On the body or trunk, Arsenicum, Graphites, Mercury, Pulsatilla, Rhus. On the extremities, Borax, Calcarea, Graphites, Hepar, Petroleum, Phosphorus, Rhus, Zincum. In cases that have a tendency for metastasis to the brain, think of Apis, Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, Stramonium.
It is well to bear in mind that the Belladonna swelling is bright red; the Rhus is dark red; the Apis a pinkish rosy hue,with oedema, white in the center; the Lachesis is a dark bluish black.
With these few suggestions in mind, you will find other cases that will call for other remedies not mentioned here, but they will do your mans duty. Erysipelas is one of the conditions where homoeopathy shines, not by reflected light, but by its own guiding illuminating radiance. DERBY, CONN.
“The more prominent, uncommon and peculiar (Characteristic) features of the case are especially and almost exclusively considered and noted.” For these in particular should bear the closest similitude to the symptoms of the medicine. The more general and indefinite symptoms, such as want of appetite, headache, weakness, restless sleep, distress, etc., unless more closely defined, deserve but little notice because of their vagueness, and because such generalities are common to every disease and to almost every drug.-D.S. KISTLER, M.D., 1895.
