HYDROPHOBINUM


HYDROPHOBINUM signs and symptoms from the Characteristic Materia Medica by William Burt of the homeopathic medicine HYDROPHOBINUM…


SPHERE OF ACTION

Acts especially upon the cerebro-spinal system, affecting most powerfully the nerves of sensation and motion. The sentient nerves of the mouth and pharynx are especially and peculiarly affected, also the salivary glands. There is great congestion and inflammation of the brain, medulla oblongata, spinal cord, tongue, throat, glottis, fauces, larynx, oesophagus, stomach, and especially the kidneys. Good physicians now think that the kidneys are the centre for the action of this peculiar poison.

GRAND CHARACTERISTICS.

Frequent spitting.-.

Wants water but cannot drink it.

Periodical spasms of the oesophagus, with constant painful urging to swallow, but impossibility of doing it.-.

Spasms are excited at every attempt to drink water, or at the sound of water.

Difficult and incoherent speech.

The desire for stool was immediately caused when he heard or saw running water.

Profuse watery stools, from six to twenty a day, with pain in the bowels; worse in the morning.–HALE.

Dr. Hale, and others, have reported cures with Hydrophobinum, in which the stools were induced by sight or sound of running water.–F.

Prophylactic in hydrophobia.

These valuable remedies deserve a careful investigation by the profession.

Dr. Searle has made some wonderful cures with the Hypophosphite of lime, large doses of the decimal, probably the first, in chronic ulceration: after pus had formed in a number of cases he was able to remove it without opening the abscess; there was much anaemia in each case.

Its proper sphere of action seems to be that of the suppurative stage and the congestive stage just preceding.–O.P.

BAER, M.D.

I have found it of great value in cases that seemed to call for Hepar sulph., but which it failed to cure.

Diseases of the air passages where the patient takes cold at every change of the weather, especially if the wind comes from the east, it has given me excellent results.

William Burt
William H. Burt, MD
(1836-1897)
Characteristic materia medica Published 1873
Physiological materia medica, containing all that is known of the physiological action of our remedies; together with their characteristic indications and pharmacology. Published 1881