Deeply penetrating ichorous ulcers.
Caries; rachitis; dropsy.
The joints are easily sprained or strained.
Increasing disposition to strains and to overlift oneself even at a very slight exertion of the muscles, even in slight mechanical work, in reaching out or stretching for something high up, in lifting things that are not heavy, in quick turns of the body, pushing, etc. Such a tension or stretching of the muscles often then occasions long confinement to the bed, swoons, all grades of hysterical troubles, fever, hemoptysis, etc., while persons who are not psoric lift such burdens as their muscles are able to, without the slightest after effects.
The joints are easily sprained at any false movement.
In the joint of the foot there is pain on treading, as if it would break.
Softening of the bones, curvature of the spine (deformity, hunchback), curvature of the long bones of the thighs and legs (morbus anglicus, rickets).
Fragility of the bones.
Touch, Passive motion and Injuries
Touch: stomach sensitive; lingual glands sore; teeth agg.; vesicles sore.
Pressure: stomach sensitive; pain in region of liver agg.; from a truss; inflammation.
Bandage: caused inflammation of tunica vaginalis.
Rubbing: causes small vesicles to arise.
Riding: pain in abdomen; griping and desire for stool; soreness in rectum and anus; in a wagon, exhausted; sweat.
Violent knock: left ovary indurated.
Fall: caused pain in knee.
Painful sensitiveness of the skin, the muscles and of the periosteum on a moderate pressure.
Intolerable pain in the skin (or in the muscles, or in the periosteum) of some part of the body from a slight movement of the same or of a more distant part; e.g., from writing there arises a pain in the shoulder or in the side of the neck, etc., while sawing or performing other hard labor with the same hand causes no pain; a similar pain the adjacent parts, from speaking and moving the mouth; pain in the lips and in the back at a slight touch.
Skin
Abnormal tendency to receive skin diseases.
Large suppurating pustules on hands, particularly near ends of fingers; had eight or ten within a few weeks, itching of body particularly while in bed.
Skin inactive; want of perspiration.
Itching: when body becomes warm; and stinging in many parts at same time; intolerable, agg. in bed and from warmth; scratches until it bleeds; over whole body, when rubbed, small papules and vesicles arise; between fingers; in knee joints; in bends of knees, terrible, of whole body at night, preventing sleep.
A girl, age 18, sallow complexion but cleanly appearance, constant irritation of the different parts of body, day and night, compelling her to scratch; numerous pediculi corporis cling to neck, back and shoulders; menstruation had never occurred; anxious, depressed and tearful; inner angles of eyes filled with gummy mucus, heat and itching in them, in evening, corners of mouth sore.
Skin has a dirty, dingy look, as if patient never washed; in some places looks coarse as if bathed in oil; sebaceous glands secrete in excess; body always smells dirty. Skin dirty, greasy looking, with yellow blotches here and there.
Severe pains in limbs and dark, burning spots, so that skin of whole body except face resembled that of a mulatto; itch had been suppressed five times.
Scaly condition of skin of whole body; skin has a dirty, tawny color, although carefully kept; much itching causing desire to scratch, which gave but temporary relief; some months back instep showed signs of eruption, which soon became a thick, dirty. looking mass of scales and pus, painful and violently itching; at times pain kept her awake at night; disease of at least a dozen years’ standing.
Rash on back and neck.
Urticaria with eruptions on head.
Fine, red eruption, forming small white scales.
Dry and scaly eruption, with little pointed vesicles around reddened edges, disappearing during summer, but reappearing when cold weather comes on.
Eczematous eruption after any severe exertion, accompanied by sensation of tension and swelling on fingers, dorsum of hands, nape of neck and towards ears; slightly elevated blotches upon an erysipelatous, swollen, hard base; eruption of numberless small vesicles; face in several places affected; eyelids swollen; intolerable itching, disturbing sleep, fingers so swollen that they cannot be flexed; after several days desquamation in very fine scales occurred.
Eczema behind ears, on scalp and in bends of elbows and armpits, accompanied by abscesses affecting bones; nothing relieved, but the eruption disappeared, to reappear again, years after, on wrists; there was then a patch on each wrist as large as a half dollar, with intense itching, preventing sleep, with constant desire to scratch.
Eruption of small vesicles, quickly filling with a yellow lymph, painful, like sores, to touch, drying up after a few days, on forehead and several places on face, also behind right ear.
Moist herpes after suppressed scabies; intolerable itching when getting warm; agg. before midnight and in open air.
Herpes: with itching and burning; with biting-itching, with meal-dust, humid.
Herpetic eruptions.
On face, hand and back, also on legs, an itch like eruption appears and the eyes agglutinate so that they cannot be opened.
Itch: dry on arms and chest, most severe on finger joints; followed by boils; inveterate cases with symptoms of tuberculosis; in recent cases, with eruptions in bends of elbows and around wrists; repeated outbreak of single pustules after main eruption seems all gone.
After suppressed itch: urticaria in attacks, after every exertion; tuberculosis; single pustules often appear.
Consequences of itch suppressed by sulphur ointment.
Psoriasis; psoriasis syphilitica.
Copper-colored pustules, no itching.
Pustules on forehead, chin and chest.
Pustules or boils on head, particularly on scalp, scalp had a dirty look and emitted an offensive odor; fine, red eruption, forming small white scales; pustules on hands.
Burning itching pustule after vaccination.
Eruptions bleed easily and constantly tend to suppurate.
Crusty eruptions all over body.
Crusty serpiginosa.
Pemphigus.
Retrocession of eruption. Measles.
Ulcers: deep, penetrating, ichorous; on face and legs; old, with fetid pus, violently itching; scrofulous, with smelling of bones.
Moist, itching condylomata.
Suppressed eruptions.
Dryness of the (scarf) skin either on the whole body with inability to perspire through motion and heat, or only in some parts.
Sensation of dryness over the whole body, also in the face, at the mouth and in the mouth, in the throat or in the nose, although the air passes freely (especially upon the hands, the external side of the arms and legs, and even in the face; the skin is dry, rough, parching, feels chapped, often scaly like bran).
Eczema: something more than a year since a young lady came under my observation who had one of the worst cases I ever saw. At 15 years I remember her as attractive and brilliant, with a fine head of hair and one of the most perfect complexions, or skins, I ever saw. Upon questioning her I learned: Family history negative. Had been in every way in perfect health. At 14 years was vaccinated, “worked” well, six months later attended a school exhibition one very cold night in winter and face was considerably exposed. Next morning awakened, face greatly swollen, intensely red, almost unbearable itching. Eyes suffused and injected, ears double their normal size. Very little constitutional disturbance. Called an allopathic physician who employed local and internal measures with little immediate result. Soon papules were formed, many of which became vesicular and not a few pustular; discharge of a thick, dirty fluid which stained and stiffened linen. Hair was cut close and “locals” applied here also. Week after week she had slight improvements and aggravations. She was of strong allopathic faith, yet after three years of arsenic, potash, cathartics, zinc and a dozen other local applications she sought homoeopathic treatment. Appeared to improve for a time, then as bad as ever, and finally returned to allopathy; finding no relief, employed some patent remedies with apparent transitory improvement. She was now, at the time I saw her, taking nothing at all, had suffered for six years, and was still as bad as ever or even slightly worse. I found her in mind, though naturally bright and cheerful, very despondent, with even suicidal thoughts, complete despair of recovery. Hair dry and without lustre, eyes somewhat suffused and injected, which condition attends a sort of incipient asthmatic affection, making its appearance each fall; some hoarseness. Face, neck and much of body was coarse, rough and of a dirty brown color. Does not perspire at all. Eruption behaves much the same as at first and above described, itching intolerably, better by gentle scratching which is continued until it bleeds. Between points of eruption skin is much indurated. Eruption surrounded by bluish circle, pruritus worse at night, when undressing, and by warmth of bed. Desquamation is so great that the sheet was each morning shaken and scales swept away. I went to work with a faint heart, feeling that I was somewhat lacking in uncommon and peculiar symptoms. I prescribed Psorinum 200 (B. & T.), a powder each night dry on tongue, for a week.
