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he has on a shirt that he has worn many weeks; if he had not a wife to attend to him, he would wear hisshirt until it fell off from him.Cleanliness is not a great idea with the Sulfur patient; he thinks it is not necessary. ; he does not see the necessity of putting on a clean collar and cuffs and a clean shirt; it does notworry him. Sulfur is seldom indicated in cleanly people, but it is commonly indicated in those who arenot disturbed by uncleanliness. When attending the public clinic I have many times noticed that afterSulfur an individual begins to take notice of himself and puts on a clean shirt, whereas his earlierappearances were in the one same old shirt. And it is astonishing how the Sulfur patients, especially thelittle ones, can get their clothing dirty so fast. Children have the most astonishing tendency to be filthy.Mothers tell you of the filthy things that little ones will do if they be Sulfur patients. The child issubject to catarrhal discharges from the nose, the eyes and from other parts, and he often eats thedischarge from the nose. Now, that is peculiar, because offensive odors are the things that the Sulfurpatient loathes. He is ; but filthy substances themselves he will eat andswallow. He becomes nauseated even from the odor of his own body and of his own breath. The odorof the stool is so offensive that it will follow him around all day. He thinks he can smell it.Because of his sensitiveness to odors he is more cleanly about his bowels than anything else. Itis an exaggerated sense of smell. He is always imagining and hunting for offensive odors. He hascommonly such a strong imagination that he smells the things which he has only in memory.The Sulfur patient has throughout. He is the victim of . He has afilthy breath, he has an intensely fetid stool; he has filthy smelling genitals, which can be smelled in theroom in spite of his clothing, and he himself smells them. The discharges are always more or less fetid,having strong, offensive odors. In spite of constant washing the axillae give out a pungent odor, and attimes the whole body gives off an odor like that coming from the axillae.The of Sulfur from every part of the body, besides being offensive, are. The Sulfur is afflicted with , and the catarrhaldischarges everywhere excoriate him. Often with the coryza the discharge excoriates the lips and thenose. At times the fluid that remains in the nose smarts like fire, and when it comes in contact with thechild's lip it burns, so acrid is it; almost like the condition under , so red will be theparts that are touched by it. There is copious leucorrhoea that excoriates the genitals. The thin fecescause burning and rawness around the anus. In women if a drop of urine remains about the genitals itwill burn; very often it is not sufficient to wipe it away, it must be washed away to relieve the smarting.In children we find excoriation about the anus and between the buttocks; the whole length of thefissure is red, raw and inflamed from the stool. From this tendency a keynote has been constructed, andnot a bad one either, "all the fluids burn the parts over which they pass", which is the same as sayingthat the fluids are acrid and cause smarting. This is true everywhere in Sulfur.The Sulfur patient has all sorts of . There are vesicular, pustular, furuncular, scalyeruptions, all attended , and some of them with discharge and suppuration. Theskin, even without any eruption, itches much, itches from the warmth of the bed and from wearingwoolen clothing. Many times the Sulfur patient cannot wear anything except silk or cotton. The warmthof the room will drive him to despair if he cannot get at the itching part to scratch it. After scratchingthere is burning with relief of the itching. After scratching or getting into the warmth of the bed greatwhite welts come out all over the body, with much itching, and these he keeps on scratching until theskin becomes raw, or until it burns, and then comes a relief of the itching. This process goes oncontinuously; dreadful itching at night in bed, and in the morning when he wakes up he starts in againand the eruptions itch and ooze. Crops of boils and little boil-like eruptions come out and this makes ituseful in impetigo.This remedy is useful in . It establishes all sorts of suppurating cavities, smallabscesses and large abscesses; abscesses beneath the skin, in the cellular tissues and in internal organs.The suppurative tendency is very marked in Sulfur. The glands become inflamed and the inflammationgoes on to suppuration.Wherever there is a Sulfur complaint you will find .Every part burns; burning where there is congestion; burning of the skin or a sensation of heatin the skin; burning here and there in spots; burning in the glands, in the stomach, in the lungs; burningin the bowels, in the rectum; burning and smarting in the hemorrhoids; burning when passing urine, ora sensation of heat in the bladder. There is heat here and there, but when the patient describessomething especially typical of Sulfur she says: "Burning of the soles of the feet, in the palms of thehands, and on the top of the head". Burning of the soles of the feet will very often be noticed after thepatient becomes warm in bed. The Sulfur patient has so much heat and burning of the soles at night inbed that he puts the feet out from beneath the clothes, sleeps with the feet outside the covering. The