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It gives good results when it is used according to the law of similars. It gives a general success when it is used say on the symptom. The subject unceasingly washes his hands. In other cases if it is used on only one etiological symptom it fails.

Because of its inconstancy we have found out a series of other nosodes.

Besides the ordinary Syphilinum ( from the scrapings of indurated chancre) we have Hepato-Syphilinum (Syphilitic affections of the liver of the new-born, an antigen). It is used in Syphilitic affections of the liver and visceras in tertiary period and in hereditary syphilis. Rachi-Syphilinum, is indicated etiologically in the syphilis of nerves (tabes, meningitis etc…).

Finally, we have Lueso-Marmoreck P, a very interesting medicine prepared in association with high and low dilutions of Marmoreck and Syphilinum. Very frequently we use to our patient a dose of Syphilinum and a dose of tuberculinum because we have seen that we can act better in this way instead of giving them one after the other. One will find it very often interesting to associate the two factors which correspond to a double etiology.

We have also tried Isopathy. What can we do in the case of a syphilitic patient? We can take his blood, dilute it and make a remedy. This has not given any good result. I have tried Phlyctenular Isopathy. Others have used Autophlyctenotherapy and obtained negative Bordet-Wassermann.

This is in short the summary of the therapeutic Arsenal of Homoeopathy. Now we are going to study them in detail.

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.