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Dear Shanon,
Thanks for the reply! Actually, the first time I saw this word was years ago, being a 1st year student and learning MM of some polychrests like lyc., nat-m., sulph., etc., but then I thought it was something "more trivial and less annoying" than the phenomenon you described. Only when I found those rubrics I understood that it must be more serious...
Best regards,
Maly

Robert&Shannon Nelson wrote:
Interesting, thankyou! I suppose these remedies must address the *tendency*
toward hangnails (and I'd think they must be very incomplete rubrics too!),
since I can't see how a remedy culd *remove* one! ...

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?? Why do the rubrics make you think it is serious? I have a hard time
thinking of them as! Tho annoying, yes...


on 10/26/04 7:51 AM, maly suissa at suissa_m@yahoo.com wrote:

Well, if it can cause infections such as felons...


Robert&Shannon Nelson wrote:
?? Why do the rubrics make you think it is serious? I have a hard time
thinking of them as! Tho annoying, yes...

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Isn't a felon just a little sore spot at the edge of the nail, maybe where
the flesh is pulled/pushed out from beneath the nail? (This was just my
hazy impression, maybe I got that wrong.) Pulling the hangnail out of the
flesh leaves a sore, which if it gets dirty can become infected, but even a
felon (or what I *thought* was meant by it) is nothing more than a nuisance,
so far as I've ever seen. And so far as I've seen infection of any sort is
not so common (never did a survey, but am basing this entirely on myself and
my kids)--I have never heard hangnails spoken of as anything other than a
potentially amusing nuisance... (I suppose "amusing" because they are both
so annoying and so trivial?)
Shannon

on 10/26/04 2:09 PM, maly suissa at suissa_m@yahoo.com wrote:

Just have a look at what I found for “felon”, etc.:
Felon - An abscess especially under the nail of a finger toe; infection or abscess of soft tissue of terminal joint of a finger.
Panaritium - inflammation of skin fold surrounding the nail. Synonym paronychia - acute chronic infection of marginal structures about the nail.
Onychia - inflammation of the nail bed with suppuration and frequently loss of the nail.
Whitlow - is suppurative inflammation at the end of a finger toe. It may be deep seated involving the bone and its periosteum superficial affecting parts .
End of quotation.
Would you imagine consequences like this from such an innocent thing? Practically, I wonder if these rubrics are valuable as hints for remedies [when we find such a “symptom” in a patient], or as you stated maybe they are incomplete?
Robert&Shannon Nelson wrote:Isn't a felon just a little sore spot at the edge of the nail, maybe where
the flesh is pulled/pushed out from beneath the nail? (This was just my
hazy impression, maybe I got that wrong.) Pulling the hangnail out of the
flesh leaves a sore, which if it gets dirty can become infected, but even a
felon (or what I *thought* was meant by it) is nothing more than a nuisance,
so far as I've ever seen. And so far as I've seen infection of any sort is
not so common (never did a survey, but am basing this entirely on myself and
my kids)--I have never heard hangnails spoken of as anything other than a
potentially amusing nuisance... (I suppose "amusing" because they are both
so annoying and so trivial?)
Shannon
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But in all of these, the *infection* is the problem, not the hangnail!
A hangnail doesn't *necessarily* leave a raw place, and when it does, the
raw place doesn't usually become infected. So I would take a hangnail
seriously only to the point of snipping rather than ripping, and if ripping
happens, keep it clean and/or covered!
on 10/26/04 3:25 PM, maly suissa at suissa_m@yahoo.com wrote: