Swelling of the Scrotum (in boys). Fr. Hoffmann, Medorrhinum rat. syst., III., P.175.
Red Swelling of the Whole Body. Lentilius, Misc. med. pract., Part I., P.176.
Jaundice. Baldinger, Krankheiten ein. Armee, P.226. job. Rud. Camerarius, Memorab. Cent., X., §65.
Swelling of the Parotid Glands. Barette, in the journal de Medorrhinum, XVIII., P.169.
Swelling of the Cervical Glands, Pelargus, as above, Jahrg., 1723, P.593.36 Unzer, Arzt. Part VI., St. 301.37
Obscuration of the Eyes and Presbyopia, Fr. Hoffman, Consult. med., I Cas. 50.38
Inflammation of the Eyes, G. W. Wedel. Snetter, Diss. de Ophthalmia, Jen., 1710. Hallmann, in Koenigl. Vetenskaps Handl. f. A. X., P.210.39 G. Chph. Schiller, de Scabie humida,
P.42, Erford. 1747.
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(36 A boy of 8 or 9 years, who had been shortly before healed of tinea showed many swellings of the glands of the neck by which his neck was drawn crooked and stiff.)
(37 A youth of 14 years had the itch in June, 1761. He rubbed with a grey ointment and the itch passed away. Upon this the glands behind both of his ears swelled up; the swelling on the left ear passed away of itself, but the right one in five months became monstrously enlarged and about August began to pain him. All the glands of the neck were swollen. On the outside the large gland was full of hard knots and without sensitiveness, but internally there was an obtuse pain, especially at night; at the same time he suffered from dyspnoea and obstructed deglutition. All means used to produce suppuration were in vain; it became so large that the patient was suffocated in the year 1762.)
(38 A girl of 13 years was seized with the itch, especially on the limbs, in the fare and on the pudenda; this was finally driven away by ointments of zinc and sulphur, whereupon she gradually became weak of sight. Little dark bodies floated before her eyes, and these could also be seen from without floating in the aqueous humor of the anterior chamber of the eye. At the same time she could not recognize small bodies except with spectacles. The pupils were dilated.)
(39 A girl had a violent eruption of itch on the legs, with large ulcers on the bend of the knee. Being attacked with smallpox the itch was suppressed. This induced a humid inflammation of the white of the eye and of the eyelids, with itching and suppuration of the same, and the vision of dark bodies floating before her eyes; this lasted for two years. Then for three days she put on the stockings of a child afflicted with the itch. On the last day a fever broke out with dry cough, tension in the chest, with inclination to vomit. On the following day the fever and the tension of the chest diminished and a sweat broke out, which increased until erysipelas broke out on both legs, and on the following day these passed over into the real itch. The eyes then improved.
Cataract, Chn. Gottlieb Ludwig, Advers. med. II., P.157.40
Amaurosis, Northof, Diss. de scabie, Gotting., I792, P.10.41 Chn. G. Ludwig, as above.42Sennert, prax. lib. III., Sect. 2, Cap 44. Trecourt, chirurg. Wahrnehmungen P.173 Leipz I777. Fabricius ab Hilden. Cent. II., obs. 39.43
Deafness. Thore in Capelle, journal de sante, Tom. I. Daniel, Syst. aegritud. II., P.228. Ludwig, as above.
Inflammation of the Bowels, Hundertmark, Diss. de scabie artificiali, Lips. I758, P.29.
Piles, Hemorrhoids, Acta helvet. V., P.I92.44 Daniel, Syst. aegritud. II., P.245.45
Abdominal Complaints, Fr. Hoffmann, Medorrhinum rat. syst. III., P.177.46
Diabetes (Mellitaria), Comment. Lips. XIV., P.365. Eph. Nat. Cur. Dec. II., ann. 10, P.162. C. Weber, Obs. f. I., P.26.
Suppression of Urine, Sennert, Prax. lib. 3, P.8. Morgagni, as above, XLI., art. 2.47
Erysipelas, Unzer Artz, Th. V., St. 301.48
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(40 A man whose itch had been driven off, but who was of robust constitution, was seized with cataract.)
(41 From itch expelled by external application there arose amaurosis, which passed away when the eruption re-appeared on the skin.)
(42 A vigorous man, when the itch had been expelled from the skin, was seized with amaurosis and remained blind to an advanced age.)
(43 Amaurosis from the same cause, with terrible headache.)
(44 Bleeding piles returned every month.)
(45 In consequence of itch driven off by external applications, loss of blood up to eight pounds within a few hours, colic, fever, etc.)
(46 After the expulsion of itch a most violent colic, pain in the region of the left lower ribs, restlessness, lingering fever, anxiety and obstinate constipation.)
(47 A young peasant had driven off the itch with ointment, and shortly after he suffered from suppression of urine, vomiting and at times from a pain in the left loin. Still he, after awhile, passed urine a few times, but only a little, of dark color and attended with pains. In vain the attempt was made to empty it with a catheter. At last the whole body swelled up, difficult and slow respiration ensued, and he died on about the twenty-first day after the suppression of the itch. The bladder contained two pounds of urine just as dark, but the abdominal cavity, water, which being held for awhile over the fire thickened into a sort of albumen.)
(48 A man rubbed himself with mercurial ointment against the itch, when there followed an erysipelatous inflammation in the neck, of which he died after five weeks.)
Discharges of acrid humors. Fr. Hoffman, Consult. Tom. II., Cas. I25.
Ulcers, Unzer Arzt, Th. V., St. 3O1.49 Pelargus, as above, Jahrg., 1723, P.673.50 Breslauer Samm., 1727, P.107.51 Muzell, Wahrnehm. II., Cas. 6.52 Riedlin, the son, Cent. obs. 38.53Alberti-Gorn, Diss. de scabi., P.24. Halle, 1718.
Caries. Richard, as above.
Swelling of the Bones of the Knee. Valsalva in Morgagni, de sede et caus. morb. I. art. 13.
Pain in the bones, Hamburger Magaz., XVIII., P.3, 253.
Rachitis and Marasmus in Children, Fr. Hoffman. Kinderkrankh. Leipiz., I74I, P.132.
Fever, B. V. Faventinus, Medicina empir., P.260. Ramazzini, Constit. epid, urbis. II. No. 32, 1691.54 J. C. Carl in Actea Nat. Cur. VI., obs. 16.55
Fever, Reil, Memorab. Fasc. III., P. 169.56 Pelargus, as above; Jahrg., I72I, P.276.57 and ibid. Jahrg., 1723.58 Amatus, Lusit. Cent. II., Cor. 33. Schiller Diss. de scabie humida, Erford,
1747, P. 44.59 J. J. Fick, Exerdiatio med. de scabie retropulsa. Halle, 1710, §2.60 Pelargus, as above, Jahrg,. 1722, p.122.61 Also Jahrg., 1723, P.10, P.14.62 and P.291. C. G. Ludwig,
Advers. med. II., pp. I57-160.63 Morgagni, as ab. X., art. 9;64 XXI., art. 31;65 XXXVIII., art. 22;66 LV., art. 3.67
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(49 A woman, after using a mercurial ointment against itch, had a putrescent eruption all over her body, so that whole pieces of flesh rotted away; she died in a few days with the greatest pains.)
(50 A youth of 16 years had the itch for some time; when this passed away ulcers broke out on the legs.)
(51 After rubbing with an ointment against the itch there followed with a man of 50 years tearing pains in the left shoulder for five weeks, when several ulcers broke out in the arm-pit.)
(52 A quack gave a student an ointment for the itch, from which it disappeared indeed, but instead of it an incurable ulcer broke out in the mouth.)
(53 A student who had been for a long time afflicted with the itch drove it off with an ointment, and instead of this there broke out ulcers on his arms and legs, and glandular swellings in the arm-pits. These ulcers were finally cured by external applications, when he was seized with dyspnoea and then with dropsy, and from these he died.)
(54 Many observations are found there respecting cases where the itch, being driven off by ointments, there followed fever and blackish urine, and where, when the itch was brought back to the skin, the fever disappeared and the urine became like that of a healthy person.)
(55 A man and a woman had an eruption of itch on the hand, of many years’ standing, and as often as it dried up fever always ensued, and as soon as this came to an end the eruption of itch again returned; and yet this itch extended but to a small part of the body and was not driven off by external applications.)
(56 Itch was suppressed by a fever that set in; when the fever was removed it returned.)
(57 A mother put ointment on the tinea of a boy of 9 years; it, passed away, but there followed a violent fever.)
(58 A child, 1 year old, had had for some time tinea capitis and an eruption in the face; both these had shortly before dried up, when there followed heat, cough and diarrhoea. A return of the eruption on the head gave alleviation.)
(59 A woman of 43 years, long afflicted with dry itch, rubbed her joints with an ointment of sulphur and mercury, and thus drove it off, this was followed by pains under the right ribs, lassitude in all the limbs, heat and feverish irritation. After using sudorific remedies for six days, large vesicles of itch broke out all over the body.)
(60 Two youths, brothers, drove off the itch by one and the same remedy, but they lost all appetite, a dry cough and a lingering fever set in, they became emaciated and fell into a slumberous stupor, so that they would have died if the eruption had not luckily re-appeared on the skin.)
Hahnemann's three major publications chart the development of homeopathy. In the Organon of Medicine, we see the fundamentals laid out. Materia Medica Pura records the exact symptoms of the remedy provings. In his book, The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homoeopathic Cure, he showed us how natural diseases become chronic in nature when suppressed by improper treatment.