I'i.1 •■ ■ 1U -t. ■ ?- ';r^ NATIONAL LIBRAR NLM001009688 NOW READY (Paper Covers), Price 25 Cents. NEW CURE FOR DIPHTHERIA, BY BIOCHEMIC TREATMENT. THE REMEDIES ARE UNFAILING SPECIFICS. [FROM THE SAME AUTHOR.] Opinion of Dr. Moleschott, Professor of Physiology, and Senator of Rome. " I am pleased that my views of the part which the inorganic substances play in nutrition has induced Dr. Schiissler to issue this treatise." ABRIDGED THERAPEUTICS FOUNDED UPON HISTOLOGY & CELLULAR PATHOLOGY WITH AN APPENDIX: GIVING SPECIAL DIRECTIONS FOR THE APPLICATION OF THE INORGANIC CELL SALTS, AND INDICATIONS OF THE UNDERLYING CONDITION OF MORBID STATES OF TISSUE. BIOCHEMIC METHOD OF SUCCESSFULLY TREATING DISEASE. Dr. med. SCHUSSLER, IP- OF OLDENBURG. AUTHORISED TRANSLATION By M. DOCETTI WALKER. THIRTEENTH EDITION,A>" \ ENLARGED. V o. \ . NEW YORK : GAVIN HOUSTON, 42 BLEECKER STREET. LONDON: A. SIEGLE, 30 LIME STREET. EDINBURGH and GLASGOW : JOHN MENZIES & CO. DUNDEE : WJ.TJjT-'rUJi.l^D. K / WBC S387cl Copyright 1880, BY Henry R. Stilks. Copyright 13.84, BY Hknry R. Stiles. Copyright 1884, BY Henry R. Stiles. Copyright 1886, BY Henry R. Stiles. ADDENDA. Page 15, after second paragraph. The carbonates are of no importance in cell forma- tion. They are reserve materials out of which phos- phates and sulphates can form themselves, as given p. 16. The hydrochloric acid contained in the gastric juice does not come under consideration in the Biochemic Therapy for the following reasons. It arises in conse- quence of a splitting up of the chloric combinations of Sodium chloride and Potassium chloride contained in the gastric juice. It arises only after the mucous membrane of the stomach has been irritated, stimulated. When Sodium chloride and Potassium chloride are present in proper quantities in the gastric juice, hydro- chloric acid will be bound to form under the con- ditions just mentioned (stimulation of the mucous lining of the stomach). The question might be asked, Whether the organic combinations present in the organism: Urea, Uric acid, Lactic acid, etc., would not serve as Biochemic Thera- peutics ? This question must be answered in the negative. The proper quantities or composition of these organic substances is dependent on the proper function of the corresponding organs, and these func- tions are dependent on the proper motion of the molecules of the inorganic substances. Thus, for in- stance, an excess of lactic acid occurs when the molecular motion of the Sodium phosphate has been disturbed. Page 26.* The inorganic substances, which serve as means of nutrition or function respectively to plants, are taken *The hypothetical paragraphs, p. 22 to 24, to be omitted, as Dr. Schiissler has withdrawn these. ADDENDA. up only in minimum quantities by these. Liebig states the strongest manure containing phosphatic earths in the form of coarse powder can scarcely be compared in its effects with a/ar smaller quantity in a condition of endless sub-division, which will cause some particle to exist in all parts of the soil. A single fibre of a root requires an infinitesimal quantity of food ; but for its function, which is a part of its existence, it is necessary that this minimum quantity be present at the spot where the root touches the ground. (See Liebig's Chemical Letters.) The smaller the particles of a prescribed medicine the less the physical resistance they meet with in their diffusion in the tissues. It may be possible that a tissue can reach such a degree of density that it is rendered impermiable to the salt-solutions of the blood. But if for Therapeutic purposes a solution of salt be given, so diluted that all the molecules of the dissolved salt are set free, it is presumable that no hindrance will be in the way of these molecules to enter the ab- normally condensed parts of tissue. If such be the case, the results become explicable which are obtained by means of minimum doses of Sodium chloride (salt) in diseases which have been developed despite the daily partaking of food containing salt. A very dilute solution of Sodium sulphate (Glauber- salt) takes a different direction of motion from a con- centrated solution. The molecules of a dilute solution which have been introduced into the intestinal canal, pass into the blood through the epithelial cells of the mucous membrane of the intestine. A concentrated solution of Glaubersalt cannot pass through such epi- thelial cells; but by reason of its affinity for or property of attracting water, it effects a flow of water from the blood into the intestinal canal, in consequence of which a watery evacuation takes place, and with the foeces the said solution of Glaubersalt leaves the body. ADDENDA. Rhachitis (Rickets) is curable by means of phos- phate of lime. The blood and lymph of children suffering from Rickets do not lack phosphate of lime in the system, they lack the means for its introduction to the relative places between the bone substance and the capillary vessels. The supply is interupted by the surrounding walls of the said capillaries having suffered a chemico-physical change, which do not permit of the lime salts of the blood to pass through. By means of free molecules of phosphate of lime the statu's qua anti can be reproduced. " Disease is an altered state of cell," says Virchow. When the cells, of which the surrounding walls of the capillaries consist, are altered i. e. diseased in consequence of a diminution of their contents of phosphate of lime, only minimum doses of this salt can be of use in such small cells containing so small a portion of phosphate of lime, the deficiency (manco) of which is still smaller. Gravel, sandy deposit, Sodium sulphate; p. 51. In Measles, Ferric phosphate, Potassium chloride, and Potassium sulphate chiefly to be considered; p. 61. Dandriff and falling off of the hair, Potassium sul- phate ; p. 62. Magnesium phosphate dissolved in warm water, used as a lotion, relieves excessive pain in External Piles; p. 74. Page 74. Worms.—The lactic acid which is present either in the intestines, the stomach, or in other organs, cannot be acted upon directly by minimum doses of Sodium phosphate; but must pass through the walls of the capillaries into the venous blood, and there by the influence of the Sodium phosphate present in the blood, it must be decomposed into carbonic acid and ADDENDA. water. But lactic acid does not pass through the walls of the capillaries when either the cells of which these walls consist, or the cells of the branches of the nerves by which the capillaries are influenced, are deficient in Sodium phosphate. Such a deficiency can only be a minimum one, therefore minimum doses of the said salt suffice to cover it. Colds, with yellow slimy secretions, Potass, sulph.; thick mattery, Calcium sulphate; p. 75. Itching of the skin, Potassium phosphate; p. 81. Chilblains, recent, not suppurating, read Potassium phosphate, not chloride, p. 82, and throughout the Therapeutical Index. Pemphigus, contents of blebs clear like water, Sod. chloride; p. 82. Bronchocele, goitre, requires Calcium phosphate; p. 84. Cramp in anaamic patients, and Rickets, Calcium phosphate; p. 91. Cysts require for their treatment Cole, phos.; p. 91. PREFACE TO THE THIRTEENTH EDITION. The words of Moleschott, cited in the Intro- duction, induced me to make a study of the chemico-physiological effects of the Inorganic substances in the human organism. Twelve years ago I began this study, taking as the fundamental basis the facts ascertained re- garding the chemistry of the Tissues. Thus a Biochemic Therapy has been developed, which I now present in the Thirteenth Edition. DR. MED. SCHUSSLER. Oldenburg, February, 1886. TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. With Dr. Schiissler's permission I have under- taken the translation of his method of treating disease by means of triturated Tissue Salts,— Constitutional Tonics, which tend to restore the lost or disturbed proper balance of Cell Salts. Its publication in English will, I hope, make it known to many to whom otherwise it might be unavailable. Biology, Cellular Pathology, Spectrum Analysis, Minute Anatomy, Analytical Chem- istry, and such kindred Sciences, have furnished a field of research to this German physician. Professional skill and science combined, have thus led to the elucidation of this new system of Therapeutics. A Therapeutical Index, a General Index with Reference Table, and a Glossary have been added by me to the original, for the use of the general reader. The therapeutical index for the purpose of giving a general resume' of diseases which are histo-pathologically alike. The proper remedy is given at the head of each group. M. DOCETTI WALKER. Dundee, 1886. A PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. I present my little work in the Third Edition to the public, after having added several Indica- tions, and having completely re-written it. The First and the Second Editions were so quickly out of print that I may hope the present one will meet the kindly reception of its predecessors. As every innovation gains by opposition, it is a source of satisfaction to me that some opponents have appeared against my Thera- peutics. The views of these critics the reader will find in the part entitled " Refutation of .some Objections." W. H. SCHUSSLER, M.D. ■Oldenburg, July 1876. INTRODUCTION. Moleschott, Professor of Physiology at the University of Rome, says in his work on ■" Vital Circulation" : (Kreislauf des Lebens). '" The structure and vitality of the organs '" depend upon the presence of the necessary " quantities of the inorganic constituents. " On this fact is based the great estimation disturbances in the function of the liver, the digestive organs, etc., are as a rule present, and stand in close connection with the former, attention must be paid to those disturbances if a radical cure of haemorrhoids is to be ensured. . Calcium fluoride has, therefore, to be taken alternately with another remedy, the choice of which is determined by the characteristics of the secondary symptom. The remedies which will have to be most frequently considered are: Sodium chloride, Sodium sulphate, and Potas- sium sulphate. COLDS IN THE HEAD. 75 Diabetes Mellitus. I have used Sodium sulphate with much success for this complaint. My experience is confirmed— (1.) By two successful cures, communicated to me from Scotland. (2.) By a notice in an Italian work by Dr. Brentano, saying that Dr. Aegidi administered Sodium sulphate with complete success in a case of diabetes mellitus. Bronchial Catarrhs, and Colds in the Head. Sodium chloride cures colds, with clear watery or starch-like sputa or secretions. If feverish- ness accompanies the cold, Ferric phosphate must be given in alternation with any of the remedies that are indicated by the peculiar nature of the secretions; hence Potassium sul- phate for yellow slimy secretions may come into requisition. The same remedies apply to the discharges of mucus from the nose (frontal cavity) in colds of the head. Potassium chloride for " stuffy" colds, with discharge of thick white mucus. Calcium fluoride in obstinate .cases. Compare with " Diseases of the Mucous Membrane," p. 68. 76 ASTHMA. Ozcena requires Potassium phosphate inter- nally, and also applications of the same on the mucous lining of the nose, when the disease is seated in the mucous membrane. When the disease is located in the periosteum or in the sub-mucous connective tissue, Silica. If the diagnosis be doubtful, the remedies should be used alternately. Hoarseness. Simple hoarseness from cold, Potassium chlo- ride ; rarely Potassium sulphate is required.— If caused by over-exertion of the vocal organs (as by speakers, actors, singers), Ferric phosphate is most useful; if necessary, also Potassium phosphate. Coughs. Short, acute, spasmodic, very painful, require Ferric phosphate, then Potassium chloride; the true spasmodic cough, Magnesium phosphate. As to accompanying discharges of mucus, etc., see section on " Diseases of the Mucous Membrane." Asthma. The remedies for nervous asthma are Potas- sium phosphate and Magnesium phosphate / the ACUTE (EDEMA OF THE LUNGS. 77 latter particularly when troublesome flatulence occurs.—In asthma, with much excess of mucus, Sodium chloride must be used when the mucus is transparent or frothy ; Potassium sulphate, when the mucus is yellow and easily coughed up; Potassium chloride, when the secretion is white ; and Calcium fluoride, when after great exertions minute yellowish lumps (particles) of matter are brought up. Hooping-Cough. In the inflammatory catarrhal stage, Ferric phosphate / for the nervous, spasmodic affection, the whoop, Magnesium phosphate. Ferric phosphate must be taken when there is vomiting of food. According to the nature of the mucus there may have to be chosen Potassium chloride, Sodium chloride, or Potassium sidphate. Special symptoms may necessitate the alter- nate use of a suitable remedy—e.g., Potassium phosphate or Calcium phosphate. Acute CEdema of the Lungs. Dyspnoea, lividity of face, spasmodic cough with frothy expectoration of serous masses, re- quire Potassium phosphate and Sodium chloride. 78 DISEASES OF THE MUCOUS MEMBRANE. Diseases of the Mucous Membrane. The colour and the consistency of the secre- tion must decide the choice of the remedy. Secretion when fibrinous, Potassium chloride. ,, „ albuminous, Calcium phosphate. „ „ yellowish, with little tough lumps, Calcium fluoride. ,, ,, yellow, like gold, Sodium phos- phate. „ „ yellowish, Potassium sulphate. „ greenish, ,, ,, clear, transparent, Sodium chlo- ride. „ „ mattery, Calcium sulphate. ,, „ very offensive smelling, Potas- sium phosphate, „ ,, causing soreness and chafing, Sodium chloride and Sodium phosphate. The choice of the remedies has to be made in accordance with the above distinctions in cases of Coughs with expectoration, Leucorrhoea, or " whites," Coryza, Cold in the head, and Bron- chial catarrh, Cold in the chest. DISEASES OF THE SKIN. 79 Inflammation, and Catarrh of the Bladder. In acute cases, first of all Ferric phosphate, then Potassium chloride. Chronic cases require Calcium Sulphate. Betention of Urine. When spasm, cramp, is the cause of the retention or suppression of urine, Magnesium phosphate is the remedy. Ferric phosphate cures the suppression of urine, accompanied by heat, ■as in little children. Involuntary Micturition at Night. If the complaint is due to an affection of the nerves Potassium phosphate must be used ; if to the muscles Ferric p>hosphate. In most cases the former is most suitable. For children who suffer from worms Sodium phosphate is useful. Eczema. Diseases of the Skin. The remedies recommended for diseases of the mucous membrane are also suited to the diseases of the skin, viz.: Potassium chloride, Calcium fluoride, Sodium chloride, Potassium sulphate, and Sodium sulphate. Eczema, lichen, etc., are included. 80 DISEASES OF THE SKIN. Vesicles (blisters) with Serous-fibrinous contents, Potassium chloride. Albuminous „ Calcium phosphate. Clear, transparent Yellowish, watery Mattery Bloody, ichorous Sodium chloride. Sodium sulphate. Calcium sulphate. Potassium phosphate. Yellow, honey-coloured Sodium phosphate. Pustules on an infiltrated base containing matter require Silica. The condition of the skin after the vesicles have burst, whether forming into large or small scales or crusts (scabs), requires the following treatment:— Scales resembling flour, Potassium chloride. Yellowish-white crusts, Calcium phosphate. Yellow, colour of honey, Sodium phosphate. White scales, Sodium chloride. Yellowish scales, Sodium sulphate. Crusts of yellow pus, Calcium sulphate. Offensive-smelling scales, Potassium phosphate. „ slimy crusts, „ Extensive scaling of the epidermis on a sticky base or surface, Potassium sulphate. Hard skin on the palms of the hands, with or without cracks, Calcium fluoride. DISEASES OF THE SKIN. 81 Swelling or enlargement of sebacious glands, Sodium chloride. Inflammation and suppuration of the same, Silica, and eventually Calcium sulphate. Eczema eruptions which are moist require one or other of the Sodium salts, the distinctive colour as given above must decide the choice. Eczema or eruptions occurring after vaccina- tion with unhealthy vaccine lymph require Potassium chloride. Soreness, chafing of skin, as in little children, requires Sodium phosphate or Sodium chloride. When an offensive-smelling diarrhoea accom- panies this soreness of skin, Potassium phosphate must be given. Nettle-rash requires Potassium phosphate. Itching of skin, Calcium phosphate. Cracks of the skin, chaps, Calcium fluoride. Erysipelas " Rose."—The cedematous puffy inflammation of the skin requires Sodium sul- phate / infiltrated or blistering erysipelas is cured by Potassium chloride. Severe symptoms of fever and inflammation may accompany erysipelatous affections, and thus require Ferric phosphate.—Potassium sulphate assists the scaling of the skin. 82 DISEASES OF THE SKIN. Herpes zoster (shingles) requires Potassium chloride and Sodium chloride. Pemphigus.—Common pemphigus (blisters of various sizes with yellow watery contents and tense surface) requires Sodium sulphate. Malig- nant pemphigus (blisters with watery-bloody contents and withered, wrinkled surface) requires Potassium phosphate. Burns and Scalds, of the first and second degrees, require Potassium chloride. If sup- purating, Calcium sulphate. Chilblains, Potassium chloride. Chilblains, when suppurating, Calcium sulph. When at the commencement of any inflamm- ation of the skin, Ferric phosphate is given, the disease can be prevented, or blighted in the germ. If that stage has passed in which this remedy is indicated, Potassium chloride must be given. When pus forms, then Silica or Calcium sulphate. When the pus is ichorous, dirty- looking, and heavy-smelling, Potassium phos- phate must be given. Proud flesh requires Potassium chloride. In the same manner in- flammation of fingers (whitlow) is treated. [If the bone surface is implicated, Calcium fluoride is most suitable.] LYMPHATIC GLANDS 83 The treatment of blind and bloody boils, furuncles, carbuncles, etc., is as above. Hard scorbutic infiltrations of subcutaneous tissues are cured by Potassium chloride. Scorbutic- bleedings require Potassium phosphate. Ingrown toe-nails require Potassium chloride and local surgical treatment. Lupus requires Potassium chloride, Calcium phosphate. Epithelioma, Potassium sulphate. Effects of the bites of insects, Sodium chloride (used externally). Warts on the hands, Potassium chloride^ Dissolve a quantity, as large as a pea, of the triturated powder in a tablespoonful of water, and moisten the part with this solution. Mastitis, Inflammation of the Breasts. Potassium chloride is indicated for the hard swelling of the breasts before matter has formed ; when formed, and during its discharge, Silica is indicated. (For further indications see p. 56). Lymphatic Glands. For acute infiltration (swelling), Potassium chloride. Chronic cases of swollen glands may 84 CHANCRE AND GONORRHOEA. require Potassium chloride, Calcium phosphate, Calcium fluoride. If inclined to suppurate, SilicaySLiid during suppuration,Calcium sulphate, are required, and Calcium fluoride when the edges round the suppuration are callous. Chancre and Gonorrhoea. Chancre — the principal remedy for soft chancre is Potassium chloride (internally and externally). Phagadenic chancre requires Potassium phos- phate. Hard chancre, Calcium fluoride (inter- nally and externally). Chronic syphilis requires Potassium chloride, Sodium chloride, Sodium sulphate, Calcium sulphate, Calcium fluoride, and Silica, according to the symptoms. Ferric phosphatecures the inflammatory stage of gonorrhoea ; for further details see the chap- ter on "Diseases of the Mucous Membrane." Discharge of blood requires Potassium phos- phate.—Later stages, Sodium chloride, Calcium phosphate. Besides the internal use of the remedy corresponding to the symptoms, it is advisable, after urination, to bathe and syringe the parts MECHANICAL INJURIES. 85 twice daily with the same remedy dissolved in tepid, soft water. Orchitis, after suppression of gonorrhoea, re- quires Ferric phosphate, Potassium chloride; eventually Calcium phosphate. Induration (hardening) of testicles, Calcium fluoride. Scrotal oedema, Sodium chloride. Preputial oedema, Sodium sulphate. Gonorrhoea glanspenis, Potassium phosphate externally and internally. Hydrocele, Calcium phosphate. Accidents. Mechanical Injuries. Cuts and other fresh wounds, bruises, and sprains, require Ferric phosphate.—If, after the use of this, any swelling of the contused parts remains, give Potassium chloride. If suppura- tion sets in, in neglected cases, give Silica and Calcium sulphate. Ichor or mortification necessitate Potassium phosphate/ proud flesh, Potassium chloride. Fracture of bones requires (along with surgical treatment) at first, for injuries of the soft parts, Ferric phosphate; then Calcium phosphate 86 DISEASES OF THE BONE. to promote the formation of new bony matter to unite the fractured bone. Tenalgia Crepitans (crackling of the sinews), which occurs on the dorsal side of the lower arm above the wrist in the case of carpenters and other artisans, by pressing their chisel or other tool too hard in a rotatory motion against the material on which they were working. It has been quickly cured in two cases by means of Ferric phosphate. A third case, which had become chronic under ordinary treatment, I cured easily with Potassium chloride,after Ferric phosphate proved ineffectual. Ulcers of the Lower Limbs. Under this head any of the remedies given for diseases of the skin and mucous membrane may be required. Calcium fluoride cures varicose ulceration. Diseases of the Bone. If the surrounding soft parts are red, inflamed, hot, and painful, Ferric phosphate. Against ulceration of bone, Silica, Calcium sulphate, and Calcium phosphate. Exudations : hard, rough, corrugated elevations on the bone surface re- ANEMIA CHLOROSIS, (BLOODLESSNESS). 87 quire Calcium fluoride. This remedy is even better than Silica in cases of Cephalhaematoniata (so-called blood-tumour) on the parietal bones of new-born children. Rickets, Calcium phosphate. If atrophy en- sues, with foul diarrhoea, this condition must first besubduedby Potassium phosphate. Should there be any excess of acidity, it must be removed by Sodium phosphate. Hip-joint disease—Ferric phosphate, Silica. Spina ventosa—Calcium fluoride alternately with Magnesium phosphate. Anaemia, Chlorosis, (bloodlessness). The remedy of true anosmia andchlorosis is Cal- cium phosphate. As soon as a decided improve- ment of general health sets in, Ferric phosphate may follow. Potassium chloride may have to be given as a secondary remedy, if such symptoms as Eczema, eruptions of the skin, exist, for which this remedy is beneficial. Conditions resembling chlorosis require Sod- ium chloride and Potassium phosphate,the choice to be decided by the characteristic accompanying symptoms. F 88 MENSTRUATION. Potassium phosphate cures pallor or bloodless- ness, which has been caused by long-continued strain, depressing the mind. Haemorrhage. Bleedings. Blood, red, readily coagulating into a jelly- like mass, Ferric phosphate. Black, thick, tough blood requires Potassium chloride. Pale-red or blackish-red, but thin and watery, not coagulating, Potassium phosphate and Sod- ium chloride. Epistaxis, bleeding from the nose (in children) is, as a rule,generally cured by Ferric phosphate. Predisposition to nasal haemorrhages, Potassium phosphate. Uterine haemorrhage, chiefly Calcium fluoride. Hsemorrhoidal bleedings, Ferric phosphate, Potassium chloride, and Calcium fluoride. Menstruation. When occurring too early and too profusely, Potassium chloride; if too late and scanty, Potassium sulphate; Potassium phosphate in pale, sensitive persons, who weep easily. The remedies may be selected in accordance with MENSTRUAL COLIC. 89 other attending symptoms, such as colour, consistency, crampy pain, etc. If leucorrhoea, "' whites," accompanies the suppression, or menstruation too profuse or too scanty, then the peculiarity of the leucorrhoea must indicate the remedy. A mild white discharge indicates Potassium chloride/ a mild yellow, Potassium sulphate; an acrid, corroding discharge Sodium ■chloride. Labour Pains. Irregular, weak pains require Potassium phos- jphate. Spasmodic, crampy pains, Magnesium phos- jphate. Menstrual Colic. c Magnesium phosphate suits this colic generally. Potassium phosphate suits sensitive, irritable, pale, or lachrymose persons. With accelerated pulse, increased redness of face, etc., Ferric phosphate is to be given. Vaginismus, Ferric phosphate, Magnesium phosphate. 90 NEURALGIC, RHEUMATIC PAINS. Neuralgic, Bheumatic Pains in the Limbs, the Back, and the Nape of the Neck. Pains only felt during motion, or made worse by motion, Ferric phosphate; second remedy, Potassium chloride. Pains which are laming, making the parts affected feel powerless, gentle movement grad- ually lessening the stiffness and pain, yet too much exertion increasing the pains (such as walking too far); this kind of pain is always worse after rising from a sitting position at the commencement of movement, and requires Potassium phosphate. Pains, with a feeling of numbness, coldness, or with a creeping sensation worse in the night and during rest, require Calcium phosphate. Pains, vivid, shooting, boring, intermittent,. shifting,neuralgic,require Magnesium phosphate. Pains which are worse in warm rooms, and in the evening ; better in open cool air, Potassium sulphate. Pains which the patient cannot describe very clearly, accompanying symptoms must decide the remedy, such as an eruption, coating of the tongue, etc. CRAMPS AND OTHER NERVOUS AFFECTIONS. 91 Chronic articular rheumatism requires Potas- sium chloride, Sodium chloride, Calcium phos- phate, Potassium sulphate. For the cracking of joints in walking or moving, Sodium chloride. Lumbago, Ferric phosphate, Calcium phos- phate. Fungoid swelling of the joints, e.g., tumor albus (white swelling), requires Potassium sul- phate. Sciatica, Potassium phosphate, Magnesium phosphate. For suppurations of the joints, Calcium sul- phate and Silica. Hygroma patellae, " Housemaid's knee," re- quires Calcium phosphate. Hydrops genu, Calcium phosphate. Cramps and other Nervous Affections. Palpitation of the heart requires Ferric phos- phate, Potassium chloride, Sodium chloride, Potassium phosphate, or Sodium sulphate, accord- ing to the nature of the accompanying symptoms. Potassium chloride is almost a specific for epilepsy. 92 AGUE. INTERMITTENT FEVER. Spasms of the glottis, tetanus, lockjaw, cramp in the legs, St. Vitus's dance, etc., are cured by Magnesium phosphate and Calcium phosphate. Ague. Intermittent Fever. The remedy for ague is Sodium sulphate. The applicability of this remedy is shown by the following physiologico-chemical consider- ations. In ague patients the quantity of water in the blood corpuscles and in the blood serum is increased, and consequently the amount of oxygen taken up by the blood is diminished. It has been shown (page 17) that Sodium sul- phate promotes the removal of excess of water from the organism. When by its action the proportion of water in the blood corpuscles has been reduced to the normal condition, the cor- puscles are again able to take up the full amount of oxygen and distribute it to the tissues. As the tissues are in this way brought back from their pathological to their normal physio- logical condition, they are enabled to remove out of the organism the cause of the ague—be it marsh-gas (miasma) or bacteria (fungi). DISEASES OF THE BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD. 93 Dry mountain air, which is rich in oxygen, itself can cure ague spontaneously, because the organism takes up a large amount of oxygen and disposes of much water by evaporation. I use the Sodium sulphate in the third decimal dilution. Ague patients must abstain from milk diet, buttermilk, eggs, fat, and fish. Dropsy. Caused by loss of blood or vital fluids, Calcium phosphate and Ferric phosphate. Post-scarlatinal dropsy : see Disease of the Kidney. Simple dropsy of the areolar tissue has to be treated with Sodium sulphate and Sodium chlor. In dropsy occasioned by cardiac disease, liver or kidney disease, the remedy has to be selected according to the prominence of the accompany- ing symptoms. Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Cord. The inorganic constituents of the brain and spinal cord are:—Sodium chloride and Potassium 94 DISEASES OF THE BONE. chloride; Ferric phosphate, Sodium phosphate, Magnesium phosphate, Potassium phosphate, and Calcium phosphate. The Ferric phosphate (as has been shown on page 42) has the property of attracting oxygen, and thus the distribution of oxygen to the brain and spinal cord is effected by the iron. The Sodium chloride is concerned with and promotes the distribution of water. If a disturbance takes place in the motion of its molecules, it shows itself according to the parts affected, as delirium tre- mens, sunstroke, or other affections corresponding to the location and extent of the disturbance.— The function of Sodium phosphate is to split up into water and carbonic acid the lactic acid con- tained in the organs in question.—Magnesium phosphate is closely concerned with sensation, promoting it, and is also the means of function of the motor nerves. A disturbance of the molecular motion of the Potassium phosphate contained in the brain (thought-cells) gives rise there to false imagina- tions of a depressing character, e.g., groundless fears, hypochondria, melancholy, &c. Minimum doses of this salt cure these complaints. Calcium phosphate is intimately connected PAINS IN STOMACH AND ABDOMEN. 95 with connective tissue cells. — Potassium chlo- ride, which is most abundant in the brain and spinal cord, is the inorganic mineral substance which first unites with an albuminous substance to form a cell, and without its presence no fresh brain-cell can arise. A disturbance of its molecular motion is the probable cause of tabes ■dorsalis. 96 MORE OBJECTIONS BY A HOMEOPATH. MORE OBJECTIONS BY A HOMOEOPATH. REFUTED BY DR. SCHUSSLER, WHO DOES NOT BELONG TO THAT SCHOOL. (Published separately some time ago). Dr. von Grauvogl, retired Surgeon Major of the Staff, 1 CI., at Munich, has attacked my Abridged Therapeutics a second time in the General Homoeopathic Journal. His first ob- jections I refuted in the 3rd edition of my book; on the second I will throw some light in these lines. Dr. von Grauvogl is the author of several homoeopathic works : one of these," The Funda- mental Laws of Physiology, Pathology, and Homoeopathic Therapeutics," has been criticised by Dr. Roth, mercilessly, but not unjustly. In Hirschel's Zeitschrift for Horn: Clinic, under the title " Paraenesis ad aliena a medica Doctrina arcenda," Dr. Roth says there, that Dr. von Grauvogl has cemented together Mechanics, Chemistry, Rademacher Priessnitz, and Fuchs' lung-idiopathy with scholastic Philo- sophy : by so doing the most nonsensical book was compounded. MORE OBJECTIONS BY A HOMCEOPATH. 97 Although his book is a collection—surium of the kind above alluded to, Dr. von Grauvcgl maintains the rudiments of my Therapy were contained in it. He is mistaken in this. I never hesitated to give the names of those men from whose writings I drew my idea. If I had borrowed anything in any way from Dr. v. G.'s work, his name should stand foremost with an epithet on ornans and shine in my opusculum. His elaborations were, however, entirely useless to me.—I do not comprehend why he as phil- osopher should rise against me with so much ire. But I will pass on to the points at which Dr. v. G.'s attacks are aimed. Dr. v. G. misses in my writings a definition of the meaning " curable." If I had happened to be a philosopher newly off the irons, he might have expected from me an attempt at such a definition. But my ordi- nary common sense tells me that every sensible man knows what is to be understood by curable and incurable. It is not clear to me why Dr. v. G. considers the absence of the thought ot such definition a kind of back-door or loop-hole. Dr. v. Grauvogl, who likes to define, says : " Therapeutics is a science, a complete subordi- '98 MORE OBJECTIONS BY A HOMCEOPATH. nation of the special to the general in natural laws, by which the connections of phenomena of each separate case can be given and explained. From this it is evident that there can be no abridged science." This is genuine pedantry. In my Thera- peutics, it is all important practically to find out whether my 12 remedies meet all requirements or not. This cannot be done by aesthetic philosophising. Dr. v. G. thinks my Thera- peutics would leave me in a difficulty in cases of abnormal substitutions, e.g., when mucous tissues are metamorphosed into bony or fatty tissues, or when muscular tissues are forming where they should not be. My reply is : In these cases the functional remedy of such tissues is required as have degenerated and become abnormal. When a tissue performs its function normally, no new formations can develope in it. It is requisite and necessary, therefore, to correct the abnormal function of the above tissue by means of the respective functional remedy. I do not know why Dr. v. G. considers him- self justified to insinuate that he can give me a piece of information in these words : " May it be told once for all to Dr. Schiissler, that the MORE OBJECTIONS BY A HOMOEOPATH. 99' deficiency of a substance in the organism can never be its own cause." Have I ever made a statement to the contrary to this notorious truism 1 When I apply Potassium chloride therapeuti- cally for the cure of an exudating inflammation of the skin, caused by boiling water, I know that the irritation on the skin from the hot water caused a disturbance of the proper balance ol the molecules of Potassium chloride in that part in which they are the biochemic functionaries. Dr. v. G. asserts I had come into serious conflict with Moleschott, and as proof of this assertion he quotes this from " Kreislauf des Lebens," by Moleschott: "Physicians know how frequently one has to change the course of action of the digestive organs, and foremost that of the liver, before one is in a position to offer iron successfully to the blood." The serious conflict is a product of art of Dr. v. G.'s desire to criticise. As exact individualization has been emphasized by me as an indispensable requirement necessary in the manipulation of my Therapeutics, it was not necessary for me specially to say that ancemia arising from disease of the liver is curable 100 MORE OBJECTIONS BY A HOMOEOPATH. indirectly by means of the functional remedy for the liver disease. Virchow's teachings, too, he supposes me not to have heeded sufficiently. In support of this he cites the following from Virchow : " The individual cell within a tissue is not being fed, but it feeds itself; it abstracts from the nutritive fluids which are in its environments the parts required by it"; and v. G. adds, e.i., "as long as they are healthy ; when diseased, that is, changed in any way in their molecules, the commencement of acute diseases, namely fever, at once proves that the diseased parts, yea the whole body, can no longer take up nutrient materials, and it is often unable to master those forced upon it." Dr. v. G. has forgotten I do not pretend or profess to feed, but endeavour to correct errors of function (faulty functions), and this task is and must be as easily performed " at the com- mencement of acute diseases " as in a later stage. Respecting the ash of the tissues and its constituents, I adhere to what Moleschott says regarding it. In his present edition the names of the salts are still the same. If carbonic acid, as Dr. v. G. asserts, were MORE OBJECTIONS BY A HOMOEOPATH. 101 absolutely necessary for the formation of bone- cells, the Therapeutist would not require to provide it, as the tissues are never lacking it. It is evident Dr. v. G. does not know the fundamental traits of bio-chemistry, from the following elaboration of his : " When the organ- ism builds up the eye for the light in the darkness of the uterus, and places the Calcium carbonate into the bones, the Potassium and the Sulphur in the soft parts, Dr. Schiissler imagines one would give more credence to his wisdom and accept that this law could as well have used Calcium sulphate for it." I must enlighten Dr. v. G. on a process unknown to him. The organism does not place Sulphur into the soft parts ; but the Sulphur which enters by bio- chemic or physiological ways or action into the composition of the tissues is an integral part of albumen, which reaches the blood by means of food, and by it enters into the tissues. Free Sulphur the tissues do not take up, no more than free Carbonic acid. In the organism Sul- phuric acid continually is formed because the sulphur of albumen is constantly exposed to the oxidising influence of the inhaled oxygen which enters the blood and the tissue. The Sulphuric 102 MORE OBJECTIONS BY A HOMOEOPATH. acid thus formed combines with the bases of the carbonates. In this manner Calcium sul- phate arises in the tissues. It does not serve for the building up of the latter, but for the absorption, reception, of such water as arises from the oxidation of the organic cell-substance. In his blind zeal of persecution he has misunder- stood me when he believes I thought Calcium sulphate was made use of for the purpose he mentioned above. When sulphur is used for tests in repeated large doses, the organism will be found to exert itself to get rid of the burden by the channel of oxidation. Thus a surplus of sulphuric acid must arise, and increased formation of sulphates, as well as an increased giving-off of carbonic acid. In the organism, processes take place the same as in a chemical laboratory despite Dr. v. G. With mathematical formulas—which he likes to parade—he may catch simpletons. What Dr. v. G. says about inflammations and Hypersernia is partly indefinite or only partially pertinent. " The cause of inflammatory processes is essentially a physical or chemical alteration of the vascular walls of the blood- vessels respectively, the blood itself." These MORE OBJECTIONS BY A HOMOEOPATH. 103 are his words. As the word alteration means nothing further than change, he should have defined more clearly the changed vascular walls. Alas! he does not even know whether it is a physical or a chemical change. Rideo quan- dogue bonus dormitat philosophus. Dr. v. G. declares " That dilatation of the blood-vessels did not depend on a diminution of the tensive power of their muscular circular fibres, but on a paralysis of the nerves of the vessels." By this he has only hit one-half of the truth. Dilatation of a vessel can be caused by paralysis of the nerves of the bloodrvessels ; it can, however, also be the after effect of an irritation, over-stimulation, to which the muscles of the vessels were exposed. Dilatation of the first kind extends itself over a larger area of vessels ; a dilatation of the second kind may be more circumscribed, being dependent on a small number of those relaxed muscular fibres which are circularly arranged round the walls of the blood-vessels. It is true that a hyperaemia need not of necessity have an inflammatory exudation as a consequence ; on the other hand, an inflamma- tory exudation may exist without hypersemia having preceded it. G 104 MORE OBJECTIONS BY A HOMOEOPATH. When in consequence of intense or too strong an irritation (stimuli), whether internal or ex- ternal, a disturbance of the molecular balance occurs in the molecules of the iron of the circular fibres, the vessels dilate ; when too strong an irritation strikes the Potassium chloride molecules of a tissue, an inflammatory exudation ensues. I admit that hypersemia may sometimes be of short duration ; but that it may also last for some time, every practitioner knows. That many acute diseases can cure themselves, or, as is often said, can be cured by Nature, is known to everybody. But that their duration can be shortened therapeutically cannot be denied either. The possibility of Nature curing is frequently quoted by opposing schools. Dr. v. G. utilises the possibility of spontane- ous resolution or disappearance of a hyperemia, as an argument against my Ferric phosphate, and to a larger extent even against my entire Abridged Therapeutics, where he fancies he has discovered a great many ifs and buts. He even casts this as a reproach at me, that several laymen in Hungary, not practitioners, were astonished at the effects of Calcium phosphate, MORE OBJECTIONS BY A HOMOEOPATH. 105 which not I, but a Hungarian homoeopath, had prescribed from reading my Therapeutics ! If any one dares to say or do what does not agree with v. Grauvogl's views, on him he tries to imprint the stamp of ignorance, and when he wishes to prove anything he simply refers to the books written by himself. This proceeding would be perfectly correct if Dr. v. G. were possessed of infallibility instead of the imagina- tion of infallibility. Under these circumstances I do not feel called upon to " correct the errors" he imputes to me. He asserts that if I had but once proved one drug on myself—for instance, Silica—I could not for a moment doubt that every local disease was only a symptom of the alteration (change) of the entire organism. For by such a proof he thinks I would surely have experienced that long before symptoms were perceptible in the bone-system, the rest of the whole organism had set up action against this substance by a number of symptoms. Therefore Silica could not be indicated locally except in the case of Chondroma. To this my reply is : All the results effected by tests made with Silica can in no wise shake 106 MORE OBJECTIONS BY A HOMCEOPATH. my firm belief in the possibility of local Patho- logy and Therapeutics. Silica is a physiological means of function of the connective tissue. The sphere of action of Silica is therefore very large, and when given so as to study the action of this drug, it may produce symptoms in all the organs. But it does not follow that in Chon- droma, which has its seat in the framework of connective tissue around the bones, that a functional disturbance of the molecules of Silica in all the connective tissues of the said organism must have preceded it. It is more readily con- ceivable that an irritation when set up in the connective tissue surrounding bone could cause Chondroma. A proof to the contrary, made up> of philosophical baubles, cannot hold good. In saying that what is peculiar to the whole, points with certainty to the peculiarity of the individual, Dr. von Grauvogl expresses simply a well-known platitude. Every shepherd knows that it would be im- possible for him to recognise the individual sheep of his flock, if he did know the peculiarity of sheep in general. If, as Dr. v. G. declares, the whole organism were the disease—for instance, in intermittent MORE OBJECTIONS BY A HOMOEOPATH. 107 fever, chlorosis, dysentery, etc., the whole of the bony framework, as well as the crystalline lens, would have to be diseased also. No one has, however, cataract or bone-disease chlorosis, or dy sentry, etc., as inseparable concomitants of intermittent fever; for the crystalline lens and bone-tissues are among the parts which are found to be left healthy in those diseases. As he will not suffer any " double meaning " in science, he says that the conceptions of means of nutrition and means of function cover each other. If two conceptions cover each other, they are equal to each other. Soon after he speaks of the difference between nutrition and function. He also believes that there are tissues which have no function (do not participate in function). A tissue which does not participate in function and is not functional is dead. If any one wishes to study nutrition and function, he must not take Moleschott or Virchow as authorities, but enquire of Mr v. G. What, indeed, could one learn of Moleschott ? Moleschott is, as v. G. says, only an author for the people (a man who writes for many), 108 MORE OBJECTIONS BY A HOMCEOPATH. and v. G. has only a limited circle of readers. Whilst Moleschott is a Professor, an academical teacher, and one of world-wide fame, who enjoys "a somewhat greater reputation in science than von Grauvogl." Regarding the sublime theory of the con- nective-tissue channels, I must appeal to the writings of Virchow, v. Recklinghausen, and Moleschott. Moleschott says, in the latest edition of his " Kreislauf des Lebens," " It is one of the grandest achievements of modern times, to the knowledge of which Virchow and v. Reckling- hausen have paved the way, that the connective tissue has been raised from the secondary part, which at first was allotted to it, to one of pro- ductive activity such as was never anticipated. What appeared formerly only designed as a protecting covering or padding, appears now as the bed of the most minute and secret streamlets of juices or sap from the blood to the tissue, and back from these into the blood-vessels, and at the same time as one of the most important nidi (breeding places) of new cells, which, de- veloped from the embryoine early shapes, can rise to form the most peculiar and special structures of the body." MORE OBJECTIONS BY A HOMOEOPATH. 109 In relation to this, I say, p. 10 of my Third Edition: " As the connective-tissue channels carry the nutrient fluid to the tissues on the one hand, they on the other hand carry back into the circulation the waste or debris of those tissues which have been broken up and under- gone disintegration by the continuous influence of the oxygen. Importation and exportation taking place side by side, special connective- tissue channels must exist for the purpose of carrying the supply and others for carrying the waste. For unceasing traffic in two directions cannot take place on the same set of rails. Dr. v. G., to whom the above-cited from Moleschott is surely unknown, confuses connec- tive-tissue channels with capillary vessels. He reproaches me with not being versed in this special line of literature. Those questions regarding lactic acid and the constituent parts of the ash of the tissues can- not be settled definitely. Marchand and others consider lactic acid, and Bencke considers oxalic acid, the cause of Rhachitis (Rickets). Sodium phosphate cures all such Diarrhoea which arises from an excess of lactic acid. In Rhachitis (rickets) this remedy is useless. Ex- 110 MORE OBJECTIONS BY A HOMCEOPATH. cess of lactic acid would therefore not seem to be the primary agent of this disease. Dr. v. G. says : " When a theory is false, then the practice resting on it must be false too." The sentence might perhaps be reversed. " If the practice be correct, the theory must also be correct." And many have practically convinced themselves that the Indications in my Therapeutics are correct. From the following passage in my first article against Dr. v. G., he concludes that I must be an empiricist of the first water. " He who does not know the sphere of action of my twelve remedies in its full range, is not in a position to judge whether they can meet all therapeutical requirements or not." Dr. v. G.'s counter statement is therefore a weak one if he infers that my method is empirical. Truly the pre- mises leading to such a conclusion do not lie in the above words, for in them it is not stated in which manner I acquired the knowledge of the effects of my twelve therapeutical agents, whether by experiments or provings on the healthy, or ex usu in morbis. None but a prejudiced mind, such as that of Dr. v. G., could have seen in these words an MORE OBJECTIONS BY A HOMOEOPATH. Ill indirect challenge to allow himself " to be led on to the slippery ground of empiricism by me." As there is no lack of Doctors who have regard to my Therapeutics in their prac- tice, it is immaterial to me whether the number be increased or not by the unit represented by Dr. v. G. His favour or disfavour will have no influence on the future fate of my Thera- peutics. If he thinks that " aspiring youth " has to be deterred from following my teachings, and that this duty has been imposed upon him, it is questionable whether the "aspiring youth" feel so little self-dependant that they require his guardianship or tutorage. Who opposes Dr. v. G. is, in his ideas, a stranger in the pre- cincts of logic. Moleschott says: " Thus logic became a formula of scholasticism which the assiduous and eager students consider a thorny round-about road towards development and advance." But Dr. v. G. considers that if any one has not crammed himself with a formula of thought, he is perfectly unfit to think. With as much reason he could have asserted that if any one does not know the physical laws of hearing and sight, he must be blind and dumb. Experience 112 MORE OBJECTIONS BY A HOMOEOPATH. teaches the opposite. Indians and other un- civilized nations can compete for acuteness of their organs of hearing, etc., with the most learned Professor of Physics. Just as a healthy man sees and hears aright without having learnt a formula on sight and hearing, so a healthy and sound man thinks aright without having impressed on his memory a formula of thought or an elementary book of logic. Every sensory perception excites a thought,. which must be correct in itself and in the rela- tion to another, as long as the organs of sense and the brain are normal or healthy. Regard- ing this assertion I find myself at one with Dr. v. G. in spite of himself, for he says if I had. tested the effects of Silica on myself, my opinion regarding it would not differ from his. The errors he imputes to me could therefore not simply rest on an error of thought—even if they had been committed by me—but must have arisen through want of experience. It is plain, therefore, I could not have sinned against the formula of thought. Formulas of thought are, however, as super- fluous as a fifth wheel to a carriage. For if a man were not able to understand and order MORE OBJECTIONS BY A HOMOEOPATH. 113 aright his own thoughts, he would be far less able to understand printed logic, the product of the thoughts of others. Dr SCHUSSLER. 114 CLINICAL CASES. [The following Clinical Cases have been collected from various Medical Journals, and from the practice of qualified Medical Practitioners. It will be seen that most of the cases which Dr. Schiissler has put on record here have been treated by other medical men. These give conclusive proof of the merits of the Bio- chemic treatment of disease.] CLINICAL CASES. 1. April, 1879. M.K., aet. 16, has suffered for years from periodically returning headaches. The pain is concentrated in the right temple, and of a boring nature, as if a screw were being driven in—as the patient expresses herself. Preceding this pain there is a burning sensation at the pit of the stomach, bitter taste in the mouth, and lassitude. These symptoms are only felt at night, or in the morning. When the attack comes on, the patient is quite unable to attend to any ordinary duties. Generally vomiting of bile follows, and then improvement sets in. Sodium sulphate daily; as much as a bean, dissolved in water, and taken repeatedly, cured the young lady entirely. 2. M. L., a gentleman aet. 38, took a chill while in a state of perspiration. He suffered in consequence from tearing pains in the limbs, noises in the ears, with dulness of hearing and frontal headache. These pains were accompanied by fever, and although he had night-sweats they brought no relief. The appetite was poor, and the tongue covered with a white CLINICAL CASES. 115 coating. I gave a small quantity of Potassium chloride in water every two hours. A rapid general improvement set in,. but pains and numbness in the feet were still present. Also the habitual perspiration of feet was still absent. At this stage the patient received Silica—2 doses daily for a week. Perspiration of feet was re-established, and on the re-appear- ance of this, the rest of the ailments left him, and health was quite restored. 3. Mat, 1879. J. D., a man of 69 years of age, had been. complaining for several weeks of pains in the limbs, which settled in the right leg, from the hip down to the ankle, but were worst at the joints, being of a shifting nature— intermittent—sometimes shooting and darting like lightning, causing the patient to change his position frequently. Warmth gives him relief. He is unable to leave his bed : is almost in despair, thinking he is dying. Magnesium phos- phate; a dose every three hours. The improvement on taking this remedy was marked and rapid. But whenever he stopped with the medicine, he felt worse again. By con- tinuing steadily with Magnesium phosphate, a complete cure was effected. 4. I was called to attend a girl 12 years of age. She had had, some time ago, an attack of rheumatic fever. I found the little patient, who had been taken ill the previous day, in bed. The joint3 of both knees were swollen, somewhat red, and very painful. The joints of the vertebrae at the nape of the neck were implicated, and every movement out of the constrained position of the neck and back were very painful. 116 CLINICAL CASES. Her friends expected that salicylic acid would be applied, which they had already seen used, but I gave Ferric'phosphate and Potassium chloride alternately every three hours. Next day, to the astonishment of the friends, the fever and pains were less, and knees were quite free from pain. Now I ordered Potassium chloride to be given alone for the swelling, and the next morning on my return I found all the symptoms worse. I repeated the Ferric phosphate again, and there was a rapid improvement. But in the same degree as the pains were leaving and the swelling decreasing, spasmodic pains in the abdomen set in. There was also an occasional vomiting of bilious matter. As soon as these latter symptoms came on, I ordered the little patient some Magnesium phosphate dis- solved in water, in frequent sips, which removed all these symptoms in 24 hours. Ferric phosphate and Potassium chloride were continued in less frequent doses. Six days after my first visit the patient was able to leave the bed, and was quite well. Dr. SCHLEGEL. 5. Notes by the Editor op the "Monthly Medical Journal." From this clinical report it is very evident that the proper application of Dr. Schtissler's method has surprisingly favour- able results. We have repeatedly occasion to recommend these medicines, as they are so reliable in rheumatic fever (acute articular rheumatism). 6. December, 1879. A little girl, aged nine, had recovered from Diphtheria and Scarlatina rather easily, and was allowed to be in the convalescent room. Suddenly she began to CLINICAL CASES. 117 swell without any apparent cause. Her face became pufi'y ; the'feet also oedematous to above the ankles. Urine scarcely decreased; containing no albumen. No pain over the kidneys on pressure. Pulse somewhat feverish ; but appetite, sleep, and stools still natural. I gave three different medicines —amongst these, Aconitum—without success. Dropsy {amasarca et ascites) are increasing rapidly ; urine scanty ; only very small quantities occasionally, being slightly turbid, and containing much albumen. Whether any epithelial sheathings were present was not ascertained. Kidneys were now more sensitive to pressure. Occasionally delirious. Sodium chloride alone cured this case in about a fortnight. Dr. COHN. From the " Clinical Times." 7. In August, 1877, a young man who had suffered from sciatica some years ago, and had been in the habit of having subcutaneous injections of morphia, developed a boil on the seat. This discharged freely, and would not heal. When at last it seemed to be healed and was comparatively well, the patient took cold. While at a military review he was caught in a heavy rain. Suppuration began again, and this time the discharge was excessive. His mother became alarmed, as he was very weak and had no appetite. His bleep was disturbed, and he felt a constant thirst. I pre- scribed Silica—a dose every morning on an empty stomach. After one week the mother was able to furnish the very favourable report:—" The discharge of matter has been reduced so much that at one time it seemed gone altogether. The great thirst has left him, and his appetite has returned; 118 CLINICAL CASES. his sleep is sound, and the shivery, chilly feeling he had has completely gone." Silica has here furnished a brilliant de- monstration of its power over suppuration, with its charac- teristic accompanying symptoms. Dr. GOULLON, Jr. 8. Dr. F., of Also, Hungary, reports :—I was requested to go into the country to see a man who had been suffering the last three days from spasmodic convulsive sobbing. He- was lying in bed. Subcutaneous injections of morphia, friction with chloroform and sinapisms (mustard poultices) wore all of no use. Although the sobbing was mitigated for two or three hours, it returned with more violence than ever. I gave him a powder of Magnesium phosphate in half a tumblerful of water. After the second tablespoonful the sobbing ceased altogether, to the astonishment of all those- present. 9. I had fifteen cases of acute articular rheumatism. They were all successfully and rapidly cured with Ferric phosphate. Dr. F. 10. A hard swelling under the chin about the size of a pigeon's egg disappeared completely in about four weeks under the use of Calcium fluoride. Both old and new school medicines had failed to cure. Dr. F. 11. In Diphtheria (maligna), where every known remedy failed, Potassium phosphate and Potassium chloride with, and sometimes without, Sodium chloride, effected subsidence of malignity, and hastened the cure. Dr. F. CLINICAL CASES. 119 12. In Paralysis after Diphtheria, I know of no better remedy than Potassium phosphate. Dr. F. 13. A very interesting case came under my treatment, which deserves the attention of the profession. I was called to a lady advanced in years. She had been suffering for nearly five weeks from fearful attacks of convulsive spasms. During the last twenty-four hours she had had 30 attacks. The spasms darted through her body like an electric shock, so that she fell to the ground. The attack lasted a few minutes, after which she felt well enough, but rather exhausted. The sufferer did not venture to leave her bed now, afraid of being injured. She had been treated by her first doctor with Flor. Zinci., Fowler's Solution, and friction, but without success. When I saw the lady I thought of trying Schussler's functional remedies. Knowing that Magnesium phosphate, Potassium phosphate, and Calcium phosphate are prescribed for allaying spasms (cramp), I chose the latter, Calcium phosphate, under these circumstances. Next day, to the astonishment of those about her, I found the old lady walking about the room. She met me with a smile, ex- claiming—" Ah, Doctor, my spasms are cured." And so it was. She had not had another attack. Dr. FECHTMANN. 14. Reuter, a master shoemaker of Berlin, aet. 40, was taken ill, after catching cold, as he stated. There was fever and violent pain in the right shoulder. The first visit I paid H 120 CLINICAL CASES. was on the third day after he had been taken ill, Nov. 21st. Temperature high, pulse full and quick, thirst and loss of appetite. The right shoulder was very red, and sensitive to the touch. He was not able to lie in his bed, as the pressure of the pillows was unbearable. He was lying on the sofa supported with cushions, so that the shoulder should be free from pressure. I gave my patient Ferric phosphate, as much as would cover a sixpenny piece. This was dissolved in a large glassful of water, and a teaspoonful of the solution given every hour. Improvement was felt even after a few hours. During the night the patient was able to sleep, and on the following day the fever abated. On the 25th Nov. the patient was able to move the arm pretty freely. Nov. the 28th he tried to work ; but feeling the weight of his hammer too much, he rested a few days longer, when he felt himself quite well. Dr. L. SULZER. 15. March 2nd. Dr. Fisher was consulted by a lady {enceinte) who was suffering from a cough which caused great inconvenience, as with every cough there was emission of urine. Ferric phosphate cured her very speedily. A short time ago the lady under similar circumstances was again troubled with a cough. Ferric phosphate this time also cured her as speedily. 16. Dr. Kock, of Munich, reports :—In thirty.five cases of measles which came under my treatment, coryza and bron- chial catarrh were very slight in the premonitory stage. CLINICAL CASES. 121 Conjunctivitis and intolerance of light along with it were the more prominent symptoms. Within a few days after, the rash appeared, lasting five or six days, and then dis- appeared. But either during the blush of the rash or the fading of it, painful swelling of one or both glands below the ear set in. The children again became feverish, and were crying and moaning both day and night. The remedy which I now chose was Ferric phos. ; and according to the violence of the fever, I ordered a spoonful of the solution every hour or two. I gave it at the premonitory stage, and when I saw that it proved very satisfactory, I looked for no other remedy. For the glandular swelling, external redness and painfulness, I used the same medicine, and my cases ended very satisfactorily. 17. In September last autumn I was in the Highlands. The dairymaid of a farmer there spoke to me, saying she had hurt her thumb while sharpening a scythe. The case proved to be this:—The whole thumb of the left hand was swollen, and of a bluish-red colour, and very painful when touched, much inflamed, and there was a small wound at the extensor side at the joint above the nail. On pressure there was a whitish-yellow discharge mixed with white shreds. Both phalanges were easily displaced, and a peculiar noise was heard, which I had observed before in similar cases. This fact made me decide on giving Calcium fluoride. The medical man in the village, whom the farmer had consulted, said amputation was the only thing that could be done for the case. She took Calcium fluoride, and some time after, the farmer had occasion to see me, when he informed me that the servant's thumb was quite well. 122 CLINICAL CASES. 18. A woman, aged 56, from Simbach, who always wore blue spectacles, came to see me, as she had become blind in the right eye. The cause and consequent suffering were as fol- lows :—Three years ago, on the 15th Jan., at twelve o'clock noon, she was walking from Arnstorf to Simbach. The whole of the meadows were covered with snow, on which the sun was shining brightly, causing a strong refraction. Sud- denly she felt a severe pain in the right eye, and immediately discovered that she had lost the sight of it. She took some snow and held it over her eye, which she thought did her some good. On reaching home she sent for the Doctor, who put a leech to the right temple and gave her a strong purgative. She had to keep her bed for three weeks. The pain subsided, but her sight did not return. Some time after, she travelled all the way to Passau, to consult Dr. E., the oculist. He gave a laxative and some ointment to be rubbed all around the eye (Ungnt: Hydrarg:). As the ointment affected the gum and loosened her teeth, she stopped using it, her sight being no better. Later on, when she heard that Professor Rothmund had operated on the pastor of Landau for cataract, she went to see him. " If this medicine won't help you, you will remain blind for life," were the Professor's words. His prescription was Potassium Iodile. After having had the prescription made up three times, and using it steadily, she felt no improvement, and was quite inconsolable. With her right eye she saw nothing —all seemed smoke and mist; and the other eye was be- coming weaker and weaker from month to month. External examination showed the conjunctiva intact, as also the cornea, iris, &c. All pointed to internal disease of the inner medium of the eye. I could see but little of the retina, as there was CLINICAL CASES. 123 a kind of mist over it, which seemed to spread from the vitrous humour over the background of the eye. I intro- duced the rays of light in different directions, and by this means I was better able to obtain sight of the retina. It appeared dim and misty, the veins were clearly seen forming a dark network. In some places there were indistinctly defined spots, some larger than others, appearing to me like the residue of extravasated blood. The arteries were scarcely visible, and seemed to me pale and more contracted than in the normal condition. The necessary therapeutic treatment clearly indicated to me was to produce absorption of the exuded substance, this being the cause of the dulness of sight. According to Professor Rothmund's opinion, inflam- mation of the retina always arises in the connective-tissue, and as this exuded substance appears of a coagulating nature, which no doubt is fibrinous, and, as is well known, can be hypertrophied, and is capable of fatty degeneration, I found that of the remedies I could think of, the most suitable seemed to be Potassium chloride. I now gave the woman eight powders, each containing two centigrams ; the powder to be dissolved in half a wineglassful of water, a tablespoonful to be taken night and morning. A fortnight after, the patient came back, saying—" I don't think I am any wors^; please to give me some more of these powders." She received a dozen, with the same directions. One morning she called quite early, and told me in great glee that on rising that morning she could see the window-sash quite distinctly. I tested her sight from different distances, and found that she had really improved. " I can see pretty well through the mist," she said. Potassium chloride was continued in small doses, and in four months her sight was restored. 124 CLINICAL CASES. 19. June 16th. Dr. Kock writes :—An old woman came to me, 72 years of age. She had worn a green shade over her eyes to my recollection since my younger days, when as a student I spent my holidays at Simbach with my grand- parents. This person complained of a constant burning sensation in her eyes, causing a continued flow of smarting tears. This commenced at eight o'clock in the morning and lasted till sunset. During the night it was better. She had much thirst, but little appetite. Externally the con- junctiva palpebrarum was in a chronic state of inflammation.. On either side of the nose there was excoriation and eczema of the skin, caused by the flow of acrid tears. The punctse lachrymosa were dilated; but the tear ducts were un- obstructed. I hesitated whether I should give Sodium chloride or Arsenic ; but Dr. Schiissler's special mention of Sodium chloride in regard to these excessive lachrymal secretions determined my choice, and I gave Sodium chloride in water; one teaspoonful three times a day. In three weeks the symptoms all greatly subsided, and shortly after entirely disappeared. 20. August 17th. Dr. Kock informed us that a farm servant came to him, and he said he could not see. Some time before this a piece of wood had struck him in the eye. He had been treated for it; had had purgatives, leeches, and cold water applications, and now his sight was quite gone. The particulars of the case were these. The bulbus was infiltrated with vascular engorgement. The conjunctiva was swollen, and the eyelid also in an irritated and inflamed condition. The cornea was dim, with a smoky appearance CLINICAL CASES. 125 of the anterior chamber (i.e., between the cornea and iris), and some matter could be seen floating quite distinctly. I found no foreign body. The subjective results were—severe burning pain in the eye as if from a foreign body, and con- tinuous flow of tears. The man had to keep his eye tied up His appetite was good, and pulse normal. As to the thera- peutic treatment, I had evidently to deal with two different affections—Hypopion (matter in the eye) and conjunctivitis. First of all, I gave Ferric phosphate, a dose every two hours, and in a week the burning pain and watering of the eye were less. One week after this the man complained that his sight had not improved. Now, I had the task of absorption of the matter before me, as well as the clearing of the cornea. To meet the first condition I gave Hep. sulph., but after a fort- night I could recognise no special progress. I felt rather in a fix with the case, as absorption would not take place. Remembering an expression of Dr. Quagleo, at M., that he considered Schiissler's Calcium sulph. a still more powerful medicine, I gave some Calcium sulphate, to be taken in water in three doses. Scarcely a week after, the man came to me greatly delighted, saying that he could see gleams of light in the right eye. Positively, I found the cornea less cloudy, and could observe that some of the matter had been absorbed. Whenever I find improvement certain, I decrease the dose. I now gave him only a dose night and morning. In three weeks absorption was complete, and dimness of the cornea quite removed, and his sight restored. Besides this, all the inflammation of the conjunctiva was also cured. 21. August, 1880. A swelling under the chin the size of a pigeon's egg was considerably reduced by Potassium chloride ; 126 CLINICAL CASES. but still there was induration (hardness) and an uneven surface. Calcium fluoride taken for a few days caused it to disappear altogether. Shortly after its disappearance the patient had slight conjunctivitis with swelling, which Potassium chloride soon cured. Dr. K. 22. At a Meeting op Medical Men at Schaffhausen, Professor Dr. Rapp said :—" In my opinion the greatest merits of Dr. Schiissler's method lie in the introduction of Potassium phosphate and Magnesium phosphate. In ordinary stomatitis, with swelling of the gums, deposit on the teeth and foul breath, Potassium phosphate has given very satisfac- tory proofs of its value." 23. In Asthma, when the patient's attacks come on after taking food, and his colour becomes bad, or when there is rapid emaciation or sunken eyes, Dr. Rapp recommends the Potassium remedies. 24. December, 1879. Dr. Criiwell reports on incontinence of urine :—When I became acquainted with Dr. Schiissler's preparations, I was very anxious to test the effects of Potassium phosphate, as Dr. Schussler recommends this against paralysis and paralytic conditions. Whoever has been occupied with the study of psychology is naturally ready to suspect paralysis everywhere. I acknowledge I may have given Potassium phosphate too frequently, as I was CLINICAL CASES. 127 desirous to find out what it could do. For various reasons it led me to give it for incontinency. I gave three to four times daily in a little water. In five cases, two of which I treated without good results, Potassium phosphate brought about amazingly rapid improvement. With a young girl of seven I had until lately to repeat the remedy ever time it was given up, as the incontinency always returned when it was discontinued. The most successful case was that of an •old gentleman of sixty. No doubt in this case existed a sub-paralytic condition of the sphincter muscle. Some ■months after treatment he called back to say he was per- fectly cured, but desired to have some of the powders, dimply by way of precaution. 25. A lady, 29 years of age, of sanguine temperament, with ■rather high colour of face, has been suffering the last five years from the following indigestion troubles, which she ■contracted by a draught of very cold water whilst in a state ■of heat and perspiration. She has no desire to eat; great ■dislike to milk. After food, nausea and vomiting of food, which is so acid that it sets her teeth on edge. She can take nothing sour. Meat, and also salt herring, cause much pain, and so do cake and coffee. The sickness and retching occasionally come on before breakfast; otherwise only after food. To this is added Cephalalgia. She feels a beating pain in her forehead and temples ; formerly on the left, now more on the right side. This pain is most violent. ■Catamenia appears every three weeks, with much loss; dragging pain in lower abdomen and lumbar region. The 128 CLINICAL CASES. motions are normal, the sleep is disturbed by anxious dreams, and feels in the morning as though she had been beaten. In the evening she feels oppressed and swelled, so that she has to loosen her dress; she cannot wear it in the least tight. Her pulse is accelerated 100 per minute. As a girl she was quite healthy, and had never suffered from anaemia. On the whole, the lady was not much emaciated, in spite of her ailing so long. This was the description the patient gave of her case. The leading symptoms of this case led me to choose iron. I ordered her a dose of Dr. Schussler's saccharated trituration of Ferric phosphate, to be taken before meals, about the size of a bean, 3 times daily. When I saw her again she was able to give me the very satisfactory re- port, that her ailments were cured. Dr. MOSSA. 26. March, 1880. Dr. Mossa, Bamberg, reports:— Towards the end of last year I received a letter with the following details, and asking me to forward some medicine : —" My boy, a child of seven, hitherto healthy and strong,. has been suffering from pains in the stomach for some weeks. Latterly he has vomited all his food, sometimes immediately after taking it, and at other times not till during the night. The child has now become very emaciated. Last week he was frequently fevered. This has, however, not returned since taking the medicine our doctor here has given him. The boy complains of much exhaustion." To form a scientific diagnosis of the case on such information was clearly impossible. But, as it was not convenient for me personally to examine the case, I had to do my best with CLINICAL CASES. 129 the details furnished. The nature of the abdominal pains pointed to swelling and enlargement of the organs of the viscera—liver, spleen, &c. ; also the feverish attacks, pro- bably subdued by quinine, and the vomiting of food all concided with my surmises. As to the selection of the medicine I hesitated considerably, and then decided to give Ferric phosphate ; twelve powders ; one night and morning* The report some time after was very favourable. The fever had not returned ; the vomiting of food and pains in the stomach had quite ceased soon after taking the medicine. The little fellow was feeling so much stronger that he attended school again. 27. Dr. Goullon, jun., who used Potassium chloride with much success in a swelling of the feet and lower extremities, adds the following particular indications for its use. The remedy in question appears indicated in chronic persistent swelling of the feet and lower limbs, when the swelling is soft at first, afterwards becoming hard to the touch, without pain or redness. It is, however, itchy ; and at one stage may be termed snowy white and shining. Lastly, the swelling be- comes less perceptible in the morning than in the evening ; but may acquire such dimensions as to cause great tension, with a feeling as if it would burst. 28. A case from a contributor may here be mentioned, which was cured by Potassium chloride:—A lady, Mrs B.,. suffering from swelling of the leg below the knee, had been 130 CLINICAL CASES. seen some months by her doctor, who had poulticed it, and had opened it with the lancet; but there was no discharge. She was unable to walk. It was then painted with Iodine without effect; then bandaged to reduce the excessive hard swelling, and cold water poured over it thrice a day. Some parts were blue-looking on removing the bandage. It felt cold and very hard, and looked as if ready to burst; almost twice its usual size. Warm fomentations and Potassium ■chloride taken internally and applied externally, cured the leg in three weeks. 29. July 29, 1879. From the Reports of a Medical Congress at Dortmund, by Dr. Stens, junior :— I should like to report on a case of rheumatism, which was cured by Ferric phosphate in a very short time, after having tried several of the most reputed remedies which seemed indicated. A lady of about forty-two years of age ■(catamenia normal, though scanty), had been treated by me for the last few years. She suffered from digestive derange- ment, and sometimes from violent attacks of megrim. This lady awoke one morning with a violent pain in the right upper arm and region of right shoulder, being of a tearing nature. She had walked the previous evening through a damp meadow, getting her feet wet. The pains were worse if she moved her arm quickly, but easier on moving it very gently. She was therefore keeping it constantly in gentle motion. The parts affected were painful on being touched. -Several nights perspiration had been excessive, and after- wards made its appearance every morning between two and six o'clock, when the pains were always worse. The patient CLINICAL CASES. 131 complained also of a pain in the right hand and powerless- ness, which prevented her from lifting anything heavy. She often felt rather exhausted, and had to lie down. I gave her no less than five remedies, which seemed to suggest themselves, but without success. From the lady's anaemic condition, and partly Dr. Schiissler's recommendation, made me think of iron. I prescribed his own preparation of Ferric phosphate, as much as would cover a sixpence, to be taken night and morning. The result was, that after taking the medicine for six days, the pains, with their accompanying symptoms, did not return, even though soon after this, wet weather set in, when she had generally felt her pains to be much worse. Report from the Archives op Medical Men of the Rhinelands and Westphalia :— 30. Dr. Brisken mentions three cases of rheumatic fever. One case was that of a bookbinder, middle aged, whom Dr. Brisken had treated three years previously for this malady. On that occasion his recovery took from eight to ten weeks. The patient was again attacked in the joints of the hands and knees, when he received Ferric phosphate every hour; and as the fever had abated, Potassium chloride was given the same way. On the fifth day he was able to return to his work. 31. The second case was that of a gentleman, aged 70. He had acute rheumatism in the shoulder and elbow joints. He had been cupped, which made him worse. His joints were 132 CLINICAL CASES. wrapped in waldwolle (turpentine wool) with no effect. He had not been in bed the last two nights, as on lying down the pains were worse. On the third day he came under Dr. Brisken's treatment. After giving him Ferric phosphate the fever ceased in a few days, after which Potassium chloride was given. In a short time complete recovery resulted. 32. To a third case Dr. Brisken was called on the eighth day after seizure. All the joints were swollen, and the patient had not been able to stay in bed a single night. In the morning he received Potassium chloride with such good results that during the next night he was able to stay in bed, and in twelve days was completely cured. 33. Dr. Orth relates:—Elizabeth F., a widow, aged seventy, consulted me on April 5 th, on account of an epithelioma seated on the right cheek, reaching from the lower eyelid to the nostril. It was almost circular, and about the size of a florin. The epithelioma had existed for some years, and was at the stage of forming an ulcer, with hard base and callous edges. I ordered Potassium sulphate, a powder every even- ing, and lint saturated with a lotion made of Potassium sulphate for external application, to be changed frequently. On May 6th I noticed that the ulcer had visibly diminished, and on May 23rd the ulcer had cicatrized to the size of a sixpenny piece. A few days later the lady left to return home, and I regret I have not heard from her since. CLINICAL CASES. 133 34. William W., a factory worker, came to me on Sept. the 4th. He suffered from epithelioma, which was situated on the right side of the nose, almost immediately below the corner of the eye, and about the size of a two-shilling piece. The eye itself seemed to be sympathetically affected, whether through the irritation of the discharge, which might have found its way into the eye from the edge of the eyelid, which however was not greatly destroyed. Be that as it may, there were conjunctivitis palpebrarum and bulbi, with dulness of the cornea. The ulcer at the side of the nose had existed for four years. At first there was a slightly red spot, which was a little raised and swollen. Later on it became covered with a horny-like scab, which after a time fell off and left a sore. This spread slowly, but steadily. The patient had during the whole time of its existence con- sulted a great number of doctors. He had also been treated for two months by a specialist for the eye, after it had hecome implicated ; but all without effect. Potassium sul- phate was now given him—a dose night and morning; and externally a lotion of Potassium sulphate was used. After only a few days the inflammation disappeared. The ulcer began also to heal under the steady treatment. By the 8th of October, the sore had cicatrized so that only a speck was left, when the patient was able to resume work again on the 9th of October. 35. The following is a case of a lady, aged 44. I saw, writes Dr. A., of Arnsberg, on the 9th of February, a lady suffering from mental derangement. Religious melancholy was at the root, although before this 134 CLINICAL CASES. occurrence she had not inclined to religious excitement. She now declared she was lost for ever, lamented, cried, wrung her hands, and tore her clothes, or pieces of paper which were laid about to prevent her tearing her garments. She did not know those around her, and was unable ta sleep. Her eyes had an unconscious stare, and frequently it required two people to hold her down. Only by holding her nose and by force, a little food or medicine could be put down her throat. I prescribed Potassium phosphate, as her condition, though one of excitement, was originally one of depression, to which Potassium phosphate is suited. Dr. Schiissler says in his book :—A functional disturbance of the molecules of this salt causes in the brain mental depression, showing itself in irritability, terror, weeping, nervousness, &c, as well as softening of the brain. She took Potassium phosphate with excellent results. A former experience gained by this remedy led me to select it. On that occasion it was in the case of an old man aged eighty. He suffered from mental derangement, which showed itself in the form of intense Hypochondriasis and Melancholia. He was tired of life; but had a fear of death. For weeks he had been treated to no purpose with many remedies apparently called for, as Nux vomica, Aur ; Bromide of Potassium in allopathic doses. But he was rapidly cured by the continuous use of Potassium phosphate* Even after eight hours from the commencement of the treat- ment, a certain feeling of calmness was experienced, and that night he had a quiet sleep. I had, therefore, no reason to regret the treatment I selected, as the improvement continued steadily, so that on the 25th of February I discon- tinued my professional visits. CLINICAL CASES. 135 I have seen my previous patient frequently, busily engaged in her home with her usual cheerfulness, and she speaks quite calmly of her past illness. From an Address given by Dr. Schlegelman at R., 1875. 36. A. S., the child of a post official visiting here, was taken ill with an attack of very slight scarlatina. The rash had disappeared after scarcely twenty-four hours. The throat symptoms, at first threatening to be severe, dis- appeared in three to four days. On the seventh day almost complete retention of urine set in, as in twenty-four hours only a very small quantity was passed, although the child drank a good deal. The urine contained some albumen, the feet were swollen, the abdomen very much distended. As the child was all this time in high fever, and at night delirious, I advised the parents on my visit on the morning of the eighth day to consult a second physician. Dr. Gerster, who was called in to consult with me, agreed completely with my diagnosis. When I told him that I had not had any results from any of the medicines, such as belladonna, cautharides, and arsenic, we agreed to give Potassium chloride—every two hours a small powder. In the evening the little one was already better. She had passed a tolerable quantity of urine free from albumen ; the pulse steadier, the skin moist. The following night the little girl slept quietly for several hours. In the morning almost free from fever, and could be considered convalescent. We con- tinued the use of Potassium chloride, and a few days after she was able to return home perfectly well. i 136 CLINICAL CASES. 37. A boy, W. T., aet. 11, had been treated here by Dr. Fuchs for acute inflammation of the bowels. During the course of the disease I had been called in. When convales- cent we had allowed him to return by rail to his home at B. A week after he contracted there inflammation of the peri- toneum, with high fever and acute pains. My colleague Fuchs and I prognosced the case as rather hopeless, as he had been so much reduced by the disease he had just passed through, being constitutionally delicate. Having found atropine, aconite, etc., as well as strapping, of no avail, we decided upon Ferric phosphate as a last resource. A dose of ten to fifteen grains per hour. The effect was a brilliant one. The fever abated ; the pains decreased rapidly. This medicine we continued till the fever had quite subsided, and profuse perspirations commenced. At this stage we gave Potassium chloride, which caused the absorption of the rather profuse effusion. 38. A very nervous lady, 26 years of age, who suffered continually either from headache, toothache, face ache, and pains in the limbs, or spasms, cramps of the stomach, indigestion, flatulence, and colic, was tormented day and night with a spasmodic cough, suppression of urine, want of sleep, and so on. In short, every day she complained of some trouble or other, and in reality suffered from it. This case almost brought me into despair. All my exertions were in vain. All the^best remedies known left me in the lurch. Almost every day a letter or telegram informed me she was getting worse,pand summoned me to call. I had the happy thought of looking at Schiissler's book. I found CLINICAL CASES. 137 under the head of Magnesium phosphate all her symptoms grouped together. I gave her this medicine, and from that moment we both had peace. " This medicine has done me no end of good," she said. And although formerly she had to keep her bed for weeks, she soon after was able to go into the garden, and later on visited a watering-place. I had to give her, however, plenty of the good remedy before leaving. Dr. F. 39. A young lady of seventeen, M.M., consulted me on account of an obstinate acrid leucorrhoea. I tried the whole series of remedies indicated for such cases. All were with- out effect, so that I could not but wonder at the patience and perseverance of the patient, whom I saw once a week. In this case Schiissler again helped me out of the dilemma. Potass, chloride effected a quick and permanent cure. Dr.'S 40. In the year 1875 Dr. Schlegelman reports from Begensburg:—D. A., aged 20, a delicate lady, who suffered in her childhood a good deal from scrofula, was attacked last winter by a severe pain in the back, in consequence of catching cold. The third to the fifth ribs were very sensitive to pressure. Violent trembling of the right foot, and at the same time of the right arm set in, the moment she attempted to move the arm or extend the hand, and thus made all work impossible. The patient was all the more depressed about this, as in her vocation she had a good deal of writing to do. I gave many remedies — pulsatilla, rhus. tox., 138 CLINICAL CASES. belladonna, nux vomica, platina, etc., all without effect. I sent the young lady into the country; her condition remained the same. New remedies had no better results* At last I thought to have found her remedy in zinc, met., as I had heard nothing from her for four weeks. How astonished was I to find my patient, whom I thought cured, entering my consulting room on the 30th Sept. trembling worse than ever. On my inquiry why she had not called sooner, she told me somewhat timidly she had gone to Mariabrunn to see a herbalist, and used the cure during the time. The result, as I could easily see, had not been successful. Consequently she placed herself under my treatment again. I told he r I was willing to treat her, and opened Schiissler's Therapy. I chose Magnesium phosphate, and had no reason to regret my choice, for after the first few doses (three times a day, ten grains) a decided improvement was noticed, of which I heard on the 11th October, when I saw her again. At this date not even a trace of the trembling could be observed. She had written repeatedly after this, and even then had experienced no trembling whatever. The cure was complete, as up to date she had been doing all kinds of needlework and a great deal of writing, without any recurrence of the affection. 41. Dr. Schlegelman writes:—Jan. 1876. I was attacked with rheumatism the latter part of November, travelling by rail, sitting close to the window of a draughty carriage. My whole right side was affected going, and on returning the pains were very severe; especially worse on every movement CLINICAL CASES. 139 I made. Bryonia eased me temporarily. I only reached home at midnight, and had a very bad night. Bryonia was of little use now. I applied the electric current next morn- ing repeatedly, but it was of no avail. I then took a pinch of the Ferric phosphate, and, as if by magic, the pains dis- appeared, and did not return. 42. Dr. Fuchs, of Regensburg, reports:—In August, 1875, I cured a lady 40 years of age, who had suffered for a con- siderable time from an effusion in bursa of the knee-cap. Twelve doses of Calcium phosphate, two doses per diem, according to Dr. Schiissler, removed this chronic condition of housemaid's knee. Dr. Schlegelman reports the following 7 cases :— 43. L., of Regensburg, a strong healthy man of 26, had taken cold during a state of perspiration, and contracted acute rheumatism of the joints (rheumatic fever). At first the right shoulder was attacked. The patient had violent pains and high fever. Bry., which seemed decidedly indi- cated here, had no other effect except that the pain on the •next morning had changed its seat, and had appeared in the left knee. In this way he continued for several days, under the use of various medicines. Either the one or other of several joints were affected. The most distressing pains ■continued day and night, and evidently the patient was greatly reduced. At last I decided to test Schiissler's medi- cine. I gave Potassium sulphate. The result was very 140 CLINICAL CASES. favourable. The wandering pains ceased changing their loca- tion, and the pain confined itself to the right shoulder again, but was far less violent than before. Under the continued use of this medicine, the fever and pains gradually disappeared. Sleep and appetite returned, and no other joints were impli- cated. Eight days after giving the first dose of Potassium sulphate, the patient was dismissed as convalescent. No- relapse occurred. 44. I have made little use as yet of Dr. Schiissler's Potas- sium phosphate, but have, notwithstanding, effected a few very interesting cures. A woman, aged 64, came under my treatment, who had been for many years treated without success. She had taken steel baths, a great many steel pills and drops, and quinine. She complained of severe vertigo, felt mostly on rising from a sitting position, and on looking upwards. She was con- stantly in dread of falling, and did not venture to leave her room. I gave her all the usual remedies without any benefit. At last I gave her, in May 1875, two doses daily of Dr. Schiissler's Potassium phosphate. I had the pleasure of see- ing a rapid and decided cure following this. The patient can attend to her domestic duties; she can go out alone, even to distances, and is almost completely cured of her Gainful sensation of giddiness. Dr. S. 45. I have hitherto only given Sodium phosphate in scrofulous subjects, and only then when my old remedies. calci. carb., etc., failed. CLINICAL CASES. 141 One case was particularly striking on account of its being cured so rapidly. In May last a little girl of eight was brought to me who suffered from severe conjunctivitis, with great dread of light. She had been treated for some time by an ordinary practitioner, but without effect. I ascer- tained that her eye affection dated from the time she had had measles some years previous. Calci. carb. and other medicines proved ineffectual. The enlargements of the glands of the neck, and the creamy secretion of the eyelids, led me to try Sodium phosphate, of which I administered a dose three times daily. A week later on, the child was brought to me, her eyes bright and perfectly cured. 46. A landed proprietor, 44 years of age, wrote to me a few weeks ago—"The medicine I have taken very steadily, and for a long time attended strictly to my diet. In spite of this, my trouble is no better; I may almost say it has become worse." The conditions were these :— 1. I feel almost constantly a taste as of bile. 2. My tongue is covered with a curdy, bitter coating. 3. During the day, especially after food, I suffer from eructations of gases, which have either a bitter taste or are tasteless. 4. My complexion is rather yellow. 5. The appetite very slight; no thirst. My favourite beverage, beer, is distasteful to me. 6. I incline to shiver, and am somewhat faint. 7. My head is but little involved, but feel a constant pressure over one eye. 8. Stools are normal, but scanty, on account of spare diet. 142 CLINICAL CASES. The whole condition discloses that I have bile in the stomach. This far the patient's own report. To this I may add that the patient in question had already taken by my orders nux. vom. and pulsatilla. He had used the waters of Marienbad the previous summer on the recom- mendation of another medical man. I sent him now Dr. Schiissler's remedy, Sodium sulphate, with the request to take daily three doses of this powder. The gentleman came six or seven days later to my consulting room to thank me for the valuable medicine. The powder, he said, has really worked wonders. All my ailments have disappeared as if by magic, and I feel at last perfectly well. 47. I have used Sodium chloride repeatedly, and especially in obstinate cases of salivation, with excellent results. One case in particular was cured with remarkable rapidity by this remedy. A young lady, aet. 20, who suffered from severe inflammation of the tonsils, so that she could scarcely swallow milk or water, had received from me a preparation of mercury. The inflammation of the tonsils was reduced very quickly, but another evil set in, namely, violent salivation. The gums were loosened, bleeding easily, and standing back from the teeth, and the teeth were slackened. I thought of curing this affection also with mercury, with which I had often before succeeded in such cases ; but by continuing this remedy the evil was only increased. Now I ascertained from the patient that in the previous summer she had been ill at N, and the doctor had given her a good CLINICAL CASES. 143 deal of calomel, which caused fearful and long-continued •salivation. She was afraid the evil would again become very tedious, as it had been so bad at N. I now stopped the mercury, and ordered Sodium chloride, a dose the size of a bean every two hours. The success surpassed my most sanguine expectations. In twenty-four hours the swelling of the glands had dis- tinctly diminished, and in three days a complete cure was effected. 48. D. R., a boy 7 years of age, who took spurious croup whenever there was a sharp, keen north-east wind, having had a few years before a very severe attack of true croup, this past autumn had again an attack, with fever, and a loud barking cough. Aconite and liver of sulphur, which have been recommended by so many authors against spurious croup, produced no change whatever, so that I prepared myself, in the case of this boy, for a continuance of the affection, as usual, for several days. The nights especially were very restless, with much coughing, rough and hard, so that his relatives were very anxious. There were dry heat and great oppression present. I exchanged my Hep. sulph. for Potassium chloride, and gave every two hours a full dose. After a few doses the cough became loose, lost completely the barking sound, and the whole of the following night my little patient slept quietly, so that on the following morning he awoke able to get up •quite lively and well. 49. A. R. v. G., a young lady of 18, had visited, along with her mother, in the past summer (1875), a hydropathic H4 CLINICAL CASES. establishment. Without being ill, she had used the baths, even during her catamenia. Immediately after this, she took violent spasms or cramps, which set in daily, and continued after having returned home. A medical man was consulted, as the disease increased in spite of the different medicines she took. A second doctor was consulted, who quite agreed in the diagnosis as well as the treatment adopted by his colleague. Injections of morphium, very strong and re- peated several times daily, were the main remedies applied, but the distressing ailment could not be removed ; on the contrary, the cramps increased in violence and frequency. The medical men in attendance finally declared that there was no chance of improvement until the patient would take some steel baths in the spring. The parents were afraid that their daughter would not live to see the spring, and if she did, that she would not be fit to be removed. They, therefore, telegraphed requesting a visit from me. On the 6th of September last I saw the patient for the first time. I had known her formerly, and was astonished to see, instead of the blooming healthy girl she had been, a pale emaciated figure whom I should not have recognised. During my presence she had an attack ; her features were distorted, the eyes turned upwards, froth came to the mouth, and then a fearful paroxysm of beating and striking with the hands and feet, such as I had never seen before. This was only the commencement. Suddenly the trunk of her body was contorted in an indescribable manner; the back of the head pressed deeply into the pillows, the feet forced against the foot of the bed, her chest and abdomen became arched like a bridge, drawn up almost half a yard. In this un- natural position she was suspended several seconds. Sud- CLINICAL CASES. 145 denly the whole body jerked upwards with a bound, and the poor sufferer was tossed about for some seconds, with her spine contracted. During the whole attack, which lasted several minutes, she was quite unconscious ; pinching and slapping had no effect; dashing cold water in the face, or applying burnt feathers to the nostril, were ineffectual; the pupils were quite insensible to light. Ignatia, which I ordered, had no effect; cupr. metal, acted better, but only temporarily; Belladonna, Ipec, and Pulsa- tilla (the latter for suppressed catamenia), were of no use. The attacks did not increase, neither did they decrease in the least degree. The morphium injections, too, were con- tinued at the desire of her friends. When at my visit on the 4th of October, the spasms came on again with such violence that the bedstead gave way, I consulted Schiissler's Therapy, and ordered Magnesium phosphate. After taking this remedy on the 10th of October, the catamenia appeared ; but her condition otherwise was in no way changed. The spasms continued with the same violence. Then remembering Schiissler's injunction to use Calcium phosphate where Magnesium phosphate, though indicated by the symptoms, proves ineffectual, I gave her Calcium phos- phate on the 16th of October, a full dose every two hours. Immediately the spasms became less frequent. On the sixth day there was an attack, weak and of short duration. From this date she had peace until the 6th of November, the day of the return of the catamenia, which was preceded by a short slight attack. On the 14th of December I had a call from the young 146 CLINICAL CASES. lady, looking well and blooming, who wished to consult me for a slight bronchial affection. She told me that she was completely cured of her attacks, and that at the beginning of December she had been quite regular, without experiencing any inconvenience. 50. Dr. Schlegelman reports :—Potassium sulphate I have repeatedly tested in wandering rheumatism, and have had very favourable results. 51. Dr. S. writes:—Mrs S., aged 24, of Regensburg, who had been suffering for several years from lichen (skin affection) had used various well-known medicines which had done her no good. I tried various remedies, and at last cured her. A few months ago she came again, and the lichen was worse than ever. My former remedy had no effect; and with several others, arsenic, etc., it was no better. I gave her Calcium sulphate night and morning, in quantities as large as a bean, and in a fortnight the cure was complete. 52. Silica has proved an excellent remedy. Within the last few months I was able to cure a young lady, 16 years old, who lives in the country. I did not see her myself. The mother of the girl came to me almost crying, and told me her daughter had been suffering for the last few months from her right foot. The medical men treating her there declared that the foot must be amputated. It was fearfully CLINICAL CASES. 147 swollen; the discharge of matter was excessive; her leg was almost bent to a right angle at the knee-joint, and could absolutely not be stretched out. I advised her to give up all internal as well as the external remedies, and prescribed Silica to be taken once daily. Three months later the patient came herself, walking without any assistance. The foot was almost completely healed, with only a slight dis- charge of matter. Thus I succeeded, also, in a case of discharge from the ear, which had been treated for a long time ineffectually, and had caused the patient severe pain day and night.. This case also was cured with Silica. 53. From the Rundschau:—Magnesium phosphate for Hooping Cough. In the spring of 1881, when there was an epidemic of hooping cough amongst the children here, a little child of ten months was given up by the family doctor. I heard this from the father of the child, who was in great grief. He mentioned that the spasms, which occurred about ten times in the course of the day, were so severe that the little face became quite livid, blue, and swollen. I at once gave Magnesium phosphate. One single powder moderated the spasms so forcibly that they returned only occasionally, and the attacks were quite mild. Five days later I gave some Potassium phosphate, but without beneficial effect, then Calcium phosphate, and it had no good effect, as the par- oxyisms grew only worse for want of Magnesium phosphate. I ordered it to be taken again, and in a very short time the spasms and hoop were gone, and the child recovered rapidly. 148 CLINICAL CASES. A Few Cases from the Author's Practice :— 54. Feby. 1880. In a village a few miles from the town of Oldenburg, a child was taken ill with Diphtheria, which at an early stage was complicated by an affection of the larynx. The child was treated by the ordinary methods and died. Almost at the same time a child of another family in the village was attacked by Diphtheria with the same complication. The father of the latter child came to me. I prescribed Potass, chloride for the disease in the first instance, and Calcium phosphate for the affection of the larynx, to be taken alternately. I requested the father to inform me without fail of the result, which he promised to do. Two days after, I received a letter from him, in which he informed me that the child had completely recovered. 55. I was consulted by tiie relatives of a man suffering from delirium tremens. I ordered Sodium chloride. A com- plete cure followed speedily. Sodium chloride is the principal remedy, as delirium tremens is caused by a disturbance of the balance of the molecules of the Sodium chloride and molecules of water, in some por- tion of the brain. 56. A young man complained of an unnatural appetite. He had to eat almost every hour, feeling such an intense craving for food, yet he felt exhausted and languid. There were no secondary symptoms present. The tongue was clean, the urine was not increased, evacuations normal. Potassium phosphate cured the patient in the course of two days. CLINICAL CASES. 149 57. A lady felt for two days a drawing laming pain in the sole of her foot. The affected spot, about the size of a florin, had a bluish appearance. Pressure, or a blow, or other mechanical influences, bad not preceded it. A dose of Potassium phosphate subdued the pain in about half an hour. 58. An old lady had become bedridden for the last fort- night on account of the following ailment. She felt a con- siderable pain in the lower part of the thorax on the left side, which increased when she coughed. The cough was a slightly catarrhal one. The invalid felt very exhausted, and had no appetite. The tongue was dry, the pulse frequent, weak, and intermittent. Potassium phosphate cured her in the space of a week. 59. To the above I add another important effect of Potassium phosphate. By the use of it, spurious labour pains subside, weak pains are stimulated by it, and often in the shortest space of time the desired effects are produced with most favourable results. 60. An old man was attacked by severe vomiting and diarrhoea, accompanied by exceedingly painful cramp in the calves. Evacuations had the appearance of rice water. I undertook the treatment about six hours after the beginning of the attack, and one dose of Potassium phosphate effected a cure. The speedy cure of this case of choleraic diarrhoea would justify the belief that Potassium phosphate is a specific against cholera. W. H. SCHUSSLER. 150 CLINICAL CASES. From the Eclectic Medical Journal, Cincinnati, Ohio, July 1884 :— Rheumatism : A Splendid Cure with the Tissue Remedies. By E. H. Holbrook, M.D., Baltimore, Md- Miss A. W., 10\ years old, was taken with a chill on January 1st, 1884. The next day I found her with very high fever, pulse 120 ; severe pains in back and limbs ; nausea and vomiting; joints, small and large, greatly in- flamed ; hands, feet, and limbs oedematous. Could not bear to be touched or moved. Great sensitiveness in every part of the body and limbs. Pains became very much worse at night, increasing to such an extent that her screams could be heard by the neighbours on either side of the house. Constant cry for cold water; vomiting of food and drink almost as soon as swallowed. Tongue coated yellow, with horrible bitter metallic taste. Great prostration. Hereditary gouty-rheumatic and dropsical diathesis. Has had for some time back a ravenous appetite, especially for sweet things, which was freely indulged. Treatment.—After wasting much of the first week with various remedies with no improvement, I determined to adhere to the system of Schiissler. For the fever, vomit- ing of food and drink, and the inflammation, I gave Fer. phos. 6x. Pains aggravated at night, Calc. phos. 6x. ; for rheumatic-gout, oedema, dropsy, yellow-coated tongue with bitter taste, Sodium sulph. 3x., about 10 grains in half a goblet of water, a teaspoonful every other hour in alterna- tion with the first two, which were given dry and at the same time. From the commencement of this treatment decided improvement began, and by the fourteenth day of her sickness she was able to sit up. Previous to her sick- CLINICAL CASES. > 151 ness she had become so stout she could not stoop to button her shoes, and her cloak could scarcely be buttoned around her. Indeed it was so uncomfortable buttoned that she. would go with it open almost all the time. After her recovery she was able to stoop, and her cloak could be lapped several inches. The better acquainted I become with this system the more pleased I am with it. In labour, when the pains are too weak and irregular, I have seen nothing act more promptly and effectually than Potass, phos. For spasmodic, crampy pains, Mag. phos. is a gem. After delivery I give Fer. phos. where I used to give Aconite and Actea Race-, mosa, to be followed or accompanied by whatever may be indicated. I also use as a wash, 3x, to the valva and abdomen, and for syringing the vagina morning and night. The parts heal quickly under this treatment, and with the use of other remedies as indicated, the patient makes a good recovery. Among the first cases in which I tried these remedies was a negro child, about two months old. The following are about the symptoms presented:—Painful diarrhoea, con- stant rolling of the head, eyes turned up, tongue brownish- yellow, no desire to nurse for some time. The mother said it had been sick for a week, and she had been giving it different things ; but as it got worse, she called me. I told her I was afraid there was little chance for its recovery, but I would do what I could for it. Prescribed Magnesium phosphate and Calcium phosphate in alternation every fifteen minutes. This was about 9 or K 152 CLINICAL CASES. 10 o'clock a.m. I returned about 3 o'clock p.m. to see if it was still alive, and to my astonishment found it better. It had ceased rolling its head, eyes were natural, had nursed once or twice, and was sleeping. Ordered the medicine to be continued at longer intervals. The next morning it was considerably better. At this visit I found the tongue covered with a thick white coating, and the mouth sore. I now prescribed Potassium chloride, the remedy for this con- dition, in place of the Calcium phosphate, to be alternated with the Magnesium phosphate every hour. The next day the tongue was clear, and after leaving a few more powders, to be continued for a day or two longer, the case was dis- missed. Neuralgia.—Since writing the above I have had to treat a severe case of neuralgia of the head. The lady had come sixty miles to attend a musical entertainment, and was compelled to go to bed on account of the pain. After suffering several hours, I was called, and relieved her com- pletely in an hour with Mag. phos. 6x., a dose every ten minutes. Another case was that of a lady with bilious colic. Was sent for in the night, and for particular reasons did not go. I, however, sent what I thought would relieve her. Early in the morning her husband was again at my office, saying she was no better, but suffering terribly. I gave him a different remedy to be administered until I could get there. About half-past nine I arrived at the house, and found her still CLINICAL CASES. 153 suffering excrutiating pains. Ascertaining that she had •vomited bile, and had a very bitter taste in her mouth all the time, I administered a powder of Sod. sulph. in a little water. In about two minutes after taking it she said she was con- siderably relieved for the first time since eleven o'clock in ithe night. In about five minutes she had a free movement tfrom the bowels, and she continued to improve, and was up .and about the next morning. A case of neuralgia was relieved with one dose of Mag- nesium phosphate. A bad case of asthma was cured with Potassium phosphate. Other cases might be stated, but these •will suffice to show the value of the system. I would advise every reader of the Journal to purchase the book and study it well. It will be found a great aid in very many cases. For some time I used only the 3x and 6x (coarser pre- parations), but of late have been using some of the remedies in the centesimal trituration as prescribed by Dr. Schiissler. I believe those I tested act certainly better in his trituration. E. H. HOLBROOK, M.D. Of the many successful cases at the Dispensary, 5 South Tay Street, Dundee, a few are given here, which may be of some interest.—M. DOCETTI WALKER. In the case of a little boy, seven years of age, who had con- cussion of the brain, from a fall, meningitis (inflammation ■of the covering membrane) set in, with its characteristic symptoms, and the first medical man's prognosis was adverse, Ferric phosphate carried the day. On the third night, 154 CLINICAL CASES. however, there was a change, the pulse being in the morning: 100, having been 125 on the day before, fell to 49 per minute. Potassium phosphate, a dose every quarter of an hour, raised it steadily though slowly up to 57, where it remained for two days. After that it rose, and the case mended very satisfactorily, the now threatening symptoms, stupor, dilated immovable pupils, etc., disappearing. A perfect recovery resulting at the end of a fortnight. The remedies given* were Ferric phosphate, Potassium phosphate, a few doses of Potassium chloride, and Calcium phosphate. Lizzie Macquillen was brought to the Dispensary on? October 15th. Four years of age, to all appearance an imbecile; her head large, broad and flat, but the rest of the body undeveloped like that of an infant, denoting her; disease to be a case of rickets; also curvature of the long bones, etc.; the face pale and triangular; no teeth ; the neck too weak to keep the head steady ; constant movement of the eyes; the large blue eyes showing no intelligence... The mother stated the little girl seemed to be well enough till four or five months old, when she took fits till the end of the twelfth month. Since then she had scarcely grown any bigger; never had the power of holding anything in her tiny hands ; and if food was held to her, did not know it was for eating ; had to be fed ; never attempted to use her legs ; could only sit when resting her elbows on the flat cross- bar of her chair, fixing her mouth on the knuckles of her hands. In bed she could not turn herself over. She had frequently been under medical treatment, but without benefit. The motherpersisted in the statement that she had lost her first CLINICAL CASES. 155 and second set of teeth. The case seemed a very hopeless one. Having great doubts of doing much good, prescribed Calcium phosphate, in alternation with Potassium phosphate, a dose every hour, and told the mother to come back in six weeks, :as I would give her an additional remedy then. She called back at the appointed time quite proud of her little thing. The change was marvellous, scarcely any rocking of the head, and as I turned over the leaves of the entry book, the little creature looked up wistfully, bent over and stretched out her hand to take hold of it. The mother expressed her gratitude for the change in her child, saying the last week or two many neighbours had called to see little Lizzie, and the father happy to dandle her on his knee. To con- tinue another six weeks the remedies Calcium phosphate daily, alternate doses of Potassium phosphate and Potassium chloride day about. The improvement has continued steadily, she nibbles crusts out of her own hand, the intelligence developing apace she begins to say some words, can now stand holding by her chair, which she pushes before her and moves through the room. To crown all she has cut two front teeth. January 21st.—The biochemic remedies still to be continued about three to four doses a day for some time. W. Watson, aged 40 years. Ulceration of stomach, vomited all his food, and latterly the egesta had the appearance of coffee grounds. He had suffered from vomiting and in- digestion more or less for fourteen years, had seen many doctors, and taken much medicine, without avail. 1 advised 156 CLINICAL CASES. him to take Ferric phosphate* and Sodium phosphate9 im usual quantities, and a tablespoonful every two hours- alternately for a fortnight. On his second visit he was free from vomiting, had little pain, and felt greatly better. He- continued another ten days with the same remedies, and returned quite well. On making special enquiry if he had nothing troubling him, he said, " no, the only thing I some- times trouble myself about, is thinking after taking any kind of food, whether it will trouble me, but it never does.'' His cure has proved permanent, as it is now nearly two years- since, and he is still keeping well. Lady Louisa----has been subject to attacks of bronchitis. for several winters, the last attack, pneumonic, proving very serious. Her husband wrote to ask which of the biochemia remedies should be given. Ferric phosphate, a dose every hour, and a few doses of Potassium phosphate for .her exhausted condition, were taken steadily for a few days, and then Ferric phosphate and Potassium chloride alternately. Shortly after this I received a letter dated London, 6th Oct., in which she says :—" I must write to thank you more than I can say, for your remedies have done me untold good. The doctor who- has called yesterday states all the bronchial symptoms are gone ! My only very slight trouble now is a tendency to gout in my ankle. I should be glad to get rid of this, as. the Dr. thinks it adds to my bronchial attacks. Would you be so kind again to prescribe, and send me the address. Is it. Messrs Newbery, King Edward Street, where I can get the- medicines in London ? Again thanking you a thousand times.—I am, etc." CLINICAL CASES. 157 Miss Edith M. was attacked by rheumatic fever, excessive pain in her joints, and several much swollen. She was not able to move, highly fevered, unable to sleep. Ferric phos- phate, a dose every hour for one day, and Potassium chloride in alternation removed all pain in two days. She continued the remedies for a little time longer, and made a rapid recovery. Miss Margaret S. suffered from neuralgia, true nerve-fibre pain, darting through her head along the nerves. She had suffered intermittently for three days. Two doses of Magnesium phosphate cured her completely. The following is an extract from the letter of a medical man in large practice in America :— " I have been trying the New Remedies here in hospital for the past few months, and for two months have used them almost entirely in the female medical ward, with the consent of the two physicians on duty, who have left the cases in my hands for the experiment. Have used them both in acute and chronic cases, and feel well satisfied with them. Potassium chloride I find is frequently considered by the Pharmaceutists to be the Chlorate, instead of Chloride, as directed by Schiissler. I thought you might like to know the above.—I am, etc." Miss M., the daughter of the late Dr. M., has been sufler- ino- since her 18th year from occasional attacks of aberration of the mind. But as years passed on, these attacks pf 158 CLINICAL CASES. insanity became worse and more frequent, until it was deemed advisable by Captain M., her brother, to make arrangements with the Dr. of the Lunatic Asylum in the district to have her removed there. As a last recourse, a friend called to see if the New Remedies could be of any service in such a hopeless case. Having assured him that Potassium phosphate would do her good, they gave it very steadily, four doses daily for weeks. This was four year3 ago. The result was most satisfactory. After taking it, she never had another attack, and is completely cured. Able to superintend home duties, receiving callers and making calls, which she had not been able to do for many years, on account of feeling so nervous and shy during the intervals of the attacks. Several cases of similar nature have been treated equally successfully, two of these Puerperal Mania. The following letter was received from a French lady at Beyrout, Syria, to express her grateful thanks. The case was one of very distressing mania, with suicidal attempts. The remedies given were Potassium phosphate and Calcium phosphate, with complete recovery; and after two months her friend was again able to take up her vocation as teacher: " To Mr Smith, Newport. Monsieur,—Pardonnez moi de ne pas avoir e'crit plus vite. Premierement il semblait que les remedes envoyes n'avaient aucun effet. Enfin, on a pu faire partir, mon amie elle ne demeure plus a Beyrout, mais Dieu merci elle se porte Men. Je n'ai pas voulu le dire, les premiers mois, afin d'etre bien Clinical cases. 15*9 sure que le micux continuerait. Je suis tres, reconnaissante que le Seigneur ait fait misericorde, Veuillez je vous prie Monsieur, communiquer la bonne nouvelle aux personnes qui ont pri taut d'interet en mon amie et je pense que maintenant elle voudrait bieu aussi se jiondre a moi pour rendre graces o. Dieu, de son exaucement, d'une maladie aussi terrible. Jespere que vous comprendrez Monsieur le francais de ces' quelques lignes et veuillez je vous prie recevoir mes salutations chretiennes. Beyrout, 8th April, 1884. P. ALLAMANDi" Mrs Forbes, a widow, was lying very ill with erysipelas, high fever, and quite prostrate. The members of hei* family thought her dying, as she had become delirious. Her head and face so swollen that her eyes were literally closed; suffering intense pain. Sodium phosphate and Ferric phos- phate alternately, a dose every hour and oftener was given. After the second dose of the former she ejected a great quantity of bile. The severe symptoms subsided ; this was on Saturday night. The medicine was continued; Ferric phosphate now only intercurrently, as the pulse had become less frequent. To the astonishment of all her friends, on Wednesday morning she was so well that she went out to her work as usual. Statistics show a death rate of 2000 per annum from this disease.—In a similar case of erysipelas in a lady of 87 years of age, these two remedies and a few doses of Potassium phosphate cured her, when the usual treatment, painting with Iodine, brandy, etc., had had no effect in arresting the disease. 160 CLINICAL CASES. Case of a lady who had been bedridden for nine months.— Mrs M'H. was given up by four doctors as beyond medical treatment. The Professor's diagnosis ran thus:— Both lungs- diseased, especially the right lung. The heart is greatly dilated, especially the right cavity. The lung disease pro- duced by neglected cold. When her case was brought under treatment by biochemic measures four years ago, she was also- suffering from dropsy. At the stage she came under the new treatment, it took sometimes an hour and more before she could find the right position to rest in. She would often rather spend the night on the sofa, than venture to go through the fatigue of going to bed. Her cough and ex- pectorations very bad, breath extremely short, and palpitation constant. She did not know what it was to have a good night, and rarely slept. By patiently adhering to Dr Schiissler's remedies she has recovered greatly, her lungs are wonderfully healed up, and her dilation of heart almost removed. She lives now in comparatively fair health, so that she was able to nurse her husband during a severe illness where night watching was necessary. To reassure all concerned a diagnosis was made. Dr H., a specialist, who concurs in the statement that her right lung, of which a large portion is gone, is now fairly healed; up, and dilation of heart has almost entirely disappeared. Below is another extract from a letter received, which shows the favourable way in which the New Treatment is received by some members of the Medical profesion:— " Allow me to thank you for the copy of Dr Schiissler's new edition, received a few days since through the hands of my brother, Dr H. R. The work is much improved, and several! CLINICAL CASES. 161: of my medical friends to whom I have shown it are much. pleased with it. For myself I find them invaluable, andi their usefulness increasing both in acute and chronic cases. In acute rheumatism there is nothing that will cut short the disease as effectually. Recently I had the opportunity of trying it in a severe case of membranous croup with great success. In skin affections it also is superior to other forms of treatment in the majority of cases. Thanking you for your contribution to knowledge, Believe yours sincerely, S. E. S., M.D." In a severe epidemic of diphtheria, most cases terminating fatally, a well-known medical man lost every case under the usual treatment until he resorted to the new remedies, after which every case treated by him recovered satisfactorily, all of them being of the severe type. In fourteen cases of diphtheria, the biochemic measures left nothing better to be desired, Potassium chloride rapidly making a change, the whitish gray exudation being diminished,. shrivelling and coming away with the gargle and mouth wash made with Potassium chloride, also occasional doses of Ferric phosphate. The treatment worked splendidly. In. three cases the patients laboured under prostration from the first, and Potassium phosphate had to be given intercurrently ; in two cases Sodium chloride alternately with Potassium chloride the chief remedy. In the latter cases there existed considerable running of saliva, heavy drowsiness, and watery 162 CLINICAL CASES. stools. No secondary affections resulted, such as frequently arise under Ordinary treatment, as paralysis, defective vision, or neuralgia. A young gentleman, J. G., the son of a landed proprietor, had been subject to severe attacks of asthma for several years, and all the various usual remedies had failed. Shortly after commencing with the biochemic remedies his sister writes:—"My mother wishes me to say that she provided herself with a small store of the German remedies, and my youngest brother having an attack of asthma on Saturday and yesterday, he tried the Potassium (phosphate and chloride) with, we think, very great success, relief having been ex- perienced rriore quickly than by any other remedy he has tried. He goes abroad with my father and mother this week, and it is comforting to think he will have such a portable and effectual remedy in case of suffering." The following is from an elderly gentleman, Mr J. M., who had suffered from a prolonged attack of acute and sub- acute inflammation of the brain. He recovered slowly, but symptoms of softening of the brain set in. He was anxious to give the new remedies a trial. His speech was affected, he seemed to lose momentary consciousness, could not hurry though he saw himself in great danger of being run over, or stop walking when dangerously close to the quay, and could not be trusted out alone. " I think it is time I were again informing you I still con- tinue to improve, indeed I have little to complain of except CLINICAL CASES. 16$ occasionally—only occasionally—a feeling of mental stupor, the best remedy for which I have found to be Potassium phosphate, which you recommended to me." Archibald Herbert, suffering from chronic bronchitis, had an attack of pneumonia. An iron moulder by trade, he was exposed to great heat, he had lain down on a form in a state of perspiration, took a severe chill, and inflammation in the right lung was the result. His case was a bad one, complicated by bronchial affection, fever high, cough dis- tressing, a pain deep-seated in the right side, expectoration tenacious, rusty-coloured. Ferric phosphate in alternation with Potassium chloride, a dose every half-hour was taken for 24 hours, then every hour. For his prostration and sleep- lessness a few doses of Potassium phosphate were taken now and then. The improvement every way was very marked. in two days. As the colour of the sputa changed to yellow, he took Potassium sulphate instead of Potassium chloride; and as this condition was remedied, Sodium chloride and Calcium phosphate completed the cure in little more than ten days. He returned to work free from inflammation and bronchitis, as will be seen from his letter, which is given at his own request, as follows :— "No. 3 Kincardine Street, Dundee, March 6th, 1886. For eleven years back at various times, save this last year, I have been an unfortunate sufferer from bronchitis and occasionally inflammation of the lungs; as a rule I had the best medical advice within my reach, everything was done as usual in such cases, being laid bedfast from eight to ten 164 CLINICAL CASES. weeks at a time, generally once, sometimes twice, each year; then I was parboiled with poulticing, cough mixtures wholesale, which destroyed my stomach, could scarcely walk on my legs, my existence was a burden. I was now told no more could be done for me, so that was a blue look out for me. Fully twelve months ago I was again seized with bronchitis and inflammation of the lungs. A friend : advised me to consult you. With Dr. Schiissler's biochemic treatment of disease, and God's blessing, and without a single poultice or nauseous drug, in three weeks and three ■ days' time I was at my usual employment, and have since been, and seem likely to continue healthier, happier, and heavier than in any period during the best days of my life. I sincerely hope you may use, and others may see, this brief note, and be resurrected as I have been by this simple, safe, and sure New Treatment of Disease. Life is now worth living for. I am, Your much benefitted and grateful Servant, ARCHIBALD HERBERT." Case of an old lady above eighty years of age.—Mrs M., a doctor's widow, took a cold three weeks ago. Cough hard, little spit, incessant irritation at windpipe, pain under left breast, occasional palpitation. Had taken some Ferric phosphate latterly. Spit is copious now after much straining, appetite fairly good, but very much inclined to constipation, sleep very much broken by the severe fits of coughing. Potassium chloride for the cough and sputa, and Sodium chloride for the constipation, were now taken regularly every hour, a dose CLINICAL CASES. 165 alternately. A letter was received written on the evening of the second day, in which the gentleman writes :— "You will be pleased to hear that my old mother had a good night and scarcely any cough after following your prescription. Mother says that she might have slept more, but her mind was unsettled, always expecting the cough to return. I left her this morning very cheerful, and of course more than ever a firm believer in the New Treatment of all diseases." No other remedies were required, the lady recovered in a few days. A gentleman who had suffered from great sleeplessness, depression, and occasional tendencies to suicidal mania, writes :—"I do not know how to thank you for the medicine you gave me, it has done me so much good. I have taken the Potassium phosphate, and occasional doses of Potassium -chloride very faithfully, and will continue to do so, as it keeps me right." In the case of a poor orphan girl fourteen years old, Silica saved her having her foot amputated. She had been under treatment a long time for bone disease. Her medical man saw no alternative, as the evil only grew worse, to make arrangements with the infirmary surgeon to have it taken off. This was agreed on, six days before removing her. Her friends were greatly distressed and applied for the New remedies. Silica, a dose every hour, was steadily taken, and lotion on lint externally applied. On the fifth day the ankle bone and surrounding tissues presented such a healthy 166 CLINICAL CASES. appearance that all cause for amputation was removed. She continued the treatment for a short time longer, and her case was pronounced perfectly cured. In all cases of disease, molecules of certain salts are re- quired. But deficiency of a certain salt does not imply want of it in the whole system, but want of it in certain abnormal parts only. In fact, a disease is often recognised by an excess of the salt, and its organic substance or basis by the various channels of excretion, in fceces, urine, etc. This arises from some abnormal conditions of tissues ; and the molecules of ordinary magnitude being impeded in their passage, do not reach the places where they are required for the completion of molecular arrangement and normal func- tion. In diseases where certain salts are thus prevented from being used in the economy of the body, they are ex- creted in a manner unchanged. See Albuminuria, Bright's disease, etc. Adequate Bio-chemic Remedies have achieved such notable cures, in harmony with Nature's laws, that thousands of thinking minds have already accepted this method by which health is so certain to be restored if any vitality or powers for the further continuance of life be granted. M. D. W. THERAPEUTICAL INDEX. 1. THERAPEUTICAL INDEX. The Inorganic Cell-Salts. The Tissue Cell-Salts, as specially prepared for Dr. Schussler, act as Molecular-Cellular Therapeutics. Modern English Terms. Terms as used in German. I. Calcium phosphate = 1. Calearea phosphoriea. II. Calcium sulphate = 2. Calearea sulphuriea. _III- Calcium fluoride = 3. Calearea fluoriea. IV. Ferric phosphate = 4. Ferrum phosphorieum. ~ V. Potassium chloride = 5. Kali muriatieum. VI. Potassium phosphate = 6. Kali phosphorieum. _VII. Potassium sulphate = 7. Kali sulphuricum. VIII. Magnesium phosphate = 8. Magnesium phosphorieum —IX. Sodium chloride = 9. Natrum muriatieum. X. Sodium phosphate =10. Natrum phosphorieum. XI. Sodium sulphate = 11. Natrum sulphuricum. XII. Silica =12. Silieea. The most modern terms being adopted, read always Potassium for Kali; Calcium for Calearea ; Sodium for Natrum, &c. DIRECTIONS. -|"|_|£ DOSE.—Dissolve from 3 to 5 grains of the powder (a quantity about the size of a pea) in say a dessert or tea spoonful of water for a single dose. For convenience, take as much powder as will lieona sixpenny piece, dissolve it in half-a-tea-cupful of water,and make 6 to 8 doses or sips of this quantity. In the case of Magnesium phosphate, where warmth is agreeable and grateful, hot water may be advantageously taken. If from any reason the patient cannot readily take the remedy in water, the powder may be taken dry upon the tongue, though this is not the preferable or most effective way. 11. THERAPEUTICAL INDEX. TIME.—A dose should be taken every hour, or even oftener if the case be very acute. In less urgent cases, a dose every 2 hours. In chronic cases 4 doses daily. Alternation.—^nen two remedies nave to ^e ta^en alternately, each must be kept in a separate cup or phial, the one to be taken in turns or time about with the other. THE INTERCURRENT REMEDY.-To be taken occa- sionally, in any disease, between or in place of the chief or principal remedy or remedies, such as Ferric phosphate or Potassium phosphate, as symptons may arise in complications. For chronic cases, the intercurrent, such as Calcium phosphate, a dose every day, night and morning, or only every second day. EXTERNAL APPLICATION.-This must always be ac- companied by the remedy internally. Dissolve a good pinch of the powder prescribed, in half a tumblerful of water. This lotion can be used tepid or cold as may be required or preferred, for bathing the parts with; or, if to be applied on lint as a compress, with oilskin over it; or a poultice may be moistened with it, though a compress is preferable to it. It may be used as a gargle. Wetted and mixed with either Olive Oil, Glycerine, or Vaseline, it may be applied like ointment, or the parts may simply be moistened with the lotion as often as desirable under existing circumstances. Any of these ways of application may be adopted whenever external use is prescribed. THE TONGUE and its appearance in disease forms, as a rule, a very important index to the remedy required. Different salts when deficient in function, cause a peculiar appearance of the tongue (for which consult page 69).—The best time to examine the tongue is before and not after meals. N.B.—ON SELECTING A REMEDY, read always the first two paragraphs under each Cell-Salt in this index, as these are of im- portance. See that each remedy as given above has its own number affixed on the phial or box in which it is contained, as it facilitates the reading. /.—Calcium Phosphate = Calearea Phosphorica. iii. Calc. phos. 1.—Calcium Phosphate = Calearea Phosphorica. Calc. phos. The Diseases forming this group must be healed or treated with Calcium phosphate, as they have their seat either in the bone, teeth, the connective-tissue, or blood-cells, etc. The Calcium phosphate has a chemical affinity for albumen, which forms the organic basis for this salt in the tissue-cells. It is required when albumen or albuminous substances are found in the secretions. All Ailments which are obstinate and do not yield to their own remedy, may require a few doses of Calcium phosphate. More particularly is this required with growing young people or old persons in the decline of life. Ailments in which heat or cold increases the pain. Also Silica. Albuminuria—Albuminous urine calls for the use of this cell-salt and Potass, phosphate as an alternate remedy. Anozmia (poverty of red blood)—To supply new blood cells, this salt as first remedy. Anozmia, with waxy appearance of the skin. Bone diseases, see Rickets ; bone earth not being extracted from food. Bones, broken, surgical aid is necessary, and for the uniting of the fractured ends this cell-salt is essential. -Bones when weak, yielding and soft. Bowed legs in children, to strengthen the weak bones. Bright's disease (of the kidneys) for the albumen; alternate remedy, Potassium phosphate. Cancer, in scrofulous constitutions. Catarrhs, colds, chronic, of anaemic persons; as an intercurrent remedy. Chafed skin, excoriations, itchiness of the skin. Chlorosis ("green sickness") of young females; complexion waxy, greenish-white. Cold in the head, with albuminous (white-of-egg-like) discharge from the nose. Clergyman's sore throat, in; as an intercurrent remedy. Constitutional weakness, in ; as a tonic for delicate persons. •Consumption, in, to lessen the emaciation. Also cream, small doses of cod-liver oil and carbonacious food. Consumption of the bowels, in ; as an intercurrent remedy. Convalescence, during ; after all acute diseases, as a restorative. Convulsions, from teething, without fever, if Mag. phos. fails. Cough, expectoration of albuminous mucus, not watery, (transparent elastic film ?) Cough, in consumption ; as an intercurrent remedy. Cramps, or spasms of all description, if Magnesium phosphate fails. ■Craniotabes, wasting of the skull; chief remedy, ■Creeping, crawling or numb feeling in the limbs. iv. /.—Calcium Phosphate = Calearea Phosphorica. Calc. phos. Delicacy in growing girls and boys, delicate pale appearance when breeding second teeth. Delicate young infants are much benefitted by the use of this con stitutional remedy. Development, deficient, of young people, stunted growth. Diarrhoea, in teething children ; as an alternate remedy. Dropsy, from non-assimilation, anaemia, or from loss of blood. Eczema, eruptions of the skin, with yellow-white scabs, or vesicles,. (with albuminous white-of-egg-like contents). Eczema, with anaemia (bloodlessness) ; as an intercurrent remedy. Effusions, serous, rich in albumen. Emaciations, without special ailments. Emaciations, in, accompanying other ailments. This remedy inter- currently. Diet of carbonacious food, cream or small doses of cod-liver oil after food. Enuresis, wetting the bed ; in old people, as an intercurrent remedy. Eyelids, spasmodic affection of, if Magnesium phosphate fails. Face-ache (neuralgic, rheumatic), commences or is worse at night. Fits, during development in childhood, youth, or old age, where the lime salts are at fault. Fits, in, anaemia ; patients with pale waxy complexion. Fits, in the strumous and scrofulous. Fontanelles, or opening of the head, sutures of the skull in the infant remaining open too long. Fractured bones, to promote the formation of new-bone substance. Freckles are generally lessened by it, and the constitutional want of this salt corrected. Gall-stones, to prevent the re-formation of new ones ; and Sod sulph. Gastric, enteric or typhoid fever, after ; a course of this remedy. Glands, enlarged, chronic ; as intercurrent remedy. Gonorrhoea, with anaemia. Gout, rheumatic, worse at night and in bad weather. Also Sod. sulph.. Gravel; after Sodium sulphate, for the calculous, phosphatic deposit in urine ; as an intercurrent remedy. Gums, painful in teething children, and if inflamed, alternate doses of this cell-salt and Ferric phosphate. Gums, pale appearance, sign of anaemia ; a course of this remedy ta be followed by Ferric phosphate. Hemorrhoids, chronic, in anaemic or weakly patients; intercurrently with Calcium fluoride. Headache, a cold feeling in the head, and the head feels cold to the touch; also Ferric phosphate. Hernia (rupture) in anaemic patients ; as the intercurrent remedy. Hooping-cough, in weakly constitutions, or in teething children, and obstinate cases ; as an intercurrent remedy. Herpes, eruption on the skin, with itching, acute or chronic ; inter- current remedy. Housemaid's knee ; acute or chronic. /.—Calcium Phosphate = Calearea Phosphorica. v. Calc. phos. Hydrocele, if Sodium chloride fails. Hydrocephalus, water in the head, acute and chronic ; chief remedy. Hydrocephaloid condition; fontanelles, opening of the head, flat, depressed. Hydrops genu, dropsical swelling of the knee. Infiammation of the eyes, dry, during dentition ; intercurrently with Ferric phosphate. Intermittent fever, chronic, of children ; as intercurrent remedy. Kidney disease, with albumen in the urine; also Potassium phosphate. Lameness, rheumatic, obstinate; intercurrently with Potass, phos. Leuchcemia, morbid condition of the blood, excess of white corpuscles. Leucorrhoea ("Whites"); as a constitutional tonic, and intercurrent, with the chief remedy. Lumbago ; alternately with Ferric phosphate, effects a rapid cure. Lupus, if a partial manifestation of scrofulosis; see also Potass, chlor. Neuralgia, commencing at night, recurring periodically, deep-seated as if on the bone. Also Silica ; with beating pain, Ferric phos. Numbness of the limbs and coldness or a sensation as of ants creep- ing on the part affected, affection of the nerves. Pains, neuralgic, deep-seated on the bone. Also Silica; beating pain, Ferric phosphate. Pains, rheumatic, with a creeping feeling in the parts affected. Pain* in the head, worst with heat or cold. Pains, which are worse in the night require this salt intercurrently with the other remedies specially called for. Perspiration, too frequent or excessive, especially if perspiring too much about the head. Prurigo, pruritis, troublesome itching of the skin, often in old people, 4x trituration, Potassium phosphate alternately. Rheumatism, which is worst at night. Recovery during, after illness ; this remedy is a restorative. Rheumatism, aggravated with heat or cold. Rheumatism, worse in bad weather. Also Ferric phosphate. Rheumatism, worse with change of weather. Rheumatism of the joints, with cold or numb feeling. Rickets in delicate children, caused by soft sponginess of bone, from want of the phosphate of lime molecules. ScrofvUosis and struma, in, as intercurrent remedy with Potas. chlor. Skin affections, eruptions, vesicles, blisters, with albuminous contents. Skin affections, eczema, with yellowish-white scabs or crusts. Spinal curvature ; also mechanical supports. ■Spinal weakness. Stone in the bladder, to check re-formation of the same; buttermilk as a dietary help, and probably Sodium sulphate. Teeth, too rapid decay of, strumous conditions. Teeth when breeding, if accompanied with teething ailments. Teething, convulsions in ; alternately with Magnesium phosphate. Teething disorders; as chief remedy. vi. 77".—Calcium Sulphate = Calearea Sidphurica. Calc. sulph. Teething too late ; to hasten development of. Teething troublesome, little ailments caused by it. Tic, neuralgia worse in the night, or recurring at night, pain in the bone. Tonsils, chronic swelling; as an intercurrent remedy. Toothache, worse in the night, alternately Silica. Tubercules of the skin. Typhoid, Enteric, or Gastric fevers, after, as the disease declines. Ulceration of bone substance (true bone) ; as intercurrent rem edy. Weakliness in children ; slow development. Whites, discharge of albuminous mucus. Whooping-cough in obstinate cases, and with emaciation, as an inter- current remedy. KB.— ON SELECTING A REMEDY, read always the first two paragraphs under each Cell-Salt in this index, as these are of importance. 2.—Calcium Sulphate = Calearea Sulphurica, Calc. sulph. The Diseases forming this group must be healed or treated with Calcium sulphate, as it is curative in suppurations—at that stage in which matter is discharging or continuing to ooze after the infiltrated places have discharged their contents of pus. All Ailments in which the process of discharge continues too long and the suppuration is affecting the epithelial tissues. Ailments, with discharge of pus (matter) and blood. Abscess, this remedy will shorten the suppurating process, and limit the discharge of pus. If the abscess be treated with this salt after Silica, it will bring the process to a close. Bladder, inflammation of ; in the chronic state, pus forming. Boils ; to reduce and control suppuration as above. Bruises, when neglected and suppurating, discharging pus. Bubo, to control suppuration, in alternation with Silica. Burns and scalds, which are suppurating; as second remedy after Potassium chloride. Carbuncles, to control the discharge of pus. See also Silica and Potassium chloride. Chilblains, after Potassium chloride, when in a suppurating stage. Cold in the head, with thick mattery secretion. Consumption, sputa, mattery, sanious, mixed with blood. Cornea, abscess of, deep-seated; also Silica. Cough, with sanious mattery spit. U—Calcium Sulphate = Calearea Sulphurica. vii. Calc. sulph. Crusta lactea, "scald head" of children, after Potassium chloride, if there, be mattery discharge, or yellow mattery crusts. Cuts, suppurative, to control the discharge of matter. Deafness, with discharge of matter from the ear, sometimes mixed with blood ; after Silica. Diarrhoea, mattery, mixed with blood. Discharges or mattery secretions on the mucous lining of any part. Discharges of matter or sanious pus from the skin or mucous linings. Dysentery, stools mattery, sanious (mixed with blood). Ears, discharge of matter and blood. See under Silica. Effusions, when pus forms. Empycema, pus forming in cavity of lung, or pleura. Expectoration of matter, mixed with blood. Exudations, mattery, sanious. Exudations, with matter, in serous sacs. Eyes, inflammation of, with discharge of thick yellow matter. Festers (common term for suppurations), are cured by this remedy after the use of Silica. Furuncles (boils), when pus is discharging. Gathered finger, for the last stage when the suppuration is continuing and only superficial; externally also on lint. Glands, lymphatic, discharging pus. See also Silica. Gonorrhoea, with sanious mattery discharge. Hip-joint disease, for the discharge of pus, matter. This dreaded disease requires only Ferric phosphate and Calcium sulphate to effect a complete cure. Rest is useful. Hypopion to absorb the effusion of pus in the eye ; after Silica. Injuries (from accidents), neglected cuts, wounds, bruises, if sup- purating. Mastitis, "weed," gathered breasts, when matter is discharging; after Silica. Matter, or sanious matter, discharge of, from any part of the body requires this remedy, when the infiltrated parts have disappeared under the use of Silica, and the epithelial tissues only are at fault. Pimples, if matter forms on the head of these. Pustules, nodules, when suppurating. Quinsy, abscess, discharging yellow matter, Scabs, mattery, forming on heads of nodules and pimples. Skin affections, "scalled heads" of children, with yellow mattery scabs. Skin affections, with yellowish scabs ; after Potassium chloride. Skin, suppuration of, and discharge of matter, after inflammation. Small pox, with pustules discharging matter, require this as an alternate remedy. Sores discharging pure pus or sanious matter; also on lint, see Directions ; but discharges of unhealthy pus, with heavy odour, require. Potassium phosphate as intercurrent remedy. viii. III.—Calcium Fluoride = Calearea Fluorica. Calc. fluor. Suppurations, articular (of the joints); also Silica. Suppurations in general, after discharge continues too long. Sivetting of the Cheek ; after Potass, chlor., if suppuration threatens. Syphilis, chronic, suppurating stage. Throat, sore, suppurating. Throat, ulcerated, with yellow matter, last or suppurating stage. Tongue, inflammation of the, when suppurating. Tonsilitis, last stage, when matter discharges on the tonsils. Ulceration of Glands. If matter is discharging, this remedy after Silica will assist to cleanse and heal the sore. Externally also on lint. The scar left will be very insignificant if treated in this way. Ulcers, open mattering sores, which may result from abrasions, pimples, wounds, burns, scalds, or bruises. External use, page i. Ulcers, of lower limbs ; with yellow or sanious matter. Whitlow, felon, with discharge of matter ; after Silica. Wounds, suppurating ; when yellow or sanious matter is discharging. N.B.—OS SELECTING A REMEDY, read always the first two paragraphs under each Cell-Salt in this index, as these are of im- portance. 3.—Calcium Fluoride = Calearea Fluorica. Calc Fluor. The Diseases of this group must be healed or treated with Calcium fluoride, as they have their seat in the substance forming the surface of bone, enamel of teeth, and part of all elastic fibres, whether of the dermis, the connective-tissues, or of the walls of the blood-vessels, etc. All Ailments which can be traced to relaxed conditions of any of the elastic fibres, including dilatation of blood-vessels, arterial and venous blood tumours, incisted tumours and piles, and those also which arise from a disturbed balance of the molecules forming the enamel of teeth and of bone surface. After-pains, if too weak, contractions too feeble. Aneurism, at an early stage, may be reduced or kept in check with the use of Ferric phosphate and this, the chief remedy, pro- vided that Iodide of Potass, has not been taken. Asthma, in, when specks or small lumps of yellowish mucus are brought up after much exertion ; in alternation with Potassium phosphate. Back-ache, similating spinal irritation. Back-ache, weak back with dragging pain, down-bearing. III.—Calcium Fluoride = Calearea Fluorica. ix. dale. Jluor. Back, pain in the lower part of the back (sacrum), with a sensation of fulness or burning pain, and confined bowels. Blood tumours on the head of new-born infants. Blood tumours, internal piles, blood around faeces. Bruises on the surface of the bone, the shin, etc., with hard, rough, and uneven lumps. Catamenia, excessive, with bearing-down pains, flooding. Cephalhematoma, blood-tumours on the parietal bones of new-born infants, on a rough, bony base. Chaps, cracks of the skin ; this remedy also externally with vaseline. Cheek, hard swelling, with pain or toothache. Cold in the head ; stuffy cold, dry coryza. Cough, with expectoration of tiny yellow tough lumps of mucus. Cough, with tickling and irritating sensation, on lying down, from elongation of uvula, or drop at the back of the throat. Croup, in, if Potassium chloride and Ferric phosphate do not suffice ; also Calcium phosphate. Dilatation, enlargement of blood-vessels ; chief remedy to restore the contractility to the elastic fibres. Dilatation of the heart, with palpitation. Diphtheria, when the affection has gone to the windpipe through mis- management ; this remedy and Calcium phosphate alternately. Displacement of uterus. Displacement, prolapsus, falling of the uterus. Displacement, down-bearing of the uterus. Dragging pains in the region of the uterus and in the thighs. Dropsy, caused by heart-disease ; dilatation of any of the cavities. Enamel of teeth, rough, deficient. Enlargement of the heart. Enlargement of blood-vessels. Excrescences, hard, on the bone surface. Exudations on the bone surface, hard, rugged (corrugated), pointed elevations. Fissures, or cracks in the palms of the hands, or hard skin. Fissure, intensely sore crack near the anus (lower end of the bowel); also external applications, and Sodium phosphate. Flooding ; to tone up the contractile powers of the uterus. Ganglion, round swelling or incisted tumours, such as on the back of the wrist, from strain of the elastic fibres. Gouty enlargements of the joints of the fingers ; also Sodium sulphate. Growths, small hard lumps seated on the cheek bone or other bony surfaces, if arising from an injury or a bruise ; also outward application if desirable. ^Gumboil, with hard swelling on the jaw. Haemorrhoids. See Piles. One of three remedies may have to be selected to alternate with this the chief remedy. Hydrocele, dropsy of the testicle. Knots, kernels, hardened glands in the female breast. x. III.—Calcium Fluoride = Calearea Fluorica. Calc. fluor. Looseness, unnatural, of the teeth, with or without pain. Ozcena, affection of the nose. See also Potassium phospate. Piles bleeding ; alternately with such remedies as are specially indicated by the colour, etc., of the blood and coating of the tongue. External application, see Directions, page i. Piles, internal or blind, frequently with pain in the back, generally far down on the sacrum; note the appearance of the tongue, etc., indicating the alternating remedy. Piles, with pressure of blood to the head ; Ferric phos. alternately. Piles internal, blind, with constipation, confined state of the bowels. Prolapsus uteri, falling or bearing down of the uterus. Relaxed condition of elastic fibres in general. Relaxed throat, with tickling in the larynx, when caused by eloga- tion of uvula ; also Sodium phosphate. Skin, hard, horny, of the palm of the hand. Spina ventosa, this remedy and Magnesium phosphate. Suppurations, with callous hard edges. Swellings, hard, having their seat in fascia and capsular ligaments, or on tendons. Swelling, stony hard, on the jaw bone. Syphilis ; note pathological condition for the use of this remedy. Teeth, if becoming loose in the sockets, it not being the period of teething. Testicles, induration of. Tongue, cracked appearance, with or without pain. Tongue, for induration of, hardening after inflammation. Toothache, with pain if any food touches the tooth. Toothache, with a looseness of the teeth. Tumours, hard, such as are met with as hard lumps in the female breast; as an intercurrent remedy. Tumours, vascular, with dilated blood-vessels ; chief remedy. Ulcerations of bone (on bone suface, enamel) injected. Uvula, relaxed, causing irritation, tickling, and cough. Varicose ulceration of veins ; also as a lotion on lint. Calcium sulphate may also be applied for discharge of matter. Varicose veins ; this salt as chief remedy internally, and also externally as a lotion on lint. See Directions. Veins, enlarged (varicose), this remedy internally, and externally as lotion on soft cotton below an elastic bandage. Vomiting of undigested food, if Ferric phosphate does not suffice. Whitlow, gathered finger, also lotion on lint ; if deep-seated and the bone is implicated, see also Silica. N.B.— ON SELECTING A REMEDY, read always the first two paragraphs under each Cell-Salt in this index, as these are of im- portance. IV.—Ferric Phosphate = Ferrum Phosphorieum. xi. Ferr. phos. 4—Ferric Phosphate = Ferrum phosphorieum. Ferr. phos. The Diseases forming this group must be healed or treated with Ferric phosphate, as they have their seat in the red blood corpuscles or in the vascular system, i.e. in the muscular fibres which are circularly arranged around the walls of the blood-vessels. Iron possesses the chemical property or affinity of attracting oxygen, and by this means carries and distributes the oxygen to all the tissues, including the brain and spinal cord. All Ailments arising from a disturbed circulation, orabnormal condition (deficiency) of red blood corpuscles. These include all febrile conditions and disturbances of the vascular system, all inflam - mations, congestions, and irritations caused by local stasis, i.e., blood accumulating in some of the blood-vessels by reason of an enfeebled or relaxed condition of the muscular fibres of the walls of these blood-vessels. Ailments of an inflammatory or congestive nature. The inflammatory stage is recognised by being attended either by heat, pain, redness, irritation, throbbing, fever, or quickened pulse. The tongue is generally red, or has a red line along the centre. If a deposit forms, Ferric phosphate has then to be given in alterna- tion with the remedy selected for the coating of the tongue. Abscess, the first remedy to reduce fever, heat, throbbing, pain, and congestion (or excess of blood) in the parts. Ancemia, blood poverty, want of red blood ; after Calcium phosphate give this remedy to colour the new blood-cells red, and enrich them. Aneurism, to establish normal circulation, and remove those complica- tions arising from excessive action of the heart, it should be early resorted to. Calcium flouride, chief remedy. Articular rheumatism (in the joints), frequent doses at the commence- ment ; and as an intercurrent remedy later on. Back, pain in the, in the loins and over kidney. Back-ache, pains in the loins and back, rheumatic felt only on moving. Bleeding. See hemorrhage. Bleeding from wounds, Ferric phosphate internally and externally ; tight bandage, strapping plaisters, and surgical aid if severe. Bleeding of the nose, whether from injury or otherwise ; this generally suffices. See also Potassium phosphate. Bloodlessness, anaemia, requires a course of this remedy; after Calcium phosphate. Blood, loss of, if bright red and coagulating readily. Blood, rush of, to the head. Blows, or falls, or kicks. This remedy internally and externally as- speedily as possible ; for swelling, Potassium chloride. xii. IV.—Ferric Phosphate = Ferrum Phosphorieum. Ferr. phos. Bone diseases, in, when the soft parts are red and hot and painful. Boils, at the commencement to reduce heat, blood accumulation, pain, and throbbing. Breathing, short, oppressed, and hurried, at the beginning or during the course of any ailment, accompanied by heat and feverishness. Eright's disease, when feverishness is present. Bronchial irritation, with heat or burning soreness; any expectoration or secretion will require its special alternating remedy. Bronchitis, acute inflammatory stage ; and after exudation takes place, see remedies, page 78. Bronchitis, in, chronic ; occasionally to be taken when a fresh aggra- vation sets in, or in alternation with the remedy indicated by the expectoration. See page 78. Bruises, first remedy. See external use, page i. Bubo, with heat, throbbing, or feverishness. 'Carbuncles, where there exists feverishness, heat, or throbbing; to reduce the swelling, Potassium chloride. Catarrh, bronchial; the intercurrent remedy, to be used for inflam- matory irritation. Catarrhal fevers, with quickened pulse. Cheek, sore and hot, to relieve the pain, congestion, throbbing, and heat; first remedy, where cold applications are grateful. Chicken pox ; this remedy alone or alternately ; note tongue. Cholera, in the first stage, for the vascular disturbance, in alterna- nation with Potassium phosphate. Cold in the head, first stage ; for the circulatory disturbance. Cold in the chest, with soreness or feverishness. Colds, a predisposition to catching cold ; a course of this remedy in alternation with Calcium phosphate. Colic at the periods, with heat, flushing of the face, and quickened pulse. Congestions of any organ or part of the body yield to this remedy, as it tones up the blood vessels, dispels the excess of blood in those parts, and relieves the tension. Constipation, with heat in the lower bowels. Convulsions (fits), with fever, of teething children. Cornea, abscess on, of the eye; for the heat, pain, or redness, first stage ; and as intercurrent remedy. ■Cough, acute, painful, short tickling ; also Calcium fluoride. Cough, at the commencement, for irritation. dough, short, from cold, without spit, spasmodic ; and Potass, chlor. Cough, short, sore, or tickling from irritation of the windpipe. ■Cough, hard, dry, with soreness. Cough, very painful, short, spasmodic. In true spasmodic use Mag- nesium phosphate. Cough, with feeling of a soreness of lungs. Wrecking of the sinews at the back of the hand and arm on moving, met with in craftsmen ; at first this remedy. IV.—Feme Phosphate = Ferrum Phosphorieum. xiii.. Ferr. phos. Croup; this remedy alternately with Potassium chloride; under special conditions a few doses of Potassium sulphate. Cuts; chief remedy internally, and the dressing to be saturated with the lotion. See first page of Therapeutical Index. Cystitis (inflammation of the bladder), first stage, with heat, pain, or feverishness. Deafness ^ from inflammatory action or suppuration, when there is cutting pain, tension, throbbing, or heat. Diabetes, when there is a quickened pulse, or when there exists pain, heat, or congestion in any part of the system, as an intercurrent remedy. Diarrhoza, from a relaxed state of villi or absorbants of the intestines,. not taking up the usual amount of moisture. Diarrhoza, stools of undigested food. Diarrhoza, caused by a chill. Dilatation of heart, or of blood-vessels ; in alternation with Calcium fluoride, the chief remedy. Diphtheria; as alternate remedy, at the commencement of the disease, this will lessen the fever. See Potassium chloride. Diseases of any kind, if ushered in by rigors (shivers), or heat, accom- panied by fever, with quickened pulse, or pain; for any or all of these symptoms when they occur. Dropsy, from loss of blood or draining of the system; as alternate remedy, with Calcium phosphate. Dysentery; this remedy suffices in most cases with Potassium chloride alternately. Dysmenorrhoza ; pain, at the monthly periods, with hot, flushed face and quick pulse. Dysmenorrhoza, with vomiting of undigested food, sometimes acid. tasted. Dyspepsia, with flushed, hot face ; epigastrium tender to touch. If there is a coating on the tongue, see page 69. Dyspepsia, indigestion with beating or throbbing, pain, heat, redness or flushing of face, or vomiting of undigested food, the tongue being clean. Dyspnoea, short laboured breathing, as in feverishness, etc. Ear-ache, inflammatory (from cold), with burning or throbbing pain. Ear-ache, with sharp, stitching pain. Ears, noises in the, arising through blood pressure from relaxed condition of the veins, not returning the blood properly. Epilepsy (fits), with blood rushing to the head. See Potass, chlor. Epistaxis (bleeding of the nose), generally ; in children this suffices;, if from nervous debility, Potassium phosphate. Erysipelas, "rose," and erysipelatous inflammations of the skin, for the fever and pain. See page 81. Eyes, inflammation of, with acute pain, without secretions of mucus or pus. For the latter, see page 78. Eyes, pain in the eyeball, made worse by moving the eyes. 3iVi jy.—Ferric Phosphate = Ferrum Phosphorieum. Ferr. phos. Eyes, inflamed and red, with burning sensation. Eyes, sore and red looking. See also Sodium chloride. Face-ache, with flushing and heat, quickened pulse. Face-ache, worse on moving, with throbbing or pressing pain. Festers, gatherings, to relieve heat, pain, congestion, and inflam- mation, first stage. Feverishness in all its various degrees is met by this salt. Feverish state, catarrhal, at the commencement or during the course of any disease, calls for the use of this remedy alone, or in alternation with such remedies as co-existing symptoms may require. _ Fevers, all, may require Ferric phos. alone, or in alternation with those remedies which the accompanying symptoms require. Fevers, inflammatory and rheumatic ; the chief remedy. Fevers, catarrhal (from cold), require this remedy. Finger, inflamed or painful. Flatulence, bringing back the taste of food partaken of. Flushed face, accompanied by headache or fulness in the head. Flushed face, when a precursor of recurring headaches. Flushed face, when accompanying a sensation of coldness in nape of neck. Fractures ; (besides mechanical aid) to meet the accompanying injuries to the soft parts, first remedy. Gastric, enteric, or typhoid fever, for the chilly stage ; Potassium phosphate for languor ; Potassium chloride for loose, ochre- coloured stools, white tongue, and Potassium sulphate for rise of temperature. The course of the disease will be cut short by this treatment. See to escape of sewage gas. ■Gastritis (inflammation of the stomach), with much pain, swelling, tenderness at pit of stomach, especially if vomiting of food occurs. Giddiness (vertigo), from rush of blood to the head, with flushing, throbbing, or pressing pain. Gums, when sore, red, hot, and inflamed. Hcemorrhage (bleeding, loss of blood), bright red fluid, with tendency to coagulate readily. Haemorrhoids (piles), inflamed ; alternately with Calcium fluoride, the chief remedy ; and as lotion, cold, externally. Haemorrhoids, bleeding piles, blood bright red fluid, but with tendency to form a thickened soft mass. Headache, from gouty predisposition, in alternation with Sod. sulph. Headache, from cold, a bruising, pressing, or stitching pain. Headache, pains which are worse on stooping and moving. Headache, with vomiting of undigested food. Headache, congestive, with pressing or stitching pain, and soreness to the touch ; pressing a cold object against the spot seems to ease the pain. If there is also a furred tongue. See page 69. Headache of "children generally requires this remedy only. IV.—Ferric Phosphate = Ferrum Phosphorieum. xv. Ferr. phos. Headache, with a throbbing sensation. Headache, with red face and suffused redness of the eyes. Headache, sick, with vomiting of food as taken, undigested. Heat and feverishness at the beginning of any disease or ailment. Hip-joint disease ; for pain, throbbing heat, and the inflammation of the soft parts, etc. ; matter forming, Silica. Hoarseness, painful, of singers or speakers, from over-exertion of voice. Hooping Cough, with vomiting of food ; for the hoop or spasmj Magnesium phosphate. Hyperemia ; blood accumulated in any of the blood-vessels (Stasis). Cause : want of proper balance of the iron-molecules in the muscular fibres, which are circularly arranged around these vessels ; thus relaxed they lose their tonicity, and do not support normal circulation. Incontinence of urine, if from weakness of the sphincter muscle. Indigestion, from relaxed condition of the muscular fibres of the blood- vessels of the stomach, with burning, tenderness, pain on pressure, or flushed face, and pain after taking food. Inflammation of any part of the body. Inflammation of the skin, when there exists either fever, heat, pain, throbbing, or redness. Inflammations, all, as well as all congestions and all inflammatory irritations; they are caused by excess of blood in the blood- vessels, or in the capillaries of any of the tissues. They require first Ferric phosphate, and Potassium chloride as second remedy. Such as :— Bronchitis, inflammation of the Bronchi (windpipe). Carditis. ,, heart. Cerebritis, ,, brain. Cystitis, ,, bladder. Duodenitis, ,, duodenum. Encephalitis, ,, membrane covering the brain. Enteritis, ,, intestines (bowels). Gastritis, ,, stomach. Hepatitis, ,, liver. Laryngitis, ,, larynx. Meningitis, ,, cerebro spinal membrane. Mastitis, ,, breasts, commonly called "weed." Metritis, ,, uterus (womb). Nephritis, ,, kidneys. Otitis, ,, ear. Pericarditis, ,, sac enclosing the heart. Peritonitis, ,, membrane lining the belly; also called inflammation of the side. Periostitis, „ periosteum, or membrane covering the bone. Phlebitis, ,, veins. Phrenitis, ,, brain, or brain fever. IV.—Ferric Phosphate = Ferrum Phosphorieum. Ferr. phos. Pneumonia, inflammation of the lungs. Pleuritis, ,, pleura, covering of the lung, also* called Pleurisy. Stomatitis, ,, mouth. Spleenitis, ,, spleen. Synovitis, ,, synovial membrane. Tonsilitis, ,, tonsils. Tympanitis, ,, drum of the ear. Injuries, cuts, fresh wounds ; this remedy prevents pain, congestion, swelling, or feverishness. Use also external applications. Surgical aid if severe. Intermittent fever, with vomiting of food. Irritations of throat, or other parts, with redness or heat. Ischuria, suppression of urine, of recent date, with heat; also for little children. Kidney, all inflammatory pain is relieved by this remedy. Lameness, rheumatic, with feverish symptoms. See Potas. phos. Lumbago ; this remedy in frequent alternation with Calcium phos. Lungs, inflammation of; first stage, until free perspiration is established, and until health is restored. For expectoration, see page 78. Lungs, congestion of, with debility and oppression. Measles, in all stages ; and the symptoms of inflammatory affections of chest, eyes, or ears. Menstruation (monthly period), excessive congestion, blood bright red ; this remedy must be taken as a preventative before the periods, if these symptoms are recurrent. Morning sickness in pregnancy, with vomiting of food as taken ; with or without acid taste the food returns undigested. Mucous membrane, irritation of, with redness, or heat, or dryness. Neck, stiff, from cold, requires this remedy internally, also some dissolved in hot water, and steadily rubbed into the part. Neuralgia, congestive or inflammatory, from cold, with pain as if a nail were being driven in ; blinding pain, one sided in the head, temples, or over the eye ; or in the jaw bone. If this does not suffice, Calcium phosphate, and note tongue. Ostitis, with painful and inflamed surrounding soft parts. Pain of any kind, if accompanied by flushed face, burning or diffused heat. Pain, soreness in every part of the body, especially the joints. Pain in any part, when caused by movement, or made worse by moving. Palate, when sore and inflamed. Palpitation of the heart. See also Potassium phosphate. Periostitis, with painful, inflamed soft parts. Pleurisy ; for the fever, pain, stitch in the side, catch in the breath, and short cough ; when these abate, Potassium chloride second remedy. IV.—Ferric Phosphate = Ferrum Phosphorieum. xvii. Ferr. phos. Pimples ; for the redness, heat, or congestion of the skin. Pleuro-Pneumonia ; the principal remedy at first; to be followed by Potassium chloride, or other remedy according to the appearance of the tongue, etc. Polyuria simplex, excessive secretion of urine, and Sodium sulphate. Pneumonia, inflammation of the lungs ; first and chief remedy. Quinsy ; at first alone, then alternately with Potassium chloride or Calcium sulphate. Retinitis, inflammation of the retina at the back of the eye; for exudation, see Potassium chloride and Calcium sulphate. Rheumatic fever. This remedy is often the only one required if taken steadily ; if swelling be present, Potassium chloride alternately. Rheumatism, acute articular, very painful; being an inflammatory febrile disease in first stage. Rheumatism, acute, when any movement sets up the pain, and all movements tend to keep up or increase the pain. Rheumatism of the joints, when painful on moving; first remedy. Rheumatism, pain felt only during motion, or caused by motion. Rheumatism, muscular, acute or sub-acute, worse on moving. Scarlet fever, in simple cases ; this remedy in alternation with Potassium chloride. Shivers, chills, shaking with cold. Skin affections, in the first or inflammatory stage. Skin affections, inflamed, sore and painful. Small pox, if the fever be high, occasional doses of this alternately with Potassium chloride, the chief remedy. Sore throat. See throat. Sores, to reduce heat, pain, and congestion of the parts. Sprains ; to be used as soon as possible, externally and internally. Stiff neck, if simply from a chill. Stomach-ache, from cold or chill, frequent occurrence in children. Stomach-ache, inflammatory, if pressure aggravates the pain. Stomach-ache, from chill, with loose evacuation caused by insufficient absorption of moisture, from relaxed condition of villi. Strains of tendons or ligaments ; this salt alternately with Calcium phosphate and Silica. Teething troubles, with feverishness. Tenalgia crepitans. See creaking of the sinews. Thread worms. Also Sodium phosphate. Throat, ulcerated ; this remedy reduces congestion, heat, fever, pain, and throbbing. Throat, sore, dry, red, inflamed; with much pain, very frequent doses. Throbbing pulsations in any part of the body, with or without pain. Tic-doloureux, congestive or inflammatory, in which the pain is beating, or stitching with burning soreness, and often pressing and intolerable. If not yielding, use also Calcium phosphate. Tinnitus aurium (noises in the head), when from excessive flow of blood to the head. M xviii. V.—Potassium Chloride = Kali Muriatieum. Kali mur. Tongue, inflammation of, dark red, with much swelling; also Potassium chloride. Tonsils, when red and inflamed; the glands on each side in the throat, when swollen, also Potassium chloride. Toothache, with hot cheek, inflamed gum or root of tooth. Toothache, worse with hot, better with cold, liquids. Typhoid, Enteric, or Gastric Fever, when commencing, initiatory stage, for chilliness ; Potassium phosphate for langour and weariness. Typhus, in the first stage, in alternation with Potassium phosphate. Ulceration of glands, to relieve the throbbing pain, soreness, redness, heat, and congested condition ; for swelling, Potassium chloride. Ulcers; if there is fever or heat, redness and congestion of parts, at any stage. Uterus, inflammation of, first stage, to remove the fever and pain. Uterus, womb, congestion of. Vaginismus, inflammation of the vagina ; also Magnesium phosphate. Voice, loss of, or huskiness after singing or exertion of speaking. See Potassium phosphate. Vomiting of blood, bright red blood, with tendency to forma gelatinous (liver-like) mass. Vomiting of the food with sour fluids. Vomiting of food, the food returning undigested, sooner or later after taking it. Wetting the bed, when arising from weakness of the muscles of the neck and sphincter of the bladder. See Potassium phosphate. Windpipe, inflamed condition, with soreness, irritation, and pain. Windpipe, irritation of, with burning of the throat, and pain. Wounds, all, will be benefitted by the use of this remedy internally and externally. Wounds, if severe, surgical aid and Ferric phosphate, externally and internally. Worms, intestinal; predisposition to passing undigested food. N.B.—01H SELECTING A REMEDY, read always the first two paragraphs under each Cell-Salt in this index, as these are of im- portance. 5.—Potassium Chloride=Kali Muriatieum. Kali mur. The Diseases forming this group must be healed or treated with this cell-salt. Fibrinous exudations, glandular infiltration, and in- flammatory infiltration of the skin, causing swelling of the part, arising from a disturbed balance of the organic (albuminoid) basis in the cells and of the molecules of Potassium chloride or muscle salt, which stands in biological relation to the albuminoid substances in fibrin, and those forming the basis of the cells V.—Potassium Chloride = Kali Muriatieum. xix. Kali mur. constituting the brain and spinal cord. Without the presence of this cell-salt no new brain-cell formation will take place. Diseases which arise from a want of this salt are marked either by fibrinous exudations (swellings), torpor of liver, casting off of effete albuminoid substance, as seen in a white coating of tongue, or whitish secretions and expectorations, which call for the use of Potassium chloride. All Ailments which have as a principal symptom a white or gray coating or fur at the back of the tongue (deposit); exudation of a white or gray substance on the mucous lining, tonsils, &c.; sivellings caused by interstitial plastic exudations ; discharges or expectoration of a thick white fibrinous slime or phlegm from any of the mucous membranes, etc., or flour-like scaling of skin. Abscess, second stage, when swelling (interstitial exudation) takes place. Abscess, mammary, of the breast, to reduce the swelling. Acne, pimples on the face, with thick, white contents. Adhesions, recent, consequent on inflammations, fibrinous exudations arising from excessive blood pressure on the walls of the blood- vessels. Anemia, in, this remedy may be required as an intercurrent should there be an eczema, skin affection, present. Aphthae, thrush, white ulcers in the mouth of little children or nurs- ing mothers ; with great flow of saliva, Sodium chloride. Articular rheumatism, acute, for the swelling, or grayish-white coated tongue ; in alternation with or after Ferric phosphate. Asthma, with gastric derangement, tongue whitish or grayish furred; and mucus white and hard to cough up ; for the depression of breathing, Potassium phosphate alternately. Asthma, bronchial, treatment as above, for much frothy mucus, Sodium chloride. Bilious derangement, gray or white coated tongue. Bladder, inflammation of, acute cases require this remedy; alter- nately with Ferric phosphate. Bleeding, hemorrhage, when the blood is dark, black, clotted, or tough. Blisters, arising from burns ; also lotion on lint externally. Blows, after effects, swellings ; this remedy after Ferric phosphate. Boils ; to blight the swelling before matter forms ; also externally, see page i. Bronchitis, second stage, when thick white phlegm forms. Bruises, if swelling, after the use of Ferric phosphate. Bunion ; also externally after Ferric phosphate; and if hard, use Calcium fluoride. Burns of all degrees must be treated with this remedy internally and externally. Moisten the lint with a strong solution of the remedy, and apply the lotion frequently without removing the lint. xx. V.—Potassium Chloride = Kali Muriatieum. Kali mur. Bubo, for the soft swelling. Canker, ulcers of the mouth. Catarrh ; phlegm, when white, thick, not transparent; if yellowish small lumps, also Calcium fluoride. Carbuncles, for the swelling at first; also as lotion on lint dressings alternately with Ferric phos. if there is much inflammation. Chancre, soft; principal remedy throughout, 3rd trituration ; and externally as a lotion. Cheek, swollen ; to control and reduce the swelling. Chilblains on hands or feet or any part; also external use. Congestion, second stage, of any organ or part of the body, when there exists a white coated tongue, or expectoration of white mucus ; and if there is interstitial exudation present, causing; swelling of the parts. Cold in the chest, with gluey thick white spit. Cold, with a whitish or gray coated tongue. Cold, stuffy, in the head,with whitish-gray tongue ; also Calc. fluor. Cold in the head, with white, non-transparent discharge. Colds, any of the above, not yielding to this remedy may require Calcium phosphate as an intercurrent. Constipation ; light coloured stools, through want of bile from sluggish liver. Constipation occurs frequently in consequence of some primary dis- turbance ; if the symptoms of this are carefully looked for, no purging need be resorted to. The proper remedy will make the bowels move naturally, as Potas.chlor.,Sod.chlor.,Potas.sulph. Costiveness, which is accompanied by a white coated tongue; also when fat and pastry disagree ; torpid liver. Coryza, dry, stopped ; this remedy and Calcium fluoride. Cough, in consumption, with thick milky-white spit or white coated tongue. Cough, loud, noisy, stomach cough, with grayish-white tongue. Cough, short, acute and spasmodic, like Whooping cough, very painful, requires this remedy; also Ferric phosphate. Cough, with thick milky-white gluey albuminoid phlegm. Cough, stomachy, noisy, with protruded appearance of eyes, and white or gray coated tongue. Cough, croupy, hard, with white coated tongue ; use also Calc. fluor. Cough, croup-like hoarseness; persistent, Potass, sulph. in alternation. Croup, the principal remedy for the membranous exudation ; in alternation with Ferric phosphate. If obstinate, Calcium fluoride and Calcium phosphate. Crusta lactea, milk crust, scurfy eruption on the head and face of little children ; principal remedy in alternation with Calcium phos. Cuts, with swelling ; as second remedy. See page i. Cystitis, inflammation of the bladder, second stage ; when swelling has set in (interstitial exudation), and discharge of thick white mucus. V.—Potassium Chloride = Kali Muriatieum. xxi. Kali mur. Cystitis, chronic ; the principal remedy. Deafness, from swelling of the internal ear ; primary remedy. Deafness (throat), from swelling of the Eustachian tubes. Deafness, with swelling of the glands, or cracking noise on blowing the nose, or a white coated tongue ; all these symptoms denote a disturbance of the molecules of this salt. Diarrhoza, if after fatty food, pastry, &c. Evacuations light coloured. Diarrhoza, pale yellow, ochre or clay coloured stools; also Potassium sulphate. Diarrhoza, _ in typhoid fever, stools like pale yellow ochre ; also Potassium sulphate. Diarrhoza, white or slimy stools, generally with the characteristic white coating of tongue. Disease, inflammatory, of the kidneys, for the swelling. Diphtheria ; the sole remedy in most cases in alternation with Ferric phosphate. Use gargle very frequently, 3d trituration, 10-15 grs. in tumbler of water. For prostration see Potassium phosphate ; if affecting the windpipe, Calcium phosphate and Calc. fluoride. Discharges of thick, white, slimy mucus from the nose, ear, eyes, or any passage covered with a mucus membrane or lining. Dropsy, arising from heart, liver, or kidney disease, when there are such prominent characteristic symptoms present, mentioned under ailments. Dropsy, from obstruction of the bile ducts and enlargement of the liver, there is generally a white coating on the tongue. Dropsy, from weakness of the heart; this remedy in alternation with Potassium phosphate. Dropsy, with palpitation ; also Potassium phosphate. Dropsy, in which the liquid drawn off is whitish, or white mucus in sediment of urine ; persistent white coating of the tongue. Dysentery ; purging, with slimy sanious stools. In most cases this remedy with Ferric phosphate cures. Dyspepsia, with a white or grayish coated tongue, pain or heavy feeling on the right side under the shoulder ; especially if fatty food disagrees, or the eyes look large and projecting ; if there is a dark appearance under the eyes, give Potassium phosphate for this complication. Ear-ache, with gray or white furred tongue. Ear-ache, with swelling of the glands. Ear-ache, with swelling of the throat, Eustachian tubes, or cracking noise in the ear when swallowing. Eczema, skin diseases arising after vaccination with bad vaccine lymph. Eczema, resulting from suppressed or deranged uterine functions, generally with the characteristic white coating of tongue. Eczema, skin affections, with dry flour-like scales on the skin, in alternation with Ferric phosphate. Eczema, with albuminoid (whitish) discharge and white coated tongue. xxii. V.—Potassium Chloride = Kali Muriatieum. Kali mur. Eczema, if very obstinate, not yielding ; use Calcium phosphate. Eczema, skin affections, of vesicular form, with albuminoid (white} secretions or contents. Embolus ; for that condition of blood which favours the formation of clots (fibrinous), which act as plugs ; also Ferric phosphate for the circulatory disturbance. Enteric fever; this remedy for white coated tongue, abdominal swelling, ochre-coloured stools. Also Potassium phosphate for debility and languor. Epilepsy, in, the specific or chief remedy. Epilepsy, occurring with or after suppression of Eczema (eruptions). Eruptions, acne, pustules, pimples ; also when discharging an albuminoid or whitish fatty substance. Eruptions on the skin (rash), if connected with stomach derangement, and there exists a white coated tongue. Eruption on the skin, accompanied with deranged menstrual period, with sero-fibrinous secretions. Erysipelas, vesicular (blistering); the chief remedy. For the fever, Ferric phosphate. Erythema ; after the use of Ferric phosphate, if there be any swell- ing or white coated tongue. Exudations, after inflammation with effusion of lymph (effete albu- minoid substance). Exudations, fibrinous, in the interstitial connective-tissues, causing swelling or enlargement of these parts. Exudations, fibrinous, when not becoming absorbed, or already hardened when come under treatment, require Calcium fluoride. Eyes, affection of the ; discharge of white mucus. Eyes, affection of the, with discharge of yellow-greenish matter, also Potassium sulphate. Eyes (sore), on the lids, specks of matter. Eyes (sore), on the lids, yellow mattery scabs; in alternation with Potassium sulphate. Eye, superficial flat ulcer, arising from a vesicle. Face-ache, with swelling of the gums or cheek. Festers threatening in any part require this remedy for the swelling. Fever, rheumatic, this remedy in alternation with Ferric phosphate, to avert or control swelling. Fever, puerpural, chief remedy for the exudation. When pressure on the brain perverts the function of the thought-cells, gray nervous substance, Potass, phosphate in alternation. Flatulence, with sluggishness of the liver, and gray or white coated tongue. Gastric fever, see Typhoid or Enteric fever. Gastritis, if caused from taking too hot drinks ; this remedy at once. Gastritis, with white coating of tongue, second stage. Glandular swellings ; chief remedy, but if very hard, Calcium fluor» Glands, follicular ; infiltration of, in the throat, etc. V~>—Potassium Chloride = Kali Muriatieum. xxiii. Kali mur. Glands of the neck, swollen, require this remedy; also lotion on lint dressing externally. Gonorrhea ; principal remedy. Gumboil, soft swelling before matter forms; in alternation with Ferric phosphate. Hemorrhage, clotted blood, black, thick or tough. Haemorrhoids (bleeding piles), when the blood is dark and thick; for the tumours or relaxed elastic fibres, Calcium fluoride. Headache, with vomiting, hawking up of milk-white mucus. Headache, sick, with white coated tongue, or vomiting of white phlegm. Hearing, dulness of, from swellings in the middle ear. Hearing, dulness of, deafness, from throat affection, requires a course of this remedy to absorb the effete deposit. Herpes zona, shingles ; vesicles encircling half the body like a belt. Also Sodium chloride. Hip-joint disease, second stage, when swelling of abscess commences. Hoarseness, loss of voice from cold; if not yielding, use Potassium sulphate. Hooping-cough, if there is a white-coated tongue, and thick white expectoration ; for the whoop, Magnesium phosphate. Indigestion, with white tongue, if caused by taking rich or fatty food. Indigestion, with a sick feeling after taking fat; tongue generally furred gray or white. Indigestion, with vomiting of white opaque mucus. Indigestion, pain, with water gathering in the mouth, if Sodium chloride does not suffice and the tongue is coated, gray or white. Inflammations, all, with swellings, in the second stage (with fibrinous exudations), in whatever organ or part of the body, require this salt, after or in alternation with Ferric phosphate, the chief remedy. Inflammation of skin, with subcutaneous swelling, i.e. second stage. Infiammation of soft palate, catarrhal, with white spots or patches. InjuHes, from falls, blows, etc., with swelling of the parts; second remedy. Intermittent fever, when the fur at the back of the tongue is of grayish or white appearance, in alternation with Sodium sulph. Irritation of the skin, similar to chilblains. Jaundice, if the disease has been caused by a chill resulting in a catarrh of the duodenum, a white coated tongue ; stools light coloured. Lameness, chronic, caused by rheumatism of the joints, in alternation with Potassium phosphate. Liver, sluggish action of, sometimes pain in the right side, light yellow colour of the evacuations, denoting want of bile ; use Potassium phosphate if the nervous system is depressed. Liver, sluggish action of, generally accompanied by a white or grayish furred tongue, and constipation. xxiv. V.—Potassium Chloride = Kali Muriatieum. Kali mur. Lung disease, if the expectoration is whitish and thick. The tongue is frequently coated with white fur at the back. Lungs, inflammation of, in the second stage ; the tongue is generally white coated when this remedy is required, and mucus white and viscid. Lupus ; principal remedy. See Calcium phosphate. Mastitis, "weed" (gathering breast) ; second remedy, to control the swelling. See also page 83. Measles; for the hoarse cough, for all glandular swellings, and furred tongue, white or gray deposit; second remedy. Measles, after effects of; diarrhoea, whitish or light coloured loose stools, white tongue, deafness from throat swellings, etc. Meningitis; as second remedy. For effusions or exudations, see page 56. Menstruation, the monthly period, too late or suppressed, checked ; white tongue or other characteristic symptoms. Menstruation, if too early. Also Potassium phosphate. Menstruation, period, excessive discharge, dark, clotted, or tough, black like tar. Menstruation, period, lasting too long, if other symptoms detailed in this section accompany it. Also Potassium phosphate. Menstruation, courses or periods'suppressed. As above, or Potassium sulphate. Menstruation, courses or periods too frequent. A course of Calcium phosphate to follow. Mucous membrane, diseases of, when the secretions are of a fibrinous character; plastic, thick, white, gluey, or stringy. Mumps ; this remedy will cure alone, unless there be fever. With much saliva or swelling of testicles, occuring as metastasis with mumps, Sodium chloride will also be required. Morning sickness in pregnancy, with vomiting of white phlegm. Mouth, excoriation of, with white coated tongue. Neck, glands of, swollen. Orchitis; primary remedy, if from suppressed Gonorrhoea; also Calcium phosphate. Palpitation, from excessive flow of blood to the heart, in hypertrophic conditions ; also Ferric phosphate. Pericarditis ; this second remedy may complete the cure. Peritonitis ; this second remedy, following Ferric phosphate, generally completes the cure. See exudations. Pharyngitis, with swelling of the throat, gray or whitish exudation (spots or pustules) ; as second remedy. Phlegm, mucus, discharge of, from any cavity lined with a mucous membrane, such as bronchi, throat, nasal cavity, vagina, etc., must be treated with this remedy when the secretion is milky white, thick or slimy. It reduces the plastic exudation or waste matter there, accumulating for want of this cell-salt, thus restoring normal function. V.—Potassium Chloride = Kali Muriatieum. xxv. Kali mur. Piles, bleeding, blood dark, thick, fibrinous clotted. Pimples on the face, neck, etc., caused by disturbed action of the follicular glands ; if the skin is much inflamed, also Fer. phos. Pleurisy; as second remedy, will complete the cure, after Ferric phosphate, as it is the healing salt for this group of ailments in second stage, with plastic exudation. See also page 56. Proud flesh, exuberant granulation, generally requires this remedy only, internally and externally. Puerpural fever ; this remedy alone may suffice for this disease, or in alternation with Ferric phosphate ; for mania, perverted brain function, Potassium phosphate. Quinsy, second remedy, as soon as there is any swelling in the throat. Itcbsh, eruptions, pimples, with white contents; tongue coated white, or constipation from sluggishness of liver. Betinitis, with exudation setting in. Rheumatic fever, second stage, when exudation takes place, seen as swelling around the joints ; this cell-salt will remove the swell- ing by restoring the non-functional cells of the excretory and absorbing structures to normal action. Jtheumatic gouty pains, if movement makes them worse, and if there is a white or gray furred tongue. Bheumatic pains, if there is swelling of the parts, or white or gray furred tongue ; alternately with Ferric phosphate. Bheumatic pains, which are only felt during motion, or increased by it, if Ferric phosphate does not remove them altogether. Bheumatism, chronic, with swelling, or when all movements cause pain ; there is generally a gray or white coated tongue, or white discharges. Scalds, from boiling water ; chief remedy. Scales, white, floury, proceeding from blisters. .Scarlet fever ; in mild cases it alone may suffice; alternately with Ferric phosphate for the febrile disturbance. Scarlatina, remedies same as above; if the temperature be very high a few doses of Potassium sulphate also to develop the rash. This treatment applies also to Scarlet fever. ■Scrofulous enlargement of the glands, enlarged abdomen with occasional diarrhoea, especially in the young. Scurvy, hard infiltrations ; the want of this salt is the cause of scurvy ; it is readily cured by its use. Secretions, white or albuminoid, fibrinous. Shingles, with white coated tongue ; and alternately Sodium chloride. Sick headache, arising from a sluggish liver, when the tongue is furred at the back, looking gray or white; with want of appetite. Skin affections, eczema, with white, fibrinous contents of vesicular eruptions. Skin affection, with flour-like covering or scales JSmall-pox ; the principal remedy ; controls the formation of pustules. Mattery pustules, Calcium sulphate. xxvi. V.—Potassium Chloride = Kali Muriatieum. Kali mur. Sore throat, when swelling of glands or tonsils sets in, this remedy in alternation with Ferric phosphate. Sores or Ulcers, with whitish flour-like coating ; when the parts are hard, swollen, and callous, Calcium fluoride. Sprains ; second remedy, if swelling remains. Stomach, derangement of, with white or grayish coating at back of tongue. Stomach-ache, with constipation, and a thick white fur on the tongue. Strumous conditions are benefitted by the use of this remedy and Calcium phosphate. Swellings, interstitial, plastic exudations, in general, are controlled by it. Swelling in the cavity of the middle ear, causing dulness of hearing. Sycosis (eruption on bearded part of face); primary remedy. Syphilis, chronic stage. Note pathological conditions calling for the use of this remedy. Tabes dorsalis. Wasting of the spinal cord. Tenalgia crepitans ; creaking of the muscles at the back of wrist or arm on movement; second remedy. Throat (sore), ulcerated, with white or grayish patches or spots ^ generally with the characteristic white tongue, which requires this remedy to heal these processes of exudation. Throat, with swelling of tonsils and glands, and white deposit. Toe-nail, ingrowing ; also surgical aid. Tongue, coated grayish white, dryish or slimy, indicating that this cell-salt is required to restore the balance between the organie (albuminoid) and the inorganic substance (Potassium chloride). Tongue, inflammation of, for the swelling. Tonsils, inflammation of, when spotted white or gray. Tonsilitis (Quinsy), chronic or acute, with much swelling. Toothache, with swelling of the gums. Toothache, with swelling of the cheek, this remedy to resorb and carry off the exuding effete albuminoid substance. Typhoid, Gastric, or Enteric fever, for gray or white coated tongue, and looseness of the bowels, with light yellow ochre-coloured or floculent evacuations, and for abdominal tenderness and swelling. Rise of temperature in the evening, Potassium sulph. Typhus, for constipation, stools light coloured ; also Potass, phos. Ulcerations, all, when there is swelling, or a dirty white tongue, or a mealy flour-like scaly surface, or a fibrinous white dis- charge. See also Calcium sulphate. Ulceration of the os and cervix uteri, with the characteristic discharge of thick white mild secretions (glandular or follicular) from the mucous membrane (alkaline). Urine, dark coloured ; deposit of uric acid ; when there exists torpor and inactivity of the liver. See also Sodium sulphate. Uterus, congestion of, chronic ; hypertrophy, second stage; to heal or reduce this condition. See also Calcium fluoride. VI.—Potassium Phosphate = Kali Phosphorieum. xxvii. Kali phos. Ulcers with fibrinous discharges ; callous edges, Calcium fluoride. Voice, loss of, hoarseness from cold, often with a white deposit on back of tongue. Vomiting of blood, dark, clotted, viscid. Vomiting, hawking of thick white phlegm. Warts on the hands ; this remedy externally also. " Weed," for the swelling of a gathering breast; this remedy in frequent alternation with Ferric phosphate. Also external applications. " Whites" (Leucorrhoea), discharge of milky-white mucus, thick, mild, non-irritating. Wheezing, rale or rattling sound of air passing through thick tenacious mucus in the bronchi, difficult to cough up, hard cough. Whooping-cough, with expectoration of white mucus ; also the short spasmodic cough like whooping-cough requires this remedy. Worms, small white thread worms, causing itching at anus, white tongue ; Sodium phosphate in alternation. N.B.— ON SELECTING A REMEDY, read always the first two paragraphs under each Cell-Salt in this index, as these are of im- portance. 6.—Potassium Phosphate = Kali Phosphorieum. Kali phos. The Diseases forming this group must be healed or treated with- Potassium phosphate, as they have their seat in some portion of the gray nervous substance either of the brain, spinal cord, or of the nerve centres (nervous system), the muscles, or the blood corpuscles, of which this cell-salt is a constituent. Physical or mental stimuli proceed from the brain (gray nervous- matter), whether they be ideational, emotional, or volitional, or are sometimes induced by external causes, and sometimes originate primarily in the great nervous centres, from the operation of the instinct, the memory, the reason, or the will j but by deficiency or absence of stimulus, from want of nervous force of the gray nervous matter, paralysis may be induced. The remedy for such abnormal conditions as : mental excitement, depression, or suspension of function in the receptive substance, or the true seat of thought and volition, is Potassium phosphate. All Ailments, which arise from or denote a want of nerve power ; hence nervous prostration, exhaustion, nervous rigours; and alsa all those affections in which the brain, and consequently the faculty of thought or the mind, shows want of vigour. Alter- nation of this remedy may often be required whenever symptoms of exhaustion, depression, or want of mental power or response xxviii. VI.—Potassium Phosphate = Kali Phosphorieum. Kali phos. of sensation occur; or in those cases where there is rapid decom- position of the blood corpuscles and muscle juice, causing foul putrid conditions, mortification, and septic conditions ; and ail- ments inclining the patient to rock body or limb, or move about. Amenorrhoza, retention or delay of the monthly flow, with depression of spirits, lassitude, and general nervous debility. Anaemia, poverty of blood, from influences continuously depressing the mind and the nervous system. Anosmia, cerebral; anaemic morbid conditions of the brain, causing undue nervousness. Anxiety, nervous dread without special cause, gloomy moods, fancies, taking dark views of things, dark forebodings. Asthma ; in often repeated, large doses, this is the chief remedy for the breathing and the depressed condition of the nervous system. Asthma, bronchial, treatment same as above ; for expectoration, see page 78. Atrophy, wasting disease, when putrid-smelling stools occur. Bladder, paralysis affecting the sphincter, causing inability of retaining the urine. Bleeding from the nose, in weak or delicate constitutions ; also Ferric phosphate. Bleeding of the gums, predisposition to, red seam on the gums. Blood, lossof, if dark, blackish, thin, likecoffeegrounds, not coagulating. Blood, putrid, causing symptoms of decomposition. Bloodlessness, pale sickly sallow complexion, with nervous depression and low spirits, timidity. Bowels, heavy putrid -smelling stools; also looseness, from excitement. Brain-fag, from over-work, with loss of appetite, stupor, depressed spirits, irritability or great impatience, loss of memory, or sleeplessness. Breath, offensive, foetid; tongue coated like stale brownish liquid mustard. BrigMs disease (of the kidneys); for the great functional disturbance of the nerve centres, in alternation with Calcium phosphate for the albumen. ■Cancrum oris, mortification of the cheek, with ashey-gray ulcers; also Potassium chloride. Catamenia, premature and profuse in nervous subjects, discharge thin, bright or dark. ■Canker, ulcers of the mouth; foetid breath. Chancre, phagadaenic. Chattering of the teeth, nervous, not from cold. -Cholera, when the stools have the appearance of rice water. ■Collapse, with livid, bluish countenance, and low pulse. Concussion of brain ; asthenic conditions, dilated pupil. Optic illusion, Magnesium phosphate ; for febrile disturbance, Ferric phos. Crossness and irritability in children, ill temper often arising from nervous disturbances. VI.—Potassium Phosphate = Kali Phosphorieum. xxix.. Kali phos. Croup, if treatment is delayed till last-stage, syncope ; for nervous prostration, pale or livid countenance; in alternation with Potassium chloride. Crying or screaming in children, from undue fear or fretfulness. Cystitis, inflammation of the bladder; in asthenic condition, with prostration. Deafness, from want of nervous perception, noises in the head, with weakness and confusion. Deafness, with weakness, exhaustion of the nervous system in general. Debility, general, with nervousness and irritability or timidity. Delirium tremens, the horrors of drunkards ; fear, sleeplessness, rest- lessness, and suspiciousness, rambling talk, endeavours to grasp • or avoid visionary images. Sodium chloride must be given alternately for the purpose of restoring the normal consistency of brain substance, which in this disease is disturbed. Depression of spirits and lassitude. Diabetes ; the symptom for which this remedy must be given inter- currently is nervous weakness, sleeplessness, and voracious hanger ; to establish normal function of the medulla oblongata and pneumogastric nerve, which latter acts on the digestion or stomach, and on the lungs. Sodium sulphate is the remedy for the liver derangement, causing the sugar to pass through the system and into the urine. Diarrhoea, foul; often accompanying other diseases, to heal the con- ditions causing putrid evacuations. Diarrhoza, with heavy odour, occasioned by fright and other causes. Diarrhoea, with depression and exhaustion of the nerves. Diphtheria, after effects of; weakness of sight, nasely speech, or paralysis in any part. Diphtheria in the well-marked malignant gangrenous condition. Diphtheria, for exhausted prostrate conditions at any stage. Dispiritedness, low spirits or feeling of faintness. Dizziness, swimming of the head, when from cerebral or nervous causes. Dread of noise, over sensitiveness to noise, nervousness. Dulness, want of energy ; alternating Potassium chloride. Dysentery, when the stools consist of blood only, and the patient becomes delirious (brainish), abdomen swollen; or when the stools have a putrid odour, this remedy must be given. Dysentery, with putrid, very offensive stools, and great dryness of tongue. Ears, noises in the, from nervous exhaustion. Eczema, if nervous irritation and over sensitiveness accompany it;: this salt may be taken as an intercurrent remedy. Energy, want of, timidity. Enteric, Typhoid, or Gastric Fever, for debility, weak action of the heart, languor, or nervous condition and sleeplessness, offensive breath, putrid odour of stools, stupor ; also Sodium chloride. :xxx. VI.—Potassium Phosphate — Kali Phosphorieum, Kali phos. Epilepsy, sunken countenance, coldness and palpitation after the fit; for chief remedy Potassium chloride. Epistaxis, bleeding of the nose, weakness and predisposition to ; also Ferric phosphate. Evacuations, putrid, very offensive smell. Excessive hungry feeling, soon after taking food, a nervous disturbance, depression or weakness, " gone feeling." Exhaustion and weakness, from any cause, which has lowered the nervous system. Exudations, serous, mixed with blood. Exudations, ichorus, foul, offensive, sanious. Exudations, from any of the mucous linings which are corroding, chafing ; also Sodium chloride. Eyes, excited, staring appearance, a symptom of nervous disturbances during the course of a disease. Eyesight, weak, from an exhausted condition of the system. Face-ache, neuralgia, with great exhaustion after the attack, feeling of prostration. Face, livid and sunken, with hollow eyes. Fainting, from fright, fatigue, and also when from weak action of the heart. Faintness, feeling of, in nervous people. Faintness, feeling of, or dizziness without gastric derangement. Faintness, feeling of, from weak action of the heart. Felon, when the matter becomes foetid. Fits, from fright, with pallid or livid countenance. Flatulence, with distress about the heart, or simply on left side of pit of stomach. Flatulence, with a weary pain in the left side ; weakness of heart. Fright, effects of, on the nerves ; nervous substance. Gangrenous conditions, mortification in the early stages, to heal those pathological conditions which give rise to it. Gastritis (inflammation of stomach), if it comes too late under treat- ment, with asthenic conditions. Giddiness, vertigo, from nervous causes, not gastric derangement. Gonorrhoea, with discharge of blood. Gums bleeding easily ; and when there exists a red line or seam on the edges. Hallucinations. Hay-asthma, for the depression and asthmatic breathing; in alter- nation with Sodium chloride. Hay fever, in, for the nervous irritability; for watery secretions Sodium chloride. Headache, nervous sensitiveness to noise, irritability, confusion. Headache, which is relieved by gentle motion. Headache of students and those worn out by fatigue, when no gastric symptoms are felt, but the tongue is sometimes found to be coated brownish yellow, like stale mustard; bad breath. VI.—Potassium Phosphate—Kali Phosphorieum. xxxi. Kali phos. Head, pains and weight at the back of the, with feeling of weariness and exhaustion ; to be taken after Ferric phosphate. Headache, nervous, inability for thought; loss of strength; irri- tability, restlesness, sleeplessness, or despondency. Headache, with weariness; yawning and stretching; prostrate feeling, hysteria. Headache, with a weary, empty feeling, "goneness " at the stomach ; also if the headache be a precursor of an attack connected with bilious vomiting. Headache, neuralgic, humming in the ears, feeling of inability to remain up, yet better under cheerful excitement. Hearing, dulness of, with noises in the head. Heart complaint, functional, intermittent, with palpitation. Heart complaint, palpitation after rheumatic fever, with exhaustion. Heart, intermittent action of the, with morbid nervous sensitiveness, effects of violent emotions, grief or care. Heart, intermittent action of, weakness. Haemorrhage, blood not coagulating, blackish or bright red but thin, or like coffee grounds. Hcemorrhage from the nose, when arising from debility, weakness, or old age. Also Ferric phosphate. Hoarseness, with exhausted feeling from over-exertion of voice, and with nervous depression ; or if rheumatic affection. Jlooping cough, in the highly nervous, or with great exhaustion. Home sickness, morbid activity of memory, haunted by visions of the past, and longing after them. Hunger, excessive, nervous affection. Hypochondriasis, melancholy ; when accompanied by liver complica- tions, see Sodium sulphate or Potassium chloride. Hysteria in females, nervous attacks, from sudden or intense emotion, or from smothering passion, in the highly nervous and excitable ; also a feeling as of a ball rising in the throat. Hysterical fits of laughter and crying. Ill humour, from nervous exhaustion. Hlusions, mental, an abnormal condition of the gray nervous matter. Impressions, false, fancies. Incontinence of urine from paralysis of the sphincter of the bladder. Indigestion, with great nervous depression. Infantile paralysis, recent; also Magnesium phosphate; with teething, give Calcium phosphate. Irritability, mental, undue, after exhausting diarrhoea or long- continued use of purgatives. Insanity, mania or other mental derangement; all arising from exhausted or depressed condition of some brain cells, of the gray nervous substance, showing itself in perverted function of the brain. Intermittent fever, foetid, debilitating, profuse perspiration; also Sodium sulphate. XXxii. VI.—Potassium Phosphate—Kali Phosphorieum. Kali phos. Labour pains, if feeble and ineffectual; also against spurious labour pains. Labour, tedious, from constitutional weakness ; this remedy gives vigour and helps materially. Lameness, recent, paralytic, from exhaustion of the nerves, with stiffness after rest, yielding a little to gentle exercise. Lameness, rheumatic, affection of nerve centres, the pain alleviated by gentle exercise. Lassitude, depressed state, want of energy. Leucorrhoea, " whites," scalding, acrid ; also Sodium chloride. Lung, oedema of, acute ; spasmodic cough with frothy serous masses being brought up in excess, and threatening suffocation. Madness, fancies, loss of correct reasoning faculty, requires a steady course of this remedy. Mania in its various degrees, requires a steady course of this remedy. Mastitis, if the pus is brownish, dirty-looking, with heavy odour, to heal the adynamic condition. See also page i. for external use. Melancholia and others imilar ailments, which arise from deranged mental function, caused by over-strain of the mind. Melancholia, accompanying exhausting drains affecting the nerve centres of the spinal cord. Memory, bad or loss of; Calcium phos. as an intercurrent remedy. Menstrual colic, or great pain at the time of the periods in pale, lachrymose, irritable, sensitive females. Menstruation, too late, in pale, irritable, sensitive, lachrymose females ; to heal the pathological conditions which give rise to this. Menstruation, too scanty, in similar constitutions. Menstruation, too profuse discharge, deep red, or blackish red, thin, and not coagulating, sometimes with heavy odour. Mental aberrations, abnormal condition of some of the nervous (gray) substance. Miscarriage, threatening of, in nervous subjects ; probably Calcium fluoride intercurrently. Mortification, gangrene, requires this remedy alone or with other remedies, to heal complicating symptoms. Nervous^ affections, when occurring without reasonable causes, such as: impatience, irritability, dwelling upon grievances, merriment becoming oppressive, shedding tears about trifles, making " mountains out of mole hills." Nervousness in its various manifestions requires this salts. Nervous sensitiveness, feeling pains very keenly, better during pleasurable excitement, standing or walking. Neuralgic headache, with confusion and nervousness, tearful mood, better during eating ; but if better on lying, and keeping the head still, it is congestive, and requires Ferric phosphate. Neuralgic headache, with depression; pain worse on stooping, or moving the eyeballs, requires Ferric phosphate. VI.—Potassium Phosphate = Kali Phosphorieum. xxxiii. Kali phos. Neuralgic pains in any organ, depression, failure of strength, feeling of inability to rise, or to remain up, yet pain felt less when standing or walking about. Neuralgia, with ill humour, sensitiveness to light or noise, improved, or even not felt at all, during pleasant excitement; requires this remedy to tone up the gray nervous substance. Neuralgic headache, with sleeplessness, nervousness ; pain worse on stooping, moving the eyeballs ; or tearing gnawing pain, requires Ferric phosphate. Neuralgic pains, seat of pain in the nervous substance, threatening paralysis, with a feeling of lameness or numbness. Also Calcium phosphate alternately. Neuralgic pains, better with gentle exercise, worse on rising. Neuralgic pains, which are most felt when quiet or alone. Neuralgic pains, and humming in the ears, failure of strength. Night terrors, in children awakening in a great fright and screaming ; note also coating of tongue. Noises in the head on falling asleep, feeling as if a rocket had passed through the head. Noma, water canker, gangrenous canker of the mouth. Nose, nasal disease with offensive odour, foetid discharge; when the seat of disease is located in the mucous lining. Also Silica. (Edema pulmonarium, spasmodic cough, threatening suffocation ; for dyspnoea and livid countenance;excessive accumulation of watery mucus in the lining and bronchi, Sodium chloride. Ozozna, foul offensive discharge from the nose. Also Silica. Pain during rest, actual movement gradually relieving pain. Pain in the left side, with flatulent pressing on the heart. Pain, morbid sensibility, or a bruised and painful feeling in the part affected, and discolouration. Pain in cancer is greatly subdued by this remedy, and offensive odour from discharges, also discolouration, is lessened. Pains, neuralgic, paroxysms of, with subsequent exhaustion. Pains, great sensitiveness to ; depression and alternating with great vivacity ; malaise better under excitement and in company. Pains, laming, which are worse on rising from a sitting posture, better with gentle exercise, but are increased by exertion ; to heal the abnormal condition of nervous cells. Palpitation, from a weakened condition, or direct nervous excitement. Palpitation, on ascending stairs, etc., with shortness of breath. Palpitation, with nervousness, anxiety, melancholia. Palpitation, with sleeplessness and restlessness. Paralysis, facial, loss of stimulating power over some muscles. '' The mouth is distorted, being drawn over to the opposite side by the unparalysed muscles."—Marshall. Paralysis, creeping, in which the progress of the disease is slow, and there is a tendency to wasting, with loss of the sense of touch, &c.; also Magnesium phosphate. N xxxiv. VI.—Potassium Phosphate = Kali Phosphorieum. Kali phos. Paralysis, locomotor, loss of motor force or stimulating power (evolved in gray nervous matter), finds its remedy in Potassium phosphate. " The nerve force is, as it were, nourished from the physical force, as the living substance of the nervous tissues is fed from the inorganic material of the dead world."—Marshall. Paralysis of the vocal chords ; loss of voice, through relaxed or paralysed condition of the laryngeal muscles. Paralysis, atrophic, in which the vital powers are reduced, and stools have a putrid odour. Paralysis, all the varieties require this the chief remedy, as partial, paraplegia, hemiplegia, facial, or merely of the upper eyelid. Paralysis usually come on suddenly. "It is shown by experi- ment that the conducting power or force is greater in the central part of the gray matter of the spinal cord than in the cornua."— Brown Siquard. Pemphigus malignus. Blisters and blebs over the body, sanious watery contents, skin wrinkled and withered looking. Perspirations, excessive, exhausting, with heavy odour. Perspirations, during meals, with a feeling of weakness at the pit of the stomach. Powerlessness, conductile force deficient, causing stiffness or lameness. " The conducting power of the gray nervous matter seems now to be well established."—Chauvau. Prolapsus recti, protrusion of the lining of the bowel. Also Ferric phosphate. Puerpural mania, " childbed " fever, when illusions, absurd notions, or violent madness, set in. Pulse, intermittent, irregular, from exhausting causes. Pulse below the normal standard from enfeebled nervous system. Purpura, " land scurvy," to heal the adynamic processes. Pus, matter, when ichorous or with foetid odour. Restlessness and irritability, gray nervous matter abnormal. Rickets, atrophy, with putrid smelling discharges from the bowels. Rheumatism, acute and chronic, with pains disappearing on moving about, severe in the morning after rest, and on first rising from a sitting position. Rheumatism, very painful, the part feels stiff, on first attempting to rise up, improves slowly, but is increased by all exertion, fatigue. Rheumatism, with stiffness, paralytic tendency. Scabs, greasy, with offensive smell. Scarletfever ; putrid condition of throat, and symptoms of exhaustion, stupor. Sciatica, affection of the sciatic nerve which extends down the back of the thigh to the knee ; dragging pain, torpor, stiffness, great restlessness and pain, nervous exhaustion, lack of motor stimulus moving gently for a little time gives relief ; also Sodium sulphate if symptoms of constitutional gout exist. Scurvy, with gangrenous conditions. VI.—Potassium Phosphate = Kali Phosphorieum. xxxv. Kali phos. ■Secretions on the mucous linings ; sanious, or when having an offensive odour. Secretions on the skin, irritating, causing soreness of the parts. Sensitiveness, too keen, want of nervous balance. Septic-Haemorrhage (bleeding), blood putrid. Sighing and depression, with inclination to look at the "dark side' of things. Sighing or moaning, also when occurring during sleep. Shortness of breath, asthmatic. Shortness of breath when going up a stair, or on the least exertion, with any symptom showing exhaustion or want of nerve power. Shyness, excessive blushing, from emotional sensitiveness, lack of controlling force over the nerves of the coats of the blood-vessels. Skin, itchiness, with a crawling sensation, gentle friction agreeable, excess causing a chafed sore skin. Also Calcium phosphate. Skin affections ; greasy scales, heavy odour. Sleeplessness, after worry or excitement, showing the source of such condition to be a want of this cell salt in the nervous centres. Sleeplessness, wakefulness. '' Arises from loss or want of contractile stimulus to the vessels of choroid plexus to diminish the quantity of blood in the gray matter of cerebrum."—Durham. Sleeplessness, from nervous causes; to restore those brain or nerve cells which do not act normally. Sleeplessness, pathologically is an abnormal condition of the brain cells, kept vivified or awake by the blood supplied to them, when it should be lessened by the contracting of the vessels supplying the brain ; and shows loss of stimulating power of the nervous centres to cause muscular contraction of the vessels and dimin- ished supply of blood to the brain. During sleep the brain is anaemic and pale, and should be so. Sleeping draughts, Morphia, etc., dangerous, deadening in effect, and can produce death. Potassium phosphate, the true remedy, restores normal stimulating power in the gray nervous matter, and consequent contractions of the artery, which diminishes the flow of blood to the brain, and natural healthful sleep results. Sometimes a course of the remedy is needed. Sluggish circulation, in emotional or nervous subjects ; to strengthen the heart's action. Smallpox, with putrid condition, heavy odour, exhaustion, and stupor. Softening of the brain, early stage, if connected with hydrocephalus or water on the brain, then give also Calcium phosphate. ■Softening of the brain, as the result of infiammation ; Potassium chloride must also be given. This kind of softening may be very insiduous in its approach. Somnambulism, walking in sleep, of children, requires ?. steady course of this remedy. Speech, slow and becoming inarticulate, frequently connected with creeping paralysis. xxxvi. VI.—Potassium Phosphate = Kali Phosphorieum. Kali phos. Spinal cord, softening of, idiopathic, with gradual molecular deadening of the nervous centres. This remedy must be given to arrest its progress. Starting on being touched, or at sudden noises. Stomach-ache, from fright or excitement. Stomatitis (ulcers of the mouth), with foetid offensive breath. Stools, offensive, or when in dysentry pure blood is passed. Strabismus, not spasmodic, squinting setting in after Diphtheria. Stumbling, tripping over trifles, when the person has difficulty ini guiding himself, or loss of the power of movement. Stupor, low delirium, as in typhus fever, or when occurring during any disease, brain chiefly affected. Suppurations, dirty foul ichorous matter, with offensive odour. Temperature, high, of the body in disease ; to strengthen those nerves which control the function of the blood-vessels. See Potassium sulphate. Throat, gangrenous sore throat. Tongue, coated, like stale brownish liquid mustard, offensive breath. Tongue, excessively dry in the morning, feeling as if it would cleave to the roof of the mouth. Tongue, inflammation of, when excessive dryness of tongue occurs, or exhaustion sets in. Toothache, of highly nervous, delicate, or pale, irritable, emotional persons ; also Magnesium phosphate. Toothache, with easily bleeding gums. Toothache, in the highly nervous, and when the gums have a bright red seam or line. Toes, chilblains on, or on hands or ears, require this remedy externally and internally instead of Potassium chloride, for the tingling or itching pain. Calcium sulphate for broken chilblains. Typhoid or malignant symptoms ; when affecting the brain, causing stupor, during the course of a disease, or with symptoms of putrid blood ; see blood-poisoning. Typhus fever, malignant fever, putrid fever, camp fever, nervous or brain fever, farm fever, not to confuse with enteric or typhoid fever, chief remedy ; brown tongue, petechia, sleeplessness, abnormal brain functions, stupor, delirium ; also Sodium chlor. Urination, frequent, or passing much water, frequently scalding ; nervous weakness. Urethra, bleeding from, Potassium phosphate. Urine, incontinence of, from nervous debility. In children Ferric phosphate suffices generally. Vertigo, giddiness from nervous exhaustion and weakness, and not from gastric derangement. Water on the head ; this remedy as an intercurrent, when nervousness or putrid smelling stools set in. Weakness in the left side, under the heart. Weakness of sight from exhaustion ; to restore nervous vigour. VII.—Potassium Sulphate = Kali Sulphuricum. xxxvii. Kali sulph. Weakness of sight, loss of perceptive power, if in the optic nerve, also Magnesium phosphate. Weakness of sight if after diphtheria. Weariness with pain in left hypochondrium. Whining and fretful disposition in children and adults. "' White's" discharge, acrid, scalding; also Sodium chloride. Whooping cough; in very nervous, timid, sensitive children this is an intercurrent remedy, and when general exhaustion sets in. Yawning, stretching, weariness, when arising from nervous causes, sometimes accompanied with a sensation of emptiness of the stomach although food has been partaken of. Yaxoning, hysterical. N.B.— ON SELECTING A REMEDY, read always the first two paragraphs under each Cell-Salt in this index, as these are of im- portance. 7.—Potassium Sulphate=Kali Sulphuricum. Kali sulph. The Diseases forming this group must be healed or treated with Potassium sulphate, which is the functional remedy of the epidermis and epithelial cells. A want of this constituent cell- salt causes yellow slimy deposit on the tongue, slimy thin, decidedly yellow or greenish discharges and secretions of watery matter from any of the mucous membranes, epithelium, con- junctiva, etc., and epithelial desquamation. All Ailments which become worse in the evening, or show a rise in the temperature of the blood-heat at night. Also when worse in a heated atmosphere, and better in a cool or open atmosphere. Ailments accompanied with desquamation, peeling of the skin, also all which are caused by sudden retrocession of eruptions (rash), or when Ferric phosphate does not suffice to produce free perspiration, this cell-salt assists as a useful intercurrent remedy. A rticular rheumatism, acute, shifting from one joint to another. Blood heat, temperature, rising in the evening and on till midnight, then falling again. Bronchial—asthma, with yellow spit, and worse in the warm season or in a hot atmosphere. Also Potassium phosphate. Bronchitis, if the mucus is distinctly yellow, or greenish, slimy, or watery. Bronchitis, yellow watery matter and profuse. Cancer, epithelial. See Epithelioma. Catarrh, chronic, of the stomach; when there is a yellow slimy coated tongue. xxxviii. VII.—Potassium Sulphate = Kali Sulphuricum. Kali sulph. Catarrhs, colds, with yellow slimy secretions or expectorations of watery matter ; patient feels generally worse in the evening, or in a heated room. Cataract, dimness of the crystaline lens of the eye. Also Sodium chloride. Catarrh, of the stomach, if with a yellow slimy coated tongue. Cold, in the head, with decidedly yellow or greenish slimy discharge ;. note also tongue. Colds, with dry skin, when perspiration does not set in freely under the use of Ferric phosphate. Cough, with yellow spit, or watery mattery. Worse in a heated room, or in the evening. Cough, worse in the evening, with heat, mucus slips back, and is generally swallowed, hard hoarse cough like croup, weary feeling in the pharynx. Croupy hoarseness and cough, if not readily yielding to Potass, chlor. Dandriff, yellowish or white scales on the scalp. Dandriff, on the scalp, requires" this remedy topically as a wash, and internally also ; if not yielding, Sodium chloride. Deafness, from swelling of tympanic cavity, or watery mattery dis- charge from the ear, or if the tongue has a yellow slimy coating. Deafness, throat, with catarrh, causing swelling of eustachian tubes, and inner ear with symptoms as above. Deafness, when worse in a heated room; with yellow slimy coated tongue. Diarrhoza, yellow-slimy, or watery-mattery stools ; note also coating of tongue. Dryness of skin, from suppressed skin disease, with other symptoms as above. Dryness of skin, perspiration not induced by Ferric phosphate. Dyspepsia, indigestion, with decidedly yellow coated tongue. Ear-ache, with discharge of watery matter, or yellow water. Ears, with secretion of thin yellow or greenish fluid, after inflamma- tion. See also Directions, page i. Ears, pain under the ; sharp, cutting pain, stitches, tensive and piercing, below the mastoid process. Eczema, skin affections ; when the characteristic abnormal conditions present denote a disturbed function of the cells containing. this salt, there will be a casting out of effete matter ; a discharge of yellow or greenish watery matter. Eczema, skin affections; when suddenly suppressed, if any charac- teristic symptoms are present for which this remedy is given. Effusions, serous pus (watery matter). Epithelioma, cancer on the skin near a mucous lining, with discharge of thin yellow serous mattery secretions. External use, see clinical cases, Nos. 33, 34. Eruptions, when suddenly receding either through a chill, or from. other causes, a few doses of this remedy. VII.—Potassium Sulphate = Kali Sulphuricum. xxxix. Kali sulph. Erysipelas, blistering ; to facilitate the falling off of the scabs. Evening aggravation, when persistent in any ailment, requires this as an alternate remedy. Exacerbations of ailments in the evening. Expectoration, yellow, but mucus, as soon as loosened, slips back, and is generally swallowed. Exudations, serous mattery. Eyelids, with yellow crusts. Eyes, discharge from ; yellow or greenish matter. Also Potass, chlor. Eyes, yellow mattery slime, or yellow watery secretions. Face-ache, aggravated in a heated room and in the evening ; improved in cool or open air. Fevers, in, when the blood heat rises in the evening ; it assists in pro- ducing perspiration, and warm coverings should be applied for a time, and this remedy given very frequently. This applies also to fevers from blood-poisoning. Fungoid, inflammation of joints. Gonorrhoea ; slimy, yellow, or greenish discharge. Hair of the head, when falling off, this remedy as a wash, and internally. Headache, which grows worse in a heated room and in the evening, and is better in cool or open air. Hearing, dulness of, with one or other of the characteristic derange- ments of function, for which this cell salt is required.- Hoarseness, from cold. If not removed by Potassium chloride. Hooping-cough; for decidedly yellow slimy expectoration ; for the whoop, Magnesium phosphate. Indigestion, dyspepsia, with sensation of pressure as of a load, and fulness at the pit of the stomach, and yellow coated tongue. Indigestion, with pain, and water gathering in the mouth, should Sodium chloride or Potassium chloride not suffice. Inflammations with yellow watery, serous mattery secretions. Leucorrhoea, "Whites," discharge of yellow greenish slimy or watery secretions. Lips, dryness and desquamation of the lower lip, peeling in large flakes. Lungs, inflammation of, with wheezing ; if yellow loose rattling phlegm be coughed up, or watery matter. Menstruation, too late and too scanty, with a feeling of weight and fulness in abdomen, yellow coated tongue. Nails, for diseased condition of, shown in interrupted growth. See also Silica. Pains, behind and under the ear, over carotid artery. Pains, resembling colic, the abdomen feels cold to the touch, and Magnesium phosphate does not relieve the severe pains. Pains in the abdomen, resembling flatulent colic, caused sometimes by great heat from excitement, and sudden coldness of the part shortly after; gas escaping from the bowels has a sulphurous odour. xl. VII. —Potassium Sulphate - Kali Sulphuricum. Kali sulph. Pains, neuralgic or rheumatic, in the back, nape of the neck, or in the limbs, if periodical, worse in the evening, or in a warm room, and if decidedly better in a cool or open atmosphere. Perspiration; when not well established under the use of Ferr. phos. Piles, internal and external, may require this remedy in alternation with Calcium fluoride the chief remedy, when the tongue has a yellow slimy coating, or discharges or secretions of the charac- teristic type are present. Pulse quick, with slow, throbbing, boring pain over crest of ileum, disinclination to speak, pal id face ; also Ferric phosphate. Rash, of measles or other erruptive febrile diseases, when suppressed or suddenly receding, with harsh and dry skin. This remedy will assist the returning of the rash. Rheumatic fever, when articular pains are shifting, wandering, or flitting. Rheumatic headaches, always beginning in the evening, and in a heated atmosphere. Rheumatic pains in the joints, shifting, wandering, flitting, chronic, or acute. Rheumatism, acute, articular, when of a shifting nature, settling in one part and again settling in another ; neuralgic pains require Magnesium phosphate. Rheumatism, chronic, of the joints, with characteristic symptoms pointing to this remedy. Scarlet fever, desquamation, i.e., skin peeling off, the cause of infec- tion in scarlet fever, etc.; this salt assists desquamation, and formation of new healthy skin. Skin, dry, burning; yellow coated tongue or palate; dread of hot drinks, thirst]essness, disinclination to perspire, call for this remedy. Skin scaling freely on a sticky base. Skin, sores on, with yellow, watery secretions on limited portions, or discharges of thin watery matter, sometimes with peeling of the surrounding skin. Smallpox, in ; to promote the formation of new healthy skin, and the falling off of the crusts. Stomach, pain in, fixed in the abdomen just above the angle of the crest of the ileum, in a line toward the umbilicus, deep within, beside the right hip. Stomach, pains in; colicky pain, when Magnesium phosphate gives no relief. Suffocating feeling in a hot atmosphere or during a disease, desire for cool air. Syphilis, with the characteristic symptom, evening aggravation, etc. Temperature of the blood rising regularly in the evening during any disease. The white and gray nervous substances, according to the latest researches, contain, besides the cell-salts mentioned traces of Potassium sulphate, Oxide of iron, Silica, and Sodium chloride, etc. VIII.—Magnesium Phosphate = Magnesia Phosphorica. xli. Mag. phos. Tongue, coating of, yellow, slimy, sometimes with whitish edge. Toothache, aggravated in the warm room and in the evening, but better in the cool, open air. Torpidity and oppression of the system, when a rash or other disease seems unable to make rapid headway. Typhoid, Enteric, or Gastric Fever, with a rise of temperature at night, and fall in the morning, requires this remedy. Vitality depressed, nocturnal exacerbations, absence of pain, paleness of face, at the onset of a disease. Voice, hoarse, hard cough as in croup, speaking is fatiguing, yellow coated tongue or palate. N.B.—Xm SELECTING A REMEDY, read always the first two paragraphs under each Cell-Salt in this index, as these are of im- portance. 8.—Magnesium Phosphate=Magnesia Phosphorica. Mag-, phos. This salt, termed muscle and nerve earth, is a constituent part of all white nerve fibres ; these act as conductors of the external and internal stimuli, whether sensory, motor, or reflex. The fibres may become abnormal in their conductility and excitability. Magnesium phosphate is also met with in the tissue of bone. Stimuli applied to the white nerve fibres or conductors may not only excite sensation, but also contractions or motion, by direct con- duction along a nerve, or else by the conduction of a stimulus to a nervous centre (gray matter) whence it is reflected along another nerve to the muscles. Sensory impressions have different channels, special paths by which they travel; touch, pain, the sense of heat or cold, and the muscular sense, each having its own channel. Tactile sensibility, its own path is in the white columns of the cord. —Schiff. Abnormal condition of these con- ductors require Magnesium phosphate chiefly. The Diseases forming this group must be healed or treated with Magnesium phosphate, as these diseases have their seat in the muscle or nerve fibre cells. All Ailments with intensely sharp pain, which are of a darting, crampy, spasmodic nature, often accompanied with a feeling of constriction. This is the true anti-spasmodic remedy. When warmth is soothing it may be taken in hot liquids. Angina pectoris, breast pang, for the neuralgic spasms. The remedy had best be given in hot water. Asthma, when flatulence is troublesome. xlii. VIII.—Magnesium Phosphate = Magnesia Phosphorica. Mag. phos. Back, neuralgic pains in, very acute, darting, boring, shifting about,. and remittent. Bladder, spasmodic retention of urine. Bowels and, Stomach, gnawing pains in, with flatulent detension, slight short belching of gas (wind) giving no relief. Chattering of the teeth, nervous; also Potassium phosphate. Choleraic cramps. Chorea, St. Vitus' dance, involuntary movements and contortions of the limbs, with mute appealing look for sympathy. Chromatopsia, spasmodic vision of sparks or of rainbow colours, abnormal condition of optic nerve fibre. Closing of the windpipe, a spasmodic sudden attack, shrill voice,, suffocating cough ; also a dose of Potassium phosphate. Colic, flatulent, of children, with drawing up of legs. Colic, forcing the patient to bend double, pain eased by friction, warmth, and belching of gas. Colic, in umbilical region, forcing the patient to bend double, muscular contractions. Colic, remittent, gripes, crampy pain, if associated with acidity; also Sodium phosphate. Constriction of chest and throat, with spasmodic, dry, tickling cough. Convulsive twitching of the corners of the mouth, abnormal action of motor nerve fibres. Convulsions, with stiffness of the limbs or of the body, thumbs drawn in, fingers clenched; if convulsions occur in children,, give Calc. phos. alternately. Over stimulation of nerve fibres. Cough, true spasmodic, coming in fits, paroxysms ; if accompanied with a spit, see Expectoration. Cramp, of the fingers, or writers' cramp. Cramp in any part of the body requires this remedy. Cramp, of the legs, or indeed in any part of the body. Nerve dis- turbances of the posterior roots of the spinal nerves, afferent fibres, conveying sensation, causing feeling of cramp, &c. Crampy pain, in stomach or bowels, with a feeling as if tightly grasped with a band. Cramp, spasm of throat, closing of the larynx. Deafness, arising from weakness of the ends of the auditory nerves. Dulness of hearing, from disease of the auditory nerve fibres. Dulness of sight or vision, from weakness of the optic nerve (conductor).. Dysentery, with crampy pain, muscular spasms, eased by bending double, by warmth, or friction. Dysentery, with crampy stomach-ache, eased by warmth. Epigastric pains at pit of stomach, nipping, griping, with short belohing of wind giving no relief, and clean tongue. Epileptic fits, sometimes the result of vicious habits, which must be restrained ; for spasms, stiffness of the limbs, clenched fists or teeth, chief remedy Potassium chloride; Calcium phosphate may have to be alternated. VIII.—Magnesium Phosphate = Magnesia Phosphorica. xliii.. Mag. phos. Epigastric spasms, cramp in the stomach, with clean tongue, crampy pain as if a band were tightly laced or drawn round the body. Eyelid, drooping of, also Potassium phosphate. Eyes, affection of the, with sensitiveness to light, or contracted pupils ~ Eyes, vision affected, seeing sparks, colours before the eyes. Face-ache (neuralgic, rheumatic), stinging, shooting like lightening,. darting about, and remittent; if with watery secretions, Sodium chloride. Fits, for the muscular contractions, twitchings, and spasms, an intercurrent remedy. Flatulence, with nipping pain, and short belching of gas, giving no- relief; clean tongue. Glottis, spasm of the, causing contraction of the opening of the wind- pipe, a struggle for breath, and a feeling of suffocation, some- times with stiffness of the limbs. Gravel, windy pain ; deposit in urine, Sodium sulphate. Hands, involuntary shaking of, affection of the muscles. Headaches, very excruciating, with tendency to spasmodic symptoms.. Headaches (neuralgic, rheumatic), shooting or stinging, shifting pain,, and intermittent. Hiccough, convulsive and spasmodic. Hooping cough, beginning as a common cold, Ferric phosphate as first remedy, but for the convulsive fits of nervous cough ending. in a whoop, give Magnesium phosphate steadily. Illusions, optical, Diplobia, Spectra, &c. Indigestion, with spasmodic cramping pain, and a clean tongue. Intermittent fever, with cramp of the calves. Labour pain, spasmodic, with cramp in legs. Labour pain, crampy, excessive expulsive efforts. Laryngismus stridulus, cramp or spasm of the larynx (windpipe), also called "child crowing." Limbs, pains in (neuralgic, rheumatic), very vivid, darting about, shifting and remittent. Menstrual colic ; the chief remedy in ordinary cases. Menstruation, painful, or pain preceding the periodic flow. Mobility, power of motion, or locomotion deficient. Motor nei'ves, spasmodic disturbances of, require this remedy. Nape of neck, pains in, very sharp, shooting, boring, shifting, and remittent. Nerve fibres (white), when in an abnormal condition do not propagate the motor impulse sent to them in an equal or regular manner, and cause by sudden irregular interrupted action on the muscles, intermittent reflex action, spasmodic muscular contractions. Hence spasms, cramps, lockjaw, shaking of the hands, palsy,, neuralgia with sudden darting pain, and all such ailments find their remedy in this salt, the natural constituent part of the conductors or white nerve fibres. Mechanical influences may also act as a stimulus to the nerve fibres, and if it be excessive, :xliv. VIII—Magnesium Phosphate = Magnesia Phosphorica. Mag. phos. or unequal in strength, they interfere with the normal action of the fibre, and spasmodic and persistent contractions may result. In scientific experiments, sudden excessive motor stimuli applied to the ends of the white nerve fibres produce similar phenomena, whether mechanical or chemical. Neuralgia, intercostal (between the ribs), of a drawing, constrictive kind ; spasms from cold, without fever. Neuralgia in the head, pains darting and very intense. If inflamma- tory or congestive, with feeling of weight or pressure, give Ferric phosphate alternately. Neuralgic pains in any part of the body. Pains, bodily, when the phenomena of sensation is too acute, and pain excruciating, or spasmodic. Pain in ends of nerve fibres. Pains coming on periodically, very acute. Pains, neuralgic, in any part, when darting or shooting along the nerve. Pains, spasmodic, in the stomach or bowels, griping, cutting, draw ing, so as to bend the body double, increased on the slightest muscular movement, and clean tongue. Palpitation, sudden, of the heart, when a purely spasmodic affection. Palsy, agitans, involuntary shaking and trembling of the hands or limbs, or of the head; an affection of the muscles. Also Calcium phosphate. Palsy, muscular paralysis, caused by a disturbed or diseased condition of the efferent nerve fibres, which convey the motorial stimuli to the muscles. Also Potassium phosphate. Paralysis, of white nerve fibres. Also Calcium phosphate. Photophobia, intolerance of light, this remedy internally, and exter nally by tepid syringing. Piles, pains cutting, darting, very acute, often like lightning so sharp and quick, in external piles ; also as tepid lotion. Puerpural convulsions in, an intercurrent remedy. Retention of urine, inability to pass water from spasmodic constriction; after use of catheter, a sensation as if the muscles did not con tract; for fever, if present, Ferric phosphate. Bheumatism, acute, of the joints, for violent pain as intercurrent remedy. Rlieurnatic fever, excruciating spasmodic pain, this as intercurrent remedy. Sensibility, want of, deadening of the white nerve fibres as of the eye, etc., requires this cell-salt. Shaking of the hands, trembling, even when caused by alcoholism. Shaking, spasmodic trembling of the muscles in any part of the body ; also Calcium phosphate. Smell, loss of; or pervertion of the sense of smell, under certain con ditions, not connected with cold ; a course of this remedy. Sparks before the eyes—photopsia. Spasmodic affections of the eyelids (twitching). VIII.—Magnesium Phosphate = Magnesia Phosphorica. xlv- Mag. phos. Spasmodic cough at night, with difficulty of lying down, constrained feeling. Spasmodic pains and affections of almost any kind. Spasmodic pains of the abdomen, as in dysentery, ameliorated by pressure and doubling up. Spasm of the throat, on attempting to swallow liquids, sensation of choking. Squinting, spasmodic, in children ; give also Calcium phosphate. St. Vitus' dance; chief remedy. Stammering, spasmodic; to strengthen the white nerve fibres and remove the spasmodic action of the muscles ; Potassium phos- phate for nervousness. Begin your speech with the teeth closed. Stomach, cramp in, intensely painful constriction of the muscles of the coat of the stomach. This remedy and hot applications. Strabismus, spasmodic squinting. When in children, give Calcium phosphate alternately. If caused by worms ; Sodium phosphate. Stricture, spasmodic, of the bladder. Teething, convulsions, cramps, without fever ; in alternation with Calcium phosphate. Tetanus (lockjaw) ; this remedy must be moistened and rubbed into the lower gums very frequently. Tetanic spasms, abnormal condition of nerve fibre, which may be induced by sudden abstraction of moisture from the fibre cells. Toothache, if hot liquids ease the pain ; but if the application of cold ease the pain, it is inflammatory, and must be treated with Ferric phosphate. Toothache (neuralgic, rheumatic), very intense and shooting, eased by warmth. Tonic spasms, violent contraction and rigidity of muscles during longer or shorter intervals. Urine, spasmodic retention in, abnormal conditions of the molecular constitution of the nerve fibres. On injecting water into the vessels of a muscle, strong contractions take place, due to the effect of the fluid on the terminations of the nerves.— Schiff. Vaganismus, this condition requires also Ferric phosphate. Windpipe, spasmodic closing of. Writers' cramp, or cramp of the fingers of violinists and pianists. Yawning, with excessive spasmodic straining of the lower jaw. 2V.5.__ON SELECTING A REMEDY, read always the first two paragraphs under each Cell-Salt in this index, as these are of importance. xlvi. IX.—Sodium Chloride = Natrum Muriatieum. Nat. mur. 9. —Sodium Chloride=Natrum Muriatieum. Nat. mur. The Diseases forming this group must be healed or treated with Sodium chloride; they arise from a disturbed balance of the molecules of this salt, which is a constituent of all solids and fluids of the body. Its presence regulates the proper degree of moisture of solids and proper amount of water of the fluids in the organism. All Ailments of any kind when the salivary glands secrete too much saliva. The tongue has a clear slimy appearance, or small bubbles of frothy saliva extend along its sides ; and when there exists an involuntary flow of tears or watery discharge ; and when there are increased watery secretions, discharges, from any of the mucous membranes, with co-existing want of moisture, i.e., diminished secretions, in some other portion of the mucous linings ; salt taste. Adynamic conditions, weakness with drowsiness, watery vomiting, etc. Anaemic conditions, blood thin, watery. Anasarca, accumulation of serum, water, in the areolar tissues of the body ; dropsy. Aphthae, thrush, with flow of saliva ; this remedy and Potass, chlor. Asthma, with profuse frothy mucus; in alternation with Potas.phos. Blisters, eruptions, with clear watery contents, leaving thin scabs. Bowels, costive ; with drowsiness, or waterbrash, dribbling of saliva from the mouth during sleep, etc. Bronchitis, acute inflammation of the windpipe, with frothy and clear watery phlegm, loose and rattling, and sometimes coughed up with difficulty. Bronchitis, chronic, bronchial catarrh, " Winter Cough," with any of the above symptoms.