HIP DISEASE

Calcarea phos [Calc-p]

      In the third stage this remedy may step the further destruction of bone and the suppuration and promote new organization.

Calcarea sulph [Calc-s]

      Discharge of pus, etc.

Ferrum phos [Ferr-p]

      Pain, throbbing, heat and inflammation of soft parts.

Kali mur [Kali-m]

      Second stage, when swelling of abscess has commenced.

Natrum sulph [Nat-s]

      Affections of the left hip joint in sycotic patients with hydrogenoid constitutions, worse from dampness.

Silicea [Sil]

      To prevent or control suppuration and heal the parts. “In the third stage, to limit suppuration and the destruction of bone, and to promote new organizations; stinging, itching, burning pains in small spots, sore pain in the hip-joints, in scrofulous and rachitic children.” (Arndt).

Natrum phos [Nat-p]

      Hip disease in scrofulous subjects.

William Boericke

William Boericke, M.D., was born in Austria, in 1849. He graduated from Hahnemann Medical College in 1880 and was later co-owner of the renowned homeopathic pharmaceutical firm of Boericke & Tafel, in Philadelphia. Dr. Boericke was one of the incorporators of the Hahnemann College of San Francisco, and served as professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. He was a member of the California State Homeopathic Society, and of the American Institute of Homeopathy. He was also the founder of the California Homeopath, which he established in 1882. Dr. Boericke was one of the board of trustees of Hahnemann Hospital College. He authored the well known Pocket Manual of Materia Medica.

W.A. Dewey

Dewey, Willis A. (Willis Alonzo), 1858-1938.
Professor of Materia Medica in the University of Michigan Homeopathic Medical College. Member of American Institute of Homeopathy. In addition to his editoral work he authored or collaborated on: Boericke and Dewey's Twelve Tissue Remedies, Essentials of Homeopathic Materia Medica, Essentials of Homeopathic Therapeutics and Practical Homeopathic Therapeutics.