Sulphur sulph.

CIRCULATION: VENOUS. Portal. Abdomen. NUTRITIVE ORGANS. MEMBRANES: Mucous. Serous. Rectum. Chest. SKIN; folds. VERTEX. SOLES. Joints. Glands.

SUPPRESSIONS. BATHING. Milk. HEATED: EXERTION. IN BED, by woolens, etc. Atmospheric changes. Speaking. Periodically: 11 A.M. Climacteric. Full moon (Cina. Sil.).

Open air. Motion. Warm applications. Sweating. Dry heat.

STOOPED, LANK, UNCURED, UNTIDY AND UNWASHED. Emaciation; with good appetite. Atrophy of children. Psora. Scrofula. Rheumatism. DEFICIENT REACTION; effusion; deposits; slow reabsorption. CHRONICITY. RED ORIFICES, or single parts; lips, tarsi, ears, etc. (Alo.). LOCAL THROBBING, BURNING OR CONGESTION; SOLES; VERTEX; bones; painful spots, etc. ITCHING; parts; discharges cause, etc. Foul, acrid or blood streaked discharges. Weak, faint spells. Empty, overful, rough or asleep feeling. ASCENDING EFFECTS; heats, orgasms, vertigo, etc.

Slow, lazy, hungry, and always tired. Hopeful dreamers; ecstatic, religious, philosophic, etc. Peevish, mean, prying or easily excited. Melancholic. Tired of life. Vertigo; in forehead. VERTEX, throbs, hot, heavy, sore, etc. Nape to vertex; pain, chills, pressure, etc. As of a band about or pain deep in brain. Sunday headache; preceded by photopsies. Hot head, with cold feet. Sweaty scalp. Dry, cold hair. Eyes; burn; cutting, as from sand; bursting in balls; quivering. Halo about light. As of floating soot before. Photophobia. Ophthalmia. Swashing in ears. Nose obstructed on alternate sides; drips; swelled; red, < cold. Catarrhal colds. Epistaxis, < night or lying on r.side. Sensitive smell. Imaginary odors. Swelled veins of forehead. OLD LOOK. Spotted face. Dry, tremulous tongue; red edges and tip. Sensitive dental fangs. Grinds teeth. Nursing sore mouth. Throat; as of a swelling or a vapor rising in; external redness. Eructations, like bad eggs, > eating. Drinks much, eats little. Averse to meat. SUDDENLY HUNGRY AND WEAK; < 11 A.M.; at epigastrium. ABDOMEN SORE, > pressure; heavy, as of a lump; stitches; bearing down, against rectum; congested. Borborygmi. Colicky babies. RECTUM pains; itches; urging in; hæmorrhoidal habitus. Holds stool back from pain. DIARRHŒA; HURRIED, EARLY MORNING (Tub.), changing; mushy; stinking; painless; watery; gray froth; < milk; alternating with constipation. Burning, itching urethra. Hurried or nightly urination. Bed wetting. Testes hang low. Cutting in uterus; < menses. Burning, itching, sore vulva; < sitting. Puerperal sepsis. Acrid, foul menses. SUFFOCATIVE AIR HUNGER. Irregular breathing. Cough; violent, in 2 or 3 incomplete bouts. Deep, hoarse voice; early. Chest; rattling and heat at 11 A.M.; as of a band about or a load on; red; brown spots on. Pain backward from l. nipple. Pneumonia. Heart seems too big. Palpitation, < lying. Nipples crack at base. Sharp burning in mammæ. Neck weak; boils on. Heavy shoulders. Aching between scapulæ. Lumbar pains; to stomach; walks bent; supports weight on hands, when sitting. Coccyx, pains during stools. Numb l. arm, < lying. Palms crack and peel; eczema on; warts on. Numb fingers (r). Tense hamstrings (l). Cramp in calf (l). SOLES BURN; STICKS FEET OUT OF BED, AT NIGHT or are cold in bed; dry. Jerks one limb, on dropping to sleep. SKIN; dry: rough, wrinkled, scaly; ITCHING, violently at night; BREAKS OUT; festers, and won't heal; burning, when scratched; painfully sensitive to air, wind, washing, etc. Eruptions alternate with other complaints, asthma, etc. Crops of boils. Itch. Creeping erysipelas. Rhagades. Eczema. Ulcers. Skin under-nourished. Suppuration with air bubbles. Localised congestions. Hot vertex and soles. Inclined to uncover single parts. Craves fresh air. Drowsy, then migraine. Sleeps in cat naps. Sleepy by day, wakeful at night. Sleep; unrefreshing; sings during. Chills up back. Heat; feels too hot; flushes of; with general throbbing; between scapulæ. Sweat; in axillæ; on hands or feet.

Antidotes: Merc. Pul. Sil. Complementary: Alo. Calc-c. Sul-io. Related: Psor. Sele. Syph.

Adapted to persons of a scrofulous diathesis, subject to venous congestion; especially of portal system. Persons of nervous temperament, quick motioned, quick tempered, plethoric, skin excessively sensitive to atmospheric changes (Hep., Kali c., Psor.). For lean, stoop-shouldered persons who walk and sit stooping; walk stooping like old men. Standing is the worst position for Sulphur patients; they cannot stand; every standing position is uncomfortable. Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections (Psor.). Aversion to being washed; always < after a bath. Too lazy to rouse himself; too unhappy to live. Children: cannot bear to be washed or bathed (in cold water, Ant. c.); emaciated, big-bellied; restless, hot, kick off the clothes at night (Hep., Sanic.); have worms, but the best selected remedy fails. When carefully selected remedies fail to produce a favorable effect, especially in acute diseases, it frequently serves to rouse the reactive powers of the system; clears up the case (in chronic diseases, Psor.). Scrofulous, psoric, chronic diseases that result from suppressed eruptions (Caust., Psor.). Complaints that are continually relapsing (menses, leucorrhoea, etc.); patient seems to get almost well when the disease returns again and again. Congestion to single parts; eyes, nose, chest, abdomen, ovaries, arms, legs, or any organ of the body marking the onset of tumors or malignant growths, especially at climacteric. Sensation of burning: on vertex; and smarting in eyes; in face, without redness; of vesicles in mouth; and dryness of throat, first right then left; in stomach; in rectum; in anus, and itching piles, and scalding urine; like fire in ripples (Ars.); in chest, rising to face; of skin of whole bloody, with hot flushes; in spots, between scapulae (Phos.). Sick headache every week or every two weeks; prostrating, weakening (Sang.); with hot vertex and cold feet. Constant heat on vertex; cold feet in daytime with burning soles at night, wants to find a cool place for them (Sang., Sanic.); puts them out of bed to cool off (Med.); cramps in calves and soles at night. Hot flushes during the day, with weak, faint spells passing off with a little moisture. Bright redness of lips as if the blood would burst through (Tub.). Weak, empty, gone or faint feeling in the stomach about 11 a. m. (10 or 11 a. m. > by eating, Nat. c.); cannot wait for lunch; frequent weak, faint spells during the day (compare, Zinc.). Diarrhoea: after midnight; painless; driving out of bed early in the morning (Aloe, Psor.); as if the bowels were too weak to retain their contents. Constipation: stools hard, knotty, dry as if burnt (Bry.); large, painful, child is afraid to have the stool on account of pain, or pain compels child to desist on first effort; alternating with diarrhoea. The discharge both of urine and faeces is painful to parts over which it passes; passes large quantities of colorless urine; parts round anus red, excoriated; all the orifices of the body are very red; all discharges acrid, excoriating whenever they touch. Menses: too early, profuse, protracted. Menorrhagia, has not been well since her last miscarriage. "A single dose at new moon." - Lippe. Boils: coming in crops in various parts of the body, or a single boil is succeeded by another as soon as first is healed (Tub.). Skin: itching, voluptuous; scratching >; "feels good to scratch;" scratching causes burning; < from heat of bed (Mer.); soreness in folds (Lyc.). Skin affections that have been treated by medicated soaps and washes; haemorrhoids, that have been treated with ointments. To facilitate absorption of serous or inflammatory exudates in brain, pleura, lungs, joints, when Bryonia, Kali mur. or the best selected remedy fails. Chronic alcoholism; dropsy and other ailments of drunkards; "they reform," but are continually relapsing (Psor., Tub.). Nightly suffocative attacks, wants the doors and windows open; becomes suddenly wide awake at night; drowsy in afternoon after sunset, wakefulness the whole night. Happy dreams, wakes up singing. Everything looks pretty which the patient takes a fancy to; even rags seem beautiful. Movement in abdomen as of a child (Croc., Thuja).

Complemenatary: Aloe, Psor. Ailments from the abuse of metals generally. Compatible: Calc., Lyc., Puls., Sars., Sep. Sulph., Calc., Lyc.; or Sulph., Sars., Sep. frequently follow in given order. Calcarea must not be used before Sulphur. Sulphur is the chronic of Aconite and follows it well in pneumonia and other acute diseases.

At rest; when standing; warmth in bed; washing, bathing, changeable weather (Rhus).

Dry, warm weather; lying on the right side (rev. of Stan.).

Peevishness; childish peevishness in grown people. Fantastic illusions of the intellect, especially if one turns everything into beauty, as an old rag or stick looks to be a beautiful piece of workmanship--everything looks pretty which the patient takes a fancy to. Happy dreams where one wakes up singing. Busy, all the time. Wishing to touch something, with inability to do so.

Bad effects from suppression of otorrhœa; hard hearing, especially if the ears are very dry; noises in the ears in general, particularly a humming.

Affections in general of the cornea; eyeball; sclerotica; pupils contracted; eyes water, itch and feel hot; halo around a lamp-light; aversion to light; cataract.

Blood comes from the nose on blowing it; imaginary foul smells all around.

Looseness of the bowels; redness about the anus; looseness in grown people, with soreness about the anus; obstructed evacuation, particularly if hard stools are retained. Diarrhœa, particularly where there is the red line about the anus, and the patient can't wait, must go immediately the desire is felt; also waking early in the morning with a diarrhœa, which drives one out of bed in a great hurry; tenesmus in the same way, drives one in a great hurry; rumbling and rolling in the bowels, Stool bloody; knotty; green mucus; stinking; insufficient; with maw worms; with tape-worm; complaints during stool. Much itching about the anus; bleeding hæmorrhoids; itching runs back along the perineum and adjacent parts.

Urine discharged by drops; incontinence of urine; lie awake for some time, then fall into a deep sleep in which they wet the bed. Itching about the genitals on going to bed at night.

Male: Affections of the genitals in general. Female: Menses too late; too short; too scanty; suppressed, particularly in psoric individuals; delay of first menses; nipples, particularly if they are cracked around the base, and may often bleed; the nipple smarts and burns very much as soon as the infant lets go of it.

Strong aversion to meat; sour taste; eructations, tasting of eggs; nausea and vomiting; vomiting of sour matter.

Oppressed respiration, particularly from congestion to the lungs; if with a sense of heat all through the chest. Cough in general with bloody expectoration, especially with heat in the chest; hæmorrhage with the same sensation. Affections in general of the heart and region of the heart; palpitation of the heart; also external chest; red spots all over the chest; also brownish or butternut-colored spots.

The greatest general psoric remedy for almost every kind of itch, ulcer, etc.; very colicky babies with pimples, itch or eruption on skin, or roughness of the skin. Troubles of very long standing resulting from suppressed eruptions--Sulphur will very often bring these out and cause their cure. Exanthema in general on any part of the body which is made worse by any heat, from getting warm at work, in bed, etc.; freckles; cancerous ulcers. Skin dry; rough; scaly; voluptuous itching--"feels so good to scratch"; ecchymosis; chapping of the skin, especially when it ulcerates; chapping of the skin after being wet; soreness of the skin in children; brown sphacelus. Tetters in general; chapped; scurfy; painful; tearing; pulsating, etc.

One wants to sleep late in the morning; sleepy all day; sleep not refreshing; sleepiness in the afternoon. Waking frequently during the night when one becomes wide awake suddenly. Dreams many; vivid; beautiful; pleasant. Singing during sleep.

Perspiration in general of single parts; on back part of the body; great disposition to perspire; perspiration, with anxiety; compound or intermittent fevers. Thirst.

Of heat in the chest; of heat anywhere, with any trouble; of sudden and frequent flushes of heat all over the body; of contraction of inner parts; creeping on the skin as of a mouse running over it; cutting pain in the inner parts; of fullness, or of heaviness in the inner parts, chiefly in the abdomen, with feeling as if it should be bandaged up or supported; of a hoop or band around the parts; buzzing or vibration in the body; of knocking or throbbing in the outer parts; as of a lump in the inner parts; of motion, as though something were moving in the inner parts; of roughness in inner parts; of tightness or stiffness in outer parts. Of sometimes being very small and then again very large.

Affections in general, of any kind appearing in the left side; hair of the head; external front of the head; inner belly, especially on left side; back; small of the back; axilla; lumbar region; upper extremities in general; posterior and inner surface of the thigh; lower extremity in general; of the nails.

Inflammation of the mucous membranes in general; swelling of the glands. Affections of the brain from suppressed cutaneous eruptions. Very often when rash in scarlet fever will not come out; cannot bear to be washed; face pale, or reddish-yellow; diminution of saliva; back is so stiff that one cannot rise from a stooping posture, and is always worse before a storm; bleeding from inner parts in general; dropsy of inner parts, particularly in psoric persons, or resulting from a suppressed eruption; dryness of inner parts which are usually moist; emaciation in general.

On waking; after eating; from exertion of the body, unable to stand much exercise; from leaning against anything; after menstruation; from taking milk; during perspiration; from suppressed perspiration; from wet poultices; from abuse of mercury; on rising, from any quick motion, as running; during sleep; after a long sleep; during stool; in children whose bowels are regular but who suffer great pain at every passage (when bowels are moved causing much pain, stools hard and lumpy, Nitr. ac.); on stretching the limbs, especially the affected limb; when swallowing food; from talking; from water and washing; ascarides; worms in general; from suppressed menstruation; from vomiting; on getting warm in bed.

From drawing up the affected limb--can't bear to have it extended.

Bellad., Bryon., Calc. carb., Lycop., Mercur., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia; sometimes, Phosphor.

China, Mercur, Pulsat., Sepia.

Black comedones on the face. Great thirst, little appetite. Empty, gone, faint feeling in stomach about 11 a.m. Diarrhoea some hours after midnight, or driven out of bed early in the morning. Both the flow of urine and discharge of feces are painful to the parts over which they pass. Burning in the vagina; is scarcely able to keep still. Attacks of suffocation, especially at night in bed wants doors and windows open. Weakness in chest in evening when lying down. Unsteady gait, tremor of hands. Standing in the most disagreeable position. Does not walk erect; stoops or bends in walking or sitting. Child dislikes to be washed or bathed. Heat in soles of feet, or cold feet and burning soles. wants to find a cool place for them, or puts them out of bed. Cramps in calves of legs, or soles of feet, principally at night Hot flashes, with spells of faintness, or passing off with a little moisture and faintness or debility. Voluptuous Itching and tingling, burning and soreness from scratching. Irresistible drowsiness in daytime, and wakefulness the whole night. As an intercurrent remedy, when carefully selected remedies fall to produce a favourable effect.

Sublimated Sulphur

This is great Hahnemannian anti-psoric. Its action is centrifugal-from within outward-having an elective affinity for the skin, where it produces heat and burning, with itching; made worse by heat of bed. Inertia and relaxation of fiber; hence feebleness of tone characterizes its symptoms. Ebullitions of heat, dislike of water, dry and hard hair and skin, red orifices, sinking feeling at stomach about 11 am, and cat-nap sleep; always indicate Sulphur homeopathically. Standing is the worst position for sulphur patients, it is always uncomfortable. Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections. Aversion to being washed. When carefully-selected remedies fail to act, especially in acute diseases, it frequently arouses the reactionary powers of the organism. Complaints that relapse. General offensive character of discharge and exhalations. Very red lips and face, flushing easily. Often great use in beginning the treatment of chronic cases and in finishing acute ones.

Very forgetful. Difficult thinking. Delusions; thinks rags beautiful things-that he is immensely wealthy. Busy all the time. Childish peevishness in grown people. Irritable. Affections vitiated; very selfish, no regard for others. Religious melancholy. Averse to business; loafs-too lazy to arouse himself. Imagining giving wrong things to people, causing their death. Sulphur subjects are nearly always irritable, depressed, thin and weak, even with good appetite.

Constant heat on top of head (Cup sulph; Graph). Heaviness and fullness, pressure in temples. Beating headache; worse, stooping, and with vertigo. Sick headache recurring periodically. Tinea capitis, dry form. Scalp dry, falling of hair; worse, washing. Itching; scratching causes burning.

Burning ulceration of margin of lids. Halo around lamp-light. Heat and burning in eyes (Ars; Bell). Black motes before eyes. First stage of ulceration of cornea. Chronic ophthalmia, with much burning and itching. Parenchymatous keratitis. Cornea like ground glass.

Whizzing in ears. Bad effects from the suppression of an otorrhœa. Oversensitive to odors. Deafness, preceded by exceedingly sensitive hearing; catarrhal deafness.

Herpes across the nose. Nose stuffed indoors. Imaginary foul smells. Alæ red and scabby. Chronic dry catarrh; dry scabs and readily bleeding. Polypus and adenoids.

Lips dry, bright red, burning. Bitter taste in morning. Jerks through teeth. Swelling of gums; throbbing pain. Tongue white, with red tip and borders.

Pressure as from a lump, as from splinter, as of a hair. Burning, redness and dryness. Ball seems to rise and close pharynx.

Complete loss of, or excessive appetite. Putrid eructation. Food tastes too salty. Drinks much, eats little. Milk disagrees. Great desire for sweets (Arg nit). Great acidity, sour eructation. Burning, painful, weight-like pressure. Very weak and faint about 11 am; must have something to eat. Nausea during gestation. Water fills the patient up.

Very sensitive to pressure; internal feeling of rawness and soreness. Movements as of something alive (Croc; Thuj). Pain and soreness over liver. Colic after drinking.

Itching and burning of anus; piles dependent upon abdominal plethora. Frequent, unsuccessful desire; hard, knotty, insufficient. Child afraid on account of pain. Redness around the anus, with itching. Morning diarrhœa, painless, drives out of bed, with prolapsus recti. Hæmorrhoids, oozing and belching.

Frequent micturition, especially at night. Enuresis, especially in scrofulous, untidy children. Burning in urethra during micturition, lasts long after. Mucus and pus in urine; parts sore over which it passes. Must hurry, sudden call to urinate. Great quantities of colorless urine.

Stitches in penis. Involuntary emissions. Itching of genitals when going to bed. Organs cold, relaxed and powerless.

Pudenda itches. Vagina burns. Much offensive perspiration. Menses too late, short, scanty, and difficult; thick, black, acrid, making parts sore. Menses preceded by headache or suddenly stopped. Leucorrhœa, burning, excoriating. Nipples cracked; smart and burn.

Oppression and burning sensation in chest. Difficult respiration; wants windows open. Aphonia. Heat, throughout chest. Red, brown spots all over chest. Loose cough; worse talking, morning, greenish, purulent, sweetish expectoration. Much rattling of mucus. Chest feels heavy; stitches, with heart feeling too large and palpitating pleuritic exudations. Use Tinctura sulphuris. Stitching pains shooting through to the back, worse lying on back or breathing deeply. Flushes of heat in chest rising to head. Oppression, as of a load on chest. Dyspnœa in middle of night, relieved by sitting up. Pulse more rapid in morning than in evening.

Drawing pain between shoulders. Stiffness of nape. Sensation as if vertebræ glided over each other.

Trembling of hands. Hot, sweaty hands. Rheumatic pain in left shoulder. Heaviness; paretic feeling. Rheumatic gout, with itching. Burning in soles and hands at night. Sweat in armpits, smelling like garlic. Drawing and tearing in arms and hands. Stiffness of knees and ankles. Cannot walk erect; stoop-shouldered. Ganglion.

Talks, jerks, and twitches during sleep. Vivid dreams. Wakes up singing. Wakes frequently, and becomes wide awake suddenly. Catnaps; slightest noise awakens. Cannot sleep between 2 and 5 am.

Frequent flashes of heat. Violent ebullitions of heat throughout entire body. Dry skin and great thirst. Night sweat, on nape and occiput. Perspiration of single parts. Disgusting sweats. Remittent type.

Dry, scaly, unhealthy; every little injury suppurates. Freckles. Itching, burning; worse scratching and washing. Pimply eruption, pustules, rhagades, hang-nails. Excoriation, especially in folds (Lyc). Feeling of a band around bones. Skin affections after local medication. Pruritus, especially from warmth, is evening, often recurs in spring-time, in damp weather.

Worse, at rest, when standing, warmth in bed, washing, bathing, in morning, 11 am, night, from alcoholic stimulants, periodically. Better, dry, warm weather, lying on right side, from drawing up affected limbs.

Complementary: Aloe; Psorin; Acon; Pyrarara (a fish caught in the Amazon, clinically used for various skin affections). Lepra, tuberculides, syphilides, varicosities, etc.

Compare: Acon (Sulph often follows in acute diseases); Mercur and calcarea are frequently useful after Sulphur, not before. Lyc; Sep; Sars; Puls; Sulphur hydrogenisatum (delirium, mania, asphyxia); Sulphur terebinthinatum (chronic rheumatic arthritis; chorea); Tannic acid (Nasal hæmorrhage; elongated uvula; gargle; constipation). Magnes artificialis (great hunger in evening, profuse sweat on face, bruised pain in joints, rectal constriction after stool).

Magnetis polus Articus (anxious, coldness of eyes as if a piece of ice lay in orbit, increased flow of saliva, constipation, sopor, trembling, abdominal flatulence).

Magnetis polus Australis (dryness of lids, easy dislocation of ankle, ingrowing toe-nails, aching in patella, shooting in soles).

Compare in adenoids: Agraphis.

Acts in all potencies from the lowest to the highest. Some of the best results are obtained from the higher, and not too frequent doses. The twelfth potency is a good one to begin treatment with, going higher or lower according to the susceptibility of the patient. In chronic diseases, 200th and upward. In torpid eruptions the lowest potencies.

Hahnemann's king of anti-psorics; combating all psoric manifestations, as described in Hahnemann's chronic diseases.

Itching eruptions on the skin everywhere; scratching is followed by burning.

Burning everywhere, general and local, especially feet; has to stick them out of bed to cool them.

Redness of all orifices, as if pressed full of blood (lips, ears, nostrils, eyelids, anus, urethra, etc.).

Exudations into serous sacs following acute inflammations.

Weak, faint, after hot flashes, followed by sweat, especially at 11 A. M.

I now come to an attempt to give some idea of the curative sphere of Hahnemann's king of anti-psorics. I do not in this place feel it incumbent upon me to enter into a defense of Hahnemann's psora theory against those who discard it because they do not understand it. With those who do understand and profit by it there is no need of such defense. The truth stands confirmed (with those who have put to the test Hahnemann's rules for the use of Sulphur) that it has power to meet and overcome certain obstacles to the usual action of drugs when indicated by the symptoms, or least seemingly so. That is the reason why the indication as laid down in the books reads: "When seemingly indicated drugs do not cure, use Suphur," because psora is the obstacle to be overcome. If you now ask me, what is psora? I answer in true Yankee style, what is scrofula? Perhaps psora is scrofula, or scrofula is psora. Call it either or neither. Yet it is present, a something named or unnamed which must be recognized and complicates so-called acute diseases. Now there is nothing so very remarkable about this. Syphilis does the same. Once contacted or inherited no matter what ordinary acute disease appears, we are at times obliged to turn aside from its treatment to give a quietus to the old enemy before we can overcome the acute affection. So it is with Sulphur and psora. The orizing and philosphizing, no matter how wise they sound, must go down when facts oppose them. (See case of gastralgia under Arsenicum and neuralgia under Causticum).

Now upon this symptom -"When carefully selected remedies fail to act favorably, etc.," as we said when writing of a certain group under Nux vomica -this is putting it in too wholesale a fashion. Let no one understand that Sulphur is the only remedy capable of removing psoric complications, but simply that Sulphur will be likely to be oftener indicated here, because it oftener covers the usual manifestations of psora in its pathogenesis than any other remedy. There are anti-psorics, like Psorinum, Causticum, Graphites, etc., which may have to be used instead of Sulphur. And we know which one by the same law which guides us in the selection of the right remedy any time. Another thing must not be forgotten. All the anti-psoric remedies have their own individual sphere of action outside their anti-psoric powers; and often a close study of the case in hand, where other remedies have failed, as we had supposed, on account of psora, will reveal that the anti-psoric remedy was the true simillimum from the start, independent of any psoric element.

To undertake to go over the whole range of action of Sulphur would be simply to give its whole symptomatology. That is riot the object of these notes, but we can notice only the red line indications which lead the careful prescriber to its further study in the Materia Medica.

One of the chief characteristics of this remedy is found under the head or rubric of sensation, viz., that of Burning. Burning on vertex (outer and inner head); burning in eyes, painful smarting; burning water from nose; burning in face without redness; burning pain in tongue; burning vesicles in mouth; sore throat with great burning and dryness, first right, then left; burning in stomach; burning and pressure in rectum; burning and itching in hæmorrhoids; burning in anus; burning in urethra; burning in vagina, scarcely able to keep still; nipples burn like fire; burning in chest, rising to face; burning between scapulæ (Phos. and Lycop.); burning of hands; burning of feet; puts them out of bed to cool them; hot flushes and burning all over; burning skin of whole body; itching eruptions burn after scratching.

After reading such a list of burning in the cured and characteristic symptoms of Sulphur one does not wonder that hell is represented as being heated by this substance, for it seems by its pathogenesis as though it were eternally burning. Arsenicum album, Phosphorus and Sulphur lead the list in our Materia Medica for burners. These burning sensations are found in both acute and chronic diseases. Of course there are several other remedies that have this symptom in an intense degrees and must be chosen if the other symptoms come in to complete the picture of similarity. Among these of first importance may be named Aconite, Agaricus, Apis, Belladonna, Cantharis, Capsicum, Carbo animalis and Phosphoric acid. I think Arsenicum leads in all acute diseases, while Sulphur leads in chronic affections We, as homœopathists, do not yet fully appreciate the value of sensations.

The action of Sulphur upon the circulation is to cause and cure local congestions and a chronic tendency thereto. In other words, it seems to have the power of equalizing the circulation in persons subject to such local congestions and inflammations. These, either acute or chronic congestions, may manifest themselves in boils, swellings, felons, abdominal or portal congestions and inflammations, and here it is especially indicated if caused by suppressed hæmorrhoids; congestions to the head may result from the same cause; the chest becomes congested, when there is great difficulty of breathing; feels so oppressed that he wants doors and windows open. This rush of blood seems to fill the whole chest, the heart feels as if "too full," palpitates and labours, as if trying to rid itself of a burden.

The orifices of the body are red, as if pressed full of blood. The lips are red as vermilion, ears very red; eyelids red, anus red, urethra red. All these are manifest indications for Sulphur. Especially is the true if these symptoms follow, or are consequent upon, the suppression or retrocession of some eruption or skin trouble. If inward affections work outward towards the surface there is not usually cause for alarm, but it they go the other way look out for breakers, there is shipwreck ahead. No one need tell me that there is no relation of skin to internal troubles. I have seen too much of it, and have cured many cases of that character, where a restoration of the skin disease relieved the internal which had followed its retrocession or suppression.

There is one thing about Sulphur that it often under-estimated by the profession in general, viz., its power of absorption. It is after the stage of effusion has set in or even later when this stage is passed and the results of the inflammatory process are to be gotten rid of; like the enlargement of the joints in rheumatism, exudations into serous sacs, pleura, meningeal membranes, peritoneum, etc. Bryonia is one of the remedies first thought of in these cases, and we have another remedy that is making a record for itself here, viz., Kali muriaticum; but when the case is complicated by psora and, especially, when the characteristic burnings stand out prominently Sulphur is almost sure to be needed before the case is finished. Bryonia and Sulphur complement each other; but, of course, the symptoms must decide and may decide in favor of neither of them. Right here it may be well to speak of that power possessed by Sulphur of arousing or exciting defective reaction. Your former remedy was well chosen and seemed to help the patient in a measure, but the case relapses, lingers or progresses slowly to perfect recovery. It is on account of a depression of the vital force, as Hahnemann would call it. It may be on account of psora or not. Now give a dose of Sulphur and let it act a few hours if in an acute case, or number of days if chronic. Then you may return to your former remedy and get results which you could not before the Suphur was given. It clears up the case and prevents its becoming chronic or a lingering unsatifactory convalescence.

No remedy has more general, positive and persistent action upon the skin than Sulphur. With or without eruption, itching and burning, are the characteristic sensations attending the skin symptoms. If any one doubts the itch-producing power of Sulphur let him work a day or two in the bleaching room of a broom factory. I have tried the experiment, and we all remember the fact that our mothers and grandmothers used to cure or rather over-cure itch with it.

So strong is this affinity of Sulphur far the skin that it seems bent on pushing everything internal out on the surface. Especially is this true if it is something that naturally belongs there. Over twenty-five years ago I had a case that illustrates this. A lady (maiden) had been an invalid for fourteen years. Her trouble seemed to center in her stomach. So that for all that long period of time she could eat nothing but at little Graham bread and milk, hardly enough to sustain life and in the earlier part of her sickness for a long time was able only to take a teaspoonfull of milk at a time. She was an almost literal walking skeleton. I found, after much questioning and several failures to relieve her much, that about fifteen years before she had with an ointment suppressed an eczema of the nape and occiput. She boasted that she had never seen a vestige of it since. I gave that lady Sulphur 200th and in three weeks from that time had that eruption fully restored and her stomach trouble completely relieved. The deacon of her (Presbyterian) church exclaimed as she came walking up a long hill to service, "Here comes Susan F., who has been dying for the last fourteen years and lo and behold, she is the biggest, fattest one among us!" Now how about the relation of skin to internal trouble? I can report a number of as convincing cases in my own practice cured with Sulphur, Arsenicum, Causticum or other remedies. One thing must be recognized and never lost sight of, viz., that symptoms weigh whether we can give the pathological interpretation of them or not. Here are a few of that kind from the pathogenesis of Sulphur:

"Particularly efficacious with lean, stoop-shouldered persons, who walk or sit stooped; standing is the most uncomfortable position."

"Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections."

"Children cannot bear to be washed or bathed."

"Voluptuous itching; scratching relieves; after it burning."

"Complaints continually relapsing."

"Congestion to single parts."

"Pain in heart, extending to back."

"Scrofulous (psoric) chronic diseases that result from suppressed eruptions."

"Discharges from every outlet acrid, excoriating and reddening."

"Offensive odor of body despite frequent bathing."

"Hot flushes with spells of faintness, or debility passing off with a little moisture, faintness or debility."

"Weak, faint spells frequently during the day."

"Burning in feet, wants to find a cool place for them; puts them out of bed to cool them off." (Chamomilla, Medorrhinum, Sanicula.)

"Feels suffocated; wants doors and windows open, particularly at night."

"Diarrhœa after midnight; Painlessly driving out of bed early in the morning, as if the bowels were too weak to retain their contents."

"Weak, empty, gone or faint feeling in stomach about 11 A. M."

"White tongue with very red tip and borders."

"Bright redness of lips as if the blood would burst through." (Tuberculinum).

"Heat on crown of head; cold feet; frequent flushing."

Every true homœopath knows the value of these and many more symptoms of this remedy. No one else appreciates them. Again, none but those who use the potentized Sulphur can ever know what it is capable of curing.

Modalities: < 5 A. M. (diarrhœa), standing; 11 A. M., close room, open air, bathing, cold damp weather; > doors and windows open, sitting or lying.

Peevishness ; irritability ; restless, quick temperament. Melancholy, with great inclination to philosophical and religious speculations ; with anxiety about the salvation of one's soul, and great indifference to the welfare of others. Hypochondriac mood (through the day, in the evening he inclined to be merry). Dulness : difficulty of thinking ; misplaces, or cannot find the proper words when he speaks. Fantastic illusions.

Vertigo when sitting ; with bleeding of the nose ; when stooping ; when rising from the bed ; in the morning ; with nausea ; with inclination to fall to the left side ; with vanishing of sight. Congestion of blood to the head with heat in it ; the blood rising up to the head from the chest ; better in the room. Heaviness and fulness in the forehead, worse when raising the head and after sleeping and talking better when sitting or when lying high with the head. Tearing or stitches in the forehead or temples, from within to without, worse from eating or stooping, better when pressing the head together, or when moving about. Sensation of emptiness in the back part of the head, worse in the open air and when talking, better in the room. Pulsation in the head with beat in the brain, pulsation of the carotid arteries and of the heart, worse on waking in the morning, when moving about, on stooping, when talking, in the open air ; better when at rest and in the warm room. Painful tingling on the vertex and in the temples. Tension in the forehead and in the eyes on exercising the brain ; worse when lifting up the eyes, after sleeping ; better when sitting and in the room. He feels every step painful in the head. Headache generally worse in the open air, better in the room. Sensitiveness of the vertex, pressing when touching it, worse from the heat of the bed, in the morning when waking, on scratching it, it bites and burns. Feeling of coldness about the head. The roots of the hair are painful, especially when touched. Dry (seldom humid) offensive, scabby, easily bleeding, burning, and sore paining eruption on the back part of the head and behind the ears, with cracks, better from scratching (Tinea capitis). Contractive pain as from a hand around the cranium, with the sensation as if the flesh were loose around it, followed by inflammation and swelling of the bones and caries ; worse in wet, cold weather and when at rest ; better from motion. Falling off of the hair, with great dryness of the hair, painfulness of the scalp to the touch and violent itching in the evening when getting warm in bed, with swelling of the glands on the neck (also in lying-in women). Fontanelles remain open too long. Exanthema and itching on the forehead.

Dryness of the eyes in the room, lachrymation in the open air. Running of the eyes. Photophobia with stitches, worse in sultry weather. Specks or ulcers on the cornea. Obscuration of sight ; blindness ; dim-sightedness, cataract. Like gauze before the eyes. Halo around the candle. Inflammation of the eyes or of the eyelids. Stinging in the eyes, especially in the sunshine and from the light of a candle, or burning in the eyes.

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Brimstone. Sublimed Sulphur. S. (A. W. 3l.98). Trituration of "Flowers of Sulphur." A saturated solution of Sulphur in absolute alcohol constitutes the Ø tincture. [A trituration of amorphous Sulphur has also been used. Effects of "Milk of Sulphur" or Precipitated Sulphur, i.e ., Sulphur prepared by precipitation from a solution of Calc. sulph. with Hydrochloric acid, are included in the pathogenesis.]

Acne. Adenoids . Ague. Alcohol habit . Amaurosis. Amenorrhœa . Anæmia. Anus, prolapse of. Asthma . Atelectasis. Bed-sores. Biliousness. Boils. Brain, congestion of . Breasts, affections of. Bright's disease. Bronchitis . Cataract. Catarrh . Chagres fever. Chancre. Cheloid. Chest, pains in. Chilblains . Chloasma. Climaxis, sufferings of. Cold. Constipation. Consumption . Corns. Cough . Crusta serpiginosa. Dental fistula. Diabetes. Diarrhœa. Dysentery . Dysmenorrhœa. Ear, affections of. Eczema . Emaciation. Enuresis. Epilepsy. Eructations. Eruptions. Eyes, affections of. Faintness. Feet, burning; Perspiring. Fever . Freckles. Ganglion. Glands, affections of. Gleet. Globus hystericus. Gonorrhœa. Gout. Hæmorrhoids. Headache . Head, rush of blood to. Herpes. Hip-joint disease. Hydrocele. Hydrocephalus. Hydrothorax. Hypochondriasis . Impotence. Influenza. Intermittents. Irritation. Itch . Jaundice. Laryngitis. Leucorrhœa. Lichen. Liver, derangement of. Lumbago. Lungs, affections of. Lupus . Mania. Measles. Memory, weak . Meningitis. Menstruation, disorders of. Miscarriage . Molluscum. Nettlerash. Neuralgia . Nipples, sore. Nose, bleeding of; inflammation of . Œsophagus, constriction of. Ophthalmia, acute; scrofulous; rheumatic. Pelvic hæmatocele . Phimosis. Phlegmasia dolens. Peritonitis. Pleurisy. Pneumonia. Pregnancy, disorders of . Prostatorrhœa. Rectum, affections of. Rheumatic fever. Rheumatism, acute; chronic; gonorrhœal. Ringworm . Sciatica. Self-abuse. Sinking. Skin, affections of. Sleep, disordered. Smell, illusions of. Spinal irritation . Spine, curvature of. Spleen, pain in. Startings . Stomatitis. Taste, illusions of. Tenesmus. Thirst. Throat, mucus in. Tongue, coated . Tonsillitis. Toothache. Trachea, irritation in. Ulcers . Urticaria. Uterus, prolapse of. Vaccination . Varicocele. Varicosis. Vertigo. Warts . White swelling. Worms . Worry. Yawning .

Sulphur is an elementary substance, occurring in nature as a brittle crystalline solid, burning in the air with a blue flame, being oxidised to Sulphur dioxide ( Sulphurous acid ). The reputation of Sulphur as a remedy is perhaps as old as medicine. "As early as 2,000 years ago," says Hahnemann, " Sul . had been used as the most powerful specific against the itch. . . The itch, with which the workers in wool are so much affected, causes an intolerably agreeable, tingling, itching , gnawing as of vermin. Some designate it as an intolerably voluptuous titillating itching, ceasing as soon as the parts are scratched and commencing to burn, which burning continues after the scratching. Sul . frequently produces in healthy persons burning-itching pimples and vesicles resembling the itch vesicles, and especially itching in the joints, and in the night." The specific power of Sul . to cure itch was abused. It was applied externally as baths and ointments, and the skin affection was not cured but repelled, and a host of secondary affections appeared in its place. Hahnemann found in Sul . the homœopathic counterpart of the peculiar constitutional dyscrasia which tends to manifest in itch-like eruptions, and which he named Psora. Sul . is the chief of the antipsoric remedies. A proving of Sul . appears in the M. M. P ., and this is amplified in the Chronic Diseases . The domestic use of Sul . (in the familiar "Brimstone and Treacle") as a "Spring medicine" is based on its antipsoric properties. "It is one of the most popular diaphoretics of the day," says Milne, "few old women failing to use it when any eruption is supposed to be struggling through the skin." It is this property of Sul . to divert to the surface constitutional irritants which renders it the chief of Hahnemann's antipsorics. Sul . has also an antipsoric action independently of its power of "bringing out" rashes. The psoric poison may be present and active in a case of disease and "apparently well-indicated remedies may fail to act" in consequence. In such cases one or two doses of Sul . will frequently antidote, as it were, the psora, and either clear up the case, or open the way for the action of other remedies. In such cases there will almost certainly be some Sul . indications present. Sul . is a potent antiseptic, and is one of the most certain destroyers of the acarus of itch. The exact relation of acarus itch to psora and other itching eruptions need not be considered; but as Sul . has the power of repressing constitutional eruptions when locally applied, as well as the power of destroying the acarus, it is best to use other means ( e.g ., Oil of Lavender) for the latter purpose, and give Sul . or other indicated remedies internally. In my experience the psora of Hahnemann (which is a very real and definite dyscrasia) is generally inherited. The symptoms of latent psora are set forth in detail in Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases , and they are for the most part almost exact reproductions of the symptoms of Sul . But whilst Sul . is the chief of antipsorics, it is only one of many; and Sul . is in no way limited in its uses to cases of latent or declared psora. Much more important is it to know the leading features of the drug's action, which are sure guides in any case. ( 1 ) A key to many of the Sul . conditions is to be found in an irregular distribution of the circulation : flushes of heat; rush of blood to head, chest, heart; plethora from suddenly suppressed eruptions, piles, discharges; heat and burning sensation of all parts or coldness, sweating of many parts. These irregularities may go on to actual inflammation with effusions; and to fever of intermittent or other types. Another manifestation of this is found in the redness of orifices and parts near orifices: red ears, red nose; red eyelids and red borders round eyelids: brilliant red lips; bright red anus in children; red meatus urinarius; red vulva. The orifices are not only red and congested, but they are sore and hypersensitive as well; the passage of all discharges or excretions is painful. ( 2 ) The other side of this feeling of fulness is a feeling of emptiness . There is no medicine which has this symptom in a more extreme degree than Sul ., and there is no single symptom that is of greater value to the homœopathic prescriber than "Faint, sinking, all-gone sensation at 11 a.m." When that symptom is marked I give Sul . (generally 30), and get all the good I can out of the remedy before prescribing anything else, and very rarely am I disappointed. There is no need to wait to be told the symptom, or to ask patients directly if they experience it. I generally ask if they get hungry out of their usual mealtimes; and if they say "Yes"; I ask "What time?" The time need not be exactly eleven; though that is the most characteristic time. People who "must have something between breakfast and dinner-time" are generally benefited by Sul . This ravenous hunger at 11 is often associated with other Sul . symptoms, as heat at vertex; dyspepsia; portal congestion; constipation with ineffectual urging; piles; constipation alternating with diarrhœa. When the dyspeptic gets food and relieves his hunger he begins to feel puffed up, feels heavy and sluggish, and is low-spirited, he scarcely cares to live. The dyspepsia of Sul . is often the result of suppressed eruptions. It is well known that drunkenness "runs in families," and the underlying disease of drunkenness is often psora. Sul . both causes and cures craving for beer and spirits. Gallavardin cured many apparently hopeless drunkards with Sul . 1m. The "sinking, empty, all-gone sensation" is a common feature in the dyspepsia of drunkards. Dyspepsia from farinaceous food. Cannot take milk; vomits it at once; sour vomit with undigested food. Voracious appetite is a frequent symptom of scrofula, and scrofula and psora are frequently convertible terms. The child clutches at all food offered to it as if starved to death. Defective assimilation; hungry yet emaciated. Stopped catarrh; nose obstructed indoors, > out of doors. The child looks dried up, a little old man; skin hanging in folds, yellowish, wrinkled, flabby. Head large in proportion to body. Lymphatic glands enlarged. Defective assimilation. When scrofula exists without particular symptoms Sul . will develop them. Allied to scrofula is tuberculosis; in connection with which many symptoms of Sul . appear: marasmus with hunger at 11 a.m.; sore, red orifices; flushes of heat. In tuberculosis of the lungs a keynote is "body feels too hot." The patient must have windows open no matter how cold the weather may be. The caution is usually given to repeat Sul . seldom in cases of tuberculosis; and to give it only in the early stages. ( 3 ) " < By heat" is another keynote of Sul ., and marks it out as the remedy in a large number of cases; the < is most noticeable by warmth of the bed . Whenever a patient says he is all right till he gets warm in bed, Sul . must be examined, it will generally cover the case. (In some cases stove heat > .) The cases of rheumatism and sciatica requiring Sul . will generally have > morning and < at night in bed. ( 4 ) " < At night" is scarcely less characteristic. Sul . is related to both the sun and the moon, which makes it one of the most important of periodics. Cooper cured many cases of neuralgia < at noon or at midnight. He regards every twelve hours as the most characteristic periodicity, but it may be multiples or divisions of twelve. Lippe cured with "a single dose of Sul . at new moon" a case of menorrhagia, patient had not been well since her last miscarriage. Skinner gave to a man who had paresis of the lower limbs a single dose of Sul . cm, with instructions to take it on a certain date (when the moon was full). The man recovered almost suddenly. Cooper has had some important experience with Sul . in intermittent fevers. He generally gave two pilules of Sul . Ø every four hours. Correspondents of his found this treatment preserve them from fever in India, and one, an officer, by means of it kept his regiment of sepoys in health when many others were in hospital. One writer treated nine cases with the pilules, and arrested the fever in twenty-four hours. One of the cases was a particularly obstinate one, and had been pronounced by the doctors to be complicated with liver affection. Quinine had been tried before the Sul . cured. In a case of "Chagres fever" (of West Indies), which had lasted three months, Cooper ordered a Sulphur bath as well as the Sul . pilules. That single bath seemed to alter the whole condition; from being an unhealthy, anæmic, bilious-looking man, the patient rapidly became the picture of health. Cooper recalls the fact that workers in Sulphur mines, though in malarial districts, enjoy a complete immunity from intermittent fevers. The power of Sul . in acute inflammatory conditions is allied to its action in intermittent fevers. Sul . is the chronic of Acon . in the effects of chills; and if Acon . does not promptly solve the difficulty, Sul . will be required. In the acute inflammations of the high South African plateau, where the variations of temperature are extreme, and chills and their consequences are Very common, Van den Heuvel tells me that for the pain, fever, and anxiety before physical signs have appeared, Acon . is his first remedy. But if the fever does not yield in twenty-four to forty-eight hours, Sul . will clear it up. "Chill" is "suppression" in another form. Sul . is a remedy of such universal power that it may be misleading to speak of it as more related to one side than to another. Taken altogether there are more symptoms on the left side than the right. It acts strongly on the left side of the chest: "Sharp stitching pains through left lung to back, < lying on back. < by least motion," is characteristic. In a case of left pleuro-pneumonia following a violent hæmoptysis, Sul . 30 rescued a patient of mine from a condition which seemed desperate. Sul. acts on the whole respiratory tract, from the nose to the lung tissues. It causes a condition often met with in scrofulous patients, nasal catarrh where the nose is stopped indoors and free out of doors. All the features of asthma are produced in the pathogenesis, and Sul . has the alternation between skin irritation and asthma often met with in asthmatics. Villers ( H. R ., xv. p. 563) relates the case of a girl, 22, afflicted since three years old with eczemas of the most varied form, mostly moist, the chief seat being the region about the pudenda, armpits, fold behind ear; but the whole body was defaced, the only parts which had remained white and normal being the breasts. She had been continuously under treatment for the nineteen years, the worst effects resulting when external applications had been used to dry up the eruption. Then most frightful asthma occurred, which lasted till the corrosive, ill-smelling eruption appeared again. She had recently come under the care of a homœopath, who gave Ars. iod . 3. From this there resulted a condition of which the patient said, "I cannot describe it, but I felt as if I was being killed." Her doctor then sent her to Villers, who sent her for three months to a water-cure before he would commence treatment. Her general health was somewhat improved thereby, but the skin remained the same. He then thought of some very high potencies he possessed, and gave a few pellets of Sul . cm. Three days later he was sent for in a great hurry late one evening, and on arrival found the patient had torn off all her clothes, was rolling about on the floor of her room, continually trying to rub her back and her legs on the legs of chairs or the edge of the door. Then she jumped up, brought a knife from the kitchen and scraped her whole body; would eat nothing and only drank enormous quantities of cold beverages. This lasted five days, after which she slept for two full days. Then this happened: The eruption dried up completely and scaled as after scarlatina. The girl had always had very weak menses; the next three were increasingly strong and intolerably fetid. There was very disagreeable discharge from the ears, corrosive secretion from the eyelids, and a dreadfully tormenting and burning discharge from the pudenda, strongly exciting to voluptuousness. Under the action of the single dose steady improvement occurred, and in four months she was a youthfully blooming maiden in the full flow of all her functions, and the skin in perfect condition. To test this Villers made the patient wear rough wool; dip her hands in first hot and then cold water; and for two weeks he made her rub her body daily with pretty coarse sea-salt. The only effect of these measures was to make the skin improve in texture. — Sul ., when indicated, will cause absorption of effusions, pleuritis (plastic, or hydrothorax), hydrocephalic, or synovial. I have frequently cured ganglion of the wrist with Sul . cm and lower, given on general indications. In the rheumatism of Sul . the affection begins below and spreads upwards. (This is analogous to the "from without inwards" direction of the psoric complaints which Sul . meets and reverses.) Sul . acts on the right eye and on all regions of the head — forehead, vertex, and occiput. It is the remedy for a large number of periodical headaches; headaches occurring every week; every month. Sick-headache. The headaches are accompanied by red face and hot head; are > in warm room; at rest; < in open air; < from stooping. There is also a headache on coughing. I have cured a severe occipital headache < on coughing with Sul . 30. Among the characteristics of Sul . are: ( 1 ) Aversion to be washed, always < after a bath. ( 2 ) Complaints that are always relapsing (menses, leucorrhœa, &c.); patient seems to get almost well when the disease returns again and again. ( 3 ) Congestions to single parts: eye; nose; chest; abdomen; ovaries; arms; legs; or any organ of the body, marking the onset of tumours or malignant growths, especially at climacteric. ( 4 ) Chronic alcoholism; dropsy and other ailments of drunkards; they reform but are continually relapsing. ( 5 ) Sensation of burning: on vertex; and smarting in eyes; of vesicles in mouth and dryness of throat, first right then left; in stomach; in rectum in anus, and itching piles, and scalding urine; like fire on nipples in chest rising to face of skin of whole body, with hot flushes; in spots below scapulæ burning soles, must find a cool place for them at night. ( 6 ) Hot head with cold feet. Lutze ( N. A. J. H ., xv. 286) finds that Sul . 1m will make feet that have been cold for years comfortably warm. ( 7 ) Cramp in calves and soles at night. ( 8 ) Hot flushes during day, with weak, faint spells, passing off with a little moisture. ( 9 ) Diarrhœa: after midnight; painless; driving out of bed early in morning; as if bowels were too weak to contain their contents. ( 10 ) Constipation: Stools hard, dry, knotty, as if burnt; large, painful, child is afraid to have stool on account of pain; or pain compels child to desist on first effort; alternating with diarrhœa. ( 11 ) Boils: coming in crops in various parts, or a single boil is succeeded by another as soon as the first is healed. ( 12 ) Skin: itching, voluptuous; scratching > ("feels good to scratch"); scratching = burning; < from heat of bed; soreness in folds. ( 13 ) Skin affections that have been treated by medicated soaps and washes; hæmorrhoids that have been treated by ointments. ( 14 ) Nightly suffocative attacks, wants doors and windows open; becomes suddenly wide awake at night; drowsy in afternoon after sunset, wakefulness the whole night. ( 15 ) Happy dreams, wakes up singing. ( 16 ) Everything looks pretty which patient takes a fancy to; even rags seem beautiful. ( 17 ) Ailments from the abuse of metals generally. ( 18 ) Offensive odour of body despite frequent washing. ( 19 ) Red nose < by cold: the colder the redder. ( 20 ) Cutting, stabbing pain in right eye. ( 21 ) Poor breakfast eaters. ( 22 ) Worried by trifles. ( 23 ) White, frothy expectoration. ( 24 ) Empty sensation (head; heart; stomach; abdomen). [ Sul . aggravates much more in high dilutions than in lower ones; especially where extensive collections of disease-tissue exist, a single globule of 200th will often set up violent disturbance. The domestic use of Sul . is interesting. In one form or other Sul . is used in various countries for allaying pain; a piece of stick Sul . carried in the pocket is much used in England to ward off rheumatism. Natives of South America apply Sul . in solid form to parts in pain, and allow it to act for an hour before result is effected; and for lumbago and chronic rheumatic pains a bag filled with Flowers of Sulphur and applied heated to the part, immediately relieves the pain. An experienced sea captain testified to the extreme frequency of rheumatism amongst his sailors; but, he added, when carrying cargoes of Sul ., he had never had a case of it (acute rheumatism) on board. In the treatment of croup and diphtheria the local application of Sul . to the fauces has been highly spoken of by many practitioners. Dr. Laugardière, of Toulouse, reported recently to the Academy of Medicine that he has discovered a cure for croup — a tablespoonful of Flowers of Sulphur dissolved in a tumbler of water. After three days of this treatment his patients were rescued from imminent death, and fully recovered. Nettlerash is often relieved by a little Flowers of Sulphur and water; and Sul . mixed with sea-sand and rubbed over itch vesicles destroys the acarus at once. In the early days of vaccination it was found that the action of Sul . on the frame was decidedly adverse to the receptivity of vaccine. According to Dr. Tierney, Dr. Jenner failed in vaccinating thirty soldiers, all under treatment by Sul . ( B. M. J ., Jan. 6, 1872. George Gascoin, letter on antiseptic treatment of small-pox). Seeing that operatives in sulphur mines enjoy an immunity against ague when prevalent in surrounding districts; and that, before going on hunting expeditions in malarious districts, men in Ethiopia submit themselves to fumigations with Sul ., and find it an efficient prevention of ague, the probability of Sul . having a power of destroying the organisms in the blood of ague patients is certainly great, and deserves investigation (Cooper)]. Sul . is a great resorbent , and is frequently needed after acute illnesses which do not entirely clear up. Peculiar Sensations are: As if a band were tied tightly round forehead; round cranium. Vertigo as if swinging. As if bed were not large enough to hold him. As if one stood on wavering ground. As if hair on vertex stood on end. As from a weight pressing on top of brain and a cord tied around head. As if head soft; brains bashed in. As if brain were beating against skull. As if eyes were pressed down. As if he had taken too much alcohol. As if hair would be torn out. As if head would burst. As if head were enlarged. As if she would sneeze. As if head had been beaten. As if top of head were being pressed against wall. Occiput as if hollow. As if flesh of scalp were loose. As if scalp had been beaten. As if cornea had lost its transparency. As if eye were gone and a cool wind blew out of socket. As if eyes had been punctured. As if a needle or splinter were sticking in eye. As if a thick veil were before eyes. As if eyeballs were dry. As if balls rubbed against lids. As if eyes were rubbed against spicules of glass ; eyeballs dry; salt in eyes; cornea covered with fine dust; lids would become inflamed. As if sounds did not come through ears but forehead. As of water in ears. As if he smelt perfume. As if nose were swelled. Nostrils as if sore. As if lower jaw would be torn out. As if air just in front of her were hot. Teeth as if too long; as of a hot iron in teeth. As of a hard ball rising in throat. As if swallowing a piece of meat. As of a lump in throat. As of a hair in throat. As if throat too narrow. Stomach as if puffed up; as if torn with pincers. Intestines as if strung in knots. As if hernia would form. As if muscles of abdomen and peritonæum had been bruised. As if obliged to urinate, in urethra. As if something in larynx. As of a lump of ice in (r.) chest. As if lungs came in contact with back. As if strained in chest. As if he had fallen upon chest. As if chest would fly to pieces when coughing or drawing a deep breath. Heart as if enlarged. As if muscles of neck and back were too short. As if vertebræ gliding one over the other. Small of back as if beaten. Left shoulder and hip as if luxated. Like a weight on shoulder. As if something heavy hanging on upper arm. Arms as if beaten. As of a mouse running up arms and back. Thigh as if broken. As if too short in popliteal space. Skin as if denuded and sore. Sweat may occur on one side of the body only; or on neck only. Sul . is Suited to: ( 1 ) Lean, stoop-shouldered persons, who walk and sit stooped; standing is the most uncomfortable position. ( 2 ) Persons of nervous temperament, quick-motioned, quick-tempered, plethoric, skin excessively sensitive to atmospheric changes. ( 3 ) Dirty, filthy people, with greasy skin, and long, straight, matted hair, prone to skin affections. ( 4 ) Children who cannot bear to be washed or bathed; emaciated; big-bellied; restless, hot, kick off clothes at night; have worms. ( 5 ) Persons of scrofulous diathesis, subject to various congestions, especially of portal system. ( 6 ) Lymphatic temperaments, nervous constitutions disposed to hæmorrhoids, with constipation or morning diarrhœa; diseases caused especially by, suppressed eruptions, peevishness, sudden and frequent flushes of heat all over body, followed by perspiration, hot palms, soles, and vertex; faintness in epigastrium in forenoon. ( 7 ) Children, emaciated, old-looking faces, big bellies, dry, flabby skin. ( 8 ) Full-blooded persons with great irritability, restlessness, and hastiness. ( 9 ) Old people. ( 10 ) People with hot, sweaty hands. ( 11 ) "Ragged philosophers"; dirty-looking persons who are always speculating on religious or philosophical subjects. ( 12 ) Freckled people. ( 13 ) Light-complexioned people. ( 14 ) Red-haired people. ( 15 ) Dark-complexioned people; negroes. (16) People who refer all their sufferings to the epigastrium "everything affects me there." The symptoms are: < By touch. < Pressure (pressure > pain in head when coughing). Rest < . Standing < . Stooping < . Lying on (r.) painful side > . Motion > pains in head, hips, knee, hæmorrhoids; < other symptoms. Moving arms < . Every step < . Rising < . Ascending < . Talking = fatigue of whole body. Vivacious talking = hammering headaches. < 11 a.m.; 12 noon; midnight; morning; evening; night; after midnight. Wants doors and windows open. Susceptible to temperature; warm things feel hot. Indoors = nose stopped up; > emptiness in occiput. Open air < . Draught of air < . Raw air < . Warmth < . Sun < (headache). Washing < . Cold, damp weather < . Cold food and drink < thirst. Cold water > head; left eye; whitlow. < Before a storm. < After sleep. < From milk; sweets; alcohol. > By eating; < after. < Before eating. > By warm food. < Before, during, and after menses (headache; leucorrhœa). < Looking down. < Crossing running water. < Raising arms. Hearing is < eating and blowing nose.

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Unconsciousness.
Weak memory, particularly for names ; no memory for what transpired recently ; forgetfulness.
After meals congestion to head, with throbbing and forgetfulness ; feels as if crazy ; does not know whether she has done what she intended or whether objects seen are really there, or whether she only imagines them to be, until she has
touched them ; menses scanty and late.
Repeats everything said to him on account of difficult comprehension.
Great distraction of mind ; cannot fix his mind on present objects, and does his work awkwardly.
Seems stupid, senseless, confused, avoids conversation.
Dulness ; difficult thinking ; misplaces or cannot find proper words when talking or writing.
Numerous morbid ideas, extremely disagreeable, causing rancor ; neglect of business ; < in evening in bed, when ideas prevent falling asleep.
Rack their brains about metaphysical subtleties.
Fantastical illusions ; monomania ; fancies.
Foolish happiness and pride, thinks himself in possession of beautiful things ; even rags seem beautiful.
Delirium ; imbecility ; insanity.
A little girl with religious insanity, takes passages of Scripture literally and acts upon them.
Furiously mad ; wanders about streets ; after suppression of tinea capitis.
Greatly inclined to weep without cause.
Moaning and complaining, with wringing of hands day and night, much thirst, little appetite, swallows food hastily.
About an hour after he falls asleep, he suddenly starts up and screams, leaps out of bed, and runs about like a maniac, two or three times every night ; wrings his hands, sweats profusely and trembles.
Involuntary haste when taking hold of anything and when walking.
Indisposed to everything, work, pleasure, talking or motion ; indolence of mind and body.
Great obstinacy ; dislikes to have any one near him.
Satiety of life, longing for death.
Disgust, to nausea, about any effluvia arising from his own body.
Sentimental ; changing mood.
Sensitive disposition.
Weeps easily at slightest provocation.
Sadness : without cause ; without courage ; weary of life.
During day sad, lachrymose ; weeps if one attempts to console her.
In evening sudden sadness and disinclination for everything.
While walking in open air sudden sadness ; is filled with anxious, despondent thoughts, from which she cannot free herself, they make her suspicious, peevish and lachrymose.
Greatly depressed, hypochondriacal and sighing.
Depressed about her illness, and out of humor.
Melancholy mood ; dwelling on religious or philosophic speculations ; anxiety about soul's salvation ; indifference about lot of others.
Sleepless, disgusted with life, fears the future, where she sees nothing but misery and suffering. θ Melancholia.
Woman, æt. 41 ; menses irregular ; profound melancholy ; considers herself disgraced ; speaks of dying, finds life insupportable ; noise and odors irritate her greatly, also least contradiction or advice (Nux vom. [600] restored menstruation).
Melancholia and epilepsy, with strong impulsive tendency to suicide, by drowning or by precipitating herself from window ; epileptic fits, as many as five a day, with at times two hours of unconsciousness, always < during menstruation, Sulph. 10m. cured.
Frequently during day attacks of melancholy lasting a few minutes, feels extremely unhappy without cause, she wishes to die.
Great dejection, with thoughts of suicide ; feels inferior to everybody ; can decide nothing ; listless, unable to work ; can understand nothing she reads ; great disgust, amounting to nausea, at odors of her own body ; chronic
catarrh, with a bland yellow discharge ; a lump comes in her throat, must swallow continually ; < in a warm room ; constipation with frequent ineffectual desire for stool, with passage of fetid flatus which disgusts her much ; amenorrhœa of five months' standing ;
a sense of weight in pelvic region when walking ; muddy complexion with occasional acne.
Destroys clothing, imagines she has everything in abundance.
Too lazy to rouse himself up, and too unhappy to live.
Hypochondriac mood through day, merry in evening.
Hypochondriasis after suppression of eruption.
Worried by trifles. θ Uterine displacement.
Vexations and morbid ideas of past arise from most indifferent thoughts, and from every occurrence in life, which continue to be united with new vexations, so that she cannot free herself from them.
Violent starting up, even when his name is called.
Anxious, fearful.
Great anxiety, fear lest she should come to ruin ; went about wringing her hands ; tried to run away ; pale face ; dull eyes ; pressure on head ; pain in epigastrium ; stools white, hard ; frequent rigors.
Anxiety : in evening in bed ; with heat of head and cold feet ; on awaking, with heat at night ; as if some great misfortune were impending ; with palpitation, prevents falling asleep.
Very much excited and very passionate.
Excitable mood, easily irritated, but quickly penitent.
Irritable mood ; easily excited and always absorbed in himself.
Dread of being washed (in children).
Peevish ; irritable ; quick-tempered.
Ill-humored and fault-finding.
Bad-humor and great disinclination to speak.
Ill-humored ; vexed with herself ; everything makes her impatient.
He could tear himself to pieces with vexation.
Child is intolerably violent and difficult to quiet.
So obstinate and morose that he answers no one, and will tolerate no one about him ; he cannot obtain quickly enough what he wants.
Egotism.
Has no rest anywhere day or night.

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Sulphur is such a full remedy that it is somewhat difficult to tell where to begin.

It seems to contain a likeness of all the sicknesses of man, and a beginner on reading over the proving of Sulphur might naturally think that he would need no other remedy, as the image of all sickness seems to be contained in it.

Yet you will find it will not cure all the sicknesses of man, and it is not well to use it indiscriminately any more than you would any other remedy. It seems that the less a physician knows of the Materia Medica the oftener he gives Sulphur, and yet it is very frequently given, even by good prescribers; so that the line between physicians’ ignorance and knowledge cannot be drawn from the frequency with which Sulphur is prescribed by them.

The Sulphur patient is a lean, lank, hungry, dyspeptic fellow with stoop shoulders, yet many times it must be given to fat, rotund, well fed people.

The angular, lean, stoop-shouldered patient, however, is the typical one, and especially when he has become so from long periods of indigestion, bad assimilation and feeble nutrition. The Sulphur state is sometimes brought about by being long housed up and adapting the diet to the stomach.

Persons who lead sedentary lives, confined to their rooms in study, in meditation, in philosophical inquiry, and who take no exercise, soon find out that they must eat only the simplest foods, foods not sufficient to nourish the body, and they end up by going into a philosophical mania.

There is another class of patients in whom we see a Sulphur appearance in the face; dirty, shriveled, red-faced people. The skin seems to be easily affected by the atmosphere. He becomes red in the face from riding in the air, both in very cold and in damp weather.

He has a delicate, thin skin, blushing on the slightest occasion, always red and dirty looking, no matter how much he washes it. If it be a child, the mother may wash the face often, but it always looks as if it had been perfunctorily washed.

Hering called the Sulphur patient "the ragged philosopher."

The Sulphur scholar, the inventor, works day and night in threadbare clothes and battered hat; he has long, uncut hair and a dirty face; his study is uncleanly, it is untidy; books and leaves of books are piled up indiscriminately; there is no order. It seems that Sulfur produces this state of disorder, a state of untidiness, a state of uncleanness, a state of "care how things go," and a state of selfishness.

He becomes a false philosopher and the more he goes on in this state the more he is disappointed because the world does not consider him the greatest man on earth. Old inventors work and work, and fail.

The complaints that arise in this kind of case, even the acute complaints, will run to Sulphur. You take such a patient and you will notice that he has on a shirt that he has worn many weeks; if he has not a wife to attend to him, he would wear his shirt until it fell off from him.

Cleanliness is not a great idea with the Sulphur patient; he thinks it is not necessary. He is dirty; he does not see the necessity of putting on a clean collar and cuffs and a clean shirt; it does not worry him. Sulphur is seldom indicated in cleanly people, but it is commonly indicated in those who are not disturbed by uncleanliness.

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Adapted to persons of a scrofulous diathesis, subject to venous congestions, especially of portal system.

Persons of nervous temperament, move quickly, quick tempered, plethoric, skin excessively sensitive to atmospheric changes (Hep., Kali c., Psor.).

For lean, stoop-shouldered persons who walk and sit stooped; walk stooping like old men.

Standing is the worst position for Sulphur patients; they cannot stand; every standing position is uncomfortable.

Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections (Psor.).

Aversion to being washed; always worse after a bath.

Children: cannot bear to be washed or bathed (in cold water, Ant. c.); emaciated, big-bellied; restless, hot, kick off the clothes at night (Hep., Sanic.); have worms, but the best selected remedy fails.

When carefully selected remedies fail to produce a favorable effect, especially in acute diseases, it frequently serves to rouse the reactive powers of the system; clears up the case (in chronic diseases, Psor.).

Scrofulous chronic diseases that arise from suppressed eruptions (Caust., Psor.).

Complaints that are continually relapsing (menses, leucorrhœa, etc.); patient seems to get

(Ars.) ; in chest, rising to face ; of skin of whole body, with hot flushes; in spots, between scapulæ (Phos.).

Sick headache every week or every two weeks ; prostrating, weakening (Sang.) ; with hot vertex and cold feet.

Constant heat on vertex; cold feet in daytime, with burning soles at night, wants to find a cool place for them (Sang., Sanic.) ; puts them out of bed to cool them off (Med.) ; cramps in calves and soles at night.

Hot flushes during the day, with weak, faint spells, passing off with a little moisture.

Bright redness of lips as if the blood would burst through.

Weak, empty, gone or faint feeling in the stomach about 11 A. M. (10 or 11 A. M. > by eating, Nat. c.) ; cannot wait for lunch ; frequent weak, faint spells during the day.

Diarrhœa : after midnight ; painless ; driving out of bed early in the morning (Aloe, Psor.) ; as if the bowels were too weak to retain their contents.

Constipation : stools hard, knotty, dry as if burnt (Bry.) ; large, painful, child is afraid to have the stool on account of pain, or pain compels child to desist on first effort ; alternating with diarrhœa.

The discharge, both of urine and feces, is painful to parts over which it passes; passes large quantities of colorless urine ; parts around anus red, excoriated ; all the orifices of the body are very red; all discharges acrid, excoriating wherever they touch.

Menses : too early, profuse, protracted.

Menorrhagia, has not been well since her last miscarriage. " A single dose at new moon."—LIPPE.

Boils: coming in crops in various parts of the body; or a single boil is succeeded by another as soon as first is healed (Tub.).

Skin: itching, voluptuous; scratching >; "feels good to scratch;" scratching causes burning; < from heat of bed (Mer.); soreness in folds (Lyc., San.).

Skin affections that have been treated by medicated soaps and washes; hemorrhoids, that have been treated with ointments.

To facilitate absorption of serous or inflammatory exudates in brain, pleura, lungs, joints, when Bryonia, Kali mur. or the best selected remedy fails.

Chronic alcoholism; dropsy and other ailments of drunkards; "they reform," but are continually relapsing (Psor., Tub.).

Nightly suffocative attacks, wants the doors and windows open; becomes suddenly wide awake at night; drowsy in afternoon after sunset, wakefulness the whole night.

Happy dreams, wakes up singing.

Everything looks pretty which the patient takes a fancy to.

Movements in abdomen as of a child (Croc., Thuja).

Complementary: Aloe, Psor.

Ailments from the abuse of metals generally.

Sulph., Calc., Lyc.; or Sulph., Sars. and Sep. frequently follow in given order.

Calcarea must not be used before Sulphur.

Sulphur is the chronic of Aconite and follows it well in pneumonia and other acute diseases.

Aggravation—At rest; when standing; warmth in bed; washing, bathing; changeable weather.

Amelioration—Dry, warm weather; lying on the right side (Stan.).

Quotidian; double quotidian; tertian. In regular paroxysms. Yearly (Ars., Carbo v., Lach., Nat., Psor., Thuja). Typhoid, typhus, bilious, yellow; fever of every kind and every type.

Not characteristic; at all periods. Morning; afternoon; evening; night. Evening predominant; 8, 9, 10 A. M., 12 M.; 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12 P. M.

Evening fever without chill. Thirst (Caps., Eup., Puls.—but can only drink in prodrome and apyrexia, Cimex).

Without thirst. Frequent internal chilliness. Chilliness, with headache in the evening (Sep.), disappearing after lying down. Aching in forehead with restlessness, relieved when sweat comes on. Chilliness and shivering over whole body, without subsequent heat or thirst (Bov.). Chilliness and rigor, with blue nails, pale face, heavy, giddy head, not relieved by heat of stove, but by lying down. Chilly in open air, as if naked. Shivering on slightest movement in bed (Nux, Stram.). Coldness transient, of the nose, hands, feet, chest, arms, back, abdomen. Chilliness in the back, in the evening for an hour, without subsequent heat. Chilliness constantly creeps from the sacrum up the back, without subsequent heat or thirst, sometimes relieved by warmth of stove. Icy coldness of the genitals. Coldness through all the limbs. Hands and feet very cold, with livid, pale face. Shaking chill for an hour in the P. M., with blue face and cold hands and feet; subsequent heat and perspiration (Ars., Bell., Rhus). Headache, vertigo, delirium. Chill begins in hands, fingers, feet and toes (Carbo v., Nat., Sep.).

With thirst. Frequent flushes of heat in the face, with shivering sensation over the body (Sep.). Burning heat of the palms of the hands and soles of the feet; or cold feet, with hot, burning soles; was obliged to put them out of bed to find a cool place. Heat and redness of face, with burning in single parts, as on malar bones, around the eyes, ears, nose, mouth. Orgasm of the blood, and violent burning of the hands. Alternate heat (of body and face) with chilliness (Ars., Cal.). Frequent flushes of heat, ending in moisture and faintness. Intense, per-sistent, long-continued fever; skin dry, hot, burning; tem-perature 103-105, little or no remission, day or night; pa-tient literally being consumed with fever.

Copious morning-sweat, setting in after waking (sweat while awake, dry heat when sleeping, Samb.). At night profuse sweat all over the body and restless sleep (sweat all night without relief, Kali c.). Profuse sweat on occiput. Perspiration on slightest motion or manual labor (Bry.—sweat on least exer-tion or every mental effort, Sep.). Profuse sweat when walking, reading, riding, writing, talking. Profuse sour night-sweat, of a sour, burnt odor (Lyc.); vomiting; morning diarrhœa; tenesmus.

Coated white or yellow, which wears off during the day, and becomes red and clean in evening. Bitter taste in mouth in morning; food tastes natural. Longing for sweets, beer, brandy. Aversion to meat. Milk disagrees, causes sour taste, sour eructations.

Great prostration after every paroxysm (Ars.), with thirst for beer. Burning heat on vertex. Early morning diarrhœa. Feels as if he was just convalescing from a severe illness.

Sulphur bears the same relation to chronic cases that Ipecacu-anha does to acute, viz.: if the indications for the remedy be not clear and well defined, Sulphur may clear up the case, or completely cure it alone. Intermittent fever is a terrible searcher after weak organs; and Sulphur is frequently required in all forms of the disease—acute and early, or chronic and later—to combat some latent malady aroused during the course of the fever. If we would use Sulphur more and Quinine less, our success would be much more satisfactory, both to our patients and ourselves.

"The antiperiodic virtue of Sulphur does not apply simply to pyrexial intermittents, but it also comprehends intermittent neu-ralgias, which consist of attacks of pain on the right side of the face and head, which begins at the maxillaries and finally extends along the orbital nerves, and thence involves the whole side of the head, there being no dental caries. The pains begin toward evening, last three to four hours, then cease, reappear later, and again cease up to the hour of attack in the evening. Psoric subjects; after the suppression of an exanthem: after the abuse of Quinine."—A. CHARGE, M. D.

Sulphur worn next the skin, in the form of flowers of Suphur, is an effective antidote to the malarial poison which is supposed to produce intermittent fever, typhus and diphtheria, as well as cholera.*

Weak memory, particularly for names.
Dulness; difficult thinking; misplaces or cannot find proper words when talking or writing.
Foolish happiness and pride, thinks herself in possession of beautiful things; even rags seem beautiful (also when recovering from spasms).
Indisposed to everything (work, pleasure, talking or motion), in the evening.
Disgust, up to nausea, about any effluvia arising from his own body.
Melancholy mood; dwelling on religious or philosophical speculations; anxiety about his soul's salivation; indifferent about the lot of others.
Hypochondriac mood through the day; merry in evening.
Peevish; irritable; quick-tempered.
Excitable mood, easily irritated, but quickly penitent.
Great obstinacy, dislike to have any one near him.

Vertigo: while sitting, or standing, with nosebleed, in the morning; when stooping; when rising from bed; when walking in open air; when crossing a river; with nausea; with vanishing of sight; with inclination to fall to the left side; worse after meals, particularly after dinner.
Rush of blood to head, with roaring in ears and heat of face, worse when stooping, talking, in open air; better sitting in warm room.
Heaviness and fulness in forehead, worse when raising the head to a sitting posture; worse after sleep; after talking; better when sitting, or when lying with head high.

Tearing or stitches in forehead or temples, from within outward; worse from eating or stooping; better when pressing head together, and when moving about.
Shooting in forehead from in-outward; worse from stooping or eating; better from pressing teeth together, and when moving head.
Pressure in temples and tight feeling in brain when thinking or doing mental work.
Painful tingling on vertex and in temples.
Sensation of emptiness in occiput; worse in open air and from talking; better in-doors.
Drawing and tearing through head.
Headache every day, as though head would burst.
Throbbing headache at night.
Sick headache, very weakening, once a week or every two weeks; pains generally lacerating and stupefying, numbing.
Every step is felt painfully in head.

Sensitiveness of vertex, pressing pain when touched; worse in evening; from heat of bed; in morning when awaking; smarting and burning after scratching.
Roots of hair painful, especially to touch.
Severe stitching on forehead, also on scalp.
Dry, offensive, scabby, easily bleeding, burning eruption begins on back of head and behind ears, with sore pain and cracks; better from scratching.
Humid, offensive eruption, with thick pus, yellow crusts, itching, bleeding and burning.
Contractive pain as from a band around cranium, with sensation as if flesh was loose, followed by inflammation, swelling and caries of bones; worse in wet, cold weather, and when at rest; better from motion.
Hair dry, falling off, scalp sore to touch, itching violently, in the evening, when getting warm in bed.
Fontanelles close too late.
Dandruff.

Photophobia, with stitches; worse in sultry weather.
Shunning light, during the sweat.
Retinitis, caused by over-use of eyes, congestion of optic nerve.
Obscuration of sight; like a gauze before eyes.
Cataract.
Halo around gas or lamplight.
Shortsightedness.
Pustular inflammation of cornea, or conjunctivæ, with marked lachrymation.
Superficial and deep ulcers on cornea, intense redness of eye, great photophobia.
Inflammation of eyes, or lids, itching, smarting, burning, feeling like from sand.
Painful inflammation of eye, from presence of foreign body (after Acon.).
Ulceration of margins of lids.
Lids swollen, burn and smart, with itching; aggravation from bathing eyes.
Dryness of eyes in room, lachrymation in open air.
Agglutination of lids at night.
Lids drawn together spasmodically, in morning.

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Pure sublimed Sulphur is triturated for use (a tincture, saturated solution with alcohol, represents the first centesimal dilution).

A tissue remedy of widest range. ▶ Since Sulphur is an integral part of every from of protoplasm, it follows that all tissues become affected by its abnormal exhibition, and no particular limit or character can be assigned to it. ▶ Its action on the dermoid tissues is, however, very pronounced.

Lyc., Puls. , Phos., Rhus t., Calc c., Nat. m., Sep., Aloe, Hep. s.

▶ Emaciation (Iod., Nat. m.). ▶ Blood darker in color and richer in white corpuscles; the venous blood seemed partly melanotic, changed less in the air and in part did not become red the arterial blood was redder and turbid, dependent on the dissolved coloring matter of the blood, the blood took up less oxygen and gave out less carbonic acid than before the use of the Sulphur, coagulum formed slowly, clot three per cent. ▶ Larger than before; from large doses death of so many corpuscles that they cannot be eliminated, but if continued smaller doses are taken the blood is freed from blood-corpuscles which are dissolved; solid constituents of both serum and albumen diminished; solid constituents and blood-corpuscles diminished, it gave out more carbonic acid and took up more oxygen; diminution of solid constituents, of serum, albumen, fat, fibrin, blood-corpuscles and clot, in only two observations was there increase of fibrin, in a third increase of fat and clot, in a fourth of serum and albumen, in a fifth of serum and clot, in general every secretion and excretion increased (Phos., Calc. c.).

Stretching at night. ▶ Trembling; when walking after smoking a cigar, with weakness; in evening, with anxious sweat, then vomiting, with anxious urging to stool, then heaviness of head and weakness of arms; of left scapula, arm and hand in forenoon. ▶ Starting in forenoon when awake, with shivering through whole body. ▶ Jerking here and there; J. in whole body after supper, with pain in back and right side of abdomen; of muscles of face and limbs in morning, becoming a general convulsion, then consciousness returned slowly, as soon as reaction was established after a chill the spasm returned in a tonic form, first in right side, then in front of body, then in back, finally jaws were set, muscles relaxed and the child died instantly.

Hysterical paroxysm, with choreic jerkings. ▶ Conclusions; tossing the body up high. ▶ Epileptic paroxysm after starting up or after running violently; E. paroxysm starting from back or arm, as a running like a mouse, drawing the mouth to right or left and moving about painfully in abdomen, then twisting left arm, with retracted thumb then trembling of right arm, then the whole body was shaken up and down, with shortness of breath, which after the paroxysm was shorter, screaming during the paroxysm but inability to speak.

Sticking, agg. morning and late in evening, amel. motion and sometimes pressure. ▶ Sudden tearing here and there with jerking; frequent sudden T. in evening, in left cheek, right cervical muscles and right tibia; intermittent sticking T., at one time through various parts of head, at another pain through bones of cheeks, in region of ear, lower jaw and other parts of face. ▶ Pinching here and there in muscles. ▶ Tearing scraping in middle of right thigh and on vertex and in right ulna and radius. ▶ Pains throughout body; in root of nose, between shoulders and all over back; occasional flying in phalanges of fingers and in other parts of body. ▶ Pinching here and there in muscles. ▶ Bruised feeling in morning after rising; in morning after waking, agg. arms.

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Emaciation.
Sensitiveness to open air.
Uneasiness in the limbs.
Tremulous weakness.
Restlessness, with surging of blood, particularly at night; with apprehension.
General prostration; < afternoon and night; > walking in the open air.
Symptoms < during rest, > motion; aggravation from change of weather and from cold.
All symptoms < night.
General amelioration from moving about in the open air, from warmth, and after the reappearance of suppressed eruptions or discharges (menstruation, stool, skin eruptions, bronchial secretions, etc.).
Very marked aggravation from washing.

Ill humor, with restlessness; lachrymose, absorbed in one's self.
Irritable and fault-finding.
Hasty and fickle.
Dread of washing.
Quarrelsome and impatient; nothing pleases.
Anxiety, preventing sleep in the evening, with heat of the head and cold feet.
Depressed and weeping mood, with restless nights, starting up.
Distraction of mind.
No power of concentration.

Head dull and confused, with heat and a feeling of rush of blood.
Dull headache, < open air.
Pain as from a cord around the head, or a weight on vertex.
A feeling of fullness and heaviness, especially in the morning; or in the evening, with pressure in the forehead; or at night, with a rush of blood to the head, or during menstruation.
Vertigo, particularly on stooping; did not dare even to look downward.
Boring pains in the bones of the head; < motion, with restlessness.
The top of the head becomes sensitive to the touch, as from pressure.
Various eruptions form over the scalp, pimples and pustules, with sensitiveness and itching and falling out of the hair.
The scalp becomes dry and sore, with excessive itching at night in bed.

Inflammation, with sharp, sticking pain, as from splinters.
Pain, as if spiculæ of glass were between the lid and eyeball, causing cutting, with burning and lachrymation.
Burning dryness in the eyes, with pain and fatigue when reading.
Burning, with lachrymation in the morning.
Smarting sore pain, with dryness of the lids and their margins, as if they rubbed against the eyeballs, or as of sand in the eyes.
Vision dim, flickering, of dark spots floating.

Sticking pains in the ears.
Roaring and humming.
Sensitiveness to noise.

Inflammation and swelling of the external nose.
Itching and burning, with soreness in the nostrils.
Dryness.
Sneezing as if a cold were coming on; frequent blowing of blood-streaked mucus or of watery discharge, often alternating with dryness and burning in the nostrils.
An offensive odor of old mucus on blowing the nose.

Pale, sickly look, as after an illness.
Drawing, jerking pains in the lower jaw.
Swelling of the lips, with eruption.
Dryness of the lips and margins of the nose, with burning and roughness, as if raw.

Toothache, boring and throbbing, or drawing; < evening and night, from cold water, < heat, with sensitiveness.
Swelling of the gums, with throbbing pain.
Tongue coated, at times, red and cracked, burning and rough, red tip and margins; burning pain.
General dryness of the mouth, with heat and thirst at night; more rarely ptyalism; with both aphthæ and ulcers.
Taste pasty, metallic, or bitter in the morning.
Sour all day, especially after drinking milk, with sour eructations.

Burning redness and dryness; stitches on swallowing.
Tonsils feel swollen, with stitches, extending to the ears on swallowing.
Hawking and clearing of the throat.
Spasmodic constriction in the middle of the pharynx, with difficult swallowing; a ball seems to rise and close the pharynx.

Appetite excessive, must eat frequently.
Great thirst.
Stomach and abdomen seem full as soon as he sees food, cannot eat.
Empty eructations after eating; sour during the day.
Nausea.
Heartburn.
Soreness or burning in the pit of the stomach, with constrictive cramp after eating.
Heaviness and dragging in the stomach, extending to abdomen.

Distention; numerous flatulent symptoms, with rumbling and gurgling, gripings.
Pain in the region of the liver, which seems swollen.
Abdomen sore, with bruised pain in the muscles; cannot easily become erect.
Colic after drinking.
Cutting and griping pains in lower abdomen, with pain in the small of the back and chilliness.

Sticking or cutting pains in the rectum, < evening.
Burning during stool.
Sensation after stool as if it were not evacuated.
Tenesmus before stool.
Constant distress and urging, with sticking sore pain, cannot lie nor sit, followed by a discharge of blood.
Hæmorrhoids greatly enlarged, with stinging itching and burning.

Diarrhœa, thin, pasty or fluid, at times, painless, and so urgent as to be almost involuntary, especially early in the morning, driving the patient out of bed; extremely fetid.
Stool tough, gluey, fetid and slimy.
Constipation; evacuations scanty and unsatisfactory, preceded and followed by uneasiness in the rectum, as if incompletely evacuated.
Stool dry and constipated, with irritation in the rectum; frequent desire, with piles, soreness and burning in the anus.
Stool often streaked with blood, or even dysenteric, with excessive tenesmus.

Frequent urging to urinate at night, usually with scanty discharge.
Burning in the urethra or stinging, especially when urinating.
Involuntary micturition at night.
Urine turbid, offensive, bloody.

General relaxation, with lack of power in men.
Bearing-down pain in uterine region.
Swelling and soreness of the pudenda and vagina.
Menses early and profuse, often stopping suddenly, with congestion of other parts of the body.
Menses preceded by headache; followed by slimy, acrid, milky leucorrhœa.

Rawness in the larynx, with hoarseness.
Dry cough in the evening, waking at night, with dyspnœa, < night when lying on the back, with pressure and anxiety in the chest; suffocation.
Cough dry at night, but loose in the day time from crawling in the larynx.
Burning in the chest, extending upward to the face.
Sharp sticking pains in the sides, often extending to back, < night and lying on the back.
Anxiety and oppression in the chest.
Weakness when talking.

Anxious palpitation at night in bed.
Sticking pains in the region of the heart.
Pulse rapid, often hard and full.

Backache at night, small of the back feels bruised, preventing sleep, < turning in bed, must hold the breath.
Sticking pain in the lumbar region.
Bruised pain in the coccyx, < stooping and rising.
Drawing pains and weakness, extending into the legs.

Drawing pains in all the joints, < evening, causing restlessness.
Pains like rheumatism in the left shoulder.
Tearing in the right shoulder, like paralysis.
Tremulousness of the hands and arms.
Sticking in the tips of the fingers.
Tearing drawing pains in the finger joints.
Cramps in the muscles of the legs.
Drawing or sticking pains in the legs and knees.
Pain in the knees and legs, as from stiffness or as if the muscles were too short on rising or walking.
Cramp in the calves, as if too short.
Stiffness in the ankles; heaviness in the ankles and feet.
Sticking, soreness and pains in the feet, as from tight shoes.
Sticking, cutting pains in the toes and roots of the nails.

Various eruptions; black points in the face.
Dry burning and itching eruptions, either like nettle-rash or like fine papular eruptions.
Itching vesicles form and sometimes pustules.
Itching, with burning, in various parts of the body; < scratching, which causes burning; < night in the heat of the bed, with restlessness.
Eruptions that are scratched tend to ulcerate and exude an offensive discharge.
The skin symptoms universally < bathing, associated with burning itching; scratching is followed by burning; aggravation at night, especially by the warmth of the bed.

Irresistible sleepiness during the day, but sleeplessness before midnight, after which there is frequent waking and tossing about till early morning.
Frequent waking at night, with rush of blood to the head; hot, restless hands and feet, frequent turning.
Dreams vivid; vexatious, frightening, anxious.

Chilliness in the evening, with headache; internal chilliness, particularly in the back, creeping chills starting in the small of the back.
Chilliness often associated with rush of blood.
Fever, with heat of the head and face, and of the hands and feet; < evening in bed.
Dry heat, with great thirst.
Perspiration at night, particularly towards morning, often of a sour or disagreeable odor.

SULPHUR.

For homœopathic use the roll sulphur of commerce is redistilled at a gentle heat, forming flowers of sulphur (flores sulphuris) and then washed by shaking with alcohol to remove any acid that may adhere to it. For more than 2, 000 years sulphur has been found a most efficacious remedy against the itch, while not a single physician noticed, or had even the faintest idea, that this was effected by the law of similars (Homœopathy). The itch, which is so common among workers in wool, causes a sort of unbearably agreeable, tingling, itching gnawing, as from lice ; this is also described by some as an intolerably voluptuous tickling itching, which ceases as soon as the finger is applied to it, to scratch it, and then begins to burn, and after scratching it continues to burn on that spot. So also the sulphur taken by healthy persons frequently causes similar pimples and vesicles with a burning itching, also chiefly on the joints and by night. This great specific virtue of sulphur against itch was during all these centuries merely abused to drive away the itch from the skin by external applications, while the internal itch malady remained uncured. This eventually manifests itself in another form through the breaking out of a great number of tedious diseases of the most varied kind, after the cutaneous eruptions [which had acted vicariously for the internal itch-malady (psora)] had been driven out through exsiccatory remedies, especially sulphur ointments, rubbed into the skin. In the same way syphilis does not arise before chancre (which prevents the breaking out of syphilis) has been destroyed by local applications. - Many physicians, indeed, also gave sulphur internally ; but the ointment rubbed in had already driven away the disease from the skin and some acute or chronic disease is the inevitable sad consequence of this treatment. The sulphur given by allopathic physicians is also crude sulphur in doses which excite purging and which, therefore, can never cure, nor have ever cured any itch by the internal application alone. If the mere drinking of sulphureous mineral waters without their external application has ever been able to effect such a cure, this was done because this substance had been comminuted in the bosom of the earth in a mechanical manner similar to that employed by the homœopath, and thus its internal medicinal virtues had been developed. Sulphur, given by the hand of the physician who does not proceed homœopathically, and who, therefore, has not first dynamized (potentized) this drug, and, indeed, potentized it highly, has never cured the (primary) itch of workers in wool, through its merely internal application, which is the only safe way of applying it. The more highly and intensively more strongly the sulphur has been potentized, the more surely will it cure. Formerly I considered the extract of sulphur, made with alcohol and called tinctura sulphuris, as sufficient ; but now, after having experimentally compared it, I consider it far inferior to the other preparations, effected by trituration the flowers of sulphur with one hundred parts of sugar of milk, up to the millionth-potency and the further dynamization of the solution of this potency, in the manner employed with other dry drugs. The latter dynamization I am compelled to recognize as the most perfect sulphur-medicine. The alcohol in the tinctura sulphuris seems only to attract some particular portion of the sulphur, but not all of its constituents without exception, i. e., not the entire sulphur. In cases where sulphur was homœopathically indicated, it also relieved the following ailments, if present at the same time : Irritability ; peevishness and dejection ; tendency to start ; timidity ; inclination to weep ; ill humor ; unconsolable state concerning every action in herself which she considers wrong ; fixed religious ideas ; fits of anxiety ; anxiety which compels the person to loosen the clothes and to seek the open air ; violence ; muddled state of the head and difficulty in thinking ; weakness of memory ; frequent fits of vertigo ; vertigo while sitting ; heaviness of the head and unconsciousness from stooping ; vertigo after meals ; rush of blood to the head, with flushes of heat ; nocturnal headache at the slightest movement in bed ; heaviness in the head ; heaviness in the occiput ; daily drawing headache, threatening to burst the head ; shooting headache ; shooting and buzzing headache ; beating headache in the vertex ; beating, clucking headache ; tingling, humming and roaring in the head ; coldness of the head ; a cold spot on the head ; closing of the eyelids in the morning ; far-sightedness ; gauzy appearance before the eyes ; short-sightedness ; drawing pain in the ears ; stoppage of the ears, while eating ; dull hearing ; humming and din before the ears ; buzzing in the ears ; roaring in the ears ; dryness of the nose ; stuffing of one nostril ; inflamed swelling of the tip of the nose ; blowing blood from the nose ; epistaxis ; pale, sickly complexion ; roughness of the skin in the face ; heat in the face ; hepatic spots on the upper lip ; evening toothache ; toothache, apparently from looseness of the teeth and from loose gums ; swelling of the gums, with beating pain ; sore throat, as if swollen within, impeding deglutition ; long-continued sensation as of a plug in the fauces and the throat ; the food is not relished ; the appetite too strong ; in the morning, a putrid taste in the mouth ; sour taste in the mouth ; aversion to fat food ; aversion to sweet and to sour things ; loathing of rye-bread ; it makes wine-drinking distasteful ; voracity ; after partaking of anything, tightness over the chest, like a load ; burning, sour eructation ; bitter eructation ; abortive eructation ; ill-smelling eructations at night, while sleeping ; eructations ; regurgitation of the food and drinks ; the food regurgitates up into the throat ; acid belching up into the mouth ; qualmishness before meals ; nausea after meals ; morning nausea ; waterbrash ; contractive, pinching pain in the stomach, immediately after meals ; burrowing in the pit of the stomach ; shooting about the stomach ; shooting in the left side of the abdomen, while walking ; shooting in the left side of the navel, while walking ; stitches in the abdomen ; pain in the left side of the abdomen, as if something was being torn out ; contractive pain below the umbilicus ; long-continued pressure in the epigastrium ; pressive pain in the left side of the abdomen, even to screaming, with constipation from incarceration of flatus ; pain in the abdomen after drinking ; the hypogastrium is painful when touched ; pain in the abdominal muscles in the morning, as if they were too short ; incarceration of flatus ; loud rumbling and growling in the abdomen ; hard stool ; stool only every two or three days ; involuntary stool, while urinating ; during a difficult evacuation, prolapsus of the rectum ; shooting in the anus, during stool, itching of the anus ; urging to urinate ; nocturnal wetting the bed ; deficient sexual powers ; too sudden emission of the semen during coitus ; fetid perspiration about the genitals ; itching and burning about the pudenda ; menses too early ; the menstrual blood has too little color ; bearing down on the genitals ; itching on the pudenda, before the menses ; headache before the menses ; leucorrhœa. Coryza ; stuffed coryza ; profuse fluent coryza ; roughness of the larynx ; tingling in the larynx, causing cough ; nocturnal cough ; continual feverish cough with expectoration of blood, and stitches in the chest ; difficult respiration ; asthma, with wheezing and rattling on the chest and visible palpitation ; nocturnal suffocating asthma ; fullness in the chest ; heaviness in the chest, in the morning ; weariness of the chest from singing ; stitches in the sternum ; shooting through the chest, extending into the left scapula ; burning, extending upward in the chest ; pressure in the sternum ; itching on the nipples ; pain in the small of the back ; creaking in the sacrum ; pain in the back, after manual labor ; drawing in the back ; tension in the nape ; twitching in the shoulder-joint ; drawing in the joints of the elbows, wrists, and fingers ; swelling of the arms ; perspiration of the palms ; trembling of the hands in fine work ; deadness of several fingers ; callus on the fingers ; tingling in the tips of the fingers and toes ; red spots on the lower limbs ; stitches in the thigh, when walking fast ; heaviness of the lower limbs ; coldness of the thighs, while the legs perspire, in the morning, in bed ; weakness in the knees and arms ; formication in the calves and arms ; sprained pain in the ankles ; stiffness in the ankle ; sweating of the feet ; restlessness in the feet ; erysipelas on the leg ; cold feet ; coldness and stiffness of the toes ; coldness of the feet and hands ; eroding blotches on the toes ; chilblains on the feet ; foot-sweat ; single jerks of the limbs, while sitting or lying down ; drawing pains in the knee and the remaining joints ; nettle-rash ; itching all over the body ; yellow spots on the body ; suffusion of blood from a slight blow ; sensitiveness to air and wind ; flushes of heat ; the limbs go to sleep ; shooting pains ; internal trembling ; muscular twitching ; strain from lifting ; swoons and convulsions ; the head is bowed, while walking ; fatigue from talking ; drowsiness by day ; too long sleep at night ; feels as if he had not slept enough, in the morning ; unrefreshing sleep ; drowsiness after dinner ; nocturnal colic ; jerking and twitching, during sleep ; fright during sleep ; sleeplessness ; the sleep is too light ; nocturnal insomnia, owing to formication in the calves and feet ; raving, anxious dreams ; frightful, restless dreams, and talking during sleep ; illusion, in the morning, on awaking, as if he saw persons who are not present ; nocturnal thirst ; perspiration by day and by night ; nocturnal sweat ; sour sweat, every night ; morning-sweat ; copious sweat, while working ; chilliness. My fellow-provers were : (Fr. H.) -Friedrich Hahnemann, and (Ng.) the anonymous prover in Hartlaub and Trinks, Reine Arzneimittellehre. [*].

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Sul. / (1st s) / The Sultan.

Sulphur, - Thou the royal leader
Of the anti-psora kin.
Itching, burning after scratching,
All eruptions of the skin.
Flashing heat, with sweat and faintness,
Faintness pending dinner calls,
Weariness in the act of standing,
Burning vertex, palms and soles.
What a dread thou hast of bathing,
Dread of heat in bed how great;
Better thou when slowly moving,
Though thou walk a stooping gait.
In thy sleep - how great thy terrors,
Screaming, jumping from thy bed;
All the day how sad thy feelings,
How thy things of memory fade.
To thy head the blood congesting,
Causes heat and weight on top;
Hammering pains and giddy whirlings,
That all locomotion stop;
Sore thy eyes - agglutinated,
Weak and sensitive to light,
Burning, itching, smarting, stitching;
Balls in ulcerated plight.
In thy ears a painful stitching,
Roaring, ringing - hearing dull.
Whilst thy nose, sore red and swollen,
Is of foul secretions full.
Flushed thy face, with heat and burning,
"Black-heads" clogging every pore;
Upper lip and jaw-glands swollen,
And the chin with herpes sore.
Parched thy mouth, or full of water,
Viewed within shows blisters there;
"Bad" thy taste in early morning,
Ache thy teeth in open air.
In thy throat a scraping, hawking,
Feeling like a rising ball;
In the stomach, craving hunger,
Or no appetite at all.
Burning is a gastric symptom,
Nausea just preceding meals;
Thirst for beer, among thy longings,
Milk distressing trouble deals.
In thy abdomen a soreness,
Stitching, griping, rumbling sound;
Colic with a bending double,
Tensive fullness all around.
Dry thy stools, with piles protruding,
Burning anus after stool,
Or a morning diarrhoea
Urging, may assert the rule.
Calls to urinate are urgent,
In the night specially so,
With an itching in the channel,
Or a burning with the flow.
In the night thou hast emissions,
Passed in dreaming - uncontrolled,
And thou has a sweating scrotum,
Itching glans, and penis cold.
Whilst thy wife, hath "show" abnormal,
Too profuse, or short, or late;
Burning itching leucorrhoea,
Mammae in flaming state.
Respiration short, when walking,
Rough, hoarse voice, or aphony;
Weakness in the chest when talking,
Sprain-like pain, therein may be.
In the night asthmatic smothering,
Or in the sleep disturbing "hack";
Cough in the rawness in the bronchi,
Cough with stitches in the back.
Heart in state of palpitation,
Mostly in the night in bed;
In the back a chilly crawling,
Stitching pain, or bruise instead.
Sweating from the least exertion,
Sweat profuse in sleep at night;
Morning sweat, soon after waking,
Ague - in a sinking plight.
Weakness, and emaciation,
Bruise-like pains or stitch, or cramp,
Stiffness of the knees and ankles:-
These the signet of thy stamp.

The Sultan - Has a hot vertex.

The Sultan, Eli, cant go cake and sang.

This Sultan, - Who is subject to itching eruptions,- In in Rome, with Rex Ole, and Miss Phyllis Plat, his creole pet.

Hot Vertex: Sul., Lach., Canth., Graph., Calc. c., Kal.c., Sang., (Burning spot on the head, Graph., Kal.c.)

Itching Eruptions: Sul., Rhus, Mer., Rumex c., Ole., Mer., Sep., Phyt., Plat., Kreo., Pet. (Itching without eruption, Dolichos, Rum. c., Phyt., Sul. Burning after scratching, Mez., Ole., Rhus, Sul. Moist after scratching, Graph., Ole., Changing place from scratching, Ig., Spo.)

Indicated in scrofulous conditions, in persons of uncleanly habits, lank and stoop-shouldered, in affections resulting from suppression of an eruption; in those subject to venous congestion and disturbed portal circulation. Characterized by periodicity and relapses. General inertia, aggravation from standing, acridity of the discharges, tendency of the skin to ulcerate from slight injury and, in children, dislike of being washed, are reliable indications. Frequently used in acute diseases when the indicated remedy fails to act, under the belief that it "clears up' the case or stimulates vital reaction. It holds to chronic diseases a relation similar to that of Aconite to acute affections.

Delusions; thinks he is rich; vile things, if he likes them, seem beautiful to him; thus, rags may seem to him beautiful garments.

Averse to physical or mental exertion; lazy, shiftless, selfish.

Child dislikes to be washed.

Feet cold, top of the head hot; feet cold during the day, burning hot at night.

Profuse, offensive sweating of single parts (armpits, between the legs).

Gone, empty feeling at the stomach at 11 a. m.

Milk disagrees.

Scalp dry; hair and skin harsh; hair falls out, dry, scaly eruption, with burning form scratching.

Neuralgia, periodical, every twenty-four hours form 12 to 1, increasing and decreasing gradually.

Headache, periodical, with heat on top of the head.

Lumbago, with sudden weakness in the back when getting up from a sitting posture.

Discharges (from nose, vagina, menstrual, urine etc.) irritate the parts with which they come in contact, causing itching, smarting, burning.

Constipation of large, hard, dry, knotty stools; painful; alternating with diarrhoea.

Constipation with ineffectual urging before and after stool, followed by severe aching and sticking pain in the rectum.

Diarrhoea; painless; drives hime out of bed with prolapsus ani and bleeding piles.

Redness and itching about the anus.

Chest feels heavy; can't breathe; must have fresh air.

Morning cough with greenish, purulent, sweetish expectoration.

Skin dry, hot, burning, with itching, worse from the heat of the bed; covered with dry scales; every little scratch or hurt festers, excoriations, especially in the folds of the skin, hang-nails; nipples crack, smart and burn.

Menses delayed, scanty, painful, irritating; stop suddenly.

Worse when standing; from washing in cold water; from warmth of bed.

Better in warm, dry weather; from lying on right side; from drawing up the affected limb.

Mental preoccupation with difficult thinking. Inclined to philosophical religious and political speculations. Weak memory. Great angriness and irritability in full blooded persons. Depression and despondency. Restlessness and haste. Anxiousness in evening. Frightened easily. Aversion to being washed, in children. Melancholy with solicitude of the salvation of his own should but indifference to the fate of others. Weeping.

Especially when sitting, with vanishing of sight and nosebleed.

Congestion from chest to head, with burning heat and gurgling, pulsating pain in brain, throbbing in neck and cardiac region, diminished hearing and flushes of heat in face. Hollow feeling in occiput. Buzzing and roaring feeling in. Stitches and bruised sensation. Bursting pain. Forehead: outward sticking and pressure in, tearing and heat in better moving head, heaviness and fullness worse raising or moving head, tension in and in eyes from every mental exertion or moving eyes. The head is stooped forward when walking, Worse: Open air, during stool, talking, early on awaking and in evening, stooping, after eating. Better: In warm room, at rest, external pressure, sitting, lying with head high.

Bone pains like a band contracting about head, and as though' flesh were loose thereon, ending in inflammation, swelling and caries. Open fontanelles. Agreeable crawling, itching (more on occiput and behind ears), burning changing place or feeling better from scratching, but bleeding easily, then foul eruptions or ulcers which burn or smart as if raw, soon follow. Scalp or vertex sensitive to touch. External coldness. Hair dry, falls out, in child bed. Worse: Cold, wet weather, during rest, warmth of bed. Better: Motion, cool air.

Sunken, encircled by blue rings. Red painful inflammation, as from the recent presence of a foreign body. Stitches, especially in sunshine or artificial light. Profuse lachrymation in open air, with disagreeable dryness thereof in a room. Vision lost, as though' they had been obliterated. Like gauze before. Obstruction of cornea. Vesicles on cornea. Farsighted. Photophobia with sticking, worst during sultry weather. Frequent inflammation of lids with burning and profuse secretion of mucus. Ulcerated lids. The lids are relaxed and hang down.

Purulent discharge from. Drawing and sticking in. Humming and roaring in. Oversensitive hearing.

Swelling, redness and inflammation of. Herpes transversely across. Epistaxis. Odor like an old catarrh in. Dry, stopped nasal secretions. Burning fluent coryza with discharge of burning water in open air, but dry in house.

Pale, sickly color. Burning, seeming to rise from chest. Heat and spotted redness of. Erysipelas. Humid herpes. Milk crust. Swollen upper lips. Cancer of lips. Swelling of submaxillary glands.

Ache every evening. Sensitive tips. Swelling of gums with throbbing pains. Dental fistula.

Stomatitis. Aphthae of children. Chronic sensation of a plug or lump in throat. Dryness of throat. Frothy mucus on tongue. Offensive breath.

Burning in. Contractive spasms of, after eating. Burrowing in pit. Sensitive pit. Pressure and stitches in.

Hypochondria: Stitches in hepatic region both hypochondria and spleen.

Appetite: Too great. But knows not for what. Constant thirst. Drinks much, eats little. (Ant-t.)

Taste: Offensive, sweetish or sour, in mouth.

Eructations: Offensive smelling, at night during sleep. Sour. Loud, whenever he presses on abdomen. Gulping up of ingesta. Heartburn.

Nausea, etc. - Qualmishness after eating. Tenderness of epigastrium after eating. Retching. Vomiting: First of water, then of solid food, of blood, sour or bitter, withhold sweat upon face.

Stitches in (left) side of, when walking. Bellyache after drinking. Like a hard lump in (Pul.). Hemorrhoidal colic. Ascites. Labor - like pains across the pubes. Incarcerated hernia. Loud rumbling and grumbling in. Obstructed flatus with pressure in (left) side of.

Frequent, ineffectual urging. Hard, knotty. Chronic constipation. Soft, blood - streaked s. Dysenteric, with violent tenesmus. Involuntary.

- Prolapsus rect. Swollen anal hemorrhoids. Itching, sticking and burning in anus.

Frequent, nightly urination, with discharge of much urine in a powerful stream. Nocturnal enuresis. Involuntary.

Weak sexual power. Swelling of testicles. Hydrocele. Moisture on scrotum. Pressure on genitals. Swelling and painfulness of labia and vagina when sitting.

Menses: Too early and too profuse. Suppressed, with congestion of blood to other parts. Headache before. Mucus or acrid milky leucorrhoea.

Difficult inspiration from a painless tightness of chest. Nightly. Suffocative attacks. Tightness of chest with visible palpitation and snoring like sensation therein. Oppressed when bringing the arms together in front of body.

Dry, with spasm of chest and retching, during day and night. Nightly, with tendency to diarrhoea. From crawling in larynx. Always in two quickly succeeding paroxysms of rapid coughing fits, excited by a tickling as of feather down in larynx. In evening and at night without, in morning and during day with expectoration of dark blood or yellow, greenish, purulent, often cold or milky white watery mucus ordinary of a sourish or flat, foul or salty taste or like on old foul catarrh.

Rough nasal sound like snoring. Deep, rough voice.

Pressure, tension, stitches, cutting, constriction, and a kind of bursting pain in. Fullness in. Congestion to. Spasms of. Roughness and soreness in. Oppression, as of a load on, after some foods. Feeling as if lungs touched back. Pain in entire c. Suppuration of lungs. Pulmonary phthisis. Violent, visible palpitation. Swelling and nodes in mammae. Excoriated nipples. Cancer of mammae.

Drawing in. Curvature of spine. Pain in lumbar region when walking or rising from sitting pain and tension in sacrum. Stitches in scapulae.

Drawing in joints of arms, hands and fingers. Cracks on hands, especially between fingers and on palms. Erysipelatous swelling of fingers. Hangnails. Cold trembling hands.

Heavy legs. Erysipelas on lower legs. Stiff ankles. Bruised or dislocative pain in shoulder (I). Feet cold or covered with cold sweat.

Great debility from speaking. General emaciation. Sensitive to open air. Restless limbs. Sticking pains in joints. Tearing in limbs with yawing and anxious sweat. Gouty arthritis with heat and swelling. Flying pains in extremities which often suddenly disappear for a time. Paralysis of limbs. Epileptiform twitchings, with an aura, as of a mouse running up arm or back. Symptoms appear mostly during rest and disappear during motion. Standing causes the greatest aggravation. Changes of weather, and especially wet weather, intensify the symptoms. Cold intensifies and warmth ameliorates the pains. Useful as an intercurrent in cases where the carefully selected remedy fails to act because some foreign controlling influence (Psora) requires to be subdued in order to allow the previous remedy a free scope to develop its power.

Glands inflamed, swollen indurated and suppurating. Swollen cervical glands.

Pain in, as though' flesh were loose thereon. Inflammation and swelling of. Caries. Curvature and rachitis.

Erysipelatous inflammations with pale, hot swelling. Nettlerash. Black pores. Bluish spots like ecchymoses. Itching and burning herpes. Scaly herpes. Liver spots. Panaritia. Boils (especially on buttocks). Spongy proud flesh in ulcers. Dropsy. Cracked. Chafing of children. Unbreakable itching, especially from warmth. Itch which itches intensely in evening and from warmth (often recurs in spring time). Eruption: Receding, tendency to. Effects of suppressed emotions.

Great day sleepiness, especially in afternoon and after sunset, with sleeplessness at night. Late falling to. Long but unrefreshing sleep, in morning. Nightly jerking and twitching in body during. Nightmare.

Pulse: Full, hard and accelerated, sometimes intermittent. Violent ebullitions of blood throughout entire body. Chill: And chilliness, principally internal and without thirst, mostly evenings, but also at other times of day. External, with concomitant internal heat and redness of face. Severe, at night in bed. In forenoon, in afternoon heat with cold feet. With thirst, after previous heat. Spreading from toes. Running up back. Heat: Afternoons and evening, with dry skin and great thirst. Frequent attacks of flying heat. Great, at night, without thirst, often preceding chill with thirst, often preceding chill with thirst. Sweat: Nights and mornings. Copious sour smelling s., the whole night. In evening, most on hands. Copious, from least movement. Anxious debilitating, of an empyreumatic, sour, seldom offensive, sometimes also cold. Nightstand, only on nape and occiput

Allied Remedies: Aco., Ag-c., Alc. Ambr., ANT-C., AP., ARS., Bell., Bor., CALC-C., Carb-v., CAUST., Cham., Chel., Chin., Coff., Dulc., Ferr., Graph., Hep., Iod., Kre., MERC., NAT-S., Nit-ac., Nux-v., Petr Pod., PSOR., PULS., Ran-b., Rhus-t., Sars., Selen., SEP., Sil., Stann, Staph., Stront., Thuj., Valer.

Complementary: Calc-c., MERC., Nux-v., RHUS.

Peevishness and fantastic illusions.

Frontal headache in the morning.

Contracted pupils.

Of great utility in the cure of idiopathic epilepsy and convulsions of both sexes.

Great weakness, sallow, pale and yellow face with marked anaemia.

Canine hunger very marked.

Seminal emissions and irritability.

Eructations, with aversion to meat, qualmishness and nausea.

Pustular eczema of any part.

Scurfy lids, purulent otorrhoea, and loss of vital strength very prominent symptoms when the drug is of curative influence.

When other remedies fail to act is of inestimable need in rallying the vital forces.

Yeasty urine.

Amblyopia in youthful girls with great loss of vigor, anorexia and the costive state.

Useful in haemorrhoids when the bowels prove inactive.

Paraplegia of the lower limbs and paralysis of other parts.