Tumors – 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

Tumors.

Tumors :-

Bony :-

CALC-F.,
Kali-m., Sil.

Cephalhæmatoma :-

Calc-f., Merc.,
Sil.

Almost whole left
parietal bone covered with large soft elastic swelling :-

Sil.

Sanguineous,
occipital :-

Calc-p.

Encephaloma :-

Croc.

Enchondrosis, large
hard swelling, but soft in some places, in child’s head, beginning
above ears, extends to larynx :-

Sil.

Growth as large as a
dollar on middle of forehead, projecting about 4 lines, came and
went spontaneously and suddenly :-

Mez.

Hard, from size of pea
to that of a hazel or walnut, enlarge, break open and discharge
viscous yellow-brownish ichor :-

Hippoz.

Keloid, in temporal
region :-

Sil.

Lipoma :-

Croc.

Malignant :-

Calc.

Painful :-

Hep.

Sanguineous,
occipital :-

Calc-p.

Sebaceous :-

BAR-C.,
Kali-c.

Hairless, easily
suppurating, every 4 weeks at full moon, painful, especially in open
air :-

Calc.

Inflamed and ready to
discharge :-

Hep.

Smooth and
shining :-

Sil.

Suppurate and form
ulcers :-

Anan.

Soft :-

Scalp, on :-

Petr.

Elastic, on parietal
bone, as large as a hen’s egg, visible pulsations, a sharp, rough,
indented opening could be felt in underlying bone, tumor denuded of
hair :-

Phos.