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Skin

Violent itching, especially in the back, and in the calves of the legs. Itching of the whole body at night (Itch). Injuries of the skin, which had been healed, become sore again. Itch suppressed by mercury or sulphur, burning itch. Tingling (or stinging) swelling (sometimes called “buzzing” swelling) (Guernsey). Eruptions resembling scabies. Miliary eruptions and nettle-rash. Itching and humid tetters. Ulcerative vesicles. Burning ulcers, with yellowish-looking skin, ulcers burning, with corroding pus, with thin or watery pus, suppurating, jerking pains running through the ulcers. Excoriation in children. Painful corns in the feet. Warts, also with pain and inflammation. Panaris. Painful varices.

Sleep

Drowsiness in the day, like coma. Nocturnal sleeplessness, caused by anxiety, inquietude, dry heat, and other annoyances, with frequent starts. Starts on going to sleep. Frequent movements of the arms and legs during sleep. Anxious dreams, about grievous things, or about quarrels, or confused and voluptuous, with talking and laughter. At night, vertigo, head- ache, dryness of the mouth, and painful heaviness of the legs.

Fever

Pulse only accelerated towards evening. Much shivering. Chilliness predominating, frequently with coldness of the left side. Internal chilliness, followed by perspiration, without previous heat. Nocturnal shivering, with pains in the back, and followed by general sweat. Heat in the evening, from 6 to 8 p-m. Flushes of heat, followed by chilliness. Copious sweat while walking in the open air. Nocturnal sweat, sometimes of an acid smell. Morning sweat (smelling sour).

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