DISEASE OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM OF THE FIRST INFANCY



Cutaneous troubles and erythema. Chamomilla and Belladonna are useful in erythema with extreme hypersensitive skin specially during dentition. In Belladonna there is the classic triade; redness, heat and pain.

Rhus toxicodendron and Causticum should be given if there are vesicles (small vesicles Rhus tox, large vesicles Causticum). In pemphigus Rhus toxicodendron and Causticum may be useful.

When there is hereditary taints Luecimum or Hepato-Luecimum and sometimes Lycopodium or other ground remedies are to be used.

In cases of traumatism or reddish skin aggravated or caused by: too much tight dresses Arnica is to be used.

We should also treat local infections by external application Calendula or Calendula ointment, or dying powder such as talcum.

Mauritius Fortier-Bernoville
Mauritius (Maurice) Fortier Bernoville 1896 – 1939 MD was a French orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become the Chief editor of L’Homeopathie Moderne (founded in 1932; ceased publication in 1940), one of the founders of the Laboratoire Homeopathiques Modernes, and the founder of the Institut National Homeopathique Francais.

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.