M.D. Late Professor of Materia Medica in Hering College, Chicago. There is the history of a long period of scanty menstruation, or the menses have been delayed until the patient was eighteen or twenty years of age. A strong feature is the great soreness of the periosteum, and especially of the shin bone. Tendency to ulceration and eruptions, and around these there is thickening and infiltration.
Small ulcers suppurate and infiltrate with purple hardness.
It has a deep action, breaks down the blood corpuscles and lays the foundation for tuberculosis, especially in the larynx. Repeated attacks of laryngitis, each leaving the patient in a worse state than before. Tuberculosis that begins in the larynx. Aversion to food, no appetite, nothing will tempt him. This, with great soreness over the body, lays the foundation for some deep complaint.