The homoeopathic materia medica : arranged systematically and practically / by A. Teste ; translated from the French and edited by Chas. J. Hempel.

  • Teste, Alph. (Alphonse), 1814-
Date:
1854
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    marked while the disease still exists on the skin, are still much more uncertain in the internal disease. Before speaking of sulphur and its analogues, I have to point out a fact which results from the statistical review I have instituted. If the symptoms of the drugs which constitute my group of antipsorics, are treated in the same manner as the symptoms of the psoric diseases, we obtain the following curious results :— 1st. The cutaneous symptoms of these drugs, not only correspond to the different varieties of the itch, but their most constant and truly characteristic symptoms, correspond precisely to the morbid conditions which have most frequently been developed by a retrocession of the cutaneous diseases;1 2d, the rare and, so to say, exceptional effects of sulphur and its analogues, corresponds to the rare and exceptional mani- festations of the internal psora. Sulphur. Simple, combustible body, or, at any rate, which has never yet been decomposed, (it is supposed to contain hydrogen,) solid, of a lemon color, insipid and inodorous, becoming electric by friction, fusible at 108° P., and crystal- lizing, when cooling, in the shape of semi-transparent needles. Sulphur is insoluble in water, but slightly soluble in alcohol; so that, from the first upwards, all its dilutions can be made with alcohol. This metalloid which exists extensively in nature, where it is found in its native state, in the neighbor- hood of volcanoes, in amorphous masses, or in the form of crystals; or in combination with hydrogen, and various metallic oxydes, (sulphurets,) or in combination with oxygen and oxydes, (sulphates,) is moreover, a constituent element of various organic substances, especially of the plants com- 1 Is it not undeniably true that ulcers on the skin, subacute ophthalmia, piles, rush of blood to the brain, with all its consequences, (apoplexy, deafness,paralysis of the extremities, epileptic vertigo, etc.,) febris conlinua, and lastly, and more particularly, suffocative catarrh, cough, and, in general, the mucous affections of the air-passages, constitute, together with the psoriform eruption, the leading and characteristic features of the pathogenesis of sulphur, lobelia inflata, etc ?