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Skin

Swelling, with heats and scarlet redness of the whole body, or of several parts, chiefly the face, the neck, the chest, the abdomen, and the hands. Cutting of the skin as though “sliced” with a sharp knife. Erysipelatous inflammations, with phlegmon, which sometimes turn to gangrene. Gangrene and sphacelus of several parts. Red places, inflamed and scarlet spots on several parts of the body, sometimes with small, quick pulse, difficulty of respiration, violent cough, delirium, liveliness of memory, inclination to rub the nose, and dilated pupils. Red spots, the colour of blood, over the whole body, principally on the face, neck, and chest. Eruption resembling morbilli. Eruption of petechiae, with itching and redness of the whole body. Miliary eruptions. Vesicles which discharge a great deal of serum, and are so painful as to extort cries and groans. Bleeding soreness of the bends of the joints. Eruption of pustules with whitish edges, with black slough, and Oedematous swelling of the diseased part. Boils (returning every spring). Red scaly eruption on the lower part of the body. Scrofulous tumors and nodes, which are painful. Pain, as of excoriation, burning and pulling in ulcers, principally on being touched, during motion, and in the night. Dry, burning-hot skin. Burning of the skin, particularly when the hand continues to burn after touching the skin, as though a hot stove had been touched, very characteristic. Red, hot, and shining swelling of the diseased parts. Smooth, even shining (not circumscribed) redness of the skin, with bloatedness, dryness, heat, burning itching and swelling of the parts (especially face, neck, chest, abdomen and hands). The ulcers secrete a purulent and sanguineous matter. Chilblains Painful swelling of the glands (inflamed, stinging).

Sleep

Constant drowsiness, sometimes with cloudiness, and yawning and chiefly towards the evening. Fits of somnolence and of lethargy, with profound sleep, immobility of the body, jerking of the tendons, pale and cold face, hands cold, and pulse small, hard, and quick. Somnolence, stupor, lethargy (with snoring). Coma, interrupted by momentary waking, with furious looks. After the fit of coma, great hunger, burning heat and dryness of the mouth. Pulsation of the blood-vessels, may hear the pulsations of the blood-vessels so loud when trying to sleep as to be kept awake by it. Comatose sleep at night, with frequent waking and convulsive movements. Sleep, with moaning and tossing about. Nocturnal sleeplessness, sometimes with desire to sleep and useless efforts to go to sleep, mostly in consequence of excessive anguish or great agitation. On sleeping, frequent starts with fright, groans, cries, starting of the limbs, carphology, aggravation of pains, singing, talking, delirium, and continual dreams. Nightmare. Dreams: anxious, terrible, frightful, vivid, dreams of fires, of robbers, and assassins, meditative dreams. On closing the eyes in order to go to sleep, frightful visions and jerking in the limbs. On waking, headache and aggravation of sufferings.

Fever

Coldness over the entire body, with paleness of face, or coldness of the extremities, with bloatedness and redness of the face. Shiverings and partial shuddering, chiefly in the back or the pit of the stomach, or in one arm, and sometimes with heat in other parts, chiefly in the head, or followed by universal shivering. Cold limbs, with hot head. Chilliness not relieved by the heat of the stove. Continuous dry, burning heat, with perspiration only on the head. Internal heat with restlessness, hot forehead and cold cheeks. Dry heat and thirst, and perspiration only on the head and neck (sour-smelling). The shiverings appear mostly in the evening, sometimes with nausea, bruise-like sensation, and pulling in the back and in the limbs, pricking in the chest and obscuration of the eyes. Febrile attacks, in which shiverings alternate with heat, or of shiverings followed by hear, with aggravation at night or in the evening, resembling quotidian, or double quotidian, or tertian, with complete adipsia, or burning and inextinguishable thirst. Dry, burning heat, often with swelling of the veins, pulsation of the carotids, heat, redness and bloatedness of the face, burning thirst, agitation furious delirium, and shiverings on being even slightly uncovered. Pulse strong and quick, or full and slow, or small and quick, or hard and wiry. If slow, the pulse is full. Pulse full, hard, strong, bounding, double. Sweat with or after the heat, copious sweat during the night, or in the morning, sweat of the parts that are covered only, ascending from the feet to the head, sweat when asleep, sweat of an empyreumatic smell, or which imparts a yellow colour to the sheets.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica