Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum.- Crude Calcium Sulphide.
CHARACTERISTICS.
Abscesses that mature slowly and that discharge thin, unhealthy pus. Boils and carbuncles associated with weakness and anaemia. Scrofulous glandular swellings that threaten formation of pus.
TOXIC EFFECTS.
Gastric irritability. Marked anaemia.1.
DOSE.
From the third decimal trituration every hour, to one-half grains three times a day. The minute dose should be used to avoid depression and gastric irritability.
THERAPEUTIC USES.
Weakness and anaemia associated with boils and carbuncles.1.
Scrofulous and rachitic children subject to coryza and catarrhal croup.1.
Scrofulous glandular swellings threatening to suppurate.1.
Boils.
Carbuncles.
Abscesses that mature slowly and that discharge thin, unhealthy pus.1.
Skin affections, such as acne, with tendency to formation of pus.1.
Recurrent ulceration of the cornea in scrofulous ophthalmia.1.
Onyx.1.
Suppuration of the Meibomian glands.
Phlegmonous inflammation of the lids.