Phosphorus [Phos]
TYPHUS POISONING OF HEART AND LUNGS; it is our great tonic of the heart, where nervous prostration is extreme and degeneration of the tissues has taken place. Pain in all limbs, (<) by cool air, in bed, mornings and evenings; heat steady, but not intense; small, quick pulse; profuse night- sweats, not relieving; difficult breathing, with stitches in lungs, mucous rales, cough with blood-streaked expectoration; pit of stomach tender on pressure; face pale, with occasional flushes of heat; lips and tongue dry, parched and covered with sordes; heaviness of lower limbs; coma vigil, low muttering delirium; constant sleepiness. PNEUMONIA TYPHOSA.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
CHILLINESS, EVEN WHEN NEAR THE FIRE, with pains as if bruised all over the body; great debility; marked languor; petechial spots; vivid dreams of great bodily exertion; slow, irregular pulse; great thirst for cold drinks; delirium; answers questions slowly; dark, livid redness of cheeks; dry, red, cracked tongue; dry, tickling cough, (<) in the evening and before midnight; glandular swellings; foetid breath; involuntary foetid stools during sleep.
Secale [Sec]
TYPHUS ARISING FROM IRRITATION OF THE SPINAL CORD; constant sighing and extreme restlessness; aversion to being covered; thirst for cold water; constant dry heat with hurried pulse; insomnia; wandering pains in whole length of back, flying from one part to another; tonic spasms in hands and feet, clonic spasms in facial muscles with jerks and tremulousness; asthmatic symptoms from spasms of pectoral muscles.
Stramonium [Stram]
Stupid indifference, sleepless or soporous; the wild, furious delirium threatens to exhaust him. Skin hot, dry, burning, (<) afternoons and at midnight; pulse small, rapid, intermitting; besotted expression of face or a LOOK OF GREAT FEAR AND TERROR, WANTS LIGHT AND COMPANY; eyes wide open, staring and squinting, tongue dry, brown, with violent thirst for cold drinks, stool and urine suppressed or thee dark-brown or bloody stools have a cadaverous smell; pharyngeal spasms with difficult deglutition; constant restlessness with jerking of limbs and of the whole body.
Veratrum-alb [Verat]
Sudden sinking of vital forces, hippocratic face, sunken eyes, pointed nose, cold sweat over whole body; marked coldness of hands and feet; spasmodic constriction of throat; violent thirst for cold water; petechiae on extremities.
Zincum [Zinc]
BRAIN EXHAUSTION; delirium with attempts to get out of bed; constant jerking of the whole body during sleep, sliding down in bed; loss of memory; subsultus tendinum; involuntary evacuations.
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal was the author of many great books including “Homeopathic Therapeutics”. For many years, with the support of Dr. Constantine Hering, he was the editor of the North American Journal of Homeopathy. Dr. Lilienthal passed away on February 2nd 1891 in San Francisco.