SPONGIA


Clarke gives the toxic effects of homeopathy drug Spongia and its therapeutic uses in non-toxic doses in his book The ABC Manual of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, published in 1901….


      Toasted Sponge.

CHARACTERISTICS.

      Croup: dry, hoarse and painful cough with sluggish lymphatic circulation. Acute laryngitis with suffocative attacks from exudation into the cellular tissue.

DOSE.

      The first to the third decimal trituration may be used as a convenient method for prescribing minute doses of iodine.

THERAPEUTIC USES.

      Croup: the cough is dry and hoarse. Laryngitis with hoarseness and even aphonia. Catarrh of the larynx.

George Hardy Clark
Clark, George H. (George Hardy) 1860-1941 was the author of: Homeopathic Treatment of Asthenopia; Lee and Clark's Cough and expectoration : a repertorial index of their symptoms; The A B C Manual of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; A system for the care and training of children; The Black Plague and Its Control.