Petroleum

1 . Fair-complexioned subjects who take cold easily.

2 . Irritability and quarrelsomeness ; trifles offend.

3 . Low fevers with delirium ; patient imagines there is another person in the bed ; that he is double ; that two babies are in the bed beside her.

4 . Occipital vertigo or headache with pressure and heaviness like lead.

5 . Ailments from riding in vehicles, etc. ; seasickness.

6 . Gastric complaints > by constant eating ; nausea in the morning with accumulation of water in the mouth.

7 . Diarrhoea (lienteric) and dysentery only in the daytime ; gushing ; from taking cold or eating cabbage ; from suppressed skin eruptions ; discharges offensive.

8 . Skin complaints ; (a) skin dry, rough and cracked ; sore and bleeding ; < winter, washing, contact of clothes, etc. ; especially tips of fingers ; painful, itching chilblains ; (b) herpetic and eczematous eruptions ; parts fiery-red and raw, oozing a thick gelatinous fluid ; violent itching and burning ; may go on to formation of thick crusts oozing pus.

9 . Chronic rheumatism with great stiffness of joints ; cracking sounds on movement.

10 . Modalities ; < before and during thunder-storm ; in winter .