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...The adult woman complains of her scrawny neck and unpleasantly prominent clavicles; she says she is all right as yet everyway else. Can't wear ball costume. Dreams of robbers and will not be satisfied unless she looks under the bed for that coming man.
      Nux vomica has a diarrhea, but not one that is characteristically so. He is thin, irritable, yellow, nervous, bustling, hustling, puttering, sputtering, snappy, sarcastic, cold-blooded, meateater, stimulant-drinker, patent-medicine user, head worker. Overwork is his medical motto, whether physcial, mental, or sexual, or all three rolled together. Every pain seems to start

from Frank Kraft, M.D., “The Therapeutics of Diarrhea” (conclusion), in The American Homeopathist 22:2 (New York; January 16, 1896) : 27-32 (31)
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12 April 2026