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" I am pleased that my views of the part which the inorganic substances play in nutrition has induced Dr. Schussler to issue this treatise." OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. " This Work, from the pen of the celebrated Dr Schussler of Oldenburg, will attract great attention. Though written for the study of the learned, it is perfectly plain to the lay reader as a book of domestic medicine, and full of interest."—Dundee Courier and Argus. " Dr Schussler must be credited with a great amount of success. A priori it must be admitted that he has laid down a scientific basis for his treatment of disease which is well worthy the attention not only of those who practice by rule of thumb, but of the adherents of recognised systems of Therapeutics."— Aberdeen Journal. " For this tissue-remedy side light on our pharmacology we shall be ever grateful to Dr Schussler. Many a good cure have we wrought with the aid of these remedies."—H. World. " That much may be done for the simplification of Therapeutics on the lines which Dr Schussler lays down, can hardly be doubted; and perhaps the principal value of his work is, that it is a contribution to the attainment of that end."—Scotsman. " The author employs a novel method of treating disease. "—Chemist and Druggist. "We must decline, to follow him."—Horrwepathic Review. " That large proportion of mankind who are not practitioners, but merely patients, and who know how defective is still our powers to heal the diseases which afflict us, will welcome every thoughtful suggestion that points towards improvement, -and will demand for Dr Schussler's method a fair trial."— Dundee Advertiser. 0 T^ c \ TREATMENT OF DISEASE BY BIOCHEMIC MEASURES. THE INORGANIC TISSUE CELL SALTS, OR NATURAL CONSTITUENTS OF THE HUMAN BODY, AS REMEDIAL AGENTS. ABRIDGED THERAPEUTICS FOUNDED UPON HISTOLOGY & CELLULAR PATHOLOGY WITH AN APPENDIX: SPECIAL INDICATIONS FOR THE APPLICATION OF THE INORGANIC TISSUE-FORMERS By W. H. gjCHUSSLER, DE. MED. ET. CHIR. OLDENBURG. AUTHORISED TRANSLATION By M. DOCETTI WALKER EIGHTH EDITION NEW YORK 1884 SOLD BY GAVIN HOUSTON, 42 BLEECKER ST. NEW YORK. V 8387a. \U4- ni„/so* QsG3^ ,^c.5 By COPYRIGHT 1884, BY ^HENRY R. STILES. PREFACE TO THE EIGHTH EDITION. The First Edition, published in 1874, was simply a sketch of the Biochemic system of Cure. Every subsequent one contained some additions. To this, the Eighth Edition, several Indica- tions have been_added. The theoretical part -- —.- .....■«......^ #,.#t,_ of the book has also been remodelled. Dr. SCHUSSLER. Oldenburg, December 1881. A V PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. I present my little work in the Third Edition to the public, after having added several Indica- tions, and having completely re-written it. The First and the Second Editions were so quickly out of print that I may hope the pre- sent one will meet the kindly reception of its predecessors. As every innovation gains by opposition, it is a source of satisfaction to me that some opponents have appeared against my Thera- peutics. The views of these critics the reader will find in the part entitled "Refutation of some Objections." Oldenburg, May 1876. <% TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. With Dr. Schlissler's permission I have under- taken the translation of his method of treating disease by means of triturated Tissue Salts,— Constitutional Tonics, which tend to restore the lost or disturbed proper balance of Cell Salts. Its publication in English will, I hope, make it known to many to whom otherwise it might be unavailable. Biology, Cellular Pathology, Spectrum Analysis, Minute Anatomy, Analytical Chem- istry, and such kindred Sciences, have furnished a field of research to this German physician. Professional skill and science combined, have thus led to the elucidation of this new system of Therapeutics. A General and Therapeutical Index and a Reference Table have been arranged and added by me to the original; the former to give a resume of diseases which are histo-pathologi- cally alike, and require such remedy as is mentioned at the head of each group. M. D. W. Dundee, 1880. ^> INTRODUCTION. Moleschott, Professor of Physiology at the University of Rome, says in his work on " Vital Circulation ": (Kreislauf des Lebens). " The structure and vitality of the organs " depend upon the presence of the necessary " quantities of the inorganic constituents, " On this fact is based the great estimation " in which of late years the subject of the rela- tive proportions of the inorganic substances to " the individual parts of the body has been held. " This estimation neither proudly despises " any fact, nor fosters, on the other hand, futile " hopes ; but promises both to Agriculture and " Medicine a brilliant future. " In the face of such positive facts, it can no "longer be denied that the substances which " remain after incineration or combustion of the "tissues—the ashes—are as important and " essential to the inner composition, and conse- 12 INTRODUCTION. " quently to the 'form-giving' and 'kind-deter- " mining' basis of the tissues, as those substances " which are volatilized during combustion. " A glue-furnishing base and bone-earth are " essential constituents of bone. Without " either there can be no true bone ; so also " there can be no cartilage without cartilage- " salt; nor blood without iron; nor saliva " without Potassium chloride. " Of earth and air man is made. The activity " of the vegetable kingdom called him into life; " and in death he returns to air and ashes, that " plant-life may in new forms develop new " powers." These words of Moleschott induced me to make a study of the physiologico-chemical effects of the inorganic substances of the human organism. In consequence of this study, begun nine years ago, there arose a system of what may be called Bio-chemic Therapeutics ; a system founded on well-ascertained facts concerning the Chemistry of the Tissues. "THE CONSTITUENT PARTS OF THE HUMAN ORGANISM." Blood consists of ivater, sugar, fat, albuminous substances, besides common salt, Potassium chloride, Calcium fluoride, Silica, Iron,1 Lime, Magnesia, Soda, and Potash; the latter are combined with either Phosphoric acid or Carbonic acid. In the blood-plasma the Sodium salts pre- dominate, and in the blood-corpuscles the Potash salts. Sugar, fat, and the albuminous substances, are the so-called organic components ; water and the above-named salts are the inorganic components of the blood. Sugar and fat are composed of carbon, hydro- gen, and oxygen. Albumen consists of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulphur. The blood contains the material for all the 1 Manganese is not always present; therefore, as far as concerns cell-formation, it may be considered an insignificant constituent of the blood. 14 FORMATION OF TISSUE-CELLS. tissues of the body. By means of the capillaries (channels delicate as hairs) the arteries are con- nected with the veins. Through the walls of the capillaries a portion of the blood-liquid trans- udes continually into the surrounding tissues (transosmose). In the transuded liquid arise little granules : and these unite to form germs from which cells are developed. These cells unite, and thus tissues arise,—muscles and ten- dons, cartilage and bone, brain and nerves, connective-tissue, skin, hair, and nails,—in short, every part of the organism. In the formation of the tissue-cells the salts absolutely determine the kind of cell. The organic substances form the basis of the cells. The inorganic substances of nerve and brain cells are: Magnesium phosphate, Potassium phos- phate, Sodium, and Iron. The same salts, along with Potassium chloride, are met with in muscle- cells. Again, the specific substance of the connective-tissue cells is Silica; and of the elastic cells Calcium fluoride. Of these salts Magnesium phosphate, Potassium phosphate, and Calcium fluoride are contained in the bones. The bone cells are distinguished by the prepon- derance in their constitution of Phosphate of" FORMATION OF TISSUE-CELLS. 15- Lime; but it is also found in minute quantities in muscle, nerve, brain, and connective-tissue cells. Common salt (Sodium chloride), which occurs in all solid and fluid parts of the organism, is the specific inorganic constituent of cartilage and mucus-cells. The hairs and the crystalline lens contain also iron amongst other inorganic substances. The Carbonates, according to Moleschott,. are of no importance in cell formation. The oxygen of the air, after being inhaled, enters the blood and the tissues, causing a transformation of those organic substances which are necessary for the composition of the new cells. The products of the metamorphosis are : muscle substance, nerve substance, con- nective-tissue substance (glue-furnishing sub- stance^ and, lastly, mucus substance. Each of these substances is the basis of a particular group of cells; muscle substance forms the basis of muscle cells, nerve substance of nerve cells, and so on. With these substances the above-mentioned special cell-salts unite by means of their chemical affinity, and thus new cells are formed. 16 PRODUCTION OF ACIDS. While the formation of new cells is going on, the old cells are being destroyed by the action of oxygen. The organic substances which form the bases of these cells undergo a process of oxidation or combustion. In consequence of this process, the cells themselves are destroyed. Through the combustion of the organic sub- stances arise: Urea, Uric acid, Sulphuric acid, Phosphoric acid, Lactic acid, Carbonic acid, and water. There are, doubtless, several intermediate grades, as, for instance, uric oxide, acetic acid, butyric acid, etc., but with these we are not concerned in this system of Thera- peutics. Urea, uric acid, and sulphuric acid, are produced by the oxidation of the albuminous substances. Phosphoric acid is produced by the combustion of the so-called yolk-fat (Dotterfett), which contains phosphorus. Yolk-fat is found in the nerves, brain, spinal chord, and blood corpuscles. Sugar turns into lactic acid, and the lactic acid in its turn is decomposed into carbonic acid and water. Sulphuric and phosphoric acids unite with the bases of the carbonates, and carbonic acid is FUNCTION OF TISSUE-SALTS. IT given off. In this way sulphates and phosphates- are produced. Uric acid unites with sodium, and becomes sodium urate, which, being of no use in the economy of the body, has to be eliminated. When this salt accumulates about the joints. it gives rise to gout. The Sodium sulphate effects the elimination of water arising from the oxidation of the organic substances of the body. Sodium sulphate (Glaubersalt) and Sodium chloride, or common salt, act in opposite ways. Whilst the Sodium sidphate effects the elimina- tion from the tissues of the water above referred to, Sodium chloride, on the other hand, enters. with water, etc., from the plasma (blood liquid)' into the tissues. This latter process takes place so that each tissue may receive its requisite amount of moisture. By the presence of the Sodium phosphate the lactic acid is decomposed into carbonic acid and water. This salt has the power of holding carbonic acid in combination, in the proportion of two parts of carbonic acid to one of phos- phoric acid. It also carries the carbonic acidr which it has absorbed, to the lungs. Here it i& 18 FINAL METAMORPHOSIS. acted upon by the inhaled oxygen, and the carbonic acid, being only loosely held by the Sodium phosphate, is set free. The carbonic acid is then exhaled, and exchanged for oxygen. The final products of the combustion of the organic substances are : urea, carbonic acid, and water. These products leave the tissues along with the salts which have been set free, giving place to those organic substances which have not yet reached so high a degree of oxidation to allow these also to undergo the final metamor- phosis. The products of this Retrograde Metamor- phosis are removed from the system by means of the lymphatics, the connective-tissue, and the veins. They are carried to the gall-bladder, to the lungs, to the kidneys, the bladder, and the skin, and are eliminated from the organism together with the urine, perspiration, faeces, etc. Concerning the important function of con- nective-tissue (connective substance) Moleschott thus expresses himself:—"It is one of the " grandest conquests of modern times, to which " Virchow and Von Recklinghausen have paved "the way, that this connective-substance has ■" been elevated from the indifferent and second- FUNCTION OF CONNECTIVE-TISSUE. 19 " ary position formerly allotted to it, to one of " fertile activity hitherto unsuspected. That " which was formerly considered simply as a " filling-in, or protecting covering, now appears " as the bed [nidus] of the most minute sap- " streamlets of blood to the tissues, and from " them back to the blood-vessels; and, at " the same time, as one of the most important " breeding-spots of young cells, which are cap- " able of rising out of the undeveloped youthful " forms into the most characteristic formations " of the body." An individual is in a state of health when the formation of new cells, and the destruction of the old ones, as well as the removal of useless substances, proceed normally ; when the blood receives from the food, by the process of digest- ion, compensation for the losses which it sus- tains by the giving off of nutriment to the tissues, and in the tissues the nutriment is sup- plied in the required quantities, and in the proper places, and when no disturbance takes place in the movement of the molecules. A disturbance in the molecular movements of any of the inorganic salts of a tissue produces a dis- ease. For the healing or cure of such, the 20 VALUE OF MINUTE DOSES. smallest dose of the identical inorganic substance suffices, because the molecules of that substance, administered as medicine, fill up the gap in the chain of molecules of that particular cell or tissue salt. The value of minute doses may be seen from the following words of Professor Valentin, the well-known Physiologist :— " Nature works " everywhere with immense numbers of in- " finitely small magnitudes of homogenous " structure or otherwise, which can only be " perceived by our comparatively dull organs of " sense when presented to them in finite " masses. The smallest image which our " eye can perceive is produced by millions of " waves of light. A grain of salt which we can " scarcely taste contains millions of groups of I " atoms which no human eye will ever discern." By means of Spectrum analysis, minute par- ticles can be distinguished, which may be com- pared in magnitude to molecules of my sixth or seventh centesimal saccharated trituration. Professors Kirchhof and Bunsen1 took three milligrammes of saccharated Sodium chloride, 1 Kirchhoff and Bunsen's Memoir of Analysis by Spectrum Obser- I vations.—Philosophical Magazine, vol. xx. PRIMARY CAUSE OF DISEASES. 21 which was blown into the air of a room con- taining sixty cubic metres of air. In a few minutes Sodium lines appeared in a flame stand- ing at a considerable distance, which could be distinguished by the unaided eye. The organic substances and the inorganic salts which are taken into the body as food must correspond in quantity to the waste or change of substance ; but when administered medicinally, only the smallest doses of these salts are requisite. For instance, common salt must be put into food in large or ponderable quantities ; but for the cure of certain definite diseases which have arisen notwithstanding the daily use of food seasoned with salt, it must be taken only in minute doses. How can such a cure be explained ? The case is in all probability thus : Through irrita- tion, over stimulation, a certain tissue has lost its molecules of common salt. In consequence of this, that portion of tissue is so changed that it is no longer able to absorb out of the plasma new molecules of salt. The requisite molecules must, therefore, be introduced by some other means. The molecules of a minimum dose of com- B 22 THE SYMPATHETIC-NERVE SHEATHS. mon salt,1 given as medicine, reach the neuri- lemma (nerve-sheaths) of those branches of the Sympathetic which ramify through the mucous membrane of the mouth and the upper part of the throat. In this way they proceed to the nearest ganglia (nerve-centres), and from there they pass by the same path, i.e., the ducts of the connective-tissue sheaths of other branches of the Sympathetic, into the diseased tissue. The molecules of a minimum (minutest) dose of common salt thus reach their destination by a route different from that through the stomach, intestines, and blood-vessels. The same mode of locomotion naturally applies also to the molecules of the other cell salts which are given for curative purposes. When the said portion of tissue has acquired its former healthy condition through this supply 1 Spectrum Analysis has opened a new field of truth, showing matter to be capable of division to an extent of which we could form no comprehension. While speaking of the action of molecules of a minimum dose, a statement by Darwin is subjoined, referring to much more minute quantities than those used by Dr. Schussler. He says in his work on Insectivorous Plants :—" It is an astonishing fact, on which I will not here enlarge, that so inconceivably minute a quantity as one 20,000,000th of a grain of ammonia phosphate should induce some changes in a gland, sufficient to cause a motor impulse to be sent down the whole length of the tentacle ; this impulse exciting movements through an angle of above 180°." HEALTH: MOLECULAR VITALITY. 23 of molecules, it possesses again the capability of absorbing from the plasma particles of common salt, or any other cell salt. The presence of a dose of common salt, iinattenuated, can be perceived by the nerves of taste (Glossopharyngeus and lingualis). To produce this, it is only necessary that the ends of these nerves be touched by the common salt. It is, however, questionable if the salt in a crude, non-attenuated condition can enter, or can be taken up by the ducts of the neurilemma which envelop the branches of the Sympathetic. It seems probable that these narrow canals can only take up the delicately fine attenuated molecules of Sodium Chloride and the other tissue salts, when set free by a special process of trituration. 24 PROFESSOR HUXLEY'S ADDRESS. It may not be out of place here to quote some words ol Professor Huxley on " Cellular Pathology," from his Address at the International Medical Congress, London, 1881. PROFESSOR HUXLEY ON THE CONNECTION OF THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES WITH MEDICINE. (Extracts from the Address.) " I trust I have not been mistaken in supposing that an attempt to give a brief sketch of the steps by which a philosophical necessity has become a historical reality may not be devoid of interest, possibly of instruction, to the members of this great Congress, profoundly interested as all are in the scientific development of medicine. " The greatest physiological and pathological work of the seventeenth century, Borelli's treatise "De motu animaluim," is, to all intents and purposes, a development of Descartes' fundamental conception ; and the same may be said of the physiology and pathology of Boerhaave,1 whose authority dominated in the medical world of the first half of the eighteenth century. " With the origin of modern chemistry, and of electrical science, in the latter half of the eighteenth century, aids in the analysis of the phenomena of life, of which Descartes could not have dreamed, were offered to the physiologist. And the greater part of the gigantic progress which has been made in the present century is a justification of the prevision 1 Whose lineal descendant is Professor Moleschott, author of " Kreislauf des Lebens," Senator of Rome. TISSUES AND THEIR DISTINCT DISEASES. 25 of Descartes. For it consists, especially, in a more and more complete resolution of the grosser organs of the living body into physico-chemical mechanisms. * * ' To apply the physical sciences to physiology is to explain the phenomena of living bodies by the laws of inert bodies.' * * * It is not too much to say that one half of a modern text- book of physiology consists of applied physics and chemistry; and that it is exactly in the exploration of the phenomena of sensibility and contractility that physics and chemistry have exerted the most potent influence. * * ' All animals,' says Bichat, ' are assemblages of different organs, each of which performs its functions and concurs, after its fashion, in the preservation of the whole. They are so many special machines in the general machine which constitutes the individual. But each of these special machines is itself com- pounded of many tissues of very different natures, which in truth constitute the elements of those organs.'1 (I.e. lxxix.) * The conception of a proper vitality is applicable only to these simple tissues, and not to the organs themselves.' (I.e. lxxxiv.) " And Bichat proceeds to make the obvious application -of this doctrine of synthetic life, if I may so call it, to patho- logy. Since diseases are only alterations of vital properties, and the properties of each tissue are distinct from those of the rest, it is evident that the diseases of each tissue must be different from those of the rest. Therefore, in any organ composed of different tissues, one may be diseased and the other remain healthy; and this is what happens in most cases. (I.e. lxxxv.) * * In a spirit of true prophecy, Bichat says, ' we have arrived at an epoch, in which patho- logical anatomy should start afresh.' For as the analysis 1 Anatomie Ggn&ale. 26 DISEASE: DISTURBED CELL-LIFE. of the organs had led him to the tissues as the physio- logical units of the organism; so, in a succeeding generation, the analysis of the tissues led to the cell as the physiological element of the tissues. * * * * In fact, the body is a machine of the nature of an army, not of that of a watch, or of a hydraulic apparatus. Of this army, each cell is a soldier, an organ a brigade, the central nervous system head-quarters and field telegraph, the ali- mentary and circulatory system the commissariat. Losses are made good by recruits born in camp, and the life of the individual is a campaign, conducted successfully for a number of years, but with certain defeat in the long run. * * * Hence the establishment of the cell theory, in normal biology, was swiftly followed by a 'cellular pathology,' as its logical counterpart. I need not remind you how great an instrument of investigation this doctrine has proved in the hands of the man of genius,1 to whom its develop- ment is due. * • * Henceforward, as it appears to me, the connection of medicine with the biological sciences is clearly defined. Pure pathology is that branch of biology which defines the particular perturbation of cell life, or of the co-ordinating machinery, or of both, on which the phenomena of disease depend. * * * Those who are conversant with the present state of biology will hardly hesitate to admit that the conception of the life of one of the higher animals as the summation of the lives of a cell aggregate, brought into harmonious action by a co-ordinative machinery formed by some of these cells, constitutes a per- manent acquisition of physiological science. * * * There are some * * who look, with as little favour 1 Virchow. COMPETENT THERAPEUTICS TO BE SOUGHT. 27 as Bichat did, upon any attempt to apply the principles and the methods of physics and chemistry to the investigation of the vital processes of growth, metabolism, and contractility : they stand upon the ancient ways. " Others, on the contrary, supported by a robust faith in the universal applicability of the principles laid down by Descartes, and seeing that the actions called " vital" are, so far as we have any means of knowing, nothing but changes of place of particles of matter, look to molecular physics to achieve the analysis of the living protoplasm itself into a molecular mechanism. If there is any truth in the received doctrines of physics, that contrast between living and inert matter, on which Bichat lays so much stress, does not exist. In nature, nothing is at rest, nothing is amorphous; the simplest particle of that which men in their blindness are pleased to call " brute matter " is a vast aggregate of mole- cular mechanisms, performing complicated movements of immense rapidity and sensitively adjusting themselves to every change in the surrounding world. * * * •* Living matter differs from other matter in degree and not in kind ; the microcosm repeats the macrocosm ; and one chain of causation connects the nebulous original of suns and planetary systems with the protoplasmic foundation of life and organisation. " From this point of view, pathology is the analogue of the theory of perturbations in astronomy ; and therapeutics re- solves itself into the discovery of the means by which a system of forces competent to eliminate any given perturba- tion may be introduced into the economy. And, as pathology bases itself upon normal physiology, so therapeutics rests upon pharmacology ; which is, strictly speaking, a parfc of 28 MOLECULAR MECHANISMS: THERAPEUTICS. the great biological topic of the influence of conditions on the living organism and has no scientific foundation apart from physiology. * * * * It will, in short, become possible to introduce into the economy a molecular mechan- ism which, like a very cunningly contrived torpedo, shall find its way to some particular group of living elements, and cause an explosion [i.e., absorption and molecular motion] among them, leaving the rest untouched. " The search for the explanation of diseased states in modi- fied cell life; the discovery of the important part played by parasitic organisms in the aetiology of disease ; the elucidation of the action of medicaments by the methods and the data of experimental physiology ; appear to me to be the greatest steps which have ever been made towards the establishment of medicine on a scientific basis. I need hardly say they could not have been made except for the advance of normal biology." The most famous scientist in this country advances sug- gestions arrived at from his point of view, as is seen by the above, which are in singular agreement with Dr. Schussler's views and experiences on the subject of scientific medicine. Biology shows Biochemistry to be a science. The practical counterpart of the abstract science of Cellular Pathology is formed by " Cellular Therapeutics," or the system of intro- ducing molecular cell-salts. The one, indeed, is the fore- runner of the other; the former science investigating the morbid states of tissue-cells ; the latter, a system by which the natural action or force—fixed by a law of chemical affinity—of any of the inorganic constituents is system- THEORY AND PRACTICE. 29 atically employed to eliminate any given disease or perturb- ation from any of the tissue cells by means of molecules of special adequate magnitude, these setting up molecular motion and equilibrium of balance in the economy of the cells. But only the non-functional tissue cells are acted upon, leaving the rest untouched! In health restored, the physiological laws are suffered to resume their normal course. Law is law, and in Nature unalterable. If man is not the casual production or conjunction of atoms, one may not pass by this wondrous phenomenon which he presents, without acknowledging that this finely wrought composition of organic and inorganic atoms is regulated by a universal law, the teachings of which are far-reaching. By them we arrive by induction at the grand science of " Cellular Therapeutics." Biochemic treatment is the outcome of the teachings of Biology and those sciences which of late years have disclosed Nature's ways and footsteps, by aid of the microscope and spectroscope. Let every medical man, every student, test this law, and ■conscientiously apply the molecular tissue cell-salts under given abnormal conditions as indicated, and he will not fail to attain good results. The action by chemical affinity of these triturated molecules of cell salts is certain, because fixed by that law. Close observation of little things is the secret of true science. None who watch the wonderful results in Nature from infinitely minute causes will doubt the power of little things. Little bits of experiences gathered up carefully and arranged systematically make up the store of our knowledge. Surely those scientists who do not hail so great an advent as the opening up of " Cellular Therapeutics," truly scien- 30 CELLULAR OR COMPETENT THERAPEUTICS. tific medicine, do not comprehend the deep meaning of their own teachings in this direction, the possibility and rationale of a defined general Law of Cure on these lines. Under the advance of Histology, Analytical Chemistry, Cellular Patho- logy, etc., it has become possible to group the tissues by their special constitution of definite organic and inorganic substances. Consequently, to apply to each kind of tissue its own general, definite, and peculiar cell-salt, according to its requirements in disease. The promoters of the sister sciences of medicine have made it possible for the physician in future to depend on the method of operation of his medicines in the living organism, when these are skilfully selected and scientifically applied. By the distinctive symptoms he is guided in his choice of the particular cell salts required—the immense varieties and complications of morbid states, offering vast scope for exact medical practice, wherewith to build up the great pyramid of scientific medicine of this advanced era. The Biochemic treatment of disease must not be con- founded with Homoeopathy, where the whole system rests on a mystic law of " Similia " and symptomatology, where true pathology has no place, and the exact action of the remedy is a mystery, though some would fain try to cloak Homoeo- pathy with this mantle of scientific medicine. Dr. Schussler is not a Homoeopath. His new discovery of remedies owes its development, in the first instance, to Biology and its Cell- theory ; and in the second, to Cellular Pathology, of which the necessary and natural counterparts are Cellular Thera- peutics or Biochemic Treatment of Disease. The Tbanslator. REFUTATION OF SOME OBJECTIONS. 31 Befutation of Some Objections. Different objections have been urged by phy- sicians, who have arraigned my Abbreviated System of Therapeutics before the bar of their judgment, and which I now take occasion to refute. The late Dr. Constantine Hering, of Phila- delphia, who informed the American medical profession of the tenor of my therapeutical system in a pamphlet entitled " The Twelve Tissue Remedies," is of the opinion that I should also have embraced carbon and nitrogen among my therapeutical agents. It is, however, well known that neither carbon alone, nor nitrogen alone, enter into the composition of tissue-cells. Carbon and nitrogen are integral parts of the organic substances which form the organic basis of cells. The organic substances are only in- fluenced by inhaled oxygen, and by the inorganic salts. Nitrogen and carbon, therefore, remain useless as therapeutical agents. If, in the animal organism, nitrogen should, or could, be wanting, then albuminous substances 32 REFUTATION OF SOME OBJECTIONS. would be wanting, of which nitrogen is an integ- ral part. Albuminous substances can only be introduced into the body by means of food. Dr. Hering, also, misses the organic acids in my system of therapeutics. How the organic acids, lactic acid and uric acid, are produced, is already noticed under the heading of "Pro- duction of Acids," page 16.—No agricultural chemist would think of giving to a sickly vine the organic acids of the grape, because he knows that an inorganic salt (Potassium carbonate) will be the proper remedy. Only indistinct conceptions of the chemico- physiological processes of the animal organism could have induced Dr. H. to raise such objec- tions. Dr. H. further insists that spectroscopic analysis would, in course of time, discover seve- ral other as yet unknown substances in the tis- sues of the human body, which would have to be incorporated among the factors of the tissue- therapeutics. This assertion would seem as intended, in fact, to render the completeness of my therapeutics unattainable for a long time to come. If, indeed, spectrum analysis could yet dis- REFUTATION OF SOME OBJECTIONS. 33 cover substances which do contribute to the formation of tissues, such substances would of course have to be incorporated among the agents of the tissue-therapeutics. The inorganic cell-salts already known are, however, able to perform, directly or indirectly, all the functions of the organism. Another critic insists that there cannot be a strictly defined system of therapeutics applicable to all parts of the world, since each quarter of the globe had its peculiar diseases. To this I must reply that it is not a question of medical nomenclature; but rather that, in a system of tissue-therapeutics, it is only tissues and their functional disturbances which are to be taken into consideration. If an Ethiopian has muscles, he certainly has Potassium chloride, Magnesium phosphate, and Iron in them. A disturbance of the molecules of Magnesium phosphate in the muscles of an Ethiopian will produce the same phenomena as in those of a European. The same critic thinks that all diseases might be cured with oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen, better than with my proposed twelve inorganic tissue-salts. These four elements may, 34 REFUTATION OF SOME OBJECTIONS. perhaps, suffice in the hands of a necromancer, but they would certainly leave a physician in the lurch. A third opponent, Dr. von Grauvogel of Munich, has been so warped by his persecuting zeal as to fail to notice the contradictions in which he is involved by his own statements. He says, that, with local pathology and local therapeutics, no lasting good is accomplished; that disease is not confined to any one part of the organism, but that the whole organism is, in fact, the disease. Even tumours, apparently isolated, could thus be understood. So he speaks, and, in spite of it, treats chondroma with silica, because this substance is contained in the bones. This, surely, is local therapeutics, It cannot be doubted, however, according to my way of thinking, that local therapeutics are correct. If one has dissipated irritation-hypersemia by its appropriate remedy, the symptoms dependent upon it—pain, fever, general malaise—have dis- appeared. If, in consequence of an irritation- hypersemia, an exudation has taken place, again local treatment is required in order to get rid of the exudation, and, after its removal, the second- ary symptoms cease. REFUTATION OF SOME OBJECTIONS. 35 If, as Dr. von G. asserts, the whole organism is the disease, then death must, of necessity, be the result of every illness. On page 38 of his book, speaking of the Law of Similars, he says, "From these propositions it follows that the curability or incurability of disease does not shape its course according to its intensity merely; but principally according to the quality, quantity, and relation of the remaining healthy parts." If, according to Dr. von G., the whole organism is the disease, how can there be any talk of " remaining healthy parts ?" Dr. von G. further says that, according to Gorup Besanez, the physiological localities of the chemical constituents of the body were, on the whole, yet unknown, therefore a physiological principle could not be perfected. If Dr. von G. shares the views of Besanez, what then induces him to adopt his expression, " relation of Silica to the bones," and consequently to use Silica as a remedy in chondroma and rachitis ? " All means of nourishment are also means of function," says Dr. von G. Soon after he thus expresses himself: " Therefore, one can speak of substances as means of function, only so far as they are not constituent parts of the body." 36 REFUTATION OF SOME OBJECTIONS. How does that harmonise ? Dr. von G.'s hobby-horse, "Logic," seems to be not so well ridden by him as he himself believes. That all inorganic means of nutrition are, at the same time means of function, is a proposition which I endorse. It never occurred to me to undertake for practical purposes a definite divi- sion of the cell-salts into means of function and of building material. I call them building material, in so far as they occupy a place in the organic basis of the cells; and means of function, in respect of their chemico-physio- logical action. Dr. von G. says, "Schussler demands that facts should shape themselves according to his theories." Not at all, honoured sir ! My thera- peutical system has arisen between theory and practice, constantly and mutually controlling and correcting each other. Not I, but Dr. von G., demands that facts should shape themselves according to his ideas. To cure chancre he uses Glauber's salt, but the disease steadily resists. This, at least is averred by pyhsicians who have made similar experiments. REFUTATION OF SOME OBJECTIONS. 37 Dr. von G., after a long raisonnement about means of adaptation, imbibition, effusion, etc., insists that there can only be a system of mole- cular—not cellular—therapeutics. Despite Dr. von G.'s disquisition, I shall retain the term Cellular Therapeutics, since I consider it as more correct. For instance, you supply iron molecules to the blood-cells needing iron ; you render a service to the respective cells, and such service carried out for the benefit of these cells may, without sole- cism, be termed a system of cellular therapeutics. If one causes, by therapeutical means, iron mole- cules to enter the cells through the molecular interstices of the blood-cell membrane, the service is rendered not to the iron molecules, but to the cells. To dispute whether one should call it a system of cellular—or molecular —therapeutics, is simply a piece of ridiculous pedantry. To the critics who have hitherto arisen against me, I quote the words of Voltaire, in La Pucelle d'Orleans:— " Censeurs savants, je vous estime tous ; Je connais mes defauts mieux que vous." c CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INORGANIC TISSUE-SALTS. Ferric Phosphate. Iron is a constituent of the blood-corpuscles, and of the muscle-cells, etc. When the equili- brium of the iron molecules in the muscular fibres is disturbed, the latter become relaxed. When such a disturbance of proper balance takes place in the circular fibres of the blood-vessels, the vessels enlarge, and a blood-accumulation arises in the vascular parts (capillaries) so affected. When, in consequence of an increased pressure of blood, a rupture of the walls of the blood-vessels ensues, bleeding [haemorrhage] will follow. When the muscles of the intestinal villi [ab- sorbants] suffer a functional disturbance of their iron molecules, loose evacuations will follow. When, in consequence of a molecular distur- bance of the proper balance of the iron the muscular fibres of the intestinal walls become weakened, then the vermicular action of the FERRIC PHOSPHATE. 39 intestines proceeds with less activity, and gives rise to a tendency to constipation. Iron molecules, therapeutically employed, allay the pathological functional disturbance. Whilst iron restores to their normal condition the blood-vessels, enlarged by disease, it dispels the irritation-hypersemia [local excess of blood], which is the cause of the first stage of all inflammations. Hypersemia dependent upon a mechanical injury is cured by iron; and fresh non-sup- purating wounds are quickly healed by this remedy. Iron and the iron salts possess the property of attracting oxygen. In this fact consists their utility to the respective tissue-cells. I use the Ferric phosphate or phosphate of iron. Upon my recommendation several farmers have given Ferric phosphate, with uniform suc- cess, to sows possessed with the mania of eating their own young. This disease (mania transi- toria) arises from hyperemia of the brain. Magnesium Phosphate is the earthy constituent of muscle and nerves. A disturbance of its molecular motion causes 40 MAGNESIUM PHOSPHATE. cramp and pains. As a nerve remedy it has furnished most excellent results. The nerve pains which are healed by Magnesium phosphate are generally of a shooting character, like light- ning ; boring,—often with the sensation of drawing [lacing] tightly together : they readily change their location, and are relieved by warmth and pressure. Headache, face-ache, toothache, epigastric pains (pit of stomach), stomach-ache, and pains in the limbs of this description, I have frequently cured by this remedy. The pains of the stomach [bowels] generally radiate from the umbilicus, and are eased by pressure with the hand, by warmth, or by doubling up, and are sometimes accompanied by loose motions. In face-ache [neuralgic or rheumatic] which at its height is accompanied by an increased flow of tears, Magnesium phosphate is not suitable, but Sodium chloride. The action of Magnesia is the reverse of that of Iron. By functional disturbance of the iron molecules, the muscular fibres relax; through the functional disturbance of the magnesium- molecules they contract. Therefore, Magnesium phosphate is the remedy for all cramps : spasms POTASSIUM PHOSPHATE. 41 of the glottis, cramps of the legs, tetanus, lock- jaw, St. Vitus's dance, epilepsy, spasmodic ischury [stoppage of urine], etc. Farmers give Magnesium phosphate, with very prompt results, for spasms and flatulent colic in horses, and for the acute [tympanitic] swellings of cattle, arising from unsuitable fodder. The inflammatory colic of horses requires Ferric phosphate; and if mortification commence, Potassium phosphate. Potassium Phosphate, is a constituent of the brain, the nerves, the muscles, and the blood-corpuscles. A disturb- ance in the function of the molecules of this salt causes (A) In the brain—according to locality, exten- sion, or intensity of disturbance, (a) Mental depression, manifesting itself by irritability [vexation]; over-sen- sitiveness ; tendency to weeping readily; timidity, shyness, terror. (B) Softening of the brain, (a) In the nerves, laming pains, mostly felt during rest; better from move- ment without exertion. 42 CALCIUM PHOSPHATE. Feeling of lassitude and exhaustion. (b) In the muscle-cells, fatty metamor- phosis. In the myosine, or mus- cular juice, putrid decomposition. (c) In the blood-corpuscles, too rapid decay of the same. Therefore, Potassium phosphate cures the following diseased conditions :—septic, scorbu- tic bleedings, mortification, encephaloid cancer, gangrenous croup, phagadenic chancre, putrid - smelling diarrhoea, adynamic, typhoid condi- tions, etc. It will also be found useful in concussion of the brain, symptoms of collapse, and shocks of paralysis. Calcium Phosphate. is a constituent of the teeth, the bones, the con- nective-tissues, and the blood-corpuscles. It is the specific remedy for rachitis (rickets), cranial tabes (wasting of the cranial bone), pallor, anae- mia (bloodlessness), and chlorosis. It also assists teething and the callus formation of frac- tured bones, and is moreover the remedy for hydrocephalus. It also cures those pains arising from anaemia, SODIUM CHLORIDE. 43 which are usually accompanied by a creeping sensation and a feeling of numbness or coldness. Those cramps (epilepsy, etc.) which attack scrofulous persons are not always curable by Magnesium Phosphate, in which case Calcium phosphate is to be used. Calcium phosphate is a restorative after acute disease. Sodium Chloride is a constituent of all liquid and solid parts of the body. A disturbance in the motion of the molecules of this salt causes a change in the watery contents of such tissues; a change which exhibits itself in a decrease of secretions in the one case, or increase in the other.1 Sodium chloride cures headache, toothache, face-ache (neuralgic or rheumatic); Pains of indigestion, if either flow of saliva or increased secretion of tears, vomiting of water or mucus accompany it; further, catarrhs of all the mu- cus membranes, with secretion of transparent, 1 Example : Increased secretions of the mucus lining of the digestive organ, with co-existing decrease of secretions of the mucus lining of the intestines ; consequently, indigestion, pains, and vomit- ing of mucus, with co-existing constipation. 44 POTASSIUM CHLORIDE. frothy, watery mucus ; as also watery blisters, which burst and leave thin crusts. The vomiting of water, as well as the in- creased watery contents of the brain in acute diseases, such as typhus, scarlet fever, small-pox —showing itself in torpor (drowsiness); twitch- ings, jerkings of the limbs, etc.—are all caused by a functional disturbance of the molecules of this salt. Potassium Chloride or muscle-salt stands in chemical relation to fibrin. A disturbance of molecular motion of this salt can produce a fibrinous exudation. Potassium chloride, therefore, corresponds to croupous and diphtheritic exudations. It cures Dysentery, summer Diarrhoea, Diphtheria, membranous Croup, croupous Inflammation of the lungs, fibrinous exudation in the interstitial connective-tissues {i.e. Mastitis), acute infiltra- tion of the lymphatic glands, infiltrated inflam- mation of the skin, with or without vesicles (i.e. blistering Erysipelas), etc. Potassium chloride is the surest remedy for many diseases, especially of Eczema, which has been developed after vaccination with bad vaccine matter. CALCIUM FLUORIDE. 45 Calcium Fluoride is to be found in the surface of the bones and in the enamel of the teeth. On the grounds of therapeutical experiences, I assume that it is also a constituent of the elastic fibres, and that the proper function of these is promoted by this salt. Elastic fibres are found in the epidermis (skin), in the connective-tissue, and in vascular walls. A disturbance of the equilibrium of the mole- cules of Calcium fluoride causes a continued or chronically relaxed condition of the implicated fibres. If the elastic fibres of any portion of the vessels of the connective-tissue or of the lymphatic system have arrived at such a condi- tion of relaxation, the absorption of a solid exudation in such a part cannot take place. In consequence, induration (hardening) of the parts sets in. When the elastic fibres of the blood-vessels suffer a disturbance of the mole- cules of Calcium fluoride, such pathological enlargements of blood-vessels take place, which make their appearances as : haemorrhoidal tum- ours, varicose (dilated) veins, and vascular tumours. 46 SODIUM PHOSPHATE. Silica is a component part of the connective-tissue, the epidermis, the hair, and the nails. The effect attributed to it upon brain, spinal marrow, and nerves, must be referred to the connective-tissue covering of the nerve fibres. A functional disturbance of Silica molecules causes a swelling of the affected portion of connective-tissue cells. This swelling may remain stationary for some time, and then end in resolution, or suppuration. Whitlow, furuncles, suppurations of glands and joints, deep-seated suppurations of cornea, etc., all fall within the sphere of Silica. Silica cures also suppurations which have their origin in the Periosteum or connective- tissue membrane covering the bones. Sodium Phosphate, Through the presence of Sodium phosphate, lactic acid is decomposed into carbonic acid and water. The Sodium phosphate fixes or absorbs the carbonic acid and carries it to the lungs. Therefore, it is the remedy of those diseases which arise from an excess of lactic acid (per- taining to milk). It is specially suited to the SODIUM SULPHATE. 47 troubles of young children who have been fed with too much sugar and milk, and suffer from acidity. The symptoms which indicate the use of Sodium phosphate are : Acid risings—vomiting of sour fluids or curdled masses; greenish Diarrhoea;—pains in the bowels, cramp, fever, with symptoms of acidity ; Conjuntivitis, when the discharge is yellow gold-coloured, and thick like cream.—A coating of the tongue which is moist and of a deep yellow gold colour; similar coating on the palate and tonsils, etc. Sodium Phosphate promises to be the remedy for polyuria. Sugar turns into lactic acid, and it is resolved into carbonic acid and water by the presence of the above salt. The quantity of lactic acid present being reduced by Sodium phosphate, room is made for the formation of new lactic acid from the sugar. The quantity of sugar is, consequently, reduced to its normal propor- tion by the Sodium phosphate. Sodium Sulphate. The use of Sodium sulphate (Glaubersalt) is indicated in the following conditions of disease : Gastric bilious conditions—vomiting of bile ; 48 POTASSIUM SULPHATE. watery bilious diarrhoea; bitter taste in the mouth. Bilious fever ; intermittent fever with retching and ejection of bile ; oedematous in- flammation of the skin; smooth erysipelas; humid skin eruptions; and so on. Potassium Sulphate and Calcium Sulphate. The indications for the use of these two cell- salts will be found in the following chapter: special Guide in diseases. The question whether this or that disease is or is not dependent on the existence of fungi is of no importance in biochemic treatment. If the remedies in the following special Guide are used, the therapeutical aim, that of curing disease, will be gained in the shortest way. Long-standing chronic diseases, which have been brought on by overdosing, excessive use of medicines, as : Quinine, mercury, etc., can be cured by minute doses of cell-salts. The symptoms decide the remedy. But although the above-named diseases, caused by the abuse of medicines, can be cured by taking cell-salts, it is self-evident that acute cases of poisoning by arsenic, phosphorus, etc., CALCIUM SULPHATE. 49 must be treated according to the well known principles relating to such conditions. The inorganic substances present in the blood and tissues are sufficient to heal all diseases which are curable at all. SPECIAL GUIDE: When and How to use the Inorganic Tissue-formers. Generally, I make use of the sixth centesimal trituration, of which I give a dose every two hours in acute diseases ; in chronic cases two or three times daily, a dose the size of a pea. In external injuries I apply the remedies also externally, in the proportion of a quantity as large as a pea, in a glass of water. All Febrile and Inflammatory Conditions. Ferric phosphate must be given in all diseases, when accompanied by heat and fever, in alterna- tion with such special medicine as the other symptoms of the disease may require. Croup. First give Ferric phosphate in alternation with Potassium chloride. If these two remedies PLEURISY. 51 do not suffice, give Calcium phosphate and Cal- cium fluoride, also time about. Inflammation of the Lungs. Ferric phosphate and Potassium chloride are sufficient to cover most cases. When a moist rale or wheezing of loose frothy rattling phlegm is heard, and the patient is almost unable to cough up the great quantity of mucus, Potassium sulphate or Sodium chloride are required. The nature and colour of the expectoration will decide the choice. Bronchitis. In Bronchitis or inflammation of the bronchial tubes or windpipe (chronic or acute), the same remedies apply, as in inflammation of the lungs. Peritonitis, Pleurisy, Meningitis, and Pericarditis. The more abundant the perspiration which follows Ferric phosphate given during the first stage of these diseases, the more rapidly Potassium chloride, given as the second remedy, will put an end to the process of disease. Empyema—Calcium sulphate will be required. 52 TYPHOID FEVER. Acute Articular Rheumatism. Rheumatic Fever. Ferric phosphate suits the commencement of the disease, and suffices in most cases, followed by Potassium chloride. After Potassium chloride, Sodium chloride and Potassium sulphate fit in. The latter especi- ally corresponds with the wandering rheumatic pains of the joints. If some remnant of the disease still lingers after the above medication, give Calcium phosphate. Bright's Disease of the Kidney. Sodium chloride and Calcium phosphate are the principal remedies. According to the accompanying symptoms, other functional remedies may also have to be considered. Puerperal (Child-bed) Fever. In this disease Potassium chloride has to be given as chief remedy, then Potassium phosphate. Typhoid, or Enteric Fever. In typhoid the following remedies have to be considered: Ferric phosphate, Potassium chloride, DIPHTHERIA. 53 Sodium chloride, Potassium phosphate, and Cal- cium phosphate. Compare " Typhoid, adynamic symptoms." Typhoid, Adynamic Symptoms. When during an acute disease, accompanied by fever, such as diphtheria, scarlatina, small- pox, and so on, sopor (drowsiness) set in, or there be parched tongue, twitchings, watery vomiting, etc., Sodium chloride will be required. If there be sordes, a brown dirty-looking deposit on the teeth, putrid-smelling stools, septic bleedings, Potassium phosphate must be given. Diphtheria. Ferric phosphate subdues the fever, Potassium chloride the exudation, or deposit in the throat. If the face becomes pale and puffy, dryness of tongue set in, vomiting of watery fluids, dribbling of saliva, watery diarrhoea, drowsiness, stertor- ous breathing, etc., Sodium chloride must be given. Potassium phosphate is indicated in decidedly foul gangrenous conditions. D 54 SCARLET FEVER. Should the diphtheritic exudation spread to the trachea, Calcium phosphate should be given in alternation with Calcium fluoride. Summer Diarrhoea and Dysentery. Ferric phosphate and Potassium chloride suffice in most cases. Should delirium, tympanitis supervene, the stools have a putrid odour, then Potassium phosphate suits ; as, also, if there be no symp- toms of decay, but pure blood is passed with the stools. For crampy, abdominal pains, eased by warmth, pressure, and doubling up—Magnesium phosphate. Scarlet Fever. In mild cases Ferric phosphate and Potassium chloride are alone sufficient.—Malignant cases must be treated by reference to remarks under the headings "Diphtheria" and "Typhoid adynamic symptoms." Post-scarlatinal Dropsy is readily cured, ac- cording to the symptoms, by Sodium chloride, Sodium sulphate, and Calcium phosphate. HEAD AND FACE ACHES. 55 Small-pox. Potassium chloride is the principal remedy. If adynamic symptoms arise, and those indi- cating blood decomposition, Potassium phosphate must be given. Salivation, sopor, and confluence of pustules require Sodium chloride. Violent fever and considerable hyperaemia of brain at the beginning of the case may require Ferric phosphate. Measles. Ferric phosphate at first;—later on, such remedies as may be indicated by the eye or cough symptoms. Head and Face Aches [Neuralgic Rheumatic]. Stitches or pressure, or throbbing, aggravated by shaking the head, by stooping, or, in fact, by every movement—Ferric phosphate. Pains, accompanied by flushing and heat of the face—Ferric phosphate. Pains, with vomiting of bile—Sodium sul- phate. Pains, with vomiting of transparent phlegm, mucus, or water—Sodium chloride. 56 PAINS, NEURALGIC OR RHEUMATIC. Pains, with vomiting of food-Ferric phosphate. Pains, with vomiting, hawking of white mucus—Potassium chloride. Pains, vivid, shooting, stitching—intermittent and changing about—Magnesium phosphate. Pains, of pale, sensitive, irritable [excitable] persons—Potassium phosphate. Pains, fits of, with ensuing exhaustion— Potassium phosphate. Pains which are worse in a warm room, and in the evening ; better in the open, cool air— Potassium sulphate. Pains, accompanied by the appearance of small lumps, nodules the size of a pea, upon the scalp—Silica. Pains, with frothy, clear mucus covering the tongue, and torpid bowels—Sodium chloride. Pains, periodic, daily, recurring, with an abundant flow of acrid tears—Sodium chloride, Pains, with a creeping sensation, feeling of coldness or of numbness—Calcium phosphate. Pains, tearing, boring, gnawing; worse at night and from changes of weather—Calcium phosphate. Children's headaches, as a rule, are readily cured with Ferric phosphate. VERTIGO. 57 Comotio Cerebri. Disturbance of Brain Functions. The functional depression of the affected brain-cells requires Potassium phosphate. Hydrocephalic conditions — Calcium phos- phate. Chronic hydrocephalus—Calcium phosphate. Cephalatomata—Calcium fluoride. Cranial tabes—Calcium phosphate. Fontanelles remaining too long open—Cal- cium phosphate. If, in any of these diseases, putrid-smelling stools are present, Potassium phosphate must be given. Delirium Tremens. Most cases are readily cured by Sodium chloride. Should the latter not suffice, give Potassium phosphate. Vertigo (Giddiness), if occasioned by pressure of blood, is cured by Ferric phosphate; nervous vertigo by Potassium phosphate. The coating of the tongue must also be considered, if there is any gastric (stomach) disturbance. 58 TOOTHACHE. Ears. Inflammatory ear-ache requires Ferric phos- phate. Inflammatory swelling of the external meatus —Silica. Discharge of thin yellow fluid from the ear— Potassium sulphate. Discharge of thick yellow matter—Calcium sulphate and Silica. Deafness, caused by swelling and catarrh of the Eustachian tubes and external meatus— Potassium chloride, Potassium sulphate, Sodium chloride, and Silica. Bushing noises in the ears, caused by pressure of blood—Ferric phosphate. Nervous noises in the ear—Potassium phos- phate. Mumps—Potassium chloride; and with abun- dant saliva—Sodium chloride. Should orchitis occur, Sodium chloride must be taken. Toothache. With involuntary flow of tears—Sodium chloride. TOOTHACHE. 59 With abundant flow of sdliv&Sodium chloride. With swelling of the gums and salivation— Potassium chloride. With pains which change about—Magnesium phosphate. With pains in pale, delicate, irritable persons —Potassium phosphate. With easily bleeding gums—Potassium phos- phate. With pains which are located in the root- periosteum of the jaw—Silica. With tearing, boring pains at night, worse from warmth or cold—Calcium phosphate. With pains which are aggravated in the warm room, and in the evening, but better in open, cool air—Potassium sulphate. With pains, accompanied by flushed, heated cheeks—Ferric phosphate. With pains, aggravated by warm, relieved by cold, fluids—Ferric phosphate. With pains, very vivid, made easier by warmth —Magnesium phosphate. With swelling of the cheek [face]—First, Potassium chloride, then Calcium sulphate. With hard swelling of the jaw—Calcium fluoride. AFFECTIONS OF THE EYES. Complaints of Children during Dentition. If fever is present, Ferric phosphate;—cramps with fever, Ferric phosphate ;—cramps without fever, Magnesium phosphate and Calcium phos- phate /—inflammation of the eye, Ferric phos- phate, Calcium phosphate; dribbling [at mouth], Sodium chloride;—spasm of the glottis, Mag- nesium phosphate;—spasmodic cough, Magnesium phosphate;—spasm of the bladder, Magnesium phosphate;—diarrhoea, see heading " Diarrhoea." Eyes. On the eyelids, specks of matter, Potassium chloride; on the eyelids, yellow crusts of matter, Potassium chloride, Potassium sulphate. On the cornea, a blister, Potassium chloride. Flat abscess, of cornea, proceeding from a blister, Potassium chloride. Deep ulcer of the cornea, Silica, Calcium sulphate. Spots on the cornea, Potassium chloride, Calcium phosphate and Calcium fluoride. (Also externally). Secretion of yellow, greenish matter, Potas- sium chloride, Potassium sulphate. Yellow creamy secretions, Sodium phosphate. AFFECTIONS OF THE EYES. 61 White, mucous secretions, Potassium chloride. Light, transparent, mucous secretion, with acrid, smarting tears, Sodium chloride. Yellow mucous matter, Potassium sulphate. Thick, yellow matter, Calcium sulphate, Silica. Great redness, with severe pain, without mucus or matter, Ferric phosphate. Pains in the eye, commencing daily at certain times, with flow of tears, Sodium chloride. Styes [hordeoli], small lumps and indurations on the eyelids, Silica. Spasms of the eyelids [cramps], Magnesium phosphate and Calcium phoshpate. Spasmodic squinting, Magnesium phosphate. Diplopia, sparks and rainbow colours before the eye, seeing many colours, Magnesium phos- phate. Weak sight, after diphtheria, Potassium phos- phate. Weak sight, after suppression of perspiration of feet, Silica. Hypopion, Calcium sulphate. Retina exudation, Potassium chloride. In the first stages of the inflammation of the retina, Ferric phosphate. 62 MOUTH AND THROAT. Cavity of Mouth. Catarrhal Inflammation of the Mucous Mem- brane covering the soft palate, tonsils, and pharynx. If there is dry redness [inflammatory] and violent pain, Ferric phosphate. If white exudation, Potassium chloride. If a creamy, golden-yellow exudation, Sodium phosphate. If transparent, frothy mucus, Sodium chlo- ride. If tonsils are enlarged or swollen, Potassium chloride will suit best, if there is a white or grayish-white coating on the tonsils. If matter forms and suppuration threatens, Calcium sulphate, or Silica. In chronic tonsilitis the proper remedy is Potassium chloride, Calcium phosphate, Sodium chloride. Inflammation of Tongue.—If much swollen, and of a deep, dusky red, Ferric phosphate. In most cases this will suffice. If not, Potassium chloride. If suppuration threatens, Calcium sul- phate.—For indurations, Silica, Calcium fluoride. Canker and scurvy, gangrenous, Potassium phosphate. COATINGS OF THE TONGUE. 63 Gums.—If the gum be pale, Calcium phos- phate is specially indicated; if it has a bright red edge, Potassium phosphate is required. The latter medicine is also required with bleedings of the gum. Coatings of the Tongue. A white, not slimy, covering requires Potas- sium chloride. Slimy coating, and small bubbles of saliva on the edges, Sodium chloride. Tongue, as if spread with liquid dark mustard, and offensive breath, Potassium phosphate. Tongue of dirty brownish green, with a bitter taste in the mouth, Sodium sulphate. Tongue covered at the back, as if with yellow golden cream and moist, Sodium phosphate. Tongue covered with yellow slime, Potassium sulphate. The coating of the tongue does not always wholly influence the choice of a remedy in all affections of the tissues. It has, however, to be taken into consideration in those cases where I have taken note of it in this volume.—If any one who is suffering from a chronic catarrh of the stomach, takes also another (acute) disease, the coating of the tongue will not always have that 64 VOMITING. peculiar appearance which will indicate the re- medy suited to the acute disease. If any disease—particularly of a chronic nature —shows itself without decisive symptoms, then the coating of the tongue will, in most cases, guide in the choice of an appropriate remedy, Aphthae and Stomatitis, Potassium chloride, Potassium phosphate, and Sodium chloride; the latter when there is much dribbling of saliva. Noma, Potassium phosphate. Vomiting, Vomiting of food, Ferric phosphate. Vomiting of food and acid fluids, Ferric phos- phate. Vomiting of bile, Sodium sidphate. Vomiting of stringy transparent mucus, So- dium chloride. Vomiting of watery fluid, Sodium chloride. Vomiting of blood, Ferric phosphate, Potas- sium chloride, and Sodium sulphate. Hawking up of white mucus, Potassium chloride. Vomiting of acid fluids or curdy masses, So- dium phosphate. PAINS IN STOMACH AND ABDOMEN. 65 Jaundice. If it originates in a duodenal catarrh, Potas- sium chloride will be useful, Potassium chloride and Sodium chloride. The coating of the tongue must determine the choice of a remedy.—Jaundice from vexation, Sodium sulphate. Pains in Stomach and Abdomen. Gastritis. Acute Inflammation of the Stomach, with violent pains of the distended organ, vomit- ing, and fever, Ferric phosphate. If a case has come too late under treatment, and there are symptoms of exhaustion, dryness of tongue, etc., Potassium phosphate will have to be given. Acute and Chronic Pains of the Stomach, which grow worse on taking food, or by pressure at the pit of the stomach, and particularly if vomiting of food occurs, Ferric phosphate. Spasmodic cramping of the stomach, with clean tongue, requires Magnesium phosphate. Pains with a crampy (spasmodic) tight [draw- ing] lacing sensation, Magnesium phosphate. 66 PAINS IN STOMACH AND ABDOMEN. Pains of the stomach, with accumulation of water in the mouth, Sodium chloride. If this does not altogether suffice, there is generally present a coating of the tongue, which requires Potassium sulphate. Pressure, and a sensation of fulness, with yellow slimy coating of the tongue, Potassium sulphate. Gnawing pains in the stomach, with flatulence [short belching of wind], affording no relief, Magnesium phosphate. Colics, which are relieved by doubling up the body [bending double], rubbing, and in which eructations or hot applications give relief, require Magnesium phosphate. Colic, with pain about the umbilicus, obliging the patient to bend double, Magnesium phos- phate. Flatulent colic of little children, which causes them to draw up their legs, with or without diarrhoea, Magnesium phosphate. If there is acidity, Sodium phosphate must be given. Pains of indigestion, accompanied by vomit- ing,—the nature of the ejected matter indicates the remedy. DIARRHGEA. 67 Gastric affections, with predominating acidity, Sodium phosphate. Ulcers, ulceration of stomach, Sodium phos- phate. Diarrhoea. Diarrhoea, watery, with abdominal pains, Magnesium phosphate and Ferric phosphate. If the pain ceases, then returns, and is eased by bending double, Magnesium phosphate. Diarrhoea, watery, and without pain, Potas- sium phosphate. Diarrhoea, bilious, Sodium sulphate. Diarrhoea, yellow slimy, Potassium sulphate. Diarrhoea, white slimy, Potassium chloride. Diarrhoea, bloody and bloody-slimy, Potassium chloride. Diarrhoea, mattery, bloody-mattery, Calcium sulphate. Diarrhoea, transparent, glassy [glairy], slime, Sodium chloride. Stools of undigested food, Ferric phosphate. Diarrhoea, putrid-smelling, Potassium phos- phate. Diarrhoea, caused by excessive acidity, Sodium phosphate. 68 CATARRHS, AND COLDS IN THE HEAD. Haemorrhoids. The principal remedy is Calcium fluoride. (See p. 44). As, besides the local Haemorrhoids, disturbances in the function of the liver, the digestive organs, etc., are, as a rule, present, and stand in casual connection with the former, attention must be paid to those disturbances if a radical cure of haemorrhoids is to be ensured. Calcium fluoride has, therefore, to be taken alternately with another remedy, the choice of which is determined by the other or primary symptom. The remedies which will have to be most frequently considered, are : Sodium chlo- ride, Sodium sulphate, and Potassium sulphate. Polyuria, Excessive secretion of Urine. For theoretical reasons I recommend Sodium phosphate. (See p. 46) Bronchial Catarrhs, and Colds in the Head. Sodium chloride cures colds, with clear watery or starch-like sputa. If feverishness accom- panies the cold, Ferric phosphate must be given in alternation with any of the remedies that are indicated by the peculiar nature of the COUGHS. 69 secretions ; hence Potassium sulphate or Sodium sulphate may come into requisition. The same remedies apply to the discharges of mucus from the nose (frontal cavity) in colds of the head. Compare with "Diseases of the Mucous Mem- brane." Potassium chloride for " stuffy " colds, with discharge of thick white mucus. Calcium fluoride in obstinate cases. Ozoena requires Potassium phosphate inter- nally, and also applications of the same on the mucous lining of the nose. Hoarseness. Simple hoarseness from cold, Potassium chlo- ride ; rarely Potassium sulphate is required.—If caused by over-exertion of the vocal organs (as by speakers, actors, singers), Ferric phosphate is most useful; if necessary, also Potassium phosphate. Coughs. Short, acute, spasmodic, very painful, requires Ferric phosphate, then Potassium chloride; the true spasmodic cough, Magnesium phosphate. As to accompanying discharges of mucus, E 70 COUGHS. etc., see section on " Diseases of the Mucous Membrane." Hooping-Cough. In inflammatory catarrhal stage, Ferric phos- phate; for the nervous, spasmodic affection, Magnesium phosphate. Ferric phosphate must be taken when there is vomiting of food. According to the nature of the mucus there may have to be chosen Potassium chloride, Sodium chloride, or Potassium sulphate. Special symptoms may necessitate the alter- nate use of a suitable remedy, e.g., Potassium phosphate or Calcium phosphate. Acute (Edema of the Lungs. With dyspnoea, spasmodic cough with frothy expectoration of serous masses, Sodium chloride, and lividity of face, Potassium phosphate. Diseases of the Mucous Membrane. The colour and the consistency of the secretion must decide the choice of the remedy. If the secretion is tough and sticky, Potassium chloride and Calcium fluoride must be taken; INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER. 71 if it is fluid or slimy, Sodium chloride, Potassium sulphate, or Sodium sulphate may have to be given. Potassium chloride and Calcium fluoride are suitable when the secretion is white or yellowish white; Sodium sulphate when the phlegm is greenish yellow ; Sodium chloride if it be watery, thick, or transparent. Potassium phosphate must be used when there is a chronic offensive defluxion from the nose. The choice of the remedies has to be made in accordance with the above distinctions in cases of coughs with expectoration, in gonorrhoea, leucorrhoea, or "whites." Inflammation, and Catarrh of the Bladder. In acute cases, first of all Ferric phosphate, then Potassium chloride. Chronic cases require Potassium chloride, Sodium chloride, Potassium sulphate, or Sodium sulphate, according to the symptoms. Retention of Urine. When spasm, cramp, is the cause of the retention or suppression of urine, Magnesium phosphate is the remedy. Ferric phosphate cures 72 ECZEMA. the suppression of urine, accompanied by heat, as in little children. Involuntary Micturition at Night. The first remedy to be given is Potassium phosphate. If, after using this remedy for some weeks, no cure is effected, the accompanying symptoms must be sought for, and another cell- salt chosen in accordance with those symptoms. Eczema. Diseases of the Skin. The remedies recommended for diseases of the mucous membrane are also suited to the diseases of the skin, viz : Potassium chloride, Calcium fluoride, Sodium chloride, Potassium sulphate, and Sodium sulphate. Eczema, lichen, etc., are included. Eczema, which has arisen after vaccination with bad lymph, requires Potassium chloride. Intertrigo of children, chafing, Potassium chloride, Sodium chloride, Sodium sulphate; with excess of acidity, Sodium phosphate must be given. Nettle-rash requires Potassium sulphate and Sodium chloride. SKIN DISEASE. 73 Erysipelas " Rose."—The cedematous puffy inflammation of the skin requires Sodium sid- phate; infiltrated or blistering erysipelas is cured by Potassium chloride. Severe symptoms of fever and inflammation may accompany erysipelatous affections, and thus require Ferric phosphate. Potassium sulphate assists the scaling off of the skin. Herpes zoster (shingles) requires Potassium chloride and Sodium chloride. Pemphigus.—Common pemphigus (blisters of various sizes with yellow watery contents and tense surface) requires Sodium sulphate. Malig- nant pemphigus (blisters with watery-bloody contents and withered, wrinkled surface) requires Potassium phosphate. Burns and Scalds, of the first and second degrees, require Potassium chloride. If sup- purating, Calcium sulphate. Chilblains, if fresh, Potassium chloride. Chilblains, if suppurating, Calcium sulphate. If, at the commencement of any inflammation of the skin, Ferric phosphate is given, the disease can be prevented, or blighted in the germ. If that stage has passed in which this remedy is indicated, Potassium chloride must be given. 74 SKIN DISEASE. If pus forms, then Calcium sulphate or Silica. If the pus is dirty-looking and ichorous, and heavy-smelling, Potassium phosphate must be given. Proud flesh requires Potassium chloride. In the same manner inflammation of fingers (whitlow) is treated. If the bone is implicated, Calcium fluoride is most suitable. The treatment of blind boils, and bloody furuncles, carbuncles, etc., is as above. Hard scorbutic infiltrations of subcutaneous tissues are cured by Potassium chloride. Scorbutic bleedings require Potassium phosphate. Ingrown toe-nail requires Potassium chloride and local mechanical treatment. Lupus requires Potassium chloride, Calcium phosphate. Epithelioma, Potassium sulphate. Effects of the bite of insects, Sodium chloride (used externally). Warts on the hands, Potassium chloride: Dissolve a quantity, as large as a pea, of the triturated powder, in a tablespoonful of water, and moisten the part with this solution. Mastitis, Inflammation of the Breast. Potassium chloride is indicated before matter LYMPHATIC GLANDS. 75 has formed ; when formed, and during its dis- charge, Calcium sulphate and Silica are indicated. Calcium fluoride is required when the edges round the suppurating part are hard or callous. When the pus is offensive, unhealthy, of a brownish nature, Potassium phosphate. Hard knots, or lumps in breast, require Calcium fluoride and Silica. Lymphatic Glands. For acute infiltration (swelling), Potassium chloride. Chronic cases of swollen glands may require Potassium chloride, Calcium phoshpate, Calcium fluoride. If inclined to suppurate, and during suppuration, Calcium sulphate and Silica are required, and Calcium fluoride when the edges round the suppuration are callous. Chancre and Gonorrhoea. Chancre—the principal remedy is Potassium chloride (in the third trituration) internally and externally, used alternately with Sodium chlo- ride. Will cure uncomplicated cases speedily.1 Phagadenic chancre requires Potassium phos- 1 The powder applied on the moistened part. 76 CHANCRE. phate. Hard chancre, Calcium fluoride (inter- nally and externally). Chronic syphilis corresponds to Potassium chloride, Sodium chloride, Sodium sulphate, Calcium fluoride, and Silica, according to the symptoms. Ferric phosphate cures the inflammatory stage of gonorrhoea ; for further details see the chap- ter on " Diseases of the Mucous Membrane." Besides the internal use of the remedy corresponding to the symptoms, it is advisable to bathe the parts twice daily in a solution of the same remedy. Orchitis, after suppression of gonorrhoea, re- quires Potassium chloride; eventually Potassium sulphate and Sodium chloride. Warts require Potassium chloride; Calcium phosphate, also, externally. Hydrocele, Sodium chloride, Calcium phos- phate. Induration (hardening) of testicles, Calcium fluoride, Silica. Scrotal oedema, Sodium sulphate, Sodium chloride. Preputial oedema, Sodium sulphate, Sodium chloride. MECHANICAL INJURIES. 11 Mechanical Injuries. Cuts and other fresh wounds, bruises, and sprains, require Ferric phosphate,—If, after the use of this, any swelling of the contused parts remains, give Potassium chloride. If suppura- tion sets in, in neglected cases, give Calcium sulphate and Silica. Ichor or mortification necessitate Potassium phosphate; proud flesh, Potassium chloride. Fracture of bone requires (along with mechani- cal treatment) at first, for injuries of the soft parts, Ferric phosphate; then Calcium phosphate, to promote the formation of new bony matter to unite the fractured bone. Tenalgia Crepitans (crackling of the sinews), which occurs on the dorsal side of the lower arm above the wrist in the case of carpenters and other artisans, by pressing their chisel or other tool too hard in a rotatory motion against the material on which they were working, has been quickly cured in two cases by means of Ferric phosphate. A third case, which had become chronic under ordinary treatment, I cured easily with Potassium chloride, after Ferric phosphate proved ineffectual. 78 ANAEMIA (BLOODLESSNESS). Ulcers of the Lower Limbs. Under this head any of the remedies given for diseases of the skin and mucous membrane, and Silica in addition, may have to be employed. Calcium fluoride cures varicose ulceration. Diseases of the Bone. If the surrounding soft parts are red, inflamed, hot, and painful, Ferric phosphate. Against ulceration of bone, Calcium fluoride, Silica, and Calcium phosphate. Exudations : hard, rough, corrugated elevations on the bone surface re- quire Calcium fluoride. This remedy is even better than Silica in cases of Cephalhaematomata (so-called blood-tumour) on the parietal bones of new-born children. Rickets, Calcium phosphate. If atrophy en- sues, with foul diarrhoea, this condition must first be subdued by Potassium phosphate. Should there be any excess of acidity, it must be removed by Sodium phosphate. Hip-joint disease—Feme phosphate, Potas- sium chloride, Silica, and Calcium fluoride. Ansemia, Chlorosis (bloodlessness). The remedy of true anwmia, chlorosis, is Calcium HAEMORRHAGE (BLEEDING). 79 phosphate. As soon as a decided improvement of general health sets in, Ferric phosphate may follow. Potassium chloride may have to be given as a secondary remedy, if such symptoms as Eczema, eruptions of the skin, exist, for which this remedy is beneficial. Conditions resembling chlorosis require Sod- ium chloride and Potassium phosphate, the choice to be decided by the characteristic accompanying symptoms. Potassium phosphate cures pallor or bloodless- ness, which has been caused by long-continued depression of the mind. Haemorrhage. Bleedings, Blood, red, readily coagulating into a jelly- like mass, Ferric phosphate. Black, thick, tough blood requires Potassium chloride. Pale-red or blackish-red, but thin and watery, not coagulating, Pofasmmphosphate and Sodium chloride. Epistaxis, bleeding from the nose (in children) is, as a rule, generally cured by Ferric phosphate. Predisposition to nasal haemorrhages, Potassium phosphate. 80 MENSTRUATION. Uterine haemorrhage, Calcium fluoride. Haemorrhoidal bleedings, Ferric phosphate, Potassium chloride, and Calcium fluoride. Menstruation. If occurring too early and too profusely, Potassium chloride; if too late and scanty, Potassium sulphate; Potassium phosphate in pale, sensitive persons, who weep easily. If menses are suppressed, Potassium phosphate and Potassium chloride; or, in accordance with the attending symptoms, another remedy may be selected. If leucorrhoea accompanies the suppression, or if menstruation is too profuse or too scanty, then the peculiarity of the leucor- rhoea must indicate the remedy. A mild white leucorrhoea indicates Potassium chloride; a mild yellow, Potassium sulphate; an acrid, cor- roding discharge, " whites," Sodium chloride. Labour Pains. Irregular, weak pains require Potassium phos- phate. Spasmodic, crampy pains, Magnesium phos- phate. NEURALGIA—RHEUMATISM. 81 Menstrual Colic. Magnesium phosphate suits this colic generally. Potassium phosphate suits sensitive, irritable, pale, or lachrymose persons. With accelerated pulse, increased redness of face, etc., Ferric phosphate is to be given. Vaginismus, Ferric phosphate, Magnesium phosphate. Pains in the Nape of the Neck, the Back and Limbs. Neuralgic, Rheumatic. Pains only felt during motion, or made worse by motion, Ferric phosphate; second remedy, Potassimn chloride. Pains which are laming, but improved by moderate exercise, are increased by exertion (walking too much), and especially worse after rising from a sitting position (at the commence- ment of motion), require Potassium phosphate. Pains, with a feeling of numbness, or creeping, or a sensation of coldness, worse at night and during rest, require Calcium phosphate. Pains, vivid, shooting, boring, intermittent, shifting, neuralgic, require Magnesi um phosphate. Pains, rheumatic-gouty, Potassium chloride,. Sodium chloride, Calcium phosphate. 82 NEURALGIA—RHEUMATISM. Pains which are worse in warm rooms, and in the evening ; better in open cool air, Potassium sulphate. Pains which the patient cannot describe very clearly, accompanying symptoms must decide the remedy, such as an eruption, coating of the tongue, etc. Chronic articular rheumatism requires Potas- sium chloride, Sodium chloride, Calcium phos- phate, Potassium sulphate. For the cracking of joints in chronic articular rheumatism Dr. Kafka recommends Sodium chloride. Lumbago, Ferric phosphate, Calcium phos- phate. Sciatica, Potassium phosphate, Magnesium phosphate. Chronic scrofulous swelling of the knee re- quires Sodium chloride, Calcium phosphate, and Calcium fluoride. For suppurations of the joints, Calcium sul- phate and Silica. Hygroma patellae, "Housemaid's knee," re- quires Sodium chloride and Calcium phosphate. SPASMS—NERVOUS AFFECTIONS. 83 Cramps and other Nervous Affections. Nervous palpitation requires Potassium phos- phate. (Palpitation caused by pressure of blood requires Ferric phosphate and Potassium chlo- ride.) Asthma requires Potassium phosphate and Potassium chloride. Asthma with excess of frothy mucus requires Sodium chloride. Spasms of the glottis, tetanus, lockjaw, cramp in the legs, St. Vitus's dance, etc., are cured by Magnesium phosphate. In Epilepsy the following remedies have to be considered :— Ferric phosphate, in rush of blood to the head. Potassium phosphate, if, during a fit, the face is very pale and sunken ; body and limbs cold, and if there is much palpitation after the fit. Silica, nocturnal fits of epilepsy—occurring especially at changes of the moon. Magnesium phosphate and Calcium phosphate, if the above-named symptoms are not present.— Calcium phosphate is particularly suitable for young persons whose bodies are in the stage of development, and also in scrofulous cases. Other co-existing disease symptoms occurring 84 INTERMITTENT FEVER. in the intervals have to be considered in the choice of a remedy. Potassium chloride is indicated if the epileptic patient has or has had eczema. Paralysis or lameness, caused by exhaustion of nerve power, requires Potassium phosphate (only recent cases are curable). Cases of recent rheumatic lameness require Ferric phosphate. Rheumatic lameness, Potassium chloride. Calcium phosphate. Silica is indicated where suppressed perspira- tion of the feet is found to have been the cause. Gouty deposit requires Silica and Calcium fluoride. Ague—Intermittent Fever. The specific remedy is indicated by any one of the co-existing symptoms below-named : Vomiting of food, Ferric phosphate. Vomiting of bile, Sodium sulphate. Vomiting of water or mucus, Sodium chloride. White coating of tongue, Potassium chloride. Yellow slimy coating of tongue, Potassium sulphate. DROPSY. 85 Tongue moist, clear mucus covering the tip, but clean at the back, requires Sodium chloride. Perspiration, abundant, exhausting, heavy- smelling, Potassium phosphate, Perspiration, decidedly acid, Sodium phos- phate. Sour taste in the mouth, vomiting of sour masses, Sodium phosphate. Tendency to bleeding of the gums, Potassium phosphate. See "Gums, bright red edge." In the case of delicate, pale, nervous patients, ao-ue requires Potassium phosphate, if no very special symptoms (see above) indicate another remedy. Ague-patients must abstain from milk diets, butter-milk, eggs, fat, or fish. He who diagnoses very exactly will readily and comparatively speedily cure ague or inter- mittent fever by the use of the above-mentioned tissue-salts. Dropsy. Caused by loss of blood or vital fluids, Calcium phosphate and Ferric phosphate. Post-scarlatinal dropsy can be cured by Sodium chloride, Sodium sulphate, and Calcium sulphate. F 86 DROPSY. Simple dropsy of the areolar tissue has to be treated with Sodium sulphate and Sodium chlo- ride. Dropsy occasioned by cardiac disease, liver or kidney disease, the remedy has to be selected according to the prominence of the accompany- ing symptoms. CLINICAL CASES. 87 [The following Clinical Cases have been collected from various Medical Journals, and from the practice of qualified Medical Practitioners. It will be seen that most of the cases which Dr. Schussler lhas put on record here have been treated by other medical men. These give conclusive proof of the merits of the Bio- -chemic treatment of disease.] CLINICAL CASES. April, 1879. M. K., aet. 16, has suffered for years from iperiodically returning headaches. The pain is concentrated dn the right temple, and of a boring nature, as if a screw were being driven in—as the patient expresses herself. Preceding this pain there is a burning sensation at the pit relapse occurred. 2. I have made little use as yet of Dr. Schiissler's Potas- sium phosphate, but have, notwithstanding, effected a few very interesting cures. 114 CLINICAL CASES. A woman, aged 54, came under my treatment, who had been for many years treated without success. She had taken steel baths, a great many steel pills and drops, and quinine. She complained of severe vertigo felt mostly on rising from a sitting position, and on looking upwards. She was con- stantly in dread of falling, and did not venture to leave her room. I gave her all the usual remedies without any benefit. At last I gave her, in May 1875, two doses daily of Dr Schiissler's Potassium phosphate. I had the pleasure of see- ing a rapid and decided cure following this. The patient can attend to her domestic duties; she can go out alone, even to distances, and is almost completely cured of her painful sensation of giddiness. 3. I have hitherto only given Sodium phosphate in scro- fulous subjects, and only then when my old remedies calci. carb., etc., failed. One case was particularly striking on account of its being cured so rapidly. In May last a little girl of eight was brought to me who suffered from severe conjunctivitis, with great dread of light. She had been treated for some time by an ordinary practitioner, but without effect. I ascer- tained that her eye affection dated from the time she had had measles some years previous. Calci. carb. and other medicines proved ineffectual. The enlargements of the glands of the neck, and the creamy secretion of the eyelids, led me to try Sodium phosphate, of which I administered a dose three times daily. A week later on, the child was brought to me, her eyes being perfectly cured. CLINICAL CASES. 115 4. A landed proprietor, 44 years of age, wrote to me a few weeks ago—" The medicine I have taken very steadily, and for a long time attended strictly to my diet. In spite of this, my trouble is no better; I may almost say it has become worse." The conditions were these :— 1. I feel almost constantly a taste as of bile. 2. My tongue is covered with a curdy, bitter coating. 3. During the day, especially after food, I suffer from eructations of gases, which have either a bitter taste or are tasteless. 4. My complexion is rather yellow. 5. The appetite very slight; no thirst. My favourite beverage, beer, is distasteful to me. 6. I incline to shiver, and am somewhat faint. 7. My head is but little involved, but feel a constant pressure over one eye. 8. Stools are normal, but scanty, on account of spare diet. The whole condition discloses that I have bile in the stomach. Thus far the patient's own report. To this I may add that the patient in question had already taken by my orders nux. vom. and pulsatilla. He had used the waters of Marienbad the previous summer on the recom- mendation of another medical man. I sent him Sodium sulphate, with the request to take daily three doses of this powder. The gentleman came six or seven days later to my consulting room to thank me for the valuable medicine. The powder, he said, has really worked wonders. All my ailments have disappeared as if by magic, and I feel at last perfectly well. 116 CLINICAL CASES. 5. I have used Sodium chloride repeatedly, and especially in obstinate cases of salivation, with excellent results. One case in particular was cured with remarkable rapidity by this remedy. A young lady, aet. 20, who suffered from severe inflammation of the tonsils, so that she could scarcely swallow milk or water, had received from me a preparation of mercury sol. The inflammation of the tonsils was reduced very quickly, but another evil set in, namely, violent salivation. The gums were loosened, bleeding easily, and standing back from the teeth, and the teeth were slackened. I thought of curing this affection also with mercury, with which I had often before succeeded in such cases; but by continuing this remedy the evil was only increased. Now I ascertained from the patient that in the previous summer she had been ill at N., and the doctor had given her a good deal of calomel, which caused fearful and long-continued salivation. She was afraid the evil would again become very tedious, as it had been so bad at N. I now stopped the mercury sol., and ordered Sodium chloride, a dose the size of a bean every two hours. The success surpassed my most sanguine expectations. In twenty-four hours the swelling of the glands had dis- tinctly diminished, and in three days a complete cure was effected. 6. D. R., a boy 7 years of age, who took spurious croup whenever there was a sharp, keen north-east wind, having had a few years before a very severe attack of true croup, this past autumn had again an attack, with fever, and a loud barking cough. CLINICAL CASES. 117 Aconite and liver of sulphur, which has been recommended by so many authors against spurious croup, produced no change whatever, so that I prepared myself, as usual, in the case of this boy, for a continuance of the affection for several days. The nights especially were very restless, with much coughing, rough and hard, so that his relatives were very anxious. There were dry heat and great oppression present. I exchanged my Hep. sulph. for Potassium chloride, and gave every two hours a full dose. After a few doses the cough became loose, lost completely the barking sound, and the whole of the following night my little patient slept quietly, so that on the following morning he awoke able to get up quite recovered. 7. A. R. v. G., a young lady of .18, had visited, in the past summer (1875), along with her mother, a hydropathic establishment. She had, without being ill, used the baths, even during the periods. Immediately after these, she took violent spasms or cramps, which set in daily, and continued, though she returned home. A medical man was consulted, as the disease only increased in spite of the different medicines she took. A second doctor was consulted, who quite agreed in the diagnosis as well as the treatment adopted by his colleague. Injections of morphium, very strong and re- peated several times daily, were the main remedies applied, but the distressing ailment could not be removed ; on the contrary, the cramps increased in violence and frequency. The medical men in attendance finally declared that there was no chance of improvement until the patient would take some steel baths in the spring. The parents were afraid that their daughter would not live to see the spring, and if h 118 CLINICAL CASES. she did, that she would not be fit to be removed. They, therefore, telegraphed requesting a visit from me. On the 6th of September last I saw the patient for the first time. I had known her formerly, and was astonished to see, instead of the blooming healthy girl she had been, a pale emaciated figure whom I should not have recognised. During my presence she had an attack ; her features were distorted, the eyes turned upwards, froth came to the mouth, and then a fearful paroxysm of beating and striking with the hands and feet, such as I had never seen before. This was only the commencement. Suddenly the trunk of her body was contorted in an indescribable manner; the back of the head pressed deeply into the pillows, the feet forced against the foot of the bed, her chest and abdomen became arched like a bridge, drawn up almost half a yard. In this un- natural position she was suspended several seconds. Sud- denly the whole body jerked upwards with a bound, and the poor sufferer was tossed about for some seconds, with her spine contracted. During the whole attack, which lasted several minutes, she was quite unconscious; pinching and slapping had no effect; dashing cold water in the face, or applying burnt feathers to the nostril, were ineffectual; the pupils were quite insensible to light. Ignatia, which I ordered, had no effect; cupr. metal, acted better, but only temporarily; Belladonna, Ipec, and Pulsa- tilla (the latter for suppressed catamenia), were of no use. The attacks did not increase, neither did they decrease in the least degree. The morphium injections too were con- tinued at the desire of her friends. When at my visit on the 4th of October, the spasms came CLINICAL CASES. 119 on again with such violence that the bedstead gave way, I •consulted Schiissler's Therapy, and ordered Magnesium phos- phate. After taking this remedy on the 10th of October, the •catamenia appeared, but her condition otherwise was in no way changed. The spasms continued with the same violence. Then remembering Schiissler's injunction to use Calcium phosphate where Magnesium phosphate, though indicated by the symptoms, proves ineffectual, I gave her Calcium phos- phate on the 16th of October, a full dose every two hours. Immediately the spasms became less frequent. On the sixth day there was an attack, weak, and of short duration. From this date she had peace until the 6th of November, the day of the return of the catamenia, which was preceded by a short slight attack On the 14th of December I had a call from the young lady looking well and blooming, who wished to consult me for a slight bronchial affection. She told me that she was completely cured of her attacks, and that at the beginning of December she had been quite regular, without experienc- ing any inconvenience. 7. Dr. S. writes :—Mrs S., aged 24, of Regensburg, who had been suffering for several years from lichen (skin affection) had used various well-known medicines which had done her no good. I tried various remedies, and at last cured her. A few months ago she came again and the lichen was worse than ever. My former remedy had no effect, and with several others, arsenic, &c, it was no better. I gave her Calcium sulphate night and morning, in quantities as large as a bean, and in a fortnight the cure was completed. 120 CLINICAL CASES. 8. Silica has proved an excellent remedy. Within the last few months I was able to cure a young lady 16 years old, who lives in the country. I did not see her myself. The mother of the girl came to me almost crying, and told me her daughter had been suffering for the last few months from her right foot. The medical men treating her there declared that the foot must be amputated. It was fearfully swollen; the discharge of matter was excessive; her leg was almost bent to a right angle at the knee-joint, and could absolutely not be stretched out. I advised her to give up* the internal as well as the external remedies, and gave her Silica to be taken once daily. Three months later the patient came herself, walking without any assistance. The foot was almost completely healed, with only a slight dis- charge of matter. Thus I succeded, also, in a case of discharge from the ear, which had been treated for a long time ineffectually,, and had caused the patient severe pain day and night. This case also was cured with Silica. From the Rundschau :—Magnesium phosphate6 for Hoop- ing Cough. In the spring of 1881, when there was an epidemic of hooping cough amongst the children here, a little child of ten months was given up by the family doctor. I heard this from the father of the child, who was in great grief. He mentioned that the spasms, which occurred about ten times in the course of the day, were so severe that the little face became quite livid, blue, and swollen. I at once gave Magnesium phosphate*. One single powder moderated the spasms so forcibly that they returned only occasionally,, and the attacks were quite mild. Five days later I gave some Potassium phosphate, but without beneficial effect, then CLINICAL CASES. 121 Calcium phosphate, which had no good effect, as the par- oxysms grew only worse for want of Magnesium phosphate. I ordered it again to be taken, and in a very short time the spasms and hoop were gone, and the child recovered rapidly. A few cases from the Author's practice, February, 1880 : —In a village a few miles from the town of Oldenburg a child was taken ill with Diphtheria, which at an early stage was complicated by an affection of the larynx. The child was treated by the ordinary methods and died. Almost at the same time a child of another family in the village was attacked by Diphtheria with the same complication. The father of the latter child came to me. I gave Potassium chloride for the disease in the first instance, and Calcium phosphate for the affection of the larynx, to be taken alter- nately. I requested the father to inform me without fail of the result, which he promised to do. Two days after, I received a letter from him, in which he informed me that the child had completely recovered. October, 1879.—Treatment of the bite of insects.—Moisten the parts affected with a little water; put a small quantity of Sodium chloride upon it, and rub it in with a rotatory motion of the finger. The pain ceases almost instantly on this manipulation. I was consulted by the relatives of a man suffering from delirium tremens. I ordered Sodium chloride. A complete cure followed speedily. Sodium chloride is the true remedy, as delirium tremens is caused by a disturbance of the molecular equilibrium of the 122 CLINICAL CASES. sodium chloride and water molecules in some parts of the brain. A young man complained of an unnatural appetite. He declared that almost hourly he felt the need of taking food ;; at the same time he felt exhausted and languid. There were no secondary symptoms present. The tongue was clean, the urine was not increased, evacuations normal. Potassium phosphate cured the patient in the course of two days. A lady felt for two days a drawing laming pain in the- sole of her foot. The affected spot, about the size of a florin, had a bluish appearance. Pressure, or a blow, or other mechanical influences, had not preceded it. A dose of Potassium phosphate subdued the pain in about half an hour. An old lady had become bedridden for the last fortnight on account of the following ailment. She felt a moderate pain in the lower part of the thorax on the left side, which increased when she coughed. The cough was a slightly catarrhal one. The invalid felt very exhausted, and had no appetite. The tongue was dry, the pulse frequent, weak,. and intermittent. Potassium phosphate cured her in the space of a week. To the above I add another important effect of Potassium phosphate. By the use of it, spurious labour pains subside,. weak pains are stimulated by it, and often in the shortest space of time the desired effects are produced with most favourable results. H. W. SCHUSSLER. THEKAPEUTICAL INDEX. The Inorganic Cell-Salts. The tissue cell-salts as specially prepared for Dr. Schussler act as Molecular-Cellular Therapeutics. Modem English Terms. Terms as used in German. I. Calcium phosphate. 1. Calcarea phosphorica. II. Calcium sulphate. 2. Calcarea sulphurica. III. Calcium fluoride. 3. Calcium fluorica. IV. Ferric phosphate. 4. Ferrum phosphoricum. V. Potassium chloride. 5. Chlorkalium. VI. Potassium phosphate. 6. Kali phosphoricum. VII. Potassium sulphate. 7. Kali sulphuricum. VIII. Magnesium phosphate. 8. Magnesia phosphorica. IX. Sodium chloride. 9. Natrum muriaticum. X. Sodium phosphate. 10. Natrum phosphoricum. XI. Sodium sulphate. 11. Natrum sulphuricum. XII. Silica. 12. Silicea. DIRECTIONS. The Dose :—Dissolve from 3 to 5 grains of the powder, (a quantity about the size of pea,) in say a table or tea spoonful of water for a Bingle dose. For convenience take as much powder as will lie on a sixpenny piece, dissolve it in a cupful of water, and make 6 to 8 doses or sips of this quantity. In the case of Magnesium phosphate, where warmth is appreciated, hot water may be advantageously taken. If from any reason the patient cannot readily take the remedy in water, the powder may be taken dry upon the tongue, though this is not the preferable or most effective way. Time :—A dose should be taken every hour, or even oftener if the case be very acute. In less urgent cases, a dose every 2 hours In chronic cases 4 doses daily. 124 CALCIUM PHOSPHATE. Alternation :—When two remedies have to be taken alternately, each must be kept in a separate cup, the one to be taken in turns, or time about with the other. The Intercurrent Remedy has to be taken occasionally, be- tween or in place of the chief or principal remedy or remedies in any disease, as symptoms may arise in complications. For chronic cases, the intercurrent, such as Calcium phosphate, a dose every day, night and morning, or only every second day. .External application of the remedies must always be accom- panied by it internally. Dissolve a good pinch of the powder prescribed in half a tumblerful of water. This lotion can be used hot or cold as may be required or preferred, for bathing the parts with ; or if to be applied on lint as a compress, with oilskin over it; or a poultice may be moistened with it. It maybe used as a gargle. Mixed with Glycerine or Vaseline it may be applied like ointment, or the parts may simply be moistened with the lotion as often as desirable under existing circumstances. Any of these ways of application may be adopted whenever external use is prescribed. I.—Calcium Phosphate. The Diseases forming this group must be healed or treated with Calcium phosphate, as they have their seat either in the bone, connective-tissue, or blood-cells. Ailments if obstinate, not yielding to the indicated remedy. Albumenuria—Albumenous urine, calls for the use of this cell-salt. Anmmia (true bloodlessness) first remedy. Bone diseases, see also Rickets. Bones broken, surgical aid, and for the uniting of the fractured ends this cell-salt is required. Bones, soft, weakly. Bowed legs in children, to strengthen the weak bones. Bright's disease (of the kidneys) for the albumen. Cancer, in scrofulous constitutions. Catarrhs, chronic, of anaemic persons. CALCIUM PHOSPHATE. 125 Chlorosis (" green sickness ") of young females. Constitutional tonic in delicate persons. Convalescence, during and after acute diseases. Convulsions, from teething, without fever, if Mag. phos. fails. Cough, in consumption. Delicacy, general, in children and young girls or boys. Delicacy in growing girls and children, delicate pale appearance when breeding second teeth. Dropsy, from non-assimilation or anaemia. Eczema, with anaemia (bloodlessness) as an intercurrent remedy. ,, dry, crusty affections. Delicate young infants are much benefitted by the use of this con- stitutional remedy. Enuresis, nocturnal, from general weakness. Eyelids, spasmodic affection, if Mag. phos. fails. Emaciation, without very special ailments. Face-ache (neuralgic, rheumatic), worst at night. Fits, during development in childhood, youth, or old age, where the lime salts are at fault. „ in the strumous and scrofulous. Fontanelles, remaining open too long. Fractured bones, to promote union. Freckles are generally lessened by it, and the constitutional want of this salt corrected. Gall-stones, to prevent reformation of new ones. Glands, enlarged, chronic. Gonorrhoea, with anaemia. Gout, rheumatic, worse at night and with the changes of the weather. Gravel, for the calculous, gritty deposit in urine. Gums, painful in teething children, and if inflamed, alternate doses of this cell-salt and Ferric phosphate. Haemorrhoids, chronic, in anaemic or weakly patients, intercurrently with Calcium fluoride. Headache, a cold feeling in the head, and the head feels cold to the touch. Hernia (rupture) in anaemic patients, as an intercurrent remedy. 126 CALCIUM PHOSPHATE. Hooping-cough, in weakly constitutions, or in teething children, and obstinate cases as an intercurrent remedy. Housemaids knee, chronic, with anaemia. Hydrocele, if Sod. chlor. fails. Hydrocephalus, water in the head, acute and chronic, chief remedy. Inflammation of the eyes, dry during dentition, after Ferric phos. Intestinal worms, predisposition to, in anaemic patients. Intermittent fever, chronic, of children Kidney disease, with albumen in the urine. Lameness, rheumatic, obstinate, after Potass, chloride. Leucorrhoea (" Whites "), as a constitutional tonic, and intercurrent remedy. Lumbago, also Ferric phos. Lupus, if a partial manifestation of scrofulosis; see also Potass, chlor. Neuralgia, commencing at night, worse at night, also Magnesium phosphate. Ozozna, with scrofulous symptoms. Pains, generally when heat or cold make the ailment worse. Pains (rheumatic) in the head, worst during the night. ,, in the head, worse with heat or cold. ,, which are worse in the night are requiring this salt in between the other remedies specially called for. Perspiration too frequent or excessive, especially if perspiring too much about the head. Rheumatism, which is worst at night. ,, aggravated with heat or cold. ,, worse in bad weather. ,, worse with change of weather. ,, chronic, of the joints, with cold or numb feeling. Rickets in delicate children, arising from soft sponginess of bone from want of the phosphate of lime molecules. Skin affections of anaemic persons, as intercurrent remedy Spinal curvature, also mechanical supports. Spinal weakness. Stone in the bladder, to check reformation of the same, buttermilk as a dietary help. CALCIUM SULPHATE. 127 Suppurations of true bone. Teeth, too rapid decay of. Teething disordered, irregular. ,, too late. ,, troublesome, little ailments caused by it. Tonsils, chronic swelling, as an intercurrent remedy. Toothache, worse at night. ,, worse in bad weather. Tubercles of the skin. Typhoid fever. As the disease declines this remedy will act as a- restorative. II.—Calcium Sulphate. The Diseases forming this group must be healed or treated with. Calcium sulphate, as it is curative in suppurations of connective tissue or soft parts. Ailments, all which are connected with swelling of soft parts and threaten to suppurate, or are discharging pus (matter). Abscess, this remedy will shorten the suppurative process if pus has formed, if taken in time and treated with it and Potass, chlor. alternately it may be blighted and much suffering spared Boils, as third remedy, to reduce and control suppuration. Bruises, when neglected and are threatening to suppurate. Bubo, to control suppuration, in alternation with Potass, chloride. Burns and scalds, which are suppurating, as second remedy. Carbuncles, to control the formation of pus; see also Silica and Potass, chloride. Chilblains, after Potassium chloride, or when taken up in a suppur- ating stage. Cornea, abscess of, deep-seated. Crusta lactea, " scald head" of children, after Potass, chlor. if there is mattery discharge. Cuts, to control suppuration ; thick yellow matter. Deafness, when connected with discharge of matter from the ear, not yielding to Silica. 128 CALCIUM SULPHATE. Diarrhoea, mattery, bloody-mattery. Dropsy, post-scarlatinal, in rare cases after Sodium chloride and Sodium sulphate. Dysentery, mattery slimy stools, remedy for third stage. Ears, discharge of pure matter. See under Silica. Eyes, inflammation of, with thick yellow matter, third stage. Empycema, pus forming in cavity of lung, or pleura. Festers (common term for suppurations), are generally cured by this remedy if of soft parts. See also Silica. Furuncles (boils), when pus forms. Gathered finger, for the last stage when matter forms; externally also on lint; when the nail is implicated, also Silica. Glands, lymphatic, threatening suppuration, and during discharge of pus. Gonorrhoea, in suppurating stage. Hypopion, to absorb the effusion of pus. Injuries (mechanical), neglected cuts, wounds, bruises, if sup- purating. Mastitis, gathered breasts, to prevent matter forming, with Potass. chloride. Mastitis, ''Weed," gathered breast after the use of Potass, chloride, and on lint to absorb the matter, or if discharging, to shorten the process, also Silica. If there is persistent hardness, Calcium fluoride. Pimples, if matter forms on the heads of these. Pustules, nodules, when suppurating. Quincy, if ulcers form with yellow heads. Scabs, forming on mattery heads of nodules and pimples. Skin affections, with greenish, brownish, or yellowish, scabs, after Potass, chlor. Skin, or connective-tissue, if suppuration sets in after inflammation. Sores, if matter discharges, pure pus ; unhealthy matter, with heavy odour, may require Potass, phosphate as intercurrent remedy. Suppuration, articular (of the joints). Suppurations, having their seat in the connective-tissue, not of the connective-tissue channels, such as ligaments and fascia CALCIUM FLUORIDE. 120 Swelling of the cheek, after Potassium chloride, if suppuration threatens. Syphilis, chronic, third stage. Throat, sore, threatening suppuration. Throat, ulcerated, when yellow matter forms, last or suppurating stage. Tonsilitis, last stage, when matter threatens or has formed. Ulcers, open sores, which may result from abrasions, pimples, wounds, burns, scalds, or bruises. Ulceration of Glands. If matter is suspected, this remedy and Silica will assist the absorption, or if likely to break through will cleanse and heal the sore. Externally also on lint. The scar left will be very insignificant if treated in this way. Ulcers, also of lower limbs, if thick yellow matter forms. Whitlow, when matter forms, also Silica, simple cases. III.—Calcium Fluoride. The Diseases forming this group must be healed or treated with Calcium fluoride, as they have their seat in the substance forming the surface of bone, enamel of teeth, and part of all elastic fibres. Ailments. All those which can be traced to relaxed conditions of any of the elastic fibres, and disturbance of the molecules form- ing the enamel of teeth and bone surface. After-pains, if too weak or prolapsus uteri. Anuerism, at an early stage may be reduced or kept in check with the alternate use of Ferric phosphate and this the chief remedy. Arthritis, gout, with hard swellings and deposit. Back-ache, weak back with dragging pain, down-bearing. Back, pain in the lower part of the back (sacrum), with a sensation of fulness and burning pain. Bruises on the surface of bone, the shin, etc., with lumps, thicken- ing under the periostium from effusion. Catamenia, excessive, with bearing-down pains. Cephalhematoma, tumours on the parietal bones of new-born infants. 130 CALCIUM FLUORIDE. Cornea, opacities, spots on the eye. Cough, with whitish expectoration of tenacious mucus, if Potass. chloride alone is not quite sufficient. Displacement of uterus. Dragging pains in the region of the uterus, and in the thighs. Eczema, if Potassium chloride does not quite suffice, both alternately. Enamel of teeth, deficient. Exudations on the bone surface, hard, rugged (corrugated), pointed elevations. Flooding, to tone up the contractile power of the uterus. Ganglion, round lumps or incisted tumours, such as on the back of the wrist from strain of the elastic fibres. Gout, with hard swellings. Gouty enlargements of the joints of the fingers. Growths, small hard lumps seated on the cheek bone or other bony surfaces, if arising from injury or bruise, also lotion. Hip-joint disease when the bone is implicated. Knots, hard, of the female breast. Ozozna, see also Potass, phos. Piles, bleeding, with such remedies alternately as are specially indi- cated by the blood and coating of the tongue. Piles, internal or blind, note also coating of the tongue. Piles, with tendency of blood to the head, Ferr. phos. alternately. Prolapsus uteri, falling or bearing down of uterus. Psoriasis, scaly skin affection, generally occurring in middle-aged persons of weak constitution. Relaxed condition of elastic fibres in general. Relaxed throat, with tickling in the larynx. . Skin affections, scalded head of children, where Potass, chloride does not suffice. Suppuration where the bone surface is implicated. Swelling, hard, on the jaw-bone. Swellings, hard, having their seat in fascia and capsular ligaments. Testicles, induration of. Tumors, hard, such as are met with, as hard lumps in the female breast. FERRIC PHOSPHATE. 131 Tumors, vascular, in which blood-vessels exist. Uvula, relaxed, also Ferric phosphate, and if there is much saliva, Sodium chloride. Varicoces, ulceration of veins, also lotion on lint. Varicose veins, pain and size are reduced by the use of this salt. Whitlow, gathered finger, if deep-seated and the bone is implicated, also lotion on lint. IV.—Ferric Phosphate. The Diseases forming this group must be healed or treated with Ferric phosphate, as they have their seat in the vascular system, i.e. the circular muscular fibres of the walls of the blood-vessels, and in the red blood corpuscles. Ailments, all arising from a disturbed circulation, or abnormal con- dition (deficiency) of red blood. These include all febrile conditions or disturbance of the vascular system, and all inflammations, congestions, and irritations caused by local stasis. Ailments, inflammatory stage, of inflammatory or congestive nature, recognised by their being attended either by heat, pain, redness, irritation, throbbing, fever, or quickened pulse. Abscess, the first remedy, reduces fever, heat, throbbing, pain and congestion (or excess of blood) in the parts. An&mia, want of red blood, bloodlessness, after the use of Calcium phosphate. Anuerism, to establish normal circulation, and remove those com- plications arising from excessive action of the heart. See Cal. fluoride. Articular Rheumatism, frequent doses at the commencement, and as intercurrent remedy. Bach-ache, pains in the loins, rheumatism. Bleeding from wounds if severe, surgical aid and Ferr. phos. inter- nally and externally. Blood, loss of, if bright red and coagulating readily. Blood to the head. 132 FERRIC PHOSPHATE. Blows or falls, this remedy internally and externally as speedily as possible. Boils, at the commencement to reduce heat, blood accumulation, pain and throbbing. Breathing, short, oppressed, and hurried, at the beginning or during the course of any ailment, accompanied by heat and feverishness. Bright1 s disease, first stage. Bronchial irritation, with heat or burning soreness, but no expectora- tion. Bronchitis, chronic, occasionally to be taken when a fresh aggravation sets in, or in alternation with the remedy indicated by the expectoration. Bronchitis, inflammatory stage, and after exudation takes place, with appropriate remedies ; Ref. expectoration phlegm. Bruises, first remedy, see external use. Bubo, with heat, throbbing, or feverishness. Carbuncles, where there exists feverishness, heat, or throbbing; to reduce the swelling, Potass, chlor. Catarrh, bronchial: the intercurrent remedy, to be used for inflam- matory irritation. Cheek, swollen, to relieve the pain, congestion, throbbing, and heat, first remedy. Cholera, if inflammatory, in the first stage. Cold in the head, first stage, for the circulatory disturbance. Colds, chills, initiatory stage of any disease, chief remedy may cut it short or lessen its severity. Congestions of any organ or part of the body yield to this remedy as it tones up the blood vessels, relieves the tension, reducing the excess of blood in those parts. Constipation, from inertia of the lower bowel. Convulsions, fits, with fever, of teething children. Cornea, abscess on the eye, for the heat, pain, or redness, first stage and as intercurrent remedy. Cough, acute, painful, short tickling, also Calcium fluoride. ,, ,, at the commencement. ,, ,, from irritation of the windpipe. FERRIC PHOSPHATE. 133 Cough, short, sore, or tickly, from irritation of the windpipe. Cough, hard, dry, with soreness. ,, very painful, short, spasmodic. In true spasmodic use Magnesium phosphate. ,, with a feeling of soreness of lungs. Croup, if it commences with violent fever, alternate this with Potass. Chloride. Cuts, for, chief remedy internally, and the dressing to be saturated with the lotion. See p. 124. Cystitis (inflammation of the bladder), first stage, heat, pain, and fever. Deafness from inflammatory action or suppuration, when there is pain, tension, throbbing, or heat. Diabetes, when there exists pain, heat, or congestion in any part of the system. Diarrhaza, from relaxed state of villi or absorbents of the intestines. ,, stools of undigested food. Dilatation of heart, or of blood vessels; Calcium fluoride to be taken also. Diphtheria, at the commencement of the disease, this will lessen the fever, as first and intercurrent remedy. See Potass, chloride. Diseases of any kind if ushered in by rigors (shivers), and heat, ac- companied by fever, with quickened pulse, or pain; for any or all of these symptoms when they occur. Dropsy, from loss of blood or fluids, as second remedy, after Cal. phos. Dysentery, if beginning with much fever, as intercurrent remedy. Dysmenorrhcea, with hot, flushed face and quick pulse. ,, with vomiting of food undigested, or acid. Dyspepsia, with flushed, hot face; epigastrium tender to touch. If there is a coating on the tongue, see Ref. Table. „ , indigestion with beating or throbbing, pain, heat, redness or flushing of face, or vomiting of the food, and clean tongue. Ear-ache, inflammatory (from cold) with burning or throbbing pain. Epilepsy, with blood rushing to the head, or palpitation. Epistaxis (bleeding of the nose), principally in children; if from nervous debility, Potass, phos. I 134 FERRIC PHOSPHATE. Erysipelas and erysipelatous inflammations of the skin, for the fever and pain. See also Ref. Table. Eyes, inflammation of, with acute pain, without secretions of mucus or pus. For the latter, see Ref. Table. ,, inflamed, with burning sensation. Face-ache, with flushing and heat. „ worse on moving, with throbbing or pressing pain. Festers, gatherings, to relieve heat, pain, congestion, and inflamma- tion, first stage. Feverishness in all its various degrees is met by this salt. Feverish state, at the commencement or during the course of any disease, calls for the use of this remedy alone, or in alternation with such remedies as co-existing symptoms may require. Finger inflamed, painful. Flatulence, bringing back the taste of food partaken of. Flushed face, accompanied by headache or fulness in the head. ,, ,, as a precursor of recurring headaches. >> ,, when accompanying a sensation of coldness in nape of neck, or headache. Fractures (besides mechanical aid), to meet the accompanying injuries to the soft parts ; first remedy. Gastritis (inflammation of the stomach), with much pain, swelling, tenderness of pit of stomach, especially if vomiting of food occurs. Giddiness (vertigo), from flow of blood to the head, with flushing, throbbing, or pressing pain. Hemorrhage (bleeding, loss of blood), if bright red, with tendency to coagulation. Hemorrhoids (piles), inflamed (internal and cold external use); with Calcium fluoride alternately as chief remedy. „ bleeding piles, blood red, tendency to form a thickened soft mass. Headache pains which are worse on stooping and moving. ,, with vomiting of food undigested. „ , congestive, with pressing or stitching pain, and soreness to the touch; pressing a cold object against the spot seems to FERRIC PHOSPHATE. 135 ease the pain. If there is also a furred tongue, the remedy for it must be looked up. Headache of children generally requires this remedy only. ,, with a throbbing sensation in the head. „ with red face and suffused redness of the eyes. ,, , sick, with vomiting of food undigested. Heat and feverishness at the beginning of any disease or ailment, when these symptoms exist. Hip-joint disease, for the inflammation of the soft parts, pain, throb- bing and heat. Hoarseness, painful, of singers or speakers, from over-exertion of voice. Hooping cough, with vomiting of food; for the hoop or spasm Mag. phos. Hyperemia, or accumulation of blood arising from want of tone or tensile power of the circular muscular fibres of the blood vessels, which are dilated from a relaxed condition. Incontinence of urine, if from weakness of the sphincter muscle. Indigestion, from relaxed condition of the stomach, with distension, tenderness, or pain to touch ; pain after taking food. Inflammation (Hyperaemia), excess of blood in any part of the body. ,, of the skin, with or without fever, heat, pain, throbbing and redness. Inflammations, all, as well as all congestions and irritations caused by excess of blood in the blood vessels, particularly the capil- laries of any of the tissues. They require first Ferric, phos., and Potass, chlor. as second remedy. Such are:— Bronchitis, inflammation of the Bronchi (windpipe). Carditis, ,, muscle of the heart. Cerebritis, ,, brain. Cystitis, ,, bladder. Duodenitis, ,, duodenum. Encephalitis, ,, membrane covering the brain. Enteritis, ,, intestines (bowels). •Gastritis, ,, stomach. Hepatitis, „ liver. 136 FERRIC PHOSPHATE. Laryngitis, inflammation of larynx. Meningitis, „ cerebro spinal membrane. Mastitis, „ breasts, commonly called " weed."' Metritis, ,, uterus (womb). Nephritis, ,, kidneys. Otitis, „ ear. Pericarditis, ,, sac enclosing the heart. Peritonitis, ,, membrane lining the belly, also called inflammation of the side. Periostitis, „ periosteum, or membrane covering all bone. Phlebitis, „ veins. Phrenitis, ,, the brain, or brain fever. Pneumonia, ,, lungs, Pleuritis, ,, pleura, covering of the lung, also- called Pleurisy. Stomatitis, ,, mouth. Spleenitis, ,, spleen. Synovitis, ,, synovial membrane Tonsilitis, „ tonsils. Tympanitis, ,, drum of the ear. Injuries, cuts, fresh wounds; this remedy prevents pain, congestion,. swelling, or feverishness. Use also external applications. Intermittent fever, with vomiting of food. Ischuria, suppression of urine, with heat; also in little children. Lameness, recent, rheumatic, with feverish symptoms. Lungs, inflammation of, first stage, until free perspiration is established. ,, congestion of, with debility and oppression. Measles, in all stages, and for symptoms of inflammatory affection of chest, eyes, or ears. Menstruation (monthly period), excessive congestion, bright red blood; this remedy must be taken as a preventative before the periods, if recurrent. Morning sickness in pregnancy, with vomiting after food, with or without acid taste the food returns undigested. FERRIC PHOSPHATE. 137 Neuralgia, congestive or inflammatory, with a pain as if a nail were being driven in; blinding pain, one sided in the head, temples, or over the eye; or in the jaw-bone, from cold. Ostitis, with painful and inflamed surrounding soft parts. Pain of any kind, if accompanied by flushed face, burning or diffused heat. ,, soreness in every part of the body, especially the joints. Palpitation of the heart, see also Potass, phos. Periostitis, with painful, inflamed soft parts. Pimples, for the redness, heat, or congestion of the skin. Pleurisy, for the fever, pain, stitch in the side, catch in the breath, and short cough; when these abate, Potass, chlor. second remedy. Pleuro-Pneumonia ; the principal remedy at first, to be followed by Potass, chlor. Polyuria simplex, excessive secretion of urine. Quinsy, from the first alone, alternately with Potass, chlor., or Calc. sulph. Retinitis, in the first stage. Rheumatic fever. This remedy is often the only one required if taken at once ; if the swelling be considerable see Potass. chloride. Rheumatism, acute articular, most painful, a febrile disease in first stage, inflammatory action. Rheumatism, acute, when any movement sets up the pain, and all movements tend to keep up or increase the pain. Rheumatism of the joints, when painful on moving; first remedy. ,, pain, felt only during motion, or caused by motion. Rheumatism, muscular, acute or sub-acute, worse on moving. Scarlet fever, if the pulse be very high, this as an intercurrent remedy, or in alternation with Potass, chloride. JSkin affections, in the first or inflammatory stage. „ inflamed, sore and painful. Sore throat. See throat. JSores, to reduce heat, pain and congestion of the parts. JSprains, and to be used as soon as possible externally and internally. 138 FERRIC PHOSPHATE. Stiff neck, generally cured if simply from a chill. Stomach-ache, from cold or chill, frequent occurrence in children. „ inflammatory, if pressure aggravates the pains. „ with loose evacuations from a chill. Strains of tendons or ligaments ; this salt alternately with Calcium fluoride, the chief remedy. Teething, with feverishness. Throat, ulcerated ; this remedy reduces congestion, heat, fever, pain,, and throbbing. Throat, sore, dry, red, inflamed ; with much pain. Throbbing, pulsations in any part of the body with or without other pain. TiC'douloureux, congestive or inflammatory, in which the pain is beating,, or stitching with burning soreness, and often pressing and in- tolerable. Tinnitus aurium (noises in the head), when from flow of blood to the head. Tongue, inflammation of, dark red; with much swelling, also Potass,. chloride. Toothache, with hot cheek, inflamed gum or root of tooth. „ worse with hot, better with cold, liquids. Typhus, in the first stage, to subdue the fever, and regulate the pulse. Ulceration of glands, to relieve the throbbing pain, soreness, redness, heat, and congested condition ; for swelling, Potass, chloride. Ulcers, for, useful at any stage if there is fever or heat, redness, and congestion of parts. Uterus, inflammation of, first stage, to remove the fever and pain. Vomiting of food (not mucus) with acid taste. Vaginismus. Vomiting of blood, red blood, with tendency to form a gelatinous (liver- like) mass. „ of undigested food. Windpipe, irritation of the, with burning of the throat, pain and soreness. Wounds, if severe, surgical aid and Ferr. phos.,externally and internally. POTASSIUM CHLORIDE. 139 V.—Potassium. Chloride. The Diseases forming this group must be healed or treated with this cell-salt. Fibrinous exudations, glandular infiltration, and in- flammatory infiltration of the skin are caused through an abnormal condition of the molecules of Potass, chloride or muscle salt in the cells. Ailments, all, which have as a principal symptom a white or gray coat- ing or fur at the back of the tongue, or exudation (deposit) of a white or gray substance on the mucous lining, &c. ; or swellings caused by interstitial plastic exudations; discharges or expectora- tion of a thick white or yellowish white slimy mucus or phlegm from any of the mucous membranes. Abscess or the interstitial exudation after inflammation causing swell- ing, to reduce it and lessen the loss of substance thrown off as effete matter. Adhesions, recent, consequent on inflammations, fibrinous exudations arising from excessive blood pressure on the walls of the blood- vessels. Aphthe, thrush of little children, without great flow of saliva. Articular Rheumatism, acute, after Ferr. phos., or in alternation with it, for the swelling, and grayish white coated tongue. Ascarides, thread worms. Asthma (bronchial), for the mucus, if tough, and tongue whitish or furred grayish, alternately with Potass, phos. for the nervous depression. Asthma, treatment as above. Bleeding, when the blood is dark, black, clotted or tough. Blisters, arising from burns, also lotion on lint externally. Boils, to blight the swelling before matter forms; also lotion, or sprinkle on poultices. See p. 124. Bright's disease, as second renredy, after Ferr. phos. for the enlarged condition of the kidneys, when there is generally a white furred tongue. Bronchitis, second stage, when thick phlegm forms. Bruises, with swelling, after the use of Ferr. phos. Bubo, for swelling, if suppurative. 140 POTASSIUM CHLORIDE. Bunion, also externally after Ferric phosphate ; and if very hard, use Calcium fluoride. Catarrh, phlegm white, not transparent; if not readily yielding, also Calcium fluoride. Carbuncles, for the swelling, also as lotion on lint dressings alternately with Ferr. phos. if there is much inflammation. Chancre, principal remedy throughout, 3d trituration; internally, and externally as a lotion. Chapped hands or lips from cold ; also applied as lotion. Cheek, swollen ; to control and reduce the swelling. Chilblains on hands or feet, or any part, are cured by supplying this cell- salt internally and also externally. Congestion of any organ or part of the body, when there exists a white coated tongue. „ if the second stage has set in, there is exudation or ex- pectoration of white mucus. „ in the second stage, when there is exudation present, it causes swelling or enlargement. Cold in the chest, with thick white or yellowish spit. „ with a whitish or gray coated tongue. „ stuffy, in the head, with whitish-grey tongue. „ in the head, with white, non-transparent, or yellowish discharge. Calcium fluoride in obstinate cases. Condylomata, warty excrescences ; internal and external use. Constipation, light coloured stools, through want of bile from sluggish liver. ,, which is accompanied by a white coated tongue ; also when fat and pastry disagree. Cough, loud, noisy, stomach cough, with greyish-white tongue. „ with thick white phlegm, or yellowish-white. ,, stomachy, noisy, with protruded appearance of eyes, or itching at anus. „ croupy, hard, with white coated tongue; use also Calc. fluor. ,, with hoarseness, very persistent; also Potass, sulph. Croup, the principal remedy for the membranous exudation, if fever is present, Ferric phos. Obstinate cases require Calcium fluor. POTASSIUM CHLORIDE. 141 Crusta lactea, milk crust, sore or scald head of children ; principal remedy, to be followed by Calc, phos. •Cuts, with swelling as second remedy. See p. 124. ■Cystitis, inflammation of the bladder, second stage, swelling interstitial exudation. ,, chronic ; the principal remedy. Deafness, from swelling in the internal ear ; primary remedy. „ (throat), from swelling of the Eustachian tubes. „ with swelling of the glands, or cracking noise on blowing the nose, or a white coated tongue ; all these symptoms denote a disturbance of the molecules of this salt. Diabetes, excess of urine which is sweet from the sugar contained in it; in the incipient and pronounced stage, when the stomach and liver derangement shows itself by a gray or white coating on the tongue, pancreatic derangement, dry and light coloured stools from want of bile, pain in the kidneys, and when indigestion is caused by fatty food or pastry, which should be avoided, as also sugar and farinaceous food. Diarrhea, if after fatty food, pastry, &c. Evacuations light coloured. „ pale, yellow ochre or clay coloured stools. „ white, or slimy white, generally with the characteristic white coating of tongue. Diphtheria, the sole remedy in most cases in alternation with Ferr. phos. Use gargle, 3d trituration, 4-5 grs. in tumbler of water, very frequently. Eor prostration and adynamic condition, see Potass, phos. Discharges of thick, white, or yellowish slimy mucus, from the nose, ear, eyes, or any passages covered with a mucous membrane or fining. Diseases, see Ailments. „ which arise from a want of this salt, are marked either by swellings, torpor of liver, or by the casting off of effete albuminoid substance, as seen in a white coating of tongue, or whitish expectoration, calling for the use or introduction of Potass, chloride. Dropsy, arising from heart, liver, or kidney disease, showing the 142 POTASSIUM CHLORIDE. characteristic symptoms to be present, which the undue loss of this salt exhibits in the system. Dropsy, from obstruction of the bile ducts and enlargement of the liver, there is generally a white coating on the tongue. „ from weakness of the heart, this remedy in alternation with Potass, phos. „ with palpitation, also Potass, phos. „ in which the liquid drawn off is whitish, or white mucus in sediment of urine. Dysentery, purging with slimy bloody stools. In most cases this remedy with Ferr. phos. cures. Dyspepsia, with a white or grayish coated tongue, pain or heavy feeling on the right side over the liver; especially if fatty food dis- agrees, or the eyes look large and projecting ; if there is a dark appearance under the eyes give Potas. phos. for this complication. Ear-ache, with furred tongue, gray or white. „ with swelling of the glands. „ with swelling of the throat, or cracking noise in the ear when swallowing. Eczema, skin diseases arising after vaccination with bad lymph. „ resulting from suppressed or deranged uterine functions, generally with the characteristic white coating of tongue. ,, skin affections, with oozing from the inflamed skin, in alterna- tion with Ferr. phos ,, if very obstinate, also Calcium fluoride. „ with oozing of whitish opaque muco-purulent discharge and white coated tongue. „ skin affections, of vesicular form, or discharges on the skin of white secretions. Embolus, for the fibrinous condition of the blood, causing such ; also- Ferr. phos. for the circulatory disturbance. Epilepsy, if occurring with, or after suppression of Eczema or eruptionB. Eruptions, pustules, pimples ; also when discharging a whitish mattery substance. „ on the skin, rash, if connected with stomach derangement, and there exists a white coated tongue. POTASSIUM CHLORIDE. 143 Eruptions, accompanied with deranged menstrual period. Erysipelas, vesicular (blistering), the chief remedy. For the fever, Ferr. phosphate. Erythema, after the use of Ferr. phos., if there is any swelling. Exudations, fibrinous, in the interstitial connective-tissues, causing swelling or enlargement. Excoriation, chafing of the skin, especially if inclined to scab, and if the tongue is whitish looking. Expectoration (spit) of white, opaque, slimy mucus, or phlegm. Exudations, after inflammatory action, when slimy albuminoid substance has been exuded. Eyes (sore), on the lids, specks of matter. ,, ,, on the lids, yellow, mattery crusts ; primary remedy. Eye, superficial flat ulcer arising from a vesicle. „ opaque spots on the eye. ,, vesicle, blisters on the eye. Face-ache, with swelling of the gums or cheek. Festers, gatherings in any part require this remedy for the swelling. Gastritis, if caused from taking too hot drinks, this remedy at once. ,, second stage, also for white coating at back of tongue. Glandular swellings, chief remedy, but if very hard, Calc. fluor. Glands of the neck, swollen, require this remedy ; also lotion on lint dressings externally. Gonorrhea, principal remedy. Gumboil, swelling before matter forms alone or in alternation with Ferr. phos. Hemorrhage, blood black, thick, tough, clotted ; also Calc. fluor. Hemorrhoids (bleeding piles), dark, thick blood; for the tumours Calc fluoride. Headache, with vomiting, hawking up of milk-white mucus. ,, sick, with white coated tongue, or vomiting of white phlegm. Hip-joint disease, second stage, when swelling commences, or is present.. Hoarseness, loss of voice from cold ; in rare cases see also Potass, sulph. Hooping-cough, if there is a white tongue, and thick white expectora- tion. Indigestion, if caused by taking rich or fatty food. 144 POTASSIUM CHLORIDE. Indigestion, a sick feeling after taking fat; tongue generally furred gray or white. ,, vomiting of white opaque mucus. Imflammations, all, in the second stage of whatever organ or part of the body, require after Ferr. phos., as primary remedy, Potassium chloride; when the fever and inflammatory symptoms are sub- siding, to prevent, diffuse, or absorb the plastic exudation, con- sequent on congestion and inflammation. Inflammation of skin, with subcutaneous swelling, or second stage. ,, of soft palate, catarrhal, with white spots or patches. Injuries, from falls, blows, etc., with swelling of the parts. Intermittent fever, when the tongue is furred at the back, of grayish or white appearance. Irritation. Intertrigo (soreness, chafing of infants) ; see also Sod. chlor. Jaundice, if the disease has been caused by a chill resulting in a Catarrh of the Duodenum, and the tongue white coated, stools light coloured. Lameness, rheumatic ; and if with shiny, red swellings, also Calicum fluoride if not yielding altogether to this remedy. ,, chronic, caused by rheumatism of the joints. Liver, sluggish action of, pale colour of the evacuations, denoting want of bile, sometimes pain in the right side. ,, sluggish action of, generally accompanied by a white or grayish furred tongue, and constipation. Lung disease, if the expectoration is whitish, thick, or yellowish-white and slimy. The tongue frequently coated with white fur at back. Lungs, inflammation of, the second remedy; the tongue is generally white at the back when this remedy is required. Lupus, principal remedy ; see Calc. phos. Mastitis " weed" (gathering breast), second remedy, to control the swelling. See also p. 124. Measles, for the sore throat, or hoarse cough, and all glandular swell- ing, and tongue furred white or gray. after effects, diarrhoea, whitish, or light coloured loose stool* white tongue. POTASSIUM CHLORIDE. 145- Meningitis, as second remedy ; will cut short the disease. Menstruation, the monthly period delayed too late or suppressed, checked. „ if too early or lasting too long ; see also Potass, phos. ,, period, excessive, dark, clotted, or tough, black like tar. „ period, lasting too long, if other symptoms in this section detailed accompany it, „ courses or period suppresed. See also Potass, phos. ,, „ too frequent. Mumps: this remedy will cure alone, unless there be great flow of Baliva, in which case Sodium chloride will also be required. Morning sickness in pregnancy, with vomiting of white phlegm. Orchitis, primary remedy, if from suppressed Gonorrhoea. Palpitation, from excessive determination of blood to the heart; if Ferric phos. fails in hypertrophic conditions. Pericarditis, this second remedy may complete the cure. Peritonitis, this second remedy, following Ferric phos., may complete the cure. Pharyngitis, with swelling of the throat, gray or whitish exudation or pustules, as second remedy. Phlegm, mucus discharge of, from any cavity lined with a mucous membrane, such as bronchi, throat, nasal cavity, vagina, etc., must be treated with this remedy when the secretion is white, yellowish, thick or tough. It reduces the plastic exudation or waste matter there accumulating for want of this cell-salt, thus restoring normal function. Pimples, on the face, neck, etc., caused by disturbed action of the fol- licular glands; if the skin is much inflamed, also Ferr. phos. Pleurisy, as second remedy, after Ferric phos., will complete the cure, as it is the healing salt for the group of ailments in second stage. ,, second stage, after or in alternation with Ferr. phos. for the plastic exudation ; purely serous, Sod. chlor. Proud flesh requires, generally, this remedy only, internally and ex- ternally. Puerpural fever. This remedy alone may suffice for this disease, or in alternation with Ferr. phos. For perverted brain function, Potass, phos. 146 POTASSIUM CHLORIDE. Jtheumatic fever, second stage, when exudation takes place, seen as swelling around the jointe: this cell-salt will remove the swelling by restoring the non-functional cells of the excretory structures to normal action. Rheumatic fever, in the second stage ; and for red shiny swelling of the joints, it will in most cases suffice, after Ferr. phos. Rheumatic gouty pains, if movement makes them worse, and if there is a white or gray furred tongue. Rheumatic pains, if there is swelling of the parts. „ ,, which are only felt during motion, or increased by it; if Ferr. phos. does not remove them altogether. Jtheumatism, chronic, with swelling, or when all movement causes pain; there is generally a gray or white fur at the back of the tongue, Scabs, forming on pustules, greenish, brown, or white. Scales, white, floury, proceeding from blisters. „ on the scalp, white, and no increased watery secretions in any part. Scarlet fever : in mild cases it and Ferr. phos. for the febrile disturbance alone suffice. Scrofulous enlarged glands, enlarged abdomen with occasional diarrhoea, especially in the young. ■Scurvy, hard infiltrations ; the want of this salt is the cause of scurvy, it is readily cured by the use of this cell salt. Sick headache, when the tongue is furred at the back, looking grey or white, arising from a sluggish liver. Smallpox, the principal remedy ; controls the formation of pustules, Sores or ulcers, with whitish or dark gray tenacious crusts; when the parts are hard, swollen and callous, Calc. fluor. Sprains, second remedy, if swelling remain. Stomach, derangement of, with white coating at back of tongue, or greyish fur. ■Strumous conditions are benefitted by the use of this remedy and Calcium phosphate. Swellings, plastic exudations, in general, are controlled by it, Sycosis (eruption on bearded part of face), primary remedy, Syphilis, chronic stage. POTASSIUM CHLORIDE. 147 Throat (sore), ulcerated, with patches of white or grayish colour; generally with the characteristic white tongue, which requires this remedy to heal these processes. Toe-nail, ingrowing ; also mechanical aid. Tongue, coated, grayish white, dryish, not slimy, indicating that this cell-salt is required to restore the balance between the organic (albuminoid) and the inorganic substance (Potass, chloride). Tongue, inflammation of, for the swelling, „ inflammation of, after Ferr. phos. for swelling. Tonsils, inflammation of, when spotted, white or gray. Tonsilitis (Quinsy), chronic, with much swelling. Toothache, with swelling of the gums. Typhoid fever, for the tongue symptom, gray or white deposit, diarrhoea, evacuations pale, clay coloured, second stage ; also, abdominal tenderness and swelling. Typhus, for constipation, stools pale light coloured, in alternation with Ferr. phos, for fever. Ulcerations, all, when there is swelling or a dirty white surface and similar discharge ; see also Calcium sulphate. Ulceration of the os and cervix uteri, with the characteristic discharge of thick, white, or yellowish mild secretions (glandular) from the mucous membrane (alkaline). Ulcers, with hard swelling ; callous edges, Calcium fluoride will heal. Uterus, congestion of, second stage, hypertrophy to heal or reduce this condition, Vomiting of blood, dark, clotted. „ hawking of thick white, or yellowish white, phlegm. " Whites " (Leucorrhoea), milky white mucous discharge, thick, some- times yellowish, mild, non-irritating. Wheezing, rale or rattling sound of air passing through thick tenacious mucus in the bronchi, difficult to cough up, hard cough. 148 POTASSIUM PHOSPHATE. VI.—Potassium Phosphate. The Diseases forming this group must be healed or treated with Potassium phosphate, as they have their seat in some portion of either the nervous system, i.e. brain or nerve, or of muscles or blood corpuscles, of which this cell-salt is a constituent. Ailments, all, which arise from, or denote a want of nerve power ; hence nervous prostration, exhaustion, nervous rigors; and also all those affections in which the brain, and consequently the mind, shows want of vigour. Alternation of this remedy may often be re- quired whenever symptoms of exhaustion, or want of power in any of the nerves occurs, or in those cases where there is rapid decomposition of the blood, causing foul putrid conditions. Ague, for heavy exhausting sweats. Amenorrhea, retention or delay of the monthly flow, with depression of spirits, lassitude, and general nervous debility. Anemia, bloodlessness ; from continuous influences, depressing the mind, or rather the nerves. Anemia, cerebral; morbid conditions of the brain of anaemic nature, causing undue nervousness. Anxiety, nervous dread without special cause, gloomy moods, fancies, taking dark views of things, dark forebodings. Asthma, in often-repeated large doses; this the chief remedy for the de- pressed condition of the nervous system, and the breathing. „ bronchial, treatment same as above. Atrophy, wasting disease, with putrid smelling stools. Breath, offensive, foetid, tongue coated like brownish liquid mustard. Bladder, paralysis of sphincter muscle, causing inability of retaining the urine; generally of old people. Bleeding of the gums, predisposition to. Blood, loss of ; if dark, blackish, thin, not coagulating. Brain-fag, from over work, with loss of appetite, stupor, depressed spirits, irritability or great impatience, loss of memory or sleep- lessness. Bright's disease of the kidneys, for the depressed condition of the nerves showing itself in sleeplessness, irritability, weary feeline etc POTASSIUM PHOSPHATE. 149