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THE 
Biocheiiic.il Treatment ofDisease. 
BY 
DR. med. SCHUSSLER, 
OF df.DENBURG. 
Twelfth Edition, Partly Rewritten, with Appendix 
Containing Clinical Histories. 
TRANSLATED, WITH THE ADDITION OF A REPERTORY, 
BY 
j. t. O'ConsrnsroR, 
Late Professor of Toxic,ologv.and Materia Meilica . 
in the New York Homceopjtlhi?!;' 
Medical Co liege. 
PHILADELPHIA: 
F. E. BOE rT'CT'E' 
Hahnemann Publishing House. 
1885. Coyprighted, 1885, by F. E. Boericke. PREFACE. 
Moleschott, Professor of Physiology in the Univer- 
sity of Rome, says in his work Kreislauf des Lcbens 
(the Cycle of Life): " The structure and vitality of organs 
are dependent upon necessary amounts of inorganic con- 
stituents. And hereon is founded the estimation awak- 
ened within later years of the relations of the inorganic 
constituents to single parts of the body, and which, while 
neither disdaining other views nor hoping too much for 
itself, promises to Agriculture and to Medicine a brilliant 
future. In view of accepted facts it must be admitted 
that the constituents remaining after combustion-the ash 
-are just as essential to the intimate constitution, and 
thereby to the form-giving and kind-determining basis of 
tissues, as are those which disappear during combustion. 
There is no true bone without, as a basis, a gelatine- 
yielding substance as well as bone-earth, nor cartilage 
without cartilage salts, nor blood without iron, nor saliva 
without potassium chloride. Man is generated of earth 
and air. The activity of plants called him into being. 
The corpse breaks down into air and ash, in order that 
through the vegetable world new powers may develop 
in new forms." 
I have been led by the foregoing words to a study of 
the physiologico-chemical action of the inorganic con- 
stituents of the human organism. In consequence of 
this study, which I began eleven years ago, laying as a 
foundation the actual facts of the chemistry of the tissues, 4 
has arisen a Biochemical Therapy, which now appears in 
the Twelfth Edition. 
The First Edition, which was brought out in 1874, 
was merely a sketch of the biochemical method of cure. 
Every new edition added something to its predecessor. 
I have received several letters in regard to the prepa- 
ration of a new edition. In some the writers wished for 
greater detail; in others, for an alphabetical arrangement 
of the section, Special Guide for Using.the Inorganic 
Tissue-formers. But through an alphabetical arrange- 
ment, facts, which histologically or anatomically belong 
together, would be separated, and thereby the understand- 
ing of the whole would be rendered more difficult. 
Whoever wishes to use this book according to my 
intention, must impress upon his memory, by means of 
thorough study, the action of the twelve remedies. When 
he shall have done this he will have no need of an alpha- 
betic repertory, and he will soon, in the way of practice, 
arrive at the knowledge that the want of detail so com- 
plained of is to the thinking practitioner no hindrance to 
the successful use of the precepts in this work. But he 
who only now and then-as often as he is left in the 
lurch in a given case by the method of cure to which he 
is accustomed-resorts to the Biochemical Therapy as 
ultimu/m refugium without having made a thorough study 
of it, will, indeed, long for an alphabetic repertory of 
indications. My book is not designed for those who 
essay to traverse, on one foot only, the province of bio- 
chemical therapeutics. 
Dr. med. Schussler. 
Oldenburg, July, 1885. THE CONSTITUENTS OF THE HUMAN 
ORGANISM. 
The blood consists of water, sugar, fat, albumens, 
sodium chloride (common salt), calcium fluoride, silicic 
acid (silicea), iron,* calcium, magnesium, sodium and po- 
tassium. The latter are combined with phosphoric or with 
carbonic acid. Sodium salts predominate in the blood 
plasma; potassium salts in the blood-corpuscles. Sugar, 
fat, and the albumens are the so-called organic constitu- 
ents of the blood; water and the above-named salts are 
the inorganic ones. Sugar and fat are composed of 
carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; the albumens of carbon, 
oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and sulphur. 
The blood contains the material for all the tissues of 
the body. Through the walls of the capillary vessels, by 
means of which the arteries are in communication with 
the veins, there constantly transudes a portion of the 
blood plasma into the surrounding tissues. In the 
transuded fluid appear fine granules, which aggregate 
together to form germs, from which cells develop. The 
cells unite one to another, and in this manner are formed 
muscle and tendon, cartilage and bone, brain and nerve, 
connective tissue, skin, hair, nails, and, in short, all the 
parts of the organism. 
In the formation of the tissue-cells the salts influence 
* Manganese (manganum) is not a constant constituent of the blood, 
and need not be considered in connection with cell-formation. 6 
determinately the kind, the organic substance serving 
simply as a physical basis. 
The inorganic materials of nerve cells are magnesium 
phosphate, potassium phosphate, soda and iron The 
same salts, together with potassium chloride, appear in 
the muscle-cells. The specific material of the connective- 
tissue cells is silica, and that of the elastic-tissue cells is, 
probably, calcium fluoride. Calcium fluoride and mag- 
nesium phosphate are also found in bone. The bone-cells 
are distinguished by the large proportion of calcium 
phosphate present. A small quantity of calcium phos- 
phate is also present in the cells of muscle, nerve, brain, 
and connective tissue. Common salt, which exists in all 
the solid and fluid parts of the body, is the specific inor- 
ganic material of the cells of cartilage and of mucus. 
Hair and the crystalline lens contain, among other inor- 
ganic substances, also iron. The carbonates are, accord- 
ing to Moleschott, without any influence in the process of 
cell formation. 
The oxygen of the air which, after it is breathed, is 
taken in the blood, and thus reaches the tissues, acts upon 
the organic materials which are to enter into the formation 
of young cells. The products of this change are organic 
materials, which are physical bases of muscle, nerve, 
connective tissue, and mucus. By the union, through 
chemical affinity, of the previously named cell-salts with 
these organic materials, young cells are produced. With 
the formation of new cells there occurs at the same 
time a destruction of the old ones, resulting, from the 
action of oxygen upon the organic basis-substances con- 
tained in the cells, in a series of oxidations with a conse- 
quent breaking down of the cells. By the oxidation of 
the organic basis-substances there are formed urea, uric 
acid, sulphuric acid, phosphoric, lactic and carbonic acids, 
and water. Some intermediate members of the series, 7 
hypoxanthin, acetic and butyric acids, etc., need not be 
considered in connection with this therapy. Urea, uric 
acid, and sulphuric acid are the result of the oxidation of 
the albuminous substances, while phosphoric acid is pro- 
duced by the oxidation of the phosphorized fat (lecithin) 
contained in the nervous tissue, brain, spinal cord, and 
blood-corpuscles. Lactic acid results from the altered 
sugar, and finally breaks down into carbon dioxide and 
water. Sulphuric and phosphoric acids unite with the 
bases of the carbonates, forming phosphates and sulphates, 
and set free carbon dioxide. Uric acid unites with sodium, 
forming sodium urate-the latter, being a useless product, 
is eliminated from the system, while its accumulation in 
the neighborhood of the joints is the immediate cause of 
gout. 
The role of sodium sulphate is to remove the water 
resulting from the oxidation of the organic substances, 
and in which are suspended or dissolved the last members 
of the series of retrograde cell metamorphoses, uric acid, 
urea, etc., as well as the mineral matters set free. 
Disturbance of function of the molecules of sodium 
sulphate may be followed, according to its duration or 
extent as well as its location, by a retarded removal of 
this water of oxidation and its dissolved or suspended 
matter, and consequently by slower tissue changes; from 
these result diabetes, gout, etc. 
Sodium sulphate or Glauber's salt, and sodium chlo- 
ride or common salt, act in opposite ways. For while 
the Glauber's salt removes from the tissues the water 
alluded to, the common salt enters the tissues accompanied 
by water, etc., from the blood plasma, in order that the 
degree of moisture proper for each tissue may be main- 
tained. 
Through the presence of sodium phosphate lactic acid 
is decomposed into carbon dioxide and water. This salt 8 
possesses the power of fixing carbonic acid, and, indeed, 
takes up two equivalents of carbonic acid for each equiva- 
lent of phosphoric acid, which it contains. This combi- 
nation is brought to the lungs, and there by the action of 
oxygen from the air it frees the carbon dioxide from its 
loose union with sodium phosphate; the carbon dioxide 
is exhaled and is exchanged for oxygen. 
The final products of the oxidation of the organic 
substances are urea, carbonic acid, and water. As these, 
together with the salts set free, leave the tissues they give 
room to organic bodies as yet in a lower state of oxida- 
tion, in order that the latter may reach the same final 
transformation. 
The products of retrogressive tissue-change are con- 
veyed by means of the lymphatics, the connective tissue, 
and the veins to the gall-bladder, the lungs, the kidneys, 
the urinary bladder, and to the skin, and are removed 
from the organism with the urine, sweat, faeces, etc. 
Concerning the importance of the connective-tissue 
basis-substance Moleschott says : " It is among the noblest 
acquisitions of modern times, the way to which was paved 
by Virchow and Von Recklinghausen, that connective 
substance has, from the indifferent subordinate role for- 
merly credited to it, been raised to an unlooked-for and 
fruitful activity. That which formerly seemed only in- 
tended as a filling-in, or protective covering, appears now 
as the matrix, in which minute channels carry the plasma 
from the blood to the tissues, and return the same to the 
bloodvessels, and at the same time serves as one of the 
most important breeding places for young cells, which 
are able to raise themselves from undeveloped younger 
forms to the most special structures of the body." 
When by means of the digestion of food and drink 
taken into the body recompense is made to the blood for 
the loss it has suffered through the distribution of nutri- 9 
tive materials to the tissues, and if nutritive material is 
present in the tissues in requisite quantities and in the 
proper places, and no disturbance of the motion of the 
molecules occurs, then the building of new cells and the 
destruction of old ones proceeds normally, together with 
the elimination of useless materials, and the individual is 
in a state of health. 
A disturbance of the molecular motion of one of the 
inorganic materials in a tissue causes a sickness, for the 
cure of which it suffices that a minimal dose of the same 
inorganic substance be furnished, since the molecules of 
the material thus used as a remedy fill the breach in the 
chain of molecules of the cell-salts or tissue-salts under 
consideration. 
The adaptability of minimal doses to the end in view 
is shown in the following: 
Valentin, Professor of Physiology, says: "Nature 
works everywhere with an infinite number of small mag- 
nitudes, which, whether in homogeneous or heterogeneous 
aggregations, can only be perceived by our relatively 
obtuse organs of sense when in finite masses. The 
smallest picture which our eyes perceive proceeds from 
millions of waves of light. A granule of salt that we 
are hardly able to taste contains milliards of groups of 
atoms which no sentient eye will ever view." 
Atropin, even when diluted more than a million-fold, 
produces, according to Reuter, dilatation of the pupil in 
man and the lower warm-blooded animals. 
A litre of milk contains about four milligrams of iron, 
and a child, nourished upon milk only, receives therewith 
less than one milligram of iron at a dose. If four milli- 
grams represent the daily supply of iron contributed to 
the nourishment and growth of the child (for it is dis- 
tributed to all the iron-bearing cells of the organism) how 
small should be the dose, therapeutically considered, of 
a salt of iron given to allay a molecular disturbance 10 
occurring in a small cell territory, such a disturbance, for 
instance, as determines the hypersemia of irritation ? 
The amount of fluorine contained in milk has as yet 
not been quantitatively determined; the amount of it in 
the organism is much less than that of iron. It may be 
assumed that the amount of fluorine contained in milk is 
represented by a tenth of a milligram, therefore one milli- 
gram of calcium fluoride, pro dosi, if prescribed as a 
remedy, would be a large dose. 
The dose of a remedy prescribed according to chemical 
therapeutics had better be too small than too large; for 
if too small a repetition of it will attain the desired end, 
but if too large it will fail of reaching the purpose in view. 
Large doses of iron, given to cure chlorosis, disorder 
the stomach, pass off unused with the faeces, and in most 
cases leave the disease unaffected. 
Hydrochloric acid, when diluted a thousand-fold with 
water, dissolves with ease at the temperature of the body 
fibrin and gluten, and this solvent power does not increase, 
but diminishes, if the proportion of acid in the dilution 
be increased.-Liebig's Chemical letters, vol. ii., p. 119. 
I have used the inorganic cell-salts noted in this essay 
for ten years, usually in the sixth* trituration, and with 
very satisfactory results. For a year I have used the 
lower triturations with equally good effect-of the potas- 
sium and sodium salts the third,* of the others the fourth 
and fifth.* 
The remedies may be prescribed either in dry powder 
or in solution ; if in powder the dose is an amount equal 
in size to a pea; if in solution a number of drops corre- 
sponding to the former. In acute cases I give a dose 
every two hours; in chronic cases three times a day. 
In suitable cases the external use of the remedies is 
indicated. 
* Decimal, [Trans.] CHARACTERISTICS OF THE IN- 
ORGANIC TISSUE-SALTS. 
Iron (Ferrum Phosphoricum). 
Iron is a constituent of the blood-corpuscles, of muscle- 
cells, etc. When the equilibrium of the molecules of 
iron in the muscular fibres is disturbed, the fibres relax. 
When such a disturbance occurs in the circular fibres of 
the bloodvessels, the vessels dilate, and there ensues an 
accumulation of blood in the plexus of vessels so affected. 
By increased blood-pressure a rupture of the walls of a 
vessel may occur, and then haemorrhage results. 
When the muscles of the intestinal villi suffer a disturb- 
ance of function as regards their iron molecules, a diar- 
rhoea is produced. 
Should the muscular fibre of the intestinal convolu- 
tions become weak in consequence of altered equilibrium 
of its iron, the vermicular motion of the intestines pro- 
ceeds with lessened vigor, and a tendency to constipation 
appears. 
The iron molecules, therapeutically used, restore equi- 
librium to the pathologically disturbed function. 
Since iron restores the normal lumen to the morbidly 
dilated bloodvessels, it relieves the irritation hyperaemia, 
which underlies, so to say, the first stage of inflammation. 
A hyperaemia resulting from mechanical injury will be 
removed by this remedy, and under its use fresh wounds, 
not yet suppurating, quickly heal. 12 
Iron and its salts have the power of attracting oxygen ; 
in this consists their usefulness to the cells under con- 
sideration. I employ ferric phosphate (Ferrum Phos- 
phoricum). 
Several farmers have, upon my advice, given with con- 
stant success Ferrum Phosphoricum to sows which had 
become possessed with the mania of eating their young. 
This disorder, mania transitoria, is dependent upon hyper- 
aemia of the brain. 
Magnesium Phosphate (Magnesia Phosphorica). 
Magnesium phosphate is the mineral constituent of 
muscular and of nervous tissue; it is present also in the 
bones. As a nerve remedy it has done distinguished 
service. The pains which it cures are usually lightning- 
like, shooting, or boring, and are often accompanied by 
the feeling as if the part were tightly laced; they change 
their location readily, and are alleviated by warmth and 
by pressure. 
Pains in the head, face, teeth, stomach, abdomen, and 
limbs, when agreeing with the foregoing description, I 
have, in many cases, cured with this remedy. The 
abdominal pains, generally radiating from the umbilical 
region, and relieved by bending double or by pressure 
with the hand, were frequently accompanied by watery 
diarrhoea. Facial pains, which at their height are accom- 
panied by increased lachrymation, require not Magnesia, 
but Natrum Muriaticum. 
Iron and Magnesia are in their action antagonistic. 
Disturbance of function in the iron molecules results in 
relaxation of the muscular fibres, while if the disturb- 
ance be in the Magnesia molecules contraction is pro- 
duced. 
Therefore Magnesium Phosphate is the curative remedy 13 
for spasms, whether spasm of the glottis, cramps in the 
calf muscles, tetanus, tonic spasms, St. Vitus's dance, 
spasmodic retention of urine, etc. 
Farmers give, with prompt results, Magnesia Phos- 
phorica for cramp colic and flatulent colic of horses, and 
for acute flatulent distension (meteorism) of cattle. 
The inflammatory colic of horses requires Ferrum 
Phosphoricum, and if gangrene is beginning, Kali Phos- 
phoricum. 
Potassium Phosphate (Kali Phosphoricum). 
Potassium Phosphate is a constituent of the brain, the 
nerves, the muscles, and- of the blood-corpuscles. A 
disturbance of the function of the molecules of this salt 
produces: 
I. In the brain, according to the locality, extent, or 
intensity of the derangement: 
a. Mental depression, as shown by vexation, irritability, 
fearfulness, weeping mood, timidity : 
b. Softening of the brain. 
II. In the nerves: Laming pains, felt mostly during 
rest, and ameliorated by moving without exertion. Feel- 
ing of physical depression and exhaustion. 
III. In the muscle-cells: Fatty degeneration. In the 
muscle plasma putrid decomposition. In the blood- 
corpuscles a too rapid disintegration. 
Consequently Kali Phosphoricum is curative in the 
following conditions: Septic haemorrhages, scorbutus, 
gangrene, noma or stomatitis, gangrenous angina, phage- 
denic chancre, offensive, carrion-like diarrhoea, adynamic 
or typhoid conditions, etc. 
It is also, probably, a serviceable remedy in concussion 
of the brain. 14 
Calcium Phosphate (Calcarea Phosphorica). 
Calcium Phosphate is a constituent of the teeth, the 
bones, connective-tissue, blood-corpuscles, etc. 
It is the specific remedy for rickets, cranio-tabes (a 
rachitic process in the cranial bones), chlorosis, leukaemia, 
and hydrocephalus. It hastens the formation of callus in 
fractured bones, and also assists the development of the 
teeth. 
It is curative in the pains dependent upon anaemia, and 
which are usually accompanied by irritation of the skin, 
numbness, and feeling of coldness. 
The convulsions, spasms, etc., which occur in scrofulous 
persons are not always curable by Magnesia Phosphorica. 
When the latter fails in these cases Calcarea Phosphorica 
should be prescribed. 
Calcarea Phosphorica is a restorative remedy after 
acute diseases. 
Natrum Muriaticum (Common Salt). 
Common Salt is a constituent of all the fluids and 
solids of the body. Disturbance in the motion of the 
molecules of this salt produces a change in the degree of 
aqueousness of the solid or fluid part concerned; this 
change exhibits itself on the one side by lessened secre- 
tion, on the other by increase of the same.* Natrum 
Muriaticum cures pains in the head, teeth, face, stomach, 
etc., when they are accompanied by salivation, increased 
lachrymation, or by vomiting of water or mucus; and, 
further, catarrhs of all the mucous membranes, with secre- 
* Example: Increase of mucous secretion of the stomach with, at the 
same time, decrease of the mucous secretion of intestinal canal, and 
thereupon pains in stomach, with vomiting of mucus and retarded evacu- 
ations from the bowels. 15 
tions of transparent, watery, coarse, frothy mucus; as 
also vesicles with watery contents, which burst and leave 
a thin scurf. 
The watery vomiting and the increased aqueousness of 
the brain in acute diseases (typhus, scarlatina, small-pox), 
indicated by sopor, etc., are dependent upon a disturbance 
of function of the molecules of common salt. 
Kalium Chloratum* (Potassium Chloride). K. Mur. 
Potassium Chloride, or muscle salt, stands in a chemi- 
cal relation to fibrin. A disturbance of molecular motion 
affecting this salt can cause a fibrinous exudation. It, 
therefore, answers to croupous and diphtheritic exuda- 
tions. It cures dysentery, diphtheria, laryngeal croup, 
croupous pneumonia, fibrinous exudation in the interstitial 
connective tissue (<?. g., mastitis), acute infiltrations of the 
lymphatic glands, infiltrated inflammations of the skin 
with or without vesiculation (erysipelas), etc. Kalium 
Chloratum (Kali Mur.) is the surest remedy for many dis- 
orders, especially cutaneous eruptions, resulting from the 
use of bad lymph in vaccination. 
Calcarea Fluorata (Calcium Fluoride). 
Calcium Fluoride is found in the enamel of the teeth 
and in the superficial layers of bone. From therapeutic 
experience I assume that it is a constituent of the elastic 
fibres, and that their function is adjusted by this salt. 
Elastic fibres are found in the skin (corium), connective 
tissue, and the walls of the vessels. 
A disturbance of equilibrium of the molecules of Cal- 
* Kalium Chloratum of the Pharm. Germ, and of Schiissler's Therapy 
is the chloride (KC1), and not the chlorate (KC1O3), the latter being in 
Pharm. Germ. Kalium Chloricum. In this edition the term Kali Muriat- 
icum is used. 16 
cium Fluoride produces a long-continued relaxation of 
the fibres concerned. When the elastic fibres of any part 
of the system of canaliculi in connective tissue, or of the 
lymphatic system, become affected by such relaxation, 
absorption of a solid exudation existing at such place 
cannot be effected, and an induration there is the result. 
When the molecules of Calcium Fluoride in the elastic 
fibres of bloodvessels suffer a disturbance of equilibrium, 
the same pathological dilatations of the vessels already 
mentioned occur, and appear as haemorrhoids, varices, 
and telangiectasias. 
Natrum Phosphoricum (Sodium Phosphate). 
By the presence of Sodium Phosphate lactic acid is 
decomposed into carbonic acid and water. The Sodium 
Phosphate fixes the carbonic acid and carries it to the 
lungs. Therefore Sodium Phosphate is the remedy for 
those disorders which are dependent upon an excess of 
lactic acid. It answers especially to those diseases of 
infants suffering from excess of acid resulting from over- 
feeding with milk and sugar. The symptoms indicating 
Natrum Phosphoricum are: Sour eructations, vomiting 
of sour fluid or of curdlike masses, greenish diarrhoea, 
pain in the bowels, spasms, fever with acid symptoms, 
conjunctivitis with discharge that is creamy in consist- 
ence and golden-yellow in color, moist, golden-yellow 
coating on the tongue, palate, tonsils, etc. 
Natrum Sulphuricum (Sodium Sulphate). 
The following disorders call for this remedy: Gastric 
bilious phenomena, vomiting of bile, watery, bilious diar- 
rhoea, bitter taste, bilious fever, intermittent fever, oedema, 
cedematous inflammatory affections of the skin, smooth 17 
erysipelas, humid eruptions, fig warts, diabetes, gout, 
sandy deposits in urine, gravel, etc. 
Kali Sulphuricum (Potassium Sulphate), 
Potassium sulphate is the function remedy of the 
epidermis and of the epithelium. It is to be used for 
excessive desquamations of the epidermis, for epitheli- 
oma, yellow mucous discharge from the mucous mem- 
branes and conjunctiva, etc. 
As the epidermis is histogenetically allied to the crys- 
talline lens, the possibility of curing cataract by means of 
this remedy should not be lost sight of. 
Calcarea Sulphurica (Calcium Sulphate). 
Sulphate of Lime answers to the process of suppura- 
tion. It cures purulent discharges from mucous mem- 
branes, purulent exudation in serous sacs, tuberculous 
ulcerations of the intestines, ulceration of the cornea, etc. 
Silicea (Silica). 
Silica is a constituent of the connective tissue, of the 
skin*, the hair, and the nails. The action claimed for it 
upon the brain, spinal cord, and nerves, must be referred 
to the investing membrane (connective tissue) of the 
nerve-fibres. 
A disturbance of function of the Silicea molecules 
causes a turgescence of the involved plexus of connective- 
tissue cells. This swelling can remain stationary for a 
considerable time, and then either disappear or occasion 
suppuration. 
Silicea corresponds to the suppurative process like 
Calcarea Sulphurica, but between the two remedies there 
are the following differences: Silicea ripens abscesses, 18 
since it promotes suppuration ; Calcarea Sulphurica heals 
suppurating wounds, since it restrains the suppurative 
process. 
As long as the seat of a suppurating wound has spots 
of infiltration which can only disappear by suppuration, 
Silicea is indicated. The healing of the wound proceeds 
in proportion to the diminution of the infiltration. 
When, in the absence of infiltration, a suppurating 
wound does not heal on account of torpidity of the 
affected tissues, Calcarea Sulphurica is indicated. 
The inorganic substances present in the blood and 
tissues are sufficient for the removal of all diseases which 
are usually curable. 
The question whether this or that disease is dependent 
or not upon the presence of germs (micrococci, bacilli, etc.) 
is of no consequence in Biochemical Therapeutics. If 
the remedies specified in the following Special Guide are 
used, the design of therapeutics will be fulfilled in the 
shortest way. 
Chronic disorders dependent upon the misuse of medi- 
cines, such as quinine, mercury, etc., can be cured by 
minimal doses of the cell-salts. 
The symptoms determine the choice of the remedy. 
While the above-mentioned conditions are curable by 
means of the cell-salts, it is self-evident that acute cases 
of poisoning by arsenic, phosphorus, etc., must be treated 
according to the well-known principles relating to such 
cases. SPECIAL GUIDE 
FOR USING 
THE INORGANIC TISSUE-FORMERS. 
(FOR THE DOSE VIDE PAGE io.) 
Febrile and Inflammatory Conditions. 
Ferrum Phosphoricum corresponds to the fever 
of inflammation and to catarrhal and rheumatic 
fevers. 
Nervous fever, recognized by high body-tem- 
perature, rapid, irregular pulse, with nervous 
excitement, or great exhaustion and weakness, 
etc., requires Kali Phosphoricum. 
Exudations. 
Fibrinous exudations require, .... Kali Muriaticum. 
if poor in albumen, .... Natrum Muriaticum. 
if rich in albumen, .... Calcarea Phosphorica. 
Serous, 
Sero-purulentKali Sulphuricunu-- 
Bloody-serous, 
Ichorous, 
Kali Phosphoricum. 
Purulent, 
Bloody-purulent, 
Calcarea Sulphurica. 
When a fibrinous exudation, subcutaneous, 
or in the interstitial connective tissue, does not 20 
become absorbed under the use of Kali Muria- 
ticum, and suppuration ensues, Silicea should be 
prescribed. This assists the suppurative process 
already begun, and in most cases the collection 
of pus breaks spontaneously and externally. 
Should the abscess break, or if it be opened by 
incision, the use of Silicea is to be continued as 
long as the conditions last for which it was pre- 
scribed, i. e., if infiltration remain. If, notwith- 
standing the absence of infiltration, suppuration 
does not cease, Calcarea Sulphurica should be 
prescribed. Should the pus become ichorous and 
offensive, Kali Phosphoricum is required. 
When a fibrinous exudation, instead of sup- 
purating, passes over into induration, Calcarea 
Fluorica is indicated. 
Inflammations of the Serous Membranes. 
Meningitis, . . 
Pleuritis, . . . 
Pericarditis, . . 
Endocarditis, . . 
Peritonitis, . . 
The first stage corresponds to Ferrum 
Phosphoricim. For further indica- 
tions, vide Exudations. 
Pneumonia and Pleuritis. 
In the stage of hyperaemia: Ferrum Phosphori- 
cum. For further indications, vide Exudations, 
Acute Articular Rheumatism. 
Ferrum Phosphoricum, Kali Muriaticum, and 
Natrum Muriaticum are to be used according to 
the indications given under Fever and Exuda- 21 
tions. For the very violent pains Magnesia 
Phosphorica is to be used as an intercurrent 
remedy. Kali Sulphuricum corresponds to the 
migratory rheumatism of the joints. 
Gout. 
In an acute attack Ferrum Phosphoricum should 
be first prescribed; afterwards Natrum Sulphu- 
ricum. 
Chronic cases require Natrum Sulphuricum 
only. 
Croup. 
At first Ferrum Phosphoricum and Kali Mu- 
riaticum are to be used in alternation. If these 
remedies do not suffice give Calcarea Phosphorica 
and Calcarea Fluorata in alternation. 
Diseases of the Kidneys. 
Inflammation of the kidneys: Ferrum Phos- 
phoricum, Kali Muriaticum. Bright's disease: 
Calcarea Phosphorica. 
Puerperal Fever. 
At first Kali Muriaticum; then Kali Phos- 
phoricum. 
Typhus and Typhoid. 
The specific remedy is Kali Phosphoricum. If 
there is great stupor Natrum Muriaticum is indi- 
cated as an intercurrent remedy. 22 
Typhoid Adynamic Symptoms. 
If in an acute disease accompanied by fever 
(diphtheria, scarlet fever, smallpox, etc.) there is 
sopor, dryness of the tongue, with watery vomit- 
ing, etc., Natrum Muriaticum is to be used. When 
there is a brown deposit on the teeth, carrion-like 
offensive stools, with septic haemorrhages, Kali 
Phosphoricum is indicated. 
Diphtheria. 
Ferrum Phosphoricum corresponds to the fever, 
Kali Muriaticum to the exudation. If there is 
vomiting of watery fluid Natrum Muriaticum or 
Natrum Sulphuricum should be given ; the latter 
if greenish water is brought up. 
Kali Phosphoricum corresponds to well-marked 
putrid gangrenous conditions. It is curative also 
in the paralytic states, nasal voice, strabismus, etc., 
so often left after diphtheria. 
The simultaneous use of lime-water, carbolic 
solutions, ice-water, and the like, is wholly objec- 
tionable, because the action of the proper rem- 
edy is thereby interfered with. If in consequence 
of neglect or injudicious treatment the larynx 
becomes affected, Calcarea Phosphorica and Cal- 
carea Fluorica are to be given in alternation. 
Dysentery. 
Ferrum Phosphoricum and Kali Muriaticum 
suffice in most cases. 
If delirium and tympanites are present, or the 23 
discharges are carrion-like in odor, Kali Phos- 
phoricum is the remedy, as it also is when, without 
evidences of putrid decomposition, pure blood 
passes in quantity. 
Spasmodic pains in the abdomen, which are 
ameliorated by pressure and by bending double, 
require Magnesia Phosphorica. 
Scarlet Fever. 
In light cases Ferrum Phosphoricum and Kali 
Muriaticum are efficacious. 
In severe cases the proper remedy may be 
found by consulting the indications given under 
Diphtheria and Typhoid Adynamic Conditions. 
Dropsy following scarlet fever requires the 
remedies recommended for Diseases of the 
Kidneys. 
Smallpox. 
At first Kalium Muriaticum is to be used. If the 
pustules become purulent Calcarea Sulphurica is 
indicated. Should symptoms of adynamia and of 
decomposition of the blood arise, Kali Phospho- 
ricum is to be given. When the pustules are 
confluent Natrum Muriaticum is called for. 
Measles. 
At first Ferrum Phosphoricum. The remedies 
required later will be indicated by eye and cough 
symptoms. 24 
Pains of the Head and Face. 
Sticking, or pressure, or beating, increased by 
shaking the head, by stooping, and indeed by. every 
motion : Ferrum Phosphoricum. 
Pains, accompanied by heat and redness of the 
face: Ferrum Phosphoricum. 
Pains, with vomiting of bile: Natrum Sul- 
phuricum. 
Pains, with vomiting of transparent mucus or 
water: Natrum Muriaticum. 
Pains, with vomiting of the food eaten : Ferrum 
Phosphoricum. 
Pains, with hawking up of white mucus : Kalium 
Muriaticum. 
Shooting, stitching pains which intermit and 
change their location : Magnesia Phosphoricum. 
Pains in pale, sensitive, irritable persons: Kali 
Phosphoricum. 
Paroxysms of pain, followed by great weakness: 
Kali Phosphoricum. 
Pains, which grow worse in the warm room and 
in the evening, but are ameliorated in the open, 
cool air: Kali Sulphuricum. 
Pains, accompanied by the appearance of small 
nodules, the size of a pea, upon the scalp : Silicea. 
Pains, accompanied by a tongue coated with 
clear mucus, and sluggish evacuations: Natrum 
Muriaticum. 
Periodical pains, recurring daily, with profuse 
flow of smarting tears: Natrum Muriaticum. 25 
Pains, with crawling and feeling of coldness or 
numbness: Calcarea Phosphorica. 
The headaches of children are, as a rule, quickly 
cured by Ferrum Phosphoricum. 
Concussion of the Brain. 
The depression of function of the brain-cells 
resulting from the above requires Kali Phosphor- 
icum. 
Hydrocephaloid: Calcarea Phosphorica. 
Chronic Hydrocephalus : Calcarea Phosphorica. 
Cephalaematoma: Calcarea Fluorata. 
Cranio-tabes: Calcarea Phosphorica. 
Fontanelles remaining open too long: Calcarea 
Phosphorica. 
If, in any of the above conditions, a carrion-like 
offensive diarrhoea should exist, Kali Phosphoricum 
must be given. 
Delirium Tremens. 
In most cases Natrum Muriaticum is quickly 
curative, but when it fails Kali Phosphoricum is to 
be prescribed. 
Vertigo. 
If dependent on determination of blood to the 
brain, Ferrum Phosphoricum will relieve; if 
nervous in character, Kali Phosphoricum. Should 
any gastric trouble exist, regard must be had to 
the coating of the tongue. 26 
Ears. 
Inflammatory earache requires Ferrum Phos- 
phoricum. 
If the auditory canal appears closed from inflam- 
matory swelling: Silicea. 
Discharge of thin, yellow fluid from the ear: 
Kali Sulphuricum. 
Discharge of thick, yellow pus: Calcarea Sul- 
phurica and Silicea. 
Deafness, dependent upon catarrh and swelling 
of the Eustachian tube and of the tympanic cavity: 
Kali Muriaticum, Natrum Muriaticum, Kali Sul- 
phuricum, Silicea. 
Tinnitus (noises in the ears) from congestion : 
Ferrum Phosphoricum. 
Tinnitus, if nervous in origin: Kali Phospho- 
ricum. 
Mumps. 
Kali Muriaticum ; if accompanied by profuse 
salivation, Natrum Muriaticum. 
Toothache. 
Pain, accompanied by salivation or lachryma- 
tion : Natrum Muriaticum. 
Pain, with swelling of the gums and of the 
cheeks: Kali Muriaticum; if Kali Muriaticum is 
not sufficient, Silicea. If the swelling is of bony 
hardness: Calcarea Fluorata. 
Pain, which quickly changes its location, intermits, 
and is ameliorated by warmth: Magnesia Phospho- 
rica. 27 
Pain, which grows worse in a warm room and 
in the evening, better in the cool, open air: Kali 
Sulphuricum. 
Hot cheeks, with increase of pain by warmth, 
amelioration by cold drinks: Ferrum Phos- 
phoricum. 
If the gums bleed or have a bright red border: 
Kali Phosphoricum. 
When the pain is seated in the periosteum of 
the root, when the tooth is loose, when the out- 
side of the teeth is sensitive to the slightest touch: 
Calcarea Fluorata. 
Teething in Children. 
If fever is present: Ferrum Phosphoricum. 
Spasms with fever: Ferrum Phosphoricum. 
Spasms without fever: Magnesia Phosphorica 
and Calcarea Phosphorica. Ophthalmia: Ferrum 
Phosphoricum, Calcarea Phosphorica. Drooling, 
Natrum Muriaticum. Spasm of the glottis: Mag- 
nesia Phosphorica. Spasmodic cough : Magnesia 
Phosphorica. Spasms of the bladder : Magnesia 
Phosphorica. For diarrhoea, consult that section. 
Eyes. 
On the edges of the lids, purulent points: Kali 
Muriaticum. 
On the edges of the lids, yellow, purulent crusts: 
Kali Muriaticum, Kali Sulphuricum. 
Vesicles on the cornea: Natrum Muriaticum. 28 
Superficial ulcers on the cornea from a broken 
vesicle: Kalium Muriaticum. 
Deep ulcer of the cornea: Silicea, Calcarea 
Sulphurica. 
Opacities of the cornea: The spot is to be 
syringed several times daily with a low attenua- 
tion of Natrum Muriaticum. The molecules of 
Natrum Muriaticum which remain upon the af- 
fected spot, act through their power of absorbing 
moisture, and produce a gradual maceration of 
the spot with its subsequent removal. 
Yellowish-green, purulent discharge : Kali Mu- 
riaticum, Kali Sulphuricum. 
Golden yellow, creamy discharge: Natrum 
Phosphoricum. 
White, mucous discharge: Kali Muriaticum. 
Clear, mucous discharge with smarting, biting 
lachrymation : Natrum Muriaticum. 
Yellow, purulent mucus: Kali Sulphuricum. 
Thick, yellow pus: Calcarea Sulphurica, and 
Silicea. 
Intense redness, with violent pain, without 
either mucous or purulent discharge: Ferrum 
Phosphoricum. 
Eye-pains recurring daily at the same time, 
with lachrymation : Natrum Muriaticum. 
Styes, nodules, and indurations of the lids: 
Silicea. 
Spasms of the lids : Magnesia Phosphorica and 
Calcarea Phosphorica. 
Spasmodic strabismus : Magnesia Phosphorica. 29 
Fiery sparks, diplopia, photopsia, and chro- 
mopsia: Magnesia Phosphorica (internally and 
externally used). 
Weak sight after diphtheria: Kali Phos- 
phoricum. 
Photophobia: Magnesia Phosphorica (internally 
and externally used). 
Weak sight after suppressed perspiration of the 
feet: Silicea. 
Hypopion: Silicea. 
Retinal exudation: Kali Muriaticum. In the 
first stages of retinitis, Ferrum Phosphoricum is 
indicated. 
Cavity of the Mouth. 
Catarrhal Inflammation of the mucous mem- 
brane covering the soft palate, tonsils, and 
pharynx: 
When redness and violent pain are present: 
Ferrum Phosphoricum. 
When a white exudation is present: Kali Mu- 
riaticum. 
When the exudation is golden yellow: Natrum 
Phosphoricum. 
When a transparent, coarse frothy mucus: 
Natrum Muriaticum. 
When the tonsils are swollen and a white or 
whitish-gray layer covers the tonsils: Kalium 
Muriaticum. If a collection of pus seems about 
to break: Silicea. 
For chronic swellings of the tonsils: Kali 30 
Muriaticum, Calcarea Phosphorica, and Natrum 
Muriaticum. 
Inflammation of the Tongue : If the tongue 
is greatly swollen and dark red: Ferrum Phos- 
phoricum. In most cases this will be sufficient; 
if not, Kali Muriaticum. Should suppuration 
occur: Calcarea Sulphurica. For induration: 
Silicea, Calcarea Fluorica. 
Cancrum Oris and Scorbutus : Kali Phospho- 
ricum. 
Gums : If the gums are pale, Calcarea Phos- 
phorica is especially suitable. If the gums have a 
bright red border, Kali Phosphoricum is indicated. 
The latter is also the remedy in easy bleeding of 
the gums. 
Coating of the Tongue : For a white, not 
slimy coating, Kalium Muriaticum. If the coat be 
slimy, and the edges of the tongue decked with 
bubbles of saliva: Natrum Muriaticum. 
Dirty brownish-green coating, at the same time 
a bitter taste: Natrum Sulphuricum. 
Tongue as if spread over with liquid [dark] 
mustard, accompanied by an offensive odor from 
the mouth : Kali Phosphoricum. 
Coating, golden yellow and moist: Natrum 
Phosphoricum. 
Coating, yellow, slimy: Kali Sulphuricum. 
The influence of the coating of the tongue in 
selecting a remedy does not extend to the dis- 
orders of every tissue, but it is to be regarded in 
those cases which I have pointed out in this book. 31 
If a person suffering from chronic catarrh of the 
stomach is attacked by an acute disease, the coat- 
ing of the tongue will not always indicate the rem- 
edy for the acute disorder. 
Should a disease-especially a chronic one- 
exhibit only undefined or uncertain symptoms, the 
coating of the tongue will lead, in most cases, to 
the correct choice of a remedy. 
Aphthae, Thrush: Kali Muriaticum, Kali Phos- 
phoricum, and Natrum Muriaticum. The latter, 
when there is profuse drooling. 
Noma: Kali Phosphoricum. 
Vomiting. 
Vomiting of food: Ferrum Phosphoricum, Cal- 
carea Fluorata. 
Vomiting of food, together with a sour fluid: 
Ferrum Phosphoricum. 
Vomiting of bile only: Natrum Sulphuricum. 
Vomiting of transparent mucus drawn out into 
long strings: Natrum Muriaticum. 
Vomiting of watery fluid: Natrum Muriaticum. 
Vomiting of blood: Ferrum Phosphoricum, 
Kali Muriaticum, and Natrum Phosphoricum. 
Hawking up of white mucus: Kali Muriaticum. 
Vomiting of sour fluid or of curdy masses: 
Natrum Phosphoricum. 
Jaundice. 
If this disorder is dependent on a gastro-duo- 
denal catarrh : Kali Muriaticum and Natrum Mu- 32 
riaticum. The coating of the tongue, etc., must 
determine the choice of the remedy. 
Jaundice after vexation: Natrum Sulphuricum. 
Pains in the Stomach and Abdomen. 
Acute inflammation of the stomach, with 
violent pain in the distended gastric region, vom- 
iting and fever: Ferrum Phosphoricum. 
In a case where treatment has been delayed, 
and exhaustion, dry tongue, etc., are present, Kali 
Phosphoricum must be given. 
Acute and chronic gastralgias, which are 
aggravated by taking food and by pressure upon 
the epigastrium, and especially if vomiting of 
food occurs, require Ferrum Phosphoricum. 
Cramp-like gastrodynia with clean tongue: 
Magnesia Phosphorica. 
Feeling of cramp-like constriction: Magnesia 
Phosphorica. 
Stomach-pains, with accumulation of water in 
the mouth: Natrum Muriaticum. In this condi- 
tion, if Natrum Muriaticum does not complete the 
cure, there is present, as a rule, a coated tongue 
requiring Kali Muriaticum or Kali Sulphuricum. 
Pressure and feeling of fulness, with yel- 
low, slimy coating of the tongue : Kali Sulphuri- 
cum. 
Griping in the stomach, with eructations of air 
in small portions, affording no relief: Magnesia 
Phosphorica. 
Colic, ameliorated by bending double, by rub- 33 
bing, by external warmth, and by eructations: 
Magnesia Phosphorica. 
Colic in the umbilical region, necessitating the 
patient to bend double: Magnesia Phosphorica. 
Flatulent colic of little children, with drawing 
up of the limbs, with or without diarrhoea: Mag- 
nesia Phosphorica. If excess of acid is present, 
Natrum Phosphoricum is to be prescribed. 
In gastric pains, accompanied by vomiting, the 
character of the vomited matters indicates the 
remedy. 
Gastric affections, with predominating acidity: 
Natrum Phosphoricum. 
Ulceration of the stomach: Natrum Phosphor- 
icum. 
Diarrhoea. 
Evacuations,watery, slimy: Natrum Muflaticum. 
Evacuations, like rice-water: Kali Phosphori- 
cum. 
Evacuations, putrid, carrion-like: Kali Phos- 
phoricum. 
Evacuations, watery-bilious : Natrum Sulphuri- 
cum. 
Evacuations, bloody, bloody-mucous : Kali Mu- 
riaticum. 
Evacuations, purulent, bloody-purulent: Cal- 
carea Sulphurica. 
Evacuations, undigested: Ferrum Phosphori- 
cum. 
Diarrhoea depending upon excessive acidity: 
Natrum Phosphoricum. 34 
Worms. 
For Ascaris Lumbricoides and Oxyuris Vermicu- 
laris, Natrum Phosphoricum is, in most cases, suf- 
ficient, probably because it removes the excess of 
lactic acid which appears to furnish the conditions 
for existence of these worms. 
Hemorrhoids. 
The chief remedy is Calcarea Fluorata, vide 
page 16. As together with the local haemor- 
rhoidal affection there are present functional dis- 
turbances of the liver, stomach, etc., bearing a 
causal relation to it, regard must be held for such 
disturbances in the effort to radically cure haemor- 
rhoids. 
There must, therefore, be given, in alternation 
with Calcarea Fluorata, another remedy whose 
choice will depend upon some characteristic ac- 
companying symptom. The remedies, to be es- 
pecially considered in this view, are Natrum Mu- 
riaticum, Natrum Sulphuricum, Kali Sulphuricum. 
Diabetes Mellitus. 
I have used, with success, Natrum Sulphuricum. 
My experience in this disease is confirmed: 
1. Through two cases, reported to me from 
Scotland, cured by means of Natrum Sulphuricum. 
2. Through one, reported in an Italian work, 
by Dr. Brentano, which says: 
" Il dottor ?Egidi 1'amministro con pieno suc- 
cesso in un caso di diabete mellito " (Dr. .Tsgidi 35 
prescribed it (Natrum Sulphuricum) with com- 
plete success in a case of Diabetes Mellitus). 
Coryza. 
Stopped or dry coryza: Kali Muriaticum and 
Calcarea Fluorata. 
Fluent coryza: secretion, watery, clear mucus: 
Natrum Muriaticum. 
Fluent coryza: secretion, yellow mucus: Kali 
Sulphuricum. 
Fluent coryza : secretion, thick, purulent: Cal- 
carea Sulphurica. 
For ozaena, Kali Phosphoricum is to be used 
if the mucous membrane is the seat of the disor- 
der. If it proceed from the periosteum, or from 
the submucous connective tissue, Silicea is indi- 
cated. The remedies are to be used internally as 
well as locally. If a positive diagnosis cannot be 
made, both remedies should be used in alterna- 
tion. 
Hoarseness. 
For simple hoarseness, arising from a cold: 
Kali Muriaticum. Kali Sulphuricum is sometimes, 
though seldom, required. 
If the hoarseness results from over-exertion of 
the voice, as with actors, singers, etc., Ferrum 
Phosphoricum is required, and, possibly, Kali 
Phosphoricum. 
Coughs. 
An acute, short, spasmodic, very painful cough 
requires Ferrum Phosphoricum ; next, Kali Mu- 36 
riaticum. A real convulsive cough corresponds 
to Magnesia Phosphorica. In regard to the ac- 
companying expectoration, vide "Diseases of the 
Mucous Membranes." 
Asthma. 
For nervous asthma, Kali Phosphoricum and 
Magnesia Phosphorica are indicated, the latter if 
flatulent symptoms predominate. 
Bronchitic asthma requires Natrum Muriaticum 
if there is expectoration of transparent or frothy 
mucus; Kali Sulphuricum, if yellow mucus is 
coughed up without great exertion ; Kali Muri- 
aticum, if the secretion is white ; Calcarea Fluo- 
rata, if, after long-continued efforts, small, yellow 
lumps are brought up. 
The inflammatory-catarrhal stage requires Fer- 
rum Phosphoricum ; the nervous stage, Magnesia 
Phosphorica. For the vomiting of food, Ferrum 
Phosphoricum is to be used. According to the 
properties of the expectoration, Kali Muriaticum, 
Natrum Muriaticum, or Kali Sulphuricum is to 
be selected. Special concomitant symptoms may 
render necessary the use of a corresponding in- 
tercurrent remedy, perhaps Kali Phosphoricum, 
or Calcarea Phosphorica. 
W HOOPING-COUGH. 
Symptoms of asphyxia, blueness of the face, 
convulsive cough with foamy, serous expectora- 
Acute CEdema of the Lungs. 37 
tion, require Kali Phosphoricum and Natrum 
Muriaticum. 
Diseases of the Mucous Membranes. 
The choice of the remedy is dependent upon 
the consistence and color of the secretion : 
If fibrinous : Kali Muriaticum. 
If albuminous : Calcarea Phosphorica (yellow- 
ish, tough lumps : Calcarea Fluorata). 
If golden yellow : Natrum Phosphoricum. 
If yellowish: Kali Sulphuricum. 
If greenish : Kali Sulphuricum. 
If clear, transparent: Natrum Muriaticum. 
If purulent: Calcarea Sulphurica. 
If of extremely offensive odor : Kali Phosphor- 
icum. 
If excoriating: Natrum Muriaticum. 
Upon the basis of the above distinctions, the 
selection of a remedy for bronchial coughs, leu- 
corrhoea, coryza, catarrh of the frontal sinuses, etc., 
is to be made. 
Inflammation and Catarrh of the Bladder. 
In acute cases, Ferrum Phosphoricum is to be 
first prescribed ; next, Kali Muriaticum. Chronic 
cases require Calcarea Sulphurica. 
Retention of Urine. 
If dependent upon spasm, Magnesia Phosphor- 
ica is the remedy. Ferrum Phosphoricum is cura- 
tive in the retention of urine, accompanied by 
feverish conditions, in little children. 38 
Nocturnal Enuresis. 
If the disorder be nervous in character, Kali 
Phosphoricum is to be given ; if the muscular coat 
of the bladder be affected chiefly, Ferrum Phos- 
phoricum. In most cases, Kali Phosphoricum is 
indicated. In children suffering from worms, Na- 
trum Phosphoricum is to be used. 
Diseases of the Skin. 
The remedies, recommended for diseases of the 
mucous membranes, also correspond to affections 
of the skin: eczema, herpes, etc. 
Vesicles, with seroso-fibrinous contents: Kali 
Muriaticum. 
Vesicles, with albuminous contents: Calcarea 
Phosphorica. 
Vesicles, with clear, watery contents: Natrum 
Muriaticum. 
Vesicles, with honey-like, yellow contents : Na- 
trum Phosphoricum. 
Vesicles, with yellow, watery contents: Natrum 
Sulphuricum. 
Vesicles, with purulent contents : Calcarea Sul- 
phurica. 
Vesicles, with bloody, ichorous contents: Kali 
Phosphoricum. 
Pustules, on an infiltrated base, Silicea. Crusts, 
scales or scurf arising on the area of vesicular 
eruption require the following remedies : 
Mealy scurf: Kali Muriaticum. 
White-yellowish crusts : Calcarea Phosphorica. 39 
White scales: Natrum Muriaticum. 
Honey-yellow crusts : Natrum Phosphoricum. 
Yellowish scales : Natrum Sulphuricum. 
Yellow, purulent crusts : Calcarea Sulphurica. 
Greasy, offensive-smelling crusts or scales: 
Kali Phosphoricum. 
Profuse scaling off of the epidermis, on a viscid, 
gummy base : Kali Sulphuricum. 
Hard scabs on the palms of the hands, with or 
without cracks (rhagades) : Calcarea Fluorata. 
Swelling of the sebaceous glands : Natrum Mu- 
riaticum. 
Inflammation and suppuration of the sebaceous 
glands : Silicea, or, it may be, Calcarea Sulphurica. 
The humid eruptions require the Natrum salts, 
according to the properties and color-distinctions 
of the discharge as given above. 
For eruptions arising after vaccination, Kali 
Muriaticum is to be used. 
For intertrigo, or excoriation of little children : 
Kali Muriaticum, Natrum Phosphoricum and Na- 
trum Muriaticum are suitable. 
If a carrion-like, offensive diarrhoea is present: 
Kali Phosphoricum. 
Urticaria, or nettle-rash: Kali Phosphoricum. 
Pruritus: Calcarea Phosphorica (4th decimal 
potency). 
Rhagades, fissured or chapped skin: Calcarea 
Fluorata. 
Erysipelas : the oedematous, soft inflammation 
of the skin requires Natrum Sulphuricum ; an 40 
infiltrated inflammation corresponds to Kali Mu- 
riaticum. 
For herpes zoster, Kali Muriaticum and Na- 
trum Muriaticum are the remedies. 
In erysipelatous affections, symptoms of intense 
fever and inflammation may indicate Ferrum Phos- 
phoricum. The process of desquamation will be 
aided by Kali Sulphuricum. 
Pemphigus : Pemphigus Vulgaris (bullae and 
vesicles with yellow, watery contents, the uplifted 
stratum corneum being well distended) requires 
Natrum Sulphuricum ; in Pemphigus Malignus 
(the bullae containing watery-bloody fluid are 
never full, the epidermic covering being flaccid or 
wrinkled), Kali Phosphoricum is the remedy. 
Burns of the first and second grades : Kali Mu- 
riaticum ; should suppuration follow, Calcarea Sul- 
phurica is to be prescribed. 
Chilblains, if recent: Kali Phosphoricum; if 
suppurating: Calcarea Sulphurica. 
• If Ferrum Phosphoricum be prescribed in the 
beginning of an inflammation of the skin or of the 
connective tissue, the disease-process will be 
aborted. But if the stage to which this remedy is 
suitable has passed, Kali Muriaticum must be given. 
Should pus form, Siliceaor Calcarea Sulphurica is 
the remedy. If the pus become ill-colored, icho- 
rous, badly smelling, Kali Phosphoricum is to be 
given. Exuberant granulations (proud flesh) call 
for Kali Muriaticum. Paronychia (whitlow, felon) 
must be treated according to the foregoing method. 41 
If the bone be involved, Calcarea Fluorata is es- 
pecially the remedy. The treatment of furuncles, 
boils and carbuncles results from what has been 
already said. 
In hard, scorbutic infiltrations of the subcutane- 
ous connective tissue : Kali Muriaticum. Scorbu- 
tic haemorrhages: Kali Phosphoricum. Ingrowing 
toe-nail: Kali Muriaticum, together with mechan- 
ical aids. 
Lupus: Kali Muriaticum, Calcarea Phosphorica. 
Epithelioma : Kali Sulphuricum. 
Consequences of the stings of insects : Natrum 
Muriaticum (externally). 
Warts on the hands: Kali Muriaticum. A 
quantity of the trituration, the size of a pea, is to 
be dissolved in a tablespoonful of water, and with 
this solution the affected part is to be moistened 
once a day. 
Mastitis. 
Kali Muriaticum is the remedy before suppu- 
ration has begun ; afterward, Silicea is to be used ; 
finally, proceed according to the directions given 
on pages 19 and 20. 
Lymphatic Glands. 
Acute swellings require Kali Muriaticum; chronic 
swellings need Kali Muriaticum, Calcarea Phos- 
phorica, and Calcarea Fluorata. For tendency to 
suppuration and during the suppurative process, 
Silicea and Calcarea Sulphurica respectively. 42 
Calcarea Fluorata is the remedy when there is 
induration around the seat of suppuration. 
Chancre and Gonorrhcea. 
The soft chancre requires Kali Muriaticum ; the 
phagedenic chancre, Kali Phosphoricum; the 
hard chancre, Calcarea Fluorata. These remedies 
are to be applied externally as well as internally. 
For chronic syphilis, Kali Muriaticum, Natrum 
Muriaticum, Natrum Sulphuricum. Calcarea Sul- 
phurica, Silicea, and Calcarea Fluorata are to be 
used according to the symptoms. 
Gonorrhoea: The chief remedy is Kali Muriati- 
cum. If the secretion is bloody-purulent, Calca- 
rea Sulphurica is to be given ; if yellow-mucous, 
Kali Sulphuricum. 
Bleeding from the urethra requires Kali Phos- 
phoricum. 
For gleet: Natrum Muriaticum and Calcarea 
Phosphorica. 
The remedies are to be used internally and in 
injection, being dissolved for this purpose in warm 
distilled water or rain water. Before Qie injec- 
tion is made, the patient should urinate in order 
that the gonorrhoeal secretion may be removed 
from the canal. 
Orchitis requires Ferrum Phosphoricum, then 
Kali Muriaticum, and possibly Calcarea Phos- 
phorica. 
Induration of the testicle : Calcarea Fluorata. 
CEdema of the scrotum : Natrum Muriaticum 
and Natrum Sulphuricum. 43 
CEdema of the prepuce : Natrum Muriaticum 
and Natrum Sulphuricum. 
Balanitis : Kali Phosphoricum (externally and 
internally). 
Hydrocele: Calcarea Phosphorica. 
Mechanical Injuries. 
Bruises, incised and other fresh wounds, sprains, 
etc., require, all, at first, Ferrum Phosphoricum. 
Should there remain, after the use of this remedy, 
any swelling at the affected spot, Kali Muriaticum 
is to be used. If, in neglected cases, suppuration 
ensues, Silicea or Calcarea Sulphurica is suitable. 
If the discharge be sanious, or gangrene exist: 
Kali Phosphoricum. Exuberant granulations, or 
proud flesh: Kali Muriaticum. 
Fractures of bone require, together with me- 
chanical measures, at first, Ferrum Phosphoricum 
for the injury to the soft parts; later, Calcarea 
Phosphorica, to promote the formation of callus. 
Tenalgia crepitans (crepitating or crackling 
painful tendons), which occurs above the wrist on 
the dorsal side of the forearm, in joiners, cabinet- 
makers, and other artisans as a result of over- 
exertion in using the chisel or other tool with a 
semi-rotatory motion, has been quickly relieved by 
me in two cases by means of Ferrum Phosphori- 
cum. 
A third case, which under allopathic treatment 
had become chronic, I cured quickly by means of 
Kali Muriaticum, after Ferrum Phosphoricum had 
failed. 44 
Ulcers of the Leg. 
For this condition, the remedies already recom- 
mended for affections of the skin and of the mu- 
cous membranes, are to be considered. 
For varicose ulcers Calcarea Fluorata is the 
remedy. 
Diseases of Bone. 
When the neighboring soft parts are red, hot 
and painful; Ferrum Phosphoricum. For the 
suppurative process in bone: Silicea, Calcarea 
Sulphurica, and Calcarea Phosphorica. Exosto- 
sis ; hard, rough, jagged masses or protuberances 
upon the surface of bone require Calcarea Fluo- 
rata. 
This remedy is better than Silicea in cephalae- 
matoma, a bloody tumor upon the parietal bone 
in new-born children. 
For rickets, the remedy is Calcarea Phosphor- 
ica. If it be accompanied by atrophy with ill- 
smelling diarrhoeic discharges, this condition must 
first be removed by means of Kali Phosphoricum. 
Conditions of excessive acidity must be relieved 
by Natrum Phosphoricum. 
Hip-joint Disease : At first, Ferrum Phosphori- 
cum ; then, Silicea. 
Spina Ventosa : Calcarea Fluorata, in alterna- 
tion with Magnesia Phosphorica. 
The remedy for true chlorosis is Calcarea 
Phosphorica. As soon as a decided improvement 
Chlorosis. 45 
of the general condition sets in, Ferrum Phos- 
phoricum is to be used. Kali Muriaticum may 
be required as an intercurrent remedy when any 
of the symptoms of that remedy, eczema, etc., are 
present as concomitants. Conditions similar to 
chlorosis require Natrum Muriaticum and Kali 
Phosphoricum, the choice depending upon the 
characteristic accompanying symptoms. 
Kali Phosphoricum cures the leukaemia which 
is induced by long-continued mental disorders. 
Haemorrhages. . 
Blood red, easily coagulating as a gelatinous 
mass: Ferrum Phosphoricum. 
Blood black, thick, viscid : Kali Muriaticum. 
Blood, either bright or dark, and at the same 
time thin and watery, not coagulating: Kali 
Phosphoricum and Natrum Muriaticum. 
Epistaxis in children corresponds in general to 
Ferrum Phosphoricum. For the predisposition to 
epistaxis ; Kali Phosphoricum. 
Uterine haemorrhages: Especially Calcarea P'lu- 
orata. 
Bleeding from haemorrhoids: Ferrum Phos- 
phoricum, Kali Muriaticum, and Calcarea Fluo- 
rata. 
Menstruation. 
For disturbances in the menstrual function, the 
accompanying symptoms must determine the 
choice of the remedy. 46 
Labor. 
Labor pains weak, inefficient: Kali Phosphor- 
icum. 
Labor pains spasmodic, eclampsia: Magnesia 
Phosphorica. 
Menstrual Colic. 
Usually, Magnesia Phosphorica. Pale, sensi- 
tive, irritable persons, inclined to weep readily, re- 
quire Kali Phosphoricum. 
If accompanied by acceleration of the pulse and 
increased redness of the face: Ferrum Phosphor- 
icum. 
Vaginismus: Ferrum Phosphoricum, Magnesia 
Phosphorica. 
Pains in the Back, Back of the Neck, and 
Limbs. 
Pains, which are felt only when moving, or 
which are made worse then : Ferrum Phosphori- 
cum; as a secondary remedy: Kali Muriaticum. 
Pains, laming, ameliorated by moderate exer- 
cise, mostly felt on beginning to move, as when 
rising from a sitting posture, and made worse by 
fatiguing effort, as by too long a walk: Kali 
Phosphoricum. 
Pains, with numbness or cold feeling, or with a 
crawling sensation, worse at night and when at 
rest: Calcarea Phosphorica. 
Pains, quick, shooting, boring, intermitting, 
changing locality: Magnesia Phosphorica. 47 
Lumbago: Ferrum Phosphoricum, Calcarea 
Phosphorica. 
Sciatica: Kali Phosphoricum. 
Pains which become worse in the warm room 
and towards evening, better in the open, cool air: 
Kali Sulphuricum. 
For pains which the patient cannot precisely 
describe, the remedy must be discovered by some 
characteristic accompanying symptom, e.g., the 
coating of the tongue, a cutaneous eruption, etc. 
Fungoid inflammation of the joints, eg., white 
swelling, requires Kali Sulphuricum. 
Suppuration of the joints : Calcarea Sulphurica 
and Silicea. 
Hygroma Patellae (dropsy of the bursa patella, 
or true housemaid's knee) : Calcarea Phosphorica. 
Spasmodic and other Nervous Affections. 
For palpitation of the heart: Ferrum Phos- 
phoricum, Kali Muriaticum, Kali Phosphoricum, 
Kali Sulphuricum, etc., are indicated, according to 
the accompanying symptoms in each case. 
For epilepsy: Kali Muriaticum is almost a 
specific. 
Spasm of the glottis, trismus, tetanus, cramps in 
the calves of the legs, St. Vitus's dance, etc.: 
Magnesia Phosphorica and Calcarea Phosphorica. 
Intermittent Fever. 
Natrum Sulphuricum is the curative remedy 
for intermittent fever. The applicability of the 
remedy arises from the following physiologico- 48 
chemical or pathologico-chemical considerations: 
The aqueousness of the blood corpuscles and of 
the blood serum of a person suffering from 
intermittent fever is increased and thereby the re- 
ceptivity for oxygen is lessened. Natrum Sulphu- 
ricum effects the withdrawal of the excess of water 
in the organism, as was shown on page 7. If 
the aqueousness of the blood corpuscles is by the 
influence of Natrum Sulphuricum brought back to 
the normal, they are enabled to take up the 
proper amount of oxygen and to deliver it to the 
cells of the tissues. 
As the tissues are brought back in this manner 
from a pathological to a physiological condition, 
they are enabled to eliminate from the organism 
the cause of the intermittent fever, whether it be 
malarial emanations or microbes. 
In dry mountain air, rich in oxygen, intermittent 
fever is cured of itself, since a plentiful supply of 
oxygen in the organism results in the elimina- 
tion of a great deal of water by exhalation. 
In intermittent fever I employ Natrum Sul- 
phuricum in the 3d decimal attenuation. 
Persons suffering from intermittent fever should 
not partake of milk or buttermilk, nor of dishes 
made from them, nor of eggs, fat, or fish. 
Dropsy. 
Dropsy, resulting from loss of blood or of other 
vital fluids : Calcarea Phosphorica, Ferrum Phos- 
phoricum. 49 
Dropsy, after scarlatina: Natrum Muriaticum 
and Natrum Sulphuricum. 
Simple oedema: Natrum Sulphuricum and Na- 
trum Muriaticum. 
For dropsy depending upon disease of the 
heart, liver, kidneys, etc., the remedy is to be 
chosen according to the character of the accom- 
panying symptoms. 
Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Cord. 
The inorganic constituents of the brain and 
spinal cord are: Sodium Chloride (Natrum Mu- 
riaticum), Phosphate of Iron (Ferrum Phosphori- 
cum), Sodium Phosphate (Natrum Phosphoricum), 
Magnesium Phosphate, Potassium Phosphoricum 
(Kali Phosphoricum), Phosphate of Lime (Calca- 
rea Phosphorica), and Potassium Chloride (Kali 
Muriaticum). 
Phosphate of Iron, which, as was shown on page 
t 2, possesses the property of attracting oxygen, 
adjusts the distribution of the latter in the brain 
and spinal cord. Sodium Chloride effects the 
distribution of water. A disturbance of the mo- 
tion of the molecules of this salt produces, accord- 
ing to its locality and distribution, the symptoms 
of delirium tremens, sunstroke, etc. Sodium Phos- 
phate (Natrum Phosphoricum) decomposes the 
lactic acid contained in the above-named organs 
into carbon dioxide and water. 
Magnesium Phosphate regulates sensation, and 
is also the function remedy for the motor nerves. 50 
From a disturbance in the molecular motion of 
Kali Phosphoricum in the " thought-cells," arise 
false conceptions with the character of depression, 
causeless fear, hypochondriasis, melancholia, etc. 
Small doses of this salt cure the disorders just 
named. 
Calcarea Phosphorica has relation to the con- 
nective-tissue cells. Kalium Chloratum (Kali 
Mur.), which is in the greatest amount in the 
brain and spinal cord, is that mineral which, at 
first, with the albuminous materials, enters into 
the composition of cells, and without which cells 
of the brain and spinal cord cannot exist. In a 
disturbance of the molecular motion of Kali Mur. 
tabes dorsalis probably has its origin and course. 
Some allopathic physicians, among them Dr. 
Kassowitz in Vienna, and Professor Hagenbach 
in Berne, order Phosphorus, in minimal doses, for 
Rachitis, as follows: 
ADDENDUM TO PAGE io. 
R. Phosphori, ....... o.oi gm. 
Solve in oleo amygd. dulc., .... 10.0 " 
Pulv. gumm. arab., 
Syr. simpl., aa . . . . . . . 5-° " 
Aquae destill., ....... 80.0 " 
The above mixture represents the 4th decimal 
attenuation of Phosphorus; but, as it is taken in 
teaspoonful doses, it corresponds to the 3d deci- 
mal attenuation. 
By the use of such a solution of Phosphorus, a 51 
cure results in the following way: The Phospho- 
rus molecules unite within the organism with oxy- 
gen molecules, producing phosphoric acid. This 
unites with the molecules of calcium carbonate 
contained in rachitic bone, eliminating carbonic 
acid, and forming Calcium Phosphate (Calcarea 
Phosphorica), which is the remedy for rickets. 
Such treatment of rickets agrees qualitatively and 
quantitatively with the method of treatment given 
in this book, when Calcarea Phosphorica is pre- 
scribed in the 3d decimal trituration. 
As a part of the molecules of Phosphorus, or of 
Calcarea Phosphorica, has the opportunity, on the 
way to their place of destination, the rachitic 
bones, of combining with molecules of carbonates 
(of Potassium, Magnesium, Sodium), the affected 
bones receive only, perhaps, about the fourth part 
of the dose of Phosphorus determined on. 
The possibility that the salts just named may 
appropriate all the molecules of the Phosphorus 
furnished to them, explains the bad results which 
frequently occur. But, if Calcarea Phosphorica 
be prescribed, a surer result will be attained, be- 
cause it will not enter into combination with the 
above-named salts. APPENDIX. 
CLINICAL REPORTS FROM THE " STUTTGART HOMCEO- 
PATHIC MONTHLY." 
M. K., aged 16, suffered for years from a periodically 
returning headache, which concentrated in the right tem- 
ple and, as the patient expressed it, was boring in char- 
acter. It was preceded by burning in the stomach, bitter 
taste, weariness. The attacks appeared only at night or 
in the morning, and the patient was then wholly unfitted 
for work. Generally, vomiting of bile followed and there- 
upon came relief. 
Natrum Sulphuricum, 6th trituration, daily a dose of 
the size of a bean, cured the girl permanently.-F. 
M. L., a man aged 38, became chilled while perspiring; 
then followed tearing pains in the limbs, roaring in the 
ears, with deafness and frontal headache. There was also 
fever without remission, in spite of nightly sweats; very 
little appetite; tongue coated white. 
I gave Kalium Chloratum, 6th trituration, a small dose 
every two hours, with rapid relief of the general condi- 
tion; the tearing pain and a feeling of numbness in the 
soles of the feet only remained. An habitual foot-sweat 
was, however, absent. The man now received Silicea twice 
a day for eight days. The sweating of the feet returned, 
and then the rest of the disorder disappeared.-F. 54 
J. D., a man aged 69, complained for some weeks of 
pains in the limbs. The pains have settled in the right 
leg from the hip to the ankle, and are worse in the joints. 
The pain shifts its place, is often lightning-like, shooting, 
intermits, renders necessary a change of position, and is 
ameliorated by the warmth of the bed. The patient is in 
despair; thinks he has tetanus and that he must die; he 
is unable to leave the bed. 
Magnesia Phosphorica, 6th trituration, every three 
hours, was given with rapidly following improvement, but 
as the remedy was omitted for some days he grew worse. 
By the continued use of it for abo-ut three weeks a perma- 
nent cure resulted.-Fr. 
I was called to a girl of 12, who had already passed 
through one acute attack of articular rheumatism. The 
patient was taken sick the day before. Both knee-joints 
were red, swollen, hot, very painful; the vertebral articu- 
lations were also involved, and every movement of the 
head from the constrained position of the neck and back 
was extremely painful. The relatives expected the, to 
them well-known, treatment with Salicylic Acid, but I 
used Ferrum Phosphoricum and Kalium Chloratum in 
alternation every three hours. On the following day the 
fever and pain were much lessened and the knee-joints 
were free. I now continued Kalium Chloratum alone, 
but on the next morning I had to return to Ferrum Phos- 
phoricum as all the conditions had grown worse. Again 
there was rapid improvement; but in proportion to the 
decrease of swelling and painfulness of the joints there 
appeared violent spasmodic pains in the abdomen, with 
vomiting of the food with bile and mucus. As soon as 
these last symptoms appeared I dissolved a dose of Mag- 
nesia Phosphorica in water and allowed the patient to 55 
take it by sips, with entire relief in twenty-four hours, and 
under the continued use of Ferrum Phosphoricum and 
Kalium Chloratum the patient, in six days after my last 
interference, recovered so that he was able to leave his 
bed, and felt entirely well.-Dr. Schlegel, Tubingen. 
(Remarks by the Editor.-From the above re- 
ported cure it is evident that a correct application of 
Schiissler's remedies is followed by suprisingly favorable 
results. We have frequently recommended these reme- 
dies in acute articular rheumatism in consequence of their 
certainty of action.) 
A girl about 9 years old, who had just gotten through 
diphtheria and scarlatina easily, and who had been for 
several days convalescing, suddenly began to swell with- 
out any assignable cause. The face was puffed ; oedema 
of the feet extended above the ankles (the urine, however, 
was scarcely lessened in quantity and contained no albu- 
men); the kidneys were not sensitive to pressure; the 
pulse was somewhat feverish, yet the appetite, evacuations, 
and sleep were good. Aconite, Belladonna, and Hepar 
were given without effect. Both the anasarca and ascites 
increased rapidly. The urine became lessened in amount, 
from one to two tablespoonfuls being passed at a time, was 
slightly turbid, yet contained relatively a good deal of 
albumen; it was not examined for tube-casts, as the 
disease was plain, and the kidneys by this time were sen- 
sitive to pressure. Consciousness was not wholly clear. 
Natrum Muriaticum improved the case and within 
about fourteen days cured the whole condition.-Dr. 
Cohn, Stettin. 56 
FROM HIRSCHEL'S " ZEITSCHRIFT FUR HOMOOPATHISCHE 
KLINIK." 
A young man who for some years has been almost 
covered by the unfortunate hypodermic injections of Mor- 
phine on account of a sciatica, had in consequence an 
abscess on the nates, which broke but would not heal. 
When, finally, the closure of the abscess seemed accom- 
plished, and he was in correspondingly good health, he 
took cold in a pouring rain while present, as a spectator, 
at the military manoeuvres ; the wound reopened, suppura- 
tion began anew and so actively that the patient's mother 
doubted his recovery. He was very weak; had no appe- 
tite. Sleep was disturbed, and there was constant thirst, 
especially for beer. 
He received now six doses of Silicea, 3d trituration, a 
dose to be taken daily early in the morning while fasting. 
In eight days the mother was able to give a very favorable 
report. Suppuration had so greatly lessened that for a 
time it seemed to have entirely stopped; the thirst had 
ceased, appetite returned, as also had sleep, and, finally, 
the previously existing chilliness or cold feeling had dis- 
appeared. In short, Silicea had proven, in a brilliant 
manner, its curative power, and especially its reputation 
as a remedy in the various suppurative processes as 
well as in the secondary conditions dependent thereon.- 
Dr. H. Goullon, Jr. 
FROM THE "ALLGEMEINEN HOMOOPATHISCHEN 
ZEITUNG." 
Dr. Feichtmann of Also Lendra, in Hungary, reports: 
I wag called to a patient in the country who had lain sick 
for three days with a spasmodic hiccough. Hypodermic 57 
injections of Morphine, Chloroform embrocations, and sin- 
apisms were used. The hiccough ceased for two or three 
hours, but then returned even more violently. I dissolved 
a powder of Magnesia Phosphorica in half a glass of water, 
and after the second tablespoonful the hiccough, to the 
astonishment of the relatives, was relieved permanently. 
Of acute articular rheumatism I have had fifteen cases, 
and all were quickly cured by Ferrum Phosphoricum. 
A hard swelling beneath the chin, of the size of a 
pigeon's egg, for which both allopathic and homoeopathic 
remedies were used in vain, disappeared completely within 
four weeks under Calcarea Fluorata. 
Malignant diphtheria resists even the most lauded rem- 
edies. Kali Phosphoricum alone, and also with Natrum 
Muriaticum has effected recovery. 
In paralysis following diphtheria I know no remedy 
surer or quicker in action than Kali Phosphoricum. 
Six weeks ago I had a very interesting case to treat 
which deserves the notice of homoeopaths. 
I was called to a lady of advancd age who had suffered 
for five weeks with attacks of the most frightful convul- 
sions, about thirty in the twenty-four hours. The convul- 
sive action flashed through the body like an electric 
shock, so that she would fall down. The attack lasted 
for a few minutes and then, save for a little weakness, she 
felt well. She had to keep her bed lest she should receive 
more injury. She had been treated by an allopath with 
Oxide of Zinc, Copper, Fowler's Solution, and with cold 
rubbings, but without effect. Upon seeing the-lady I 
made a trial of Schiissler's function remedies. As we 
know that Magnesia Phosphorica, Kali Phosphoricum, 
and Calcarea Phosphorica are the antispasmodic reme- 58 
dies, I chose the latter, Calcarea Phosphorica, and to the 
astonishment of those present at my visit on the next day, 
I found the old lady walking about the room, joyously 
greeting me, and saying, " Doctor, my spasms are cured." 
There was actually no new attack.-Dr. Feichtmann. 
Reuter, a master shoemaker in Berlin, about 40 years 
old, was taken sick, presumably after catching cold, with 
symptoms of fever and violent pain in the right shoulder- 
joint. I saw the patient for the first time on November 
21, 1875, the third day of his illness. There were high 
temperature, full and rapid pulse, thirst and loss of appetite. 
The right shoulder was greatly swollen and reddened and 
was extremely sensitive to touch. He was unable to 
remain in bed, as the pressure of the pillow against the 
shoulder was simply unbearable, and he lay upon a sofa 
supported by pillows in such a manner that the shoulder 
was free. 
He received Ferrum Phosphoricum, 6th decimal tritu- 
ration, a portion of the size of a bean being dissolved in a 
wineglass of water, and of this he took a tablespoonful 
every hour. After a few hours improvement began. He 
was able to sleep the following night, and by the next day 
the fever was greatly lessened. By November 25th he 
could move the arm readily, and on the 28th he tried to 
use the hammer, but experienced such pain that he had 
to refrain from working for a few days.-Dr. L. Sulzer. 
Dr. Fischer of Berlin was consulted 18 months ago by 
a lady who was pregnant, and who suffered from a cough. 
At every coughing spell urine was involuntarily passed. 
Ferrum Phosphoricum, 6th decimal trituration, quickly 
cured. A short time ago the same lady was suffering 59 
from a similar cough ; she was again pregnant. The same 
remedy relieved her promptly. 
I. In thirty-five cases of measles in children treated by 
me, the prodromic stage, the coryza and the bronchial 
catarrh, was very slight. Conjunctivitis and the accom- 
panying photophobia were severe. After a few days the 
eruption appeared, was fully developed for five or six 
days and then paled. Either during the efflorescence or 
after its disappearance a painful swelling of the parotid, 
upon one or both sides, followed; the fever returned and 
the children were in misery day and night. 
My remedy was Ferrum Phosphoricum, 4th dilution, a 
few drops in a spoonful of water, every one or two hours, 
according to the severity of the fever. I had given it 
already in the prodromic stage, and as its action was quite 
satisfactory, I did not seek another remedy. So, also, I 
used no other remedy than the above for the paro- 
titis, with swelling, external redness and painfulness, and 
with satisfactory results. 
2. In September of last year I went to a mountainous 
district to see a farmer whose helper told me that she had 
wounded her thumb while sharpening a scythe. The 
condition was as follows: The whole thumb of the left 
hand was swollen, bluish-red, sensitive to pressure and 
hot. On the extensor side, behind the nail, at the site of 
the joint, was a small wound from which could be pressed 
a pale yellow, slimy fluid intermixed with white shreds. 
Upon trial both phalanges could be readily dislocated, 
and I then heard a noise which I had observed in pre- 
vious cases, and which determined me to give Calcarea 
Fluorata. The farmer said that he had given the woman, 60 
from his domestic case, Silicea for fourteen days, but that 
no result was noticeable. A doctor whom the woman had 
consulted once, proposed amputation as the only thing to 
be done. 
Upon my seeing the farmer some time after, he 
remarked that the woman's thumb was quite well. 
3. A woman aged 56, the wife of a shoemaker of Sim- 
bach, and who always wore blue spectacles, came to me 
stating that she was blind in the right eye. The origin 
and course of the disorder are as follows: Three years 
ago, January 15th, at midday, she walked from Arnsdorf 
to Simbach. The whole expanse of country was covered 
with snow, and the sun was shining brightly. In an 
instant, as she was looking at the glistening snow, she felt 
a violent pain in the right eye, and the next consequence 
was that she could no longer see. She took some snow 
and laid it upon the eye, whereupon she thought she ex- 
perienced some relief. After her return home the physi- 
cian who was called put leeches to the right temple and 
gave her an active purgative. She remained in bed 
three weeks. The eye-pains indeed disappeared, but 
from that time she was unable to see with the right eye. 
Later, she went to Passau to visit the oculist of that 
place, Dr. E. 
He gave her a purgative and some unguentum Hy- 
drargyria to be used by inunction about the right eye. 
After using the inunction for eight days her teeth became 
loose, and she threw the ointment away. The sight had 
become no better. When, later on, Professor Rothmund 
of Munich operated for cataract on the pastor of Landau, 
she went to Landau to consult him. " If this medicine 
does not help, you will remain blind all your life," said 
Rothmund, giving her a prescription for Potassium Iodide. 61 
Notwithstanding renewing the prescription three times, 
she was no better, and she was inconsolable. 
With the right eye she saw almost nothing. It was as 
if she were looking through smoke and fog, and she said 
the left eye became worse from month to month. 
External examination showed the conjunctiva, cornea, 
iris, etc., to be entirely unaffected, and this, together with 
the history of the case, convinced me that I had to deal 
with a disorder of the inner structure of the eye. 
Of the retina itself I could see but little, for a kind of 
fog was before it which appeared to me to spread from the 
side of the vitreous and to cover the fundus. By varying 
the direction of the illuminating rays I was able to get a 
better view of the retina. This was dim and misty; the 
veins were distinct, dark, and tortuous. In some places 
there were illy defined dark spots, some large, some 
small, which seemed to me to be residua of previous 
extravasations of blood. The arteries were with diffi- 
culty recognized, were pale and their calibre was less than 
normal. 
The therapeutic indication was now clear, i. e., to pro- 
duce absorption of the exudation. 
As, according to Professor Rothmund's view, inflamma- 
tion of the retina always proceeds from the connective 
tissue, and its product, being coagulable, is certainly 
fibrinous, and, as is well known, can become hypertro- 
phied or can undergo fatty degeneration, the most 
suitable remedy among those which occurred to me was 
Kalium Chloratum, or Sulphur. The former was chosen, 
and the patient received eight powders of about two cen- 
tigrams each, in the 6th potency, with instructions to 
dissolve a powder in half a wineglassful of water, and to 
take a spoonful morning and evening. In two weeks she 
came and said: "I think I am no worse; give me the 62 
same powders again." She received twelve with the 
same directions. 
One day she came to me very early and, full of joy, 
reported that on getting up that morning she had seen 
the window-sash plainly. I now tested her vision at 
different distances, and found, indeed, that her power of 
sight was better. " I see through the fog fairly well," she 
said. 
Under the continued use of Kalium Chloratum, at 
longer intervals, the patient was able to see quite well 
within four months. 
In June, 1877, writes Dr. Kock, there came to me an 
old lady of 72, whom I remember to have seen, when I 
as a student passed the holidays with my grandparents at 
Simbach, going about with a green shade over her eyes. 
She complained of a continual burning in the eyes and 
of an unceasing flow of water from them which was as 
acrid as salt water. From eight o'clock in the morning 
till evening when the sun went down there was no cessa- 
tion, but at night she was better : she was always thirsty, 
and had but little appetite. 
Externally the conjunctiva palpebrarum was in a state 
of chronic inflammation; on each side of the nose there 
was excoriation with eczema of the skin in consequence 
of the irritating lachrymation. The puncta lachrymalia 
were dilated, but the nasal ducts were permeable. 
Regarding the remedy, I hesitated between Natrum 
Muriaticum and Arsenicum. What decided me in favor 
of the former was Dr. Schiissler's commendation of this 
remedy in relation to the lachrymal glands, and especially 
the kind and time of aggravation, which in Natrum Mu- 
riaticum is exactly in the forenoon, while Arsenicum 
selects the night-time. 63 
Natrum Muriaticum, 6th potency, was prescribed, a 
decigram in fifty grams of distilled water, of which solu- 
tion a teaspoonful was to be taken three times a day. 
In three weeks there was marked lessening of the 
symptoms, and a rapid cure resulted. 
A swelling, of the size of a pigeon's egg, under the 
lower jaw became much smaller under Kalium Chloratum, 
but remained uneven and as hard as a stone. It disap- 
peared in a few days under the influence of Calcarea Fluo- 
rata ; a slight conjunctivitis which followed was cured by 
Kalium Chloratum.-Dr. Kock. 
FROM THE REPORT OF THE MEETING OF HOMCEOPATHIC 
PHYSICIANS HELD AT SCHAFFHAUSEN, SEPT. 29 AND 
30, 1877. 
Professor Dr. Rapp said : 
The chief service of Schussler's Therapy consists in 
the introduction of Kali Phosphoricum and Magnesia 
Phosphorica into the Homoeopathic armamentarium. In 
ordinary stomatitis, with sponginess of the gums, deposit, 
and foul odor from the mouth, Kali Phosphoricum was 
found very effective. 
In asthma after the slightest indulgence in food, with 
ashy complexion, rapid emaciation, and sunken eyes, 
Rapp mentions Kali chiefly. 
In December, 1879, Dr. Cruwell made the following 
report upon enuresis : 
When I became acquainted with Schiissler's Therapy 
I was especially desirous of testing the action of Kali 64 
Phosphoricum, as Schiissler recommends this remedy for 
paralysis or paralytic conditions. 
Whoever has been long engaged in treating mental dis- 
orders is too readily inclined to discover paralysis every- 
where, and I well know that in endeavoring to find out 
the sphere of action of Kali Phosphoricum I may perhaps 
have given it too frequently. I use generally the 6th tritu- 
ration, and I could not help noticing that comparatively 
many patients complained of having experienced after 
taking the remedy a peculiar urging to urinate. These 
statements were confirmed by a fragmentary proving made 
upon myself, and thus I was inclined to try the remedy 
in enuresis. 
I usually dissolve .2 gram of the 6th trituration in 7.5 
grams of water and then add 7.5 grams of alcohol; of 
this I order ten drops to be taken in water from two to 
four times a day. 
In five cases which up to this time I have had in my 
practice (in two I had previously given Pulsatilla and 
Phosphoric Acid without effect) a surprisingly rapid im- 
provement followed the use of Kali Phosphoricum. 
In two girls aged seven I had to repeat the remedy 
until a short time ago, for upon suspending it a relapse 
always occurred. 
The most favorable result from this medicine was in 
the case of a gentleman aged 60, in whom, in fact, it cured 
a sub-paralytic condition of the muscular structure of the 
bladder, and who came some months after to say that he 
was well, and to get as a matter of precaution a vial of the 
remedy. 
A woman aged 29, of sanguine temperament, her face 
flushing readily, suffered for five years from the following 
disorder of the stomach, after a drink of cold water taken 
while heated. There was loss of appetite with, specially, 65 
aversion to milk; there was nausea after eating, with vom- 
iting of food, and the vomited matters were so acid that the 
teeth were set on edge ; she could not endure acids ; her- 
rings caused much discomfort, as did meat, and especially 
coffee with cake. The vomiting came on frequently in 
the morning while fasting, at other times after eating. 
Besides, there was headache; she felt a hammering in the 
forehead and in the temples, formerly mostly on the left 
but now more on the right side, and so violent that she 
feared a stroke of apoplexy. Menstruation appeared every 
three weeks and profusely, accompanied by pressure in 
the abdomen and small of the back. The bowels were 
regular, sleep restless, disturbed by anxious dreams, and in 
the morning she felt bruised. In the evening she felt a 
sense of tightness so that she had to loosen her dress, and 
generally she was not able to wear it snug. The pulse 
was 100 per minute. As a girl she had always been well 
and has not had chlorosis. Notwithstanding her long- 
continued sufferings, the patient was on the whole not 
proportionally emaciated. This was the picture of her 
case that she gave. The marked symptoms directed my 
choice to Iron, and I gave Ferrum Phosphoricum, 6th tritu- 
ration, as much as could be taken up on the point of a 
knife, before each meal; she was to use it for two weeks. 
When I next saw her she informed me that the whole 
disorder had disappeared.-Dr. Mossa. 
Dr. Goullon, Jr., who has successfully used Kalium 
Chloratum for chronic swelling of the legs and feet, 
offers in relation thereto the following indications: 
The remedy in question appears to be indicated in ob- 
stinate swelling of the feet and legs, extending up to the 
knees, the swelling being soft at first but later feeling hard, 
without pain or redness, but itching violently; at one stage 66 
it is snow-white and shining; finally, it is less noticeable 
in the morning than in the evening, and the distension may 
become so-great that bursting seems imminent. 
FROM THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE SOCIETY OF HOMCEO- 
PATHIC PHYSICIANS OF THE RHINE PROVINCE AND 
WESTPHALIA. 
, Dr. Stens, Jr.: 
I wish to report a case of rheumatism which, after 
unsuccessful treatment with the most-used remedies and 
with others carefully chosen according to the indications, 
was completely cured in a very short time with Ferrum 
Phosphoricum. The patient was a lady aged 48, menses 
regular but scanty; she had been already treated by me 
for some years, part of the time for indigestion and in part 
for the most violent attacks of migraine. 
This lady took a long walk one day through a damp 
meadow, getting her feet wet. She awakened next morn- 
ing with a violent pain, drawing and tearing in character, 
in the right upper arm and region of the right shoulder. 
Violent motion of the arm increased the pain, but gentle 
motion seemed to alleviate it, and on this account she 
almost never held the arm perfectly at rest. 
The affected parts were sensitive to touch. During the 
previous night she had an unusual, profuse perspiration ; 
this was repeated in the succeeding nights, usually between 
2 and 6 a. m., and accompanied by an increase of pain. 
Besides the pain, the patient complained of a numb feel- 
ing in the whole of the right hand and of loss of power 
in it, so that she was unable to lift anything at all heavy. 
There was also a feeling of general weakness with need 
to lie down. I prescribed at first Merc. Sol., 3 ; next 
Rhus, 1 ; then Bryonia, I ; then Arnica, 2; next Ledum, 67 
3 ; then Colchicum, 2 trituration-all without any observ- 
able result. 
Partly by repeated comparison of the array of symp- 
toms with authoritative provings, partly by the thoroughly 
anaemic condition of the patient, and finally by Schiissler's 
recommendation, I was led to think of Iron, and I selected 
Schiissler's preparation Ferrum Phosphoricum, 6th tritu- 
ration, of which I ordered to be taken morning and 
evening as much as would lie on the point of a knife- 
blade. The result was that after six days' use of the 
remedy all the pains as well as the accompanying condi- 
tions were removed, although soon after this there was a 
continuance of wet weather in which the patient formerly 
always experienced a notable increase of her sufferings. 
Dr. Brisken relates three cases of acute articular rheu- 
matism : 
One case was that of a bookbinder of middle age, whom 
Dr. Brisken had treated three years before for acute rheu- 
matism, the treatment extending over a period of from 
eight to ten weeks. The patient, being again sick-the 
hand and knee affected-received Ferrum Phosphoricum 
every two hours for three days, and as the fever was 
then relieved, Kalium Chloratum was given in the same 
manner. On the fifth day he was again able to go to 
work. 
The second case was in a man of 70, who had rheu- 
matism in the shoulder and elbow. He had been already 
cupped, but was worse thereby. The joints had been 
wrapped with pine-wool, and for two nights he had not 
been in bed, as the pains were worse while lying; on the 
third day he came under Dr. Brisken's care. Ferrum 
Phosphoricum in a few days relieved him of the fever, 68 
after which Kalium Chloratum in a short time effected a 
cure. 
In a third case, Dr. Brisken was called in on the eighth 
day of the sickness. All the joints were swollen, and the 
patient had not been able to pass a night in bed. In the 
morning he received Kalium Chloratum, and with such 
effect that by evening he could remain in bed, and in 
twelve days was cured. 
Dr. Orth relates : 
Elizabeth Fr., a widow, aged 70, consulted me on ac- 
count of an epithelioma which was seated on the right 
cheek and extended from the lower eyelid to the ala nasi; 
it was almost circular and of the size of a silver dollar. 
It had existed for years and now was in the ulcerating 
stage, with indurated base and wall like, hard, elevated 
edges. 
I prescribed Kali Sulphuricum®, a powder to be taken 
every evening, and as a dressing charpie, which was to be 
repeatedly moistened with a solution of Kali Sulphuricum, 
third at first and later in the first potency. 
On May 6th, I satisfied myself that the ulcer had be- 
come noticeably smaller; on May 23d it had healed over 
so that it was only of the size of a cent. A few days after, 
the patient returned to her home, and I have heard nothing 
more of the progress of the case. 
William W., aged 55, a factory operative, came under 
my care September 4th, 1875. He was suffering from 
epithelioma, which was situated on the right side of the 
nose almost immediately under the canthus of the eye, and 
was about the size of a half-dollar. 
The eye was sympathetically affected, either through 69 
extension of the disease process or through the irritating 
discharge, the entrance of which was facilitated by a slight 
destruction of the edge of the lower lid at the canthus; 
there was conjunctivitis palpebrarum et bulbi, with haziness 
of the cornea. The ulcer on the side of the nose had 
already existed four years ; at first there was a somewhat 
reddened spot which was moderately elevated, and which 
became afterward covered with a horny crust that later, 
dropping off, left an ulcer which steadily increased in 
depth and breadth. The patient had consulted many 
physicians besides being for two months under the care of 
a specialist for the sympathetic affection of the eye; but 
all without any result. 
Kali Sulphuricum ®, a dose morning and evening, to- 
gether with a solution, as a dressing, of Kali Sulphuricum 
in the third and later in the first potency, relieved the eye 
trouble in a few days, and the ulcer under the same treat- 
ment began to heal, so that by October 8th only a small 
point was left, and on the day following the patient was 
able to resume work. 
I found, writes Dr. Amberg, of Arnsberg, the patient, a 
woman of 44, mentally deranged from melancholia religiosa, 
although she was formerly neither inclined to piety nor 
fanaticism. She asserted that she was eternally and irre- 
trievably damned ; she was continually weeping and cry- 
ing, wringing her hands, pulling to pieces and tearing her 
clothing, as well as the bed-covering, and also pieces of 
paper, which, to save the clothing, were placed within her 
reach; she did not recognize her surroundings, had no 
sleep, her staring eyes showed no intelligence, and she 
had often to be held by two persons. Only by forcibly 
holding her nose, and later when she was somewhat 70 
quieter, by repeatedly threatening to use the oesophageal 
tube, was it possible to administer either food or medicine. 
I ordered Kali Phosphoricum6. Although the condi- 
tion was one of great exaltation, yet originally it was one 
of depression to which Kali Phosphoricum corresponds. 
Regarding this, Schiissler says: " a. It produces in the 
brain mental depression, as shown by vexation, irritability, 
fearfulness, weeping mood, timidity, b. Softening of the 
brain." Besides, an experience with this remedy several 
months previously determined its selection; this was a 
case of mental alienation in a man, 80 years old, in whom 
there were profound hypochondria and melancholia, weari- 
ness of life and fear of death, suspiciousness, weeping 
mood and the like; he was treated for weeks with different 
remedies apparently well indicated, but unsuccessfully, 
among them Nux Vomica, Sulphur, Ignatia, Aurum, also 
Potassium Bromide in allopathic doses; but Kali Phos- 
phoricum6 immediately improved the case, and the cure 
went on uninterruptedly to completion. 
This time I did not regret my choice. Within eight 
hours it showed its beneficial action by increased tran- 
quillity and several hours of sleep at night; the progress 
to cure was continuous, so that from February 25th I 
ceased visiting the case regularly. Since then I have seen 
the patient frequently; she is as active about her house as 
formerly, has recovered her old joyousness, and speaks 
composedly of the disease from which she has escaped. 
FROM THE REGENSBURG HOMOEOPATHIC MONTHLY. 
From an address by Dr. Schlcglmann : 
i. A. E., the child of a postal official of M., was taken 
sick, while visiting here, with scarlatina of a very transi- 71 
tory type. The exanthem was out hardly 24 hours, and 
the throat symptoms, which were extremely threatening 
in the beginning, disappeared in three or four days. On 
the 17th day, almost complete suppression of urine set in, 
so that although the child drank excessively the amount 
of urine passed did not equal one ounce. The urine con- 
tained some albumen. The feet were swollen, and the 
abdomen was greatly distended. As the fever continued 
high and there was great delirium, especially at night, I 
advised the anxious relatives, at my next visit on the 
eighth day, to call in a second physician as counsel. Dr. 
Gerster, who was the consultant brought in, agreed 
entirely in my diagnosis. Upon stating to him that I had 
produced no effect with the most diverse remedies, such 
as Belladonna, Bryonia, Cantharis, Arsenic, etc., we agreed 
to give Kalium Chloratum, 6th trituration, every two hours 
as much as would lie on the point of a knife-blade. By 
evening I found the little one decidedly better; she had 
passed a considerable amount of urine free from albumen, 
the pulse was slower and softer, and the skin had become 
moist. On the following night she slept tranquilly sev- 
eral hours for the first time. In the morning she was 
almost free from fever and could be considered as con- 
valescent. We continued using Kalium Chloratum, and 
in a few days the child went back to M. entirely well. 
2. W. T., aged ii, had been under treatment by Dr. 
Fuchs for enteritis-I was called into the case later-and 
he was, as soon as convalescent, sent to his home in B. 
Eight days later he was taken with peritonitis, accompanied 
by a high fever and the most violent pains. As the patient 
was very much reduced by the previous disorder from 
which he had scarcely recovered, my colleague, Dr. 
Fuchs, and I gave the worst prognosis, and as Atropin, 72 
Aconite, etc., as well as roller bandaging, were not of the 
slightest help, we gave as a last resort Ferrum Phosphori- 
cum, 6th decimal trituration, as much as would lie on the 
point of a knife-blade to be taken every hour. Its action 
was brilliant; the fever yielded at once, and the pains 
rapidly lessened. We continued the remedy until the 
fever had entirely disappeared and profuse sweating came 
on, and then prescribed Kalium Chloratum6, which caused 
absorption of a not inconsiderable exudation. 
3. A very nervous lady, aged 26, suffered at times from 
pains in the head, teeth, face, and limbs, again from 
cramps in the stomach and flatulent colic, or at other times 
from a tormenting spasmodic cough, day and night, to- 
gether with retention of urine, sleeplessness, etc., and in 
short, complained every day of different disorders, and in 
fact actually had them. During the last winter she 
brought me almost to despair. All my efforts were use- 
less, and such well-indicated remedies as Ignatia, Bella- 
donna, Hyoscyamus, Coffea, etc., left me in the lurch. 
Almost every day I received a letter or telegram stating 
that she was worse and that I must come as soon as pos- 
sible. Then it happily occurred to me to consult Schiis- 
sler's Therapeutics; I found under Magnesia Phosphorica 
all the symptoms of my patient. I gave the remedy, and 
from that moment both the patient and I had rest. She 
said to me later, " that remedy has done me infinite good," 
and while for weeks, formerly, she could not leave her bed, 
she was soon able to walk in the garden, and afterward 
went to a watering place; but I had to give her a supply 
of the "good" remedy. 
4. N. N., a young lady aged 17, consulted me on account 
of an obstinate acrid leucorrhcea. I tried the whole list 73 
of remedies recommended for this disorder, and others 
apparently indicated, but without result, so that I could 
not help wondering at the patience and perseverance of 
the patient, whom I saw weekly. Here again Schiissler 
helped me out of the difficulty, and Kalium Chloratum 
cured her quickly and permanently. 
In 1875, Dr. Schleglmann, of Regensburg, reports: 
D. C., aged 20, a weakly young lady who had during 
childhood suffered much from scrofula, took a violent 
pain in the back last winter, after catching cold. The 
dorsal vertebrae from the third to the fifth were very sensi- 
tive to pressure; there was violent trembling of the right 
foot and especially of the right arm, and more when 
endeavoring to move the arm. 
Any kind of work was thus an impossibility; this was 
all the more unfortunate for the patient, as in her occu- 
pation she had to write a great deal. I gave different 
remedies: Pulsatilla, Rhus Tox., Belladonna, Nux Vomica, 
Platina, etc., but all without effect; I sent the patient to the 
country, but the condition remained the same. Finally, 
when four weeks had passed without my hearing from the 
patient, I thought that I had found the right remedy in 
Zincum Metallicum. I was confounded when, on Septem- 
ber 30th, 1875, the patient whom I fancied I had cured 
came into my consulting-room, trembling even worse than 
before. Upon my asking her why she had remained so 
long away, she said somewhat timidly that after all my 
remedies had failed to help, she had gone to a lay-woman 
practitioner, at Mariabrunn, and had spent the time under 
her care. But the consequence was, as I was able to 
assure myself, anything but favorable; so she had come 
to me requesting me to again treat her. I said that I was 
quite willing to do so, and I consulted Schiissler's Thera- 74 
peutics. I selected Magnesia Phosphorica, and had no 
reason to regret doing so, as this remedy, after the first 
dose in the 6th trituration, of which I gave three times 
daily as much as would lie on the point of a small knife- 
blade, produced a decided improvement; I learned this 
on October nth, when I again saw the patient, there 
being on that day not the slightest trace of the trembling. 
She had already written repeatedly for a long time, and 
even this brought no return of the troublesome trembling, 
nor has it appeared up to this moment, although the young 
lady has performed different kinds of handiwork, and 
especially has written a great deal. 
Dr. Schleglmann reports: 
Towards the latter part of last November, while riding 
in a cold railway car, seated next to an imperfectly closed 
window, I was attacked by a violent rheumatism, involv- 
ing the whole right half of the body, and on the return 
journey giving rise to violent pain, which was specially 
increased by every motion. Bryonia gave temporary 
relief. I only reached my home towards midnight, and 
passed a wretched night. Bryonia helped but little. In 
the morning I used electricity, in strong and long-con- 
tinued applications, but without effect. Then I measured 
on the point of a knife-blade some Ferrum Phosphoricum 
6, and took it, and like magic all the pain disappeared 
and has not returned. 
Dr. Fuchs, of Regensburg, reports : 
In August, 1875, I cured a long-standing swelling of 
the bursa patella, the patient being a lady of 40, with 
twelve doses of Calcarea Phosphorica, 2d trituration, two 
doses per day, according to Dr. Schiissler's method. 75 
Dr. Schleglmann reports: 
I have often tried Kali Sulphuricum in wandering 
articular rheumatism. 
1. L., in Regensburg, a powerful, healthy man of 26, 
after being chilled while overheated was taken with a vio- 
lent articular rheumatism. At first the right shoulder was 
attacked, and he had the most frightful pains and violent 
fever. Bryonia, which seemed very well indicated, had 
only the effect of relieving the shoulder pains, which then 
seated themselves in the left knee. Things continued 
thus for several days, under the use of different remedies, 
now in one joint, now in another, and again several joints 
were seized at the same time. The maddening pains were 
unceasing, day and night, and reduced the patient visibly. 
At last I thought of Schiissler, and gave Kali Sulphuricum. 
The result was very favorable. In twenty-four hours the 
pains had ceased wandering and settled again in the part 
first attacked, the right shoulder-joint, but by no means 
with their former violence. Under the continued use of 
this remedy both pain and fever gradually left; sleep and 
appetite returned; no other joint became involved, and 
eight days after the first dose of Kali Sulphuricum the 
patient was convalescent. There was no relapse. 
2. Of Schiissler's Kali Phosphoricum I have so far 
made but little use, yet with it I have accomplished some 
very interesting cures. 
Thus, there came to me in 1874 a woman aged 54, who 
for a long time had been treated allopathically, without 
success. She had used Chalybeate baths, and had taken 
pills of iron, and quinine. The woman complained of a 
dreadful vertigo, which occurred especially on rising from 
lying, on standing up from sitting, and when looking up- 
wards, so that she was at every moment in fear of falling 
and dared not leave her room. 76 
I gave Aconite, Belladonna, Pulsatilla, Nux Vomica, 
Phosphorus, Cocculus, Sulphur, etc. None of them 
relieved. Finally, I gave the 6th trituration of Schiiss- 
ler's Kali Phosphoricum, twice a day, the dose being mea- 
sured on the point of a knife-blade, and I had the pleasure 
of thanking the use of this remedy for a rapid and positive 
cure. The patient now performs her household duties, 
can go out alone, makes visits at a distance, and is gener- 
ally almost completely free from her vertigo. 
3. I have hitherto only given Natrum Phosphoricum in 
scrofulous cases, and then only when my old remedies, 
Calc. Carb., etc., left me in the lurch. 
One case was especially surprising to me on account 
of the rapidity of the cure. In May, 1875, a man brought 
to me an eight-year-old girl suffering from a severe con- 
junctivitis with photophobia. She had been already 
treated for a long time allopathically, but without effect. 
I learned that she had had measles some years before, and 
from that time the eye troubles dated. Calcarea Carb, 
and other remedies had no effect. 
Enlargement of the glands of the neck and the creamy 
discharge from the eyelids, led me to think of Natrum 
Muriaticum, of which I gave the 6th trituration three 
times a day. The man returned to me eight days later 
with the child, whose eyes were bright and healthy. 
4. R., aged 44, proprietor of an estate, thus wrote to 
me some weeks ago : " I have taken the pellets punctu- 
ally and for a long time have observed a rigid diet, not- 
withstanding which, my malady is no better and I might 
almost say that it is worse. 
" The condition is shown as follows : 77 
1. I almost constantly perceive the taste of bile on the 
palate. 
2. My tongue is covered every day with a curdy, bitter- 
tasting coat. 
3. Through the day, and especially after partaking of 
any kind of food, there are eructations of gas which tastes 
bitter or is without taste. 
4. My complexion is yellowish. 
5. The appetite is only moderate; there is no thirst. 
My favorite drink, beer, is tasteless to me. 
6. Desire to be m the open air; some lassitude. 
7. The head is but little affected; constant pressure 
upon the eye. 
8. Stools normal but scanty because I eat little. 
" The whole condition shows unerringly that I must 
have bile in my stomach." 
So far the patient's report; I supplement it by stating 
that the gentleman in question had received from me Nux 
Vomica and Pulsatilla, and that duringtheprevious summer 
he had, according to directions of an allopathic physician, 
used the waters at Marienbad, but without effect. 
I sent him Natrum Sulphuricum, 6th trituration, with 
the request to take of it three times daily as much as 
would lie on the point of a knife-blade. 
He came to me six or seven days later to thank me 
for the efficacious medicine. " That remedy," he said, 
" has really acted wonderfully ; all my troubles have dis- 
appeared as if by magic, and I feel myself, after a long 
time, completely well again." 
5. I have repeatedly used Natrum Muriaticum with 
very favorable results, especially in cases of obstinate 
salivation ; one case in particular was quickly cured by it. 
A young lady aged 20, who suffered from a severe ton- 78 
sillitis so that she could swallow with great difficulty 
only milk or water,, received from me Merc. Sol., 5th 
decimal dilution, eight pellets every two hours. 
The inflammation of the tonsils was thereby relieved 
very quickly, but another trouble, profuse salivation, set 
in. The gums were spongy, bled readily, were retracted 
from the teeth, and the teeth themselves were loose. I 
thought that I would be able to relieve the disorder with 
Mercury, with which I often had experienced in such 
affections a rapidly curative effect, but this time under 
the continued use of the remedy the trouble increased. 
Now the patient told me that during the previous summer 
she had been sick at R., and had taken from an allopath 
a good deal of calomel, with the result of producing a 
frightful and long-continued salivation; she feared that 
the present affection would be of long duration, as it 
already was as severe as it had been in R. I now with- 
drew Merc. Sol., and ordered Natrum Muriaticum6, a 
dose every two hours measured on a knife's point. 
The result exceeded my most sanguine expectations ; 
in 24 hours the swelling of the glands, etc., had notably 
decreased, and in three days complete recovery followed. 
6. A 7-year-old boy, D. R., since a severe attack of 
true croup some years ago, is, at almost every sharp north- 
east wind, seized with pseudo-croup; he had an attack in 
the previous autumn accompanied by fever and a violent 
barking cough. Aconite, and the remedy recommended 
by many authors as a specific for pseudo-croup, Hepar 
Sulph., had not the slightest influence, so that I was 
prepared, as I always was with this boy in this disease, 
for an illness of several days' duration. The nights espe- 
cially were very restless with a great deal of harsh 
barking cough (so that his relatives were in the greatest 79 
anxiety), dry heat and great oppression. I now ex- 
changed Hepar Sulph. for Schiissler's Kalium Chloratum 
and gave a dose of the 6th trituration every two hours. 
After two doses the cough became looser, lost completely 
its barking tone, and he slept quietly through the next 
night, so that on the morning after he was well and 
lively. 
/• A. R. von G., a young lady aged 18, in the summer 
of 1875 visited with her sick mother a hydropathic estab- 
lishment, and there, without being ill, went through the 
course of cure and also bathed during her menstrual 
period. Immediately thereafter she was taken with vio- 
lent spasms ; they continued after her return home, and 
came on repeatedly, every day. An allopathic physician 
was consulted, and, as the trouble only grew worse not- 
withstanding the different medicines ordered by him, a 
second allopath was called in, who agreed entirely with his 
colleague in both the diagnosis of the case and its treat- 
ment. Hypodermic injections of morphia formed the 
essential feature of this treatment, but the troublesome 
disorder would not yield, on the contrary the attacks in- 
creased in violence and frequency. The attending physi- 
cians finally declared that there could be no sign of 
improvement until the patient could take chalybeate baths 
in the following spring. Her parents, fearing that she 
would not live till the next spring, and if living that she 
would not be any better able to make the journey, requested 
by telegraph my attendance. 
On Sept. 6th, I saw the patient for the first time. I had 
known her formerly, and was astonished to see, instead of 
the blooming, healthy girl whom I used to know, a pale, 
wasted form no longer to be recognized. In my presence 
she had an attack. Her features became frightfully dis- 
torted, the eyes rolled upwards, she frothed at the mouth, 80 
and then began a terrific beating with hands and feet such 
as I had never seen. This, however, was only the prelude; 
there was worse yet to come. The trunk was bent in a 
remarkable manner; the occiput was pressed deep into 
the pillow, the feet pressed against the bedstead, the abdo- 
men and thorax formed an arch like a bridge half a metre 
high, and held for some seconds this unnatural position. 
Then with a jerk the whole body would spring upwards, 
and'the patient with the spine arched would be thrown 
about. 
During the whole of the attack, which lasted several 
minutes, consciousness was completely abolished, strong 
pinching and nipping had no influence, sprinkling the 
face with cold water as also burning feathers before 
the nose were without effect, and the pupils were wholly 
insensible to light. 
Ignatia, 4th decimal trituration, which I had ordered, 
was of no service; Cuprum Metallicum produced some 
effect but only temporarily; so of several other remedies, 
as Belladonna, Ipecac, and Pulsatilla, the last being indi- 
cated, as I thought, by the absence of the menstrual 
period for ten weeks-all failed to help. The attacks indeed 
did not increase, nor did they in the slightest degree lessen, 
although the daily hypodermic injections of morphia 
were continued at the wish of the relatives. 
When at my visit on Oct. 4th the convulsions returned, 
so that the bedstead broke down, I consulted Schiissler's 
Therapeutics, and ordered Magnesia Phosphorica. 
Under the influence of this remedy the menses returned 
on Oct. 10th, but all the other conditions of the patient 
were unchanged; the convulsions continued with the 
same violence as before. Then, mindful of Schiissler's 
admonition, when Magnesia Phosphorica seemed indi- 
cated but did not help, to give Calcarea Phosphorica, I 
prescribed on Oct. 16th Calcarea Phosphorica, 6th tritura- 81 
tion, a dose measured on the point of a knife-blade every 
two hours, and immediately the convulsions ceased for a 
whole day; on the-sixth day there was one only, much 
weaker and of less duration, and from that time there was 
no trouble until Nov. 6th, on which day the menses 
appeared preceded by a slight attack. 
On Dec. 14th the patient, blooming and healthy as of 
yore, called to consult me for a slight bronchial catarrh. 
She stated to me that she was completely freed of her 
attacks, and that during her last menstrual period, early in 
December, she had not experienced a trace of them. 
8. Mrs. S., of Regensburg, aged 24, has suffered for 
several years from herpes, and has used different allo- 
pathic remedies without avail; she was relieved by me 
last year with Clematis 3d, after I had tried different 
other remedies. Some months ago she again came to 
me and the herpes was worse than ever. 
Clematis left me this time in the lurch, nor did I suc- 
ceed any better with Sulphur, Graphites, Arsenicum, etc. 
Calcarea Sulphurica, 6th trituration, a dose morning 
and evening, made a complete cure in two weeks. 
9. Silicea is known to every practicing homoeopath as an 
excellent remedy; within the last few months I succeeded 
in curing with it a young girl of 16 from the country, and 
that too without seeing her. Her mother came weeping 
to me, and stated that the daughter had had a trouble in 
the right foot for several months, and that the attending 
physicians had declared that the foot would have to be 
amputated. The foot was dreadfully swollen, suppurated 
profusely; the limb was bent at the knee almost at right 82 
angles, and absolutely could not be extended. I advised 
the discontinuance of all the allopathic remedies, exter- 
nal as well as internal, and gave Silicea, 6th trituration, 
one dose to be taken daily; three months later, the patient 
herself visited me, firm upon her almost completely healed 
foot which suppurated a little yet, and walking about with- 
out crutch or other support. 
io. A case of purulent discharge from the auditory 
canal, which had been treated for a long time allopathically 
and which caused the most violent pain day and night, was 
quickly cured with Silicea6, after I had previously and 
unsuccessfully given Mercurius and Pulsatilla. 
FROM " RUNDSCHAU," EDITED BY DR. GOULLON, JR. 
In the spring of 1881, when an epidemic of whooping 
cough was rife among the children hereabouts, a little one 
of io months was declared by an allopathic physician to 
be beyond recovery. I heard this, accidentally, from the 
inconsolable father. On account of the violent spasmodic 
attacks which recurred about ten times in the day, and 
during which the face became blue and turgid, I gave 
at once Magn. Phos., 6th trituration. A single powder 
controlled the spasms to that degree that they returned 
only at longer intervals and weaker ; five days later Kali 
Phosphoricum6 was prescribed without effect, then Cal- 
carea Phosphorica6, which made it worse ; on this account 
recourse was had to Magnesia Phosphorica again, and in 
a short time the spasmodic symptoms entirely disappeared 
and the child quickly recovered. 83 
(These cases have been already published in the Stutt- 
gart Homoeopathic Monthly.) 
In a village several miles from the town of Oldenburg a 
child was taken down by diphtheria to which there was 
soon added a laryngeal affection. This child was treated 
allopathically and died. At nearly the same time in the 
same village there was a child in another family with the 
same disease, in which case likewise there was a laryngeal 
trouble as an accompaniment. The father of this child 
sent for me. For the primary disorder I gave Kalium 
Chloratum and, on account of the laryngeal complication, 
Calcarea Phosphorica, with the direction to administer 
these remedies in alternation. 
I requested the father to send me in any event a written 
account of the result. He promised to do so and he kept 
his word. 
Two days after, I received from him a letter informing 
me that the child was completely restored. 
CASES FROM THE AUTHOR'S PRACTICE. 
A young man complained of an inordinate appetite for 
food. He had felt almost every hour the need of eating, 
and withal he felt very tired and enervated. There were 
no other symptoms ; the tongue was not coated, the urine 
was not increased, and the stools were normal; Kali Phos- 
phoricum cured him within two days. 
A lady felt for two days a drawing-laming pain in the 
sole of the foot. The affected place, which was about the 
size of a silver dollar, had a bluish appearance. It had 
not been caused by a blow or pressure or any other me- 
chanical influence. A dose of Kali Phosphoricum6 removed 
the pain within half an hour. 84 
An old lady had been confined to bed for fourteen days. 
She felt in the lower part of thorax, on the left side, a 
moderately severe pain, which increased when she coughed. 
The cough was a slight one, catarrhal in character. The 
patient felt very weak, there was no appetite, the tongue 
was dry, the pulse frequent, small and intermittent. 
Kali Phosphoricum cured within eight days. 
To the foregoing cures by means of Kali Phosphoricum 
I add this observation : that this remedy has shown itself 
in many cases to promote and advance the pains of labor. 
A midwife, to whom I had given a considerable quantity 
of the remedy to be used with that intention in suitable 
cases, reported that its favorable action usually appeared 
within five or ten minutes. 
An old man was attacked with vomiting and diarrhoea, 
and in addition had very painful cramps in the calves ; 
the discharges from the bowels were like rice-water. Six 
hours after the beginning of the sickness the man came 
under my treatment. One single dose of Kali Phosphori- 
cum sufficed for the cure. 
The rapid cure of this case of Cholerine may justify 
the assumption that Kali Phosphoricum maybe a specific 
for Cholera. REPERTORY. 
Brain, Mind, Sensorium, etc. 
Excitement, nervous, Kali phos. 
Irritability, Kali phos. 
Vexation, Kali phos. 
Mind, depression of, Kali phos., 
Magn. phos. 
Mood, weeping, Kali phos. 
Melancholia, Magn. phos. 
Timidity, Kali phos. 
Fearfulness, Kali phos. 
False conceptions, Magn. phos. 
Sensation, illusions of, Magn. 
phos. 
Hypochondriasis, Magn. phos. 
Sopor, in acute diseases, Natr. mur. 
Mania transitoria, Ferr. phos. 
Delirium tremens, Natr. mur. 
Brain, concussion of, Kali phos. 
Sunstroke, Natr. mur. 
Brain, softening of, Kali phos. 
Meningitis, Ferr. phos. 
Brain, hyperaemia of, Ferr. phos. 
Vertigo, congestive, Ferr. phos. 
, nervous, Kali phos. 
Head. 
Hydrocephaloid, Calc. phos. 
Hydrocephalus, chronic, Calc, 
phos. 
Cephalaematoma, Calc, fluor. 
Cranio-tabes, Calc. phos. 
Fontanelles remain open too long, 
Calc. phos. 
Headaches of children, Ferr. 
phos. 
Head and Face. 
Pains, sticking, or pressing, or 
beating, < by shaking the head, by 
stooping, and by every motion, Ferr. 
phos. 
, accompanied by heat and 
redness of the face, Ferr. phos. 
, with vomiting of bile, Natr. 
sulph. 
, with vomiting of mucus or 
water, Natr. mur. 
, with vomiting of food, Ferr. 
phos. 
, with hawking up of white 
mucus, Kali mur. 
, shooting, stitching, inter- 
mitting, and changing their location, 
Magn. phos. 
, in pale, sensitive persons, 
Kali phos. 
, in paroxysms, followed by 
great weakness, Kali phos." 
, < in the warm room and in 
the evening, > in the open, cool air, 
Kali sulph. 
, accompanied by the appear- 
ance of small nodules upon the scalp, 
Sil. 
, accompanied by a tongue 
coated with clear mucus, and slug- 
gish evacuations, Natr. mur. 86 
Pains, periodical, recurring daily, 
with smarting lachrymation, Natr. 
mur. 
Eyes. 
Eyelids, on the edges purulent 
points, Kali mur. 
, on the edges, yellow, puru- 
lent crusts, Kali mur., Kali sulph. 
, styes, nodules, and indura- 
tions of, Sil. 
, spasms of, Magn. phos., 
Calc. phos. 
Cornea, vesicles on, Natr. mur. 
, superficial ulcers on, Kali 
mur. 
, deep ulcer of, Sil., Calc, 
sulph. 
, opacities of, Natr. mur. 
Ophthalmia, discharge, yellowish- 
green, purulent, Kali mur., Kali 
sulph. 
, discharge, golden-yellow, 
creamy, Natr. phos. 
, discharge, white mucus, 
Kali mur. 
, discharge, clear mucus, with 
smarting, biting lachrymation, Natr. 
mur. 
, yellow, purulent mucus, 
Kali sulph. 
, thick, yellow pus, Calc, 
sulph., Sil. 
Eyes, intense redness, with violent 
pain, without discharge, Ferr. phos. 
, pains recurring daily at the 
same time, with lachrymation, Natr. 
mur. 
, sparks, diplopia, photopsia, 
and chromopsia, Magn. phos. 
Sight, weak after diphtheria, Kali 
phos. 
, photophobia, Magn. phos. 
, weak, after suppressed per- 
spiration of the feet, Sil. 
Hypopyon, Sil. 
Retinal exudation, Kali mur. 
Retinitis, first stages of, Ferr. phos. 
Eyes, strabismus, spasmodic, 
Magn. phos. 
Cataract (?), Kali sulph. 
Ears. 
Otalgia, inflammatory, Ferr. 
phos. 
Swelling of the auditory canal, Sil. 
Discharge from the ear, thin, yel- 
low, Kali sulph. 
, thick, yellow pus, Calc, 
sulph., Sil. 
Deafness, catarrhal, Kali mur., 
Natr, mur., Kali sulph., Sil. 
Tinnitus (noises in the ears), con- 
gestive, Ferr. phos. 
Tinnitus, nervous, Kali phos. 
Mumps, Kali mur.; if accom- 
panied by profuse salivation, Natr. 
mur. 
Teeth. 
Toothache, accompanied by sali- 
vation or lachrymation, Natr. mur. 
, with swelling of the gums 
and of the cheeks, Kali mur., Sil. 
, swelling with bony hard- 
ness, Calc, fluor. 
, quickly changing location, 
intermitting, > by warmth, Magn. 
phos. 
, < in the warm room and in 
the evening, > in the cool open air, 
Kali sulph. 
, with hot cheeks, pain < by 
warmth, > by cold drinks, Ferr. phos. 
, if gums bleed, or have a 
bright red border, Kali phos. 
, when the pain is seated in 
the periosteum of the root, the tooth 
is loose, the outside of the teeth sen- 
| sitive to touch, Calc, fluor. 87 
Teething, if fever is present, Ferr. 
phos. 
, spasms in, with fever, Ferr. 
phos. 
, spasms in, without fever, 
Magn. phos., Calc. phos. 
, ophthalmia, Ferr. phos., 
Calc. phos. 
, drooling, Natr. mur. 
, spasm of the glottis, Magn. 
phos. 
, spasmodic cough, Magn. 
phos. 
, spasms of the bladder, 
Magn. phos. 
, with diarrhoea, consult the 
latter section. 
Teeth, to hasten development of, 
Calc. phos. 
Mouth. 
Catarrhal inflammation of the mu- 
cous membrane; when redness and 
violent pain are present, Ferr. phos. 
, white exudation. Kali. mur. 
, exudation golden-yellow, 
Natr. phos. 
, a transparent, coarse, frothy 
mucus, Natr. mur. 
, if a collection of pus seems 
about to break, Silicea. 
, chronic swelling of, Kali 
mur., Calc, phos., Natr. mur. 
Tongue, inflammation of, swollen 
and dark red, Ferr. phos., Kali mur. 
, should suppuration occur, 
Calc, sulph. 
, induration of, Sil., Calc, 
fluor. 
Cancrum oris, Kali phos. 
Scorbutus, Kali phos. 
Gums, pale, Calc. phos. 
, bright red border, Kali phos. 
, easy bleeding of, Kali phos. 
Tongue, coating of, white, not 
slimy, Kali mur. 
, coat slimy, and the edges of 
the tongue decked with bubbles of 
saliva, Natr. mur. 
, dirty brownish-green with a 
bitter taste, Natr. sulph. 
, as if spread over with liquid 
[dark] mustard, with offensive odor 
from the mouth, Kali phos. 
, golden-yellow and moist, 
Natr. phos. 
, yellow, slimy, Kali sulph. 
Aphthae, thrush, Kali mur., Kali 
phos., Natr. mur. 
Drooling, profuse, Natr. mur. 
Noma, Kali phos. 
Palate, coating, golden-yellow, 
Natr. phos. 
Throat. 
Angina, gangrenous, Kali phos. 
, tonsils, swollen, a white or 
whitish-gray layer covers the tonsils, 
Kali mur. 
Tonsils, coating, golden-yellow, 
Natr. phos. 
Diphtheria, Ferr. phos., Kali mur., 
Natr. mur., Natr. sulph. 
, gangrenous, Kali phos. 
, paralysis after, Kali phos. 
, of larynx, Calc, phos., Calc, 
fluor. 
Gastric. 
Vomiting, of food, Ferr. phos., 
Calc, fluor. 
, of food, together with a sour 
fluid, Ferr. phos. 
, of bile only, Natr. sulph. 
, of transparent mucus drawn 
out into long strings, Natrum mur. 
, of watery fluid, Natr. mur. 
, of blood, Ferr. phos., Kali 
mur., Natr. phos. 88 
Vomiting of sour fluid or of curdy 
masses, Natr. phos. 
Hawking up of white mucus, Kali 
mur. 
Gastric bilious phenomena, Natr. 
sulph. 
Stomach and Abdomen. 
Stomach, acute inflammation of, 
with violent pain, vomiting and 
fever, Ferr. phos. 
, treatment been delayed, ex- 
haustion, dry tongue, etc., Kali phos. 
Gastralgia, < by taking food and by 
pressure, and especially if vomiting 
of food occurs, Ferr. phos. 
Gastrodynia, cramp-like, with 
clean tongue, Magn. phos. 
, feeling of cramp-like con- 
striction, Magn. phos. 
Stomach-pains, with accumulation 
of water in the mouth, Natr. mur. 
, coated tongue, Kali mur., 
Kali sulph. 
Stomach, pressure and feeling of 
fulness, with yellow, slimy coating 
of the tongue, Kali sulph. 
, griping in, with eructations 
of air in small portions, affording no 
relief, Magn. phos. 
Abdomen, colic, > by bending 
double, by rubbing, by external 
warmth, and by eructations, Magn. 
phos. 
, colic in the umbilical region, 
necessitating the patient to bend 
double, Magn. phos. 
Colic, flatulent, of little children, 
with drawing up of the limbs, with 
or without diarrhoea, Magn. phos. 
, if excess of acid is present, 
Natr. phos. 
Gastric affections, with predomi- 
nating acidity, Natr. phos. 
Stomach, ulceration of, Natr. phos. 
Colic, cramp, Magn. phos. 
, > by bending double, Magn. 
phos. 
, > by pressure, Magn. phos. 
, accompanied by watery diar- 
rhoea, Magn. phos. 
, flatulent, Magn. phos. 
, inflammatory, Ferr. phos. 
Diarrhoea, evacuations, watery, 
slimy, Natr. mur. 
, , like rice-water, Kali 
phos. 
, , putrid, carrion-like, 
Kali phos. 
, , watery-bilious, Natr. 
sulph. 
, , bloody, bloody-mu- 
cous, Kali mur. 
, , purulent, bloody-pur- 
ulent, Calc, sulph. 
, , undigested, Ferrum 
phos. 
, , of pure blood, Kali 
phos. 
, depending upon excessive 
acidity, Natr. phos. 
Worms, Natr. phos. 
Intestines, tuberculous ulcerations 
in, Calc, sulph. 
Pains radiating from umbilicus > 
by bending double, Magn. phos. 
, , > by pressure, Magn. 
phos. 
Abdomen, distension, flatulent, of, 
Magn. phos. 
, pains, spasmodic, Magn. 
phos. 
, , > by pressure, Magn. 
phos. 
, , > by bending double, 
Magn. phos. 
Peritonitis, Ferr. phos. 
Tympanites, Kali phos. 89 
Dysentery, Ferr. phos., Kali mur. 
, delirium in, Kali phos. 
, stools of pure blood, Kali 
phos. 
Jaundice, from 
catarrh, Kali mur., Natr. mur. 
, after vexation, Natr. sulph. 
Kidneys. 
Kidneys, inflammation of, Ferr. 
phos., Kali mur. 
, Bright's disease, Calc. phos. 
Bladder, 
Bladder, inflammation of, Ferr. 
phds., Kali mur. 
, catarrh of, Calc, sulph. 
.Urine, retention of, spasmodic, 
Magn. phos. 
, , in children, Ferr. 
phos. 
, sandy deposits in, Natr. 
sulph. 
, gravel, Natr. sulph. 
Enuresis, nocturnal, nervous, Kali 
phos. 
, , from weakness of mus- 
cular coat, Ferr. phos. 
t , , in children suffering 
from worms, Natr. phos. 
Male Genital Organs. 
Syphilis, Kali mur., Natr. mur., 
Natr. sulph., Calc, sulph., Sil., Calc 
fluor. 
Chancre, soft, Kali mur. 
, phagedenic, Kali phos. 
, hard, Calc, fluor. 
Gonorrhoea, Kali mur. 
, discharge, bloody-purulent, 
Calc, sulph. 
, , yellow mucus, Kali 
sulph. 
, urethra, bleeding from, Kali 
phos. 
Gleet, Natr. mur., Calc. phos. 
Orchitis, Ferr. phos., Kali mur., 
Calc. phos. 
Testicle, induration of, Calc, fluor. 
Scrotum, oedema of the, Natr. 
mur., Natr. sulph. 
Prepuce, oedema of, Nat. mur., 
Natr. sulph. 
Balanitis, Kali phos. 
Hydrocele, Calc. phos. 
Female Genital Organs. 
Menstruation. For disturbances 
in the menstrual function, see p. 45. 
Menstrual colic, Magn. phos. 
, in pale, sensitive, irritable 
persons, inclined to weep readily, 
Kali phos. 
, with acceleration of pulse 
and increased redness of face, Ferr. 
phos. 
Leucorrhcea, see p. 37. 
Vaginismus, Ferr. phos., Magn. 
phos. 
Labor, pains weak, inefficient, 
Kali phos. 
, pains spasmodic, Magn. 
phos. 
, eclampsia, Magn. phos. 
Mastitis, see p. 20. 
, before suppuration has be- 
gun, Kali mur. 
, after suppuration, Sil. 
Infants. 
Infants, acid fermentation, effects 
of, Natr. phos. 
, bowels, pains in, Natr. phos. 
, fever, with acid symptoms, 
Natr. phos. 
, diarrhoea, greenish, Natr. 
phos. 
, eructations, sour, Natr. phos. 
, spasms, Natr. phos. 90 
Infants, vomiting, sour, Natr. phos. 
, vomiting of curd-like 
masses, Natr. phos. 
, rickets, Calc, phos., Natr. 
phos., Kali phos. 
Respiratory Apparatus. 
Coryza, stopped or dry, Kali mur., 
Calc, fluor. 
, fluent, secretion, watery, 
clear mucus, Natr. mur. 
, , secretion, yellow mu- 
cus, Kali sulph. 
, , secretion, thick, puru- 
lent, Calc, sulph. 
Ozsena, if the mucous membrane 
is the seat of the disorder, Kali phos. 
, if from the periosteum, or 
from the submucous connective tis- 
sue, Sil. 
Hoarseness, simple, arising from a 
cold, Kali mur., Kali sulph. 
, from over-exertion of the 
voice, Ferr. phos., Kali phos. 
Glottis, spasms of, Magn. phos. 
Croup, Ferr. phos., Kali mur., 
Calc, phos., Calc, fluor. 
Bronchitis, see p. 37. 
Pneumonia, croupous, Kali mur. 
Expectoration, see p. 37. 
Asthma, bronchitic, with expecto- 
ration of transparent frothy mucus, 
Natr. mur. 
, , of yellow mucus, Kali 
■sulph. 
, , white, Kali mur. 
, , small, yellow lumps, 
Calc, fluor. 
Cough, acute, short, spasmodic, 
very painful, Ferr. phos., Kali mur. 
, convulsive, Magn. phos. 
, for, accompanying expecto- 
ration, vide " Diseases of the Mucous 
Membranes." 
Whooping-Cough, catarrhal stage, 
Ferr. phos. 
, nervous stage, Magn. phos. 
, with vomiting of food, Ferr. 
phos. 
, in general, Kali mur., Natr. 
mur., Kali sulph., Kali phos., Calc, 
phos. 
Lungs, oedema of, Kali phos., 
Natr. mur. 
Mucous membranes, secretion 
from, fibrinous, Kali mur. 
Back, Back of the Neck, and 
Limbs. 
Pains, felt only when moving, or 
< then, Ferr. phos., Kali mur. 
laming, > by moderate exer- 
cise, mostly felt on beginning to 
move, < by fatiguing effort, Kali 
phos. 
with numbness or cold feel- 
ing, or with a crawling sensation, < 
at night and when at rest, Calc. phos. 
quick, shooting, boring, inter- 
mitting, changing locality, Magn. 
phos. 
Lumbago, Ferr. phos., Calc. phos. 
Sciatica, Kali phos. 
Pains, < in the warm room and 
towards evening, > in the open, 
cool air, Kali sulph. 
, which the patient cannot 
precisely describe, vide p. 47. 
Joints, fungoid inflammation of, 
Kali sulph. 
, suppuration of, Calc, sulph., 
Sil. 
Hygroma patellae, Calc. phos. 
Housemaid's knee, Calc. phos. 
Tenalgia crepitans, Ferr. phos., 
Kali mur. 
Calves, crampin, Magn. phos. 
Ingrowing toe-nails, Kali mur. 91 
Paronychia, if bone is involved, 
Calc, fluor. 
Spina ventosa, Calc, fluor., Magn. 
phos. 
Skin. 
The remedies recommended for 
diseases of the mucous membranes, 
also correspond to affections of the 
skin, eczema, herpes, etc. 
Skin, vesicles, with seroso-fibri- 
nous contents, Kali mur. 
, with albuminous con- 
tents, Calc. phos. 
, , with clear, watery 
contents, Natr. mur. 
, , with honey-like, yel- 
low contents, Natr. phos. 
, , with yellow, watery 
contents, Natr. sulph. 
, , with purulent con- 
tents, Calc, sulph. 
, , with bloody, ichorous 
contents, Kali phos. 
, eruption, pustules on infil- 
trated base, Sil. 
, , mealy scurf, Kali 
mur. 
, , crusts, white-yellow, 
Calc. phos. 
Crusts, yellow, purulent, Calc, 
sulph. 
or scales, greasy, offensive 
smelling, Kali phos. 
, honey yellow, Natr. phos. 
Scales, yellowish, Natr. sulph. 
, white, Natr. mur. 
Epidermis, profuse scaling off of 
the, Kali sulph. 
Scabs, hard, on the palms of the 
hands, with or without cracks (rha- 
gades), Calc, fluor. 
Sebaceous glands, swelling of, 
Natr. mur. 
Sebaceous glands, inflammation 
and suppuration, Sil., Calc, sulph. 
Eruptions, humid, the Natrum 
salts, according to the properties and 
color-distinctions of the discharge, as 
given above. 
, after vaccination, Kali mur. 
Intertrigo, little children, Kali 
mur., Natr phos., and Natr. mur. 
Urticaria, or nettle rash, Kali 
phos. 
Pruritus, Calc. phos. 
Rhagades, fissured or chapped 
skin, Calc, fluor. 
Erysipelas, oedematous, Natr. 
sulph. 
, infiltrated, Kali mur. 
Erysipelatous affections, with in- 
tense fever and inflammation, Ferr. 
phos. 
Herpes zoster, Kali mur., Natr. 
mur. 
Desquamation, aided by Kali 
sulph. 
Pemphigus vulgaris, Natr. sulph. 
Pemphigus malignus, Kali phos. 
Burns of the first and second 
degrees, Kali Mur. 
, suppuration from, Calc, 
sulph. 
Chiblains, recent, Kali phos. 
, suppurating, Calc, sulph. 
Furuncles, see p. 41. 
Boils, see p. 41. 
Carbuncle, see p. 41. 
Skin, inflammation of, first stage, 
Ferr. phos. 
, abscesses, Sil., Calc, sulph. 
Ulcers, granulations exuberant, 
Kali mur. 
Herpes, vide p. 38. 
Eczema, vide p. 38. 
Ulcers, varicose, Calc, fluor. 
, of leg, vide p. 44. 92 
Abscesses, to ripen, Sil. 
Suppuration, Sil. 
, excessive, Calc, sulph. 
, pus, ichorous, Kali phos. 
, , offensive, Kali phos. 
Wounds, not healing from torpid- 
ity of tissues, Calc, sulph. 
Skin, infiltrated inflammations of, 
Kali mur. 
, cedematous inflammatory 
affections of, Natr. sulph. 
Connective tissue, inflammation 
of, first stage, Ferr. phos. 
, hard infiltration of, Kali 
mur. 
Exudations, fibrinous, Kali mur. 
, serous, if poor in albumen, 
Natr. mur. 
, serous, if rich in albumen, 
Calc. phos. 
, sero-purulent, Kali sulph. 
, bloody serous, Kali phos. 
, ichorous, Kali phos. 
, purulent, Calc, sulph. 
, bloody purulent, Calc, 
sulph. 
Absorb fibrinous exudations, to, 
Kali mur. 
Indurations, old, Calc, fluor. 
Bruises, Ferr. phos., Kali mur. 
Wounds, fresh, Ferr. phos. 
, suppurating, Sil., Calc, 
sulph. 
, discharge sanious, Kali phos. 
Gangrene, Kali phos. 
Bones. 
Bones, diseased, soft parts in- 
flamed, Ferr. phos. 
, suppuration of, Sih, Calc, 
sulph., Calc. phos. 
, exostosis, Calc, fluor. 
, rickets, Calc, phos., Natr. 
phos., Kali phos. 
Bones, fractures of, Ferr. phos., 
Calc. phos. 
Fractured bones, to hasten forma- 
tion of callus in, Calc. phos. 
Hip-joint disease, Ferr. phos., Sil. 
Glands. 
Glands, acute swellings of, Kali 
mur. 
, chronic swellings of, Kali 
mur., Calc, phos., Calc, fluor. 
, suppuration of, Sil., Calc, 
sulph. • 
, , with induration 
around, Calc, fluor. 
Haemorrhages. 
Haemorrhages, blood red, easily 
coagulating as a gelatinous mass, 
Ferr. phos. 
, blood black, thick, viscid, 
Kali mur. 
, blood, either bright or dark, 
and at the same time thin and watery, 
not coagulating, Kali phos., Natr. 
mur. 
, epistaxis in children, Ferr. 
phos. 
, predisposition to epistaxis, 
Kali phos. 
, uterine, Calc, fluor. 
, from haemorrhoids, Ferr. 
phos., Kali mur., Calc, fluor. 
, septic, Kali phos. 
Mucous Membranes. 
Discharge, fibrinous, Kali mur. 
, albuminous, Calc. phos. 
, golden-yellow, Natr. phos. 
, yellowish, Kali sulph. 
, greenish, Kali sulph. 
, clear, transparent, Natr. 
mur. 
, purulent, Calc, sulph. 93 
Discharge, of extremely offensive 
odor, Kali phos. 
, excoriating, Natr. mur. 
, mucous, albuminous, Calc, 
phos. 
, , yellow, tough lumps, 
Calc, fluor. 
Spasmodic and other Nervous 
Affections. 
Heart, palpitation of, Ferr. phos., 
Kali mur., Kali phos., Kali sulph. 
Epilepsy, Kali mur. 
Spasm of the glottis, Magn. phos., 
Calc. phos. 
Spasms, Magn. phos., Calc. phos. 
St. Vitus dance, Magn. phos., 
Calc. phos. 
Tetanus, Magn. phos., Calc. phos. 
Trismus, Magn. phos., Calc, 
phos. 
Chorea, Magn. phos., Calc. phos. 
Cramps in calves of legs, Magn. 
phos., Calc. phos. 
Eclampsia, Magn. phos. 
Blood. 
Chlorosis, Calc, phos., Ferr. phos., 
Kali mur., Natr. mur., Kali phos. 
Anaemia, pains dependent on, 
Calc. phos. 
Leukaemia, Kali phos. 
Hyperaemia, from mechanical in- 
jury, Ferr. phos. 
, .of irritation, Ferr. phos. 
Bloodvessels, morbidly dilated, 
Ferr. phos. 
Blood-corpuscles, too rapid disin- 
tegration of, Kali phos. 
Tissues. 
Muscular fibres, relaxation of, 
Ferr. phos. 
, contraction of, Magn. phos. 
Tissues, putrid decomposition, 
Kali phos. 
Fatty degeneration, Kali phos. 
Bloodvessels. 
Telangiectasis, Calc, fluor. 
Varices, Calc, fluor. 
Generalities. 
Fever, of inflammation, Ferr. 
phos. 
, catarrhal, Ferr. phos. 
, rheumatic, Ferr. phos. 
, nervous, Kali phos. 
, puerperal, Kali mur., Kali 
phos. 
, with nervous excitement, 
Kali phos. 
, with great exhaustion, Kali 
phos. 
, with irregular pulse, Kali 
phos. 
, typhus, Kali phos., Natr. 
mur. 
, typhoid, Kali phos., Natr. 
mur. 
, bilious, Natr. sulph. 
, scarlet, Ferr. phos., Kali 
mur. 
, intermittent, Natr. sulph. 
Pulse, irregular, Kali phos. 
Rheumatism, articular, acute, 
Ferr. phos., Kali mur., Natr. mur. 
Rheumatism, migratory, Kali 
sulph. 
Rheumatism, violent pains of, 
Magn. phos. 
Gout, acute, Ferr. phos. 
, chronic, Natr. sulph. 
Measles, Ferr. phos. See p. 23. 
Small-pox, Kali mur., Calc, sulph., 
Kali phos. 
, confluent, Natr. mur. 
Scarlatina, Ferr. phos., Kali mur 94 
Pains, boring, Magn. phos. 
, changing location, Magn. 
phos. 
, laming, < during rest, > 
by gentle motion, Kali phos. 
, lightning-like, Magn. phos. 
, shooting, Magn. phos. 
, > by pressure, Magn. phos. 
, > by warmth, Magn. phos. 
, accompanied by increased 
salivation, Natr. mur. 
, accompanied by watery 
vomiting, Natr. mur. 
, accompanied by crawling 
and feeling of coldness or numbness, 
Calc. phos. 
Acute diseases, restorative after, 
Calc. phos. 
Bright's Disease, Calc. phos. 
Catarrh, see p. 37. 
Coryza, see p. 37. 
Diabetes Mellitus, Natr. sulph. 
Dropsy, after loss of vital fluids, 
Calc, phos., Ferr. phos. 
, oedema, simple, Natr. sulph. 
, post-scarlatinal, p. 23. 
Endocarditis, Ferr. phos. 
Erysipelas, Natr. sulph., Kali mur. 
Exhaustion, Kali phos. 
Exudations in interstitial tissues, 
Kali mur. . 
, croupous, Kali mur. 
, diphtheritic, Kali mur. 
Gangrene, Kali phos. 
Mucous membranes, purulent dis- 
charge, Calc, sulph. 
Motor nerves, disturbed functions 
of, Magn. phos. 
Pericarditis, Ferr. phos. 
Pleuritis, Ferr. phos. 
Pneumonia, Ferr. phos. 
Physical depression, Kali phos. , 
Rachitis, Calc, phos., Natr. phos., 
Kali phos. 
Tabes dorsalis, Kali mur. 
Typhoid conditions, Natr. mur., 
Kali phos. 
Scrofulous people, convulsions, 
etc. (after Magn. phos.), Calc. phos. 
Serous sacs, purulent exudation 
in, Calc, sulph. 
Suppurative process, to restrain, 
Calc, sulph. 
, to promote, Sil. ERRATA: 
On page 29, after " Hypopion," insert " Calcarea Sul- 
phurica" before Silicea. 
On top of page 41 the first sentence should come out.