Footnote:
*The potencies of Fincke and Swan were prepared from a drop of pus
obtained from a pulmonary tubercular abscess or sputa. Those of
Heath from a tuberculous lung in which the bacillus tuberculosis
had been found microscopically; hence the former was called Tuberculinum
and the latter [Bacillinum.] Both preparations are reliable and
effective.
Pus (with bacilli) from tubercular abscess A Nosode.
Adapted to persons of light complexion; blue eyes, blonde in preference
to brunette; tall slim, flat, narrow chest; active and precocious
mentally, weak physically; the tubercular diathesis.
When the family history of tubercular affections the best selected
remedy fails to relieve or permanently improve, without reference
to name of disease.
Symptoms ever changing; ailments affecting one organ, then another
- the lungs, brain, kidneys, liver, stomach, nervous system - beginning
suddenly, ceasing suddenly.
Takes cold easily without knowing how or where; seems to take cold
"every time he takes a breath of fresh air" ( Hep. ).
Emaciation rapid and pronounced; losing flesh while eating well
( Abrot. , Calc. , Con. , Iod. , Nat. ).
Melancholy, despondent; morose, irritable, fretful, peevish; taciturn,
sulky; naturally of a sweet disposition, now on the borderland of
insanity.
Everything in the room seemed strange, as though in a strange place.
Headache: chronic, tubercular; pain intense, sharp, cutting, from
above right eye to occiput; as of an iron hoop round the head (
Anac. , Sulph. ); when the best selected remedy only palliates.
School-girl's headache: < by study or even slight mental exertion;
when using eyes in close work and glasses fail to >; with a tubercular
history.
Acute cerebral or basilar meningitis, with threatened effusion;
nocturnal hallucinations; wakes from sleep frightened, screaming;
when Apis , Hell. , or Sulph. , though well selected, fail to improve.
Crops of small boils, intensely painful, successively appear in
the nose; green, fetid pus ( Sec. ).
Plica polonica; several bad cases permanently cured after Bor.
and Psor. failed.
Diarrhoea: early morning, sudden, imperative ( Sulph. ); emaciating
though eating well ( Iod. , Nat. ); stool dark, brown, watery, offensive;
discharged with great force; great weakness and profuse night sweats.
Menses: too early; too profuse; too long-lasting; tardy in starting;
with frightful dysmenorrhoea; in patients with a tubercular history.
Tubercular deposit begins in apex of lungs, usually the left (
Phos. , Sulph. , Ther. ).
Eczema: tubercular over entire body; itching intense, < at night
when undressing, from bathing; immense quantities of white bran-like
scales; oozing behind the ears, in the hair, in folds of skin with
rawness and soreness; fiery red ski. Ringworm.
Relations. - Complementary: Psor. , Sulph.
When Psor. , Sulph. , or the best selected remedy fails to relieve
or permanently improve; follows Psor. as a constitutional remedy
in hay fever, asthma.
Belladonna , for acute attacks, congestive or inflammatory, occurring
in tubercular diseases.
Hydrastis to fatten patients cured with Tuber.
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