====== TUBERCULINUM ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Tuberculinum. {{anchor:s2}}(Tuberculinum Bovinum.)</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s3}}The Nosode.</span>

{{anchor:s4}}Fragmentary provings by Swan, upon M. B. B. with cm.; Edna Rose, with cmm. {{anchor:s5}}Authorities:- Refer to New Organon, July, 1879, pp. 342, 439, 449; Swan's Morbific Products, 1886; Burnett's New Cures, 1885 to 1890; J. A. Biegler's Report; C. F. Nichol's paper in Popular science News, April, 1891.

====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======

{{anchor:s7}}- <span grade2>Tubercular meningitis</span>, Biegler, Org., vol. 2, p. 439; Hom. Phys., vol. 11, p. 187; Burnett, <span grade2>Consumption</span>, pp. 9, 13, 31, 53; <span grade2>Chronic headache</span>, Swan, Org., vol. 3, p. 41; <span grade2>Vomiting</span>, Kent, MSS.; <span grade2>Tabes mesenterica</span>, Burnett, Consumption, pp. 52, 82; <span grade2>Cholera infantum</span>, Swan, MSS.; <span grade2>Cough</span>, Boardman, Org., vol. 2, p. 448; Burnett, Consumption, p. 15; <span grade2>Threatened phthisis, Incipient tuberculosis</span>, Burnett, Consumption; <span grade2>Tubercular synovitis of knee</span>, Burnett, Consumption, p. 47; <span grade2>Spasms</span>, Swan, Organon, vol. 2, p. 342; Hom. Phys., vol. 11, p. 187; <span grade2>Ringworm</span>, Burnett, Consumption, pp. 96-100.

====== MIND. [1] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s9}}Although naturally of a sweet disposition, became taciturn, sulky, snappish, fretty, irritable, morose, depressed and melancholic, even to insanity.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s10}}~</span> <span grade2>Tubercular meningitis. {{anchor:s11}}Burnett.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s12}}Fretful, ailing, whines and complains; mind given to be frightened, particularly by dogs.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s13}}~</span> <span grade2>Hydrocephaloid. {{anchor:s14}}Burnett.</span>

====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======

{{anchor:s16}}(In sick:) Severe headache, agg. on second day, lasting until third, recurring from time to time for many weeks and compelling quiet fixedness. {{anchor:s17}}Burnett.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Headache, with frequent sharp, cutting pains passing from above right eye through head to back of left ear. {{anchor:s19}}Rose.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s20}}Headache of great intensity preceded by a shuddering chill passing from brain down spine; with attack a feeling as if head above eyes were swollen; became unconscious with screaming, tearing her hair, beating her head with her fists or trying to dash it against wall or floor. {{anchor:s21}}Swan.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s22}}Headache of forty-five years' standing, pain passing from right frontal protuberance to right occipital region. {{anchor:s23}}Swan.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s24}}Terrible pain in head, as if he had a tight hoop of iron around it; trembling of hands; distressing sensation of damp clothes on his spine; almost absolute sleeplessness; profound adynamia; was thought by his friends to be on verge of insanity; most of his brothers and sisters had died of water on brain; right lung solid, probably from healed-up cavities, as he at one time suffered from pulmonary phthisis. {{anchor:s25}}Burnett.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s26}}Sullen, taciturn, irritable, screams in his sleep, is very restless at night, costive; sister died of tubercular meningitis. {{anchor:s27}}Burnett.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s28}}Fretful and ailing, whines and complains, indurated glands can be felt everywhere, child hot, drowsy, urine red and sandy, much given to be frightened, particularly by dogs; was vaccinated and had a very bad arm for four months thereafter; would not smile, whimpers when spoken to, skin dingy, skull hydrocephalic. {{anchor:s29}}Burnett.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s30}}Boy, aet. 20 months, ill for days with head, high fever, restlessness and constant screaming; finally no sleep for forty hours, followed by a condition of collapse; peculiar smell of body; family history of tuberculosis. {{anchor:s31}}Burnett.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s32}}Tubercular meningitis, with effusion; head greatly enlarged; alternately wakeful and delirious at night, talked nonsense by day, at intervals; nocturnal hallucinations and fright; delirium; pyrexia; had eczema which almost disappeared after two unsuccessful vaccinations, and which were soon followed by above condition; after administration of remedy there occurred a severe pustular eruption, then patches of a lepra and eczema appeared. {{anchor:s33}}Burnett.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s34}}Basilar meningitis. {{anchor:s35}}Sinker.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s36}}Tubercular meningitis. {{anchor:s37}}Sinker.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s38}}Acute cerebral meningitis, with intense strabismus. {{anchor:s39}}Biegler.</span>

====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======

{{anchor:s41}}Soreness inside of nose, commencing as watery pimples, which, suppurating, form scabs; nose and lips somewhat swollen; itched slightly. {{anchor:s42}}Rose.

====== LOWER FACE. [9] ======

{{anchor:s44}}Slight swelling and itching of lips. {{anchor:s45}}Rose.

====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======

{{anchor:s47}}Nausea before breakfast, with sudden diarrhea. {{anchor:s48}}M. B. B.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s49}}Frequent vomiting. {{anchor:s50}}Kent.</span>

====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s52}}Windy dyspepsia, with pinching pains under ribs of right side in mammary line. {{anchor:s53}}Burnett.</span>

====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s55}}Fever, emaciation, abdominal pains and discomfort, restless at night, glands of both groins enlarged and indurated; cries out in sleep; strawberry tongue.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s56}}~</span> <span grade2>Phthisis. {{anchor:s57}}Burnett.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s58}}Tabes mesenterica; swelling on left side, also on right; complains of a stitch in side after running; languid and indisposed to talk; nervous and irritable; talks in his sleep, grinds his teeth; appetite poor; hands blue; indurated and palpable glands everywhere; a drum belly, spleen region bulging out. {{anchor:s59}}Burnett.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s60}}Inguinal glands indurated and visible; excessive sweats; chronic diarrhea.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s61}}~</span> <span grade2>Tabes mesenterica. {{anchor:s62}}Burnett.</span>

====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======

{{anchor:s64}}Sudden diarrhea before breakfast, with nausea.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s65}}Diarrhea, furious fever, burning hot skin, great heat in head, red, flushed face, eyes turned upward, quivering and rolling; peculiar fetid smell of body.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s66}}~</span> <span grade2>Incipient tuberculosis. {{anchor:s67}}Burnett.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s68}}Cholera infantum. {{anchor:s69}}Swan.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s70}}Severe hemorrhages from bowels, cough; emaciation; family history of phthisis. {{anchor:s71}}Burnett.</span>

====== COUGH. [27] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s73}}Slight tedious hacking cough, which had lasted for months in a girl of a distinctly phthisic habit. {{anchor:s74}}Burnett.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s75}}Hard, dry cough, sometimes slight, but generally no expectoration, slightly feverish. {{anchor:s76}}Boardman.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s77}}Hard, dry cough, shaking patient, more during sleep, but did not waken him. {{anchor:s78}}Boardman.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s79}}Expectoration of non-viscid, very easily detached, thick phlegm from air passages, followed after a day or two by a very clear ring of voice. {{anchor:s80}}Burnett.</span>

====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s82}}Slight hacking cough, continuing all day, agg. at bedtime and on rising; emaciation; dullness on percussion at apex of right lung.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s83}}~</span> <span grade2>Threatened phthisis. {{anchor:s84}}Burnett.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s85}}Girl, aet. 15, tall for her age; tonsils enlarged; chronic discharge from nose, agg. early morning on rising; speech thick; thorax of pigeon-breast type; menstruated freely; perspires much across nose; very bad perspiration of chest, armpits, palms, nose and feet; feels very chilly; spleen swollen; distinct dullness on percussion at apex of right lung; suffered badly from vaccination; gets chilblains.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s86}}~</span> <span grade2>Incipient tuberculosis. {{anchor:s87}}Burnett.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s88}}Hectic flush of cheeks; shortness of breath; slight hacking cough; several strumous scars on neck; dusky skin; large, moist rales in both lungs; increased vocal resonance of right lung; amphoric sounds in right lung; large, soft-feeling gland in left side of neck; very pronounced endocardial bruit, best heard at apex beat (Iodoformum 3x in four grain doses for two months, with improvement, followed by Tuberculinum c. in very infrequent doses). {{anchor:s89}}Burnett.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s90}}Incipient phthisis in a boy aet. 7; loss of flesh; great prostration; morbid timidity; glands of groins and on both sides of neck very much enlarged and indurated, particularly glands over apex of right lung; as he had suffered much from vaccination, Thuja 30 and Sabina 30 were first given, then Tuberculinum c. {{anchor:s91}}Burnett.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s92}}Nocturnal perspirations; notched incisors; indurated glands everywhere, very large and numerous; drumbellied; grinding of teeth at night; great susceptibility to taking cold, perspiration agg. at back of lungs and on head; big head, with bulging forehead; subject to attacks of fever and diarrhea.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s93}}~</span> <span grade2>Incipient phthisis. {{anchor:s94}}Burnett.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s95}}Incipient tubercular disease; restless at nights; sleepless; grinds teeth; tendency to diarrhea; want of appetite; foul breath; notched teeth; pain after food; vomiting of food; indurated glands; strawberry tongue; naughty; very irritable temper; puny growth; very thin; girl, aet. 6. {{anchor:s96}}Burnett.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s97}}A nasty little cough for seven weeks; much expectoration; pains in right lung; evening fever; liver and spleen enlarged; cough agg. morning after breakfast; neck slightly goitrous; eats hardly any breakfast. {{anchor:s98}}Burnett.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s99}}Cough, agg. {{anchor:s100}}6 A. M.; notched incisors; thin and puny; cervical and inguinal glands much enlarged and indurated; strawberry tongue; girl, aet. 7.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s101}}~</span> <span grade2>Incipient phthisis. {{anchor:s102}}Burnett.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s103}}No respiratory sounds at top of right lung, and vocal resonance slightly increased; pain in left side; profuse perspiration; girl, aet. 18. {{anchor:s104}}Burnett.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s105}}Much fever, agg. evenings; restless and terribly irritable; much depressed and in almost constant agitation; tongue very red; chronic diarrhea; has lost fourteen pounds during last six weeks; has no appetite; evacuations discharged from bowels as from a pop-gun.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s106}}~</span> <span grade2>Threatened phthisis. {{anchor:s107}}Burnett.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s108}}Bad cough of about twelve months' duration; expectoration of blood; one of apices was audibly diseased; has had pneumonia; chest flat; respiration accelerated; tanned unduly in sun. {{anchor:s109}}Burnett.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s110}}Anemic, sickly, pale; profound debility; dyspnea, cannot mount or hurry; menses irregular.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s111}}~</span> <span grade2>Phthisis pulmonum. {{anchor:s112}}Burnett.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s113}}Lady, aet. 26, in first stage of consumption; dyspnea and rapid breathing; loss of flesh; greasy, dingy skin. {{anchor:s114}}Burnett.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s115}}Stout man, bright, florid complexion, mother died of phthisis, with which disease her sister is suffering; gets pneumonia very often in cold weather; hence travels from place to place to avoid colds; coughs much, brings up much phlegm; perspired profusely and drank great quantities of fluids; wretched sleepless nights, with almost constant fever; glands of neck much enlarged.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s116}}~</span> <span grade2>Phthisis. {{anchor:s117}}Burnett.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s118}}Complains that she has been in consumption for many years; is very thin and consumed with fever; lungs very flat; respiration almost imperceptible; fever; poor appetite; languid. {{anchor:s119}}Burnett.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s120}}Ringworm on scalp; lymphatic glands everywhere palpable; ribs very flat; strawberry tongue, bad cough, agg. at night; although 11 years old she had practically no teeth, they were rudimentary, and not above level of of gums. {{anchor:s121}}Burnett.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s122}}Pronounced phthisical habit; severe piles; constipation; brown cutaneous affection on abdomen. {{anchor:s123}}Burnett.</span>

====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s125}}Indurated cervical glands.</span>\\ {{anchor:s126}}Lump size of a walnut on cord of neck, is movable and occasionally itches. {{anchor:s127}}Rose.

====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======

{{anchor:s129}}Lame feet for three weeks, would walk or stand on sides of feet to rest them. {{anchor:s130}}M. B. B.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Cramps in calves. {{anchor:s132}}M. B. B.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s133}}Tubercular swelling of knee; intermittent attacks of pain in it; has expectorated clots of blood and suffered from exhausting sweats; family history of phthisis. {{anchor:s134}}Burnett.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s135}}Tuberculous disease of left knee; for eleven months had been limping; knee much enlarged and very tender; teeth dirty and carious; strawberry tongue. {{anchor:s136}}Burnett.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s137}}Tubercular synovitis of left knee. {{anchor:s138}}Burnett.</span>

====== NERVES. [36] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s140}}Suddenly became unconscious while sewing or talking, began screaming, tearing her hair, beating her head with her fists, or trying to dash it against wall or floor; attacks daily, for a month, then spasms set in, with rolling of head from side to side and moaning; continuing five weeks, followed by a recurrence of fainting fits, at least twice a week; a few hours before an attack of fainting, a shuddering like a chill seemed to go from brain down spine; when questioned about an attack, she said head would suddenly seem to swell over eyes and pain became "horrid", and she knew no more; between attacks she was free from all complaints except fatigue and an ever-present frontal headache. {{anchor:s141}}Swan.</span>

====== SLEEP. [37] ======

{{anchor:s143}}Disturbed, distressful sleep. {{anchor:s144}}Burnett.

====== TIME. [38] ======

{{anchor:s146}}Morning: before breakfast, sudden diarrhea; on rising, hacking cough agg.; on rising, discharge from nose agg.; after breakfast, cough agg.\\ {{anchor:s147}}At 6 A. M.: cough agg.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Evening: at bedtime, hacking cough agg.; fever.\\ {{anchor:s149}}All day: hacking cough.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Night: wakeful and delirious; restless; grinding of teeth; cough agg.

====== FEVER. [40] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s152}}Fever.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s153}}~</span> <span grade2>Phthisis. {{anchor:s154}}Burnett.</span>

====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======

{{anchor:s156}}Intermittent attack: of pain in tuberculous knee.\\ {{anchor:s157}}For forty hours: no sleep.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Twice a week: fainting fits.\\ {{anchor:s159}}For three weeks: lame feet.\\ {{anchor:s160}}During six weeks: lost fourteen pounds.\\ {{anchor:s161}}For seven weeks: a nasty little cough.\\ {{anchor:s162}}For eleven months: limping, from tubercular knee.\\ {{anchor:s163}}For about twelve months: a bad cough.\\ {{anchor:s164}}For forty-five years: headache.

====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======

{{anchor:s166}}Left: enlarged gland on neck; pains in side; tuberculous knee.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Right: sharp pain above eye, through to left ear; pain from forehead to occiput; pinching pains under ribs; dullness in apex of lung; increased vocal resonance in lung; amphoric sounds in lungs; pain in lung.

====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======

{{anchor:s169}}As if head, above eyes, were swollen, followed by unconsciousness; as if he had a tight hoop of iron around head; as of damp clothes on his spine; a shuddering like a chill seems to go from brain down spine.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Terrible pain: in head.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Cutting: from above right eye, through head to back of left ear.\\ {{anchor:s172}}Stitch: in left side, after running.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Pinching: under right ribs.\\ {{anchor:s174}}Cramps: in calves.\\ {{anchor:s175}}Itching: of nose and lips; in lumps on neck.

====== SKIN. [46] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s177}}Very bad tempered; very much pigmented where sun's rays impinged upon him; teeth dirty, greenish.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s178}}~</span> <span grade2>Phthisical habit. {{anchor:s179}}Burnett.</span>\\ {{anchor:s180}}Eruption of itching blotches all over body, with exception of face and hands. {{anchor:s181}}Rose.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s182}}Ringworm. {{anchor:s183}}Burnett.</span>

====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======

{{anchor:s185}}Boy, aet. 15 months, dark, fat, sister died of consumption of brain; incipient tubercular meningitis.\\ {{anchor:s186}}Boy, aet. 20 months; threatened tubercular meningitis.\\ {{anchor:s187}}Boy, aet. 2 years and 8 months, brother of two children who died of tubercular meningitis; tuberculosis.\\ {{anchor:s188}}Boy, aet. 3; incipient tuberculosis.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Girl, aet. 6, daughter of a country squire who was suffering from chronic phthisis; phthisis.\\ {{anchor:s190}}Girl, aet. 7; incipient phthisis.\\ {{anchor:s191}}Girl, aet. 7, family of phthisis; tubercular affection of knee.\\ {{anchor:s192}}Boy, aet. 7, family history of phthisis; incipient phthisis.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Boy, aet. 8, family history of consumption; threatened phthisis.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Boy, aet. 10; tabes mesenterica.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Girl, aet. 11, family history of phthisis; ringworm, carious teeth, cough, etc.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Girl, aet. 13, overgrown; phthisis.\\ {{anchor:s197}}Boy, aet. 14; phthisis.\\ {{anchor:s198}}Girl, aet. 15; incipient tuberculosis.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Girl, aet. 17, sister died of consumption; phthisis.\\ {{anchor:s200}}Girl, aet. 19; pulmonary phthisis.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Girl, aet. 20, phthisic habit, tall for her age, long fingers, almond-shaped nails, long neck, indurated glands in neck; cough.\\ {{anchor:s202}}Lizzie R., aet. 21, when three years old was frightened into a fit, which was followed by chorea, which continued until she was thirteen; has never been in good health; for the last four or five years passed through a variety of conditions, at one time being confined to bed for sixteen months, during nine months of this time could eat nothing but ice-cream; then had an attack of trismus, followed by severe ulceration of mouth; finally spasms set in, and after these ceased she passed through a condition simulating last stage of phthisis; spasms.\\ {{anchor:s203}}Lady, aet. 22, single, delicate habit of body, brother has consumption of bowels; threatened phthisis.\\ {{anchor:s204}}Lady, aet. 26, single, family history of consumption; phthisis.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Merchant, aet. 26, tall, slim, long, thin neck, bends forward, both parents died of lung disease; incipient phthisis.\\ {{anchor:s206}}Man, aet. 30, married, ten of his relations died of phthisis; tubercular swelling of knee.\\ {{anchor:s207}}Woman, aet. 38, mother of seven children, three sisters died of consumption; threatened phthisis.\\ {{anchor:s208}}Lady, aet. 40, single; phthisis.\\ {{anchor:s209}}Lady, aet. 40, married, family history of consumption; threatened phthisis.\\ {{anchor:s210}}Man, aet. 50, family history of phthisis; hemorrhage from bowels.\\ {{anchor:s211}}Man, aet. 50, an author of eminence, well known in theological circles, brother and sister died of water on brain, right lung solid, probably from healed-up cavities, he having by treatment and travel "grown out" of his pulmonary consumption; tubercular meningitis.\\ {{anchor:s212}}Lady, aet. 56, florid, mother and six brothers and sisters died of consumption; tubercular synovitis.\\ {{anchor:s213}}Gentleman, very big and stout, of bright, florid complexion, family history of consumption; phthisis.

====== RELATIONS. [48] ======

{{anchor:s215}}Complementary: <span grade2>Hydrastis</span> to fatten patients cured with <span grade2>Tuberculinum.</span>

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 10, 1891 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r120|Tuberculinum]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r120|Tuberculinum]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ year: | 1891 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}