Bacillinum Burnett

This preparation has been used by Burnett as having a more direct relation to

the lower half of the body than the pulmonary Bacillinum. My own experience confirms the

correctness of this inference; but it must not be supposed that Bac. test. does not act in

pulmonary cases, or vice versd.

Taciturn, sulky, snappish, fretty, irritable, morose, depressed and melancholic even to

insanity —Fretful ailing, whines and complains; mind given to be frightened, particularly by

dogs.

• ▸Irritable, depressed.
• ▸Severe, deep-in headache, also as of a tight hoop.
• ▸Ringworm.
• ▸Eczema of eyelids.

Severe headache, deep in, recurring from time to time, compelling quiet fixedness; <

shaking head.—Terrible pain in head as if he had a tight hoop of iron round it; trembling of

hands; sensation of damp clothes on spine; absolute

• ▸sleeplessness.
• ▸—Meningitis.
• ▸—Ringworm.
• ▸—A lopecia areata.

Indolent, angry pimple on |. cheek, breaking out from time to time and persisting for

many weeks.

Aching in teeth, esp. lower incisors (all sound), felt at the roots esp. on raising or

projecting lower lip; very sensitive to air—Grinds teeth in sleep.—Imperfectly developed teeth.

Abdominal pains, enlarged lands in groins, tabes mesenterica. Sudden diarrhoea before breakfast. Obstinate constipation, with offensive flatus.

Fever, emaciation, abdominal pains and discomfort restless at night, glands of

both groins enlarged and indurated; cries out in sleep; strawberry tongue.—Tabes mesenterica;

talks in sleep; grinds teeth; appetite poor; hands blue; indurated and palpable glands everywhere;

drum belly; spleen region bulging out—Inguinal glands indurated and visible; excessive sweats;

chronic diarrhcea.

Sudden diarrhoea before breakfast, with nausea.—Severe hemorrhages

• ▸from bowels, cough.
• ▸—Obstinate constipation.
• ▸—Passes much ill-smelling flatus.
• ▸—Stitch-like pain

through piles.

Increased quantity of urine, pale, with white sediment.—Has to rise

several times in night to urinate.

• ▸Oppression. Catarrhal dyspnoea. Humid asthma. Bubbling rales and muco-purulent expectoration.
• ▸Note.
• ▸This muco-purulent expectoration of bronchitic patients is equally poly-bacillary; it is a mixture of diverse species and hence Bacillinum is truly indicated (Cartier).
• ▸Often relieves congestion of the lungs, thus paving way for other remedies in Tuberculosis.

Slight, tedious, hacking cough.—Hard cough, shaking patient, more

during sleep but it did not waken him.—Pricking in larynx with sudden cough.—Single cough on

rising from bed in morning.—Cough waking him in night; easy expectoration.—Expectoration of

non-viscid easily detached, thick phlegm from air passages, followed after a day or two by a very

clear ring of voice.—Sharp pain in precordial region arresting breathing.—Very sharp pain in 1.

scapula, < lying down in bed at night, > by warmth.

Pain in |. knee whilst walking; passed off after persevering in walking for a

short distance.—Tubercular inflammation of knee.

Ringworm; pityriasis. Eczema of eyelids. Glands of neck enlarged and tender.

Flush of heat (soon after the dose), some perspiration, severe headache deep in.

Bacillinum Testium.

A nosode prepared from tuberculous testicle.

• ▸Inguinal glands, disease of.
• ▸Mesenteric glands, disease of.
• ▸Phthisis.
• ▸Testicles, tubercle

of.

• ▸Calc.
• ▸phos.
• ▸goes with this remedy very well.
• ▸So do Lach.
• ▸and Kali c.
• ▸I know of no

antidote.

Antimon iod; Lach; Arsenic iod; Myosotis. Levico, 5-10 drops, follows as an intercurrent where much debility is present (Burnett).

Complementary: Calc phos; Kali carb.

• ▸Compare: Its effects seem to be identical to that of Koch's Tuberculinum.
• ▸Both are useful in the tubercular diathesis before phthisis had developed.
• ▸In the early stages of tubercular disease of glands, joints, skin and bones.
• ▸Psorinum.
• ▸Seems to be its chronic equivalent.
• ▸Bacillin testium acts especially on lower half of the body.

• ▸The does is important.
• ▸Should not be given below the thirtieth and not repeated frequently.
• ▸One dose a week often sufficient to bring about reaction.
• ▸It is rapid in action, and good results ought to be seen, otherwise there is no need of repetition.