Tuberculinum tub.
Characteristic
Adapted to persons of light complexion ; blue eyes, blonde in preference to brunette ; tall, slim ; flat, narrow chest ; active and precocious mentally, weak physically ; the tubercular diathesis.
When with a family history of tubercular affections the best selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently improve, without reference to name of disease.
Symptoms ever changing ; ailments affecting one organ, then another—the lungs, brain, kidneys, liver, stomach, nervous system—beginning suddenly, ceasing suddenly.
Takes cold easily without knowing how or where ; seems to take cold "every time he takes a breath of fresh air" (Hep.).
Emaciation rapid and pronounced ; losing flesh while eating well (Abrot., Cal., Con., Iod., Nat.).
Melancholy, despondent ; morose, irritable, fretful, peevish ; taciturn, sulky ; naturally of a sweet disposition, now on the borderland of insanity.
Everything in the room seemed strange as though in a strange place.
Headache : chronic, tubercular ; pain intense, sharp, cutting, from above right eye to occiput ; as of an iron hoop around the head (Anac., Cac.) ; when the best selected remedy only palliates.
School-girl's headache ; < by study or even slight mental exertion; when using eyes in close work and glasses fail to >; with a tubercular history.
Acute cerebral or basilar meningitis, with threatened effusion; nocturnal hallucinations; wakes from sleep frightened, screams; when Apis, Hell., or Sulph., though well selected, fail to improve.
Crops of small boils, intensely painful, successively appear in the nose; green, fetid pus (Sec.).
Plica polonica; several bad cases permanently cured after Bor. and Psor. failed.
Diarrhœa: early morning, sudden, imperative (S