SUPPURATIONS.
Kali sulph. A tissue remedy, similar to Puls., Puls. intensified. Easily angered, obstinate, irritable, timid. Otitis media, discharge thin, bright or greenish yellow, offensive, purulent, itching. Smarting, suppurating eruptions; dry, burning, inactive skin; ulcers with burning, stabbing pains, bleeding or bloody discharge, yellowish, indolent, suppurating, tuberculous. Worse evening, better open air. Cyclamen similar but worse open air, better warmth.
Kali bich. Though, thick, ropy, tenacious discharge. Ulcerations tending to perforate, punched out. Chronic suppuration middle ear with stitching pains, yellow, viscid discharge, may be bloody. Pustules, boils, suppurating tubercles, other skin manifestations. Pains in small parts, appear and go suddenly, fly from place to place (Pulse., Kali sulph., Lac. can., Mang.).
Phytolacca. Tendency to boils, carbuncles, glandular swellings, especially mammary glands, which are affected by excitement, fear, anxiety, tribulation, etc. They develop lumps with heat, tumefaction, often violent inflammation and suppuration. Aching in back, bones, fever, shivering, Mastitis, hard, swollen, hot, painful, pains radiate all over body or back. Use Phyt. before suppuration occurs, but may be used after suppuration when there are large, fistulous openings, angry looking, with watery, thin, foetid pus.
Lycopodium. Surface wounds suppurate as though they had contained splinters, burrow under skin. Ulcers bleed easily with copious, thick, green-yellow, offensive pus. Chancres, chancroids, suppuration about eyes and ears with thick, yellow, offensive pus. Worse 4-8 p.m.; pale, dirty, unhealthy, sallow complexion; looks older than is; keen intellect, feeble physique; weakness, tiredness, emaciation or emaciation of single parts; early satiety; right handed remedy or right to left. Throat conditions usually better warm drinks.
Pyrogenium. Septic states, puerperal fever, typhoid, typhus, ptomaine, diphtheria. Dissecting abscesses-great pain, flow of pus scanty. Violent burning, retained secundes after miscarriage with putrefaction. Discharges horribly offensive. Better from motion.
Psorinum. Cold remedy, desires warmth, general debility, lack of reaction, depleted by long drawn out suppuration or disease, discharges horribly offensive. Patient hopeless, despairs of recovery, melancholic, suicidal. Suppurating ears with foetid, brown, offensive pus. Recurrent quinsy.
Calcarea carbonica. Fair, fat, flabby, marked debility, leuko- phlegmatic temperament, torpid disposition, sluggish movements, pale, sour, anaemic, Pyemia with abscesses in deep muscles, chest, abdomen, thigh, anywhere, which do not break.
Calcarea picricata. Reputation for boils.
Calcarea iodata and silicata should be studied.
Carbo vegetabilis. Boils and abscesses of low dynamic type in typical Carbo veg. patient. Vital force low, cold, weak, must have air, limbs cold, skin blue.
Berberis vulgaris. Fistulous ulcers, fistula in ano. Low dynamic state, anaemia, feeble, pallid, prematurely worn out, mental weakness, forgetful, melancholic, apathetic.
Anthracinum. Succession of boils with no guiding symptoms. Septic inflammations, carbuncles, malignant ulcers, indurations of cellular tissues, abscesses, buboes, inflammations of connective tissue with purulent focus, swollen glands, septicaemia, ulceration with sloughing, and intolerable burning, black and blue blisters, gangrene, foul secretions. Similar to Ars. alb., which it follows well, Pyrogen, Lach., Crot., Echinacea. Sil. follows it well.
Arctium lappa. For boil habit. Styes, ulcerations edge of eyelids, crops of boils.
The most pressing question at the present time for the physician to ascertain is whether the treatment of disease is to depend on mere opinion, which varies with each doctor and perishes with the individual, or on laws which, founded on the immutable truth of facts, can never perish, but must endure through all ages. The Organon (Journal), 1879.
