Prologue
Boericke
Iodide of Arsenic
- Is to be preferred for persistently irritating, corrosive discharges.
- The discharge irritates the membrane from which it flows and over which it flows.
- The discharge may be fetid, watery, and the mucous membrane is always red, angry, swollen; itches and burns.
- Influenza, hay-fever, old nasal catarrhs, and catarrh of middle ear.
- Swelling of tissues within the nose.
- Hypertrophied condition of eustachian tube and deafness.
- Senile heart, myocarditis and fatty degeneration.
- Pulse shotty.
- Chronic aortitis.
- Epithelioma of the lip.
- Cancer of breast after ulceration has set in.
- It seems probable that in Arsenic iod, we have a remedy most closely allied to manifestations of tuberculosis.
- In the early stages of tuberculosis, even though there is an afternoon rise in temperature, Ars jod is very effective.
- It will be indicated by a profound prostration, rapid, irritable pulse, recurring fever and sweats, emaciation; tendency to diarrhoea.
- Chronic pneumonia, with abscess in lung.
- Hectic; debility; night sweats.
This remedy is also to be remembered in phthisis with hoarse, racking cough and profuse expectoration of a purulent nature, and attended with cardiac weakness, emaciation and general debility; in chronic, watery diarrhoea in phthisical subjects; in cases of emaciation with good appetite; in amenorrhoea, with anaemic palpitation and dyspnoea. In chronic pneumonia, when abscess is about to form. Great emaciation. Arteriosclerosis, myocardial degeneration and senile heart. Threatened pyaemia (Pyrog; Methyl blue).