COMMON NAME:
DIPHTHERITIC VIRUS (OR THE TOXIN PRODUCED BY THE KLEBS LOEFFLER BACILLUS).
Symptoms
The attack from the onset tends to malignancy (Lac-C., Merc-Cy.) (A.)O.
Weak and restless, but without pain (B.).
Yellow, thick, nasal discharge (B).
Talks in sleep with open eyes (B).
Jerking of single parts (B).
Dark-red swelling of the tonsils and palatine arches: parotid and cervical glands greatly swollen; breath and discharges from the throat, nose and mouth very offensive; tongue swollen, very red, little coating. (A.).
Breath horribly offensive (Arsenicum, Carbo vegetabilis, Mercurius, Mur-ac., Acid nitricum, Phosphorus, Sulph). (A).
Diphtheritic membrane, thick, dark gray or brownish black; temperature low or sub-normal; pulse weak and rapid; extremities cold and marked debility; patient lies in a semi-stupid condition; eyes dull, besotted (Apis, Baptisia) A).
Swallows without pain but, fluids are vomited or returned by the nose (Gelsemium, Kali-P., Lachesis) (A).
Epistaxis or profound prostration from very onset of attack (All-C., Apis, Carb-Ac.) (A).
Laryngeal diphtheria (Chlorum, Kali bichromicum, Lac-C.).
Sopor or stupor, but easily aroused when spoken to Baptisia, Sulphur) (A.)
Post diphtheritical paralysis (Gelsemium, Lachesis, Mur-Ac.) (B).
Fluids are returned by the nose.
When the patient from the first seems doomed, and the most carefully selected remedies fail to relieve or permanently improve.
RELATIONSHIP:
Similar to Arsenicum, Baptisia, Bromium, Carb-Ac., Causticum, Chlorum, Gels, Lachesis, Mur-Ac., Phosphorus, Sulphur