Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

syphilitic cases where the nasal bones are destroyedand the nose becomes a flabby bag, is sunken in orulcerated away, leaving an opening. Silica may cureand an artificial nose be made afterwards. competes with Silica in syphilitic nasalcatarrhs where the parts are phagedenic; and , are the principal antisyphiliticswhen there is phagedenic ulceration of the nose.Babies suffer from bloody nasal discharge. This isoften The aspect of the Silica face is silky,anemic, waxy, tired.Pustular and vesicular eruptions spread over the face,the wings of the nose crack, the lips easily fissure;crusts form on the margin between the mucousmembrane and the skin; eruptions and crusts,indurations form under the crusts, they peel off andthere is no healing. These indurations are the samekind of inferior tissue that is found under lupus andepithelioma, a low tissue formation, a low state ofeczema that favors infiltration.The small blood-vessels that lead to them becomethicker and thicker until they become gristly. There isa tendency to make the soft tissues harder and thehard tissues harder.In childhood the bones become softer and evennecrose or there is an inflammation of the periosteumand a consequent necrosis.Caries of the shaft of the long bones, the head of thebones and the cartilaginous portions; abscesses incartilages, enchondromata. Bones break down andform fistulous openings.Necrosis of the jaw, the joints, the hip-joint, the tibia,necrosis of the spine, of the vertebrae, so that there iscurvature of the spine, lateral especially. Thehomeopathic physicians may treat these affections ofthe bones with the help of accessory contrivances orsupports.The Silica patient has rough lips, they crack and peel;rhagades. Scaly appearances at the margins of thelips, fissures in the corners of the mouth that indurate.There is often a line of fissure about the margin of thecrust. Little crusts like epithelioma form upon the