13. HYPERTROPHIC AND ATROPHIC AFFECTIONS



inside of: Ruta.

knuckles: Acid oxalicum, Palladium, Selenium

left: Ferrumma., Psorinum, Thuja.

onanists of: Nitr.ac., Sepia, Sulphur, Thuja.

palm of: Anacardium, Nat.m., Ruta.

wart-like induration in the palm, after a long continued pressure on the part: Borax.

right: Arsenicum, Causticum, Nat. sulph., Thuja.

Head, upon: Causticum, Sepia

Iris: Thuja.

Lips: Causticum, Conium, Natrum mur., Nit.ac., Thuja.

upper, smart and bleed on washing: Nit.ac.

drawing pain in an old w.: Conium

Mouth and chin, about the: Calcareac., Calcareaph., Cun., Ka.ca., Lyco., Medor., Psorinum, Sepia, Thuja.

thickly studding the mouths of sheep: Calcarea c.

Neck, upon: Ant. cr., Calcarea c., Lyco., NIt.ac., Sepia, Syphilinum, Thuja.

right side, filled with blood: Thuja.

Nose: Alco., Causticum, Laur., Acid nitricum, Thuja.

Sternum: Acid nitricum

Thighs, upon: Medor.

Thumb, upon: Lachesis, Ranunculusb., Thuja.

Toes, upon: Spigelia

Tongue, upon: Aurum m., Aurumm.n., Mang., Thuja.

Objectively considered.

Bleeding: Calcareac., Causticum, Cinnab., Ferrum ma., Lyco., Natr.c., Nitr.ac., Pho.ac., Rhus t., Staphysagria, Thuja.

Breaking open: Calcareac.

Brittle: Ant. cr.

Cauliflower, like: Nitr.ac., Ranunculusb., Thuja.

on outer side of terminal phalanx of right thumb: Ranunculus bulbosus

Cleft. See jagged.

Color, almost the color of the skin: Calcareac.

dark: Sepia, Thuja.

red: Arsenicum, Belladonna, Calcareac., Causticum

size of a bean: Calcareac.

and angry looking: Arsenicum

circles around with: Causticum

streaks with: Belladonna

Flat: Ant.cr., Berberis, Dulcamara, Lachesis, Ruta, Sepia, Verrucinum.

Groups or crops, in: Dulcamara, Lachesis, Nat.m., Psorinum, Sepia, Thuja.

Hollow, become: Calcareac.

Horny or hard: Ant. cr., Borax, Calcarea c., Causticum, Dulcamara, Fl.ac., Graphites, Lachesis, Nit.ac., Ranunculusb., Sepia, Silicea, Sulphur, Thuja.

upper surface: Calcareac.

Incipient or recent: Nat.c.

Inflamed: Ammonium carb., Arsenicum, Belladonna, Bovis., Calcarea c., Causticum, Dulcamara, Hepar, Lyco., Natrum carb., Nitr. ac., Rhus t., Ruta, Sepia, Staphysagria, Sulphur, Thuja.

as if ulceration would set in: Hepar

Inveterate or old: Calcarea c., Causticum, Cun., Ka.ca., Nat.m., Acid nitricum, Rhus t., Sarsaparilla, Sulphur, Thuja. grow larger: Cun.

Isolated: Calcarea c., Causticum, Lyco., Nat.c.

Jagged (cleft, divided or indented): Calcarea c., Causticum, Euphr., Lyco., Acid nitricum, Pho. ac., Rhus t., Sabi., Staphysagria, Thuja.

surrounded by a hepatic areola, with bran-like desquamation: Lyco.

Large or fleshy: Causticum, Dulcamara, Ka. c., Lyco., Nat.c., Nat.m., Acid nitricum, Pho.ac., Rhus t., Sabi., Sepia, Silicea, Thuja, Verrucinum.

Malignant: Arsenicum

Moisture, exuding: Calcarea c., Causticum, Lyco., Nitr.ac., Pho ac., Rhus t., Sabi., Thuja.

a fetid humor: Nitr. ac.

Pedunculated: Causticum, Dulcamara, Lyco., Medor., Nit.ac., Pho ac., Rhus t., Sepia, Staphysagria, Thuja.

Small, all over the body: Causticum

with pin-heads, like button mushrooms, on various parts of body and thighs: Medor.

Recent or incipient: Nat.c.

Rough, upper surface whitish and horny: Calcarea c.

Round: Calcarea c.

Rudimentary, on fingers: Berberis

Scrofulous: Aurum

Seedy: Calcareac., Causticum, Medor., Nat.m., Sepia, Thuja.

small: Barytac., Berberis, Calcarea c., Causticum, Cun., Dulcamara, Ferrum, Ferrumma., Fl. ac., Hepar, Lachesis, Medor., Acid nitricum, Psorinum, Rhus t., Sarsaparilla, Sepia, Sulphur, Thuja.

Smooth: Ant.cr., Dulcamara, Psorinum, Ruta.

Soft: Alumina, Ant. cr., Calcarea c., NIt. ac., Thuja.

at the base, almost the color of the skin; upper surface hard, rough, whitish and horny: Calcareac.

with thin epidermis, and moist: Nit.ac.

to touch, like lipoma and pointed, on neck: Thuja.

Solid body, with horny top: Causticum, Rhus t., Sepia

Spongy: Alumina See soft.

Suppurating (see Ulcerating): Arsenicum, Bovista., Calcareac., Causticum, Hepar, Nat.c., Pho., Silicea, Thuja.

then healing: Calcareac.

a previously existing wart, developed a red point, suppurated and disappeared: Bovista.

sensation as if they would suppurate; in the evening in bed: Petrol.

Sycotic: Alumina, Aurum, Cinnab., Medor., Mil., Nat. sulph., Pho. ac., Sarsaparilla

Old, dry; after mercurial treatment for gouty pains: Sarsaparilla

syphilitic: Aurum, Cinnab., Ka.iod., Thuja.

Ulcerating (See Suppurating): Arsenicum, Calcarea c., Causticum, Hepar, Nat.c., Pho., Silicea, Thuja.

Ulcers breaking our around warts: Ant.cr., Arsenicum, Nat.

sulph., Pho.

having the shape of warts: Arsenicum

originating in warts: Thuja.

turning into warts: Calcarea c.

SUBJECTIVE SYMPTOMS.

Burning: Ammonium carb., Arsenicum, Lyco., Acid nitricum, Petrol.

Pho., Rhus t., Sepia, Sulphur, Thuja.

Itching: Calcarea c., Carb.a.. Euphr., Hepar, Ka. carb., Nit.ac., Pho., Psorinum, Sepia, Sulphur, Thuja.

Painful: Ars, Ammonium carb., Ant.cr., Barayta carbonica, Bovis., Calcareac., Causticum, Conium, Euphr., Hepar, Ka. carb., Lyco., Nat. carb., Nat. ac., Petrol., Pho., Rhus t., Sabi., Sepia, Silicea, Staphysagria, Sulphur, Thuja.

ameliorated on the appearance of menses: Thuja.

preventing rest at night: Arsenicum

like a boil: Calcareac.

cutting: Nat.mur.

drawing, in an old w. on upper lip: Conium

pricking: Ant.cr., Calcareac., Lyco., Nit.ac., Petrol., Rhus tox., Sepia, Silicea, Sulphur

in the evening in bed: Petrol.

pulsating (beating or throbbing): Arsenicum, Calcareac., Causticum, Hepar, Ka.carb., Lyco., Acid nitricum, Petrol., Sepia, Silicea, Sulphur

shooting: Arsenicum, Bovis.

with plains, sticking: Hepar, Acid nitricum

stinging: Ammonium carb., Ant. cr., Barayta carbonica, Calcarea c., Causticum, Euphr., Hepar, Lyco., Nitr.ac., Rhus t., Sepia, Silicea, Staphysagria, Sulphur, Thuja.

as if ulceration would set in: Hepar

tearing: Ammonium carb.

throbbing: See pulsating.

extending up the arm to the axilla, from a malignant wart on the hand, rendering the arm useless: Arsenicum

Soreness of: Ambra., Arsenicum, Hepar, Lachesis, Nat., carb., Nat. mur., Acid nitricum, Petrol., Ruta., Sabi., Thuja.

Tickling (see itching): Sulph., Thuja.

Condylomata, mercury; after the abuse of: Aurum, Lyco., Nit.ac., Staphysagria

women, particularly in: Mercuriusd., Sabi.

LOCALITY.

Anus, upon or about: Aurum, Aurumm., Benz. ac., Euphr., Lyco., Mercuriusc., Mercurius d., Mil., Acid nitricum, Sabi., Sepia, Staphysagria, Silicea, Thuja.

a growth, like a w., a quarter of an inch in height, and as thick as a pea, painless, itching, opening at the top and suppurating, in the ridge, close to the anus, lasting four weeks and gradually healed: Thuja.

Clitoris, upon or about: Thuja.

Eyebrows, upon or about: Thuja.

Eyelids, upon or about; either on the internal or external surfaced: Cinnab., NIt. ac., Thuja.

upon or about, lower: Nit.ac.

Fraenum, upon or about: Cinnab.

upon or about, oozing, especially during new moon: Thuja.

Genitals, upon or about: Alumina, Benz. ac., Lyco., Medor., Thuja.

Iris, upon or about: Cinnab., Mercurius sol., Thuja.

Labium, upon or about: Sulph., Thuja.

Labium, upon or about: Sulph., Thuja.

Larynx, upon or about: Mercuriusc., Nit.ac., Thuja. Mouth, upon or about (inner): Phosphorus ac.

Neck, upon or about: Nit.ac.

Penis, upon or about: Ant.t., Aurum, Aurumm., Cinnab., Ka. iod., Ka.mur., Lycopodium, Mercuriusc., Nit.ac., Nux v., Pho. ac., Psorinum, Sabi., Sanicula, Sepia, Staphysagria, Sulphur, Thuja.

glans: Antim tart., Cinnab., Ka.iod., Ka. mur., Lyco., Acid nitricum, Nux v., Pho.ac., Sanicula, Staphysagria, Sulphur, Thuja.

Corona glandes, upon; after chancre: Ka. mur.

around: Aurum

upon and behind: Staphysagria

surrounding: Sepia

Prepuce, upon: Aurum, Aurumm., Cinnab., Lyco., Nux vomica, Mercuriusc., NIt. ac., Sabi., Thuja.

edge of, itching and burning: Psorinum

Perineum, upon: Mercurius d., Thuja.

Scrotum, upon: Aurumm., Thuja.

Tongue, upon: Aurum mur.

Uterus, upon: Lachesis

cervix: Kreosotum, Mercurius, sol., Acid nitricum, Tarent., Thuja.

os: Calcarea c., Kreosotum, Mercurius sol.

vagina, in Medor., Acid nitricum, Pho., Tarent., Thuja. vulva, upon: Mercurius d.

OBJECTIVELY CONSIDERED.

Bleeding: Argentumn Medor., Acid nitricum, Sulphur, Thuja.

Broad: Ac. ac., Euphr., Mercuriusd., Nit ac., Thuja.

Bulbous: Alumina

Cauliflower or mulberry like: Staphysagria, Thuja.

Chancre, complicated with: Argentum nitricum, Cinnab., Ka.

bichr., Mercurius sol., Nat. sulph., Acid nitricum, Pho. ac., Staphysagria, Thuja.

after: Kali iod.

Cock`s comb shape: Euphr., Staphysagria, Sulphur

Conical ka. mur., Merc, v., Thuja.

Dry: Ac. ac., Cinnab., Lyco., Mercurius c., Mercurius v., Acid nitricum, Sarsaparilla, Staphysagria, Thuja.

Fan-shaped: Cinnab., Thuja.

Filiform: Staphysagria

Flat: Ac. ac., Euphr., Acid nitricum, Sarsaparilla, Sulphur, Thuja.

Gonorrhoea, complicated with: Cinnab., Conium, Ka.

** 316 ** mur., Lyco., Mercurius c., Acid nitricum, Pic. ac., Pulsatilla, Sarsaparilla, Sulphur, Thuja.

Moist (discharging): Ac. ac., Benz ac., Calcarea c., Euphr., Graphites, Hepar, Ka. iod., Lyco., Medor., Mercuriusd., Nat. sulph., Nit.ac., Psorinum, Sanicula, Staphysagria, Sulphur, Thuja. discharging profuse: Benz.ac., Medor.

greenish: Nat. Sulph.

offensive: Medor., Mercurius d., Acid nitricum

Smelling like fish-brine: Sanicula

Melford Eugene Douglass
M.E.Douglass, MD, was a Lecturer of Dermatology in the Southern Homeopathic Medical College of Baltimore. He was the author of - Skin Diseases: Their Description, Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment; Repertory of Tongue Symptoms; Characteristics of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica.