Tuberculinum

Tuberculinum

Pus {with bacilli) from tubercular abscess. A Nosode.

Adapted to persons of light complexion; blue eyes, blonde in preference to brunette; tall, slim, flat,

*The potencies of Fincke and Swan were prepared from>a drop of pus obtained from a pulmonary tubercular abscess or sputa. Those of Heath from a tuberculous lung in (which the bacillus tuberculosis had been found microscopically; hence the former was called Tuberculinum and the latter Bacillinum. Both preparations are reliable and effective.

narrow chest; active and precocious mentally, weak physically; the tubercular diathesis.

When with a family history of tubercular affections the best selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently improve, without reference to name of disease.

Symptoms ever changing ; ailments affecting one organ, then another — the lungs, brain, kidneys, liver, stomach, nervous system — beginning suddenly, ceasing suddenly.

Takes cold easily without knowing how or where ;

seems to take cold ‘^every time he takes a breath of fresh air” (Hep.).

Emaciation rapid and pronounced ; losing flesh while eating well (Abrot., Calc., Con., Iod., Nat.).

Melancholy, despondent; morose, irritable, fretful, peevish; taciturn, sulky; naturally of a sweet disposition, now on the borderland of insanity.

Everything in the room seemed strange, as though in a strange place.

Headache: chronic, tubercular; pain intense, sharp, cutting, from above r. eye to occiput; as of an iron hoop around head (Anac., Sulph.) ; when the best selected remedy only palliates.

School-girl’s headache : < by study or even slight mental exertion ; when using eyes in close work and glasses fail to > ; with a tubercular history.

Acute cerebral or basilar meningitis, with threatened effusion; nocturnal hallucinations; wakes from sleep frightened, screaming; when Apis, Hell., or Sulph., though well selected, fail to improve.

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Crops of small boils, intensely painful, successively appear in the nose; green, fetid pus (Sec.).

Plica polonica ; several bad cases permanently cured after Bor. and Psor. failed.

Diarrhoea : early morning, sudden, imperative

(Sulph.) ; emaciating though eating well (Iod., Nat.) ; stool dark, brown, watery, offensive ; discharged with great force; great weakness and profuse night sweats.

Menses: too early; too profuse; too long-lasting ; tardy in starting; with frightful dysmenorrhoea ; in patients with a tuberculous history.

Tubercular deposit begins in apex of lungs, usually the left (Phos., Sulph., Then).

Eczema : tubercular over entire body ; itching intense, < at night when undressing, from bathing; immense quantities of white bran-like scales ; oozing behind the ears, in the hair, in folds of skin with rawness and soreness; hery red skin. Ringworm.

When Psor., Sulph., or the best selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently improve; follows Psor. as a constitutional remedy in hay fever, asthma

Belladonna, for acute attacks, congestive or inflammatory, occurring in tubercular diseases.

Plydrastis to fatten patients cured with Tuber.