Smallpox
Aconite [Acon]
First stage and early part of second stage; high fever; great restlessness; apprehension of fatal issue.
Ammonium-carb [Am-c]
Haemorrhagic diathesis, from fluidity of blood and dissolution of red blood-corpuscles; tendency to gangrenous ulcerations, high-graded adynamia.
Ammonium-mur [Am-m]
Eruption well developed upon trunk and upper extremities, but scanty on lower ones; sore throat, with swelling about neck; haemorrhages.
Anacardium [Anac]
Loss of memory as a sequela of smallpox; paresis of the muscles subject to volition.
Antimonium-crud [Ant-c]
Gastric stage, with vomiting and heavily-coated tongue, especially during prodromal stage.
Antimonium-tart [Ant-t]
Eruption does not come out properly or has been repelled; great difficulty of breathing; face bluish, purple, drowsiness and twitching. Indicated as well in the beginning for ate dry teasing cough as in putrid variola with typhoid pneumonia and tendency to paralysis of lungs, vomiting of viscid mucus, clogging air- passages.
Apis-mell [Apis]
Erysipelatous redness and swelling, with stinging-burning pains in skin and throat; absence of thirst; scanty micturition; at a later period or when eruption recedes great dyspnoea; sensation as if he would not be able to breathe again; great restlessness; suppression of urinary secretion.
Arsenicum [Ars]
Asthenic cases, with great sinking of strength; burning heat; frequent small pulse; great thirst; great restlessness; irregularly developed variola, with typhoid tendency; haemorrhagic variola, or when the pustules sink in and their areolae grow livid; metastasis to mouth and throat in last part of eruptive period.
Baptisia [Bapt]
Typhoid symptoms; haemorrhagic diathesis; foetid breath; pustules appear thickly upon palatine arch, tonsils, uvula and in nasal cavities, but scantily upon skin; profuse salivation; great prostration, with excessive pains in sacral region. After taking the drug appetite improves, and the patient is able to take and to retain nourishment.
Belladonna [Bell]
During first stage, high fever with cerebral congestion; intense swelling of skin and of mucous membranes, with tickling cough, dysuria, and tenesmus of bladder; sleeplessness, with desire to sleep; delirium and convulsions; photophobia; ophthalmia. During later stages Belladonna modifies the itching of the desiccating pustules.
Bryonia [Bry]
Precursory stage, with gastric symptoms, or later when the chest symptoms indicate it; eruption slow in developing.
Camphora [Camph]
Sudden collapse, with coldness of surface; the swelling of the skin suddenly sinks in, and the pustules seem to dry up, from the complete giving out of the life forces; excessive weakness; the patient, through cold, cannot beat to be covered.
Cantharis [Canth]
Haemorrhagic state; patient passes bloody urine, with cutting-
burning pains; burning pains through whole intestinal canal, with unquenchable thirst and disgust for all kinds of drinks.
Carbo-veg [Carb-v]
Asthenic variola, with cold breath and excessive prostration; great desire for fresh air; livid purple look of the eruptions; hippocratic face.
Chamomilla [Cham]
Great fretfulness of children during eruptive stage, with the usual impatience and coldness.
Cina [Cina]
Variola haemorrhagica, with great exhaustion from the copious painful stools; excessive debility and prostration after a severe attack.
Cimicifuga [Cimic]
(Macrotin).- In the precursory stage, for the muscular rheumatoid pains; during eruptive fever great wakefulness, mental excitement as if the brain would burst out; dull heavy aching in small of back, relieved by rest, increased by motion; excessive muscular soreness; pricking-itching heat of the whole surface; eruption of white pustules over face and neck; it modifies the disease, prevents the development to pustules, and thus reduces the danger of pitting.
Coffea [Coff]
Restlessness and bilious vomiting as the commencement of the disease.
Crot.-hor [Crot-h]
HAEMORRHAGIC VARIOLA; rash fails to appear, but passive haemorrhages from many orifices; dark-down dry tongue or coated yellow with red edges and tip; low muttering delirium with drowsiness; urine dark, scanty; insatiable thirst; surface cold, especially extremities; tremulous weakness all over.
Digitalis [Dig]
At the beginning burning heat all over body, itching of skin; great thirst, dryness, of mouth, with painful constriction of throat; red eyes and photophobia; palpitations; severe headache, extending down legs.
Gelsemium [Gels]
Predominance of nervous symptoms, as nervous chills, restlessness; intense and painful fever at the commencement of disease, with tendency to convulsions.
Hamamelis [Ham]
Haemorrhagic variola; blood dark, venous; oozing of dark blood from nose; bleeding gums; haematemesis, bloody stools; uterine haemorrhage, petechiae; tearing pains across the small of back, with fulness of the joints of the legs; typhoid condition.
Hepar [Hep]
Croupy cough, suppuration.
Hydrastis [Hydr]
Itching tingling of eruption face swollen, throat sore, pustules dark, great prostration; buccal cavity full of pustules; pulse slow and labored, with palpitation of heart; intense aching pain in small of back, legs feel very weak and ache; it is said to prevent pitting to a great degree.
Hydrocyanic-acid [Hydr-ac]
BAD CASES OF SMALLPOX; eruption in its early appearance is livid; coldness within and without; heat in head with cold extremities; rapid, feeble pulse; coma and prostration.
Hyoscyamus [Hyos]
Eruption fails to appear at the proper time, causing great nervous excitement, with rage, anguish, delirium, coming on in paroxysms; patient wants constantly to get out of bed and to be uncovered (hyperaesthesia of skin); vesicles coming out in crops; restless sleep; slight fever; dry teasing cough, relieved by stinging up.
Ipecacuanha [Ip]
Gastricismus during the stage, with constant nausea.
Mercurius [Merc]
Variola in the stage of maturation; ptyalism; tendency of blood to head; irritation of mucous membranes; moist swollen tongue, with great thirst; diarrhoea or dysentery, with tenesmus, especially during the period of desiccation.
Phosphorus [Phos]
Haemorrhagic diathesis; bloody pustules; hard, dry exhausting cough, with pain or feeling of rawness in chest; bronchitis; haemorrhage from lungs; back pain as if broken, impeding all motion; frequent faintings; typhoid variola, even so from the start; great exhaustion and prostration.
Phosphoric-acid [Ph-ac]
Confluent variola, with typhoid conditions; pustules do not fill with pus, out degenerate into large blisters, which, bursting, leave an excoriated surface; patient is stupid, does not want anything, not even a drink; answers questions, but does not talk otherwise; subsultus tendinum, great restlessness; fear of death; watery diarrhoea.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
Typhoid symptoms, dry tongue; great restlessness; patient wants to get out of bed, notwithstanding his great debility; sordes on lips and teeth; confluent smallpox with great swelling at first, but afterwards the eruption shrinks and becomes livid; blood in pustules; bloody stools.
Sarracenia [Sarr]
(Infusion of pitcher-plant).- No reliable indications; severe cases.
Silicea [Sil]
Suppurative stage exhausts and strength of patient and desiccation is delayed; caries of bones, following severe attacks of smallpox, with fistulous openings and discharge of thin pus and bony fragments.
Solanum-nigr [Sol-n]
Haemorrhagic variola.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Tendency to metastasis to the brain during suppuration; stage of desiccation; occasionally indispensable as an intercurrent remedy, where others fail.
Thuja [Thuj]
Pains in upper arms, fingers and hands, with fulness and soreness of throat; areola around pustules marked and dark- red;pustules milky and flat, painful to touch; especially during stage of maturation, where it may prevent pitting.
Variolinum [Vario]
Especially where the disease throws itself with full force on throat, Given steadily during the disease it will run a milder course, changing imperfect pustules into regular ones; which soon dry up; it promotes suppuration and desiccation, and prevents pitting.
Veratrum-vir [Verat-v]
Intense fever, with excessive pain and restlessness. Used in alternation with Macrotin the pustules flattened, rapidly dried and fell off.
Zincum-met [Zinc]
Great exhaustion and prostration from the start, preventing the eruption from coming out, especially after night-watching and anxiety; dryness, soreness of mouth, palate, vulva, tongue and tonsils covered with sordes, with full breath.
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.