Treatment. The best remedy is Phosphorus. But it is dangerous in cases of evolution of pulmonary tuberculosis.
Other remedies of fatty degeneration : Kali bichromicum, Phlorizin, Vanadium, Picric acid, Aurum muriaticum.
Naturally you will use the diluted Tuberculins according to the case : Spengler, Marmoreck, Bacillinum, Denys, Aviary, K. T., R. T. The most indicated are Bacillinum and R.T.
D. Hepatic Syphilis.
Secondary Syphilis. Sometimes catarrhal icterus.
Tertiary Syphilis. Sclero-gumman lesions : big hard liver, lignous, tied up, sometimes atropho-hypertrophic, according to the lobes. Sclerous bands. Sometimes of pseudo tumoral form. Spontaneous pains caused by perihepatitis. Splenomegalis. Frequent albuminuria. Sometimes ascites. Frequent bile retention. Evolution towards sclerosis. Irregular fever. Sometimes hypertrophic cirrhosis with chronic icterus.
Treatment: Syphilinum, Aurum metallicum, Aurum muriaticum, Plumbum metallicum, Kali iod., Mercurius solubilis, Mercurius dulcis. These are the classical remedies.
Don’t forget if indicated : Phosphorus, Sulphur, Lycopodium (with care).
The treatment of kystes (hydratic) and abscess of the liver, clearly surgical, goes beyond the limit of our study.
Specific classical treatment which is still sure, cyanide of Hg, preferably intra-venous (avoid mineral salts, because dangerous).
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.