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Skull – Outer Head – Chapter 4 – REPERTORY OF HERING’S GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By Calvin B. Knerr, M.D.

CHAPTER 4.
OUTER HEAD.

Dandruff
* Eruption * Fontanelles
* Forehead * Hair
* Head * Scalp
* Skull
* Tumors

Skull.

Skull :-

Bony, affections of,
structure :-

Calc-f.,
Calc-p.

Caries

(See Necrosis.) :-
Arg-m.,
Asaf., AUR.,
Hecla, Hep.,
NIT-AC.,
Ph-ac., Sil.,
Staph.

Of mastoid
process :-

AUR.,
Caps., Fl-ac.

Bone exposed and a
small piece exfoliated, after a blow :-

Nat-m.

Exostoses :-

Anan., ARG-M.,
AUR., Calc.,
CALC-F.,
Kali-i., Mez., PHOS.

Fracture :-

ARN.,
CALC-P., Symph.

Bone splintered :-

Hyper.

Compound :-

Calen.

Hernia after fractured
skull :-

Calen.

Non-union, particularly
in the aged :-

CALC-P.

Fungus :-

Causing
compression :-

Calen.

Hæmatodes :-

Phos.

Idiopathic, of dura
mater, or cranium :-

Calc-p.

Hypertrophied

(See
Exostoses, Swelling.) :-
Ferr-i.

Lapped, bones, over
during birth, parietals over each other and over occiput

(suckling
of a few weeks) :-
Op.

Necrosis,
mostly frontal

(See
Caries.) :-
Aur., Fl-ac., Hippoz.,
Kali-bi., Phos.,
Sil.

Perforated by :-

Tumors :-

Lach.,
SIL.

Hernia cerebral :-

Calc-p., Sil.

Periostitis :-

Hecla,
Kali-i.,
Ph-ac., Phos., Ruta.

Mercurial

(syphilis) :-
Kali-i., Still.

Tubercles in
periosteum :-

Hippoz.

Soft :-

Calc-p.

Styloid process, pain
as if swollen in angle in front of, worse from pressure :-

Lach.

Sutures :-

Open

(hydrocephalus) :-
Apoc., Merc.

Pressed asunder, not a
single border of a bone touches its neighbor

(hydrocephalus) :-
Merc.

Swelling :-

Still.

Bulbous :-

Sil.

Flat on left side,
osseous, containing fluid :-

Calc-f.

Hard, of whole left
side of upper portion, with numbness and shooting :-

Daph.

Inflamed, with sticking
pain, and hammering, ending in suppuration, worse from damp cold
air, better touching and rubbing :-

Calc.

Motion, worse from, and
in evening :-

MEZ.

Parietal, with newborn
children :-

Calc-f.

Parietal, near
posterior fontanelle, resembling half a goose’s egg in form and
size, fluctuating upon pressure and circumscribed by a ring of
swollen bone several days after birth :-

Merc.

Posterior, tumefaction
in, portion :-

Hydrc.

Small, extending
through orbital sutures and foramina to dura and pia mater :-

Anthraci.

Craniotabes :-

Calc-p.,
Calc-s.

Thin, crackling like
paper when pressed upon :-

Calc-p.

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