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 ILLS AND DISEASES. 
 
 A POPULAR MANUAL, 
 
 BASED ON THE BEST HOMOEOPATHIC PRACTICE 
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 BOERICKE & TAFEL, 
 
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 copyrighted 1896, 
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PREFACE. 
 
 Many " popular M books have been written on 
 the subject of sexual ills and their treatment, but 
 none seem to be exactly what the people want; 
 one is too full of moral and too scant of practical 
 advice; another is too technical, and another gives 
 all sorts of advice save the kind the book-buyer 
 is looking for. The moral advice may be excellent 
 but people do not buy medical books for it; so is 
 technical advice, but people who want to treat 
 themselves cannot understand it; so is the advice 
 " go to a physician," but it is not what buyers of 
 such books are looking for. This manual is in- 
 tended to supply the missing practical book for 
 sufferers from the many sexual and kindred ills; to 
 give them plain, honest advice and the best treat- 
 ment. The description of the diseases is neces- 
 sarily limited to elementary points to be found 
 in text-books, as anything more elaborate would 
 be out of place in a work of this nature. The 
 treatment is culled from the whole field of homoeo- 
 pathic literature. A number of clinical cases 
 have been introduced to give readers a general 
 idea of the way the remedy is arrived at by 
 physicians. 
 
 There are a good many false ideas inculcated 
 by advertising doctors in regard to ' ' lost man- 
 
IV 
 
 Preface. 
 
 hood," etc., and if this book succeeds in putting 
 any fearful young man, or boy, straight on that 
 subject it will not have been written in vain. A 
 proper understanding of this and other sexual ills 
 by the public is necessary for their final eradica- 
 tion. Finally, let us emphasize, if it is necessary 
 to consult a physician do not go to those who ad- 
 vertise, but to your family physician. 
 
PART I. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 MASTURBATION AND ITS BODILY 
 AND MENTAL EFFECTS. 
 
 Masturbation is not a disease, but an 
 aet that if repeated too often leads to 
 premature decay, imbecility or insanity. 
 It is, as a rule, barring those inherited, 
 the first sexual ill that afflicts humanity. 
 The act, if we may judge by the books 
 of Kraft-Ebling, Hammond and others, 
 may be performed in a variety of ways, 
 but the effect sought is the same — a 
 pleasurable ejaculation of semen. It is 
 always well for readers to understand 
 terms used, and that can best be accom- 
 plished by giving the roots of the word. 
 
 " Masturbation " is derived from two 
 Greek words, mantis ^ meaning, in English, 
 u hand" and stupro, " I ravish." So, 
 literally, it is ravishing or raping one's 
 self with the hand or in some other un- 
 natural manner. 
 
 14 Spermatorrhoea " is from the root of 
 
io Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 spernia, to "sow," and rheo to "flow" or "I 
 flow." Meaning, as now used, an invol- 
 untary emission of the seminal fluid. 
 
 Boys may discover how to masturbate, 
 or it may be taught them by other boys, or, 
 worse, by men, or even women. The act 
 gives them a few moments of what seems 
 to be extatic delight, and some of them 
 resort to it as often as possible at first. 
 They do not know that it is a sin against 
 God, the human race and their own 
 physical welfare, and are to be pitied 
 rather than blamed. There are very few 
 adults indeed who have not passed, 
 to a greater or less extent, through this 
 unholy fire, and fortunate are they who, 
 by means of a plain, sensible book, or 
 through the words of some friend, have 
 been warned of the dangers, the final 
 disgust and ruin that attend the practice. 
 In too many families the subject of the 
 sexual organs is regarded as a topic that 
 must never be mentioned, and children 
 are left in entire ignorance only to be en- 
 lightened, too often," by bitter experience. 
 If parents or guardians cannot, or will 
 not, instruct the young, and warn them 
 
Masturbation. n 
 
 of the dangers that beset thein from this 
 source, at least let them procure a book 
 that plainly treats of such matters and 
 place it in the hands of the young at the 
 proper time, for forewarned is forearmed. 
 Should any young person read this book, 
 let him know that if he persists in the 
 habit of masturbation the result will be 
 that he will gradually become weak, 
 nervous and sallow, with a face full of 
 pimples, sunken eyes, with dark rings 
 about them; he will become bashful, 
 timid and, in extreme cases, the end 
 will be impotence, imbecility and death. 
 Not many go to that extreme, but the 
 actual number is not small. It is said 
 that about three per cent, of the inmates 
 of insane asylums were sent there directly 
 by masturbation; the number there in- 
 directly from that cause must be very 
 large. 
 
 Girls equally with boys are victims of 
 the " secret vice/' and its effect on them 
 is perhaps as bad as on the other sex. It 
 is shown by nervousness, headache, in- 
 difference to the pleasures sought by the 
 healthy minded, unwholesome blotched 
 
12 
 
 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 and pimply skin, dull eyes, melan- 
 choly, and a look of decay. The habit 
 in both sexes may bring on chorea, 
 epilepsy, hysteria, palpitation of the heart, 
 and convulsions. In fact, the train of ills 
 that follow in the wake of this practice 
 may well be called " Legion " — no one 
 pen could name them all, but can only 
 give a general outline of them, for each 
 individual case will differ in some respect 
 from others. 
 
 After indulging in the pratice for a 
 greater or lesser period of time the 
 masturbator discovers, even without being 
 told, that there is u something wrong" 
 with him, and he instinctively knows the 
 cause. It is at this point that the great 
 majority break away and are saved, 
 though not without much physical and 
 mental tribulation. No man can overcome 
 an evil in himself until he has seen it 
 and acknowledged it to be an evil. But 
 the secret, lustful, hot and sweaty 
 imaginings with which he has filled his 
 mind while practicing the habit will not 
 away at his simple bidding, neither will 
 the furious burning desire to commit the 
 
Masturbation. 1 3 
 
 deed again and again. Both must be 
 bitterly fought. The state of one passing 
 through this ordeal has been so vividly 
 described by Tissot that it has been said 
 that his book brought many to despair. 
 That is wrong, for what is wanted is the 
 truth; and the truth is that no sufferer 
 need despair, for all may be rescued from 
 this unclean condition into which they 
 have plunged themselves if they will to be 
 saved. 
 
 This is not a u mind cure," or " chris- 
 tian-science," or " prayer cure" book, but 
 those practices, though laughed at by 
 many, when properly understood, are 
 very needful and helpful in the cases 
 under consideration. In nothing are they 
 so needed and necessary as in over- 
 coming masturbation and its attendant 
 lust. Medicine is almost powerless until 
 the mind can be brought into play, and 
 even after that both it and the mind may 
 find the lust too strong for them. If 
 this be the case, and it often is, then who 
 shall dare to say that a prayer to God for 
 help avail naught? There is really no 
 "cure'' for this condition save the Divine 
 
14 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 one, " Cease to do evil." At this point it 
 is proper to state that there are cases 
 in which masturbation is the result of 
 disease. In such cases surgery or a thor- 
 ough course of constitutional homoeo- 
 pathic treatment is required ; but such 
 cases do not come within the scope of 
 this book Very young children also 
 develop this habit, and no amount of 
 punishment will avail to break it. Such 
 cases, according to Dr. Burnett, in his in- 
 teresting book, Delicate, Backward, Puny 
 and Stujited Children, must not be regarded 
 as evidence of inherent depravity, but as a 
 disease that can, and should, be cured 
 by constitutional homoeopathic medica- 
 tion. He cites a number of illustrative 
 cases in the book referred to. 
 
 When the victim, or sinner (take your 
 choice of terms), has at last opened his 
 eyes, if not to the spiritual, at least to 
 the physical, evil into which he is 
 plunged, he has not only to fight the 
 lustful imaginings, dreams and burnings 
 of his mind and body, but he is also, in 
 his search for help, confronted by those 
 harpies, the advertising doctors and ven- 
 
Masturbation. 15 
 
 ders of secret nostrums, who seek by 
 every wile known to a wily tribe to get 
 Him into their power. They even beg 
 for only your "name," but do not send it. 
 Their advertisements vividly picture the 
 inferno that awaits the "young man or 
 boy" who suffers from "lost manhood," 
 and then glowingly depict the state of 
 those " cured." And yet the least re- 
 flection ought to convince any one, even 
 a weak masturbator, that there is no 
 "cure" for this condition save the one we 
 have outlined, which to be sure may be 
 aided by proper medical treatment, but it 
 must first, and essentially, be a "mind 
 cure," or mind-cleaning; a casting forth 
 of lusts and imaginings, for so long as 
 these are cherished no cure is possible. 
 None of these advertising "doctors" can 
 cure you, all they can do is to take your 
 money. And if they get your name and 
 not your money you will hear from them 
 for years afterwards threatening, implor- 
 ing or bullying you to submit to their 
 " treatment." 
 
 The attitude of the world towards the 
 practice of masturbation is not a good 
 
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 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 one, for with, perhaps, a large majority it 
 is simply one of jest, too often of added 
 obscenity ; yet it should be one of stern 
 negation to the masturbator, of relentless 
 hostility to those who seek to teach it to 
 the young and innocent, but kind and 
 helpful to those who are struggling to 
 free themselves and regain a wholesome 
 life. 
 
 As already indicated, the first and the 
 chief treatment of this condition — it can 
 hardly be called a disease, save in a few 
 cases, though it is a breeder of disease 
 such as never microbe equalled — must be 
 a mental one. It will not do to will to 
 avoid the physical ill and yet at heart 
 cherish the lustful imaginings. The 
 first is easily done, for no one wants to be 
 physically harmed, but to cast out the 
 lustful imaginings will require a great 
 effort of the will power, weakened as it is 
 by the act of masturbation. It can and 
 must be done, however, if the sufferer 
 would regain health. 
 
 One great aid to a cure is cleanliness. 
 Wash the affected parts frequently and 
 keep the whole body clean. Wear clean 
 
Mastu rba tion . 1 7 
 
 clothes, keep the teeth and nails clean and 
 the hair combed and neatly trimmed. 
 This does not refer to the soiling of 
 hands, or body, that results from honest 
 work, or occupation, but the bodily filth 
 and neglect that too often accompanies 
 the filthy habit of masturbation. 
 
 Sleep on a clean bed, with as light 
 covering as is consistent with comfort, 
 not too soft, and in a cool room. If pos- 
 sible sleep alone. Live in the open air 
 as much as possible. 
 
 Take an interest in things, force your- 
 self to do so if it does not come naturally, 
 in social life, the church, politics, sports, 
 the theatre, dancing, anything to take 
 you away from the solitary habit into 
 which most masturbators fall. 
 
 Among medicines to repress the frantic 
 sexual desire that ever and anon assails 
 one who is trying to abandon the habit 
 under consideration, the homoeopathic 
 preparation of Cantharis is the best for 
 males and Platina for females. When 
 one feels the desire coming on, generally 
 after going to bed, get up and take a dose 
 of the remedy, walk about a bit and then 
 go to bed again. 
 
x8 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 After the habit of masturbation has 
 been definitely abandoned, the next stage 
 that affrights the struggling victim is 
 " spermatorrhoea, " as it is commonly 
 termed. 
 
Spermatorrhoea. 19 
 
 SPERMATORRHEA, SEMINAL EMIS- 
 SIONS OR "WET DREAMS." 
 
 " Spermatorrhoea," involuntary emis- 
 sions, or u wet dreams" almost invariably 
 follow the cessation of masturbating. 
 The advertising doctors skillfully draw 
 pictures of the " fearful condition " of one 
 who is subject to these, and they frighten 
 many a fat fee out of those who know no 
 better — " ruined in mind and body," " lost 
 manhood," and all the rest of the familiar 
 rubbish. On this point read what one of 
 the wisest physicians has to say (Raue's 
 Special Pathology') : 
 
 " Inasmuch as the seminal secretion of 
 a healthy man may naturally be sup- 
 posed to be a continuous one, it appears 
 as a physiological necessity that there 
 should occur from time to time an over- 
 flow of semen involuntarily, when not 
 irritated voluntarily by coition or mastur- 
 bation. As long as such discharges hap- 
 pen at night during sleep, with erotic 
 dreams, accompanied by erections and 
 
20 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 voluptuous sensations, and followed by a 
 sense of relief and buoyancy, those noc- 
 turnal pollutions are certainly within the 
 bounds of health. They do not occur 
 regularly even in the same individual, 
 but vary greatly in frequency from tem- 
 porary causes or certain constitutional 
 peculiarities. However, if they occur too 
 often, say several times a week or oftener, 
 and are followed next day by a general 
 dullness and weakness, diminution of 
 mental activity, etc., instead of buoyancy, 
 they can scarcely be looked upon as 
 healthy occurrences. This is still more 
 so if they occur without erections and 
 sensation in the night during sleep. But 
 if they occur even in the daytime — 
 " diurnal pollutions" — while the indi- 
 vidual is awake, without the usual me- 
 chanical causes (coition or masturbation), 
 from any trifling external cause; for in- 
 stance, from dallying with a female, rid- 
 ing on horseback, during evacuation of 
 the bowels or bladder, or from lascivious 
 imaginations, then surely there exists an 
 irritation and weakness in the sexual 
 organs which is pathological, for a 
 
Spermatorrhoea. 21 
 
 healthy man never loses semen involun- 
 tarily when awake. Such diurnal seminal 
 losses have also been termed spermator- 
 rhoea, a rather hyperbolic expression, as 
 a continuous flow of semen scarcely ever 
 exists. And it should further be stated 
 that very often inexperienced young men, 
 frightened by reading miserable and de- 
 signing trash upon this subject, take for 
 spermatorrhoea what is no flow of semen 
 at all, but a secretion from the mucous 
 membrane of the urethra, and perhaps 
 also from Cowper's glands, or a prostatic 
 secretion, neither of which contain any 
 trace of spermatozoa, the only sign of true 
 semen." 
 
 Helmuth's Surgery, page 1014, says on 
 this subject: "It is a question whether 
 certain emissions of semen without copu- 
 lation are not necessary to the preserva- 
 tion of vitality." This, of course, applies 
 to " involuntary emissions." 
 
 Hyde in his recently published Syphilis 
 and Venereal Diseases, even goes to the 
 length of maintaining that seminal emis- 
 sions in the unmarried male is a purely 
 physiological function and not a disease 
 at all. He says : 
 
22 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 " Involuntary discharges of semen oc- 
 curring in a young man several times 
 during one night, or even on successive 
 nights, are ' unnatural,' simply because 
 the human male animal is not living in 
 the state of nature briefly sketched above 
 [the married state]. These losses are of 
 similar import, whether occurring with 
 erections and accompanied by a lascivious 
 dream, or in total unconsciousness of 
 sleep. They are truly physiological and 
 amount to the price paid by the youth 
 who is attempting to lead a correct life 
 and who refuses to lower his moral stand- 
 ard. The frequency of these discharges 
 has little bearing upon any question of 
 disease, since in perfectly sound youths 
 seminal losses may be even often repeated 
 without detriment to the general health. 
 A frequency at one time is usually com- 
 pensated for by a relative absence at an- 
 other. The emissions may be followed 
 on the succeeding day by a feeling of las- 
 situde, slight frontal headache and mental 
 dullness, but the balance is always struck 
 by nature, as there is usually afforded a 
 a respite from this sexual fever (if such 
 
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Spermatorrhoea. 23 
 
 it may be called) , when the discharge or 
 the series of successive discharges is at 
 length for the time being made to cease. 
 These losses wholly correspond in physio- 
 logical function and meaning with the 
 menstruation of the 3 r oung woman, whose 
 monthly flux in a sense represents the 
 price paid by her virginity, clean living 
 and a delay of the performance of the 
 sexual function until she is solicited in 
 marriage by an acceptable suitor. It is 
 true that after marriage menstruation 
 may occur periodically, but, as a rule, it 
 is suspended during pregnancy. Married 
 men also, temperately indulging in sexual 
 relations, occasionally have periodical in- 
 voluntary seminal losses. " 
 
 From the foregoing it will be seen that 
 the emission of semen while asleep is 
 simply nature's means for relief, and 
 only hurtful when it occurs with ab- 
 normal frequency and is accompanied by 
 undoubted symptoms of physical ills, such 
 as headache, weak back, unhealthy skin, 
 etc. It naturally occurs more frequently 
 in the case of young men than with those 
 of more mature years, and should not 
 
24 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 be regarded as a disease. It may be stated 
 here that excessive sexual intercourse will 
 reduce a man to almost, or quite, the con- 
 dition brought on by masturbation. 
 
 For the "cure" of this condition some 
 physicians have advised intercourse with 
 harlots, and others, marriage. Unless 
 one is very careful intercourse with har- 
 lots is something like "out of the frying 
 pan into the fire," for one is very apt to 
 contract some disease from women, com- 
 mon to all, that will but make matters 
 worse. Marriage with a healthy woman 
 is the one true relief, yet he who would 
 marry a woman merely to use her as a 
 cure for his ill must be a contemptible 
 creature indeed. Marry by all means, but 
 marry for love of the woman else you will 
 find marriage a failure, a bad and dismal 
 failure. 
 
 Treatment of Seminal Emissions. 
 
 For relief from the ill effects of ex- 
 cessive seminal emissions Homoeopathy 
 offers many excellent remedies. Among 
 the marked symptoms of some of these 
 are the following: 
 
 Phosphoric acid is especially useful for 
 
Spermatorrhoea. 25 
 
 youths who grow too fast and where 
 debility is very marked ; after each emis- 
 sion there is great weakness and lassi- 
 tude; black streaks before the eyes; feels 
 dizzy at times; legs weak. This remedy 
 is undoubtedly the best one known where 
 the cause is due solely to excessive mas- 
 trubation or seminal emissions and the 
 case is uncomplicated. 
 
 Calcarea carb., in cases where there is 
 much sweat ; sweating of genital organs ; 
 great difficulty in obtaining erections, and 
 relaxation are marked symptoms; also 
 great lassitude, feels tired, weakness of 
 legs; constipation; milky-colored urine; 
 cough and headache; great prostration 
 after coitus ; pressing pain in head, neck 
 or back after pollutions. 
 
 Aurum met., for those nearly reduced 
 to despair, who have black, suicidal 
 thoughts. 
 
 Rana bufo, for one who seeks solitude to 
 practice masturbation; imbecility and loss 
 of decency; masturbation results in con- 
 vulsions. Cases requiring this remedy, 
 however, are generally too far gone to re- 
 sort to self-treatment. 
 
26 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 Caladium, where "wet dreams" occur 
 without lasciviousness or sexual excite- 
 ment. Sudden relaxation of penis dur- 
 ing coition, with no orgasm. 
 
 Cantharis, insatiable desire, bloody dis- 
 charge; inability to retain urine. Satyri- 
 asis. 
 
 Gelsemium, relaxation and debility; in- 
 voluntary emissions without erections, or 
 emission during stool; dragging pain in 
 testicles and great languor, blue rings 
 about the eyes. A good remedy, es- 
 teemed by many to equal Phosphoric acid. 
 
 Conium, senility; atrophied testicles; 
 painful instead of pleasurable, emissions ; 
 excessive frequency of emissions. 
 
 Lycopodiurn, mental and bodily weak- 
 ness, impotence, weak memory. Cold 
 genital organs. It has been called the 
 "old man's balm." 
 
 Nux vomica, bad effects of masturba- 
 tion; headache and backache; in connec- 
 tion with abuse of liquor or coffee ; indi- 
 gestion or gastric irritability. Emissions 
 towards morning. Sleeplessness in the 
 fore part of the night. 
 
 Staphisagria is especially useful in 
 
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 Spermatorrhoea. 27 
 
 cases of long standing; great taciturnity; 
 deficiency of vital heat ; hair falls out or 
 is split; eyes sunken and lustreless; 
 emaciation and general uncleanliness ; 
 lousiness. 
 
 Graphites, flaccid penis, constipation 
 and great debility of the generative 
 organs. No ejaculation during coitus. 
 
 Sulphur \s indicated by flushes of heat, 
 headache on top of head with heat. Dis- 
 agreeable odor from the body, aversion to 
 bathing. No pleasure in anything, ir- 
 ritable. Eruptions on the skin, dry scalp, 
 hair dry and falls out. Eyelids red. 
 Habitual constipation, ineffectual desire 
 for stool, soreness or burning in rectum. 
 Nocturnal enuresis. Fetid smegma. Tes- 
 ticles relaxed, impotence. 
 
 Pulsatilla has catarrhal inflammations 
 and thick yellow or greenish discharges. 
 A useful remedy in the ill effects of mas- 
 turbation in females, especially when ac- 
 companied by leucorrhoea; hysterical 
 tendencies with sexual excitement. More 
 especially indicated if patient be a blonde. 
 
 Bellis perennis has been highly recom- 
 mended for the general ills that attend the 
 
28 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 practice where the symptoms are not very 
 clearly defined. The dose of this remedy 
 is five drops of the mother tincture sev- 
 eral times a day in a little water, or five 
 one-drop mother tincture tablets. 
 
 If any of the above-named remedies 
 should be tried and fail, the patient should 
 not be discouraged, but should select 
 another and another, until he or she hits 
 upon the right one, always remembering 
 what has been said about leading a clean 
 life and fighting off lascivious imaginings. 
 
Onanism or Conjugal Onanism. 29 
 
 ONANISM OR CONJUGAL ONANISM. 
 
 The following case reported by Dr. W. 
 M. Turner needs no comments : 
 
 li Mr. , aged forty, gentleman of 
 
 leisure, large frame; presented himself 
 to me in an emaciated condition — face 
 pale and haggard, pulse unsteady and 
 tremulous, form bent as though with the 
 infirmity of years; an anxious yearning 
 look in his eyes. Historj^ of the case 
 was eminently unsatisfactory. After a 
 week or so of unsuccessful treatment I 
 found a clue. He accidently let drop the 
 remark that he l didn't wish any 
 more children? From this I suspected 
 conjugal onanism on his part. He soon 
 made a reluctant but full confession, con- 
 firming my suspicions, ending by pitifully 
 declaring that he was entirely impotent. 
 With this new light I recommended full 
 diet, natural coitus after total abstinence 
 for two months and Phosphorus. He pro- 
 gressed to recovery in six or eight weeks." 
 
 Onanism, or " Conjugal Onanism/' 
 
30 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 consists in having connection with a 
 woman in snch a manner as to prevent 
 conception, and may be practiced in a 
 variety of ways, bnt always with detriment 
 to the health of both man and woman. 
 In fact, as shown by the case quoted 
 above, the physical effects may be even 
 worse than those following masturbation. 
 A well-known physician maintains that 
 all coition should be full and complete 
 and not indulged in oftener than once a 
 week. "How many men," he asks, 
 "of sixty years of age are capable 
 of natural and satisfactory intercourse? 
 Not one in twenty, and yet the power 
 ought to be retained, and is in the cases of 
 those who have been temperate in its use 
 up to, and even beyond, the age of three 
 score and ten. Indeed, it is rare to find a 
 man of fifty who has so husbanded his 
 powers as to admit of his having sexual 
 intercourse once a fortnight, and then the 
 act is neither satisfactory to him nor the 
 recipient. But at times a more serious 
 evil than the comparatively early decay 
 of sexual power is observed as the conse- 
 quence of excess, and this is the super- 
 
 
Onanism or Conjugal Onanism. 31 
 
 vention of impotence either suddenly, after 
 some extraordinary indulgence, or more 
 gradually, in consequence of repeated ex- 
 cesses," (Hammond.) 
 
 In such cases the desire remains as 
 strong as ever, but the man is impotent 
 to gratify it. 
 
 What was said of masturbation applies 
 with equal force here. The practice can- 
 not be continued and the parties to it re- 
 main healthful. Many pages could be 
 filled with cases where the man or the 
 woman (like the one who consulted Dr. 
 Turner) have suffered severely from a 
 variety of ills and did not even suspect 
 the cause. Some years ago a wise old 
 doctor said that he cured many of his 
 married patients by " prescribing concep- 
 tion." That prescription will cure many, 
 no doubt. 
 
 For medical treatment, the same 
 remedies that apply to the ills of sper- 
 matorrhoea apply here. 
 
 Cases, and there are such, where con- 
 ception, for physical reasons in the wife, 
 is impossible are beyond the province of 
 this book. 
 
32 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 The term onanism is sometimes used 
 as a synonym for masturbation, but this 
 is a mistake, as it is properly employed to 
 designate the act of coition so performed 
 as to prevent conception. 
 
Nymphomania. 33 
 
 NYMPHOMANIA. 
 
 Nymphomania is an insatiable, and a 
 seemingly irresistible, impulse in females 
 for gratification of sexual desire. "It 
 occurs," says Dunglison, "in those par- 
 ticularly who possess a nervous tempera- 
 ment and vivid imagination, especially if 
 excited by improper language, masturba- 
 tion, etc. Its course is described as 
 follows: In the commencement the 
 sufferer is a prey to perpetual contests 
 between feelings of modesty and im- 
 petuous desires. At an after period she 
 abandons herself to the latter, seeking 
 no longer to restrain them. In the last 
 stage the obscenity is disgusting, and the 
 mental alienation, for such it is, becomes 
 complete." 
 
 Fortunately the trouble, if treated 
 homoeopathically, need not go to the last 
 stage as describe by Dunglison. Platina 
 will control most of such cases, especially 
 where accompanied by much voluptuous 
 itching, palpitation of the heart and con- 
 
34 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 stipation. Should this fail try Moschus 
 or Cantharis. 
 
 Where the disease has reached the 
 stage, or takes the form, of indecently 
 exposing the person Hyoscyamus is called 
 for. 
 
 Dr. Richard Koch relates the following 
 case in which Cimicifuga proved curative: 
 " Lady, aged twenty-three, had suffered 
 for several months with acute mania of 
 an hysterical character, accompanied with 
 excessive nymphomania. She complain- 
 ed of constant chilliness, with trem- 
 ors, yet without desire for heat in the 
 room or warm clothing; cold hands and 
 feet ; incoherent talking ; restless nights ; 
 constipated ; suppressed leucorrhoea ; 
 pulse quiet, weak and frequent. Cimici- 
 fuga 2 cured in a week." 
 
 Dr. Hoyne says that nymphomania in 
 sterile women frequently yields to Canna- 
 bis sat. 
 
 Coffea has also been employed with 
 success. 
 
 Erythroxylon coca in one drop doses 
 has been clinically employed in nympho- 
 mania with pronounced success. 
 
Satyriasis. 35 
 
 SATYRIASIS. 
 
 Abnormal sexual desire in men is 
 termed " Satyriasis." In medical diction- 
 aries it is defined as "an irresistible de- 
 sire in men to have frequent connection 
 with the female, accompanied with the 
 power of doing so without exhaustion. 
 The causes are commonly obscure. Some- 
 times the abuse of aphrodisiacs has oc- 
 casioned it. The principal symptoms 
 are : Almost constant erection, irresisti- 
 ble and almost insatiable desire for ven- 
 ery, frequent nocturnal pollutions." 
 
 Cantharis is, in general, the best rem- 
 edy for the worst cases of this condition, 
 though Moschas may also meet the trou- 
 ble. ' 
 
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36 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 IMPOTENCE. 
 
 Impotence is complete, or temporary, 
 loss of sexual power generally brought 
 on Dy masturbation or excessive venery. 
 A clean life, an out-door life, with good 
 food, aid in a cure, as they do in all 
 sexual ills. The following medicines 
 have been found useful in restoring the 
 health and lost power. Phosphorus. 
 (For a case cured by this remedy see 
 Onanism, p. 29.) 
 
 Dr. Love relates the following case, in 
 which Sulphur cured. " W., aged forty, 
 merchant ; tall and slender ; melancholic 
 temperament ; guilty of onanism (mas- 
 turbation ?) in his youth. Has been mar- 
 ried eight years, but could never accom- 
 plish his marital duties, although erection 
 is complete; but ejaculation takes place 
 as soon as he approached his wife. Sul- 
 phur 12, two doses, and in six weeks he 
 was cured." Phosphoric acid has also 
 been used with success in cases of this 
 sort 
 
 . 
 
Impotence. 37 
 
 The following case by Dr. W. E. 
 Rogers illustrates the use of Gelsemiiim. 
 W., aged twenty-two. Billions tempera- 
 ment. Has been masturbating for a 
 number of years. Has been allopathic- 
 ally treated. Symptoms : Genital organs 
 relaxed ; entire absence of sexual feeling ; 
 the organs seem paralyzed ; perfect im- 
 potence ; during the evening a partial 
 erection and slight discharge ; mind de- 
 pressed ; engaged to be married ; has lost 
 flesh ; appetite poor ; bowels costive ; 
 looks sallow. Gelsemium tincture, two 
 drops night and morning, caused an im- 
 provement in a week, and cured in a few 
 weeks." 
 
 Impotence, resulting from excessive 
 sexual intercourse, is best met with Lyco- 
 podiiim 30 ; this is true of the impotence 
 in men due to this cause, and to the dread 
 of the sexual act in women from the same 
 cause. When the medicine has brought 
 back the lost power do not abuse it again, 
 for a second attack of impotence might 
 be lasting. It might be mentioned here 
 that should Lycopodium after a few weeks 
 fail to cure then try Nitric acid, but the 
 
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38 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 former remedy is nearly always success- 
 ful, and especially so when aided by a 
 clean, temperate mode of living. 
 
 The kind of impotence for which Cu- 
 prum acet. is useful, is illustrated in the 
 following case by Dr. Kissel: " Strong 
 fresh-colored man, aged twenty-eight; two 
 years married; has never been able to 
 effect coition, because the member im- 
 mediately became flaccid again, though 
 sometimes semen escaped. During the 
 transient erections, he felt some tension 
 in the perineum, and often complained of 
 rheumatism in the back and legs. Gen- 
 itals normal. After Cuprum acet., all was 
 well and the pains disappeared." 
 
 Agnus castus is a remedy that has been 
 used with some success. It seems to be 
 especially indicated where there is^a de- 
 ficiency in the sexual instinct. Dr. Hol- 
 combe relates the case of a woman who 
 applied to him for something to renew 
 her sexual desires which had become ex- 
 tinct from too much indulgence, and in- 
 tercourse abhorrent to her. Agnus castus 
 1 three times a day wrought a wonder- 
 ful change in her ; she regained her 
 
Al 
 
 Impotence. 39 
 
 lealth and became a strong and robnst 
 •voman again. 
 
 Calcarea carb. is the remedy for partial 
 .mpotence, where the emission dnring 
 :oition is too quick, followed by great 
 Drostration and weakness. 
 
 Before closing this part it may be well 
 ;o say a word against the use of "aphro- 
 lisiacs;" z. e. } drugs employed to force the 
 sexual desires , of which there are many 
 in the market, generally secret prepara- 
 :ions. The use of these is distinctly 
 harmful, and even where they succeed in 
 forcing the sexual desires the effect is but 
 temporary, and the man or woman is left 
 in a worse state than before, and will 
 soon experience only the evil influences 
 jf the drug and none of the pleasures 
 desired. 
 
 It should also be borne in mind that 
 medicine is but an aid in such ills, and, 
 as has been repeatedly reiterated, the 
 patient must aid in the cure by right liv- 
 ing ; and when cured must not expect to 
 3e able to give way again to unbridled 
 ust with impunity. 
 
40 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 NERVOUS IMPOTENCE. 
 
 In reality what is called "nervous im- 
 potence" is not impotence but rather the 
 temporary result of some mental emotion. 
 It generally occurs with young men who 
 have not, on the whole, carried masturba- 
 tion to excess and have ceased the prac- 
 tice ; who have then been a little fright- 
 ened at the nightly emissions that fol- 
 lowed and have sought the company of 
 prostitutes, or willing women, in order 
 that they might " restore lost manhood. " 
 Excited by the novelty of the situation 
 and by other emotions they find they are 
 unable to perform the sexual act and then 
 jump to the conclusion that "ruin in 
 mind and body" is impending and become 
 very gloomy and depressed. 
 
 The mind plays a considerable, in fact, 
 the chief part in this form of impotence. 
 Men are oppressed by the fear of being 
 laughed at; they recall what other men 
 of their acquaintance have boasted of 
 their powers, and compare those boasts 
 
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 Nervous Impote?ice. 41 
 
 with their own untried, or little tried 
 ability, forgetting the psalmist's assertion 
 that all men are liars, and, it may be 
 added, especially so concerning things 
 sexual. They fear to marry, and in fact 
 go through a very dreary time of it 
 when, in most cases, the whole trouble 
 is simply a lack of confidence in their 
 own powers. 
 
 Among medicines for this state the only 
 one that might do any good is Anacar- 
 diiim. 
 
 There is another cause for impotence 
 that is not generally recognized, but is a 
 very prevalent one among married per- 
 sons, and that is lack of love for the 
 partner. At first this is not apparent, 
 but as time goes by and one or the other 
 of the married partners loses his or her 
 love for the other, and this may be sup- 
 plemented by dislike, the result is disgust 
 and even impotence. There is, of course, 
 no medical cure for this condition and it 
 is only mentioned here as a warning for 
 men not to marry unless they truly love 
 the woman, 
 
42 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 PHIMOSIS AND PARAPHIMOSIS. 
 
 Phimosis is from the Greek, signifying 
 " I bind tight." Phimosis is a disease or 
 condition in which there is an unnatural 
 constriction of the edge of the prepuce, 
 or foreskin, in front of the orifice of the 
 urethra, so that it cannot be carried be- 
 hind the corona glandis. Berjeau says of 
 this disease, that it " is caused by the in- 
 filtration of fluid into the cellular tissue 
 of the prepuce, forming a large, long, 
 dark, reddish-brown, bulbous swelling at 
 the extremity of the penis, its borders 
 being enlarged, cracked and so narrow 
 that but a small portion of the secreted 
 pus can make its escape and rendering 
 the retraction of the prepuce behind the 
 glaus impossible, the remainder collect- 
 ing underneath, forming a fluctuating 
 swelling. Persons with a long and narrow 
 prepuce are the most subject to it, and 
 balanorrhoea is always present." Balanor- 
 rhoea is a purulent secretion under the 
 glans penis. 
 
" 
 
 Phimosis and Paraphimosis. 43 
 
 Phimosis may be the cause of many 
 nervous disorders, from sleeplessness to 
 nervous jactitations, and even locomotor 
 ataxia. In severe cases surgery is neces- 
 sary to complete relief. Surgical treat- 
 ment is especially necessary when gan- 
 grene sets in. 
 
 The medicines most useful are Merc, 
 cor., Rhus tox. and Cannabis sat. Merc, 
 cor. where there are cracks and fissures 
 on inner surface of foreskin; Rhus tox, 
 when there is itching and inflammation, 
 and Cannabis where swelling is dark-red 
 and hot. 
 
 Paraphimosis is the opposite of Phi- 
 mosis. In it the prepuce, or foreskin, is 
 retracted behind the glans and cannot 
 be replaced. Where it binds tightly there 
 is swelling of the head of the penis, 
 purple colored and even gangrenous color. 
 As it is not so much a disease as a dis- 
 placement of parts the treatment must be 
 mechanical or surgical. 
 
 The only medicine that has ever seemed 
 to have helped in such cases is Colocynth. 
 
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44 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 BALANITIS. 
 
 This disease, or condition, is an inflam- 
 mation of the glans penis. There may be 
 a slight inflammation behind the corona 
 of the glans and an accumulation or 
 slight flow of yellowish, nasty, mucus- 
 like discharge. As a rule, this is the 
 result of uncleanliness, and soap and 
 warm water is the best cure, but some- 
 times medicines are needed. Among 
 these Nitric acid is useful when there is 
 itching and burning of the foreskin and 
 vesicles, which may scab. Pulsatilla is 
 useful when, in spite of cleanliness, this 
 yellowish secretion constantly forms 
 under the skin of penis. 
 
 When there are cauliflower growths, 
 condylomata, warty excrescences or any 
 growth of this nature present Thuja is 
 the remedy. 
 
Gonorrhoea. 45 
 
 GONORRHOEA. 
 
 This disease begins to be apparent to 
 the sufferer in about four or five days after 
 he has contracted it, though in some cases 
 it may manifest itself earlier, or consider- 
 ably later; but about four days is the 
 average. A slight tickling, itching or 
 burning sensation is first noticed at the 
 meatus urinarius; at that point there is 
 also, a slight sticky discharge. Evidences 
 of the disease now rapidly accumulate ; 
 the rather transparent, sticky discharge 
 becomes more profuse and thick, and 
 turns to yellowish, or greenish-yellow 
 color, and may contain blood and becomes 
 of a purulent nature. The urethra is very 
 sore and tender to the touch. The pass- 
 ing of water is very painful and fre- 
 quent — burning and smarting. Erections 
 are exceedingly painful. With increas- 
 ing inflammation the urethra becomes 
 contracted and the stream of urine, when 
 passing, may become divided. 
 
 The disease runs its course in about 
 six weeks or it may become chronic. 
 
46 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 The too prevalent idea among men that 
 this disease is "no worse than a bad cold" 
 is a very erroneons one; many physicians 
 of experience contend that a man never 
 thoroughly gets rid of this virulent poison. 
 Those who have contracted it, got rid of 
 the discharge and attending discomfort, 
 think they are " cured," and the many 
 ills they may suffer afterwards are not in 
 a remote degree in their minds connected 
 with the infection, while yet those ills 
 may be due directly to that cause. If 
 that be the case they can only be radically 
 cured by proper homoeopathic treatment. 
 
 The following from a medical journal 
 will give the reader a true conception of 
 the nature of gonorrhoea : 
 
 "The time has arrived for the medical 
 profession to speak in no uncertain tones 
 upon the subject of gonorrhoea. For 
 long the men of the world have been 
 under the impression that specific ureth- 
 ritis was a trivial disease; so much so 
 that they were perfectly willing to trust 
 themselves to the tender mercies of the 
 bottle washing drug clerk, or any Tom, 
 Dick or Harry whom they might meet 
 
Gonorrhoea. 47 
 
 who would give them advice. By this 
 means one of the most serious of venereal 
 diseases has been very sadly neglected 
 upon the part of its victims. 
 
 "The direct inflammatory result of the 
 gonococcus is bad enough in itself, but 
 when we keep in mind the septic possi- 
 bilities to the individual it is indeed 
 formidable. The numerous cases of fatal 
 inflammations of the bladder, the result- 
 ing strictures, the interstitial enlargement 
 of the prostate gland, the septic inflam- 
 mation of joints, and the many other 
 dangerous but definite diseases depend- 
 ing directly upon gonorrhoea, should be 
 impressed upon the laity. But in addi- 
 tion the gonorrhoeal sufferer should be 
 given to know that for many months after 
 an attack of gonorrhoea he is more deadly 
 dangerous to the helpless woman who 
 may submit herself to his desires than if 
 he had a pronounced case of syphilis. 
 Physicians and surgeons will all admit 
 that a very large percentage of the pus 
 tubes, the pelvic abscesses, and the patho- 
 logical conditions in general which neces- 
 sitate laparotomies in women are in the 
 
48 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 majority of instances dne to infection 
 from overlooked cases of gonorrhoea, or 
 chronic gleet, etc Many an innocent, 
 healthy and pnre woman wonld be more 
 humanely treated if her husband or lover 
 would put a oullet through her brain 
 rather than shoot into her vaginal tract 
 the unsuspected germ which wrecks her 
 health, runs the risk of unsexing her, and 
 eventually destroys her life. 
 
 "With the facts before the profession, 
 it is flagrantly negligent of its duty if it 
 fails to educate the men of the world in 
 the direction of knowing their duty. 
 Many a married man, having in an un- 
 guarded moment exposed himself to 
 venereal infection, treats the resulting 
 gonorrhoea in the usual careless and reck- 
 less way, and without a knowledge of the 
 risks involved when a chronic urethral 
 irritation may be present, the overlooked 
 discharge from which may contain the 
 gonococcus, often fatally infects his wife. 
 He does it ignorantly, for the average 
 man is not so brutally disposed as to 
 ignore his sacred duty in the direction of 
 the protection of his home at least. 
 
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 Gonorrhoea. 49 
 
 li Given, a case of gonorrhoea, the victim 
 should be put to bed and urged to drink 
 enormous quantities of hot water and 
 given remedies which reach the inflamed 
 mucous membrane of the urethra, and 
 act from within outward. Injections 
 should be given very sparingly and only 
 by those competent to give them, on ac- 
 count of the danger of driving the poison 
 deeper into the urethra and doing more 
 harm than good. 
 
 " There have been laws passed prohibit- 
 ing the reckless sale of poisons on the part 
 of druggists. Should there not be a law 
 passed restraining them from rushing in 
 as fools where angels fear to tread and as- 
 suming the responsibility of the manage- 
 ment of one of the most dangerous and 
 serious diseases that may afflict those 
 who devote their time to the shrine of 
 Venus ?" 
 
 If the patient wishes to make the best 
 recovery he must abstain from all alcoholic 
 drinks, tea, coffee and tobacco; also from 
 all violent exercise if his vocation will 
 permit it. In other words, while under 
 treatment the simpler the diet and the 
 
50 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 quieter the life the sooner will the disease 
 be conquered. He should also avoid all 
 sexual intercourse, not only for the sake 
 of others, but for his own sake, until com- 
 pletely restored to health. 
 
 Treatment of Gonorrhoea. 
 
 When it is known that in the larger 
 text-books there are nearly sixty remedies 
 mentioned for gonorrhoea it will be seen 
 how useless it would be in a small manual 
 of this nature to mention all of them. 
 The following homoeopathic remedies, 
 however, may not be amiss, or too nu- 
 merous to be confusing: 
 
 Helmuth (Surgery, p. 210,) says of this 
 disease : u When the inflammatory stage 
 has begun, the most reliable medicine in 
 the Materia Medica is Aconite, It must 
 be given in the first and second dilutions, 
 frequently. This medicine does not allay 
 the discharge, which often increases dur- 
 ing its exhibition, but it subdues the in- 
 flammatory symptoms and gives the 
 patient rest." 
 
 One of the most frequently used reme- 
 dies in the treatment of this disease is 
 Cannabis sativa. It is, in general, called 
 
Gonorrhoea. 51 
 
 for when the prepuce is swollen and dark 
 red;ehordee; priapism; urethra feels drawn 
 up. Patient must walk with legs apart, 
 urine seems to tear the urethra; burning 
 before and after urinating. While this 
 remedy is much used there are many 
 physicians who do not hesitate to say 
 that they have had no success with it. 
 
 Apis meL is a remedy highly com- 
 mended by Dr. J. G. Gilchrist, in his 
 work on surgery, who, for many years, 
 has given it in all cases "at the suitable 
 stage," and has " rarely failed to secure 
 the desired results." The symptoms call- 
 ing for it are scanty urination, puffy 
 swelling, a biting-stinging pain, with thin 
 purulent discharge. 
 
 Belladonnas indicated in females where 
 there is a white discharge. 
 
 Bryonia is adapted to females where 
 the discharge, which had previously much 
 decreased, again increases and grows worse. 
 
 When the discharge in females is cor- 
 roding, the remedy is Arsenicum. 
 
 The disease in fat lymphatic women is 
 best met with Calcarea curb. 
 
 In both men and women when the dis- 
 
52 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 charge is unusually offensive Carbo veg. 
 may be used with success, in addition to 
 other remedies. 
 
 In those of a scrofulous nature Hepa?' 
 sulph. is useful for its constitutional effects 
 in connection with other remedies. 
 
 Nux vomica should be the first remedy 
 taken by all who have been previously 
 treated unsuccessfully Allopathically, to 
 be followed by other remedies in a few 
 days as they may be indicated. It is also 
 useful after discharge has ceased, but 
 there remains inflammation and discom- 
 fort in the urethra and towards the 
 bladder. 
 
 Pulsatilla is the remedy for gonorrhoea 
 in the female where discharge is thick, 
 milky and rather painless. 
 
 Sepia is recommended by Jahr to pre- 
 vent the disease from gaining a foothold ; 
 a dose morning and evening at the first 
 sign of a slight redness at the orifice of 
 the urethra with slight agglutinous secre- 
 tion will, he contends, prevent the dis- 
 ease from progressing any further. In 
 which case it would be well to take the 
 remedy even before these premonitory 
 
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 Gonorrhoea. 53 
 
 signs appear when there is reason to 
 suspect infection. 
 
 An occasional intercurrent dose of Sul- 
 phur is useful in all fully developed cases 
 of the disease, and especially so in cases 
 where the men have a constant desire to 
 urinate and women are tormented with 
 a violent burning itching. Also when 
 other remedies do no good. 
 
 Cases in which Agaricus is useful are 
 illustrated by the following by Dr. Hoyne : 
 "S., aged forty-five, has had frequent at- 
 tacks of gonorrhoea usually cured (?) by 
 injections of sulphate of zinc. This time 
 he says it has not proved effective. Has 
 difficult emissions of urine, the stream 
 passing very feebly or in drops ; frequent 
 erections; cramp-like drawing in the 
 groin.' 5 Agaricus 6, three times a day, 
 cured in a week. 
 
 Where the last few drops of urine are 
 retained and there is cutting pain through 
 to the anus Argentum nit. is indicated. 
 Also in chordee, enlargement of testicles 
 and cutting pain in testes and cord. 
 
 In acute cases, where inflammation in- 
 volves the bladder and there is great diffi- 
 
54 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 culty in urinating-, the passing of water 
 causing intense pain, Cantharis is indi- 
 cated. 
 
 In females, where the discharge is 
 bloody and has an intensely foul smell, 
 Kreosotum is the remedy. 
 
 The quickest way to suppress the dis- 
 ease is by means of injections of various 
 kinds, but anyone who has due regard for 
 his future health will avoid this treatment. 
 The suppression of discharges from the 
 body, of any sort, those outward evi- 
 dences of an internal disease, is always 
 more or less dangerous. Homoeopathic 
 literature contains many illustrations of 
 this point — of physicians treating obscure 
 cases of disease with no success until by 
 close questioning the fact was disclosed 
 that at some past period the patient had 
 been " cured" of gonorrhoea or some 
 other discharge, eruption or skin disease 
 by means of injections or external appli- 
 cations; in such instances the Homoeo- 
 pathic physician by means of internal 
 remedies brings back the suppressed flow 
 or eruption and at once the other ills 
 depart; then the disease is properly cured 
 
Gonorrhoea. 55 
 
 by internal medication and the patient 
 discharged a well man once more. 
 
 External applications designed to sup- 
 press sores, skin diseases, gonorrhoea or 
 any external manifestation are like plug- 
 ging up a drainage tube and calling the 
 operation a cure. 
 
 It must be added here, however, that 
 many experienced physicians strongly 
 advocate the injection treatment, main- 
 taining that there is no use in permitting 
 the discharge to continue when a few in- 
 jections easily stop it and the patient is 
 no worse for the treatment. On this 
 point it may be well to quote from a paper 
 by Dr. T. S. Hoyne, read before the Inter- 
 national Homoeopathic Association : 
 
 " Mister X., a young man much given 
 to dissipation, called me in the middle of 
 the night. I found him suffering greatly 
 from intestinal colic. He had used, dur- 
 ing two or three hours, for its relief, 
 brandy and ginger, a pain-killer of some 
 sort, and hot water bags. Nux vom. re- 
 lieved him in the course of thirty minutes. 
 Three or four days later he had another 
 attack, and the Nux again relieved him. 
 
56 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 A few days later there was still another 
 attack, and again Nux relieved. I then 
 asked him to come to my office the next 
 day as I wished to find out, if possible, 
 the cause of these attacks 
 
 u He called, and I obtained the follow- 
 ing history : Several times each month 
 he went on a spree with the boys, and al- 
 ways became intoxicated. During one of 
 these sprees he contracted gonorrhoea, 
 but he was ' all over it now.' His gonor- 
 rhoea was treated solely by injections, 
 which dried it up in a very few days. In 
 fact, he greatly praised the doctor for the 
 rapidity of his cure. Being satisfied that 
 the colic had some connection with the 
 suppressed gonorrhoea, I gave him Med- 
 orrhinum im, and asked him to report in 
 a week. He did so, and then complained 
 greatly because the gonorrhoea had re. 
 turned. A few doses of Medor. im cured 
 the gonorrhoea, and the colic never re- 
 turned. Two years have elapsed, and, 
 although the young man has not greatly 
 altered his habits, he is now satisfied that 
 colic and gonnorrhoea are sometimes in- 
 timately associated. 
 
Gonorrhoea. 57 
 
 u Mr. W., a gentleman just passed fifty, 
 'who had kept a mistress for a year during 
 the absence of his family in Europe, com- 
 plained of an itching spot upon the fore- 
 skin a week after having had sexual in- 
 tercourse with his wife. During the year 
 he had had no trouble with his sexual 
 rgans, but as soon as the wife returns 
 trouble begins. The wife had been very 
 sick during the voyage home, and had 
 not eaten a good meal during the entire 
 ten days. She was consequently anaemic 
 and an acrid leucorrhoea had made its ap- 
 pearance. 
 
 11 Supposing the affection of the hus- 
 band to be simply a slight irritation of 
 the skin, nothing much was done for it. 
 But it grew worse, and remedies pre- 
 scribed had little effect. He went on this 
 ■ray for a month or more, the irritation — 
 not ulceration — of the skin continuing. 
 Meantime, upon my advice, he occupied 
 a separate bed and left his wife severely 
 alone. She soon recovered from the effects 
 of the att ack of mal-de-mer and became well 
 and strong. One day, after a report that 
 he was no better, I said, in desperation : 
 
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58 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 ( Are you sure you have not had an attack 
 of gonorrhoea the past year?' He an- 
 swered, ' I hardly know. I had a slight 
 burning in the penis for a day or two 
 with a slight discharge of mucus, and a 
 physician of the regular school gave me 
 an injection of olive oil with sulphate of 
 zinc or nitrate of silver, I don't know 
 which. This stopped the burning, and I 
 never thought of it since.' Medor. im 
 was given, and in a short time the worst 
 case of gonorrhoea I ever had to deal with 
 made its appearance. The discharge be- 
 came bloody, almost amounting to a 
 hemorrhage. It was very profuse all the 
 time, sometimes thick and greenish, at 
 others thick and yellowish. Nitric acid 
 controlled the tendency to hemorrhage. 
 Merc. sol. helped when the discharge was 
 greenish, but did not stop it. Sepia aided 
 when the discharge was yellowish, but 
 did not stop it. Capsicum greatly relieved 
 when the discharge was whitish and ac- 
 companied by great pain. Agnus castus 
 finally cured the patient after both he 
 and the doctor had become completely 
 discouraged. Never before nor since have 
 
Gonorrhoea. 59 
 
 I had such, a long and tedious case, ex- 
 tending over a year, to treat." 
 
 There are many physicians who place 
 great reliance in the treatment of gonor- 
 rhoea by the "tissue, or biochemic reme- 
 dies." 
 
 This treatment has the merit of simpli- 
 city. As soon as infection is suspected 
 take Kali mur. four or five times a day. 
 If this does not arrest the disease and 
 inflammation and swelling set in alternate 
 the Kali mur, with Ferrum phos. , a remedy 
 that undoubtedly possesses great power 
 over all inflammatory conditions. Should 
 the discharge become greenish or of a 
 yellow color, then drop the Kali mur. 
 and in its place take Natncm sulph. This 
 simple treatment, it is claimed, will cure 
 nearly all cases that are uncomplicated. 
 Von Grauvogel, Director General of the 
 Bavarian army, placed great reliance on 
 Natrum sulph. in the treatment of gonor- 
 rhoea, and he had a great many cases to 
 treat. These remedies are best taken in 
 the form of tablets or triturations — two 
 tablets, or as much of the powder as 
 
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60 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 would lie on a silver ten cent piece, being 
 a dose. 
 
 The " tissue remedies" are prepared in 
 the same manner as other homoeopathic 
 remedies, and a number of them, such as 
 Silicea, Natrum mur., etc., are Hahne- 
 mannian remedies. It is most likely, 
 that the only difference between the 
 tissue and the homoeopathic remedies is 
 simply in theory. Practically, the tissue 
 remedy acts homceopathically when it is 
 curative. 
 
Gleet. 6 1 
 
 GLEET AND OTHER ILLS FOLLOWING 
 GONORRHOEA. 
 
 Gonorrhoea may become chronic, when 
 it is known as gleet, or may involve many 
 other parts of the body. The scope of 
 this book does not take in all these ills. 
 As many of them are constitutional 
 maladies involved with the gonorrhoea, 
 the following remedies will be found 
 useful, as indicated, by those who at some 
 time in their life have contracted that 
 disease. 
 
 In cases where there is pain in the 
 testicles and back, constipation and de- 
 bility of sexual organs, Lycopodium will 
 be useful. 
 
 Phosphoric acid, where the disease also 
 involves seminal emissions. 
 
 Where there is a chronic discharge un- 
 attended with pain when urinating, Sepia 
 may prove curative. 
 
 Aching in testicles, Nat. mur.; also in 
 cases of gleet and leucorrhcea where in- 
 jections of nitrate of silver have been 
 employed. 
 
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62 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 Where there is no sexual desire, no 
 erection, yellow discharge, Agnus castus. 
 
 After mercurial treatment, Nitric acid. 
 
 Gleet with warts or fleshy excrescences, 
 Thuja. 
 
 Hydrastis is useful when, after all the 
 painful symptoms have abated, the dis- 
 charge continues profuse. 
 
 Stringy discharge, Kali bichromicum. 
 
 Chordee is the designation of that form 
 of the disease (gonorrhoea), when from 
 violent inflammation the penis assumes 
 a curved form, nearly always downward. 
 Some authorities advise the application 
 of cold water, and others to gently bend 
 the member in the direction of its con- 
 cavity. Internally, Aconite may prove 
 useful. 
 
 Stricture means, the urethral canal is 
 temporarily narrowed and urine cannot 
 be passed. Aconite or Cantharis are 
 probably the best remedies. A hot bath 
 may relieve. It may even be necessary 
 to use a catheter if the stricture lasts too 
 long, in order to relieve the bladder. 
 
 Gonorrhoeal rheumatism is often 
 another attendant ilL Where the skin 
 
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 Gleet, 63 
 
 is hot and dry Aconite is indicated; if 
 following suppressed gonorrhoea — sup- 
 pressed by injections — Pulsatilla; from 
 exposure to cold and wet, Rhus tox. One 
 of the most important remedies in true 
 gonorrhoeal rheumatism is Tkuja^ the 
 pain is worse in afternoon and evening, 
 and better from w r armth. 
 
 Gonorrhoeal opthalmia is a very serious 
 complication, and if possible should be 
 promptly intrusted to the treatment of a 
 homoeopathic physician, as, to quote 
 Berjeau: "This extremely severe disease 
 requires the promptest attention, disor- 
 ganization and bursting of the eye not 
 unfrequently taking place within even 
 twenty-four hours from its first invasion." 
 The utmost care should be employed to 
 prevent any of the gonorrhoeal discharge 
 from coming in contact with the eye in 
 any way; be especially careful about the 
 towels, handkerchiefs and rags used, so 
 that they will not come in contact with 
 the eye or other parts of the body. The 
 smallest quantity of the virus may set up 
 a terrible train of ills in the eyes. The 
 sooner one so affected applies to a phy- 
 
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64 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 sician the better, but if this be impossible 
 Aconite, Nitric acid and Sulphur alter- 
 nately are the best remedies to be taken 
 internally. Should the discharge sud- 
 denly cease yet the inflammation continue 
 Jahr recommends Pulsatilla. 
 

 Syphilis, 65 
 
 SYPHILIS— POX. 
 
 Syphilis is an infections disease com- 
 municable by coition, or by contact of the 
 virus with the thin skin. It makes its 
 appearance first as a chancre, or sore, on 
 the penis ; this small, red spot is inflamed 
 and the centre rises rapidly and a cor- 
 rosive fluid is exuded. This sore, or 
 chancre, may be superficial or it may be- 
 come phagedenic by bad treatment, and 
 the virus of the disease spread, unless 
 arrested, to almost any part of the body, 
 slowly eating away, or rotting away the 
 parts which it attacks. Buboes, or "blue 
 balls," is a frequent accompaniment of 
 the disease, an abscess in the groin or 
 under the arm pit. 
 
 Syphilis is a fearful disease when it per- 
 vades the whole system and may require 
 years for its extirpation, if indeed it ever 
 be cured. So many forms may it assume 
 in various parts of the body that no at- 
 tempt will be made to describe them here. 
 In general the disease has three stages, 
 
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66 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 the primary, which includes incubation 
 and development of the sore or chancre ; 
 the secondary, which involves the glands 
 and mucous membranes, and the tertiary, 
 which does not develop for a year or two 
 after infection and which, as said before, 
 may assume many forms and involve 
 any part of the body, even to the bones. 
 
 But on this point we had better quote 
 Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases, which is 
 a truer guide than modern text-books : 
 "The chancre," writes Hahnemann, 
 " generally appears between the seventh 
 and fourteenth day after the infection has 
 taken place; it rarely appears either 
 sooner or later, and generally affects the 
 parts which have been first tainted with 
 the virus. The chancre first appears in 
 the form of a little vesicle, which is soon 
 changed to a painfully stinging ulcer, 
 with an elevated border. This ulcer may 
 remain upon the same spot during the life 
 time of the patient, and, although it may 
 become enarged,yelt the secondary symp- 
 toms of syphilis will not make their ap- 
 pearance as long as the chancre remains." 
 
 "The allopathic physician, not know- 
 
Syphilis. 67 
 
 ing that the entire organism has become 
 infected with the syphilitic miasm, even 
 before the appearance of the chancre and 
 immediately after the impnre coition has 
 been accomplished, looks npon the chancre 
 as a simply local nicer which onght to be 
 removed by the external application of 
 desiccating and canterizing substances, 
 and which will remain quite harmless, 
 provided it is not left too long upon the 
 skin; for, in this case, the absorbing 
 vessels might carry the poison into the 
 internal organism, and, in this way, pro- 
 duce a general syphilitic affection, whereas 
 these evil consequences might be avoided 
 by a speedy removal of the chancre. This 
 is both the doctrine and the practice." 
 
 And it may be added here that the 
 doctrine and practice is quite as much be- 
 lieved in and practiced to-day as when 
 Hahnemann wrote the above words; if 
 anything, the practice is more prevalent 
 since men call that fearful poison u bacil- 
 lus." But let Hahnemann continue: 
 
 " By this practice the physician de- 
 prives the internal disease of its vicarious 
 symptom, the chancre; and, by the re- 
 
68 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 moval of the chancre, he forces the dis- 
 ease to embody itself externally in the 
 more troublesome and speedily suppurat- 
 ing bubo. And after this has been re- 
 moved, as is foolishly done by external 
 treatment, the disease is forced to mani- 
 fest itself throughout the organism with 
 all the secondary symptoms of a fully de- 
 veloped syphilis." And thus so far from 
 relieving the patient the physician has 
 injured him by this mode of treatment. 
 Thus we see that the real cause of the 
 second and third stages of the disease is 
 external treatment. 
 
 Further on, in the same work, Hahne- 
 mann says : u In my practice of fifty years' 
 duration I have never seen syphilis 
 breaking out in the system whenever the 
 chancre was cured by internal remedies." 
 
 Treatment of Syphilis. 
 
 As regards the medical treatment, it 
 may be said here that Hahnemann 
 claimed Mercury to be the specific remedy, 
 and experience seems to prove that he 
 was right and that the several preparations 
 of that drug are as near to being specifics 
 
Treatment of Syphilis. 69 
 
 in this disease as may be hoped for in medi- 
 cine. When one has reason to suspect 
 the disease, or the chancre has already 
 developed, Mercurius is the remedy. Dr. 
 Schneider says that in over eight hun- 
 dred cases all were cured by Mercurius 
 sol. 
 
 The following case, by Dr. Walze, illus- 
 trates the use of some of the homoeo- 
 pathic mercurial preparations and also 
 the danger of suppressing syphilis by 
 external applications: " Patient, aged 
 forty-six, contracted syphilis about eight 
 months ago, a small ulcer on the glans 
 bearing all the signs of a true chancre. 
 Ulcer was touched with caustic, and lint 
 soaked in a solution of corrosive subli- 
 mate was applied to it. In seven or eight 
 days a dirty brown cicatrix was formed 
 and he was pronounced cured. Four 
 weeks had elapsed when the throat began 
 to be painful on swallowing. Patient 
 thought he had taken cold; increased 
 secretion of saliva, peculiar taste in the 
 mouth ; small round ulcers appeared on 
 the palate, tonsils and glans. The syphi- 
 litic specialist ordered gargles and decoc- 
 
jo Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 tions of sarsaparilla ; still the throat grew 
 rapidly worse in spite of the treatment. 
 I found tonsils much swollen; arch of 
 the fauces swollen; both were affected 
 with roundish ulcers, the size of half a 
 nail, whose lardaceous, cream-like surface 
 was somewhat depressed; uvula thick- 
 ened and elongated; gums spongy and 
 bleeding easily; color of hard palate, soft 
 palate and uvula is a dirty reddish brown ; 
 swallowing painful; great collection of 
 saliva; taste metallic. Patient took, for 
 a few weeks, Merc, sol., 2d and 3d tritura- 
 tions, morning and evening. The chan- 
 cres, which returned at the glaus, towards 
 the end of the third week, I left un- 
 touched, they healed within from six to 
 eight days, reappeared after a while in 
 order to leave again equally fast. Most 
 stubbornly, up to the tenth week, the 
 puffiness of palatine arches and swelling 
 of tonsils continued, likewise their red- 
 dish-brown color, in consequence of which 
 swallowing was difficult. Under Merc, 
 prczcip. rub., 2d trit., there appeared, in 
 eight or ten days, a normal color and 
 formation of the different parts of the 
 throat, and complete health. '* 
 
Treatment of Syphilis. 71 
 
 Mercurius cor. seems to be especially 
 adapted to meet cases of a more maliguant 
 nature, as when the head or neck swells, 
 ears discharge pus, nose swollen, gums 
 swollen and bleeding, and ulcers in the 
 mouth or tonsils, etc. 
 
 Arsenicum is called for in syphilis when 
 the discharge from the ulcers is of a very 
 corroding nature. 
 
 Hepar sulphur may be useful when the 
 skin is scurfy and the hair falls out. 
 
 After Mercurius one of the most im- 
 portant remedies for the disease is Nitric 
 arid, which is generally called for in ad- 
 vanced cases of an especially bad nature. 
 The readers of this book may obtain a 
 better idea of its uses from a few clinical 
 cases than from its symtomatology. Dr. 
 Guernsey had a case, discharged as in- 
 curable by a large hospital. There was 
 sloughing of the entire integument of the 
 penis, and fistulous ulcer that had eaten 
 its way into the urethra. He dressed the 
 diseased parts externally with olive oil 
 and gave Nitric acid, in a rather high 
 potency, internally, and cured the case. 
 Dr. Edmundson relates a case that had 
 
72 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 contracted the disease four years previ- 
 ously. At time of treatment had ulcer- 
 ated sore throat, ulcers near the root of 
 the tongue, tonsils nearly sloughed off, 
 foul odor from mouth and great pain on 
 taking any food. Nitric acid 6. cured the 
 case. Another case of six months' dura- 
 tion, in which mercury (allopathic prepa- 
 ration) and injection had been used un- 
 successfully, and in which the end of 
 the prepuce was in fissures, was cured 
 with same remedy. 
 
 Phosphorus is indicated when there is 
 great debility, and the bones have become 
 involved (caries, necrosis). 
 
 Sour eructations, nausea, milky-looking 
 urine, and falling of hair from genitals 
 in this disease are indications for Phos- 
 phoric acid. 
 
 Sulphur may be useful when there are 
 copper colored spots on face and body, 
 eruptions on the scalp, mucus in the eyes, 
 eruption around the chin or itching 
 eruptions on the body. The remedy is 
 especially useful in children who have 
 inherited a syphilitic taint from their 
 parents, and for the eruptions that come 
 
Treatment of Syphilis. 73 
 
 out on those who once had the disease. 
 Should the remedy cause the eruptions 
 to come out freer do not try to suppress 
 them, for this is a favorable sign. In 
 such cases cease taking the remedy for a 
 time, and the eruptions will gradually 
 pass away and the case in all probabilit} 7 
 be cured. 
 
 Aurum is called for in this disease 
 when at a late stage the patient is de- 
 spondent, memory bad, sight and hearing 
 seemingly affected and pains in the head; 
 bony tumors on the head; ozaena; bones 
 in nose decay ; nose eaten away ; warts on 
 the tongue. 
 
 Baryta carb. is useful when there is 
 swelling of the testicles, tremor of feet, 
 vertigo, irresolution, sensibility to cold, 
 palpitation and debility. 
 
 Kreosotum when scalp is very painful, 
 hair comes out plentifully, burning dur- 
 ing the passing of urine. 
 
 Lachesis when gangrene is threatened 
 in any part. Or when the whites of the 
 eyes turn yellow, tip of nose red and 
 scabs form in the nose; throat dry and 
 parched. 
 
74 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 Thuja for fig-warts, or cauliflower-like 
 excrescences, that may accompany this or 
 other venereal diseases. Take the remedy 
 internally in the 30th potency, and not 
 too frequently, a dose every other day, 
 and inside of a month a cure may be 
 looked for. The tincture of Thuja may 
 be used externally if desired, and was so 
 recommended by Hahnemann. Aside from 
 this Thuja is indicated in syphilis when 
 there is a fetid discharge from the ear, or 
 ears, eruption on the nose, blotches on the 
 face and sore lips or corners of the mouth, 
 all with general depression. Thuja is 
 also a good remedy for syphilitic head- 
 ache. A headache as though the bones 
 would break. 
 
Sundry Hints. 75 
 
 SUNDRY HINTS. 
 
 The following hints may be found use- 
 ful by some of our readers. Some of the 
 remedies are unproved, but have been 
 found to be very efficient when clinically 
 used. It may be thought that some of 
 the ills covered bv these hints are not 
 sexual; this is, in a measure, true, but 
 many, or all, of them may be the result 
 of the conditions caused by sexual dis- 
 orders, which conditions often drive men 
 and women to drink or cause the dis- 
 orders covered by the following hints : 
 
 Inveterate drinkers and smokers, sub- 
 ject to fluttering pulse and heart, can 
 scarcely breathe, puffiness of face, and 
 about eyes, will find relief from Apocynum 
 caitnabmtim, twenty drops in a little 
 water. The remedy acts best in the de- 
 coction, 
 
 Nervous debility, palpitation of the 
 heart due to masturbation, or profuse 
 nocturnal emissions, are very successfully 
 controlled by Avena satzva, five drops in 
 a glass of water three times a day. 
 
76 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 To overcome morphine habit take five 
 drops of Avena sativa in a wine glass full 
 of hot water as often as the craving comes 
 on. 
 
 For bad syphilitic conditions, ulcers, 
 etc^Jacaranda Gualandaz^vt drops of the 
 tincture in water twice a day. A remedy 
 much used in South America. 
 
 Worst cases of delerium tremens and 
 opium, morphine or chloral habit, ten 
 drops of Passiflora inc. three times a 
 day. 
 
 For enlarged prostate, difficult urina- 
 tion, inability to pass water without the 
 use of catheter (especially in old men), 
 take five drops of tincture of Sabal serru- 
 lata twice a day, or five tincture tablets of 
 same remedy twice a day. 
 
 To increase the activity of sexual or- 
 gans in men, debilitated by excess, or the 
 result of inherent weakness, take Sabal 
 serrulata tablets, five a dose, twice a day; 
 or five drops of the mother tincture. 
 
 For pain in the kidneys, that region 
 painful on pressure, backache, dark col- 
 ored urine, full of sediment, gravel and 
 sand, catheter required often to pass it, 
 
Sundry Hints. 77 
 
 Solidago virga-atirea. #, five drops a dose, 
 two or three times a day. 
 
 All ills due directly to tobacco chewing 
 find a remedy in Arsenicum. 
 
 Carbuncles and malignant eruptions, or 
 abscesses, Tarantula Cub. This remedy 
 has also been used successfully in espe- 
 cially malignant cases of syphilis ; malig- 
 nant in its primary manifestations. 
 
 Affections of liver, spleen and kidneys, 
 varicose veins, due to excess of liquor, 
 Carduus mar. 8 tablets. Five a dose. 
 
 To prevent the formation of gall-stones, 
 China 15, every day for a month. 
 
 Gouty rheumatism, Viscum album. 
 
 To lose the taste for smoking tobacco, 
 Ignatia 6, every day. 
 
 To u purify " the blood and clear away 
 disfiguring, cutaneous eruptions, Lappa 
 off I. 
 
 For the " trembles " of drunkards, 
 Lachesis 30. 
 
 Intolerable itching of the anus, Rat- 
 hania. 
 
 Long-standing constipation of women, 
 Tabacum 3. 
 
 Fissured, bleeding, sore, finger tips, 
 Petroleum 30. 
 
78 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 For bleeding piles, Hamamelis 30, in- 
 ternally, and Hamamelis suppositories, 
 or ointment, externally ; for non-bleeding 
 piles, or that bleed but little and feel like 
 a chestnut burr, ^Esculus 30, internally, 
 and ^Esculus ointment, or suppositories, 
 externally. To prevent piles, wash the 
 anus every day or after every evacuation. 
 
 To lessen the intense craving for alco- 
 holic drinks, ten drops of Spiritus glan- 
 dium quercus three times a day. Burnett 
 found this remedy would enable men who 
 drank to excess to easily control their 
 appetite and u drink like other people." 
 Asarum 1 is also a remedy for the craving 
 for liquor. It is said to prevent delirium 
 tremens and enable inveterate drinkers 
 to control their appetite for liquor. 
 
 For mental and physical " break 
 down," men cry like women, Kali pkos. 
 6x. 
 
 The following remedies will be found 
 useful in that distressing symptom that 
 accompanies sexual as well as other ills: 
 z*. *?., Sleeplessness : 
 
 Gelsemzum, in a three-drop dose of the 
 tincture at night, when patient is much 
 
 mm 
 
Sundry Hints. 79 
 
 exhausted but cannot sleep; dull and 
 stupid feeling. 
 
 Ignatia, when one broods much over 
 what are really imaginary troubles. 
 
 Ambra, sleeplessness of nervous or- 
 gans, u he cannot sleep, he knows not 
 why." 
 
 Cimicifuga (especially for women) , con- 
 fused, miserable, dejected feeling; aching 
 pains. 
 
 Coffea, when senses are unusually 
 acute, full of ideas. 
 
 Platina, extreme nervous excitability. 
 
 Sulphur, sleeps only in cat naps. 
 
 Aconite, sleepless after midnight and 
 very restless. 
 
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PART II. 
 
 MATERIA MEDICA. 
 
PREFACE TO MATERIA MEDICA. 
 
 Materia Medica is the knowledge of 
 the action of drugs or medicines on the 
 human body. It is the most important 
 field in the study of medicine. There 
 are two ways of ascertaining the action 
 of drugs : one by experimenting on the 
 sick and the other, of voluntarily taking 
 the drug and noting its action. The 
 latter is the homoeopathic method. Where 
 the action of a drug has been thoroughly 
 ascertained by this method the prac- 
 titioner, when lie meets with a case pre- 
 senting similar symptoms, administers 
 the drug in small, potentized doses, and 
 if his observations have been correct a 
 cure will follow. The potentized drug, 
 as the name indicates is powerful to cure; 
 but if not indicated, u e. y if it is not the 
 drug called for by the symptoms, it will 
 do the patient no harm, which would not 
 be the case were it taken in the crude 
 material doses. The following Materia 
 
 J 
 
84 
 
 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 Medica is a condensed statement of the 
 action, and of clinical results, of the various 
 drugs named, on the sexual organs, and 
 incidentally on the other parts of the 
 body. Should the reader be unable to 
 find a drug in the foregoing pages that 
 seems to fit his or her case, let him study 
 the following pages, and if any drug 
 presents a picture similar to his case — 
 that is the drug for him to take. 
 
Materia Medica. 
 
 ACONITE. 
 
 Patient is restless, anxious, feverish. 
 Fear; fear of death. Timid. Fullness 
 and heaviness in forehead. Hard, swollen 
 eyelids. Lips and mouth dry and parched. 
 Prepuce swollen and inflamed. Fre- 
 quent desire to urinate. Urine scanty and 
 hot. Retention of urine, especially after 
 exposure to dry cold air. (All ailments 
 brought on by exposure to cold, especially 
 to dry, cold winds, require this remedy.) 
 Burning in bladder. Skin hot and dry. 
 Inflamed testicles when caused by cold. 
 Bruised pain in testicles. Menses sup- 
 pressed from cold. Chill, followed by 
 fever, (beginning of colds). Sudden and 
 acute inflammation Fever, with painful 
 urging to urinate. In gonorrhoea this 
 remedy taken frequently will allay the 
 fever and inflammation, though it will 
 
 I 
 
86 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 not check the discharge. Restlessness 
 and sleeplessness of old age. 
 
 ^ESOULUS. 
 The general action of ^Esculus is on 
 the lower bowel, back, hips and liver, and 
 is especially indicated in persons with 
 tendency to haemorrhoids. Back and hips 
 aching and painful; liver and portal 
 system engorged; aching in pit of stom- 
 ach to right lobe of liver. The remedy 
 has won its chief renown in the treat- 
 ment of piles, or haemorrhoids ; protrud- 
 ing, purple piles, or " blind piles," that 
 pain as though a chestnut burr, or small 
 sticks, were in the rectum. For such 
 cases it is best to take the remedy in- 
 ternally in the form of medicated pellets, 
 and externally apply it in the form of 
 suppositories for " blind piles," or of oint- 
 ment if the piles protrude. 
 
 AGARICUS. 
 
 Ill-humored, indifference, selfishness. 
 Acts chiefly on the nerve centres ; twitch- 
 ing; twitchings of eyelids. Brain feels 
 as though under influence of alcohol. 
 Trembling. (Delirium tremens.) Vertigo 
 
 . 
 
Agnus Castus. 87 
 
 in tobacco users, and drinkers. Spasmodic 
 jerking in various parts of the body. 
 Gonorrhoea in old people ; difficult urina- 
 tion. Burning itching of the skin, as if 
 from frost bites; chilblains. Boils on 
 nates. Weakness of sphincter vesicae; 
 dribbling of urine. Bad effects of sexual 
 debauches. Bearing down pains. Pro- 
 lapsus uteri on cessation of menses. 
 
 AGNUS CASTUS. 
 Melancholy; absence of mind; low- 
 spirited. Yellow discharge in gonorrhoea 
 after pain and inflammation have sub- 
 sided; gleety condition. No sexual desire. 
 Impotence, organs relaxed. Loss of 
 sexual desire in females. Aversion to 
 coition. Transparent leucorrhoeal dis- 
 charge. Suppression of the menses, and 
 want of sexual desire. 
 
 AMBRA GRISEA. 
 A useful remedy for certain nervous 
 states, embracing those of hysterical 
 women; nymphomania, and nervous 
 coughs. Debility of old age, or of over- 
 work; anaemia; twitching of the muscles. 
 Forgetfulness; patient does everything 
 
88 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 in a hurry, yet time passes slowly. Sleep- 
 lessness of thin, spare nervous men, with 
 spasms or twitchings of muscles; sleep- 
 lessness due to worry. Asthma, with flut- 
 tering of heart. Menorrhagia ; discharge 
 of blood between periods at every little 
 accident. Leucorrhcea, with thin, bluish 
 or bluish-gray mucus. 
 
 ANAOARDIUM. 
 
 Loss, or great weakness, of memory; 
 impaired intellectual power. Lacks con- 
 fidence. (A remedy to prevent stage 
 fright or "funk.") Inactivity of rectum, 
 even soft stool passes with difficulty. 
 Leucorrhoea, or gonorrhoea, in women, 
 with much soreness. Nervous prostra- 
 tion resulting from excessive emissions. 
 Constant desire to lie or sit down. 
 Tendency to curse and swear. 
 
 APIS MELLIPIOA. 
 
 Erysipelas, especially if due to injuries. 
 Nettle rash, stinging and itching. Acute, 
 swollen throat. Baggy puffiness under 
 the eyes. Red, swollen ears. Legs and 
 feet waxy and swollen; dropsy; urine 
 scanty and no thirst. Hot, puffy swell- 
 
Apocynum Cannabinum. 89 
 
 ing in gonorrhoea. Erysipelatous inflam- 
 mation of penis, with stinging pains. 
 Dropsy of testicles; inflammation and 
 swelling of testicles. Inflammation of 
 kidneys, with pain in lumbar regions. 
 White swelling of knee. 
 
 APOCYNUM CANNABINUM. 
 
 Chiefly useful in dropsy, swelling of 
 the legs, weak heart, relaxed doughy 
 skin. It has also been successfully pre- 
 scribed in cases of hard drinkers and 
 smokers, with fluttering heart, scarcely 
 any pulse and almost unable to breathe. 
 Thirst and irritability of the stomach are 
 characteristics of the remedy; not even 
 water can be retained on the stomach. It 
 has also been employed with success in 
 the treatment of sciatica. (It is said to 
 act best in the decoction, about twenty 
 drops in water being the dose) . 
 
 ARGENTUM NITRICUM. 
 
 Nervousness; fear of insanity; horrid 
 dreams. Face old and ashen. Red papillae 
 or spots on tip of tongue. Thick, tena- 
 cious mucus. Excessive desire for sweets. 
 
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go Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 Belching. Syphilitic ophthalmia; pain 
 deep in the eye. Violent itching of the 
 external ears. Nasal catarrh, with dry 
 throat. Diabetes. In gonorrhoea last 
 few drops in urinating not emitted, cut- 
 ting pains; chordee. Enlarged testicles ; 
 following suppressed gonorrhoea. Pain 
 in testicles. Stricture of urethra. Urine 
 dark red. Urine passed unconsciously. 
 Discharge of blood and mucus from 
 urethra. Painful coition, followed by 
 bleeding from the vagina. Menses ir- 
 regular. Chancre. Pimples from syphilis. 
 Periodic trembling. Pain near fifth rib, 
 with blood spitting. Pain in calves of 
 legs. Bmaciated legs. General sensa- 
 tion of expansion in parts. Bluish-black 
 eruptions on the skin. 
 
 ARSENICUM. 
 
 Restlessness, fear of being alone. 
 Sudden and severe prostration. Sensa- 
 tion as if brain moved. Periodical ills, 
 such as headache, or chills and fever. 
 Itching, dry, scaly skin, or eruptions. 
 Intense thirst. Morning vomiting of 
 drunkards. Furious cursing and raving 
 
Arsenicum. 91 
 
 in delerium tremens. Loss of hair in 
 patches. Dry. rough scalp. Erysipe- 
 latous swelling and burning of the head. 
 Inside of eyelids feel dry and granular. 
 Gonorrhoeal ophthalmia, exudation of 
 pus from eye ; lid or lids glued together. 
 Diminution or loss of sight in tobacco 
 smokers. Thin, excoriating discharge 
 from the ears. Nostrils scabby. 
 Chronic catarrh with dry dirty skin. 
 Cancer and cancerous ulceration. Fre- 
 quent bleeding from the nose. Burning 
 pains in the stomach; weight in the 
 stomach. Ills of tobacco chewing. 
 Labored breathing; short dry cough as 
 from sulphur fumes. Asthma. Coughing 
 blood, burning in chest or stomach. 
 Winter colds, thin discharge. Dysentery 
 or diarrhoea, with thirst or discharge of 
 blood. Diarrhoea from chilling the 
 stomach. Emissions during stool. Piles 
 that burn like fire. Putrid flatus. Urine 
 green, blue or black. Gonorrhoea in 
 women when discharge is corroding. 
 Corroding leucorrhoea. Syphilis w T hen 
 ulcers become gangrenous. Psoriasis 
 following syphilis. The characteristics 
 
92 Sexual Ills and Diseases, 
 
 of Arsenicum are burning pains, thirst , 
 restlessness, sudden prostration and 
 periodicity. 
 
 ASARUM EUROPIUM. 
 
 A remedy for certain forms of irritable 
 nerves; patient cannot endure sounds, 
 such as scratching on linen, on walls, etc. 
 Thoughts and ideas gradually vanish. 
 Said to control desire for alcoholic drinks 
 or stimulants. Chilly temperament; 
 without thirst. Has great reputation 
 among the Russians for ill effects of ex- 
 cessive drinking. 
 
 AURUM METALLIOUM. 
 
 The great mental symptom of Aurum 
 is such hopelessness and despondency as 
 leads to thoughts of suicide. Weakness 
 of memory resulting from syphilis. 
 Syphilitic affections of the bones. Im- 
 paired vision from whiskey drinking. 
 Tearing pains in the eyes from syphilis. 
 To counteract effects of large doses of 
 Mercury. Ozeana, especially syphilitic; 
 affecting the bones of the nose ; disgusting 
 odor. Caries of nasal bones. Red nobby 
 
Avena Sativa. 93 
 
 nose. Warts on the tongue from syphilis. 
 Swollen vesicles when the complaint is of 
 long standing. Jaundice, dyspepsia, 
 rheumatism and general breakdown in 
 syphilitics. Anrum is especially indicated 
 when there is great despondency, and is 
 to be distinguished from Mercurins 
 largely by that symptom. The Aurum 
 patient is over-sensitive to pain. 
 
 AVENA SATIVA. 
 
 An unproved remedy, that in practice 
 has been successfully employed in the 
 treatment of sexual debility and the mor- 
 phine habit. Fifteen drops of the hom- 
 oeopathic tincture, diluted with a little 
 water, is said to wonderfully tone up 
 sufferers from nervous exhaustion, palpi- 
 tation of the heart and insomnia, result- 
 ing from nocturnal emissions. The same 
 dose is prescribed as a cure for the mor- 
 phine habit. 
 
 BARYTA CARBONICA. 
 
 Especially useful in the ills of the 
 aged of scrofulous constitution, and to 
 those who have used much liquor. Apo- 
 plexy of the old and after consequences 
 
94 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 of apoplexy. Vertigo of the old, and of 
 drunkards. Cracking sounds in the ears 
 when swallowing or chewing, difficult 
 hearing. Chronic catarrh with much 
 yellow mucus. Nose red. Upper lip 
 swollen. Hungry, but cannot eat. Voice 
 imperfect, in the aged. Trembling in the 
 aged ; irresolution. Suffocative catarrh 
 of the aged. Chronic stiff neck. Legs 
 drag. Impotence, with numb feeling of 
 genitals. Trembling, paralytic condi- 
 tions. Face pimples. Fatty tumors of 
 drinkers. Feels hidebound. Excessive 
 nervous weakness, knees give way. Talk- 
 ing in sleep of the aged. 
 
 BELLADONNA. 
 
 Furious anger. Throbbing headaches ; 
 heat in the face ; pupils of eyes dilated ; 
 headache better from compression, worse 
 from stooping ; patient closes eyes from 
 the pain, vanishing sight. Intolerance 
 of noise. In gonorrhoea of females when 
 there is a discharge of white mucus with 
 dragging pains. Whitish leucorrhoea. 
 A pressing downward. Rheumatism ex- 
 cessively sensitive to the touch. Pain in 
 
Bellis Perennzs. 95 
 
 the small of the back as though it would 
 break. Starts from fright when falling 
 asleep ; vivid dreams. Redness and heat 
 of whole body. (Scarlet fever and rash.) 
 Sore throat — tonsilitis, quinsy. 
 
 BELLIS PERENNIS. 
 
 Said to develop symptoms analogous to 
 those experienced by young mastubators. 
 It is especially indicated in these when 
 boils develop on them. Use the tincture 
 pellets A remedy for ills resulting from 
 being over-heated and getting drenched, 
 while in that condition, with cold water. 
 
 BRYONIA. 
 
 Angry, morose, red faced, very irritable. 
 Bad effects of anger. Bilious headaches ; 
 headache worse from stooping. All com- 
 plaints noticeably worse from motion. 
 Violent vertigo. Toothache relieved by 
 cold. Pain in the stomach from beer 
 drinking. Hot, red face, and headache of 
 drinkers. Swollen nose. Dry mouth and 
 tongue ; tongue coated. Bitter taste. 
 Constipation ; dry, hard stools almost as 
 if burned. Burning in anus after stool. 
 
9 6- 
 
 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 Pressure in stomach, after eating, as from 
 a stone ; distension of stomach. Stitch- 
 ing pain in ovaries. Gonorrhoea in 
 females when discharge increases again 
 after having decreased. Violent cough, 
 must put hand to chest ; expectoration 
 streaked with blood. Stitching or stick- 
 ing pains in the chest, cannot draw a 
 deep breath on account of them. Oppres- 
 sion in region of heart. Swollen joints, 
 (rheumatism) much oily or sour sweat. 
 Any affected part painful on pressure and 
 worse from motion. Yellow skin with 
 nettle rash. 
 
 OALADIUM. 
 
 Aversion to medicine. Dizzy when 
 lying down. Feeling as of a spider-web 
 over the face. Dry burning throat. Flut- 
 tering in the stomach. Emissions with- 
 out erections. Erections suddenly cease 
 during coition without orgasm. Itch- 
 ing of vagina. Rash on chest. Rheu- 
 matic pain between shoulders. Limbs 
 very weak. Stitches as from needles in 
 various parts of the body. Sudden burn- 
 ing spots on various parts of the body. 
 
Calcarea Carbonica. 97 
 
 CALOAREA CARBONICA. 
 
 Dread as evening draws near. Vertigo 
 when ascending or looking np. Rush, of 
 blood to the head. One-sided headaches. 
 Head-sweats. Excessive accumulation of 
 dandruff. Hair dry. Eyes become in- 
 flamed at every exposure to cold. Takes 
 cold easily. Catarrh in fat, light com- 
 plexioned, sweaty, persons; in females who 
 menstruate too soon and too profusely. 
 Swelling at root of nose. Cough of 
 tuberculosis, or scrofula. Asthma of fair 
 fat people. Calcarea carb. 30 wonder- 
 fully alleviates the pain of gall-stone 
 colic. Gonorrhoea in women, burning 
 milky discharge, and aching in vagina. 
 Effects of masturbation, chalk-like stools, 
 milky urine, palpitation of heart. Chlo- 
 rosis, longing for sour things or slate 
 pencils, etc.; cold feet. Skin eruptions 
 when sensitive to cold ; scrofulous. Red 
 nose or pimples, as a consequence of 
 menstrual derangements. Boils in scrofu- 
 lous persons Shortness of breath on 
 ascending stairs. Frequent need to draw 
 a long breath. Oppression of chest; 
 much mucus in chest. Swelling of glands 
 
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 Sexual Ills and Diseases, 
 
 of the neck. Cold, damp feet; sweating 
 feet, vSometimes burning soles. Gout; 
 heaviness of body and sick feeling. 
 
 CANNABIS SATIVA. 
 
 Obstinate retention of urine. Frequent 
 urging to urinate; cutting pains when 
 urinating; pain and inflammation in 
 kidneys. Penis swollen without erec- 
 tion. Piercing pain in penis. Inflam- 
 matory stage of gonorrhoea, prepuce 
 swollen and urethra feels as in knots ; 
 sensative to the touch. Gleet, gonorrhoea 
 in females accompanied with strong sexual 
 desire. Strong sexual desire in sterile 
 women. Violent beating of the heart on 
 moving. Said to be curative in opacity of 
 the cornea and cataract. 
 
 OANTHARIS. 
 
 Insanity of mastubators. Burning 
 stinging pain in the kidneys extending 
 into the bladder, with desire to urinate 
 but ability to pass only a few drops; re- 
 tention of urine; blood passes with urine; 
 fever. Constant involuntary dribbling of 
 urine. Involuntary discharge of urine. 
 Painful swelling of glans. Acute cases 
 
Carbo Vegetables. 99 
 
 of gonorrhoea with great difficulty in 
 urinating, intense pain, blood passes with 
 urine; cliordee; eyes inflamed. Strong 
 and persistent erections. Satyriasis, in- 
 tense, violent, uncontrolable sexual desire. 
 Continuous erections. Spermatorrhoea 
 with inability to retain urine. 
 
 CAPSICUM. 
 
 Inflammation of mucous membranes 
 with discharges tinged with blood Clin- 
 ically indicated for the ills that some- 
 times follow the sudden breaking off 
 of the alcohol habit. Burning pains 
 accompanied by chilliness. Chronic 
 suppuration of the ears. Sore throat of 
 smokers and drinkers with burning. 
 Chordee, excessive burning. Spermator- 
 rhoea with sleeplessness. Stinging and 
 itching in glans penis. Aversion to cold 
 air, especially draughts; general coldness. 
 
 CARBO VEGETABUJS 
 
 Head feels muddled. Headache with 
 chilliness. Vertigo or whirling head in 
 morning after a debauch, also headache. 
 Frequent nose-bleed, face pale, cold sweat 
 

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 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 on face, debility. Dyspepsia, flatulence, 
 water-brash, heartburn; disgust for meat, 
 brought on by too much liquor drinking. 
 No appetite. Rumbling in the belly. 
 Acid belching. Sour eructations. Abdo- 
 men full of gas, distended. Cold breath, 
 in collapse. Constipation, stool tough. 
 Moisture from rectum, acrid or corrosive. 
 Bright's disease from abuse of alcohol. 
 Useful, with other remedies, in gonorrhoea 
 when discharge is unusually offensive. 
 Bubo, when discharge is especially of- 
 fensive. Masturbation during sleep. 
 Spermatorrhoea with great prostration, 
 constipation and heartburn. Discharge 
 too soon during coition. Itching of vulva. 
 Dark carbuncles with offensive odor. 
 Fetid ulcers, not very deep, with ichor- 
 ous discharge. Varicose veins. The 
 characteristics of this remedy are: of- 
 fensive discharges, chilliness especially 
 of feet, venous sluggishness and flatu- 
 lence. Cold knees. Roughness in larynx; 
 hoarseness and rawness. Difficult breath- 
 ing, must have more air. Spasmodic 
 hollow cough. Long continued palpita- 
 tion of the heart. Stiffness of back. 
 
Carduus Marianus. 101 
 
 Hands burn or are very cold. Cold sweat, 
 great debility. Awakens often with 
 cold limbs. Shivering, weariness in the 
 evening. 
 
 CARDUUS MARIANUS 
 
 Is especially useful in diseases of the 
 liver and spleen, w^ith distension or tender- 
 ness of the right hypochondrium ; pain 
 in right side of abdomen below short ribs, 
 or through chest to right shoulder. The 
 remedy is all the more indicated if there 
 be varicose veins or ulcers. Stitches in 
 right side. Influenza, with dirty brown 
 skin. The dose usually employed is five 
 drops, or more, of the mother tincture. 
 
 OAUSTICUM. 
 
 Vertigo on looking upwards or fixedly 
 at anything. Roaring in ears ; things re- 
 echo. Stiff neck. Yellow face. Warts 
 on the brow, nose or face; hard warts. 
 Eruptions on lower half of the nose. 
 Paralysis of one-half of face. Pain- 
 ful looseness of teeth. Loss of voice. 
 Distortion of mouth or tongue when talk- 
 ing. Wetting the bed, both by young 
 and old. Stringy mucus in the urine. 
 
102 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 Bladder feels as though never entirely 
 emptied. Especially for the ill effects of 
 retaining the urine, as when in company, 
 travelling or in any circumstances pre- 
 venting one from emptying the bladder. 
 Involuntary discharge of urine when 
 coughing, or from excitement. Pressure 
 and sticking in rectum. Aversion to 
 coitus by women; soreness of vulva; 
 smarting in pudendum after urinating. 
 Cannot speak a loud word. Violent 
 cough with pain in the right chest. 
 Tightness of chest. Uneasiness of limbs ; 
 right hand feels as if paralyzed; aching 
 hip joint. Cannot lie still or get an 
 easy position. Paralysis of single parts. 
 Rheumatism that draws affected part out 
 of shape. 
 
 CHINA. 
 
 Great debility ; body sore all over ; pros- 
 tration with neither thirst nor hunger. 
 Yellow skin. Profuse sweat during sleep. 
 Fever; no thirst during chill or heat. Ill 
 effects of loss of fluids — blood, semen, 
 leucorrhoea, night sweats, or nursing. In- 
 termittent, bilious, gastric and fevers of a 
 
Cirnicijuga. 103 
 
 malarial origin ; there is thirst before 
 chill and an intermission between chill 
 and fever; give the remedy after the fever 
 and while patient is comparatively com- 
 fortable. Painless diarrhoea. Restless 
 sleep, with starting and anxious dreams ; 
 when awakening one finds it difficult to 
 come to one's senses. 
 
 CIMICIFUGA. 
 
 A remedy especially useful for women, 
 controlling inflammation and neuralgia of 
 the uterus or ovaries, and reflex neuralgias 
 and pains in various parts, due to dis- 
 orders of those organs; also headaches 
 from same cause. Mental depression, as 
 if a pall or deep gloom were hanging 
 over her. Menstruation painful and ir- 
 regular, or suppressed. Pains in the side. 
 Muscular rheumatism. 
 
 COPFEA ORUDA. 
 
 A remedy for sleeplessness accom- 
 panied by extreme sensitiveness to ex- 
 ternal impressions and mental activity; 
 or sleeplessness due to bad effects of alco- 
 hol and stimulants, with trembling hands. 
 
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 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 Neuralgia, with pain as though a nail 
 were driven in the head. 
 
 OOLOCYNTHIS. 
 
 Vertigo on suddenly turning the head, 
 bending forward or sideways. Headache 
 that is worse when lying down. Roots of 
 hair painful. Colic, or bellyache, causing 
 patient to bend double. Cutting pains in 
 bowels. Diarrhoea with cutting pains. 
 Copious diarrhoea after the least food or 
 drink. Empty feeling in stomach. Recent 
 sciatica. Tearing and drawing in limbs. 
 Phimosis and paraphimosis. Tendency 
 of muscles to become cramped. 
 
 OONIUM. 
 
 Dread of being alone yet avoids society. 
 Melancholy of celibacy. Inability to 
 sustain mental effort. Vertigo, worse 
 lying down. Acne (pimples) on face. 
 Toothache when the teeth are sound. 
 Weak vision, debility, can scarcely raise 
 the eyelids. Constipation, when there is 
 frequent desire for stool though but little 
 passes. Tremulous weakness after every 
 stool. Flow of urine suddenly stops. 
 Leucorrhcea of milk-white color, with 
 
Cuprum. 105 
 
 labor-like pains. Enfeebled sexual organs 
 from self-abuse, emission on the slighest 
 provocation. Hard tumors. Stinking 
 perspiration. iVsthmatic paroxysms, com- 
 ing on in wet weather. Sharp thrusts 
 through the chest. Clothes a weight on 
 chest. Palpitation of heart, beats inter- 
 mit. Sudden loss of strength, as if para- 
 lyzed. Desire for sun-warmth. Dead feel- 
 ing in the extremities — hands, fingers or 
 feet. 
 
 CUPRUM. 
 
 Vertigo, with tendency to fall forward. 
 Cramps of fingers, toes, feet and muscles 
 general^. Cold sweats. Very slow 
 pulse, " falling fits." Prevents cholera. 
 Colic, cold skin and vomiting; collapse; 
 cholera. Impotence in apparent^ strong 
 men. Skin diseases when accompanied 
 with convulsions. Paralysis of hands. 
 
 FERRUM PHOS. 
 
 Especially indicated in all inflammatory 
 states and abnormal condition of blood 
 corpuscles. Rushes of blood to the head. 
 Head sore to the touch; headache, with 
 red face. Eyes inflamed. Colds in the 
 
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 Sexual Ills and Diseases, 
 
 head. Hot, inflamed gums. Urine spurts 
 out when coughing. Inability to retain 
 urine, especially in women. Pain in 
 testicles, with inflammation. Rheuma- 
 tism. Stiff neck. Rheumatic pains in 
 back and kidneys. Much inflammation in 
 gonorrhoea. 
 
 GELSEMIUM. 
 
 Weakness and trembling of whole sys- 
 tem ; vertigo in morning. Confused per- 
 ception. Low forms of disease and fever. 
 Blurred vision, heaviness of the eyes. 
 Face heavy and besotted. Insomnia of 
 drunkards. Sleeplessness from exhaus- 
 tion. " Tobacco heart." Effects of ex- 
 treme heat. Hot weather " colds." Dull 
 drowsy headache Painless diarrhoea, 
 sometimes involuntary. Involuntary uri- 
 nation in elderly persons. Spermator- 
 rhoea, pale face, blue rings about the 
 eyes ; emissions without erections. Loss 
 of muscular control of various parts ; 
 stupor; lethargy. " Writer's cramp." 
 
 GRAPHITES. 
 
 Roaring in the ears in the unhealthy 
 young. Deafness in scabby persons. 
 
Hamamelis. 107 
 
 Unhealthy obesity in the old. Oozy, 
 sticky scnrf behind the ears or on scalp. 
 Numb headache, much dandruff and 
 itching ; hair falls out. Wens. Black 
 pores on the nose. Erysipelas with tet- 
 tery eruptions. Very dry cracked lips. 
 Seminal emissions in the extremely 
 emaciated and unhealthy looking. Ejacu- 
 lations will not follow coition. Menstrual 
 irregularities of fat women. Oozing, 
 sticky eruptions on the skin. Eczema 
 on genitals and in bend of knees, between 
 fingers, etc. Angry, or inflamed old 
 scars. Stinking sweat of the feet, and 
 fetid perspiration generally, Aversion to 
 sweet things. Constipation, stools large. 
 
 HAMAMELIS. 
 
 Hamamelis, or " witch hazel," has been 
 a favorite popular remedy since the days 
 when the red men revealed the virtue of 
 the plant to the white men. Internally, 
 and externally, it is useful in varicose 
 veins ; phlebitis or inflamed veins ; 
 I black eyes," from blows ; nose bleed 
 (snuff a little of the extract and bleeding 
 will at once cease) ; spongy, bleeding 
 
108 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 glims ; vomiting of blood ; bleeding piles ; 
 pain in spermatic cord ; orchitis ; neural- 
 gia of testicles ; uterine hemorrhage. 
 The key note to the drug is " bleeding." 
 
 HEPAR SULPHUR. 
 
 Fretful and passionate, or desponding 
 and sad. Craving for sour things. Fall- 
 ing of hair from chronic headache Large 
 pimples about the eyes, on face. Styes. 
 Syphilitic iritis. Sensitive to open air; 
 takes cold easily. Otorrhoea, offensive 
 discharge from the ear. Beneficial in 
 some cases of hardness of hearing follow- 
 ing illness. Loose, rattling cough, choky 
 or suffocating, chilly and sensitive to cold 
 air. Debility from bleeding piles. Easily 
 bleeding chancres. Abscesses. Whitlows. 
 Sour sweats. Small hurts fester and heal 
 slowly. Unhealthy skin. Hepar sulph* 
 is especially the remedy for lymphatic 
 people, with light hair and rather slow 
 in disposition. 
 
 HYDRASTIS. 
 
 Relaxed mucous membranes; thick 
 yellowish secretion. Sore mouth. Catarrh, 
 yellow discharge, dropping from posterior 
 
Hyoscyanms. 109 
 
 nares into the throat. Catarrhal deafness. 
 Superficial ulcerations. Gastric catarrh. 
 Atonic dyspepsia, yellow slimy tongue. 
 Iveucorrhoea with thick yellow secretions, 
 accompanied by weakness and constipa- 
 tion. Chronic gonorrhoea. General ten- 
 dency to profuse perspiration. 
 
 HYOSOYAMUS. 
 
 Obscene mania; inclination to lewdly 
 expose the person ; muscular twitchings, 
 
 j mutterings. Hallucinations; sees persons 
 who are not present, fears to be alone or 
 in the dark. Enraged, wild, cursing; 
 effects of drink ; flushed face ; restlessness 
 and wakefulness of drinkers. Convul- 
 sions with squinting of the eyes. Hard 
 hearing, buzzing in the ears; stupefied. 
 Hiccough, with red flushed face. Wetting 
 the bed, or must rise frequently during 
 
 : the night to urinate. Nymphomania, with 
 desire to expose her person. Hysterical 
 jerkings and twitchings. For coughs 
 that come on while lying down but cease 
 when sitting up. Head falls to one side 
 or the other, with loquacity or silliness. 
 Fits," staggering, sudden falling or 
 
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 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 cry, distortion or convulsion ; frothing* 
 Paralysis agitans. 
 
 IGNATIA. 
 
 Tendency to start. Changeable disposi- 
 tion, at one moment sad at another gay. 
 Silent grief and effects of great sorrow. 
 Distortion of facial muscles when speak- 
 ing. Headache, sharp and confined to 
 one point. Sinking at pit of stomach. 
 Frequent emissions of watery urine. 
 Incontinence of urine in women. Labor- 
 like pains. Sexual desire with impotence. 
 Contraction of penis. Complete absence 
 of sexual desire. Sore throat when 
 swallowing, feeling of lump in the throat 
 when there is no lump there. 
 
 KALI MURIATIOUM. 
 
 Stuffy cold in the head. Deafness ; 
 snapping noises in the ear. Diseases of 
 the ear generally. " The principal remedy 
 in gonorrhoea." (B. & D.) " In bubo for 
 the soft swelling and in soft chancres it 
 is also the chief remedy." {Mem.) Chronic 
 syphilis. Mucous patches. Ulcerated 
 gums. " Periods too frequent." {Idem.) 
 
Kali Bichromtcum. in 
 
 " Leucorrhcea, discharge milky white." 
 {Idem.) Morning sickness of pregnancy. 
 Restless sleep; starts at noises. Glandular 
 swellings generally and skin diseases, 
 such as eczema, herpes, boils and ulcera- 
 tions. 
 
 KALI BI0HROMI0UM. 
 
 Rheumatism, chronic and of the cold 
 variety. Dyspepsia of beer-drinkers ; 
 weight in stomach after food. Thick, 
 tough and stringy mucus. Catarrh, with 
 yellow, tough and stringy mucus. Very 
 fat men troubled with an accumulation of 
 phlegm. Blotched, pimply face, asso- 
 ciated with dyspepsia. Venereal chancre 
 with chees}^ exudation. Yellow, tena- 
 cious leucorrhoea. 
 
 KALI PHOSPHORIOUM. 
 
 Threatened softening of the brain. 
 Brain fag, mental break down, men cry 
 like children; are unable to attend to 
 business. Horribly offensive catarrh and 
 breath. Carion-like diarrhoea. Stinking 
 discharges from the ears. Haemorrhages 
 of blackish blood. Greasy, offensive skin. 
 Neurasthenia from sexual excess, or 
 
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 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 masturbation. General physical and 
 mental break down and decay. Bad state 
 of the blood. 
 
 KREOSOTUM. 
 
 Loss of flesh. General tendency to 
 decomposition of fluids. Fetid discharges. 
 Eyes hot and smarting. Chronic inflam- 
 mation of the eyelids. Syphilitic deaf- 
 ness. Rapid and premature decay of the 
 teeth. Dyspepsia, with cold feeling in 
 epigastric region. Chronic vomiting. 
 Chronic irritability of the stomach. Ex- 
 ceedingly foul diarrhoea. Gonorrhoea, es- 
 pecially in females, wheu discharge may 
 be bloody and especially if very foul smell- 
 ing. Syphilis, low-spirited, hair falls out, 
 scalp painful, livid complexion. Urine 
 flows involuntarily during deep sleep. 
 Corrosive itching of vulva. 
 
 LAOHESIS. 
 
 Jealousy. Haughtinesss. Weak talka- 
 tiveness. Incessant talk. Delirium tre- 
 mens, when patient is very talkative. 
 Trembling hands and lost appetite of 
 drinkers. Red nose of drunkards. One- 
 sided headache, especially if chronic. 
 

 Lappa Officinalis. 113 
 
 Very dry ears, and deafness of such. 
 Gums dark purple and bleeding. Left- 
 sided throat affections. Affections where 
 throat is very tender to the touch. 
 Lachesis in general is indicated where 
 u worse after sleeping 7 ' is noted; also 
 u intolerance of clothing." Nervous palpi- 
 tation of the heart, can bear nothing tight 
 about throat or abdomen. Gastritis of 
 drunkards. Syphilitics, with red nose and 
 yellow whites of eyes. Syphilitic ulcers, 
 especially on the legs, that tend to be- 
 come gangrenous. Menstrual colic. 
 Blood poisoning. Gangrene of wounds. 
 Nervous sleeplessness. Dark-colored, or 
 black, blood ; dark haemorrhages. 
 
 LAPPA OFFICINALIS. 
 
 An old favorite " people's remedy," who 
 believed it to be the best of " blood puri- 
 fiers ;" (clinically it has cured 3^ellow, 
 scabby eruptions); also that it would cure 
 sterilit} r in women, which latter belief 
 was concurred in by some of the older 
 physicians. It has been known to cause 
 and consequently will cure excessive 
 white discharges in the urine. It has also 
 
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 cured prolapsus of the uterus that re- 
 sisted all mechanical treatment by pes- 
 saries, etc. 
 
 LYCOPODIUM. 
 
 Confusion of thoughts and in use of 
 words ; slow of comprehension. Mental 
 torpor of the aged. Dyspepsia ; hungry, 
 but soon satisfied; distended stomach; 
 everything in it seems to be fermenting 
 and acid. Flatulence. Constriction of 
 anus. Pain in the back before urinating ; 
 urine contains " brick dust" sediment. 
 Impotence, loss of sexual desire, " used 
 up " from too much indulgence in coition. 
 Dread of sexual intercourse after too 
 much indulgence. Chronic dryness of 
 vagina. Redness of prepuce with much 
 itching. Yellow exudation behind glans 
 penis. Gravel. Inflammation of prostate. 
 Pains and stitches in the bladder. Urging 
 to urinate, but must wait for stream to 
 flow. Pain in kidney and bladder. Urinary 
 troubles of old men. Rheumatic gout in 
 joints. Chronic rheumatism. Lumbago 
 in the old. Varicose veins and ulcers. 
 
Merairius. 115 
 
 MEROURIUS. 
 
 (Under this heading are gathered indi- 
 cations for Merc. so/. } Men. viv., Merc. cor. 
 and Merc, dul.) . Feeling of great fullness 
 and pressure in the brain : Merc. v. 
 Coryza, acrid corroding discharge, drop- 
 ping of water from nose : Merc. s. 
 Coryza, with greenish discharge, swollen 
 nose : Merc. v. Inflammation of gums ; 
 gums bleed easily ; teeth loose : Merc. s. 
 Toothache with inflammation : Merc s. 
 Ulcers of lips: Merc. v. Sore mouth, 
 stinking breath : Merc. v. Dry cough, 
 exhausting cough : Merc. s. Night 
 sweats about thighs : Merc. d. Bloody 
 stools ; "flux :" Merc. c. Greenish 
 stools : Merc. v. Fall dysentery : Merc. 
 s Anus sore and corroded : Merc. s. 
 Syphilis, red raised spots, pustules, little 
 red ulcers, sores on legs, bone pains, erup- 
 tions on head, inflamed eyes : Merc. s. 
 Syphilis, swelling of head or neck, dis- 
 charge from ear, red nose, ozaena, swollen 
 gums, ulcers in mouth or tonsils, foul 
 breath, swollen glands : Merc. c. Red 
 ulcer on prepuce with inflammation and 
 
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 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 itching : Merc. v. Bubo : Merc. c. 
 Small itching spots bleeding easily : 
 Merc. c. Greenish gonorrhoea, worse at 
 night : Merc. v. Swollen testicles : 
 Merc. v. Nasty secretions with itching 
 of glans penis : Merc. v. Spermator- 
 rhoea, burning anus, cold sweat, sensitive 
 to cold : Merc. v. Swelling of genital 
 organs, susceptible to cold, chilly ; itch- 
 ing of genital organs: Merc. v. Leu- 
 corrhoea, with discharge of large flocks, 
 vagina inflamed : Merc. v. Intense itch- 
 ing of vulva, especially after urinating : 
 Merc. v. Syphilitic rheumatism and 
 rheumatism with much sweat, joints af- 
 fected, bone pains : Merc. v. Very foul 
 breath : Merc. v. Dry eczema, bleeding 
 when scratched : Merc. v. Scabies in 
 elbows : Merc. v. Bluish ulcers : Merc. 
 v. Offensive smelling sweat : Merc. v. 
 
 MOSCHUS. 
 
 Hysterical headache, fainting fits. 
 Hysterical fits. Nosebleed with pale 
 face. Acute asthma in hysterical persons. 
 Painful emissions. Palpitation of the 
 heart in the hysterical. Intense sexual 
 
Natrum Miiriaticum. 117 
 
 desire, but nausea or vomiting after em- 
 brace. Nymphomania, urine scanty. 
 Hysterical scolding; fear of death. Hys- 
 terical spasms and convulsions. Sup- 
 pressed menses, with hysterical spasms. 
 Pimples on hysterical persons. Moschus 
 is, in general, indicated in nervousness 
 in connection with sexual derangements. 
 
 NATRUM MURIATIOUM 
 
 Beating, chronic headache, beginning 
 in the morning. Headache, like a weight 
 on the head. Better in open air and from 
 gentle motion. Watery discharges charac- 
 terize the remedy. Eyes water. Cracked 
 lower lip. Syphilitic pimples on lower 
 lids, with waterj T discharge. Coryza, or 
 ki sneezing cold," with watery running. 
 Greasy skin. Chancre where caustics have 
 been employed. Gouorrhoea, or gleet, 
 where Nitrate of silver has been injected ; 
 also where discharges are clear and color- 
 less. Chills and fever with great thirst, 
 and violent headache with heat; much 
 perspiration. Intermittent fever. Affec- 
 tions and persons worse at seaside. (Use 
 the 30th potency.) Thirst is a general 
 
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 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 accompaniment of this remedy. Back- 
 ache and general weariness. Hang nails. 
 
 NATRUM SULPHURIOUM. 
 
 For bilious conditions; yellow secre- 
 tions, or discharges, bile, liver affections. 
 Tongue dirty brown or greenish brown. 
 Complaints brought on by living in damp 
 houses or cellars. Complaints worse in 
 wet weather. Yellow " whites" of eyes. 
 Sallow, jaundiced face. Biliousness, bit- 
 ter fluid arises or is vomited. Diabetes. 
 Gonorrhoea; von Grauvogl, medical di- 
 rector of the Bavarian army, claimed that 
 for simple gonorrhoea no other remedy 
 was needed, and he treated many thou- 
 sands. Chronic gonorrhoea, especially if 
 discharge is yellow or greenish yellow. 
 Fig warts. Warts around eyes, scalp or 
 anus. Yellow leucorrhcea. 
 
 NITRIC ACID. 
 
 Falling of hair after fevers. Affections 
 resulting from large doses of mercury or 
 calomel. Dim sight and sore eyes from 
 syphilis or gonorrhoea. Gums bleed easily 
 and teeth are loose. Ulcerated sore throat 
 
Nux Vomica. 119 
 
 due to syphilis, or mercury. Fissure in 
 anus. Chancres and syphilitic affections 
 that have been treated with mercury. 
 Leucorrhoea in women who have had syph- 
 ilis. Boils on the head. Bleeding ulcers. 
 The remedy is especially indicated in 
 dark-complexioned people, with offensive 
 discharges and splinter-like pains. 
 Chronic enlargement of the liver. Dysen- 
 tery, very painful, yet requires straining 
 to pass stool. 
 
 NUX VOMICA. 
 
 Hypochondriacs with an insane desire 
 to kill some particular person. Wants 
 to be alone. Fears of poverty and anxiety 
 thereat. Bad effects of abuse of liquor, 
 tobacco and coffee. Bad effects of a 
 sedentary life. Especially indicated in 
 spare, easily angered persons. Headache 
 of sedentary persons. Headache as if 
 head were bigger than the body, "swelled 
 head" of drinkers. Sick headache, with 
 vomiting or constipation. Furious de- 
 lirium tremens when much force is needed 
 to control patient. Congestion of blood 
 to head. Stuffy colds. A remedy for 
 
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 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 any invalid wlio has taken much allo- 
 pathic, or patent, medicine, to be followed 
 by indicated remedy as effects of drugging 
 pass off, should any trace of disease re- 
 main. Lumbago in drinkers. Constipa- 
 tion, especially of sedentary persons; 
 frequent but ineffectual urgings; large 
 stool. Constipation following diarrhoea 
 checked by large doses of astringents. 
 Gonorrhoea after failure of allopathic 
 drugs (to begin treatment) . Spermator- 
 rhoea in heavy drinkers. Masturbation, 
 pollutions chiefly in morning ; desire to 
 De alone; very irritable. Chorea after 
 drugging or abuse of liquor. Red, blotchy 
 skin. 
 
 PASSIPLORA INOARNATA. 
 
 An old but unproved remedy that has 
 been used with success in cases of in- 
 somnia, neuralgia, lockjaw, convulsions, 
 delirium tremens, nervousness and the 
 morphine habit. It is said to act well in all 
 nervous ills only when the tongue is clean. 
 The dose is from five to twenty drops of 
 the tincture, or that many " drop-tablets, " 
 each representing a drop of the tincture. 
 
Petroleum. 121 
 
 PETROLEUM. 
 
 Headache in back part of the head, 
 with nausea. Seasickness, especially if 
 accompanied by occipital pains. Inflam- 
 mation of margins of eyelids. Deafness, 
 with frequent occipital headache. Ca- 
 tarrh, or ozsena, with cracked nostrils. 
 Nocturnal enuresis; dribbling of urine 
 after micturition ; constant pain in back 
 with frequent call to urinate ; swollen 
 feet. Bright's disease. Secondary syphi- 
 litic eruptions ; herpes of scrotum, erup- 
 tion ; red, raw and bleeding, or oozing. 
 Cracked finger tips ; deep cracks on the 
 hands. Fetid sweating of the feet, and 
 arm-pits. 
 
 PHOSPHORIC ACID. 
 
 Weak indifference to the affairs of life. 
 Quiet apathy. Pain on the top of the 
 head following great loss of animal fluids. 
 Vertigo, falling forward. Brain-fag, nerv- 
 ous debility, confused head, weak mem- 
 ory and dejection. Nausea in the throat. 
 Painless, thin or watery diarrhoea. 
 Chronic diarrhoea. Voiding large quan- 
 tities of pale urine. Spermatorrhoea, loss 
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122 
 
 Sexual Ills and Diseases, 
 
 of semen on least provocation, debility 
 and apathy. Sleep full of lascivious 
 dreams. Impotence. Seminal discharge 
 shortly after erection. Night sweats. 
 Leucorrhoea with chlorosis, debility and 
 indifference. Weakness in the small of 
 the back from sexual excesses, debility 
 or masturbation. Pale face, sunken eyes, 
 blue rings or margins. Inveterate bleed- 
 ing ulcers. Boils on thighs, hips or 
 nates. " Growing pains" in the young. 
 Homesickness. Hair turns gray early 
 in life. Falling out of eye-lashes. Yel- 
 low teeth and degeneration of gums. 
 Milky like urine. Nervous palpitation 
 in masturbators. Weak small of the 
 back and heavy limbs. Blood boils. 
 
 PHOSPHORUS. 
 
 The leading traits of this remedy are 
 fatty degeneration, inability for mental 
 exertion, absence of thirst, oppressed 
 chest, low fever, exhaustion, and painless 
 diarrhoea. Melancholia. Softening of 
 the brain. Brain fag. Brain feels 
 tired. Headache over left eye. Head- 
 ache, with pain if forehead is touched. 
 
Platinum. 12.3 
 
 Headache every other day. Hair falls 
 out in tufts. Extreme sensibility to 
 light ; colored rings around the light. 
 Cataract. Blue before the eyes or 
 flashes of light. Hard hearing of the 
 human voice. Catarrh in ivory skinned, 
 tall, slim persons. Nasal catarrh with 
 greenish, bloody mucus. Necrosis of 
 lower jaw. Chronic nervous coughs. 
 Constipation when passed faeces is long 
 and slender. Gastric ulcers. As soon as 
 drink gets warm in stomach it is vomited. 
 Gonorrhoea of female when discharge is 
 milky. Syphilitic affections of the bones 
 when accompanied with great debility 
 and emaciation. Effects of masturbation, 
 weak memory and painless diarrhoea, fre- 
 quent headache and cough, hectic night 
 sweats, jaundice, urine milky, fatty 
 heart. 
 
 PLATINUM. 
 
 Especially for dark-haired women. De- 
 pression of mind ; melancholy ; weeping ; 
 fear of death ; religious melancholy. 
 Copious and early menstruation. Flushes 
 of heat. Fretful and irritable. Vertigo, 
 
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 dare not move the eyes. Noises in the 
 ears due to nervous causes. Constipa- 
 tion of travelers. Constipation with feel- 
 ing of load in rectum. Leucorrhcea, 
 glairy, egg-white. Nymphomania. In- 
 tense desire for sexual gratification by 
 women, especially the unmarried. Peri- 
 odic headache that increases and decreases 
 gradually. 
 
 The persistent use of Platina 30, ac- 
 cording to von Grauvogl, will cure the 
 mental imbecility or weakness resulting 
 from self-abuse or masturbation. 
 
 PULSATILLA. 
 
 Especially for the light-complexioned 
 and blue-eyed. Women predisposed to 
 leucorrhcea, catarrh ; weep easily. Head- 
 aches that are better in the open air or 
 from pressure; increased by warmth. 
 Headache from indigestion or from fatty 
 food. Bad taste in the mouth. Styes 
 on the eye. Neuralgia worse from 
 warmth. Earache. Frequent chilliness, 
 absence of thirst, feels better out of doors. 
 Yellow or greenish discharges, profuse ; 
 predisposed to nasal catarrh. Cold in 
 
Ratanhia. 125 
 
 the nose. Dyspepsia, feels bloated, wants 
 clothes loose about abdomen, empty feel- 
 ing in stomach, can taste food a long 
 time after it is eaten ; rotten eructations. 
 Rumbling watery diarrhoea, with chilli- 
 ness. Enuresis in girls. Gonorrhoea in 
 females with rather painless discharge. 
 Masturbation in females, followed by 
 leucorrhoea or hysteria. Leucorrhoea in 
 fair, light-complexioned women. Weak 
 back ; backache extending into hips. 
 Chlorosis, with chilliness, bad digestion 
 and oppressed chest. Hysteria in mild, 
 light-complexioned women. Retarded 
 menstruation generally is amenable to 
 Pulsatilla, profuse menstruation to Sepia. 
 Wandering pains. Thirstlessness. Swoll- 
 en testicles ; inflammation of testicles. 
 Neuralgia of the testicles. Gout when 
 pains shift from place to place. 
 
 RATANHIA. 
 
 Clinically this remedy has been found 
 to exert considerable influence on the 
 anus. It has cured intense itching of 
 the anus ; fissures ; great constriction 
 and pain ; diarrhoea, bloody or thin, ac- 
 
126 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 companied by intense burning ; dry heat 
 in anus. The action of this remedy is 
 greatly facilitated by the use of Ratanhia 
 rectal suppositories. 
 
 RHUS TOX. 
 
 Complaints originating in getting wet. 
 Eczema. Strains and sprains. Cannot re- 
 main quiet, must move. Rheumatism, es- 
 pecially if caused by getting wet or from 
 dampness ; cannot remain long in one 
 position, must move to get relief. Rheu- 
 matism of the jaws. Swollen, red, glans 
 penis. Erysipelatous inflammation of 
 penis. Moist eruptions on genitals, not 
 the result of syphilis, or gonorrhoea ; 
 soreness and smarting of the genitals. 
 Spinal irritation from sexual excesses. 
 Lameness and stiffness of joints. Re- 
 tention of urine from getting wet. 
 
 SEPIA. 
 
 General relaxation, fatigue, and ex- 
 haustion. Increasing dizziness. Stag- 
 gering and forgetfulness of hard drinkers 
 or from sexual excesses. Many chronic 
 headaches. Neuralgic headache. Men- 
 
Sepia. 127 
 
 ses too profuse. Sick headaches with 
 blurred vision. Sour sweat about head. 
 Profuse perspiration of hands or feet. 
 Eruptions, pimples and pustules on the 
 face, especially in sallow-complexioned 
 persons; scaly eruption on the legs. 
 Yellow streak across the nose ; chronic 
 catarrh when this streak is present. 
 Brown spots on the skin. Ringworm. 
 Tobacco dyspepsia. 
 
 Wants to eructate but cannot ; dyspep- 
 sia, acid dyspepsia. Fetid, putrid urine; 
 turbid urine. Wetting the bed by mas- 
 turbators. Epilepsy of onanists. Boils 
 on neck, jaw or in arm pits of dark-com- 
 plexioned persons. Gleet. Leucorrhcea. 
 Red spots on the glans, coming and go- 
 ing; sexual intercourse very painful. Un- 
 ceasing and exhausting leucorrhoea. 
 Even a soft stool voided with difficulty 
 owing to inactivity of rectum. Weight 
 in rectum not relieved by evacuation. 
 Urging to urinate with bearing down sen- 
 sation. Chronic urethral discharges. 
 Coitus followed by restlessness and anx- 
 iety. In general Sepia is indicated by 
 a dark-complexion, brown or yellow 
 
128 
 
 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 spots, " liver spots," and especially the 
 yellow, or brown, "saddle" across the 
 bridge of the nose. It has also a "bear- 
 ing down" sensation. 
 
 SABAL SERRULATA. 
 
 This remedy has but recently been in- 
 troduced and partially proved. It has a 
 most marked action on the prostate gland 
 of men and the mammary glands of 
 women. Men who are unable to void 
 urine without resort to a catheter on ac- 
 count of enlarged prostate have been 
 either entirely cured or very much bene- 
 fited by taking five or ten drops, of the 
 tincture twice a day. Is also said to en- 
 large the breasts of women. It is also 
 much commended by some physicians to 
 restore lost, or lessened, ability in men 
 to perform the sexual act; this applying 
 to those who are otherwise normal and 
 whose lost power is not the result of vene- 
 real disease. 
 
 SOLIDAGO VIRGO-AUREA. 
 
 This old, but unproved remedy is men- 
 tioned by many writers, among whom we 
 
Staph isrgria . 129 
 
 may name Dr. Gallavardin {Homoeopathic 
 Treatment of Alcoholism, p. 131), who 
 records the fact that the first dilution of 
 the remedy was administered three times a 
 day, to seven cases, ranging from forty- 
 two to seventy-four years of age, who 
 " had been obliged to catheterize them- 
 selves for weeks, months and years, and 
 cured them so thoroughly that they had 
 no relapses." The indications especially 
 calling for the remedy are, pain in the 
 kidneys ; difficult and scanty urination ; 
 urine dark with dark brown sediment. 
 
 Ancient writers highly commend this 
 remedy "to provoke urine in abundance, 
 whereby the gravel or stone " may be 
 dispelled. 
 
 STAPHISAGRIA. 
 
 Very sensitive, easily gets indignant, 
 anxious about the future. Scald head, 
 yellow eruptions. Lousy persons. Styes 
 especially on the upper lid. Prevents 
 styes. Weak eyes, easily tired. Chronic 
 gout. Warts, especially dry fig warts, 
 when Thuja fails to cure. Masturbation 
 of long standing, sunken eyes, giddiness, 
 
130 
 
 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 confusion, taciturn ; anxiety about the 
 health ; hair dry, lustreless and inclined 
 to fall out. Queer notions and actions, 
 lunacy of the act of masturbating. Sem- 
 inal emissions, very sensitive, subject to 
 imaginary fears, headache. Mind persists 
 on dwelling on sexual subjects. Shrunk- 
 en testicles ; aching pain in testicles. 
 Teeth inclined to turn black, and cannot 
 be kept clean ; prematurely decay. Spon- 
 gy, bleeding gums, toothache. Offensive 
 perspiration in women afflicted with leu- 
 corrhoea. Weak and very nervous. Night- 
 mare. 
 
 SULPHUR. 
 
 Forgetful. Profound melancholy. Ver- 
 tigo on arising or ascending. Headache, 
 constant pain, or heat, on top of the head. 
 Ills following the itch, especially in cases 
 where external applications have been 
 used to suppress it. Eyes grow dim, 
 water, margins of lids inflamed. Flushes 
 of heat. Dirty, greasy skin; perspires 
 easily ; copper colored spots. Sulphur 
 patients perspire easily. Impotence ; 
 erections, but premature discharge. Re- 
 
Tabatnm. 131 
 
 laxed testicles. Desire to urinate im- 
 perative and must be complied with. 
 Chronic leucorrhoea. Sulphur is a rem- 
 edy that can be used occasionally in con- 
 nection with other remedies as an inter- 
 current in many diseases. The Sulphur 
 patient is apt to be dirty, averse to wash- 
 ing ; has burning of the soles or palms; 
 coarse, rough skin; drinks more than he 
 eats; stoops; has flushes of heat; sleeps in 
 cat-naps, and is generally worse at night, 
 and irritable. 
 
 TABAOUM. 
 
 Clinically Tabacum 3 has cured long- 
 standing constipation in women, even 
 cases of twenty years' duration. 
 
 TARANTULA CUBENSIS. 
 
 Chipfly useful in the more malignant 
 cases of carbuncle, anthrax and abscesses. 
 Has been used successfully in the treat- 
 ment of malignant syphilitic buboes. 
 Also for malignant diphtheria. 
 
 THUJA. 
 
 Very scrupulous; fancies some one is 
 along side; thinks one's self double; or 
 
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132 
 
 Sexual Ills and Diseases. 
 
 that an animal is in the abdomen ; sensa- 
 tion that the body is thin and delicate. 
 Worse in rainy weather. Vertigo on 
 closing the eyes. Useful for all fungus, 
 warty growths, fig- warts, polypi and cauli- 
 flower excrescences and pear-shaped warts. 
 Incontinence of urine in warty persons. 
 Gonorrhoea when complicated with con- 
 dylomata, i. e., fleshy or warty growths. 
 Gonorrhoeal rheumatism. Gleet when 
 complicated with excrescences. Elevated 
 syphilitic excrescences. Leucorrhcea of 
 warty women. Skin diseases, especially 
 on the covered parts. Teeth decay next 
 to the gums. Illness dating from and fol- 
 lowing vaccination. 
 
 VISOUM ALBUM. 
 
 A remedy dating back to the Druids. 
 While not in general use it was proved 
 by Dr. Huber and found by him to be 
 peculiarly useful in gouty rheumatic 
 complaints, where the pain is of a tear- 
 ing nature, and in all pains of a rheumatic 
 nature. Rheumatic deafness. Ills of 
 women at climacteric period, when men- 
 struation ceases; chronic or periodical 
 hemorrhages. 
 
PART III. 
 
 CLINICAL INDEX. 
 
 J; 
 
NOTE. 
 
 This Indkx is designed to assist the reader in 
 his search through the foregoing Materia Medica 
 for any particular symptom or condition. The 
 reader however should always turn to the Ma- 
 teria Medica and note the general characteristic 
 of the remedy before making final selection. 
 
CLINICAL INDEX. 
 
 ABDOMEN. Full of gas, distended, Carbo veg. 
 APOPLEXY. Baryta card. 
 
 ASTHMA. Amb. gris., Ars., Calc. card., Mosch. 
 AVERSIONS AND DESIRES. Aversion to coitus by 
 women, Caust. 
 Aversion to sweet things, Graph. 
 11 " medicine, Calad. 
 kt draughts, Caps. 
 11 washing, Sid. 
 Desire for sweets, Argent, nit. 
 
 " " sour, Hepar sulph., Calc. carb. 
 11 " sun warmth, Sul. 
 
 BACK. Backache and weariness, Nat. tnur. 
 
 Lumbago in drinkers, Nux zvm. 
 
 Pain in small of, as though it would break, Bell. 
 
 Pain in, before urinating, Lye. 
 
 Pain in, with frequent desire to urinate, Petr. 
 
 Rheumatic pains in, Ferr. phos. 
 
 Spinal irritation, Rhus tox. 
 
 Weakness in, from debility, Phos. acid. 
 
 Weak, Puis. 
 BETTER. From gentle motion, Nat. mur. 
 
 From pressure, Puis. 
 
 In open air, Natr. mur., Puis. 
 BLADDER. Burning in, Aco. 
 
 Effects of voluntary retention of urine, Caust. 
 
 Feeling as though it were empty, Caust. 
 
 Gravel, Lye. 
 
 Pain and stitches in, Lye. 
 BLOOD. Abnormal, Ferr. phos. 
 
136 Clinical Index. 
 
 Blackish, Kali phos., Lack. 
 
 Blood poisoning from gangrene or putrid flesh, Lack. 
 
 " Purifier," Lappa off. 
 BOILS. Agar., Bellis per., Calc. card., Hepar sulph., 
 
 Kali mur. , Nil. acid, Phos. acid, Sepia. 
 BONKS. Necrosis, Phos. 
 
 Pains, Merc. 
 
 Syhilitic affections of, Aur. fuel. 
 BRAIN. As though under the influence of alcohol, 
 
 As if brain moved, Ars. 
 
 Brain fag, neurasthenia, Kali phos., Phos. acid. 
 
 Fullness and pressure in, Merc. 
 
 Softening, Kali phos., Phos. 
 
 CANCER. Ars. 
 CARBUNCLE. Tarant. Cub. 
 
 CATARRH. Chronic, with dry, dirty, scaly skin, Ars. 
 " " yellow mucus, Baryla card. 
 
 Hyd. 
 " with yellow streak across nose, 
 Sepia. 
 
 Horribly offensive, Kali phos. 
 
 In fat, easily sweating patients, Calc. carb. 
 
 In tall, thin persons, Phos . 
 
 Ozeana, disgusting odor, Aur. met. 
 
 Profuse greenish discharge, Puis. 
 
 With cracked nostrils, Petr. 
 
 With dry throat, Argent, nit. 
 
 With greenish discharge, Merc. 
 
 With yellow, tough, stringy mucus, Kali bichrom. 
 CHEST. Breath short, Calc. carb. 
 
 Difficult breathing, Carbo veg. 
 
 Oppression, Calc. carb., Puis. 
 
 Rash on, Calad. 
 
 Tightness of, Caust. 
 
 Tough phlegm, Kali bichrom. 
 
Clinical Index. 137 
 
 COITION. Agnus cast., Argent, nit.. Cay bo veg., 
 
 Canst., Calad., Graph., Mosch., Septa. 
 CONSTIPATION. Bry. , Carbo veg. , Con., Graph. , Nux 
 
 vom., Plat., Tab. 
 CONVULSIONS. Con., Cup., Hyos., Nux vom., Passi- 
 
 flora inc., Sepia. 
 COUGHS. Ars., Bry., Ca/c. carb., Carbo veg., Hepar 
 
 sulph., Hyos., Merc, Phos. 
 
 DIARRHCEA OR DYSENTERY. Anac, Ars., China, 
 Coloc, Gels., Kali phos., Kreo., Merc, Nit. acid, 
 Phos., Phos. acid, Puis. 
 
 EARS. Catarrhal deafness, Hyd. 
 
 Chronic suppuration, Caps. 
 
 Deafness, snapping noises, Baryta carb., Kali mur. 
 
 Deafness with frequent headache, Petr. 
 
 Dry with deafness, Lach. 
 
 Earache, Puis. 
 
 Hard hearing, buzzing, Hyos. 
 
 11 s< of human voice, Phos. 
 
 Noises due to nervous causes, Plat. 
 
 Otorrhcea, offensive discharge, Hepar sulph. 
 
 Red and swollen, Apis met. 
 
 Rheumatic deafness, Vis. alb. 
 
 Roaring in, Caust<, Graph. 
 
 Stinking discharge, Kali phos. 
 
 Syphilitic deafness, Kreo. 
 
 Thin excoriating discharge, Ars. 
 ENURESIS. Caust., Hyos., Petr., Puis., Sepia. 
 EYES. Baggy puffiness under the, Apis met. 
 
 Blue rings around the, Phos. acid. 
 
 Dim and sore from syphilis or gonorrhoea, Nit. acid. 
 
 Hot and smarting, Kreo. 
 
 Impaired vision, Ars., Aur. met., Con. 
 
 Inflamed, Ars., Calc carb., Fer rum phos. 
 
 Margins of lids inflamed, Petr. , Sul. 
 
 Opacity of cornea, cataract, Can. sat., Phos. 
 IO 
 
I.3.8 Clinical Index. 
 
 Ophthalmia, Argent, nit., Ars. 
 Pain deep in the, Argent, nit. 
 Pimples on lids, Nat. mur. 
 Sensibility to light, Phos. 
 Squinting, with convulsions, Hyos. 
 Styes, Hepar sulph., Puis., Staph. 
 Twitching of lids, Agar. 
 Water, Nat. mur. , Sul. 
 Weak, easily tired, Staph. 
 Yellow, whites of, Lach., Nat. sulph. 
 
 FACE. Blotched and pimply, Kali bichrom. 
 Distortion of facial muscles, Ign. 
 Eruptions, pimples, sallow face, Sepia. 
 Old and ashen, Argent, nit. 
 Pale, eyes sunken, Phos. acid. 
 Pimples on hysterical, Mosch. 
 Sallow, jaundiced, Nat. sulph. 
 
 FAINTING FITS. Mosch. 
 
 FEVER, CHILL AND SWEATS. Chills and fever, Ars. , 
 
 Nat. mur., China. 
 Chilly temperament, Puis. 
 Cold sweat, Carbo veg. , Cup. 
 " Colds,' * A co., Ars., Calc. carb., Ferrum phos., Gels., 
 
 Kali mur., Nat. mur., Nux vom. 
 Feverish, Aco. 
 
 Foot-sweat, Calc. carb., Graph., Petr., Sepia. 
 Head-sweats, Calc. carb. 
 Intermittent fever, Ars. , Nat. mur. 
 Low fevers, Gels., Phos. 
 Night sweats, China, Merc. , Phos. acid. 
 Oily sweat, Bry. 
 Profuse sweat, Hyd., China. 
 Sour sweat, Bry., Hepar sulph., Sepia. 
 Stinking sweat., Con., Graph., Merc. 
 
 GONORRHCEA, GLEET. Aco., Agar., Agnus castus, 
 Apis mel. , Ars. , Bry. , Calc. carb. , Can. sat. , Canth. , 
 
Clinical Index. 1 39 
 
 Carbo veg., Caps., Ferrum phos., Hyd., Kali mur., 
 Kreo., Merc, Nat. mur., Nat. sulph., Nux vom., 
 
 Puis., Rhus to, v., Sepia, Thuja. 
 
 HEMORRHOIDS. Aching in back and hips, ^£s. 
 
 Aching in pit of stomach, ALs. 
 
 Bleeding, Ham. 
 
 " Blind," JEs. 
 
 Burn like lire, Ars. 
 
 Debility from, Hepar sulph. 
 
 Feeling as of chestnut burr in rectum, Ars. 
 
 Liver engorged, AEs. 
 HAIR. Dry, Calc. carb. 
 
 Falling out after fevers, Nit. acid. 
 
 Falling out in tufts, Phos. 
 
 Loss of, in patches, Ars. 
 
 Lustreless, in masturbators, Staph. 
 
 Turns gray early, Phos. acid. 
 HEAD. Boils on, Nit. acid. 
 
 Congestion of blood to, Aco., Calc. carb., Per rum 
 phos., Nux vom'.. 
 
 Dry, rough scalp, dandruff, Ars. 
 
 Erysipelatous swelling and burning, Ars. 
 
 Lousy, Staph. 
 
 Pains on top, Phos. acid, Sul. 
 
 Sore to touch, Ferrum phos. 
 
 Stuff y cold in, Ferrum phos. 
 
 Sweats, Calc. carb. 
 HEADACHE. Back of head, Petr. 
 
 Beating, chronic, weight on top, Nat mur. 
 
 Bilious, worse from motion, Fry. 
 
 Chronic, neuralgic, Sepia. 
 
 Dull and drowsy, Gels. 
 
 Every other day, Phos. 
 
 Heat on top of head and flushes of heat, Sul. 
 
 Hysterical, Mosch. 
 
 One-sided, Calc. carb., Lach. 
 
 Periodic, gradual increase and decrease, Plat. 
 

 140 Clinical Index. 
 
 Throbbing, hot face, closes eyes, Bell. 
 
 Sharp and at one point, Ign* 
 
 " Swelled " head of drinkers, or headache of sedentary 
 men, Nux vom. 
 
 With chilliness, Carbo veg. 
 
 With red face, cold in head, head sore, Ferrum phos. 
 
 Women menstrual derangements, Cimic. 
 
 Worse lying down, Coloc. 
 HEART. Fatty, Phos. 
 
 Fluttering, Amb. gris., Apoc. can. 
 
 Oppression of, Bry. 
 
 Palpitation of, Carbo veg., Con., Lack., Mosch. 
 
 1 ' Tobacco ' ' heart, Gels. 
 
 Violent beating, Can. sat., Canth. 
 HYSTERIA. Mosch. 
 
 IMPOTENCE, Agnus cast., Baryta carb., Cup., Ign., 
 Phos. acid, Lye. 
 
 KIDNEYS. Bright's disease, Carbo veg., Petr. 
 Diabetes, Nat. sulph. 
 
 Inflammation of, Apis met., Can. sat., Canth. 
 Rheumatic pains in back and kidneys, Ferrum phos. 
 Pain in, and to provoke urine, Sol. vir.-aur. 
 Pain in, and bladder, Lye. 
 Rheumatic pains in, and back, Ferrum phos. 
 
 LEUCORRHCEA. Chronic, Sepia. 
 Discharge, corroding, Ars. 
 Discharge, glairy, Plat. 
 Discharge, milky white, Kali mur. 
 Discharge, thick, yellow, Hyd. 
 Discharge, thin bluish or gray, Amb. gris. 
 Discharge, transparent, Agnus cast. 
 Discharge, unceasing and exhausting, Sepia. 
 Discharge, white, labor-like pain, Con. 
 Discharge, yellow, Kali bichrom., Nat. sulph. 
 With chlorosis, Phos. acid. 
 With inflammation, Merc. 
 
Clinical Index. 141 
 
 With offensive sweat, Staph. 
 
 With syphilis, Nit. acid. 
 
 With warts , Th uja . 
 LIMBS. Burning soles and palms, Sul . 
 
 Chilblains, Agar. 
 
 Cold, Carbo veg. 
 
 Cramps, Coloc, Cup., Gels. 
 
 Dead feeling of extremities, Con. 
 
 Emaciated legs, Argent, nit. 
 
 Feet and hands sweat, Sepia. 
 
 Feet cold and sweaty, Calf. card. 
 
 Feet heavy, Phos. acid. 
 
 Feet swollen, Petr. 
 
 Fetid arm pit sw T eat, Petr. 
 
 Finger tips fissured, Petr. 
 
 Legs and feet waxy, dropsy, Apis met. 
 
 Legs swollen, dropsy, Apoc. can. 
 
 Paralysis, Canst., Cup. 
 
 Scaly eruption on legs, Sepia. 
 
 Swollen joints, rheumatism, Bry., Rhus tox. 
 
 White swelling of the knee, Apis met. 
 LIPS. Cracked, lower one, Nat. mur. 
 LIQUOR, EFFECTS OF. Abuse of, also coffee, Nux 
 vom. 
 
 Ill effects of sudden breaking off, Caps. 
 
 Impaired vision, Aur. met. 
 
 Morning vomiting, Ars. 
 
 Red nose, Lack. 
 
 Scrofulous drunkards, Baryta card. 
 
 To control desire. Asa. Europ. 
 
 Trembling, Lach. 
 
 Vertigo and nausea, Carbo veg. 
 LIVER. Bilious, Bry., Nux vom., Nat. sulph. 
 
 Distension, varicose veins. Card. mar. 
 
 Engorged, s£s. 
 
 Enlargement, chronic, Nit. acid. 
 
 Jaundice, Aur. met., Phos. 
 
 Ji 
 
142 Clinical Index* 
 
 LOCKJAW. Passif. inc. 
 LUNGS. Breath stinking, Merc. 
 
 Labored breathing, Ars. 
 
 Much phlegm in fat persons, Kali bichrom. 
 
 MENSTRUATION. Aco., Agnus cast., Amb. gris., 
 Agar., Argent, nit., Calc. carb., Cimic, Kali 
 mur., Lack., Mosch., Puis., Sepia. 
 MENTAL. Absence of mind, Agar. 
 
 Anger, Bell., Bry. 
 
 Apathy, weak indifference, Phos. acid. 
 
 Confused perception, Gels. 
 
 Curse and swear, tendency to, Anac. 
 
 Depressed, melancholy, Plat. 
 
 Dread as evening draws near, Calc. carb. 
 
 X>read of being alone, Con. 
 
 Easily indignant, anxious, Staph. 
 
 Fancy one's self double, Thuja. 
 
 Fear of death when ill, Aco. 
 
 Fear of insanity, Argent, nit. 
 
 Fretful, melancholy, Sul. 
 
 Forgetfulness, Amb. gris. 
 
 Forgetful or desponding, Hepar sulph. 
 
 Grief, silent, Ign. 
 
 Hallucinations, Hyos. 
 
 Hypochondria, fear of poverty, Nux vom. 
 
 Ill humor, Agar. 
 
 Inability to sustain mental effort, Con. 
 
 Irritability, Bry. 
 
 Jealous, haughty, Lach. 
 
 Loss of memory, Anac, Aur. met. 
 
 Low-spirited, Agnus cast. 
 
 Melancholia, Agnus cast. , Phos. 
 
 Melancholy of celibacy, Con. 
 
 Memory weak from abuse, Phos. 
 
 Mental break down, Kali phos. 
 
 Obscene mania, Hyos. 
 
 Pall of gloom, (7imic. 
 
Clinical Index. 143 
 
 Restlessness, Aco., Ars. 
 
 Selfishness, Agar. 
 
 Suicidal state, Aar. met. 
 
 Tearful, Puis. 
 
 Time passes slowly, Amb. gris. 
 
 Timid, fear, Aco. 
 
 Thoughts and ideas vanish, Asa. Europ. 
 MORPHINE, HABIT. Ave. sat., Passif. inc. 
 MOUTH. Distortion of, Caust. 
 
 Dry and parched, Aco. 
 
 Gums bleed easily, Nit. acid, Merc, Staph. 
 
 Gums inflamed, Ferr. phos. 
 
 Gums ulcerated, Kali mur. 
 
 Sore, Hyd., Merc. 
 
 Tongue, papilae on tip of, Argent, nit. 
 NAILS Hang nails, Nat. mur. 
 NECK. Glands of, swollen, Calc. card. 
 
 Stiff, Caust., Ferr. phos. 
 
 Chronic, stiff, Baryta card. 
 NERVES. Hysteria, Amb. gris., Puis. 
 
 Irritable, Asa. Europ. 
 
 Neuralgia, Coffea cruda, Passif. inc. 
 
 Neurasthenia, Kali phos. 
 
 Nervous debility, Phos. acid. 
 
 Spasmodic jerkings, Agar. 
 
 Trembling, Agar., Argent, nit., Baryta carb. 
 
 Twitching, Agar., Hyos. 
 
 Twitching of eyelids, Agar. 
 
 Weak, Staph. 
 NOSE. Acrid, corroding discharge, Merc. 
 
 Black pores on, G~aph. 
 
 Caries of nasal bones, Aur. met. 
 
 Cold in, Puis. 
 
 Greenish discharge, Merc. 
 
 Nose bleed, Carbo veg., Ham., Mosch. 
 
 Nostrils scabby, Ars. 
 Ozcena, Aur, met., Petr. 
 
 
144 
 
 Clinical Index. 
 
 Red, Calc. card., Lack. 
 Red and nobby, Aur. met. 
 Swelling at root of, Calc. card. 
 Swollen, Bry. 
 Yellow streak across, Sepia 
 OLD AGE. Debility, Amb. gris., Baryta card. 
 Involuntary urination, Ferrum phos. 
 Lumbago, Lye. 
 Mental torpor, Lye. 
 Restlessness and sleeplessness, Aco. 
 Talking in sleep, Baryta card. 
 Unhealthy obesity, Graph. 
 Urinary troubles of old men, Lye. 
 Voice imperfect, Baryta card. 
 
 PAIN. Burning, Ars. 
 
 Driving one to move, Rhus tox . 
 
 Splinter like, Nit. acid. 
 
 Wandering, Puis. 
 
 Worse on motion, Bry. 
 PARALYSIS. Baryta card., Canst., Cup., Hyos. 
 PENIS. Aco., Calc. card., Can. sat., Canth., Apis met., 
 
 Ign., Rhus tox , Lye. 
 PROSTATE GLAND. Enlarged, Sadal ser. 
 
 Inflammation of, Lye. 
 RECTUM AND ANUS. Acrid moisture from, Cardo 
 veg. 
 
 Burning in, after stool, Bry. 
 
 Constriction of, Lye. 
 
 Dry heat in, Rat. 
 
 Fissured, Nit. acid. 
 
 Inactivity of, Sepia. 
 
 Pressure and sticking in, ^s., Canst. 
 
 vSore and corroded, Merc. 
 
 Warts around, Nat. sulph. 
 RHEUMATISM. Affected parts drawn out of shape, 
 Caust f 
 
Clinical Index. 145 
 
 Back and kidneys, Ferrum phos. 
 Between shoulders, Calad. 
 Chronic and cold. Kali bichrom., Lye. 
 From cold and wet, Rhus tox. 
 Gonorrhceal, Thuja. 
 Joints swollen, worse on motion, Bry. 
 Muscular, Cintic. 
 Of jaws, Rhus tox. 
 Rheumatic, gouty pains, Vis. alb. 
 Sensitive to touch, Bell. 
 Syphilitic, Aur. met. 
 With sweat and bone pains, Merc. 
 RINGWORM. Sepia. 
 
 SCIATICA. Apoc. can., Coloc. 
 
 SEMINAL EMISSIONS AND EFFECTS OF. Anac, 
 
 Ars., Ave. sat., Be I lis per., Calad., Calc. carb.\ 
 
 Canth., Carbo veg., Caps., Con., Gels., Graph., 
 
 Merc, Mosch., Nux vom., Phos. acid, Plat., Staph. 
 
 SEA SICKNESS. Petr. 
 
 SEXUAL. Absence of desire, Ign. 
 
 Bad effects of sexual debauches, Agar. 
 
 No sexual desire, Agnus cast. 
 
 Debility, Ave. sat. 
 
 Dread of intercourse, Lye. 
 
 Neurasthenia from excess, Kali phos. 
 
 Nymphomania, Amb. gris., Hyos., Mosch., Plat. 
 
 Satyriasis, Canth. 
 
 To restore ability, Sabal ser. 
 SKIN. Boils on nates, Agar. 
 
 Brown spots on, Sepia. 
 
 Burning, itching of skin, Agar. 
 
 Cauliflower excrescences, Thuja. 
 
 Carbuncle, Carbo veg. 
 
 Cold, Cup. 
 
 Dirty brown, influenza, Card. mar. 
 
 Doughy, Apoc. can. 
 
 
146 
 
 Clinical Index. 
 
 Dry eczema, Merc. 
 
 Eruptions, Argent, nit., Ars., Baryta carb., Calc.carb. 
 
 Greasy and offensive, bad blood, Kali phos., Sul. 
 
 Greasy, Nat. mur. 
 
 Inflamed scars, Graph. 
 
 Nettle rash, stinging and itching, Apis mel. 
 
 Oozing, sticky eruptions, Graph. 
 
 Pimples from syphilis, Argent, nit. 
 
 Pimples, Argent, nit. Baryta card., Con. 
 
 Red and blotchy in drinkers, Nux votn. 
 
 Scaly, Ars 
 
 Small hurts, heal slowly, Hepar sulph. 
 
 Ulcers, Ars., Carbo veg. 
 
 Unhealthy skin, abscesses, Hepar sulph., Kali mur. 
 
 Varicose veins, Carbo veg., Card, mar., Lye., Ham. 
 
 Yellow, Bry., China. 
 SLEEP. Full of lascivious dreams, Phos. acid. 
 
 Horrid dreams, Argent, nit. 
 
 In cat-naps, Sul. 
 
 Insomnia of drunkards, Gels. 
 
 Insomnia, nocturnal emissions, Ave. sat. 
 
 Nervous, Lach. 
 
 Nightmare, Staph. 
 
 Restless and starting, Kali mur. 
 
 Restless and awakening, difficulty of coming to senses, 
 China. 
 
 Sleeplessness from worry, Amb. gris. 
 
 Sleeplessness with spermatorrhoea, Caps. 
 
 Sleeplessness from mental activity, Coffea 
 
 Starts with fright, Bell. 
 
 Talking in sleep, Baryta carb. 
 STERILITY. Lappa off. 
 STOMACH. Acid and fermenting, Carbo veg., Lye. 
 
 Belching, Argent, nit., Carbo veg. 
 
 Burning pains and weight, Ars. 
 
 Colic, cutting pains causing one to bend double, Coloc. , 
 Cup. 
 
Clinical Index. 1 47 
 
 Dyspepsia, Kali bichrom., Kreo., Puis., Sepia, Lye. 
 
 Eructations, bitter, Nat. sulph. 
 
 Eructations, sour, Carbo veg. 
 
 Flatulence, dyspepsia, heartburn, waterbrash, Carbo 
 
 veg. 
 Gastric catarrh, Hyd. 
 Gastric ulcers, Phos. 
 Irritability, Apoc. can. 
 Jaundice, dyspepsia, Aur. met. 
 Pressure as a stone, Bry. 
 Sinking at pit of stomach, Ign., Aurum met., Carbo 
 
 veg. 
 Vomiting blood, Ham. 
 Vomiting, chronic, Kreo. 
 Vomits as soon as food or drink gets warm in, Phos. 
 
 SYPHILIS- Arge7it. nit., Ars., Carbo veg.,Hepar 
 sulph., Kali mur., Kali bichrom., Kreo., Lach., 
 Merc., Nat. mur., Nit. acid, Tar ant. Cub., Thuja. 
 
 THROAT. Acute, swollen, Apis. met. 
 Dry and burning, Calad. 
 Left-sided affections, Lach. 
 Nausea in, Phos. acid. 
 Roughness in larynx, hoarseness and rawness, Carbo 
 
 veg., Canst. 
 Sore as from a lump, Ign. 
 Sore, of drinkers, Caps. 
 Sore, tonsilitis, quinsy, Bell. 
 Sore, from syphilis or mercury, Nit. acid. 
 Tender, intolerance of clothing, Lach. 
 
 TEETH. Decay next the gums, Thuja. 
 Inclined to turn black, Staph. 
 Loose, Nit. acid, Merc. 
 Premature decay, Kreo., Staph. 
 Toothache, Bry., Con., Merc. 
 
 TESTICLES. Dropsy of, Apis mel. 
 Enlarged, Argent, nit. 
 
148 
 
 Clinical Index. 
 
 Inflamed and swollen, Ars., Apis mel., Ham. y Ferrum 
 phos., Merc, Phos., Puis. 
 
 Neuralgia of, Ham., Puis. 
 
 Orchitis, Ham., Puis. 
 
 Shrunken, Staph. 
 TISSUES. Fatty degeneration, Phos. 
 TOBACCO ILLS. Chewing tobacco, ills, Ars. 
 
 Dyspepsia, Sepia. 
 
 Sight affected, Ars. 
 
 Sore throat, Caps. 
 TUMORS AND CORNS. Abscesses, whitlows, Hepar 
 sulph. 
 
 Hard, Con. 
 
 Wens, Graph. 
 
 ULCERATIONS. Ars., Nit. acid. 
 
 Bleeding ulcers, Phos. acid. 
 
 Bluish, Merc. 
 
 Of lips, Merc. 
 URINE. Brick-dust sediment. Lye. 
 
 Catheter, to obviate use of, Sol. vir.-aur. 
 
 Desire to urinate frequent, Aco., Can. sat. 
 
 Desire to urinate imperative, Sul. 
 
 Difficult, Agar. 
 
 Dribbling, Agar., Canth., Petr. 
 
 Enuresis, Caust., Hyos., Petr., Puis., Sepia. 
 
 Flow suddenly stops, Con. 
 
 Involuntary, Caust., Ferrum phos., Kreo., Thuja. 
 
 Last drops retained, Argent, nit. 
 
 Milky color, Phos., Phos. acid. 
 
 Pale, large quantities, Phos. acid. 
 
 Putrid, Sepia. 
 
 Retention of, Aco., Can. sat., Canth., Rhus tox. 
 
 Scanty, hot, Aco. 
 
 With blood, Argent, nit., Canth. 
 
 With mucus, Caust. 
 
 Watery, Ign. 
 
 White discharges in, excessive, Lappa oft. 
 
Clinical Index. 149 
 
 VERTIGO. After debauch, Carbo veg. 
 
 Ascending or looking up, Calc. carb., Canst., Sul. 
 
 Bilious, Bry. 
 
 Dare not move eyes, Thuja. 
 
 From tobacco, or drinking, Agar. 
 
 In morning, Gels. 
 
 On closing eyes, Thuja. 
 
 On suddenly turning, Coloc. 
 
 When lying down, Calad., Con. 
 
 With tendency to fall forward, Cup., Phos. acid. 
 VACCINATION. Ill following, Thuja. 
 VOICE. Imperfect in the aged, Baryta card. 
 
 Loss of, Canst. 
 
 WARTS. Aur. met., Caust., Xat. sulph., Staph., Thuja. 
 WOMEN. Bearing down pains, Agar. 
 
 Chlorosis, Calc. carb., Puis. 
 
 Climacteric, Vis. alb. 
 
 Dryness, chronic, of vagina, Lye. 
 
 Incontinence of urine, Ferrum phos., Ign. 
 
 Itching of vagina, Calad. 
 
 Itching of vulva, Carbo veg. 
 
 Nymphomania, Amb. gris., Hyos., Mosch., Plat. 
 
 Ovaries neuralgia of, Cimic. 
 
 Ovaries, stitching in, Bry. 
 
 Prolapsus uteri, Agar., Lappa off. 
 
 Uterine, haemorrhage, Ham. 
 
 Vulva, soreness of, Caust. 
 
 Vulva, corrosive itching, Kreo. 
 WORSE. At seaside, Nat. mur. 
 
 At night, Sul. 
 
 From warmth, Puis. 
 
 From getting wet, Rhus. 
 
 In rainy weather, Thuja. 
 
 In wet weather, Nat. sulph. 
 
LIST OF REMEDIES. 
 
 Aconite. 
 
 ^Esculus. 
 
 Agaricus. 
 
 Agnus castus. 
 
 Ambra. 
 
 Apis mellifica. 
 
 Apocynuin cannabinum. 
 
 Anacardium. 
 
 Argentum nitricum. 
 
 Arsenicum. 
 
 Asarum Europaeum. 
 
 Aurum metallicum. 
 
 A vena sativa. 
 
 Baryta carbonica. 
 Belladonna. 
 Bellis perennis. 
 Bryonia. 
 
 Caladium. 
 Calcarea carbonica. 
 Cannabis sativa. 
 Cantharis. 
 Carbo vegetabilis. 
 Carduus niarianus. 
 Causticum. 
 
152 List of Remedies, 
 
 China. 
 
 Cimicifuga. 
 
 Coffea cruda. 
 
 Colocynthis. 
 
 Conium. 
 
 Cuprum. 
 
 Gelsemium. 
 Graphites. 
 
 Hamamelis. 
 Hepar sulphur. 
 Hydrastis. 
 Hyoscyamus. 
 
 Ignatia. 
 
 Kali bichromicum. 
 Kali muriaticum. 
 Kali phosphoricum. 
 Kreosotum. 
 
 L,achesis. 
 Lappa officinalis. 
 Iyycopodium. 
 
 Mercurius corrosivus. 
 Mercurius dulcis. 
 Mercurius solubilis. 
 Mercurius vivus. 
 Moschus. 
 
List of Remedies. 153 
 
 Natrum muriaticum. 
 Natrum sulphuricum. 
 Nitric acid. 
 Nux vomica. 
 
 Passiflora incarnata. 
 
 Petroleum. 
 
 Phosphorus. 
 
 Phosphoric acid. 
 
 Platinum. 
 
 Pulsatilla. 
 
 Ratanhia. 
 
 Rhus toxicodendron. 
 
 Sepia. 
 
 Sabal serrulata. 
 
 Solidago virgo-aurea. 
 
 Staphisagria. 
 
 Sulphur. 
 
 Tabacum. 
 
 Tarantula Cubensis. 
 Thuja. 
 
 Viscum album. 
 
 11 
 

 INDEX. 
 
 Aconite, 50, 62, 63, 64, 79, 85. 
 Advertising doctors, 14, 19. 
 jjEsculus, 7S, 86. 
 Agaricus, 53, 86. 
 Agnus cast us, 38, 58, 62, 87. 
 Alcohol, craving for, 78. 
 Am bra ' grisea, 79, 87. 
 A?iacardium, 41, 88. 
 Anus, itching of, 77. 
 Aphrodisiacs, 39. 
 Apis nullified, 51, 88. 
 Apocynum cannabinum i 75, 89. 
 Argenlum nitricum, 53, 89. 
 Arsenicum, 51, 71, 77, 90. 
 Asarum Europceum, 78, 92. 
 Aurum meiallicum, 25, 73, 92. 
 Avena sativa, 75, 76, 93. 
 
 Balanitis, 44. 
 
 Balanorrhcea, 42. 
 
 Baryta carbonica, 73, 93. 
 
 Beds, 17. 
 
 Belladomia, 51, 94. 
 
 Belli s pere?i7iis, 27, 95. 
 
 Biochemic remedies in gonorrhoea, 59. 
 
 Blood, to purify, 77. 
 
 Bryonia, 51, 95. 
 
 Caladium, 26, 96. 
 
 Calcarea carbonica, 24, 34, 51, 97. 
 
 Cannabis sativa, 34, 43, 50, 98. 
 
156 Index. 
 
 Cantharis, 17, 26, 34, 35, 54, 62, 98. 
 
 Capsicum , 58, 99. 
 
 Carbo vegetabilis, 52, 99. 
 
 Carbuncle, 77. 
 
 Carduus rnarianus, 77, 101. 
 
 Case of secondary syphilis, 69. 
 
 Causticum, 10 1. 
 
 Child-bearing, effects of preventing, 29. 
 
 China, 77, 102. 
 
 Chloral habit, 76. 
 
 Chord ee, 62. 
 
 Cimicifuga, 34, 79, 103. 
 
 Circumcision, 43. 
 
 Cleanliness, 16. 
 
 Coffea cruda, 34, 79, 103. 
 
 Colocyntkis, 43, 104. 
 
 Conium, 26, 104. 
 
 Constipation, 77. 
 
 Conjugal onanism, 29. 
 
 Cuprum aceticum, 38. 
 
 Danger of gonorrhoea, 46. 
 Delirium tremens, 76. 
 Diurnal pollutions, 20. 
 Drinkers' ills, 75. 
 
 Erythroxylon coca, 34. 
 
 Excessive sexual intercourse, effects of, 24. 
 
 Evils of partial coition, 30. 
 
 Ferrum phosphoricum, 59. 
 Finger tips fissured, 77. 
 Fig warts, 74. 
 
 Gall-stones, to prevent, 77. 
 Gelsemium, 26, 37, 78. 
 Gleet, 61. 
 
Index, 157 
 
 Gonorrhoea, 45. 
 
 11 suppressed by injections, 54. 
 
 11 treatment of, 50. 
 
 Gouty rheumatism, 77. 
 Graphites, 27. 
 Gravel, 76. 
 
 Haemorrhoids, 78. 
 
 Hahnemann on syphilis, 66. 
 
 Hamamelis, 78. 
 
 Helmuth, on emissions of semen, 21. 
 
 Hepar sulphuris, 52, 71. 
 
 Homoeopathy offers many excellent remedies, 24. 
 
 Hyde, on seminal emissions in the unmarried, 21. 
 
 Hydrastis, 62. 
 
 Hyoscy amies, 34. 
 
 Igjiatia, 77, 79. 
 Impotence, 36. 
 
 11 nervous, 40. 
 
 "Incurable" case of syphilis cured, 71. 
 Injections of zinc in gonorrhoea, 53. 
 Intestinal colic, 55. 
 Involuntary emissions, 19. 
 
 Jacaranda Gualandai, 76. 
 
 Kali bichromicum, 62. 
 Kali muriaticnm, 59. 
 Kreosotum, 54, 73. 
 
 Lachesis, 73, 77. 
 
 Lappa officinalis, 77. 
 
 11 Lost manhood," 19, 40. 
 
 Love, lack of, cause of impotence, 41. 
 
 Lycopodium, 26, 37 61. 
 
 Marriage, 24. 
 
158 Index. 
 
 Masturbation, 9, 75. 
 
 Materia Medica, 85. 
 
 Medorrhinum, 56, 58. 
 
 Mental breakdown, 78. 
 
 Mercury a specific for syphilis, 68. 
 
 Mercurius, 69. 
 
 Mercurius prcecipitatus ruber , 70. 
 
 Mercurius solubilis, 58, 69. 
 
 Mercurius sublimatus corrosivus y 43, 71. 
 
 Morphine habit, 76. 
 
 Moschus, 34, 35. 
 
 Natrum muriaticum, 60, 6t. 
 . Natrum sulphuricum, 59. 
 Nervous impotence, 40. 
 Nitric acid, 37, 44, 58, 62, 64, 71, 72. 
 Nux vomica, 26, 52, 55. 
 Nymphomania, 33. 
 
 " in sterile women, 34. 
 
 Onanism, 29. 
 Ophthalmia, 63. 
 
 Paraphimosis, 42. 
 Passiflora incarnata, 76. 
 Petroleum, 77. 
 Phosphoric acid, 24. 
 Phimosis, 42. 
 Phosphorus, 29, 72. 
 Phosphoric acid, 61, 72. 
 Platina, 17, 33, 79. 
 Pox, 65. 
 
 Preface to Materia Medica, 83. 
 Prescribing conception, 30. 
 Prostate gland, enlarged, 76. 
 Pulsatilla, 27, 44, 52, 63, 64. 
 
 i?a«a £#/b, 25. 
 
Index. 159 
 
 Rathania, 77. 
 
 Raue, on seminal emissions, 19. 
 
 Rheumatism, gonorrhceal, 62. 
 
 Rhus toxicodendron, 43. 
 
 "Ruined in mind and body," 19, 40 
 
 Saba I serrulata, 76. 
 Sand in urine, 76. 
 Satyriasis, 35. 
 Seminal emissions, 19. 
 
 * * * ' " a purely physiological func- 
 
 tion," 21. 
 " " correspond to menstruation, 23. 
 
 Sepia, 52, 58, 61. 
 Sexual fever, 22. 
 Sexual power, to increase, 76. 
 Silicea, 60. 
 Sleeplessness, 78. 
 Smokers' ills, 75. 
 Soli dago virga-aurea, 77. 
 Spermatorrhoea, 19. 
 Spirit us glandium quercus, 78. 
 Staphisagria, 26. 
 Stricture, 62. 
 
 Sulphur, 27, 36, 53, 64, 72, 79. 
 Sundry hints, 75. 
 Syphilis, 65. 
 
 14 cause of secondary and tertiary, 66. 
 treatment of, 68, 76, 77. 
 Tabacum, 77. 
 Tarantula Cub en sis, 77. 
 Thuja, 44, 62, 63, 74. 
 Tissue remedies, in gonorrhoea, 59. 
 Tobacco chewing, ills of, 77. 
 " to lose taste for, 77. 
 Treatment of gonorrhoea, 50. 
 <l syphilis, 68. 
 11 seminal emissions, 24. 
 
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 Index. 
 
 "Trembles," 77. 
 
 
 Urine, sand in, 76. 
 
 Urine, cannot pass without catheter, 76. 
 
 Varicose veins, 77. 
 Viscum alburn^ 77. 
 Von Grauvogl on gonorrhoea, 59. 
 
 Wet dreams, 19. 
 
 

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