MEZEREUM



Sweat during sleep following the chill. Skin dripping with cold sweat.

Sides

      Right: Left: 8,.

Tissues

      Emaciation of face or of diseased parts.

Joints feel bruised, weary as if they would give way.

Cystic osteoma, burning pains, swelling; worse at night.

Bones inflamed, swollen, especially shafts of cylindrical bones; caries; after abuse of mercury; feel distended.

Soreness and burning in bones of thorax.

Contact Injuries etc.

      Touch:,, Scratching: Boring with finger:.

Skin

      Roughness and scaling here and there; skin of hands rough and dead.

Violent itching, worse in bed, from touch; burning and change of place after scratching.

Eczema itching intolerably, copious serous exudation.

Ulcerative eruption on finger-joints, itching most at night.

Brownish miliary rash on chest, arm and thighs.

Vesicles form a brownish scab. Pruritis senilis, intolerable itching.

Ulcers, areolae sensitive; easily bleeding; painful at night; pus under scabs; burning vesicles around ulcers.

Scabs thick, lamellated, like rupia, bloody secretion beneath; worse on parts devoid of at.

Neuralgia and burning after zona.

Vesicular erysipelas.

Scurf-like fish-scales on back, chest and thighs and scalp.

Stages and States

      Phlegmatic temperature.

Relationship

      Antidotes to Mezer. : Calcarea carb. (headache); Nux vomica (neuralgia of eye); Mezer. is frequently indicated against bad effects of Mcrcur.; Nitr ac.; Phosphor,; spirituous liquors.

C. Hering
Hering got the degree of M. D. from the University of Wuezburg with highest honours. The theme of his thesis was "De'Medicina Futura" (The medicine of future). Hering left Germany for West Indies and finally arrived at Philadelphia in Jan, 1833. He established a homeopathic school at Allentown, Pennsylvania, commonly known as "Allentown Academy". Soon he became very popular as a physician. He is known as the 'Father of Homeopathy' in America.