Pestinum
Plague nosode (Yersinia pestis) · Nosode
Clarke
Pestinum is used in cases of plague and typhus, following the nosode principle that the diseased material in potency can treat the very disease it comes from. It is employed both prophylactically and therapeutically.
Key symptoms
- Plague with bubo formation
- Typhus-like states
John Henry Clarke
A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1900
Plaguinum. Nosode of Plague. Trituration of the virus.
Clinical
Bubo. Plague. Typhus.
Characteristics
The prophylaxis and treatment of plague with injections of more or less modified virus of plague by old-school practioners affords evidence that the nosode of plague is available, like other nosodes, for the treatment of cases of the disease from which it is derived.
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