Coqueluchinum

Dyspncea with cough.—Sobbing or sighing at end of

cough.—Strangling sensation with cough on waking.—Cough provoked by intense tickling in

throat-fauces or trachea.—Hacking cough; with coryza.—Deep-sounding croupy

cough.—Spasmodic choking cough.—Spasmodic cough with intense flushing of face-—Cough in

frequently repeated paroxysms.

Cough, paroxysmal. Whooping-cough.

Characteristics——In 1906 Messrs. Epps published a little book of mine dealing with this nosode,

to which J then gave the name of Pertussin. But it appeared that a German firm of chemists had

registered in England a patent medicine under that name, and threatened the publishers with an

action unless the book was withdrawn! As the matter was not worth a law-suit, I adopted the

French name for the nosode, and a second revised and enlarged edition was brought out by the

Homeopathic Publishing Co. under the title Whooping-cough Cured with Coqueluchin. Since

that date later experience has fully confirmed all that was then written, and many patients, old as

well as young, have experienced the virtues of Coqueluchin. In all cases of whooping-cough

suspected or defined I give the remedy in the 30th attenuation every four hours as a matter of

routine, and as a rule it quickly assumes control of the case and does all that is necessary. In my

experience it agrees well with all other whooping-cough remedies, and when their specific

indications appear I give them also in alternation, or else alone. Coqueluchin is an "unproved"

remedy, except in the sense that every case of the disease is a "proving," but I have noted a few

special symptoms removed by it, and I have arranged them in a subjoined "Schema." It is equally

applicable to cases of cough of the same type, though not caused by the same infection, such as

appear in some cases of influenza.

Compare: Drosera; Corallium; Cuprum; Naphthal; Mephitis; Passiflor; Coccus Cacti; Magnes phos.

The thirtieth potency.

Coqueluchin (PERTUSSIN)

Taken from the glairy and stringy mucus containing the virus of whooping-cough. Introduced by John H. Clarke for the treatment of whooping-cough and other spasmodic coughs.