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.