H.M.M. RECONSTITUTED about NOSODES and SARCODES according to Dr John Henry CLARKE. – By Dr Robert Séror.

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H.M.M.
RECONSTITUTED about NOSODES and SARCODES
according to Dr John Henry CLARKE.
By Dr Robert Séror.

Derived Sarcodes
(12)

Cholesterinum
*
Lac
Vaccinum Coagulatum *
Lac
Vaccinum Defloratum *
Lacticum
Acidum *
Lactis
Vaccini Flos *
Pancreatinum
*
Pepsinum
*
Pyrogenium
*
Saccharum
Lactis *
Thyroiodinum
*
Urea
* Uricum
Acidum

Cholesterinum.

Cholesterine.

C ₂₆ H ₄₄ O.

Trituration.

Clinical (Cholesterinum)

Gall-stones.

Jaundice.

Liver, cancer of ; diseases of.

Vitreous, opacities of.

Characteristics (Cholesterinum)

Cholesterine

is a substance crystallising in leaflets with a mother-of-pearl lustre
and a fatty feel. It is soluble in alcohol and ether.

It occurs in the blood and brain, yolk of eggs, seeds and buds of
plants, but most abundantly in the bile and biliary calculi.

Ameke

, who did
much to introduce the proximate principles of the tissues as remedies,
anticipating the practice now so much in vogue in the old school,
recommended Cholesterine
as a remedy in cancer of the liver.

Burnett

has
recently adduced conclusive evidence in support of the correctness of
this assertion ; and I have myself cured, mainly with this, a case
described to me (I did not see the patient, a man over 50)
as in the last stage of liver disease. He had been given up by his
medical attendant, who ordered him to make his will without delay.

Burnett

uses the
3x
or the 3
trit. and substantial doses.

He commends it in “

obstinate
hepatic engorgements, which by reason of their obstinacy make one
think interrogatively of cancer,”
also in “cases in which there appears to be a semi-malignant
affection, involving the left lobe of the liver and what lies between
it and the pylorus and the pancreas. ”

In such cases

Burnett
gives alternately Cholest.
3x
and Iodoform
3x.

It has been used with success in the removal of opacities of the
vitreous.

Lac Vaccinum
Coagulatum.

Curds.

Clinical

Nausea of pregnancy.

Characteristics

The only use that I know as having been made of

Lac.
coag. is in the
nausea of pregnancy, the indication being “Nausea
of pregnancy with desire for food and > by drinking milk (Chel.
). ”

Lac Vaccinum
Defloratum.

Skimmed Milk (cow’s). Dilution.

Clinical (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

Anæmia.

Appendicitis.

Asthma.

Bright’s disease.

Constipation.

Diabetes.

Dropsy.

Fainting spells.

Headache.

Heart, affections of.

Lactation, defective.

Leucorrhœa.

Menses, suppressed.

Obesity.

Sciatica.

Characteristics (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

“The idea of potentising

skimmed
milk originated
with Swan upon reading Donkin’s Skim Milk Treatment for Diabetes and
Bright’s disease. ”

The first proving was made by a lady in New York, in whose case the
headache and nausea with constipation were strongly marked. A
subsequent, more extensive proving was made under Swan by Dr. Laura
Morgan. “

I quote from Hering, who adds, that with but few exceptions the
symptoms of the Schema have received clinical verification. The
symptoms set up by milk in some sensitive persons, especially the
violent headache and the constipation, are a matter of common
knowledge, and it is in these affections that the remedy has
especially distinguished itself.

As milk contains within it an epitome of all the tissues and salts
of the animal which secretes it, it is natural to expect of it a wide
range of action in the attenuations. As

Natrum.
mur. is a
prominent ingredient, it is not surprising that symptoms of this are
found in the pathogenesis, e.
g. ,
“thirst for large quantities, often,” “nausea and
vomiting,” “depression with crying and palpitation. ”

The characteristic headaches of

Lac
def. are :
Periodic sick-headaches in women ; menstrual sick-headaches. Intense
headache, fore part, with nausea and constipation. Throbbing frontal
headaches in anæmic women, nausea, vomiting, and obstinate
constipation. The symptoms which specially indicate it in diabetes are
: Intense thirst ; wasting. The menses are irregular ; sometimes very
dark, scanty ; sometimes colourless water. (Lac
def. cured this
case : Menses suppressed suddenly from putting hands into cold water.
Great pain in uterine region. Intense headache. Pains fly all over.
Flushed face. Patient slept after first dose, next morning slight flow
appeared. Second dose brought back flow profusely, and patient felt
well and the flow continued. ) Nutrition is perverted.

There is loss of weight, or else obesity. Dropsy. Fatty
degeneration. Some peculiar sensations are : As though a knife was
cutting up and down through the heart. As if head would burst. As if
eyes full of little stones. As if top of head was lifted off. As if a
ball of pain in centre of forehead. As if flesh was off bones and
edges were separated and sticking out. As if objects were tossed up
from below in all directions. As if a large ball rose from lower end
of sternum to upper end of œsophagus. As if a stone in abdomen. As if
sheets were damp. As if a cold air blowing on her. It may be well to
recall in this last connection that milk is one of the articles
forbidden to hydrogenoid or chilly patients. Burnett maintains that
excess of milk in the dietary of children after they have cut their
first teeth renders them susceptible to colds.

There is periodicity in the symptoms : every eight days. Headache
ceases at sunset. Most symptoms occur in the morning. Fever and
prostration come on in afternoon. Putting hands into cold water =
suppression of menses. External heat does not > chilliness, < pain in eyeball. Sensation as if cold water were blowing on her, even while covered up warm. No position >. Lying down < vertigo ; headache ; urinary pain. Vertigo compels to sit up. Extending arms above head = fainting spells. Motion < all symptoms. < Walking ; < sitting down, though ever so gently. Abdomen is sensitive to touch. Pressure round waist = fainting spells. Pressure > pain in
eyeball (presses eyes into pillows) ; bandaging head lightly >
pain. After injury subject to distress in head.

Relations (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

Compare :

Lac can. , Lac coag. , Lact. ac. , Sacch. lac. , Vaccin. (a cow
nosode) ; Nat. m. (diabetes, headache, constipation, heart) ; Coccul.
(menstrual sick-headaches) ; Cact. (heart ; but Lac d. has not the
“grasp” of Cact. ) ; Nux m. (head heavy, tends to fall to
left─ Lac.
d. to right).

Causation (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

Injuries.

Symptoms

.

Mind (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

Can remember what has been read only by a strong effort of will.

Depression ; does not care to live ; questions as to quietest and
most certain way of hastening one’s death.

Depression with crying and palpitation (fainting spells).

Does not want to talk to any one.

During conversation, headache and depression of spirits >.

Great despondency on account of the disease, is sure he is going to
die in twenty-four hours ; without fear of death.

Imagines that all her friends will die and that she must go to a
convent (fainting spells).

Loss of memory ; listlessness, disinclination for bodily or, mental
exertion.

Vacillation of mind.

Head (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

After injury subject to distress in head ; severe pain in forehead
just above eyes ; breath offensive ; appetite poor, nausea ; at times
sleeps for hours during attack ; great distress across back ; urine
dark and thick.

Dim vision, as of cloud before eyes ; profuse urination ; full
feeling in head ; slight nausea at pit of stomach ; face pale ; feet
cold ; coldness in back.

Faintness and nausea when stepping upon floor in morning.

General sore pain of head produced by coughing.

Head feels heavy with marked tendency to fall to right

Head feels large as if growing externally.

Head heavy, falling to right side.

Headache : < during menses ; < by speaking, alternating with tonsillitis.

Headache : with pains in eyes ; as if full of little stones ; < closing eyes ; profuse urination.

In morning nausea and sensation of a round ball full of pain in
centre of forehead.

Intense pain at point of exit of supraorbital nerve, diffused
thence over forehead ; attack commences with chill, quickened pulse,
flushed face and discharges of wind from stomach.

Intense vertigo when opening eyes while lying, < when rising up ; objects appeared to move swiftly from left to right, at other times moving as if tossed up from below in every direction.

Nausea and sometimes vomiting, which > ; pain in forehead as if
head would burst, with blindness ; pain is > by bandaging head
tightly ; < by light and noise ; constipation, stools large ; hands and, feet cold (hemicrania).

Pain first in forehead, extending through occiput, making her
nearly frantic.

Pain first in forehead, then extending to occiput, very intense,
distracting and unbearable ; great photophobia, even to light of
candle ; deathly sickness all over, with nausea and vomiting, < by movement or sitting up ; very chilly, and external heat does not >
; frequent and profuse urination of very pale urine.

Severe headache, with a sensation as if top of head was lifted off,
raised about five inches and brains were coming out ; head feels hot,
motion < pain ; face felt as if flesh was off bones and their edges were separated and sticking out.

Throbbing frontal headache (over eyes), nausea, vomiting and
obstinate constipation ; esp. in anæmic women.

Vertigo : on moving head from pillow ; < lying down and esp. turning while lying, obliging to sit up.

Eyes (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

Dim vision ; can only see lights, not objects ; preceding headache.

Great pain in eyes on first going into light, soon passed off ; on
closing eyes on account of light, pain was felt in eyeballs as if from
pressure of lids.

Great photophobia, even candle light unbearable.

On closing eyelids painful pressure as if lids were short
laterally, causing sensation of band pressing upon balls.

Pain in head, most marked over left eye and in temple, extending
into eyes, and causing profuse lachrymation.

Upper eyelids feel very heavy ; sleepy all day.

Nose (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

Painful pressure or tightness at root of nose (catarrh).

Face (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

Deathly paleness of face.

Face, neck, arms and body generally flush colour of a red rose,
with swelling, but no itching or burning.

Flushes of heat in left side of face.

Pimples on face and forehead (irregular menses).

Sallow complexion with eczematous eruption.

Sensation as if all flesh was off bones of face and edges were
separated and sticking gut.

Teeth (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

Grinding of teeth when asleep, with pain in stomach and head with
vomiting.

Mouth (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

Breath very offensive.

Mouth clammy and frothy, esp. during conversation.

Mouth very dry.

Throat (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

Globus hystericus ; sensation of a large ball rising from a point
about lower end of sternum to upper end of œsophagus, causing
distressing sense of suffocation.

Sore throat < when swallowing ; slight, hacking cough.

Appetite (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

Could not drink milk without its causing sick-headache.

Entire loss of appetite.

Great thirst for large quantities and often ; intense thirst.

Stomach (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

Bloating in epigastric region, with attacks of asthma ; he could
scarcely breathe : hard pressive pain at about fourth cervical
vertebra.

Cramps in epigastric region.

Dyspepsia.

Incessant vomiting, which had no relation to her meals.

Much wind, and acid stomach, no tenderness.

Nausea : in morning ; from a recumbent position at any time during
day or evening, or on moving or rising in morning ; deathly, cannot
vomit, with groans and cries and great distress, great restlessness
with sensation of coldness ; although skin was hot, pulse was normal.

Nausea and vomiting and a sensation of deathly sickness, < from movement or rising up in bed.

Sour eructation.

Violent pain in pit of stomach, seldom lower, brought on by
fatigue.

Vomiting first of undigested food, intensely acid, then of bitter
water, and lastly of a brownish clot, which in water separated and
looked like coffee grounds ; no smell ; bitter taste.

Abdomen (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

Abdomen sore and sensitive to touch.

Drawing pain across lower part of abdomen, with heat and pressing,
bearing down in pelvic region, both sides ; < by, pressure.

Flatulence.

Great fatigue from walking, on account of heaviness as of a stone
in abdomen.

Severe pain across umbilicus with headache.

Stool and Anus (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

(Constipation. ).

Constipation : with chronic headache ; most powerful purgatives
were of no avail ; fæces dry and hard, passed with great straining,
lacerating anus, extorting cries and passing considerable blood ;
chronic.

Continual persistent constipation, > only by cathartics and
enemas, with violent attacks of sick-headache, pain unbearable ; great
photophobia ; deathly sickness all over, with nausea and vomiting < by movement or sitting up ; chilly, not > by external heat.

Is generally constipated, and when it is most persistent, very
chilly ; cannot get warm.

Urinary Organs (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

Albuminuria.

Constant pain in region of kidneys, passing around each side above
hips to region of bladder, also downward from sacral region to
gluteal, and from thence down back of thighs ; pain burning, not >
in any position, < lying down.

Frequent and profuse urination of very pale urine.

Frequent but scanty urination.

Profuse, pale urine.

Urine comes away drop by drop, or else gushes out with a sensation
of very hot water passing over the parts ; wetting bed at night.

Urine dark and thick.

Urine very pale ; cannot retain it.

Female Sexual Organs (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

(Has never failed to bring back the milk in from twelve to
twenty-four hours. ).

After putting hands in cold water sudden suppression of menses ;
pains all over, esp. in head.

Decrease in size of breasts.

Diminished secretion of milk.

Drawing pain across uterine region, with heat and pressive bearing
down in both ovarian regions ; cannot bear pressure of hand or arm on
abdomen, intense distress in lower part of abdomen during
menstruation, not > by any position ; violent inflammation in
ilio-cæcal region, with intense pain, swelling, tenderness, fæcal
accumulation and violent vomiting.

Irregular menstruation, sometimes very dark and scanty, sometimes
colourless water.

Menses delayed a week with congestion of blood to head ; coldness
of hands, nausea, and vertigo ; flow commenced next morning after
taking Lac defl. , scanty with pain in back ; sensation of weight and
dragging in left ovarian region.

Morning sickness during pregnancy ; deathly sickness at stomach on
waking ; vertigo and waterbrash on rising ; constipation.

Pressing bearing down in ovarian region.

Slight yellowish leucorrhœa.

Respiratory Organs (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

Asthma so that he could scarcely breathe, accompanied by bloating
in epigastric region.

Short, dry cough, with difficult expectoration of a small lump of
mucus, which > cough.

Chest (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

Soreness of chest with great pressure.

Tuberculous deposit in apices of both lungs.

Heart and Pulse (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

Palpitation of heart and flushes of heat, esp. in left side of face
and neck.

Pressure around heart (not like grasping of Cactus), with dyspnœa
and a feeling of certainty that he is going to die in twenty-four
hours.

Sharp pain in apex of heart, as if a knife were cutting up and down
; this preceded a heaviness of head, dullness over eyes, throbbing in
temples and palpitation of heart.

Neck and Back (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

A symmetrical patch of herpetic eruption on each side of neck,
itching and burning after scratching.

Hard, pressive pain at fourth cervical vertebra ; chills creeping
along back between scapulæ.

Intense burning pain in small of back and sacrum, commencing in
region of kidneys, passing around on both sides above hips into
groins, also downward from renal region through gluteal region, down
back part of thighs ; pain, burning, and > by no position ; lying
down.

Limbs (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

Aching pains in wrists and ankles.

Cold hands or feet during headache.

Upper Limbs (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

Ends of fingers icy cold, rest of hand warm.

Lower Limbs (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

Numbness and loss of sensation over outer and anterior surfaces of
thighs.

Pains passing down under side of thighs to heels, and pains across
top of feet as if bones were broken across instep ; pains would come
on as soon as she stepped upon floor in morning, upon which she would
be faint and nauseated and would have to lie down.

Skin thickened at edges of feet.

Weakness and aching in ankles, puffiness.

Generalities (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

Feels completely tired out and exhausted, whether she does anything
or not ; great fatigue from walking.

Great lassitude and disinclination to exertion.

Great loss of strength, commencing with a sharp cutting pain in
apex of heart ; forehead feels heavy, with a dull sensation over eyes
and throbbing, principally in temples, rest of head feels light.

Great restlessness and extreme and protracted suffering from loss
of sleep at night.

Skin (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

A symmetrical patch of herpetic eruption on each side of neck,
itching and burning after scratching.

Sleep (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

Great restlessness, extreme and protracted suffering from loss of
sleep at night.

Sleepy all day long.

Fever (Lac vaccinum defloratum)

Hectic fever ; malignant typhoid.

Hot fever

9
p. m. , continues until near morning, wakes in profuse sweat, which
stains linen yellow, difficult to wash out.

Sensation as if the sheets were damp.

Lacticum Acidum.

Lactic Acid.

Milk Acid.

HC

₃
H ₅
O ₃.

Dilution.

Clinical

Bones, swelling of.

Diabetes.

Foot-sweat.

Indigestion.

Pregnancy, sickness of.

Rheumatism.

Sciatica.

Throat, constricted, sore.

Vomiting.

Characteristics

Lactic acid

“was discovered by Scheele
in sour milk, the result of the spontaneous fermentation of sugar of
milk, under the influence of casein.

It is also met with in many vegetable products which have turned
sour” (

Hering).

Reisig

introduced it into homœopathy. It has been proved in both the lower
and higher attenuations, but many valuable observations have been made
on patients taking substantial doses for diabetes (C.
D. P. ).

In these cases the symptoms of rheumatic fever were directly traced
to the acid. Pain, swelling, and stiffness and tenderness of joints
< by motion (as with

Bry.
, which antidotes Lact.
ac. ), and
flying pains about limbs. One prover had pain along the right sciatic
nerve.

The well-known effects of milk that has soured on the stomach and
remained undigested were produced

─
nausea,
vomiting, burning and sense of weight ; and these have all proved
useful indications in the homœopathic use of the drug.

Diabetes is the affection for which it has been most given in
old-school practice ; but it has also proved of great power in this
affection in the homœopathic attenuations.

Nash

regards the
concomitance of rheumatic pains as the chief guiding symptom here. (In
Med. Adv.
, XXI. 508
he records a case of diabetes, with rheumatic fever supervening, cured
with Lact. ac.
200.
)

But nausea is no less a guide : Constant nausea ; nausea on awaking
before rising ; > by eating. This may occur in diabetes ; or it may
occur in pregnancy. It is also an indication when occurring in
rheumatism.

There is > by eructations ; and < by smoking. Smoking < eructations. Copious foot-sweat is a feature of

Lact.
ac. , but it is
not offensive. It is suited
to anæmic, pale women. Large doses disagreed with melancholic,
choleric constitution, dark hair and eyes.

Relations (

Lacticum
Acidum.)

Antidoted by

:
Bry. (relieved sharp pains upper third right side, but soreness
remained).

Compatible

:
Meat diet in diabetes.

Incompatible

:
Coffee < symptoms.

Compare

: Lac
can. , Lac coag. , Lac defl. , Sac. lac.

In nausea of pregnancy, Nux, Puls. , Ph. ac. , Colch. , Lyc. , Lac
d. , Ip.

Excessive hawking with (or without) nausea, Caust. (phlegm in
throat, cannot be hawked up, causing nausea).

Diabetes, Pho. ac. , Acet. ac. , Lac d. , Ur. Nit.

Flying rheumatism, Puls. , Rhus.

Great discouragement, Pso.

Compare also

:
Vegetable acids, which all cause weakness and thinness of the blood.

Symptoms (

Lacticum
Acidum.)

Mind (

Lacticum
Acidum.)

Great discouragement.

Lazy.

Memory lost.

Sarcastic.

Head (

Lacticum
Acidum.)

Congestion of head ; painless, with strong pulsation of vessels of
neck.

Dull pain in forehead, just over eyes, and extending into eyes.

Headache, with sensation of fullness in vertex.

Pain in head and back all night.

Pain in occiput, and alternating between there and forehead.

Vertigo : when turning head suddenly ; with heat, on rising ; on
stooping ; at night.

Eyes (

Lacticum
Acidum.)

Eyes feel as if they would burst.

Hyperæsthesia of retina, steady aching in and behind eyeball.

Jerking of left upper lid.

Marked protrusion of eyes ; pupils dilated ; eyes feels tired.

Photophobia.

Sensation of fullness in eyes, with headache.

Ears (

Lacticum
Acidum.)

Disturbed and troubled by noise.

Pain from parotids into ear ; stiff feeling in parotids.

Roaring in left ear on rising in afternoon ; singing, snapping in
left ear.

Nose (

Lacticum
Acidum.)

Great sensitiveness of smell.

Nose-bleed every morning.

Severe coryza, stopped nose, sneezing, thick mucus from head to
throat, yellow ; dead sweet taste.

Face (

Lacticum
Acidum.)

Face flushed or congested from headache.

Mouth (

Lacticum
Acidum)

Bad taste in mouth : acrid, with nausea ; sour ; coppery.

Copious salivation (pregnancy).

Mouth and fauces very dry and hot.

Much saliva in mouth, tasting salty.

Tongue coated thick white.

Tongue sore on left side, raw and red ; dry, parched, sticky.

Very sore mouth ; canker sores.

Yellow coating on tongue, with bad taste in morning.

Throat (

Lacticum
Acidum.)

Difficulty of swallowing solids ; less in swallowing liquids.

Excessive hawking with or without nausea.

Fauces hot, dry and swollen.

Fulness in throat which keeps him swallowing frothy mucus ; lump or
fullness feels like a small puffball ; not > by swallowing.

Intense burning in throat, fauces, and œsophagus < by eructation.

Sensation of a plug in the throat.

Sense of constriction low down in throat ; rough and dry.

Stomach (

Lacticum
Acidum.)

Appetite impaired.

Burning and weight in stomach.

Constant nausea ; persisting for days.

Eructations of burning, hot gas from stomach, causing a profuse
secretion of tenacious mucus, which must be constantly hawked up ;
< by smoking tobacco.

Eructations of hot, acrid fluid, which burns from stomach to
throat.

Food sours.

Nausea after breakfast ; not severe, but very persistent.

Nausea on rising in morning.

Nausea with waterbrash or vomiting.

Sensation as if all food were lodged under upper end of sternum,
which oppresses and distresses her for hours.

Voracious appetite and great thirst.

Stool and Anus (

Lacticum
Acidum.)

Aching pain in anus.

Greenish yellow stools with tenesmus.

Soft, mushy stool ; diarrhœa.

Very costive, stool once a week, hard, black.

Urinary Organs (

Lacticum
Acidum.)

Frequent desire to urinate large quantities.

Frequent pain in kidneys.

Urinates frequently day and night ; the attempt to retain it causes
pain.

Male Sexual Organs (

Lacticum
Acidum.)

Annoying erections in morning, but loins ache too much to attempt
coition.

Seminal emissions three successive nights.

Female Sexual Organs (

Lacticum
Acidum.)

Aching pain in region of right ovary, < by rapid walking or exercise.

During pregnancy : morning sickness ; salivation ; nausea and
vomiting ; waterbrash > by breakfast.

Heaviness and dragging down as if womb down.

Leucorrhœa ; staining linen yellow ; when checked nasal catarrh
ensues.

Menses : scanty ; seventeen days late ; two days early ; more
profuse than usual ; pain in small of back and lower abdomen ; itching
of vulva during flow.

Pain as if menstruating ; sitting with feet high > uterine
soreness.

Respiratory Organs (

Lacticum
Acidum.)

After rising, voice was entirely without control, whispering and
squeaking when expecting to speak aloud.

Aphonia.

Cutting or sticking pain in upper third of right side.

Dryness and rawness, extending to larynx.

Hoarse, hard, dry cough, with dryness of glottis.

Hoarseness.

Left side of chest sore and painful.

Spasmodic, ringing cough, caused by irritation in throat.

Neck and Back (

Lacticum
Acidum.)

Pain in small of back, extending into shoulders.

Sore aching in lower part of back ; < when walking.

Limbs (

Lacticum
Acidum.)

Acute pains in joints ; flying pains about limbs.

All pains < by movement.

Joints swollen, not tender, stiff.

Severe, sharp pains in joints.

Upper Limbs (

Lacticum
Acidum.)

Rheumatic pain in shoulders.

Rheumatic swelling with redness and pain in wrists and elbows,
wrists, and small joints of hands.

Lower Limbs (

Lacticum
Acidum.)

Knees and other joints stiff and painful.

Rheumatic pain in knee-joints.

Sharp pain in right knee with stiffness.

Soreness to touch along right sciatic nerve, on getting out of bed,
lasting all day and pulsating constantly but slightly.

Generalities (

Lacticum
Acidum.)

Aversion to exercise.

Debility, weariness of the limbs.

Weakness as if from exercise, with rheumatic pains in the bones.

Skin (

Lacticum
Acidum.)

Itching and burning, < by cold.

Red spots or blotches on various parts of the body, particularly
thighs and lower extremities.

Skin harsh and dry, no sweat.

Sleep (

Lacticum
Acidum.)

Does not sleep well.

Restless all night.

Fever (

Lacticum
Acidum.)

Chilly, mostly on limbs.

Cold and chilly at times.

Copious perspiration.

Flashes of heat.

Unusual perspiration of feet.

Lactis Vaccini Flos.

Cream.

Attenuations by

Swan’s
fluctional potentiser.

Clinical

Diphtheria.

Leucorrhœa.

Menorrhagia.

Throat, sore.

Characteristics (

Lactis
Vaccini Flos.)

Many persons can take cream who cannot tolerate milk, and

vice
versa,
therefore Swan
decided to prove the different parts of milk independently.

He proved his

200th
(which, according to Skinner’s
calculation, is not the same as the 200
centesimal, being duplicated instead of centupled at each remove) on
himself and Miss Mary P.

As with the other

Lac
preparations, a large number of the symptoms were manifested in the
throat and female sexual organs. Dry throat and extreme difficulty of
swallowing. Menses profuse and accompanied by cramps.

Relations (

Lactis
Vaccini Flos.)

Compare :

Lac c. , Lac f. , Lac v. , Lac v. coag. , Lac v. def. Ars. stopped
abruptly the excessive menses and accompanying pain ; Lac v. def.
restored the flow, and then they ceased naturally.

Symptoms

Mouth (

Lactis
Vaccini Flos.)

Food tastes as if it lacked salt.

Throat (

Lactis
Vaccini Flos.)

Dryness and redness of upper part of pharynx.

Great dryness of upper part of pharynx in the morning ; difficult
deglutition ; yellow mucus, with a sickish sweet taste ; throat < night and morning ; at night had to take hold of throat to assist in swallowing.

Increased redness and soreness of upper part of pharynx, < at night, causing difficulty of deglutition, obliging her to bend the head forwards on swallowing, so as to favour it, otherwise a pain runs up to ears.

Abdomen (

Lactis
Vaccini Flos.)

Tendency to flatulence in lower intestines.

Urinary Organs (

Lactis
Vaccini Flos.)

Urine appears to stain more yellow.

Male Sexual Organs (

Lactis
Vaccini Flos.)

Soreness of end of prepuce, as if there were longitudinal cracks
there, though none could be discovered.

Female Sexual Organs (

Lactis
Vaccini Flos.)

Menses profuse ; cramps in and above region of navel, bending her
double ; during the cramps was very cold, and, although well clothed,
could not get warm ; painful, frequent, and profuse diarrhœa ; Arsen.
stopped the pains and the menses ; Lac vac. deflor. restored the
menses, and they ceased naturally ; since then, albuminous leucorrhœa,
like white of egg, if she walks much, or is on her feet much.

Menses seven days too soon.

Sexual desire easily excited when the hand touches the bosom.

Respiratory Organs (

Lactis
Vaccini Flos.)

Hoarseness after singing.

Sensation of shallow breathing ; has to take a deep respiration to
relieve.

Lower Limbs (

Lactis
Vaccini Flos.)

Rigidity on posterior side of lower legs, just below knees, while
walking ; very unpleasant, but not painful.

Skin (

Lactis
Vaccini Flos.)

Itching of body above pubes and hips, on abdomen, chest, and back,
without eruption.

Sleep (

Lactis
Vaccini Flos.)

Constant talking during sleep.

Drowsy and sleepy ; head feels heavy.

Horrible dreams ; saw a dead person in a coffin ; slept and dreamed
the same dreams ; feels stupid ; does not care to speak.

Wakefulness, without restlessness.

Pancreatinum.

Extract of Pancreatic and Salivary Glands of Ox or Sheep.

Trituration.

Clinical

Diabetes, pancreatic.

Diarrhœa.

Gout.

Mumps.

Pancreas, disease of.

Characteristics (

Pancreatinum.
)

Pancreatinum

has been used with success in conditions due to disease or faulty
action of the pancreas on the analogy of Thyroidin
and the other Sarcodes.

Burnett

says
pancreatics are often of great service in gout.

Relations

Compare :

In action on pancreas and salivary glands, Ir. v. , Nux, Puls. , Merc.
, Iod. , Jabor. , Pilocarpine.

Pepsinum

A proteolytic ferment found in the gastric juice.

The

Pepsin
in general use is extracted from the stomach of the pig.

Alcohol, tannin, and the alkaline carbonates destroy its power. It
is prepared in granular form or in glycerinated extract for general
use.

Homœopathic attenuations maybe made by triturating the secretory
layer of a fresh pig’s-stomach ; by triturating the granular

Pepsinum
with sugar of milk ; or by making the lower attenuations of the liquid
extracts with distilled water.

Clinical

Dyspepsia.

Characteristics

Pepsinum

has
been supposed to act purely as a digestive,
but recent discoveries in regard to the action of the sarcodes makes
this now scarcely tenable.

Pepsinum

may
digest the contents of the stomach ; but, like the secretions of other
glands, it will in all probability act also, by its specific affinity,
on the secretory tissues of the stomach itself.

Pyrogenium.

Pyrogen. Pyrexin. Sepsin.

A product of the decomposition of chopped lean beef in water,
allowed to stand in the sun for two or three weeks.

Dilutions ; (which should be made, according to

Burnett,
direct and without glycerine).

Clinical (

Pyrogenium)

Abscess.

Anus, sweating near.

Bed-sores.

Bright’s disease.

Constipation.

Diarrhœa.

Dysentery.

Eczema.

Enteric fever

.

Fistula.

Headache.

Heart, rapid action of ; consciousness of ; failure of.

Hectic fever

.

Indian continued fevers.

Influenza.

Intestines, ulceration of ; obstruction of.

Labour : puerperal fever.

Ovary, abscess of

.

Peritonitis.

Phthisis pulmonalis.

Ptomaine poisoning.

Puerperal fever.

Pyæmia

.

Sepsis.

Spine, Pott’s curvature of

.

Tabes mesenterica.

Tuberculosis.

Typhilitis.

Ulcers, varicose ; obstinate.

Varicosis.

Characteristics (

Pyrogenium)

John Drysdale was the first, in

1880,
to suggest the use of this substance as a medicament (On
Pyrexin or Pyrogen as a Therapeutic Agent,
Baillière, Tyndale & Cox). Burdon Sanderson has stated (B.
M. J. ,
February 13,
1875)
that “only liquids which contain bacteria or have a marked
proneness to their production” are capable of setting up pyrexia.

This remark struck Drysdale, and though, of course, he could not
endorse the “only” of the statement

─ many
drugs known to homœopaths set up fever
─ he saw
that the fact might be turned to account. Sanderson further defines Pyrogen
as “a chemical non-living substance formed by living bacteria,
but also by living pus-corpuscles, or the living blood- or
tissue-protoplasms from which these corpuscles spring. ” In
Sanderson’s experiments with Pyro.
the following effects were observed. (1)
From a non-fatal dose : The animal shivers and begins to move about
restlessly.

The temperature rises from

2°
to 3°
C. , the maximum being reached in three hours. Thirst and vomiting
come on, followed by feculent and thin mucous, and finally bloody
diarrhœa and tenesmus. In five hours these symptoms begin to subside,
and the animal recovers with wonderful rapidity. When death occurs it
is from heart failure. In non-fatal
cases with gastro-enteric symptoms the temperature gradually rises for
four hours, and as gradually subsides : in fatal
cases it rises rapidly to 104°
F. , then rapidly declines to below normal.

(

2)
From a fatal dose : There is intestinal hæmorrhage, purging,
collapse, and death. After death extravasations of blood are found in
heart, pleura, and pericardium ; the spleen is enlarged and full of
blood. Mucous membrane of stomach and small intestines is intensely
injected with detachment of epithelium and exudation of bloody fluid,
which distends the gut.

The blood is dark, the corpuscles being in clumps instead of rolls,
and many being dissolved in the liquor sanguinis. White corpuscles
partially disintegrated. Drysdale prepared a tincture of

Pyro.
─ which
he preferred to call Pyrexin,
since it is not a mere fever-producer
: others have called it Sepsin
; but this is too close to Septicæmin,
a name given to a related and perhaps identical nosode : I have chosen
to retain the name Pyrogen,
by which the remedy is best known in homœopathy
─ and put
his own suggestion into practice. His success was very encouraging,
but as he continued to use the Ø tincture and lowest attenuations the
difficulty of keeping the preparation was not small ; and the remedy
did not come into extensive use till Burnett published his pamphlet on
Pyrogenium in
Fevers and Blood-poisoning
in 1888.

Burnett used chiefly the

6th
centesimal dilution, which is perfectly harmless, and which will keep
indefinitely. Heath, who made one of the preparations used by Burnett,
gave some of it to Swan, of New York, who ran it up into the high
infinitesimals. Much of the American experience is with Swan’s
attenuations, including a proving by Sherbino (Med.
Adv. , XXV. 369),
whose symptoms I have marked (Sherbino) in the Schema. The remainder
of the symptoms of the Schema are for the most part clinical Yingling
(H. P.
, XIII. 402)
collected symptoms from many reported cases, and arranged them with
the symptoms of the proving. (Yingling erroneously describes Pyro.
as prepared from “pus from septic abscess. ”

This is

Septicæmin.
He refers, however, to Burnett’s pamphlet and to cases cured with Pyro.
, leaving the actual substance referred to not in doubt. H. C. Allen,
who published the proving and most of the cases in Med.
Adv. , rightly
describes Pyro.
as a “Product of Sepsis”). Drysdale’s original cases include
a number in which threatened typhoid was averted, a case of tabes
mesenterica cured, and one of ulceration of the colon greatly
benefited.

Burnett’s were cases of fully developed typhoid all cut short at
the height by

Pyro.
6
given every two hours. In his pamphlet is included a successful
experience of Dr. Shouldham’s with Pyro.
6
in two cases of diphtheritic sore threat. I have had ample opportunity
of observing the power of Pyro.
over typhoid fever, and typhoid and hectic states, including one of
discharging abscess connected with Pott’s disease of the spine.

T. M. Dillingham reports (

Med.
Adv. , XXVII. 367)
the case of a young German Jewess who had been under treatment at
various hospitals for Bright’s disease, and at the Hahnemann
Hospital of New York among Others. To this she was readmitted on March
14,
1890,
when she first came under Dr. Dillingham’s care.

The urine showed an enormous amount of albumen and a variety of
casts. Feet and legs greatly swollen, face puffy. Throbbing headache,
often accompanied by profuse nose-bleed, nausea, and vomiting ; < motion and light ; abnormally bright eyes, widely dilated pupils.

Bell
gave temporary
relief ; but on May 31st
the condition was desperate. Dillingham then learned that the trouble
dated from a large abscess resulting from a lanced, badly cared-for
felon of the left thumb. She was ill six weeks with this abscess,
having, as her doctors said, “blood poisoning. ” Soon after
this her face and feet began to swell.

On May

31st
the condition was this : Feet, legs, and genitals greatly swollen.
Frightful throbbing headache, > by tight band constantly worn. >
By heat ; very fond of the hot
bath. Headaches
had terrible aggravations lasting two to four days, during which time
she could neither lie in bed nor sit up, but was in constant motion,
groaning and crying piteously for help. Pyro.
cmm, Swan, one dose was given, and no other medicine, although the
patient on one occasion begged for something to stop the pain. In the
course of June she began to mend, and on October 20th
was discharged cured.

In Sherbino’s proving he was cured incidentally of a consciousness
of the heart and its working, and palpitation from least excitement or
anxiety, < beginning to move ; congestion to head as if apoplexy would ensue.

Cactus
had done no good. Sherbino cured : (1)
a case of puerperal fever with Pyro.
, being led to its selection by the very high pulse rate. (2)
Relapse of typhoid, pulse 140,
temperature 102°
F. ; both were normal in twenty-four hours. (3)
Young lady, 17,
fever, aching bones, bed felt very hard. Numb, paralytic feeling. As
the fever left the pulse kept mounting up.
Pyro.
cmm, Swan, repeated as often as effect ceased, cured. ─
Pyro. is one of
the germinal
remedies of the materia medica. When once the idea of its essential
action is grasped an infinity of applications become apparent. As
Drysdale put it, “The most summary indication for Pyro.
would be to term it the Aconite
of the typhous or typhoid quality of pyrexia,” and wherever
poisoning by bacterial products (e.
g. , in the
hectic of phthisis) is going on Pyro.
will be likely to do good. Sepsis
is the essence of the action of Pyro.

H. C.

Allen
gives this indication for its use in septic states : “When the
best selected remedies fail to relieve or permanently improve “
─ analogous
to the action of Pso.
and Sul. in
other conditions. Also : “Latent pyogenic process, patient
continually relapsing after apparent simillimum. ” As Pyro.
is a product of carrion, the carrion-like odour of bodily emaciations,
secretions, and excretions is a keynote for its use. Other leading
indications are : Restlessness ; must move constantly to > the
soreness of parts. “Constipation, from impactum of fæces in
fevers ; stool large, black, carrion-like. ” “Chill begins
in back, between scapulæ. ” “Severe general chill of bones
and extremities. ” In all cases of fever commencing with pains in
the limbs,” Swan. Pulse abnormally rapid, out of all proportion
to temperature. ” Pyro.
5,
five drops in water night and morning, assisted in the cure of a case
of anal fistula in a case of Burnett’s (On
Fistula, p. 66).
Under its action a sweating at the seat which the man had had for many
years disappeared ; and the skin of his hands, which were subject to
dry eczema, assumed a much cleaner aspect.

J. S. Hunt (

H.
W. , XXXI. 54)
reports five cases of varicose ulcers, all of which healed quickly
under Pyro.
Bellairs (H. W.
, XXXIV. 298)
gave Pyro.
200
to an elderly woman who suffered for years with an ulcerated leg,
which was riddled with deep, burrowing wounds, extremely painful and
discharging freely. Hep.
, Sil. , Ars. , Ham.
, did no good. Under Pyro.
once or twice a day “a large boil” formed on the calf of the
leg and discharged its contents, after which the various ulcers healed
up directly.

The symptoms are > by heat (drinking hot water ; hot bath). >
Tightly binding head. > Stretching out limbs ; walking about ;
turning over or changing position. Heart’s action and cough < by motion. Eyeball < moving eye. Cough < motion and in a warm room. < Sitting up in bed ; rising. (Cough > sitting up ; < lying down. )

Relations

Compare :

Septicæmin (B. Sanderson says bacteria and pus cells produce the same
chemical result ; Pyro. and Sept. may therefore he identical, but I
think it best to keep them distinct) ; Malar. (the vegetable
Pyrogen) ; Lach. In typhoid with soreness, bed feels hard, Bap. , Arn.
, Rhus. > Motion and stretching limbs, Rhus. Cough < by motion and in warm room, Bry. Uterine hæmorrhage, Ipec. ("if Ipec. fails when indicated give Pyro. ," Yingling). Offensive diarrhœa Pso. Black stools, Lept. Constipation, Op. , Sanic. , Pb. Lochia thin, fetid, Nit. ac. Vomits water as soon as warm in stomach, Pho. Throbbing headache, Bell. Varicose, offensive ulcers of old persons, Pso. Skin ashy, Sec. Suppuration, Hep.

Causation

Blood poisoning.

Dissecting wounds.

Ptomaine poisoning.

Sewer-gas poisoning.

Typhoid fever (remote effects of).

Symptoms.

Mind (

Pyrogenium)

Delirious on closing eyes ; sees a man at foot of bed.

Feels when lying on one side that she is one person, and another
person when turning on the other side.

Hallucination that he is very wealthy ; remaining after the fever.

Irritable (Sherbino).

Loquacious ; can think and talk faster than ever before (Sherbino).

Sensation as if she covered the whole bed ; knew her head was on
pillow, but did not know where the rest of her body was.

Sensation as though crowded with arms and legs.

Whispers ; in sleep.

Head (

Pyrogenium)

Dizziness on rising up in bed.

Excruciating, bursting, throbbing headache with intense
restlessness (often accompanied with profuse nosebleed, nausea, and
vomiting).

Forehead bathed in cold sweat.

Frightful throbbing headache > from tight band.

Great throbbing of arteries of temples and head ; every pulsation
felt in brain and in ears ; the throbbings meet on top of brain
(Sherbino).

Painless throbbing all through front of head ; sounds like escaping
steam (Sherbino).

Pains in both mastoids, < right ; dull throbbing in mastoid region (Sherbino).

Rolling of head from side to side.

Sensation as if a cap were on.

Staggers as if drunk on rising in morning (Sherbino).

Eyes (

Pyrogenium)

Left eyeball sore, < looking up and turning eye outward (Sherbino).

Projecting eyes.

Ears (

Pyrogenium)

Ears cold.

Ears red, as if blood would burst out of them.

Loud ringing, like a bell, left ear (also right) (Sherbino).

Nose (

Pyrogenium)

Cold nose.

Fan-like motion of alæ nasi.

Nose-bleed ; awakened by dreaming it and found it was so.

Nostrils closing alternately (Sherbino).

Sneezing : every time he puts hand from under covers ; at night.

Face (

Pyrogenium)

Circumscribed redness of cheeks.

Face : burning ; yellow ; very red ; pale, sunken, and bathed in
cold sweat ; pale, greenish, or chlorotic.

Mouth (

Pyrogenium)

Breath horrible ; like carrion.

Taste : terribly fetid, as if mouth and throat full of pus
(produced by dose of

Pyro.
cm, Swan) ; sweetish.

Tongue : coated white in front, brown at back ; yellowish brown,
bad taste in morning (Sherbino).

Tongue : coated yellowish grey, edges and tip very red ; large,
flabby ; yellow brown streak down centre.

Tongue clean, smooth, and dry ; first fiery red, then dark red and
intensely dry ; smooth and dry ; glossy, shiny ; dry, cracked,
articulation difficult.

Throat (

Pyrogenium)

Diphtheria with extreme fetor.

Appetite (

Pyrogenium)

> Drinking very hot water.

Great thirst for small quantities, but the least liquid was
instantly rejected.

No appetite (Sherbino) ; or thirst.

Thirst and vomiting (dog).

Stomach (

Pyrogenium)

> By vomiting.

Belching of sour water after breakfast (Sherbino).

Nausea and vomiting.

Stomach feels too full (Sherbino).

Urging to vomit ; with cold feet.

Vomiting : persistent ; brownish, coffee-ground ; offensive,
stercoraceous ; with impacted or obstructed bowels.

Vomiting and purging.

Vomits water when it becomes warm in stomach.

Abdomen (

Pyrogenium)

Full feeling and bloating of abdomen (Sherbino).

Pain in umbilical region with passage of sticky, yellow stool.

Soreness of abdomen so severe she can hardly breathe, or bear any
pressure over right side.

Very severe cutting pains right side going through back, < by every motion, talking, coughing, breathing deep ; > lying on right
(affected) side ; groaning with every breath.

When lying on left side bubbling or gurgling sensation in
hypochondria, extending back to left of spine (Sherbino).

While riding in a buggy aching in left of umbilicus ; < drinking water ; > passing flatus down ward.

Stool and Anus (

Pyrogenium)

(Sweat about anus removed ; fistula relieved. )

Congestion and capillary stasis of gastro-intestinal mucous
membrane, shedding of epithelium, bloody fluid distending intestines
(dog).

Constipation : hard, dry accumulated fæces ; stool large, black,
carrion-like ; small black balls like olives.

Feculent and thin mucous, and finally bloody diarrhœa and tenesmus
(dog).

Involuntary escape of stool when passing flatus (Sherbino).

Profuse watery, painless stools, with vomiting.

Stool horribly offensive, carrion-like.

Stool very much constipated, large, difficult, requires much effort
; first part balls, last part natural, with streaks of blood ; anus
sore after (Sherbino).

Two soft, sticky stools,

8
to 9
a. m.

Urinary Organs (

Pyrogenium

(Bright’s disease of kidneys. ).

Frequent calls to urinate as fever comes on.

Got up three times in night to urinate (Sherbino).

Intolerable tenesmus of bladder ; spasmodic contractions, involving
rectum, ovaries, and broad ligaments ; [cured in a case of Yingling’s
with

Pyro.
cm Swan (and higher) ; patient’s next period came on naturally and
painlessly, whereas before menses had been painful and extremely
offensive. ]

Urine : yellow ; after standing, cloudy with substance looking like
orange peel ; red deposit on vessel hard to remove ; deposits sediment
like red pepper (Sherbino).

Urine albuminous, containing casts ; horribly offensive,
carrion-like.

Urine scanty ; only passed twice in twenty-four hours (Sherbino).

Male Sexual Organs (

Pyrogenium)

Testes hang down relaxed ; scrotum looks and feels thin.

Female Sexual Organs (

Pyrogenium)

(Has cured prolapsus uteri, with bearing down, > by holding the
head and straining, as in the act of labour. ).

Abscess of left ovary, acute throbbing pain, great distress, with
fever and rigors (

Pyro.
cm, Swan, produced an enormous flow of white creamy pus with general
>).

Hæmorrhage of bright red blood with dark clots.

Lochia : thin, acrid, brown, or fœtid ; suppressed, followed by
chills, fever, and profuse fetid perspiration.

Menses horribly offensive ; carrion-like.

Menses last but one day, then a bloody leucorrhœa, horribly
offensive.

Parts seriously swollen (Bright’s disease).

Puerperal peritonitis with extreme fetor ; a rotten odour.

Septicæmia following abortion ;

fœtus
or secondines retained,
decomposed.

Respiratory Organs (

Pyrogenium)

Cough ; with large masses of phlegm from larynx ; < by motion ; < in warm room ; cough = burning in larynx and bronchi ; = pain in occiput ; = stitching in small of back, only noticed in the chair ; coughs up yellow sputa through night (Sherbino).

Cough > sitting up, < lying down.

Expectoration : rusty mucus ; horribly offensive.

Wheezing when expiring (Sherbino).

Chest (

Pyrogenium)

Chest sore, purple spots on it.

Ecchymoses on pleura (dog).

Neglected pneumonia : Cough, night-sweats, frequent pulse, abscess
had burst discharging much pus of mattery taste (rapid recovery under

Pyro.
cm. three doses).

Pain in right lung and shoulder, < talking or coughing.

Severe contracting pain within lower sternum, sometimes extending
to rib-joints and up to throat, as if œsophagus being cramped.

Heart (

Pyrogenium)

Cardiac asthenia from septic conditions.

Could not sleep for whizzing and purring of heart ; when she did
sleep was delirious.

Ecchymoses on heart and pericardium (dog).

Every pulsation felt (painlessly) in head and ears (Sherbino).

Feels as if the heart were pumping cold water (Yingling).

Heart tired as after a long run ; increased action < least motion (Sherbino).

Loud heart-beats ; audible to herself and others.

Pain in region of left nipple, as if in heart ; increased action ;
pulse

120
(Sherbino).

Palpitation < by motion.

Palpitation or increased action without corresponding increase of
temperature.

Sensation as if heart enlarged ; distinct consciousness of heart
(Sherbino).

Sensation as if heart too full of blood.

Violent, tiresome heart action.

Neck and Back (

Pyrogenium)

Throbbing of vessels of neck running up in waves from clavicles.

Weak feeling in back ; stitching pain on coughing (Sherbino).

Limbs (

Pyrogenium)

Aching : in bones ; all over body as from a severe cold ; with
soreness of flesh, head feels hard ; > motion (Sherbino).

Automatic movement of right arm and right leg, turned the child
round from right to left till feet reached the pillow : repeated as
often as she was put right (cerebro-spinal meningitis).

Cold extremities.

Numbness of hands, arms, and feet, extending over whole body.

Upper Limbs (

Pyrogenium)

Dry eczema of hands.

Hands and arms numb.

Hands cold and clammy.

Pain in shoulder-joint ; in front, passing three inches down arm
(Sherbino).

Lower Limbs (

Pyrogenium)

Aching above knees in bones, > stretching out limbs (Sherbino).

Aching above knees, deep in bones, while sitting by a hot fire ;
> by walking (Sherbino).

Aching above left knee as though bone broken (Sherbino).

Feet and legs swollen (Bright’s disease).

Numbness of feet.

On going to bed aching in patella ; > flexing leg (Sherbino).

Tingling in right little toe as if frost-bitten.

Generalities (

Pyrogenium)

Aching all over, bed feels hard.

Cannot lie more than few minutes in one position, > change
(Sherbino).

Debility in morning, staggered on trying to walk (Sherbino).

Great muscular debility ; rapid recovery in few hours (dog).

Nervous, restless (Sherbino).

Skin (

Pyrogenium)

Obstinate, varicose, offensive ulcers of old people.

Skin pale, cold, of ashy hue.

Sleep (

Pyrogenium)

Cries out in sleep that a weight is lying on her.

Dreams : of various things ; of business.

Kept awake by purring of heart.

Restlessness > after sleep.

Slept awhile ; woke to roll and tumble in every conceivable
position (Sherbino).

Unable to sleep for brain activity and crowding of ideas
(Sherbino).

Whispers in sleep.

Fever (

Pyrogenium)

“In all cases of fever commencing with pains in the
limbs” (Swan).

After dinner, ache all over, chilly all night, bed feels hard
(Sherbino).

After getting into bed, chilly, teeth chatter ; woke

10
p. m. in perspiration on upper part of body ; > motion (Sherbino).

Chilly at times and a little aching ; a little feverish (Sherbino).

Cold and chilly all day.

Cold sweat over body.

Every other day dumb ague.

Feels hot as if he had a fever, but was only

99°
F. , feels like 105°.

Frequent calls to urinate as soon as fever came on ; urine clear as
water.

No fire would warm ; sits by fire and breathes the heat from it ;
chilly whenever he leaves it ; at night when the fever came on he had
a sensation as if lungs on fire, must have fresh air, which gave >.

Perspiration horribly offensive, carrion-like ; disgust up to
nausea about any effluvia arising from her own body.

Shivers and begins to move about restlessly ; temperature rises
gradually and as gradually subsides (dog).

Temperature rises rapidly to

104°
F. , and sinks rapidly from heart failure (dog, fatal dose).

Saccharum Lactis.

Lactose.

Milk-sugar.

C

₁₂
H ₂₂
O ₁₁.

Clinical (Saccharum lactis)

Amblyopia.

Angina pectoris.

Body-odour, offensive.

Diabetes.

Dyspepsia.

Earache.

Gout.

Headache.

Hysteria.

Labia, soreness of.

Nervousness.

Neuralgia.

Ovaries, affections of.

Over-exertion.

Ptosis.

Sciatica.

Sighing.

Stye.

Umbilicus, inflammation of.

Characteristics (Saccharum lactis)

Hahnemann chose globules of

Saccharum
lactis as the
chief vehicle of his remedies, because he considered it the most inert
substance he could find. But his method of attenuating remedies had
shown that no substance is inert in attenuations, and experience shows
that no substance is absolutely
inert in any
form.

H. A. Hare says of

Sac.
l. :
“Scientific and clinical studies have shown it to be possessed of
very great diuretic powers when given in full doses. ” He says
further, that its direct action on the kidneys and its slight action
elsewhere indicate it in renal dropsy and renal inactivity ; that it
acts best in cases where albuminuria is absent, and that it causes
profuse diuresis in infants fed on it. I have frequently met with
patients who could not take Sac.
l. either
unmedicated or as a vehicle without inconvenience. One patient when
taking pilules of Sac.
l. three times
a day complained that they made his “eyes ache and feel weak.
” One of Swan’s provers had this symptom : “Sight fails ;
eyes tire very easily. ”

Swan is the authority for

Sac.
l. as a homœopathic
remedy. He has published (Materia
Medica) a full
pathogenesis of Sac.
l. , proved in
the potencies from 30th
upward, together with confirmed and cured symptoms. Eleven provers and
observers contributed. I have bracketed the cured symptoms in my
Schema. Sac. l.
causes sensations of both coldness and heat.

One of the cold sensations is this : “Sensation of extreme
cold passing in a fine line from centre of pubes to a point two or
three inches above. ” Swan regards

cold
pains as a,
keynote, and records this case : Mr. S. had an excessively cold
neuralgic pain in cartilage of both ears, the right being the worst,
with tingling as if frost-bitten ; rubbing with difficulty restored
the warmth. Lancinating, neuralgic pains in forehead ; in occiput ;
extending from region above ears down through ears into muscles of
neck ; in both eyes ; < by least breath of air ; skin sensitive to touch as in inflammatory rheumatism.

These pains were

icy
cold, as if
produced by an extremely fine ice-cold
needle. As Sac.
l. has
“fine cold pains” and pains passing in all directions, Sac.
l. 1m
was given, and relieved all the pains within an hour. (Sac.
off. has
“cold expectoration. “) The symptoms are < before a storm ; in damp room or basement ; morning and evening ; by blue and yellow colours ; exertion ; mental excitement. > By warmth of fire ; by
red colour ; after 4
p. m.

Relations (Saccharum lactis)

Camph. < effects of Sac. l.

Compare :

< From damp, Dulc.

< From sound of running water, Hdfb.

> Lying left side, Lil. t.

Ball sensation in rectum, Sep.

Fatigue, Pic. ac. , Mg. c.

Heat in heart, Lachn.

Kidney ache, Santal, Sac. off.

Radiating pains, K. bi.

Right cheek bone, Mg. c.

Roof of mouth, Mang.

Sac. off. , the Lacs.

Sensitiveness, K. iod. , Mg. c.

Causation (Saccharum lactis)

Mental excitement.

Over-fatigue.

Symptoms.

Mind (Saccharum lactis)

Cross and fault-finding, could not speak a pleasant word to any
one.

Extremely nervous, jumps from her seat at least unusual noise.

Great fear of death during paroxysm of pain in heart at night.

Her heart aches as if it would burst, yet she cannot weep.

Hysteria in evening, laughing and crying, jumping up and lying
down, but could not stand, fell to right side.

Imagines : that there is a large hole in her back just above sacrum
; that her mother wants to kill her ; that some one is behind her.

Inclined to be sarcastic and fault-finding.

Laziness.

Longing and melancholy as if homesick, with oppressed breathing.

Loses her way in well-known streets.

Sensation as if it were only by a great effort that she kept
together.

Was taken suddenly with fear and trembling of whole body, as from
fright.

Head (Saccharum lactis)

Burning like fire, and a thick feeling in a lengthwise strip of two
fingers’ breadth extending from right frontal eminence to right side
of vertex for fifteen minutes.

Forehead feels very heavy, with a tendency to fall forward.

Head aches all over top and feels drawn up.

Head feels confused, and as if it were tossing on a rough sea.

Head feels large, and as though all the blood in the body had gone
into the head.

Left side of head felt all drawn up.

Left temple sore to touch.

Pain about middle of right lambdoidal suture, through to same point
on left side.

Pain in left eyebrow.

Pain passing from front of left ear deep into brain.

Sensation as of pressure on frontal bone at inner canthi of left
eye ; felt very sore.

Sharp darting pain on left side of head from temple to occiput.

Sharp jumping pains behind right ear.

Sharp pain in forehead passing back and forth from one temple to
the other.

Eyes (Saccharum lactis)

Can only elevate upper lids half way.

Dryness of eyeball so that the lid would stick to it as if it
wanted lubricating, preventing opening and shutting of eye or winking.

Eyelids feel swollen, which is not the case.

Looking at bright light dazzles and makes her close eyes ; no pain.

Pain through right eye inwards.

Severe pains in both canthi of right eye.

Sight fails ; eyes tire very easily.

Swelling of right upper lid, which increased to a large stye, the
lid and all round eye being swollen and red ; on third day it broke in
two places and discharged copiously.

Washing eyes in cold water causes a sensation as if needles were
sticking into them.

Ears (Saccharum lactis)

Buzzing sound in right ear.

Pain from right ear to lower part of inferior maxillary bone.

Pain in left ear and sensation as if there were a gathering.

Pain in right ear and underneath it.

Pain passing from right ear to shoulder.

Painfulness of right external ear (concha), with burning like an
ulcer, also when touched.

Pains in external ears and behind them.

Reverberation of voice when speaking.

Sensation as if she could not hear, but she could.

Sharp pain inside both ears.

Shooting pains in and behind ears and all over face.

Nose (Saccharum lactis)

Pain in end of nose.

Pain in right (and left) side of nose.

Ridge of nose extremely sore ; it feels sore to touch or from the
least movement of facial muscles ; the left side is the worst and
somewhat swollen.

Face (Saccharum lactis)

(Darting, shooting pain, centred in about middle of right cheek,
extending thence up to eye, esp. right inner canthus, to ear, and up
into right temple, most severe at centre of cheek, considerably
decreasing the further it extends from the centre. ).

(Swelling of face with pain in head extending down neck and back to
feet. ).

Burning in cheek-bones towards temples and lower jaw.

Corners of mouth smart and burn.

Face feels as if there were one large pain that covered the whole
of it.

Great pallor of face with dark places under eyes.

Pain all over face, then centring in right ear.

Pain passing from corner of mouth to forepart of right axilla.

Symphysis menti smarts.

Wretched appearance, sad expression of face ; eyes look as from
weeping, though she has not wept.

Mouth (Saccharum lactis)

(Sensation of coolness as of ice in mouth and throat. )

Burning in whole mouth.

Lips dry, with great thirst.

Lips feel very sore and raw.

Roof of mouth sore.

Sore on left side of tongue.

Soreness like blisters in mouth and on tongue.

Taste : putrid in mouth after eating ; fine spicy taste ; like
fresh nuts.

Thick bitter mucus in mouth during morning ; food tastes fresh, as
if there were no salt in it.

Tongue coated : yellow on each side, but none on middle or edges ;
white ; yellow.

Throat (Saccharum lactis)

Globus hystericus after lunch at noon, with dull, sick headache.

Sensation when swallowing as of a fish-bone in throat.

Spasmodic stricture in œsophagus.

Throat very sensitive to external pressure ; the least pressure
causes a feeling as if she were choking.

Appetite (Saccharum lactis)

After eating : feeling of distension.

Desire for dainties.

Great thirst ; wanted large quantities of very cold water.

Hungry all the time.

When first getting out of bed feels faint for something to eat.

Stomach (Saccharum lactis)

Dyspepsia after eating hot pie-crust.

Heartburn, with sweet taste coming from stomach, without
waterbrash.

Nausea does not affect appetite.

Nausea like sea-sickness.

Pressure in stomach as if she had eaten something indigestible.

Violent sickness, going on all day (agg. R. T. C. ).

Abdomen (Saccharum lactis)

Abdomen sore to touch, painful from the jar caused by walking.

Feeling as if ulcerated anteriorly over right short ribs, < from touch and when stooping ; slight swelling there ; also all next day till towards evening.

Inflammation and soreness of lower half of navel, passing off by
morning, with greenish yellow discharge, staining the clothes.

Pain about length of finger above left hip, which would come when
leaning back, lasted two days, followed by severe pain in forehead.

Pain commencing at waist and passing to top of right breast.

Pain in left hypochondrium passing under left breast.

Sharp pain passing across bowels just above navel and all round
body.

Stool and Anus (Saccharum lactis)

Before stool hands and whole body exhaled a fæcal odour, which
passed away after stool.

Before stool pains in breasts and upper abdomen.

Constant pressure and soreness at anus, waking her at night.

Creeping, itching, and crawling round anus, extending three inches
inside rectum, > for a short time by rubbing.

Great soreness round anus, extending three inches up rectum inside.

Severe pain passing through abdomen during stool ; felt very sore
inside.

Shooting pains in rectum.

Stool preceded by shooting pains across abdomen, which are. > by
stool.

Stools smell like rotten eggs.

Urgent inclination to stool ; felt as though there were a great
ball in rectum, much straining, and some flatulence, but no stool and
no > from the flatulence.

Urinary Organs (Saccharum lactis)

(Delay of urination for some time, though desire and opportunity
occur. ).

(Involuntary urination in large quantities several times during
night. ).

Constant and urgent inclination to urinate, with cutting pain
streaking up urethra after each passage.

Frequent and violent urging to urinate, with passage of a large
quantity each time.

Soreness of urethra during urination.

Sound of running water produced urination ; no power to restrain
it.

Urinates very frequently large quantities.

Urination followed by a thick yellow discharge.

Urine causes intense pain when coming in contact with the labia,
which are very sensitive.

Urine stains a dark yellow.

Very severe pain in right side of abdomen before urination, and
sometimes, but not often, lasting during urination, ceasing with it.

Female Sexual Organs (Saccharum lactis)

At times bloody leucorrhœa.

Dragging-down sensation in pelvic region.

Extreme soreness and rawness of labia and entrance to vagina, with
profuse greenish-yellow leucorrhœa.

Itching of labia.

Left (and right) ovarian region very weak and painful when walking.

Lobulated growths on each side of vagina, nearly filling it ;
extremely sore and sensitive to touch, or from the pressure caused by
sitting ; coming on gradually and lasting more than three months.

Menses commenced too early ; no pain.

Menses very dark.

Pain in region of right ovary.

Profuse greenish-yellow leucorrhœa.

Respiratory Organs (Saccharum lactis)

Constant pain under left breast, < when bending forward.

Lancinating pains under left breast, which took away the breath.

Pain in right breast.

Severe pains under left breast at every inspiration.

Sharp pain passing into upper right breast, about an inch deep ;
very sore to touch after the pain.

Heart and Pulse (Saccharum lactis)

Awoke at midnight with severe pains about heart, which seemed as if
it had almost stopped beating, with a numb pain about heart, lips, and
tongue ; great fear of death ; when the pains passed off they left
great soreness round heart ; tingling in lips and tongue ; could not
lie on left side ; felt numb and strange all over ; pulse
intermittent.

Sensation in heart as if a fire were there, with a feeling as if
heart would burst, or at times as if a heavy weight were lying on it,
all of which spreads from this region over whole inner and outer
chest.

Neck and Back (Saccharum lactis)

Back aches the whole length of spine.

Constant pain all day in region of left kidney.

Dull ache all over back and in right arm ; cannot bend body far
forward as it causes intense pain in coccyx ; when stooping, as in
picking anything from floor, has to incline body to one side or other.

Hot flashes all over back of neck and shoulders.

Pain below left scapula.

Pain each side of sacrum.

Pain in back from sacrum to scapulæ.

Pain in back part of waist, passing from right to left

Pain in left side of back from scapula to sacrum.

Pain in lumbar region.

Pain in right side of back between scapula and sacrum.

Pain in sacral region, < when taking a long breath.

Pain in sacrum.

Pain or aching in small of back < by leaning backward, for three or four days.

Pain passing from lumbar vertebræ to half way up dorsal, and then
shooting off into both scapulæ.

Pain passing up and down along right side of neck.

Pain passing up and down from tip of coccyx to right shoulder.

Pain passing up back from sacrum.

Pain running up back from waist, left side.

Pain with soreness at upper vertebral border of right scapula.

Severe pain under left scapula.

Sharp pain passing from middle of scapula down outside of arm to
end of middle finger, and sometimes to end of little finger.

Upper Limbs (Saccharum lactis)

Grasping anything with right hand causes pains to pass from all the
fingers into palm.

Itching in palm of right hand.

Pain from right shoulder passing down to waist.

Pain from right shoulder to left breast.

Pain from top of right shoulder to nape of neck.

Pain in axillæ.

Pain in back of right shoulder.

Pain in both hands passing to ends of fingers.

Pain in dorsal surface of right hand.

Pain in forepart of right upper arm.

Pain in palm of right hand.

Pain in palmar surface of right wrist passing into thumb.

Pain in right shoulder passing a short distance down back.

Pain in right wrist.

Pain in top of right shoulder passing to back and upper part of
neck.

Pain passing from right shoulder to elbow.

Pain passing from right wrist to elbow.

Pain passing from tip of right little finger to elbow.

Pain with slight stiffness in both wrists.

Pains all through right hand.

Pains in both wrists, encircling them.

Pains in hands passing in all directions.

Sharp pain in all right fingers except little finger.

Skin under nails looks dirty, it cannot be washed or scraped off
for two days.

Swelling in right arm below elbow, sore to touch, and pains when
she moves arms in certain directions.

Violent itching of a liver spot on right hand.

Lower Limbs (Saccharum lactis)

(Inflammation and awful pain extending down whole trunk of right
sciatic nerve. ).

(Pain like gout in right toe, sometimes slight pains upwards in
right limb ; toe will not bear contact of any shoe ; pain always the
same standing, walking, or lying down ; continued exercise < it. ).

All her corns become painfully sensitive.

Balls of feet covered with little corns, which are very painful
when walking.

Hot flashes in lower limbs.

Pain from forepart of right knee to anterior-superior spine of
right ilium and passing back to middle of sacrum.

Pain in right instep when bending foot.

Pains in thighs and hips.

Soreness in streaks, extending from anus down back of legs to heels
; can feel a rigidity (not raised) where the soreness is.

Soreness of gluteal muscles on pressure.

Generalities (Saccharum lactis)

(Great physical exhaustion, caused by overwork, completely relieved
; repeatedly verified by Swan and others. ).

(Short flying, darting stitches in different parts of body, quite
painful, but bearable, appearing in head, ears, and face, as well as
in extremities, not confined to any especial locality. ).

All symptoms > after

4
p. m.

Pains were < in damp room or basement, but > if there was a
fire.

Pains were generally < morning and evening.

Prostration from mental excitement (Rushmore).

Sensitive in every part of body.

Small shooting pains all over her in morning.

Symptoms < by blue and yellow colours ; > by red.

The pains during the proving were < by a coming storm, the approach of which was felt some twelve hours previously.

Throbbing in various parts of body.

Skin (Saccharum lactis)

Itching of both shoulders.

Very restless at night from itching all over body as soon as she is
covered in bed.

Sleep (Saccharum lactis)

Awoke with the impression that she had dreamed of dreadful pains in
chest ; does not know whether it was a dream or a reality.

Cannot go to sleep without putting arms over head.

Cannot sleep on right side.

Continual yawning all day.

Fatiguing dreams all night.

Has to lie on left side as she is comfortable in no other position.

Impossible to lie straight in bed, finds herself continually lying
diagonally across bed.

Sleeplessness after midnight.

Fever (Saccharum lactis)

Great coldness as if a chill were coming on ; hands, particularly
fingers, feet, toes, icy cold ; could not keep warm in bed covered
with clothes, and during day sat near, a stove but could not get warm.

Hot flashes inside body pressing from below upward.

Strange restlessness at night, feeling of great heat all over, body
covered with a light perspiration, just enough to feel uncomfortable.

Thyroiodinum

Iodothyrinum.

Trituration.

Clinical

Goitre.

Obesity.

Urine, increase of.

Characteristics

Thyroiodine

is now more generally named Iodothyrine,
but I retain the former as more convenient.

Hoenigschmied

(Aerz.
Cent. Zeit. ,
No. 6,
1900,
quoted A. H.
, XXVII. 211)
says of it that it is present in only small quantities in the thyroid
of the sheep.

It is completely free from albuminous substances, stable, and
directly assimilated. The iodine exists in organic combination, and

Thyri.
contains 0.
003
parts of Iodine
to every gramme. The general effects of the drug are ─
increased
secretion of urine and corresponding loss of flesh.

Hœnigschmied

gives two cases :

(

1)
Labourer, 42,
for several years had enlargement and induration of all lobes of
thyroid, the enlargement causing compression of the structures of the
neck, dyspnœa, whistling respiration, hoarseness, short, dry cough,
vertigo. Thyri.
, 5-grain
tablets, one every evening ; at the end of a week twice daily.

After using twenty-five tablets the gland was smaller and softer ;
the previously hard and resistant nodules were elastic ; after two
more weeks only remnants of the goitre remained.

(

2)
Man, 60, thyroid enlarged in all its lobes with a glandular cystic
swelling in the right one ; dyspnœa, loud whistling breathing.

Two, three, and at last four tablets were given daily for two
months, by which time the goitre had vanished, but the cyst was not
changed.

(

3)
Man, 45,
medium height, sedentary, suffered from obesity, vertigo, dyspnœa,
weariness. Pulse feeble, 76
; functions normal ; appetite and sleep good ; weight 230
pounds.

With increasing doses of

Thyri.
, up to ten tablets daily, the weight steadily went down to 160
pounds, activity increasing in proportion. When the dose had reached
four tablets daily the urine became very abundant, but was free from
albumen. The daily dose was increased one tablet every four days.

At one stage Fowler’s solution of arsenic, four drops in wine, was
given as well to prevent

Thyroidism.

Relation

Antidoted by

:
Ars.

Compare

: Thyr.
Urine, Urea.

Urea

Carbamide.

The chief solid constituent of the urine of mammals.

(White crystals. ) CO(NH ₂) 2.

Trituration.

Solution. (also tincture or solution of the nitrate

─
Urea nitrica).

Clinical (Urea)

Albuminuria.

Diabetes.

Dropsy.

Eczema, gouty.

Gout.

Liver, cirrhosis of.

Tuberculosis.

Uræmia.

Characteristics (Urea)

The failure of the kidneys to eliminate

Urea
from the blood leads to uræmic intoxication, delirium, convulsions,
and coma. On general indications Urea
has been used in medicine by both schools. Merck
mentions that it is diuretic, and is used in cirrhosis of liver,
pleurisy, renal calculus.

Allen

cites from
Mauthner
two cases of renal dropsy with symptoms of general intoxication in
which Urea nit.
, gr. II. , divided into three doses and given two hours apart, cured
brilliantly. Burnett
has used both Urea
6
and Uric acid
6
in gouty eczema, “where the gouty eczema has been the cutaneous
outlet for the constitution. ” Burnett
gave Urea
in gouty cases where the urine was thin and of low specific gravity ;
“it thickens the urine and gives great relief to the patient.
”

Arthur H.

Buch
(Med. Press,
Aug 14, 1901) relates cases of tuberculosis cured, on the plan
originated by Harper,
of Nottingham, with Urea
in 20- to 30-grain doses three times a day. Urea,
Buch
says, “is formed in the spleen, lymph and secreting glands, but
principally by the liver. ” Under the treatment, lupoid nodules
disappeared ; tuberculous glands disappeared ; tuberculous joints
improved. No ill-effects of the treatment were noticed ; “on the
contrary, the action has evidently been in many cases that of a
nervous tonic. ”

Villers

(J.
of Hcs. , IV. 403)
examined the urine of an intensely neurasthenic woman, suffering from
severe asthma and found 4.
5
per cent. of Urea
instead of the usual 2.
5.
In order to find out the effect of Urea
on the healthy he took for five days Urea
15x.
, five drops thrice daily.

He was then compelled to stop by the severity of the symptoms. He
gave the same dose to a patient, a woman. She begged after a short
time to be allowed to discontinue the medicine, as it affected her so
painfully, causing constant urging to urinate ; much sediment in the
urine ; intolerable sensation in abdomen and burning of the skin.

Relations (Urea)

Compare

:
Urinum, Uric acid, Thios. , Urt. urens. Diuresis, Thyr. Tuberculosis,
Tub. , Bac.

Symptoms

Head (Urea)

Head very dull, as if filled with a very heavy lump (

Villers).

Eyes (Urea)

Itching and profuse watering of eyes (agg.

─
Villers).

Abdomen (Urea)

In right hypochondrium, a steady, dull sensation (

Villers).

Intolerable sensation in abdomen and burning of the skin (

Villers).

Urinary Organs (Urea)

Albuminuria ; bloody urine ; general dropsy ; intermittent heart
(boy,

7,
Urea nit.
gr. II. , taken in three doses at two hours’ interval, cured).

Constant urging to urinate, beginning at root of penis (

Villers).

Constant urging, with much sediment in urine (

Villers).

Delirium, nose-bleed, urine brown, very albuminous ; œdema of
pudenda ; ascites ; pulse small, slow ; attacks of suffocation (girl,

6,
Ur. nit.
as above ; urine increased ; swelling decreased ; albumen
disappeared).

From bladder to her groins a fatiguing, tearing pain < standing (

Villers).

Profuse diuresis with rapid diminution of dropsy.

Male Sexual Organs (Urea)

Itching along sulcus of glans and a general tired feeling (agg.

Villers.
)

Generalities (Urea)

Acted as a nervous tonic in tuberculous patients.

General uneasiness ; felt ill, poisoned (

Villers).

Uræmia.

Uricum Acidum

C

₅
N₄
H₄
O₃.

Lithic Acid.

Trituration.

Uric Acid.

Clinical (Uricum acidum)

Eczema, gouty.

Gout.

Lipoma.

Rheumatism.

Characteristics (Uricum acidum)

Uric ac

. has
been used on inferential grounds in gouty conditions.

Burnett

gave it
in 5th
and 6th
attenuations. It is most useful in cases where deposits persist ; it
stirs them up and helps to eliminate them.

It is useful in gouty eczema where the eczema has been “the
cutaneous outlet for the constitution. ” With

Uric
ac. 3x.

Mersch

(H.
W. , XXX. 395)
cured a case of lipoma situated on the left side between abdomen and
breast, “as large as a man’s head, only lengthened. ” Relief
was immediate ; the tumour disappeared in a month.

Relations (Uricum acidum)

Compare :

Urea,
Urtica urens.

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