The Chronic
Diseases, their Peculiar Nature and their Homœopathic Cure.
by Dr Samuel Hahnemann
Presented By Médi-T
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The oldest monuments of
history which we possess show the Psora
even then in great development. Moses [*]
3400 years ago pointed out several varieties. At that time and later
on among the Israelites the disease seems to have mostly kept the
external parts of the body for its chief seat. This was also true of
the malady as it prevailed in uncultivated Greece, later in Arabia
and, lastly in Europe during the Middle Ages. The different names
which were given by different nations to the more or less malignant
varieties of leprosy, (the external symptom of Psora)
which in many ways deformed the external parts of the body, do not
concern us and do not affect the matter, since the nature of this
miasmatic itching eruption always remained essentially the same.[*]
In Leviticus not only in the thirteenth chapter, but also
(chapt. 21, verse 20) where he speaks of the bodily defects which
must not be found in a priest who is to offer sacrifice, malignant
itch is designated by the word garab,
which the Alexandrian translators (in the Septuagint) translated
with psora agria, but the
Vulgate with scabies jugis. The
talmudic interpreter, Jonathan, explained it as dry
itch spread over the body; while the expression, yalephed,
is used by Moses for lichen, tetter, herpes
(see M. Rosenmueller, Scholia in Levit.,
p. II., edit. sec., p. 124). The
commentators in the so-called English Bible-work also agree with
this definition, Calmet among others saying: “Leprosy is
similar to an inveterate itch with violent itching.” The
ancients also mention the peculiar, characteristic voluptuous
itching which attended itch then as now, while after the scratching
a painful burning follows; among others Plato, who calls itch glykypikron,
while Cicero marks the dulcedo
of scabies.The Occidental Psora,
which during the Middle Ages had raged in Europe for several centuries
under the form of malignant erysipelas (called St.
Anthony’s Fire), reassumed the form of leprosy through the
leprosy which was brought back by the returning crusaders in the
thirteenth century. And though it thus spread in Europe even more than
before, (for in the year 1226 there were in France alone 2,000 houses
for the reception of lepers), this Psora, which now raged as a
dreadful eruption, found at least an external alleviation in the means
conducive to cleanliness, which also were brought by the crusaders
from the Orient; namely, the (cotton? linen?) shirts before unknown in
Europe, and the more frequent use of warm baths. Through both of those
means, as well as through the more exquisite diet and refinement in
the mode of living introduced by increased cultivation, the external
horrors of the Psora within the space of several centuries were at
last so far moderated, that, at the end of the fifteenth century it
appeared only in the form of the common eruption of itch, just at the
time when the other miasmatic chronic disease, syphilis,
began (in 1493) to raise its dreadful head.Thus this eruption,
externally reduced in cultivated countries to a common itch, could be
much more easily removed from the skin through various means; so that
with the medicinal external treatment since introduced, especially in
the middle and higher classes, through baths, washes and ointments of
sulphur and lead, and by preparations of copper, zinc and mercury, the
external manifestations of Psora
on the skin were often so quickly suppressed, and are so now, that in
most cases either of children or of grown persons the history of itch
infection may remain undiscovered.But the state of mankind was
not improved thereby; in many respects it grew far worse. For,
although in ancient times the eruption of psora appearing as leprosy
was very troublesome to those suffering from it, owing to the
lancinating pains in, and the violent itching all around the tumors,
and scabs, the rest of the body enjoyed a fair share of general
health. This was owing to the obstinately persistent eruption on the
skin which served as a substitute for the internal psora. And what is
of more importance, the horrible and disgusting appearance of the
lepers made such a terrible impression on healthy people that they
dreaded even their approach; so that the seclusion of most of these
patients, and their separation in leper hospitals, kept them apart
from other human society and infection from them was thus limited and
comparatively rare.In consequence of the very
much milder form of the psora
during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, when it appeared as
itch, the few pustules appearing after infection made but little show
and could easily be concealed. Nevertheless they were scratched
continually because of their unbearable itching, and thus the fluid
was diffused around, and the psoric miasma was communicated more
certainly and more easily to many other persons, the more it was
concealed. For the things rendered unclean by the psoric fluid
infected the persons who unwittingly touched them, and thus
contaminated far more persons than the lepers, who, on account of
their horrible appearance, were carefully avoided.PSORA has thus become the most
infectious and most general
of all the chronic miasmas. For the miasm has usually been
communicated to others before the one from whom it emanates has asked
for or received any external repressive remedy against his itching
eruption (lead-water, ointment of the white precipitate of mercury),
and without confessing that he had an eruption of itch, often even
without knowing it himself; yea, without even the physician’s or
surgeon’s knowing the exact nature of the eruption which has been
repressed by the lotion of lead, etc.It may well be conceived that
the poorer and lower classes, who allow the itch to spread on their
skin for a long time, until they become an abomination to all around
them and are compelled to use something to remove it, must have in the
meanwhile infected many.Mankind, therefore, is worse
off from the change in the external form of the psora,
– from leprosy down to the eruption of itch – not only because this is
less visible and more secret and therefore more frequently infectious,
but also especially because the Psora,
now mitigated externally into a mere itch, and on that account more
generally spread, nevertheless still retains unchanged its original
dreadful nature. Now, after being more easily repressed, the disease
grows all the more unperceived within, and so, in the last three
centuries, after the destruction [*]
of its chief symptom (the external skin-eruption) it plays the sad
role of causing innumerable secondary symptoms; i.
e., it originates a legion of chronic diseases, the source
of which physicians neither surmise nor unravel, and which, therefore,
they can no more cure than they could cure the original disease when
accompanied by its cutaneous eruption; but these chronic diseases, as
daily experience shows, were necessarily aggravated by the multitude
of their faulty remedies.[*]
The external eruption of itch may not only
be driven away by the faulty practices of physicians and quacks, but
unfortunately it not infrequently of its own accord withdraws from
the skin (see below, e.g., in the observation of the older
physicians, Nos. 9, 17, 26, 36, 50, 58, 61, 64, 65). Syphilis
and sycosis both have an
advantage over the itch disease, in this, that the chancre (or bubo)
in the one and the fig-wart in the other never leave the external
until they have been either mischievously destroyed through external
repressive remedies or have been in a rational manner removed
through the simultaneous internal cure of the whole disease. The
venereal disease cannot, therefore, break out so long as the chancre
is not artificially destroyed by external applications, nor can the
secondary ailments of sycosis break out so long as the fig-wart has
not been destroyed by faulty practice; for these local symptoms,
which act as substitutes for the internal disease, remain standing
even until the end of man’s life, and prevent the breaking out of
the internal disease. It is, therefore, just as easy to heal them
then, even in their whole extent; i.e. thoroughly, through their
specific internal medicines, which need only to be continued until
these local symptoms (chancre and fig-wart) which are in their
nature unchangeable except
through artificial external application, are thoroughly healed. Then
we may be quite certain that we have thoroughly cured the internal
disease; i. e., syphilis and sycosis.This good feature psora
has lost in the present more and more mitigated nature of its chief
symptom, which has changed from leprosy to itch in the last three
centuries. The eruption of itch by no means remains as persistently
in its place on the skin as the chancre and the fig-wart. Even if
the eruption of itch has not (as is nearly always the case) been
driven away from the skin through the faulty practices of physicians
and quacks by means of desiccating washes, sulphur ointments,
drastic purgatives or cupping, it frequently disappears, as we say,
of itself; i. e., through causes
which are not noticed. It often disappears through some unlucky
physical or psychical occurrence, through a violent fright, through
continual vexations, deeply-affecting grief, through catching a
severe cold, or through a cold temperature (see below, observation
67); through cold, lukewarm and warm river baths or mineral baths,
by a fever arising from any cause, or through a different acute
disease. (e. g., smallpox; see
below, observation 39); through persistent diarrhœa, sometimes also
perhaps through a peculiar want of activity in the skin, and the
results in such a case are just as mischievous as if the eruption
had been driven away externally by the irrational practice of a
physician. The secondary ailments of the internal psora
and any one of the innumerable chronic diseases flowing from this
origin will then break out sooner or later.But let no one
think that the psora which has been thus mitigated in its local
symptom, its cutaneous eruption, differs materially from ancient
leprosy. Even leprosy, when not inveterate, could in ancient times
not seldom be driven from the skin by cold baths or by repeated
dipping in a river and through warm mineral baths (see below, No.
35); but also then the evil effects resulting were as little
regarded as the more modern physicians regard the acute diseases and
the insidious maladies which do not fail to develop sooner or later
from the indwelling psora when an eruption of the present itch
disease has disappeared of itself or has been violently driven away.So great a flood of
numberless nervous troubles, painful ailments, spasms, ulcers
(cancers), adventitious formations, dyscrasias, paralyses,
consumptions and cripplings of soul, mind and body were never seen in
ancient times when the Psora mostly confined itself to its dreadful
cutaneous symptom, leprosy. Only during the last few centuries has
mankind been flooded with these infirmities, owing to the causes just
mentioned. [*][*]
That the drinking of warm coffee and Chinese tea which has
spread so generally in the last two centuries, and which has so
largely increased the irritability of the muscular fibre as well as
the excessive excitability of the nerves, has further augmented the
tendency of this period to a multitude of chronic diseases, and has
thus aided the psora, I least of
all can doubt, as I have made
prominent, perhaps too prominent, the part which coffee takes with
respect to the bodily and mental sufferings of humanity, in my
little work on The Effects of Coffee (Die
Wirkungen des Kaffee’s. Leipzig, 1803). This, perhaps
undue, prominence given was owing to the fact that I had not then as
yet discovered the chief source of chronic diseases in the psora.
Only in connection with the excessive use of coffee and tea, which
both offer palliatives for several symptoms of psora,
could, psora spread such
innumerable, such obstinate chronic sufferings among mankind; for
psora alone could not have produced this effect.It was thus that PSORA became
the most universal mother of
chronic diseases.The psora,
which is now so easily and so rashly robbed of its ameliorating
cutaneous symptom, the eruption of itch, which acts vicariously for
the internal disease, has been producing within the last three hundred
years more and more secondary symptoms, and indeed so many that at
least seven-eighths of all the
chronic maladies spring from it as their only source, while the remaining
eighth springs from syphilis
and sycosis or from a complication
of two of these three miasmatic chronic diseases, or (which is rare)
from a complication of all three of them. Even syphilis,
which on account of its easy curability yields to the smallest dose of
the best preparation of mercury, and sycosis,
which on account of the slight difficulty in its cure through a few
doses of thuja and nitric acid in alternation, only pass into a
tedious malady difficult to cure when they are complicated with psora.
Thus PSORA is among all diseases the one
which is most misapprehended, and, therefore, has been medically
treated in the worst and most injurious manner.It is incredible to what an
extent modern physicians of the common school have sinned against the
welfare of humanity; since, with scarcely an exception, teachers of
medicine and the more prominent modern physicians and medical writers
have laid down the rule and taught it as an infallible theorem that:
“Every eruption of itch is merely a local ailment of the skin,
in which ailment the remaining organism takes no part at all, so that
it may and must be driven away from the skin at any time and without
any scruple, through local applications of sulphur ointment or of the
yet more active ointment of Jasser, through sulphur fumigations, by
solutions of lead and zinc, but most quickly by the precipitates of
mercury. If the eruption is once removed from the skin everything is
well and the person is restored and the whole disease removed. Of
course, if the eruption is neglected and allowed to spread upon the
skin, then it may eventually turn out that the malignant matter may
find opportunity to insinuate itself through the absorbent vessels
into the mass of humors, and thus to corrupt the blood, the humors and
the health. Then, indeed, man may finally be afflicted with ailments
from these malignant humors, though these might soon again be removed
from the body by purgatives and abluents; but through prompt removal
of the eruption from the skin all sequelæ are prevented, and the
internal body remains entirely healthy.”These horrible untruths have
not only been, and are still being taught, but they are also carried
out in practice. The consequence is that at the present day the
patients in all the most celebrated hospitals, even in those countries
and cities that seem most enlightened, as well as the private
itch-patients of the lower and higher classes, the patients in all the
penitentiaries and orphan asylums, in other civil and military
hospitals, wherever such eruptions are found – in short, the
innumerable multitude of patients, – without exception, are treated,
not only by physicians unknown to fame, but by all, even those most
celebrated, with the above mentioned external remedies, [*]
using perhaps at the same time large doses of flowers of sulphur, and
strong purgatives (to cleanse the body, as they say). These physicians
think that the more quickly these eruptions are driven from the skin
the better. Then they dismiss the patients from their treatment as
cured, with brazen assurance and the declaration that everything is
now all right, [**] without
regarding or being willing to notice the ailments which sooner or
later are sure to follow; i. e.,
the Psora which shows itself from within in a thousand different
diseases. [***] If the
deceived wretches then sooner or later return with the malady
following unavoidably on such a
treatment; e. g., with swellings,
obstinate pains in one part or another, with hypochondriac or
hysterical troubles, gout, consumption, tubercular phthisis, continual
or spasmodic asthma, blindness, deafness, paralysis, caries of the
bones, ulcers (cancer), spasms, hæmorrhages, diseases of the mind and
soul, etc., the physicians imagine that they have before them
something entirely new and treat it again and again according to the
old routine of their therapeutics in a useless and hurtful manner,
directing their medicines against phantom diseases; i.
e., against causes invented by them for the ailments as
they appear, until the patient, after many years’ suffering
continually aggravated, is at last freed from their hands by death,
the end of all earthly maladies. [****][*]
Then, as these gentlemen dream in their perverted minds, in
which they have disposed of the nature of this most important
disease in their arbitrary way and without consulting nature, then
these frivolous gentlemen assure us, the matter of the itch has not
yet had time to penetrate inwardly and to be received by the
absorbent vessels to the detriment of the whole mass of humors. But
how then, 0 conscientious men! if even the first little pustule of
itch with its unbearable voluptuous itching, forcing a man
irresistibly to scratch, and with the following burning pain, is in every
case and every time the proof of a universal itch-disease
which has been previously developed in the interior of the whole
organism, as we shall see below? How then, if in accordance with
this fact any external repression of the, itch-eruption can not only
do nothing toward alleviating the internal general disease, but
rather as thousands of facts go to prove, compel it to develop and
break forth quickly into innumerable, different, acute sufferings,
or gradually into chronic sufferings, which make mankind so helpless
and miserable? Can you then heal these? Experience says no; you
cannot do it.[**]
In some vigorous itch patients the vital force, following the law of
nature on which it rests (her instinct showing more wisdom than the
intelligence of her destroyers), after some weeks, drives back to
the skin the eruption seemingly destroyed by itch ointments and
purgatives; the patient returns to the hospital and the mischievous
destruction of the eruption by means of ointments and lotions of
solutions of lead and zinc, is renewed. I have seen in military
hospitals this eruption thus destroyed in an irrational a cruel
manner three times in succession within a few months, while the
quack who applied the ointment pretended that the patient must have
been infected anew with itch three times in this short period, which
was really impossible.[***]
I wrote this six years ago, but even at this day the physicians of
the old school continue to act and teach with the same criminal
negligence. In this most important medical affair they have up to
this day not become the least bit wiser or more humane.[****]
By accident (for they cannot give any but a feigned reason for their
action) they found out a refuge which temporarily often alleviates
the sufferings of their patients when they can not do anything at
home with their prescriptions against the unknown diseases; that is,
they send him to some sulphur bath or other, where the patients
often get rid of a small part of their Psora,
and thus are also at the first use of the baths for a time relieved
of their chronic disease; but afterwards they fall back into the
same or a kindred ailment, and the repetition of the bath then
avails little or nothing, because the cure of a developed Psora
requires a far more adequate treatment than the impetuous use of
such baths.The older physicians were
more conscientious in this matter and observed with less prejudice.
They saw clearly and became convinced that innumerable ailments and
the most severe chronic diseases follow the destruction of the
itch-eruption from the skin. And since this experience compelled them
to assume the existence of an internal disease, in every case of itch
they endeavored to extirpate this internal malady by means of a
multitude of internal remedies, as good as their therapeutics
afforded. It was, indeed, but a useless endeavor, because the true
method of healing, which it could only be the prerogative of Homœopathy
to discover, was unknown to them. Nevertheless this sincere endeavor
was praiseworthy, since it was founded on an appreciation of the great
internal disease present together with the eruption of itch, which
internal disease it was necessary to remove. This prevented their
reliance on the mere local destruction of the itch from the skin, as
practiced by modern physicians, who think that they cannot quickly
enough drive it away -as if it were a mere external disease of the
skin- without regarding the great injuries attending such a course.
The older physicians, on the other hand, have warningly laid these
injuries before our eyes in their writings, giving thousands of
examples.The observations of those
honest men are too startling to be rejected contemptuously, or ignored
by conscientious men.I shall here adduce some of
these numerous observations handed down to us, which I might increase
by an equal number of my own if the former were not already abundantly
sufficient to show with what fury the internal Psora
manifests itself when the external local symptom which serves to
assuage the internal malady is hastily removed. They also show that it
must be a matter of conscience for the physician who loves his
fellow-man to direct all his endeavors to cure, first of all, the
internal malady, whereby the cutaneous eruption will at the same time
be removed and destroyed and all the subsequent innumerable lifelong
chronic sufferings springing from the Psora
be prevented or, if they are already embittering the life of the
patient, be cured.The diseases, partly acute
but chiefly chronic, springing from such a one-sided destruction of
the chief skin-symptom (eruption and itching) which acts vicariously
and assuages the internal Psora (which destruction is erroneously
called “Driving the itch into the
body”) are innumerable; as manifold as the
peculiarities of bodily constitutions and of the outer world which
modifies them.A brief survey of the
manifold misfortunes resulting thence is given by the experienced and
honest LUDWIG CHRISTIAN JUNCKER in his Dissertatio
de Damno ex Scabie Repulsa, Halle, 1750, p. 15-18. He
observed that with young people of a sanguine temperament the
suppression of itch is followed by phthisis, and with persons in
general who are of a sanguine temperament it is followed by piles, hæmorrhoidal
colic and renal gravel; with persons of sanguino-choleric temperament
by swellings of the inguinal glands, stiffening of the joints and
malignant ulcers (called in German Todenbrüche);
with fat persons by a suffocating catarrh and mucous consumption; also
by inflammatory fever, acute pleurisy and inflammation of the lungs.
He further states that in autopsies the lungs have been found
indurated and full of cysts containing pus; also other indurations,
swellings of the bones and ulcers have been seen to follow the
suppression of an eruption. Phlegmatic persons in consequence of such
suppressions suffered chiefly from dropsy; the menses were delayed,
and when the itch was driven away during their flow, they were changed
into a monthly hæmoptysis. Persons inclined to melancholy were
sometimes made insane by such repression; if they were pregnant the fœtus
was usually killed. Sometimes the suppression of the itch causes
sterility, [*] in nursing
women the milk is generally lacking, the menses disappear prematurely;
in older women the uterus becomes ulcerated, attended with deep,
burning pains, with wasting away (cancer of the womb).[*]
A pregnant
Jewess had the itch on her hands and drove it away in the eighth
month of her pregnancy so that it might not be seen during the
period of her delivery. Three days afterwards she was delivered and
the lochial discharge did not appear and she was seized with a high
fever; since that time for seven years she had been sterile and had
suffered from leucorrhœa. Then she became poor and had to walk a
great distance barefooted; hereupon the itch again appeared and she
thus lost her leucorrhœa and her other hysteric affections; she
became again pregnant and was safely delivered. (Juncker,
ibid.)His experiences were
frequently confirmed by the observations [*]
of others, as e. g. with reference
to[*]
When writing the fast edition of the Chronic Diseases, I was not as
yet acquainted with Autenrieth’s
Versuche fuer die prakt. Heilkunde aus den
Klinishen Anstalten von Tübingen, 1808. But I saw on
examining the work, that what he says about diseases following the
driving away of itch through local applications is only a
confirmation of what I had already found with the other hundred
writers. He also had observed that the external driving away of itch
was followed by ulcers on the feet, pulmonary consumption,
hysterical chlorosis with various menstrual irregularities; white
swelling of the knee, dropsy of the joints, epilepsy, amaurosis,
with obscured cornea; glaucoma, with complete amaurosis; mental
derangement, paralysis, apoplexy and curvature of the neck; these he
erroneously attributed to the ointments alone. But his own slow
local driving away of the eruption by means of sulphuret of potash
and soft soap, which he in vain calls healing
it, is in no way better. Just as if his treatment were anything else
than a local driving away of the eruption from the skin! Of any true
cure he knows just as little as the other Allopaths, for he writes:
“It is, of course, absurd to endeavor to cure itch (scab) by
internal remedies.” No! it is not only absurd, but even
watched to undertake to cure an internal itch-disease which cannot
be cured by any local application, through any but internal
means, which alone can cure the disease thoroughly
and with certainty.Asthma,
Lentilius Miscell. med. pract.
Tom. I., p. 176. Fr. Hoffmann Abhandlung
v. d. Kinderkrankheitenn, Frft., 1741, p. 104. Detharding
in Append. ad Ephem. Nat. Cur. Dec. III., ann
5 et 6 et in obs. parallel. ad obs. 58. Binninger,
Obs. Cent. V., obs. 88. Morgagni,
de sedibus et. caus. morb. Epist.
XIV., 35. Acta Nat. Cur. Tom. V obs.
47. J. Juncker, Consp.
ther. spec. tab. 31. F. H. L.
Muzell, Wahrnehm. Samml.
II. Cas. 8. [1]
J. Fr. Gmelin in Gesner’s Samml.
v. Beob. V. S. 21. [2]
Hundertmark.-Zieger Dissert.
de scabie artificiale, Lips. 1758, p. 32. [3]
Beireis-Stammen. Diss.
de causis cur imprismis plebs scabie laboret. Helmst.,
1792, p. 26. [4]
Pelargus (Storch)
Obs. clin. Jahrg., 1722, p. 435 n
438. [5] Breslauer
Sammlung v. Jahre 1727, p. 293. [6]
Riedlin, the father, Obs.
Cent. II., obs. 90.
Augsburg, 1691. [7]Suffocating
Catarrh, Ehrenfr. Hagendorn, hist.
med. phys. Cent. I., hist
8, 9. [8] Pelargus,
Obs. clin. Jahrg., 1723, p. 15. [9]—–
[1]
A man 30 to 40 years of age had been afflicted with the itch a long
time before, and it had been driven away by ointments; from which
time he had become more and more asthmatic. His respiration became
at last, even when not in motion, very short and extremely labored,
emitting at the same time a continuous hissing sound, but attended
with only little coughing. He was ordered an injection of one drachm
of squills, and to take internally 3 grains of squills. But by
mistake he took the drachm of squills internally. He was near losing
his life with an indescribable nausea and retching. Soon after this
the itch appeared again on his hands, his feet and his whole body in
great abundance, and by this means the asthma was at once removed.[2]
The violent asthma was combined with general swelling and fever.[3]
A man of 32 years had the itch driven away by sulphur ointment, and
he suffered for eleven months from the most violent asthma until by
drinking birch-juice the eruption was brought back on the
twenty-third day.[4]
A student was seized with the itch just as he was going to dance, on
which account he had it driven out by a practitioner with sulphur
ointment. But soon after, he was attacked by such a severe asthma
that he could only draw breath by throwing his head back, and was
almost suffocated during the attacks. After thus wrestling with
death for an hour, he would cough up little cartilaginous pieces
which would ease him for a very short time. Having returned home to
Osterode he suffered continually for two years of this disease,
being attacked about ten times a day, which could not even be
mitigated through the help of his physician, Beireis[5]
A boy of 13 years having suffered from his childhood with tinea
capitis had his mother remove it for him, but he became
very sick within eight or ten days, suffering with asthma, violent
pains in the limbs, back and knee, which were not relieved until an
eruption of itch broke out over his whole body a mouth later.[6]
Tinea capitis in a little girl
was driven away by purgatives and other medicines, but the child was
attacked with oppression of the chest, cough and great lassitude. It
was not until she stopped taking the medicines, and the tinea broke
out again, that she recovered her cheerfulness and this, indeed,
quickly.[7]
A boy of 5 years suffered for a long time from itch, and when this
was driven away by a salve it left behind a severe melancholy with a
cough.[8]
Owing to tinea capitis, which
had been driven off by rubbing with almond oil, there arose an
excessive lassitude of all the limbs, headache on one side, loss of
appetite, asthma, waking up at night with suffocating catarrh, with
severe rattling and whistling on the chest and convulsive twisting
of the limbs, as if about to die, and hematuria. When the tinea
broke out again, he recovered from all these ailments.A 3-year-old
girl had the itch, for several weeks; when this was driven out by an
ointment she was seized the next day by a suffocating catarrh with
snoring, and with numbness and coldness of the whole body, from
which she did not recover until the itch re-appeared.[9]
A girl of twelve years had the itch with which she had frequently
suffered, driven away from the skin by an ointment, when she was
seized with an acute fever with suffocative catarrh, asthma and
swelling, and afterward with pleurisy. Six days afterward, having
taken an internal medicine containing sulphur, the itch again
appeared and all the ailments, excepting the swelling, disappeared
but after twenty-four days the itch again dried up, which was
followed by a new inflammation in the chest with pleurisy and
vomiting.
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