The eruption and state of induration are like Graphites: but the oozing in Petrol. is thin and watery, and in Graphites it is gluey, honey-like, sticky, viscid.
He says, Petrol. and Rhus are wonderful use in eruptions on genitalia, male or female. But Petrol. Produces small vesicles, Rhus large blebs. Sweat and moisture of external genitalia.
Sensitive to change of weather, like Rhod, and Phosphorus Worse before thunderstorms.
Hands and feet burn: wants palms and soles out of bed. He warns us: “Don’t be too sure of Sulphur, because the soles burn; or too sure of Silicea, because the feet sweat.”
He shows Petroleum to be a remedy of single parts:. sweating of single parts:- coldness in parts:-eruptions in patches.
Many strange sensations which are peculiar and striking.
Did not know where she was in the street.
Melancholy mood, imagines but little times is left him to make his will.
Great anxiety about his family, when going on a short journey. The anxiety increases till he becomes inconsolable.
Sensation as if everything in head were alive.
Hair glued together by crusts and exudation-eczematous.
Easily dislocated jaw.
Sense of coldness, or numbness in teeth.
Tongue white: white in centre with dark streak along edges.
Hunger immediately after stool.
Violent thirst for beer.
Note well, the extraordinary accumulation of water in mouth.
Canine hunger after stool; with much urging, as if large quantities were yet to be expelled.
Itching in meatus urinarius, during micturition|: itching deep in ears: in eustachian tubes.
Imagines she has two babies: very concerned as to how she is to take care of them: imagines another baby in bed which requires attention.
Coldness: as if a cold stone in heart.
Psoriasis of palms: thick scales of epidermis, through which run moist fissures. Hands completely raw from wrists to fingers, with constant watery oozing.
Offensive smelling ulcers tips of fingers. Nails feel bruised.
Cold spot on knee, whence a cold current pervades limb.
Chilblains on heel: stitches splinter-like in heel: blisters.
Must stoop on account of nausea.
Cracking in joints, neck, etc.
Imagines another child is sleeping in bed with her: talks about it and becomes angry when contradicted.
Head made of wood: tight stiff skin over bridge of nose.
Extremities stiff, as without joints.
BLACK LETTER SYMPTOMS
Delirium: thinks another person lies alongside of him, or that one limb is double.
Out of humour and angry; becomes vehement easily.
Forgetful, and not disposed to think.
Heaviness like lead in occiput: pinching in occiput.
Great pressure in eyes.
Conjunctivitis pustulosa, with acute inflammation of lids. Lids red, inflamed, covered with scabs or scurfs. Surrounding skin rough: blenorrhoea of lachrymal sac: pain in occiput.
Inflammation of lachrymal sac, when suppuration has commenced and a fistula has formed.
Eustachian tubes affected, causing whizzing roaring and cracking noises, with hardness of hearing.
Redness, soreness and humour behind the ears.
Pustule in nose. Bleeding nose.
Nausea and qualmishness all day: every a.m. after waking. Could not eat breakfast.
In morning accumulation of water in mouth: sudden on walking: from riding in carriage: often so violent that it takes away the breath, without vomiting : violent, with cold sweat, incessant: with vertigo and vomiting.
Seasickness.
After a slight meal, feels giddy and head swims.
Heartburn towards evening.
Nausea and qualmish the whole day.
Obstinate, itching herpes on perineum: itching, redness and moisture, scrotum. Skin cracked, rough and bleeding.
Hoarseness: cough from dryness in throat.
Sharp pains, shooting up dorsal spine into occiput.
Painful Chilblains on hands.
Tips of fingers rough, cracked and fissured.
