Syphilinum
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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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.
General
Syphilitic Virus Nosode Utter prostration and debility in the morning. Shifting rheumatic pains. Chronic eruptions and rheumatism. Ichthyosis. Syphilitic affections. Pains from darkness to daylight; decrease and increase gradually. Hereditary tendency to alcoholism. Ulceration of mouth, nose, genitals, skin. Succession of abscesses.
Modalities
Worse, at night, sundown to sunrise, seashore, in summer. Better, inland and mountains, during day, moving about slowly.
Head
Linear pains from temple across, or from eyes backward; cause sleeplessness and delirium at night. Falling of the hair. Pain in bones of head. Top of head feels as if coming off. Stupefying cephalalgia.
Eyes
Chronic, recurrent, phlyctenular inflammation of cornea; successive crops of phlyctenular and abrasions of epithelial layer of cornea; photophobia intense, lachrymation profuse. Lids swollen; pain intense at night; ptosis. Tubercular iritis. Diplopia; one image seen below the other. Feeling of cold air blowing on eye (Fluor ac).
Ears
Caries of ossicles in ear of syphilitic origin.
Nose
Caries of nasal bones, hard palate and septum, with perforation; ozæna.
Mouth
Teeth decay 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 tied up with strictures. Enemas very painful. Fissures, prolapse.
Female
Ulcers on labia. Leucorrhœa profuse, thin, watery, acrid, with sharp, knife-pain in ovaries.
Respiratory
Aphonia; chronic asthma in summer, wheezing and rattling (Tart emet). Cough dry, hard; worse at night; windpipe sensitive to touch (Lach). Lancinating pains from base of heart to apex at night.
Extremities
Sciatica; worse at night; better about day-break. Rheumatism of shoulder-joint, at insertion of deltoid. Run-around. Severe pain in long bones. Redness and rawness between toes (Sil). Rheumatism, muscles are caked in hard knot or lumps. Always washing the hands. Indolent ulcers. Muscles contracted in hard knots.
Skin
Reddish-brown eruption, with a disagreeable odor. Extreme emaciation.
Relationships
Compare: Merc; Kal hyd; Nit ac; Aur; Alum.
Dose
The highest potencies only, and in infrequent doses.
What the other books say about Syphilinum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Syphilinum in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Syphilinum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Syphilinum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Syphilinum — Mind. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/syphilinum. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.