-GEORGE VITHOULKAS
Case
Psoriasis.
A blonde school girl, aged seventeen years.
Psoriasis on the scalp and wrists for two months.
Crust thick, dry, underneath much inflammation.
Itching from exposure to cold air.
General good health.
Ars-iod. CM Skinner, in water, four doses, one morning and night.
May 17 An improvement began within a week and continued until quite recently . The spots are again increasing in size.
Arsenicum iod. CM Fincke, one powder, dry on the tongue.
July 2 Her skin is entirely free from eruption.
Erastus E. Case, Clinical Experiences p. 123
Psoriasis
Miss.F. T. aged 18, general good health, but from her infancy she has been troubled with an eruption of the scalp. At times it would show itself on the face, hands, arms, chest and other parts of the person, but the scalp has never been free from it since its first appearance. Various remedies had been used, but with no relief, and the patient and her friends had settled down in the belief that the disgusting condition would attend her through life.
In Sept. 1866, when my attention was called to the case, I found the scalp completely covered with a thick white, scaly crust which on being rubbed up with the comb would crumble off in a white powder, leaving a raw, red surface, inclined to bleed.
Ars-iod 2x, a powder three times a day, and in four weeks not a trace of the disease was left, and a year after there was no indication of a return.
FA. Benham American Journal of Homeopathic Materia Medica Vol. 1 No5 page 50
Exzema Squamosum
A man, aged 38, came to the Homeopathic Hospital, in Leipzig, on March 11, seeking relief from an attack of Exzema Squam., with which he was afflicted since about six weeks. It commenced as a small knot beneath the corner of the right eye and spread from there in a short time over the body, covering everything except the feet and the underside of the upper and lower thighs, the seat, the back, the upper arms and the hairy part of the head. The parts were covered with a dry, scaly eruption, accompanied by a violent itching; it was interspersed with a few reddish and moist spots. Patient often feels chilly, sleep restless, is constipated. Received Ars-iod., 4x, 2 grains three times a day dry on the tongue. Within two days a marked change for the better was observed, the skin was less dispanded, the sleep was quieter, the stool became regular, an evacuation occuring once or twice a day, and on March 24th the patient was dismissed cured.
Dr. Stippt . Physician to the Hom Hospital at Leipzig. The hom Recorder, Vol. 6 No1. page 44.
Granular conjuctivitis
By Dr. Cruwell, of Brunswick. Ottilie S., aged 20, blonde, unmarried, servant-maid, came on March 1st, 1879, in to the service of Dr. Cruwell’s landlady. Besides her unsual thinness and pale color, he was struck by the redness of the edges of her eyelids; after sixteen days she came to Dr. Cruwell for advice. Upon examining the lower eyelids he found at the transition fold between the conjuctiva palpebraris and conjuctiva bubli some prominent pale granulations more pronounced on the left than on the right side. As I had seen good results follow the use of Ars-iod in cases where Ars and Iod seemed equally suitable, I prescribed it here in the 6th, several drops three times a day. Not only the red edges, but also the granulations were completetly removed in the course of eight days, and they did not return.
EdH.R. The Homeopathic Recorder Vol 1 No. 6 page 140.
Tuberculosis
This was the case of a young man who had contracted acute pulmonary tuberculosis by sleeping with his mother who had died from consumption.
He presented the usual picture of such cases. There was extensive consolidation of both lungs, great emaciation, loss of appetite, weakness and marked dyspnea which prevented the least exertion, such as walking or ascending even a slight eminence. The skin was dry and harsh and altogether he presented a most discouraging aspect; there was as yet not much evidence of the breaking down of the lung tissue and the temperature was 103 with a pulse of 120. I gave a bad prognosis and advised a removal to the south-west; this the father promised to do, upon which the boy received Ars-iod 6x four times a day after meals.
In five weeks he stepped in to my office and such a tranformation is seldom to be seen even in a long practice. He stated that his father had found it impracticable to move away and that he had followed my directions implicitly and wanted more medicine. A complete review of the case showed the lungs practically clear, the temperature half a degree below normal, pulse normal and the skin soft, moist and pliant. He assured me that his appetite was fine and all of the functions natural as far as he could tell. The season of the year now having changed I ordered him to sleep in the open air and gave one dose of Sepia cm. because I noticed the characteristic chloasmic bridge across the nose and especially for the reason that it has done some of the very best work for me in tubercular cases, even checked haemorrhage and cleared up the disease.
C.M. Boger Proceedings Inter. Hahnem. Assoc. 25th A. Session June 27 1904 p. 185
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