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   - Is the condition more common, but hidden under a different name, such as eruption, wart, outgrowth, callosity, nodule etc.?   - Is the condition more common, but hidden under a different name, such as eruption, wart, outgrowth, callosity, nodule etc.?
  
-Digging into the issue, I have discovered the term "​wart" ​seem to include all kinds of outgrowths and unless more properly described, it could mean almost anything. To make the matter more confused, "​corns"​ seem to refer to either //plantar warts// or //​calluses//​ or even both of them. If you Google-search for plantar warts images, you will discover all kind of warts which look quite dissimilar; it looks like the name is not specific enough to be used as a notion that is //specific enough for homeopathy//​.+Digging into the issue, I have discovered the term "​wart" ​seems to include all kinds of outgrowths and unless more properly described, it could mean almost anything. To make the matter more confused, "​corns"​ seem to refer to either //plantar warts// or //​calluses//​ or even both of them. If you Google-search for plantar warts images, you will discover all kind of warts which look quite dissimilar; it looks like the name is not specific enough to be used as a notion that is //specific enough for homeopathy//​.
  
 [[en:​rem:​r220|Kalium arsenicosum]] is a small remedy, poorly described in our materia medica, UNLESS, of course, we recognize it is thoroughly mixed with the provings of [[en:​rem:​r8|Arsenicum album]] (it was the chief preparation of arsenic used by allopaths), which does little to simplify the matter. At least we can be reasonably sure the corns-on-palms symptoms belongs to Kalium arsenicosum specifically. [[en:​rem:​r220|Kalium arsenicosum]] is a small remedy, poorly described in our materia medica, UNLESS, of course, we recognize it is thoroughly mixed with the provings of [[en:​rem:​r8|Arsenicum album]] (it was the chief preparation of arsenic used by allopaths), which does little to simplify the matter. At least we can be reasonably sure the corns-on-palms symptoms belongs to Kalium arsenicosum specifically.
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 Later, Lycopodium was prescribed, with some general improvement (more calm, less nervous), but no improvement with the warts. Later, Lycopodium was prescribed, with some general improvement (more calm, less nervous), but no improvement with the warts.
  
-{{:​en:​hand_after.jpg?​direct&​200 |}}Even later, after some months, by accident / act of Providence / lucky fortune or something similar, the wife of the patient told him to take the previous remedy, Kalium arsenicosum,​ for reason ​unknown to me (but certainly not instructed to do so) and, believe it or not, his corns //​dissappeared overnight// -- evening, there, morning not there... and did not return till this day, which is about two years. Now his [[http://​www.legatum.sk/​_media/​en:​hand_after.jpg|hands look like this]].+{{:​en:​hand_after.jpg?​direct&​200 |}}Even later, after some months, by accident / act of Providence / lucky fortune or something similar, the wife of the patient told him to take the previous remedy, Kalium arsenicosum,​ for reasons ​unknown to me (but certainly not instructed to do so) and, believe it or not, his corns //​dissappeared overnight// -- evening, there, morningnot there... and did not return till this day, which is about two years. Now his [[http://​www.legatum.sk/​_media/​en:​hand_after.jpg|hands look like this]].
  
 It certainly looked like Hahnemann'​s theory of miasms and antimiasmatics has something going for it, but the whole progress of the case and the final magical disappearance of the corns that survived the "​best"​ allopathic treatment, makes this case a head-scratcher. It certainly looked like Hahnemann'​s theory of miasms and antimiasmatics has something going for it, but the whole progress of the case and the final magical disappearance of the corns that survived the "​best"​ allopathic treatment, makes this case a head-scratcher.
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