Homoeopathic Treatment of Syphilis -1



This explains, in order to have a rapid effect in acute syphilitic manifestations one is obliged to give Arsenic or Mercury in ponderable doses. When Homoeopathic high dilutions are given no result is obtained or it acts only on the ground.

It is necessary then to ask oneself while taking up the study of the treatment of syphilis, whether one is not on the borderland of the filed of action of homoeopathic remedies or in the field of action, but on condition not to use infinitesimal doses, but to do Homoeopathy in ponderable doses.

Let us consider tuberculosis and syphilis, microbian and parasitic affections. We have in the germs which may infect the organism, on the one hand some vegetations of lower order, and on the other hand animals or animalcules also of lower order.

But we may affirm Homoeopathy is supreme for all vegetative affections and in all bacterial affections. Most of the germs that are studied in bacteriology are classified in the vegetable category and even there is a tendency to consider Koch’s bacilli as vegetation as a fungus or yeast.

On the contrary whenever the affection is caused by animalcules note that the Homoeopathic treatment should be specially adapted, if not, it will prove less important.

As for example in all spirochetoses, in helminthiasis and in all sorts of parasitoses of the skin, intestines or others, in all sorts of affections caused by protozoas, you know how difficult it is to act purely Homoeopathically. We can only change the ground, i.e., the temperament of the subject. We cannot expulse or kill the parasites as is done by the Officials, because we do not use any medicine directly attacking and destroying the parasites. We should come nearer to Allopathy by using for example in worms Cina. 3x, or Cuprum Oxydatum 2x or 3x.

If we want to go up in the higher dilutions we will do some good to a child who has worms in the sense that all toxins, all the nervous troubles caused by worms, affection of meninges or the mental troubles that the child has, will be ameliorated by Homoeopathic remedies; but we will not be able to eliminate the worms which we can do by a disguised vermifuge, i.e., by Homoeopathy remedy in lower dilution which is the least toxic.

It is useless to give a Homoeopathic treatment to a child to make him free from lice which can easily be done by the local use of a toxic drug. After that treatment we can prescribe Sulphur or Lycopodium which will check the relapse acting on the constitutional Psora and the tendency of the organism for cutaneous or other parasites will be eradicated.

In the same way when it is necessary to act on protozoas or against spirochetes, we should not make too much use of infinitesimal doses. But acting in such a way we can act only on the higher sphere of toxins, i.e., to say on the symptom secondarily caused by the parasite in question.

The Officials have an advantage over us in the sense that caring less for the intoxication, they use drugs in strong doses which are or which are not tolerated. As much as a young subject tolerates Arsenic or Mercury, so much less and aged man will tolerate them.

This fact is very well explained by Sedillot in his book. It gives us to understand that the classical treatment of the Officials as it is to-day gives good result if the patient, besides his syphilis, is healthy, if he is not arthritic, if his liver is functioning well, finally if his organism has not lost its balance for other causes. One known only that there is a chancre and that one wished to stop further troubles. Thus one gives him big doses of Arsenobenzol or of Mercury.

But in some cases, if one prescribes I gr. 20 of Arsenobenzol at a time, and if the sympathetic system of the subject is not in balance, one may kill him because of nitritoid crisis. Finally after the 40th year when the patient has a torpid liver, when he has arthritic manifestations with tendency to sclerosis, we may cause ill to the patient and it is often asked whether a patient who has not been treated has no more the chance to be cured than others. Two friends are attacked by Syphilis. The one neglects it, while the other wants to be cured. It is the first one who will live 70 years while the other who was treated will die early or will have dangerous consequences of the toxic effects of the drugs applied specially on the liver.

Therefore, we are face to face with a double problem, which should be solved by a single process. On the one hand the Officials move backwards being afraid of the toxic effect of Arsenobenzol in massive doses; on the other hand the homoeopaths would like to come nearer to the Officials because they are not sure of their classical remedies. In order to attempt to solve the problem the point of view that we will propose will be no doubt very temporary. It will be removed within 10 years.

In support of his statements, Sedillot gives still one experimental fact. He has said that the roseola is localised on some parts of the skin, and not on other parts. So if one region is more aseptised than the other, the roseola will not appear on the aseptised part.

As regards the Bordtt-Wassermann reaction Sedillot says:

“Negative sero-reaction means; Either the treponema has disappeared and is impossible to find out, or the treponema in the state of slow vitality, has not made any recent association with other microbes, but is susceptible of a dangerous reawakening and the means of defense of the organism are completely at rest.”

“The positive sero-reaction means on the contrary that the organism is still under the influence of treponema associated with microbes and that there is leucocyte defense of the organism.”

You understand the possibility of reactivation by Mercury or Arsenic. Then there will arrive a period of silence when the subject goes very well and it is at that time the treatment is necessary but on condition that he should not be made prematurely old favourising the process of sclerosis which will become fatal in course of his life.

Mauritius Fortier-Bernoville
Mauritius (Maurice) Fortier Bernoville 1896 – 1939 MD was a French orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become the Chief editor of L’Homeopathie Moderne (founded in 1932; ceased publication in 1940), one of the founders of the Laboratoire Homeopathiques Modernes, and the founder of the Institut National Homeopathique Francais.

Bernoville was a major lecturer in homeopathy, and he was active in Liga Medicorum Homeopathica Internationalis, and a founder of the le Syndicat national des médecins homœopathes français in 1932, and a member of the French Society of Homeopathy, and the Society of Homeopathy in the Rhone.

Fortier-Bernoville wrote several books, including Une etude sur Phosphorus (1930), L'Homoeopathie en Medecine Infantile (1931), his best known Comment guerir par l'Homoeopathie (1929, 1937), and an interesting work on iridology, Introduction a l'etude de l'Iridologie (1932).

With Louis-Alcime Rousseau, he wrote several booklets, including Diseases of Respiratory and Digestive Systems of Children, Diabetes Mellitus, Chronic Rheumatism, treatment of hay fever (1929), The importance of chemistry and toxicology in the indications of Phosphorus (1931), and Homeopathic Medicine for Children (1931). He also wrote several short pamphlets, including What We Must Not Do in Homoeopathy, which discusses the logistics of drainage and how to avoid aggravations.

He was an opponent of Kentian homeopathy and a proponent of drainage and artificial phylectenular autotherapy as well.