aurum arsenicum
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John Harvey
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Re: aurum arsenicum
Clarke's Dictionary (1900) refers to Aurum arsenicicum [sic], arseniate of gold, meaning gold arsenate, which evidently would be Au3AsO4. The Dictionary's entry on the remedy suggests that it had at that time enjoyed no proving, but that several symptoms had been observed via partial provings in its clinical use -- none of which are mental symptoms.
Kent's New Remedies includes an exhaustive list of indications for a slightly differently named substance, Aurum arsenicum. There has been a strong suggestion that Kent's "new remedies" were published under pressure before they had enjoyed any provings, with their indications having been derived, under protest, speculatively from a combination of the provings of Arsenicum and Aurum. Whether this suggestion so or not, I've never seen definitely confirmed; but the very different format of these medicinal descriptions from Kent's descriptions of remedies he knew well tends to support the hypothesis, I think. Nevertheless, a Dr E.R. McIntyer, of Chicago, discussed (see ) Kent's description of Aurum arsenicum as representing a proving, so perhaps it was. Whether it is the same substance as Aurum arsenicicum, it's difficult to say.
Kent offers a great many individual mental symptoms. As is his way in all his New Remedies presentations, the mental symptoms are listed in alphabetical order; there is no other thread linking them. They include peculiarly arsenical symptoms such as "Inclined to criticise and find fault with everybody", "Extreme irritability… when spoken to", and "Oversensitive; to noise; to voices", and peculiarly aureal ones such as "Easily angered… from contradiction" and "Suicidal… wants to jump out of window", adding weight to the suggestion that they have been concocted. Adding perhaps further weight to it is that the symptoms include both "Fear… of death" and its opposite, suicidal disposition and "Weary of life", possibly in a deliberate hint by their author not to take the entry too seriously. Kent lists a great many other mental symptoms, with an overall tendency toward the manic.
Cheers --
John
Kent's New Remedies includes an exhaustive list of indications for a slightly differently named substance, Aurum arsenicum. There has been a strong suggestion that Kent's "new remedies" were published under pressure before they had enjoyed any provings, with their indications having been derived, under protest, speculatively from a combination of the provings of Arsenicum and Aurum. Whether this suggestion so or not, I've never seen definitely confirmed; but the very different format of these medicinal descriptions from Kent's descriptions of remedies he knew well tends to support the hypothesis, I think. Nevertheless, a Dr E.R. McIntyer, of Chicago, discussed (see ) Kent's description of Aurum arsenicum as representing a proving, so perhaps it was. Whether it is the same substance as Aurum arsenicicum, it's difficult to say.
Kent offers a great many individual mental symptoms. As is his way in all his New Remedies presentations, the mental symptoms are listed in alphabetical order; there is no other thread linking them. They include peculiarly arsenical symptoms such as "Inclined to criticise and find fault with everybody", "Extreme irritability… when spoken to", and "Oversensitive; to noise; to voices", and peculiarly aureal ones such as "Easily angered… from contradiction" and "Suicidal… wants to jump out of window", adding weight to the suggestion that they have been concocted. Adding perhaps further weight to it is that the symptoms include both "Fear… of death" and its opposite, suicidal disposition and "Weary of life", possibly in a deliberate hint by their author not to take the entry too seriously. Kent lists a great many other mental symptoms, with an overall tendency toward the manic.
Cheers --
John
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John Harvey
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Re: aurum arsenicum
P.S. If Aurum arsenicum happens to be gold arsenide (a chemical combination of gold, arsenic, and nothing else) rather than gold arsenate, then evidently there are more than 450 known combinations that fit that bill, fitting within the general pattern AumAsn, where m is a number from 1 to 60 and n is a number from 1 to 18. Almost all of these detected combinations have arisen through nanotech creation using lasers, but it's conceivable that homoeopathy's own nanotechnology, dynamisation in aqueous alcohol solution or in trituration with lactose, may produce one or more combinations other than plain AuAs.
Of course, if Aurum arsenicum is gold arsenide, then Clarke's few known Aurum arsenicicum (gold arsenate) symptoms will be wholly irrelevant. So may Kent's symptoms of Aurum arsenicum be, depending on whether it is a gold arsenide and, if it is, how that substance (if it was ever used in a pathogenetic trial) was created.
Cheers --
John
Of course, if Aurum arsenicum is gold arsenide, then Clarke's few known Aurum arsenicicum (gold arsenate) symptoms will be wholly irrelevant. So may Kent's symptoms of Aurum arsenicum be, depending on whether it is a gold arsenide and, if it is, how that substance (if it was ever used in a pathogenetic trial) was created.
Cheers --
John