Iodoformum



Lower Limbs

Pain along left crural nerve. Pain in inside of knees. Neuralgic pain in left knee. Weakness of knees on ascending stairs. Weakness worse standing, with pain. Rheumatic pain in gastrocnemii, rheumatism of flexor muscles of legs. Cutting in left ankle on walking in open air. Sticking in right instep. Pain in left foot, worse walking.

Generalities

Sudden dizziness, weak in the legs. Body in constant spasmodic motion, twitching of facial muscles, deep inspirations alternating with apnoea, every movement made slowly and without energy, on closing eyes, cannot stand or walk straight. Constantly wearied and tired. Rapid collapse ending in coma and death. Sphincters paralyzed. Stiffness of certain limbs, convulsive movements. Screams as if suffering from meningitis, draws up legs a good deal, twitching and rolling.

Skin

Red rash over loins, back of arms and elbows (from application to inflamed bursa patellae. The rash was cured by Sanguinaria). Fine eruption of macules, papules and vesicles on face, neck, hands, and wrists, diffuse redness with oedema followed, worse on hands and between fingers, vesicles running together and epithelium separating, back of hands desquamated (in a nurse who had been applying to a patient). Horrible irritation all over body (from application to wound).

Sleep

Sleepiness. Intermittent sleepiness ending in coma. Wakefulness. Jerks and shocks in nerves when trying to sleep. Restless sleep, full of dreams. Restless, worse after 2 a.m. Sound sleep till 1:30 a.m., then sudden waking, restlessness and sleeplessness till 4:30, then partially conscious sleep for an hour and a half, then heavy sleep and difficult arousing. Confused dreams, of accidents.

Fever

Susceptible to hot weather. Heat at night, keeps laying off covers. Temperature may be elevated to 104 degrees or more. Sweats easily from motion. Sweat on head.

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