- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Sulphuret of Lime (CaS) For torpid lymphatic constitutions; persons with light hair and complexion, slow to act, muscles soft and flabby. The slightest injury causes suppression (Graph., Mer.). Diseases where the system has been injured by the abuse of Mercury. In diseases where suppuration seems inevitable, Hepar may…”
- Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“To be prepared with the white interior of oystershells and pure flowers of Sulphur. Impure Calcium sulphide, CaS. Preparation for use , Triturations. Authorities. Emotional. Ghostly image of one who was dead, in the morning, in bed, after waking and while conscious, which frightened him; it also seemed as though he…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Hahnemann's Calcium Sulphide (HEPAR SULPHURIS CALCAREUM) Suits especially scrofulous and lymphatic constitutions who are inclined to have eruptions and glandular swellings. Unhealthy skin. Blondes with sluggish character and weak muscles. Great sensitiveness to all impressions . Sweating patient pulling blanket around…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“ACRIDITY, excoriations, etc. ADHESIVE, adherent, torn, loose, etc. (Comp. Sticky) BONES. BORING, grinding, etc. CHILLED, cold becoming, while hot, by ices, uncovering a part, as head, hand-hands, etc. in cold water, etc.., Agg. CHILLY, cold CLOTHES, pressure of, Agg. COMPANY, Amel., Desire for, etc. COUGH. COUGH…”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“NERVES. CONNECTIVE TISSUE. RESPIRATORY MEMBRANES. Flexures. GLANDS. Kidneys. Skin. Bridge of nose (Kali-bi.). COLD, dry: AIR. WINTER. DRAFTS. WIND. PART BECOMING. LEAST: UNCOVERING. TOUCH. Noise. Exertion. Lying on painful part. Mercury. Night. HEAT: WARM WRAPS. TO HEAD. Moist. DAMP WEATHER. Lax . CHILLY AND…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“sulphuris calcareum. An impure Sulphide of Calcium prepared by burning in a crucible the white interior of oyster shells with pure flowers of sulphur. Trituration. Abscess / Amaurosis / Angina pectoris / Appetite, disordered / Asthma / Axilla, abscess in / Beard, eruptions of / Blepharitis / Boils / Breast, affections…”
- Dunham — The method — how symptoms are weighed before a remedy is differentiated.
“LIVER OF SULPHUR. IMPURE CALCIC SULPHIDE. THE “liver of sulphur” of the shops and of the British and United States pharmacopoeias, is a sulphuret of potassium, or a potassic sulphide, being prepared with potash and not with lime. It should never be used to prepare the drug known in the homoeopathic pharmacopoeia as…”
- Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“Hepar: Belladonna, Lachesis, Merc.; Spongia, Iod., Bromine, Acon.; Silicea, Sulphur. Sphere: 1. Nervous system—Depresses sensorium; Irritability of all nerves. 2. Plastic exudations. 3. Suppuration. 4. Catarrhs. 5. Glands—Bones. 6. Skin. 7. Organs. 8. As an antidote to metals. Next, we will consider Hepar sulphuris…”
- Hahnemann (CD) — The antipsoric proving record — Hahnemann's later materia medica in its chronic-disease setting.
“A mixture of equal parts of finely powdered, clean oyster shells and quite pure flowers of sulphur is kept for ten minutes at a white heat in a hermetically closed crucible and afterwards stored up in a well-corked bottle. To develop its powers, it is treated like other dry drugs in order to potentize it to the higher…”
- Hahnemann (MMP) — The proving record — numbered observations closest to Hahnemann's primary materia medica.
“(A mixture of equal parts of finely powdered oyster shells and quite pure flowers of sulphur, kept for ten minutes at a white heat, and stored up in well-corked bottles. I have found a very small portion of a grain of the million-fold attenuation (by means of three triturations, each of an hour's duration, with three…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Sulphuret of Lime. Ca. S. Introduced by Hahnemann, who used the white interior of oyster shells and pure flowers of sulphur, from which are prepared the triturations. Provings by Hahnemann, Stapf, etc. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 4, p. 572 . CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Mania with scabies , Sztaraveszki, Hom. Clinics…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“Impure calcic sulphide, Cas. Liver of sulphur, prepared with powdered oyster-shells and flowers of sulphur. I. Provings.-I . HAHNEMANN, Mat. Med. Pura., vol. iv oforiginal, vol. i of translation. Contains 282 symptoms from self, 16 from two fellow- observers, and 10 from authors. 2. IBID., Chronic Diseases, part 3 of…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“Hepar Sulphur Coldness: The Hepar patient is chilly. He is sensitive to the cold and wants an unusual amount of clothing when in cold air. He wants the sleeping room very warm and can endure much heat in the room, many degrees warmer than a healthy person ordinarily desires, He has no endurance in the cold and all his…”
- Lippe (KN) — Only the symptoms Lippe considered reliable enough to prescribe on.
“Drawing pains in the limbs. Stitches in the joints. Fainting in the evening from trifling pains. Great sensitiveness of the affected parts to touch. Rheumatic swelling with heat and redness and a sensation as if sprained. Caries. When handling the involved areas pain is felt as from subcutaneous ulceration…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Great anguish in the evening, almost driving one to commit suicide. Over-sensitiveness and irritability, with quick, hasty speech. The slightest cause irritates him and makes him extremely vehement. Dejected, sad, with inclination to shed tears. Faint giddiness when riding in a carriage or when shaking the head, with…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common names: hahnemann's calcium sulphide; sulphuret of lime. Bad effects from the abuse of mercury (Fluor-Ac., Nit-Ac., Sil.). Rheumatic swellings with heat and redness and a sensation as if sprained (Bell., Rhus-T., Sulph.). Drawing pains in the limbs (Rhus-T.). Stitches in the joints (Bry., Kali-B., Nit-Ac., Sil.).”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Hypersensitive to touch, pain, cold air; fainting with the pain. General tendency to suppurations; even slight injuries or scratches on the skin suppurate. Tendency to croupy exudations (larynx and kidneys; any mucous membrane). Atony; stools passed with great difficulty, even when soft; urine flows slowly, must wait…”
