Diseases of bone are too serious to be treated domestically where good medical advice is to be had. Many limbs condemned by allopathic surgeons have been saved by Homoeopathy.
Inflammation of bone, or rather of the membranes which cover the bone (periosteum), if not checked result in death of the bone (necrosis).
Ulceration of bone (caries) is a slower process.
General Treatment.-The strength of the patient must be maintained by strengthening diet. In caries the wound should be bathed with a lotion of tincture of Silica6, one part to eight of water used as a lotion and compress.
Medicines.
Mezereum 3.-
For inflammation (every hour).
Silica 6.-
For ulceration (every two hours).
Phosphorus 3.-
If Silica fails.
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica