coughing with *Sul. 30. Among the characteristics of *Sul. are: (1) Aversion to be washed, always worse after a bath. (2) Complaints that are always relapsing (menses, leucorrhoea, &c.), patient seems to get almost well when the disease returns again and again. (3) Congestions to single parts: eye, nose, chest, abdomen, ovaries, arms, legs, or any organ of the body, marking the onset of tumours or malignant growths, especially at climacteric. (4) Chronic alcoholism, dropsy and other ailments of drunkards, they reform but are continually relapsing. (5) Sensation of burning: on vertex, and smarting in eyes, of vesicles in mouth, and dryness of throat, first right then left, in stomach, in rectum, in anus, and itching piles, and scalding urine, like fire on nipples, in chest rising to face, of skin of whole body, with hot flushes, in spots below scapulae, burning soles, must find a cool place for them at night. (6) Hot head with cold feet. Lutze (N.A. F.H., xv. 286) finds that *Sul. 1M will make feet that have been cold for years comfortably warm. (7) Cramp in calves and soles at night. (8) Hot flushes during day, with weak, faint spells, passing off with a little moisture. (9) Diarrhoea: after midnight, painless, driving out of bed early in morning, as if bowels were too weak to contain their contents. (10) Constipation: Stools hard, dry, knotty, as if burnt, large, painful, child is afraid to have stool on account of pain, or pain compels child to desist on first effort, alternating with diarrhoea. (11) Boils: coming in crops in various parts, or a single boil is succeeded by another as soon as the first is healed. (12) Skin: itching, voluptuous, scratching better (“feels good to scratch”), scratching causes burning, worse from heat of bed, soreness in folds. (13) Skin affections that have been treated by medicated soaps and washes, haemorrhoids that have been treated by ointments. (14) Nightly suffocative attacks, wants doors and windows open, becomes suddenly wide awake at night, drowsy in afternoon after sunset, wakefulness the whole night. (15) Happy dreams, wakes up singing. (16) Everything looks pretty which patient takes a fancy to, even rags seem beautiful. (17) Ailments from the abuse of metals generally. (18) Offensive odour of body despite frequent washing. (19) Red nose worse by cold: the colder the redder. (20) Cutting, stabbing pain in right eye. (21) Poor breakfast eaters. (22) Worried by trifles. (23) White, frothy expectoration. (24) Empty sensation (head, heart, stomach, abdomen) [*Sul. aggravates much more in high dilutions than in lower ones, especially where extensive collections of disease tissue exist, a single globule of 200th will often set up violent disturbance. The domestic use of *Sul. is interesting. In one form or other *Sul. is used in various countries for allaying pain, a piece of stick *Sul. carried in the pocket is much used in England to ward off rheumatism. Natives of South America apply *Sul. In solid form to parts in pain, and allow it to act for an hour before result is effected, and for lumbago and chronic rheumatic pains a bag filled with Flowers of Sulphur and applied heated to the part, immediately relieves the pain. An experienced sea captain testified to the extreme frequency or rheumatism amongst his sailors, but, he added, when carrying cargoes of *Sul., he had never had a case of it (acute rheumatism) on board. In the treatment of croup and diphtheria the local application. of *Sul. to the fauces has been highly spoken of by many practitioners. Dr. Laugardiere, of Toulouse, reported recently to the Academy of Medicine that he has discovered a cure for croup a tablespoonful of Flowers of Sulphur dissolved in a tumbler of water. After three days of this treatment his patients were rescued from imminent death, and fully recovered. Nettle rash is often relieved by a little Flowers of Sulphur and water, and *Sul. mixed with sea-sand and rubbed over itch vesicles destroys the acarus at once. In the early days of vaccination it was found that the action of *Sul. on the frame was decidedly adverse to the receptivity of vaccine. According to Dr. Tierney, Dr. Jenner failed in vaccinating thirty soldiers, all under treatment by *Sul. (B.M.F., Jan. 6, 1872. George Gascoin, letter on antiseptic treatment of small-pox). Seeing that operatives in sulphur mines enjoy an immunity against ague when prevalent in surrounding districts, and that, before going on hunting expeditions in malarious districts, men in Ethiopia submit themselves to fumigations with *Sul., and find it an efficient prevention of ague, the probability of *Sul. having a power of destroying the organisms in the blood of ague patients is certainly great, and deserves investigation (Cooper)]. *Sul. is a great *resorbent, and is frequently needed after acute illnesses which do not entirely clear up. *Peculiar Sensations are: As if a band were tied tightly round forehead, round cranium. Vertigo as if swinging. As if bed were not large enough to hold him. As if one stood on wavering ground. As if hair on vertex stood on end. As from a weight pressing on top of brain and a cord tied around head. As if head soft, brains bashed in. As if brain were beating against skull. As if eyes were pressed down. As if he had taken too much alcohol. As if hair would be torn out. As if head would burst. As if head were enlarged. As if she would sneeze. As if head had been beaten. As if top of head were being pressed against wall. Occiput as if hollow. As if flesh of scalp were loose. As if scalp had been beaten. As if cornea had lost its transparency. As if eye were gone and cool wind blew out of sockets. As if eyes had been punctured. As if a needle or splinter were sticking in eye. As if a thick veil were before eyes. As if eyeballs were dry. As if balls rubbed against lids. As if eyes were rubbed against spicules of glass, eyeballs dry, salt in eyes, cornea covered with fine dust, lids would become inflamed. As if sounds did not come through ears but forehead. As of water in ears. As if he smelt perfume. As if nose were swelled. Nostrils as if sore. As if lower jaw would be torn out. As if air just in front of her were hot. Teeth as if too long, as of a hot iron in teeth. As of a hard ball rising in throat. As if swallowing a piece of meat. As of a lump in throat. As of a hair in throat. As if throat too narrow. Stomach as if puffed up, as if torn with pincers. Intestines as if strung in knots. As if hernia would form. As if muscles of abdomen and peritoneum had been bruised. As if obliged to urinate, in urethra. As if something in larynx. As of a lump of ice in (right) chest. As if lungs came in contact with back. As if strained in chest. As if he had fallen upon chest. As if chest would fly to pieces when coughing or drawing a deep breath. Heart as if enlarged. As if muscles of neck and back were too short. As if vertebrae gliding one over the other. Small of back as if beaten. Left shoulder and hip as if luxated. Like a weight on shoulder. As if something heavy hanging on upper arm. Arms as if beaten. As of a mouse running up arms and back. Thigh as if broken As if too short in popliteal space. Skin as if denuded and sore. Sweat may occur on one side of the body only, or on neck only. *Sul. is *Suited to: (1) Lean, stoop-shouldered persons, who walk and sit stooped, standing is the most uncomfortable position. (2) Persons of nervous temperament, quick-motioned, quick-tempered, plethoric, skin excessively sensitive to atmospheric changes. (3) Dirty, filthy people, with greasy skin, and long, straight, matted hair, prone to skin affections. (4) Children who cannot bear to be washed or bathed, emaciated, big-bellied, restless, hot, kick off clothes at night, have worms. (5) Persons of scrofulous diathesis, subject to various congestions, especially of portal system. (6) Lymphatic temperaments, nervous constitutions disposed to haemorrhoids, with constipation or morning diarrhoea, diseases caused especially by suppressed eruptions, peevishness, sudden and frequent flushes of heat all over body, followed by perspiration, hot palms, soles, and vertex, faintness in epigastrium in forenoon. (7) Children, emaciated, old-looking faces, big bellies, dry, flabby skin. (8) Full-blooded persons with great irritability, restlessness, and hastiness. (9) Old people. (10) People with hot, sweaty hands. (11) “Ragged philosophers,” dirty- looking persons who are always speculating on religious or philosophical subjects. (12) Freckled people. (13) Light- complexioned people. (14) Red-haired people. (15) Dark- complexioned people, Negroes. (16) People who refer all their sufferings to the epigastrium: “everything affects me there.” The symptoms are: worse by touch. Worse pressure (pressure better pain in head when coughing). Rest worse. Standing worse. Stooping worse. Lying on (right) painful side better. Motion better pains in head, hips, knee, Haemorrhoids, worse other symptoms. Moving arms worse. Every step worse. Rising worse. Ascending worse. Talking causes fatigue of whole body. Vivacious talking causes hammering headaches. Worse 11 A.M., 12 noon, midnight, morning, evening, night, after midnight. Wants doors and windows open. Susceptible to temperature, warm things feel hot. Indoors causes nose stopped up, better emptiness in occiput. Open air aggravates. Draft of air aggravates. Raw air aggravates. Warmth aggravates. Sun worse (headache). Washing aggravates. Cold, damp weather aggravates. Cold food and drink worse thirst. Cold water better head, left eye, whitlow. Worse Before a storm. Worse After sleep. Worse From milk, sweets, alcohol. Better By eating, worse after. Worse Before eating. Better By warm food. Worse Before, during, and after menses (headache, leucorrhoea). worse Looking down. Worse Crossing running water. Worse Raising arms. Hearing is worse eating and blowing nose.
