Sulphur

Su/. h. is a colourless, inflammable gas, having a sweetish taste and an

exceedingly fetid smell resembling rotten eggs. It is extremely poisonous when inhaled. It is

evolved when animal or vegetable tissues containing Su/phur decays; and it also occurs in

mineral springs, being liberated by the reduction of gypsum or other sulphates through the action

• ▸of a microbe (Cent.
• ▸Dict.
• ▸).
• ▸Sul.
• ▸h.
• ▸is one of the agents which give rise to "blood poisoning" when

bad smells are encountered. Asphyxia, tetanus, delirium, low continued fever have been

• ▸observed as resulting from the gas J.
• ▸Wiglesworth (B.
• ▸M.
• ▸J.
• ▸, July 16, 1892) has recorded two

cases of insanity, one certainly, and both probably, due to inhaling the gas: R. H., 32, engineman

at chemical works, had been kept at home with an attack of bronchitis for ten days. A few days

• ▸after his return to work he became "gassed" (i.
• ▸e.
• ▸, accidentally inhaled Su/.
• ▸h.
• ▸).
• ▸This caused

headache, stupor, prostration, compelling him to stay at home for a few days, when he became

wildly delirious. He passed rapidly into a very excited state, shouting and gesticulating; said he

was Jesus Christ, &c.; tried to bury his head in the floor and to raise his feet above his head.

Three days later he was admitted to Rainhill Asylum, and was there still very violent and excited,

gesticulating and talking incoherently, chiefly on religious subjects. At the end of a month there

was some improvement, and he was discharged, recovered, five months after admission. In the

other case, that of a labourer at chemical works, Wiglesworth is not quite certain that Su/. h. was

the poison inhaled. This patient was greatly excited; threw his arms about; shouted and laughed

by turns was excited and talkative. He remained permanently insane.

• ▸Suppressions.
• ▸Alcohol.
• ▸Sun.
• ▸Sprains.
• ▸Chills.
• ▸Over-exertion.
• ▸Reaching high.
• ▸Falls.

Blows. Bed-sores.

• ▸Very forgetful.
• ▸Difficult thinking.
• ▸Delusions; thinks rags beautiful things-that he is immensely wealthy.
• ▸Busy all the time.
• ▸Childish peevishness in grown people.
• ▸Irritable.
• ▸Affections vitiated; very selfish, no regard for others.
• ▸Religious melancholy.
• ▸Averse to business; loafs-too lazy to arouse himself.
• ▸Imagining giving wrong things to people, causing their death.
• ▸Sulphur subjects are nearly always irritable, depressed, thin and weak, even with good appetite.

Loss of consciousness.—Coma commencing as natural sleep —Three days after

exposure became delirious; passed rapidly into a violent excited state, shouting and gesticulating;

said he was Jesus Christ, &c., tried to bury his head in the floor and raise his feet above his

head.—Gesticulating and talking incoherently on religious subjects (the mania lasted three weeks;

complete recovery in five months).

[Affections in general of any kind appearing in I. side; hair of head; external

front of head; inner belly, esp. 1. side; back; small of back; axilla; lumbar region; upper

extremities in general; posterior and inner surface of thigh; lower extremity in general; of the

nails.—Inflammation of mucous membranes in general; swelling of the glands.—Affections of the

brain from suppressed cutaneous eruptions.—Very often when rash in scarlet fever will not come

out, cannot bear to be washed.—Face pale, or reddish yellow.—Diminution of saliva——Back is so

stiff that one cannot rise from a stooping posture, and is always < before a storm.—Bleeding from

inner parts in general.—Dropsy of inner parts, particularly in psoric persons, or resulting from a

suppressed eruption.—Dryness of inner parts which are usually moist.—<: On waking, after

eating; from exertion of body, unable to stand much exercise; from leaning against anything;

after menstruation from taking milk; during perspiration; from suppressed perspiration from wet

poultices; from abuse of Mercury; on rising; from any quick motion, as running; during sleep;

after a long sleep; during stool; in children whose bowels are regular but who suffer great pain at

every passage (when bowels are moved causing much pain, stools hard and lumpy, Nitr. ac.); on

stretching limbs, esp. the affected limb; when swallowing food; from talking; from water and

washing; ascarides; worms in general; from suppressed menstruation; from vomiting; on getting

warm in bed.—>: From drawing up the affected limb—can't bear to have it extended—H. N.

• ▸G.
• ▸].
• ▸—Muscular palpitation.
• ▸—Jerks and shocks in certain parts or throughout body, esp.
• ▸when

sitting or lying down.—Attacks of spasms.—Epileptic convulsions; excited by a fright or by

running, and sometimes with cries, rigidity of the limbs, clenching of the teeth, and sensation as

if a mouse were running over the back or arms.—Fainting fits; or hysterical or hypochondriacal

uneasiness, sometimes with vertigo, vomiting, and perspiration.—Is very nervous, can't bear to be

• ▸spoken to, could cry at anything (produced.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Trembling of limbs, esp.
• ▸the

hands.—Sensation of trembling in interior of body.—Sensations of: heat in chest; of heat

anywhere; with any trouble; of sudden and frequent flushes of heat all over the body; of

contraction of inner parts, chiefly in abdomen, with feeling as if it should be bandaged up or

supported; of a hoop or band around the parts; buzzing or vibration in the body; of knocking or

throbbing in outer parts; as of a lump in inner parts; of roughness in inner parts; of tightness or

stiffness in outer parts; of sometimes being very small and then again being very large.—Attacks

of uneasiness in whole body, which do not permit the continuance of a sitting posture, with

desire to stretch and to contract the limbs alternately —Great nervous agitation; towards night;

could not sleep.—Great uneasiness and orgasm of blood.—Violent ebullition of blood, sometimes

with burning heat in hands.—Great exhaustion, with great fatigue after the least conversation or

the shortest walk, disposition to remain always seated, and profuse perspiration, even when

sitting, reading, eating, lying down, or walking. —The sensation of fatigue is sometimes removed

by walking.—Muscular weakness, esp. in knees and arms, and also in legs, with unsteadiness of

gait.—Stooping gait—Cannot walk erect; stoop-shouldered.—Standing is the most disagreeable

position; every standing position is uncomfortable —Extraordinary emaciation, sometimes with

weakness, fatigue, and burning sensation in hands and feet—Great sensitiveness to open air and

to the wind; with pains in limbs on a change of weather, disposition to take cold, and many

sufferings produced by exposure to open air.—The affections of head and stomach are those

which are chiefly < in open air—The majority of the sufferings are < or appear at night, or in

evening, and also during repose, when standing for a long time; and on exposure to cold air; they

disappear on walking, on moving the parts affected, and also in warmth of a room; but the heat

of the bed renders the nocturnal pains insupportable.—Several symptoms appear

periodically —When carefully selected remedies fail to produce a favourable effect, esp. in acute

cases, Sul. will frequently excite reaction and clear up the case—Complaints that are constantly

relapsing.

• ▸Constant heat on top of head (Cup sulph; Graph).
• ▸Heaviness and fullness, pressure in temples.
• ▸Beating headache; worse, stooping, and with vertigo.
• ▸Sick headache recurring periodically.
• ▸Tinea capitis, dry form.
• ▸Scalp dry, falling of hair; worse, washing.
• ▸Itching; scratching causes burning.

• ▸Burning ulceration of margin of lids.
• ▸Halo around lamp-light.
• ▸Heat and burning in eyes (Ars; Bell).
• ▸Black motes before eyes.
• ▸First stage of ulceration of cornea.
• ▸Chronic ophthalmia, with much burning and itching.
• ▸Parenchymatous keratitis.
• ▸Cornea like ground glass.

• ▸Whizzing in ears.
• ▸Bad effects from the suppression of an otorrhoea.
• ▸Oversensitive to odors.
• ▸Deafness, preceded by exceedingly sensitive hearing; catarrhal deafness.

• ▸Itching in ears (in external ear).
• ▸—Stitches in |.
• ▸ear.
• ▸—Sharp or drawing pains, or

shootings in ears, sometimes extending into head or into throat.—Recurring earaches in

• ▸tubercular meningitis.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Burning heat which goes out at ears.
• ▸—Gurgling in ears as if

• ▸water were in them.
• ▸—Discharge of pus from ears.
• ▸—Otorrhcea, < 1.
• ▸ear.
• ▸—Discharge from both ears,

dirty, very offensive; profuse, of a penetrating odour; at times causing an eruption about auricles;

objects strongly to having ears washed.—Bad effects from suppression of otorrhcea; hard hearing,

esp. if ears are very dry; noise in ears in general, particularly a humming.—Otitis in psoric

subjects.—Furunculus on tragus.—Great acuteness of hearing the least noise is insupportable, and

playing the piano occasions nausea.—Something seems to come before ears.—Swashing in

• ▸ears.
• ▸—Hardness of hearing preceded by hypersensitiveness of hearing.
• ▸—Dysecoia, esp.
• ▸for human

voice; from disposition to catarrhs; < after eating or blowing nose.—Obstruction and sensation of

stoppage (pressure and pain when sneezing, as if ulcerated) in one ear, often when eating or

blowing nose. —Tinkling, humming, and roaring in ears (in evening in bed); sometimes with

congestion of blood in head.—Cracking in ear, like the breaking of a bladder full of

water.—Excoriation behind ears.—Ears very red with children.

• ▸Herpes across the nose.
• ▸Nose stuffed indoors.
• ▸Imaginary foul smells.
• ▸Alae red and scabby. Chronic dry catarrh; dry scabs and readily bleeding.
• ▸Polypus and adenoids.

Boring in root of nose.—(Itching and) burning in nostrils.—Inflammatory swelling

• ▸(redness) of nose, chiefly at extremity, or in alz nasi (< in r.
• ▸).
• ▸—Tip of nose red and shiny.
• ▸—R.
• ▸ala

nasi and entire septum inflamed and painful to touch.—Inflammation, ulceration, and scabies in

nostrils.—Cracking in nose, like the bursting of a bladder full of air—Ephelides and black pores

in nose.—Herpes across nose, like a saddle.—Obstruction of nose, sometimes semilateral —Great

dryness of nose.—Dry coryza, or fluent coryza, with copious secretion of mucus.—Burning

coryza in open air, obstructions of nose in room.—Discharge of burning mucus, or secretion of a

thick, yellowish, and puriform mucus in nostrils.—Blood or sanguineous mucus is blown from

nose.—(Discharge of watery fluid from nose tinged with blood, and synchronous with praecordial

pain, severe headache and pains in soles of feet, high-coloured urine and confined bowels:

• ▸symptoms followed on a severe wetting —R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Bleeding of nose, esp.
• ▸in morning, and

• ▸sometimes with vertigo (at 3 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸, afterwards it feels sore when touched).
• ▸—Frequent, even

spasmodic sneezing, sometimes preceded by nausea.—Smell increased or diminished, and also

entirely lost Offensive odour of nasal mucus on blowing nose.—Smell of inveterate coryza, of

burnt horn or of smoke.—Offensive odour of nasal mucus, as of an old catarrh.

• ▸Lips dry, bright red, burning.
• ▸Bitter taste in morning.
• ▸Jerks through teeth.
• ▸Swelling of gums; throbbing pain.
• ▸Tongue white, with red tip and borders.

Dryness, heat, and burning sensation in mouth, sometimes in morning with moist

tongue.—Great dryness of palate with much thirst; obliged to drink much.—Mouth dry, insipid,

and sticky in morning.—Ptyalism from abuse of Mercury or during a fever—Accumulation of

saliva in mouth: sanguineous; salt; acid; bitter; or mixed with blood; even after eating. —Fetid,

sometimes acid, smell from mouth, esp. in morning or in evening or after a meal.—Vesicles,

blisters, and aphthee in mouth and on tongue, sometimes with burning, or with pain of

excoriation, when eating.—Exfoliation of membrane of mouth.—Burning sensation and tickling

on tongue.—Pain, swelling, and inflammation of tongue for three days——Tongue dry, rough, and

cracked, of colour of cinnabar; or loaded with a white coating, or covered with brownish, thick,

• ▸and viscid mucus.
• ▸—Stuttering when speaking.
• ▸—Accumulation of saltish mucus in mouth.
• ▸—Taste:

bitter; pasty; offensive; of blood; sweetish; metallic.—Bilious taste in mouth when fasting;

though food tastes right.—Bitter taste with dulness of head and ill-humour.—Acid taste all day.

Great tenderness of teeth—Great sensitiveness of points of teeth.—Jerking, shocks,

sharp or drawing pains; shootings; throbbing pains; boring and burning sensation, both in carious

and in sound teeth—Tearing toothache on |. side. —Pulsation and boring in teeth, < from

heat.—The toothache often extends as far as ears or into head, and is sometimes accompanied by

congestion of blood in head, with shiverings and disposition to sleep, or with swelling of

cheek.—Appearance or < of toothache, principally in evening; at night; or in open air; also from a

current of air; from cold water; when masticating, and sometimes when taking anything

hot.—Toothache with congestions to head, or stitches in ears.—Brownish mucus on

teeth.—Painful loosening, elongation, setting on edge, and easy bleeding of teeth —Bleeding,

sensation of unfixing, and swelling of gums, sometimes with throbbing (heating) pains.—Fistula

dentalis—Hard, round swelling of gums, with discharge of pus and of blood.

Scraping, roughness (rawness), and dryness in throat (hawking and clearing

throat).—Pressure as from a plug or from a tumour in throat, sometimes with difficult

deglutition.—Stitches in throat on swallowing.—Sensation as if a hard ball were ascending throat,

and would close pharynx and take away the breath —Contraction and painful sensation of

• ▸constriction in throat when swallowing.
• ▸—(Sensation of contraction in throat.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Dryness

of throat.—Pain as from excoriation, burning sensation and shootings in throat, < during empty

• ▸deglutition (soreness begins on r.
• ▸side and goes to |.
• ▸; redness of tonsils).
• ▸—Burning in throat as

from sour eructations.—Sensation during empty deglutition as of swallowing a piece of

meat.—Sensation as of a plug in throat, with empyreumatic taste —Sore throat, with swelling of

glands of neck.—Elongation of palate; swelling of palate and tonsils —Sensation of a hair in

throat.—Angina gangrenosa.

Pressure as from a lump, as from splinter, as of a hair. Burning, redness and dryness. Ball seems to rise and close pharynx.

• ▸Complete loss of, or excessive appetite.
• ▸Putrid eructation.
• ▸Food tastes too salty.
• ▸Drinks much, eats little.
• ▸Milk disagrees.
• ▸Great desire for sweets (Arg nit).

• ▸Great acidity, sour eructation.
• ▸Burning, painful, weight-like pressure.
• ▸Very weak and faint about 11 am; must have something to eat.
• ▸Nausea during gestation.
• ▸Water fills the patient up.

Bad taste in mouth, mostly acid, bitter, or putrid and sweetish or mawkish, < in

morning on waking.—Taste bitter or too salt or insipidity of food—Complete anorexia and dislike

to food, principally to meat, rye bread, fat, and milk.—Dislike to sweet and acid things, or

craving for such things, with anorexia.—Continued thirst, even at night, often with desire for

beer.—Craving (in drunkards) for wine and brandy.—Immoderate appetite and attacks of bulimy,

sometimes with headache, lassitude, and want to lie down.—Ravenous hunger which obliges him

to eat frequently, gets headache and has to lie down if he does not.—Hungry, but appetite

vanishes at sight of food, feels full in abdomen; when he begins to eat is averse to it—Desire for

• ▸sweets.
• ▸—Complaints from eating sweets.
• ▸—Complaints from farinaceous food.
• ▸—Desire for raw

food.—Great weakness of digestion, principally for meat, fat, milk, acids, and farinaceous food,

all of which sometimes cause great suffering.—Food sweetened with sugar < the pains in the

stomach and abdomen.—Milk produces sour risings, an acid taste in mouth, and even

vomiting.—Beer is followed by a prolonged after-taste, and causes ebullition of blood.—Disgust

for drinking wine.—After a meal oppression in chest, nausea, pressure, and cramps in stomach,

colic, inflation of abdomen, flatulence, vomiting, great fatigue, shivering, confusion and pain in

head, heat in face, burning sensation in hands, flow of water from mouth, and many other

sufferings.

• ▸Very sensitive to pressure; internal feeling of rawness and soreness.
• ▸Movements as of something alive (Croc; Thuj).
• ▸Pain and soreness over liver.
• ▸Colic after drinking.

• ▸Itching and burning of anus; piles dependent upon abdominal plethora.
• ▸Frequent, unsuccessful desire; hard, knotty, insufficient.
• ▸Child afraid on account of pain.
• ▸Redness around the anus, with itching.
• ▸Morning diarrhoea, painless, drives out of bed, with prolapsus recti.
• ▸Haemorrhoids, oozing and belching.

Constipation, and hard, knotty, and insufficient evacuations.—Frequent

and often ineffectual want to evacuate, chiefly at night, and sometimes with pressure on rectum

and bladder and pain in anus.—Urgent want to evacuate.—Looseness of bowels; redness about

anus; obstructed evacuation, particularly if hard stools are retained.—Diarrheea, particularly

where there is the red line about the anus, and the patient can't wait, must go immediately desire

is felt; also waking early in morning with diarrhoea, which drives one out of bed in a great hurry;

tenesmus in the same way, drives one in a great hurry; rumbling and rolling in bowels.—Cholera

asiatica; as prophylactic, a pinch of the powdered milk of Sulphur worn in stockings in contact

with soles of feet; diarrhoea commencing between midnight and morning, vomiting at same time;

numbness of limbs, cramp in calves and soles, blue under eyes, cold skin, indifference; during

convalescence, red spots, furuncles, &c.; susceptibility to temperature, warm things feel hot;

nerve symptoms (Hering).—Diarrhoea with frequent evacuations, chiefly at night, and often with

colic, tenesmus, inflation of abdomen, dyspnoea, shivering, and weakness to the extent of

fainting. —Evacuations: mucous, watery, frothy, or acid, or of a putrid smell, or of undigested

substances.—Stools: nearly black, loose, viscid, greasy, with pungent odour of sulphuretted

hydrogen.—Stool hard, as if burnt.—Stool, with sensation as if some remained, and as if the stool

had been insufficient Discharge of liquid from anus, followed by feeces at night during

• ▸sleep.
• ▸—Diarrhcea: painless; in morning compelling one to rise from bed (at 5 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, one stool an

hour till 9 a.m.); undigested, involuntary; diarrhoea in children, green, of bloody mucus, with

crying and weeping.—Dysenteric stools at night, with colic and violent tenesmus.—Colic before

every loose evacuation.—During stool, discharge of blood; pain in small of back; palpitation of

heart, congestion of head; itching, burning, and stinging at anus and in rectum.—After stool

tenesmus, constriction at anus.—Whitish, greenish, discoloured, or brownish-red

feeces.—Involuntary evacuations (when sneezing or laughing, with emission of

flatus).—Evacuations mingled with mucus, blood, and purulent matter.—Discharge of mucus,

even with hard feeces.—Ejection of lumbrici, ascarides, and also of pieces of teenia from

• ▸rectum.
• ▸—Prolapsus recti, esp.
• ▸when evacuating (a hard stool).
• ▸—Sharp and pressive pains, itching,

shootings, stitches, and burning in anus and rectum, even when not at stool.—Burning in anus,

before, during, and after stool —Prostration follows stool—Dull ache just inside coccyx, awful

dead ache as if the heart would stop.—All pains seem to go to rectum, life-taking pains.—Blind

piles with burning as if something were biting at anus, going away when lying down, coming on

• ▸when standing or walking about (produced.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Heemorrhoids which protrude, ooze and

bleed. —Anus inflamed, swollen, covered with red veins.—Excoriation and swelling of

anus.—Much itching about anus; itching runs back along, perinzeum and adjacent

parts —Involuntary discharge of moisture from anus, with itching in it—Suppressed

heemorrhoids, with colic, palpitation, congestion to lungs; back feels stiff as if bruised.—Constant

bearing down towards anus; forcing down after sitting.

Violent pain in region of kidneys after stooping a long time.—Aching in

• ▸small of back all day, esp.
• ▸< while urinating.
• ▸—Suppressed or very scanty urine.
• ▸—Frequent and

sometimes very urgent want to urinate.—Frequent, profuse, and watery urine, sometimes gushing

out with much force, esp. at night—Retention of urine.—(Neuralgia of neck of bladder, aching

• ▸and forcing down with smarting and burning in urethra —R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸)—Rigor when

urinating. —Pressure soon after urinating, as from a full bladder —Involuntary emission of urine

(and stool), esp. when coughing, or expelling flatus—Wetting the bed (lie awake for some time,

then fall into a deep sleep, in which they wet the bed).—Red urine with sediment; or else whitish,

turbid, or deep-coloured.—Urine like yeast; muddy, turbid, scanty.—Oily pellicle over

• ▸urine.
• ▸—Fetid urine.
• ▸—Urine smelling of chamomile tea (produced.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Discharge of

(white) mucus from urethra——Secondary gonorrhcea.—Whitish or thick or reddish sediment, like

flour, in the urine.—Urine discharged by drops.—Painful emission of some drops of sanguineous

urine after much effort.—Discharge of blood and mucus with the urine.—Itching, sharp pains,

shootings, and burning sensation in (orifice of) urethra, chiefly when urinating.—Both flow of

urine and discharge of faeces are painful to parts over which they pass.—Urine excoriating

parts Redness and inflammation of orifice of urethra, and pain as at commencement of

• ▸gonorrhocea.
• ▸—Discharge of mucus from urethra.
• ▸—Heemorrhage from urethra.
• ▸—Shootings in

bladder.—Dragging in bladder in morning after urinating. —Small and intermittent stream of

urine.—Spasmodic pains in loins and inguina.

• ▸Frequent micturition, especially at night.
• ▸Enuresis, especially in scrofulous, untidy children.
• ▸Burning in urethra during micturition, lasts long after.
• ▸Mucus and pus in urine; parts sore over which it passes. Must hurry, sudden call to urinate.
• ▸Great quantities of colorless urine.

• ▸Pudenda itches. Vagina burns.
• ▸Much offensive perspiration.
• ▸Menses too late, short, scanty, and difficult; thick, black, acrid, making parts sore.
• ▸Menses preceded by headache or suddenly stopped.
• ▸Leucorrhoea, burning, excoriating.
• ▸Nipples cracked; smart and burn.

A weak feeling in genitals —Sore feeling in vagina during an

embrace.—Labour-like pain over symphysis.—Uterine pains running from groins to

back.—Moroseness and apprehension with uterine pain.—Pressure on the parts—(Bearing down

• ▸with nightly enuresis.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Excoriation, troublesome itching and burning sensation in

genitals; with papular eruption around them.—Burning in the vagina; is scarcely able to keep

• ▸still —Ascarides of vulva.
• ▸—Inflammation of labia.
• ▸—Menses too late; too short.
• ▸—Delay of first

menses.—(Amenorrheea, dreadful depression and apprehension, head feels full and heavy,

followed by violent headache, numbness of arms and legs, cramp and sick feeling at

• ▸molimen.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—(Imperfect development of the genital Organs, menstruation does not

appear at the usual age; breasts imperfectly developed; pains about the shoulders, in the stomach

• ▸after meals, in I.
• ▸side on inspiration; anorexia and vertigo.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Catamenia premature and

too profuse; or too feeble or entirely suppressed (particularly in psoric individuals), with colic,

abdominal spasms, headache, pains in loins, pressure at stomach, congestion in head, and nasal

hemorrhage, agitation, and even attacks of epilepsy —Menstrual blood thick, acrid, corroding

thighs; scanty, dark; dark, putrid, clotted —Before menses: headache, itching in the parts;

spasmodic colic; inquietude; cough; toothache; pyrosis; epistaxis; leucorrhoea, and asthmatic

sufferings.—Bearing down in pelvis; congestion to uterus.—Sterility, with too early and profuse

• ▸menstruation.
• ▸—Prolapsus: from reaching high; with pain in hypogastrium, esp.
• ▸r.
• ▸side; with

metritis; with dropsy of uterus.—Promotes expulsion of moles.—Morning sickness of pregnancy

not amounting to vomiting, faint, sickish spells forenoon, profuse salivation, taste of which =

nausea; aversion to meat; craves beer or brandy.—Hzemorrhoids during pregnancy and in

childbed.—A fter menses: itching in nose.—Menstrual blood too pale or of an acid

smell.—Leucorrhoea sometimes corrosive; gnawing and yellowish, preceded by colic.—Cancer of

uterus offensive, corrosive, ichorous leucorrhcea; sensation of heat in crown of head coldness of

feet; flushes of heat pass off in a perspiration with faintness; weak at pit of stomach 11 a.m. to

12; Violent burning in vagina, with painful soreness during coitus.—Hot flushes at climaxis, with

hot head, hands, and feet, and great goneness in stomach.—Excoriation and itching in

nipples.—Cracks in nipples, with burning sensation, easily bleeding, and ulceration (the nipple

smarts and burns very much as soon as the infant lets go of it) Mammary glands engorged and

inflamed.—Erysipelatous inflammation of mamme; they are hard, with red rays extending from

nipple, and stitching pains —Swelling of mammez.—Nodosities in mamme.—Scirrhus of breast.

• ▸Stitches in penis.
• ▸Involuntary emissions.
• ▸Itching of genitals when going to bed.
• ▸Organs cold, relaxed and powerless.

Affections of the genitals in general.—Itching about genitals on going

to bed at night.—Fetid perspiration in parts —Excoriation between thighs and in groins, chiefly

when walking.—Shootings in penis and glans.—Prepuce stiff, hard, like leather, with copious

secretion of fetid smegma.—Inflammation, swelling, and phimosis of prepuce (with discharge of

fetid pus), with deep cracks, burning, and redness.—Deep (suppurating) ulcer with elevated

margins in glans and prepuce (with puffed edges).—Aching, tension, and shootings in testes and

spermatic cords.—Swelling and thickening of epididymis.—Excoriation and oozing in

scrotum.—Increased sexual desire and voluptuous irritation of the parts, often without

erection.—Weakness of the genital functions, often with icy coldness, bluish colour of glans,

prepuce, and penis, and retraction of prepuce.—Testes relaxed and hanging

• ▸down.
• ▸—Hydrocele.
• ▸—Frequent pollutions, also at noon.
• ▸—Watery semen.
• ▸—Involuntary discharge of

semen, with burning in urethra—Too quick discharge of semen during coition.—Escape of

prostatic fluid, chiefly when urinating and while at stool—Impotence.—(Induration of testes.)

• ▸Oppression and burning sensation in chest.
• ▸Difficult respiration; wants windows open.
• ▸Aphonia.
• ▸Heat, throughout chest.
• ▸Red, brown spots all over chest.
• ▸Loose cough; worse talking, morning, greenish, purulent, sweetish expectoration.
• ▸Much rattling of mucus.
• ▸Chest feels heavy; stitches, with heart feeling too large and palpitating pleuritic exudations.
• ▸Use Tinctura sulphuris.
• ▸Stitching pains shooting through to the back, worse lying on back or breathing deeply.
• ▸Flushes of heat in chest rising to head.
• ▸Oppression, as of a load on chest. Dyspnoea in middle of night, relieved by sitting up.
• ▸Pulse more rapid in morning than in evening.

Respiration: rapid and irregular; laboured; spasmodic attempts to get

air into lungs.—Immediate asphyxia.

Congestion of blood to chest, with sensation of fulness in it.—Shortness of breath;

frequent chokings, obstructed respiration, dyspneea, and fits of suffocation, esp. when lying

down at night, and also during sleep, and sometimes also when speaking or walking in open

air.—Dyspncea; shortness of breath and oppression of breathing on bending arms

backwards.—Asthma at night.—Asthma: attacks every eight days; has rough, harsh hair;

following swelling of hemorrhoids; alternating with fits of gout or psoriasis; from suppressed

eruptions or discharges.—Inability to take a full inspiration, with sensation as if chest were

contracted.—Frequent, short, or wheezing respiration. —Snoring and rattling of mucus in

chest.—Shooting pains in back and sacrum during an inspiration.—Painful sensation in chest, as

of something falling forwards in it, when turning the body in bed.—Pain as from a bruise in

thorax when the part is touched.—Painful obstruction in the |. side of chest, with anguish, and

inability to lie on side affected—Heaviness, fulness, and pressure as from a stone in chest and

sternum, < in morning, also when coughing, sneezing, and yawning.—Pain when coughing and

sneezing, as if chest were shattered or bursting.—Periodical spasms in chest, with sensation of

constriction, spasmodic pains, shortness of breath, bluish colour of face, and inability to

speak.—Pulsations in chest and sternum.—Weakness of chest, felt particularly when speaking,

with great fatigue in lungs after speaking or sighing —Shootings in the chest or sternum, or

extending to the back, or into the |. side, < when coughing, lying on the back, during least

motion, when taking a full inspiration, or when lifting the arms (over the head).—Pain in chest

from over-lifting or after inflammation of lungs.—Sensation as if lungs were touching (or

• ▸scraping) the back.
• ▸—Exudation after pneumonia.
• ▸—Su/.
• ▸acts in pneumonia a part analogous to that

of Bell. in brain affections (Hartlaub, confirmed by Curie).—The pains in the chest chiefly affect

• ▸the |.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Sensation of coldness or burning in chest, sometimes extending to face.
• ▸—Sensation

as of a lump of ice in r. chest.—Red spots all over the chest; also brownish or butternut-coloured

• ▸spots.
• ▸—Deep yellow spot began on |.
• ▸breast and spread all over body (chloasma).
• ▸—Cheloid on

sternum.

Pulse: rapid; at first weak then hard and rapid; irregular: a feeble flutter.

24. Generalities—Blood brownish black.—Muscular system flabby and

• ▸emaciated.
• ▸—Convulsions.
• ▸—Spasms.
• ▸—Tetanic spasms, sometimes preceded by delirium,

sometimes by pains in stomach, faintness and difficult breathing, and the mouth fills with white

froth, while the pulse sinks.—Trembling.—Sudden weakness and loss of motion and sensation.

Stitches and blows in region of heart.—Sharp pain at heart goes through to

between shoulders; esp. with dyspeptic symptoms.—Cutting pains about heart, as with knives,

which decrease or increase, last a few hours, with redness of face, followed by general coldness;

attacks only when waking up.—Great orgasm of blood with violent burning in hands.—Violent

congestion of blood towards chest and heart, sometimes with ebullition in chest, uneasiness,

faintness, and trembling of arms.—Sensation of emptiness in the cardiac region, or pressure and

sensation as if the heart had not room enough.—A ffections in general of heart; also external

chest.—Sensation as if heart were enlarged.—Frequent palpitation of the heart, sometimes even

visible, and with anxiety; at night; in bed; on failing asleep; when going up an ascent.—Heart

beats too rapidly and her throat felt as if a string were tied round it; and she did not sleep till 5

• ▸a.
• ▸m.
• ▸(produced.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Pulse hard, full, and accelerated.

Drawing pain between shoulders. Stiffness of nape. Sensation as if vertebrae glided over each other.

Stiffness of neck; in nape, with paralytic, sprained pain.—Child cannot

hold head up neck muscles so weak.—Tetters on nape.—Swelling and inflammation of glands of

nape and of neck.—Fetid perspiration in axille.—Swelling and suppuration of axillary

• ▸glands.
• ▸—Cracking in vertebree of neck, esp.
• ▸on bending backwards.
• ▸—Weakness and wrenching

pains, or pain as from a bruise in loins, coccyx, and in back, esp. on walking, or rising from a

seat.—Gnawing pain in small of back.—Pain in small of back not permitting one to stand

erect.—Finds himself at night lying on back.—Cannot lie on back on account of rush of blood to

head.—Pain in back after manual labour.—Shootings in loins, back, and shoulder-blades,

sometimes with obstructed respiration.—Sharp and rheumatic pains, drawing, tension, and

stiffness in loins, back, and nape.—Pinching and burning sensation between the shoulder-

blades.—Tension and bruised pain between scapulz and in nape, which on moving head goes to

shoulders.—Stitches beneath scapulee which take away the breath —Drawing in r. scapula,

evening on going to sleep.—Tearing in |. scapula while sitting —Needle-shoots at point of 1.

scapula.—Sprained pains in back.—During whole day aching in small of back, < when

• ▸urinating.
• ▸—Distortion (curvature) of spine.
• ▸—Vertebree softened.
• ▸—Cracking of vertebre on

bending head backward.

Pressure on shoulders as from a weight.—Rheumatic pain in shoulders, esp.

• ▸1.
• ▸—Stitches extending from shoulder into chest on motion.
• ▸—Stitching beneath r.
• ▸axilla—Sweat on

axillze smelling like garlic_—Jerking of shoulders, hands, and fingers —Jerking, sharp pains

(tearing), and shootings in joints and muscles of arms, hands, and fingers, and also in shoulders,

• ▸chiefly at night in bed.
• ▸—Nocturnal cramps in arms.
• ▸—Tingling in arms and fingers.
• ▸—Swelling of

arms, sometimes with heat, hardness, and lancinating or tensive pains.—Exostosis in arm.—Warts

on arms, or itching miliary or red, burning spots, which appear after washing.—Purulent vesicles

• ▸in bend of elbow.
• ▸—Sprained pain and stiffness in wrist, < in morning.
• ▸—Ganglion.
• ▸—Paralytic

weakness of arms and hands.—Swelling of hands and thumbs.—Rigidity and wrenching pain in

joints of hands and fingers.—Trembling of hands, esp. when occupied with fine

work.—Involuntary contraction of hands, as if about to grasp something —Coldness in hands and

fingers.—Great burning in palms.—Perspiration on hands (in the palms) and between the

fingers.—Eruption of small, red pimples on hands and fingers, with itching.—Warts on

fingers.—Desquamation, hardness, dryness, and cracking of skin of hands.—Itching vesicles on

backs of hands.—Cracking and chapping on finger-joints—Burning in balls and tips of

• ▸fingers.
• ▸—Cramps and jerks in fingers.
• ▸—Contraction of tendons of hands and fingers.
• ▸—Large and

shining swelling (erysipelatous) of fingers.—Dead fingers——Nodosities on fingers —Ulcers about

• ▸nails.
• ▸—Flaws in nails.
• ▸—Hang-nails.
• ▸—Panaritium.
• ▸—Chilblains (thick, red) on fingers, with itching

in a warm temperature.—Swelling and inflammation of points of fingers, with subcutaneous

ulceration and boring and pulsative pains at night.

Pain, as from subcutaneous ulceration, in buttocks and in ischiatic

tuberosities, esp. when touched, and after having been seated for a long time.—Purulent and

painful swellings on buttocks.—Pain as from a wrench, and as from a bruise in hip, on least

movement, with shooting pains at every step.—Pain in hip with contraction of leg —Sharp and

drawing pains in legs, esp. at night in bed.—Heaviness of the legs, sometimes with tension in

thighs and knees, esp. at night.—Red, oozing, painful spots on the internal surface of

• ▸thighs.
• ▸—Middle of thigh as if broken.
• ▸—Tension in hams, as from contraction of tendons.
• ▸—Large

(white, or) shining swelling of knee, with stiffness and painful weariness.—Phlegmasia alba

• ▸dolens.
• ▸—Cracking, drawing, sharp pains, and shootings in knees.
• ▸—Tetters on hams.
• ▸—Restlessness

in legs and feet—Torpor and numbness of legs.—Painful fatigue and paralytic weakness of legs,

chiefly of knees, which yield frequently. —Sticking in knee and tibia.—Red spots and itching

• ▸miliary rash on legs.
• ▸—Transparent swelling of legs.
• ▸—Erysipelas in leg and foot.
• ▸—Bluish spots and

swollen and varicose veins in legs.—Pain in calves when walking.—Cramps in calves and soles,

esp. at night (in the soles at every step).—Tension in hollow of knee, as if contracted on

stepping.—Painful sensibility of soles when walking.—Easy dislocation of foot when

• ▸walking.
• ▸—Stiffness of knee and ankle-joint.
• ▸—Stiffness of maleoli—Sprained pain in |.
• ▸ankle

when standing and walking.—Ankles weak.—Stiffness and wrenching pain in instep —Tingling in

legs and calves.—Burning and inveterate ulcers on legs or feet—Tetters on ankle.—Shootings in

feet.—Coldness in feet, esp. in evening, in bed, or burning sensation, chiefly in soles of

feet.—Burning in feet, wants to find a cool place for them; puts them out of bed to cool them

off—Burning in soles; on stepping after sitting a long time; and itching, esp. on walking; wants

• ▸them uncovered.
• ▸—Cramp in soles at every step.
• ▸—Soles cold and sweating.
• ▸—Sweat on r.

foot—Sharp shooting, as from a blunt nail, in rapid succession at root of nail of great

• ▸toe —Swelling of feet, and esp.
• ▸of the ankles.
• ▸—Red, shining swelling of the toes.
• ▸—Itching in the

toes that had formerly been frozen.—Chilblains: redness and swelling with tendency to

suppurate; thick and red with cracks on joints; itching < warm in bed.—Gnawing vesicles on

• ▸soles.
• ▸—Ulcer on instep.
• ▸—Cramps and contraction of toes.
• ▸—Coldness and stiffness of

toes. —Tingling in ends of toes.—Large and shining swelling of toes—Ulcerated and gnawing

vesicles in toes.—Corns, with pressive or shooting pains.

• ▸Trembling of hands.
• ▸Hot, sweaty hands.
• ▸Rheumatic pain in left shoulder.
• ▸Heaviness; paretic feeling.
• ▸Rheumatic gout, with itching.
• ▸Burning in soles and hands at night.
• ▸Sweat in armpits, smelling like garlic.
• ▸Drawing and tearing in arms and hands.
• ▸Stiffness of knees and ankles.
• ▸Cannot walk erect; stoop-shouldered.
• ▸Ganglion.

• ▸Dry, scaly, unhealthy; every little injury suppurates.
• ▸Freckles.
• ▸Itching, burning; worse scratching and washing.
• ▸Pimply eruption, pustules, rhagades, hang-nails.
• ▸Excoriation, especially in folds (Lyc).
• ▸Feeling of a band around bones.
• ▸Skin affections after local medication.
• ▸Pruritus, especially from warmth, is evening, often recurs in spring-time, in damp weather.

[The greatest general psoric remedy for almost every kind of itch, sore, ulcer, &c.;

very colicky babies with pimples, itch, or eruption on skin, or roughness of skin.—Troubles of

very long standing resulting from suppressed eruptions—Su/. will very often bring these out and

cause their cure.—Exanthema in general on any part of the body which is < by any heat, from

getting warm at work, in bed, &c.; freckles; cancerous ulcers.—Skin dry; rough; scaly;

voluptuous itching—"feels so good to scratch"; ecchymosis; chapping of the skin, esp. when it

ulcerates; chapping of the skin after being wet; soreness of the skin in children (soreness in folds

of skin); brown sphacelus.—Tetters in general; chapped; scurfy; painful; tearing; pulsating,

• ▸&c.
• ▸—H.
• ▸N.
• ▸G.
• ▸].
• ▸—Itching in skin, even of whole body, < at night, or in morning, in bed, and often

with pain as of excoriation, heat, itching (soreness), or bleeding of the part which has been

scratched.—Eruptions, like those which often follow vaccination—(Eczema rubrum.—Gouty-

• ▸eczema with much oozing.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Seborrhcea of scalp (used locally.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Scabious

eruptions and tetters of a greenish yellow colour, commencing with small itching phlyctene,

with a red areola.—Herpetic, red, irregular, furfuraceous spots, or covered with small phlyctene,

• ▸discharging a serous lymph.
• ▸—Scabious eruptions.
• ▸—Ecthyma with itching day and night.
• ▸—Miliary

eruptions, principally on limbs.—Nettle-rash —Burning itching of the eruptions.—Hepatic spots of

a yellow or brownish colour (on the body).—Erysipelatous inflammation, with pulsative and

shooting pains.—Weals, even from the slightest contusion.—Bright scarlet redness over whole

body.—Tingling in the skin throughout the body.—Red, swollen, and ulcerated chilblains, with

• ▸itching in heat of a room.
• ▸—Callous warts, esp.
• ▸round the fingers —Skin cold, pale, dry.
• ▸—The skin

cracks easily, esp. in open air; cracks, with pain, as from excoriation.—Rhagades after

washing.—The nails crumble off—Skin of hands hard and dry—Desquamation and excoriation of

skin in several places.—Pityriasis of head and chest.—Unhealthy skin; slightest injuries are

followed by inflammation and ulceration.—Ulcers with elevated margins, surrounded by itchy

pimples, red or bluish areola, sharp, lancinating, and tensive pains; bleeding readily, and

secreting a fetid and sanious or yellow and thick pus.—Ulcers with itching in the sore.—Proud

• ▸flesh in the ulcers.
• ▸—Fistulous ulcers.
• ▸—Furunculi.
• ▸—Encysted swellings, or pale, tense, and hot

swellings; inflammatory abscess.—Inflammation, swelling, and induration or suppuration of the

glands.—Nodosities on skin of whole body, but principally in the breast, from swelling of the

subcutaneous glands.—Dropsical, burning swelling of external parts—Inflammation, swelling,

and painful sensibility of the bones.—On the bones sensation of constriction, or as if a band were

around them.—Repugnance to ablutions.

• ▸Talks, jerks, and twitches during sleep.
• ▸Vivid dreams.
• ▸Wakes up singing.
• ▸Wakes frequently, and becomes wide awake suddenly.
• ▸Catnaps; slightest noise awakens.
• ▸Cannot sleep between 2 an 5 am.

Unconquerable drowsiness, esp. in afternoon and in evening by candle-

light.—Irresistible drowsiness by day, wakefulness by night; in bed every place appeared hard for

his head and he keeps moving it hither and thither.—Goes to sleep late—Sleeps with his eyes

half-open.—Frequent yawning.—Retarded sleep at night, or sleeplessness, sometimes caused by a

great flow of ideas or from over-excitement.—Sleep too light; or agitated with frequent waking,

often with starts, and in a fright——Waking too early with inability to go to sleep again —Morning

sleep too much prolonged; sometimes deep and lethargic, with difficulty in rising in

morning.—Unrefreshing sleep.—Waking frequently during night when one becomes wide awake

suddenly.—Pains, uneasiness, and tingling in limbs, anxiety and heat, colic at night; gastralgia,

vertigo, headache, visions and illusions of senses, palpitation of heart, asthmatic sufferings,

hunger and thirst.—Inability to sleep otherwise than on back, with head high.—When sleeping,

agitation and tossing, shocks in body and jerks in limbs, starts and fright, talking (talks loudly

while asleep), cries, murmurs, wanderings, delirium, lamentation, and moaning, snoring, eyes

half-open, lying on back with the arms above head, nightmare, and somnambulism.—On waking,

illusions of senses, frightful visions, and fear of ghosts.—Frequent, fantastic, anxious, frightful,

and horrible, anger-exciting, disgusting, and agitated dreams; dreams of fire, of dogs which bite,

of being possessed of fine clothes, of falling, of danger, of death; dreams, with a presentiment

concerning the events of the morrow.—Vivid, beautiful, pleasant dreams.—Singing during

sleep.—Happy dreams when one wakes up singing; busy all the time; wishing to touch something

with inability to do so.—Vivid dreams, remain impressed on the memory.—A fter waking mind

long confused.—_Immediately after closing eyes, horrible strange grimaces appeared to her, could

not banish them.—Lay in a reverie and talked of whatever vision appeared to him, with open

eyes, for three nights in succession.—Voluptuous dreams with seminal emissions.—Vivid dream

that she is seated on the chamber, which causes her to wet the bed.

• ▸Frequent flashes of heat. Violent ebullitions of heat throughout entire body.
• ▸Dry skin and great thirst.
• ▸Night sweat, on nape and occiput.
• ▸Perspiration of single parts.
• ▸Disgusting sweats.
• ▸Remittent type.

[Sul. frequently serves to rouse the reactive powers when carefully selected

remedies fail to act (especially in acute diseases; in chronic, Pso.). In this respect it is a close

• ▸analogue and ally of Medor.
• ▸and Syph.
• ▸, which should be studied with it.
• ▸] Antidoted by: Aco.
• ▸,

• ▸Camph.
• ▸, Cham.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸, Rhus, Sep.
• ▸, Thu.
• ▸Antidote to: Aco.
• ▸, Alo.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸, Iod.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸,

• ▸Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Olean.
• ▸, Rhus, Sep.
• ▸, Thu.
• ▸; ailments from abuse of metals generally.
• ▸Compatible: Calc.
• ▸,

• ▸Calc.
• ▸ph.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Sars.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸(Sul.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸; and Sul.
• ▸, Sars.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸frequently follow in this

• ▸order.
• ▸It is generally said that Calc.
• ▸should not be used before Sul.
• ▸).
• ▸Follows well: Merc.

• ▸Complementary: Alo.
• ▸(Sul.
• ▸is generally the remedy when Alo.
• ▸has been abused as a purgative),

• ▸Aco.
• ▸, Nux, Puls.
• ▸(Sul.
• ▸is the "chronic" of the last three.
• ▸If a patient is sleepless Sul.
• ▸may be given

at night. If the patient sleeps well it is best given in the morning, as it may disturb sleep if given

at night; Nux may be given at night and Sul. in the morning when their complementary action is

• ▸desired).
• ▸Sul.
• ▸complements Rhus in paralysis.
• ▸Follows and complements Ant.
• ▸t.
• ▸and Ipec.
• ▸in lung

• ▸affections, especially left; atelectasis.
• ▸An interpolated dose of Sul.
• ▸helps Sil.
• ▸in indurations.
• ▸Pso.

• ▸complements Sul.
• ▸; Pso.
• ▸loves heat, Sul.
• ▸hates it.
• ▸Teste includes in the Sul.
• ▸group: Crot.
• ▸t.
• ▸, Merc.

• ▸c.
• ▸, Bov.
• ▸, Ath, c.
• ▸, Kre.
• ▸, Lob.
• ▸1.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸sol.
• ▸, Aster.
• ▸, Cic.
• ▸, Rat.
• ▸Compare: Meningitis, Apis.
• ▸Injuries

• ▸to eyes, Aco.
• ▸(Sul.
• ▸follows).
• ▸Early-morning diarrhoea, Bry.
• ▸(as soon as he moves), Nat.
• ▸s.
• ▸(with

• ▸much flatus), Rx.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Pod.
• ▸(stools changeable; go on all day, though < at noon; Sul.
• ▸raw, sore

• ▸anus), Diosc.
• ▸(colic flying to other parts).
• ▸Defective reaction, Pso.
• ▸, Cup.
• ▸, Lauro.
• ▸, Val.
• ▸, Ambr.
• ▸,

• ▸Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸Flushes at climaxis, Lach.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Amyl.
• ▸, K.
• ▸bi.
• ▸Intermittent fever and neuralgia, Chi.
• ▸,

• ▸Ars.
• ▸, Bapt.
• ▸Ravenous hunger with heat at vertex, Calc.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸Tuberculosis, Bac.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸Itch,

• ▸Merc.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸, Caust.
• ▸Dyspepsia, Nux, Sep.
• ▸Excessive venery, masturbation, Nux, Calc.
• ▸Yellow-

• ▸brown spots, Sep.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Curar.
• ▸Rheumatism, paralysis, Rhus.
• ▸Sour stools, sore anus, Cham.

• ▸Pneumonia, restoration imperfect, Sang.
• ▸Paralysis from cold, Aco.
• ▸, Caust.
• ▸, Rhus.
• ▸Accumulation

of flatus, sour and bitter taste, Lyc. (with Sul. patient refers accumulation to left groin, region of

• ▸sigmoid flexure).
• ▸Bad effects of mental exhaustion; of seminal losses, Selen.
• ▸(Sel.
• ▸is a cognate

• ▸element of Sul.
• ▸and close analogue; Sel.
• ▸< from tea; Sul.
• ▸< from coffee; Sel.
• ▸has "tingling in

• ▸spots").
• ▸Morning aphonia, Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸(Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸also evening).
• ▸Edges of eyelids, Graph.
• ▸, Bac.

• ▸Congestion of lumbar spine, Pic.
• ▸ac.
• ▸Atrophy of infants, Ars.
• ▸Sinking < 11 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Na.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸,

• ▸Indm.
• ▸, Na.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Zn.
• ▸(nervous symptoms, Arg.
• ▸n.
• ▸).
• ▸Prophylactic of cholera, Cup.
• ▸Weak from

• ▸talking, Stan.
• ▸, Cocc.
• ▸, Ver.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸Falls easily, Na.
• ▸c.
• ▸Hasty speech and action, Bell.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸, Dulc.
• ▸,

• ▸Hep.
• ▸Weak ankles, Sul.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Caust.
• ▸> Open air; desire to be uncovered, Pul.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸Wetting bed in

• ▸deep sleep, Bell.
• ▸(in first sleep, Sep.
• ▸).
• ▸Effects of losses of fluids, Ars.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸, Fer.
• ▸Persistent

• ▸speck before left eye (right Sel.
• ▸).
• ▸Vision mostly green, Sang.
• ▸Rhagades of hands, Na.
• ▸c.
• ▸Hard,

• ▸horny hands, Na.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Graph.
• ▸(opp.
• ▸Calc.
• ▸).
• ▸Left to right, Lach.
• ▸Stitches up vagina, Sep.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸, Nit.

• ▸ac.
• ▸(also down and out), Alm.
• ▸, Berb.
• ▸, Pul.
• ▸(Sul.
• ▸stitches go to head).
• ▸Left ovarian and left

• ▸inframammary pain, Lil.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸, Caulo.
• ▸, Vib.
• ▸o.
• ▸, Pul.
• ▸, Ustil.
• ▸Bearing-down pains, Bell.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸,

• ▸Gossyp.
• ▸, Pul.
• ▸, Sec.
• ▸< On awaking, Lach.
• ▸, Na.
• ▸m.
• ▸Alarmed about soul's salvation, Ver.
• ▸< Hearing

• ▸water run, Hfb.
• ▸Violent movements of foetus, Op.
• ▸, Croc.
• ▸, Thuj.
• ▸Dread of losing mind, Calc.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸,

• ▸Nux.
• ▸Hollow sensation in region of heart (Lil.
• ▸as if heart empty).
• ▸Earthy complexion, Na.
• ▸m.

• ▸Tall, slender people, Pho.
• ▸(Sul.
• ▸with stoop).
• ▸Aversion to, be washed, Ant.
• ▸, c.
• ▸, Clem.
• ▸, Hep.
• ▸, Rhus,

• ▸Sep.
• ▸, Spi.
• ▸(Puls.
• ▸baby likes being washed).
• ▸Fear of ghosts, Aco.
• ▸, Ars.
• ▸, Bro.
• ▸, Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸, Cocc.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸,

• ▸Pho.
• ▸, Pul.
• ▸, Ran.
• ▸b.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸, Zn.
• ▸(I have been frequently asked by patients taking Sul.
• ▸not to give

them "that medicine" again as it made them "see faces," generally described as horrible). < Heat

• ▸of bed at night, Bry.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸, Pul.
• ▸, Cham.
• ▸(toothache), Dros.
• ▸, Led.
• ▸, Sbi.
• ▸, Apis.
• ▸Laughing

• ▸alternately with weeping, Aur.
• ▸, Pul.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Croc.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸, Ver.
• ▸Vertigo looking down, Olean.
• ▸(Calc.

• ▸turning head, Pul.
• ▸looking up).
• ▸Throbbing headache, Glo.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸, Pul.
• ▸Drowsiness with headache,

• ▸Bruc.
• ▸, Strych.
• ▸, Gins.
• ▸, Herac.
• ▸, Na.
• ▸s.
• ▸, Gels.
• ▸, Nux m.
• ▸Passes almost pure blood from rectum, Merc.
• ▸,

• ▸Aco.
• ▸Diabetes with impotence, Mosch.
• ▸Phimosis, Can.
• ▸s.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸, Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸, Thu.
• ▸, Rhus, Sbi.

• ▸Hunger at night, Chi.
• ▸s.
• ▸, Pso.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸(with febrile heat, unappeasable), Lyc.
• ▸, Ign.
• ▸Hot breath, Calc.
• ▸,

• ▸Rhus.
• ▸Sharp splinter sensation on slightest touch, Arg.
• ▸n.
• ▸, Hep.
• ▸, Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸Throat, right then left,

• ▸Lyc.
• ▸, Bar.
• ▸c.
• ▸, left side, Lach.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸Freckles, Adren.
• ▸Weak chest when speaking, Calc.
• ▸Acid smell

• ▸from mouth, Nux.
• ▸Taste of blood, Ham.
• ▸Sensation of hair in throat, K.
• ▸bi.
• ▸, Sil.
• ▸Intolerance of

• ▸pressure of clothes, Lach.
• ▸Blackish stools, Lept.
• ▸Burning between scapulz, Pho.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸Sinking

• ▸sensations, worms, Scirrh.
• ▸and other cancer nosodes.
• ▸Vividly remembered dreams, Chi.
• ▸Mistakes

• ▸time of day, Merc.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸Boils, Anthrac.
• ▸Vaccination effects, Thu.
• ▸, Malan.
• ▸Red lips, red borders

round eyelids, Bac. Offensive body smell; checked eruptions and discharges, Med. Excessively

• ▸sensitive to atmospheric changes, Hep.
• ▸, K.
• ▸ca.
• ▸, Pso.
• ▸(Pso.
• ▸is generally extremely chilly, Sul.
• ▸hot).

Restless, hot, kicks off clothes at night, Hep., Sanic. Wants to find cool place for feet, Sanic.

Relapsing alcoholism, Pso., Bac.

Complementary: Aloe; Psorin; Acon; Pyrarara (a fish caught in the Amazon, clinically used for various skin affections). Lepra, tuberculides, syphilides, varicosities, etc.

Compare: Acon (Sulph often follows in acute diseases); Mercur and calcarea are frequently useful after Sulphur, not before. Lyc; Sep; Sars; Puls; Sulphur hydrogenisatum (delirium, mania, asphyxia); Sulphur terebinthinatum (chronic rheumatic arthritis; chorea); Tannic acid (Nasal haemorrhage; elongated uvula; gargle; constipation). Magnes artificialis (great hunger in evening, profuse sweat on face, bruised pain in joints, rectal constriction after stool).

Magnetis polus Articus (anxious, coldness of eyes as if a piece of ice lay in orbit, increased flow of saliva, constipation, sopor, trembling, abdominal flatulence).

Magnetis polus Australis (dryness of lids, easy dislocation of ankle, ingrowing toe-nails, aching in patella, shooting in soles).

Compare in adenoids: Agraphis.

• ▸Acts in all potencies from the lowest to the highest.
• ▸Some of the best results are obtained from the higher, and not too frequent doses.
• ▸The twelfth potency is a good one to begin treatment with, going higher or lower according to the susceptibility of the patient.
• ▸In chronic diseases, 200th and upward.
• ▸In torpid eruptions the lowest potencies.

Sulphur is such a full remedy that it is somewhat difficult to tell

where to begin. It seems to contain a likeness of all the sicknesses

of man, and a beginner on reading over the proving of Sulphur might

naturally think that he would need no other remedy, as the image of

all sickness seems to be contained in it. Yet you will find it will not

cure all the sicknesses of man, and it is not well to use it indiscriminately any more than you would any other remedy. It seems that

the less a physician knows of the Materia Medica the oftener he gives

Sulphur, and yet it is very frequently given, even by good prescribers ;

so that the line between physicians’ ignorance and knowledge cannot

be drawn from the frequency with which Sulphur is prescribed by

them.

The Sulphur patient is a lean, lank, hungry, dyspeptic fellow with

stoop shoulders, yet many times it must be given to fat, rotund, wellfed people. The angular, lean, stoc^shouldered patient, however, is

the typical one, and especially when has beconte so from long periods of indigestion, bad assimilation an4 feeble nutrition. The Sulphur

state is sometimes brought about by being long housed up and adapting

the diet to the stomach. Persons who lead sedentary lives, confined

to their rooms in study, in meditation, in philosophical inquiry, and

who take no exercise, soon find out that they must eat only the simplest

foods, foods not sufficient to nourish the body, and they end up by

going into a philosophical mania.

There is another class of patients in whom we see a Sulphur appear-^

ance in the face ; dirty, shriveled, red-faced people. The skin seems

to be easily affected by the atmosphere. He becomes red in the face

from riding in the air, both in very cold and in damp weather. He

has a delicate, thin skin, blushing on the slightest occasion, always red

and dirty looking, no matter how much he washes it. If it be a child,

the mother may wash the face often, but it always looks as if it had

been perfunctorily washed.

Hering called the Sulphur patient **the ragged philosopher/^ The

Sulphur scholar, the inventor, works day and night in threadbare

clothes and battered hat ; he has long, uncut hair and a drity face ; his

study is uncleanly, it is untidy ; books and lonres of books ate piled

SULt>HUR

In old cases of syphilis^ when the psoric state is uppermost, Sulphur

may be needed. Sulphur is rarely indicated when the syphilitic symptoms are uppermost, but when these have been suppressed by Mercury

and the disease is merely held in abeyance, Sulphur will antidote the

Mercury and allow the symptoms to develop and the original condition to come back in order to be seen. The great mischief done by

allopaths is due to the fact that they want to cover up everything that

is in the economy ; they act as if ashamed of everything in the human

race ; whereas Homoeopathy endeavors to reveal everything in the

human race and to antidote those drugs that cover up, and to free those

diseases that are held down. It is true that many patients will not

have Homoeopathy because they do not want their syphilitic eruption

brought to view ; they do not want the evidences of their indiscretion

brought to light ; but Homoeopathy endeavors to do that. Conditions

that arc in the economy will come out under proper homoeopathic treatment. Sulphur brings complaints to the surface, so that they can be

seen. It is a general broad antidote. It is a medicine often called for

in the suppression of eruptions from cold and from drugs, and even

from Sulphur. It is a great medicine to develop these things which

have been covered up, hence you wiil| see Sulphur in all the lists of

remedies useful for suppressed eruptions or for anything suppressed

by drugs. Even when acute erupti<m« have been suppressed Sulphur

becomes a valuable remedy. In suppressed gonorrhoea Sulphur is

often the remedy to start up the discharge and re-establish the conditions that have been caused to disappear. Symptoms that have been

suppressed must return or a cure is not possible.

Sulphur has been the remedy from the beginning of its history, from

the time of Hahnemann, and on his recommendation, to be thought of

^hen there is a paucity of symptoms to prescribe on, a latent condition of the symptoms due to psora. In this state it has been administered with so much benefit that the routine prescriber has learned the

fact. When apparently (superficially) well-indicated remedies fail to

hold a patient, and symptoms cannot be found for a better remedy, it

is true that Sulphur takes a deep hold of the economy and remedies act

better after it. This is well established from experience. You will

find at times when you have given a remedy which seems well indicated, that it does not hold the case, and then you give the next best

indicated remedy, and then the next, with the same result. You will

begin to wonder why this is, but you will see that, although the case

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does not call clearly for Sulphur, yet on its administration it so closely

conforms to the underlying condition (and psora is so often the underlying condition) that it makes the remedies act better. This is an observation that has been confirmed since the time of Hahnemann by

all the old men. Such things arc only necessary when there is a

paucity of symptoms, where after much study it is necessary to resort

to what seem the best measures, measures, justifiable to a certain extent, based upon observation and upon a knowledge of the conditions

underlying the constitution of the whole race. We know that underlying these cases with few^ symptoms there is a latent condition, and

that it is either psora, syphilis or sycosis. If it were known to be

syphilis we would select the head of the class of remedies looking like

syphilis. If known to be sycosis, wc would select the head of the

class of remedies looking like sycosis. Sulphur stands at the head of

the list of remedies looking like the underlying psora ; and so, if the

underlying constitution is known to be psoric, and it is a masked case,

Sulphur will open up the latent cause, and, even if it docs not act on

a positively curative basis, it is true that a better representation of the

symptoms comes up. And as Sulphur is to psora, so is Mercurius to

syphilis, and Thuja to sycosis.

In the coal regions of Pennsylvania, those who work in the mines

and those living in the vicinity of the mines often need Sulphur. Wc

know that the coal is not made up of Sulphur ; there is a good deal in

it besides ; but those who handle the coal often need Sulphur. Persons who are always grinding kaolin and the various products that are

used in the manufacture of china, and the workers among stone, especially require Calcarea and Silicea, but those who work in the coal

mines often need Sulphur. The patients look like Sulphur patients ;

they have the aspect, and even when their symptoms arc localized and

call for other remedies, you will get no good action from these remedies until you give them a dose of Sulphur, after which they go on

improving. Some believe this is due to the fact that there is so much

Sulphur in the coal. Wc may theorize about these things as much as

we have a mind to, but we do not want to fall into the habit of antidoting the lower potencies with the high. Only use that method as a

dernier ressort. When there are no symptoms to indicate the remedy,

then it is time for us to experiment, and then it is justifiable only

when it is carried on by a man of the right sort, because such a man

keeps within the limit. He knows how to give his remedy. Such a

man is guided by the symptoms in each case so far as symptoms speak

In inflammatory conditions a purplish appearance of the inflamed

parts, a venous engorgement, is seen under Sulphur, Measles, when

they come put with that purplish cplor, very often require Sulphur.

Sulphur is a great remedy in measles. The routinisi can do pretty

well in this disease with Pulsatilla and Sulphur, occasionally requiring

Aconite and Euphrasia. Especially will Sulphur modify the case when

the skin is dusky and ,the measles do not come out. This purplish

color may be seen anywhere, in the erysipelas, in the sore throat, often

on the forearms, legs and face.

The dreadful effects of vaccination are often cured by Sulphur. In

this it competes with Thuja and Malandrinum.

In the mental state, which gives out the real man, shows forth the

real interior nature, we see that Sulphur vitiates his affections, driving

• ▸him to a most marked state of selfishness.
• ▸He has no thought of anybody’s wishes or desires but his own.
• ▸Everything that he contemplates is for the benefit of himself.
• ▸This selfishness runs through the

Sulphur patient. There is absence of gratitude.

Philosophical mania is also a prominent feature. Monomania over

the study of strange and abstract things, occult things ; things that are

beyond knowledge ; studying different things without any basis to figure upon ; dwelling upon strange and peculiar things. Sulphur has

cured this consecutive tracing one thing to another as to first cause.

It has cured a patient who did nothing but meditate as to what caused

this and that and the other thing, finally tracing things back to Divine

Providence, and then asking '‘Who made God?” She would sit in a

corner counting pins and wonder, pondering over the insolvablc question of “Who made God?” One woman could never see any handiwork of man without asking who ma^e it. She could never be contented until she found out the man Who made it, and then she wanted

to know who his father was ; she would sit down and wonder who he

was, whether he was an Irishman, and so on. That is a feature of

Sulphur. It is that kind of reasoning without any hope of discovery,

without any possible answer. It is not that kind of philosophy which

has a basis and which can be followed up, reasoning in a series, reasoning on things that are true, but a fanatical kind of philosophy that

has no basis, wearing oneself out. Sulphur has an aversion to follow

up things in an orderly fashion, an aversion to real work, an aversion

to systematic work. The Sulphur patient is a sort of inventive genius,

When he gets an idea in his mind he is unable to get rid of it. He

follows it and follows it until finally accidentally he drops into something, and many times that is how things arc invented. Such is a Sulphur patient. He is often ignorant but imagines himself to be a great

man ; he despises education and despises literary men and their accomplishments, and he wonders why it is everyone cannot see that he isabove education.

Again, this patient takes on religious melancholy, not meditating

upon the rational religion, but on foolish ideas about himself. He

prays constantly and uninterrputedly, is always in his room, moaning

with despair. He thinks he has sinned away his day of grace.

A patient needing Sulphur is often in a state of dulness and con^

fusion of mind, with inability to collect the thoughts and ideas ; lack

of concentration. He will sit and meditate orf no one thing continuously, making no effort to concentrate his mind upon anything. He

wakes up in the morning with dulness of mind and fulness in the head

and vertigo. Vertigo in the open air. In the open air comes on coryza

with this fulness in the head and dulness, so that there is a confusion

of the mind.

In the books there is an expression that has been extensively used.

“Foolish happiness and pride ; thinks himself in possession of beautiful things ; even rags seem beautiful.'’ Such a state has been present

in lunatics, and in persons who were not lunatics in any other way except on that one idea.

The Sulphur patient has an aversion to business. He will sit around

and do nothing, and let his wife take in washing and “work her fingernails off’ taking care of him ; he thinks that is all she is good for. A

state of refinement seems to have gone out of the Sulphur patient.

Sulphur is the very opposite of all things fastidious. Arsenicum is

the typical fastidious patient, and these two remedies are the extremes

of each other. Arsenicum wants his clothing neat and clean, wants

everything hung up well upon the pegs, wants all the pictures hung up

propertly upon the wall, wants everything neat and nice ; and hence

the Arsenicum patient has been called “the gold-headed-canc patient,"

because of his neatness, fastidiousness and cleanliness. The very opposite of all that is the Sulphur patient.

“Indisposed to everything, work, pleasure, talking or motion ; indolence of mind and body.” “Satiety of life ; longing for indolence of

mind and body.” “Satiety of life ; longing for death.” “Too lazy to

rouse himself up, and too unhappy to live.” “Dread of being washed

(in children).” Yes, they will cry lustily if they have to be washed.

The Sulphur patient dreads water and takes cold from bathing.

As to its relationship, Sulphur should not be given immediately before Lycopodium. It belongs to a rotating group, Sulphur, Calcarea,

Lycopodium. First Sulphur, then Calcarea and then Lycopodium,

and then Sulphur again, as it follows Lycopodium well. Sulphur and

Arsenicum are also related. You will very often treat a case with

Sulphur for a while and then need to give Arsenicum for some time,

and then back to Sulphur. Sulphur follows most of the acute remedies

well.

The Sulphur patient is troubled is with much dizziness. When ho

goes into the open air or when he stands any length of time, he becomes

dizzy. On rising in the morning his head feels stupid, and on getting

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on his feet he is dizzy. He feels stupid and tired, and not rested by

his sleep, and “things go round.’’ It takes some time to establish an

equilibrium. He is slow in gathering himself together after sleep.

Here we see the aggravation from sleep and from standing.

The head furnishes many symptoms. The Sulphur patient is subject to periodical sick headaches ; congestive headaches, a sensation of

great congestion with stupefaction, attended with nausea and vomiting. Sick headache once a week or every two weeks, the characteristic

• ▸seven-day aggravation.
• ▸Most headaches coming on Sunday in working men arc cured by Sulphur.
• ▸You can figure this out.
• ▸Sunday is

the only day he does not work, and he sleeps late in the morning and

gets up with a headache that involves the whole head, with dullness and

congestion. Being busy and active prevents the headache during the

week. Others have periodical headaches every seven to ten days, with

nausea and vomiting of bile. Again he may liave a headache lasting

two or three days ; a congestive headache. Headache with nausea

and no vomiting or headache with vomiting of bile. The headache is

aggravated by stooping, generally ameliorated in a warm room and by

the application of warmth ; aggravated from light, hence the desire to

close the eyes and to go into dark room ; aggravated by jarring, and

after eating. The whole head is sensitive and the eyes are red, and

there is often lachrymation, with nausea and vomiting. Headaches at

times in those who suffer constantly from great heat in the vertex ;

the top of the head is hot and hurnsb and he wants cold cloths applied

to the top of the head. These headajehes associated with heat arc often

ameliorated by cold, but otherwise tl^e head is ameliorated in a warm;

room. The head feels stupid and sometimes he cannot think. Every

motion aggravates and he is worse after eating and drinking, worse

from taking cold drinks into the stomach and better from hot drinks.

When the headaches are present the face is engorged ; bright red face.

Headaches in persons who have a red face, a dirty face or sallow, a

venous stasis of the face ; the eyes are engorged and the skin is engorged ; the face is puffed and venous in appearance. Sulphur is useful in persons who get up in the morning with headache, dizziness and

red face ; in pensons who say they know they are going to have the

headache some time during the day because the face feels very full

and is red in the morning, and the eyes are red. Before the headache

comes on there is a flickering before the eyes, a flickering of color.

Scintillations, stars, saw teeth, zig-zags are forewarnings of a headache, Some Sulphur headaches that I have known present a peculiar

appearance before the eyes ; a rhomhoidal figure, obliquely placed, with

saw teeth on the upper side and the body filled with spots. Sometimes

this figure is seen toward one side of the object looked at, sometimes

on the other side, but it is seen equally distinct with both eyes at the

especially when eating or blowing one’s nose.” “Sounds in ears,” Inflammation of various kinds. Discharges from the ears in a Sulphur

patient. You see I have avoided saying that Sulphur is a remedy for

the ears. Many times you will cure patients of these ‘iocal diseases”

if you select remedies for the patients, when ihh local symptoms would

never have led you to the remedy. You would never have thought of

Sulphur for the ear alone, or for the prolapsus of the uterus, yet the

patient needs Sulphur, and, having given it, you are astonished to see

how the organs are turned into order after the constitution of the

patient has been made orderly. Now and then pains that are located

here and there in the body arc prescribed at by the physician, and

failure follows. He hunts a remedy through and through to find some

particular kind of pain that resembles the pain which the patient has.

You should treat the patient and not bother about trifling pains. Leave

it out if you w^int to, but get a remedy for the patient. If that pain

is in the remedy well and good, but if not do not bother about it. Do

not bother about the little symptoms. You may even leave out a most

prominent keynote in treating the patient. Sometimes that particular

pain is the only symptom the patient wants cured, but if it is an old

symptom, it will be the last thing to go away. Under such circumstances the patient will bother your life out wanting to know when

that pain is going to be cured, but if you have knowledge of the matter

you will not expect to relieve that pain the first time ; if you do relieve

it you know that you have made a mistake, for the later symptoms

should all go away first. It is sometimes necessary, in order to hold

a patient, to say, ”That sympto.m must not be cured first, but these

little symptoms that you do not care much about will go away first.”

You will hold that patient for life simply because you have told the

truth, simply because you have exhibited to her that you know. Such

business is honestly acquired business.

The catarrhal affections of the nose are extremely troublesome in

Sulphur. “Smell before the nose as of an old catarrh,” and so troublesome is the Sulphur nose, so troublesome is this catrrhal state that

with odors he is made sick. He thinks he smells his own catarrh, and

thinks others also smell it. The smell of this old catarrh, or of filthy

things, keeps him nauseated. He is subject to coryzas ; constant sneezing, stoppage of the nose. Under coryza we read “fluent like water

trickling from the nose.” All the nasal discharges are acrid and

burning.

This is a state in Sulphur. Every time he takes “cold,” it brings on

a coryza. He cannot take a bath, he cannot become overheated, he

cannot get into a cold place and cannot overexert himself without

getting this ”cold in the nose.” Changes of the weather establish a

new attack. I have observed in numbers of those old people who arc

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in the habit of taking large quantities of Sulphur in the spring for

boils, and as a spring cleanser, that for the rest of the year they suffer

from coryza and the various complaints of Sulphur. If you can

hunt out some of these old Sulphur takers, you will have a very good

picture of Sulphur, interesting for the homoeopathic physician to look

upon. He is also subject to nose-bleed, dry ulcers and scabs in the

nose*

I have cjuite sufficiently described the general aspect of the face in

Sulphur, but we must especially remember the venous stasis, the dirty

appearance, the red spots, the sickly look, the appearance of false

plethora. It is a face that changes from pale to red, a pallid face that

becomes easily disturbed, flushed from excitement, flushed in a warm

room, flushed from slight stimulation, especially flushed in the morning. Eruptions upon the face.

Periodical neuralgias of the most violent character, especially on the

right side of the face. Long and tedious right-sided neuralgias. Persistent neuralgias in those that live in a malarial climate, when the

short-acting remedies given ^or the neuralgia, such as Belladonna and

Nux vomica, have only for a short time mitigated the suffering. If

upon studying the whole case you find he turns out to be a Sulphur

patient, Sulphur will permanently cure the neuralgia.

Sulphur cures erysipelatous inflammation of the face. In Sulphur

the erysipelas commences on the right side of the face and about the

right ear, and there is considerable welling of the right ear, and it

spreads slowly, moves with sluggishnei and is unusually purple. The

whole patient is an offensive, filthy jiatient ; in spite of washing, his

skin looks wrinkled, shriveled and like dried beef. Sulphur is not so

suitable in the cases that come on with rapidity and great violence,

with vesicles and enormous blebs, but it suits those cases in which

at first there is the appearance of a mottled dusky red spot on the face,

and a little distance from it another spot and the another, and these,

as it were, all run together, and after a week or so it develops into a

sluggish erysipelatous state, and the veins seem to be distended, and

he is passing into a state toward unconsciousness. You will be astonished to see what Sulphur will do in such a case, which comes

slowly as if there were a lack of vitality to develop it, a slow, sluggish,

erysipelatous inflammation. Whereas, if it be Arsenicum, Apis or

Rhus tox,, it spreads with rapidity. Arsenicum and Apis burn likd

fire and Rhus has blisters upon the erysipelatous patches.

The whole face in Sulphur is covered at times with patches of

moist, scaly, itching, eczematous eruptions. Crusta lactea that involves

the scalp and the ears, with moisture, thick yellow crusts, piling up,

with much itching, which is worse when warm in bed. The child

sleeps without covers. If there is itching in parts that arc covered,

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when the parts become warm the itching increases. These eruptions

are associated with eye diseases, catarrhal affections of the eyes and nose.

The Sulphur patient has thick incrustations upon the lips, scabby

lips, chapped lips, cracks about the lips and corners of the mouth. The

saliva oozes out of the mouth making red Streaks. Eruptions with

itching and burning about the lower part of the face. Herpetic eruptions about the mouth. All of these burn and become excoriated from

the fluids of the mouth. Round about the under jaw there is swelling

of the glands. Swelling and suppuration of the sub-maxillary glands ;

swelling of the parotids. The glands of the neck are enlarged.

In the Sulphur constitution the teeth become loose ; the gums settle

away from the teeth and bleed and burn. The teeth decay. There is

a general unhealthy condition of the mouth and tongue. Foul taste

and foul tongue. Ulceration of the mouth and burning in the ulcers.

In the aphthae there is burning, stinging. White patches in the mouth.

Sulphur is a very useful remedy in sore mouth of nursing infants, and

such as occurs in the mother during lactation. It has also deep-seated

phagedenic ulcers that eat around the inner surface of the check. Peculiar little nodules form upon the tongue and upon the sides of the

mouth where the unhealthy teeth press. When these nodules come

along the edge of the tongue they are so painful that he cannot talk

and cannot swallow. He must live on substances that he can take

without having to move the tongue. Sometimes they involve the whole

tongue, and have been called cancerous affections even when benign.

Sulphur is a wonderful medicine for chronic sore throat when the

symptoms agree. The old Sulphur patient suffers from a general

catarrhal state, as has been said, and the throat symptoms are of that

sort. There is a catarrhal state which goes on even to ulceration. The

tonsil is enlarged, and of a purplish aspect lasting for weeks and months,

a general sore and painfully sensitive condition of the throat ; but

it has also an acute sore throat. It is especially useful in inflammation of the tonsil with suppuration, when the aspect is purplish,

venous, and not a bright red inflammation. The purplish, dusky

color is especially a Sulphur color. There is often burning in the

throat, stitching, rawness, smarting, inflammation and difficult swallowing. It has cured diphtheria.

I have sufficiently covered appetite, desires and aversions under the

generals. The Sulphur patients are commonly dyspeptics, patients

who can digest almost nothing. They must live on the simplest forms

of food in order to have any comfort at all ; cannot digest anything

like ordinary diet. The stomach is sensitive to touch with the all-gone

hungry feeling before mealtimes. The Sulphur patient cannot go long

without eating ; he becomes faint and weak. Great heaviness in the

stomach after eating but little, after eating meat, or after eating foods

that require a healthy stomach to digest. Then he becomes the victim

of pain. He will describe the pains in his stomach as burning pains

and great soreness ; he has a morbid feeling in the stomach ; smarting

and rawness in the stomach. He will describe this sensation a» ‘Tain

in the stomach after eating. Sensation of weight in the stomach alter

eating/’ etc. The Sulphur stomach is a weak stomach, is slow in

digesting. There is acid and bilious vomiting, as a result of the disordered stomach. Sour taste in the mouth from the welling up of

acids from the stomach.

The liver is a very troublesome organ. There is enlargement and

induration, with much painfulness, pressure and distress. With congestion of the liver, the stomach also takes on its usual symptoms, or,

if present already, they are aggravated. The patient becomes jaundiced, with sensation of engorgement or fullness of the liver, dull aching

in the liver. He is subject to gall stones ; tearing pains in the region

of the gall duct, coming periodically, attended with much increase of

his sallowness. The Sulphur liver patient is the victim of chronic

sallowuicss, which increases and decreases. When this patient takes

‘'cold” it settles in the liver ; every ‘'cold,” every bath he takes, every

change of weather, aggravates his liver symptoms, and when these are

wOTse he has less of other troubles. It localizes itself in attacks of

bilious vomiting, in attacks of “bilious headaches,” as he calls them.

At times the stool is black as tar, at others it is green and thick, and

there are times when the stool is white. These stools alternate and

change about with the engorgement of his liver, and then he is subject

to gall stones. ‘

The Sulphur patient suffers from great distension of the abdomen ;

lolling in the abdomen ; soreness in the abdomen. He cannot stand

because the abdominal viscera hang down so; they seem to be falling.

There is rawness, soreness, distension and burning, with diarrhoea

with chronic diarrhoea, and then this goes on to more serious trouble,

towards tubercle in the abdomen. The mesenteric glands become infiltrated with tubercle. There is nightly itching with the eruptions

upon the abdomen, the itching being worse when warm in bed. Shingles

come out about the sides and seem inclined to encircle the body.

up indiscriminately ; there is no order. It seems that Sulphur produces this state of disorder, a state of untidiness, a state of uncleanliness, a state of “don’t care how things go,” and a state of selfishness.

He becomes a false philosopher, and the more he goes on in this state

the more he is disappointed because the world does not consider him

the greatest man on earth. Old inventors work and work, and fail.

The complaints that arise in this kind of case, even the acute complaints, will run to Sulphur. You take such a patient and you will

notice that he has on a shirt that he has worn many weeks ; if he has

not a wife to attend to him, he would wear his shirt until it fell off

from him.

Cleanliness is not a great idea with the Sulphur patient ; he thinks

it is not necessary. He is dirty ; he does not see the necessity of putting on a clean collar and cuffs and a clean shirt ; it does not woiTy

him. Sulphur is seldom indicated in cleanly people, but it is commonly

indicated in those who are not disturbed by uncleanliness. When attending the public clinic I have many times noticed that after Sulphur

an individual begins to take notice of himself and puts on a clean shirt,

whereas his earlier appearances were in the one same old shirt. And

it is astonishing how the Sulphur patients, especially the little ones,

can get their clothing dirty so fast. Children have the most astonishing tendency to be filthy. Mothers tell you of the filthy things that

little ones will do if they be Sulphur patients. The child is subject to

catarrhal discharges from the nose, the eyes and from other parts, and

he often cats the discharge from the nose. Now, that is peculiar,

because offensive odors arc the things that the Sulphur patient loathes.

He is oversensitive to filthy odors, but filthy substances themselves he

will eat and swallow. He becomes nauseated even from the odor of

his own body and of his own breath. The odor of the stool is so

offensive that it will follow him around all day. He thinks he can

smell it. Because of his sensitiveness to odors he is more cleanly

about his bowels than anything else. It is an exaggerated sense of

smell. He is always imagining and hunting for offensive odors. Hef

has commonly such a strong imagination that he smells the things which

he has only in memory.

The Sulphur patient has filthiness throughout. He is the victim of

filthy odors. He has a filthy breath, he has an intensely foetid stool ;

he has filthy-smelling genitals, which can be smelled in the room in

spite of his clothing, and he himself smells them. The discharges aro

always more or less foetid, having strong, offensive odors. In spite of

constant washing the axillae give out a pungent odor, and at times the

whole body gives off an odor like that coming from the axillae.

The discharges of Sulphur from every part of the body, besides

dxt . excoriating^ ^ Tb« Sulpbnr j)ajientJs^ai)0|icted with

He is also a flatulent patient. There is much belching, much distension, much rumbling and passing of flatus. He has spells of colic

without being flatulent ; the wind is confined. Dreadful spells of colic,

cutting, tearing pains relieved in no position ; burning and smarting in

the whole abdomen and soreness of the intestines. Catarrh of the

whole intestinal tract. That which he vomits is acid and smarts the

mouth, and that which he passes by the anus is acrid and makes the

parts raw. The liquid stool bums while it is passing, and there is

much burning when passing moist flatus. He is often called to stool.

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but while sitting at stool he passes only a little fluid or a little moisture

with flatus, and that fluid burns like coals of fire, and the annus

becomes raw.

The stool may be thin faeces, yellow, watery, mucous, green, bloody,

excoriating. The stool is offensive, often sickening, of a penetrating

odor which permeates the room, and ‘'the smell of the stool follows

him around, as if he had soiled himself.

The diarrhcea comes on especially in the morning and it is commonly

limited to the forenoon. It drives him out of bed in the morning ; as

soon as he wakes up and moves in bed, he feels the urging to stool and

must make great haste, or he will lose it ; it is with difficulty that he

can hold it until he reaches the commode. The morning is the typical

time, but a diarrhoea that comes on any time after midnight, from’

midnight till noon, may be a Sulphur diarrhoea. Very seldom would you

expect to cure with Sulphur a diarrhoea that is in the habit of coming

on during the afternoon. Sulphur has some evening aggravations in

diarrhoea, but these are exceptions ; it is the morning diarrhoea that we

look to Sulphur to cure.

Sulphur is a wonderful remedy in cholera and in those cases of

diarrhcea that occur in cholera times, when the diarrhoea begins in the

morning. It is also of great value in dysentery, when the stool is

bloody mucus with constant straining. As in Mcrcitrius he must sit

long at stool because of a feeling as if he could not finish. Such is the

typical Mercurius state — a slimy stool with the sensation as if he could

not finish. Sulphur often cures this slate after Mercurius fails. It is

the natural follower of Mercurius when the latter has been misunderstood and given. In dysentery, when this tenesmus is of the most

violent character, when the stool is pure blood, when it is attended

also with much urging to urinate. Mercurius corrosivus gives the

quickest relief. If the tenesmus is less violent, and there is not much

straining to urinate, or it is altogether absent, Mercurius solubilis is the

more natural remedy. These medicines run very close to Sulphur in

dysentery, but are more commonly indicated than Sulphur. In Sulphur

patients of course Sulphur will Idc the suitable remedy in dysentery.

He is subject to haemorrhoids, external and internal ; great bunches

that are sore and raw, burning and tender, and that bleed and smart

with the liquid stool.

The urinary symptoms, and those of the bladder and male sexual

organs, combine to give a very important group in Sulphur. There

is a catarrhal state of the bladder, constant urging to urinate and burning and smarting while urinating. The urine scalds the urethra while

passing and the smarting is so great that it lasts a long time after

urination. It is indicated in broken-down constitutions, in old inventors, in old philosophers who have been leading sedentary lives,

who suffer from enlarged prostate, burning in the incthra during and

after the flow of urine, and a urethral discharge not unlike gonorrhoea,

but really a chronic catarrhal state, hlucus in the urine, sometimes

pus. In old cases of ^leet, in old broken-down patients, when tho

ordinary gonorrhoea remedies, and the remedies especially fitted to the

discharge itself, only palliate; when the patient himself is a Sulphur

patient. Such a patient has had a gonorrhoea and has been treated

by remedies adapted to the new appearance, to the discharge itself, but

a catarrhal state of the urethra follows, with burning in the urethra,

swelling of the meatus, a red, swollen, pouty condition of tlie meatus,

and only a drop collects, just enough to soil the linen, and this keeps

up week after week, and sometimes for years ; he will be cured of this

discharge by allowing potentized Sulphur to act long enough.

Sulphur has cured patients with sugar in the urine, in the early

stage of diabetes. Sulphur cures involuntary urination during sleep.

It cures troubles brought on by taking “cold.” Every “cold” in some

patients settles in the bladder. This is like Dulcamara, and when

Dulcamara will no longer hold, or when it has l>een suitable in earlier

stages. Sulphur follows it well. Continuous smarting of urine and

frequent urging ; burning, stinging, smarting in the urethra for a long

time after micturition.

On the genitals there are many eruptions. Itching of the genitals,

worse from warmth of the bed ; much sweat about the genitals ; coldness of the genitals. In the male, Impotency ; the sexual desire is

fairly strong, but he is unable to scoire suitable erections ; or there is

discharge of semen before intromissttXjt, or too soon after intromission,

There is an inflammatory condition around the glans and foreskin.

Herpetic eruptions under the foreskin, itching and burning. This

patient has much annoyance from itching eruptions on the genitals.

The prepuce becomes narrow and cannot be drawn back ; inflammatory

phimosis ; thickening or restriction of the prepuce. Inflammatory

phimosis can be cured by remedies, if the phimosis depends upon some

trouble that is in itself curable. Congenital phimosis cannot be cured

by remedies. The genitals are extremely offensive both to the patient

and to the examining physician. The patient is likely to be very uncleanly ; he does not bathe himself, and tlie genitals accumulate their

natural filth. Discharge of prostatic fluid when at stool.

Under female sexual organs we have sterility. We have irregularity

in the menstrual flow, menstrual flow suppressed from the slightest

disturbance. Haemorrhage in connection with the menstrual flow ;

uterine haemorrhage ; prolonged uterine haemorrhage.

In an abortion you may have selected Belladonna, which w'as suitable

while the woman was aborting, and it may have overcome the present

state ; or you may have selected Apis or Sabina, which was suitable

for the early state, and it either postpones or checks the hcemorrhage

for the time or hurries the expulsion of the foetus ; but the haemorrhage starts in again and with its return we have prolonged tribulation.

In many of these cases we can do nothing unt^ wc put the patient on

Sulphur. If the symptoms are masked, Sulphur stands very high.

When Belladonna has been given you will often have to follow it with

Sulphur. Sabina, which has the most violent gushing haemorrhage in

abortions, very commonly needs to be followed by Sulphur. In such

haemorrhagic afEections, however, i.e., in a prolonged recurring haemorrhage, a chronic condition, not in the first or most exciting time, not

in the time of the earliest gushing, there arc two very frequently indicated remedies, viz.: Sulphur and Psoriniim. The flow keeps coming

back in spite of ordinary remedies, and in spite of remedies selected

upon the group of symptoms related to the pelvis. In many insiances

we go to a haemorrhage and the pelvic symptoms are prominent and

all other symptoms clouded ; there is a gushing flow, the blood is hot,

etc., and there are only a few symptoms ; but the next time you

see the woman she is quiet enough to give other symptoms, and in the

course of a few days more symptoms come out, as the haemorrhagic

state is an outcome of the chronic condition. This is unlike measles.

You do not have to look into the chronic state until the measles or

scarlet fever or small-pox is finished ; these are acute miasms. But

the haemorrhage is a part of her constitutional state ; it is not a miasm ;

and hence when it is violent, calling for a remedy, probably the best

adapted will be the short acting remedies, such as Belladonna or even

Aconite ; but then look into the constitutional state for it is likely some

remedy will have to follow the Acofiitc or the Belladonna, and commonly it is Sulphur ; the acute remedy being suitable to the violent

action and then followed by its complementary medicine.

Women needing Sulphur are full of hot flashes, such as they are

likely to have at the climateric period, and here it competes with

Lachesis and Sepia, Sulphur and Sepia are suitable in the most

violent cases of dysmenorrhoea in girls and even in those of advanced

age. Most violent cases that have existed a long time, since the

beginning of menstruation, in women who always needed Sulphur.

If you select a remedy merely on the kind of pain, on the sensitiveness

• ▸of the uterus, on the appearance of the flow, i.
• ▸e.
• ▸, on the pelvic symptoms, you will make a failure.
• ▸You must treat the patient, even if the

pelvic S3rmptoms do not fall under the generals ; when the generals

agree Sulphur will cure dysmenorrhoea even though you cannot fit it

to the pelvic symptoms. The generals always precede and rule in

every case.

Sulphur has violent burning in the vagina. Troublesome itching

of the vulva. Great offensiveness from the genitals. Perspiration

copious and foetid coming from about the genitals, down the inside of

the thighs and up over the abdomen. She is so offensive that the odors

nauseate her, and this general state is true, it is not the imagination.

Remember the oveiVsensitiveness ^to odors. Leucorrhoea copious, offensive, burning, sticky* it may be whitish or yellow ; it is offensive,

acrid, and causes itching about the part and excoriation.

There is much nausea during gestation, or only during the early

period of gestation. In those women needing Sulphur, it will stop

the nausea, and they will go into labor easily, with few protracted

pains ; they will go through their labor with only the contractions,

and these comparatively painless. The only pains in such cases will

be those from the pressure of the child’s head. Labor is painful we

know, but it is comparatively easy when the woman is upon a suitable

remedy. Sulphur is indicated then in women who have suffered from

the most dreadful agony in confinement ; prolonged labor. Troublesome after-pains. Suitable also in swelling of the mammary glands.

Then we have septicxmic conditions, with purulent lochia or suppression of the lochia. You may go to a case in which, on the third

day, there has been a chill, the lochia has been suppressed, the woman

has a high temperature and is covered from head to foot with sweat.

As you put your hand under the covers you feel steam come up from

the body so that you want to take your hand away, it is so hot. She is

dazed and is sensitive over the whole abdomen. You know now

the meaning of the suppression of thfe lochia ; you have a puerperal

fever on hand. Study closely for Sulphur instead of hunting around

among Aconite, Bryonia, Belladonna^ Opium, etc. With these you

will make a total failure in most instances, but Sulphur fits into just

such a state and has cured many cases of puerperal fever. If it is

but a milk fever or mammary indisposition and the chill is only acute,

then your short-acting remedies will do very well and even Aconite

has been useful, but when it is a case of septicaemia Sulphur goes to

the very root of it. When the feet burn, when there is a hungry feeling in the stomach, the night aggravation with sinking and exhaustion,

and when throughout the body there is a sensation of steam rising or

hot flashes, one after another, you must give Sulphur. Now, on the

Other hand, if in such a case, with the hot sweat and other general

features, you have one rigor following another in rapid succession and

no end to them, you cannot get out of that case without Lycopodium.

which goes as deeply into the case as Sulphur, When there is a continuous intermingling of little chillinesses and little quiverings throughout the body and the pulse has lost its proper relationship to the temperature, Pyrogen must be administered. If there is a purplish appearance of the body, cold sweat all over, if there are remittent or

intermittent chills^ with thirst during the chill, and at no other time,

and the face is red during the chill, you must give Ferruni, as no other

remedy looks just like that. When one side of the body is hot and the

other side is cold and you find the woman in a tearful state, trembling

with fear, nervous excitement and restlessness, give Pulsatilla^ which

also has a septic state and is sufficient to overcome the septic condition.

Sulphur is suitable in surgical fever when it takes this form of

flashes of heat and steaming sweat.

In these deep-seated septic states, somewhere from beginning to

end, Sulphur will most likely be wanted. You may see in the earlier

stages of that septic state a number of Bryonia symptoms, but Bryonia

cannot take hold of that case. Remember that in a septic state you

want to get ahead of it in the first twenty-four hours ; you do not w^ant

to let it run on, and if Bryonia has only mitigated it in its beginning

then it is too late for Sulphur. Go to Sulphur at once. Now, another

thing, even if you have made a mistake in giving Sulphur and you

find it does not take hold of the case, it always simplifies it, does good

and never spoils it. It gives you a good basis to begin on. It goes

to the bottom and simplifies the matter, and, if you have mental and

nervous symptoms left still you have overcome that violent septic state

which must be met at once, and the remaining symptoms in many instances are simple. Sulphur is a general remedy to begin with in

those cases where the symptoms are not perfectly clear for another.

This remedy is full of difficult breathing, shortness of breath from

very little exertion, copious sweat, so erhausted ; asthmatic breathing

and much rattling in the chest. Every time he gets '‘cold'" it settles

Jn the chest or in the nose. In both these instances the catarrhal state

hangs on and holds a long time ; it seems never to be finished, always

remains as a catarrhal state. ‘‘Every cold he takes ends in asthma,''

calls for Dulcamara, but very often the fag end of that attack will

remain and the physician has to give a deep-acting remedy. After

Dulcamara has done all it can do Sulphur comes in as its complementary remedy. Calcarea carb, has a similar relationship to Dulcamara,

The nose, the inner chest and lungs furnish us localities for much

trouble. The patient has had pneumonia and it has gone on to the

period of infiltration ; you have taken the case in this advanced stage

after Bryonia has overcome the threatening features, and now when

the patient should rally he does not rally ; he perspires all over, is tired

and has a strange and singular consciousness that “there is something

wrong in there ; a load in there difficult breathing ; flashes of heat

and yet not much fever ; sometimes coldness alternating with flashes

of heat. I have often heard them say, “There is a great load in there,

doctor. I cannot get rid of it." Upon close examination you find

there is hepatization and now comes the time for such remedies as

Phosphorus, Lycopodium and Sulphur, and Sulphur leads them all

When Bryonia has been sufficient for the earlier symptoms, or when

Aconite has cleared them up, there has been too much for these

remedies to relieve, then hepatization comes on. If this is confined to

only a small area it w^l keep up quite a chronic course, but Sulphur

will clear it up. If, however, it is a double pneumonia, or the hepatization involves a considerable portion of the lung, and the remedy

given has not been sufficient, and the case is advancing towards a fatal

issue, it may be that all at once at one, two or three o’clock in the

morning, he begins to sink, his nose becomes pinched, his lips are

drawn, he takes on a hippocratic countenance, is covered with cold

sweat, he is too feeble in every part of his body to move ; he only

moves his head a little in a restless manner. Unless you are called at

once and give him a dose of Arsenicum he will die. You give the

Arsenicum, and you have done well, but Arsenicum has no ability to

remove the results of inflammation. But though it cannot cure that

hepatized lung it acts as a vital stimulant ; it warms up the patient and

makes him feel he is going to get better ; but, mark this, in twentyfour hours he will die unless you follow the Arsenicum with the proper

remedy. You must not wait on your remedy too long in these cases.

Just as soon as he rallies and the reaction is at its highest pitch, give

him the antidote and natural follower of Arsenicum^ which is Sulphur,

and in twenty-four hours the patient will say, “I am getting better.”

As sure as you exist today, it will do just that thing. There arc

times when you will see clearly that Phosphorus is the medicine to

follow Arsenicum with. If such a patient, rallying under Arsenicum,

goes into a fever, if a hot fever comes on with burning thirst and he

cannot get enough ice-cold water, you must follow it with Phosphorus,

and it will do in that case what Sulphur will do in the other. You will

not see these cases in your own practice because you will not let your

cases get into that state ; if such cases have power enough to live when

prescribed for properly in that state, they have power enough to let

you break up the whole nature of the case in the beginning. But go

back to that patient who had only a circumscribed hepatization and

felt well enough to get up and go around. He has a lingering cough,

and now six months or a year after the attack he says. '‘Doctor, I have

never been right since I had an attack of chest trouble. The doctor

called it pneumonia.” He can tell you about the rusty sputum and the

other little things that belong to pneumonia ; that is all you need to

know. He has had a chronic cough ever since that attack and now

he has chilliness. There is fibrinous infiltration, not a tuberculous

state, but the remains of hepatization that nature could not cure. If

that is allowed to go on he will go into catarrhal phthisis, asthmatic

conditions of chronic bronchitis and troubles of various sorts, and

finally he will di^ from these. Sulphur will very often conform to all

iia

of his symptoms ; it especially has the ability to clear up the lungs that

were not properly cleared up at the time of his illness.

Sulphur cures bronchitis. It cures asthmatic bronchitis when the

symptoms agree. Sulphur has a most violent cough that racks the

whole frame ; it seems that the head will fly orf ; pain in the head when

coughing ; the head is jarred by the cough. Then he has expectoration

of blood, bleeding from the lungs ; in all of these cases threatening

phthisis, when there is yet not too much deposit of tubercle, when

there is only the beginning of tubercular deposit. The low, strickendown constitution, the emaciated subjects that have inherited phthisis

who have the all-gone hungry feeling in the stomach, heat on the top

of the head and uneasiness from the warmth of the bed. These cases

would be better if they had plenty of eruptions come out upon the

body ; but as a matter of fact the skin has no eruptions ; there is no

relief ; it is all going on in his internals and he is gradually breaking

down. Sulphur will in such instances rouse that patient out of his

phthisical state and he will return to health, or, if he is too bad for that

he may be kept for years from his troubles. l^ook out for it in the

advanced state of phthisis. You have had sufficient said concerning

its administration in such a condition. It increases the suppuration,

and brings on little pneumonias wherever there is a tubercle ; it tends

to suppurate these out. Every cell that is incapable of carrying on its

function will be sloughed out by Sulphur.

The striking thing in Sulphur as to the back is pain in the back on

rising from a seat, compelling him to walk bent, and he can only

straighten up slowly after moving. The pain is principally in the

lumbo-sacral region.

The extremities are covered with eruptions. Eruptions upon the

back of the hands and between the fingers, and sometimes upon the

palms ; vesicular and scaly eruptions which itch ; pustules, boils and

little abscesses ; irregular erysipelatous patches here and there upon

the extremities ; a dirty appearance of the skin. Itching of the skin

from the warmth of the bed. Enlargement of the joints. Rheumatic

affections ; great stiffness of the joints ; tightness in the hollow of the

knees ; tightness of the tendons, of rheumatic and gouty character.

Cramps in the legs and soles of the feet. Burning of the soles of the

feet in bed ; he puts them out of bed to cool them off. The soles cramp

and burn and itch. At times you will find the soles are cold, and then

again burning, and these states alternate with each other. Distress

of the body with coldness of the limbs, but after going to bed they

burn so much that he must put them out. The corns, which he is a

victim of and suffers from almost constantly, burn and sting in the

warmth of the bed.

The skin of a Sulphur patient ulcerates and suppurates easily ; a

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splinter under the skin will cause it to ulcerate ; wounds heal slowly

and fester. Every little prick of a pin festers as in Hepar.

The eruptions of Sulphur are too numerous to mention. They are

of all sorts, but there are a few characterizing features in all, such as

the burning, stingiijg and itching and the aggravation from the warmth

of the bed. The skin is rough and unhealthy. Upon the face are

many '‘black-heads,'' acne, pimples and pustules. Sulphur is full of

boils and abscesses in all parts of the body, squamous eruptions, vesicular eruptions, etc. They are all present in Sulphur and they burn and

sting.

catarrhs of all mucous membranes^ and the catarrhal discharges everywhere excoriate him. Often with the coryza the discharge excoriates

the lips and the nose. At times the fluid that remains in the nose

smarts like fire, and w^en it comes in contact with the child’s lip it

burns, so acrid is it ; almost like the condition under Sulphuric acid,

so red will be the parts that are touched by it. There is copious leucorrhoea that excoriates the genitals. The thin faeces cause burning

and rawness around the anus. In women if a drop of urine remains

about the genitals it will burn ; very often it is not sufficient to wipe

it away, it must be washed away to relieve the smarting. In children

we find excoriation about the anus and between the buttocks ; the

whole length of the fissure is red, raw and inflamed from the stool.

From this tendency a keynote has been constructed, and not a bad one

either, *'all the fluids burn the parts over which they pass,” which is

the same as saying that the fluids are acrid and cause smarting. This

is true everywhere in Sulphur.

The Sulphur patient has all sorts of eruptions. There are vesicular,

pustular, furuncular, scaly eruptions, all attended with much itching,

and some of them with discharge and suppuration. The skin, even

without any eruption, itches much, itches from the warmth of the bed

and from wearing woolen clothing. Many times the Sulphur patient

cannot wear anything except silk or cotton. The warmth of the room

will drive him to despair if he cannot get at the itching part to scratch

it. After scratching there is burning ^ith relief of the itching. After

scratching or after getting into the^ warmth of the bed great white

welts come out all over the body, with much itching, and these he

keeps on scratching until the skin becomes raw, or until it burns, and

then comes a relief of the itching. This process goes on continuously ;

dreadful itching at right in bed, and in the morning when he wakes up

he starts in again and the eruptions itch and ooze. Crops of boils and

little boil-like eruptions come out and this makes it useful in impetigo.

This remedy is useful in suppurations. It establishts all sorts of

suppurating cavities, small abscesses and large abscesses ; abscesses

beneath the skin, in the cellular tissues and in internal organs. The suppurative tendency is very marked in Sulphur. The glands become

inflamed and the inflammation goes on to suppuration.

Wherever there is a Sulphur complaint you will find burning:

Every part bums ; burning where there is congestion ; burning of the

skin or a sensation of heat in the skin ; burning here and there in spots ;

burning in the glands, in the stomach, in the lungs ; burning in the

bowels, in the rectum ; burning and smarting in the haemorrhoids ;

burning when passing urine, or a sensation of heat in the bladder.

There is heat here and there, but when the patient describes something

especially typical of Sulphur she says: ‘^Burning of the soles of the

feet, in the palms of the hands, and on the top of the head/’ Burning

of the soles of the feet will very often l>e noticed after the patient

becomes warm in bed. The Sulphur patient has so much heat and

burning of the soles at night in bed that he puts the feet out from

beneath the clothes, sleeps with the feet outside the covering. The'

soles and palms of the Sulphur patient when examined present a thick

skin which burns on becoming warm in bed.

Many complaints come ton from becoming warm in bed. The Sulphur patient cannot stand heat and cannot stand cold, though there is

a strong craving for the open air. He wants an even temperature ; he

is disturbed if the temperature changes much. So far as his breathing is concerned, when he has much distress he wants the doors and

windows open. Tlie body, howevei, he is frequently forced to have

covered, but if he is warmly clad he is bothered with the itching and

burning of the skin.

As to time aggravations, nightly complaints are a feature. Headaches begin after evening meal and increase into the night ; he cannot

get to sleep because of the pain. There is nightly aching and nightly

thirst ; nightly distress and symptoms of the skin coming on after becoming warm in bed. 'Intermittent periodic neuralgia, worse every

• ▸24 hours, generally at 12 a .
• ▸m .
• ▸or 12 p .
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• ▸’^ Midday is another time of

aggravation of the Sulphur complaints. It has chills at noon, fevers

increase at noon, increase of the mental symptoms at noon, headache

worse at noon. Complaints that come otice a week, a seven-day aggravation, is another peculiar condition of Sulphur.

It is a common feature for a Sulphur patient to have a peculiar kind

of diarrhoea which has been long known as "a Sulphur diarrhoea,’^

though many other remedies have a similar condition, viz.: diarrhoea

coming on early in the morning. The Sulphur diarrhoea belongs to

the time between midnight and morning, but more commonly the time

that he begins to think about rising. The diarrhoea drives him out of

bed. It is generally thin, watery ; there is not much gushing, and it is

not very copious, sometimes quite scanty, sometimes yellow faecal.

After this morning stool he has, in many cases, no further trouble till

next morning. There are many people who go on year after year

with this urging to stool driving out of bed in the morning. The

patient suffers from pain, griping, uneasiness, and burning soreness

through the bowels. The stool burns while it is passing, and all parts

that it comes in contact with are made sore and raw, and there is much

chaHng.

The Sulphur patient is very thirsty. He is always drinking water.

He wants much water.

He also speaks of a hungry feeling, a desire for food, but when he

comes to the table he loathes the food, turns away from it, does not

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want it. He eats almost nothing, takes only the simplest and lightest

things. There is a craving for stimulants, for alcohol, and an aversion to milk and meat ; these latter make him sick and he loathes them.

One of the old men invented out of these things the keynote “drinks

<much and eats little.'’ This is true under Sulphur, but many other

remedies have the same thing. As to the use of keynotes I would impress on you that it is well to gather together all the symptoms with

their associations. It will not do to place much dependence on one

little symptom, or even on tw^o or three little symptoms. The symptoms of the whole case must be considered and then, if the keynotes

and characteristics and everything else cause the remedy to be well

rounded out and full, and to look like the whole patient, only then is it

suitable.

There is emptiness occurring at 11 o'clock in the forenoon. If there

is any time in the whole twenty-four hours that he feels hungry it is

at 1 1 o’clock. It seems as though he cannot wait for his dinner.

There is this also about the Sulphur patient: he is very hungry about

his customary mealtimes and, if the meal is delayed, he becomes weak

and nauseated. Those that are accustomed to eat at about 12 o'clock

will have that all-gone hungry feeling at ii a. m. Those accustomed

to eat about i or 1-30 will have it about 12 o’clock. The all-gone sensation is about one hour before the accustomed time of eating with

ntany people.

In a sort of condensed way a strO|ig Sulphur group is this: an allgone hungry feeling in the stomach lit ii a, m., burning of the soles

and heat in the top of the head. Uilse three things have been looked

upon as a sine qua non of Sulphur, biit they are scarcely the beginning

of Sulphur.

There is an unhealthy condition of the skin in Sulphur aside from

the eruptions. The skin will not heal. Small wounds continue to

suppurate ; abscesses formed under the skin become little discharging

cavities with fistulous openings, and these leak and discharge for a

long time.

Sulphur produces an infiltration in inflamed parts, so that they become indurated and these indurations last for years. When the inflammation is in a vital organ, like the lungs, this infiltration cannot

always be endured ; it leaves infiltrations after pneumonia called hepatization. Sulphur produces this same tendency in inflamed parts

throughout the body and hence its great use in hepatization.

Sulphur is a very useful remedy when the patient does not react

after a prolonged disease, because of a condition in the economy, a

psoric condition. When a patient is drawing near the end of an acute

disease he becomes weak and prostrated. The inflammatory state ends

in suppuration and infiltrations ; the patient is in a state of weakness,

much fatigued and prostrated, and has night sweats. He docs not

convalesce after a typhoid or other acute disease. There is slow repair and a slow, tired economy, and order is not restored after the

acute disease. Sulphur often becomes very useful in such conditions.

Old drunkards become debilitated and have violent craving for alcohol ; they cannot let liquor alone. They crave strong and pungent

things, want nothing to eat, but want cold water and alcoholic drinks.,

They go on drinking till greatly exhausted and then their complaints

come on. Sulphur will for a while take away this craving for drink

and build him up.

The tissues seem to take on weakness, so that very little pressure

causes soreness, sometimes inflammation and suppuration. Bed sores

come on easily in a Sulphur patient, as there is feeble circulation. Induration from pressure is also a strong feature. Sulphur has corns

from pressure, callosities from pressure. These affections come easily.

Jf a shoe presses anywhere on the skin a great corn or bunion develops. Where the teeth come in contact with the tongue and other parts

of the buccal cavity nodules form and these little nodules in course of

time commence to ulcerate. It is a slow process with burning and

stinging. They may go into cancerous affections. They may be postponed for a long time and afterwards take on a state of malignancy.

Cancer is an outgrowth of a state in the body, and that state may come

on from a succession of states. It is not one continuous condition, but

the malignant state may follow the benign. Sulphur removes these

states when the symptoms agree.

We notice a marked evidence of disturbance of the veins under Sulphur. It is a venous remedy, has much vein trouble. The veins seem

to be relaxed and there is sluggish circulation. There is a flushed

appearance of the face here and there from slight irritation, from the

weather, from irritation of the clothing. Tumefaction of the face.

Sulphur has varicose veins ; most marked of these are haemorrhoidal

veins, which are enlarged and burn and sting. Varices of the extremh

ties. The veins even ulcerate, rupture and bleed. When going out of

a cold into a warm atmosphere the patient suffers from enlarged veins,

from puffiness of the hands and feet, from a sense of fulness throughout the body.

The Sulphur patient emaciates, and a peculiar feature is the emaciation of the limbs with distended abdomen. The abdomen is tumid,

with rumbling, burning and soreness, and with the distended abdomen

there is emaciation of all other parts. The muscles of the neck, back

thorax and limbs wither, and the muscles of the abdomen are also

wasted, but there is much distension of tht abdomen itself. This con-^

dition of affairs is found in marasmus. You will find a similar state

under Calcarea; and, in women needing Calcarea, you will notice great

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cnlRrgcmcnt, distension and hardness of the abdomen with shriveling

of all other parts of the body.

Under Sulphur there arc flashes of heat to the face and head, like

those which women have at the climacteric period. The flash of heat

in Sulphur begins som^here in the heart region, generally said to be

in the chest, and it feels as if, inside the body, a glow of heat is rising

to the face. The face is red, hot and flushed, and finally the heat ends

in sweat. Flashes of heat with sweat and red face ; the head is in a

glow. Sometimes the patient will describe a feeling as if hot steam

were inside the body and gradually rising up, and then she breaks out

in a sweat. At times you will see a woman having little shiverings

followed by flashes of heat and red splotches in the face, and then she

fans vigorously ; cannot fan fast enough, and she wants the doors and

windows open. Such is Sulphur as well as Lachesis and many others.

When the flashes begin in the chest, about the heart, it is more like

Sulphur, but when in the back or in the stomach it is more like Phosphorus,

Among other general aggravations wc have an aggravation from

standing in Sulphur. All complaints are made worse by standing for

a length of time. Standing is the most difficult position for a Sulphur

patient, and there is an aggravation of the confusion of mind, dizziness, the stomach and abdominal symptoms, and a sense of enlargement and fulness of the veins and dragging down in the pelvis in

women, from standing. The patient ^must sit down or keep moving,

if on her feet. She can w^alk fairly t^ell, but is worse when standing

quiet. , J

An aggravation after sleep fits into many of the complaints of Sulphur, but especially those of the mind and sensorium. Most of the

complaints of Sulphur are also worse after eating.

The Sulphur patient is aggravated from bathing. He dreads a bath.

He does not bathe himself and from his state in general he belongs to

“the great unwashed.” He cannot take a bath without catching

“cold.”

Children’s complaints. Dirty-faced, dirty-skinned little urchins,

who are subject to nightly attacks of delirium, who suffer much from’

pains in the head, who had brain troubles, who are threatened with

hydrocephalus, who had meningitis, need Sulphur. Sulphur will clear

up the constitutional state when remedies have failed to reach the

whole case because they are not deep enough* If the infant does not

develop properly, if the bones do not grow, and there is slow closing

of the fontanelles, Calcarea carbonica may be the remedy and Sulphur

is next in importance for such slow growth.

You would not suppose that the Sulphur patient is so nervous as he

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sleep in a start as if he had heard a cannon report or seen a 'spook/

The Sulphur patient is the victim of much trouble in his sleep. He is

very sleepy in the fore part of the night, at times sleeping till 3 a. m.,

but from that time on he has restless sleep, or does not sleep at all

He dreads daylight, wants to go to sleep again, hnd when he does sleep

he can hardly be aroused, and wants to sleep late in the morning.

That is the time he gets his best rest and his soundest sleep. He is

much disturbed by dreadful dreams and nightmare.

When the symptoms agree, Sulphur will be found a curative medicine in erysipelas. For erysipelas as a name we have no remedy, but

when the patient has erysipelas and his symptoms conform to those of

Sulphur, you can cure him with Sulphur. If you bear that distinction

in mind you will be able to see what Homoeopathy means ; it treats the

patient and not the name that the sickness goes by.

The Sulphur patient is annoyed throughout his economy with surgings of blood here and there — surging, with fulness of the head, which

we have heretofore described as flashes of heat. It has marked febrile

conditions and can be used in acute diseases. It is one of the natural

complements of Aconite, and when Aconite is suitable to the acute exacerbations and removes them, very often Sulphur corresponds to the

constitutional state of the patient.

Sulphur is suitable in the most troublesome '^scrofulous'* complaints

in broken-down constitutions and defective assimilation. It has deepseated, ragged ulcers on the lower extremities, indolent ulcers, ulcers

that will not granulate. They bum, and the little moisture that oozes

out burns the parts round about. It is indicated often in varicose

ulcers that bleed easily and bum much.

In old cases of gout, Sulphur is a useful remedy. It is a deep-acting

remedy, and in most instances it will keep the gout upon the extremities, as its tendency is outward from centre to circumference. Like

Lycopolium and Calcarea, when suitably administered in old gouty

conditions, not where there is much organic change present, it will keep

the rheumatic state in the joints and extremities.

Sulphur, like Silicea, is a dangerous medicine to give where there is

structural disease in organs that are vital, especially in the lungs.

Sulphur will often heal old fistulous pipes and turn old abscesses into

a normal state, so that healthy pus will follow,’ when it is indicated by

the symptoms. It will open abscesses that are very slow, doing nothing, it will reduce inflamed glands that are indurated and about to

suppurate, when the symptoms agree. But it is a dangerous medicine

to administer in advanced cases of phthisis, and, if given, it should not

be prescribed in the highest potencies. If there arc symptoms that arc

very painful, and you think that Sulphur must be administered, go to

the 3bth or 200th potency. Do not tindettake to with Sulphxur

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the morning diarrhoea that commonly comes with phthisis. Do not undertake to stop the night swears that come in the advanced stages,

even if Sulphur seems to be indicated by the symptoms ; the fact is, it

is not indicated. A remedy that is dangerous in any case ought not

to be considered as indicated, even though the symptoms are similar.

Sharp and drawing pains, or shootings in limbs, esp. in joints, and sometimes with

want of strength, stiffness, and sensation of torpor in the parts affected—Wrenching pains, as

from contraction of the tendons, cramps, and spasms in several parts.—Cracking in joints, esp. of

knee and elbow.—Inflammatory swelling of joints, with heat and redness.—Tingling in limbs,

• ▸esp.
• ▸in calves of legs and arms.
• ▸—Tendency of limbs to go to sleep.
• ▸—Weakness and trembling of

• ▸limbs, esp.
• ▸hands and feet —Unsteadiness of joints.
• ▸—Limbs "go to sleep," esp.
• ▸when lying

down.—Bruised feeling, and drawing, tearing pains in limbs (in outer parts, in muscles and joints,

from above downward).—Cramp-like pain in muscles of limbs on motion.—Arthritic swelling and

heat.