-Brittleness of the nails is often a symptom of a low state of health. Gout is a common cause of it. When affections of the nails occur independently, they are best treated by medicines.
Arsenicum 3.
-When the nails crack.
Graphites 6.
-Thick, corrugated nails.
Phosphorus3.
-Ulcers around the nails.
Secal. 3.
-Degeneration of the pulp of the nails.
Tone-nail, In-growing. See IN-GROWING TOE-NAIL.
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica