Syphilinum syph.

Pains from darkness to daylight ; begin with twilight and end with daylight (Merc., Phyt.). Pains increase and decrease gradually (Stan.); shifting and require frequent change of position. All symptoms are worse at night (Merc.); from sundown to sunrise. Eruptions: dull, red, copper-colored spots, becoming blue when getting cold. Extreme emaciation of entire body (Abrot., Iod.). Heart: lancinating pains from base to apex, at night (from apex to base, Med.; from base to clavicle or shoulder, Spig.). Loss of memory; cannot remember names of books, persons or places; arithmetical calculation difficult. Sensation: as if going insane, as if about to be paralyzed; of apathy and indifference. Terrible dread of night on account of mental and physical exhaustion on awakening; it is intolerable, death is preferable. Fears the terrific suffering from exhaustion on awakening (Lach.). Leucorrhoea; profuse; soaking through the napkins and running down the heels (Alum.). Headache, neuralgic in character, causing sleeplessness and delirium at night; commencing at 4 p. m.; worse from 10 to 11 and ceasing at daylight (ceases at 11 or 12 p. m., Lyc.); falling of the hair. Acute ophthalmia neonatorum; lids swollen, adhere during sleep; pain intense at night < from 2 to 5 a. m., pus profuse; > by cold bathing. Ptosis: paralysis of superior oblique; sleepy look from drooping lids (Caust., Graph.). diplopia, one image seen below the other. Teeth: decay at edge of gum and break off; are cupped, edges serrated; dwarfed in size, converge at their tips (Staph.). Craving alcohol, in any form. Hereditary tendency to alcoholism (Asar., Psor., Tuber., Sulph., Sulph. ac.). Obstinate constipation for year; rectum seems tied up with strictures; when enema was used the agony of passage was like labor (Lac. c., Tub.). Fissures in anus and rectum (Thuja); prolapse of rectum; obstinate cases with a syphilitic history. Rheumatism of the shoulder joint, or at insertion of deltoid, < from raising arm laterally (Rhus - right shoulder, Sang.; left, Fer.). When the best selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently improve, in syphillitic affections. Syphilitics, or patients who have had chancre treated by local means, and as a result have suffered from throat and skin troubles for years, are nearly always benefited by this remedy at commencement of treatment unless some other remedy is clearly indicated.

Compare: Aur., Asaf., Kali i., Merc., Phyt., in bone diseases and syphillitic affections.

At night, from twilight to daylight.

The Syphilitic Virus - A Nosode

Utter prostration and debility in the morning.

Shifting rheumatic pains. Chronic eruptions and rheumatism.

Ichthyosis. Syphilitic affections. Pains from darkness to daylight; decrease and increase gradually. Hereditary tendency to alcoholism. Ulceration of mouth, nose, genitals, skin. Succession of abscesses.

Loss of memory; remembers everything previous to his illness. Apathetic; feels as if going insane or being paralyzed. Fears the night, and the suffering from exhaustion on awakening. Hopeless; despairs of recovery.

Linear pains from temple across, or from eyes backward; cause sleeplessness and delirium at night. Falling of the hair. Pain in bones of head. Top of head feels as if coming off. Stupefying cephalalgia.

Chronic, recurrent, phlyctenular inflammation of cornea; successive crops of phlyctenular and abrasions of epithelial layer of cornea; photophobia intense, lachrymation profuse. Lids swollen; pain intense at night; ptosis. Tubercular iritis. Diplopia; one image seen below the other. Feeling of cold air blowing on eye (Fluor ac).

Caries of ossicles in ear of syphilitic origin.

Caries of nasal bones, hard palate and septum, with perforation; ozæna.

Teeth decay at gum; edges serrated, dwarfed. Tongue coated, teeth-indented; deep longitudinal cracks. Ulcers smart and burn. Excessive flow of saliva; it runs out of mouth when sleeping.

Craves alcohol.

Feels tied up with strictures. Enemas very painful. Fissures, prolapse.

Sciatica; worse at night; better about day-break. Rheumatism of shoulder-joint, at insertion of deltoid. Run-around. Severe pain in long bones. Redness and rawness between toes (Sil). Rheumatism, muscles are caked in hard knot or lumps. Always washing the hands. Indolent ulcers. Muscles contracted in hard knots.

Ulcers on labia. Leucorrhœa profuse, thin, watery, acrid, with sharp, knife-pain in ovaries.

Aphonia; chronic asthma in summer, wheezing and rattling (Tart emet). Cough dry, hard; worse at night; windpipe sensitive to touch (Lach). Lancinating pains from base of heart to apex at night.

Reddish-brown eruption, with a disagreeable odor. Extreme emaciation.

Compare: Merc; Kal hyd; Nit ac; Aur; Alum.

Worse, at night, sundown to sunrise, seashore, in summer. Better, inland and mountains, during day, moving about slowly.

The highest potencies only, and in infrequent doses.

Luesinum. Lueticum. Syphilitic virus. A nosode. Attenuations.

Abscess; succession of abscesses. Alcoholism; hereditary craving for alcohol. Anus, fissure of. Aphasia. Asthma. Breasts sensitive. Bubo. Constipation. Crying of infants. Deafness. Deltoid rheumatism. Dentition. Diplopia. Dysmenorrhœa. Epilepsy. Headache; syphilitic. Hoarseness; before menses. Iritis. Leucorrhœa; infantile. Mouth, ulcerated. Myopia. Neuralgia. Night-sweats. Ophthalmia. Otorrhœa. Ovaries, affections of. Ozœna . Pemphigus. Psoas abscess. Ptosis. Rectum, stricture of. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Sleeplessness. Spine, caries of. Strabismus. Stricture. Sunstroke. Syphilis. Teeth, carious. Throat, ulcerated. Tibia, pains in. Tongue, cracked, ulcerated. Ulcers. Whitlow.

I learnt the value of this nosode from Skinner, who has made with it some very brilliant cures. It has been proved by Swan in the potencies, and Hering's Schema, from which mine is taken, comprises also disease symptoms — marked "(n)" — and cured symptoms, which have generally the name and the disease appended. Cured cases of secondary syphilis I have marked "(s.s.)." The widespread distribution of syphilis, acquired and hereditary, and the virulence and persistence of the virus, give this nosode a high degree of importance in homœopathic practice. It has been mainly, almost exclusively, employed by those who are familiar with the use of high attenuations. I have used no potency lower than 200, and rarely repeat the dose oftener than once a week. The leading features of the disease are the keynotes for the use of the remedy, and ( 1 ) first in importance is the "Night < ": " Pains from darkness to daylight ; begin with twilight and end with daylight." "All symptoms < at night." "Terrible dread of night, on account of mental and physical exhaustion on awaking." This night aggravation will be found in a large proportion of the cases needing Syph .; in ophthalmia, the pains are < at night, and during the night the lids grow together. Neuralgia, and headache, asthma, coughs < from sunset to sunrise, whether syphilitic or not, will be benefited by Syph . Sleeplessness is itself a leading indication for Syph ., which vies with Sul . as a sleep restorer. ( 2 ) Next to the Night < , is Ulceration: this may affect mouth, nose, genitals, or skin, and the ulcers have greyish bases; in the nose they produce the most offensive form of ozæna with discharge of fetid clinkers. In such cases I have found Syph . of the greatest service. Fetid discharges from the ear come in the same category. ( 3 ) Abscesses with foul secretions. (All pus-formations of Syph . are fetid.) Succession of abscesses is one of the grand keynotes of the materia medica. Eyes, teeth, and skin give other leading indications. In ophthalmia neonatorum the lids adhere during sleep; pains < 2 to 5 a.m.; pus profuse; > cold bathing. Iritis, syphilitic or rheumatic, has been cured with Syph . Ptosis; sleepy look from drooping lids. Diplopia, one image seen below the other. Teeth decay at the edge of the gums and break off; are cupped, have serrated edges; dwarfed in size and converge at their tips. The typical eruption of Syph . is copper-coloured spots, but it covers many other forms, including pemphigus. The glandular system is affected throughout and nutrition impaired, leading to extreme emaciation. Burnett has recorded in his book on Delicate Children many instances of the power of Syph . to free stunted children from this constitutional blight. Further indications for Syph . are: Pains < and > gradually; are shifting, and require frequent change of position. Leucorrhœa; profuse, soaking through napkins and running to heels. Craving for alcohol in any form. Hereditary tendency to alcoholism. (Bacchus and Venus are close allies). The orifices of the body are all affected by syphilis, and Syph . has a great sphere in rectal pain and constipation. "Obstinate constipation for years; rectum seems tied up with strictures; when enema was used the agony of passage was like labour." Bones are affected, and especially bones of head and tibiæ. Nodes on the head. H. C. Allen says: "Syphilitics, or patients who have had chancre treated by local means, and as a result have suffered from throat and skip troubles for years, are nearly always benefited by this remedy at commencement of treatment unless some other remedy is clearly indicated." Thomas Wildes ( H. P ., xi. 267) gives his experience with Syph . In chancre he gives Syph . 1m (Swan) — according to Skinner's calculation this is much lower than 1m of the centesimal scale — one dose every night. The chancre increases for the first two weeks and then gradually fades away, not being followed by secondaries. Where the edges of the chancre assume the appearance of proud flesh in the third or fourth week, and become everted, jagged, and angry dark red, he gives Lac can . cm (Swan) every night for ten to fourteen days, until the sore takes on a more natural appearance, when Syph . 1m is again given to finish the case. For any remaining induration Nit. ac . 30, four times a day, is given. Headaches in great variety he cured with it; aphasia; ptosis; paralysis of tongue; facial paralysis; hemiplegia; "persistent pains in any part of the body;" catarrhal and nerve deafness; itching of nostrils; dark purple lines between alæ nasi and cheeks. Itching scabby eruptions on face or breast; singly or in clusters, looking like herpes. Pain and pressure behind sternum. Epilepsy. Wildes cured with Syph . 1m a bookkeeper who for many months had had a piercing, pressing, excruciating headache over right eye extending deep into brain. It was so severe, he was losing continuity of thought and memory. Under Syph . every night the headache disappeared entirely in ten days and the mental faculties were fully restored; but in six weeks the whole eyebrow on that side broke out into a sickly, yellow, syphilitic eczema with a red, angry, and oozing base extending under the arch to the lid from canthus to canthus up into forehead and down the side of the nose. The cure of this was tedious, because, Wildes thinks, he did not stick to Syph ., but changed the remedy. This man had had syphilis a few years before. In 1879 a lady, 26, extremely bright and intelligent, came to Wildes with a dreadful ozæna. She had also curvature of the spine and congestion of right ovary. Always delicate from a child. Syph . cured the ozæna and improved the health, but it "drove out a saddle to which the Sepia saddle is but a shadow" — a furious inflammatory mass of syphilitic sores, scabs, and eczema, red and angry, with a fiery base extending from one malar prominence to the other, across nose up to eyes and forehead. This took eighteen months to cure. The ozœna never returned. A boy, 4, had an obstinate rash, a combination of prurigo and herpes, on chin, lips, cheek-bone, forehead, and hairy scalp; on arms, chest, back, bends of joints and on the joints, and on fingers and hands, nowhere profuse. In spite of authorities to the contrary, Wildes maintains that syphilitic rashes may itch, and that prurigo is infectious and is one of the initial stages of leprosy. This boy had a spot of eruption on the left thigh the size of the top-joint of a man's thumb. This was distinctly a leper spot. Syph . 1m caused the rash to come out strongly all over the body in patches, the face was one-third covered with a thick, yellow, scabby eruption. The remedy was continued and the boy got well, wonderfully improved in health, no longer nervous, growing well; sleeping well; appetite good. Girl, 16, had measles a year before which did not come out properly. A year and a half prior thereto subject to neuralgic headaches. Ailing about two years; very despondent, wants to die, headaches growing more violent. During the headaches the temple veins stand out, has pains all over the body, is very irritable, restless, walking about much of the time , does not wish to be soothed, violent on being opposed , has tremors and seems on the verge of convulsions , dazed, absent-minded , and almost insane. Always washing her hands . Was formerly constipated, but now subject to "a kind of diarrhœa." Menses never have come on properly, and for the past year have been very irregular, much delayed, scanty, and always extremely painful . Often feverish. Sleep anxious, distressed, and often wakeful and violently restless . The italicised symptoms indicated Syph ., and under this she steadily recovered. A young lady contracted "lepra-syphilis" from vaccination. She had an immense blood-boil on her arm which would not heal. Face broken out with a lumpy fiery rash. With Syph . 1m at bedtime she recovered rapidly; the arm healed quickly and her face became free from eruption. Boy, 3, had cluster of yellow blotches on fingers and roots of nails, distorting the nails. The boy's father was epileptic. The boy was helped with Fluor. ac . and cured with Syph ., the nails becoming straight. Many persons, says Wildes, after taking Syph . for a few days, complained of heavy, crushing, cutting pains across the base of the cerebellum; others of heavy aching and stiffness from base of neck up through muscles and cords of neck and into the brain; others of a heavy, clouded, dull feeling at base of brain with physical lethargy, and sometimes with dizziness, sometimes with confusion of thoughts and often a feeling as if going insane or about to be paralysed. Sometimes a far-away feeling, with a feeling of indifference to the future. Accompanying these there may come a heavy, dragging, dull feeling in lumbar region, with stiffness and want of elasticity. Peculiar Sensations are: A seething feeling as if hot water or hot oil running through all veins of the body, all night long. As if going insane or about to be paralysed. Tongue feels as if paralysed. A far-away feeling with apathy. As if head were pulled back by a weight. As if blood went to right inner canthus and temples and could get no further. As if sand in eyes. As if right eye were wide open and cold air were blowing in it. Fluttering as of something alive in teeth. As if a worm in tooth. As if teeth had got out of place. Distress as if in omentum. As if rectum were tied up with strictures. As if urethra had been stuffed up and clogged. As if sternum was being drawn towards dorsal vertebræ. As if she would suffocate with rough. As if skin were drawn up in centre of chest on drawing back head. Coccyx as if swollen. As if toes on right foot were disjointed. Like growing-pains in limbs. As if bones were sawed. Palms and soles as if pricked by needles. As if throat tearing to pieces. As if top of head were coming off. As if teeth were loose. As of a nervous chill commencing in anus and running down legs. As if bitten by bugs. A number of linear pains have been observed in Syph . cases. G. H. Carr ( M. A ., xvii. 162) relates this case: An old man had been troubled two or three winters with an intense cold pain in both legs; it came on every night on lying down; and lasted all night, the only relief being by getting up and walking. Magnetic leggings had given most relief. Syph . mm, one dose daily, was given. He lost the pain for six weeks, when it returned in milder form. Syph . cmm was given, and he had no more pains all the winter. This medicine, he said "made his genitals ache so that he couldn't sit still." This lasted over a month. Syph . cm cured ( ibid .) a lady of "asthma" that she had had for twenty-five years, the attack coming on only at night after lying down , or during a thunderstorm . Swan ( M. A ., xxviii. 239) says he gave crying infants, when they developed the propensity immediately after birth and did not cease, one dose of Syph . cmm, and it was difficult to make them cry after that. Yingling ( M. A ., xxix. 135) reports this case: Rev. D., 30, dark, free from venereal taint, had a constant dull, heavy ache above inner angle of right eye, very distressing, with an occasional thrust as of an iron rod from the same spot through to lower part of occiput. This thrust was excruciating. He was due to preach next day, but the pain quite incapacitated him, hence his appeal for help. Haggard look. Syph . cm, one dose, was given. He was free from pain before he reached home, next morning was perfectly well. The symptoms are < by touch (tibia; os uteri). Pressure = pain in spot middle of thigh; > throat; pressing teeth together > toothache. No position suits. Motion < . Raising arms laterally < . Walking > pain in hips and thighs. < At night. Warmth and cold < and > . Warmth > headache; of stove > pain in swollen wrist and big toe. Hot or cold things < toothache. Cold water > ophthalmia pains. Damp weather; warm, damp weather; thunderstorm; seaside < . > In mountains. < Winter.

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Loss of memory, n.
Loses remembrance of passing occurrences, names, dates, etc., while all occurrences previous to inception of disease are remembered as distinctly as ever. n.
Great difficulty, and sometimes impossibility of concentrating thoughts on particular subjects ; yet at same time can recollect consecutive events and details which occurred twenty-five or thirty years previously, in order of occurrence, almost without effort. n.
Cannot remember names of persons, books or places.
Difficulty in making arithmetical calculations.
Very nervous, weeping without cause.
Cross, irritable, peevish. θ Periodical neuralgia in head.
Very despondent, does not think will ever get better. θ Syphilitic sore mouth.
Terrible dread of night, not on account of cough so much as on account of mental and physical exhaustion when she awakes ; it is intolerable, death is preferable ; she fears to prepare for night and is positively in abject fear of suffering, in form of exhaustion, on
waking ; it is < by cough, but it is quite independent of cough as she wakes in this awful state ; always < as night approaches ; leaves her about daylight, which she prays for. θ Spring
cough.
Feeling as if going insane, or about to be paralyzed.
A far-away feeling, with apathy and indifference to future.

Vertigo on looking up, seems to be caused by heat.

Headache : linear, from or near one eye backward ; lateral ; frontal ; from temple to temple ; deep into brain from vertex ; as from pressure on vertex ; in either temple, extending into or from eye, > by warmth ; in
bones of head ; < by heat of sun ; after sunstroke.
Sick-headache, pains intolerable, arteries of head full and pulsating violently ; high fever, frequent retching on trying to vomit ; menses regular, but very scanty.
Lancinating pain in occiput, invariably < at night. n.
Headache and great debility.
Neuralgic cephalalgia causing sleeplessness or delirium at night, always commencing about 4 P. M. ; < at from 10 to 11, and ceasing at daylight.
Great loss of hair. n.
Nervous chills preceded by aching pains in head, especially in occiput and integuments thereof, head feeling heavy, sore, congested ; also frontal headache about one-half or two-thirds inch wide across forehead under eyebrows ; aching pains below waist,
in pelvis and extremities, especially in tibia, which is sensitive to touch ; pains commence about 4 P. M., culminate about midnight in delirium, and cease entirely at daylight.
Bursting sensation in vertex as from severe cold.
Pain from eyes through to occiput, with sensation of weight in occiput drawing head back, or as if it were pulled back ; eyes ache and smart.
Constant linear headache, commencing at both angles of forehead and extending in parallel lines backwarda precursor of epileptic attack.
Heavy, crushing, cutting pain across base of cerebellum.
Heavy, clouded, dull feeling in base of brain.
Syphilitic cephalalgia in occiput, intolerable, extending to nervous ganglia of neck, causing hardening of cords ; attacks at irregular intervals, especially after excitement. θ Secondary
syphilis.
Headache through temples, thence vertically, like an inverted letter T.
Coronal headache. θ Secondary syphilis.
Headaches accompanied by great restlessness, sleeplessness and general nervous erethism.
Syphilitic headache for many months, piercing, pressing, excruciating over right eye, extending deep into brain ; losing continuity of thought and memory ; makes repeated mistakes in figures.

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Whenever the symptoms that are representative of the patient himself have been suppressed in any case of syphilis, and nothing remains but weakness and a few results of the storm that has long ago or recently passed, this nosode will cause reaction and restore order and sometimes do much curing, and the symptoms that must always be present, that represent the disordered state of the economy will appear to guide to a restoration of health.

When a syphilitic patient has suffered from a course of typhoid he may be very slow in convalescing, but a single dose of Syphilinum high will cause him to eat and feel stronger and gain rapidly.

How does the old school treatment of syphilis differ from barbarism? one might well ask. The strong drugging by Mercurius and iodides so debilitate that all who pass through are invalids and weak; even then they are not cured of syphilis - if they were cured we could not cause to come back the symptoms that have been removed.

Syphilinum often does bring back the ulcers in the throat and the eruptions. When there are violent neuralgias of the head, in sides of head and over the eyes, great soreness in bones of legs and head, and the multitude of symptoms of nerve syphilis all nondescript, then it is that the patient will be made free from suffering, and given sleep, strength and appetite.

But the ulcers and eruptions will come back in some cases, and it is all the better if they do. It is by no means limited to patients who have had syphilis. It can be used like any remedy against the symptoms of the provings, or such as are similar to symptoms common to the disease or against the symptoms like the numerous verified clinical symptoms.

Many symptoms are worse at night in bed, many come on in the evening and last till morning. From sundown to sunrise marks the time of many violent pains and sufferings. Some are better from heat, and some are better from cold air and cold applications, There is great prostration in the morning on waking. It has cured many cases of epilepsy. Epileptic convulsions after -menses. Sleeplessness, sometimes only one-half of the night, again the whole night. The blood feels hot flowing through the arteries during the night.

Wandering pains here and there all over the body. Pain in the periosteum, nerves and joints. Pains sometimes increase gradually and decrease gradually. Sharp pains here and there. Complaints worse in the cold weather of winter and heat of summer. Extreme emaciation. Abscesses. Paralysis of limbs. Caries of bone. Curvature of spine. Gummata. Dwarfish children. Curvature of bones. Enlarged glands. Offensive odor of the body. Soreness to touch in many parts, especially bones. It has often been observed that in syphilized invalids remedies act but a few days and must be changed.

This always calls for the nosode, when there is only great weakness and few symptoms it will act well.

When there is ulceration of legs, throat, mouth or other parts with no repair. Fistulous openings, exostoses, fissures, tubercles and warts have been cured promptly. When it has been used against the primary manifestations of the disease and in the earlier phenomena it has generally resulted in failure. It is seldom the best remedy for syphilis per se, but for marked and suppressed syphilis it seems to restore a sort of order and bring better reaction.

The author has many times observed that gummata in throat and anus will take on destructive ulceration in old broken down cases after Sulphur has been given, and that Syphilinum will restrain it and establish repair.

Sulphur often produces prolonged aggravation when there are many tissue changes in advanced cases of syphilis. Such changes are most likely gummata. The effort of Sulphur is to remove the results of disease, which the patient cannot stand. It often causes suspicion of latent syphilis when such aggravations are very severe after Sulphur high. Sulphur low will not be followed by such results. After such prolonged aggravations Syphilinum should be considered. Latent syphilis often exists where it is least expected. This nosode should be used only in high potencies.

Forgetful. Weak minded. Laughing and weeping without cause.

He cannot remember faces, names, dates, events, books or places. He cannot calculate. Despair of recovery. Melancholia. Fears he is going insane. Imbecility. Indifferent to his friends, and feels no delight in anything.

Dreads the night and dreads the morning, as the weakness and soreness are worse on waking. He always says he is not himself and he cannot feel like himself. A middle-aged man who had suffered many years from latent syphilis abandoned his business and remained at home lamenting and sad. His wife supported the family by keeping boarders.

After receiving a few doses of Syphilinum he took on new energy and became industrious and prosperous. Much vertigo. Aphasia. In some of these cases of brain syphilis. Sulphur and Causticum have caused prolonged suffering and weakness. Syphilinum will act favorably.

Syphilitic invalids are often sufferers from violent neuralgic headaches.

Violent pains in sides of head, forehead or temples. Pain from temple to temple, from ear to ear, one eye to occiput; supraorbital pains. Pain sometimes ameliorated by warmth. Bursting pains; fullness of head.

Maddening pains all night, causing sleeplessness. Headache and delirium. Neuralgia of head beginning at 4 P- M., growing gradually worse until midnight and then gradually better, ceasing at daylight. Great soreness of the pericranium. Many pains are confined to a direct line and are called linear headaches. Violent crushing pains in occiput. Stupefying headaches in the forehead or occiput. Cutting pains in occiput.

Headache through the temples, hence vertically, like an inverted letter T. Headaches involving the whole top of the head as if head would be crushed in. Violent pain in whole head with red face, enlarged veins of face, restlessness and sleepless nights. Aggravated nights. Tubercles all. over the scalp. Exostoses in the cranium, very sore and painful. The hair is falling out.

Paralysis of the eye muscles is common.

Strabismus. Diplopia. Amaurosis. Atrophy of the optic nerve. The retina is pale, gray and spotted. Myopia. Iritis. Ptosis. Paralysis of the superior oblique. Chronic recurrent phlyctenular inflammation of the cornea.

Conjunctivities with ulceration. Ulceration of the cornea. Interstitial keratitis. Spots on the cornea. Left eye covered with fungus-like growth, pain intense; aggravated at night. Acute ophthalmia neonatorum when one of the parents has had syphilis. Copious purulent discharge from eyes. Lids enormously swollen. Eyes cannot be opened because of swelling. Iritis with intense pain at night, and photophobia. Pain in eye from sundown to sunrise. Scalding tears.

Sharp pains in ear.

Purulent watery discharge from ear. Caries of mastoid. Paralysis of auditory nerve. Calcareous deposit on tympanum.

This remedy has cured many cases of offensive green or yellow discharge from nose in children with specific history. Dryness of nose; obstructed at night. Frequent attacks of coryza. Always taking cold in nose. Syphilitic ozaena. Bones of nose destroyed by caries and nose depressed. The whole nose destroyed by ulceration. Epistaxis from ulcers. Hard plugs in nose.

Neuralgia of face.

Paralysis of one side of face. Tubercles and copper-colored eruption on face. It has palliated cancerous ulceration of face. Scabby eruption on face. It has cured rupia on the cheek. Papules and pustules.

The lips are fissured and ulcerated. Ulcers on chin, lips, and wing of nose. Wing and side of nose eaten away by an ulcer. It has cured many cases of lupus of face.

The teeth are deformed, distorted, spotted; decay early; cup shaped in children. Violent pain in teeth, Crawling in the roots of the teeth, like a worm.

Mouth and tongue ulcerated. Breath foetid. Tongue soft, spongy, easily indented in persons who have long taken Mercury. Paralysis of tongue, one-sided. Tongue red, excoriated, cracked and sore. Patches on tongue. Denuded patches. Red spots. Copious viscid saliva in mouth. Ulceration of soft palate. Caries of hard palate. Soft palate entirely destroyed. Bleeding from ulcers.

Throat studded with ulcers. Inflammation of throat and tonsils. Soft palate swollen and nodular. Post nasal catarrh and ulceration. Posterior nares plugged with crusts. The appetite is perverted. Longing for strong drink. Thirst.

Aversion to food, to meat. No desire to eat. All food disagrees. Flatulence. Heartburn; nausea; vomiting. Ulceration of stomach.

The rectum is the-seat of many symptoms and conditions.

Ulceration, fissures, piles; nodules, gummata, copious bleeding; cutting, burning pains. Condylomata. Constipation. Paralysis of rectum; prolapsus of anus. Relaxed protruding rectum.

This nosode has cured nodular formations in testes, spermatic cord and scrotum. It has cured herpetic eruptions on prepuce and scrotum. Induration of testes and spermatic cord.

Nodular formations in vagina and labia. Ulceration of os uteri, Induration of cervix uteri. Copious yellow-green leucorrhoea. Leucorrhoea in little girls, of specific history, acrid water, leucorrhoea aggravated nights from warmth of bed.

Pain in ovaries during the night. Itching in the vulva. Sharp pains in uterus. Cystic ovaries. Ovarian tumor. Cutting pain in ovary during coition at moment of orgasm. Uterine and ovarian complaints when there is a specific history.

Ulceration of larynx and loss of voice.

Aphonia before menses. Continuous sharp pain in larynx from evening to sunrise every night compelling him to walk the floor all night cured by Syphilinum very high, one dose.

Asthma in warm damp weather during night. Dyspnoea. Attacks of spasmodic bronchial asthma for twenty-five years; at night in bed ot during a thunderstorm, preventing sleep for many nights. Dyspnoea from I to 4 A.M.

Cough at night. Dry rasping cough during the night. Rawness in chest. Thick purulent expectoration. Dry cough from lying on right side. Mucopurulent expectoration, grayish, greenish, greenish-yellow, tasteless. Clear white mucous expectoration. Rattling in the chest. Pain and pressure behind the sternum. Eruptions on the chest.

Rheumatic stiffness and lameness in back.

Aching in whole spine. Pain in region of kidneys, aggravated after urinating. Pain in sacrum, aggravated while sitting. Caries of cervical and dorsal vertebra. Enlarged glands of neck. It has cured indurated cervical glands. Pain in back, hip and thighs during the night. it has cured Hodgkin's disease.

Inflammation of joints. Rheumatism, muscles are caked in bard knots or lumps. Pain in limbs ameliorated by heat, aggravated from sunset to sunrise. Stiffness of all the joints. Rheumatic pains and swelling of joints of upper limbs. Rheumatism of deltoid, painful on raising the aim. Pains in arms on motion. Ulcers on back of hands.

Nightly pain and swelling in legs. Pains. in lower, extremities, preventing sleep, aggravated from hot applications, ameliorated by pouring cold water on them. Weakness in knees and hips.

Severe bone aches in legs at night in bed. Pain in back of feet and toes at night in bed. Pains often aggravated in warm bed at night. Pains drive him out of bed at night. Tearing in hip and thigh, aggravated during night, ameliorated at day-break, ameliorated by walking, not affected by weather (improved by Syph.), Ulcers on the legs.

Large crusts on the legs. Tubercles on the lower limbs. Tension of the tendons of the legs and soles. The extremes of cold and heat often bring out the symptoms of these old sufferers. Neuralgia of limbs gradually, increasing, aggravated as the night goes on. Extreme sensitiveness of the tibia.

There are fevers, chilliness, but the night sweats and great weakness are striking.

The eruptions are numerous, but may be studied better by consulting the numerous works on syphilis, as this is not a study of the disease, but the nosode.

Drs. Sam'l Swan, I. C. Boardman, Thomas Wildes, E. A. Ballard, Wm. Eggert, Laura Morgan, H. I. Ostrom, Wm. Bradshaw, Thomas Skinner, R. M. Theobald, S. Morrison, D. W. Clauson, C. F. Nichols, E. W. Berridge, Francis Burritt, S. W. Jackson, R. N. Foster, E. B. Nash., Julius Schmidt, C. W. Boyce, W. A. Hawley, D. B. Morrow, J. R. Haynes, H. H. Carr, H. C. Allen, J. T. Kent.
Dr. Swan's provers: Miss Eva Spalding, Miss Hays, Mrs. Mary B. Pitts, Mrs. S. S., Mr. Brown, a lady, a woman, five provers (names and sex unknown). Dr. Morrison's prover: Mrs. ---. Dr. Berridge's prover: Mrs. W. Heitts. Dr. H. B. Carr's provers: Dr.---, Mrs. Henry Hake, Mrs. Kelt. Copland's Dictionary.
Dr. Fellger said it was absurd to claim that any disease could be cured by its nosode, for after potentizing the nosode, we cannot be satisfied that it is in the same condition as when first taken from the diseased individual. Thus the syphilitic poison is composed of molecules of atoms. When the poison is potentized the essential character of the molecules is undoubtedly lost, and hence it is not the same substance any longer. Therefore, there can be no certainty that the potentized preparation is the same poison. But it, for argument, we allow that the molecules of the poison can be potentized without change of character, we still are not relieved of the dilemma, for primary syphilis in any one person will make a different set of symptoms from syphilis in another person. The variations are endless. Hence, we must then have a potentization of each one of these different kinds of syphilis, which would be impossible. Mercury is a staple substance, always unchanged; it might then be expected to produce identical sets of symptoms on any number of the most different people. Yet its action is different upon every person to whom it is given. How much more, then, must be the individual variations in the case of the poison of syphilis, and if mercury requires so many different remedies to antidote it, how much more, then, must syphilis need a variety of remedies to treat it. It is folly, then, to expect to treat symptoms with its nosode, and the folly is the more apparent when we realize that the character of this nosode is essentially changed in the process of potentizing. The only way, therefore, to use a nosode is to prove it on the healthy like any other drug, and note its symptoms in the regular way.

Pains from darkness to daylight; begins with twilight and ends with daylight (Merc., Phyt.).
Pains increase and decrease gradually (Stan.); shifting and require frequent change of position.
All symptoms are worse at night (Merc.); from sundown to sunrise.
Eruptions: dull, red, copper-colored spots, becoming blue when getting cold.
Extreme emaciation of entire body (Abrot., Iod.).
Heart: lancinating pains from base to apex, at night (from apex to base, Med.); from base to clavicle, or shoulder, (Spig.).
Loss of memory: cannot remember names of books, persons or places; arithmetical calculations difficult.
Sensations: as if going insane; as if about to be paralysed; of apathy and indifference.
Terrible dread of night on account of mental and physical exhaustion on awakening; it is intolerable, death is preferable.
Fears the terrible suffering from exhaustion on awakening (Lach.).
Leucorrhea: profuse, soaking through the napkins and running down to the heels (Alum.).
Headache, neuralgic in character, causing sleeplessness and delirium at night; commencing at 4 P. M.; worse from 10 to 11 and ceasing at daylight (ceases at 11 or 12 P. M., Lyc.); falling of the hair.
Acute ophthalmia neonatorum; lids swollen, adhere during sleep; pain intense at night < from 2 to 5 A. M.; pus profuse; > by cold bathing.
Ptosis: paralysis of superior oblique; sleepy look from drooping lids (Caust., Graph.).
Diplopia, one image seen below the other.
Teeth: decay at edge of gum and break off; are cupped, edges serrated; dwarfed in size, converge at their tips (Staph.).
Craving alcohol, in any form.
Hereditary tendency to alcoholism (Sar., Psor., Tuber., Sulph., Sulph. ac.).
Obstinate constipation for years; rectum seems tied up with strictures; when enemata were used the agony of passage was like labor (Lac. d., Tub.).
Fissures in anus and rectum (Thuja); prolapse of rectum; obstinate cases with syphilitic history.
Rheumatism of the shoulder joint, or at insertion of deltoid, < from raising arm laterally (Rhus - right shoulder, Sang. left, Fer.).
When the best selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently improve in syphilitic affections.
Syphilitics, or patients who have had chancre treated by local means, and as a result have suffered from throat and skin troubles for years, are nearly always benefited by this remedy at commencement of treatment unless some other remedy is clearly indicated.
Relations: antidote; Nux vomica, for over-action or excess of action in sensitive organizations, or too frequent repetition of the remedy, especially in the higher potencies.
Compare: Aur., Asaf., Kali iod., Mer., Phyt., Nit. ac. in diseases of bone and syphilitic affections. Ech., Lac can., Med. in dysmenorrhea. Calc., Tub., headache deep in the brain. Plat., Stan., pains increase and decrease slowly. Alum., Kali bi., Puls., Psor., Sep., Teuc., post-nasal catarrh, or ozæna, with offensive plugs or clinkers. Hepar, Sil., Psor., tendency to successive abscesses (succession of boils, Anthr.). Aur., Lac can., Lach., Mer. iod., syphilitic stomatitis. Calc. fl., Fluor. ac., Kali bi., Kali iod., Mang., Mer., syphilitic nodes. Abrot., Iod., Tub., progressive emaciation. Med., lancinating pains in heart (from apex to base). Spig. (from base to clavicle or shoulder). Syph. (from base to apex). Lach., fear of exhaustion on awakening. Caust., Gels., Graph., paralysis of upper lids. Asar., Med., Psor., Sul., Tub., hereditary tendency to alcoholism. Lac. d., Tub., paralytic weakness of rectum with labor-like pains. Nat. mur., Sanic., Thuya, fissure ani. Kreos., Mer., troubles during dentition, especially if hereditary syphilis be suspected. Phos. X-ray, bad effects of thunder-storms.

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