– Tarkas P. and Ajit Kulkarni.

A Nosode of Syphilis

Region

Mucous Membranes

Glands Lymphatic Parotid Ovaries Adrenal

Nerves Solar plexus

Bones; Long, Periosteum

Blood

Orifices

Skin

Bilateral

Worse

Weather: (Warm) damp Frosty. Stormy Extremes. Sea air Winter. Spring Summer Heat of Sun (head)

Periodically: Night; its half (usu. latter) or again its latter half (3-6) dead of the night (2-4 am) Sunset to Sunrise 6,7,8,9 pm to 3,4 pm Noon to evening, esp. 4 to 8 or daybreak Alternate full moons Waxing moon New moon

During sleep, siesta

Suppr. eruptions, chancers

Metals. Mercury. Lead

Vaccinations

Fright. Grief. Shock

Cold drinks (throat). Tea

Onanism, loss of fluids

Better

Cool atmosphere (dry or damp)

Open air

Inland. Hills

Heat applied (to head, ulcers, itching)

Cold (to eyes, legs)

Daybreak. After 5 am

On waking or keeping awake

Diversion. Company

Movement: changing position; slow contd. motion; walking, in streets; travelling

Deflation

While eating

Hydrophobic. Scotophobic. Nyctophobic Photophobic. Suppurative. Destructive.

Stunted. Neurotic. Obsessive. Rheumatic

Degenerant. Offensive. Ulcerative. Chronicity

Highlights : Generally a latent syphilitic or syco – syphilitic dyscrasia, a syphilitic mess, a non- decisive (but syphilitic) symptoms; S. inherited or acquired. Poor reaction, remedies hold only temporarily or just palliate, low resistance; paucity of helpful symptoms; chronicity. Utter prostration. Mercury poisoning with (or without) syphilis (either neurotic or destructive); or even without h/o. A good developer of stunted children (like Thyr.), and a rejuvinator of the decrepit aged (like Carb-s., Con.).

Make-up : Dirty, disgusting to themselves; suppurating; constant dread of infection. Allergic. Unshapeliness (cp. Bufo): Bald head, pointing lips; hare-lip; cleft chin and a big belly; smallers, retrousse nose, irregular, rudimentary teeth, stubby hands; skeletal deformities of children, dwarfed, puny, skinny, shrivelled up and old-looking (wrinkled face); distorted cupped teeth and nails; Asymmetry: one eye or ear higher or larger, six fingers on one hand only, pupils uneven, squint. Pts. born of consanguineous wedlock. Delicate, scrofulous children, with club- foot, delayed milestones, h/o inherited syphilis or of suppr. eruptions; disposed to wasting and phthisis; look crying (day and) night.

Nerves

Utter prostration in morning (after a night of suffering and sweat). Debility; while walking; tottering gait; of the aged (Carb-s.).

Pains : Anywhere and persistent; increase and decrease gradually; from 4 pm or evening to daybreak; worst at midnight; shifting, and requiring shifting of position or walking. Often vertically linear (like Ran-b.). Cold pains. Nightly growing (leg) pains. Biting. Numbness; with pricking; of palms, finger- tips, soles (toes). Cramps in soles, (toes).

Epilepsy; after menses; preceded by linear headache; disordered : vision, hearing, smell, taste (putrid).

Meningo – vascular syphilis, with amaurosis. Brain syphilis.

Neuro-syphilis. Degenerative processes of the nervous system, such as paralysis agitans, disseminated sclerosis, locomotor ataxia (with swaying-tottering gait, festination, numb stitching in palms and soles etc.). Friedreich’s ataxia. Brain syphilis; softening; G.P.I. Cerebral palsy; aphasia. Paralysis of face, tongue, limbs; partial paralysis; of nerves of special senses (vision, hearing, smell, taste), or organs (enteric, urinary, genital); slowly advancing hemiplegia. Cervical spondylitis. Aphasia.

Tissues

Mucous membranes : Catarrhal. Discharges: acrid, copious, offensive, greenish-yellow.

Bones : Pain in long bones as if sawed. Bilateral exostoses. Caries (decay); of ossicles, mastoid, nasal, facial, spinal bones. Necrosis (destruction). Osteosarcoma. T.b. of spine. Joints: Inflamed, swollen, stiff; pains, alternating with throat pain.

Blood : Suppurative tendency; pus copious, hot, yellowish (- green) or white, putrid. Abscesses; recurring; painless; after fistula operation; felons; psoas. A septic focus due to syco – syphilitic taint (like Pyro.). Pyorrhea. Ulcers; stubborn.

Veins stand out; heat in. Thrombocytopenic purpura; petechial spots (with epistaxis) (<) after sleep. (Arteriosclerosis). Hemorrhages; cerebral.

Glands : Enlarged and indurated, somewhat painful; anywhere, but esp. of head and neck. Parotitis (which is syphilitic). Bubo (r.). Dark purple lines between alae nasi and cheeks (lymphangitis). Pseudo-leukemia.

Growths: Fungus-like growths. Warts; condylomata (in eyeballs, rectum, genitals). Nodes on head, palate, rectum, scrotum, vulva. Knots in muscles. Tumors; on ovaries, mammae; in abdomen, pt. has a tendency to sore mouth and gums, rice bodies. (Lipomas). Gummata. Lupus. Cancers; pharyngeal, rectal (20 yrs. after arsenic treatment of syphilis), of bones; lymph-sarcoma (lymphatic leukemia, pseudo-leukemia, Hodgkin’s disease).

Offensive : coryza, breath, saliva, stool, urine, leucorrhea, menses, sweat (or even without it whole body stinks). Cicatrices turn white (or red). Fissures: lips, tongue, anus, heels. Prolapses. Cataract. Dropsies; oedema pedis (r.), after sour. Nightly swelling of legs. Strictures. Destructive ulcerations; ozaena. Fistulae. Seborrhea. Progressive emaciation; as sequelae; with impaired nutrition.

Injuries : Burn fever and ulceration, syphilitic heredity; fever and discharge (<) 4 to 8 pm, meningeal symptoms on discharge stopping, child’s mother had erosion cervix. Fall. Brain injury: aphasia, cerebral palsy etc.

Peculiar symptoms

1. Always washing hands; stays unreasonably long in bath room; an obsession; but minor concern for bodily cleanliness (not unlike Sul. here). An infection- phobia may be there in some cases; a meticulous, careful nature in others.

2. Linear symptoms; pains (in head, abdomen, chest, limbs, etc.); cracks (e.g. on tongue). Pains in vertical line (e.g. stitch from thigh through chest to shoulder).

3. Symmetrical symptoms; though may be unsymmetrical in body- build; eruptions; exostoses.

4. Multiphase or diverse symptoms.

5. Latent or suppr. syphilis may cause: thyroiditis and goitre; allergies; precancerous conditions (even cancer); dyspepsias; colics; peritoneal adhesions; chronic ulcerations; emaciation; nervous symptoms.

6. Several ‘sensation as if’.

Select Particulars

Mind : Unstrung; artistic, but pervert; intellectual, but abnormal; refined, but amorous; lost mental equilibrium. A ‘matter of fact’, exploiter, schemer; worse still a fanatic, antisocial, hooligan, cruel, liar, cheat. Precocious; or backward, clumsy, awkward, dwarfish. Obsession neuroses like washing hands, folding clothes, collecting certain things, laughing spasms. Incendiary impulses (like Hep.). Syphilitic insanity. Horrid depression or despair; gives up all business. Anxiety, sundown to sunrise; and tension, (>) walking in streets (i.e. among people, not simply in open air as in Lach.). Sufferings after excitement, anticipation, mortification, constraints. Bungling in calculations (in spellings Med.). Ennui; suicidal. Far-away feeling.

Dread of night; of going to bed (not of sleep, which is Lach.); of dogs (Carc.,Tub.); of dark (Stram.); of water (as a chronic of Stram. Yet also likes working in water, bath, clothes and utensils water-washed, mania of washing hands). Children’s or childish (unaccountable) fears, anticipatory; examination funks.

Dementia : Loss of memory for places, persons, books etc. but recalls events of decades ago. Dyslexia. Imbecility. Mongolism; silly laughter or weeping. Cerebral palsy, indistinct babbling speech; dysideation. Aphasia; after apoplexy of brain injury. “Brain syphilis.” (softening; GPI).

Head : Neuralgic, vertical linear headaches; deep-in headaches; severe bursting, crushing; apoplectic with salivation; sunstroke; coronal (vertex). (<) night, excitement, before chill, (>) warm application, walking. Vertigo (<) looking up, stooping, turning.

Brain symptoms (inflammation), from slackening of discharges; after mumps. Brain fever (meningitis) with threatened hydrocephalus, after mumps, syphilitic history, Hell. or Stram. do not hold.

Cerebral hemorrhage, slowly developing hemiplegia; transient partial paralysis of arm; embolism.

Hair not so black; alopecia. Exostoses, painful. Tubercles.

Eyes : Various eye troubles, esp. of hereditary syphilis; from photophobia, neuralgia and neuritis to atrophy or paralysis of the optic nerve; and inflammations in the apparatus : pustular conjunctivitis, ophthalmia neonatorum suppurativa, recurrent phlyctenular keratitis, iritis, retinitis. Ptosis. Fungus oculi. Myopia. Vertical diplopia. Strabismus. Chemosis. (Vertical hemiopia.) Cataract. Pains (<) 2-5 am; (>) cold application.

Vision : black spots, shreds. Dark or black veils / clouds; after onanism or reading in the sun (Carl.,Chin., Tarn.). Vertical diplopia; one image seen below the other.

Ears : Abscess of M.E.; discharge copious, purulent, fetid, acrid. Calcareous deposit on tympanum. Catarrhal or nerve deafness (also idiopathic), paralysis of auditory nerve, with marked cachexia.

Nose : Chronic catarrhal rhinitis. Snuffles. Discharges start with daybreak. Perforated septum. Ozaena.

Face : Pain over r. eye, (<) protruding tongue. Lips fissured and ulcerated. An eruptive saddle across nose. Rupia (bulla). Lupus. Twitchings, in paralysis agitans. Cancerous ulceration. Greasy. Sunken.

Teeth : Dwarfed, brittle, spotted, serrated at edges, cupped, deformed, irregular, converging at tips, Hutchinson’s teeth, decay at edges of gums (not at roots ?). Fluttering, crawling in teeth. Pain, (<) eating, night, (>) pressing teeth together, pressing neck; in mercury – filled tooth, (>) holding cold water in mouth, walking. Dentition troubles. Feel sticky.

Mouth : Ulcerative stomatitis; in nursing babies or mothers; pain as if afire. Fetor. Putrid taste; before epilepsy; lost. Salivation; or dry from flatulence during sleep, sans thirst. Tongue soft, spongy; dirty; indented; with deep longitudinal cracks. Nodular swelling, chancre and destruction of palate. Herpes in.

Throat : Acute ulcerative granulating pharyngitis, r. to l., (<) cold drinks. Recurring tonsillitis; chronic hypertrophy; herpes

on.

Hypothyroidism with myxoedema and carpal tunnel syndrome (tingling in arm). Vincent’s angina, (diphtheroid ulceration), with ptosis of l. eye, Bell’s palsy (l) and slight aphasia.

Stomach : Craves stimulants, alcohols (also hereditary), sweets. Thirst for cold drinks. Nervous dyspepsia; flatulence; belchings, while urinating. No food agrees. Worse esp. after: starches, beans, vegetables (esp. fibrous), tubers (garlic, onion, potato), certain sour things like tomatoes, steamed-fermented foods; feasts in pleasant company excepted. Cannot stand hunger or fasting, happy while eating (Psor.). Or appetite poor, capricious. A little cough, hot face and sleepy after dinner. Ill (distressed) for 8 hours after dinner, (<) during siesta, and well for 8 hrs. after supper, then worse (oppressed) during sleep with dreams, or the hurtful articles give trouble (oppression) only between 3 to 6 am, (>) on waking up and deflating, by day- break (helps Kali-i.).

Heartburn with pain and rawness from stomach to throat-pit. Painful spots over stomach. Ulceration; erosion from superficial ulceration of lining of viscus; of herpetic or syphilitic origin; vomitings, of food, or dark grumous matter.

Abdomen : Distress (or pain deep) in the abdomen, as if in the omentum. Linear vertical pain in centre. Enlarged. Umbilical hernia (in child); inguinal. Flatulence; obstructed. Pain in r. groin (bubo). Subtotal villous atrophy. Ulcerative colitis.

Rectum : Constant weak dragging sensation; prolapse; fissures. Intractable obstipation, rectum seems to be tied up with stricture, rendering enemas painful. Hemorrhoids. Ulcers. Fistula. Gummata. Papillomata. Condylomata. (Cancer). Paralytic. (Dysentery).

Bilious diarrhea, at seashore (>) on hills; urgent, at 5 am (Sul.), (<) daytime. Stools dark, bilious, offensive; fatty stools of coeliac disease; whitish. Obstinate cases of cholera infantum (as in Med.). D. with leucorrhea. A peculiar hydrophobia: last part of stool comes out after hearing the sound of flush or hydrant. “Rectum is the seat of many troubles.” Urinary : Polyuria at night, or enuresis; free urine after a chill. Sudden urging. Easier standing. Copious, muddy; though seldom. Frothy. Diabetes; after mumps. Scanty. A spurt after stool.

Male : Chancroid, phagadenic. Indurated testes. Inflamed, indurated, painful spermatic cord; nodules. Desire uncurbed. Throat and skin troubles after suppr. chancre.

Female : Dysmenorrhea. Menses stinking. Metrorrhagia, every spring. Leucorrhea: thick, yellow, offensive, profuse, acrid; (<) night, bed heat; of infants born in hospitals or orphanages.

Parts tender, soft, flabby, itching ((<) morning); ulcerated. Erosion of cervix; induration. Nodes on (gumma).

Ovaries : Cutting pains during orgasm. Knife – like pains. Congested. Tumors on. Tendency to utero – ovarian diseases with nervous disorders, esp. in the married. Prolapse.

Habitual abortions, still-borns or infantile deaths; in wives of syphilitic husbands; troubles in children of such mothers (e.g. fevers).

Mammae : Tender. Cysts and tumors on.

Respiratory : Syphilis of larynx. Voice trouble; before menses. Spasmodic asthma; nightly (latter half worst); after suppr. eruptions;dyspnea or hyperpnea during sleep ((>) on waking, as in Lach.); 1-4 am; (<) at seaside, in warm damp weather, thunderstorm, summer, lying. Groaning (low snoring) during sleep. Tropical eosinophilia.

Cough : Dry, hard (<) dinner, night, lying or r. side (Merc.), (>) lying on abdomen, winter (and asthma in summer), spring. Whooping cough with vomiting. Phthisis; debilitating night sweats.

Chest : Soreness with anguish, (<) recumbent. Sudden faintness and sinking (emptiness?) sensation in. Oppression; attack, with dry lips, empty or sinking sensation in abdomen, high pulse, during sleep esp. if lying on r. side, about 4-6 am, after vexatious or quarrelling dreams; supper of forbidden mixed servings like milk and kedgeree or onion or sour fruit (<) the attack; formerly the attack was only of hyperpnea; (>) on waking and daybreak.

Flatulent dyspepsia of mercury-lead poisoning; after typhoid (complemented by Phos.).Gastro-pectoral syndromes: anxious twinges in (l.) chest (sub-pseudo angina pectoris), or continued aching in precordia (pseudo angina pectoris) of cardio neurotics.

Pressing pain behind sternum; backward drawing in sternum.

Heart : Lancinating pain from base to apex (opp. Med., Merc.), or even to clavicle or shoulder; angina pectoris; with a diastolic murmur. Anguish in, (<) half – nightly, (>) waking, walking, diversion.

Coronary heart disease (ischemic) in tertian syphilis (or metallic poisoning). Valvular disease (aortic first). Congenital ASD / VSD. Cardiomyopathy. Cardio – neurosis and pseudo angina pectoris; mercury poisoning; even I.H.D. Sub – pseudo angina pectoris (flatulent twinges). Anguish (<) half of night, (>) walking, diversion.

Back : Pain; heaviness or dull dragging and stiffness in loins; in lumbo-sacral joint (in an Ars. pt.); from sacral region rounding to uterus; in coccyx; (<) after urination; night, evening to morning.

Locomotor : Rheumatism; shifting; muscles caked, knotty, lumpy; (<) night, damp, esp. frosty weather, (>) slow movement. Neuralgia of brachial plexus, shoulder joint, deltoid ((<) raising or bending arm backwards), forearm (radial) or neck. Palms and soles numb, stitches (needle-like). Lameness of arm; on raising then lowering it beyond a certain point it drops pendant (as if) paralysed (Phos.). Preparalytic pains.

Legs : sciatica. Cold pains, (<) night, lying, in winter, hot applications, (>) cold bath (Led.), sweat. Growing pains. Fidgety. Tibia: pain and sensitiveness. Soles feel contracted. Rheumatic (painful) swelling of legs. Excruciating arthritis.

Sleep : Great nervous insomnia, worse latter half of night. Children sleep all day, cry all night; or cry day and night. Dreams of disease, of falling from heights (into abyss).

Skin : Skin lesions are a legion, which fixes it also as pucca antipsoric running on the same wave-length as Sul. or Sul-i.

Red, flery, inflammatory rash, scabs, eczema, syphilitic sores. Succession of abscesses (of boils, Anthr.). Red blotches, turn blue on getting cold. Copper-colored (offensive) eruptions, or spots (macula). Erysipelas, wandering. Syphilitic bullae (rupia), tubercles. Red, sun-dermatitis, desquamating, syphilitic. Eczema fissum (rubrum); yellow, with a red angry oozing base. Blood boils.

Scabies, itching ((>) warmth). Pustular eruptions, biting. Conial crusts. Herpes zoster; (<) night; after a fall, (>) siesta (Lach., Lyc. constitutional, but do not help). Blotches; yellow. Pemphigus, syphilitic, looking like variola; recurrent. Urticaria; syphilitic. Lupus. Ichthyosis. Emaciated, wrinkled skin, esp. of face, aged look.

Leprosy; syphilis suppresses leprosy (to become more malignant). Sickening odor from body.

Ulcers : rodent – burrowing, indolent, non – healing (X-ray), suppurating, putrid, cancerous, sloughing, syphilitic; (>) warmth; varicose; punched out; serpinginous. Maculae on covered parts.

Leucoderma (all nosodes).

Thermic : Nerve chill (after retiring); beginning in anus, descending. Preceded by headache and aching. Body blue when cold. Chill followed by copious urine, eructations. Headache and sleepy during.

Influenza. Great burning fever, wants to lie on cold. Intermittent fevers; (<) midday; to 5 pm; 11 am to 1 pm; midnight; sundown to sunrise.

Rheumatic fevers, r. side pain, (chest or limbs (<) lying on it), begins at 4 pm, or 12 to 5 pm. Recurring fevers. Fevers of unknown origin (P.U.O.).

Fevers unyielding to usual medicines. Kamnia (fever with pains ?).

Septic fevers; latent sepsis (like Pyro.); due to deep seated (occult) pus formation. Sweat; nightly; (hectic); from fright.

Typhoid; cerebral type; with family h/o: abortions, stillbriths, cancer, leucoderma, ulcers, insanity or septic fevers. Slow convalescence, syphiltic pts., dyspepsia (gastro – pectoral).

Relations : The threefold division of life, day, seasons and miasms reveals similar stages in our medicine -trios too :

CHILDHOOD YOUTH OLD AGE

Psora Sycosis Syphilis

Hyperactivity Hypoactivity Split / No activity (irritation) growths) (destruction)

Psorinum Medorrhinum Syphilinum

(morning) (noon, day) (night)

( winter) (rainy season) (summer) Bell. Hyos. Stram.

(seizure) (exuberance) (resignation) Calc. Sumb., Grap. Lyc.

(development) (degeneration) (destruction) Carb-an. Carb-v. Carb-s.

(catching) (spread) (withdrawal) Acet-ac. Mur-ac. Fl-ac.

(shock) (degeneration) (perversion) Cham. Nux-v. Phos.

(delicate) (vigorous) (faint) (attractive) (neutral) (repulsive)

Thus Syph. is collateral and symbiotic to : Calc-f., Carb-s., Fl-ac., Gaertner, Lyc., Phos., Stram., etc., a fact often verified clinically.

Other symbiotics (acute or chronic) : All-s., Alum., Anac., Ars., Aur., Calc., Carb-s., Carc.,Con., Dys-co., Kali-i., Med., Merc(-c)., Nit-ac., Olnd., Penic., Phos., Phyt., Psor., Pul., Pyro., Rhus-t., Sel., Stram., Sep., Staphyl., Sul., Sul (-i.)., Tub.

Similar : These, and Asaf., Guai., Kali-i., Nit-ac., Syc – syph.

Antidote : Nux-v. It antidotes Sul.

Acutes : All-s., Ars., Ars-i., Fl-ac.,Lach., Nit-ac., Rhus-t., Stram., Sumb.

Suggested Trios :

1. Ars.- Phos.- Syph. 3. Lach.- Anac.- Syph.

2. Penic.- Puls.- Syph. 4. Bell.- Merc.- Syph.

Syph. is an intensified close-up of the broader remedies Phos., Kali-i. and esp. Sul-i. and also complements them.

Syph. shares some of the properties of the pairs Merc. and Phos. ( among polychrests ) and Psor and Tub. (among nosodes).

Syph. represents degeneration, Medo. exuberance.

Lach. is more than an analogue: Both have nyctophobia, but Syph. has also scotophobia, and Lach. alone has hypnophobia too. Again, both have lectophobia, but Lach. has it for fear of sleep and Syph. for feat of night (scotophobia = fear of dark; lectophobia = going to bed). Lach. is hemmed in, constrained, pent up, all emotionally, while Syph. is physically constrained, blocked up, dwarfed, shrivelled, puny. For Syph. day, light and company are life, while night, darkness and isolation are tantamount to death. Phos. is similar, but has only scotophobia.

Pyro. is comparable in septic focus (dysentery, fevers); both are syco-syphilitic. Intolerance of tubers (garlic, onion, potato) is a syphilitic taint.

“Syph. when in brain-syphilis Sul. or Caust. produced a suffering and weakness… When Sul. (high) has opened up destructive ulceration (given for gummata) Syph. comes forward to heal and repair… A nosode is not always only a nosode, it is like any other non-nosode useful against its pathogenetic symptoms” (Kent). Thus, Syph. belongs to the Calc. and Iodide groups also. It imbibes features from both Lach. and Lyc. Children of Lyc. parents may need Syph. Our sweet Puls. is a mild Syph. and Lach. While considering Sil. do not forget Syph.; both traverse the same path, though Syph. is more nightly and less chilly.

Metal poisonings often simulate syphilis. In other words, our metallic remedies are generally syphilitic. Hence a dose or two of Syph. may be required to activate them. Our great anti- syphilitics are also antidotes to metallic poisoning. Hence their growing need in present times.

Conclusion : Syph. cases may run along any of these four lines-1. Indirect syphilis, neuro-breakdown (brain or nerve syphilis). 2. Direct syphilis, tissue-breakdown. 3. Sycosis, blood-breakdown (suppuration) and also catarrhs, rheumatism and neoplasia. 4. Psora, nutrition-and dermic-breakdowns.

Though usually working through singly these four may (in rare, very ultimate cases) converge. It thus imbibes the leading features of (the Kent’s trio) Sul., Calc., Lyc. (which all are psoro – syco – syphilitic), and comes in helpfully to them; and definitely of Sil. too (which exhibits all the miasms, single or in couples; and therefore is a worthy analogue).

All told, it is one of the big few of our Materia Medica indeed. Needs a thorough proving and clinical employment, this great four-in-one. Hail Syph.

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– A.W. Cowperthwaite.

A Nosode. The Syphilitic virus. Preparation. Alcoholic

THERAPEUTICS.
Syphilitic affections. Throat, skin and other troubles due to bad treatment of syphilis years before. Syphilitic dyscrasia, either hereditary or acquired. Chronic eruptions and rheumatism. Ichthyosis. Hereditary tendency to alcoholism.
CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS.
Mind. Loss of memory; remembers everything previous to his illness. Apathetic; feels as if going insane or being paralyzed. Fears the night and the suffering from exhaustion on awakening. Hopeless; despairs of recovery. Head. Linear pains from temple across, or from eyes backward; cause sleeplessness and delirium at night. Falling of the hair. Pain in bones of the head. Top of head feels as if coming off. Eyes. Chronic recurrent phlyctenular inflammation of the cornea; successive crops of phlyctenules and abrasions of epithelial layer of cornea; photophobia intense, lachrymation profuse. Lids swollen; pain intense at night; ptosis. Diplopia; one image seen below the other. Feeling of cold air blowing on the eyes (Fluor. ac.). Ears. Caries of the ossicles in ear of syphilitic origin. Nose. Caries of nasal bones, hard palate and septum, with perforation. Ozaena. Mouth. Teeth decayed at gum; edges serrated, dwarfed. Tongue coated, teeth-indented; deep longitudinal cracks. Ulcers smart and burn. Excessive flow of saliva; it runs out of mouth when sleeping. Stomach. Craves alcohol. Rectum. Feels ties up with strictures. Enemas very painful. Fissures; prolapsus. Female Organs. Ulcers on labia. Leucorrhoea profuse, thin, watery, acrid, with sharp knife-like pain in ovaries. Respiratory Organs. Aphonia; chronic asthma in summer, wheezing and rattling (Tart. e.). Cough dry, hard; worse at night; windpipe sensitive to touch (Lach.). Lancinating pains from base of heart to apex at night. Limbs. Sciatica; worse at night; better about daybreak. Rheumatism of shoulder-joint; at insertion of deltoid. Run-around. Severe pain in long bones. Redness and rawness between toes (Sil.). Indolent ulcers. Muscles contracted in hard knots. Skin. Reddish brown eruption, with a disagreeable odor. Extreme emaciation. Sensation of abscesses. Aggravations. At night. Amelioration during day, moving about slowly. Compare. Merc., Kali hyd., Nitr. ac., Aur., Alum.

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-Kent J. T.

Whenever the symptoms that are representative of the patient himself have been suppressed in any case of syphilis, and nothing remains but weakness and a few results of the storm that has long ago or recently passed, this nosode will cause reaction and restore order and sometimes do much curing, and the symptoms that must always be present, that represent the disordered state of the economy will appear to guide to a restoration of health. When a syphilitic patient has suffered from a course of typhoid he may be very slow in convalescing, but a single dose of Syphilinum high will cause him to eat and feel stronger and gain rapidly. How does the old school treatment of syphilis differ from barbarism? one might well ask. The strong drugging by (Mercurius) and iodides so debilitate that all who pass through are invalids and weak; even then they are not cured of syphilis– -if they were cured we could not cause to come back the symptoms that have been removed. Syphilinum often does bring back the ulcers in the throat and the eruptions. When there are violent neuralgias of the head, in sides of head and over the eyes, great soreness in bones of legs and head; and the multitude of symptoms of nerve syphilis all nondescript, then it is that the patient will be made free from suffering, and given sleep, strength and appetite. But the ulcers and eruptions will come back in some cases, and it is all the better if they do. It is by no means limited to patients who have had syphilis. It can be used like any remedy against the symptoms of the provings, or such as are similar to symptoms common to the disease or against the symptoms like the numerous verified clinical symptoms. Many symptoms are worse at night in bed, many come on in the evening and last till morning. (From sundown to sunrise) marks the time of many violent pains and sufferings. Some are better from heat, and some are better from cold air and cold applications. There is great prostration in the morning on waking. It has cured many cases of epilepsy. Epileptic convulsions after menses. (Sleeplessness,) sometimes only one-half of the night, again the whole night. The blood feels hot flowing through the arteries during the night. Wandering pains here and there all over the body. Pain in the periosteum, nerves and joints. Pains sometimes increase gradually and decrease gradually. Sharp pains here and there. Complaints worse in the cold weather of winter and heat of summer. Extreme emaciation. Abscesses. Paralysis of limbs. Caries of bone. Curvature of spine. Gummata. (Dwarfish children.) Curvature of bones. Enlarged glands. Offensive odor of the body. Soreness to touch in many parts, especially bones. It has often been observed that in syphilized invalids remedies act but a few days and must be changed. This always calls for the nosode. When there is only great weakness and few symptoms it will act well. When there is ulceration of legs, throat, mouth or other parts with no repair. Fistulous openings, exostoses, fissures, tubercles and warts have been cured promptly. When it has been used against the primary manifestations of the disease and in the earlier phenomena it has generally resulted in failure. It is seldom the best remedy for syphilis (per se,) but for marked and suppressed syphilis it seems to restore a sort of order and bring better reaction. The author has many times observed that gummata in throat and anus will take on destructive ulceration in old broken-down cases after (Sulphur) has been given, and that Syphilinum will restrain it and establish repair. (Sulphur) often produces prolonged aggravation when there are many tissue changes in advanced cases of syphilis. Such changes are most likely gummata. The effort of (Sulphur) is to remove the results of disease, which the patient cannot stand. It often causes suspicion of latent syphilis when such aggravations are very severe after (Sulphur) high. (Sulphur) low will not be followed by such results. After such prolonged aggravations Syphilinum should be considered. Latent syphilis often exists where it is least expected, This nosode should be used only in high potencies.

Forgetful. Weak minded. Laughing and weeping without cause. He cannot remember faces, names, dates, events, books or places. He cannot calculate. Despair of recovery. Melancholia. Fears he is going insane (Imbecility.) Indifferent to his friends, and feels no delight in anything. Dreads the night and dreads the morning, as the weakness and soreness are worse on waking. He always says he is not himself and he cannot feel like himself. A middle-aged man who had suffered many years from latent syphilis abandoned his business and remained at home lamenting and sad. His wife supported the family by keeping boarders. After receiving a few doses of Syphilinum he took on new energy and became industrious and prosperous. Much vertigo. Aphasia. In some of these cases of brain syphilis (Sulphur) and (Causticum) have caused prolonged suffering and weakness. Syphilinum will act favorably.

Syphilitic invalids are often sufferers from violent neuralgic headaches. Violent pains in sides of head, forehead or temples. Pain from temple to temple, from ear to ear, one eye to occiput; supraorbital pains. Pain some times ameliorated by warmth. Bursting pains; fulness of head. Maddening pains all night, causing sleeplessness. Headache and delirium. Neuralgia of head beginning at 4 P.M., growing gradually worse until midnight and then gradually better, ceasing at daylight. Great soreness of the pericranium. Many pains are confined to a direct line and are called (linear headaches.) Violent crushing pains in occiput. Stupefying headaches in the forehead or occiput. Cutting pains in occiput. Headache through the temples, thence vertically, like an inverted letter T. Headaches involving the whole top of the head as if head would be crushed in. Violent pain in whole head with red face, enlarged veins of face, restlessness and sleepless nights. Aggravated nights. Tubercles all over the scalp. Exostoses in the cranium, very sore and painful. The hair is falling out.

Paralysis of the eye muscles is common. Strabismus. Diplopia. Amaurosis. Atrophy of the optic nerve. The retina is pale, gray and spotted. Myopia. Iritis. Ptosis. Paralysis of the superior oblique. Chronic recurrent phlyctenular inflammation of the cornea. Conjunctivitis with ulceration. Ulceration of the cornea. Interstitial keratitis. Spots on the cornea. Left eye covered with fungus-like growth, pain intense, aggravated at night. Acute ophthalmia neonatorum when one of the parents has syphilis. Copious purulent discharge from eyes. Lids enormously swollen. Eyes cannot be opened because of swelling. Iritis with intense pain at night, and photophobia. Pain in eye from sundown to sunrise. Scalding tears.

Sharp pains in ear. Purulent watery discharge from ear. Caries of mastoid. Paralysis of auditory nerve. Calcareous deposit on tympanum.

This remedy has cured many cases of offensive green or yellow discharge from nose in children with specific history. Dryness of nose; obstructed at night. Frequent attacks of coryza. Always taking cold in nose. Syphilitic ozaena. Bones of nose destroyed by caries and nose depressed. The whole nose destroyed by ulceration. Epistaxis from ulcers. Hard plug in nose.

Neuralgia of face. Paralysis of one side of face. Tubercles and copper colored eruptions on face. It has palliated cancerous ulceration of face. Scabby eruption on face. It has cured rupia on the cheek. Papules and pustules. The lips are fissured and ulcerated. Ulcers on chin, lips, and wing of nose. Wing and side of nose eaten away by an ulcer. It has cured many cases of lupus of face.

The teeth are deformed, distorted, spotted, decay early; cup shaped in children. Violent pain in teeth. Crawling in the roots of the teeth, like a worm.

Mouth and tongue ulcerated. Breath foetid. Tongue soft, spongy, easily indented in persons who have long taken (Mercury.) Paralysis of tongue, one-sided. Tongue red, excoriated, cracked and sore. Patches on tongue. Denuded patches. Red spots. Copious viscid saliva in mouth. Ulceration of soft palate. Caries of hard palate. Soft palate entirely destroyed. Bleeding from ulcers.

Throat studded with ulcers. Inflammation of throat and tonsils. Soft palate swollen and nodular. Post nasal catarrh and ulceration. Posterior nares plugged with crusts.

The appetite is perverted. Longing for strong drink. Thirst. Aversion to food, to meat. No desire to eat. All food disagrees. Flatulence. Heart burn; nausea; vomiting. Ulceration of stomach.

The rectum is the seat of many symptoms and conditions. Ulceration, fissures, piles, nodules, gummata; copious bleeding; cutting, burning pains. Condylomata. Constipation. Paralysis of rectum; prolapsus of anus. Relaxed protruding rectum.

This nosode has cured nodular formations in testes, spermatic cord and scrotum. It has cured herpetic eruptions on prepuce and scrotum. Induration of testes and spermatic cord.

Nodular formations in vagina and labia. Ulceration of os uteri, Induration of cervix uteri. Copious yellow-green leucorrhoea. Leucorrhoea in little girls, of specific history, acrid water, leucorrhoea aggravated nights from warmth of bed. Pain in ovaries during the night. Itching in the vulva. Sharp pains in uterus. Cystic ovaries. Ovarian tumor. Cutting pain in ovary during coition at moment of orgasm. Uterine and ovarian complaints when there is a specific history.

Ulceration of larynx and loss of voice. Aphonia before menses. Continuous sharp pain in larynx from evening to sunrise every night compelling him to walk the floor all night cured by Syphilinum very high, one dose.

Asthma in warm damp weather during night. Dyspnoea. Attacks of spasmodic bronchial asthma for twenty-five years; at night in bed or during a thunderstorm, preventing sleep for many nights. Dyspnoea from, 1 to 4 A.M.

Cough at night. Dry rasping cough during the night. Rawness in chest. Thick purulent expectoration. Dry cough from lying on right side. Muco-purulent expectoration, grayish, greenish, greenish-yellow, tasteless. Clear white mucous expectoration. Rattling in the chest. Pain and pressure behind the sternum. Eruptions on the chest.

Rheumatic stiffness and lameness in back. Aching in whole spine. Pain in region of kidneys, aggravated after urinating. Pain in sacrum, aggravated while sitting. Caries of cervical and dorsal vertebrae. Enlarged glands of neck. It has cured indurated cervical glands. Pain in back, hip and thighs during the night. It has cured Hodgkin’s disease.

Inflammation of joints. Rheumatism, muscles are caked in hard knots or lumps. Pain in limbs ameliorated by heat, aggravated from sunset to sunrise. Stiffness of all the joints. Rheumatic pains and swelling of joints of upper limbs. Rheumatism of deltoid, painful on raising the arm. Pains in arms on motion. Ulcers on back of hands. Nightly pain and swelling in legs. Pains in lower extremities, preventing sleep, aggravated from hot applications, ameliorated by pouring cold water on them. Weakness in knees and hips. Severe bone-aches in legs at night in bed. Pain in back of feet and toes at night in bed. Pains often aggravated in warm bed at night. Pains drive him out of bed at night. Tearing in hip and thigh, aggravated during night, ameliorated at day-break, ameliorated by walking, not affected by weather (improved by Syph.). Ulcers on the legs. Large crusts on the legs. Tubercles on the lower limbs. Tension of the tendons of the legs and soles. The extremes of cold and heat often bring out the symptoms of these old sufferers. Neuralgia of limbs gradually increasing, aggravated as the night goes on. Extreme sensitiveness of the tibia.

There are fevers, chilliness, but the night sweats and great weakness are striking.

The eruptions are numerous, but many be studied better by consulting the numerous works on syphilis, as this is not a study of the disease, but the nosode.

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-H.C.Allen

+ Syphilitic Virus -A Nosode.

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Pains from darkness to daylight [Merc., Phyt.]. Pains increase and decrease gradually [Stan.]; shifting and require frequent change of position. All symptoms are worse at night [Merc.]; from sundown to sunrise. Eruptions: dull, red, copper-colored spots, becoming blue when getting cold. Extreme emaciation of the entire body [Abrot., Iod.]. Heart: lancinating pains from base to apex, at night [from apex to base, Med.; from base to clavicle, or shoulder, Spig.]. Loss of memory; cannot remember names of books, persons or places; arithmetical calculation difficult. Sensation: as if going insane, as if about to be paralyzed; of apathy and indifference. Terrible dread of night on account of mental and physical exhaustion on awakening; it is intolerable, death is preferable. Fears the terrible suffering from exhaustion on awakening [Lach.]. Leucorrhoea: profuse, soaking through the napkins and running down to the heels [Alum.]. Headache, neuralgic in character, causing sleeplessness and delirium at night; commencing at 4 P.M.; worse from 10 to 11 and ceasing at daylight [ceases at 11 or 12 P.M., Lyc.]; falling of the hair. Acute ophthalmia neonatorum; lids swollen, adhere during sleep; pain intense at night (). by cold bathing. Ptosis: paralysis of superior oblique; sleepy look from drooping lids [Caust., Graph.]. Diplopia, one image seen below the other. Teeth: decay at edge of gum and break off; are cupped, edges serrated; dwarfed in size,

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