H.M.M. RECONSTITUTED about NOSODES and SARCODES according to Dr John Henry CLARKE. – By Dr Robert Séror.

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H.M.M.
RECONSTITUTED about NOSODES and SARCODES
according to Dr John Henry CLARKE.
By Dr Robert Séror.

JHC’s supplementary
remedies :

Carcinosinum
* Coqueluchinum (Pertussinum) * Epihysterinum
* Influenzinum * Morbillinum
* Parotidinum * Scarlatininum
* Scirrhinum * Bacillinum
Testium * Bacillinum * The
old tuberculin of Koch * New
Tuberculin of or Turberculin T. R. * The
Bacillary emulsion * Filtered tuberculous
bouillon of Denys * The dilute serum of
Marmorek * Bovine Tuberculin

Carcinosinum.

Carcinomin. The nosode of Carcinoma.

Clinical.

Cancer Melancholia. Worms.

Characteristics.

This is one of the principal nosodes of cancer, and is one of Dr.

Burnett’s
preparations.

I use it more frequently than any other as a diathesic remedy.

Burnett

had
a number of different cancer preparations, and followed his instinct
largely in their use and selection.

In addition to

Scirrhinum,
of which I have given an account in the Dictionary, he had a
preparation which he named Durum
(a Latinised form of Scirrhinum,
as I take it).

This he used in treating depraved inherited conditions in children,
such as infantile self-abuse, with good effects, which I have
confirmed. I have met with a suicidal tendency in several cancer
patients, so that the cancer nosodes may be appropriate in many mental
cases, especially where the heredity points that way.

Relations

. Compare
: Scirrhinum.

Coqueluchinum (Pertussinum)

Pertussin. The nosode of Whooping-cough.

Clinical.

Cough, paroxysmal. Whooping-cough.

Characteristics.

In

1906
Messrs. Epps
published a little book of mine dealing with this nosode, to which I
then gave the name of Pertussin.

But it appeared that a German firm of chemists had registered in
England a patent medicine under that name, and threatened the
publishers with an action unless the book was withdrawn! As the matter
was not worth a law-suit, I adopted the French name for the nosode,
and a second revised and enlarged edition was brought out by the Homœopathic
Publishing Co. under the title

Whooping-cough
Cured with Coqueluchin.

Since that date later experience has fully confirmed all that was
then written, and many patients, old as well as young, have
experienced the virtues of

Coqueluchin.
In all cases of whooping-cough suspected or defined I give the remedy
in the 30th
attenuation every four hours as a matter of routine, and as a rule it
quickly assumes control of the case and does all that is necessary. In
my experience it agrees well with all other whooping-cough remedies,
and when their specific indications appear I give them also in
alternation, or else alone.

Coqueluchin

is an “unproved” remedy, except in the sense that every case
of the disease is a “proving,” but I have noted a few
special symptoms removed by it, and I have arranged them in a
subjoined “Schema. ” It is equally applicable to cases of
cough of the same type, though not caused by the same infection, such
as appear in some cases of influenza.

Relations

. Compare
: Bell. , Cocc.
c. , Coral. r. , Dros. , etc.

SYMPTOMS.

Eyes.

Coryza with hacking cough.

Face.

Intense flushing with cough.

Mouth.

Itching of the palate on lying down at night.

Throat.

Intense tickling in throat causing cough.

Stomach.

Vomiting or nausea at end of cough.

Respiratory Organs.

Cough in frequently repeated paroxysms.

Cough provoked by intense tickling in throat-fauces or trachea.

Deep-sounding croupy cough.

Dyspnœa with cough.

Hacking cough ; with coryza.

Sobbing or sighing at end of cough.

Spasmodic choking cough.

Spasmodic cough with intense flushing of face.

Strangling sensation with cough on waking.

Chest.

Stinging pain in or on the chest with cough.

Epihisterinum.

Epiphysterin. A nosode.

Clinical.

Fibroma. Menorrhagia. Metrorrhagia.

Characteristics.

This is one of Dr. Burnett’s nosodes, used by him in cases of hæmorrhage
and obtained, as I conclude, from a case of hæmorrhage in a patient
suffering from fibrous tumour, possibly with malignant elements. At
any rate, I have found it of great value in controlling uterine hæmorrhage,
whether connected with fibrous growth or not. I have used it in the

30th
upwards, giving one or two doses weekly.

Relations.

Compare :

The cancer nosodes ; in fibrous tumours and uterine hæmorrhages,
Thlaspi b. p. , Fraxin. , Hydrastis and its alkaloids.

Influenzinum.

The nosode of
Influenza.

Clinical.

Catarrh. Colds. Influenza.

Characteristics.

The nosode of influenza has with many practitioners taken the place
of

Baptisia
as the routine remedy in epidemics. It may be given in the 12th
or 30th
potency, either in the form of tincture, pilules, or discs ; or ten
globules may be dissolved in six ounces of water, and of this a
dessertspoonful may be given for a dose. It may be repeated every two
hours. This will be found sufficient to control a large proportion of
the cases. The general directions I give to my patients are these :
When “colds” appear in a family let all those who are
unaffected take Arsen.
3
thrice daily, and let the patients take Influ.
30
every hour or two. This generally prevents the spread of the trouble
and clears up the “colds,” whether they are of the influenza
type or not. Influenza has the property of developing old troubles,
and thus it takes an infinite variety of forms in different persons,
so that Influ.
need not be expected to cure all cases unaided, or, indeed, to be
appropriate to every case.

Relations.

I find Influ. compatible with Act. r. , Ars. , Bell. , Bry. , Hep.
, Merc. , and many others.

Morbillinum

Morbillin. The
nosode of Measles.

Clinical.

Catarrh. Coryza. Cough. Ear, affections of. Eye, affections of.
Measles. Skin, affections of.

Characteristics.

The well-known symptoms which characterise an attack of measles may
all be taken as guides for its homœopathic use. Its chief use
hitherto has been as a prophylactic against infection, and to clear up
after effects of an attack. My own use of it has been confined to the

30th
and higher, but there is no bar upon lower potencies, and those who
prefer them may begin with the 6th.
As a prophylactic given to those who are, or may be, exposed to
infection, I prescribe a dose of the 30th
twice or thrice daily. For an attack of the disease I find nothing
better than Morbil.
30,
eight or ten globules in six ounces of water, a dessertspoonful every
two hours. The effect of this is heightened by giving alternately Bell.
30
in the same way. These two medicines will be sufficient to carry
through any uncomplicated case, and in my experience do even better
than Pulsatilla.
As the measles poison has a great affinity for the mucous passages,
the eyes, the ears and the respiratory mucous membranes, Morbil.
may be used in such cases like any other homœopathic remedy, when the
symptoms correspond.

Relations.

Complementary :

Bell. Compare :
Puls. , Hep. , Merc. , Sul.

Parotidinum.

The nosode of
Mumps.

Clinical.

Glandular affections. Meningitis. Mumps. Orchitis. Salivation.

Characteristics.

Parotidinum

has been used as a prophylactic against infection by mumps. In this
instance it is generally given in the 6th
or 30th
two or three times a day to those exposed to infection. In the disease
itself it may be given every four hours, either by itself or
alternated with other indicated remedies. The well-known complications
which sometimes occur with mumps, cerebral inflammation and orchitis
suggest its possible use in these conditions.

Relations.

Compare :

Merc.

Scarlatininum.

The nosode of
Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever.

Clinical.

Albuminuria. Nephritis. Scarlet fever. Skin affections. Throat,
sore.

Characteristics.

Scarlatinin

has been used, like other nosodes, for the prevention and for cure of
the disease from which it takes origin. But its well-known affinity
for the skin, throat and kidneys suggests its applicability for
affections of those organs.

Relations.

Bell. is the nearest analogue and should be its

antidote,
and the various Mercuries come next. Compare
also : Apis,
Arsen. , Rhus, Morbillin, Diphtherinum.

Scirrhinum.

Carcinominum. The
nosode of Scirrhous Cancer. Trituration.

Clinical.

Breast, cancer of. Cancer. Cancerous diathesis. Glands, enlarged. Hæmorrhages.
Varicosis.

Worms.

Characteristics.

Burnett is my authority for this nosode. He proved it on himself,
and produced “a tremendous sinking at the navel,” which he
regarded as a keynote for its use.

Scirrh.
has aided the cure of many cases of breast tumour in Burnett’s hands.
With it he cured a man of hard glands which appeared on the left side
of the neck after other glands had been removed by the patient’s
brother, a surgeon. Hæmorrhages and varicosis of legs and feet, with
purple points, have also been cured by Burnett with Scirrh.
A patient to whom Burnett had given Scirrh.
mentioned to him that it had caused the passage of an enormous number
of threadworms. On this hint Burnett gave it with great success in
many cases of this troublesome complaint ; and I have verified this
experience. In inveterate cases where Cina
and Teucr.
have given little relief, Scirrh.
has wrought a great change for the better. The time of < of Scirrh.
is from 5
to 6
p. m. , and irregularly on through the night.

Relations.

Compare :

Other nosodes. In helminthiasis, Cin. , Teuc. , Sul. , Saba. Sinking
sensation, Sul. , Sep. , Helleb. , Hydrast. Cancer, Con. , Hydrast. ,
Phyt. , Sang. , Cund. , Ars.

Bacillinum Testium.

A nosode prepared from
tuberculous testicle.

Clinical.

Inguinal glands, disease of. Mesenteric glands, disease of.
Phthisis. Testicles, tubercle of.

Characteristics.

This preparation has been used by Burnett as having a more direct
relation to the lower half of the body than the pulmonary

Bacillinum.
My own experience confirms the correctness of this inference ; but it
must not be supposed that Bac.
test. does not
act in pulmonary cases, or vice
versâ.

Bacillinum.

A nosode of
tuberculosis named and first described by Dr. Burnett, for whom it was
prepared from tuberculous sputum by Dr. Heath. As this preparation has
been experimented with separately, I think it, on the whole, advisable
to give its symptoms apart from the other nosodes of phthisis.

Clinical.

Addison’s disease

.
Alopecia. Consumptiveness Growth, defective. Hydrocephalus.
Idiocy. Insanity. Joints, affections of. Phthiriasis. Pityriasis Ringworm.
Scrofulous glands. Teeth, defective ; pitted. Tuberculosis.

Characteristics.

This remedy has been used largely in infrequent doses (at intervals
of a week or more) of the

30th
and upwards chiefly on diathetic indications in the affections named
above. In acute affections it has been found useful to dissolve a few
globules in a wineglassful of water and administer a teaspoonful every
four hours. In the provings, a severe headache, deep in, < by motion, was a constant symptom ; also a slight cough with easy expectoration of phlegm. In cases of acute tuberculosis it has not done so well as in mote chronic cases. Dr. Cartier has found it particularly useful in cases where there was excessive muco-purulent bronchial secretion threatening to occlude the lungs. It must be compared with Bacillinum
testium, Tuberculinum
of Swan, Aviaire
and Tuberculinum
of Koch. Dr. Burnett has shown that ringworm of the scalp and
pityriasis versicolor on the body are indications of tubercular
diathesis, and they respond to this remedy. Also they are leading
indications for it when present in combination with other affections.
A case of insanity with pityriasis yielded rapidly to the remedy.
Phthiriasis has been cured by it when all attempts to kill the
body-lice by parasiticides were useless. Dr. Young has recorded the
cure of several cretinous idiots. An inter-current course of Bacillinum
will often make a wonderful change in patients who have a personal or
family history of chest affections. I have found an eczematous
condition of the margins of the eyelids a strong indication for it.
< Night and early morning ; < cold air. It is a diathetic remedy of vast importance. The symptoms of the schema
are taken from the provings by Burnett and myself recorded in the last
edition of Burnett’s The
Cure of Consumption by its own Virus,
together with some cured symptoms, and some from a proving by R.
Boocock.

Relations.

Calc. phos. goes with this remedy very well. So do Lach. and Kali
c. I know of no antidote.

SYMPTOMS.

1

. Mind.

Taciturn, sulky, snappish, fretty, irritable, morose, depressed and
melancholic even to insanity. Fretful ailing, whines and complains ;
mind given to be frightened, particularly by dogs.

2

. Head.

Severe headache, deep in, recurring from time to time, compelling
quiet fixedness ; < shaking head. Terrible pain in head as if he had a tight hoop of iron round it ; trembling of hands ; sensation of damp clothes on spine ; absolute sleeplessness. Meningitis. Ringworm. Alopecia areata.

3

. Eyes.

Eczematous condition of eyelids.

6

. Face.

Indolent, angry pimple on l. cheek, breaking out from time to time
and persisting for many weeks.

7

. Teeth.

Aching in teeth, esp. lower incisors (all sound), felt at the roots
esp. on raising or projecting lower lip ; very sensitive to air.
Grinds teeth in sleep. Imperfectly developed teeth.

9

. Throat.

Tickling in fauces, compelling cough.

11

. Stomach.

Windy dyspepsia, with pinching pains under ribs of r. side in
mammary line.

12

. Abdomen.

Fever, emaciation, abdominal pains and discomfort restless at
night, glands of both groins enlarged and indurated ; cries out in
sleep ; strawberry tongue. Tabes mesenterica ; talks in sleep ; grinds
teeth ; appetite poor ; hands blue ; indurated and palpable glands
everywhere ; drum belly ; spleen region bulging out. Inguinal glands
indurated and visible ; excessive sweats ; chronic diarrhœa.

13

. Stool and
Anus.

Sudden diarrhœa before breakfast, with nausea. Severe hæmorrhages
from bowels, cough. Obstinate constipation. Passes much ill-smelling
flatus. Stitch-like pain through piles.

14

. Urinary
Organs.

Increased quantity of urine, pale, with white sediment. Has to rise
several times in night to urinate.

17

. Respiratory
Organs.

Slight, tedious, hacking cough . Hard cough, shaking patient, more
during sleep but it did not waken him. Pricking in larynx with sudden
cough. Single cough on rising from bed in morning. Cough waking him in
night ; easy expectoration. Expectoration of non-viscid easily
detached, thick phlegm from air passages, followed after a day or two
by a very clear ring of voice. Sharp pain in precordial region
arresting breathing. Very sharp pain in l. scapula, < lying down in bed at night, > by warmth.

20

. Neck and
Back.

Glands of neck enlarged and tender.

23

. Lower Limbs.

Pain in l. knee whilst walking ; passed off after persevering in
walking for a short distance. Tubercular inflammation of knee.

24

.
Generalities.

Great weakness, did not want to be disturbed.

26

. Sleep.

Drowsy during day ; restless at night ; many dreams.

27

. Fever.

Flush of heat (soon after the dose), some perspiration, severe
headache deep in.

The old tuberculin of Koch

— A splendid article of

Harlan
Wells’,
entitled “A practical and favourable method of treating pulmonary
tuberculosis with tuberculin,^“ has appeared in the Journal
of the American Institvjre of Homoeopathy, February,
1912.
Wells
employed the old tuberculin of Koch in hypodermic injection.

Wells always commenced the treatment with the

6th
decimal dilution. If the patient was an adult, and if no reaction
followed the first dose, he gave one-tenth of a cubic centimeter of
the 5th
decimal. He then increased the dose one-tenth cubic centimeter at each
injection, until it reached the 3x
dilution.

If a reaction followed,

Wells
waited that everything might be calm, and then resumed the dilution
above the one that caused the reaction. Concerning the intervals
between the injections, he generally gave two injections a week till
the third week. It will take at least two or three months to judge if
the treatment has proved of any permanent benefit. Wells
cites many cases where the bacilli disappeared from the sputum.

He explains the favorable action of the tuberculin in about the
usual manner, namely, that it stimulates the cells of the body,
enabling them to form agglutinins, opsonins, and other substances
related to the immunizing process. In a patient whose nutrition is
poor, and who is functionally disordered, the organism is not in
condition to respond to the stimulative action of tuberculin,
consequently the tissue cells cannot form immunizing substances.

In the opinion of

Moll,
of Brixen,
tuberculin is not only a specific for pulmonary tuberculosis but it is
also a good remedy for bony suppurations, especially in cases that
have been rebellious to other remedies. In these conditions we must
employ only the high dilutions. The 60
th decimal gives prompt reactions. Moll
cites many favourable cases in which he used the 250th
decimal dilution. Lambert
makes frequent use of Tuberculinum
200th,
one dose every week; the 30th
generally producing aggravations (British
Hom. Society). It
has been remarked that homoeopaths speak as often of aggravations with
the high dilutions as with the low.

Do not the phenomena of anaphylaxis occur more commonly as a result
of small quantities ? Yet medicinal aggravations are less pronounced
in hommopathic than in physiological doses, weak as the latter may be.

In a brochure entitled

The
Modern Treatment of Tuberculosis Barcelona, 1907,
Olivey Gros
states that he employs the tuberculin of Koch generally in the 200th,
residual tuberculin in the 200th,
dialyzed tuberculin in the 100th,
the filtered bouillen of Denys
in the 2000th,
chloroformed tuberculin in the 100th,
the serum of Marmorek
in the 30th,
the serum of Ferran
in the 12th,
and Aviaire
in the 100th.

The

New Tuberculin of
Koch, or Turberculin T. R.

The new tuberculin of Koch, as well as the emulsions and
filtrations, must according to Trudeau, be preferred, because with it
the tendency to febrile reaction is less than is the case with the old
tuberculin.

Jager, of Hildesheim, employs the new tuberculin in the

6th
and 7th
decimal, by mouth. Scheidegger, of Aarau, Switzerland, has had the
best success with the T. R. (residual tuberculin) in low dilutions,
administered at long intervals, in the early stages of the disease.

The Bacillary emulsion (pulverized bacilli in glycerin and water).

Hallock

(Hahn.
Monthly, February,
1912)
has found that “the bacillary emulsion” in dilutions
produces the best results in patients who are without fever, and whose
general condition is good. A temperature up to 99
or 100
degrees Fahrenheit (about 38
degrees Centigrade) is not a contra-indication ; but if the
temperature is higher, we must expect no effect from the tuberculin
until the acute symptoms have disappeared.

The Filtered tuberculous bouillon of Denys

is one of the tuberculins most often employed by homoegpaths.
Humeau and Ravet, of Havre, have published lately the results of their
practice

(Art
medical, January,
1912,
and Archives medico-chirurgicales de Normandie, March, 1912).

These physicians are using the tuberculin of Denys, in true
homeopathic doses, either hypodermically or by mouth.

Humeau and Ravet never commence lower than the ninth decimal, and
often much higher.

Once the initial dose is fixed,

9th,
12th,
or sometimes the lith decimal (20th
in one case), the treatment is continued by three injections a week,
until the 3x
dilution is reached. If there is no reaction, these doses are of 1/10,
2/10,
3/10,
etc., of each solution.

After

9/10
of one dilution, they pass to the next lower decimal dilution, so as
to have a regular and constant. progression. When a reaction is
produced, it is an invariable rule to suspend all further injections,
until the disappearance of all reactionary phenomena.

The custom of Humeau and Ravet is, even at the beginning, to avoid
aggravations, they never begin at once with tuberculin. In treating a
case of pulmonary tuberculosis the patient is first given hygienic
treatment, more or less severe, sometimes rest in bed, the individual
requirements governing each case.

The patient’s temperature is taken, he is given, according to the
indications, an internal remedy, and meanwhile, before the injection
of tuberculin, is given close study. This minute knowledge of the
patient is necessary for fixing the initial dose, and the character of
the further specific treatment.

The dose, that is, the intensity of the excitation, must be such
that the affection will take on a more acute form during which,
temporarily, the patient will be weakened.

Its
action, to be effectual, however must not pass beyond the successful
reactionary struggle of which the organism of the patient is capable.

Humeau and Ravet have seen the great majority of their curable
patients obtain from the treatment, amelioration and even complete
cure; but besides these results they have had, also, cases where the
same remedy in widely different dosage, did not appear to act. They
were unable to judge in advance the favourable or unfavourable
reaction. In another series of tuberculous cases these physicians have
adhered to one and the same dilution satisfactorily, without
increasing the dose.

P. Jousset gives the filtered tuberculous bouillon of Denys
successfully in the

6th,
10th,
and 12th
decimal. As soon as a reaction appears, he prefers to suspend the
injections entirely rather than continue with weaker doses. In another
article, collaborated with C. Proust (Art
medical, Nov., 1907), Jousset’s
opinion, from an experience with more than forty phthisical patients,
was that the bouillon of Denys, with a careful technique, is entirely
inoffensive, and that its beneficial influence is shown by the
constitutional condition, the febrile movement, and even by the
condition of the pulmonary lesion. Jousset remarks that, in this
treatment, the cure is assured when the injections of pure filtered
bouillon do not pro-duce an increase in temperature. In such case, and
then only, we must discontinue the treatment. Tuinzing uses the 7th
and 8th
decimals. Rankin, in a sanatorium, employed doses from 1/1000
of a milligram to 10
milligrams.

I have personally given, by mouth, the tuberculin of Denys in the
form of globules saturated with the high dilutions, the

100th,
the 200th
and the 500th
centesimal. As extreme as these dilutions appear, it is yet• with
them that I have in advanced cases most frequently and most easily
arrested the progress of the disease: I refer to cavities. Again, as
extraordinary as may seem what I am about to say, these tuberculous
cavities are not protected from medicinal aggravations, not even
against these imperceptible closes that old school physicians have
termed quackery.

To deal with the theory of attenuations in this cursory manner is
vain, when we have examined from every angle, and confirmed the facts.
I have often arrested, temporarily, with these high dilutions, the
development of a progressive tuberculosis characterised by a
persistence of the fever (but, not the fever having great
fluctuations, from streptococci or acute pneumococcal infection), an
incessant cough, abundant expectoration, pulmonary perituberculous
congestion, and anorexia. I give one single dose of ten globules of
the

100th,
200th,
or 500th
; in the beginning I repeat the dose every three
to eight days,
till an improvement takes place (requiring sometimes only two or three
doses).

As long as the improvement continues we must not renew the dose.

I
have thus been
able to lengthen the intervals between the closes, from eight to
twenty-one days, and from fifteen days to a month. The tuberculous
quiescenoe may last many months. In a patient who appeared unusually
improved and who had only a slight expectoration in the morning, I had
this expectoration examined : it still contained a number of the
bacilli of Koch, and some pneumococci.

Here, then, was a case of temporary cessation of perituberculous
congestion all about the tuberculous foci, without a cure of the
tuberculosis. I have at present among my patients a young girl with a
cavity in which the tuberculous process progressed rapidly, and who
during her paroxysms of coughing vomited almost, incessantly. For the
past year and a half this patient, taking Denys’

500th,
has kept fairly well. The cough having almost left her, the poor girl
announces to me that she is cured. No class of persons exceeds the
tuberculous in optimism !

Temporary as the ameliorations are, they constitute nevertheless, a
real progress in tuberculinotherapy, and the above method of treatment
far excels the sedative syrups, which latter have a depressing effect,
excels equally Creosote, which ruins the stomach, and
superalimentation, which occasions enteritis. There may, of course, be
some advantage in employing, during the interval of the doses, any
accessory measure which may assist in bringing about a favourable
result. But the two cases that I have cited, and also others, have
been treated solely by these attenuated doses of Denys’, without the
employment of any adjuvants. Many of the patients were too poor to
undergo expense. The tuberculin of Denys’ in high dilution is also
used by

Nebel,
Vannier,
Chiron, and others.

The dilute serum of Marmorek

We are here concerned with his antituberculous, not with his
antistreptococcic, serum.

Marmorek
does not believe in a tuberculous infection ; for him there is only an
intoxication, and it is only antitoxins that he has tried to
manufacture.

Without discussing here the advantages or disadvantages of this
serum in the doses advised by the author, and without speaking of the
accidents that the remedy has caused through its excessive strength in
hypodermic injection (accidents that suggest its employment per
rectum), I will begin at once with that side of the question which
interests us ; the employment of the serum in homoeopathic doses,
diluted to the

6th,
10th,
or 30th
centesimal attenuation, and administered by mouth.

Nebel

was the
first to advise the serum in medium homoeopathic doses.

For five years, Leon

Vannier,
upon the advice of Nebel,
has employed this dilute serum, and he has been able to collect 530
observations grouped by him into two categories, the tuberculinics
(those predisposed), and the tuberculous.

He places in connection with the group of tuherculinics certain
conditions which, by a few modern authors, would be considered
prodromes of tuberculosis, a classification which suggests the
similarity bet”`een tuborculinics and the pre-tuberculous or good
subjects for tuberculosis.

According to

Vannier,
tuberculinics present themselves under various aspects :

1

st. the febrile
(febrile without apparent reason);

2

nd. persons
subject to colds (persons who have cold after, and coryza after Coryza
during the winter);

3

rd. dental
patients (persons predisposed to tuberculosis, said he, seem to make a
rendezvous of the dentist’s chair);

4

th. constipated
persons;

5

th. cardiac
patients (especially functional heart disease).

All these types of intoxicated persons are benefited by one or more
doses of the diluted serum of

Marmorek
(L’ Homéopathie
francaise, May,
1912).

Vannier

passes
then to the truly tuberculous. The serum of Marmorek,
being essentially an antitoxic serum, suits the pulmonary tuberculous,
who, notwithstanding the gravity or extent of their lesion, have poor
resistance. Vannier
has always observed a rapid improvement in the general condition, and
a progressive increase in the weight of those under the influence of
the diluted serum; but he has remarked that on the first, and
especially on the second day following the absorbtion of the serum,
there appeared pains in the apex of the lungs, an obstinate cough, and
a state of unaccountable fatigue.

Then there is a return to normal conditions. This series of
transient aggravations prepares the way for a progressive improvement.
Everything continues as if there existed a truly negative period,
similar to that caused by the vaccines, this negative period being
followed by a positive condition much more prolonged, and in the
latter the cure is completed.

This is also the opinion of

Nebel.
In caseous tuberculosis the serum has always brought a considerable
improvement of the pains (clinical observations of Pott’s disease and
spina ventosa), and with this improvement the rapid diminution and
even the complete disappearance of the violet discoloration so
characteristic of tuberculous fistul.

When there is pus, the discharge for the first few days is more
abundant and then gradually diminishes. Two cases of peritoneal
tuberculosis have been success-fully treated with the serum, one by

Vannier,
the other by Mondain. Three cases of tuberculosis of the urinary tract
were cured with the diluted serum (L’
Homéopathie francaise,
April, 1912).

Tuberculous meningitis; one favourable case by Renaud-Badet.

Regarding a case of peritoneal tuberculosis,

Mondain
says :

“If the case is acute, or the organism too much depressed, we
furnish to the cells in peril the prepared antibodies by administering
a dilution of the antituberculous serum of

Marmorek;
later, when the general condition has sufficiently recovered so as to
easily allow the patient to manufacture his own antibodies, we may,
after studying his constitution, his temperament, and his symptoms,
make a choice of the most suitable tuberculin, both to complete the
cure and to effect immunization. Is not this method of isopathic
protection the best ?

It is the one that nature herself employs in her spontaneous cures.
We, faithful servants of nature, only imitate and assist her.”

Bovine Tuberculin or tuberculin of animals (cattle)

is prepared in hommopathic attenuations, in London, by Epps and
Nelson.

Moir and Hay think that, in accordance with what they have seen of
its use, the bovine tuberculin gives better results than does the
ordinary human tuberculin.

According to Ord, an occasional dose of bovine tuberculin in the

30th
is undoubtedly useful to those who have been treated by the old method
of frequent doses of ordinary tuberculin, but Ord has never been
successful in completely curing a case by bovine tuberculin only.

Bishop has mentioned the necessity, when the condition remains
stationary, of changing the human tuberculin for the bovine.

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