This remedy, prepared by trituration of the middle layer of the oyster shell, and, therefore, known also as Calcarea os-trearum is pure carbonate of lime, hence should be of value in the diseases of infancy and early adolescence, and so we find it.

Flabbiness of tissue, laxness, obesity, and easy, copious sweating are among its striking indications. Infants in whom glandular enlargements are in evidence, with profuse head sweating during sleep, unduly prominent abdomen, tardy teething and walking, and delayed closure of the fontanelles, will certainly need this remedy. Such infants usually have big heads and a tendency to curvature of the long bones, as well as sour stools, often claylike in appearance and color. In short, rachitis frequently presents a picture of Calcarea and when the similarity is exact, this remedy will bring about most astonishing improvement.

The Calcarea carbonica patient is extremely sensitive to cold and damp or to weather changes, bathing, or working in water. Likewise do we find the complaints requiring this medicine, to be aggravated by exertion, particularly that of ascending, which causes shortness of breath and palpitation.

A tendency to local sweats is generally present, particularly sweats of the head as already stated, of the chest, palms and especially of the feet, which are cold and clammy.

Women often need this remedy, when they are stout, flabby, sluggish, easily fatigued by even slight exertion and when they habitually menstruate too freely, too often and for too long a time. In such women, the breasts are frequently swollen and painful before the menses.

Thus it will be seen that uterine subinvolution, menorrhagia or even uterine fibroids in their earlier stages at least, may be greatly helped or at times cured, by this remedy.

In pulmonary tuberculosis in the type of patients above described, Calcarea car-bonica will be of help. The sputa are purulent and yellow.

It should not be forgotten that this remedy has a wide range of action and usefulness and will be helpful in any condition of disease, when indicated by its prominent characteristics.

Characteristic Symptoms Of Calcarea Carbonica

1. Head too large, fontanelles not closing.

2. Itching of the scalp, children scratch their heads when their sleep is disturbed or they are awakened.

3. In teething children, milk disagrees, may be vomited in curds, or pass the bowels in the same manner.

4. Difficult first dentition.

5. Sour taste in mouth, or of the food, sour vomiting, especially during dentition, also sour diarrhea.

6. Pit of the stomach swollen, like a saucer turned bottom side up. Strong craving for eggs.

7. Menses several days too early and copious.

8. Chronic rheumatism . and other troubles caused by working in water.

9. Feet constantly cold and damp, as if she had on cold, damp stockings.

10. Tendency in children and young persons to grow very fat.

11. Very sensitive to the least cold air, which goes right through her.

12. Weak and sick for several days after coition.

13. Especially indicated in fair, plump children, those of a leucophlegmatic temperament.