Rhus Tox

• ▸Listless, sad.
• ▸Thoughts of suicide.
• ▸Extreme restlessness, with continued change of position.
• ▸Delirium, with fear of being poisoned (Hyos).
• ▸Sensorium becomes cloudy. Great apprehension at night, cannot remain in bed.

• ▸Feels as if a board were strapped on the forehead.
• ▸Vertigo when rising.
• ▸Heavy head.
• ▸Brain feels loose and as if struck against skull on walking or rising.
• ▸Scalp sensitive; worse on side lain on.
• ▸Headache in occiput (Rhus rad); painful to touch.
• ▸Pain in forehead and proceeds thence backward.
• ▸Humid eruptions on scalp; itching greatly.

• ▸Swollen, red, oedematous; orbital cellulitis.
• ▸Pustular inflammations.
• ▸Photophobia; profuse flow of yellow pus.
• ▸OEdema of lids, suppurative iritis.
• ▸Lids inflamed, agglutinated swollen.
• ▸Old injured eyes.
• ▸Circumscribed corneal injection.
• ▸Intensive ulceration of the cornea.
• ▸Iritis, after exposure to cold and dampness, and of rheumatic origin.
• ▸Eye painful on turning it or pressing, can hardly move it, as in acute retrobulbar neuritis.
• ▸Profuse gush of hot, scalding tears upon opening lids.

Pain in ears, with sensation as if something were in them. Lobules swollen. Discharge of bloody pus.

• ▸Sneezing; coryza from getting wet.
• ▸Tip of nose red, sore, ulcerated.
• ▸Swelling of nose.
• ▸Nosebleed on stooping.

• ▸Jaws crack when chewing.
• ▸Easy dislocation of jaw (Ign; Petrol).
• ▸Swollen face, erysipelas.
• ▸Cheek bones sensitive to touch.
• ▸Parotitis.
• ▸Facial neuralgia, with chilliness; worse, evening.
• ▸Crusta lactea (Calc; Viol tric).

• ▸Teeth feel loose and long; gums sore.
• ▸Tongue red and cracked; coated, except red triangular space at the tip; dry and red at edges.
• ▸Corners of mouth ulcerated; fever-blisters around mouth and chin (Nat mur).
• ▸Pain in maxillary joint.

Sore, with swollen glands. Sticking pain on swallowing. Parotitis; left side.

• ▸Want of appetite for any kind of food, with unquenchable thirst.
• ▸Bitter taste (Cupr).
• ▸Nausea, vertigo, and bloated abdomen after eating.
• ▸Desire for milk.
• ▸Great thirst, with dry mouth and throat.
• ▸Pressure as from a stone.
• ▸(Bry; Ars) Drowsy after eating.

• ▸Violent pains, relieved by lying on abdomen.
• ▸Swelling of inguinal glands.
• ▸Pain in region of ascending colon.
• ▸Colic, compelling to walk bent.
• ▸Excessive distention after eating.
• ▸Rumbling of flatus on first rising, but disappears with continued motion.

• ▸Diarrhoea of blood, slime, and reddish mucus.
• ▸Dysentery, with tearing pains down thighs.
• ▸Stools of cadaverous odor.
• ▸Frothy, painless stools.
• ▸Will often abort a beginning suppurative process near the rectum.
• ▸Dysentery.

Dark, turbid, high-colored, scanty urine, with white sediment. Dysuria, with loss of blood.

• ▸Swelling, with intense itching of vulva.
• ▸Pelvic articulations stiff when beginning to move.
• ▸Menses early, profuse, and prolonged, acrid.
• ▸*Lochia thin, protracted, offensive diminished (Puls; Secale), with shooting upwards in vagina (Sep).

Swelling of glands and prepuce-dark-red erysipelatous; scrotum thick, swollen, oedematous. Itching intense.

• ▸Tickling behind upper sternum.
• ▸Dry, teasing cough from midnight until morning, during a chill, or when putting hands out of bed.
• ▸Haemoptysis from overexertion; blood bright red.
• ▸Influenza, with aching in all bones (Eup perf).
• ▸Hoarseness from overtraining voice (Arn).
• ▸Oppression of the chest, cannot get breath with sticking pains.
• ▸Bronchial coughs in old people, worse on awaking and with expectoration of small plugs of mucus.

Hypertrophy from overexertion. Pulse quick, weak, irregular, intermittent, with numbness of left arm. Trembling and palpitation when sitting still.

Pain between shoulders on swallowing. Pain and stiffness in small of back; better, motion, or lying on something hard; worse, while sitting. Stiffness of the nape of the neck.

• ▸Hot, painful swelling of joints.
• ▸Pains tearing in tendons, ligaments, and fasciae.
• ▸Rheumatic pains spread over a large surface at nape of neck, loins, and extremities; better motion (Agaric).
• ▸Soreness of condyles of bones.
• ▸Limbs stiff paralyzed. The cold fresh air is not tolerated; it makes the skin painful.
• ▸Pain along ulnar nerve.
• ▸Tearing down thighs.
• ▸Sciatica; worse, cold, damp weather, at night.
• ▸Numbness and formication, after overwork and exposure.
• ▸Paralysis; trembling after exertion.
• ▸Tenderness about knee-joint.
• ▸Loss of power in forearm and fingers; crawling sensation in the tips of fingers.
• ▸Tingling in feet.

• ▸Red, swollen; itching intense.
• ▸Vesicles, herpes; urticaria; pemphigus; erysipelas; vesicular suppurative forms.
• ▸Glands swollen.
• ▸Cellulitis.
• ▸Burning eczematous eruptions with tendency to scale formation.

Dreams of great exertion. Heavy sleep, as from stupor. Sleepless before midnight.

• ▸Adynamic; restless, trembling.
• ▸Typhoid; tongue dry and brown; sordes; bowels loose; great restlessness.
• ▸Intermittent; chill, with dry cough and restlessness.
• ▸During heat, urticaria.
• ▸Hydroa.
• ▸Chilly, as if cold water were poured over him, followed by heat and inclination to stretch the limbs.

Complementary: Bry; Calc fluor. Phytol (Rheumatism). In urticaria follow with Bovista.

Inimical: Apis.

Antidotes: Bathing with milk and Grindelia lotion very effective. Ampelopsis Trifolia-Three-leaf Woodbine--(Toxic dermatitis due to vegetable poisons-30 and 200. Very similar to Rhus poisoning). Desensitizing against Ivy poisoning by the use of descending doses of the tincture by mouth or by hypodermic injections is recommended by old school authorities, but is not as effective as the homeopathic remedies especially Rhus 30 and 200 and Anacard, etc. Anacard; Croton; Grindelia; Mezer; Cyprip; Plumbago (eczema of vulva); Graph.

Compare: Rhus radicans (almost identical action); characteristics are, burning in tongue, tip feels sore, pains are often semilateral and in various parts, often remote and successive. Many symptoms are better after a storm has thoroughly set in, especially after an electric storm. Has pronounced yearly aggravation (Laches).

Rhus radicans has headache in occiput even pain in nape of neck and from there pains draw over the head forwards.

Rhus diversiloba-California Poison-oak (antidote to Rhus; violent skin symptoms, with frightful itching; much swelling of face, hands and genitals; skin very sensitive; eczema and erysipelas, great nervous weakness, tired from least effort; goes to sleep from sheer exhaustion); Xerophyllum (dysmenorrhoea and skin symptoms). Compare, also; Arn; Bapt; Lach; Ars; Hyos; Op (stupefaction more profound). Mimosa-Sensitive Plant--(rheumatism, knee stiff, lancinating pains in back and limbs. Swelling of ankles Legs tremble).

Sixth to thirtieth potency. The 200th and higher are antidotal to poisoning with the plant and tincture.

The complaints of this remedy come on from cold damp weather,

from being exposed to cold damp air when perspiring. The patient

is sensitive to cold air and all his complaints are made worse from

cold and all are better from warmth. In a general way, the aching

pains, the bruised feelings over the body, restlessness throughout the

limbs, and amelioration from motion are features that prevail throughout all conditions of Rhus. While he is better from motion and better from walking, if he continues to walk he becomes exhausted. Any

continued exertion of the body or mind exhausts the Rhus patient.

He suffers from rheumatic conditions with pains in the bones, lameness in the muscles, lameness in the tendons, ligaments, and joints from

suppression of sweat, from becoming chilled. These occur with or

without fever. Rhus is suitable in old chronic rheumatic conditions.

He is stiff, lame, and bruised on first loginning to move. This passes

off on becoming warme up, but soon he becomes weak and must rest.

Then comes the restlessness and aching and uneasiness which drive

him to move and which again make him better, but soon he becomes

weak and these continue, so that he is never perfectly at ease and never

finds rest. Inflammation of the glands and of the mucous membranes ;

inflammation of the muscles. Cellulitis of the pelvis, of the neck,

about the glands with much swelling. Inflammation of the skin that

becomes erysipelatous ; purple ; pitting upon pressure with large blisters that fill with serum, sometimes bloody. It has abscesses and carbuncles and vesicular eruptions. Inflammation of glands that are hot

and very painful. They are hot and end in suppuration. Abscesses

of the axillary glands and of the parotids. Scrofulous inflammation

• ▸of the glands of the neck and lower jaw.
• ▸Inflammation of the periosteum and of the bones.
• ▸Scrofulous and rickety affections.
• ▸The

prominent projections of bones become sore to touch, especially the

cheek bones. Its complaints are more or less periodical. It has cured

many cases of intermittent fever, is often suitable in remittent fever,

and is a most useful remedy in continued fevers and in a low form of

typhoid fever. The pains that run through Rhus are aching, tearing,

and bruised pains often attended with numbness and paralytic weakness of the limbs. It has paralysis of the limbs with loss of sensation.

In infantile paralysis Rhus is a very common remedy. The nurse-girls

at the present time often bring on in the child this paralytic condition

and spinal paralysis. The nurses take the infants to the park, take

them out of their carriage and put them down upon the cold damp

ground and in a few days the child comes down with infantile paralysis, Rhus will cure these cases because the symptoms take the Rhus

type. Hemiplegia, especially of the right side. Twitching of the

limbs and muscles. It has cured chorea brought on from taking a cold

bath.

Most of the mental symptoms of Rhus are such as prevail during

low forms of fever, especially in typhoid. There is then incoherent

talking ; answers questions hastily. There is anxiety, apprehensions,

and fear. Intense fear at night. The complaints of Rhus often come

• ▸on in the night.
• ▸The mental symptoms are worse at night.
• ▸The delirium is worse at night.
• ▸The fears and anxiety are worse at night.

The chronic mental symptoms of Rhus are despondency, mental prostration, inability to sustain a mental effort, disgust for life and thoughts

of suicide. He wants to drown himself yet he has fear of death. He

desires to die yet he has not the couirage to commit suicide. In many

instances he is filled with suicidal thoughts ; sadness and weeping yet

he knows not why. Irritability and tnxiety as if he had met with some

misfortune, restlessness, anxiousnets^ and nervous in the extreme in

acute and chronic complaints. Golls settle throughout the body and

limbs. He is full of dizziness as if intoxicated ; staggers when walking.

The headaches are commonly such as occur in fevers, in rheumatism, and ill inflammation of the bladder. The brain feels loose or

there is an undulating feeling in the head. Pain in the head as if the

brain were torn. Stupefying headache with buzzing in the ears.

Stitching pains in the head : feeling as if the parts were screwed together ; feeling as if the brain were pressed. The muscles of the head

are sore. The periosteum of the cranium is sore to touch. The pain

in the back of the head is ameliorated by holding the head backwards.

Tingling in the scalp. Rush of blood to the head. Humming in the

• ▸ears.
• ▸Formication in the scalp.
• ▸Pulsating headaches.
• ▸Meningitis

with high fever. Great restlessness with these Rhus symptoms.

Cerebro-spinal meningitis with the anxiety and restlessness. Aching

in the bones ; amelioration from motion. Eruptions upon the scalp ;

very sensitive to touch. The scalp is very sensitive on the side lain on.

Tearing, drawing pains in the periosteum of the head : pressure in the

bones of the skull as if screwed together. From every exposure to

cold, damp weather, or from suppressing the sweat upon the head

comes pain in the head ; rheumatic headaches. Headaches are worse

from wetting the hair. Vesicular eruptions upon the scalp ; erysipelas

of the scalp with large blisters ; eruptions upon the scalp that suppurate. It is a very useful remedy in the treatment of eczema of the

scalp in infants ; herpetic eruptions upon the scalp.

Inflammation of the eyes in rheumatic subjects from exposure to*

cold, damp weather, from suppressing the perspiration, with restlessness and fever. Pustules upon the cornea ; photophobia ; suppuration

of the eyes. Inflammation of the iris of a rheumatic character.

There is much swelling and the eyes are closed from swelling. Very

acute conjunctivitis ; chemosis : eyes red and aggravated in the morning : scrofulous inflammation of the eyes from becoming cold. The

lids are red ; oedematous. The pains in the eyes are worse from moving the eyeballs, especially the bruised pain. Paralysis of the muscles

of the eyeball the result of rheumatism and exposure to the cold, or

from getting the feet wet. Red eyes and lachrymation ; erysipelas of

the lids ; paralysis of the upper lids. The lids are agglutinated in the

morning with a copious, purulent, mucous discharge. The Rhus patient. is subject to styes on the lower lids ; neuralgia in the eyes.

Neuralgia in the ears ; erysipelatous inflammation of the external

ears with vesicles ; inflammation of the parotid gland. Haemorrhage

from the nose : violent coryza. The nose is stopped up from every

cold ; great soreness in the nostrils : discharge froln the nose of thick,

yellow mucus.; green, offensive mucus. Much swelling of the nose

from erysipelas, TTie tip of the nose is red and sensitive: The nose

is puffed and oedematous. Eruptions upon the nose and in the corners

of the nose ; eczema of the nose and much swelling.

Erysipelas of the face with burning, large blisters, and rapidly extending inflammation which becomes very purple and pits upon pressure. The erysipelas of the face often extends from left to right across

the face. There is much burning, itching, and tingling, delirium, and

high fever, and the mental state referred to above. Eczema of the

face ; chronic suppurating eruptions of the face. Stiffness of the

jaws ; rheumatic condition of the jaws and of the joints. The corners

of the mouth ulcerate ; fever blisters ; lips dry and parched and covered

with reddish-brown crusts in typhoid fever ; lips bleed. We have many

symptoms of the mouth especially in connection with typhoid fever.

The tongue is sore, raw, and bleeding ; burning of all the tissues in the

mouth ; red tongue. The taste is putrid and metallic. The teeth are

covered with blood ; fever in the gums with blood ; blisters upon the

tongue and the whole mouth appears to be raw and sometimes bleeding. The mouth is dry and an accumulation of saliva and sometimes

bloody saliva in the mouth, which runs from the mouth during sleep.

In Rhus the thirst is often violent, but there is difficulty in swallowing solids from constriction of the throat ; painful swallowing ; inflammation of the throat ; cellulitis of the throat internal and external with

• ▸painful inflammation of the throat.
• ▸Enlargement of the neck ; swelling of the glands of the neck.
• ▸The neck is stiff ; sometimes erysipelatous inflammation of the parotids ; neck greatly swollen.
• ▸Rhus has

cured diphtheria with these symptoms. Rhus is especially suitable for

inflammation of the oesophagus. When it is acute from swallowing

corrosive substances, because of the extensive cellulitis that such substances cause it makes the case like Rhus.

This remedy is very freaky. For instance, hunger, without appetite ; hungry sensation or sensation of emptiness in the stomach without desire for food. Dryness of the mouth and throat with great

thirst ; unquenchable thirst for cold drinks especially at night with

great dryness of the mouth. Yet the cold drinks bring on chilliness,

bring on the cough.

• ▸Pain in the stomach and nausea.
• ▸His desires arc also strange.
• ▸Desires oysters, cold milk, and sweets.
• ▸Aversion to meat.
• ▸Rhus has

nausea and vomiting ; bilious vomiting and nausea from drinking cold

water ; nausea after eating, with sudden vomiting ; inordinate appetite

with inclination to vomit ; worse at night and after eating.

Pulsation in the pit of the stomach ; gnawing pain in the stomach ;

fulness and heaviness in the stomach as from a load ; pressure in the

pit of the stomach as from a great weight ; pain in the stomach and

nausea, especially after cold things i pain in the stomach after ice

cream ; nausea after eating ice cream#

In the liver there is swelling and tenderness on pressure, so that he

cannot lie on the right lobe of the liver. The soreness is increased on

beginning to move ; shooting pains in the region of the liver.

In the abdomen we have many of the complaints of Rhus. Distended abdomen during typhoid fever ; extreme soreness of the tissues of the abdomen to touch ; cannot bear any pressure ; sensitive to

clothing. Colic ; pains and violent colic compelling him to lie on the

back and draw up the limbs. Inflammation of any of the tissues of the

abdomen ; peritonitis ; enteritis ; typhlitis.

During these violent inflammatory conditions of the bowels, typhoid

symptoms arc likely to be present with involuntary stools. Inflammation and swelling of the glands of the abdomen and groin. With

typhoid conditions there is diarrhoea, copious, watery, bloody stools or

mushy stools ; involuntary stools ; frothy stools. Diarrhoea during

typhoid fever ; the diarrhoea is worse during the night and better during the day time ; involuntary stools with great exhaustion. It has

cured cholera infantum of a low type and it is often useful in dysentery with bloody, mucous stools. Violent tenesmus ; violent tearing,

pinching pains in the abdomen ; involuntary stools ; dysenteric stools ;

dysenteric discharges that drive him out of bed in the morning sometimes as early as 4 o'clock. Haemorrhage of black blood from the

bowels. Shooting pains in the rectum. It has cured haemorrhoids when

there is great soreness and when they are internal or protruding ; protruding alter stool with pressing in the rectum.

Urging to urinate with tenesmus and pain in the region of the prostate gland causing urging to stool, ameliorated by moving about.

There are more or less tearing pains in the region of the kidneys. Albuminous urine ; bloody urine ; urine hot ; muddy ; white sediment, becoming turbid on standing ; bloody drops of urine dribble away. Violent tenesmus of the bladder with dribbling of blood ; retention of

urine ; urine is voided slowly from paralytic weakness of the bladder.

There is sometimes complete paralysis of the bladder with involuntary

urination at night in bed. Frequent urging to urinate day and night ;

weakness of the bladder in girls and women with frequent desire to

urinate, especially in the women dribbling of the urine in cold air and

on becoming very cold.

In the male sexual organs we have inflammation erysipelatous in

character. Eczema of the genitals. The scrotum becomes thick and

hard with intolerable itching ; oedematous swelling of the genitals ;

erysipelas of the genitals ; humid eruptions upon the genitals. In the

female we have the same symptoms, especially erysipelatous swelling

of the genitals and some eruptions. The woman has prolapsus of the

uterus from straining or lifting ; weakness of all the pelvic muscles ;

labor-like pains in the abdomen from straining. Copious menstrual

flow ; clotted blood with labor-like pains. The menstrual period comes

too soon, is too profuse, and lasts too long. The flow is acrid, causing

excoriation of the parts. Every ovcr-cxcrtion brings on menorrhagia.

Membranous tissue in the menstrual flow ; suppressing of the menstrual

flow from beemoing wet; Irom getting the feet wet, or becoming

chilled. Similar complaints come on in pregnancy from overstraining

and a tendency^ to abortion. The after-pains are very torturesome.

The woman suffers from cellulitis such as occurs in milk-leg. Typhoid

symptoms come on and inflammation of the mammary glands. The

milk vanishes.

In the larynx many of the colds locate producing hoarseness, rawness, and roughness. Soreness in the chest ; muscular exhaustion of

the larynx from loud and much exercise of the voice. Hoarseness on

first beginning to sing, which wears off on singing a few notes or wears

off after talking a little while ; burning and rawness in the larynx.

Rhus is suitable in many cases of influenza, such as begin in the nose

and extend into the larynx with hoarseness and with Rhus symptoms.

Respiration is hurried ; oppression of the chest ; very difficult and hard

breathing, especially in pneumonia and bronchitis and in colds that settie in the chest. Rhus gets out of breath on exertion. The cough of

Rhus is very tormenting ; teasing cough ; paroxysms of almost any

kind ; tormenting, dry, teasing cough before and during chill. He

knows that the chill is coming because of the dry, teasing cough ; cough

with taste of blood in the mouth ; dry, hoarse, racking, rheumatic cough,

cough from rheumatic fever.

Inflammation of the lungs ; inflammation of the pleura with stitch

ing pains, much fever, progressing toward the typhoid state with aching in the bones ; restlessness ; general amelioration from motion ; intense fever, marked thirst, great prostration ; typhoid symptoms. The

pneumonia is of a low type ; pneumonia such as would denominate

typhoid. Rhus has expectoration of blood from the lungs and from

the mucous membranes of the air passages ; haemorrhage from the

chest from overexertion ; haemorrhage from blowing wind instruments ;

haemorrhage from the chest from violent mental excitement.

The heart is weak, tremulous with palpitation ; violent palpitation

when sitting still ; pulsations move the whole body ; anxious palpitation

in the morning on waking ; palpitation from exercise. It seems as if

exertion had strained the muscles of the heart ; hypertrophy of the

heart from violent exercise ; hypertrophy that comes on in athletes, in

runners ; organic diseases of the heart with sticking pains. Numbness

and lameness of the left arm with heart disease.

In the back, we have stiffness and lameness. This is most noticeable

on beginning to move, but wears oiff on moving about. Pains in the

shoulder with stiffness ; pains between the shoulders on swallowing

food ; rheumatic symptoms ; pain^l tension between the shoulder

blades. The small of the back aches while sitting. Painful stiffness

on rising from a seat ; pain in the back as if bruised, sore and lame all

over the back. The pain in the back is ameliorated by lying on something hard or from exercise. There are violent pains in the back,

especially in the lumbar region, as if the back were broken. It is a

remedy for lumbago brought on from getting wet, ffrom overlifting,

from taking cold, and from stippressing the sweat. He is ameliorated

from motion and from moving about ; w^orsc on beginning to move.

This remedy has many spinal symptoms with paralytic weakness either

of the lower limbs or of one part of the body. Stiffness and lameness

in the sacrum aggravated on resting after exercise. It might now be

predicted that symptoms are to be found in the limbs from what has

been said in general. There are stitching pains, pressing pains, all

sorts of rheumatic lameness, and these pains are ameliorated from

motion and are worse from keeping still. They are brought on from

cold air and from suppressing the sweat, and as these pains grow

worse they become tearing down the limbs, drawing pains. Paralytic

pains, benumbing pains, and these are relieved from motion ; numbness

throughout the limbs ; numbness and aching in the arms from heart

disease ; numbness in the joints ; jerking, tearing pains in the joints.

Paralysis of the arms ; erysipelas with much swelling in the limbs :

swelling of the hands and arms. When grasping anything a tingling

and pricking is felt in the hands and fingers ; crawling and numbness

in the finger tips and lingers ; swelling of the fingers ; eruptions upon

the hands and fingers. In the lower limbs, we find similar pains and

similar modalities ; pain in the hip when lying upon it ; tearing, drawing pains in the lower limbs ; sciatica with tearing, drawing pains in the

lower limbs, worse during rest and ameliorated from motion, brought

on from becoming chilled, from cold damp weather, from exposure,

and from suppressing the sweat. In sprains such as occur in the

ankles and in fact any of the joints, after Arnica has removed the first

and most painful symptoms, Rhus becomes useful for weakness of

tendons and muscular fibers such as always follows sprains. It is

a routine remedy for this weakness in joints following sprains. The

pains rush in streaks down the limbs ; restlessness in the lower limbs

at night, but amelioration from motion ; must keep the limbs in constant motion ; paralysis of the lower limbs ; great weariness and heaviness of the lower extremities ; weakness of the lower limbs on going

up stairs ; swelling of the joints of the lower limbs ; stiffness of the

knees and feet. Paroxysmal pains in the legs from getting wet, especially when sweating ; complaints from living in damp houses ; rheumatism in the lower limbs from living in damp houses. Ulcers on the

legs. Intolerable itching of the legs at night in bed ; eruptions upon the

feet and legs ; foetid sweat of the feet in persons of rheumatic tendency.

• ▸Eczema of the lower limbs.
• ▸Rhus is a useful remedy in fevers.
• ▸In typhoid sufficient has been said.
• ▸It is a very useful remedy in scarlet

fever with coarse rash. When the rash has been suppressed, with inflammation of the glands and much sore throat. During fever there

is often violent urticaria which passes off during the sweat ; night sweat

with much itching eruption ; fevers from suppressed foot sweat ; rheumatic fevers ; fevers worse at night ; fevers that come with cold sores

on the lips, remittent fevers and intermittent fevers takes on the typhoid

type and run through their course as symptomatic typhoid fever. Intolerable itching of the skin ; tingling in the skin ; eruptions bum and

itch violently ; much moisture with eruptions upon the skin. Large

blisters form upon the skin either with or without erysipelas. The

incessant itching is sometimes relieved by ‘‘scalding" the parts, as it is

called by some who are poisoned with Rhus, by "scalding" with water

as hot as it is possible to bathe the parts in. Rhus has cured shingles

and the tendency to herpetic eruptions. It has made a grand record

with humid eczema such as have raw surfaces ; excoriated ; oozing

much. It is very commonly the remedy for hives that come on from