SYPHILINUM
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- pains from darkness to daylight; begin with twilight and end with daylight
- pains increase and decrease gradually; shifting and require frequent change of position
- all symptoms are worse at night; from sundown to sunrise
- eruptions: dull, red, copper-colored spots, becoming blue when getting cold
- extreme emaciation of entire body
- heart: lancinating pains from base to apex, at night
- loss of memory; cannot remember names of books, persons or places; arithmetical calculation difficult
- sensation: as if going insane, as if about to be paralyzed; of apathy and indifference
- terrible dread of night on account of mental and physical exhaustion on awakening; it is intolerable, death is preferable
- fears the terrific suffering from exhaustion on awakening
- leucorrhoea; profuse; soaking through the napkins and running down the heels
- headache, neuralgic in character, causing sleeplessness and delirium at night; commencing at 4 p. m.; worse from 10 to 11 and ceasing at daylight; falling of the hair
- acute ophthalmia neonatorum; lids swollen, adhere during sleep; pain intense at night from 2 to 5 a. m., pus profuse; by cold bathing
- ptosis: paralysis of superior oblique; sleepy look from drooping lids
- diplopia, one image seen below the other
- teeth: decay at edge of gum and break off; are cupped, edges serrated; dwarfed in size, converge at their tips
- craving alcohol, in any form
- hereditary tendency to alcoholism
- obstinate constipation for year; rectum seems tied up with strictures; when enema was used the agony of passage was like labor
- fissures in anus and rectum
- prolapse of rectum
- obstinate cases with a syphilitic history
- rheumatism of the shoulder joint, or at insertion of deltoid, from raising arm laterally
- when the best selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently improve, in syphilitic affections
- syphilitics, or patients who have had chancre treated by local means, and as a result have suffered from throat and skin troubles for years