MERCURIUS CYANIDE.
Is almost specific. Especially where the mouth is foul, and there is a vile taste.
LACHESIS.
Mouth not foul, disease left side: may cross to right.
Face and throat look cyanotic. Choking.
Great sensitiveness throat; patient cannot stand touch of clothing.
Aggravation from heat: after sleep. The longer the sleep, the worse on waking.
Mentals: loquacity and suspicion.
LYCOPODIUM.
Mouth not foul: disease right side, may go to left.
Warm drinks more easily swallowed: (rev. of Lachesis) but reverse sometimes the case.
Nostrils flap; frowning forehead.
PHYTOLACCA.
Membrane grey or white, (?) starts on uvula.
May spread from right tonsil to left (Lycopodium). But, unlike Lycopodium, worse from heat.
Fauces dark red: complains of lump or red-hot ball stuck in throat.
Pain goes to ear in swallowing.
LAC CANINUM.
Nervous, imaginative, highly sensitive.
Skin hypersensitive (Lachesis) Membrane pearly. Milky coating on tongue.
Characteristic feature is alternation of sides: jumps from side to side, and back.
ARSENICUM.
Membrane dry, shriveled: with anxiety, restlessness and prostration.
Worse 1 a.m.: 1-2 a.m.
Thirst for frequent sips of cold water.
DIPHTHERINUM.
Malignant from onset. Painless.
Dark-red swelling tonsils and throat.
Breath and discharge very offensive.
Temp. low, or subnormal.
Prostration and collapse from the start.
Patient, from the first, seems doomed.