Kreosotum

Skin

Soft, unnatural feel of skin, with pegged teeth. Violent itching all over body, especially towards evening, and with burning sensation in arms and legs, after scratching. Burning itching at night, and heat over whole body. Nettle-rash. Eruption, like bug- bites, with violent itching especially in evening. Large, greasy- looking, pox-shaped pustules over whole body. Mealy and pustular, dry or humid tetters (on backs of hands and fingers, in palms, on ears, elbows, knuckles, and malleoli), with violent itching in almost every part of body.

Sleep

Great inclination to sleep, with frequent yawnings, sometimes with putrid taste in mouth, and want of appetite. Fits of yawning, with shivering, weeping, pressive pains in forehead, or lassitude. Constant inclination to sleep. Difficulty in going to sleep, caused by restlessness over whole body, or a sensation of fatigue, with pains in all limbs. Disturbed sleep, with tossing. Frequent waking during night. Unrefreshing sleep, with paralytic sensation in all limbs on waking. At night, pains in loins, internal shiverings, pulsations in head, restlessness over whole body, pressive and burning pains in eyes, agglutination of the lids, etc. Starting from sleep in a fright. Frequent, anxious dreams, dreams of snow, of falling, pursuits, poisoning, emaciation, fire, of erections and of wanting to make water, of foul and disgusting linen, etc.

Fever

Feverish sensation over whole body, with good appetite. Predominance of cold, tendency to shiver, and frequent shiverings, sometimes with heat in face, redness of cheeks, coldness of feet, sensation of heaviness in arms, and excessive ill-humor, or with epistaxis, or pains in loins, head, and eyes, distressing cough, etc. Chilliness predominating while at rest. Chill, with great bodily restlessness. Flushes of heat, with circumscribed redness of the cheeks. Thirst after the shiverings. Feverish heat, with red cheeks, then sweat, followed by sacral pains. Throbbing all over body worse when at rest. Pulse small and suppressed.

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