Vaccininum.
Vaccininum. A Nosode. Trituration of vaccine matter.
Clinical.─
Cheloid. Eczema. Leprosy. Nævus. Nephritis. Small-pox. Tumours. Vaccinia. Vaccinosis. Whooping-cough.
Characteristics.─
Vaccinia, Small-pox, and Grease
of horses are inter-related diseases, and the nosodes of each are available for the
treatment or prevention of manifestations of all three. The vaccine poison is capable of
setting up a morbid state of extreme chronicity, named by Burnett Vaccinosis.
And it may do this without causing the primary symptoms: when the vaccination apparently
does not “take.” The symptoms of vaccinosis are protean, and are for the most part
identical with the symptoms of the Sycosis of Hahnemann. Vaccinosis is a sycotic disease.
Neuralgias, inveterate skin eruptions, chilliness, indigestion with great flatulent
distension, are leading features of the vaccinal dyscrasia, and therefore indications for
the nosode. There is another disease to which vaccinia is related, and that is
whooping-cough. Some years ago an old-school observer vaccinated for some reason a child
whilst suffering from whooping-cough, and the whooping-cough vanished. He repeated the
experiment in other cases, and with such signal success that he wrote to the journals to
recommend it as a routine practice in the case of unvaccinated children. On the other hand,
homœopathic observers have seen whooping-cough follow immediately on vaccination, and have
cured it with Thuj. 30. Turiansky (B. M. J., December 12, 1891) tried hypodermic injections of
freshly collected calf vaccine in a series of cases of tuberculosis of the lung apices, and
states that they were “invariably, though somewhat slowly, followed by most decided
amelioration both of the subjective and objective phenomena.” The temperature became
normal, appetite and sleep improved, night-sweats, dyspnœa, muscular weakness, and painful
sensations decreased; cough lessened or disappeared; sputa became thicker and whiter, pulse
slower; urine increased; body weight increased; bacilli decreased and degenerated. The exact
amount and form of the injections is not stated. Here is a case in the potencies: Garrison (N. A. J. H., quoted H. R., x.
278) was consulted by a lady, 50, of phthisical family. She had consolidation of both
apices; had been losing flesh for three months; severe night-sweats; almost constant,
hacking cough, with considerable expectoration at times. Vacc.
200, one dose. In a week she reported that she had not had a severe coughing spell since the
dose, and for the last three days hardly any cough at all. She received one dose of Vacc. a week, and at the end of six weeks returned to business.
If a child has a nævus it is the rule, when possible, to vaccinate on the nævus. The
inflammation and subsequent scarring destroy the growth. But that does not completely
explain the cure: vaccinia is causally related to the production of new growths. Over a year
ago a young lady came to me shortly after having been revaccinated under some Government
rule. There had been nothing abnormal in the course of the vaccinia, but after the scabs
fell off there was much pain in the arm, and each of the scars began to grow, and when I saw
them were well-developed cheloids. Thuja removed the
pains but did not arrest the growth. Under Malan. 200
they have now all but disappeared. Frölich (B. M. J.,
October 15, 1898) relates the case of a child, 6 1/2, who had well-developed nephritis seven
days after vaccination with calf vaccine. The first symptom was puffed eyelids, then pain
and swelling of scrotum; on the fourteenth day the urine contained blood, inguinal glands
enlarged and tender, slight œdema of legs. The urine contained blood and alumen for another
month, when recovery took place. Other cases of this kind have been observed. The symptoms
of the Schema are partly pathogenetic and partly cured. Peculiar
Sensations are: As if forehead were split. As if heated or over-exerted in lower
extremities. As if bones of leg were broken and undergoing process of comminution. Burnett
says the < time of Vacc.
is the early morning. One symptom is: “Waked in middle of night by pain in forehead and
eyes as if split, and stinging in temples.”
Relations.─
Antidoted by:
Thuj., Apis, Sul., Ant. t., Sil., Malan. Compare: In
small-pox, Var., Malan., Thuj., Ant. t. Sarr. Nephritis, Apis, Merc. c. Phthisis, Bacil.,
Tub. Whooping-cough, Thuj., Meph., Coc. c., Coral.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─
Crying.─Ill-humour,
with restless sleep.─Nervous, impatient, irritable; disposition to be
troubled by things.─Morbid fear of taking small-pox.
2. Head.─
Frontal headache.─Forehead
felt as if it would split in two in median line from root of nose to top of head.─Stitches
in r. temple.─Eruption like crusta lactea.
3. Eyes.─
Tinea, tarsi and conjunctivitis in a
woman, æt. 28, remaining as result of variola in infancy, conjunctivæ painfully sensitive.─Weak
eyes; feeling in forehead as if it were split.─Inflamed eyelids.─Redness
of eyes and face, with small pimples on face and hands.─Keratitis after
vaccination.
5. Nose.─
Full feeling of head, with running at
nose.─Bleeding at nose preceded by a feeling of contraction above and
between eyebrows, soon after eating meat; menses rather profuse and too frequent; cured by
revaccination.
6. Face.─
Redness and distension of face, chill
running down back.─Swelling of neck under r. ear (parotid gland) with
sensation like being cut.
8. Mouth.─
Tongue coated, dryish yellow, with
papillæ showing through coat.─Dry mouth and tongue.
10. Appetite.─
Appetite gone, disgust to taste,
smell, and appearance of food.─Coffee tastes sour.
11. Stomach.─
Aching in pit of stomach, with short
breath.
12. Abdomen.─
A stitch in hepatic region, at
margin of last lower rib, axillary line.─Stitch in splenic region.─Blown
up with flatulence.
14. Urinary Organs.─
Nephritis with albuminuria,
hæmaturia, and dropsy, developed eleven days after vaccination; child recovered.
17. Respiratory Organs.─
Short breath with aching
in pit of stomach, and pressure in region of heart.─Whooping-cough.
18. Chest.─
Stitch in l. side of chest,
anteriorly, under short ribs.─Stitches in r. side under short ribs in
front from r. to l., then at corresponding place in l. side, but from l. to r., lasting five
minutes, felt in liver and spleen.
19. Heart.─
Febrile action of heart and arteries.
20. Back.─
Backache.─Aching
pain in back, < in lumbar region, extending around
waist.
22. Upper Limbs.─
Severe pains in l. upper arm at
vaccination mark, could not raise it in morning.─Rheumatic pains in
wrists and hands.─Cheloids on re-vaccination marks.
23. Lower Limbs.─
Tearing in l. thigh downward.─Soreness
of lower extremities, as if heated or over-exerted.─Legs ached
immoderately, hardly able to get about, a break-bone sensation, and a feeling as if bones
were undergoing process of comminution.
24. Generalities.─
Restlessness.─General
malaise.─Languor, lassitude.─Tired all over, with
stretching, gaping feeling; unnatural fatigue.─Child wants to be
carried.─Many persons faint when being vaccinated.
25. Skin.─
Skin hot and dry.─A
general eruption, similar to cow-pox.─Small pimples develop at point of
vaccination with fourth dilution.─Red pimples or blotches in various
parts, most evident when warm.─Eruption of pustules with a dark-red base
and a roundish or oblong elevation, filled with pus of a greenish-yellow colour, resembling
varioloid, some as large as a pea, some less, without depression in the centre, coming with
a round, hard feel in the skin (like a shot), very itchy.─Tingling
burning in skin over whole body, most intense in skin of forehead and in lower and anterior
portion of hairy scalp, which parts are tinged with a scarlet blush, or efflorescence,
similar to the immediate precursor of variolous eruption.─Vaccininum 6, in water, for one day with strict diet, repeated
after eight days, acted as preventive in six hundred cases.─Treated a
great many cases of variola and varioloid during last eighteen years, some of them of the
most desperate character, and yet never lost a case when employing vaccine virus as a
remedy; moreover, none of the cases so treated were ever troubled with hæmorrhage, or with
delirium, or secondary fevers, or were ever disfigured with pitting.─Vaccininum 200th quickly >
severer symptoms of variola occurring in a child, æt. six months; two days before
appearance of eruption had been revaccinated (after an interval of eight days) on a nævus
near r. nipple; deglutition difficult through implication of tongue and fauces; pustules,
many of large size, scattered over scalp, face, body, and limbs.
26. Sleep.─
Waked in middle of night by pain in
forehead and eyes as if split, and stinging in temples.
27. Fever.─
Fever, with heat, thirst, tossing
about, crying, aversion to food.─Chill with shaking.® 2000
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