Anthracinum & Variolinum
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2001 2:56 pm
Dear Co-Mintusists,
in Allen's Keynotes I found some useful information on Anthracinum, and
some encouraging words concerning Variolinum.
All the best
Claudia
ANTHRACINUM
Anthrax Poison.
A
Nosode
In carbuncle, malignant ulcer and complaints with ulceration, sloughing
and intolerable burning.
When Arsenicum or the best selected remedy fails to relieve the burning
pain of carbuncle or malignant ulceration.
Haemorrhages: blood oozes from mouth, nose, anus or sexual organs;
black, thick, tar-like, rapidly decomposing ( Crot. ).
Septic fever, rapid loss of strength, sinking pulse, delirium and
fainting ( Pyr. ).
Gangrenous ulcers; felon, carbuncle, erysipelas of a malignant type.
Felon: the worst cases, with sloughing and terrible burning pain ( Ars.
, Carb. ac. , Lach. ).
Malignant pustule; black or blue blisters; often fatal in twenty-four or
forty-eight hours ( Lach. , Pyr. ).
Carbuncle; with horrible burning pains; discharge of ichorous offensive
pus.
Dissecting wounds, especially if tendency is to become gangrenous;
septic fever, marked prostration ( Ars. , Pyr. ).
Suspicious insect stings. If the swelling changes color and red streaks
from the wound map out the course of lymphatics ( Lach. ,
Pyr. ).
Septic inflammation from absorption or pus or other deleterious
substances, with burning pain and great prostration ( Ars. , Pyr.
).
Epidemic spleen diseases of cattle, horses and sheep.
Bad effects from inhaling foul odors of putrid fever or dissecting-room;
poisoning by foul breath ( Pyr. )
Hering says: "To call a carbuncle a surgical disease is the greatest
absurdity. An incision is always injurious and often fatal. A
case has never been lost under the right kind of treatment, and it
should always be treated by internal medicine only."
Relations. - Similar: to, Ars. , Carb. ac. , Lach. , Sec. , Pyr. , in
malignant and septic conditions.
Compare: Euphor. in the terrible pains of cancer, carbuncle or
erysipelas when Ars. or [Anth.] fail to >
VARIOLINUM
Pus from smallpox pustule.
A
Nosode.
Only fragmentary provings.
Bears the same relation to smallpox that Antitoxin does to diphtheria.
An extended clinical record by competent and reliable observers attest
its curative value in variola - simple, confluent and
malignant - as well as in varioloid and varicella.
It has done splendid work in all potencies, from the 6th cent. to the c.
m.
As a preventive of, or protection against, smallpox, it is far superior
to crude vaccination and absolutely safe from the sequelae,
especially septic and tubercular infection. The efficacy of the potency
is the stumbling block to the materialist. But is it more
difficult to comprehend than the infectious nature of variola, measles
or pertussis? Those who have not used, like those who have
not experimentally tested the law of similars, are not competent
witnesses. Put it to the test and publish the failures to the world.
Extracts from:
H. C. ALLEN,
KEYNOTES And Characteristics With Comparisons of some of the Leading
Remedies of the Materia Medica (Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel 1916)
in Allen's Keynotes I found some useful information on Anthracinum, and
some encouraging words concerning Variolinum.
All the best
Claudia
ANTHRACINUM
Anthrax Poison.
A
Nosode
In carbuncle, malignant ulcer and complaints with ulceration, sloughing
and intolerable burning.
When Arsenicum or the best selected remedy fails to relieve the burning
pain of carbuncle or malignant ulceration.
Haemorrhages: blood oozes from mouth, nose, anus or sexual organs;
black, thick, tar-like, rapidly decomposing ( Crot. ).
Septic fever, rapid loss of strength, sinking pulse, delirium and
fainting ( Pyr. ).
Gangrenous ulcers; felon, carbuncle, erysipelas of a malignant type.
Felon: the worst cases, with sloughing and terrible burning pain ( Ars.
, Carb. ac. , Lach. ).
Malignant pustule; black or blue blisters; often fatal in twenty-four or
forty-eight hours ( Lach. , Pyr. ).
Carbuncle; with horrible burning pains; discharge of ichorous offensive
pus.
Dissecting wounds, especially if tendency is to become gangrenous;
septic fever, marked prostration ( Ars. , Pyr. ).
Suspicious insect stings. If the swelling changes color and red streaks
from the wound map out the course of lymphatics ( Lach. ,
Pyr. ).
Septic inflammation from absorption or pus or other deleterious
substances, with burning pain and great prostration ( Ars. , Pyr.
).
Epidemic spleen diseases of cattle, horses and sheep.
Bad effects from inhaling foul odors of putrid fever or dissecting-room;
poisoning by foul breath ( Pyr. )
Hering says: "To call a carbuncle a surgical disease is the greatest
absurdity. An incision is always injurious and often fatal. A
case has never been lost under the right kind of treatment, and it
should always be treated by internal medicine only."
Relations. - Similar: to, Ars. , Carb. ac. , Lach. , Sec. , Pyr. , in
malignant and septic conditions.
Compare: Euphor. in the terrible pains of cancer, carbuncle or
erysipelas when Ars. or [Anth.] fail to >
VARIOLINUM
Pus from smallpox pustule.
A
Nosode.
Only fragmentary provings.
Bears the same relation to smallpox that Antitoxin does to diphtheria.
An extended clinical record by competent and reliable observers attest
its curative value in variola - simple, confluent and
malignant - as well as in varioloid and varicella.
It has done splendid work in all potencies, from the 6th cent. to the c.
m.
As a preventive of, or protection against, smallpox, it is far superior
to crude vaccination and absolutely safe from the sequelae,
especially septic and tubercular infection. The efficacy of the potency
is the stumbling block to the materialist. But is it more
difficult to comprehend than the infectious nature of variola, measles
or pertussis? Those who have not used, like those who have
not experimentally tested the law of similars, are not competent
witnesses. Put it to the test and publish the failures to the world.
Extracts from:
H. C. ALLEN,
KEYNOTES And Characteristics With Comparisons of some of the Leading
Remedies of the Materia Medica (Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel 1916)