SYPHILINUM

Utter prostration and debility in the morning.

Shifting rheumatic pains. Chronic eruptions and rheumatism.

Ichthyosis. Syphilitic affections. Pains from darkness to daylight; decrease and increase gradually. Hereditary tendency to alcoholism. Ulceration of mouth, nose, genitals, skin. Succession of abscesses .

Mind

Loss of memory; remembers everything previous to his illness. Apathetic; feels as if going insane or being paralyzed. Fears the night , and the suffering from exhaustion on awakening. Hopeless; despairs of recovery .

Head

Linear pains from temple across, or from eyes backward; cause sleeplessness and delirium at night. Falling of the hair . Pain in bones of head. Top of head feels as if coming off. Stupefying cephalalgia.

Eyes

Chronic, recurrent, phlyctenular inflammation of cornea ; successive crops of phlyctenular and abrasions of epithelial layer of cornea; photophobia intense, lachrymation profuse. Lids swollen; pain intense at night ; ptosis. Tubercular iritis. Diplopia; one image seen below the other. Feeling of cold air blowing on eye ( Fluor ac ).

Ears

Caries of ossicles in ear of syphilitic origin.

Nose

Caries of nasal bones, hard palate and septum, with perforation; ozæna.

Mouth

Teeth decay at gum; edges serrated, dwarfed. Tongue coated, teeth-indented; deep longitudinal cracks. Ulcers smart and burn. Excessive flow of saliva; it runs out of mouth when sleeping .

Stomach

Craves alcohol .

Rectum

Feels tied up with strictures. Enemas very painful. Fissures, prolapse.

Extremities

Sciatica; worse at night; better about day-break. Rheumatism of shoulder-joint, at insertion of deltoid. Run-around. Severe pain in long bones. Redness and rawness between toes ( Sil ). Rheumatism, muscles are caked in hard knot or lumps. Always washing the hands . Indolent ulcers. Muscles contracted in hard knots.

Female

Ulcers on labia. Leucorrhœa profuse, thin, watery, acrid , with sharp, knife-pain in ovaries.

Respiratory

Aphonia; chronic asthma in summer, wheezing and rattling ( Tart emet ). Cough dry, hard; worse at night; windpipe sensitive to touch ( Lach ). Lancinating pains from base of heart to apex at night.

Skin

Reddish-brown eruption, with a disagreeable odor. Extreme emaciation.

Relationship

Compare: Merc; Kal hyd; Nit ac; Aur; Alum .

Modalities

Worse , at night, sundown to sunrise, seashore, in summer. Better , inland and mountains, during day, moving about slowly.

Dose

The highest potencies only, and in infrequent doses.