Aurum Muriaticum Natronatum – Pathogénésies de l’an 1900 – Robert Séror

Pathogénésies
de l’an 1900
New, Old And
Forgotten Remedies
By Edward
Pollock Anshutz
Presented by Dr Robert
Séror

Aurum Muriaticum
Natronatum

Common Name

:
Chloride of Gold and Sodium.

Preparation

: A
mixture composed 4 equal parts of dry chloride of gold and chloride of
sodium, triturated in the usual way.

(The
following is an extract from a paper by Dr. H.

Goullon
in the Allg. hom. Zeit., bd. 114, No. 12, on the
therapeutics of this remedy)

Never have I observed gold so startling in its action as in the
following case :

The patient is a type of the scrofulous habit ; reddish hair, pasty
complexion, thick nose, coarse features. About thirty years of age.

He has had the misfortune of being infected by syphilis, and the
still greater ill-luck of being treated by mercurial inunctions and
iodine to excess.

All these circumstances conjoined helped to produce a complication of
morbid conditions which would put medical art to a severe test.

Let us recall the region in which gold makes such brilliant cures,
and we find it especially suitable in an uncommon swelling of the left
testicle.

In this case I do not exaggerate, when I say that the scrotum was as
large as a gourd of moderate size and the tumor was four or five times
larger in circumference than the right testicle, which was also swollen.

The entire mass simulated an oblong, heavy weight, like those one
meets with in old-fashioned clocks, and could hardly find space in the
capacious suspensory. The skin was also involved.

On the elbow was a widespread herpetic eruption ; on different parts
of the body were gummy indurations ; the ear discharged ; in short, the
many characteristic manifestations of the syphilitic poison were to be
seen throughout the cutaneous and mucous systems. There were also
ulcerous formations in the oral cavity and on the sides of the tongue.

After about four weeks the patient again set foot upon the floor,
saying :

“The drops have done wonders.”

And indeed the influence upon the testicles was so striking that now
the right, which was formerly the smaller, seemed the larger, without
having actually at all increased in size. Not the less remarkable had
been the action of gold on the general condition.

The patient, formerly irritable and uneasy, is cheerful and
comfortable enjoys sound sleep, whereas before he was disturbed with
morbid dreams has lost his previous debility and disgust for everything
; and says that his digestive power is quite a different thing.

He assimilates articles of diet which he did not formerly dare to
take, unless be wished to suffer with flatulence, gastric acidity and
vomiting. Among other things punch, which he “could not even
smell,” agrees well.

But evidently, the mode of administering gold in such cases is not
matter of indifference. And although I have only recently published cure
with high potencies (in which I subsequently corrected the mistake of
the 100th Dec. for the Centes., which was what I used of
the Natrum muriaticum), I cannot commit myself to high potencies in
syphilitic complications.

Experience in these cases is always in favor of substantial doses.
But, as we shall soon see, these proportionally massive and heavy doses
are always quite out of the allopathic posological range, and even on
this ground one must set boundaries, and seek for the conversion of the
traditional school.

By two or three clinical experiences of this sort many a Saul would
become a Paul in spite of all former prejudices, vis inertia, and most
tormenting skepticism. *One half grain Aurum muriaticum natronaturn was
dissolved in 6 grms. Spiritus vini, but of this first 6 drops are again
put into a wineglass of water, of which the patient takes a teaspoonful
thrice daily.

(Dr. Tritschler, of the Gynecological Clinic of Tubingen furnishes
the following on the use of this remedy is diseases of women. From Allg.
hom. Zeit., bd. 94, Nos. 17, 18, 19)

Permit me now to specify some practical instances of the curative
powers of Aurum, and especially of

Aurum
muriaticum natronatum,
in reference to gynecology.

Chronic Metritis

The first case is that of a woman with chronic metritis and prolapsus
uteri.

Hydrarg.
chlorat. mit. was
given at first, which acted favorably on the inflammation but whose
further use was prevented by its giving rise to salivation.

The intumescence of the uterus continued about the same.

Chloride
of gold entirely
reduced the chronic inflammation and restored the uterus to its natural
position without external means.

Collected,
arranged and edited by  Edward Pollock Anshutz : New, Old And
Forgotten Remedies.
Papers by many writers. Philadelphia, january 2, 1900.