Kalium iodatum compare in 9 dei 13 libri classici su Similia. Ognuno è stato scritto per svolgere un compito diverso — ecco cosa aggiunge ciascuno su questo rimedio, con l'inizio della relativa voce.
- Allen TF — Il resoconto grezzo della sperimentazione patogenetica — i sintomi così come gli sperimentatori li riferirono, senza modifiche.
“[Symptoms taken from patients have been selected with care, and only when clearly the effect of the drug. Cases have been selected with a view of furnishing a complete account of the action of the drug; many cases that added nothing new and only increased the bulk of the matter, have been omitted here as elsewhere.]…”
- Boericke — La lettura clinica rapida — sintomi chiave, modalità e condizioni per cui viene effettivamente prescritto.
“Iodide of Potassium (KALI HYDRIODICUM) The profuse, watery, acrid coryza that the drug produces serves as a sure guiding symptom, especially when associated with pain in frontal sinus. It acts prominently on fibrous and connective tissues, producing infiltration, œdema, etc. Glandular swellings . Purpura and…”
- Boger (Syn) — Sintomi generali e modalità in un breve ritratto analitico, più che in un elenco di sintomi.
“Glands. Frontal sinus. Nose. Eyes. Lungs: Upper. Lobe. Periosteum. Heat. Pressure. Touch. Night. Damp. Mercury. Changing weather. Jolting. Cold foods. Motion. Cool air. Open air. Incipient organic changes; gouty-rheumatic, syphilitic, rickety, etc. Many and diverse symptoms. Feels used up. Cachexy. Stubborn…”
- Clarke — La voce più ampia — fonti, sperimentazioni patogenetiche, usi clinici, relazioni e antidoti in un unico luogo.
“Potassium Iodide. Kali hydriodicum. KI. Solution. Trituration. Actinomycosis / Aneurism / Anhidrosis / Bright's disease / Bubo / Bunions / Cancer / Caries / Cold / Condylomata / Consumption / Cough / Croup / Debility / Dropsy / Ears, otalgia; tinnitus / Emaciation / Erythema nodosum / Eyes, affections of / cysts on…”
- Hering — Sintomi graduati, ciascuno ponderato in base alla frequenza con cui gli sperimentatori e la pratica lo hanno confermato.
“Potassium Iodide. KI. Observations have been chiefly clinical, made on the sick with large doses of the crude drug. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 5, p. 331 . It needs proving. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Hydrocephalus , Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 11, p. 345 ; Syphilitic choroiditis ; Disseminate choroiditis , Norton's Opth…”
- Kent — Il quadro mentale e generale — chi è il paziente, prima ancora di ciò che il rimedio cura.
“This remedy is an antipsoric and antisyphilitic. It has been used very extensively by the old school as an antisyphilitic, but in the very large doses which they used it became to a great extent allopathic to the disease, because of the tremendous effect it produced upon the economy, and implanted its own miasm, and…”
- Lippe (MM) — La rigorosa lettura hahnemanniana — il quadro sintomatologico senza interpretazione clinica.
“Great talkativeness and inclination to jest. Every little noise makes one start. Heat in the head, with redness and burning of the face. Headache and heaviness in the head (5 A.M.); better after rising. Feeling of heaviness in the forehead (in the afternoon). Lancinations and dartings over the left eye and in the left…”
- Nash — I confronti — il rimedio accostato a quelli con cui viene più spesso confuso.
“Cough with profuse, thick, green, salty expectoration, from deep down, as if from mid-sternum, with pain through to back; great weakness and night sweats. Stitches through the lungs; in middle of sternum; through sternum to back or deep in chest; < walking. Irresistible desire for open air; walking in open air does…”