-This is a dry eruption, consisting of redness of the skin, usually in spots and covered with white scales. It is called popularly “tetter.”
General Treatment.-Apply nothing locally. Plain, wholesome diet and healthy manner of living are the best general measures to adopt.
Medicines.-(Two or three times a day.)Medicines should be given for a long time, but not continuously. They may be given for a fortnight, and then left off for a fortnight. Also the dilutions may be changed form time to time;as the reaction to one dilution diminishes another may be given.
Petrol.3.
-In most cases.
Arsen.3.
-In debilitated subjects, thin, wasted, anxious.
GRaph.6.
-Especially when it occurs on the palms of the hands and at the back of the ears.
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica