it is delightful to take. And the sugar, also, stimulates and warms. Poisonings by camphor produce sudden intense coldness—as we have seen in our article on Cholera. Hence it is homoeopathic to chills. And, as Hahnemann tells us, its impression on the human body, “ though powerful, is more transient than that of any other drug : therefore it needs very frequent repetition till reaction. In cholera every five minutes, till warmth is restored." In influenza, repeated doses, or constant inhalations, he says. We have also spoken elsewhere of the extreme rapidity of action of camphor : of its dreadful depressant powers, mental and physical ; its icy coldness and blueness ; its dreadful suffer­ ings. Its restorative action is equally rapid, given in small doses, repeated till warmth is restored. Camphor, of course, is stimulating and warming, in small doses, because it is so chilling and depressing in poisonous doses.

Third trituration.