Lodoformum

William Boericke 1922

Liver and spleen sore and enlarged. Jat^ndice. Mesenteric glands enlarged. Pancreatic disease. Cutting pain in

William Boericke 1922

Chronic diarrhoea, with suspected tuberculosis. Abdomen distended ; mesenteric glands enlarged. Cholera infantum. Chronic diarrhoea; stools greenish, zvatcry, undigested, with irritable temper.

William Boericke 1922

lODUM 403 Stool. — Haemorrhage at every stool. Diarrhoea, whitish, frothy, fatty. Constipation, with ineffectual urging; better by drinking cold milk. Constipation alternating with diarrhoea. [Ant. cr.] Urine. — Frequent and copious, dark yellow-green (Bovista), thick, acrid with cuticle on surface.

William Boericke 1922

Palpitation from least exertion.'^ Pleuritic effusion. Tickling all over

William Boericke 1922

lod. cough is worse indoors, in warm, wet weather, and when lying on

William Boericke 1922

Sore pain in apex of right lung. Feeling of a weight on chest, as if smothering. Cough and wheezing on going to bed. Pain in left breast, like a hand grasping at the base of the

William Boericke 1922

Brom.; Ilepar; Mercur.; Plwsph.; Abrot; Nat, mur,; Sanic.: Tuber.

William Boericke 1922

Second trituration. Three grains on the back of the tongue will relieve attack of asthmatic breathing. lODUM (Iodine) All glandular structures, respiratory organs, circulatory .system are especially affected ; they atrophy. Iodine arouses the defensive apparatus of the system by assembling the mononuclear leucocytes whose phagocytic action is marked, at a given point. Lead poisoning. T remor. Acute exacerbation of chronic inflammation. Arthritis deformans. Acts prominently on connective tissue. The plague. Abnormal vaso-constriction, capillary congestion followed by oedema, ecchymoses, haemorrhages, and nutritive disturbances are the pathological conditions at the basis of its symptomatology. Sluggish vital reaction, hence chronicity in many of its aspects. Acute catarrh of all mucous membranes, rapid emaciation, notwithstanding good appetite, and glandular atrophy call for this remedy, in numerous wasting diseases and in scrofulous patients. Acute affections of the respiratory organs. Pneumonia, rapid extension. Iodine is warm, and wants cool surroundings. Weakness and loss of breath going upstairs. Adenoid vege- 402 lODUM tations. Tincture internally and locally to swollen glands.

William Boericke 1922

The crude drug in saturated solution may be required. Third to thirtieth potency. loduretted solution of Potass, iod. (35 grains Potassa and 4 grains Iodine to 1 oz. of water, 10 drops three times a day) expels tapeworms dead. Locally the most powerful, least harmful and easily managed microbicide. Ideal agent to keep wounds clean and disinfected. Bites of insects, reptiles, etc. Gunshot wounds and compound fractures, excellent. Great skin disinfectant.

William Boericke 1922

-^Joints inflained and painful. P^in in bones at night. White swelling. Gonorrhceal rheumatism. ''^Rheumatism of nape and upper

William Boericke 1922

Legs weak ; cannot stand and walk with eyes closed. Weakness of knees when going upstairs.

William Boericke 1922

Cold hands and feet. Acrid sweat of feet. Pulsation in large arterial trunks. ^Rheumatic pains, nightly pains in joints;’" constrictive sensations.

William Boericke 1922

[Brom. opposite.] Inspiration difficult. Dry, morning cough, from tickling in

William Boericke 1922

Piipd dilated. Constant motion of eyeballs. Acute daryoeys’ tit is.

William Boericke 1922

Pupils, dilated; contract unequally, react poorly. Diplopia. Failing sight due to retro-bulbar neuritis, central scotoma — partial atrophy of optic disc.

William Boericke 1922

Great weakness during menses. [Alum.; Carbo an,, CocctiL; Heematox.] Menstruation irregular. Uterine ha'morrhage. Ovaritis. [Apis; Bell.; Loch.] IVcdgc-Hke pain from oifary to uterus. Dwin^ dling of mammary glands. Nodosities in skin of mammae. Acrid leucorrhoea, thick, slimy, corroding the linen. Wedge-like pain in the right ovarian region.

William Boericke 1922

Flushes of heat all over body. Alarked fever, restlessness, red cheeks, apathetic. Profuse

William Boericke 1922

Should not be forgotten in the treatment of tubercular meningitis, both as a local application to the head and internally. [Bacii] Tuberculous conditions.

William Boericke 1922

Throbbing; rush of blood, and feeling of a tight band. Vertigo; wor.se from stooping, worse in warm room. Chronic, congestive headache of old people. IPhos.] Eyes, — Violent lachryniatiun. Pain in

William Boericke 1922

Sharp, neuralgic pain. Head feels heavy, as if it could not be lifted from pillow. Itching of occiput. Mcninpitis. Sleep interrupted by sighing and .cries. Very drowsy.

William Boericke 1922

Heart feels squeezed. Myocarditis, painful compression around

William Boericke 1922

Feels as if squeezed by an iron hand [Cactus] followed by great weakness and faintness. Palpitation from least exertion. 404 lODUM — IPECACUANHA

William Boericke 1922

Haemoptysis. Asthmatic breathing. IODOFORM UM — lODUM 401

William Boericke 1922

Croupy cough, with difficult respiration ; wheezy. Cold extends downzvards from head to throat and bronchi. Great weakness about

William Boericke 1922

Laryngitis, with painful roughness; worse during cough. Child grasps throat when coughing. Right-sided pneumonia with ' high temperature'"^ Pneumonia. Difficult expansion of chest, blood-streaked sputum ; internal dry heat, external coldness. Violent heart action. Hepatization spreads rapidly. Croup in scrofulous children with dark hair and

William Boericke 1922

Testicles swollen and indurated. Hydrocele. Loss of sexual power, with atrophied testes.

William Boericke 1922

Anxiety when quiet. Present anxiety and depression, no reference to the future. Sudden impulse to run and do violence. Forgetful. Must be busy. Fear of people, shuns every one. Melanclioly. Suicidal tendency.

William Boericke 1922

Worse, when quiet, in warm room, right side. Better, walking about, in open air.

William Boericke 1922

Gums loose and bleed easily. Foul ulcers and salivation. Profuse, fetid ptyalism. Tongue thickly coated. Offensive odor from

William Boericke 1922

Sneezing. Sudden violent influenza. Dry coryza becomes fluent in open air, also a fluent hot coryca with general heat of

William Boericke 1922

Antidotes: Hepar; Siilph.; Gratiola. Complementary: Lycopod.; Badiaga.

William Boericke 1922

Hoarse. Raw and tickling feeling provoking a dry cough. Pain in

William Boericke 1922

Hot, dry, yellow and withered. Glands enlarged. Nodosities. Anasarca of cardiac disease.

William Boericke 1922

Pain at root of nose and frontal sinus. Nose stopped up. Tendency to ulceration. Loss of smell. Acute uoset enijornnnent associated with high blood pressure.

William Boericke 1922

Ravenous hunger and much thirst. Empty eructations, as if every particle of food were turned into gas. Anxious and worried if he does not eat. [Cina; Sulfh.] Loses flesh, yet hungry and eating well. [Abrot.]

William Boericke 1922

Throbbing at pit of

William Boericke 1922

Larynx feels constricted. Eustachian deafness. Thyroid enlarged. Goitre, with sensation of constriction. Swollen submax illary glands. Uvula swollen.