Syphilinum



Relationships

*Compare: In bone diseases and syphilitic affections, Aurum, Asafoetida, Kali-i., Mercurius, nitricum acidum Worse at night, Aurum, Mercurius, Sul. (Medorrhinum and Sycotics worse early morning). Worse at night-shore, better inland (Medorrhinum opp.). Worse at seaside, averse to consolation, Natrum mur. Dysmenorrhoea, Medorrhinum Deep-in headache, Bac. Pains increase and decrease slowly, Stn. Ozena with offensive clinkers. Sepia, Pul., Pso., K. bi. Succession of abscesses (Anthrac., succession of boils). Syphilitic stomatitis, Lachesis, Lac caninum, Mercurius Nodes, K. iod., K. bi., Mang., Mercurius Emaciation, Abrotanum, Iodium Lancinating pains in heart (from base to apex), Medorrhinum (from apex to base), Spi. (from base to clavicle or shoulder). Fears suffering from exhaustion on awaking, Lachesis Ptosis, Causticum, Graphites Hereditary tendency to alcoholism, Asarum europaeum, Pso., Tuberculinum, Sul., Acid sulphuricum Constipation with labour-like pains. Lac d., Tuberculinum Fissure in anus, Thuja Shoulder rheumatism worse raising arm laterally, Rhus, Sanguinaria (r. shoulder), Ferrum (left), Urt. ur. Dentition troubles worse night (Medorrhinum worse early morning). Hereditary syphilis, dentition, Kre. Vertigo worse looking up (Sul., looking down). As if teeth out of place (Tuberculinum as if jammed together). Thunder, effect of, Phosphorus

Causation

Sun. Damp weather. Thunderstorms.

Mind

Loss of memory (n). Loses remembrances of passing occurrences, names, dates, &c., while all occurrences previous to inception of disease are remembered as distinctly as ever (n). Very nervous, weeping without cause. Cross, irritable, peevish. Irritable, excited, walking much of the time, does not want to be soothed, violent on being opposed, has tremors, seems on the verge of convulsions, dazed, absent-minded, always washing her hands. Periodical neuralgia in head (neuralgia). Very despondent, does not think will ever get better (s.s.). Terrible dread of night, always worse as night approaches, leaves her about daylight, which she prays for (spring cough). Feeling as if going insane, or about to be paralysed. A far-away feeling, with apathy and indifference to future. Crying infants, who begin immediately after birth.

Head

Vertigo on looking up, seems to be caused by heat. Headache: linear, from or near one eye backward, lateral, frontal, from temple to temple, deep into brain from vertex, as from pressure on vertex, in either temple, extending into or from eye better by warmth, in bones of head, worse by heat of sun, after sunstroke. Sick-headache, pains intolerable, arteries of head full and pulsating violently, high fever, frequent retching on trying to vomit, menses regular, but very scanty. Lancinating pain in occiput, invariably worse at night (n). Neuralgic headache causing sleeplessness or delirium at night, always commencing about 4 p.m., worse at from 10 to 11 and ceasing at daylight. Bursting sensation in vertex as from severe cold. Pain from eyes through to occiput, with sensation of weight in occiput drawing head back, or as if it were pulled back, eyes ache and smart. Constant linear headache, commencing at both angles of forehead and extending in parallel lines backward _ a precursor of epileptic attack. Heavy, crushing, cutting pain across base of cerebellum. Heavy, clouded, dull feeling in base of brain. Headache through temples, thence vertically like an inverted letter T. Coronal headache (s.s.). Headaches accompanied by great restlessness, sleeplessness and general nervous erethism. Syphilitic headache for many months, piercing, pressing excruciating over right eye, extending deep into brain, losing continuity of thought and memory, makes repeated mistakes in figures. Suffusion and full feeling in face, throat, and head, with innumerable small enlarged cervical glands. Sore, one and a half inches in diameter, on occipital bone, covered with a thick, yellow-white scab. Dirty eruption on scalp. Great loss of hair (n).

Eyes

Red papulous eruption round left inner canthus, with isolated pimples on side of nose, cheek and eyebrow, these pimples were red, with depressed center, circumscribed areola, became confluent where they were most dense, pimples bleed when scabs come off, agglutination of lids. Myopia (n). Sharp, pulsating pain, occasionally at outer end of superior border of right orbit, apparently in periosteum. Upper lids swollen. Ptosis: paralytica, eyes look sleepy from lowering of upper lid. Diplopia, one image seen lower than the other. Strabismus paralytic, eye turning inward, and pupil can only be turned outward as far as median line. Chronic recurrent phlyctenular inflammation of cornea, successive crops of phlyctenules and abrasion of epithelial layer of cornea, intense photophobia, profuse lachrymation, redness and pain well marked, delicate, scrofulous children, especially if any trace of hereditary syphilis remains. Left eyeball covered with fungus-like growth, pain intense, worse at night. Acute ophthalmia neonatorum (n). Redness and swelling of outer half of both lower tarsal edges. Syphilitic iritis, intense pain steadily increasing night after night, worse between 2 and 5 A.M. coming almost at the minute and ceasing same way (s.s.). Pain in right inner canthus as if blood went there and could go no farther, also in right temple (rheumatic iritis). Both eyes glued in morning, conjunctiva injected, photophobia, constantly wears a shade. Eyes dull. Infantile syphilis. Ophthalmic pains, worse at night, better by cold water. Right eye alone affected congestion of conjunctiva and sclerotica, with some chemosis, lids inflamed, especially at outer canthus, sensation of sand in eyes, lids agglutinated in morning, great photophobia (hereditary syphilis). Neuralgia every night, beginning about 8 or 9 p.m., gradually increasing in severity until it reached its height about 3 or 4 A.M. and after continuing thus for two or three hours gradually decreased and finally ceased about 10 A.M. (rheumatic ophthalmia).

Ears

Intense earache in right ear, incisive pains thrusting into ear, purulent watery discharge from ear with pain. Gathering in left ear which discharges a great quantity of pus (hereditary syphilis in a child). Deafness gradually increasing until she could scarcely hear at all. Complete deafness, nothing abnormal to be seen. Catarrhal or nerve deafness with marked cachexia. Calcareous deposit on tympanum. Small, acrid, watery discharge occasionally from ears, no deafness (ozaena).

Nose

Left side of nose, inside ala, itching. Nose stuffed up and burning. Attacks of fluent coryza. Offensive, thick yellow-green nasal discharge, during sleep dry scabs form in both nostrils, following an application of salve for sore eyes, left submaxillary gland, which had been swollen and indurated, softens, discharges and, after forty-five days, begins to heal slowly. Ozaena syphilitica, (*Syphilinum brought out an eruption of sores with a fiery-red base on nose and over frontal sinuses). Left side of nose inside and out very sore, likewise lips and chin, sores itching and scabbing over. Itching in nostrils.

Face

Face drawn to one side, difficulty of speaking, masticating, blowing (n). Spasmodic twitching of many muscles, especially in face (paralysis agitans), with great melancholy and depression of spirits. Facial paralysis right side, thick speech, hemicrania, jactitation of right eye and lid. An old gentleman has had for some years cancer on right malar bone, no rest, his agony excruciating extreme (relieved). Face pale. Itching, scabby, eczematous eruptions singly or in clusters, looking like herpes. Nose and cheeks covered with eruptions and scabs in layers rising to a point. Dark purple lines between alae nasi and cheeks. Lips and teeth covered with bloody mucus. Sores on lips and chin, especially left side scabbing over.

Teeth

Single small lunae cleft in upper incisors, permanent set, which incisors are dwarfed in their general dimensions, and converge at their tips, inherited syphilis (n). Children’s teeth are cupped. Teeth decaying at edge of gum and breaking off (n). Felt like a worm in tooth, could not tell which tooth. Singular feeling as if teeth had all got out of place, and on closing jaws teeth do not come well together.

Mouth

Tongue red and thick, two deep cracks running lengthwise in it, one on each side of median line. Aphasia, difficulty of finding words, debility. Tongue feels as if paralysed. Fetid breath. Tongue coated, white, edges indented by teeth. Putrid taste in mouth before epileptic fit. Tongue very red and thick, covered with herpetic eruption, two deep cracks running lengthwise on each side of median line, making it difficult to swallow (s.s.). Tongue thickly coated, dirty, edges indented or serrated by teeth (n). Twenty ulcers in mouth, every part involved, top and under side of tongue, lips, buccal cavity, fauces and nose, septum of nose threatened, both alae nasi very painful, smarting with burning as if on fire, pains and burning prevented sleep, hungry but could eat nothing but fluids as mastication was impossible, tongue heavily coated white, large quantities of stringy, viscid, saliva running from mouth of a sweetish taste, a putrid, sickening odour filled whole house, all symptoms worse toward night (s.s.). Herpetic eruption in mouth, tonsils, hard palate and fauces, completely covering inside of mouth and throat, making it very difficult to swallow even liquids. Syphilitic destruction of hard and soft palates.

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