Definition. A vaccine is defined as a standardized suspension of dead bacteria in a physiological salt solution preserve in Lysol or Carbolic acid, which is administered for the purpose of raising th opsonic index of patients suffering from an infection by these organisms. When the preservatives are used, they are used in amounts which would approximate the 3x homoeopathic dilution in both cases. Not all vaccines are preserved by these substances. In the case of autogenous vaccines they are largely prepared and preserved with alcohol. Nosodes are defined as remedies taken from diseases and prepared homoeopathically. Varieties. Vaccines are divided into : I. Stock; 2. Autogenous, and 3. Mixed. A stock vaccine is made from the culture of pathogenic organisms and may be used on any patient. An autogenous vaccine is made from cultures taken from the patient himself, and can be used in his cplace it among proved medical facts.
+ Definition. A vaccine is defined as a standardized suspension of dead bacteria in a physiological salt solution preserve in Lysol or Carbolic acid, which is administered for the purpose of raising th opsonic index of patients suffering from an infection by these organisms. When the preservatives are used, they are used in amounts which would approximate the 3x homoeopathic dilution in both cases. Not all vaccines are preserved by these substances. In the case of autogenous vaccines they are largely prepared and preserved with alcohol.
Nosodes are defined as remedies taken from diseases and prepared homoeopathically.
Varieties. Vaccines are divided into : I. Stock; 2. Autogenous, and 3. Mixed.
A stock vaccine is made from the culture of pathogenic organisms and may be used on any patient.
An autogenous vaccine is made from cultures taken from the patient himself, and can be used in his case only. The autogenous vaccines are considered to be much more efficacious than the other varieties.
A mixed vaccine is used where there are two or more germs of a disease in a given case, and a mixed vaccine may be either stock or autogenous. Dr. Burney Yeo, of England, terms the mixed vaccine the “blunderbuss.” We have a similar word. namely, “shot gun” prescribing.
The requisites for a good vaccine, according to Runnels, are the following:
1. It must be identical with the toxin of the organism infecting the case to be treated.
2. All germ life must be destroyed.
3. It must be put up so as to be incapable of infection.
4. Its administration must be unobjectionable.
Vaccines Compared with Nosodes. Dr. J. G. Hare, of the London Homoeopathic Hospital, recently completed a stock of the various vaccines for dispensary use in the 3x and 30x potencies as per the following :
1. Staphylococcus multivalent.
2. Streptococcus mixed.
3. Staphylococcus aureus.
4. Staphylococcus albus.
5. Bacillus acnes et staph.
6. Micrococcus catarrhalis.
7. Bacillus coli.
8. Bacillus influenza.
9. Pneumococcus pure.
10 Pneumococcus multivalent.
1. Gonococcus.
12. Bacillus typhosus.
The nosodes in use in the homoeopathic school with date of introduction are the following which may be either official (stock) autogenous, auto-haemic or possibly mixed.
1. Psorinum, about 1833.
2. Anthracinum, first used in 1836.
3. Hydrophobinum, proved in 1833, fifty years before Pasteur.
4. Medorrhinum, used in 1875, by Dr. Biegler, of Rochester, N.Y.
5. Syphilinum, used in 1879, and proving published in 1880.
6. Tuberculinum introduced by Swan in 1879.
7. Variolinum used as early as 1871.
8. Vaccinum used in 1873, and account published in the American Institute Transactions.
9. Diphtherinum introduced by Lux and used by Swan.
10. Pyrogen first mentioned by Dr. Drysdale, of England, in 1880.
In 1875 Dr. Burdon Sanderson wrote in the British Medical Journal, “Only liquids which contain bacteria are capable of setting up pyrexia.”
11. Micrococcinum and Oscillococcinum, the first discovered by Doyen and the second by Roy in 1925 have been used by our french confreres in the 30th and 200th potencies in cancer but without success, in the reason being that cancer is not microbic in origin. (Vannier.)
To this list might be added many others, for example, Petrussin or Coqueluchin, introduced by clarke in 1996. Morbillin, Malandrinum, Sepsin, and of course, the various tuberculins employed under many different names.
Here we have a remarkable similarity in the two lists, thus our Medorrhinum corresponds to the Gonococcus and Psorinum to the various staphylococcus and streptococcus vaccines and the pyrogen to antifebrile vaccines, and many hat have as yet no been appropriated by the allopathic school.
Professor of Materia Medica in the University of Michigan Homeopathic Medical College. Member of American Institute of Homeopathy. In addition to his editoral work he authored or collaborated on: Boericke and Dewey's Twelve Tissue Remedies, Essentials of Homeopathic Materia Medica, Essentials of Homeopathic Therapeutics and Practical Homeopathic Therapeutics.