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Limbs

Chronic arthritic affections, with violent nightly pains. Stiff and enlarged joints after acute rheumatism. Subsultus tendinum. Cold hands and feet.

Upper Limbs

Pains in the bones of the arms, worse when lying down, and disturbing the sleep. Lassitude in the arms in the morning in bed. Convulsive movements and trembling of the arms, of the hands, and of the fingers. Numbness of the fingers. Tearing pains in the fingers. Startings of the tendons of the fingers. Panaris. Constant coldness of the hands which are covered with a cold sweat during labor. Carphologia.

Lower Limbs

Cramp-like pains in the legs when seated. Heaviness, swelling, trembling and paralysis of the legs. Rheumatic pullings in the thighs and knees. Inflammatory swelling of the knee, with tearing pains and suppuration. Hot, bright-red swelling of the knee with inflammation, pricking and burning, worse by touch and pressure. Dropsical swelling of the knee. White swelling of the knee. Cramps in the feet especially at night. Startings of the tendons of the feet. OEdematous swelling of the feet. Chilblains. Acrid and corrosive sweat on the feet. Pain in the corns.

Generalities

Erratic pains in the joints. Chronic rheumatism in the joints, with violent pains at night, without swelling. Sensation of torpor in the limbs. Convulsive starting and twitching of the tendons. Distortion of the bones. Pains in the bones at night. Swelling and induration of the glands. Haemorrhage from different organs. Powerful over-excitement of all the nervous system. Ebullition of blood, and pulsation over the whole body, increased by the slightest exertion. Trembling of the limbs. Tottering walk. Great weakness, even speaking excites perspiration. Plastic exudations. Atrophy and emaciation till reduced to the state of a skeleton (with good appetite). Emaciation, ending in marasmus, of glandular tissues (mammae, testicles, thyroid gland, etc.). OEdematous swelling, even of the whole body.

Skin

Skin rough, dry, or clammy, moist, and of a dirty yellow. Tetters. Furfur. Panaris. Itching and itching pimples on an old cicatrix. Papulous eruptions tending to pustulation.

Sleep

Agitated dreams. Restless sleep with vivid or anxious dreams. Nocturnal sweat.

Fever

Shivering, even in a warm room. Chill alternating with heat. Cold feet all night. Internal dry heat, with external coldness. Profuse night-sweat. Increase bodily heat. Fugitive heat. Acid perspiration in the morning. Pulse quick, small, and hard, weak, threadlike. The pulse becomes much quicker as soon as one moves about. Fever, with consumption. (West Indian and African fevers, ague).

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