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References
- [1] John Drysdale was the first, in 1880, to suggest the use of this substance as a medicant ("On Pyrexin or Pyrogenium as a Therapeutic Agent," Baillière, Tyndale & Cox, 1880). John Henry Clarke, Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica (1900).
- [2] The drug, or nosode, might be classed under 'too little known remedies'. It is a ptomaine, a word meaning, broadly speaking, the alkaloid of decomposition or death. It is the product of decayed flesh in an extreme state of decomposition, potentized, of course, until the danger of actual poisoning is far passed yet the curative powers remain. Dr. J. S. Hunt quoted in Pacific Coast Journal of Homoeopathy, 1903, reprinted in Edward Anschutz, New, Old & Forgotten Remedies, 1917.
- [3] Dr. Sherbino, quoted in M. L. Tyler, Homeoeopathic Drug Pictures (Essex, England: The Homoeopathic Research & Educational Trust, 1952), p. 692
- [4] Ibid., p. 689
- [5] Dr. C. M. Boger, M.D., "Baptisia — Pyrogenium," Homoeopathic Physician (1908); reprint ed., Homoeopathic Heritage (Feb 1987) : 83-86.
- [6] Burnett, who really made the remedy known, generally prescribed it in the 6th potency,though it is effective in the 30th or higher (New, Old & Forgotten Remedies)." His success was very encouraging, but as he continued to use the mother tincture and lowest attenuation's the difficulty of keeping the preparation was not small; and the remedy did not come into extensive use till Burnett published his pamphlet on Pyrogenium in Fevers and Blood-poisoning in1888. Burnett used chiefly the 6th centesimal dilution, which is perfectly harmless, and which will keep indefinitely." Clarke's Dictionary.
- [7] Drug Pictures, p. 690
- [8] Robin Murphy, Materia Medica
- [9] A word about Pyrogenium: It ought to be called the Briareus of remedies (he was the gentleman who had a hundred hands); your Pyrogenium patient will lie terribly sick and feel as though he had hands all over the bed. It has been called the Aconite of typhoid; it is Baptisia with a very high fever; it follows Rhus toxicodendron often and carries through its work in other cases where there is great rattling of the chest; it may follow Antimonium tartaricum Elizabeth Wright-Hubbard, Homoeopathy as Art and Science, p. 107
- [10] Delirium and confusion of mind about his body and limbs (Bapt). Sensation as though he covered the whole bed. Knew her head was on the pillow but did not know where the rest of the body was. Feels when lying on one side she is one person and another when turning on the other side. James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1904), p. 872.
- [11] "I never talked so much in one day in all my life. I could think faster than ever I could." W. A. Yingling quoted in Drug Pictures, p. 694.
- [12] As Aconite is well-known to be the most important of remedies for the inflammatory pyrexia, so the most summary indication for Pyrogenium would be to term it the Aconite of the typhus or typhoid quality of pyrexia. Dr. Drysdale quoted in New, Old & Forgotten Remedies, p. 350.
- [13] A striking feature of Pyrogenium is the rapidity of its action, esp. in bringing down the temperature, the benefit following its administration being often so marked as to admit of no question regarding its efficacy. Ibid., p. 351.
- [14] One remembers the agony of restlessness with the utter impossibility of remaining for more than one moment in any position, till from a chair one wriggled and twisted in search of relief, till down on the floor, when one had to start again. Pyrogenium described as a 'flue genus epidemicus, by Dr. Tyler, quoted in Dr. Donald Foubister, Tutorials on Homoeopathy, p. 142
- [15] Ibid., p. 78.
- [16] Homoeopathic Heritage.
- [17] During the war whilst serving in India I found Pyrogenium and Ars. alb the most commonly indicated remedies in outbreaks of dysentery. In any case of vomiting and diarrhoea, without other information, I first think of these two remedies. Tutorials, p. 142
- [18] Homoeopathy as Art and Science, p. 106
- [19 ] All quoted from Murphy's Materia Medica (and largely directly from Clarke's Dictionary, as far as I can make out — Ian)
- [20] When the typhoidal states come on with amazing rapidity, a low septic state in 72 hours, accompanied by such a pungent stench that even burnt rags do not relieve it, and the nurse gags and retches, then you have a Bapt state. He is besotted, purplish, as though he had been drinking heavily. He lies curled up, like a dog, muttering 'I can't do it, I can't do it' meaning that he cannot gather together the parts of himself which he thinks are scattered all over the bed. Homoeopathy as Art and Science, p. 160
- [21] Tutorials, p. 84
- [22] "Drysdale's original cases include a number in which threatened typhoid was averted, a case of tabes mesenterica cured, and one of ulceration of the colon greatly benefited. Burnett's were cases of fully developed typhoid all cut short at the height by Pyrogenium 6 given every two hours. In his pamphlet is included a successful experience of Dr. Shouldham's with Pyrogenium 6 in two cases of diphtheritic sore throat. I have had ample opportunity of observing the power of Pyrogenium over typhoid fever, and typhoid and hectic states, including one of discharging abscess connected with Pott's disease of the spine". (Clarke's Dictionary)
- [23] ...is also sometimes useful when ill health dates from dental extraction. Tutorials
- [24] Indicated when the following symptom picture appears: intractable coldness, chill creeping up spine. Bursting headache. Hot stage with profuse sweat that does not reduce temperature. Severe aching pains in back and limbs and in bones. Patient feels beaten and bruised; bed feels too hard. The patient is intensely restless; movement relieves pains. Thumping heartbeat, rapid pulse. Disturbance of relationship between temperature and pulse; high temperature with slow pulse, or vice versa. Patient sleeps deeply, as if comatose. Weiner and Goss, Complete Book of Homoeopathy, 1982
- [25] A couple of years ago one of our cows calved away in the fields. Calf was found dead, and no placenta. Vet removed some of it, but failed to get it all away. She had fever and was very ill, and he was thinking of exploring further; but she was given Pyrogenium, and the next day the fever was gone, and she was well. Drug Pictures, p. 696
- [26] Tutorials, p. 145.
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