Erythrinus.
A kind of Red Mullet. South America. N. O. Erythrininć. Tincture of the
fish.Clinical.─
Pityriasis rubra. Syphilis.
Characteristics.─
Dr. Burnett is the authority for
this medicine. He bases his use of it on an account of its effects on some sailors who ate
the fish. They came out with a peculiar red rash which became chronic, and which the doctors
took for a form of syphilis. Dr. Burnett cured with it a case of pityriasis rubra appearing
in a large patch on the chest, and benefited other cases. He believes this form of skin
affection to be a manifestation of syphilis in the second generation, the father of the
patient he cured having had syphilis. Aurum muriaticum
is the complementary remedy.® 2000
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