Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum hep.

NERVES. CONNECTIVE TISSUE. RESPIRATORY MEMBRANES. Flexures. GLANDS. Kidneys. Skin. Bridge of nose (Kali-bi.).

COLD, dry: AIR. WINTER. DRAFTS. WIND. PART BECOMING. LEAST: UNCOVERING. TOUCH. Noise. Exertion. Lying on painful part. Mercury. Night.

HEAT: WARM WRAPS. TO HEAD. Moist. DAMP WEATHER.

Lax. CHILLY AND OVERSENSITIVE; to cold; to pain; or to touch; faints easily, etc. Profuse secretions; foul; like old cheese. Sour, stools, smell of body, sweat, etc. SWEATS EASILY, but dare not uncover; and profusely, without relief. As of a wind blowing on part. Wears overcoat in hot weather. Tak(e cold from damp exposure. Sore STICKING, like sharp splinters. EVERY HURT FESTERS. SUPPURATION; threatens, or much thick pus. Abscess. Mastoiditis. Yellow, sclerotic, expectoration, sweat, etc.

Bad temper. Sudden weak memory. Touchy, mentally and physically; to pain, cold; easily becomes cross and violent. Hasty, violent, irritable or dissatisfied. Hair falls in spots; sore to touch. Corneal ulcer or maculæ. Photophobia. Chronic otorrhœa. Boring at root of nose. Stuffed, painful nose. Ripened colds and old catarrhs. Sneezes from every cold wind. Hawks mucus. Rough sticking like a splinter, fish-bone, etc., in throat. Quinsy. The upper jaw projects. Goitre (r); pains into head. Stomach weak; easily upset. Craves acids, condiments or stimulants. Eating refreshes, but causes heaviness. Foul mucus from anus. Stool difficult, although soft. Must wait to urinate; passes blood and pus afterwards. Nephritis; after scarlatina. Very foul, hot, membranous or pussy leucorrhœa. Painful larynx. Cough from least uncovering. Whistling, choking breathing; must bend head back. Croup. Hoarseness; chronic; of singers. Aphonia. Asthma; after suppressions. Cough, choking, barking; < cold drinks or in A.M.; hacking, as from a feather; LOOSE, but can't expectorate, tightens up in cold air. WEAKNESS AND MUCH RATTLING IN CHEST. Much expectoration; thick, yellow. Recurrent bronchitis; from every cold. Skin sensitive to cool air (Agar.). Foul, moist eruptions in folds. Torpid, pulsating ulcers; encircled by smaller ones, pimples or boils. Impetigo. Poor granulation. Sweaty and rattles with every cold or cough. Night-sweats. Low fevers. Hectic. Body exhales a foul odor.

Complementary: Iod. Sil. Related: Merc. Follows: Pho. Sil. Antidotes: Bell. Cham. Kali-io. Merc. Sil.

For torpid lymphatic constitutions; persons with light hair and complexion, slow to act, muscles soft and flabby. The slightest injury causes suppression (Graph., Mer.). Diseases where the system has been injured by the abuse of Mercury. In diseases where suppuration seems inevitable, Hepar may open the abscess and hasten the cure. Oversensitive, physically and mentally; the slightest cause irritates him; quick, hasty speech and hasty drinking. Patient is peevish, angry at the least trifle; hypochondriacal; unreasonably anxious. Extremely sensitive to cold air, imagines he can feel the air if a door is open in the next room; must be wrapped up to the face even in hot weather (Psor.); cannot bear to be uncovered (Nux - cannot bear to be covered, Camp., Sec.); take cold from slightest exposure to fresh air (Tub.). Urine: flow impeded; voided slowly, without force, drops vertically; is obliged to wait a while before it passes; bladder weak, is unable to finish, seems as if some urine always remains (Alum., Sil.). Cough: when any part of the body is uncovered (Rhus); croupy, choking, strangling; from exposure to dry west wind, the land wind (Acon.). Asthma: breathing, anxious, wheezing, rattling; short, deep breathing, threatens suffocation; must bend head back and sit up; after suppressed eruption (Psor.). Croup: after exposure to dry cold wind (Acon.); deep, rough, barking cough, with hoarseness and rattling of mucus; < cold air, cold drinks, before mid-night or toward morning. Sensation of a splinter, fish bone or plug in the throat (Arg. n., Nit. ac.); quinsy, when suppuration threatens; chronic hypertrophy, with hardness of hearing (Bar., Lyc., Plumb., Psor.). The skin is very sensitive to touch, cannot bear even clothes to touch affected parts (Lach. - sensitive to slightest touch, but can bear hard pressure, Cinch.). Skin affections extremely sensitive to touch, the pain often causing fainting. Ulcers herpes surrounded by little pimples or pustules and spread by coalescing. Middle of lower lip cracked (Am. c., Nat. m. - cracks in commissures, Cund.). Eyeballs: sore to touch; pain as if they would be pulled back into head (Olean., Paris). Diarrhoea: of children with sour smell (Cal., Mag. c. - child and stool have a sour smell, Rheum); clay colored stool (Cal., Pod.). Sweats: profusely day and night without relief; perspiration sour, offensive; easily, on every mental or physical exertion (Psor., Sep.).

Complementary: to, Calendula in injuries of soft parts. Hepar antidotes: bad effects of mercury and other metals, iodine, iodide of potash, cod-liver oil; renders patient less susceptable to atmospheric changes and cold air. Compare: The psoric skin affections of Sulphur are dry, itching, > by scratching, and not sensitive to touch; while in Hepar the skin is unhealthy, suppurating, moist, and extremely sensitive to touch.

Lying on painful side (Kali c., Iod.); cold air; uncovering; eating or drinking cold things; touching affected parts; abuse of mercury.

Warmth in general (Ars.); wrapping up warmly, especially the head (Psor., Sil.); in damp, wet weather (Caust., Nux - rev of, Nat. s.).

Any trouble occurring on the skin, when there is a great sensitiveness to the slightest touch; patient can't bear to have even the clothes touch the part, or hates to be touched in any way. Exanthema, like nettle-rash, sore to the slightest touch. Skin hard to heal; inflammation of; sensitive soreness of. Ulcers with bloody pus; with sour-smelling pus; stinking pus; putrid (ulcers); with redness around; with little pimples around--10, 12, or even as many as 50 may surround the large ulcer, and the ulcer sometimes spreads by the little pimples joining in; painful; painful at the edge; suppurating; with pain as if sore; difficult to heal; inflamed; itching; looking like a lump of lard with a hole in it; cancerous ulcers.

Complaints concomitant to waking; sleep not refreshing; sleeplessness in general; anxious dreams of fire.

Suffocative attacks of breathing (in croup where the child chokes in its coughing spells, and there is much rattling); respiration with mucous rattle; expectoration in the morning, none in the evening; cough, with expectoration during the day, no expectoration at night (in croup where there is no expectoration at night, but only in the daytime,--with the suffocative coughing spells); low, weak voice.

Urine very acrid; complaints while passing water and after.

Male: Nocturnal emissions; escape of prostatic fluid at any time, and at stool, etc.; affections of sexual organs occurring on the right side.

Affections of the left eye; abdomen, left side; left lower extremity; hair of the head; internal and external forehead; eyeball; inguinal glands; sacrum and buttocks (may have tetters, etc.); axilla; point of the elbow (olecranon). Dimsightedness; erysipelatous color of the face; obstruction of the bowels from inactivity of the peristaltic motion; pain as if bruised in outer parts, also in bones; festering glands. Heat with thirst; perspiration in general; cold perspiration.

The great sensitiveness under this remedy must not be overlooked. It is not confined to touch merely, but the same exists in reference to a draft of air--patient can't bear the slightest draft of air on him; nor the slightest noise. Great sensitiveness in everything.

In the night; on wakening; when blowing the nose; from cold in general; in cold air; in cold and dry weather; on single parts of the body getting cold; from getting the skin rubbed off; on uncovering the head; from surgical injuries in general; from lying on the painful side; from daylight; from pressure from without; from abuse of Mercury; during sleep; when swallowing, particularly when swallowing food (parts are so tender); while urinating; in clear, fine weather; in dry weather; in the east wind.

From wrapping the head up; from warmth in general; the air being warm; in damp and wet weather; from wrapping up the body warmly.

Bellad., Bryon., Mercur., Nux vom., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia, Silic., Sulphur.

Bellad.

Sensation as if a fish bone, or splinter were sticking in the throat. Stomach inclined to be out of order; longing for sour or strong tasting things. Green slimy diarrhoea of a sour smell. Croup after dry, cold wind with swelling below the larynx, and great sensitiveness, to cold air or water. Cannot bear to be uncovered, coughs when any part of the body is uncovered. Unhealthy, suppurating skin, every out or hurt suppurates. Ulcers very sensitive, burning or stinging edges, discharges corroding, smelling like old cheese, little pimples surround the principal ulceration. Ailments after west or northwest wind. Affections from the abuse of mercury, or iodine, particularly the iodine of potash. To promote suppuration in boils, abscesses, etc.

Hahnemann's Calcium Sulphide (HEPAR SULPHURIS CALCAREUM)

Suits especially scrofulous and lymphatic constitutions who are inclined to have eruptions and glandular swellings. Unhealthy skin. Blondes with sluggish character and weak muscles. Great sensitiveness to all impressions. Sweating patient pulling blanket around him. Locally, it has special affinity to the respiratory mucous membrane, producing croupous catarrhal inflammation, profuse secretion; also easy perspiration. After abuse of Mercury. Infected sinus with pus forming. The tendency to suppuration is most marked, and has been a strong guiding symptom in practice. The lesions spread by the formation of small papules around the side of the old lesion. Chilliness, hypersensitiveness, splinter-like pains, craving for sour and strong things are very characteristic. Feeling as if wind were blowing on some part. The side of the body on which he lies at night becomes gradually insufferably painful; he must turn. Pellagra (material doses required). Syphilis after antispecific gross medication.

Anguish in the evening and night, with thoughts of suicide. The slightest cause irritates him. Dejected and sad. Ferocious. Hasty speech.

Vertigo and headache, when shaking the head or riding. Boring pain in the right temple and in root of nose every morning. Scalp sensitive and sore. Humid scald-head itching and burning. Cold sweat on head.

Ulcers on cornea. Iritis, with pus in anterior chamber; purulent conjunctivitis, with marked chemosis, profuse discharge, great sensitiveness to touch and air. Eyes and lids red and inflamed. Pain in the eyes, as if pulled back into the head. Boring pain in upper bones of the orbits. Eyeballs sore to touch. Objects appear red and too large. Vision obscured by reading; field reduced one-half. Bright circles before eyes. Hypopion.

Scurfs on and behind the ears. Discharge of fetid pus from the ears. Whizzing and throbbing in the ears, with hardness of hearing. Deafness after scarlet fever. Pustules in auditory canal and auricle. Mastoiditis.

Sore, ulcerated. Soreness of nostrils, with catarrhal troubles. Sneezes every time he goes into a cold, dry wind, with running from nose, later, thick, offensive discharge. Stopped up every time he goes out into cold air. Smell like old cheese. Hay-fever (Hepar 1x will often start secretions and profuse drainage in stuffy colds).

Yellowish complexion. Middle of lower lip cracked. Vesicular erysipelas, with pricking in parts. Neuralgia of right side, extending in streak into temple, ear, alæ, and lip. Pains in bones of face, especially when being touched. Ulcers in corners of mouth. Shooting in jaw on opening mouth.

Ptyalism. Gums and mouth painful to touch and bleed readily.

When swallowing, sensation as if a plug and of a splinter in throat. Quinsy, with impending suppuration. Stitches in throat extending to the ear when swallowing. Hawking up of mucus.

Longing for acids, wine, and strong-tasting food. Aversion to fat food. Frequent eructations, without taste or smell. Distention of stomach, compelling one to loosen the clothing. Burning in stomach. Heaviness and pressure in stomach after a slight meal.

Stitching in region of liver when walking, coughing, breathing, or touching it (Bry; Merc). Hepatitis, hepatic abscess; abdomen distended, tense; chronic abdominal affections.

Clay-colored and soft. Sour, white, undigested, fetid. Loss of power to expel even a soft stool.

Voided slowly, without force-drops vertically, bladder weak. Seems as if some always remained. Greasy pellicle on urine. Bladder difficulties of old men (Phos; Sulph; Copaiva).

Herpes, sensitive, bleed easily. Ulcers externally on prepuce similar to chancre (Nitr acid). Excitement and emission without amorous fancies. Itching of glans, frænum, and scrotum. Suppurating inguinal glands. Figwarts of offensive odor. Humid soreness on genitals and between scrotum and thigh. Obstinate gonorrhœa "does not get well".

Discharge of blood from uterus. Itching of pudenda and nipples, worse during menses. Menses late and scanty. Abscesses of labiæ with great sensitiveness. Extremely offensive leucorrhœa. Smells like old cheese (Sanicula). Profuse perspiration at the climacteric (Tilia; Jaborandi).

Loses voice and coughs when exposed to dry, cold wind. Hoarseness, with loss of voice. Cough troublesome when walking. Dry, hoarse cough. Cough excited whenever any part of the body gets cold or uncovered, or from eating anything cold. Croup with loose, rattling cough; worse in morning. Choking cough. Rattling, croaking cough; suffocative attacks; has to rise up and bend head backwards. Anxious, wheezing, moist breathing, asthma worse in dry cold air; better in damp. Palpitation of heart.

Finger-joints swollen; tendency to easy dislocation. Nail of great toe painful on slight pressure.

Abscesses; suppurating glands are very sensitive. Papules prone to suppurate and extend. Acne in youth. Suppurate with prickly pain. Easily bleed. Angio-neurotic œdema. Unhealthy skin; every little injury suppurates. Chapped skin, with deep cracks on hands and feet. Ulcers, with bloody suppuration, smelling like old cheese. Ulcers very sensitive to contact, burning, stinging, easily bleeding. Sweats day and night without relief. "Cold-sores" very sensitive. Cannot bear to be uncovered; wants to be wrapped up warmly. Sticking or pricking in afflicted parts. Putrid ulcers, surrounded by little pimples. Great sensitiveness to slightest touch. Chronic and recurring urticaria. Small-pox. Herpes circinatus. Constant offensive exhalation from the body.

Chilly in open air or from slightest draught. Dry heat at night. Profuse sweat; sour, sticky, offensive.

Worse, from dry cold winds; cool air; slightest draught, from Mercury, touch; lying on painful side. Better, in damp weather, from wrapping head up, from warmth, after eating.

Antidotes: Bellad; Cham; Sil.

Compare: Acon; Spongia; Staphis; Silica; Sulph; Calc sulph; Myristica. Hepar antidotes bad effects from Mercury, Iodine, Potash, Cod-liver oil. Removes the weakening effects of ether.

First to 200th. The higher potencies may abort suppuration, the lower promote it. If it is necessary to hasten it, give 2x.

Hypersensitive to touch, pain, cold air; fainting with the pain.

General tendency to suppurations; even slight injuries or scratches on the skin suppurate.

Tendency to croupy exudations (larynx and kidneys; and mucous membrane).

Atony; stools passed with great difficulty, even when soft; urine flows slowly, must wait for it, then drops vertically down without force.

Sour diarrhœa; whole child smells sour.

Coughs; croup, bronchitis, consumption; < when exposed to least cold air.

Like Sulphur, Hepar is adapted to the psoric, scrofulous diathesis.

This remedy standing half-way between those two great anti-psorics, Calcarea carb. and Sulphur, has some very strong characteristics which guide to its use in a variety of ailments. Its strongest characteristic is its hypersensitiveness to touch, pain, and cold air. The patient is so sensitive to pain that she faints away, even when it is slight. If there are inflammation or swelling in any locality, or even eruptions on the skin, they are so sensitive that she cannot bear to have them touched, or even to have the cold air to blow upon them. This is like China off., only that while the latter is sensitive to the lightest touch it can bear hard pressure. (Remedies especially < in cold air are Arsenicum alb., Calcarea ost., Hepar sul., Nux vomica, Psorinum, Silicea, Tuberculinum.). This supersensitiveness to pain runs all through the drug. It is mental as well as physical, for the slightest cause irritates with hasty speech and vehemence. Next to this is the power of Hepar sulph. over the suppurative stage of local inflammations. It comes in only when pus is about to form, or is already formed. If given very high in the first case (that is before pus is formed), and not repeated too soon or often, we may prevent suppuration and check the whole inflammatory process. But if pus is already formed, it will hasten the pointing and discharge and help along the healing of the ulcer afterwards. I am not at all sure, as is generally taught, that it is necessary to give it low to hasten suppuration. The most rapid pointing, opening, and perfect healing I ever saw was in the case of a large glandular swelling on the neck of a child, under the action of the c. m. potency. Hepar has a general tendency to suppuration, for even the eruptions on the skin are liable to form matter, and slight injuries suppurate. (Graphites, Mercurius, Petroleum.) This remedy is very valuable in diseases of the respiratory organs. I have found it very useful in cases of chronic catarrh, when the nose stopped up every time the patient went out into the cold air. He says it seems as if I get a new cold every time I get a breath of fresh air (Tuberculinum). It is relieved in a warm room. In croup it has been, ever since Bœnninghausen prescribed his celebrated five powders, one of our standard remedies. We do not use the five powders as Bœnninghausen did in a certain order, but only use them according to indications. Hepar croup is accompanied with rather loose cough, with wheezing and rattling. Cough as if mucus would come up, but it does not. It is seldom indicated at first; but oftener comes in after Aconite or Spongia. Like Aconite it seems most effectual in those cases brought on by exposure to dry cold air; but the Aconite croup comes on in the evening after first sleep and Hepar in the early morning hours. This tendency to croupy exudations on mucous membranes seems characteristic of Hepar and is not confined to the respiratory organs. Kafka uses it on the ground of its ability to control such conditions in post scarlatinal dropsy, to prevent or cure, and claims great success for it. I believe it to be one of the best prophylactics in such cases, for the reason that during and after the desquamative stage the skin is unusually susceptible to the effects of chill in cold air, and this is in accordance with the leading characteristic of this remedy. It fortifies the patient against such atmospheric influence.

In croup, as in other affections of Hepar, the cough, difficult breathing and all other symptoms are aggravated by the least of breath cold air, which the little patient must be carefully guarded against. Traveling downward the larynx is attacked, then the bronchia, and even the lungs, and the formation of croupy exudates will take place if not checked by the remedy. The breathing in all these cases becomes rattling, anxious, wheezing, even to threatened suffocation, so that the patient seems asthmatic. In. these cases it is often able to relieve, especially if this condition follows a hard cold and the acute inflammatory symptoms have been controlled by Aconite or some other indicated remedy.

In chronic asthma, Hepar often resembles Natrum sulphuricum, but there is this diagnostic difference, which is very valuable. The Hepar asthma is worse in dry cold air and better in damp, while Natrum sulph. is exactly the opposite, like Dulcamara. There is no other remedy that I know that has the amelioration so strongly in damp weather as Hepar sulphur. One characteristic must not be forgotten, viz.: "Coughs when any part of the body becomes uncovered." (Baryta and Rhus tox.). This is found in croup, laryngitis, bronchitis and consumption, and not only is the cough worse, but the whole case is aggravated. Then, again, it must be remembered that this is one of our strongest anti-psorics, and for that reason should be thought of for all respiratory ailments for which it has such a strong affinity, especially when such ailments have followed a suppressed or retrocedent eruption on the skin.

In accordance with its great power over all suppurative processes, it should come to mind in abscess of the lungs, of course in all cases when indicated by the symptoms in toto. Upon the throat we have 1st, "sticking in the throat, as from a splinter, on swallowing, extending to the ear, also on yawning." "Sensation as if a fish bone or splinter were sticking in the throat" (Argentum nitricum, Dolichos and Nitric acid), but probably the condition where Hepar is oftenest of use in throat trouble is in that distressing complaint, quinsy.

Here, as in croup, it is not generally indicated in the beginning. Having had much success and experience in this disease, I may here give the results of the application of several remedies and their indications:

Belladonna. -High fever, great swelling, and redness, headache, throbbing carotids.

Mercurius vivus. -Either side, fœtid breath, flabby, moist, indented tongue, and sweat without relief.

Mercurius proto-iodatus. -same symptoms, but begins on right side, and tongue thickly coated yellow at the base.

Lachesis. -Left side extending to right, great sensitiveness to touch, and aggravation after sleep.

Lycopodium. -Begins right side, extends to left, with tongue swollen and inclined to protrude from the mouth, and stuffing up of nose.

Lac caninum. -Alternates sides, one day worse on one, and the next on the other.

Hepar sulph. -When notwithstanding all other remedies the case seems bound to suppurate and there is much throbbing pain. Now with each of these remedies I have aborted many cases in old quinsy subjects, who never expected to, and were told by old school physicians that they never could, get well, without suppuration, and in the end have cured them of all tendency thereto. I will add here that Hepar sulphur, is also a good remedy in chronic hypertrophy of tonsils, with hardness of hearing. In these cases which are generally very intractable, Baryta carbonica, Lycopodium, Plumbum, and others are also to be consulted according to indications.

Upon the alimentary canal Hepar has a decided influence. We have already noticed its action upon the throat. The stomach is inclined to be out of order, and there is a "longing for acid things." (Veratrum alb.) This is often the case in chronic dyspepsia and Hepar helps. This condition of the stomach is sometimes found in marasmus of children. It is often accompanied by diarrhœa, and a very important feature is that the diarrhea is sour; indeed the whole child seems to smell sour no matter how much it is bathed. The sour stool is also very prominently under Magnesia carbonica and Calcarea carbonica. Then there is another condition of the bowels, namely, a kind of atony. The stools are passed with great difficulty, even though they are soft and clay-like, as they sometimes are under this remedy. This state of atony is also found in the bladder.

"Micturition impeded, he is obliged to wait awhile before the urine passes, and then it flows slowly for many days." "He is never able to finish urinating; it seems as if some urine always remains behind in the bladder." "Weakness of the bladder, the urine drops vertically down and he is obliged to wait awhile before any passes." This inability to expel makes one think of Alumina and Veratrum album and Silicea. Again, Hepar sulph. is a great "sweat " remedy, either partial or general. It may, for instance, come in after Mercurius in rheumatism, in which the patient "sweats day and night without relief," and Mercurius does not help. So, too, with quinsy, and in large boils and swellings; and by the way Hepar sulph. is one of our best remedies after Mercurius either in homœopathic practice, or as an antidote to old school poisoning so also is it the leading antidote to Iodide of Potassa poisoning from the same source. We could not well do without this valuable remedy.

Modalities: < exposure to dry cold air; > in moist wet weather.

Great anguish in the evening, almost driving one to commit suicide. Over-sensitiveness and irritability, with quick, hasty speech. The slightest cause irritates him and makes him extremely vehement. Dejected, sad, with inclination to shed tears.

Faint giddiness when riding in a carriage or when shaking the head, with headache and obscuration of sight. Boring headache from without to within, in the right temple ; on one side of the head ; the root of the nose, when waking from sleep ; aggravated by motion and stooping. Pressure in the head, semi-lateral, as from a plug or dull nail, at night and when waking in the morning ; aggravated when moving the eyes ; and on stooping ; relieved when rising and from binding the head up tight. Aching in the forehead, like a boil, from midnight till morning. Lancinating headache ; better when walking in the open air. Sense of swashing in the head. Boring headache in the root of the nose, every forenoon. Morning headache, aggravated from every contusion. Humid eruption over the whole head, feeling sore, of fetid smell ; itching violently on rising in the morning ; burning and feeling sore on scratching. Boils on the head and neck, very sore on contact and when lying on them. The head is bent backwards, with swelling below the larynx, with violent pulsation of the carotid arteries ; and rattling breathing (in croup). Falling off of the hair, with very sore, painful pimples and large bald spots on the scalp ; sensitiveness of the scalp to contact, with burning and itching in the morning after rising (after abuse of mercury). Burning-itching on the scalp, from the forehead to the back part of the head. Cold, clammy perspiration, smelling sour, principally on the head and face, with aversion to be uncovered ; worse from the least exercise and during the night ; better from warmth and when at rest. Nodosities ; on the head, sore to contact ; better from covering the head warm and from perspiration. Disposition to catch cold when uncovering the head.

Inflammation of the eyes and eyelids ; they are sore to the touch, with lachrymation. Pressure in the eyes, as from a foreign body (sand). The eyes are protruded. Spasmodically closed eyelids (at night). Photophobia. Ulcers and spots on the cornea. Obscuration of sight when reading. The eyes ache from the bright light of day, when moving them. The objects appear to be red.

Darting pain in the ears. Itching of the external ear. Discharge of fetid pus from the ear. Scurfy eruption on and behind the ear. Whizzing and throbbing in the ears, with hardness of hearing. Detonation in the ear when blowing the nose. Increase of cerumen.

Inflammation (redness and heat) of the nose. The nose feels sore, as if bruised. Sore pain on the dorsum of the nose when touching it. Very sensitive smell. Coryza, with inflammatory swelling of the nose, which feels as sore as a boil.

Heat and fiery redness of the face. Erysipelatous swelling of the face. Yellow color of the face, with blue border around the eyes. Pain in the bones ; of the face on touching them. Boils on the lips, chin and neck, very painful to the touch. Eruption in the corners of the mouth. Itching around the mouth. Ulcer in the corner of the mouth. Eruption in the face, scurfy, very painful to the touch. Itching pimples on the chin. The middle of the lower lip becomes chapped. Sore and smarting pimple in the vermilion border of the upper lip.

The gums and mouth are very painful to the touch and bleed readily. Toothache worse in the warm room ; increased when pressing the teeth against one another. Looseness of the teeth. The hollow teeth feel too long and painful. Ulcer on the gums and in the mouth, with a base resembling lard. The tip of the tongue is very painful and feels sore. When swallowing, sensation as ; if a plug were in the throat, or as ; if splinters were sticking in it. Scraping in the throat when swallowing saliva. Hawking up of mucus. Swelling of the tonsils and glands of the neck. Dry throat. Stitches in the throat, extending to the ear.

Longing for acids, wine, sour and strong-tasting substances. Unusual hunger in the forenoon). More thirst than hunger ; much thirst. Aversion to fat. Distention of the pit of the stomach, compelling one to loosen the clothing. Burning in the stomach. Heaviness and pressure in the stomach after moderate eating. Pressure in the stomach, as if lead were in it. Spasmodic contraction in the abdomen. Sensation of soreness (as if bruised) in the abdomen (in the morning). Cutting pain in the abdomen. Vomiting (every morning). Stitches as the region of the liver, when walking. Splenetic stitches when walking. Rumbling in the abdomen (incarceration of flatulence). Swelling and suppuration of the inguinal glands ; (bubœs).

Constipation ; hard, dry stool. The feces are not hard, but are expelled with great difficulty. Sour-smelling, whitish diarrhœa, in children. Clay-colored stool. Dysenteric stools ; difficult evacuation of soft stool, or of bloody mucus, with tenesmus. Hæmorrhage from the rectum, with soft stool. Soreness of the rectum after stool, with ichor. Burning at the rectum. Protrusion of the varices. Perspiration on the perineum.

The urine is passed slowly, with difficulty ; drops out perpendicular. Sharp, burning urine, corroding the prepuce. Burning in the urethra during micturition. Urine dark-red, hot. Bloody urine. Stitches in the urethra. Inflammation and redness of the orifice of the urethra. Discharge of mucus from the urethra. Wetting the bed at night.

Men. Itching of the penis (glans, frænulum). Ulcers like chancres on the prepuce. Humid soreness on the genitals, scrotum, and the folds between the thigh and the scrotum. Diminished sexual instinct. (Feeble erections). Discharge of the prostatic juice during the hard stool and after urinating. Women. Congestion of blood to the uterus. Menstrual discharge delayed and diminished. Discharge of blood between the times of menstruation. Itching nipples. Scirrhous ulcer on the mamma, with stinging-burning of the edges, smelling like old cheese.

Rattling breathing (during deep). Dry, hoarse cough. Titillation, as from dust in the throat, inducing cough, which is deep, wheezing, with expectoration only in the morning of mucus ; bloody or like pus, generally tasting sour or sweet. Cough worse from evening till midnight. Cough caused by a limb becoming cold ; from eating or drinking any thing cold ; from cold air ; when lying in bed ; from talking, crying. Sneezing or crying, after the attacks of cough. Anxious wheezing breathing. Suffocative attacks, compelling him to raise himself up and to bend the head backwards. Wheezing in the larynx and painfulness of a small spot in the larynx. Swelling below the larynx. Roughness in the throat. Hoarseness. Sensitiveness of the larynx to cold air. Croup, with swelling under the larynx. Cough, with expectoration of blood. Bronchitis. Soreness in the chest. Weakness of the chest ; cannot talk from weakness. Tenacious mucus in the chest. Spasmodic constriction of the chest. Violent palpitation of the heart, with fine stitches ; in the heart and the left half of the chest.

Violent pulsation of the carotid arteries. Sensation as if bruised in the small of the back and thighs. Stitches and rheumatic pains in the back.

Upper. Suppuration of the axillary glands. Fetid sweat in the axilla. Pain, as from bruises in the humeri. Red, hot swelling of the joints of the hands and fingers. Cold perspiration of the hands. Deadness of the fingers. Tingling in the tips of the fingers. Itching in the palms of the hands. Steatoma at the point of the elbow. Rough, dry, grating, cracked skin of the hands. Panaritium. Lower. The hip-joint feels sore, as if sprained when walking. Sensation of soreness in the thighs. Swelling of the knee. Pain, as from bruises in the knee. Cramp in the soles and toes. Tickling in the soles of the feet. Prickings in both heels. Swelling of the feet around the ankles (with difficult breathing). Tingling in the toes. Burning, stinging pain in the toes. Cracked skin of the feet.

Sleepiness during the day (morning and evening) with spasmodic yawning. Restless, soporous slumber, with the head bent backwards. Starts up from sleep with the feeling as though he would suffocate. Wakes at night with an erection and an urgent desire to urinate. The side on which he lays at night becomes ; painfully sore ; he must change as position.

Fainting (evening) from slight pains. Rheumatic pains in the limbs and stitches in the joints. Weakness in all the limbs ; they feel bruised.

Pulse hard, full, accelerated ; at times ; intermitting. Chill in the evening, 6 or 7 P.M. Chilliness and heat alternating during the day, with photophobia. Chilliness at night ; in bed aggravating all the symptoms. Great chilliness in the open air. Dry, burning heat, with redness of the face and violent thirst all night. Flushes of heat with perspiration. Profuse perspiration day and night. Perspiration easily excited through the day, especially from exertions of the mind. Night and morning sweat, with thirst. Cold, clammy or sour or offensively smelling perspiration. Intermittent fever; first chills, then thirst and, an hour later, much heat, with interrupted sleep. Violent chill 8 P.M., with chattering of teeth ; hands and feet are cold ; followed by heat with perspiration, especially on the chest and forehead, with slight thirst.

Inflammation, swelling and suppuration of the glands. Caries. Erysipelatous inflammation on external parts. Suppurations, especially after previous inflammation. Ulcers very sensitive to contact, easily bleeding, burning or stinging, with corrosive pains. Eruptions ; very sensitive and feeling sore when touched. Burning-itching in the skin after scratching ; white vesicles. Nettle-rash. Unhealthy skin ; the slightest injuries produce suppuration and ulceration. Promotes suppuration. Yellow skin and complexion.

Great sensitiveness of the affected parts to contact. Aggravation, at night ; from cold air ; from lying on the painful side ; from external pressure ; from touching the parts ; during sleep ; when swallowing food. Amelioration from warmth ; from wrapping oneself up warmly.

Hepar sulphuris calcareum. An impure Sulphide of Calcium prepared by burning in a crucible the white interior of oyster shells with pure flowers of sulphur. Trituration.

Abscess. Amaurosis . Angina pectoris. Appetite, disordered . Asthma. Axilla, abscess in. Beard, eruptions of . Blepharitis. Boils . Breast, affections of. Bronchitis . Bubo. Burns. Carbuncle. Caries. Chilblains . Chlorosis. Cold . Constipation. Consumption . Cornea, ulceration of; opacity of. Cough. Croup . Diaphragmitis. Diarrhœa. Ear, affections of; polypus of. Eczema . Emphysema. Erysipelas. Eyes, affections of. Fester, tendency to. Glandular swellings . Hæmoptysis. Hæmorrhoids. Headache . Hectic. Herpes preputialis. Hip-joint disease. Hoarseness. Jaundice. Joints, affections of. Laryngitis . Leucorrhœa. Lips, swollen. Liver, affections of. Lungs, affections of. Lupus . Marasmus. Menorrhagia. Mouth, sore . Nipples, sore. Ovaries, affections of. Parametritis. Pleurisy. Pneumonia . Pregnancy, sickness of. Pruritus mercurialis. Pylorus, affections of . Quinsy. Rhagades. Rheumatism. Scarlatina . Scrofula. Skin, affections of . Spinal irritation. Stye. Suppuration . Syphilis. Tenesmus. Throat, sore. Urticaria. Wens. Whitlow. Whooping-cough .

"Liver of Sulphur" is a name which was given by the old chemists to several sulphur compounds whose Colour was supposed to resemble that of liver. Before Hahnemann's time Hepar sulphuris calcareum , Sulphuret of lime, was used as an external remedy for itch, rheumatism, gout, goître and scrofulous swellings. In 1794 Hahnemann proposed to use it internally to arrest mercurial salivation. A few years later it was tried (Teste thinks first by Dr. Busch of Strasburg) for asthma and pulmonary phthisis. That this was a happy inspiration Hahnemann's provings and clinical experience has thoroughly borne out. The Hepar of Hahnemann is not identical with ordinary sulphuret of lime, being prepared with oyster shells, instead of ordinary lime, in a special way. Neither is it identical in composition or properties with Calcium sulphate (Gypsum) of Schüssler. Being a chemical combination of Calcarea carb . and Sulph . it has some of the properties of both, but is very different from either, and though it is useful to compare them, Hepar must be studied as a separate entity. The one feature which more than any other characterises Hepar cases is over-sensitiveness . It runs throughout the remedy. "Any trouble occurring on the skin where there is a great sensitiveness to the slightest touch ; patient can't bear to have even the clothes touch the part, or have it touched in any way. Exanthema, like nettle-rash, sore to the slightest touch. Skin hard to heal; inflammation of; sensitive soreness of," is Guernsey's admirable definition of this feature as it affects the skin and touch. But the sensitiveness is not confined to touch, there is excessive sensitiveness to the air; patient can't bear the least draught; and if a hand accidentally gets outside the bed-clothes it brings on an aggravation; sensitiveness to noise, to odours. The mind is no less "touchy" than the body. " Dissatisfaction with oneself and others ; dreamy, atrabilious mood , a sort of ferocious spleen, as though one could murder a man in cold blood (even in persons who are generally of a merry and benevolent disposition)." This is from Teste, who says he has removed these symptoms with Hepar . Irritable and angry, feels inclined to kill any one who offends him. Another instance of the sensitiveness of Hepar is in relation to pain: the slightest pain causes fainting. There is also irritable heart. The sensitiveness to cold air is more to the dry cold air of Acon . and Bry . This distinguishes it from Nat. sulph . in asthma, which has < from damp cold ( Nat. sulph . is Grauvogl's typical hydrogenoid remedy); and also fixes its applicability in croup. Hepar croup is accompanied with rather loose cough, with wheezing and rattling. Cough as if mucus would come up but it does not. The time of the Hepar croup is early morning (Acon. in evening). The least breath of cold air < the cough, or any uncovering. Another feature of Hepar is the sensation of a splinter or fish-bone in the throat. In quinsy with throbbing pain, where suppuration is imminent, Hepar is indicated. Throbbing, stabbing pains, with general rigor are characteristic. The relation of Hepar to the suppuration process is very marked. It meets the hectic condition generally and the process locally. I once cured with Hep . 6 a case of axillary abscess with a large collection of pus. The whole was absorbed without breaking. In an article published in Minneap. Hom. Mag ., ii. 292, L. P. Foster distinguishes between Hepar, Calc. sul ., and Kali sul ., in their action on tissues. Kali s . acts on the epidermis; Hepar on lymphatic glandular system, skin and respiratory mucous membrane, Calc. s . acts much as Hep ., only more deeply. Hep . acts on abscesses before they open, Calc. s . after. Foster cured a lady with Calc. s ., high, of "several large ulcers in the gluteal region 3 in. in diameter and 3/4 in. deep, exposing the bone." The pain ceased immediately, and the cure was completed in two months. Calc. s . is suited to quinsy after it breaks, Hep . before. In this connection it may be well to speak of the relation of Hep . to Mercurius . Hahnemann's instinct led him to see in Hepar an antidote to mercurial poisoning, and it remains still the chief antidote, whether to the effects of massive doses or to over-action of the potencies. Silic . and Merc . are inimical, but if Hepar is given as an intermediary no unpleasant effects will occur. It follows Merc . when this ceases to help, or has aggravated, in rheumatism, quinsy, boils and suppurations. In a case of eczema pudendi in a young girl, 11, three months after puberty, the parts red and itching, Merc . was given and the whole body became covered with the rash; Hep . was then given and removed all immediately. "Sweats day and night without relief." It antidotes the sensitiveness of Merc . to atmospheric conditions. In the old days of mercurialisation one of the chief things to be avoided by a patient under the "course" was exposure to chill. Hepar has this same sensitiveness to chill and liability to take cold from every exposure. Coryza, nose swollen and sore to the touch, especially inside the alæ. Boring at root of nose with catarrhal symptoms or headache is characteristic. Croupous inflammations of throat, respiratory organs, bowels and kidneys — the inner as well as the outer skin, in fact. The ulceration of the skin is peculiar. Guernsey thus describes it: "Ulcers with bloody pus; with sour-smelling pus; stinking pus; putrid ulcers; with redness around; with little pimples around — ten, twelve, or even as many as fifty may surround the large ulcer, and the ulcer sometimes spreads by the little pimples joining in. Painful; painful at the edge; suppurating; with pain as if sore; difficult to heal; inflamed; itching; looking like a lump of lead with a hole in it; cancerous ulcers." "Smelling like old cheese" is very characteristic of Hep . ulcers and discharges. The itching of Hep . is noteworthy; it occurs in connection with jaundice. It has cured cases of pruritus especially when of mercurial origin. In the respiratory organs there are suffocative attacks of breathing (in croup the child chokes in its coughing spells and there is much rattling). It meets many cases of asthma and whooping-cough. Respiration with mucous rattle; expiration in the morning, none in the evening; cough with expectoration during the day, none in the night (in croup no expectoration at night but only in the daytime — with the suffocative coughing spells; low, weak voice (Guernsey). There is a semi-paralytic condition of the rectum and bladder somewhat like that of Alumina . The stools are passed with great difficulty even when clay-like and soft. Fetid stools with a sour body-smell in children. Sour stools are also very marked in diarrhœa; and this maybe noted along with the desire of Hepar for acid things. Micturition is impeded; obliged to wait awhile before the urine passes, and then it flows slowly for many days. Never able to finish urinating; it seems as if some urine always remains behind in bladder. Urine drops vertically down. The urine is very acrid. There are complaints during micturition and after. Nocturnal emissions. Escape of prostatic fluid at any time, and at stool. Affections of the sexual organs occurring on the right side. Hepar is one of the great antipsorics. In his "Medicine of Experience" Hahnemann speaks of the itch-like eruptions caused by Hepar and its corrective properties in wool-worker's itch. It is suited to: The psoric, scrofulous, diathesis. Debilitated subjects. Great tendency to suppuration. Strumous, outrageously cross children. Torpid, lymphatic constitutions; persons with light hair and complexion, slow to act, muscles soft and flabby. Slow, torpid constitutions with lax fibre and light hair; great sensitiveness to slightest contact of ulcers, eruptions and parts affected. (These conditions differ from the Sulph . type: lean, stoop-shouldered; unclean-looking, aversion to warmth.) The symptoms are: < in the night; on awakening; when blowing the nose; from cold in general; in cold, dry weather; on single parts of the body getting cold; from getting the skin rubbed off; on uncovering the head; from surgical injuries in general; from lying on the painful side; from daylight; from pressure from without; from abuse of Mercury; during sleep; when swallowing, particularly when swallowing food (parts are so tender); while urinating; in clear, fine weather; in dry weather; in the least wind. Symptoms are: > from wrapping up the head; from warmth in general; the, air being warm; in damp and wet weather; from wrapping up the body warmly; by eating (a comfortable feeling after eating is very characteristic). There is marked periodicity in Hepar : every day; every four weeks (attack of paralysis); every four months (scabby eruptions on head); every winter (whitlows); spring and autumn, bilious attacks. The bends of the elbows and popliteal spaces are affected by Hep . In eye affections patient likes to have them covered lightly . The following case was cured by Hep . after Sul . and Calc . had failed. Pustular ophthalmia of left eye, > keeping eye closely covered with some soft fabric, < mornings, > as day advanced. Pimples surround affected eye.

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Great weakness of memory with the irritability.
Dementia, with complete stupidity, sits silent and speechless in a corner.
Delirious mutterings, with burning heat of body.
Frightful imaginings.
Frightful visions of fire and of dead persons.
Hasty speech and hasty drinking.
Violent, fretful, passionate ; spoke with great volubility, would not listen to any remarks offered. θ Mind affection.
On awaking, rushed home with frightful gestures, threatened to murder wife and children, attempted to set house on fire, and was with difficulty controlled ; after being received in an asylum, sat in corner of room silent and motionless ; urine and feces passed
involuntarily ; whole surface of body covered with scabious eruption ; restless at night. θ Scabies.
Malicious mood ; feels as if he could murder some one with pleasure.
Repulsive mood, with desire to be left alone.
Child does not incline to play or to amuse itself in any way ; does not laugh.
Depressed or irritable mood.
Sad mood for hours ; must cry vehemently.
Low spirited, even to thoughts of suicide.
Great anxiety in the evening.
Melancholy humor, cries bitterly ; unreasonably anxious.
Impelled by unaccountable attacks of internal anguish, which sometimes come on quite suddenly, to attempt suicide.
Violent fright on slumbering.
The slightest cause irritates him and makes him extremely vehement.
Violent, passionate fretfulness ; she spoke with such volubility that one could not always get a chance to reason with her, and she would not listen to the most just remarks. θ Affection
of mind.
Hypochondriasis.
Temper obstinate and cross, a ferocious spleen which would lead to cold blooded murder even among those habitually gay and benevolent.
Wrathful irritability, even to most extreme violence, threatening to end in murder and arson.
Extreme discontent, indisposition to everything.
Peevish ; angry at least trifle.

Vertigo : mornings ; when closing eyes, at siesta ; evening, with nausea ; when riding in a carriage ; during dinner, after belching, with blackness before eyes, when shaking head.
Short attacks of stupidity, vertigo, dulness of mind and want of memory.
Forepart of head feels stupefied and heavy.
Fainty giddiness when riding in a carriage or when shaking head, with headache and obscuration of sight.
Fainting from slightest pains ; evenings.

Aching in forehead : as if bruised ; like a boil ; from midnight till morning.
Burrowing headache in frontal region as if an abscess were forming.
Violent headache, at night, as if forehead would be torn out, with general heat, without thirst.
Headache with a feeling as if eyes would be drawn back into head.
Tensive, aching pain above nose.
Headache over eyes pressing down upon eyes.
Pressure and drawing in temples by day.
Painful throbbing in right temple.
Aching in vertex, with palpitation of heart, in evening.
Stitches in head, when stooping ; sensation as if skull would burst, waking him at night.
Sticking headache.
Hammering sensation in head.
Burrowing, sharp headache, neuralgic in character.
Boring headache : at root of nose, every morning ; in right temple, from without inwards ; < from motion or stooping.
Pressure in head, semi-lateral, as from a plug or dull nail, at night, and when waking in morning ; < when moving eyes and on stooping ; > when rising and from binding head up tight.
Constant pressive pain in one-half of brain, as from a plug or nail.
Wabbling as of water in brain.
Sense of swashing in head.
Headache when shaking head.
Headache > by tying something tightly around head.
Dull headache every morning in bed, > after rising.
Morning headache, < from every concussion.
Lancinating headache, > when walking in open air.
Headache from abuse of mercury.
Traumatic cerebritis, in infants and children, with spasms.
Pulse-like stitches in lower portion of occiput.
Pressive pain externally right of occiput, gradually extending to nape, throat and shoulder blades.
Severe stitches in occiput and both temples, as if plug or nail were being driven in.

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The Hepar patient is chilly. He is sensitive to the cold and wants an unusual amount of clothing when in cold air. He wants the sleeping room very warm and can endure much heat in the room, many degrees warmer than a healthy person ordinarily desires, He has no endurance in the cold and all his complaints are made worse in the cold. If he becomes cold in sleep his complaints come on or if he is out in the cold, dry wind, complaints come on; inflammatory and rheumatic complaints appear.

The exposure of hand or foot at night in bed brings on symptoms. He wants the covers drawn close about the neck when in bed. This patient is also oversensitive to impressions, to surroundings and to pain. What with an ordinary person would only be an ache or disagreeable sensation becomes with Hepar an intense suffering.

But the pains of Hepar may be very severe, very sharp. Inflamed spots, eruptions, boils or suppurations are full of sharp pains. This is so intense that it is described at times, as a sticking and jagging like sharp sticks.

The pains in ulcers are often felt like sticks; intense and sharp as if sticks were jagging the ulcer. This sensation is often expressed by the patient suffering from sore throat. Lip feels as if he had swallowed a fish bone, or stick. This is in keeping with the general character, because it is present everywhere, in inflammations, ulcers, pustules, boils and eruptions; all seem to have sticks in them or some thing jagging.

Eruptions are sensitive, to touch. This accords with the oversensitiveness of the nerves found everywhere. The Hepar patient faints with pain, even from slight pain.

This remedy belongs to patients that are called delicate, that are oversensitive to impressions. The mind takes part in this oversensitiveness and manifests itself by a state of extreme irritability.

Every little thing that disturbs the patient makes him intensely angry, abusive and impulsive. The impulses will overwhelm him and make him wish to kill his best friend in an instant. Impulses also that are without cause sometimes crop out in Hepar.

A man may have a sudden impulse to stab his friend. A barber has an impulse to cut the throat of his patron while in the chair. Mothers may have an impulse to throw the child into the fire or an impulse to set herself on fire; an impulse to do violence and to destroy. These symptoms increase to insanity and then the impulses are often carried out. It becomes a mania to set fire to things.

The patient is quarrelsome, hard to get along with; nothing pleases; everybody disturbs oversensitiveness to persons, to people and to places.

He desires a constant change of persons and things and surroundings and each new surrounding or person or thing again displeases and makes him irritated. With this irritability of temper and physical irritability there is a tendency to suppuration in parts. Localized inflammations incline to suppurate, especially in glands and cellular tissue do we have suppuration and ulcers.

The glands of the neck, axilla and groin and the mammary glands swell, become hard and suppurate. First the hard swellings with the feeling as if they had sticks jagging in them, then it becomes highly inflamed and red over the part and ultimately it suppurates, discharges and heals slowly.

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For torpid, lymphatic constitutions; persons with light hair and complexion, slow to act, muscles soft and flabby.

Like Sulphur, Hepar is adapted to the psoric, scrofulous diathesis.

In Sulphur the skin affections are dry, itching and not sensitive to touch, in fact, > by scratching and rubbing; while in Hepar the skin is unhealthy, suppurating, even slight injuries cause suppuration; extremely sensitive to touch, the pain often causing fainting.

Diseases where suppuration seems inevitable; where the system has been injured by the abuse of Mercury.

Patient is peevish; angry at the least trifle; hypochondriacal; unreasonably anxious; oversensitive, physically and mentally; the slightest cause irritates; quick, hasty speech and hasty drinking.

Extremely sensitive to cold air, imagines he can feel the air if a door is opened in the next room; must be wrapped up to the face even in hot weather (Psor.); cannot bear to be uncovered (Nux—cannot bear to be covered, Camp., Sec.); takes cold from slightest exposure to fresh air (Tub.).

Urine: flow impeded; voided slowly, without force, drops vertically; is obliged to wait awhile before it passes; bladder weak, is unable to finish, seems as if some urine always remains (Alum., Sil.).

Cough: when any part of the body is uncovered (Rhus); croupy, choking, strangling; from exposure to dry west wind, the land wind (Acon.).

Croup: after exposure to dry cold wind (Acon.); deep, rough, barking cough, with hoarseness and rattling of mucus; < cold air, cold drinks, before midnight or toward morning.

Sensation of a splinter, fish bone or plug in the throat (Arg. n., Nit. ac.); quinsy, when suppuration threatens; chronic hypertrophy, with hardness of hearing (Bar., Lyc., Plumb., Psor.).

Ulcers, herpes, surrounded by little pimples or pustules and spread by coalescing.

Middle of lower lip cracked (Amm. c., Nat.—cracks in commissures, Cund.).

Diarrhœa: of children with sour smell (Cal., Mag. c.—child and stool have a sour smell, Rheum); clay-colored stool (Cal., Pod.).

Eyeballs: sore to touch; pain as if they would be drawn back into head (Olean., Paris).

Lying on painful side (Kali c., Iod.); cold air; uncovering; eating or drinking cold things; touching affected parts; abuse of Mercury.

Warmth in general (Ars.); wrapping up warmly, especially the head (Psor., Sil.); in damp, wet weather (Caust., Nux,—rev. of Nat. s.).

Simple. Quotidian. Period the same every day.

Morning at 2, 6 or 7 o'clock. The evening paroxysm, like Graph., Lyc., Puls. and Rhus, is most severe. 6 or 7 P. M.—4, 5, 6, 7 or 8 P. M.

Fever, without chill, 4 P. M., lasting all night. Morning fever preceded by bitter taste in mouth, returning twice a day.

Itching, stinging, nettle-rash. Bitter taste in the mouth, for hours before chill.

Without thirst. Great chilliness in open air; must get to warm stove; heat feels agreeable but does not relieve (must get to warm stove as soon as chill begins, Bov.—must get to warm stove, and lie down, Lach.). Great sensitiveness to open air with chilliness (excessively sensitive to open air, Camph.—chill < by least draft of air, Bar.). Violent chill every morning, at 6 or 7 o'clock, without subsequent heat (without subsequent heat or sweat, Bov.). Violent chill, with chattering of the teeth, lasting a quarter of an hour, with coldness of the hands and feet, followed by heat with sweat, especially on the chest and forehead, and slight thirst. Violent shaking chill with chattering of the teeth, icy coldness and paleness of the face, hands and feet, unconsciousness and coma (Bell., Op.). Febrile chill, from 4 to 8 P. M., or in the night, could not get warm, with < of all complaints (Ars.); with-out subsequent heat. Chill at 2 A. M., with febrile shivering and hot, dry skin. Nettle-rash with violent itching and sting-ing, disappears as heat begins (nettle-rash appears as the chill is passing off, Apis—during sweat, Rhus—during heat, Ign.).

With thirst. Burning, febrile heat, with almost un-quenchable thirst, distressing headache and slight delirium, lasting from 4 P. M. all night, without chilliness. Larynx much affected, hoarse, weak voice. Heat light in comparison with the chill, though he was obliged to uncover himself (Puls.). Dry heat of body at night, with sweaty hands which cannot tolerate being uncovered (Bar.). Febrile paroxysm during the day, chilliness alternating with heat, with photophobia. Violent fever, with flushing heat in the face and head. Fever blisters around the mouth (Ign., Nat., Nux, Rhus).

With flushes of heat. Sweats profusely day and night without relief. Perspires easily on every motion, however slight, mental exertion, even on writing a few lines (Psor., Sep.); or, at first, no sweat at all, then sweats profusely. Profuse, sour-smelling sweat at night, which is often clammy (Lyc.). Sweat of perineum, groins, and inside of thighs (sweat most profuse on the genitalia, Gels.). Constant offensive exhalations from the body. Sometimes thirst with night-sweat. After sweat, burning redness of face with heat and dryness of palms of hands.

Tip painful and sore; back of tongue coated like dry clay (Cal. s.). Taste: bitter; putrid; metallic; of rotten eggs. Offensive odor from the mouth, which he notices (which he does not notice, Puls.). Longing for acids, strong-tasting things. Aversion to fat. Stomach out of order.

Characteristic: Never clear. Constitutional symptoms always present, and always guiding. Unhealthy skin, with itching, apt to be developed by the fever.

"Intermittent fever; first chills, then thirst, and an hour later, much heat with interrupted sleep. Violent chill at 8 P. M. with chattering of teeth; hands and feet cold; followed by heat with perspiration, especially on the chest and forehead, with slight thirst."—LIPPE.

Sensitive to open air.

Nettle-rash with the chill.

Hydroa around the mouth.

Sweat; profuse, offensive, sour; easy, on every motion; day and night.

Without relief; from mental exertion, even writing a few lines.

Great weakness of memory, with the irritability.
Sad mood for hours; must cry vehemently.
Low-spirited, even to thoughts of suicide.
Great anxiety in the evening.
Hypochondriacal.
Oversensitiveness and irritability, with quick, hasty speech.

Vertigo: mornings; when closing the eyes, at siesta; evening, with nausea; when riding in a carriage; when shaking the head.
Fainting from the slightest pains, evenings.

Boring headache: at the root of the nose, every morning; in right temple, from without inwards; worse from motion or stooping.
Semi-lateral pressure in the head, as from a plug or dull nail, at night or when waking in the morning; worse when moving the eyes and when stooping.
Aching in the forehead, from midnight till morning.
Lancinating headache, better when walking in open air.
Headache when shaking the head.
Sense of swashing in the head.
Morning headache, worse from every concussion.

Burning-itching on scalp, from forehead to occiput.
Sensitiveness of the scalp to touch, with burning and itching in the morning after rising, after abuse of mercury.
Disposed to take cold, from uncovering the head.
Humid eruptions feeling sore; of fetid odor; itching violent on rising in morning; burning and feeling sore on scratching; scabs easily torn off, leaving a raw, bleeding surface.
Boils on the head and neck, very sore on contact.
Nodosities on the head, sore to touch, relieved by covering the head warmly, and from sweat.
Falling off of the hair, with very sore, painful pimples, and large bald spots on the scalp.
Head bent backward, with swelling below the larynx; violent pulsation of the carotids, rattling breathing.

Shunning the light.
Eyes ache from bright daylight, when moving them.
Objects appear to be red.
Sight becomes dim when reading.
Ulcers on the cornea.
Pressure in the eyes as from sand.
Eyes are protruded. θ Croup.
Pressing pain in the eyeballs, feels bruised when touched.
Stitches in the eyes.
Inflammation of the eyes and lids; sore to the touch; lachrymation.
Little pimples surround the inflamed eyes.

Whizzing and throbbing in the ears, with hardness of hearing; cracking in the ear when blowing the nose.
Darting pain in the ears.
Increase of ear-wax.
Discharge of fetid pus from the ears.
Itching of outer ear.
Scurfs on and behind the ears.

Sense of smell acute also with the vertigo.
Nosebleed. θ After singing.
Coryza with inflammatory swelling of the nose, painful as from a boil; also with cough.
Sore pain on the dorsum of nose, when touching it.
Itching in the nose.

Yellow color of face, with blue rings around the eyes.
Heat and redness of the face.
Erysipelatous swelling of the cheeks in the morning.
Bones of face painful to touch.
Boils very painful to touch.
Eruption scurfy, and very painful to touch.

Itching around the mouth.
Boils on the lips and chin, very painful to touch.
Sore and smarting pimple on the vermilion border of upper lip.
Middle of lower lip cracked.
Eruption with sensation of heat in the corners of mouth.
Ulcers at the corner of the mouth.
Itching pimples on the chin.

Gums and mouth very painful to touch bleed easily.
Toothache, worse in warm room; when biting teeth together.
Looseness of the teeth.
Hollow teeth, feel to long and painful.

Taste: putrid; metallic; bitter.
Hasty speech.
Tip of tongue very painful, and feels sore.

Ulcers on gums and in mouth, base resembling lard.

Scraping in the throat when swallowing.
Hawking up of mucus.
Swelling of the tonsils and glands of the neck.
Scraping sore throat, impeding speech, but not swallowing.
Dryness of the throat.
Stitches in throat, extending to ear, worse when swallowing food.
Sensation as if fish bone or splinter were sticking in throat.

Longing: for acids; wine; sour and strong-tasting things.
Unusual hunger in the forenoon.
Much thirst.
Aversion to fat.

Heaviness and pressure in the stomach, after moderate eating.

Eructations frequent, odorless and tasteless.
Constant sensation of water rising in the œsophagus, as if she had eaten sour things.
Heart-burn.
Frequent but momentary attacks of nausea.
Attacks of nausea, with coldness and paleness.
Inclination to vomit, with flow of saliva from the mouth.
Vomiting every morning.

Stomach frequently and easily disordered.
Pressure in the stomach, after moderate eating.
Swelling and pressure in the region of the stomach.
Distention of pit of stomach, has to loosen the clothing.
Burning in the stomach.

Stitches: in region of liver; in region of spleen, when walking.

Contractive pain in the abdomen.
Fermentation above the navel, with eructation of hot air.
Colic, with dry, rough cough.
Rumbling in the abdomen cough.
Swelling and suppuration of the inguinal glands.

Constipation: stools hard and dry; especially with eruption in bend of elbows, or in popliteal space.
Feces not hard, but expelled with difficulty.
Diarrhœic stools: white and fetid, child has a sour smell; sour-smelling and whitish; clay-colored; green, slimy, of sour smell; with tenesmus.
Diarrhœa: worse during the day; after eating, and after drinking cold water.
Dysenteric stools; difficult evacuations of soft stool or bloody mucus with tenesmus.
Burning in the rectum.
Protrusion of hemorrhoids.
Hemorrhage from the rectum, with soft stool.
Sweat on the perineum.

Dark, red and hot; bloody; sharp, burning, corroding the prepuce.
Urine passed tardily and without force, feels as if bladder could not be emptied thoroughly.
Burning in the urethra, during micturition.
Great soreness in the urethra, during micturition.
Inflammation and redness of the orifice of the urethra.
Wetting the bed at night.

Sexual desire increased, erections feeble.
Discharge of prostatic fluid, after micturition and during hard stool, also independent of either.
Itching on the penis, and at the frænum preputii.
Chancre-like ulcers on the prepuce.
Mercurialized chancres.
Secondary syphilis.

Congestion of blood to the uterus.
Menorrhagia, in women with chapped skin and rhagades of the hands and feet.
Discharge of blood with the menses.
Metritis, with burning, throbbing pains.
Uterine ulcers with bloody suppuration, smelling like old cheese; edge of ulcer sensitive, frequently a pulsating sensation in the ulcers.
Much itching, or little pimples around the ulcer.
Leucorrhœa, with smarting of vulva.

Frequent momentary attacks of nausea.
Mammæ swollen, not sensitive to touch, but she cannot walk up or down stairs.
Cancer of the breast, with stinging, burning of the edges; smells like old cheese.
Little pimples, or smooth ulcers, surround the scirrhus, or principal ulceration.

Hoarseness, roughness in the throat.
Sensitiveness of larynx to cold air.
Wheezing in the larynx, and painfulness of a small spot in the larynx.
Croup: with deep, rough, barking cough, hoarseness or aphony, with slight suffocating spasms; some rattling of mucus, after dry, cold wind; with swelling below the larynx; with great sensitiveness to cold air or water; cough worse before midnight, or toward morning.

Rattling; anxious, wheezing; frequent deep breaths, like after running; anxious, short, wheezing, threatening to suffocate, must bend the head back and sit up.

Croupish, hoarse; dry; loose and choking; with bloody expectoration; excites vomiting; whooping, croupish sound, pain in larynx, choking from mucus in larynx, worse in morning.
Cough cause by: limb getting cold; eating or drinking anything cold; anything cold; cold air; lying in bed; talking; crying; drinking.
After cough: sneezing; crying.

Sensation as of drops of hot water, in left chest.
Soreness in the chest.
Weakness of the chest; cannot talk from weakness.
Spasmodic constriction of the chest, after talking.
Tenacious mucus in the chest.

Palpation of the heart, with fine stitches in the heart and left half of the chest.
Pulse hard, full, accelerated; at times intermitting.

Violent pulsation of the carotids.
Drawing between the scapulæ.
Sensation as if bruised, in small of back and thighs.
Stitches and rheumatic pains in the back.

Suppuration of the axillary glands.
Offensive sweat in the axilla.
Tearing in arms, extending toward the suppuration in breast.
Pain as if bruised in the os humeri.
Encysted tumor at the point of the elbow.
Itching in the palms.
Itching, rough, dry, scaling skin of the hands.
Fingers as if dead.
Tingling in the tips of fingers.
Panaritium.

Left hip pains as if sprained, when walking in the open air.
Buttocks and posterior thighs painful, when sitting.
Bruised pains in muscles of anterior thighs.
Swelling of the knee.
Knee pains as if bruised.
Cramps in the calves in soles and toes.
Swelling of feet around the ankles, with difficult breathing.
Pricking in both heels.
Tingling in the toes.
Burning, stinging pains on the toes.
Cracked skin of the feet.
Coldness of the feet.

Drawing pains in the limbs, especially in the morning, when awaking.
Weakness in the limbs; they feel bruised.

Motion: 3, 40. Moving eyes: 3, 5. Shaking the head: 3. Walking: 18; in open air: 3, 33; up or down stairs: 24. Sitting: 33; with head bent back: 26. Stooping: 3. Lying in bed: 27, 43.

Trembling weakness, after tobacco smoking.
Fainting from slight pains.
Spasms after injury, as of pressure on the head; trismus of the newborn: 48.

Sleepiness during the day, worse toward evening; with frequent, almost spasmodic yawning.
Excess of thoughts prevent sleep, after midnight.
Violent starts, when falling asleep.
Start from sleep, feeling as if about to suffocate.
Wakes at night, with erection and desire to urinate.
Dreams: anxious; of fire.

Morning: 2, 3, 4, 8, 16, 27, 34, 40. Forenoon: 14. Toward evening: 37. Evening: 1, 2, 40. Night: 3, 21, 40. Before midnight: 25. After midnight: 25, 37. Midnight till morning: 3. Day: 20, 37, 40. Day and night: 40.

Warm room: 10. Covering head warmly: 4. Uncovered head: 4. Open air: 40. Cold air: 25, 27. Dry cold winds: 25.

Chill during the day, alternating with heat and photophobia.
Chill about 6 or 7 P.M.
Nightly chill in bed, with aggravation of all complaints.
Chill, then thirst; one hour later, much heat, with interrupted sleep.
Great chilliness in the open air.
Dry, burning heat, with redness of the face and violent thirst, all night.
Flushes of heat, with sweat.
Sweats day and night, without relief; or first can't sweat at all, and then sweats profusely; easily by even slight motion.
Night or morning sweat, thirst.
Cold, clammy, frequently sour, or offensive-smelling sweat.

Right: 3. Left: 28, 29, 33. Without inward: 3.

Painful sore feeling on the side on which he lies, at night; must change position.

Caries.
Glands inflame, swell and suppurate.
Rheumatic swelling, with heat, redness and sensation, as if sprained.
Hard, burning nodosities.

Touch: 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 24, 46. Pressure: 10. Scratching: 46. Concussion: 3.

Yellowness of the skin.
Burning-itching on the body, with white vesicles, after scratching.
Humid soreness on the genitals, scrotum, and the folds between the scrotum and the thigh.
Eruptions very sensitive, sore to touch.
Miliary rash in circles.
Itching rash in bends of knees and elbows.
Nettle-rash.
Dry, pimply eruptions.
Eczema, spreading by means of new pimples appearing just beyond the old parts.
Unhealthy skin; slight injuries suppurate.
Ulcers: discharge bloody pus, smelling like old cheese; edges very sensitive, and have a pulsating sensation; discharge corroding.
Stinging, burning of edges of ulcers.

Hepar is frequently indicated after; Bellad., Laches., Silic., Spongia, Zincum, Arnic. (traumatic spasms).
After Hepar the frequently indicated: Bellad, Mercur., Nitr ac., Spongia, Silic.
Hepar s. c. antidotes: mercurial or other metallic preparations; also iodine, and particularly the iodide of potassium and cod liver oil.
Antidotes to Hepar s. c.: Acet. ac., Bellad., Chamom., Silic.

Calcium sulphide, prepared as directed by Hahnemann, is triturated for use.

A "tissue" drug of wide action. ▶ It simulates Mercury in its action on the glandular system, especially on the liver and kidneys, Sulphur in its action on the skin and mucous membrane of the intestinal tract, Calcarea in affecting the respiratory tract, and all of the foregoing in its general action on connective tissue. ▶ Extreme sensitiveness to a draught of air, easy perspiration, profuse secretions and suppurative tendencies are marked characteristics of the drug.

Mercury, Calcarea, Sulphur, Silicea, Nit. acid, Kali in general, Phos., Puls., Bry., Tell., etc.

Emaciation, with chill in back, red cheeks, sleeplessness, larynx affected, hoarse, weak voice, anxiety, apprehension and irritability, as in hectic fever. ▶ Inflammation of affected parts. ▶ Stretching. ▶ Painful throbbing here and there from slight wetting of body. ▶ Sensitiveness to open air, with chill and frequent nausea. ▶ Sensitiveness of nerves in various parts, as for example, in septum of nose. ▶ Nervous irritability, every physical or mental impression causes a kind of inward trembling. ▶ Weakness; in morning, and slumbering and late rising; in morning on waking, with palpitation; in morning in bed, with uneasiness of legs and stoppage of nose; in morning on rising after good sleep, with heaviness of body; in evening, with palpitation; after eating; on walking in open air, after eating, with stretching as before ague, on walking farther cold sweat and in evening in bed heat, which prevents sleep till 2 A.M.; with sleepiness; with bruised feeling in all limbs. ▶ Sudden faintness towards evening, with slight pain. ▶ Heaviness of body. ▶ Aggravation of pain at night; during nightly fever, especially during chill. ▶ Amelioration from frequent eructations and emissions of flatus.

Sometimes indicated in the marasmus of children who have diarrhœa, agg. in the daytime and after eating, with the peculiar sour odor to the sweat and stools. ▶ Cases requiring Hep. are, as a rule, extremely sensitive to external impressions, especially to the slightest cold; for example, it has removed the effects of malarial poisoning which have been maltreated with calomel and quinine from the simple indications of profuse and easy sweat, which is offensive, and of such extreme sensitiveness to air that the patient wears an overcoat in hot weather. ▶ Hep. is generally indicated by extreme sensitiveness of inflamed parts, as if they were about to suppurate. ▶ The pains of Hep. are almost universally splinter-like in character, even the neuralgia and toothaches are of this sort. ▶ It is indicated in threatening suppurations, with great soreness and sharp pains as if about to suppurate. ▶ General aggravation from cold dry winds.

Irrational talking. ▶ Ghostly image of one who was dead, in morning in bed when conscious, which frightened him, and it seemed as if he saw his neighbor's house burning, which also frightened him. ▶ Fright on slumbering, even after eating; F. concerning sickness in the family, agg. walking alone in open air. ▶ Anxiety at 10 P.M. after lying down, with uneasiness in whole body and painful jerking up of lower limbs; A. in evening, belief that he would die and sadness even to suicide. ▶ Sadness and bitter crying; S. and apprehension; S. from stretching out on sofa. ▶ Hypochondriac. ▶ Remembers everything which has been unpleasant during her life. ▶ Everything which has been unpleasant during her life. ▶ Everything of which she only thought was disagreeable. ▶ Violent about trifles, he could have killed some one. ▶ Irritable in morning after rising, he will not speak; I. about trifles; about his pains, and discouraged; I. and desirous to be alone; and obstinate; and impatient. ▶ Discontented with himself. ▶ Contrary, does not wish to see his own family. ▶ Desire for nothing.

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The characteristic features are, sensitiveness to open air, easy and profuse sweating.
Sharp, splinter-like pains and tendency to suppuration, or profuse secretions.

General stupidity; weak memory, depression of spirits.

Pain in one-half of the brain as from a nail or plug; headaches generally relieved by binding the head tightly.
Scalp sensitive.

General inflammation, with sharp, stinging pains.

Clinical:
Tendency to ulcerations of the cornea; purulent inflammations within the eye, especially hypopyon.
Conjunctival catarrh, with muco-purulent discharge.
Purulent inflammation of the lachrymal sac.

Inflammation of the nostrils, swelling and pain like a boil.
Discharge bloody, offensive.
The bones are sore to the touch.

Swelling of the upper lip.
Bones of the face painful to touch.

Toothache on opening the mouth and after cold drinks; sometimes worse in a warm room, and better in the open air, worse on biting.
Generally offensive odor from the mouth.
Swelling of the gum, painful when touched.
Aphthous patches on the inside of lips and cheeks and on the tongue.

A sensation as if a splinter were sticking in the throat on swallowing, sometimes extending towards the ear.
Scraping and rawness in the throat.
Constant hawking of mucus.
Tonsils inflamed and swollen, threaten to suppurate.

Desire for acids and wine.
Aversion to fat.
Great thirst.
Distention of the pit of the stomach.
Frequent eructations; sometimes fetid, sometimes hot, sour.
Vomiting, of bile, or of green acrid water, after much retching.
Gnawing as from acids.

Distended and tense.
Stitches in the hypochondria.
Swelling and suppuration of the inguinal glands.

Loss of power to expel even a soft stool.
Stool soft, clay-colored, sometimes with bloody mucus and tenesmus.

Bladder weak, urine flows very slowly; some seems to remain in the bladder.
Urine dark red, hot; acrid, burning; sometimes bloody.

Clinical:
Inflamed kidneys, especially after Mercury, with soreness in the region of the kidneys.
An oily film on the surface of the urine.

Clinical:
Venereal ulcers, with fetid discharge and stinging pains.
Herpes of the prepuce, which is sensitive and bleeds.
Abscess of the labiæ, with splinter-like pains.
Very foul leucorrhœa.

Speech very weak, voice lost.
Hoarseness, painless.
Cough hoarse, paroxysmal, < the slightest cold, caused by tickling in the upper part of the throat, left side, < talking and stooping.
Cough rough, scraping, suffocative, in the evening on going to sleep.
Dyspnœa.

Clinical:
Indicated in a late stage of croup, hoarseness, free secretion of mucus, difficult breathing.
Bronchitis; loose, rattling cough, aggravated by cold air; towards morning.
Chronic pneumonia, with threatening abscess.
Cough, aggravated by drinking.
A child cries after coughing.

Clinical:
Suppuration of the mammary glands.
Swelling and suppuration of the axillary glands.
Foul perspiration in the axillæ.

General stinging and drawing pains in the back and limbs.
Bruised pain in the small of the back extends into the thighs.
The skin of the hands and feet cracks.

Unhealthy; slight injuries suppurate.
Soreness and moisture in folds.
Ulcers bleed easily and have a foul odor.
Skin very sensitive to the slightest cold and to touch.
Burning itching, but after scratching white blisters form.

Sleepy all day, especially in the morning and evening, with spasmodic yawning.
Sleeplessness after midnight.
Frequent starting from sleep, as if he could not get his breath.

Chilliness in the open air, or from the slightest draft.
Chill at night, when the pains are much increased.
Dry heat at night.
Sweats at night.
Profuse sweat on the slightest motion; sour, sticky, offensive.

HEPAR SULPHURIS CALCAREUM.

A mixture of equal parts of finely powdered, clean oyster shells and quite pure flowers of sulphur is kept for ten minutes at a white heat in a hermetically closed crucible and afterwards stored up in a well-corked bottle. To develop its powers, it is treated like other dry drugs in order to potentize it to the higher degrees, according to the directions at the end of the first volume. Besides belladonna, chamomilla is an antidote to the colic and diarrhœa. Hepar sulphuris has proved itself particularly useful, when having been selected according to the similarity of symptoms, there were besides present one or more of the following symptoms : Boring headache in the root of the nose, every morning from seven to twelve o'clock ; ulcerative pain just above the eye every evening ; shooting pains in the eyes ; photophobia ; flow of fetid pus from the ear ; erysipelas in the face with prickling turgidity ; dryness of the throat ; scrapy sore throat, interfering with speaking, but not with deglutition ; a plug in the throat ; voracious hunger ; eructation ; fits of nausea, with coldness and paleness ; swelling and pressure in the gastric region ; frequent and too easy derangement of the stomach ; contractive pain in the abdomen ; stitches in the left side of the abdomen ; nocturnal passage of urine sleep ; flow of mucus from the urethra ; lack of sexual desire ; lack of erections ; weak erections during coitus ; emission of prostatic juice after micturition, during a hard stool and per se ; retarded menses ; leucorrhœa, with excoriation on the pudenda ; cough ; severe cough in the evening, when lying abed ; spasmodic contraction of the chest, after speaking ; cancerous ulcers on the chest, with shooting, burning pain on its edges and fetor as of old cheese ; tearing in the arm toward the ulcer in the chest ; drawing in the back between the scapulæ ; fetid sweat of the axillæ ; encysted tumor on the point of the elbow ; drying-off of the fingers ; drawing pain in the limbs, chiefly in the morning on awaking ; trembling weariness after smoking tobacco ; yawning ; tendency to perspire by day ; flying heat, with perspiration. The symptoms marked Fr. H. are from Dr. Friedrich Hahnemann ; those marked Stf., from Medical Counselor Dr. Stapf. [*].

[] A pathogenesis of Hepar sulphuris appeared in Vol. IV. of the Mat. Med. Pura, containing 282 symptoms from Hahnemann, and 16 from the two fellow-observers mentioned above. The additional ones in the present work are all from himself and belong to his later manner. -Hughes*.

Sad mood, for many hours ; she had to weep violently.

Very hypochondriac.

Dejected, sad and apprehensive.

Fearful anguish, in the evening, for two hours ; he thought he had to perish, and was sad even so that he could have committed suicide.

[5] Fears about the illness of his family, especially while walking in the open air.

Ill-humored, in the morning after rising, is unwilling to speak, but cheerful while in bed.

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Hep. / (1st H.) / Hebe.

Hepar,-Thine an inflammation,
In the suppurative stage.
All the parts affected tender,
Every nerve upon the edge.
In the brain one side, a pressing
Line therein a peg or nail.
And while crusts beset the eyelids,
Ulcer spects the balls assail.
From thy ears foul pus discharges,
Whilst a scurf is on them seen;
From the nose flows fetid mucus,
Yet the sense of smell is keen.
Bones of nose and face are tender,
Swollen is the upper lip,
Mouth replete with angry ulcers,
Teeth ache from cold water sip.
In thy throat is felt a feeling
Like a splinter, or a plug;
And thy tender stomach suffers,
When the clothes fit close and smug.
Apetite that craveth acids,
Abdomen distented tight;
Stools, though soft, of tardy passage,
Odor sour- color light.
Tardy start when passing urine,
Dribbling after flowing vent;
Urine burning-bloody-milky,
Having whitish sediment.
Weakness in the chest and hoarseness,
Cough induced when any part
Feels a touch of cold exposure,
Or from victuals cold will start.
Glands affected-swollen, tender,
Pain as from a bruise or boil;
Or as from a dislocation,
Fainting from a touch-recoil.
Skin unhealthy-scratches fester,
Ulcers tender, burn and bleed.
Humid tetter and eczema
Into pimple crops proceed.
Ever chilly-need of wrapping
When exposed to open air.
Sweating from the least exertion,
Smelling sour everywhere.
Chancres, and excoriations,
On the genitals behold;
Ulcerations, itching, burning,
With the scent of cheese, when old.
Worse at night, and in the morning,
During sleep, and in the cold,
Better during mid-day hours,
And in wrappings warming fold.

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Hebe,-Has suppuration.

Hebe Calen'-jo, seems to be sleeping.

This Hebe,-Who is subject to sour sweat,- Is absent with black Mag Rheu-jo, in the slums of Quebec.

Suppuration: Hep., Calend., Iod., Sul., Mer., Sil., Lach., Pho., etc. (To avert it, in abscess, Hep., Mer.)

Sour Sweat: Hep., Bry., Sil., Sep., Mag. c., Rheum, Iod., Sul., Lyc., Mer., Ipe., Bell.

Indicated in a wide range of diseases affecting the respiratory and intestinal mucous membrane, glandular system and skin, characterized by great sensitiveness to draught, easy perspiration and ready suppuration of the affected parts. In scrofulous affections, including those of the eye and ear; sore throat; tonsillitis on the point of suppuration; cough, including the late stages of bronchitis and pneumonia; suppurative affections of the skin, as felons; hip-joint disease with suppuration; bad-smelling eruptions, etc.

Great sensitiveness to cold air; takes cold easily; coughs from the slightest exposure; relapse from every exposure.

Croupy, strangling, violent, retching cough, excited by uncovering; often ends in vomiting.

Throat feels sore; as though a plug were in it; with desire to swallow.

Throat feels as though a sliver or fish-bone were in it, with stitching pain from ear to ear.

Raw, sore throat, worse from swallowing solid food.

Nose sore, ulcerated; smell like old cheese.

Sluggish action of the bowels; stools sour, white, clay-colored, fetid; though soft, they are passed slowly and with considerable effort.

Diarrhoea of children; child smells sour.

Skin unhealthy, covered with pustules; abscesses; very sensitive to slightest touch; skin sore as though bruised; suppuration from slightest injury.

Hands and feet crack and ulcerate easily; with burning, throbbing, gnawing pain. Warts become inflamed, with stitching pain in them.

Sluggish stream of urine; starts slowly; greasy pellicle on urine.

Longing for acids, wine, strong food.

Worse from cold, draught, touch of the affected parts, from lying on painful side.

Better from warmth, from damp weather; after eating.

Tearful mood and weeping. Extraordinary anguish in evening, driving him to self - destruction. Fearfulness and depression. Oversensitive and vehement with hasty speech.

When riding, or shaking head.

Bent back, with swelling below larynx, forcible beating of carotids and rattling breathing (in membranous croup). Pain, ass of a plug or dull nail driven into Pressure: In temples and on vertex, in evening, one sided, outward in forehead. Inward boring in right temple, side of head or root of nose. Sore pain in forehead, right over eyes. Sticking in.

Burning itching from front to back, less on sides when scratched, leaving bumps and a burning smarting eruption which is excessively sensitive to touch. Painless swellings and bumps on, and on nape, with smarting soreness when touched or lain upon (after severe illness, abuse of mercury or in hysterical headaches). Moist, foul, purulent eruption smarting painfully on whole head, itching violent early on rising, scratching causes burning and excoriation. Scalp sensitive. Nodes on. Profuse falling of hair, large bald spots on. Takes cold every time he uncovers head, especially during (dry.) cold east or north winds. Cold, clammy, sour sweat most on head and face with aversion to uncovering. Worse: Early, on awaking, touch, night, cold, least motion, moving eyes, stooping every jar. Better: After rising, tight bandaging, warmth, warm wraps, sweating.

Inflamed: Lids surrounded by an eruption which smarts when touched, and running tears. Bruised pain in. Pressure as from a foreign body in. Stiff. paining during motion. Protruding. Spasmodic closure of lids. Ulcers and spots on cornea. Photophobia. Surrounding objects appear red.

Ears.

Itching of external. Foul smelling purulent discharges from. Crusty eruption behind. Difficult hearing with rushing and throbbing in. Roaring in head.

Nose.

Inflammation of. Painful soreness, m especially of dorsum to touch. Intensified acuteness of smell. Unilateral coryza with scratching in the throat. Sneezing, (also after cough)

Heat and fiery redness of. Erysipelatous swelling of. Yellow, with blue rings around eyes. Pain in bones of, when touched. Thrusts in malar bone. Boils on lips, chin and neck, very painful to touch. Chronic facial eruptions, very sensitive to touch.

Drawing, jerking ache, worse in warm room. Swelling of gums, painful when touched.

Sensation as though' a plug or sharp splinter stuck therein, when swallowing. Roughness in. Scratching, when swallowing saliva. Hawking up mucus. Swollen tonsils and glands of neck. Hoarseness with rapid, hasty speech, as from over excitement.

Appetite, etc. Desire for sour, pungent things and wine. Repugnance to fat foods. much thirst. Nausea. Retching. Vomiting.

Distension of pit necessitates loosening clothes. Tickling in pit. Pressure, after little food. Burning in Hypochondria. - Stitches in region of spleen or liver. Inflammation of kidneys.

Spasmodic contraction of Bruised pain in, early in morning. l Cutting bellyache. Swelling and suppuration of inguinal glands.

Hard, dry. Dysenteric, difficult passage of scanty, soft feces or bloody mucus, with tenesmus. Whitish, sour smelling diarrhoea in children.

Dark red, hot, Acrid burning urine eroding the foreskin. Bloody Nocturnal enuresis in children.

Excoriation, also of thighs. Congestion to uterus. Discharge of prostatic fluid during hard stool, and after urination. Chancre like ulcers on foreskin.

Menses: Too early. Discharge of blood between menses.

Rattling, during sleep. Anxious, short, whistling right which threatens suffocation and necessitates raising up quickly or throwing head backward.

Deep, dull, whistling, c. excited by tickling as of feather down in larynx, dry in evening, in morning with expectoration of mucous lumps which are often purulent and bloody, mostly sour but sometimes sweet, if the latter, they are also offensive. Deep, asthmatic e. Attacks of dry, hoarse c. with retching and anxiety. Dry, in evening after chilling any part of body. With expectoration of blood. After every drink. Whooping cough. The child cries after coughing.

Membranous croup, with swelling below larynx. Sensitive to cold air. Pains in a spot within. Phthisis of, and of trachea. Rattling in trachea. Hoarseness.

Pustules and ulcers on, which are painfully sore when touched. Cancerous ulcers which are sensitive to touch, on female mamma. Swelling and suppuration of axillary glands. Fetid sweat in axilla. Shattering shocks and soreness in. Rattling in. Weakness in, which makes speaking difficult.

Sticking and drawing in. Bruised pain in lumbar region, extending into thighs.

Neck: Violent pulsation of carotids.

Bruised feeling of humeri. Hot, red swelling of wrist and finger joints. Numbness of fingers. Fissured skin of hands and feet.

Paralytic drawing pains in limbs. Stitches in joints. Fainting from slight pains in, evening. All symptoms tomes are intensified at night. Great sensitiveness of affected parts to touch.

Glands swollen and indurated and suppurating.

Bruised pain in caries.

Unhealthy. Burning itching in, followed by white vesicles after scratching. Erysipelatous inflammation of external pars. Suppurations, especially after previous inflammation. Eruptions and ulcers are painfully sore to touch. Burning and sticking in ulcers. Ulcers bleed easily.

Day sleepiness, especially early in morning and evening, with spasmodic yawning. Restless, soporous slumber, with head thrown back. Stars up from sleep at night, as though' he could get no air.

Pulse: Hard, full and accelerated, sometimes intermittent, with ebullition of blood and throbbing in blood vessels. Chill: Regularly each evening about six or seven o'clock. In daytime, alternating with heat and photophobia, Nightly in bed, with intensification of all symptoms. Great chilliness in open air. Heat: Dry, burning, with a red face and great thirst, thro' the whole night. Dry, at night with dreams of uncovering. Flying heat. with sweat. Sweat: Constant, copious by day and night. Very easy s. in daytime, especially from every mental effort. At night and in early morning with thirst. Cold, clammy, often sour or offensive smelling.

Allied Remedies: Am-c., ANT-C., Ap., Arg-n., ARS., BELL., Bros., Caust., CHAM, CUPR., Dros., Euphr., FERR., Ign., IOD., LACH., Lyc. MERC., Merc-c., Nit-ac., Rhus-t., Sep., SIL., SPOD., Sul., Thuj., ZINC.

Complementary: Iod., Sil.,

Drawing pains in the limbs.

Stitches in the joints.

Fainting in the evening from trifling pains.

Great sensitiveness of the affected parts to touch.

Rheumatic swelling with heat and redness and a sensation as if sprained.

Caries.

When handling the involved areas pain is felt as from subcutaneous ulceration.

Inflammation ending in suppuration.

Bad effects from the abuse of mercury.

Whooping cough.

Erysipelas.

Night aggravation, especially during the nightly chill.