Calvin B. Knerr · A Repertory of Hering's Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica · 1896

46. Skin pp. 1174–1183

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brown, as if smoked (Addison's disease), Iod. ☞ yellow; also Eruption chloasma, spots

Skin, burning: Acon., Æthus., All. sat., Amb., Ang., Anthrac., Apis, Ars., Asaf., Bapt., Bar. c., Berb., Caps., Camph., Carbo a., Carbo v., Cham., Cic., Clem., Coccul., Coff., Coloc., Como., Con., Croc., Crot. t., Dros., Euphor., Euph., Jacea, Kali bi., Lach., Lith., Lyc., Mar. v., Merc. cy. (complementary of Hepar and Phosphor), Niccol., Ol. an., Osm., Phos., Rhus, Sars., Sul., Tarant., Tereb., Ver. v.; in angina, Merc.; like bee-stings, Apis; caries, Merc.; chilly, Arg. met.; in chorea, Agar.; after coitus, Agar.; after catching cold (purpura), Rhus; after contact, rubbing, washing or taking wine (eruption), Merc. sol.; corrosive in small spots, Calad.; in diphtheria, Apis; dry (inflammation of bowels in dentition), Acet. ac.; miliary eruption, Clem.; with vesicular eruption, Crot. t.; erysipelas, Rhod.; worse in evening, Nux v.; with pain as if excoriated when touched, Ferr.; with fever, Chim. m.; as from fire, Plumb.; as from fleas, Arg. met.; hot to examining hand, which leaves a burning on place touched, Hyos.; with headache, Carbo v.; with heat, Acon., Cornus, Merc. cor., Petrol.; heat, in pneumonia, Lyc.; heat in scarlatina, Merc.; hemorrhoids, Ars.; impetigo, Merc.; indigestion, Camph.; itching, Bry., Rhus; follows itching, Sul.; itching inducing scratching, Euphor.; in parts on which he lies, disturbs sleep at night, Sul.; moist, Chel.; in various places, as from a mustard plaster, even under axillæ, Kali c.; in myelitis, Dulc.; as from nettles, Calc. p., Coccul., Urt. ur.; like nettles before eruption like measles, Chel.; at night, Carbo v.; at night in bed, in anæmia of brain, Con.; at night in bed, is intolerable, Dolich.; worse at night, Clem.; worse at night in bed, and after rising, Merc.; nocturnal, after scratching, Oleand.; wounded œsophagus, Cic.; of various parts, Diosc.; in pemphigus, Anac.; and change of place, after scratching, Mez.; from pressure, Cann. i.; prickling like fleabites, Nux v.; prolapsus, Rhus; red, Crot. t.; with scarlet redness, Bell.; rheumatism, Dulc.; after rubbing when scratching, Plant.; worse by rubbing, with pain in cranial bones, worse at night (pityriasis capitis), Mez.; scabies, Ars.; as if scorched (nettlerash), Urt. ur.; inclination to scratch, Plat.; after scratching, Cinnab., Merc., Nux v., Rhus, Ver.; prevents sleep after midnight, Rhus; in spots, Selen.; gradually spreading, worse at night in bed (after use of resin plaster on epigastrium), Merc. sol.; on small spots, Fluor. ac.; stinging at same time, Apis; sensation as if burnt by heat of sun, Lach.; sweat, Merc.; with swelling, All. sat.; tingling, Vacc.; transient, here and there on body, seems concentrated in a small spot like a small transient flame, while sitting during day and lying at night, Viol.; in typhus, Nitr. ac.; especially on undressing at night, Kali ars.; in urticaria, Apis, Ars., Chloral., Urt. ur.; small vesicles, Merc. cor.; white vesicles after scratching, Hep.; after applying cold water, Thuya; better from cold water, Amm. m. ☞ Chap. 40, Heat burning

Skin, cadaverous; pleuritis, with plastic exudation, Hep. ☞ blue, pale

Skin, callous: Ant. c., Ars., Bor., Clem., Dulc., Graph., Lach., Ran. b., Rhus, Sep., Sil., Sul., Thuya ☞ induration

Skin, chilliness; shuddering felt all over, Cham.

Skin, cobweb; sensation of, on face and hands, Bor.

Skin, congested: Chlor., Ustil.; passive, Ham.

Skin, contractive sensation; during chill, Paris.

Skin, contraction; spasmodic, Bar. m.

Skin, cord; as if a thin cord lay under, Euphor.

Skin, crawling: Berb., Calad., Cham., Coloc., Croc., Iod., Nitr. sp. d., Sec.; in angina pectoris, Dig.; in diarrhœa, Indig.; as from fleas on various places on back, arms, abdomen, thighs and ankles, better by scratching, but appears in a place near the spot, Pallad.; spot becomes red and hot, followed by biting itching, like a flea moving along, rash-like pimples appear, not by scratching, which makes biting itching last longer, Spong.; as of a fly, Calad.; now here, now there, Bell.; after typhoid (nervous affection), Manc.; under, Sec., Stram. ☞ formication, numbness

Skin, cutting: Jacea

Skin, chilblains: Abrot., Agar., Aloe, Alum., Arn., Ars., Badiag., Bell., Bufo., Cadm. s., Carbo a., Carbo v., Carbol. ac., Cham., Cepa, Cinch., Cop., Croc., Crotal., Hep., Hyos., Ign., Kali c., Kali m., Kalm., Lyc., Merc. iod. rub., Mur. ac., Nitr. ac., Nux v., Petrol., Phos., Phos. ac., Plant., Puls., Rhus, Stann., Sul., Sul. ac., Thuya, Tuberc., Zinc.; always bluish, Ham.; burning, Carbo a.; threatened gangrene, chronic, occurring in not very cold weather, thus indicating a low nervous and vascular vitality, Crotal.; inflamed, Carbo a.; inflamed with bluish-red swelling and rhagades, Puls.; in irritable subjects with delicate skin, great redness of parts affected by the cold (locally, several drops in water), Nitr. ac.; itching, Abrot., Agar., Petrol., Zinc.; itching, inflamed from slight degree of cold, Nitr. ac.; very painful, Arn., Ars., Hep., Nitr. ac., Petrol., Phos. ac., Puls., Sep.; bleeding rhagades, Nux v.; suppurating, ⁞Calc. s., Hep., Sil.; throbbing, in summer, Nux v.

Skin, clammy: Amyg., Ant. chl., Daph., Hell., Iod., Kali br., Lachn., Lyc., Merc., Merc. sul., Phos., Pod., Ver.; awaking her, πForm.; with chill, Cornus; in chlorosis, Cycl.; diphtheria (after failure of Phyt. and Lyc.), Lac c.; after heat, Amyl.; hydracephaloid, Ver.; in phthisis, Sil.; in shock, Hyper., Op. ☞ Chap. 40, Sweat

Skin, coldness: Acet. ac., Ailant., Agar., Alum., Amyg., Ananth., Anthrac., Ant. chl., Ant. t., Apoc., Ars., Asaf., Ascl. s., Bar. c., Brach., Bry., Benz. ac., Cact., Calc., Calc. p., Camph., Cann. i., Caps., Cham., Cic., Cinch., Cinnab., Citrus, Colch., Crotal., Cup. ars., Cup. m., Cupr. s., Dig., Eup. pur., Ferr., Gels., Hell., Ign., Inul., Iod., Ipec., Iris, Kali br., Lach., Lachn., Lyss., Merc., Merc. cy., Merc. cor., Merc. sul., Mez., Mosch., Nux m., Op., Oxal. ac., Phyt., Phos., Plat., Plumb., Pod., Puls., Sec., Sep., Spong., Sul., Sumb., Tabac.

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Ver., Ver. v., Verbas.; of affected part, with hemiplegia, left side, Coccul.; after 3 P.M., Eup. pur.; 3 to 5 P.M., Con.; after taking cold in a draught of air and becoming heated, Kali c.; alternately cold and clammy, then hot and burning, Dory.; in anæmia, Ferr.; with anguish (cholerine), Jatroph.; with disconnected answers, Crotal.; with anxiety, Jatroph.; blue, wanted to be covered with blankets yet could not get warm (secondary syphilis), Syph.; blue, in gastritis, Dig.; mottled blueness (cholera), Jatroph.; of whole body, or only posterior portions, better in warm room or by warm stove, Ign.; breath stopped half a minute, Cact.; morbus Brightii, Phos. ac.; intestinal catarrh, Chel.; of cheeks, body warm, Ang.; with chill, Cornus; with chill, red face and twitching, Stram.; with chilliness, Kalm.; with inner chilliness, Agar.; cholera, Ant. c., Ant. t., Camph., Cup. m., Hell., Hydr. ac., Jatroph., Laur., Sec., Sul., Tabac., Ver.; sudden, in cholera, Crotal.; in cholera infantum, Camph., Kali br., Laur., Tabac., Ver.; in cholera morbus, Iris, Ver.; in sporadic cholera, Tabac.; in cholerine, Æthus., Crot. t.; clammy, Acon., Amyg.; clammy, in cholera, Jatroph.; clammy, in menorrhagia, Carbol. ac.; after vomiting (cholera infantum), Æthus.; constant, in chlorosis, Ferr.; throws clothes off, Med.; in colicodynia, Ars.; in convulsions, Ant. c., Ign.; in puerperal convulsions, Nux v.; with cough, in evening, Acet. ac.; would not be covered, Camph.; in cystitis, Hell.; damp (pneumonia), Sul.; as if dead, with convulsions, Œnan.; deathly, Bism.; in diabetes, Sul. ac.; in diarrhœa, Gamb., Grat.; in diarrhœa in infants, Jalap.; with muco-purulent diarrhœa, Kali br.; after dinner, with congestion to head, Cycl.; with dyspnœa, Cup. m.; in diphtheria, Canth., Natr. a.; in dropsy, Colch.; dry, Acon., Chel.; dry, or cold and viscous, patient feels burning (cholera), Acon.; in dysentery, Caps.; in dysentery and ascites, Ars.; in dysmenorrhœa, Ver.; in epilepsy, Kali ph.; with suppressed eruption, Ipec.; in evening, Ars. h., Tabac.; in evening, in bed, after lasting all night, Ferr.; overexertion in ascending height, Coca; especially of extremities, Op.; with burning redness of face, Hyos.; with fainting, Calc., Coloc.; after faintness and nausea, Magn. m.; more cold than hot, with fever, Iod.; in nervous fever, Camph.; in forenoon (intermittent), Ars.; after fright, Ver.; frigid, Ananth.; with hæmoptysis, Dig.; with blue hands, Nux v.; with cold hands, Med.; particularly on head (headache), Zinc.; with headache, Carb. s., Sul.; with congestive headache, Ham.; with headache, evening, in bed, Sil.; with one-sided headache, Ign.; with irregularity of heart action and pulse, Sang.; follows cutting pains as with knives about heart, Sul.; with rheumatism of heart, Cact.; heat of abdomen (cholera infantum), Tabac.; alternates with scorching heat in whole body, Tarant.; slightly affected by external heat, Cup. ac.; with heat of face, Cann. s., Coloc., Stram.; after heat, Amyl.; alternates with heat of face, Stram.; heat of face and hot breath, Cham.; with heat of face, must be warmly covered, then sleeps and sweats, Merc. perf.

with heat of face, commencing at 11 A.M., Berb.; with heat and redness of face, Led.; with heat of face, after stool, Tromb.; with heat in hands, Cadm. s.; with heat of head, Bell., Bry., Hydras.; with heat of head, as if in a furnace, Kali br.; with heat of head, in meningitis, Ver.; with heat in head, in cerebrospinal meningitis, Hydr. ac.; with internal heat, Ign., Iod., Mosch., Ver.; with internal, burning heat, Euphor.; hands and feet, with heat of one side of body, Ran. b.; want of animal heat, Led.; hemorrhage, Cinch.; in some places, hot in others, Apis; in hydrocephaloid, Ver.; in hydrocephalus, Art. v., Dig., Hell., Zinc.; in hysteria, Sep.; as if touched with ice on right of pelvis near sacrum, Arg. met.; as though touched with an icicle, Caust.; icy, Ant. t., Ars., Cadm. s., Calc., Camph., Carbo v., Cup. m., Hell., Lachn., Tarant., Ver.; icy, in ague, Natr. m.; icy, and chill, followed by fever and thirst, attacks come on suddenly, Natr. s.; icy, with chills, 4 to 8 P.M., Natr. s.; icy, in cholera, Cup. m.; icy, of hands and feet, with warmth of rest of body, with aversion to being uncovered, Squilla; icy, in metrorrhagia, Sil.; icy, of single parts (cholera season), Asar.; icy, with shivering, Sec.; icy, shrivelled (cholera Asiatica), Bry.; inelastic (cholera), Cup. ac.; shock from injury, Op.; during labor, Coff.; commencing in left arm and lower limbs, Nux m.; of left side, precede epilepsy, Sil.; of left side, in incipient paralysis, Lach.; principally left side, Dros.; of left side, particularly extremities, which were bluish around nails, with shivering, Rob.; left side, with ulcers on legs, Lyss.; lower part of body, Guaræa; lower part of body, face hot, Calc. p.; lumbago, Coloc.; typhoid malaria, Lyc. vir.; as marble, Camph.; within and without like marble, Hydr. ac.; in measles, Camph.; in meningitis, Rhus; congestive menorrhagia, Ipec.; during menses, Tabac., Thuya, Ver.; menses irregular, Dig.; menses profuse, Coff.; in metritis, Lach.; with moist skin, Bufo., Laur.; moist, delirium tremens, Act. rac.; moist, in neuralgia, Coccion.; in morning, Mez.; attacks recur on moving and pass off after going to bed, Lachn.; with flabby muscles, Ver. v.; with blue nails and nausea, Aur. met.; with nausea, Val.; with nervousness and trembling, Bufo.; at night in bed, All. sat.; at night, up from small of back, cannot get warm in bed, Hyos.; at night, in intermittent, Ars.; during night, sweat, Eup. perf.; worse at night, Ars., Carbo v.; numb, Lach., πLyc.; followed by pain and desire to weep, Coff.; increases the pains, Aur. met.; pale, Chlorof., Ver. v.; with palpitation, Cinch.; partial, Coloc.; in some parts, heat in others, Apis; peritonitis, Ver.; phthisis, Sil.; prodromic, relapse of intermittent, Ars.; during pregnancy, Nux m.; prosopalgia, Ign.; with imperceptible pulse, Kali br.; small intermittent pulse, Merc. cor.; with raving, as if delirious, Nitr. ac.; with restless tossing, Tereb.; rigidity, Op.; of right half, Paris; from right side, particularly from right arm, Merc. per.; in scarlatina, Apis, Crotal., Cup. ac., Sul., Zinc.; after scarlet fever, Hep.

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in seasickness, Tabac.; with shivering, Kali br.; in shock, Hyper., Lach., Nux m.; after coldness between shoulders, Sep.; onesided, with numbness, Puls.; often only on one (right) side, Bry.; of single parts, Caust.; of single parts, crawling, Calad.; after sleeping, Cadm. s.; of spine, Hyos.; on small spots, Arg. met.; small icy cold spots here and there, Paris; stiff, like a piece of wood, fell down unconscious, Hyos.; after sting, Apis; during stool, Ipec., Sec.; and stiffness (myelitis), Acon.; affection of stomach, Kali bi.; not subjective, Led.; of suffering parts, Sil.; with clammy sweat (sick headache), Tabac.; with clammy sweat (acute rheumatism), Colch.; with cold sweat, Calc., Med., Puls., Sul.; with head sweat, Calc., Pod.; viscous sweat (croup), Brom.; with trembling, Op.; with nervous trembling and frequent fainting, Mosch.; in typho-malarial fever, twentieth day, Ham.; with desire to uncover (cholera infantum), Camph.; upper part of body, Ipec.; after urinating, Med.; with distended veins, Chel.; and indistinct vision with faintness, Calc.; with vomiting of food and white mucus, Raph.; after walking, Cadm. s.; after walking in open air, Ol. an.; as from cold winds, Benz. ac.; with sensation of weariness, Spig.; yet unable to bear warmth, collapse in choleroid diseases, Sec.

Skin, comedones; inflamed, Chel. ☞ Chap. 8, Eruption comedones

Skin, dark: Calc. p.; in Addison's disease, Iod.; dusky, Aurant.; dusky, Iodoform (followed by Tuberc.) ☞ blue, dark, cyanotic

Skin, deadness: Chin. s.

Skin, delicate: ☞ fine

Skin, desquamation: Anac. oc., Amm. c., Arum t., Asim., Bell., Chim. umb., Chlor., Coloc., Como., Dig., Hell., Hep., Hydras., Kali s., Merc. sol., Phos., Rhus, Sec., Tereb.; branlike, with ichthyosis, Lac c.; colic, in scarlatina, Lyc.; exfoliates, Graph.; tips of fingers, Bar. c.; in flakes, Acet. ac.; furfuraceous, Bor., Chlor.; in very fine scales, Psor.; in round patches like blisters, from which serum had been absorbed, leaving skin beneath purple and some places yellow, Chloral.; phthisis, Samb.; after recurring eruption of fine red pimples, running together, presenting a red swollen appearance, alkaline fluid oozing out, Kali s.; leaving skin purple and livid (erysipelas bullosum capitis suppressed by salve), Kali c.; in large scales, Anthrac.; peels off and shows loosened scales, a fatty transpiration (Addison's disease), Iod.; small scales, Ars. m.; scaling into bed, Sul.; scaling off here and there, Mez.; scaly exfoliation, Mez.; a second or third time in large flakes, in scarlatina, Arum t.; dropsical symptoms, during scarlatina, Apis; as after scarlet fever, on hands and feet (articular rheumatism), Sal. ac.; readily peels off when scratching, Dros.; of skin surrounding sores, Kali s.; with œdematous swelling of skin, Apis; white scales, Chlor.; tardy, in scarlet fever, Dulc.; of thickened portions, Ver. ☞ furfuraceous, scaly ; also Eruption scarlatina

Skin, decubitus: ☞ Chap. 44, Ulcers bedsores

Skin, digging; after typhoid (nervous affection), Manc.

Skin, dirty appearance (dingy): Ars., Anag., Bor., Bufo., Ferr., Natr. m., Nitr. ac., Plumb., Psor., Sec., Stram., Sul., Tarant., Thuya, Tuberc.; yellow blotches, Psor.; brownish, Thuya; chlorosis, Natr. m.; in consumption, Tuberc.; gray (consumption), Iod.; yellow gray, with partially developed eruption on forehead and chest, with constant fretting and worrying children, cases which do not respond promptly to indicated remedy, Psor.; jaundice, Iod.; muddy, on parts covered by clothes, Ars.; in ophthalmia of children, Ars.; cannot be washed clean, Thuya; dingy, as if patient never washed, Psor.; in spite of frequent washing (spinal disease), Apis; yellow, like malignant disease, after abuse of mercury), Hep. ☞ dark

Skin, discoloration; after psoriasis and lepra, Kali ars.

Skin, doughy: Apis, Cup. m.; pasty looking, Ars.; in folds (cholera second stage), Cup. m. ☞ Chap. 44, Dropsy

Skin, drawing: Agar.

Skin, dry: Acon., Ailant., Æthus., All. sat., Alum., Anag., Anthrac., Ant. t., Apis, Arg. nit., Ars., Ars. h., Ars. s. f., Arum t., Asaf., Ascl. s., Aurant., Bar. c., Bell., Calc., Camph., Cham., Chel., Chlor., Coff., Coloc., Crotal., Cup. m., Dig., Dulc., Ferr., Hep., Hydr. ac., Hyos., Kali bi., Kali c., Kalm., Lyc., Magn. c., Merc. cy., Mosch., Natr. a., Natr. c., Natr. m., Nitr. ac., Nux m., Op., Petrol., Phos., Phos. ac., Phyt., Plumb., Polyp., Psor., Ptel., Rhus, Rumex, Sang., Sarrac., Sec., Sep., Sil., Stram., Sumb., Tabac., Tell., Ustil., Vacc., Zinc.; dry, in chronic alcoholism, Phos.; alternately dry and moist (intermittent), Apis; in ascites, Apoc.; even in bed, Camph.; with surging of blood and racing palpitation, Sang.; in Bright's disease, Kalm.; burning, Acon., Apis, Ars.; burning, in scarlet fever, Dulc.; with redness of cheeks, Eup. perf.; in children (marasmus), Sars.; with chilliness, Kali iod.; nervous chlorosis, Art. v.; in cholera, Sec.; in cholerine, Phos.; in colic, Op.; puerperal convulsions, Nux v.; and cool, with hot head (meningitis), Sul.; inclined to crack, Graph.; in croup, Spong.; during day, Bry., Iod.; in delirium, Phos.; in diabetes, Kali br., Lact. ac., Sul. ac., Uran. nit. (relieved); in diarrhœa, Guaiac.; in chronic diarrhœa, Sul.; in diphtheria, Chin. a., Lac c., Merc. cy.; in dropsy, Ars., Cain., Colch., Led.; in dropsy, with albuminuria, Aur. mur.; in dysentery, Ars., Tromb.; in chronic dysentery, Nux v.; burning and covered since two days with eruption resembling fleabites (typhoid), Puls.; with papulous psoric impetiginous eruption, Sil.; in erysipelas, Rhus; around eyes, Petrol.; after a fall, Hyper.; feeling, with cold feet, Ptel.; day after fever (croup), Kaol.; in childbed fever, Coloc.; and flabby (enlargement of mesenteric glands), Calc.; flaccid, Cinch.; in acute gastritis, after taking cold, Coloc.; most on hands, Calc. p.; in hectic fever, Cinch.; hot, Acon., Ars., πAtrop. s., Camph., Lyc., Spong.; hot, with diarrhœa, Dulc.; hot, in forenoon, Ailant.; hot, in functional

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derangement of liver, Sep.; hot, at night, Ham.; hot, with rheumatism, Dulc.; not hot, in pneumonia, Camph.; not hot, in scarlatina, Ailant.; in hydrocephaloid, Apis; in hydrocephalus acutus, Dig.; in hydrothorax, following metritis, Citrus; with indigestion, Camph.; in insanity, Nux v.; leathery, Arn., Camph.; with cracked lips, Kalm.; in myelitis, Dulc.; in hysterical neuralgia, Val.; in neuropathia, Kali ars.; in ophthalmia of children, Ars.; indurated pancreas, carcinoma, Carbo a.; parchmentlike, Ars., Camph., Crotal.; parchmentlike, in Addison's disease, Iod.; parchmentlike, in consumption, Merc. cy.; parchmentlike, in dysentery, Merc. cor.; parchmentlike, in epidemic influenza, Sabad.; in pericarditis, Colch.; in perityphlitis, Crotal.; want of perspiration, Led.; want of perspiration, with toothache, Kali c.; in pleuritis, with plastic exudation, Hep.; in pneumonia, Arn., Cup. m., Ferr., Iod., Phos.; during pregnancy, Nux m.; in psoriasis, Merc.; with suppressed rash of measles or other eruptive disease, Kali s.; with scarlet redness, Bell.; renal inflammation, Senecio; in rheumatism, Ant. t., Colch.; scaly (cancer of stomach), Cund.; in scarlatina, Lyc.; sensation, during heat, though with some sweat on face, Ign.; in summer complaint, diarrhoea of children, Ant. c.; absence of sweat, Acon.; very little sweat (intermittent), Apis; with thirst (hectic), Sul.; in tumor cæci, Plumb.; in typhoid, Carbo v., Colch., Ign., Mur. ac., Phos., Puls., Rhus, Tereb.; with ulcer on limbs, Graph.; particularly when accompanied by dark, scanty urine (dysentery), Colch.; in urticaria, Cop.; after a wetting, Natr. c.; withered, Cup. m., Ferr., Natr. m.; withered, in hectic, Calc.; withered (spinal disease), Apis; withered, yellow, Plumb.; ☞ wrinkled

Skin, earthy: Cornus, Spig.

Skin, ecchymosis: Æthus., Anthrac., Arg. nit., Arn., Carbo v., Crotal., Lach., Phos., Sinap., Tarant., Uran. n.; black under skin (morbus maculosus), Ars.; from slight blows, Agar.; blue, with muco-purulent diarrhoea, Kali br.; blue spots as if ecchymosed, Nux v.; from a slight bruise, Sul.; in chorea, Lach., Nux v.; in diphtheria, in large patches, assumes a dark red color, bordering on purple, Lac c.; extensive, Sec.; in fevers, Apis; fresh, in great numbers, from day to day, Tereb.; large, becoming gangrenous, Sec.; in internal organs, Hippoz.; from least touch, or pressure, Lach.; in typhoid, Phos. ac.; in typhus, Ars.; especially in course of zymotic disease, menstrual irregularities, and in hemorrhagic states of body, Crotal.; ☞ Eruption purpura

Skin, elephantiasis: Hell., Stilling.; Arabian, Hydrocot.; Arabian, both feet, legs, and lower part of thighs, back of hand, erysipelatous manifestations, Sil.; græcorum, Natr. c. ☞ Eruption leprosy

Skin, eruption; feeling as if it would appear, Lachn.

Skin, erysipelas: ☞ Eruption erysipelas

Skin, evening; symptoms worse, and night, Cham.

Skin, excoriation (intertrigo): Ars. s. f., Calc., Carbo v., Caust., Cham., Graph., Hep., Hydras., Ign., Kali m., Kali s., Lyc., Merc., Merc. cor., Natr. m., Natr. p., Petrol., Plumb., Puls., Sep., Sil., Sul.

readily bleeding, Lyc.; in children ☞ Chap. 24, Infants chafing; boring into with fingers, children (scarlatina), Arum t.; in children, with bilious symptoms, Natr. s.; especially in children, Graph.; in dentition, Caust.; discharges in every outlet of body, acrid, excoriating skin wherever they come in contact, Sul.; dries up, becomes brown and livid, and local eschar forms, Anthrac.; dries and mumifies, new blisters form around, Anthrac.; erosions, Arum m., Fluor. ac.; humid, Bar. c., Graph.; atrophy of infants, Petrol.; obstinate, Hydras.; pain as if excoriated, Paris, Plat.; prurigo, Graph.; like raw, decayed meat, Como.; especially if inclined to scab, Kali m.; if scraped off soon, dries, turns brown and livid and leaves a scar, Anthrac.; sore feeling, Sul.; tettery, oozing constantly, and bleeding easily when scratched, Merc.; when walking or riding, Sul. ac.; easily chafed from walking or riding, also in children, Ruta

Skin, fetid: ☞ odor

Skin, fine; delicate, Colch., Natr. m.; hemorrhoids, Sep.; easily denuded (young girls), Bar. c.

Skin, flaccid: Ars.; dry (hectic fever), Cinch.

Skin, freckles; dark, Nitr. ac.

Skin, flabby (relaxed): Agar., Calc., Camph., Caps., Chin. s., Clem., Coccul., Cup. ac., Dig., Ferr., Hyos., Ipec., Lach., Sep., Spong., Stram., Sul., Ver.; in children (marasmus), Sars.; with chlorosis, Natr. m.; cold, moist, after meningitis, Cup. m.; in diabetes, Natr. s.; with papulous psoric impeteginous eruptions, Sil.; feels relaxed, Zing.; hangs in folds (indurated pancreas, carcinoma), Carbo a.; hangs in folds, on hands and feet, Ars.; hangs loose, in marasmus, Abrot.; inelastic, Cup. m.; inelastic, cold (third stage of cholera), Cup. ac., Cup. m.; cool, in congestion to brain, Cup. m.; in neuralgia, Sil.; covered with pityriasis, Sil.; in scarlet fever, Zinc.; in syphilis, Iod.; wilted, All. sat., Ant. t., Chel., Kali ars.

Skin, formication: Acon., Æsc. h., Alum., Carbo v., Ced., Coloc., Cupr. s., Diad., Euph., Hydr. ac., Lyc., Magn. m., Natr. c., Phos. ac., Pic. ac., Rhus, Sabad., Sul., Tarant., Zinc.; with softening of brain, Phos.; in cholera Asiatica, Sec.; as though millions of insects were creeping on him compelling him to rub successively his arms, legs, abdomen and throat (pruritus senilis), Mez.; in irregularity, Diad.; here and there, all night, Gamb.; generally beginning with a severe pain in occiput, followed by numbness of trunk and limbs, and complete loss of motory power (paralysis), Tarant.; paralysis, Gels.; in paralyzed parts, Phos.; with sweat, Rhod.; in vulva, Elaps.

Skin, furfuraceous: ☞ desquamation, scaly

Skin, furuncles: ☞ Chap. 44, Suppuration furuncles

Skin, gnawing: Clem., Dros., Euphor., Natr. m., Plat.; now here now there, especially in evening, Ran. sc.; itching, Ol. an.; itching increasing to intolerable burning pricking alternately worse and better, Dig.

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Skin, gooseflesh: Chlor.

Skin, gray; ashy color, Tarant.; in chronic rheumatism, Sabina; dingy, Sabad.; workers in gypsum, Calc. s.; in intermittent, Natr. m.

Skin, greenish: Bufo., Med.; spot at point of subcutaneous injection, Amyl.

Skin, healing; difficult, Jacea; slight injuries maturate, Hep.

Skin, heat: Acon., Act. rac., Alum., Anthrac., Anthrok., Ant. t., Apis, Ars., Ascl. t., Bar. c., Bell., Berb., Camph., Chel., Chin. s., Chlor., Coca, Coff., Colch., Coloc., Crot. t., Cup. m., Dig., Dulc., Euphor., Gamb., Hyos., Iris, Kali bi., Kali iod., Lac def., Lyc., Merc., Merc. cor., Merc. cy., Natr. a., Nitr. ac., Nux v., Oleand., Ol. an., Op., Polyp., Ptel., Rumex, Sang., Sarrac., Seneg., Sil., Stram., Sul., Tabac., Tereb., Tell., Ustil., Vacc., Ver., Ver. v., Viol.; alternately hot and dry, with fever with thirst, Kali iod.; on going to bed, Apoc.; biting, Lach.; inflammation of brain, Merc. v.; burning, Acon., Apis, Ars., Bapt., Cham., Cup. m., Hydras., Nitr. ac., Rhus; burning, in croup, Spong.; burning, in pneumonia, Cup. m., Phos.; burning, with profuse sweat, in pneumonia, Puls.; burning, in incipient tuberculosis, Tuberc.; burning, in typhoid, Puls.; burning, in typhus, ovarian dropsy, Apis; with itching burning or prickling, Cornus; persistent burning, Ars.; cancer labii, Camph.; caries, Merc.; catarrh of air passages, Spig.; with chill in bones, Berb.; internal chilliness, Agnus; in cholera, Phos. ac.; cholera infantum, Calc.; and coldness in places (scarlatina), Apis; after catching cold after labor, Puls.; lead colic, Op.; consumption, Guaiac.; puerperal convulsions, Nux v.; in croup, Spong.; bronchial croup, Ant. t.; all day, Iod.; with delirium, Con., Sang.; in diphtheria, Crotal., Lac c., Kali iod., Lach., Merc. cy.; diphtheria and catarrh of chest, Apis; dry, Acon., Æsc. h., Æthus., Ars., πAtrop. s., Camph., Coff., Gels., Lept., Lyc., Spong.; dry, in bilious attack, Lept.; dry, with chilliness (diphtheria), Merc. cy.; dry, cold, after scarlet fever, Hell.; dry, complains of feeling cold, pulse 120 (chronic otorrhœa), Elaps; dry, in diphtheria, Lyc.; dry, with flushed face, Eup. perf.; dry, with fever, Calc., Eup. pur.; dry, gastric nervous fevers, Gels.; dry, in hepatic disease, Lept.; dry, in measles, Viol.; dry, in perityphlitis, Crotal.; dry, in summer complaint, Ferr. ph.; dry, anxious tossing (meningitis), Acon.; dry, in typhoid, Gels.; dry, in typhus, Apis; in dysentery, Merc. cor.; in erysipelas, Rhus; evenings going to bed, Apoc.; especially evenings and nights, covered with exhausting sweat, Calc.; in childbed fever, Coloc.; in acute gastritis, after taking cold, Coloc.; glowing sensation (prostatitis and atony of sexual organs), Selen.; in hydrocephalus acutus, Dig.; in acute pharyngo-laryngitis, Naja; moist, Ascl. t., Cornus; moist, on scrotum and chest (pneumonia), Ant. t.; moist, in croup, Brom.; worse on motion, Hydras.; in myelitis, Dulc.; with nausea, Ptel.; in hysterical neuralgia, Val.; at night, when warm in bed, Kali bi.; wounded œsophagus, Cic.; especially in painful places, Cepa; in quinsy, Bar. c.

parboiled by sweat, Cinch.; partial, Coloc.; in pericarditis, Colch.; in perityphlitis, Crotal.; in pneumonia, Arn., Iod., Phos.; with scarlet redness, Bell.; right ear cold (eclampsia), Ipec.; renal inflammation, Senecio; in rheumatism, Apis, Lyc.; in scarlatina, Apis, Lyc.; scorching, scarlet color, Tarant.; patient senseless, Con.; with internal shuddering (tertian ague), Ign.; during sleep, Astac.; steaming, Merc.; sour smelling sweat (acute rheumatism), Chel.; sweating (peritonitis), Atrop.; with thirst, Chim. m.; tumor cæci, Plumb.; typhoid, Mur. ac., Rhus; typhus, Bapt., Tereb.; urticaria, Cop.; as if burning vapor were emitted from all pores of body, Fluor. ac.; vertigo, Asaf.; warm, Ant. t.; better by cold water, Apis; worse when child is kept too warm, Cham. ☞ Chap. 40, Heat skin

Skin, hidebound; sensation as if hidebound, Crot. t.

Skin, hyperæmia; accumulation of blood in capillaries, Chlor.; thick, as in facial erysipelas, Chlor.; worse from smallest quantity of wine, beer, or spirits, Chloral.

Skin, hypertrophy; like rhinoceros hide, Arn.; thickening, Kali bi.; thickening, in Addison's disease, Iod.; thickening, in eczema, Ran. b. ☞ induration

Skin, induration: Agar., Anthrac., Arg. nit., Arn., Carbo a., Rhus, Sars.; in diabetes, Uran. n. (relieved); after inflammation, Bell.; like knots, under (chronic anthrax), Anthrac.; nnder, on leg, itching, Aur. met.; in skin, Calc.; in spots, Camph.; feeling of, over surface, Chloral. ☞ callous ; also Chap. 44, Induration

Skin, inflammation (dermatitis): Acon., Asaf., Aur. met., Badiag., Bar. c., Bar. m., Calc., Cham., Chin. s., Chlor., Cist., Clem., Coccul., Como., Con., Dulc., Graph., Hep., Ign., Stram.; with involvement of cellular tissue, Plant.; diffuse redness, smooth eruption, resembling scarlatina, Chloral.; erysipelatous, Hep., Jugl.; erysipelatous, followed by prickling, Canth.; erysipelatous, with swelling, Bell.; glands swollen, often painful and sensitive, Dulc.; caused by stings of insects (chronic inflammation of eyes and otorrhœa after vaccination), Thuya; leaving almond-shaped kernels of varying sizes, abundant about neck, Syph.; œdematous, Natr. s.; red patches, Bell.; tender on pressure, Arn.; red places here and there, exceedingly painful, as if furuncles would form, Kalm.; of surroundings, after scratching (impetigo), Merc.; scrofulous, covered with thick crusts, Psor.; suppurative, in groin and armpit, Hep.; subcutaneous swelling, Kali m.; ninth day after vaccination (erysipelas), Crotal.; covered with small, painful, white vesicles, Rhus; with or without vesiculation (erysipelas, etc.), Kali m.

Skin, injuries; quick tendency to heal after bite, Lyss.; sequel of burn, Canth.; burns, Canth., Petrol.; burns, when integuments and subjacent tissues are not destroyed and injury is confined to skin, Urt. ur.; burns, when there are yellow, ichorous vesicles, burning, itching, threatening gangrene, Plumb.; brown or blue spots, after concussion, Badiag.; cuts, suppurate, Hep.; small foreign bodies under, Sil.; extravasation, black and blue

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(lacerated wounds), Calend.; lacerations, Calend., Hyper.; circumscribed or diffused lesions, Hippoz.; lesions, surrounded by miliary, whitish rash, Rhus v.; loss of skin (mechanical), Calend.; suppurate, Hep.; least injury tends to ulceration, Sep.; wounds, ⁞Tereb.; old wounds inclined to reopen and suppurate, Bor. ☞ Chap. 45, Injuries

Skin, irritation: Apis, Chim. umb., Cochl., Cup. ars., Natr. m.; in jaundice, Dolich.; on joints, Caust.; during liver complaint, or pregnancy, Dolich.; psoriasis in relievo, Iris; becoming reddened and cracked, particularly about bend of arms and knees, Kali ars.; in scarlatina, Apis; day and night, compelling her to scratch, a girl æt. 18, sallow complexion but cleanly appearance, Psor.; preventing sleep, Chloral.; has to uncover arms, Ang.; as if washed in acrid water, Sumb.

Skin, itching: Act. rac., All. sat., Aloes, Alum., Amb., Anac., Anag., Anthrac., Ant. t., Apis, Arn., Ars. iod., Ast. r., Astac., Aurant., Bar. c., Berb., Bor., Bov., Brach., Brom., Cact., Calc., Calc. a., Calc. p., Calc. s., Camph., Cann. i., Caps., Casc., Carbo a., Carbo v., Carbol. ac., Caust., Cepa, Cham., Chel., Chim. m., Chloral., Chlor., Cic., Cinch., Cist., Clem., Coccul., Coccus, Coff., Coloc., Como., Crotal., Crot. t., Cub., Cup. ars., Cup. m., Cupr. s., Cycl., Dig., Diosc., Dolich., Dros., Euphor., Ferr. mur., Fluor. ac., Form., Gamb., Gels., Glon., Goss., Graph., Grat., Guaræa, Ham., Hydras., Hydr. ac., Hydrocot., Hyper., Lact. ac., Led., Lith., Lyc., Magn. c., Mar. v., Merc., Merc. iod. flav., Morph. sul., Natr. m., Nitr. ac., Nuph., Nux v., Oleand., Ol. jec., Op., Oxal. ac., Paris, Phos., Pix, Plant., Pod., Sep., Sil., Staph., Stram., Sul., Sumb., Tarant., Thuya, Ver., Vespa; in afternoon, Chrom. ac.; more in cold or cool air, Tell.; on contact of cold air, when undressing disappearing in warmth of bed (eruption), Merc. sul.; as if she were alive beneath skin, Sul.; as if ants were crawling over part on genitals, after emissions (spermatorrhœa), Phos. ac.; difficult falling asleep, Sul.; on awaking, Led., Stram.; all over, most on back, vagina and labia, worse thinking of it, Med.; in bed, Calc., Kali m.; on going to bed, Lact. ac.; particularly in bed, Psor.; recurring every night in bed, Sul.; worse in bed, from touch, Mez.; worse in bed and from warmth, Psor.; as soon as he begins to get warm in bed, particularly on inner side of thighs and knees, Lyss.; biting, better by scratching, but continuing to burn, Thuya; bleeding after scratching (diarrhœa), Merc. c.; burning, Calc., Puls.; burning on going into cold air, Lact. ac.; burning, like rapid crawling of insects, Dulc.; burning follows, Sul.; burning here and there, Rhus; burning, in intermittent, Elat.; burning all night, and after scratching, Lachn.; changes to burning after scratching, Goss.; changes to burning when scratching, Sep.; changes to burning stinging (pustular eruption), Lach.; burning, with desire to scratch, Spong.; burning after scratching, Grat.; burning after scratching, worse evenings and nights, Gamb.; leaves burning on scratching, Benz. ac.; burning, before sleep, Calc.; after chilliness, Petrol.; in chorea, Agar.

at climaxis, Arg. nit.; after coitus, Agar.; during cold, Cadm. s.; following coldness on back and between shoulders (pulmonary affections), Amm. m.; with constipation, Ind.; corrosive, Dig., Ver.; corrosive, provokes scratching, Vinca; corrosive, provokes scratching, soon returns at the same or some other spot, Berb.; corrosive, by day, Guaiac.; covered parts, Lact. ac.; like crawling, Arg. met.; sets him almost crazy if he gets a little warmer than usual when at work (prurigo), Merc. viv.; by day, no trace of morbid alteration (puritus senilis), Mez.; despair, Psor.; returns after desquamation of small scales occurs, Dolch.; in diabetes, Sul. ac.; almost drives to distraction, in paroxysms, worse at night (pustular eruption), Lach.; of entire body, Arn.; epilepsy, Op.; from eruption, Cop.; with eruption, Sul. ac.; eruption invisible, Bar. c.; after suppressed eruption (amaurosis), Ars.; with vesicular eruption, Crot. t.; with erysipelas, Crot. t.; evening in bed, Carbo a.; commencing in evening on arms, extends to whole body, Apis; evenings before going to bed, better afterwards, Amm. m.; in evening, in bed, after rubbing ulcers, Ang.; worse in evening and when he went to bed, Anac.; disappears in evening, Cact.; mostly in evening, Chrom. ac.; evening, after going to bed, has to scratch, Calad.; especially evening when undressing, or at night in featherbed, or from warmth, Coccul.; toward evening so violent as to drive almost wild, Kreo.; worse in evening, Nux v.; first on feet, every winter higher up, after seven years, on hips and abdomen, Dolich.; as from flannel, especially on chest and between shoulders, Hippoz.; as from fleabite, Arg. met., Con., Inul., Myr. cer., Natr. c., Niccol., Ptel., Puls., Tabac.; like fleabites, disappearing suddenly or changing to burning and heat, Ol. an.; as of fleabite, every evening, Cact.; pleasantly relieved by gentle friction, Gamb.; as though foreign matter would pass through skin, Graph.; on hairy parts, skin inflames, small pustules size of a pin's head form, Kali bi.; worse on hairy parts, burning after scratching, Rhus; whenever touched by hands after handling, Anac. oc.; extending to head, Nux v.; with headache, Mez.; with heat, Cornus, Spong.; when getting heated in open air, Ign.; with hemorrhoidal flow, Calc.; now here now there, Bell.; now here now there, especially in evening, Ran. sc.; here and there, better from scratching, Mang.; lasting from twelve to fifteen hours, followed by paroxysm of ague, Natr. m.; hysteria, Therid.; with icterus, Nux v.; with impatience, Osm.; impetigo figurata, Merc.; with inflammation in parts denuded of epithelium, Cop.; intense and incessant, fugitive, worse towards night, sometimes confined to left side, Med.; with leucorrhœa (climaxis), Murex; disappears as soon as she lies down and reappears immediately after rising, Urt. ur.; after meals, Calc. p.; during menses, Graph., Kali c.; in meningitis cerebrospinalis, Tarant.; worse towards morning in bed (herpes circinatus), Calc.; moist, after, Anthrok.; early in morning, after walking, Stram.; with nausea, Sang.; with nausea, has to scratch till he vomits, Ipec.; nettle-

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rash, Urt. ur.; has appearance of nettlerash, Merc.; like undeveloped nettlerash, after eating meat (dyspepsia), Ruta; as from nettles, Coccul.; at night, Anthrok., Cadm. s., Clem., Dolich., Euph., Gamb., Kali bi., Lachn., Lyss., Merc., Merc. iod. flav., Plant., Sil., Sul.; at night, in heat of bed, now in one place, now in another, especially on nape of neck, Sul.; worse at night in bed, better by scratching, reappearing at once in another place, Cycl.; at night, on lower part of body, to feet, Lyss.; at night, in icterus, Sul.; on lying down at night, Card. m.; in paroxysms, at night, Cornus; at night, preventing sleep, Psor.; worse at night, in Rhus poisoning, Sul.; worse at night and morning in bed, after waking, Sul.; continual, worse at night, nothing visible before scratching which produces nodules and long welts, Graph.; worse at night and from warmth, Gels.; leaving numb sensation, Cycl.; begins when pain ceases, and vice versa, Stront.; in paralyzed parts, Phos.; changing place, as from lice, Canth.; in phthisis, Samb.; now here, now there, has to pinch spot, Ars. m.; prickling, Rumex; prickling, with papular eruption, Tell.; like needlepricks, Apis; in prolapsus uteri, Rhus; then small pustules form, worse on arms and legs, Kali bi.; red, Crot. t.; with scarlet redness, Bell.; on retiring (acute bronchial catarrh), Sul.; when rubbed, small papules and vesicles arise, Psor.; better by rubbing, Dros.; from rubbing, Ver. v.; worse by rubbing, with pain in cranial bones, worse at night (pityriasis capitis), Mez.; in scabies, Ars.; had to scratch frequently, or rather rub, Lyss.; desire to scratch, Plat.; with irresistible desire to scratch, particularly evenings, Con.; sore when scratched, Ant. c.; scratches till it bleeds, Med.; after scratching, Nux. v.; scratching aggravates, Ars., Bar. c., Caps., Cinnab., Con., Kali c., Lyss., Rhus, Stront.; scratching relieves, Amm. c., Apis, Asaf., Cina, Dros., Guaiac., Magn. c., Ruta, Sars.; gentle scratching relieves, Crot. t., Ign.; scratching relieves, there is a pinkish color, Sep.; scratching relieves, but soon appears in a place near the spot, Pallad.; scratching relieves, soon returns, Carbol. ac.; scratching does not relieve, Arg. met., Bov., Hell., Ipec.; scratching relieves, but causes voluptuous feeling, Cadm. s.; spots bleed and bite after scratching, Sul.; after scratching, burning blisters, Amm. c.; after scratching, sore burning (eczema), Ars.; after scratching, burning, ulcerative pain, swelling and redness of parts, worse evening and night, Gamb.; on various parts, disappearing after scratching, Sul.; compels incessant scratching, no relief, worse at night, Dolich.; on scratching, agreeable sensation, Benz. ac., Merc. sol.; scratching whole body, sleepless, Lyss.; after scratching a raw sore, surrounded by blisters (neuralgic headache), Gels.; in sleep, Lyc.; prevents sleep, Anac., Chloral., Gels., Merc., Psor.; preventing sleep, in neuralgic headache, Gels.; preventing sleep, in pruritus senilis, Mez.; first in soles of feet, then over whole body, evening to midnight, πAur. met.; on small spots, Osm.; in spots, first one place, then another, worse being heated from overexertion, Jugl.

in small spots, in prostatitis and atony of sexual organs, Selen.; gradually spreading, worse night in bed (after use of rosin plaster on epigastrium), Merc. sol.; followed by sticking, Sul.; sticking in various parts of body, Dulc.; stinging, Psor., Rumex; stitches, in various parts, Agar.; red streaks after scratching, Phos.; after sweat, Led., Op.; followed by sweat, Coloc.; with sweat, Rhod., Spong.; as if sweat would break out, Spong.; with sweat, in morning, Paris; caused by sweat at night, smelling like urine, Coloc.; worse by sweat, Mang.; worse by sweat, in scarlatina, Merc.; of sweating parts, Cham.; with swelling, All. sat.; in syphilis, ⁞Anag.; when touched, Cadm. s.; when undressing, Asim., Cact., Dros., Rumex; when undressing, worse in sacral region, Hyper.; with urticaria, from gastric irritation, Cop.; with extensive, painful varix, Petrol.; as if vermin were running about, Sul.; white vesicles, after scratching, Hep.; voluptuous, Calad.; voluptuous, better scratching, after which burning, or little vesicles, Sul.; especially around waist, Æsc. h.; wakes him (prurigo), Merc. viv.; on getting warm, Alum., Arg. nit., Bov., Dolich., Kob., Lyc., Merc., Psor.; on places affected years before, Calc. p.; with warmth over whole body, Codein.; worse from cold change in weather, Dulc. ☞ prurigo, scratching

Skin, jerking: Coloc.; under, Sec.

Skin, marbled appearance; fine capillary network, Caust., Oxal. ac., Plat.; with coldness at noon, Bell.; ☞ mottled

Skin, moist (damp): Asaf., Ascl. s., Bar. c., Cact., Chel., Cham., Codein., Cup. m., Iod., Lachn., Lyss., Merc. cy., Op., Petrol., Phos., Rhus, Seneg., Sul.; with bilious symptoms, Natr. s.; in inflammatory condition of brain, Stram.; burning, Chel.; cold, in neuralgia, Coccion.; cold, in pelvic congestion, Nux m.; in dysentery, Coloc.; moderate exercise, Amyl.; with fever, Samb.; greasy, Kreo.; hot, Ascl. t.; intermittent, Coccul.; in pneumonia, Merc.; in scarlatina, Merc.; steaming, Merc.; sticky, body icy cold, Lachn.; in typhoid, Coccul., Rhus; in typhus, Tereb.; in warm room, forehead cold, Cist.; moist, with preternatural warmth, Pod. ☞ Chap. 40, Sweat

Skin, moles; brown, about size of a grain of wheat on back of neck, when touching it, complains of needles sticking in it, Tarant.; on young girls, Puls.

Skin, motion; of surface, Cina

Skin, mottled: Kali br.; blue, especially on covered parts, during shaking chill, Nux v.; in cyanosis, Lach.; with livid patches, Chloral.; in circular patches, Oxal. ac.; with deep, red spots, Chloral.; in acute rheumatism, Chel.; ☞ marbled

Skin, nævus: ☞ Chap. 29, Bloodvessels, nævus, and Chap. 44, Tumors

Skin, nodosities; large, stinging, Magn. c.; lumps became hard as horn, Aur. mur. nat.; red lumps, Lach.; thick, under, after rubbing blotches, Aur. met. ☞ nodules

Skin, nodules; knots, Æthus.; reddish hard knots, from size of a pin's head to that of a pea, centre depressed, with a dark scurf, surrounded by an inflamed base, after heat and

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itching when warm in bed, at night, Kali bi.; wartlike, red lumps all over, Natr. s.; ☞ induration ; also Eruption nodular

Skin, numb: Amb., Euph., Nux v.; after scratching, Sul.; extensive painful varix, Petrol. ☞ crawling, formication

Skin, odor; cadaverous, Thuya; cadaverous, musty (phthisis), Sil.; fetid, Tell.; fetid, in incipient tuberculosis, Tuberc.; offensive, Carbol. ac., Con., Hep.; offensive, moist (typhus), Arn.; offensive, despite frequent washing, Sul.; exhalations smell like onions, Lyc.; peculiar, Syph., Tuberc.; pungent, causing dulness and headache, followed by vomiting and trembling, Agnus; rank, during menses, Stram.; sour, Hep., Magn. c.; like a fetid steam, Variol. ☞ Eruption fetid

Skin, oily: Bufo., Hydras.; greasy, Psor.; greasy (consumption), Tuberc.; in some places looks coarse as if bathed in oil, Psor.

Skin, pain: Con., Petrol., Sil.; acute, impetigo figurata, Merc.; as if it had been frozen, with chilliness of back and limbs, in morning, Nux v.; for a long time after rubbing, as if denuded and sore, Sul.; after scratching, Ars.

Skin, pale: Amyg., Ananth., Benz. ac., Calc., Carbo v., Carbol. ac., Chin. a., Cupr. s., Dig., Hell., Ipec., Kali f., Kreo., Merc. cor., Merc. d., Op., Phos., Plat., Plumb., Pod., Puls., Sang., Spig., Sul., Sul. ac., Ver.; with a blue tinge, Hydr. ac.; clay-colored, Plumb.; cold, Chlorof., Ver.; in convulsions, Ant. c.; chlorotic, Ferr., Helon.; cold, clammy, Diosc.; in delirium, Hyos.; in diarrhœa, Bor., Ferr. s., Lyss., Sul., Ver.; in dropsy, Colch.; in ovarian dropsy, Apis; in chronic dysentery, Nux v.; earthy, Sil.; in scrofulous inflammation of eyes, Ferr. iod.; grayish, dry (liver affection with dropsy), Fluor. ac.; in sick headache, Tabac.; after heat, Amyl.; chronic passive hemorrhage from kidneys, Tereb.; icteric, Helon.; in intermittent fever, Coccul., Ferr.; in neuralgia, Plumb., Sil.; with flushes (rachitis), Bell.; in pneumonia, Sul.; in purpura, Rhus; sallow, Ars., Ferr., Fluor. ac., Natr. s., Nitr. ac., Nux v.; sallow, in intermittent, Natr. m.; in scarlatina, Chin. a.; in scrofula, Ferr. iod.; morbidly sensitive, Eup. perf.; with sweat, Puls.; unhealthy color, Chlor.; waxy, Acet. ac., Apis, Ars., Cinch., Ferr., Ipec., Lyc. vir., Sil. ☞ white

Skin, pricking: Acon., Act. rac., Agar., Apis, Asaf., Bar. c., Berb., Brom., Cepa, Codein., Coloc., Cop., Croc., Dolich., Dros., Hydrocot., Kali br., Lyc., Med., Natr. m., Nux v., Op., Plant., Rhus, Sec., Thuya, Urt. ur., Ver. v.; after chill, Nitr. ac.; from eruption, Cop.; in evening, Chrom. ac.; fine, like fleabites, Ign.; worse by friction, succeeded by a red spot, Berb.; with heat, Cornus; as if bitten by insects, Lyc. vir.; itching, Lobel. i.; itching, with fever, Spong.; causing him to jump, with feeling of fulness, making restless, Chen. v.; worse above knees, ankles and elbows, πMagn. p.; over whole body (meningitis cerebrospinalis), Tarant.; as from needles, Acon.; as with needles, in different places, Chel.; all over, worse at night, Merc. iod. flav.; worse at night in bed, better scratching, reappearing at once at another place, Cycl.; with numbness, after pleasurable, Cann. i.

with inclination to scratch, Plat.; caused by scratching, Bar. c.; in paralysis, Gels.; stitchlike, in evening, after getting warm in bed, Sul.; with moderate sweat, Kalm.; sensation of warmth, spreads over body, Sang.

Skin, purple: Chloral., Ver.; in cholera infantum, Ars. i.; cyanosis, Lach.; in fever, Curar.; yellow fever, Lach.; dark, worse motion, Hydras.; after cuticle peels (erysipelas bullosum capitis suppressed by salve), Kali c.; in scarlatina, Mur. ac. ☞ blue ; also Chap. 29, Blood cyanosis

Skin, prurigo (pruritus): Amb., Ananth., Ang., Anthrok., Ant. t., Calad., Carbo v., Carbol. ac., Chloral., Cornus, Crot. t., Graph., Guarana, Ign., ⁞Jab., Merc., Plat., Tabac.; during apyrexia, Elat.; in children, Sul.; in children with sore, raw places on skin, Graph.; chronic, Calc., Spong.; terrible, as of insects creeping and crawling, Tarant.; contagious, army itch, Rumex; during pregnancy, Tabac.; senilis, Ars., Bar. c., Calc. p., Con., Cop., Crot. t., Mez., Sul.; senilis, during itching and burning, chilliness, feeling cold along spinal column and in extremities, when itching is most intense there is a sensible diminution of temperature, Mez.; senilis, on parts scratched innumerable insular white elevations on a red or reddish base, as in nettlerash, which when deeply scratched display in centre a drop of blood, size of pinhead and burn as if a bright coal lay upon them, Mez.; with vesicles on an acrid base over all parts of body, face, eyelids, hands, feet, armpits, vulva, anus, ears, scalp, etc., Sep. ☞ itching, pricking ; also Chaps. 20, 22, 23

Skin, quivering: Asaf.; muscular atrophy, Calc.; dizzy, Calc.

Skin, raw: ☞ excoriated

Skin, red: Agar., Anthrac., Apis, Arn., Arum m., Bell., Carbo a., Cepa, Chim. umb., Cinnab., Clem., Cochl., Con., Crot., Kali bi., Manc., Merc. sol., Natr. m., Ol. jec., Op., Sal. ac., Vespa; like birthmark, Arund.; with small blisters, burning, filled with water, Rhus; bluish, Amyg.; bluish, with heat, Bell.; bluish, in scarlatina, Zinc.; bright and hot, Ant. t.; bright, in scarlatina, Sul.; dark, in scarlatina, Rhus; deep, Kreo.; with vesicular eruption, Crot. t.; erysipelatous, Hydrocot.; like fleabites, Sal. ac.; flush, Chloral.; flush over whole body, Cub.; flush, over body at 2 P.M., Rhus; with itching and burning, Crot. t.; livid, Chin. s.; alternately red and pale, Bell.; pale, upon which there are several red hot and painful spots (after neglected injury), Iod.; extending in radii, Bell.; rose-colored, Œnan.; rose-colored, with swelling of face, neck, arms and body, generally in morning and during day and evening (headache), Lac def.; in scarlatina, Apis; like scarlatina, Amm. c., Como., Hyos.; like scarlatina, over entire body, Bell.; like scarlatina, worse when heated from overexertion, Jugl.; scarlet, Ananth., Bell., Croc.; scarlet, with scorching heat, Tarant.; scarlet, peculiar boiled-lobster hue of scarlatina, Stram.; scarlet, suddenly spread over body, especially face and limbs, Bell.; scarlet, with vesicles, Crot. t.; worse scratching, Rhus; in smallpox, Hydras.; in spots, Kali iod.; in

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typhoid, Rhus; universal, Bell.; with small vesicles, Merc. cor.; better by cold water, Apis

Skin, relaxed: ☞ flabby

Skin, rhagades: Æsc. h., Alum., Amm. c., Arn., Ars. s. f., Aur. met., Badiag., Calc., Carbo a., Cham., Cycl., Graph., Hep., Hydras., Kali s., Lach., Lyc., Magn. c., Mang., Merc., Natr. c., Natr. m., Nitr. ac., Oleand., Pæonia, Petrol., Phos., Puls., Rhus, Sars., Sep., Sil., Sul., Zinc.; chapped, if exposed to air, Alum.; bleeding (atrophy of infants), Petrol.; burning, Sars.; deep, Petrol., Sars.; deep, bleeding, Nitr. ac.; deep, bleeding, suppurating, Petrol.; deep, like cuts, basis raw and bloody, painful, Merc.; on parts covered with delicate skin, Sil.; discharging sanious fluid (inflammation of foot), Como.; on tips of fingers, Bar. c.; irregular fissures, about half inch long, one-eighth inch deep, looking like cuts, with edges closely in apposition, no discharge, on separating edges, a little dirty yellowish white slough was seen, looking like piece of tape, Graph.; ichorous fluid, irritating surrounding parts, Cund.; atrophy of infants, Petrol.; sequela of itch, Calc.; in bends of joints, brownish fluid oozes out and gets ulcerous, Hippoz.; in eczema on legs, Petrol.; lips dry and cracked, Natr. m.; lymph and blood oozing from broken places, Con.; painful, and bleeding, Merc.; pain and burning, particularly on sides of fingers and toes, Sars.; psoriasis in relievo, Iris; sleeplessness, Pix; small fissures and cracks, Merc. iod. rub.; spontaneous, Graph.; on parts affected with tettery eruptions, Sil.; worse after washing, Sul.; especially from working in water, Calc.; particularly in winter, Petrol.

Skin, rigidity: Apis, Ars.; and muscles, Acon.; sensation of, Kalm.

Skin, rough: Anag., Bar. c., Hep., Iod., Natr. c., Natr. m., Petrol., Plumb., Rhus, Sul.; if exposed to air, Alum.; branlike coating, Calc.; dead, Mez.; dry, Lith.; as a grater, harsh, dry, Lith.; harsh, Petrol., Sul.; harsh, in ascites, Apoc.; harsh, disposed to chafing, Graph.; harsh, in cholera, Sec.; harsh, in dropsy, after scarlatina, Apis; harsh and dry, no sweat (diabetes), Lact. ac.; harsh, in chronic dysentery, Nux v.; harsh, with suppressed rash of measles or other eruptive disease, Kali s.; here and there, Mez.; irregular surface, Carbo a.; as if full of small knots, Hyper.; in ophthalmia of children, Ars.; like brown paper (scarlatina), Phyt.; covered with pimples, Lyc.; nasal polypus, Alum.; in psoriasis, Merc.; rash (secondary syphilis), Lith.; scaly, Ars., Ars. s. f., Calc., Nitr. ac., Phos., Plumb., Psor., Sul.; scaly (chronic alcoholism), Phos.; scurf around eyes, Petrol. ☞ scaly

Skin, scaly: ☞ rough, desquamation ; also Eruption scaly

Skin, scars; turn black, Asaf.; bleed, Lach.; black blood oozes from an old, Phos.; become blue, Sul. ac.; left by small boils on face, neck, scalp, chest and back, Kali iod.; break open, Asaf., Crotal., Iod., Lach.; break open, worse change of weather, Carbo an.; burning, Ars., Graph.; discolored, Badiag.; drawing, Phyt.; elevated, Badiag.; old, hard, Graph.; hurt, Lach.; itch, Iod.; injuries become sore again, Caust.; old, red, reopen, Lach.

pain, Carbo a., Lyss., Natr. m., Sul. ac.; pain, in old, Hyper., Natr. m.; pain, on change of weather, Nitr. ac.; pimples break out on them, Iod.; pressure, Kali c.; redden, Lach., Natr. m.; red, from bite of dog, Lyss.; become blood red, Sul. ac.; bluish red, Ant. c.; old, become red around edges, covered or surrounded by itching vesicles, or they itch violently, Fluor. ac.; very red, Stram.; rending, Kali c.; stinging, Carbo an.; tension, Kali c.; ulcerating, after amputation, Calc. p.; left by pustulous eruption, often umbilicated, Kali iod.

Skin, scratching; aggravates, Plant.; causes bleeding, with sleeplessness, Pix; till it bleeds, Psor.; causes small red spots to appear in a circle, Lyss. ☞ itching

Skin, sensitive: Act. rac., All. sat., Ars., Camph., Chlor., Coff., Cup. ars., Cup. m., Hyos., Lach., Sal. ac., Sil.; painfully, on abdomen, Lyc.; especially to cold damp air, Nux m.; to draught of air, Ign., Nux v.; to open air, Plumb.; to atmospheric changes, Sang.; suffers from slightest atmospheric variations (chronic bronchitis), Sul.; better by cold water, Apis; in children, Cham.; to cold, Dulc.; to cold, in catarrhal fever, Hep.; to contact, Bell.; to contact of clothes, Merc. sol.; to contact of clothing, producing creepy sensation, Cup. ars.; with vesicular eruption, worse from sweat, Oxal. ac.; to exposure (shock from injuries), Nux m.; with fever, Eup. perf.; slight friction causes soreness and chafing, especially about neck or between thighs, Oleand.; almost painfully, even palms of hands, Cinch.; hemorrhoids, Sep.; hyperæsthesia, Apis; hyperæsthesia, especially of spine, Sec.; impressionability (chronic bronchitis), Sul.; painful, on motion, Arn.; in nervous and hysterical women, Codein.; painful to slightest touch, mostly on loins, Natr. m.; with redness and soreness, even from slight rubbing, Vinca; to rubbing, when washing, Calc.; during shaving, as from chafing, Oxal. ac.; as if sore, Nux v.; sore to touch, Badiag.; to touch, Apis, Cham., Chin. s., Lach., Spong.; to touch, especially on arms and eyelids, Plumb.; to touch, in catarrhal fever, Hep.; to touch, in neuralgia, Lach.; to touch, in urticaria, Cop.; painful to touch, Dig.; to slightest touch, Apis; soft touch, contact of shirt is unbearable (zona), Petrol.

Skin, shining: Bell., Kreo., Med.; in dropsy, Apis, Colch.; red, Chel.

Skin, shooting: Apis, Natr. m., Plat.; here and there all night, Euph.

Skin, shrivelled: Ars., Calc., Camph., Chlor., Hep., Phos. ac., Plumb., Phyt., Sars., Ver. v.; blue, as in collapse, in cholera hemorrhagica, Ham.; in acute catarrh, Ant. t.; in cholera, Sec.; in traumatic delirium, Lach.; in tertian intermittent, Lach.; in shock from injuries, Lach.

Skin, shrunken: Sumb.; in dropsy, albuminuria, Aur. mur.; in intermittent, Ars.

Skin, smarting: Apis, Berb., Cham., Chlor., Coff., Coloc., Hyper., Oxal. ac., Natr. m.; as from fire, Plumb.; when warm at night, Arg. nit.; with inclination to scratch, Plat.; on small spots, Ham.; sweat, Cham.; with sweat at night and morning, of offensive odor, Con.; after sweating, Op.

Skin, soft: Ars.; feels soft, in typhoid, Coccul.

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Skin, sore feeling: Arn., Ham., Ign., Merc., Natr. m., Oxal. ac., Petrol., Sep., Sul. ac.; with disposition to excoriation, Sul.; with inclination to scratch, Plat.

Skin, sticking: Coccus, Kreo.; after catching cold (purpura), Rhus; itching, as from flea-bites, in evening, Merc. sol.; as of needles all over body (urticaria), Dulc.; itching, especially when walking in open air, Sul.; especially at night, Sil.; when touching, Clem.; with extensive painful varix, Petrol.

Skin, sticky: Anag.; as if pasted on, Agar.

Skin, stiffness: Crotal., Rhus.; ulcer on neck, Ast. r.; as if immovable, Ars. met.

Skin, stinging: Apis, Coff., Crotal., Crot t., Dros., Euphor., Jacea, Kali bi., Natr. m., Niccol., Nux v., Phos., Plant., Rhus, Tarax., Tell.; keeping him awake, Amm. c.; like from cantharides, leaves soreness and bruised sensation, Chlor.; ovarian dropsy, Apis; with vesicular eruption, Crot. t.; heat, Merc. cor.; impetigo, Merc.; feeling as if insect flitted over part and stung it, desire to slap the part, Chlor.; as of nettle, Chlor.; fine points (nettlerash), Urt. ur.; little prickings in various parts of body, continue all afternoon and evening, forcing him to rub, come on like fleabites, worse in rest, Tell.; inclination to scratch, Plat.; after scratching, Cham., Nux v.; while sitting, wanders over whole body, Tell.; urticaria, Chloral.; ☞ pricking, stitches

Skin, stitches: Berb., Brom., Caps., Coccul.; itching burning, awakens at night, Berb.; electric, Agar.; fine, like thousand needle-points, at night, Cann. s.; fine, when sweating, from warm covering, better uncovering, Cann. s.; impetigo figurata, Merc.; on many places, Osm.; minute, Berb.; needlelike, Calad.; fine, needlelike, especially on throat during heat, Cinch.; here and there, all night, Euph.; protracted itching, as if caused by a fine needle here and there, must rub without being relieved, Spong.; single long, with soreness, Nux v.; as from splinters in skin, Agar.; prevents sleep (softening of brain), Bufo.

Skin, sunburn; pigmented where sun's rays impinged upon him (phthisical habit), Tuberc.; tanned unduly in sun, Tuberc.; ☞ Chap. 39, Sun.

Skin, suppurating: Hep., Sil.; chronic, especially about joints, Mang.; purulent infiltration, especially forehead and eyelids and in vicinity of joints, Hippoz.; from slight injuries, Bor. ☞ Chap. 44, Suppuration, Ulcers.

Skin, sweat: ☞ Chap. 40, Sweat.

Skin, sycotic affections: Tarax., Thuya

Skin, syphilitic affections: Ars., Hydrocot.

Skin, swelling: Con., Crotal., Merc. sol., Natr. m., Stram., Vespa; bluish black, Lach.; bloated, Calc., Caps.; in chronic camp diarrhœa, Lyss.; bloated, in scarlatina, Apis; bloated, with tension, after contusions, Samb.; burning, wherever touched by hands, after handling, Anac. oc.; cold, Coccul.; doughy, Anthrac.; sudden dropsical, Hell.; erysipelatous, Como.; erysipelatous, with red stripes, Apis; as from frost-bites, Agar.; glandular, Coccul.; glistening (secondary syphilis), Phyt.; hard, Coccul.; hot, in eruptions, Bell.; hot, hard, shining, from insect sting, Arn.; hot, red, shining, violent pains, Acon.; infiltration, in intermittent, Natr. m.

serous infiltration, Plumb.; with erysipelatous inflammation, Bell.; inflammatory, caused a red or violet raised border, bluish or pale yellow ring around, vesicles size of a hempseed surround central eschar, Anthrac.; with itching and burning, All. sat.; like a knot, forming an irregular ulcer covered with a dry scab, painful to touch under skin, hard, movable knot, like a corn, with small ulcerated spot on middle, where it touches cuticle, hard, knotty feel remains after healed ulcer is covered with white skin (after an abrasion), Kali bi.; on inner side of arms and legs (eczema), Merc.; painful, as if touched by nettles, worse in daytime (carbuncle on neck), œdematous), Anthrac., Apis, Arn.; œdematous, during desquamation (scarlatina), Apis; distended, as if œdematous (Rhus poisoning), Sul.; œdematous, with red stripes, Apis; painful, Natr. s.; pitting upon pressure, particularly joints (anæmia), Ferr.; puffy, Asaf., Plumb.; in purpura, Rhus; red, inflammatory, Euphor.; dark red, with tension, after contusions, Samb.; pale red, as if puffed, Apis; after scratching, Sul.; sensitive to touch, Phyt.; smallpox, Hydras.; increased turgescence, Tabac.; turgescence without sweat (pneumonia), Ran. b.; followed by vesicles, become pustular, Anac. oc.; watery, Kali c. ☞ hypertrophy, induration ; also Chap. 44, Dropsy.

Skin, tearing: Amb., Anag., Arg. nit., Bar. c., Bell., Berb., Camph., Cann. s., Chloral., Coloc., Kreo., Nitr. ac., Phos., Plant.; better bathing in cold water, Ars. m.; as if benumbed, Berb.; with chilliness, Graph.; in erysipelas, Rhod.; erysipelatous, Ant. t.; on various parts, evening in bed, Stront.; worse from motion, excitement, or using eyes, Paris; as if head and face were covered by a cap, Berb.; as if tightly stretched over bones, Ars. m.; ☞ rigid, stiff, swelling.

Skin, thickening: ☞ hypertrophy, induration, swelling.

Skin, tickling: Brom.

Skin, tingling: Acon., Alum., Croc., Natr. s., Plat., Rhus, Ver., Ver. v.; with eruptions, Sul. ac.; here and there, like being frosted, Colch.; with fever heat, Manc.; now here now there, especially in evening, Ran. sc.; worse on motion, Hydras.; waking at night, Bar. c.; in paralysis, Gels.; with inclination to scratch, Plat.; with tension in shoulder blades, Jacea; in smallpox, Hydras.; in small spots, with irritation to scratch, spots remain humid, Selen.; subcutaneous, Paris; in affected parts, Dig. ☞ formication.

Skin, torpid: Con., Dulc., Natr. m., Psor.; with chlorosis, inactive (diabetes), Natr. m., Sul. ac. ☞ dry.

Skin, transparent; in ovarian dropsy, Apis; when not earthy, Ferr.

Skin, tubercles: Ars., Lach.; ulceration of (syphilis), Caust. ☞ Eruption, tubercles.

Skin, tumors: ☞ Chap. 44, Tumors.

Skin, twitching; here and there, Thuya

Skin, ulceration: Calc.; of folds, Carbo v.; hysterical patients, Nux m.; readily ulcerates (rachitic atrophy of children), Staph.; violent scratching, Sul.; sensation, Kreo.; sensation of subcutanous, worse from contact, Hep.