Anthracin (Anthracinum) as prophylactic
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2001 4:47 am
From Allen's Nosodes: Anthracin
(Emphasis added) The alcoholic extract of the anthrax poison prepared
from the spleen of cattle ill with the disease. A nosode rejected by the old
school, and by the majority of the new, in spite of its being a remedy which
bears out our theory, and one which has proved of the utmost use in
practice. It has not yet been proved, but the frequent use made of it and
the verification of the toxin symptoms by some of our best practitioners
justifies its reception. The first preparation was made according to
Hering's propositions [laid down in Stapf's Archives, 1830], by Dr. G. A.
Weber, and applied with the most astonishing success in the cattle plague.
He cured every case with it, and also cured men poisoned by the contagium.
His report, a small treatise of 114 pages, was published in 1836, by Reclam,
Leipzig. No notice was taken of it. Only the talented Dr. P. Dufresne the
founder of the Bibliotheque Homoeopathique, of Geneva, used it and prevented
the further murderous spread of the disease, in a flock of sheep [among
which it is always more fatal than among other domestic animals], and cured
the shepherds as well [Biblioth. Homoeop. de Geneve, January and February,
1837].
The discovery of the bacteria and their incredibly rapid propagation,
seemed to be of much more importance than the cure of cattle, and the loss
of millions of dollars by this disease.
In 1842 France sustained a loss of over seven millions of francs and
every year a small district of Germany had a loss of sixty thousand thalers,
from the cattle plague; in Siberia, in 1785, 100, 000 horses died with it;
in 1800, one small district lost 27,000 horses. Radiate heat, proposed
scores of years ago, for other zymotic diseases, by Hering, was discovered,
in a very ingenious way, by Pasteur, to prevent the increase of bacteria.
Now the heat [as it has done in hydrophobia.], and the nosode may
suffice to cure every case.
Doctor Kasemann had moral courage enough to introduce anthracin in
gangrene and sphacelus, in 1852, and Doctor Raue has given it in carbuncles,
since 1858 [see his pathology and Diagnosis.] and in gangrenous whitlow [see
Journal of Clinics, 4, 142].
All symptoms produced by the poison on men are inserted, because the
symptoms from the snake-bite and from the bee sting have been proved to be
useful in numerous cases as well as the toxic symptoms of Arsenic, Opium and
other drugs.
Dr. Hering says: "Homeopathic practitioners of the greatest integrity,
and trustworthy beyond a doubt, long ago cured splenic fever in cattle,
flocks of sheep and their shepherds by Anthracin, and alcoholic tincture
made from the blood of a bacteric spleen. Of course the alcohol killed the
infusoria, but what remained dissolved therein cured the disease in animals
and men." This proves conclusively:
1. That the crude poison and its alcoholic solution must possess
similar pathogenetic properties; hence to a proving of Anthracinum must be
added all the symptoms of uncomplicated splenic fever; to those of
Hydrophobinum, the symptoms of every case of pure hydrophobia; to those of
Hydrophobinum, the symptoms of every case of pure hydrophobia; to those of
Syphilinum all those of pure syphilis, etc., etc.
2. That bacteria are not the cause but the effect of the disease, a
doctrine which we hold to be true with regard to all parasites connected
with deranged health, and that therefore their destruction by local
application is not equivalent to the cure of the disease itself.
Peace,
Charlotte
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(Emphasis added) The alcoholic extract of the anthrax poison prepared
from the spleen of cattle ill with the disease. A nosode rejected by the old
school, and by the majority of the new, in spite of its being a remedy which
bears out our theory, and one which has proved of the utmost use in
practice. It has not yet been proved, but the frequent use made of it and
the verification of the toxin symptoms by some of our best practitioners
justifies its reception. The first preparation was made according to
Hering's propositions [laid down in Stapf's Archives, 1830], by Dr. G. A.
Weber, and applied with the most astonishing success in the cattle plague.
He cured every case with it, and also cured men poisoned by the contagium.
His report, a small treatise of 114 pages, was published in 1836, by Reclam,
Leipzig. No notice was taken of it. Only the talented Dr. P. Dufresne the
founder of the Bibliotheque Homoeopathique, of Geneva, used it and prevented
the further murderous spread of the disease, in a flock of sheep [among
which it is always more fatal than among other domestic animals], and cured
the shepherds as well [Biblioth. Homoeop. de Geneve, January and February,
1837].
The discovery of the bacteria and their incredibly rapid propagation,
seemed to be of much more importance than the cure of cattle, and the loss
of millions of dollars by this disease.
In 1842 France sustained a loss of over seven millions of francs and
every year a small district of Germany had a loss of sixty thousand thalers,
from the cattle plague; in Siberia, in 1785, 100, 000 horses died with it;
in 1800, one small district lost 27,000 horses. Radiate heat, proposed
scores of years ago, for other zymotic diseases, by Hering, was discovered,
in a very ingenious way, by Pasteur, to prevent the increase of bacteria.
Now the heat [as it has done in hydrophobia.], and the nosode may
suffice to cure every case.
Doctor Kasemann had moral courage enough to introduce anthracin in
gangrene and sphacelus, in 1852, and Doctor Raue has given it in carbuncles,
since 1858 [see his pathology and Diagnosis.] and in gangrenous whitlow [see
Journal of Clinics, 4, 142].
All symptoms produced by the poison on men are inserted, because the
symptoms from the snake-bite and from the bee sting have been proved to be
useful in numerous cases as well as the toxic symptoms of Arsenic, Opium and
other drugs.
Dr. Hering says: "Homeopathic practitioners of the greatest integrity,
and trustworthy beyond a doubt, long ago cured splenic fever in cattle,
flocks of sheep and their shepherds by Anthracin, and alcoholic tincture
made from the blood of a bacteric spleen. Of course the alcohol killed the
infusoria, but what remained dissolved therein cured the disease in animals
and men." This proves conclusively:
1. That the crude poison and its alcoholic solution must possess
similar pathogenetic properties; hence to a proving of Anthracinum must be
added all the symptoms of uncomplicated splenic fever; to those of
Hydrophobinum, the symptoms of every case of pure hydrophobia; to those of
Hydrophobinum, the symptoms of every case of pure hydrophobia; to those of
Syphilinum all those of pure syphilis, etc., etc.
2. That bacteria are not the cause but the effect of the disease, a
doctrine which we hold to be true with regard to all parasites connected
with deranged health, and that therefore their destruction by local
application is not equivalent to the cure of the disease itself.
Peace,
Charlotte
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