Syphilinum

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

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Keynotes

(Syphilinum) Poor reaction or it does not hold. Chronicity. Great weakness, with but few symptoms. Multiphase symptoms. SYPHILITIC TAINT. Weakness; on waking. Ulceration. Bald head, pouting lips and big belly. Dwarfish. Marasmic. Foul odor of body. Violent or linear pains. Knots in muscles. .................... Antisocial. Horrid depression or despair. Cross. Feels like going crazy. Impulse to wash hands. Syphilitic insanity. Poor memory. Nightly delirium. Cerebral softening. Deep, crushing head pains; across base. Beats head against wall. Linear headaches. Head feels pulled back. Slowly advancing hemiplegia. Hair falls profusely. Inflamed cornea; > cool bathing. Ophthalmia. Glimmering vision. Vertical diplopia. Ptosis. Abscess of middle ear. Nose painful to inhaled air; in sinuses. Ozœna. Snuffles. Face wrinkled; looks old. Pain over r. eye, < protruding tongue. Teeth feel sticky; as of a worm in; decay at edge of gums. Salivation; at night. Putrid taste. Crack along center of tongue. Green lumps from posterior nares. Sore throat; r. to l.; < cold drinks. Capricious appetite. Craves alcoholic liquors. Rectal fissure or stricture. Frothy urine. Nocturnal enuresis. Voids urine > standing. Menses have odor of rotten meat. Profuse, acrid leucorrhœa; runs to heels; with itching. Cough, < lying on r. side. Pain from base to apex of heart. Neck feels short. Backache, < urinating. Deltoid pains. Middle fingers. Itching eruption about elbow. Cold pain in legs. Festination. Bones pain as if sawed. Bilateral exostoses. Skin; biting as from bugs; swelled and blotched, > hot bathing. Pains in shins, > heat. Wandering erysipelas. Succession of abscesses. Foul or green pus. Conical crusts. Bullæ. White cicatrices. Distorted nails. Sleeplessness. Large, soft pulse. As of hot water in veins.

Worse

NIGHT; damp. Sundown to sunrise. Gradual < then slow >. Protruding tongue. Extreme heat or cold. Every alternate full moon. During thunderstorms.

Better

Changing position. Continued or slow motion. High altitudes. Applied heat.

Region

Mucous membranes. Nerves. Bones.

Relationships

Related: Merc.

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 Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
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.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Syphilinum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/syphilinum. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.