PROGNOSIS: In all cases of simple irritation the prognosis is good. In complicated diseases it will depend upon the complicating disease and the stage of that disease.
HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES;Dearborn, in his book, gives twenty remedies for this condition, while Douglas gives twenty-four. Lilienthal 21 Therapeutics, page 412 gives fourteen, Farrington names only five, and among these five are the four whose symptoms are given in my Diseases of the Brain and Nerves 22. Brain and Nerves,. page 287.. For the benefit of our readers who do not have access to my book, let me give the leading symptoms of the four, i.e., Ars. alb., Ran., bulb., Mex., and Rhus. tox.
Ars.alb in addition to itching has burning, restlessness, shooting , sticking , weakness subjective symptoms exudate dark and bleak crusts large and deep, also bleeding(objective symptoms) worse from 12 to 4 a.m. (modalities).
Ran.bulb., burning, bruised, sticking (subjective Symptoms); vesicles of bluish color. Location of the eruption,under the shoulder blade and around the chest (objective symptom); itching worse as the eruption dries; when exposing the body to open air, motion,and damp weather (modality).
Mezereum, pains severe and aggravated by the slightest touch (subjective), vesicles coalesce and form large scabs under which pus, rarely blood,exudes (objective); worse from cold and from 12 go 4 a.m. (modality).
Rhus tox.,stiffness, drawing, tearing,crawling (subjective); vesicles contain first water then pus,but do not coalesce like Ars. or Mez.(objective); and the well known (modality) aggravated cold and wet; ameliorated dry and heat.
Agaricus musc: In my book 22 Brain and Nerves, page 287 you will find,under the head of Neurotic OEdema,the following: :Agaricus affects the nerves much more than the skin.” Agaricus affects the nerves much more than the skin.” Then, for sensations: “Twitching, itching, jerking numbness and tingling; but PRICKING AS IF BY ICE-COLD NEEDLES is the ranking, determining symptom”. Also in the case: “The pains were followed by redness, and then hard, light-colored spots down the left of the spine and then around on the three lower ribs of the left side. These and the twitching of the right upper eyelid were the objective symptoms.
In the two cases reported were two marked modalities, viz., “worse from cold and better from heat,and the cause, exposure to cold.”.
Since writing the above I have had one case calling for Agar. A maiden lady; age 32; F.H.and P.H. good; school teacher;came with the following: “I froze my feet nearly two months ago and since then have suffered from what my folks call chilblains. The worst trouble with my feet and legs is an intense itching and trembling. My hands and face, especially the latter, also twitch and jerk. I notice some of my boys trying to imitate me. and then your see these red spots on my feet and legs with white blisters.”.
She was given (B & Ts) Agar. 30th five disks morning and evening and a 1 to 50 solution of the tincture and water for local application, also morning and evening. The cure was complete in two weeks. DES MOINES,IOWA.
We have among us a turbulent class who vehemently denounce as chimerical and unreliable all experiments with highly dynamized substances,and who clamor loudly in favor of proving obtained by crude drugs;; they seem oblivious to the fact that several of our most potent remedies are powerless, or have no marked medicinal properties in their crude state, as for instance Silex, Carbo. veg., Natrum mur, etc. These men rarely or never resort to dynamized drugs in practice and therefore are incompetent witness. ?
They delight in seeing, feeling, smelling and tasting the remedy; they turn their backs on the proffered manna and hanker for cheeks and onions of Egypt; they attribute all effects to the material action of the drug, to the greater or averse to recognizing the dynamic theory of Hahnemann; they have no conception for the potency of spiritual forces and,in the face of abundant and capable affirmative testimony, they of the face of abundant and capable affirmative testimony,they offer about as reasonable a general denial as the old man in the familiar story , who know the world did not turn round, because if it did, the water would spin out of his mill pond-A.R.MORGAN, M.D.,1866.
