LEADING INDICATIONS.
1) A heavy drowsy state with flushed dusky face and tendency to wandering of mind in febrile conditions.
2) Soreness of parts lain on, interpreted as a hard, lumpy bed.
3) Consequent restlessness, necessitating movement, though movement is painful.
4) Foetor of all secretions and excretions.
5) Mental confusion, of double personality, &c. (see text) before unconsciousness develops.
6) Parts feel enlarged-head or hands.
7) The typhoid state, in specific or septic fevers; low, continued fevers.
8) Chilliness in daytime; heat, restlessness and sleeplessness at night.
9) Difficulty of breathing and craving for fresh air.
10) On first waking confusion more marked.
11) Livid spots on skin.
12) Involuntary discharge of urine and faeces, or retention of urine.
13) The state of the tongue varies with the stage of the disease: as first it feels swollen, trembles and is coated in the middle, later in becomes brown and dry or raw, finally hard, dry, almost black, and shrivelled, or it may be ulcerated. Intense foetor of breath and oozing of blood from the mucosa. Any of these states indicate baptisia.
14) Dysphagia from sore throat and spasm of oesophagus, worse from solids.
AMELIORATION.
THE MODALITIES of baptisia are not well marked; its selection as a remedy must be determined by the grouping of symptoms just narrated.
AGGRAVATION:
From drinking beer (gastric symptoms); walking or moving affected parts (some abdominal and muscular pains); cold winds; from thinking of the pains.
Edwin Awdas Neatby founded the Missionary School of Homeopathy and the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1903, and run by the British Homeopathic Association. He died in East Grinstead, Sussex, on the 1st December 1933. Edwin Awdas Neatby wrote The place of operation in the treatment of uterine fibroids, Modern developments in medicine, Pleural effusions in children, Manual of Homoeo Therapeutics,