Today we may ask if it is not simply a manifestation of rarefication of tuberculin in the humors. When the person secretes through an opening high doses of tuberculin in his humors, it creates a desensitization according to a natural technique of Bisredka type.
When, on the contrary the tuberculin is rarified, and it is really what happens when the tuberculous patients are cured, it is at that moment when that infinitesimal tuberculin becomes sensibilising. The diluted antigen becomes antibody. The rheumatic phenomena may be produced by the mechanism of antibody-antigen reaction. Besides, homoeopathic tuberculins act admirably in tuberculosis.
The idea of the influence of tuberculin on chronic rheumatism is therefore important. Very important is also the influence of dental pyorrhoea. But this type of rheumatism is very different and may be more easily corrected when one thinks of it. With this rheumatism may be compared all the rheumatism resulting out of microbian digestive troubles (streptococcus and enterococcus).
The gonococcic toxin like that of syphilitic toxin, like all other secondary toxins having tendency to allergic condition, causes predisposition to rheumatism.
In summary we may say that a rheumatic subject is by his constitution an endocrinian and weakly intoxicated by the toxins that he carries within him. He is a sensitive person and his sensitiveness may cause rheumatic affections.
In chronic rheumatism there is a tendency to alkalosis. Now Dr.Fortier-Bernoville will resume his lecture.
Bernoville was a major lecturer in homeopathy, and he was active in Liga Medicorum Homeopathica Internationalis, and a founder of the le Syndicat national des médecins homœopathes français in 1932, and a member of the French Society of Homeopathy, and the Society of Homeopathy in the Rhone.
Fortier-Bernoville wrote several books, including Une etude sur Phosphorus (1930), L'Homoeopathie en Medecine Infantile (1931), his best known Comment guerir par l'Homoeopathie (1929, 1937), and an interesting work on iridology, Introduction a l'etude de l'Iridologie (1932).
With Louis-Alcime Rousseau, he wrote several booklets, including Diseases of Respiratory and Digestive Systems of Children, Diabetes Mellitus, Chronic Rheumatism, treatment of hay fever (1929), The importance of chemistry and toxicology in the indications of Phosphorus (1931), and Homeopathic Medicine for Children (1931). He also wrote several short pamphlets, including What We Must Not Do in Homoeopathy, which discusses the logistics of drainage and how to avoid aggravations.
He was an opponent of Kentian homeopathy and a proponent of drainage and artificial phylectenular autotherapy as well.