Generalities
It acts upon BLOOD; disorganizing it and producing conditions like low fevers; low types of eruptive diseases, and haemorrhagic diathesis. It affects the THROAT causing diphtheria and follicular tonsillitis. Streptococcus infection. The skin appears LIVID or purplish. Prostration is rapid. LIVIDITY, STUPOR, foetor and MALIGNANCY are marked conditions. Discharges are thin and acrid. Sepsis. Rash often returns annually. It is suited to nervous sensitive persons. Stout and robust, bilious temperament.
Worse
Suppressions. Raising up or sitting up. Sight of food. Motion, walking.
Better
Hot drinks. Lying on right side.
Mind
Stupor; or stoic indifference, with sighing. Dullness, must read a subject several times or figures over and over again. All the antecedents are forgotten. Constant muttering delirium; with sleeplessness and restlessness. Raging delirium with brilliant eyes.
Head
Ache in frontal, with dizziness and red hot face; cannot sit up. Faint on rising up, or vertigo worse lying.
Eyes
Suffused and congested; startled look when roused. Pupils dilated. Photophobia.
Ears
Pain in, while swallowing. Parotid glands tender and enlarged.
Nose
Thin copious bloody ichorous nasal discharge. Nose dry. Itching and uneasy feeling around the nose.
Face
Mahogany coloured; dark and swollen. Chronic speckled spotted face; a kind of acne. Lips swollen and cracked.
Mouth
Teeth covered with sordes. Tongue; dry and brown; parched and cracked.
Throat
Dry, foul fauces. Throat dark and swollen. Tonsils studded with many deep ulcers. (worse left), with loose pultaceous discharge. Much swelling internal and external. Lacunar tonsillitis. Irritation and itching of posterior pharynx. Diphtheria.
Stomach
Sudden violent vomiting when sitting up. Peculiar feeling of emptiness in.
Abdomen
Diarrhoea, dysentery with great weakness. Stools, thin, watery offensive, passing involuntarily with urine. Tapeworm. Sense of insecurity, stool, urine, etc.
Urinary Organs
Urine scanty, suppressed; passed unconsciously.
Female
Malignant puerperal fever.
Respiratory
Breathing hurried, irregular. Dry hacking cough. Lungs sore and tired.
Heart
Pulse rapid, small, weak.
Back and Neck
Neck tender and very much swollen.
Sleep
Drowsy, restless.
Fever
Adynamic fever with weak heart. Cold sweat.
Skin
Eruptions in dark, sparse patches; appear slowly; disappear on pressure, but return slowly. Skin mottled. Large blisters filled with dark serum. Scarlatina maligna. Petechiae. Crawling all over the body.
Related
Arum-t; Bapt; Lac-c.
He was convinced about Homoeopathy while going through Sir William Osler's writings on 'History of Medicine' so switched over to an entirely Homoeopathic Practice in 1932. He also started working on Homoeopathic literature along with his Practice.
He has contributed immensely to homoeopathic literature. He was an ardent follower of Dr Boger. His Repertory is based on Boger's ''A Synoptic key to Materia Medica'.