13. HYPERTROPHIC AND ATROPHIC AFFECTIONS



The following remedies should be carefully studied, in order to find the simile in each case: This being found it, should be given sufficiently high and at a long intervals, in order to remove as rapidly as possible from the system the morbid condition which sustains these irregularities of the circulation, and to enable nature to remedy the deficiency in structural organization from which perhaps they originally sprung.

If the arterial capillaries are involved:

Bellad. will be indicated by red radii extending from the centre.

Calcarea carb.-In leucophlegmatic temperaments.

Lycopod.-In hypertrophied capillary tumors, both venous and arterial.

If the venous capillaries are involved :

Carbo veg.-Particularly when the slightest irritation causes free hemorrhage.

Phosphorus-Small wounds bleed much; this may be either venous or arterial.

Dr. Wilkinson reports a case of naevus on left labium majus, little girl aged six weeks, cured by application of thuja 0, thrice daily for six weeks.

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.