Panaritium

-- C. M. Boger, 1929

Anthracin: With sloughing and terrible burning; after Ars.

Apis: Burning, stinging, throbbing; run-arounds; dissecting wounds; sense of looseness of nails; fine burning and pricking.

Arsenicum: Gangrene; wants parts wrapped; burning.

Fluoric acid: Amel.: cold bathing, left hand; points on dorsum; bone felons; deforming nails; blister on part; discharging an acid fluid; burning, as if; prickings in.

Hepar: Agg. least touch or weight of poultice, right hand; chilliness; throbbing, gathering pain; > heat; sticking pains.

Lachesis: Gangrene; bluish color; proud flesh; visible pulsation; jerking; < by covers; gnawing or crawling in.

Ledum: From punctured wounds, hangnails, etc.; > cold; upward pressure under nail; as of needles under nail; periosteum sore.

Nat. sul.: Begins as a blister (Flu. ac.); > outdoors; runarounds; lives in damp places; burning in fingertips; boring, drawing, pressing, stitching pains; tearing, beating, ulcerative pain.

Nux vom.: Cross and sits by fire (Hep.); > heat; wants doors and windows shut; jerking, sticking pains; acute senses. Thumb generally.

Pulsatilla: Chilliness (Hep.); > cold and open air; < letting part hang down (Bell.); tearful; stitches.

Silica: Bone felons; run-arounds; deforming the nail; < heat; splinter-like pains; tendons and cartilages attacked; suppurating, numbing sticking pain.

Sulph.: Hangnail; as of a sticking splinter; burning crawling; prickling; < hanging down; tearing drawing; shooting; < evening.

PARKERSBURG, W VA.

*Excerpted from The Medical Century and other sources, for ready reference.