CANTHARIS



Yellow fever, with suppression of urine, haemorrhage from the bowel, stomach, &c and cold sweat of face and body, has been treated by cantharis.

LEADING INDICATIONS.

      (1) Aversion from drink, food and tobacco may exist.

(2) General burning and sensitiveness of surface.

(3) Burning prominent throughout the case.

(4) weakness, faintness, feeble pulse, with external coldness and shuddering and internal burning-after acute illness.

(5) Acute cystitis and nephritis.

(6) Acute dermatitis with vesication and burning.

(7) Acute sexual excitement and local inflammations in both sexes.

(8) Delirium resembling acute alcoholic poisoning or hydrophobia.

(9) Paroxysms of rage and convulsions.

(10) Pleurisy with effusion: pneumonia, tending to gangrene.

(11) Proctitis and prostatitis.

(12) Pelvic peritonitis, gonorrhoeal or septic.

(13) Erysipelas with vesication; dermatitis with burning of surface, from scalds, sun, &c., especially of the face.

(14) Severity and suddenness of onset with rapid progress.

(15) thirst, from dryness of throat, but fear of drinking lest it cause spasm of dyspnoea.

AGGRAVATION;

      From drinking even a little water (cystitis), from coffee (general), and from movement and touch.

AMELIORATION;

      In the morning in bed; at night (mental symptoms): at night, all pains except abdominal: from eructations and passing flatus: from warmth.

Edwin Awdas Neatby
Edwin Awdas Neatby 1858 – 1933 MD was an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become a physician at the London Homeopathic Hospital, Consulting Physician at the Buchanan Homeopathic Hospital St. Leonard’s on Sea, Consulting Surgeon at the Leaf Hospital Eastbourne, President of the British Homeopathic Society.

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,