STANNUM


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


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CHARACTERISTICS.

      Great muscular weakness with feeling of exhaustion. Great weakness in the chest with profuse mucous expectoration. Neuralgia; the pain gradually increases to a high degree and decreases again as slowly. Hypochondriasis with pains and spasms in the abdominal muscles.

TOXIC EFFECTS.

      Pain of a drawing, pressing character gradually increase to a high degree and decrease again as slowly. Spasm of the abdominal muscles. 1. weakness or even paresis of the muscles. of the face and extremities with convulsive movements. Sense of great weakness. 2.

DOSE.

      The second to the fourth decimal trituration is preferred.

THERAPEUTIC USES.

      Hypochondriasis with intolerable uneasiness, weakness, pain and spasms of the abdominal muscles. 1-2.

Supra-orbital neuralgia, the pain gradually increasing to high degree and decreasing again as slowly. 1.

Sensation of great weakness in the chest with expectoration of greenish colored sputa. 2.

Neurasthenia. SEnse of great exhaustion. 2.

“Bearing down” sensation in women.2.

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.