Argentum Metallicum

Argentum affects all the cartilages, and hence all joints and bones, with tearing

and bruised pains, tenderness and weakness; painful, so-called "hysterical" joint, articular

rheumatism without swelling; pain in rib cartilages and especially the left. Exostosis on skull.

The muscular system is also affected with cramps in limbs; calves feel too short on going

downstairs; stiffness; numbness; electric-like shocks in joints and limbs; painless twitchings. The

heart is specially affected; frequent, spasmodic, though painless twitchings in whole heart

muscle, < lying on back; fears apoplexy. Sensation as if heart stood still followed by trembling,

then irregular violent throbbing. Palpitation, at night; during pregnancy. Systemic convulsions.

Epileptic attacks followed by delirious rage, jumping about, striking those near. In society

disinclined to talk; discouraged. (Reaction from this: great inclination to talk, mind very clear.)

Vertigo on entering a room after a walk. Vertigo on looking at running water. As if drunk.

Frontal headache of business men. Headache increasing gradually and ceasing suddenly, at acme

as if a nerve being torn, usually |. side. Viscidity of saliva and mucous expectoration, which is

easy. From the mucous membranes generally there is secretion like boiled starch; or there may

be thin and at the same time a thick yellow or greenish discharge. Great hunger even after a full

meal. Extreme dryness of mouth, tongue sticks to palate. (This symptom with the polyuria points

to diabetes, in which Arg. is particularly indicated if there is swelling of the ankles.) Spasmodic

enuresis nocturna. Effects of onanism: impotence; atrophy of penis; bruised pains in testicles.

Pains in left ovary; feels enormously swollen; with this, prolapse of uterus (scirrhus).

• ▸Metrorrhagia, large lumps with violent pains, < by every motion.
• ▸Arg.
• ▸met.
• ▸acts more on the left

side than the right; left ovary is affected: "Prolapsus uteri with pains in left ovary." It

corresponds to deep-seated insidious disease. In the mental sphere it affects the intellect more

than the affections. Headache of business men. Left-sided headache as if in brain substance.

Headache and dyspepsia induced by mental agitation, nursing the sick, mental exertion. Suited to

thin patients with hollow eyes, pale skin, tendency to tubercle, caries, cancer, deep ulcers,

imbecility. The more deeply seated the troubles are the more likely are they to be painless.

• ▸Tenderness is prominent in Arg.
• ▸met.
• ▸Tearing pressure and pains in the bones.
• ▸Articular

rheumatism without swelling. Parts feel bruised when pressed on. Hoarseness of singers and

speakers, < speaking or singing. Laughing causes cough. Restless sleep; electric shock through

body wakens her. Symptoms < in sleep; nausea in dreams; seminal emissions. On waking, limbs

powerless. Paralytic weakness. < By touch; pressure riding in carriage; lying on back; sitting;

• ▸stooping.
• ▸At noon at night (profuse urine).
• ▸Uncovering (chills before midnight).
• ▸Entering warm

room. Sun.

Hurried feeling; time passes slowly; melancholy.

Restlessness, which forces one to walk quickly.—Ill-humour and aversion to

talking —When pleased, excessively merry, but cries a long time about a trifle—Delirious rage

(mania; after epilepsy).

Pressure, cramp-like, pulling, principally in the limbs and in the

bones.—Bruising pain, chiefly in the sacrum and the joints of the lower limbs.—Boring pain in

the joints —Sensation of soreness in the joints.—Strong effects on the secretions of the mucous

membranes.—Sensation of excoriation in the skin and internal organs.—Sensation of numbness

arid stiffness in the limbs; as if asleep.—Epileptic attacks.—Aggravation of the symptoms every

day, in the afternoon.—Burning itching in different parts of the skin —Eruption of pimples, with

• ▸burning pain, as of excoriation.
• ▸—Anxious dreams.
• ▸—Shuddering and cold, esp.
• ▸in the afternoon

and at night.—Nocturnal sweat.

• ▸Dull paroxysmal neuralgia over left side, gradually increasing and ceasing suddenly.
• ▸Scalp very tender to touch.
• ▸Vertigo, with intoxicated feeling, on looking at running water.
• ▸Head feels empty, hollow.
• ▸Eyelids red and thick.
• ▸Exhausting coryza, with sneezing.
• ▸Pain in facial bones.
• ▸Pain between left eye and frontal eminence.

Dulness, and sensation of emptiness in the head.—Confusion, as if caused by smoke,

and sensation of intoxication, with tingling in the head.—Dizziness, with obscurity of vision, or

with drowsiness, and falling of the eyelids.—Pressing, tearing pain in the skull, principally in the

temporal bones, renewed every day at noon, with soreness of the external head, aggravated by

pressure and contact, ameliorated in the open air.—Migraine (1.) as if in brain substance, coming

gradually to a great height; ceasing suddenly.—Drawing and pressive pain in the occiput, as if

caused by a foreign substance, with a sensation of stiffness in the nape of the neck —Numbing

pressure in the sinciput.—Compression in the brain, with nausea and burning in the epigastrium,

on reading and stooping for any time.—Cramp-like pains and shootings in the head. —Pain, as of

excoriation in the scalp, on the slightest pressure.—Cramp-like and pressive pains in the bones of

the head.—Painful dartings in the temporal muscles, and in the forehead—Pimples on the

temples, with pain, as of ulceration.

Itching in the eyes, and principally in the angles —Swelling and redness of the edge of

the eyelids.—Stricture of lachrymal duct.

Shootings in the ears, with incisive pain, which extends to the base of the

brain.—Gnawing itching in the external ear, causing the part to be scratched till it bleeds.—Itching

of the lobes of the ears.—Sensation of stoppage of the ears.

Epistaxis, after blowing the nose, or preceded by itching and tickling in the

nose.—Stoppage of the nose, with itching in the nostrils —Violent fluent coryza, with frequent

sneezing.—Flowing of purulent matter, mixed with clots of blood, from the nose.

Redness of the face.—Pale and earthy face.—Gnawing, cramp-like, and pressive pains

in the bones of the face (in the r. zygoma, sometimes in the L; a violent pain in the bone of the r.

lower jaw).—Swelling of the upper lip, immediately under the nose.

Dryness of the mouth.—Sensation of dryness on the tongue, though it be

moist.—Accumulation of a viscid saliva in the mouth, with shuddering (sometimes the teeth seem

coated with it, maybe sticking them together, the lower with the upper, making talking

difficult)—Vesicles on the tongue, with burning pain of excoriation.

Pain in the teeth, as if the gums had receded.—Painful sensibility of the gums on being

touched.—Gums loosened, and readily bleeding.

Soreness in the throat, as if there were a tumour in the gullet, with difficulty of

swallowing.—Hoarseness (or complete aphonia in singers, speakers, &c.) and scraping in the

throat.—Inflammation of the throat, with sensation of excoriation on swallowing and on

breathing. —The throat feels more sore from coughing than when swallowing, although the food

passes with difficulty —Y awning gives pain in the fauces.—Pricking and tingling in the

throat—Accumulation of greyish and viscid mucus in the throat, with easy expectoration.

10. Appetite-—Repugnance to all food, even to the thought of it, with prompt satiety.—Appetite

much increased, he is hungry after eating a full meal.—Desire for wine —Gnawing hunger, which

cannot be appeased by food.

Raw, hawking, gray, jelly-like mucus, and throat sore on coughing. Profuse and easy morning expectoration.

Pyrosis.—Hiccough on smoking tobacco.—Constant nausea and

uneasiness.—Burning in the stomach, ascending to the chest.—Inclination to vomit, and vomiting

of acrid matter, of a disagreeable taste, and which leaves in the throat a sensation of scraping and

of burning.—Pressure in the epigastrium.

Violent pressure on the entire abdomen, extending to the pubis, appearing as

soon as one begins to eat; aggravated by breathing, and mitigated by rising up.—Pressive and

painful inflation of the abdomen.—Cutting pains.—Tension in the abdominal

muscles.—Contraction of the muscles of the abdomen on walking.—Loud borborygmi.

Frequent inclination to go to stool, with scanty evacuation of soft

matter.—Dry, sandy stool after dinner—Vomitings during the stool.—Pain of contraction in the

abdomen, after a stool in the morning.

• ▸Diuresis.
• ▸Urine profuse, turbid, sweet odor.
• ▸Frequent urination.
• ▸Polyuria.

• ▸Ovaries feel too large.
• ▸Bearing-down pain.
• ▸Prolapse of womb.
• ▸Eroded spongy cervix. Leucorrhoea foul, excoriating.
• ▸Palliative in scirrhus of uterus.
• ▸Pain in left ovary.
• ▸Climateric haemorrhage.
• ▸Sore feeling; throughout abdomen; worse by jarring.
• ▸Uterine disease with pain in joints and limbs.

Crushed pain in testicles. Seminal emissions, without sexual excitement. Frequent micturation with burning.

• ▸Hoarseness Aphonia.
• ▸Raw, sore feeling when coughing.
• ▸Total loss of voice of professional singers.
• ▸Larynx feels sore and raw.
• ▸Easy expectoration, looking like boiled starch. Feeling of raw spot near supra sternal fossa. Worse from use of voice. Cough from laughing.
• ▸Hectic fever at noon.
• ▸On reading aloud, must hem and hawk.
• ▸Great weakness of chest; worse left side.
• ▸Alteration in timbre of voice.
• ▸Pain in left lower ribs.

Pain of excoriation in the larynx, esp. on coughing. —Accumulation of

mucus in the trachea, which detaches itself on stooping, laughing, or going upstairs, and which is

easily expelled by expectoration—Abundant accumulation of mucus in the chest.—Cough excited

by incisive pain in the trachea, with expectoration of serous matter—Sensation of rawness or

soreness of the larynx.—Cough, caused by stinging, cutting in the trachea, with mucus in the

chest, and expectoration of transparent mucus, like boiled starch —Paroxysms of coughing, short

and rattling, during the day, with easy expectoration of thick and whitish matter.

Stitches in the (r.) side of the chest, when inhaling and exhaling.—Pressure in the

• ▸chest.
• ▸—Pressure and shooting in the sternum and in the sides of the chest.
• ▸—Pain in the lower (1.
• ▸)

rib cartilages. —Incisive pain in the sides of the chest, on breathing and on stooping

forward.—Cramp-like pain in the muscles of the chest and in the sides.

Painless twitching in cardiac muscle, < lying on back; with feeling that he would

have apoplexy.—Sensation as if heart stood still, followed by trembling, then irregular, violent

throbbing.—Palpitation: at night; during pregnancy.—In evening, in bed, quick pulse with thirst.

Severe backache; must walk bent, with oppression of chest.

Cramp-like pains in the shoulders and in the shoulder-blade.—Pains, as of

bruising or of drawing in the loins.

Tension and acute pullings, cramp-like and pressive pains in the arms and

hands.—Cramp-like pressive pains in the bones, and in the joints of the hands and

fingers.—Contraction of the fingers.

Shooting, pressive, and, as it were, paralytic pain, in the coxo-femoral joint,

when walking.—Jerking in the muscles of the thighs —Cramp-like, acute, and incisive pains in

the knees and in the ankle-bones.—Cramp in the calves of the legs, with sensation of contraction

of the muscles, on going downstairs.—Pain, as of bruising and throbbing, in the joints of the

feet.—Cramp-like pain in the bones and in the joints of the feet and toes.—Tearing in the bones of

the feet and toes.—Sensation of numbness in the heel and in the tendo Achillis—Feet oedematous

(diabetes).

• ▸Rheumatic affections of joints, especially elbow and knee.
• ▸Legs weak and trembling, worse descending stairs.
• ▸Involuntary contractions of fingers, partial paralysis of forearm; writer's cramp.
• ▸Swelling of ankles.

• ▸Blepharitis.
• ▸Brain-fag.
• ▸Caries.
• ▸Chlorosis.
• ▸Cough.
• ▸Diabetes.
• ▸Enuresis nocturna.

• ▸Epilepsy.
• ▸Epithelial tissue, affections of.
• ▸Exostosis.
• ▸Heart, affections of.
• ▸Hit-joint, disease of.

• ▸Hysterical joint.
• ▸Joints, affections of.
• ▸Laryngitis.
• ▸Ovaries, affections of.
• ▸Phthisis.
• ▸Pollutions.

Rheumatism. Uterus, cancer of; prolapse of. Voice, loss of.

Zinc (itching in canthi—Zn. more in inner canthi and acts more on muscular system

• ▸and skin).
• ▸Pallad.
• ▸(ovaries; Pall.
• ▸, r.
• ▸, Arg.
• ▸, 1.
• ▸).
• ▸Stan.
• ▸(cough excited by laughing).
• ▸Follows well:

• ▸Alum.
• ▸, Plat.
• ▸[s followed well by: Calc.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸Antidoted by: Merc.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸(an occasional dose

• ▸of Puls.
• ▸favours action of Arg.
• ▸nit.
• ▸in ophthalmia).
• ▸Teste classes Arg.
• ▸met.
• ▸with Merc.
• ▸, and with

Arsen.

Antidotes: Mercur; Puls.

Compare: Selen; Alum; Platina; Stannum; Ampelopsis (Chronic hoarseness in scrofulous patients).

Sixth trituration and higher. Not too frequent repetition.

Now, in this medicine we class the patient as one having a lack of

• ▸vital heat.
• ▸He wants to be Warm.
• ▸Likely to be lean, growing increasingly lean, increasingly nervous, increasingly sensitive.
• ▸Takes on all

sorts of whims. Women netding Silver very often do such strange

and unaccountable things in (compare Argentum nitricum) their

nervous states that they bar out all sympathy of their friends, and are

called hysterical. Deep seated trouble of the nerves. Growing increasingly sensitive to surroundings.

Now, the mental state of Argentum met, is just such as is aroused

by confusion, just such as is arounsed by the emotions, just such as the

loss of balance from fear, from anger, from fright, from disturbance

of the mind. Because this patient is so sensitive to his surroundings

and so disturbed by annoyances. With his pains he becomes delirious,

and it is not that involuntary delirium tliat we see in low forms of

• ▸fever, but he becomes wild and full of rage.
• ▸He takes on mental excitement, rage and a state in which he talks nonsense with great rapidity.
• ▸Sometimes there is a stage of unusual excitement in his conversation all mixed up about the character of his thought.
• ▸All of the time

looks as if he were intoxicated, and he flies from one subject to another, and prattles. For a moment appearing to be very intense and

active in mind, and forgets all that he was talking about.

*Tn society indisposition to talk.” Because he is incompetent. He

is tired mentally and he forgets what he is talking about. Loses the

thread of his discourse ; and he dreads to talk because he gets com-

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plaints while talking. It compelled to answer, he becomes dizzy, and

feels strange all over, and has nervous shakes or shocks. And shocks

go over him when tired like an electric shock. It comes suddenly, but

the most favourable time for that to come is just w^hen he wants to go

to sleep. He thinks, now he is away from all the troubles of the day

and can rest, and the instant sleep comes over him he is roused from

head to foot by a shock, and another one, and another one, sometimes

the whole night he jerks from head to foot. His limbs jerks up, his

lower limbs twitch and jerk, then he gets out of bed and walks — tries

to walk it off. This comes out in the proving of Argentum nictricum,

but it belongs as much to Argentum met., and Argentum met. has long

• ▸cured it.
• ▸In Hahnemann’s study of the remedy he lays down the importance of shock on going to sleep.
• ▸Shocks in the limbs.
• ▸But it is

an electric shock that causes the whole body to jerk. Anxious about

the health. Thinks he is certainly breaking down,'' for he is growing

weaker. He cannot walk, though he is growing increasingly restless.

He cannot exercise mentally or physically without distress. Frommeditation or as soon as he enters a warm room he becomes dizzy —

and that is an exception belonging to a few of the head troubles and

the sensorium ; he usually is sensitive to cold. In the house when the

room is close he becomes dizzy.

It has been an astonishing feature in this remedy that precisely at

the hour of noon a great many troubles come on, and the pains and

• ▸aches.
• ▸Chills.
• ▸Headaches.
• ▸Pains in the ovary at noon.
• ▸Dizziness

with vertigo as if intoxicated. The headaches arc frontal and occipital.

One-sided brain affection. One-sided headaches. Violent neuralgia

in the head upon one side at a time, as if deep in the brain, as if involving one-half of the brain. Mostly the headaches have been on the

right side — the one-sided headaches. Those broken down patients that

have become prostrated and over-wrought by exposure to the sun.

Upon the scalp, the ears, here and there upon the body, itching places.

Itching and burning, like frost bite. It has an itching and burning

like Agaricus, in the toes, in the ears, and he scratches the part, and

scratching does not relieve it until the skin is off, until it oozes, but no

relief from scratching. Rawness in the ears, kept up by constantly

boring and scratching in the ears. Scratching the skin off because of

the tingling, itching and burning.

Another strange feature is that about the eyes Silver affects the lids

more than the globe. It affects the sight, producing dimness of vision,

and loss of vision ; but it produces infiltration of the lids, thickening

of the lids until they are almost as hard as cartilage. The mucous

membrane is infiltrated and hard, and the eyelids cannot be opened.

They spasmodically close, they cannot be pulled apart except by violence. It is a blepharitis, with thickening and infiltration. Copious

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discharge. Now, as we strike this as a catarrhal region, let me say

that all through the remedy we will find passive catarrhal discharges.

In some instances thick and yellow, but at the same time passive, a

passive state of the mucous membrane. But the characteristic, the

principal discharge of Argentum met. is gray, thick, tenacious mucus.

He expectorates from the lungs — and from the air passages, from the

trachea and from the larynx, gray mucus. Gray mucus from the va*

gina, gray mucus from the urethra, gray mucus from the eyes. Only

in a few instances does it have yellow discharges. When ulceration

takes place, as in the larynx and on the eyelids, we have from this

ulceration thick, yellow discharges ; but from the ulcerated mucous

surfaces it will generally be found to be gray, except in the urethra.

It has cured old cases of chronic gonorrhoea. If we get the general

character of the remedy we know what to expect when it goes to each

region. If we do not know the general character of a remedy we do

not know what to expect ; and if we get into a region where we have

the very opposite of it we know then that that is a particular, and does

not conform to its generals. But first of all we have to single out what

is general, what may be expected, what belongs to the nature of the

remedy, so that when we see its opposites we may recognize it and

know it as an opposite, as a particular, and as an exception. Here is

one of the characteristic features of Argentum itching. '‘Scratching

until bleeding, in the ear." Now, this itching involves the whole outside ear, and extends into tjic ear, to he scratches the ear until it is

red, and swollen, and bleeds. The cartilage of that car is lumpy and

nodular ; is infiltrated. Tire cartilages of the nose are also infiltrated.

Argentum met. cures many of these cases that are operated on when

they have some portion of the inside of the nose removed by the

surgeon, so that the patient can breathe better. “Thickening of the

bones in the nose, the thickening and building up of the mucous membrane and the cellular tissue in the nasal passages." Argentum met. is

often indicated in such cases. This remedy has a very decided action.

Infiltrations go on thickening and hardening, and then we have scrum

in joints. This is one of the most improtant remedies to know in the

necrosis of cartilages everywhere in the body. But with it must go

such nervous and mental symptoms as the remedy has, such as I have

described. The patient looks sickly, pale, careworn, tired. A broken

down patient. An Argentum met. patient is a sickly one who should

have had a homoeopathic doctor years ago, but one who can be patched

up and benefited now if he has not gone too far.

“Painful tension and drawing in the throat. Throat feels raw and

sore during expiration." Tliis is extended into the larynx. “Painful

soreness from breathing. Rawness from coughing in the larynx.

Great quantities of gray mucus expectorated easily. Tension in the

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fauces on the right side.”

Argentum met. has abdominal troubles. Bruised, sore feelings in

the abdomen. If these progress from a catarrhal inflammation of the

mucous membranes to a general congestion of all the tissues in the

abdomen, diarrhoea comes on, or constipation of the most inveterate

character, tuberculosis of the mesenteric glands, emaciation, weakness,

trembling. Paralytic feelings here and there in the body. Painful

soreness in the whole abdomen in connection with the urinary troubles.

It has a low form of tissue making, such as tuberculosis, cancerous

affections, infiltrations, such as we have mentioned. Dry stool, like

sand. Undigested stool ; very offensive. Catarrhal inflammation of

the mucous membranes of the urinary passages, the whole urinary

tract. It cures albuminuria ; it cures diabetes, with sugar in the urine ;

and many of the broken-down conditions of the kidneys. Low,

broken-down constittitions. Enormous quantities of whey-like urine.

A copious flow of urine.

Children lose the urine in sleep. Broken-down, nervous constitutions lose the urine in sleep.

It has a very decided action upon the genitalia of both male and

female. In tlic male it especially affects the testes and the mucous

tract. It infiltrates the testes, producing hardness. In the text it

reads, “crushed pain the right testicle.” “Clothing increases pain

• ▸on walking.
• ▸” Inflammation with infiltration.
• ▸Chronic orchitis.
• ▸It

has cured a very suspicious testicle believed to l)e a cancerous affection,

which began in the epididymus, following a gonorrhoea. Inflammation, great hardness, pain, swelling, burning and stinging.

Another symptom here is of great importance: “Yellowish-greenish

gonorrhoea of an indolent character from the beginning, of eight

months’ standing.” That clinical symptom has been verified. Now,

it is a natural feature of gonorrhoea for the discharge to be yellow, or

yellowish-green, and thick in the early stage, for it then to become

lighter and lighter until it is whitish thick or thin, growing lighter in

.character until it becomes white and gleety. Argentum met. is the

remedy when the discharge remains yellow. The pain has all ceased,

and generally when the pain ceases the discharge soon begins to be

lighter, but in the Argentum met. cases the pain ceases, it becomes a

passive discharge, the urethra loses its sensitiveness to pain, and the

mucous membrane loses its sensation to a great extent, but the thick

greenish or yellowish discharge remains. Now, in these thick passive

discharges that are long-standing, old cases, we are very much troubled

to find remedies. These old stubborn cases that still remain yellow,

and still remain thick. 'They will not yield to ordinary remedies — they

come under a peculiar class of remedies. Argentum met.. Alumina,

Alutnen, SulphuT. Ones not usually thought of in the early, period.

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but the general constitutional state of the patient forms the character

of his symptoms.

In the female we have ovarian troubles, inhltration, hardness, cystic

troubles, cystic ovaries, that are cured by this remedy ; ovarian tumors ;

very large, hard indurated ovaries — especially the left. The right

testicle, the left ovary. Pain in the left ovary and back. Prolapsus,

with pain in left ovary. Pain in the small of the back while sitting.

The cures have been predominantly of the left ovary, although it cures

complaints of both.

Another grand fetaure found in this remedy is weakness, relaxation

of muscles through the whole body ; trembling ; and now, if that

thought is applied — if that feature of the remedy is observed in the

pelvic organs — it will be seen that those muscles that hold up the uterus,

the broad ligament, etc., are in a state of relaxation, they allow the

uterus to sag. In other words, we get prolapsus. You will be astonished to know that homoeopathic remedies are wonderful in their ability

to create tonicity, and thereby restore the prolapsed uterus to its normal position, and to remove the dragging down feeling women generally describe, a sensation as if the inner parts were being forced out.

All of these arc sensations that accompany a prolapsus. Argentum is

one of the medicines. In fact, the whole pelvic system is engorged,

increased in weight ; tissues infiltrated likely to be hardened. Cervix

congested and indurated. Takes on ulceration. Greatly enlarged,

congested. It has been a palHative medicine in epithelioma of the cervix, with burning, stinging piains, copious, putrid, yellowish-green and

bloody discharge. It has cured a tendency to menorrhagia, copious

menstrual flow ; the relaxation that must be present in haemorrhages

will soon be overcome when the symptoms agree, when the general

state is present. Ulcer of the uterus ; discharge purulent, ichorous.

“Sometimes bloody water, with unbearable stench.” It is a medicine

increased in weight ; tissues infiltrated likely to be hardened. Cervix

“Neck of the uterus very much swollen, presented a spongy mass,

deeply corroded with ulcers in different directions.” Where it w'as

given in case of scirrhus of the uterus it says. “In less than three days

foul smell was lost entirely.” When a remedy acts in that manner it

actually stops the growth. In fact, a cancerous state that would go

on to its termination in fourteen to sixeen months will go two or three

• ▸years and die patient remain comfortable.
• ▸The remedy that is indicated stops the ulceration, it checks the destruction, and keeps the patient comfortable and with her friends for years.
• ▸In cancerous affections the state of life is very low.
• ▸The state of order is generally beyond restoration.

Then we come to a state of the larynx. It is a wonderful laryngeal inedicine. Loss of voice with inflammation, from overuse of the

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voice, sucli as occurs in singers and talkers. One who b compelled to

use the larynx much. It is then a paralytic weakness of the vocal

cords* Running all through this remedy there is aggravation from

any little prolonged exertion—a paralytic tendency with aggravation

from exertion. So it is in the lungs — in every part of the lx)dy. And

then comes the loss of voice. Now, apply all that we know of its

ability to infiltrate. We have tuberculosis of the larynx. Singers,

public speakers, who arc broken down, nervous, of poor digestion, bad

inheritance, take on tuberculosis of the larynx, and the voice is lost.

Ulceration follows. And this trouble finally .goes into the lungs.

They emaciate and get night sweats. “Loss of voice.” Generally of

a painful character.

Again, colds settle in the larynx. “Cannot vspeak a loud word ; constant tickling in the larynx, provoking cough.’’ Rawness and soreness

in upper part of larynx. Laughing aggravates the coughing — laughing will cause tickling in the larynx, and he will scrape out quantities

of gray mucus. If the irritation is in the smaller air passages, in the

lungs, laughter will set him to coughing, and he will scrape out gray

mucus. “Over the bifurcation of trachea, a raw spot ; when using the

voice, talking, laughing, or singing.” In the middle of the chest a

raw sensation. “Roughness and hoarseness of the voice. Phthisis of

the larynx in those withered young people ; a young man w^hen he is

not more than twenty five looks to be fifty. Many wrinkles as though

he had had many cares. Has a dry? cough ; gets up a little gray mucus.

Yet he may be somewhat wiry, getting about fairly well. Has inherited phthisis. The cough is a deep cough, is aggravated from

laughing, talking and in a warm room. Laughing causes cough and

causes mucus in the larynx. This remedy will turn aside this threatening phthisis, this dry teasing cough. A little dry, hacking cough

especially comes under this remedy. In no instance are we likely to

have those violent spasmodic shaking coughs, such as we find in Bry.

When coughing a sore feeling in the larynx. “The cough is accompanied with an easy expectoration.” He does not usually cough so

much to get up the mucus as he docs to relieve a little irritation ; but

when there is mucus it generally comes up easily. It is not so difficult to detach as we find in many remedies. “Easily detached mucus

in the larynx.” He simply scrapes it out by an effort of the larynx.

Cough and scraping of the larynx during the daytime and evening,

worse in a warm room and better in the open air and from motion.

It has a sense of weakness of the chest. There are two remedies

having this weakness of the chest and you cannot easily tell them

apart. Weak voice, weak chest ; a feeling that it is so difficult to

breathe, and so difficult to talk, and so difficult to cough, because the

muscles of the chest feel so weak, These two medicines arc Argentum