Variolinum
Nosode
Used for internal vaccination. The remedy suits those exposed to small-pox contagion or those suffering from small-pox or varioloid conditions. Acts as preventive against small-pox and vaccinal infection.
Key symptoms
- Excruciating backache
- Aching in legs and joints
- Morbid fear of small-pox
- Oppressed breathing with closed throat
- Hot fever with intense radiating heat
- Profuse, bad-smelling sweat
- Pustular eruptions and shingles
- Deafness and pain in occiput
- Inflamed eyelids
- Cough with thick viscid bloody mucus
Worse (aggravation)
- Motion
- Vaccination
Lymph from Small-pox Pustule
Used for "internal vaccination." Seems to be efficacious in protecting against, modifying and aiding in the cure of smallpox.
Head
Morbid fear of small-pox. Deafness. Pain in occiput. Inflamed eyelids.
Respiratory
Oppressed breathing. Throat feels closed. Cough with thick viscid, bloody mucus. Feeling of a lump in right side of throat.
Relationship
Excruciating backache. Aching in legs. Tired all over with restlessness. Wrists pain. Pains shift from back to abdomen.
Fever
Hot fever, with intense radiating heat. Profuse, bad-smelling sweat.
Skin
Hot, dry. Eruption of pustules. Shingles.
Relationship
Compare: Vaccin (same action); Malandrinum--the morbid product of the grease of the horse (a prophylactic of small-pox and a remedy for the ill-effects of vaccination; chronic eczema following vaccination).
Dose
Sixth to thirtieth potency.
Variolinum. Nosode of Small-pox. Trituration of matter from small-pox vesicle.
Clinical
Asthma. Backache. Chill. Fever. Headache; occipital. Herpes zoster. Neuralgia. Small-pox. Testicle, swelling of.
Characteristics
The cardinal symptoms of small-pox are the keynote symptoms for the use of Variolinum. The backache of small-pox is about the worst backache known, and Var. has cured in my practice a number of bad backaches that nothing else seemed to touch. Var. was Burnett's chief remedy in shingles; it generally, as he expressed it, wiped out the disease, eruption and pain as well. It will also cure neuralgia left by herpes. Var. has aborted many cases of small-pox, and has proved an efficient preventive against small-pox contagion and vaccinal infection. G. M. H. (H. W., xxxii. 546) records this experience: Var. 6 (three pilules) was given to the mother and children of a family, one of whose members was taken with small-pox and removed to an isolation hospital, with his mother to nurse him. The …
Pus from smallpox pustule. (A Nosode.)
Only fragmentary provings. Bears the same relation to smallpox that Antitoxin does to diphtheria. An extended clinical record by competent and reliable observers attest its curative value in variola - simple, confluent and malignant - as well as in varioloid and varicella. It has done splendid work in all potencies, from the 6th cent. to the c. m. As a preventive of, or protection against, smallpox, it is far superior to crude vaccination and absolutely safe from the sequenae, especially septic and tubercular infection. The efficacy of the potency is the stumbling block to the materialist. But is it more difficult to comprehend than the infectious nature of variola, measles or pertusis? Those who have not used, like those who have not experimentally tested the law of similars, are not competent witnesses. Put it to the test and publish the failures to the world.
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