SPONGIA

Symptoms

      1. Fair-complexioned women and children of lax fibre timid and sensitive; tubercular diathesis.

2. Marked anxiety, even terror, in nearly all complaints; gen. assoc. with the suffocative attacks.

3. Great dryness of mucous membranes in respiratory tract cough with no mucous rale, dry, sibilant, “like a saw through pine- board”; ((<)) sweats, cold drinks, lying with head low, sleep, mental excitement. Coup; after exposure to dry, cold winds; anxious wheezing ((<)) during inspiration; dry, barking cough in suffocative attacks; (often after Aconite has controlled the high fever and dry, hot skin); ((<)) after midnight.

4. Heart diseases; organic; suffocating attacks on lying fat with head low, esp. after midnight; hypertrophied conditions, esp. when assoc. emphysema; sudden failing of compensation; violent palpitation; pain down left arm; ((<)) sleep.

5. Glandular enlargements; with induration; of thyroid (goitre), of generative organs, of testicles after suppressed gonorrhoea or maltreated orchitis.

A. Gladstone Clarke

Arthur Gladstone Clarke, a christian missionary working with the North China Mission, made good practical use of the homeopathy. He learnt as a student at MSM. He published a short introduction to the use of over 100 commonly used medicines—Decachords—first published in 1925 and still in print today.