He compares Iodum with Arsenicum. Restlessness with great anxiety: intense restlessness: must be doing something. “But if the patient is a hot-blooded patient we would never think of Arsenicum: If a cold-blooded and shivering patient, we would never think of Iodine.” He also contrasts Iodum with Pulsatilla: “they are both hot, both irritable, both full of notions: but here they part company: for Pulsatilla is more whimsical, more tearful, and has a constant loss of appetite, while Iodine wants to eat much.”
He also says: “Iodine has often cured a group of symptoms (in the constitution that I have named)–viz. enlargement of the heart, enlargement of the thyroid and protruding eyeballs, with cardiac disturbances, as in `exophthalmic goitre’. But to cure such a case with Iodine, the patient must have the Iodine symptoms; must suffer from heat, be emaciated and sallow, and suffer from enlarged glands.”
Ravenous Iodine howls for her dinner,
Eats much and eats often, but only grows thinner:
Her phenomenal meals she’s for ever repeating,
Because all her symptoms are better by eating.
She is fidgety, fearful, unable to rest;
While she eats, while she walks–in the cold, she feels best.
All her glands (save the mammae) congested appear:
She’s corrosive, destructive-to-clothes, leucorrhoea.
