Bacillinum.
Symptoms
1. Fair, blue-eyes subjects; tall, slim, flat-chested; blue sclerotic, red lips; mentally precocious but physically weak; child often covered with fine hairs on chest, back, etc. Tubercular diathesis.
2. Despondency with irritability; patient taciturn; sulky; disposition naturally sweet but changed by diseases; desires constant change; fears dogs.
3. Symptoms over changing locality; begin suddenly and cease suddenly.
4. Always catching cold without knowing how or where.
5. Emaciation rapid and pronounced: often in spite of good appetite; patient easily tires.
6. Chronic tubercular headache, from above right eye to occiput; h/a of school-girls ((<)) slightest mental exertion; glasses fail to (>).
7. Chronic diarrhoeas with great weakness and profuse night sweats; esp. in early a.m., sudden and imperative (Sulphur).
8. Chronic dysmenorrhoeas; periods premature, profuse, protracted.
9. Skin complaints; tubercular eczemas over entire body, intense itching ((<)) undressing, bathing; oozing in folds of skin and in the hair with rawness and soreness; immense quantities of white, brain-like scales. Crops of very painful small boils appear successively in the nose with green, foetid pus. Ringworm.
10. Patient ((<)) heat, yet sensitive to cold; exertion.
Note. Valuable when well-selected remedies fail in patients with family history of T.B.
