It will abort the case at the beginning if indicated, but is not a specific by any means. Hahnemann’s instruction about Bryonia and Rhus in typhoid still holds good. Often Arsenicum is useful at the beginning. Don’t let anyone make you believe that Arsenicum is never indicated in the beginning of the disease. One remedy, one dose, is also true in pneumonia. Give the indicated remedy at the start and you can well afford to wait for the crisis. Watch but don’t be frightened.
The pneumonias that die are usually those that have been given digitalis (crude dosage), antipyretics, coal tar products, etc. In typhoid Arnica and Baptisia are indicated once in a while, Arsenicum fairly often. These and Bryonia frequently. These five remedies probably cover over 80 percent of the cases. Patients should be immobilized to stop their thrashing about. In this way the inflammation of the Peyer’s patches is made milder by inaction and the ulceration of the second and third stages and intestinal haemorrhage are avoided. It is a very important point. On the twenty-first day or earlier when the temperature drops, due to the remedy or to the natural course of the disease, don’t give a remedy when the temperature drops to subnormal., 96 1/2 degrees.
If you do you will cause a relapse. In my earlier years I mistook this for collapse and gave Carbo vegetabilis. In every case there was a relapse and its consequences of another run of fever. It taught me a lesson and now I give no remedy at this point to interrupt the action of the first remedy or to start up a fresh inflammation. Such cases, left along, come back to normal in a few days. The well indicated remedy will usually finish up your typhoid cases in ten to fourteen days, about the time you would ordinarily think you had a real typhoid to deal with.
Born in Western Pennsylvania, he graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and subsequently Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia. He moved to Parkersburg, W. Va., in 1888, practicing there, but also consulting worldwide. He gave lectures at the Pulte Medical College in Cincinnati and taught philosophy, materia medica, and repertory at the American Foundation for Homoeopathy Postgraduate School. Boger brought BÅ“nninghausen's Characteristics and Repertory into the English Language in 1905. His publications include :
Boenninghausen's Characteristics and Repertory
Boenninghausen's Antipsorics
Boger's Diphtheria, (The Homoeopathic Therapeutics of)
A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915
General Analysis with Card Index, 1931
Samarskite-A Proving
The Times Which Characterize the Appearance and Aggravation of the Symptoms and their Remedies