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Studies in the Philosophy of Healing
and others writing including The study of materia medica and taking the case
C. M. BOGER
SYPHILINUM
Hahnemann’s Sulphur has amply justified itself as the
greatest of antipsorics; but greater cleanliness has lessened the need for it
considerably. On the other hand our recent moral let down has increased the demand for an
equally effectual antisyphilitic.Swan gave us the nosode Syphilinum and later Abrams reinforced
the argument, but like other isopathic remedies it has not taken a very strong hold on the
profession; probably because the provings are notably fragmentary and weak and also for
the reason that its use rests too largely upon presumptive evidence, being in fact almost
entirely empirical.Mercury, Syphilinum and 606 each at times yields almost startling
results, but at others fails miserably. All specifics have the habit of doing this,
because they are only occasionally indicated. There can be no greater fallacy than to
choose remedies on the basis of diagnosis and percentage; yet this is very largely the
general custom.Disease never runs exactly true to form. The variations from case to
case contain the very incidents which enable the prescriber to choose the curative
similar. This one remedy and this only will again restore vital harmony in the very best
possible way; all others modify sickness only, and no more. Provings which decidedly
portray disease forms are the very ones that accounts for many false cures that have
often, deceived both patient and doctor. the true simillimum often redevelops these
disease pictures; an impossibility had there been a genuine cure.The manifestations of tertiary syphilis multiply as our
information increases; so that for the purpose of final, individual differentiation we
must perforce fall back upon the personal elements of each case. Fortunately these are the
very ones needed to build up a correct clinical picture of the remedy which will cure.Usually leutic patients have suffered many abuses before they fall in
with good homoeopathy; then unless some one drug is clearly indicated, it is well to give
this nosode to clarify and put in order the confused symptom array. Then it always stops
short of actual cure, which can only be accomplished with the aid of the patient’s