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IMPETIGO

Homoeopathic Therapeutics · Samuel Lilienthal

+ Pustular Eczema

Antimonium crud Ant-c

Eruption forming thick, heavy, yellow crusts, with burning; eruption about face, worse from bathing the parts; better in open air; chronic cases, cracks at corners of mouth, like sores.

Arsenicum Ars

Black pustules, filled with black blood and foetid pus; painful sensation on scalp and face as from cutaneous ulceration; worse from cold and touch; better from warmth.

Baryta carb Bar-c

Especially old people; thick crusts behind ears; fat dumpy children, with swollen lymphatics; sore throat, with swelling of tonsils after the least cold; worse at night and when thinking of it; better in open air.

Calcarea carb Calc

During dentition; dry crusts; sweat of forehead, particularly thick, yellow crusts; honeycomb-like crusts, which fall off and leave a bright-red, smooth surface.

Clematis Clem

Psoric constitution; pimples on forehead, root and sides of nose; pustules about lips, tender to touch; large pustules about loins; eruption changes character during the changes of the moon; worse in bed, washing, and towards morning; feels exhausted on waking.

Conium Con

Sero-purulent eruption in aged people, old hypochondriac maids; vertigo when turning over in bed, looking up; weak and feeble men; scrofulosis, with engorgement of lymphatics, eruption around mons veneris. IMPETIGO FIGURATA.

Croton tig Croto-t

Pustular eruption upon an inflamed base, with itching and stringing upon septum nasi, plugging the nostril; eruption on abdomen; sore nipples of nursing women.

Graphites Graph

Scabby eruption, with excessive oozing; eruption around mouth and nose or the whiskers; falls out; corrosive blisters about extremities, toes and fingers; dry skin; very sensitive to cold hands and feet, with scanty menses; rhagades.

Hepar Hep

Eruption after mercurialism; sensitive to touch; tendency to ulceration; humid scabs and pustules upon the head, oozing a foetid substance; swollen cervical glands. cracks behind cracked and dry.

Iris vers Iris

Impetigo capitis, with gastric complaints, nausea and vomiting.

Kali bichrom Kali-bi

Dry eruption; pustules disappear without bursting.

Kreosotum Kreos

Painless, pustular eruption all over body, especially on chin and cheeks; sticking pain, especially on joints; sad and weeping; worse in open air.

Lycopodium Lyc

After abuse of mercury; itching and suppurating eruption on head and face, full of deep cracks; abundant and foetid discharge; foetid and moist scabs behind ears; humid tinea capitis.

Mercurius Merc

Swelling and suppuration of glands; gastric derangement; moist scabs, with excoriation of the scalp and destruction of the hair; yellowish scabs on face, with foetid discharge; yellowish scabs, especially mouth.

Mezereum Mez

Deep inflammatory redness of face; eruption fat and moist; ichor from scratched places excoriates other parts.

Nitric acid Nit-ac

Eruption on head, pricking on being touched; pustular eruption on face, with large red margin and heavy scabs; mercurio- syphilis.

Rhus tox Rhus-t

Small pustules on black base; greenish pus, with violent itching at night, humid eruption, with thick scabs on face head, destroying the hair, with foetid smell; eruption on nose extending to face.

Silicea Sil

Eruption resembling varicella; violent itching of scalp; moist scald head; growing pains; better from warmth, worse from cold.

Sulphur Sulph

Dry, thick, yellow, scabs on scalp, with profuse discharge, great itching relieved by scratching; purulent eruption on elbows.

Thuja Thuj

Eruption all over the body; itching and shooting especially at night; pustular eruption about the knee; better from gentle rubbing.

Viola tric Viol-t

Pustules and scabs upon face, with burning and itching, and discharging foetid pus; sensation as of tension of the integument of face; urine smells like cat's urine; worse at night. Recent cases.

What is in this library

These titles sit beside the repertory: Allen’s Keynotes, Anshutz on the twelve tissue remedies, Boericke’s materia medica, Clarke’s Dictionary, Hering, Jones, Kent’s lectures, Nash, and Boger’s Synoptic Key. Philosophy includes Hahnemann’s Organon (5th and 6th), Kent, Close, Burnett, Haehl, Gibson Miller, Royal, J. H. Allen, and Anshutz. Clinical, therapeutics, regional works, and short remedy pictures follow the same shelf.

Dewey’s Practical Homoeopathic Therapeutics and Lilienthal’s Homoeopathic Therapeutics are readable here. The other books keep their chapter lists so you can see what each volume covers. For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice.

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