38. Belladonna, Hyosc., Stramonium, Veratrum, have always been successful in the above order when they are indicated. Their symptoms (psychic) are very much similar, and by applying them, the somatic condition should be considered.
Belladonna: Suits when the vascular system is excited.
Hyoscyamus: When the symptoms are more localised in the nerve centre, also it is useful in confirmed manias.
Stramonium: Suits when the mania turns to dementia.
Veratrum: Is indicated against the mania of greatness and some men who have so easily paralysis of whom Calcarea seemed to me till now the best medicine.
Helleborus: Suits to mute melancholy. 7-11-1876.
Indication of Mercurius vivus in city dwellers, who are hundred times more favoured than the peasants, have a querulous character, not submissive, are not content of anything, complain of their family, their friends, the existing government, and do not accept any authority, want or religious mind.
In the 30 years of practice at Paris, I had almost one fourth of my clients attacked by syphilis. Treated by Mercurius, none of them mixed in our troublesome politics. 16-11-1874.
Gallavardin set up a homeopathic Dispensary for the cure of alcoholics, often working in conjunction with priests, and he wrote several books on this subject.
Jean Pierre Gallavardin wrote Psychism and Homeopathy, The Homoeopathic Treatment of Alcoholism, How to Cure Alcoholism the Non-toxic Homoeopathic Way, Repertory of Psychic Medicines with Materia Medica, Plastic Medicine, and articles for The British Journal of Homeopathy, On Phosphoric Paralysis, and he collated the statistics on pneumonia and other cases for the United States Journal of Homeopathy, and he contributed widely to homeopathic publications.