The homoeopathic materia medica : arranged systematically and practically / by A. Teste ; translated from the French and edited by Chas. J. Hempel.

  • Teste, Alph. (Alphonse), 1814-
Date:
1854
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    changes to a burning pain, like the itching of Rhus, if the drug is taken in large doses or applied externally. Then the skin becomes inflamed, red, burning-hot, and a yellowish and coagulable serum exudes from it, especially in the palms of the hand, at the genitals, on the abdomen, chest, between the shoulders and behind the ears. Small vesicles, resem- bling those of urticaria, break out on the inflamed parts, and this eruption may spread rapidly over the whole body. Guided by a knowledge of the phenomena, which I knew resulted from the alloeopathic use of the croton, I first tried it homoeopathically, but without much success, in erysipelas, and afterwards with very great success in, 1st, urticaria,1 especially when the skin of the abdomen was the seat of the disease; 2d, against large copper-colored spots, likewise on the abdomen, itching, especially all around, and resembling very nearly hepatic spots, which the patient, (probably cor- rectly,) took for syphilitic spots, although sepia, mercurius, sulphur, sulphuric and nitric acid had no effect upon them; 3d, against small red blotches, not very apparent, on the thighs, abdomen and genitals, of wpivards of fifteen years standing, and causing an intolerable itching, especially at the vulva, in the case of a young lady who was driven to despair by them ; 4th, against recent itch in a great many persons, but conjointly with lobelia injlata, and mercurius corrosivus ; 5th, in the case of a little girl of four years old, of a delicate, cachectic, and essentially psoric constitution. After a vesi- cular eruption on the chest and neck, and which, I was told, had disappeared of itself in three or four days; the child was attacked with a fetid coryza, or rather, discharge from the nose, which had remained ever since, a period of two years, without interruption. During the winter season, this discharge became less copious and fetid, but as soon as the hot weather set in, it returned with all its unpleasant features. Sulph., Merc, salub., Calc. carb., which I tried first, had no effect whatsoever. The eruption which had 1 In my treatise on diseases of children, I have mentioned ledum for urticaria ; this is either a misprint or a lapsus pennae ; it should be croton.