REPERTORY OF HEART SYMPTOMS

Ailanthus: Rapid and small; weak, some times scarcely perceptible, very frequent and irregular (scarlatina).

Apocynum: Pulse 45 between attacks of vomiting; (metrorrhagia).

Caladium: Pulse hard and bounding (in intermittents). Very frequent, hardly to be felt (typhus).

Eupatorium purp.: Pulse accelerated and full (ague).

Glonoinum: Low, feeble (sunstroke).

Helleborus: Frequent, soft, intermittent pulse (in hydrocephalus). Small, irregular (in hydrothorax).

Hydrastis: Pulse slow during the chill.

Kalmia: Slow, small pulse (with severe pain in the cardiac region). Slow, small pulse (hypertrophy). Remarkable slowness of the pulse, 48 in the minute (neuralgia).

Lachnanthes: Pulse 110, small, thin, hard (pneumonia).

Opium: Full and slow, with snoring.

Phytolacca: Heart’s action weak (with constipation).

Sanguinaria: Irregularity of the heart’s action and pulse (with coldness, insensibility).

Secale: Pulse thread-like in haemorrhages.

Stramonium: Pulse slow in typhus.

Tabacum: Oppression about the heart; feeble pulse (cholera).

Veratrum alb.: Pulse intermittent, in feeble persons, with some hepatic obstruction.

CAUSATIVE AND CLINICAL RELATIONSHIP.

Following rheumatism: Colchic.

Consecutive to chlorosis: Ferrum.

After abuse of mercury: Kali iod.

After repeated endocarditis: Kali jod.

When articular rheumatism has been treated externally: Kalmia.

Thickening of the valves after rheumatism: Kalmia.

Pericarditis, dropsy, diphtheritic patches in the throat, after scarlatina: Laches.

Dilatation, following endocarditis or fatty degeneration: Phosphor.

Psoric origin: Psorin.

From violent exertion: Rhus.

From violent running: Arnica.

From overexertion or suppressed discharges (in women): Asafoetida

Consequent on fright: Stramon.

In children and young persons who grow too fast; after self- abuse: Phosph. ac.

Edwin Hale

Edwin Moses Hale 1829 – 1899 was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy graduated at the Cleveland Homoeopathic Medical College to become Professor Emeritus of Materia Medica and Therapeutics at Hahnemann Medical College, editor of the North American Journal of Homeopathy and The American Homeopathic Observer and a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy. Hale was also a member of The Chicago Literary Club.

Hale wrote Lectures On Diseases Of The Heart, Materia medica and special therapeutics of the new remedies Volume 1, Materia Medica And Special Therapeutics Of The New Remedies Volume 2, Saw Palmetto: (Sabal Serrulata. Serenoa Serrulata), The Medical, Surgical, and Hygienic Treatment of Diseases of Women, New Remedies: Their Pathogenetic Effects and Therapeutic Application, Ilex Cassine : the aboriginal North American tea, Repertory to the New Remedies with Charles Porter Hart, The Characteristics of the New Remedies, Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies, The Practice of Medicine, Homoeopathic Materia Medica of the New Remedies: Their Botanical Description etc.