It is a substance easily proved because of its active nature, and from its very abuse we have learned much of its general nature. While Arsenic impresses the whole economy and disturbs all the functions and tissues of man, there are certain prevailing and striking features in it. The surface of the body is pale, cold, clammy, and sweating, and the aspect is cadaveric. In chronic sickness with great debility, anaemia, from long exposure to malarial influence, in the poorly fed and from syphilis this remedy is of great service. The anxiety that is found in Ars . is intermingled with fear, with impulses, with suicidal inclinations, with sudden freaks and with mania.
Sadness prevails to a great extreme.
It is a remedy full of suicidal tendencies . The anxiety takes form also in the restlessness, in which he constantly moves. If he is able to get up lie goes from chair to. That is an effort to express it in the extreme. It seems that he cannot live, and it is not pain that drives him to anguish, but it is an anxiety intermingled with restlessness and sadness.