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In carbuncle, malignant ulcer and complaints with ulceration, sloughing
and intolerable burning. When Arsenicum or the best selected remedy
fails to relieve the burning pain of carbuncle or malignant ulceration.
Haemorrhages: blood oozes from mouth, nose, anus or sexual organs;
black, thick, tar-like, rapidly decomposing (Crot.). Septic fever,
rapid loss of strength, sinking pulse, delirium and fainting (Pyr.).
Gangrenous ulcers; felon, carbuncle, erysipelas of a malignant type.
Felon: the worst cases, with sloughing and terrible burning pain
(Ars., Carb. ac., Lach.). Malignant pustule; black or blue blisters;
often fatal in twenty- four or forty-eight hours (Lach., Pyr.).
Carbuncle; with horrible burning pains; discharge of ichorous offensive
pus. Dissecting wounds, especially if tendency is to become gangrenous;
septic fever, marked prostration (Ars., Pyr.). Suspicous insect
stings. If the swelling changes color and red streaks from the wound
map out the course of lymphatics (Lach., Pyr.). Septic inflammation
from absorption or pus or other deleterious substances, with burning
pain and great prostration (Ars., Pyr.). Epidemic spleen diseases
of cattle, horses and sheep. Bad effects from inhaling foul odors
of putrid fever or dissecting-room; poisoning by foul breath (Pyr.).
Hering says: "To call a carbuncle a surgical disease is the
greatest absurdity. An incision is always injurious and often fatal.
A case has never been lost under the right kind of treatment, and
it should always be treated by internal medicine only.".
Relations. - Similar: to, Ars., Carb. ac., Lach., Sec., Pyr., in
malignant and septic conditions. Compare: Euphor. in the terrible
pains of cancer, carbuncle or erysipelas when Ars. or Anth. fail
to >.
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