Kali Iodatum kali-i.

Glands. Frontal sinus. Nose. Eyes. Lungs: Upper. Lobe. Periosteum.

Heat. Pressure. Touch. Night. Damp. Mercury. Changing weather. Jolting. Cold foods.

Motion. Cool air. Open air.

Incipient organic changes; gouty-rheumatic, syphilitic, rickety, etc. Many and diverse symptoms. Feels used up. Cachexy. Stubborn chronicity. Arterio-sclerosis. Craves motion in open air. Various symptoms. Crushing or sharp stitching pains. Weakness. COPIOUS, watery, acrid, salty, thick, green or foul discharges. Catarrh. Pains long after trauma. Diffuse soreness; of affected part. Œdematous swelling.

Irritable, harsh tempered and cruel. Can't think. Despondent. Bad temper. Harsh. Head bone pains, lightning like, < warmth or lying on part. Big head and small jaws; rickets. Tender spots on head. Bilateral headache. Scalp sore; fissured. Burning, watery, puffy eyes. Chemosis. Tinnitus. Acrid coryza with dyspnœa and salivation. Burning throb in nasal and accessory cavities. Colds from every damp day. Red, swelled nose; tight pain at root, zygomæ and root of tongue. Takes cold. Violent sneezing. Acrid, watery coryza, < cool air. Ozœna. Glutinous mucus on lips in A.M. (Zin-cl.). Nagging toothache. Taste salty; bitter on waking. Salivation. Sore-throat of speakers (Aru-t.). Flatulence; squeaking. Early diarrhœa of phthisis. Frequent stools and urine. Leucorrhœa, corrosive; like meat washings. Air hunger; with flatulency, in A.M.; awakens strangling. Whistling, asthmatic breathing. Raw air - passages. Croupy hoarseness. Dry bronchitis. Frothy expectoration. Backward chest pains. Pneumonia. Pain, sternum to back. Painful lumps; in scalp. Giant urticaria. Chilly in bones; in painful parts. Heat in evening; uncovers, then chills. Alternate heat and chill. Heat with shudders. Hot and dry, then drenching sweat. Profuse night sweats, which >. Actinomycosis.

Antidotes: Merc. Nit-ac. Related: Iod. Sul. Syph.

We use this remedy for severe pains in the bones, where they swell. In violent headaches where the cranium swells up in hard lumps--pain being very intense. Syphilis.

Especially adapted to scrofulous persons, who have been thoroughly saturated with mercury, to mercurial and syphilitic affections in general, and affections of glands and bones.

Iodide of Potassium (KALI HYDRIODICUM)

The profuse, watery, acrid coryza that the drug produces serves as a sure guiding symptom, especially when associated with pain in frontal sinus. It acts prominently on fibrous and connective tissues, producing infiltration, œdema, etc. Glandular swellings. Purpura and hæmorrhagic diathesis. Syphilis may be indicated in all stages: 1. In acute form with evening remitting fever, going off in nightly perspiration. 2. Second stage, mucous membranes and skin ulcerations. 3. Tertiary symptoms; nodes. Give material doses. Diffused sensitiveness --(glands, scalp, etc). Rheumatism in neck, back, feet, especially heels and soles; worse, cold and wet. Iodide of Potass in material doses acts in the different forms of Fungoid disease (thrush, ringworm, etc), offer simulating syphilis and bacterial diseases like tuberculosis. Symptoms like loss of weight, spitting of blood, etc. Tea-taster's cough due to inhaling the fungus; a also brings about often favorable reaction in many chronic ailments even when not clearly symptomatically indicated.

Sad, anxious; harsh temper. Irritable; congestion to head, heat and throbbing.

Pain through sides of head. Violent headache. Cranium swells up in hard lump. Pain intense over eyes and root of nose. Brain feels enlarged. Hard nodes, with severe pain. Facial neuralgia. Lancinating pain in upper jaw.

Red, swollen. Tip of nose red; profuse, acrid, hot, watery, thin discharge. Ozæna, with perforated septum. Sneezing. Nasal catarrh, involving frontal sinus. Stuffiness and dryness of nose, without discharge. Profuse, cool, greenish, unirritating discharges.

Conjunctiva red, injected; profuse lachrymation. Syphilitic iritis. Pustular keratitis and chemosis. Bony tumors of the orbit.

Noises in ear. Boring pain in ears.

Saliva increased. Faintness at epigastrium. Cold food and drink, especially milk, aggravate. Much thirst. Throbbing, painful burning. Flatulence.

Menses late, profuse. During menses uterus feels as if squeezed. Corrosive leucorrhœa, with subacute inflammatory conditions of the womb in young married women. Fibroid tumors, metritis, sub-involution, hypertrophy, 1x or 1 gr crude, 3 times a day.

Violent cough; worse in morning. Pulmonary œdema. Larynx feels raw. Laryngeal œdema. Awakes choking. Expectoration like soap-suds, greenish. Pneumonia, when hepatization commences. Pneumococcic meningitis. Stitching pains through lungs to back. Asthma. Dyspnœa on ascending, with pain in heart. Hydrothorax (Merc sulph). Pleuritic effusion. Cold travels downward to chest.

Severe bone-pains. Periosteum thickened, especially tibia; sensitive to touch (Kali b; Asaf). Rheumatism; pains at night and in damp weather. Contraction of joints. Rheumatism of knees with effusion. Pain in small of back and coccyx. Pain in hip, forcing limping. Sciatica; cannot stay in bed; worse at night and lying on affected side. Formication of lower extremities when sitting, better lying down.

Purple spots; worse on legs. Acne, hydroa. Small boils. Glands enlarged, indurated. Hives. Rough nodules all over, worse any covering; heat of body intense. Fissured anus of infants. Tendency to œdematous swellings, eyelids, mouth, uvula, etc. Acne rosacea.

Worse, warm clothing, warm room, at night, damp weather. Better, motion, open air.

Antidote: Hepar.

Compare: Iod; Mercur; Sulph; Mezer. Chopheenee, a Hindoo remedy for syphilitic eruptions, ulcerations and bone-pains. Used in tincture.

Crude drug, in material official dosage, but remember Dr. Meyhoffer's statements in his chronic diseases of organs of respiration: "From the moment the drug produces pathogenetic symptoms, it exaggerates the function of the tissue, exhausts the already diminished vitality, and thence, instead of stimulating the organic cell in the direction of life, impairs or abolishes its power of contraction. We use, as a rule, the first dilution from 6 to 20 drops a day; if after a week no decided progress is visible, one drop of the tincture of Iodine is added to each hundred of the first dilution. In this way, the mucous tubercles, gummy deposits and ulcerations resulting therefrom in the larynx undergo a favorable termination in laryngeal syphilis. " When strictly homeopathically indicated, as in acute respiratory affections to third potency.

Cough with profuse, thick, green, salty expectoration, from deep down, as if from mid-sternum, with pain through to back; great weakness and night sweats.

Stitches through the lungs; in middle of sternum; through sternum to back or deep in chest; < walking.

Irresistible desire for open air; walking in open air does not fatigue; periosteal rheumatism.

Intolerable bone pain, especially at night; syphilitics.

Syphilitic affections, especially after the abuse of Mercury.

Glandular swellings; interstitial infiltration.

Hepar sulphur. antidotes its over-use.

This is one of the drugs so greatly abused by the old school that I confess to not having prescribed it much; in the first place, from my prejudice against it, and, in the second, because it never had so thorough a proving as did Kali carb. by Hahnemann.

There is one condition of the respiratory organs in which I have found it of great value. When after a hard cold a long-continued cough is the consequence, or it may be after an attack of pneumonia. The patient seems as if running into consumption. There is profuse expectoration from low down, deep in the chest, as if it came from mid sternum, with pain through to between the shoulders (Kali bichrom.) (Kali carb., lower right chest through to back), and there are exhausting night-sweats and great general weakness. I have repeatedly cured such cases where consumption seemed inevitable.

In the beginning of my practice I used to dissolve two to four grains of the crude salt in a four-ounce vial of water and direct to take a teaspoonful of this preparation three times a day, until it is half used, and then fill up with water and continue taking the same way until cured; filling up the vial every time it was half used. But several years ago, having a marked case of this description and feeling sure of my remedy, I gave it in the 200th potency as an experiment. This case also made fully as speedy a recovery as the others treated with the crude drug, so since then I often prescribe it in the potencies. There are two other remedies that may dispute the place with Kali hyd. in such cases, viz., Sanguinaria and Stannum. In all the expectoration is profuse and thick, but in Stannum the matter tastes sweet, in Sanguinaria the breath and sputa are very fœtid, even to the patient (also Sepia and Psorinum), while in Kali hyd. it is salty to the taste (Sepia). With Kali hyd. and Stannum the expectoration is often thick, green; not so much so with Sanguinaria. Sometimes with the Kali hyd. there is a frothy or soap-suds-like appearance of the sputa, but the heavy, green, salty expectoration seems to me to be more characteristic. The frothy expectoration is found in œdema of the lungs and may occur in Bright's disease. I have more than once gotten the reputation of curing consumption in such cases as I have been describing, and I don't know but I deserved it, at least I was never known to deny it.

Kali hydroiodicum as used by the old school is given either as a sort of specific against syphilis, or more often syphilis complicated by their abuse of mercury, or again as an alterative in scrofulous affections, without much reason. Now, what is an alterative? Here is the definition: "A medicine which gradually induces a change in the habit or constitution, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuation." Isn't that rather sweeping? How is that for a school of medicine that claims to be the custodian of all medical science? Isn't that about what we would like to do in every case -restore healthy function, without sensible evacuation? How would Kali hydroiodicum do then for a panacea? There are, however, many so-called alteratives according to this definition; which shall we give? It is just here that we homœopaths believe that such vague general terms as alterative, tonic, narcotic, etc., are too unmeaning for purposes of close prescribing, and therefore misleading. They allow the doctor to prescribe too loosely a class of remedies, instead of the particular remedy of that class best adapted to the individual case.

We claim, therefore, great superiority for our system of prescribing, which is based upon a system of close drug proving, which brings out the closest, finest shades of difference between remedies belonging to a class of remedies. There must be no substitution of one for the other, if we would do the finest prescribing possible.

It requires but little comparison between the Materia Medicas of the two schools to show the wide difference in this respect.

There is said to be a place for the use of this remedy in pneumonia. I have not had experience with it here, but on account of its reputation I give it, and may use it if occasion requires.

I give you Farrington's words for it: "Pneumonia, in which disease it is an excellent remedy when hepatization has commenced, when the disease localizes itself, and infiltration begins. In such cases, in the absence of other symptoms calling distinctively for Bryonia, Phosphorus or Sulphur, I would advise you to select Iodine or Iodide of Potassa. It is also called for when the hepatization is so extensive that we have cerebral congestion, or even an effusion into the brain as a result of this congestion." The symptoms are as follows in these cases:

"First they begin with a very red face, the pupils are more or less dilated, and the patient is drowsy; in fact, showing a picture very much like that of Belladonna. You will probably give that remedy, but it does no good. The patient becomes worse, breathes more heavy, and the pupils more inactive to the light, and you know then that you have serous effusion into the brain, which must be checked or the patient dies." So far good. But now even Farrington dulls -as great men sometimes do. He says, "why did not Belladonna cure?" "He who prescribes by the symptoms alone in this case would fail, because he has not taken the totality of the case." What does Farrington mean? Does he mean that in his picture of Belladonna he had the totality of the case without the hepatization, or does he mean that the hepatization was the totality without the other symptoms? Here are the two horns of his dilemma -which would he take? I contend that all the other symptoms of the case, without the hepatization, was not the totality of the case. The hepatization was one, and only one, of the totality of symptoms. Now he says -"Put your ear to the patient's chest, and you will find one or both lungs consolidated." Well, I should call that a very important objective symptom, and one that could not be left out of the totality of the case. Remember that both subjective and objective symptoms must enter into every case in order to make the totality complete.

So after all, in true Hahnemannian fashion, I claim that he who prescribes, being guided by all the symptoms, will not and cannot fail where a cure is at all possible. These are and must be our infallible guides, or Similia Similibus Curantur is not true. (see Kafka's case, Hom. Clinic, page 73, 1870).

Guiding Symptoms, Vol. VI, page 441, records this -"Distends all the tissues by interstitial infiltration; œdema, enlarged glands, tophis exostoses; swelling of the bones." Then of course it cures such distentions of the tissues. Great mistakes and abuses of the remedy, and irreparable injury to the patient, often follow the use of remedies on such vague or single indications, that is of course if we prescribe on them alone. That would be like trying to prescribe for pneumonia from the single indication hepatization. This is only one symptom, and that one may occur under any remedies. If we say, or could say, interstitial distention of the tissues with certain other symptoms peculiar to that remedy, then could we differentiate between it and other remedies. But to use a remedy simply as an absorbent because it has secured absorption in some other case, is simply to fall back into the indiscriminate generalization and routinism of the old school. Kali iodatum is called an anti-syphilitic. So is mercury. Sulphur is called anti-psoric, and Thuja antisycotic. That is well to begin with, but the "end is not yet." There is a large class of remedies for each of these miasms and the one (indicated by all the symptoms or the characteristic symptoms) out of the class is the one to select for the cure of each individual patient.

The very fact that Kali iodatum has been too generally and indiscriminately used is the reason why it is a great question as to whether humanity has been most blessed or cursed by it. We homœopaths have much to do in combating the evils produced by the abuse of both these drugs, and Hepar sulphur, is one of the best antidotes. Most of the reported cures with this remedy Kali iod. are made with the low or crude preparations of the drug. I think it can be used lower than most drugs without injury, and yet I believe we do not know half its remedial power as developed by our process of potentization.

Great talkativeness and inclination to jest. Every little noise makes one start.

Heat in the head, with redness and burning of the face. Headache and heaviness in the head (5 A.M.) ; better after rising. Feeling of heaviness in the forehead (in the afternoon). Lancinations and dartings over the left eye and in the left temple. The scalp feels as if ulcerated when scratching it.

Burning in the eyes ; they secrete a purulent mucus ; the eyes and lids are red with lachrymation. Painful twitching of the lower eyelids. Œdematous swelling of the eyelids, with lachrymation. Dimness of the eyes.

Boring pain in the ears. Darting in the ears (right).

Violent bleeding of the nose. Redness and swelling of the nose, with constant discharge of watery, acrid, colorless liquid. Inflammation of the mucous membrane of the nose and the eyelids. From the least cold repeated attacks of violent, acrid coryza, with bloated eyelids, stinging pain in the ears, redness of the face, white-coated tongue, nasal voice, violent thirst, alternate heat and chilliness, dark, hot urine, headache, and great soreness and tenderness of the nose (in persons who have previously taken much mercury).

Swelling of the face and tongue. Painful stinging and darting in the cheek.

Ulcerative pain and swelling of the gums. Swelling of the gums around a decayed tooth. Gum-boils. Sensation as if the teeth were elongated. Dry, chapped lips. The lips are covered with viscid mucus in the morning. Burning of the tip of the tongue. Burning vesicles on the tip of the tongue. Ulceration of the tongue and mouth, without ptyalism. Ulceration of the mucous ; membrane of the mouth. Ptyalism ; the saliva is ; viscid and saltish (during pregnancy). Bloody saliva, with sweetish taste in the mouth. Dryness and bitterness in the pharynx and mouth. Increased secretion of mucus in the throat. Goitre (sensitive to contact). Swelling and suppuration of the submaxillary glands.

The food has no taste ; tastes like straw. Continual excessive thirst, day and night. Great bitterness in the mouth and throat, going off after breakfast. Rancid taste in the mouth after eating or drinking. Hiccough. Gulping up of large quantities of air. Rumbling and shrill noises in the stomach. Inflammation of the stomach. Phlegmasia of the stomach (and intestinal canal). Sudden painful bloating up of the whole abdomen, or only the umbilical region, followed by diarrhœa. Burning in the pit of the stomach. Cutting and burning round the umbilicus.

Hard, very scanty stool is passed with great difficulty. Discharges of serous mucus from the rectum. Diarrhœa, with pain in the small of the back.

Painful urging to urinate. Increased secretion of urine, with unquenchable thirst. Frequent and copious emission of pale and watery urine. Urine red as blood. Discharge of mucus from the urethra.

Men. Atrophy of the testicles. Sexual desire diminished. Women. Suppressed menstruation. Frequent urging to urinate when the menses appear. During the menses, chilliness with goose flesh and heat in the head. Thin, watery, acrid, corrosive leucorrhœa. Discharge of mucus from the vagina. Atrophy of the mammæ.

Nasal, catarrhal voice. Hoarseness, with pain in the chest, cough, oppression of breathing, and pain in the pain in both eyes. Short, dry cough, occasioned by roughness in the throat. Dry, hacking cough ; afterwards copious, greenish expectoration. Stitches deep in the chest while walking. Stitches in the left side of the (upper) chest when sitting bent. Stitches in the middle of the sternum, extending to the back. Darts in the region of the heart.

Pain in the os coccygis, as from a fall. Stitches in the small of the back when sitting. Pain in the small of the back, as if bruised (when sitting bent).

Upper. Bruised pain in the left shoulder. Tearing in the shoulder, followed by tearing in the ear. Lower. Gnawing in the hip-bones. Dart in the left hip, at every step, obliging one to limp. Tearing and pain in the left femur. Tearing in the right thigh, extending below the knee, waking one at night and becoming insufferable when lying on that side, or on the back. Tearing in the left knee, as if in the periosteum ; the knee feels swollen (during the night). Pain as if bruised in the left instep. Ulcerative pain in the heels and toes.

Spasmodic contraction of the muscles. Subsultus tendinum. Irresistible desire to go into the open air. Hæmorrhage from the nose, lungs, rectum. Paralysis.

Restless confused sleep. Sleeplessness. Weeping during sleep.

Pulse accelerated-frequent. Chilliness with drowsiness, proceeding from the lower part of the back extending upwards and through the whole body (6 to 8 P.M.). Chilliness not easily removed by external warmth. Chilliness with thirst (4 to 7 P.M.). Chilliness all night with shaking and frequent waking. Flushes of heat, with dulness of the bead. At times chilly with dry skin, at other times profuse perspiration.

Profuse papulous eruption in the face, on the shoulders, and over the whole body. Itching herpes in the face. Pustulous eruption. Small boils (like furuncles) on the neck, face, head, back, and chest. Purpurea hæmorrhagica.

Most symptoms appear during rest and are relieved during motion, especially when walking in the open air. Constant irresistible desire to walk in the open air, it does not fatigue him. After abuse of Mercury -pain in the bones- catarrh : -against the abuse of Kali hydriodicum in massive doses. Hepar s. c. is the best antidote.

Potassium Iodide. Kali hydriodicum. KI. Solution. Trituration.

Actinomycosis. Aneurism. Anhidrosis . Bright's disease. Bubo. Bunions. Cancer . Caries. Cold . Condylomata. Consumption. Cough. Croup. Debility. Dropsy. Ears, otalgia; tinnitus. Emaciation. Erythema nodosum. Eyes, affections of ; cysts on lids of. Fibroma. Glandular swellings . Gonorrhœa. Gout. Gumma . Hæmorrhages. Hay fever. Housemaid's knee . Influenza. Intra-menstrual hæmorrhage. Joints, affections of. Laryngitis. Liver, diseases of. Locomotor ataxy . Lumbago. Lungs, hepatisation of; œdema of. Menstruation, disorders of. Neuralgia. Nodes . Noises in ears. Nystagmus. Odour of body, abnormal . Œdema glottidis. Pancreatitis . Paralysis . Pleurisy. Prostate, affections of . Rheumatism . Rickets. Rupia . Sciatica. Scrofula. Small-pox. Spine, Pott's curvature of. Spleen. Syphilis . Tic-douloureux. Tongue, neuralgia of. Tumours. Ulcers . Wens.

Kali iod . is one of the few medicines on whose definite action reliance can be placed in ordinary practice. In active secondary syphilis, in ulcers of the constitutional type, and in cases of subacute rheumatism, Iodide of Potassium will generally do what is expected of it. That its action is specific is generally admitted; and specific is the same thing as homœopathic . I rarely find occasion to use it in lower attenuations than the 30th. The history of the drug in relation to syphilis is both interesting and important. As we should naturally expect, K. iod ., being anti-syphilitic, is also antidotal to mercury. Experience seems to show that it is those patients who are charged with the disease or with mercury, or both together, who can support the massive doses of K. iod . which are sometimes given. But the salt is often given as a diagnostic, and then, if care is not taken, there is great danger to the patient. I have seen patients irretrievably reduced in strength by K. iod . given on the supposition that they were syphilitic. I have recorded in my Diseases of the Heart (p. 165) the case of a gentleman, 74, who had a psoriasis-like skin affection for which he consulted a homœopath. His health remained excellent, but his skin did not get well, and he consulted a well-known skin and syphilis specialist, who at once pronounced it to be syphilitic, though the patient denied that he had ever had the disease. Massive doses of K. iod . were given, and the skin disease disappeared in a fortnight. But the patient was practically killed. He cried like a child without knowing why. He lost over a stone in weight. He could eat very little, and everything Caused distress and a full sensation. Palpitation came on at all times, and kept him awake at night. The pulse was a mere flicker in the attacks, and was irregular, intermittent, or very frequent in the intervals between. It was in this state that he came to me, but the powers of reaction were destroyed, and nothing that I gave made any impression. He left London, and died very shortly afterwards. Here is another case of K. iod . poisoning, when unbalanced by antidotal drugs or disease. It is related by Jonathan Hutchinson. The patient, a man of 26, had been treated with 5-grain doses of K. iod . at a hospital for a swelling in the groin which was diagnosed as syphilis. There was no skin eruption at that time, but shortly one did appear, and was thought to confirm the diagnosis. The dose was increased to 10 grains at the end of the week, ten days later to 15 grains, and still later to 20 grains. This was kept up from July 23rd to October 9th. Mercury was then substituted, but this made no change, and the patient, who was getting worse the whole time, died of exhaustion in a fortnight. The last part of the time he was in the London Hospital, to which he had been removed, and it was there found, on careful inquiry, that no evidence of syphilis existed. This was his condition when he arrived in the London Hospital a few days before his death: There was a generalised skin eruption, consisting of swellings varying in size from small papules to enormous tuberous masses, some of the latter being ulcerated. The swellings attained the greatest size on face, legs, and upper chest. A coloured plate illustrating the case was published, showing the tumours to be dark purplish red in colour. The antidotal action of syphilis to K. iod . is further borne out by the observation of Fournier ( Allen's Encyclop ., Appendix), who noted the occurrence of purpura in patients under its influence. But it only occurred in an intense form in persons who had no signs of syphilis, and to whom it was given "only as a preventive." But the anti-syphilitic relation of K. iod . only takes in a small part of its power as it is known to homœopaths. Though it has not been extensively proved, the recorded and attested effects of over-dosing are numerous enough. P. Jousset ( L'Art Médical , October, 1899, 241) has referred to Rilliet's experiments with the drug on the healthy. He experimented on twenty-eight persons, mixing their table-salt with one ten-thousandth part of K. iod ., so that in two years each would have taken 40 centigrammes. Here is one of the cases: A man, 45, of very strong constitution, never had any illness. At the end of seven months he began to waste; had palpitation; became sad and melancholy; had fixed ideas, weakness, indefinable malaise in the lower abdomen with constipation. The iodised salt was accidentally suspended during January and February, and he completely recovered. Returning home in the month of August, he commenced the salt again, and the same symptoms returned with much more intensity than before: notable and progressive wasting with voracious appetite; trembling; palpitations; fixed look; yellow complexion; above all the moral disturbances were very pronounced agitated even to tears; irritability; disgust and discouragement agitated sleep. It took two months for him to recover this time. The record says that the man's health was again "completely restored"; but this is not quite correct. After the first poisoning, although complete health was apparently regained, there was left an extreme susceptibility to the drug's action, so that a much shorter period of poisoning was required to reproduce the symptoms in a greatly aggravated degree. And two years after this, although health was apparently perfectly restored, a visit of twenty-one days to the seaside nearly cost the man his life. The same symptoms reappeared. He was reduced to a skeleton, the appetite being all the time exaggerated. In walking he was almost bent double, trembling and out of breath at the slightest movement. Pulse weak and very frequent. Finally he was compelled to keep his bed, and had great difficulty in reaching his home in Geneva. There he promptly got better. But in spite of the apparent recovery a very profound change in the organism had occurred; and from this experience " < at the seaside" must be numbered among the conditions of K. iod . Two others, both women of sixty, had the same symptoms as this man, one at the end of two months, the other at the end of four. On the rest of the twenty-eight experimented upon no symptoms were observed. Joussett quotes from the same authority experiences with the same salt in the treatment of goître. A man of fifty had a round, indolent, non-fluctuating goître on the right side of the neck, the size of an orange, of very slow growth. He took every morning, fasting, a spoonful of water containing one gramme (15 1/2 grains) of K. iod . From the first day of the treatment he felt an indefinable anguish. The sixteenth day there was increased malaise and considerable wasting, and the patient threw his potion into the lake. Two days later his doctor found all the grave symptoms of the poisoning; but the goître was three parts gone . The patient was sent to the country and was ill all the summer, but completely recovered in the winter, the goître having returned to its original size . This experience was repeated on three other patients; but a goîtrous dog was more fortunate. Two centigrammes (gr. 1/6) was sufficient to produce all the symptoms in him, and his goître disappeared and did not return when he recovered from the poisoning. In this connection may be mentioned the power of the salt over tumours of other kinds. Enlarged lymphatic glands, syphilitic nodes, condylomata, and tumours of the breast and uterus have been removed by it. This has occurred under the action of the crude salt for the most part; and the general explanation is that the solvent action of the drug is most powerfully excited on the more lowly organised new tissues. But this would not apply to all cases. We have seen in Hutchinson's case that K. iod . can produce tumours as well as remove them; but Jules Gaudy has put on record another experience ( Journ. Belge d'Homœop ., vi. 57). Several cases of abdominal tumour were successfully treated by him with K. iod . in 3x, 10 and 15 centesimal triturations. Two of these had been unsuccessfully treated with the crude salt before coming under his care. This they could not tolerate on account of loss of appetite and irritation of the mucous membrane of mouth and throat. One of these patients had a large tumour on the level of the great curvature of the stomach extending on both sides, plunging into the abdominal cavity and extending into the pelvis; it was adherent and difficult to define. She had a jaundiced, dirty-looking skin, and loss of appetite, and mostly vomited her food. A suspicion of latent syphilis led Gaudy to the remedy, which was perfectly tolerated in attenuation, though not in the crude. Health rapidly improved, and in three months there was hardly any tumour to be discovered. The remains of it evidently depended from the epiploon. The second case was very similar in nature to this. Cooper reports this case: "Womb packed with fibroids, pain in right inguinal region on exertion, spirits depressed, tinnitus like buzzing of flies, constant tired, sleepy feeling down the limbs, hot burning feet, though sometimes intense shivering all over, pains in the breasts, which are tender, unable to go long without food, constant distension as from flatus, sinking at scrobiculus cordis at 11 a.m., sleep dreamy; all these symptoms moved away under K. iod . 30, leaving the patient in absolute comfort." Cooper adds this note: "There is much resemblance between the actions of K. iod . and of Sul . in their 30th dilutions. After bronchitis, pneumonia, erysipelas, and other inflammatory affections, K. iod ., in 30th and also in cruder forms, acts like magic, apparently from the removal of the effete products left in the tissues.". — K. iod . has also been proved in the regular way, but not so extensively as some other Kali salts. It acts on the tissues much in the same way as syphilis does — dissolving them — glands atrophy, tissues, especially connective tissues and ligaments, inflame and ulcerate. The periosteum and bones are attacked and nodes appear. But K. iod . is perhaps more anti-scrofulous than anti-syphilitic. It acts best in scrofulous patients, especially if syphilis or mercurialisation or both are superadded. It also causes infiltration, œdema and dropsy of various kinds. The blood is acted upon, hæmorrhage occurs, and purpura hæmorrhagica. A grand indication for K. iod ., as pointed out by Cooper, is a "diffused sensitiveness" over parts affected. This appears in the provings: "The scalp is painful on scratching, as if ulcerated (after eleven days)." This is from Hartlaub and Trinks. "Swelling of the whole thyroid gland, increasing very rapidly, with some sensitiveness to touch and pressure ." It has removed sensitive syphilitic nodes. I have often verified this indication. In all neuralgic or inflammatory conditions where there is heightened and diffused sensitiveness of the affected part, K. iod . must be considered. I cured with K. iod . 30, in a middle-aged man, neuralgia occurring daily over the left eye; in addition to this he complained that his head was very sore . He had also Sore gums and a cough, and was > lying down. There was no syphilis in this case. Farrington mentions "Headache of the external head, hard lumps like nodes on the scalp which pain excessively." This may be either syphilitic, mercurial, or rheumatic. Cooper cured with K. iod . 30 a case of rheumatic gout in a lady; every joint affected; unable to sleep for weeks on account of the pain. The keynote indication was: "After fatigue, hepatic region becomes tender." He commends it in affections of the spleen with diffused sensitiveness of spleen region and dropsy. K. iod . also corresponds to serous effusion on the brain secondary to hepatisation of the lungs. The action of K. iod . in the respiratory sphere is very important. The coryza of K. iod . is well known, and constitutes for the old school the only generally recognised indication of "Iodism," as it is called, with supreme disregard of the Kali element. The discharge is acrid, watery; the eyes smart and are puffed, there is lachrymation. (This action on the eyes may develop into iritis, keratitis, and chemosis.) The coryza recurs repeatedly from every little cold, and makes the nose red and swollen. The discharge may become thick, green, offensive; ozæna and perforation of the bones may occur. The voice becomes nasal, hoarse, or is lost. "Awakened especially 5 a.m., with dry throat, oppression, loss of voice, glands swollen," as in croup and œdema glottidis. K. iod . corresponds to many cases of phthisis, laryngeal and pulmonary. A characteristic is: Stitches through the lungs; in middle of sternum; through sternum to back or deep in chest while walking. "Deep, hollow, hoarse cough with pain through breast." The characteristic expectoration is greenish, copious, and looks like soapsuds . Hering speaks of K. iod . as having been curative in pneumonia and Bright's disease. Lutz (quoted H. W ., xxviii. 175) remarks on the frequency (from atmospheric causes) of bronchial asthma among both whites and natives in the Sandwich Islands, the symptoms being those of a suffocating capillary bronchitis with defective expiration, K. iod . (crude) giving speedy relief. "The initial, pronounced, and unmistakable symptoms of K. iod . are: coryza, sneezing and bronchitis; and from these spread out an expanse of symptoms such as might be expected from so usual a starting-point of disease" (Cooper). K. iod. has been commended as a protective against foot-and-mouth disease in cattle ( B. M. J ., June 26, 1895). The heart is profoundly affected, as we have seen above. "Fluttering on awaking; must get up, fearing otherwise he will smother." It is a favourite remedy for aneurism among old-school practitioners, but there is no need to imitate their massive doses; its action is evidently specific. Walking greatly < all heart symptoms. It is suited to many cases of rheumatic heart, as well as other rheumatic conditions. The digestive tract is no less disordered than other mucous membranes. There is a terrible pain at the root of the tongue which is characteristic. There is loss of appetite and indigestion with flatulence and bloating almost as intense as that in Lycopod . Cold much < all these symptoms. The rectum and genito-urinary tract have many symptoms. I cured with it a case of spasm of the rectum with a little pain in the urethra coming on after coitus. Psorinum and Sulphur had given partial relief before. This < after coitus relates K. iod . to the other Kalis — Caust., K. bich ., and K. carb . Eruptions of many kinds appear, scrofulous and syphilitic in appearance. There is a papular and pustular eruption, especially on scalp and down back, the pustules leaving scars when they heal. Among the peculiar sensations of K. iod . are: As though head was enlarged; as if it were screwed in; as if a large quantity of water were forced into brain; as if it would be forced asunder; as if a leaflet were at root of nose. As if a worm was crawling at root of nose. Back as if in a vice. As of a tumour in ovaries. In chest as if cut to pieces. In coccyx as if bruised. Cooper has cured with it many cases of noises in the ears, giving a single dose of 30 or higher and allowing it to work. The chief time Condition of K. iod . is in the main the same as those of the other great anti-syphilitics — Syph., Aur., Merc ., and of the disease itself, < at night, from sunset to sunrise. This applies to its rheumatic and other affections. The sciatica of K. iod . is < at night, < lying on painful side, > in open air. The chest symptoms, like those of K. ca ., may be < in early morning 2 to 5 a.m. Headache < 5 a.m. (also headache < after a night's rest). Loose stools also occur at that time ( K. bi .). Like Merc., K. iod . has great sensitiveness to atmospheric changes: Every little exposure every damp day will set up the symptoms. At the same time there is the > in open air of Iod ., &c.: "Irresistible desire for the open air; walking in open air does not fatigue." The chill of intermittent fever is not > by warmth; but warmth > many symptoms of teeth and scalp. In general, however, there is aversion to heat. Heat < headache. Motion < , especially walking; after the first movement, in the lower limbs it is more bearable. Sitting hurts, and flexing limbs > some of the pains. < From touch is a very marked feature of K. iod .; this is part of the "diffused sensitiveness" noted by Cooper. All symptoms < by drinking cold milk. " K. iod . is a remedy that has a great number of keynotes. It seems to meet all temperaments, and while suitable for pale, delicate subjects, is also required for those who flush easily and are manifestly plethoric. A diffused arterial vasculosis is met by it, but it is also called for in venous states. Its characteristic tinnitus aurium is certainly the sharp, shrill, hissing and piercing noises, but it also relieves the throbbing, pulsative noises, especially when the heart is hypertrophied and inclined to fatty degeneration. Diversity of lesion, diversity of aggravation, and prolixity of symptoms without any one feature being in prominence, calls for it: a moderate amount of catarrh of one or more of the orifices of the body, with tendency to flatulent distensions, depression, used up feelings, inability to think, are characteristic. But perhaps the most satisfactory action of K. iod ., in the 30th, is in rickets (and rickety conditions) along with its many attendant symptoms. When children cannot bear to be touched, cannot ride in jolting conveyances, have big heads and emaciated limbs, big teeth and small jaws, and when they incline to frequency of urination and of defæcation, K. iod . 30 will work wonders. In child-life K. iod . acts at once if indicated and completely clears away the symptoms: in adult-life it may often have to be reverted to during the treatment of very obstinate forms of disease. While this is true in a broad sense, it is also true that there is no known prescription that gives a better chance of removal of that very obstinate symptom tinnitus aurium than a single dose of K. iod . 30 allowed to act. This must not be taken as justification for careless selection of the remedy in cases marked by contra-indicating features" (Cooper).

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Talkative, disposed to jest.
Starts at every noise.
Excited as if intoxicated.
Frantic excitation ; catarrhal or mercurial headache.
Inclined to be vexed, vehement, quarrelsome.
Very great irritability and unwonted harshness of demeanor ; his children, to whom he is devotedly attached, become burdensome to him ; very passionate and spiteful temper ; inclined to sadness and weeping, with constant apprehension of
impending evil. θ Melancholia.
Torturing feeling of anguish preventing sleep.
Whining ; apprehensive as from threatened accident.
Sadness and anxiety.
Intellectual weakness and paroxysms of dementia, accompanied by headache.

Vertigo : with reeling, after meals.
On awaking, giddy, fluttering ; must get up or smother.

Hyperemia in scrofula ; also in weak or tubercular patients ; hammering in forehead ; head feels inflated ; anxious, restless sleep.
Congestion of brain from suppression of long standing nasal discharge.
Heat in head, with burning and redness of face ; beating in forehead and temples ; > in open air.
Terrible hammering pains in forepart of head, with sensation as if brain was compressed from both sides, or as though head was enlarged to three times its size.
Violent pain in frontal region.
Feeling of heaviness in forehead.
Tearing or jerking stitches above left eye, in frontal sinus.
Lancinating and darting over left eye and in left temple.
Pains in sides of head, as if screwed in ; > in open air.
Irritating, offensive discharge, accompanied by boring, tearing pains in temporal bone ; during day a dull, tense, numb feeling in affected side of head, during night becomes intolerable ; sudden shocks of pain.
Pain in upper part of head, as if it would be forced asunder ; that part of head hot to touch, though he is generally chilly, and > by external warmth.
Tensive, stinging, darting, lacerating pain in head.
Headache and heaviness in head, 5 A. M. ; > after rising.
Severe headache, with lachrymation.
Catarrhal headaches with inflammation of mucous membranes of frontal sinuses, eyes, throat and chest.
Syphilitic or mercurial headaches.
Headache, especially in occiput ; coryza ; pains in upper maxilla and teeth.
Acute hydrocephalus, with strabismus, labored respiration, convulsions ; or with paralysis of right side ; dilated immovable pupils ; limbs of left side in constant tremulous motion, hand being often drawn to head with an undulatory, automatic movement ; occasional
convulsions and almost entire insensibility.
Hydrocephalus ; effusion ; blindness ; dilated pupils ; eyes staring, watery ; crying out ; vomiting.

Violent headache, hard lumps on cranium ; after abuse of mercury ; syphilis.
Periosteal syphilitic headache.
Scalp feels hot to touch.
Coldness of painful parts of head > by external warmth.
Scalp painful on scratching, as if ulcerated.
Great disposition for hair to change color and fall out.

Vision dim and foggy ; sees objects indistinctly.
Mistiness before eyes ; after scrofulous ophthalmia or abuse of mercury.
Complete blindness, from effusion of water on brain, with dilated pupils, staring, watery eyes ; frequent crying out and vomiting.
Sunken eyes, surrounded by blue rings.
Incipient glaucoma in syphilitic subjects ; dull, discolored state of iris ; burning in eyes, lachrymation, dilated pupils, amaurotic symptoms.
Irido-choroiditis, especially if syphilitic.
Choroiditis disseminata, especially if of syphilitic origin.
Fundus of right eye shows extensive white patches (atrophy of choroid) and deposits of pigment ; optic nerve hyperemic, slight haziness of vitreous ; commencing atrophic spots in choroid of left eye and hyperemia of nerve ; R. v. 20/200, improved to 20/30.
Syphilitic choroiditis ; excessive and variable amount of haziness of vitreous.
Syphilitic iritis, especially if inflammation is very severe and unyielding to influences of atropine ; inflammatory process in iris so high, that pupil tends to contract, notwithstanding frequent instillation of strongest solutions of atropine ; iris much swollen and aqueous
more or less cloudy ; ciliary injection very marked and of a bright angry appearance ; pain may be severe, but is < at night ; photophobia and lachrymation are variable.
Iritis syphilitica after abuse of mercury ; aqueous cloudy ; ciliary injection bright, angry looking ; pains < at night.
Pupils dilated ; eyes in constant motion.
Pustules on cornea ; no photophobia, pain or redness.
Photophobia ; constantly shields his eyes, and yet light does not seem to affect them much.
Conjunctiva of one or both eyes often affected ; attack commences by more or less general or more or less rapid vascular injection, to which is speedily added a tumefaction of mucous membrane, and an infiltration, generally well marked, of submucous cellular tissue ;
considerable chemosis of eye and œdema of lids.
Chemosis ; purulent secretion ; eyes burn and are red from lachrymation ; scrofulous ophthalmia, especially after mercury.
Œdema of lids with lachrymation ; lower lids twitch.
Injection of conjunctivæ.
Injection and tumefaction of conjunctiva.
Great redness of mucous membrane of eyes, nose, throat and palate, with profuse lachrymation. θ Acute coryza.
Awoke in morning with dizziness, and afterwards had three similar attacks ; had had a severe cold ; for two days had noticed blurring of vision and diplopia which had been steadily increasing and was only noticed when looking to left ; examination showed only slight action
of left external rectus ; syphilitic history. θ Paralysis of left nervus abducens.
Several tumors on entire upper border of left orbit, firmly adherent to bone and appearing to extend into orbit ; growths hard and encroached considerable upon upper lid, especially at inner corner ; painless, no inflammation and softening ; syphilitic history.
Periostitis of orbit, especially if syphilitic ; more or less swelling extending even to temple, with œdema of lids ; pain may be intense or entirely absent.
Syphilitic affections of eye.

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This remedy is an antipsoric and antisyphilitic. It has been used very extensively by the old school as an antisyphilitic, but in the very large doses which they used it became to a great extent allopathic to the disease, because of the tremendous effect it produced upon the economy, and implanted its own miasm, and thereby in a measure it suppressed many cases of syphilis.

The medicines that are the most powerful substances are really those that sustain in homoeopathic relation to the disease in general, and of these the very smallest dose often cure when similar. When the remedy is not similar enough to cure in such a form the increasing of the dose does not make it homoeopathic. There is an idea in vogue that increasing the dose makes the remedy similar. That is going away from principle. If the remedy is not similar there is no form of dose that can make it similar.

It affects the glandular structures and the periosteum after the manner of syphilis. It produces catarrhal inflammations. It is a deep-acting medicine and closely related to Mercurius. It has ulcerations and catarrhal states and glandular affections like Mercurius. It is similar in its action to Mercurius and is an antidote to it.

The old subjects who have always been taking Calomel or Blue Mass for their bilious complaints will in time become subject to frequent coryzas, constipation, pains and aches, and disturbance of the liver, and disordered stomach, and must have another dose of Mercury. Some of these cases need this remedy. If you practice medicine in a neighborhood where there is a very poor homeopath you will find that he is giving the Biniodide, or some other preparation of Mercury, for almost all of the colds or sore throats.

This establishes upon all of these patients an over-susceptibility to the weather changes, and they keep taking these red mercurial powders. Some of them carry them around in their pockets. But the more they take of these red powders the more frequently they have sore throats and colds. Many times they will not get over these troubles without Kali iod. in potentized form, or Hepar.

Hepar and Kali iod. are the two principal medicines that such patients need. Individuals with this susceptibility to colds and sore throats and weather changes, that is, from the effects of Mercury, who have been led into a Mercurial state, run two ways,

Those who are invariably shivering and cold, and want to hover around the fire, and cannot keep warm, will need Hepar, and those that are always too warm, that want the covers off, and want to be in constant motion, extreme restlessness, very tired when keeping still, will have their Mercury antidoted by Kali iod.

The Mercurial state will be antidoted, but it sometimes takes several prescriptions and sometimes a series of carefully selected remedies. The psora, that is, his chronic state, will not manifest itself until you have lifted off this miasmatic state, which has been caused by Mercurius. It is astonishing what a great number of men, women and children are bowed down by the miasm that Mercury produces, and yet those prescribers go on, giving this form of Mercury and say it is practicing Homoeopathy. I am led to remark that there is yet much to be learned about the art of prescribing.

This remedy has a peculiar mental state.

There is a very strong degree of irritability, cruelty, and harshness of temper. He is harsh with his family and with his children; abusive. It will take all the sense of refinement out of his mind and then he will become sad and tearful.

Extremely nervous, and must walk and be on the go. If he remains in a warm room he becomes weak and tired, and feels as if he could not stir, does not want to move, and does not know what is the matter with him.

He is worse in the warmth of the house, but as soon as he goes into the open air he feels better, and as soon as be begins to walk he feels still better and can walk long distances without fatigue; goes into the house again and becomes weak and tired and exhausted.

A nervous and mental exhaustion comes on from resting.

manifests some peculiar things, such as we sometimes see in syphilis, which the remedy controls when the other symptoms agree.

Bi-parietal head pains of nerve syphilis, old, long standing cases. Pains through the parietal bones, through the side of the head, as if crushed in a vise; awful crushing, pulsating, pressing, rending pains on both sides of the head.

These are worse in the house, and better from warmth and from motion, better walking in the open air. All through the head there are pains like knife stabs, like nails driven in; lancinating pains, cutting pains in the scalp, in the temples, over the eyes through the eyes. The pericranium becomes sensitive and filled with nodules. The scalp breaks out with nodular eruptions, tuberculous eruptions, syphilitic eruptions.

"Scalp painful on scratching as if ulcerated."

"Great disposition for hair to change color and fall out."

Coldness of the painful parts.

In watching a syphilitic case, there is often noticed disturbance of vision, and finally iritis. They can be treated homeopathically. I have seen syphilitic iritis of the most severe character cured with Staphysagria, Hepar, Nitric acid, Mercurius, Kali iod, and many other remedies. The inflammatory process stops at once, there are no adhesions, no deformity, and no troubles remaining behind.

If you consider that a case of inflammation must run its course, and will be associated with fibrinous exudations, and adhesions most probably follow, of course you must adopt the plan of dilating with Atropine, and hold the iris so until the disease has run its course. But the disease does not run its course after a proper remedy, and as that is the last symptom to appear, it will be the first to go, and you may expect the eye symptoms to disappear within twenty-four hours after the administration of the homeopathic remedy.

This remedy has marked conjunctival trouble, with green catarrhal discharges from the eyes. This green character applies whenever you can find discharges. There is copious, thick, green expectoration, green discharges of muco-pus from the nose, from the eyes, from the ear, thick, greenish leucorrhoea, green discharge from ulcers. These thick green or yellowish-green discharges are sometimes very foetid.

At times when you examine the conjunctiva it seems to puff out as though water were behind it, a chemosis.

Iodide of potash, produces that state.

"Chemosis, purulent secretion."

In olden times when I used to give Iodide of potash to rheumatic patients, according to the prevailing craze, I would notice, after a day or two, chemosis coming into the eyes and the patient beginning to ache in his bones all over, while the rheumatism of the joints would disappear. An allopathic effect was taking root upon that patient which would last for years. I have noticed that a large dose of Kali iod. in syphilitics would make the patient get up the next morning with difficulty in opening the lids, and upon opening the eyes the conjunctiva would form water bags, as though water were behind them and they were bagged out.

Kali iod. also produces oedema of the lids and injection and tumefaction of the conjunctiva. The mucous membrane becomes red, raw and bleeding. The vessels are enlarged and the surface is very sore, inflamed and smarting. He is compelled to hold the eyelids during winking; the winking is painful and causes scratching, as from sand. Acute conjunctivitis, especially when it occurs in patients who have rheumatism, who have been abused with Mercury, or those afflicted with syphilis. Syphilitic and rheumatic affections of the eye.

Old gouty subjects who must keep in motion, and must keep in the open air, who are always too warm, and cannot endure any degree of warmth in the room, who suffer more from their gouty pains when keeping quiet, those who are fatigued when keeping quiet and can walk and move without fatigue in the open air, especially when it is cold, with enlarged joints, with restlessness, anxiety, nervousness, harshness of the temper and great irritability, alternating with weeping.

This relief from motion will make the routinist give Rhus in many instances, but Rhus would have no relation to the case whatever. Remember, Rhus is a cold patient, who is always shivering and wants to be by the fire, whose complaints are > by the heat, he is > in a warm room and becomes fatigued from motion, whereas Kali iod. does not become fatigued from continued motion.

comes in for much trouble.

In old syphilitic catarrhs they blow out great crusts and pieces of bone; syphilitic ozoena; the bones of the nose are very sensitive to touch and become necrosed, and the nose flattens down and becomes soft. It is deprived of the bony framework that holds it in shape and settles down flat, leaving only the red tip. Extreme pain at the root of the nose like Hepar.

Thick, yellowish-green, copious discharge from the nose. Every change of the weather brings on catarrhal states. He is constantly taking cold, sneezing continuously. Copious, watery discharge from the nose, excoriating the passage, and causing burning in the nose. This coryza is < in the open air, but all the rest of the patient is > in the open air.

Consequently, when a patient has two such conditions that operate against each other he suffers much, because he cannot find quarters for relief. In a warm room his nasal catarrh, or his coryza, is >, but in the open air he feels > as to the rest of his complaints.

"Repeated attacks of violent, acrid coryza from the least cold."

With the coryza the frontal sinuses become involved, and there is great pain through the forehead; pain in the eyes, pains through the cheek-bones.

In the throat, as you might suppose from its relations to syphilis and Mercury, there is much trouble.

Deep ulcers in the throat, old syphilitic ulcers; perforating ulcers, eating away and destroying all the soft tissues, the uvula and the soft palate. Ulceration upon the tonsils; enlarged tonsils; very painful sore throat. Knots and knobs in the throat upon the mucous membranes.

"Dryness of throat and enlarged tonsils."

"Terrible pain at the root of the tongue at night."

The whole pharynx, larynx, trachea and bronchial tubes suffer from catarrhal conditions. Inflammatory conditions with greenish discharge.

While all the external symptoms and the rest of the body symptoms are relieved in the cold air and by the contact of external cold, internally cold things aggravate. Cold milk, ice cream, ice water, cold drinks and cold food, cold things in the stomach < all the symptoms. Though he has an excessive thirst and will drink large quantities of water, if very cold it will make him sick.

Kali iod. has all the flatulence and belching of Carbo veg. and Lyco podium.

The glands all over the body become tumid, enlarged and hard. It has cured enlargement of the thyroid gland; it may take this from Iodine.

Very characteristic is the chronic inflammation of the urethra, following gonorrhoea, where the discharge is thick and green, or greenish yellow, without pain. Inflammation of the testicles, syphilitic in character.

Pain and rawness in the larynx, with hoarseness; awakens from constriction of the larynx. It is very useful in phthisis of the larynx. Cough from constant irritation in the larynx. Dry, hacking cough, hoarse cough with copious greenish expectoration. Catarrhal phthisis with thick, copious, greenish expectoration. Pleuritic effusion. Fluttering of the heart. Palpitation on slight exertion or when walking. Rapid pulse.

Not only in old gouty troubles, but in patients threatening phthisis, and in old malarial troubles this medicine will be of great service.

It cures sciatica when the pain is sharp from the hip down, worse lying, sitting or standing and better walking.

You may go to the bedside of a patient who is suffering from what she calls "hives;" you will find she is covered from head to foot with an eruption that forms great nodules; she is fairly burning up from head to foot. She cannot endure any covering; the heat of her body is intense, yet she has no rise of temperature.

Rough nodular manifestations all over the skin; a condition that will go away in a few hours, but in a few days, weeks or months come back again. A single dose of a very high potency of Kali iod. will turn things into order in persons subject to these hives and they will not come again.

Adapted to scrofulous persons of lymphatic temperament; victims of mercurial, syphilitic or lead poisoning.

Chronic periosteal rheumatism of a syphilitic or mercurial origin; the nocturnal bone pains become intolerable at night, driving the patient to despair (Mer., Phyt., Syph.).

Before menses; frequent urging to urinate; the menstrual pains are felt most acutely in the thighs as if squeezed (Con., Nux m.).

Glandular swellings; interstitial infiltration.

At night, the bone pains become unbearable; cold air; rest.

Motion.

4 to 8 P. M. (Hep., Lyc., Mag. m.); 10 P. M.

Simple. Any fever.

With thirst. Chilliness from afternoon till next morning. Chilliness with sleepiness, beginning by creeping up the back and extending over the whole body, from 6 to 8 P. M. Chill from 4 to 7 P. M., with shaking; was able to get warm in bed, but not by heat of stove (Pod.—relieved by heat of stove, Ign., Sabad). Shaking chill at night, sleepy with frequent waking; so chilly at night that she could not get warm. Shivering fit; feels frozen; cannot get warm with any amount of clothing. Sleepy and drowsy. Coldness of the feet with anasarcous swelling (Apis, Ars.).

Great heat with thirst (as after exertion) followed by excessive coldness with trembling. Flushes of heat with dry skin; at times chilly, at others profuse sweat. Heat of head with burning redness of the face, alternating with coldness, languor, and sometimes sweat.

Scanty; or occurs during hot stage. Night sweats.

All the preparations of Kali have febrile conditions marked by hot flushes, particularly Kali c. (same as Sep., Sul., etc.).

Talkative, disposed to jest; vehement, quarrelsome.
Starts at every noise.
Excitation as if intoxicated also after mercurialization.

Hyperæmia in scrofula; also in weak of tubercular patients; hammering in the forehead; head feels inflated; anxious, restless sleep.
Headache and heaviness in head (5 A.M.); better after rising.
Pains in sides of head, as if screwed in; better in open air.
Lancinating and darting over left eye and in left temple.

Violent headache, hard lumps on the cranium.
Scalp feels as if ulcerated, when scratching it.
Falling out of hair. θ Syphilis.

Iritis syphilitica after abuse of mercury; aqueous, cloudy; ciliary injection bright, angry looking; pains worse at night.
Irido-choroiditis, especially syphilitic.
Pustules on the cornea; no photophobia, pain, or redness.
Chemosis.
Burning in the eyes; they secrete a purulent mucus.
Œdema of the eyelids, with lachrymation.
Periostitis of orbit, syphilitic or not.

Boring pain in the ears; during in the ears (right); rachitic children, head tender.

Violent epistaxis, after mercury.
From the least cold, violent acrid coryza; bloated eyelids, stinging in the ears, red face, white tongue; violent thirst; alternate heat and chilliness; headache; dark, hot urine; abuse of mercury.
Nose red, swollen; discharge acrid, watery; tightness at the root of the nose. θ Syphilis.

Swelling of face and tongue, especially after mercury.
Darting and stinging in the face. θ Coryza.

Feeling as of a worm crawling at root of the teeth.
Gums swollen; decayed teeth; gum-boils.
Grumbling in teeth and face; copious saliva; thirst; violent in darting into ears; abscess of antrum.
Teeth feel elongated.

Rancid taste in mouth, after eating or drinking.
Bitterness in mouth and throat, going off after breakfast.
Burning of the tip of tongue; vesicles on tip of tongue.

Irregular ulcers, looking as if coated with milk.
Viscid, saltish saliva darting pregnancy.
Bloody saliva, with sweetish taste in the mouth.

Uvula swollen and elongated; mucous membrane as if œdematous.
Goitre (sensitive to contact).
Submaxillary glands swollen, suppurating.

Food tasteless.
Excessive thirst day and night.

Hiccough.
Gulping up of large quantities of air.

Phlegmasia of the stomach (and intestines).
Burning in the pit of the stomach.

Sudden pain bloating of the abdomen or about navel, followed by diarrhœa.
Cutting and burning around umbilicus.

Stool scanty, hard, difficult.
Serous mucus from the rectum.
Diarrhœa and tenesmus, with pain in small of back, as if in a vise; after mercury.

Morbus Bright, with gout or mercurio-syphilis; granulated kidney.
Painful urging to urinate; also when it disappears when menses come.
Urine: copious, frequent, pale and watery; red as blood.
Urine increased, with unquenchable thirst.

Sexual desire diminished; tastes atrophied.

Menses late and more profuse than usual; menses suppressed.
Before menses, frequent urging to urinate; during menses, thigh feels as if squeezed; pains go into the thighs; chilly, heat in the head.
Leucorrhœa watery, acrid, corrosive, with biting in the pudendum.
Discharge of mucus from the vagina.
Atrophy of the mammæ.

Galactorrhœa.

Nasal, catarrhal voice.
Hoarseness, with pain in chest, cough, oppression of breathing and pain in both eyes.
Awakens with choking; can scarcely breathe; choking spells, œdema of the larynx.
Rough feeling in the trachea, compelling hawking.

No air enters the lungs, epigastrium sunken; face livid; laryngeal obstruction.

Suffocative cough, larynx swollen.
Cough dry; hawking; later copious green sputum.

Stitches through sternum to back, or deep in chest, while walking.
Phthisis pituitosa, with purulent sputum; exhausting night-sweats and loose stools.
Pneumonia in the beginning when the disease localizes itself; also with so extensive hepatization, as to cause cerebral congestion and serous exudation; face red, pupils large; urine suppressed; one side as if paralyzed.
Œdema pulmonum, with pneumonia; or secondary to Morbus Brightii; sputum like soapsuds, green.

Palpitation, worse while walking.
Darting pains in the heart, when walking; after abuse of mercury; after repeated endocarditis.
Pulse accelerated; frequent.

Small of back feels as if in a vise; also with darting pains in lumbar region, worse sitting bent; stitches. θ Bright's disease.
Pain in the os coccygis, as from a fall.

Left shoulder feels bruised.
Tearing in shoulder and ear.

Gnawing in hip-bones; darting in left hip at every step, forcing him to limp.
Tearing in right thigh and knee awakens him at night, worse lying on affected side or back. θ Sciatica.
Knee doughy; spongy, no fluctuation; skin red in spots and hot; gnawing, boring or tearing, worse at night, must often change position; white swelling.
Pain as if bruised in the left instep.
Ulcerative pain in heels and toes.

Tearing, darting pains; periosteum, attacked; jerks or contractions of the tendons; emaciation; worse at night, lying on suffering part; from mercurialization or syphilis; rheumatism; gout.

Walking: 28, 29; in open air: 39. Rising: 3. Sitting bent: 31. Lying on back or affected side: 33. Must change position: 33, 36.

Subsultus tendinum, or contraction of muscles and tendons.
Restless moving about.
Paralysis. See spinal meningitis.

Sleepless, restless; horrid dreams.
Weeping during sleep.

Morning: 3. Evening: 40. Night: 28, 33, 34, 40. Day and night: 14.

Irresistible desire to walk in the open air, it does not fatigue.
Open air: 3. Cold: 7. Warmth: 40.

Chilly, with thirst (4-7 P.M.) or all night, with shaking and frequent waking; can get warm in bed, but not from heat of stove.
Chill from lower part of back upward and through the whole body; 6-8 P.M.; with sleepiness.
At times chilly, with dry skin; at others profuse sweat.
Flushes of heat, with dulness of the head.
Intermittent fever; thirst with the chill; chill not lessened by warmth; mouth dry; anasarca; scrofula.

Right: 6, 33. Left: 5, 32, 33. Front backward: 28. Below upward: 40.

Purpura hemorrhagica.
Scrofula.
Emaciation and loss appetite.
Synovitis.
Distends all tissue by interstitial infiltration: œdema; enlarged glands; tophi; exostoses; swelling of the bones, etc.
Dropsy from pressure of swollen glands.
Secondary syphilis, especially after abuse of mercury or combined with scrofula; buboes, chancres, with hard edges, thin, corrosive, or curdy pus; deep-eating ulcers.
Roseola.
Rupia.
Rheumatism; pains in bones; necrosis; exostoses; all worse at night.
Glands: swollen, goitre, bronchial, submaxillary, ulcerating, atrophied.

Scratching: 4.

Itching herpes on the face.
Papulæ worse on face, shoulders and back; dry throat.
Pustulous eruption often umbilicated and leaving scars.
Small boils on face, head, neck, back and chest, leaving scars.

After abuse of mercury.
Against abuse of iodide of potassium, Hepar s. c.
Kali chlor. compares in albuminuria.

A first dilution is made of dissolving 1 part of Iodide of Potassium in 99 parts of water.

The action of this salt differs from that of Iodine as shown by the depressing action of Potassium and by less tendency to febrile excitement. ▶ In the respiratory tract we find catarrhal inflammation, with freer secretions and less fever (it has produced bloody expectoration). ▶ The increased salivation and urine followed by nephritis are similar to Iodine.

▶ Emaciation (Iod.). ▶ Marasmus resembling the third stage of phthisis. ▶ Nervous mobility. ▶ Trembling. ▶ Spasms. ▶ Subsultus tendinum. ▶ Attacks of jerking of limbs, agg. left arm, and of face, agg. left side, with anxiety, apprehension and palpitation, one attack ended with vomiting and headache, once violent rolling of left eyeball, pupils contracted, facial muscles contracted, left corner of mouth drawn downward, mouth opened and closed numberless times while uttering unintelligible words, short rapid respiration, pulse hard and full, forehead, neck and chest covered with sweat, face red, unconsciousness, after the paroxysm trembling, weeping, complaints of heaviness of left arm, abdomen small, soft, tongue white rather than yellow, efforts to vomit, amel. vomiting. ▶ Continual complaints. ▶ Sticking in left lower jaw, in tibia, left thigh, left forearm, in the bones, in forenoon. ▶ Tearing here and there. ▶ Pinching here and there, agg. evening. ▶ Gnawing in right upper teeth in forenoon, then in left ear, at last in tendon of hollow of left knee. ▶ Anguish. ▶ Agitation and nervous uneasiness. ▶ Distressing condition of nervous system. ▶ Nervous susceptibility exaggerated. ▶ Sensation of turning around. ▶ Malaise. ▶ Vague indescribable feelings in head, back and limbs. ▶ Restlessness. ▶ Weakness. ▶ Affects the fibrous structures, as the periosteum and capsular ligaments of joints. ▶ Most symptoms arise during rest and are amel. motion.

The use of the drug in massive doses for symptoms of secondary syphilis, such as caries of the bones, syphilitic inflammations of the eyes, etc., etc., should not be included under the proper homœopathic application of the drug. ▶ (Though Iodine is certainly homœopathic to some stages of syphilis).

Half mad all night. ▶ Talkative and full of jokes. ▶ Sadness. ▶ Anxiety. ▶ Fright at every trifle. ▶ Apprehensive and lachrymose in evening. ▶ Irritable; especially towards his children; and excited, quarrelsome. ▶ Weeping from the slightest cause. ▶ Dreads the return of dawn, and the trivial details of life seem insupportable. ▶ Always troubled. ▶ Troublesome and unreasonable impressions easily strengthened into fixed ideas.

Aching; at 5 A.M., amel. rising, with heaviness of it. ▶ Heaviness; on stooping; after dinner, making her fretful; and dullness. ▶ Congestion. ▶ Intoxicated feeling. ▶ Vertigo. ▶ Forehead, stitches on stooping; tearing or jerking S. in left sinus; tearing in right side in evening, transiently amel. pressure, with sticking; digging in left, aching; aching in sinuses and right ethmoid cells; heaviness in afternoon; heaviness in left side of sinciput in morning after rising; H. in sinciput and vertex in evening and night, with sensitiveness to touch.

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Emaciation.
Weakness.
Periosteal pains, tearing, pinching; generally > on motion, < at night.

Sadness.
Anxiety.

Tearing or jerking pains in the forehead, particularly in the frontal sinuses, > pressure.
Pains, as if the temples would burst, with heat on the vertex.
Pains in the sides, as if screwed together; better in the open air.

Inflammation.
Dim vision.

Clinical:
Inflammation of the iris and choroid, especially syphilitic.
Catarrhal inflammations, associated with similar trouble in the nose and frontal sinuses.
Bony tumors of the orbit.

Tearing pain in the upper part of the nose.
Stoppage, with running of clear water.
Sneezing and symptoms of violent coryza, complicated with inflammation in the frontal sinuses, with frequent inclination to cough, and inflammation of the eyes.
Discharge of hot, burning water, which is acrid.
Loss of smell.

Teeth elongated.
Jerking toothache, < at night, > warmth.
Blisters on the tip of the tongue, with burning pain.
Tongue swollen; shows the impressions of the teeth.
Salivation great, offensive odor from the mouth.

Swollen and ulcerated.
Sticking pain at the root of the tongue on swallowing.
Dryness and itching in the throat, with salivation, running from the nose, etc.

Thirst.
Nausea and vomiting, with salivation.

Great distention, with movements of flatulence.

Constipation.

Clinical:
Dysentery; stools of jelly-like mucus, with painful tenesmus.
Stools yellow, watery, or greenish.
Pain in the small of the back and some tenesmus.

Urine profuse, especially at night.

Clinical:
Inflammation of the kidneys, with pains in the back, chilliness, etc.

Atrophy of the testicles.

Clinical:
Watery, corrosive leucorrhœa, reddish, offensive.

Loss of voice, especially at night.
Hoarseness.
Dry cough morning and evening, with soreness of the larynx; or with rawness in the throat.
Difficult respiration on waking at night, with loss of voice; dyspnœa on ascending stairs, with pain in the region of the heart.

Clinical:
Expectoration like soapsuds.
Asthma and asthmatic bronchitis.
Granular inflammation of the larynx.

Sticking pain in various parts of the chest, with asthmatic breathing, or with internal inflammations.

Clinical:
Various diseases of the lungs and pleura, associated with exhausting sweats, salivation, etc., with dyspnœa, constant teasing cough.

Palpitation.
Pulse slow, weak, soft.

Enlarged cervical glands.
Pain in the small of the back, as if screwed in.
Pain in the coccyx, as from a fall.

Arthritic or drawing pains as if in the periosteum; < at night.
Gnawing, drawing pains in the thighs and legs.
Chronic inflammation of the knee; pains < at night, could not remain in bed.
Sciatica; < lying on the affected side; worse at night.
Tearing pains in the toes (like gout).

Roseola.
Papular or tubercular eruptions.
Development of small pustules or acne, especially on the face.
Vesicular eruptions.
Itching, is generally > scratching, and worse at night.

Chill predominates; worse at night, or from 4 to 7 P. M., with thirst.

Kal. i. / The "Kid".

Kali iodide is the
Antidote to Mercury-
And to Syphilis a foe,
Wheresoe'er its signs may show.
There may be an inflammation
In the throat with ulceration,
Or in the bones a nightly pain,
Or be water on the brain,
Or eruptions on the skin,
Or secretions foul and green,
Or a rawness in the chest,
Or deep stitches where expressed.
Or be Asthma,-even such
As Hay fever holds in clutch.
Gnawing pain-or swollen bone,
Or be jumping tendons shown.
All ailments worse at night,
Warmth affording some respite.

The "Kid,"-Has Syphilis.

The Kid, Aurum Po, the Creole, is in time for a fight, with the dark Arabs.

This Kid,-Who is subject to a rawness in the Chest, or larynx,-Is with Silvester Stani, a brother sport, paying the cost of rum.

Syphilis: Kal. i., Aur., Pod., Kreo., Thuj., Mer., Phyt., Nit. a., Ars. b., Ars. i.

Rawness-Soreness in Chest and Pipes: Kal. i., Arg. m., Stan. i., Brom., Spo., Pho., Apis, Caus., Rum. c.

Indicated in coryza, coughs, secondary and tertiary syphilis, scrofulous swellings of joints (knee) with effusion; pleuritis with effusion.

Cold begins in the head and travels downward toward the chest.

Enlargement and induration of glands.

Intense pain over the eyes and root of the nose.

Coryza, with profuse, watery, hot, acrid discharge and pain in the frontal sinus.

Pain in the chest, stitching, from the lungs to the back.

Violent cough, worse in the morning, with greenish expectoration, like soapsuds.

Arthiritic rheumatism (knee) with pale swelling of the joint and stitching pain.

Severe bone pains, with great sensitiveness to touch (tibia), worse at night and during damp weather. Nodes.

Hard lumps on the skull. Bony tumors of the orbits of the eyes.

Worse at night; during damp weather.

Better in the open air; on motion.