Malandrinum – Medicine



Large blisters on soles of both feet-no change of shoes- skin exfoliated on both feet.

Feet “go to sleep” upon least provocation, a sensation never before observed.

Cold perspiration on soles of feet; sensation of a draft of air blowing on feet at night, must get up and tuck in the bed clothes which relieves.

Deep rhagades, sore and bleeding, on soles of feet amel. in cold weather and after bathing.

Aching in the limbs for several weeks, much worse when weary (during small-pox epidemic).

Sore in all limbs and joints. “Run around” on all nails of hands and feet.

On Oct. 22, 1901, a man, 56, had three doses of Malandrinum 30, to be taken 24 hours apart.

On Nov. 11 complained of burning, stinging itching of face and scalp agg. at night. In a few days there was a well developed eczema which continued four or five weeks despite antidotal treatment.

Skin

      On the 6th day a pustular eruption covering chest and shoulders with hard nodules and intense itching; eruption began to crust with little or no discharge from pustules.

Two ladies had taken the 200th, one dose, daily; on the third day with one and on the fourth day with the other, a slight pustular eruption appeared on the face and chest. The eruptions were similar in character and ran their course in a week.

A few small pustules appeared on the left arm near the site of infantile vaccination, some days after a dose of Malandrinum 200. Geo. H. Clark.

A sensation of rawness of the skin over chest and shoulders, after bathing, as if the skin had been scraped with burning acid, smarting by covering parts.

A nodular eruption over chest and shoulders, extended down the arm to elbows, with slight vesication, disappeared leaving thin crusts.

A burning itching sensation beneath the skin in the palm of the hand, appeared upon contact; after the eruption had disappeared, continued for several weeks.

Eczema of face and scalp, with burning, stinging itching.

Impetigo on extensors of forearms.

Small dusky red spots on legs, not disappearing on pressure.

Dry; rough, unhealthy skin remaining for years after vaccination.

Skin rough, dry, harsh.

Palms and soles thick; deep rhagades agg. in cold weather, agg. from washing with any kind of soap.

Skin greasy; oily eruption, and hair excessively oily.

Pustules slow to develop but never ending; as one healed another appeared.

Eruption in hollow of arms and knees, red, scaly with intense itching agg. when becoming warm.

Sleep

      Restless sleep; dreams of trouble, of quarrels.

Malandrinum 30, while being used as a prophylactic of variola, cured a stubborn case of aphthae, which had resisted many well selected remedies.

Malandrinum 30, one dose daily for four days, produced a severe backache for a week or more.

For the bad effects of vaccination has been used with best results.

Each member, in a family of six, had been vaccinated; three receiving Malandrinum, and their arms were only slightly affected by the vaccination and ran a short course of a few days; the other three, who did not receive Malandrinum, were very ill, arms sore for weeks and required treatment.

Bad effects of vaccination: A lady, with an ulcer as large as a silver dollar and three-fourths of an inch deep, which continued to suppurate and would not heal; but under the curative effect of Malandrinum, recovered promptly.

When used as a prophylactic for variola has proved protective in many cases, and also prevented vaccination from “taking.”

Skin symptoms produced in nearly all who took Malandrinum as a prophylactic; itching rash on various parts of body and face, plainly visible under cuticle, with a few scattered eruptions on surface.

Malandrinum was given to nearly 600 persons, many of whom had been exposed by personal contact with various patients, before and after taking the medicine; only one case of so-called varioloid occurred, and this may have been a proving of Malandrinum.

Malandrinum 30 given to many persons during small-pox epidemic as a prophylactic produced in a number of cases marked premonitory symptoms; headache, backache, general soreness, malaise, thickly coated tongue, loss of appetite, and more or less fever.

Blood boils. Malignant pustules. Vaccinal ulcers.

“The crust assumed a conical forms; a thick layer of crusts, if allowed to remain without removal, heaped up one-half inch. They were fragile, moist, yellow, about the consistency of honey- comb. When removed a raw surface remained with deep fissures and thick crusts reformed into their original size in 48 hours. There was evidently no itching, but soreness after removal of the scabs.” – Wesselhoeft.

Malandrinum 30: produced burning, stinging, itching of the face scalp, worse in the night; a few days later a well developed eczema.

Malandrinum 200: produced a number of small pustules on the left arm, near the site of infantile vaccination.

H. C. Allen
Dr. Henry C. Allen, M. D. - Born in Middlesex county, Ont., Oct. 2, 1836. He was Professor of Materia Medica and the Institutes of Medicine and Dean of the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College. He served as editor and publisher of the Medical Advance. He also authored Keynotes of Leading Remedies, Materia Medica of the Nosodes, Therapeutics of Fevers and Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever.