Scrofulosis



Sarsaparilla [Sars]

Great emaciation skin shrivelled or lies in folds herpetic circular ulcers, forming no crusts, red, granulated base, white borders; deep burning rhagades; milk-crust; ophthalmia after checked tetters; MARASMUS OF CHILDREN, neck emaciated.

Spongia [Spong]

Swelling and induration of glands; skin and muscles lax; light hair fever; yellow scabby eruption; suppuration of external ear insatiable appetite and thirst.

Sulphur [Sulph]

Scrofulous and rickety complaints emaciation of children; FACE HAS A VERY OLD LOOK; child sweats about head; particularly during sleep, marked tendency to eruptions, as crusta lactea, boils, and in older children acne, head is large in comparison with the body; fontanelles, especially anterior, remain open too long, from defective osseous growth; tendency to bone affections, caries rickets and curvature of spine, bulimy child clutches at everything as if it were starved to death; child is always hungry and emaciated, skin hangs in folds is yellowish, wrinkled and flabby, heat on top of head and cold feet; marasmus; tuberculosis, tubercular meningitis at the commencement; tabes mesenterica, CHILDREN DISLIKE BEING BATHED; nocturnal enuresis; glandular swellings, indurated and suppurating, ulcers with raised, swollen edges, bleeding easily, discharging foetid pus, surrounded with pimples, humid offensive eruptions, with thick pus, yellow crusts, itching, bleeding and burning, purulent, offensive otorrhoea; ophthalmia and blepharitis, painful eruption around chin; lips dry, rough and cracked, hangnails.

Theridion [Ther]

Scrofula, rachitis, caries, necrosis, itching on scalp, behind ears, child would like to scratch them off; chronic nasal catarrh, discharge offensive, thick, yellow or yellowish green, MENTAL DULNESS (Bar-c) phthisis florida in the beginning.

Samuel Lilienthal
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal (1815-1891) was from Germany, and became a pioneer homeopath in America. He received his Doctor of Medicine Degree from the University of Munich in 1838. After he moved to the United States, he was hired as Professor of Clinical Medicine at New York College for Women, and also as Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases at the New York Homeopathic College.
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal was the author of many great books including “Homeopathic Therapeutics”. For many years, with the support of Dr. Constantine Hering, he was the editor of the North American Journal of Homeopathy. Dr. Lilienthal passed away on February 2nd 1891 in San Francisco.