Aurum Metallicum

Gold affects profoundly the entire organism, exercising a solvent action on the

tissues, producing ulcerations and the disappearances of new growths. Hence it is one of the best

antidotes to Mercurial over-dosing, and especially in cases of syphilis. Scrofula and caries of

bone also find in Aurum a remedy. It also produces rushes of blood and hemorrhages. Boring

pains and burning stitches predominate. No drug produces more acute mental depression than

Aurum, and in any case where this profound melancholy is found, Aurum must be well studied.

There is a condition of melancholy, hoplessness, profound depression, tendency to suicide and

• ▸longing for death.
• ▸Anthrophobia.
• ▸Aggravation from emotion.
• ▸Complaints after grief, fright,

anger, disappointed love, contradiction, reserved displeasure. Hysteria, laughs and cries

• ▸alternately.
• ▸The head is giddy, full, hot.
• ▸Rush of blood to the head.
• ▸Vertigo as if turning in a

circle when stooping, goes off on rising. As if drunk when walking in the open air. Sensation as

if a current of air were rushing through the head, if not kept warm. Bones of skull painful,

• ▸especially lying down.
• ▸Vertical half-sight.
• ▸Fiery sparks.
• ▸Caries of mastoid process of bones of

• ▸nose.
• ▸Ozezena.
• ▸In the abdominal region, as with Merc.
• ▸, there is swelling of liver, jaundice.
• ▸Hernia,

inguinal or umbilical; and in children. Onanism. The sexual organs are markedly affected.

Induration of testes. Undeveloped testicles in puny boys. Swelling or neuralgia of testicle (r).

Uterus prolapsed and indurated; the weight of it causes prolapse. (The chloride of gold and

sodium acts more powerfully in these conditions.) Shelton has recorded as effects on girls

working with gold leaf the occurrence of a "thick leucorrhceal discharge, not offensive, white or

yellowish, occasionally profuse, invariably < by walking." Suffocative attacks, with suffocative

oppression of chest. Anxious palpitation from congestion to the chest. Palpitation, with anguish

and tremulous fearfulness. Pain in heart region extending down left arm to fingers. There are

boring pains in bones, < at night. Over-sensitiveness to all pain. Hysterical spasms, with

laughing and crying alternately. Great ebullitions with congestion to the head and chest, and

palpitation of the heart. Frightful dreams; he sobs aloud when asleep. Chilliness predominates;

shivering in open air; coldness of hands and feet, sometimes lasting all night. Heat, only in the

face. Perspiration in the morning hours; mostly on and around the genitals. Ulcers which attack

the bones. Warts, scrofulous, syphilitic, mercurial. "< From Sunset to sunrise" is a leading

Condition of Aurum. Paralytic drawing in the limbs in the morning when awaking; and on

• ▸getting cold.
• ▸< At night; in morning; on getting cold; by rest.
• ▸Shivering on getting into bed.
• ▸>

Moving; walking; getting warm. Suited to sanguine people with black hair and dark eyes, olive-

brown complexion. Also light-haired scrofulous persons. Pining boys, girls at puberty, and old

age. Syphilitic and mercurial patients.

• ▸Mercury.
• ▸Alcohol.
• ▸Iodide of Potassium.
• ▸Effects of grief; fright; anger; disappointed

love; contradiction; reserved displeasure.

• ▸Feeling of self-condemnation and utter worthlessness.
• ▸Profound despondency, with increased blood pressure, with thorough disgust of life, and thoughts of suicide.
• ▸Talks of committing suicide.
• ▸Great fear of death.
• ▸Peevish and vehement at least contradiction.
• ▸Anthropophobia.
• ▸Mental derangements.
• ▸Constant rapid questioning without waiting for reply.
• ▸Cannot do things fast enough.
• ▸Oversensitiveness; (Staph) to noise, excitement, confusion.

Melancholy, with inquietude and desire to die.—Irresistible impulse to

weep.—Longing to see one's relations, resembling nostalgia —Imagines he has lost the affection

• ▸of his friends; this makes him weep.
• ▸—Sees obstacles everywhere.
• ▸—Hopeless.
• ▸—Suicidal;

desperate; inclined to jump off heights; to dash himself into a chair.—Sad, feels that all is against

her and life is not desirable, and the thought of death alone gives pleasure.—Great anguish, which

even induces a disposition to suicide, with cramp-like contractions in the abdomen.—Excessive

scruples of conscience.—Despair of oneself, and of others.—II|-humour and aversion to

conversation.—Grumbling, quarrelsome humour.—The least contradiction excites his

wrath.—Alternate peevishness and cheerfulness ——Anger and passion.—Alternation of gaiety, or

of irritability with melancholy.—Hypochondriacal humour.—Weakness of the intellectual

faculties —Weakness of the memory.

Pain, like that of a bruise, with acute pullings, and paralytic weakness in the

limbs in general, and chiefly in the joints, esp. on uncovering the part affected, in the morning,

on waking and during repose, disappearing on getting up.—Darting pains in the limbs, with great

dejection.—Inflammation of the bones, with nocturnal pains.—Exostosis on the head, on the arms

and on the legs.—Great acuteness and delicacy of sensation, with excessive sensibility to the least

pain.—Over-sensitiveness to all pain, and to the cold air—Hysterical spasms, sometimes with

alternate tears and laughter—Great sensibility to cold, or strong desire to go into the open air,

even in bad weather, because it is found to be a relief.—Great ebullitions, with congestions to the

head and chest, and palpitation of the heart.

• ▸Violent pain in head; worse at night, outward pressure.
• ▸Roaring in head.
• ▸Vertigo.
• ▸Tearing through brain to forehead.
• ▸Pain in bones extending to face.
• ▸Congestion to head.
• ▸Boils on scalp.

Vertigo: when stooping, as if turning in a circle; > on rising; as if drunk when walking

in open air; feels as if he would fall to 1.; must lie down, even then for some time it returns on

slightest motion.—Fatigue from intellectual labour.—Sudden stupefaction, with loss of

sense.—Pain, like that of a bruise in the brain, esp. in the morning, or during intellectual labour,

and sometimes inducing confusion of ideas.—Pain in the head, as if the air passed over the brain,

when it is not kept very warm.—Acute drawing pains in the head.—Beating and hammering pain

on one side of the head.—Congestion of blood to the head.—Congestions to and heat in the head,

with sparks before the eyes, and glossy bloatedness of the face, aggravated from every mental

• ▸exertion.
• ▸—Buzzing in the head.
• ▸—Pain in the bones of the cranium, esp.
• ▸on lying

• ▸down.
• ▸—Exostosis on the head; on the r.
• ▸vertex, with boring pain.
• ▸—Falling off of the hair.

• ▸Extreme photophobia.
• ▸Great soreness all about the eyes and into eyeballs.
• ▸Double vision; upper half of objects invisible.
• ▸Feel tense.
• ▸Sees fiery objects.
• ▸Violent pains in bones around eye (Asaf).
• ▸Interstitial keratitis.
• ▸Vascular cornea.
• ▸Pains from without inward.
• ▸Sticking pains inward.
• ▸Trachoma with pannus.

Pain in the eyes aggravated by touch, as if the ball of the eye were pressed

inwards.—Tension in the eyes, with diminution of sight Burning pain and redness in the

• ▸eyes.
• ▸—Obscuration of the sight.
• ▸—Black spots before the eyes——Eyes very prominent.
• ▸—Flames

and sparks before the eyes.—Vertical half-sight—Hemiopia; objects are seen cut in horizontal

lines.—Eyes better by moonlight and after violent muscular exercise.—Objects seem smaller and

more distant.

• ▸Caries of ossicula and of mastoid.
• ▸Obstinate fetid otorrhoea after scarlatina.
• ▸External meatus bathed in pus.
• ▸Chronic nerve deafness; Labyrinthine disease due to syphilis.

Hearing too sensitive.—Pain in the ears, like internal tension.—Caries of the mastoid

process.—Flow of fetid pus from the ears —Oversensitive to noises, but music >-Annoying

dryness in ears and nose with difficult hearing —Hardness of hearing from hypertrophy of the

amygdalz, with embarrassed speech.—Humming in the ears.—Roaring in the ears.

• ▸Ulcerated, painful, swollen, obstructed.
• ▸Inflammation of nose; caries; fetid discharge, purulent, bloody.
• ▸Boring pains in nose; worse at night.
• ▸Putrid smell from nose.
• ▸Sensitive smell (Carbol ac).
• ▸Horrible odor from nose and mouth.
• ▸Knobby tip of nose.

Pain in the nasal bones on being touched —Gnawing prickings.—Inflammatory

swelling and redness of the nose, followed by desquamation.—Caries of the bones of the

nose.—Nasal cavities ulcerated and covered with thick crusts.—Running from the nose of a fetid

greenish-yellow matter.—Stoppage of the nose —Fluent coryza——Nose red, swollen; tip knobby,

• ▸red.
• ▸—Cancer.
• ▸—Furfuraceous desquamation of the epidermis of the nose.
• ▸—Increased sensibility, or

absence of smell.—Sweetish putrid smell, or smell of brandy before the nose.—Fetid odour from

the nose.

Tearing in zygoma. Mastoid and other facial bones inflamed.

Face puffed, and shining as if from sweat.—Inflammation of the bones of the

face.—Parotids swollen, painful to touch as if pressed or bruised.—Swelling of the

cheeks.—Swelling of the bones of the forehead, of the upper jaw, and of the nose.—Red eruption,

which peels off, on the forehead and on the nose.—Traction in the jaws, with swelling of the

cheeks.—Tensive pain in the upper jaw.—Painful swelling of the submaxillary glands.

Foul breath in girls at puberty. Taste putrid or bitter. Ulceration of gums.

Fetid smell of the mouth, like rotten cheese.—Piercing pain in the velum

palati.—Tongue swollen; with scirrhus-like hardness; after biting tongue in sleep. —Tongue

coated; dry; ulcerated.

Odontalgia, with heat and congestion in the head.—Looseness of the teeth.—Ulcers in

the gums, with swelling of the cheeks —Toothache < at night, < drawing cold air into mouth.

Caries in the palate, with ulcers of a bluish colour, esp. after the abuse of

• ▸mercury.
• ▸—Tonsils swollen and ulcerated.
• ▸—Drinks find a passage through the nostrils.
• ▸—Stinging

soreness in throat only when swallowing.—Dull, pressive pain, either with or without

swallowing, in a gland below angle of jaw.

Stitches when swallowing; pain in glands. Caries of the palate.

Appetite and thirst increased, with qualmishness. Swelling of epigastrium. Burning at stomach and hot eructations.

Milky or sweetish taste——Loathing of food, and esp. of meat.—Great desire for

coffee Excessive hunger and thirst.—No appetite for plain food in pining boys.

Pain in the stomach, as if proceeding from hunger—Immoderate appetite and

thirst, with qualmishness in the stomach.—Sensation of indescribable uneasiness in the

epigastrium.—Swelling of the epigastrium and of the hypochondria, with shooting pains on being

touched.—Burning at stomach and hot eructations.—Burning, drawing, and cutting pain;

pressure.—Pressure to |. of scrobiculum, below cartilages of upper false ribs; < during expiration.

Right hypochondrium hot and painful. Incarcerated flatus. Swelling and suppuration of inguinal glands.

Burning heat and cutting pain in r. hypochondrium.—Colic with sensation of

great uneasiness and inclination to evacuate.—Tensive aching and fulness in the

abdomen.—Abdomen inflated —Exostosis in the pelvis—Tendency of hernia to protrude,

sometimes with cramp-like pains and incarcerated flatus.—Swelling and suppuration of the

inguinal glands from syphilis or the use of mercury.—Windy colic by night, with pinching,

grumbling, and borborygmi.—Frequent emission of very fetid wind.

Constipation, stools hard and knotty. Nocturnal diarrhoea, with burning in rectum.

Copious evacuation.—Nocturnal diarrhcea.—Nightly diarrhoea, with burning in the

rectum.—Constipation; stool very large in size, or very hard and knotty.

Painful retention of urine, with urgent inclination to make water, and

pressure on the bladder.—Frequent emission of watery urine.—Urine turbid, like butter-milk, with

thick mucus-like sediment.

Turbid, like buttermilk, with thick sediment. Painful retention.

Great sensitiveness of vagina. Uterus enlarged and prolapsed. Sterility; vaginismus.

Pains in the abdomen, as if the catamenia were coming.—Prolapsus

and induration of the matrix —Uterine affections with depression and tendency to

• ▸suicide.
• ▸—Menses too late; and scanty or absent.
• ▸—Drawing pain in pubes; r.
• ▸inguinal region sore

to touch.—Before menses: swelling of axillary glands——During menses: colic; prolapse of

rectum.—Leucorrheea: profuse and corroding, yellow; thick white, not offensive, < by

walking.—During pregnancy: suicidal melancholia; jaundice.

• ▸Pain and swelling of testicles.
• ▸Chronic induration of testicles.
• ▸Violent erections.
• ▸Atrophy of testicles in boys.
• ▸Hydrocele.

Sexual desire greatly increased.—The whole genital system is

strongly affected—Nocturnal erections and pollutions.—Flow of prostatic fluid, with flaccidity of

the penis.—Swelling of the (lower part) of the testicle (r).—Swelling of the testes, with aching

pain on touching and rubbing.—Induration of the testes.—Testes mere pendant shreds (in pining

• ▸boys).
• ▸—Hydrocele.
• ▸—Bubo.
• ▸—Chancre.

Dyspnoea at night. Frequent, deep breathing; stitches in sternum.

Accumulation of mucus in the trachea and in the chest, which is

expectorated with difficulty in the morning.—Voice nasal—Cough from want of breath at

night—Cough with tough yellow sputum on awaking in morning.

• ▸Sensation as if the heart stopped beating for two or three seconds, immediately followed by a tumultuous rebound, with sinking at the epigastrium.
• ▸Palpitation.
• ▸Pulse rapid, feeble, irregular.
• ▸Hypertrophy.
• ▸High Blood Pressure-Valvular lesions of arterio-sclerotic nature (Aurum 30)

Great difficulty of respiration at night, and on walking in the open air, requiring deep

inspirations.—Paroxysms of suffocation, with constrictive oppression of the chest, falling, loss of

sense, and bluish colour of the face.—Pain, as if there were a plug placed under the

• ▸ribs.
• ▸—Continuous aching in |.
• ▸side of the chest.
• ▸—Incisive pain, and obtuse shootings, near the

• ▸sternum.
• ▸—Great weight on chest; esp.
• ▸heavy weight on sternum.
• ▸—Much congestion in the chest.

Anxious palpitation of the heart, from congestion to the chest —Beatings of the

heart, irregular, or by fits, sometimes with anguish and oppression of the chest.—Pain in heart

region extending down |. arm to fingers.—Floundering heart—When walking, the heart seems to

shake as if it were loose.—Sensation as if the heart stood still—Palpitation compels him to stop.

Swollen cervical glands.—Tension in neck as if muscles too short, even at

• ▸rest; < stooping.
• ▸—Stinging pains in small of back.
• ▸—Gressus gallinaceous (in spine disease).
• ▸—Pain

at lower part of spine.—Pains, generally passive, or drawing and acute, in the back, chiefly in the

morning, and sometimes so violent as to prevent any motion of the limbs.

Boring in |. shoulder.—Aching pains in the arms and in the

forearms.—Cramp-like and acute drawing pains in the bones of the carpus and of the

metacarpus.—Acute drawing pains and paralytic weakness in the bones and joints of the

fingers.—Palms itch; herpes; nails turn blue.

• ▸Coxalgia.
• ▸—Sharp pains in the thighs, esp.
• ▸morning and evening.
• ▸—Paralytic

and painful weakness of the knees, as if a bandage were tightly compressed above them; they are

feeble and give way.—Drawing pains and acute pullings, with paralytic weakness, in the bones

and the joints of the toes.—Nodes; caries.

• ▸All the blood seems to rush from head to lower limbs.
• ▸Dropsy of lower limbs.
• ▸Orgasm, as if blood were boiling in all veins.
• ▸Paralytic, tearing pains in joints.
• ▸Knees weak.

Sleepless. Sobs aloud in sleep. Frightful dreams.

Weary, but cannot rest or sleep.—Drowsiness after meals.—Nocturnal sleep till four

o'clock in the morning only.—Awakened by bone pains; in despair.—Fatigue and weakness in the

morning on waking.—Restless sleep, with anxious dreams; of thieves.—Nocturnal mumbling in

the form of questions.

Pulse small, but accelerated.—Febrile shiverings over the whole body, while in bed

in the evening, followed neither by heat nor thirst.—Cold of the entire body, with bluish colour of

the nails, nauseous taste, with inclination to vomit, sometimes followed by an increase of

heat.—Heat of the face, with cold in the hands and feet—Copious general perspiration early in

the morning; mostly about genitals.

• ▸Alcohol, effects of.
• ▸Amenorrhoea.
• ▸Angina pectoris.
• ▸Asthma.
• ▸Bone affections.
• ▸Breath,

• ▸offensive.
• ▸Corpulency.
• ▸Depression.
• ▸Ears, affections of.
• ▸Erethism.
• ▸Erysipelas.
• ▸Eye, affections of.

• ▸Fevers.
• ▸Gonorrhoea.
• ▸Heemorrhages.
• ▸Heemorrhoids.
• ▸Hemiopia.
• ▸Hydrocele.
• ▸Jaundice.
• ▸Leucorrhcea.

• ▸Locomotor ataxy.
• ▸Melancholy.
• ▸Melanosis.
• ▸Mercurial poisoning.
• ▸Naso-pharyngeal catarrh.
• ▸Night

• ▸terrors.
• ▸Ozeena.
• ▸Paralysis.
• ▸Phthisis.
• ▸Pining boys.
• ▸Scrofula.
• ▸Smell, disordered.
• ▸Syphilis.
• ▸Testicles,

• ▸affections of; undeveloped.
• ▸Tongue, nodules on.
• ▸Tumours.
• ▸Uterus, induration of.
• ▸Vertigo.
• ▸Vision,

disordered.

• ▸Compare: Luet.
• ▸(syphilis); Am.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Arg.
• ▸met.
• ▸, Arg.
• ▸n.
• ▸, Ars.
• ▸; Asaf.
• ▸(pains about eyes;

• ▸but Asaf.
• ▸has > from pressure; mercurial caries); Bell.
• ▸; Caps.
• ▸(caries of mastoid, corpulency);

• ▸Calc.
• ▸c.
• ▸(night terrors; leucophlegmatic; Aur.
• ▸has more over-sensitiveness and erethism); Calc.

• ▸ph.
• ▸; Coccul.
• ▸(empty feeling); Chi.
• ▸and Coff.
• ▸(hyper-excitation) Cup.
• ▸(asthma); Dig.
• ▸, Fer.
• ▸; Glon.

• ▸(Hypereemia of lung from heart) Hep.
• ▸, Iod.
• ▸; Kali bich.
• ▸(deep ulcers, scrofulous ophthalmia,

• ▸ozeena, syphilis); K.
• ▸ca.
• ▸; K.
• ▸iod.
• ▸(syphilis); K.
• ▸bro.
• ▸(anguish at heart and desire to move about);

• ▸Lach.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸, Nit ac.
• ▸; Nux v.
• ▸, (hernia; prolapsed uterus); Pallad.
• ▸, Platin.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸, Spigel.
• ▸, Sol.

• ▸nig.
• ▸, Sil.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸; Tarent.
• ▸(heart as if turned round); Thuj.
• ▸, Ver.
• ▸v.
• ▸Antidoted by: Bell.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸,

• ▸Coccul.
• ▸, Coff.
• ▸, Cup.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸, Spi.
• ▸, Sol.
• ▸nig.
• ▸Antidote to: Merc.
• ▸, Spigel.
• ▸, Chronic effects of

alcohol, Kali iod.

Compare: Aur ars (chronic aortitis; lupus, phthisis in syphilitic headaches; also in anaemia and chlorosis. It causes rapid increase of appetite).

Aur brom (in headaches with neurasthenia, megrim, night terrors, valvular diseases).

• ▸Aur mur (Burning, yellow, acrid leucorrhoea; heart symptoms, glandular affections; warts on tongue and genitals; sclerotic and exudative degeneration of the nervous system.
• ▸Multiple sclerosis.
• ▸Morvan's disease.
• ▸Second trituration.
• ▸Aur mur is a sycotic remedy, causing suppressed discharges to reappear.
• ▸Valuable in climacteric haemorrhages from the womb.
• ▸Diseases of frontal sinus.
• ▸Stitching pain in left side of forehead.
• ▸Weariness, aversion to all work.
• ▸Drawing feeling in stomach.
• ▸Cancer, tongue as hard as leather; induration after glossitis).

Aur mur kali.--Double chloride of Potassium and gold (In uterine induration and haemorrhage).

Aur iod (Chronic pericarditis, valvular diseases, arterio-sclerosis ozaena, lupus, osteitis, ovarian cysts, myomata uteri, are pathological lesions, that offer favorable ground for the action of this powerful drug. Senile paresis).

Aur sulph (Paralysis agitans; constant nodding of the head; affections of mammae; swelling, pain, cracked nipples with lancinating pains).

Also, Asafaet (in caries of bones of ears and nose). Syphilin: Kali iod; Hep; Merc; Mez; Nit ac; Phosph.

Antidotes: Bell; Cinch; Cupr; Merc.

Third to thirtieth potency. Latter potency especially for increased blood pressure.

he sees obstacles in his way everywhere. He is all the time imaging

that he has neglected something, that he has neglected his friends.

He imagines that he deserves reproach in consequence of having

neglected duty; he has neglected something, he is wrong, is wholly

evil, has sinned away his day of grace, is not worthy of salvation ;

this is the train of thought that constantly runs through his mind.

The thought really becomes uncontrollable ; he is absorbed in himself

and sits and broods over it, and by brooding over it he only intensifies

his present state and hatches new grievances, continues to worry over

himself, thinks he is wholly unfit for this world, and then he longs to

die. He looks on the dark side of everything, constantly expecting bad

news, looking for everything to go wrong. The future looks dark

to him, and he wants to die ; he never will succeed, for everything

goes wrong that he turns his hand to. His business is dark, his

family troubles him, his friends annoy him ; he becomes extremely

irritable, easily angered, is worried over trifles, and easily excited.

Every little thing rouses him into anger and turmoil, he is always in

a vexation. The Aurum state of mind is an insanity dreadful to

look upon because of its turbulence and melancholy. It is suitable

in the most profound states of melancholy and depression where the

patient sits silent and says nothing. When disturbed he is aroused

to great vehemence, anger and violence. ‘‘Melancholy, feels hateful

and quarrelsome.’' 'Terrible melancholy after abuse of Mercury/*

The causes of this state of insanity are prolonged anxiety, unusual

responsibility, syphilis and lois of properly. Persons who have been

repeatedly drugged with Mercury, have established upon themselves a

mercurial disease, with enlargement of the liver, and this is almost always attended more or less by melancholy and sadness and such hopelessness as we find in Aurum. Aurum produces such affections of the

liver as are associated with cardiac affections, endocarditis, dropsy of

the heart and rheumatic affections that have gone to the heart. You will

notice that wherever the affections are pre-eminently disturbed in mental

disease that there is either cardiac weakness, endocarditis, enlargement

of the heart, or some organic or functional disease of the heart. You

will very often find a history of taking Mercury that has superinduced

a rheumatic state that has been rubbed away with liniments until the

heart is affected, and with this comes hopelessness, insanity of the

will, disturbance of the affections. Then it appears to spread in this

remedy from the will to the understanding, and the intellectual portion

of man becomes involved. Think w'hat a state It is for a man whd

has been in good condition of health, respected in his business circles,

to have a desire to commit suicide. You will see other kinds of insanity and a breaking down or a state of feebleness of the intellect,

he cannot think nor reason ; his affections are practically intact, but

AUrUm MUtUAllcUM

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and you will be able to perceive the nature of sickness and its results.

These things are not mere observation, whims and theories, but are

the outcome of studying things from internal to external.

In this remedy the pains wander from joint to joint and finally

locate in the heart. Angina pectoris is often the ending of an old

rheumatism that has wandered from joint to joint, “Difficult breativ

ing.” If the case goes on a little while, there will be blood spots, andif he lie on the right side the lower part will be dull on percussion and

the upper part will be resonant. Palpitation with great agony. Extreme oppression in the region of the heart on walking fast and going

upstairs with oedema of the lower limbs.

he finally goes into a state of imbecility, or he becomes wild and commits suicide from impulse. That is an instance where the intellect

has been affected first and spread to the will. Sometimes this state

comes on, and no disturbance in the man’s intellectual nature has been

observed ; it is intact, it is sound. He has been sound in his business

affairs, he has been a good father, he has been observed by those

around him to be intelligent, but he has silently brooded over his

state and his hatred of the world ; he has told nobody of it, and then,

he has been found hung in his room. The man’s intellectual nature

keeps the man in contact with the world ; but his affections are largely

kept to himself. A man can have affection for all sorts of things and

perversion of the affections, but his intellect will guide him not to

show his likes and dislikes to the world. The affections cannot be

seen, but man’s intellect is subject to inspection. He cannot conceal his

intellect. We shall see that the affections are interior, they are covered

with a cloak, they are his innermost and are hidden from inspection ;

but the understanding is the outermost garment, it surrounds and

hides his affections, just as does the garment he wears over the body

hide the body. The affections that Aurum resembles are those like

unto the very innermost nature of man.

‘‘Ailments from grief, disappointed love, fright, anger, contradiction, mortification.” “Pain makes her desperate so that she would

like to jump out of the window.” He meditates upon death, upon

suicide ; he wants to get out of the world, wants to destroy himself,

has no love for his life which he thinks is worthless.

The remedy is full of rheumatic affections, not unlike such as are

found in old mercurial cases ; rheumatic affections with swelling of

the joints ; affections of the cartilages and bone, inflammation of the

periosteum ; thickening and induration of the periosteum. Indurations of glands ; induration of the cartilages about the joints. These

are all of syphilitic and mercurial character. It is useful in old syphilitics when the bones are breaking down in any part of the body ; the

shin bones, nose bones, ear bones, any of the small bones. Like

syphilis and mercury, the complaints are aggravated at night, coming on in the evening and keep up all night. The pains are violent,

they tear, the bones ache as if they would break, not in acute fevers

but in old syphilitic bone troubles. Knife-like pains in the periosteum.

Pains in the joints rendering them immovale. Inflammation of the

bone itself with caries. It is not strange that the vascular coating

of the bones, the periosteum, should be greatly affected because there

is a strange vascularity, all over the economy, in this medicine. The

veins are enlarged, in a state of congestion and inflammation, and

friable. The veins become thickened and tumefied. The blood vessels

pulsate all over the body. “Erethism or vascular fulness characterizes

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nearly all complaints.” Fulness of the veins of the extremities; this

goes on until swelling appears with weakness so that dropsy is prevalent throughout the remedy. (Edema of the extremities, with

pitting upon pressure, which occurs in heart and liver affections. A

false state of plethora seems to exist in the body and finally

turmoil and excitement occur. Violent orgasms in the body, sometimes

demonstrated as violent heat, coming in flushes with excitement.

Fidgetiness, feeling as if something dreadful were going to happen

throughout the economy. Then it settles into a state of quiescence for

awhile and then this repeats itself. These violent orgasms come preparatory to the localization or establishment of some breakdown in

the economy. At times it is a cardiac affection, with marked oppression behind the sternum with dyspnoea on walking fast for going

upstairs. Endocarditis will have this turmoil in the body ; by and by

look for albumin in the urine, look for enlargement of the liver, look

for signs of cancer of the uterus, and deep-seated affections.

*Boring in lx)nes.” Tams drive to despair.” The pains drive

the patient out of bed at night and make him walk. This is seen

in old syphilitic bone pains, and old mercurialized patients. The

patient has been taking Mercury all his life and his liver is enlarged,

and his joints are enlarged, He goes to every doctor, with an

endeavour to get relief from his distressing sufferings. Mercury and

disease are so mixed up that a great turmoil will result from your

first prescription. He will go through these stages of violence and

periodical attacks. You will have to know such medicines as Aurum,

Chelidoniuffi and Staphisagria to get this patient over these awful attacks which he is obliged to go through.

This medicine wonderfully affects the glands, the parotid glands,

the glands about the groin, the lymphatics in the abdomen ; in fact,

the glands everywhere. The mammary glands, the testes and ovaries,

are involved, and undergo states of hardness, infiltration, etc. Aurum.

cures chronic enlargement of the testes, and lumps in the mammary

glands. Tumors in these glands, of cystic character, have been cured

by Aurum. Hahnemann potentized Aurum and gave some of it to a

patient, and it did not work, but he thoroughly triturated it until he

got it to the fifteenth potency and then it worked and restored that

patient to the bosom of his family. Hahnemann says that in the

earlier triturations the dose wa& yet too large to cure ; so he went higher

until it was sufficiently small to cure, sufficiently attenuated to go into

the interior of the economy through the various envelopes of man.

There is one grand feature running through the Aurum state ; it is

the manner in which he is affected by temperature, and by the weather.

Here are some symptoms that relate to the whole man, which must

be examined in this connection. “Desire for open air.” This patient

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ranks along with Pulsatilla as to temperature ; but Aurum is not mild,

gentle and yielding, he is obstinate, irascible, the veji7 opposite of the

Pulsatilla patient. ‘‘Generally > growing warm.^* This is in connection with the headaches. “Cold water ameliorates pain in eyes.''

“Averse to uncover,” but he desires open air like Pulsatilla. “Warms

air, asthma <.” Many symptoms disappear after washing, especially

cold washing ; but whenever the patient is suffering from great excitement, turmoil and vascularity, constitutional orgasm, pulsations, he

wants the doors and windows open, wants to get out in the cool air ;

wants the clothing thrown off. This state of excitement and pulsation is ameliorated by the open air. It has those flushes of heat so

common to women at the critical period, and these are followed by

sweat, sometimes by chilliness.

Most that we have said of the remedy is about its general aspect,

for everything about the mind is general.

In Aurum the pain in the head is very intense, maddening, often

accompanied by a sensation as if air were blowing upon him ; he looks

around to see where the draft comes from when there is none ; extremely sensitive. Often has to have the head wrapped up, although

it feels hot, with a good deal of congestion and rush of blood to the

head. The head is sore and feels bruised. Stitching, burning, tearing

pains in the head ; much throbbing in the head. The face is bloated,

flushed and shiny with the congestive headaches. These headaches

are often found in syphilitic subjects ; often associated with cardiac

disease. Pain in the back of the head associated with cardiac disease,

with sluggish circulation, purple face, duskiness of the skin. Exostoses

as in syphilis. The skull bones are sensitive to touch ; the periosteum is

tender to touch. In old mercurialized cases with bone affections and

necrosis of the skull, as in syphilis and mercury, the hair falls out

copiously ; the head becomes bald. Baldness due to syphilis ; the

scalp is left shiny and the hair will not grow in again. In acute diseases there is falling out of the hair, but it grows in again. But young

syphilitics often lose the hair and remain bald all the rest of their life.

There are disturbances of the eye, of a catarrhal character, even to

the extent of ulceration and infiltration of the various coatings of the

eye. Iritis : great disturbance of the whole visual apparatus ; some

of the striking features I will read from the book, but remember the

constitution that we must always have in view ; remember the mental

state, the mercurial and syphilitic states, the gouty tendency, and the

complaints that belong to joints, remember the cardiac disturbances*

As we review the eye symptoms we thus see the constitution with

which they are likely to be associated. “Photophobia.” Weak sight

and eyes. “By gaslight a number of bright, floating specks and dots

arc seen." “Eyes ameliorated by moonlight.” “Large letters cannot

be distinguished/' ‘Tellow, cresent-shaped bodies floating obliquely

upward in field of vision/* “In upper dark section of field of vision

occasional showers of bright, star-like bodies/* In Calcarca there is a

queer symptom ; he sees a sudden flash arise from the lower portion of

the field of vision ; it shoots up and divides, and then he secs stars in

every direction. It is the appearance you will sec sometimes in the

shooting off of one of those rockets that explode and come down in

a shower. That has been observed in Calcarea, “Hemiopia of thq

left eye.** And so it goes on with many of these peculiar things that

can hardly be described except in the language of the text. “Protruding eyes.** Protrusion of the eyes, such as occurs in exophthalmic

• ▸goitre, with enlargement of the heart, has been cured by Aurum.
• ▸Enlargement of the thyroid gland with rapid and full pulse.
• ▸Exophthalmic goitre has been cured by Aurum.
• ▸Natr, mur, “Starting, dreary

look.** “Iritis marked by much pain around eye, wliich seems to be

deep in bone.** Such a state would be likely to be produced by syphilis

that had been treated with Mercury and Aurum would come in as an

antidote to both the syphilis and the Mercury. “Pupils irregularly

dilated.*’ It has catarrhal states of the eye. It has inflammation of the

conjunctiva, choroid, iris and retina. Well, syphilis does this, taking

hold of the eye in just this way and causing great infiltration. Pains round

about the eye ; the thin plate bones, and the skull bones are all sensitive

to pressure ; the bones seem tender ; periostitis ; opacity of the cornea.

Syphilis often takes hold of the car, affecting the bones of that organ. “Caries of mastoid process, obstinate otorrhoea.** Caries of the

• ▸bones of the ear.
• ▸“Parotids swollen, painful to touch.
• ▸** “Oversensitiveness to noises ; but music relieves.
• ▸** “Humming, buzzing and rushing in ears.
• ▸Rushing like the rushing of wind and falling water.

“Annoying dryness in ears and nose.** This is all like the complaints

of syphilis, which are cured by Aurum, but Aurum also corresponds to

and has cured many times otorrhoea following scarlet fever where

there is even entire loss of the drum of the ear and loss of the bones.

Of course it does not restore hearing. Patients will come to you for

car troubles, and you may find that the whole ear apparatus is destroyed ; the mucous membrane and bones of the ear are all in a state

of ulceration and necrosis and the discharge is foetid. The patient

consults you in order to have the hearing restored and it may not be

possible ; stops that ear discharge and restore the hearing are the only

two things he thinks about. If you go to-day to our ear specialists and

speak about curing the patient, they would not know what you were

talking about ; the only thing that would be thought of would be the

stopping of that ear discharge as quickly as possible. They would

examine the ear to see whether it is intact or not ; and if it is not, the

hearing is of course gone and the stopping of the discharge is then

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all that is taken into consideration. Homoeopathy teaches that the

patient should be treated and the patient only, after which the organs

and tissues become normal. The whole duly of the physician is to*

restore health to the patient. We have the nose specialists with their

local applications. These things will only bring on bone disease, and

tubercular troubles ; they stop the discharge from the nose, and of

course nature must have a vent somewhere and so she establishes a

discharge in the chest ; the trouble progresses from the mucous membranes into the lung, into the parenchyma of the lungs, and is often of

a tubercular character, and then these men tell you the bacilli have come.

This is spurious science. Clean, healthy tissues are the only safeguard.

Aurum is full of nasal troubles, with foetid discharge. The bones

of the nose necrose ; syphilitic necrosis, the nose flattens down ; the

bones are discharged. You sec these people walking about with flattened-down nose and if you get near enough to them the stench will

be observed. They are nearly all syphilitics. A few remedies have

the power of curing this syphilitic nose condition ; Aurum, Mercury

and Hepar are three of them. I have cured this state a number of

times with Hepar, I once cured a man after the bones were completely softened, so that when the nose was handled it would bend

right over ; only a sort of cartilaginous structure held the nose in

place. I gave that patient Hepar, It cured him of syphilis after he

had been filled in vain with Mercury, “Coryza, thick discharge, like

white of egg.*' “Mucous discharge from posterior nares in morning.’'

Tip of nose knobby, red, like Lack,; strawberry nose. Little knobs on

the nose composed of varicose veins in heart cases, with disturbance

of the right side of the heart ; sometimes found in old drinkers and in

heart affections generally. Face red and swollen. Aurum has cured

epithelioma of the wing of the nose and lip. Remember the horribly

offensive odor from the nose, loss of smell following pains in the nasal

bones ; nasal catarrh. “Ulcerated, agglutinated, painful nostrils."

“Crusts in nose." “Nose feels obstructed as in dry coryza." With

nearly all of these nose affections, the patient is bowed down with sorrow, full of grief ; black clouds hang over him and he wants to die.

Loathing of life and wants to find some way to commit suicide.

“Puffy under eyes." “Blue about nose and lips." “Face glowing

red. “Violent boring in right zygomatic process when walking."

• ▸“Carious teeth.
• ▸" “Toothache at night.
• ▸" “Foul breath.
• ▸" “Syphilitic

ulcers in palate and throat." “Boring in hard palate." This medicine

has cured craving for alcohol, the craving of drunkards.

Another marked feature of this medicine is its ability to harden,

enlarge and inflame the liver ; induration with cardiac affections ; enlargement of the heart and liver. When you take into consideration

the venous system, the portal system and its close association with the

AURUM metalucvm

hcat-t in establishing the circulation of blood in the abdomen, and the

work that it docs in the abdomen as a great receiving apparatus, you

will not be surprised to find that heart and liver aftections are associated with hopelessness and despair. Notice, on the other hand,

something that will set you to thinking perhaps, in cases of phthisis,

none of them is hopeless, they think they are going to get well ; the

lungs arc almost gone with tubercles, but he knows if he could only

get up that little something out of the throat he would get welL Notice then that peculiar relation bewcen the lungs and the understanding, and between the heart and the will. With every little trouble

located in the heart there comes hopelessness, but when the manifestation of disease is in the lungs there is hopefulness.

Dropsical conditions of the abdomen. ‘Inguinal hernia.’^ ‘Tabes

mesenterica.’’ All of the glands of the body are involved more or less.

All sorts of disturbances of the sexual organs. “Testes indurated.''

“Frequent nightly emissions." Complaints as the result of vices.

“Hydrocele." “Ulcers on scrotum after gonorrhoea." “Burning and

stinging in perineum." “Condylomata around anus." “Induration of

• ▸utcius.
• ▸"' “Menses too late and scanty.
• ▸" “Uterus prolapsed and indurated.
• ▸" “Leucorrhoea thick white.
• ▸" Complaints in the uterus and

region of the pelvis from straining and reaching up the arms ; abortion

from reaching up at the windows and fixing a curtain, etc. Aurum is

a medicine that is suitable for , induration of the uterus and ulceration

of the uterus as a result of re|)eated abortions. When you study the

loss of affections that is invotvM in such a state and the affections or

lack of affections that are found in Aurum you can see a deep wellgrounded similitude in the symptoms, and that is the way to hunt for

a remedy. It is in the sphere of the physician to examine into this

state of mankind in which he can destroy his offspring and to examine

into the nature of remedies producing such a state. We see in Aurum

this entire perversion of all the loves, of mankind, and finally their entire destruction.

The symptoms of asthma and of difficult breathing you would naturally expect to be associated with the cardiac affections. Notice this

also, that the difficult breathing is of two kinds, such breathing as involves the lung, and such breathing as involves the heart. So it is

we have an asthmatic condition of dyspnoea that is cardiac in character,

and dyspnoea that is purely respiratory. These are entirely distinct in

character ; one belongs to such remedies as have a predominance of

action on the affections, and another belonging to those having a predominance of action on the intelligence ; one will involve the lung and

finally bring on emphysema ; the other one is entirely different in its

character, with irregular heart action, and only secondarily associated

with emphysema. Study your pathology with these things in mind

• ▸Destruction of bones, like secondary syphilis.
• ▸Pain in bones of head, lumps under scalp, exostosis with nightly pains in bones.
• ▸Caries of nasal, palatine and mastoid bones.
• ▸Soreness of affected bones, better in open air, worse at night.

Limbs go to sleep; numb, insensible on waking; more when lying than

• ▸moving.
• ▸—Has to seize hold of |.
• ▸arm during attack of palpitation.
• ▸—Limbs swollen, painful,

almost anchylosed.