Section 32 — Skin Diseases

This includes all eruptions, pimples, sores, felons, abscesses, ulcers, carbuncles, boils, warts, morbid growths, tumors, cancer, and all kindred diseases, as these are all amenable to the homoeopathic internal treatment.

Consult Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, and 31

Does the skin heal readily after an injury ?

Any roughness, chapping, sores from washing or cold weather ?

Are you subject to skin diseases, and for how long ?

Have any of your near relatives been troubled in the same way, or with any other skin trouble ?

Have you been vaccinated ?

How did it take, and what was the effect ?

Have you had the itch ?

What treatment was used for it ?

Have you had measles, scarlet fever, chicken pox, smallpox, mumps, or other similar diseases, and how did you get along during the sickness and afterwards ?

Have you ever had a surgical operation for the removal of tumors, morbid growth, etc. ? (Section 31.)

How do your nails differ from healthy nails ?

Have you hang-nails ?

Ingrowing toe nails ?

Have you foul, sweaty feet ? (Section 7.)

How long has the skin trouble been present ?

How did it first start ?

Is the trouble sensitive to touch or pressure ?

Give the exact location of places affected.

Has the trouble been treated by local applications ?

Has any skin disease ever been suppressed or apparently cured by local applications ?

If so, what and when ?

What does the disease or sore look like ?

What is the appearance of the skin around the sore or under the sore ?

Is there any itching of the sore ?

What effect has scratching ?

Any scabs ?

What is the appearance and general form of the scabs ?

Any matter under scabs ? (Section 7.)

Describe any discharge from the sores as in Section 7.

Describe pain as in Section 6.

Any roughness of the skin ?

In what way is the skin different from healthy skin ?

Is there itching of the skin ? (Section 5.)

Give location, color and character of any spots or blotches on the skin, whether very small or large.

Give location, color and appearance of moles or warts.

What is the location, color, size, shape and appearance of any swelling ?

Any sensations on skin as itching, burning, pinching, crawling of insects or bugs, stinging or anything else ? See Sections 4 and 5.

Is the skin oily, shining, scaly ?

What is the color of the skin ?

Is the color permanent or natural ?

Describe pimples, little blisters, etc., as to location, size, contents, appearance, etc.

Describe corns and bunions as to appearance, location and pain as in Section 6.