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The Homoeopathic Treatment of Eczema

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DERMATOLOGY
The allopathic vs. the homoeopathic view, Clinical features and repertory rubrics, Allopathic treatment, Complications, Other skin conditions that may resemble eczema, Relevant terms defined, Collaboration with the patient's general practitioner

TAKING THE CASE OF AN ECZEMA PATIENT
Starting with particulars, Open questions, Direct questions, Modalities, Concomitant symptoms, Alternating symptoms, Aetiology, The medical biography, General case-taking techniques

CASE ANALYSIS
Repertories, Particulars in case analysis, Which totality?, The hologram analogy, Characteristic symptoms, Lack of mental symptoms, Acorns and oaks, Severe cases and the 'small totality', Superficial symptoms, suppression and proving, Mild to moderate eczema cases, Definitely maybe, Suppression or unfoldment?, Small patients and the small totality, A caution: seek the biggest totality, Symptoms and symbols, illness as metaphor, Reverse elimination

REASONS FOR FAILURE
Educating the patient, The elusive simillimum, Looking for polychrests, Lateral thinking - non-repertorial prescriptions, Inflexibility, Going too deep, Being too shallow, Hydrocortisone, Incurable cases

AGGRAVATION AND MANAGEMENT
Commonsense precautions, Predicting aggravation, Potency, dosage and aggravation, Treating aggravation, Deteriorating cases, Topical applications, Dietary measures, Nutritional supplements

MATERIA MEDICA
The following forty-two remedies studied under the headings 'Characteristic Eczema Symptoms', 'The Itch', 'Characteristic Mental Symptoms', and 'Most Useful General Symptoms':

Alumina, Apis, Arsenicum Alb., Belladonna, Berberis, Bovista, Calc. Carb., Calc. Sulph., Carcinosin, Cicuta, Clematis, Croton Tig., Dulcamara, Graphites, Hepar Sulph., Ignatia, Juglans Cin., Kali Sulph., Lachesis, Lycopodium, Manganum, Medorrhinum, Merc. Sol., Mezereum, Natrum Mur., Nitric Ac., Oleander, Petroleum, Phosphorus, Psorinum, Pulsatilla, Rhus Tox., Rhus Ven., Sarsaparilla, Sepia, Skookum Chuck, Staphysagria, Sulphur, Thuja, Tuberculinum, Vinca Minor, Viola Tricolor