LEADING INDICATIONS.
(1) Ravenous hunger with progressive emaciation of the patient.
(2) Constant desire to be eating, which temporarily relieves pain of duodenal ulceration and other digestive and mental symptoms.
(3) Restlessness-compulsion to move about to relieve feeling of impending evil-therefore relief from movement, with exception of head pains which are worse from movement.
(4) Sudden, groundless impulses to do violence to other people or to commit suicide or to destroy property.
(5) Chronicity and sluggishness of complaints.
(6) Glandular enlargements: (a) lymphatic (cervical inguinal, mesenteric, axillary); (b) genital glands (both sexes); (c) mammary; (d) thyroid; (e) salivary (parotid); (f) digestive (pancreas and liver); prostate.
(7) Named diseases with foregoing characteristics:- Tubercle-tabes mesenterica, scrofula and phthisis. Syphilis. Laryngitis and diphtheria. Pertussis, bronchitis, pneumonia. Pericarditis and fatty degeneration or atrophy of myocardium. Diabetes. Jaundice and cirrhosis of liver. Hydrocele, chronic mastitis, menorrhagia. Catarrh of middle ear and Eustachian tube. Ophthalmia, simple, scrofulous and phlyctenular. Joint affections-rheumatic, gouty, gonorrhoeal; synovitis.
AGGRAVATION:
At night, especially at and after 3 a.m., and in gouty or rheumatic joint affections. The joints are painful that swell little, there are free night sweats; from warmth generally; morning (laryngeal).
AMELIORATION:
Cold air and cold bathing; while eating.
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,