In conclusion I would like to say that there are few remedies in the materia medica for which I have greater respect, not with- standing that I have reproved most of the polychrests during the last thirteen years on myself, because of the great persistence of its symptoms. Hence we may safely say that Lycopodium would be most useful in the most persistent and inveterate conditions. Practice has borne this out many times.
There are probably many other little points I could jot down, but then these minor symptoms are not necessarily of great or significant prescribing value.
Also I have found that the best all-round antidote to Lycopodium seems to be Pulsatilla. Sulphur seems to increase its irritability. Cinchona seems to help the tinnitus and aversion to writing. Carbo vegetabilis relieves some of the bloating undoubtedly.
Another matter. Once sensitized to the action of Lycopodium, look out how you handle it. I spilled some 1M tincture on my hand while preparing a graft, and probably got in some by olfaction or through absorption through the skin, but the whole unpleasant proving started anew, which I was very fortunate enough to terminate by a CM potency of Pulsatilla.
I have indeed respect for Lycopodium clavatum!.
SPRINGS, TRANSVAAL, UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA.
