(Aqua picis or Tar.)
Characteristic Symptoms
Pain on a spot at the third left costal cartilage, where it joins with the rib. (Anisum stellat. Myrtus commun. Theridion). Rales through the lungs and muco- purulent sputum, offensive in odour and taste. Eruption on the dorsa manuum, itching intolerably at night, the skin cracked, sleeplessness, and bleeding when scratched.
Therapeutics
Chronic bronchitis. Especially indicated in third stage of phthisis pulmonum. Eczema of the hands.
Dr. Oscar Hansen, M.D., from Denmark, was a corresponding member of the British Homeopathic Society and the American Institute of Homeopathy. His book 'Textbook of Materia Medica and Therapeutics of Rare Homeopathic Remedies' was published in 1899.