Cachexia, Cachectic

[krishna murthy]

Diseases, more particularly acute, that are long standing

and not cured in spite of best treatment, and where patient is affected much and disturbing his daily routine: We may call these by the term 'Cachexia.'
Acute diseases such cough, cold, diarrhoea, skin rash

etc. normally do not last long. When you find a patient with

these complaints standing long for years and bothering him

much, you may use the term 'Cachexia.' We may otherwise

call this as weakness of the system or of a part of body.

Analogous to the above is another term. It is called 'lack

of reaction' about which we would study later.

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Constitution, Cachexia (in general)[From Calvin B. Knerr’s REPERTORY] : Ars., Badiag., Caps., Chim. umb., Clem., Coccus, Cund., Form., Iod., Kali bi., Natr. m., Nitr. ac., Seneg.; Africana, Caps.; bronchitis, subacute attacks, Phos.; bronchial catarrh of old people, Hydras.; cinchona, Ferr.; condylomata, of long standing, Kali iod.; catarrhal, or nerve deafness, Syph.; chronic disease, deep-seated progressive, Lyc.; with cough, Nitr. ac.; debility and emaciation, Iod.; deep-seated,child weak and exhausted, with no other symptoms, Sul. ac.; dry habit, Nux v.; dysentery, or gout, Colch.; long-lasting cases of intermittent fever when liver is

involved and blood is anaemic, Nitr. ac.; disturbance of gastric and hepatic functions, Hydras.; glands enlarged and tender, Kali m.;

helminthiasis, Cina ; low state, Iod.; mercurial, Aur. met., Ferr. iod., Iod., Kali m.; nosebleed, Sul. ac.; from faulty nutrition and assimilation, Ferr.; with oedema, Ol. jec.; nervous palpitation, Natr. m.; phosphatic, Calc. p.;purpura, rheumatism, Sec.; quinine, Eucal., Natr. m., Phos.; salt-eaters seldom have male issue (Old Book), Phos.; with stomach and liver troubles, Hydras.; loss of strength, Arg. nit.; caused by a suppression of habitual secretions, and

excretions, Graph.; syphilitic eruption, pustular, or squamons, Kali iod.; weakened by loss of blood, Chin. s.; vomiting, Sul. ac.; ordinary wounds and ulcers tend to take on a bad appearance, Cund.; remains long impressed by slight mechanical injuries,

Arn.;
Remedies containing the symptom ‘cachexia’ are given below:
Weakly, cachectic individuals: 1, arn., calc., chin., natr. m.,

nux v., phos. ac., sulph., veratr.; 2, ars., carb. v., lach.,

merc., phos., sec., sep., etc.
Arg-nit - cachectic states, with loss of strength.

Arsenic alb - man, aged 40, lean, cachectic; drinking

spirituous liquors. ---quotidian for a week.

Badiaga. - general cachectic appearance.

Baryta carb - (bar. a) old cachectic people of scrofulous

habit, especially when they suffer with gouty complaints.

Capsicum. - seasickness; cholera; cachexia africana; yellow

fever; typhus ictorodes.

Carbo veg - gangrene: humid; senile; in cachectic persons;

when vital powers have become weakened; great

foulness of secretions; great prostration.

Chimaphila umb. - cachectic and scrofulous individuals.

Chimaphila umb. - woman, aged 26; in a cachectic

condition, menses always scant; scirrhous tumor of

breast; the mother of patient had also had scirrhous tumor

of breast, necessitating extirpation of gland.

China-off. - young man, pale, cachectic appearance, suffered

for ten weeks from quartan ague; enlarged spleen.

China-sulph. - cachectic persons weakened by loss of blood.4 China-sulph. - intermittent fever in cachectic persons by

loss of blood or from continued and long prostration.

Cina. - cachexia of helminthiasis.

Cinnamomum. - lymphatic, feeble, cachectic women, with

lax tissues and languid circulation.

Clematis. - torpid, cachectic conditions; swelling and

induration of glandular system; syphilitic taint.

Cocculus - man, aged 30, cachectic appearance; colic.

Colchicum - cachectic appearance. ---dysentery. ---gout.

Condurango. - cachectic state of system, ordinary wounds

and ulcers tend to take on a bad appearance.

Corydalis - cancer cachexia pronounced.

Eucalyptus. - quinine cachexia.

Eupatorium perf. - cachectic condition of system from long

continued or frequent attacks of bilious and intermittent

fevers.

Eupatorium perf. - cachexia from old chronic, bilious

intermittents.

Ferrum iod. - mercurial cachexia.

Ferrum met. - a cachectic state from faulty nutrition and

assimilation.

Formica. - watery swellings; dropsy; cachexies.

Hydrastis - hydrastis is especially active in old, easily-tired

people, cachectic individuals with great debility.5

Hydrastis. - cachectic persons, with marked disturbance of

gastric and hepatic functions.

Hydrastis. - catarrhal affections: in patients of a cachectic

habit.

Hydrastis. - man, aged 18, cachectic, consumptive

appearance; scrofulous ulcers on leg.

Hydrastis. - marasmus; scrofula; cancer cachexia.

Iodum. - low cachectic condition with profound debility

and great emaciation.

Iodum. - low cachectic state of the system, with feeble pulse.

Iodum. - syphilis: mercurial cachexia; salivation; ulcers in

throat; skin and muscles lax; nightly bone pain; very hard

chronic buboes.

Kali-bich. - emaciation; anemia; general cachexia.

Kali-iod. - condylomata of long standing in cachectic

subjects.

Lachesis. - elderly woman, thin and cachectic; phthisis

pulmonalis.

Lachesis. - lady, aged 43, slim, large, cachectic, scrofulous;

intestinal croup.

Lycopodium. - man, aged 50, thin, cachectic, musician;

cramps in stomach.

Lycopodium. - woman, aged 50, weak, cachectic, formerly

troubled with abdominal complaints and itch, has not

menstruated for five years; impairment of hearing.

Merc-sol. - woman, aged 36, no children, two years ago had6

inflammatory affection of chest, after nursing a

cachectic husband; phthisis.

Mezereum. - man, aged 43, nervo-bilious constitution,

cachectic habit, leaden colored face, had lived the life

of a tramp and had been several times syphilitic; pain

and swelling in tibiae.

Muriatic-acid. - woman, aged 60, unmarried, cachectic, has

an eruption on lower limbs; typhoid fever.

Natrum-mur. - adapted to cachectic persons and to those

who have lost animal fluids; quinine cachexia.

Natrum-mur. - cachexia from ague plus quinine.

Natrum-sulph. - man, aged 43, middle height, father of two

healthy children, blonde hair, grey eyes, gonorrhoeal

cachexy, hydrogenoid constitution; diabetes.

Nitric-acid. - diseases depending upon presence of syphilitic,

scrofulous or mercurial poison; broken down, cachectic

constitutions.

Nux-vom. - man, aged 48, yellow skin, cachectic

appearance, small stature, suffering three years;

cardialgia.

Nux-vom. - man, aged 75; sickly, cachectic; extravasation

of blood into conjunctiva.

Nux-vom. - mania puerperalis from excitement, sleeplessness

and prostration; had menorrhagia, and for the subsequent

weakness drank much whisky and strong coffee;7

cachectic appearance; large, dim, languid eyes; lies in

bed half uncovered, sits up and then lies down again;

constantly complaining, criticizing or explaining, at times

words are well chosen, at others uses high-sounding

phrases; as soon as she recognized physician she spoke

of the imperfection of medical knowledge and declared

it an error that one could not live without a heart,

inasmuch as she felt very well without one, it having

come away with the afterbirth to which it had grown

fast, the nurse having separated the two before her eyes;

complains of her husband, says he wishes to convince

her she is sick, although she is able to dance and sing;

makes grotesque motions and wild leaps, but soon sinks

down breathless; nymphomania; often enraged;

frequently sips at a bowl of warm sugar-water, declaring

it will form her a new heart; bloating of abdomen;

epigastric, hepatic and uterine regions sensitive to

pressure; stool absent five to six days; very frequent and

profuse discharge of pale, watery urine; white mucous

discharge from vagina.

Oleum-jec. - rheumatism of long standing; patient confined

to bed or room, and only in warm summer months

experienced a slight alleviation of her sufferings; nearly

whole body was attacked, but principally inferior

extremities, sacrum, back and shoulders; walking was

entirely prevented by the insupportable pains, stiffness

and swelling of joints; a kind of hectic fever and constant

nightly exacerbations destroyed all repose; patient was

wasted, of a bleachy whiteness, of a cachetic appearance

and habit, and had lost all hope of relief.

Oleum-jec. - scrofulosis: diseases of joints; in pale, thin

cachectic subjects.8

Phosphorus. - glands enlarged, especially after contusions;

glandular affections in weak cachectic individuals

suffering from diarrhoea and colliquative sweats.

Phosphorus. - suitable to young people with blonde hair, blue

eyes, delicate skin, slender stature, with cachectic

cough, diarrhoea, frequent exhausting sweats, great

debility, with orgasm of blood; palpitation of heart or

oppression of chest after exercise; copious stools, pouring

away like water from a hydrant, with great exhaustion;

glandular swellings, suppuration; appetite good; craves

cold food, ice cream, etc.

Platin. - woman, aged 38, cachectic appearance, suffering

two years; dysmenorrhoea.

Plumb-met. - deep melancholy, with timidity and restlessness;

anxiety at heart, with sighing and trembling; dislikes to

talk or work; maniacal rage, with cries and convulsions;

absence of mind; stupidity; pale, miserable, cachectic

appearance; somnolency; colic.

Podophyllum - man, aged 33, cachectic appearance, liver

or spleen or both disordered; asthma.

Prunus-sp. - dropsy caused by defective heart; abdominal

dropsy; anasarca after any debilitating, chronic diseases,

and particularly in those connected with cachectic

affections.

Pulsatilla - woman, aged 26, yellow, cachectic appearance,

suffering six months; vertigo.

Rhus-tox. - woman, aged 36, poorly nourished, cachectic,9

six months pregnant; urinary difficulty.

Secale - feeble, cachectic women; thin, scrawny.

Secale - passive hemorrhage; blood dark and red, in feeble

and cachectic persons, accompanied by tingling in

limbs and prostration; desire for air; does not like to be

covered; wishes to have limbs extended; skin cold.

Secale - rheumatism (peliosis rheumatica of schoenlein)

generally is found in cachectic individuals, with

purpura; affects joints, especially of lower extremities;

thrombosis of abdominal vessels.

Secale - woman, aged 40, mother of seven children, weak,

cachecticlooking, suffering from prolapsus uteri;

hysteria.

Senega. - subacute or chronic exudations of pleura, catarrhal

pleuropneumonia (after bry.) in cachectic pleuritis, in

hydrothorax, oedema pulmonum, in diseases of heart,

primary and secondary anasarca; in dropsies after

albuminuria; hydrophthalmia with intraocular

compression; in ascites accompanying hepatic diseases,

peritonitis and abdominal tumors; in lymphatic

constitutions with tendency to mucous and serous

exudations.

Silicea - n., aged 12, cachectic and anemic; fistulae of thigh.

Spongia - boy, aged 4, scrofulous, cachectic-looking; croup.

Sulphur. - girl, aged 12, delicate, cachectic; vaginitis.

Sulphur. - girl, aged 8, cachectic-looking; coxalgia of spine.
Diseases in which 'cachexia' also was found, their symptoms

and the respective remedies are given below: [The disease

or pathology is arranged in alphabetical order.]

(Albuminuria) Aur-met - interstitial nephritis; contracted

kidney, marked cardiac hypertrophy; mercurial and

syphilitic cachexia, swelling of liver, caries. renal

troubles secondary to cardiac affections, causing a

decided albinous crasis, passing over into hydraemia; at

first the urine is increased in quantity, later it becomes

scanty and albinous; bloated, shining face; vertigo as if

he would fall to the left side; bruised pain in head and

confusion in thinking, dyspnoea, palpitations.

(Albuminuria) Sarsaparilla - syphilitic taint, mercurial

poisoning, scrofula, cachectic states from hepatic

diseases or rheumatism; cloudiness of head; dim sight,

as if looking through a mist; aphthae; frequent and

copious micturition of pale urine, depositing a sediment;

frequent desire, but scanty urination; foetid breath;

dyspnoea; tearing in almost all the joints and limbs; great

weakness; languid feeling; emaciation.

(Amenorrhoea.) Suppression of the menses in consequence

of a cold, principally: 1, Caul., Cimicif., Gels., Nux m.,

Puls.; or, 2, Bell., Dulc., Sep., Sulph.-or, if occasioned

by fright or sudden emotion: 1, Acon., Lyc.; 2, Coff.,

Op., Veratr. For feeble though not entirely suppressed

menses: Asclep., Calc., Caul., Caust., Con., Graph., Kali

carb., Lyc., Magn., Natr. m., Phos., Puls., Sil., Sulph.,

Veratr., Zinc. - for amenia of plethoric individuals use:

acon., bell., bry., gels., nux v., op., plat., sabin., sulph.;

for debilitated or cachectic individuals: alet., ars., chin.,

cyprip., con., graph., helon., iod., natr. m., puls., polyg.,11

sep., sulph.

(Anaemia.) Natrum mur - blood impoverished; anaemia from

loss of fluids; malarious cachexia; emaciation; skin

harsh, dry, yellow; great exhaustion from any little

exertion of mind or body; palpitation, with sensation as

if a bird's wing were fluttering in left chest; pressure and

distension of stomach; constipation, with contraction of

anus; terrible sadness.

(Asthma) Carduus mar - nervous asthma of miners; cachexia

of tunnel laborers; frequent urging to deep breathing,

followed by painful sensations in abdomen; great

debility; loss of appetite; empty eructations; restless,

dreamy sleep; fulness of hypochondria which are painful

to pressure.

(Asthma) Silicea - asthma on a cachectic base, after its

removal gummatous nodes on skull, clavicles and ribs;

shortness of breath and panting from walking fast and

from manual labor; dyspnoea when at rest or when lying

on back; oppression of chest, cannot take a long breath,

cannot bear the slightest draught on the back of his neck,

spasmodic cough, with spasm of larynx; catarrh of aged

people

(Atrophy of children) Phosphorus - emaciation combined with

nervous debility; brain and spine suffered severely; child

overtall, but slender, emaciated but big-bellied; face pale,

almost waxen. delicate eyelashes, soft hair, rapid

breathing hint to sequelae; even thus early diarrhoea

associated with dry cough, hence suitable to young girls

with blonde hair, blue eyes, delicate skin, slender stature,

with cachectic cough, diarrhoea; frequent exhausting

sweats; great debility, with orgasm of the blood;12

palpitation of the heart or oppression of the chest after

exercise. copious stools, pouring away like water from a

hydrant, with great exhaustion; glandular swellings,

suppuration and caries (sil.) ; appetite good; he craves

cold food, ice cream; often awakens at night, hot and

restless, and will drop off to sleep if fed; child irascible,

vehement, susceptible to external impressions and to

electric changes in atmosphere.

(Bedwetting in children) Squilla - especially for strumous or

cachectic children who are troubled with worms;

inability to retain the urine on account of abnormal

irritation of the lining membrane of the bladder, often of

rheumatic origin.

(Blepharophthalmia, blepharitis) Ars-alb. - burning in the

oedematous swollen lids; lachrymation profuse, hot and

acrid, excoriating the lids and cheek; cachexia, with

great restlessness, aggravation after midnight; thirst, etc.

(Bronchitis chronica) Hydrastis - bronchitis of old people,

with great debility, loss of appetite, cachectic state,

great weakness; chronic cough, accompanied by febrile

paroxysms evenings and night, and excessive prostration;

sputa thick, yellowish, very tenacious, stringy and

profuse; dry, hard cough with much laryngeal irritation,

or loose but hard cough with much nasopharyngeal

catarrh and marked prostration.

(Bronchitis chronica) Lycopodium - distressing, fatiguing,

tickling cough, towards evening; sad

and tearful disposition.

(Constitution) for weakly, cachectic individuals: 1, arn.,

calc., chin., natr. m., nux v., phos. ac., sulph., veratr.; 2,

ars., carb. v., lach., merc., phos., sec., sep., etc.

(Cornea, diseases of) Calc-carb - particularly valuable for

corneal ulceration in fat, unhealthy children with a large

abdomen who sweat much, especially about the head,

and are very susceptible to cold air, also in deep,

sloughing ulcers, found in weak, cachectic persons.15

pains, redness, photophobia, lachrymation are variable

with no characteristic eye symptoms; pus is mostly bland

and the opacity of cornea milky white or bluish. calc.

ars. ought to be remembered.

(Cornea, diseases of) Merc-dulcis - deep or superficial ulcers

or abscesses in pale, flabby, strumous children, with

enlarged glands and general scrofulous cachexia.

(Coryza, snuffles of children) Iodum - chronic coryza in

cachectic, emaciated children, with enlarged and

indurated glands; nose painful and swollen, with foetid

secretions, which at times become a clear and continuous

stream; discharge hot.

(Coryza, snuffles of children) Kali carb. - anaemic children

of cachectic appearance, with puffy swelling over

upper eyelids, especially mornings; cannot breathe

through nostrils in a warm room, > in open air; nostrils

raw and bleeding; profuse, foetid, yellow-green

discharge.

(Cough) Borax - dry, cachectic cough, especially mornings

when rising and in the evening when lying down; with

stitching pain in upper part of right chest and right flank,
most relief; pains after a good sleep.

(Diarrhoea)Kali-carb. - chronic cases in cachectic, dyspeptic17

persons, with the characteristic puffiness under the

eyebrows. stools light-gray or brownish, corrosive,

sometimes painless, in cold weather.

(Eczema) Cundurango - chiefly when rhagades are present,

oozing out a foetid fluid; cachectic or syphilitic

dyscrasia.

(Febris intermittens) Amm-picr - fevers maltreated with19

quinine or having a quinine cachexia engrafted upon a

malarial one. periodical headaches, nervous, bilious,

gastric, recurring every four, seven, fourteen days or once

a month, in women just before or after menses.

(Febris intermittens) Causticum - chill without thirst, lessened

in bed and by drinking, of whole left side, beginning in

face and moving downward, at about 4 p. m.; shivering

and coldness of single parts; he is always chilly or in

sweat. heat without thirst, alternating with chilliness,

towards morning. sweat without thirst, often immediately

after chill, without intervening heat; profuse sweat from

motion, in open air, at 4 a. m.; viscid sweat of strong

urinous odor. apyrexia: chronic constitutional cachexia,

desire for smoked meat, for beer, aversion to sweet

things; paralysis of single parts.

(Febris intermittens) China - paludal fevers anteponing fevers

of any type; paroxysms tertian, quartan or every seventh

day (amm. m.) . before great attack thirst, canine hunger,

anguish, headache, restless sleep. chill without thirst;

thirst ceases as soon as chill begins, by heat of stove. heat

with thirst, flushes of heat in face, burning heat of palms

and soles, > by putting them out of bed, ending in

moisture and faintness; alternate heat with chilliness.

sweat profuse at night all over and restless sleep; sweat

on slightest motion or manual labor; morning sweat,

setting in after waking; sour sweat. apyrexia: great

prostration after every paroxysm, with thirst for beer,

burning heat on vertex, early morning diarrhoea.

(Fever, relapsing) China - anaemic and cachectic persons;

great malaise from mere weakness; severe, pulsating

headache, dizziness, heat in face, exhausting sweats;

enlarged liver and spleen, jaundice.22

(Gangrene) Carbo veg - senile gangrene humid gangrene in

cachectic persons whose vital powers are exhausted;

great foulness of the secretions; great prostration; sepsis;

indifference; fainting after sleep, while yet in bed,

morning; no restlessness.

(Haemorrhage from uterus ) Carbo an - menses too early, not

too profuse, but last too long; great weakness of the

thighs. after the appearance of the menses she feels so

tired she is scarcely able to speak; menorrhagia from

chronic induration of uterus, also in cachectic women

with glandular affections, cancer, etc.; blood black,

clotted, putrid.

(Haemorrhage from uterus) Ars-alb. - tedious, long-continued

flooding in feeble cachectic women afflicted with

rheumatism, disorganization of uterus or ovaries, with

great debility, restlessness and lancinating burning pains;

uterus larger and softer than usual, with dilated

capillaries; aphthae in mouth indicate the low state of

the system, the least effort exhausts her; chronic

endometritis and passive hyperaemia, based on atony.

(Haemorrhage from uterus) For active haemorrhage in

plethoric persons give: 1, Acon., Bell., Bry., Calc., Cham.,

Fer., Nux v., Plat., Sab., Sulph.; 2, Arn., Croc., Hyosc.,

Ign., Ipec., Phos., Sil., Veratr.; 3, Trill. - for passive

haemorrhage in debilitated cachectic subjects: 1, chin.,

croc., puls., sec., sep., sulph.; 2, capsella bursa pastoris,

carb. v., nux v., ipec., phos., ruta, veratr.; 3, alet., cauloph.,

cimicif., trill., ust.

(Haemorrhage from uterus) Nitric acid - uterine haemorrhage

from overexertion of body; long-lasting cases; absence

of pain, copious flooding kept up by ulcers on os uteri,23

especially in cachectic women; blood rather fluid from

loss of plasticity; asthenia. after miscarriage or

confinement, with violent pressure, as if everything

would come out of the vulva, with pain in small of back

and down through the hips to thighs.

(Haemorrhage from uterus) Secale - painless flooding in

feeble, cachectic, dyscratic women, or who have long

resided in tropical climates; general coldness, while the

patient feels too warm and does not wish to be covered;

feverish pulse; haemorrhage passive, dark-colored and

continuous, seldom clotted, sometimes offensive, and

the slightest motion aggravates the flow, particularly

where the weakness is not caused by loss of blood.

haemorrhage, with strong and spasmodic contraction of

the uterus, every flow preceded by strong, bearing-down

pains; haemorrhage from atony of the uterus, especially

after protracted labor or miscarriage, aggravated by the

slightest motion; menses usually too profuse and too

long-lasting, with spasms and mental depression or

melancholy.

(Heart, diseases of) Ars-alb. - cardiac cachexia irritable

heart, trembling, irregular action of the heart,

intermitting; palpitations with anguish, in damp weather, frequent

dull stitches in both lungs; thin, scrawny, cachectic

persons.

(Pleurisy) - in neglected cases, or where the disease developed

itself in cachectic constitutions, study: ars., ars. iod.,

calc., camph., canth., carb. v., chin., fer., hep., iod., lach.,

lyc., seneg., sep., sil., and others; for pleuritic exudations:

apis, ars., dig., when serous; alum., bry., hep., sulph.,

when plastic.

(Pneumonia) Ant-tart - pneumonia biliosa with hepatic

congestion; pleuro-pneumonia, when parts of lungs are

hepatized and fine rales heard over hepatized part; great

oppression of breathing towards morning, must sit up to

breathe. broncho-pneumonia, pneumonia catarrhalis:

second stage, resolution has set in, but fails, and

oppression and prostration prevail, at first we found the

sharp, stitching pains of bry., but now the pain ceased,

mucous rales are heard distinctly over chest with extreme

want of breath; rattling, hollow cough, with heat and

moist hands, sweat on forehead; dyspnoea with desire

to cough, and, though chest is full of mucus, inability to

bring it up; vertigo with dimness of vision and pressing

headache; eyes congested, staring, dull, unsteady, half

open or one closed; face red, bloated, anxious, or cool,

pale and sallow; nostrils dark, sooty, dilated; mouth open,

parched; tongue dry and brown; great thirst; tendency to29

diarrhoea or diarrhoea. pneumonia of drunkards, with

bilious complications; even jaundice, meteorism, nausea

and vomiting; typhoid complications; oedema

pulmonum; impending paralysis of lungs or of heart;

suitable especially to infants and old or cachectic

people.

(Pneumonia) Nitric acid - pneumonia of old and cachectic

people; sputa are raised with difficulty; awakens often

all stopped up with mucus and must expectorate before

he can breathe more easily; sputa of blood mixed with

clots during the day; pulse intermits.

(Prosopalgia) Silicea - dental nerves especially affected, pains

more in jawbones than teeth; jaw swollen; toothache, <

after being a short time in bed; gums very sore, inflamed;

face pale, cachectic; restless and fidgety, starting at

least noise; inveterate intermitting neuralgia.

(Pruritus) Iodum - papules that are very apt to run together or

around which the skin is brownish and covered with

scales; irresistible nocturnal itching, compelling one to

scratch and thus causing insomnia, cachectic

appearance, emaciation and dyspepsia.

(Scrofulosis) Hydrastis - chronic catarrhs of mucous

membranes wherever situated; constipation from30

weakened and congestive state of the lower bowel;

cancerous cachexia; cancers hard, adherent; skin

mottled, puckered, with lancinating cutting pains; atony

of muscles.

(Scrofulosis) Merc-sol - scrofulosis in children with unusually

large heads and open fontanelles, particularly anterior

ones; child is slow in learning to walk, teeth form

imperfectly and slowly, and a damp, clammy feeling

about limbs; offensive, oily perspiration on head;

enlarged glands, with or without suppuration; cachexia

and emaciation; exostosis, curvature, caries and other

affections of bones; eruptions and corrosive herpes with

crusts; tinea capitis; crusts in the face; ophthalmia, otitis,

otorrhoea, coryza; slimy diarrhoea; suppuration,

especially if too profuse; grayish ulcers on mouth and

fauces; ulceration of tonsils; false membranes grayish,

thick, with shredlike borders, adherent or free, but of

marked consistence.

(Syphilis and sycosis) Badiaga - syphilis of infants, whole

convolutes of hard, glandular swellings; bubo, left groin,

hard, unequal, like scirrhus, violent burning stitches

during night; chancres suppressed by cautery or mercurial

ointment, leaving elevated, discolored cicatrices; general

cachectic appearance and rhagades here and there;

indurated, maltreated buboes

(Ulcers) We should use more particularly: - for atonic ulcers,

as we find them among old, feeble, and cachectic

persons, especially on the legs, ulcera atonica pedum: 1,

ars., lach., sil., sulph.; 2, calc., carb. v., graph., ipec.,

lyc., mur. ac., natr., phos. ac., puls., ruta; 3, amm., amm.

m., fluor. ac., nux j.; 4, aral., bapt., lycopus, polyg.31

(Urinary difficulties) Squilla - especially for strumous and

cachectic children who are troubled with worms;

inability to retain the urine on account of an abnormal

irritation of the lining membrane of bladder, often of

rheumatic origin; frequent urging to urinate, with profuse

discharge of pale, limpid urine; continuous painful

pressure on bladder.