- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Arsenious oxide, As2O3 . (Arsenious acid; white oxide of arsenic; white arsenic). Preparation for use , Triturations with sugar of milk. Authorities. [Symptoms from authorities 11, 16, 18, 20, 21, 30, 31, 34, 36, 40, 44, 49, 53, 55, 56, 57, 59, 65, 73, 74, 75, 83, and 84, are bracketed.] ( 1 to 89 , from Hahnemann…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Arsenious Acid-Arsenic Trioxide A profoundly acting remedy on every organ and tissue. Its clear-cut characteristic symptoms and correspondence to many severe types of disease make its homeopathic employment constant and certain. Its general symptoms often alone lead to its successful application. Among these the…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“ACRIDITY, EXCORIATIONS, ETC. AIR Open, Amel.:- IN ROOM, agg., air hunger, etc. ALTERNATING EFFECTS, sides, states, etc.(Comp. Periodicity, Wandering, Waves). ANGINA PECTORIS APPETITE, Changed ASCENDING, AGG. ASSOCIATED effects. BLACK, DARK, ETC. BLOOD SEPSIS, ETC. BLUISH, purple, livid, etc. BROWNISH, RUSTY, ETC…”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“MUCOUS MEMBRANES. MIND. RESPIRATION. Lungs; R apex. Blood. Heart. Nerves. SPLEEN. Lymphatics. Muscles. SKIN. Serous cavities. Organs. COLD: ICES, DRINKS. FOODS. Air. PERIODICALLY: MIDNIGHT; after. AFTER 2 A.M. 14 days. Yearly. VEGETABLES. DRINKING. TIPPLING. Infections. Bad meat. Eruptions: Undeveloped. Suppressed…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“The white oxide of Metallic Arsenic, As 2 O 3 . Solution and trituration. Abscess / Acne rosacea / Alcoholism / Amenorrhœa / Anæmia / Aphthæ / Asthma / Atrophy / Bronchitis / Brown-ague / Cæcum, affections of / Cancer / Cancrum oris / Carbuncle / Cholera Asiatica / Cholera / Cold / Coldness / Commissures, soreness of…”
- Dunham — The method — how symptoms are weighed before a remedy is differentiated.
“METALLUM ALBUM. ARSENIOUS ACID. THIS substance is generally prepared by sublimation from the ores of cobalt, and is often found adulterating the ores of zinc. It is a white powder, completely soluble in boiling water. It has neither taste nor smell, but leaves a somewhat acrid sensation on the fauces; and when fused…”
- Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“ARSENICUM ALBUM. Arsenicum: Aconite, Sulphur; Phosphorus, Rhus, Lachesis; Ipecac., China, Verat. alb., Colchicum, Ferrum; Baptisia, Muriatic acid, Phosphoric acid, Nitric acid; Antimonium crud., Antimonium tart., Nux v., Pulsatilla; Secale, Camphor, Carbo v.; Apis; Ailanthus; Anthracinum. Arsenicum ↓ Phosphorus…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“General Characteristics--We find a great amount of anguish in the patient, and the greater the suffering the greater the anguish. Very great restlessness, which is exhibited in an anxious tossing and jerking about, every movement being followed by exhaustion. Exhaustion is not felt by the patient while lying still…”
- Hahnemann (CD) — The antipsoric proving record — Hahnemann's later materia medica in its chronic-disease setting.
“WHITE ARSENIC. (The semi-oxide of metallic arsenic in diluted and potentized solution.) As I write down the word Arsenic, momentous memories seize upon my soul. When the All-merciful One created iron, the granted to mankind, indeed, to fashion from it either the murderous dagger or the mild ploughshare, and either to…”
- Hahnemann (MMP) — The proving record — numbered observations closest to Hahnemann's primary materia medica.
“(The semi-oxyde of metallic arsenic in diluted solution.) From vol. ii, 3rd edit., 1833. As I write down the word Arsenic, considerations the most momentous throng upon my mind. When the beneficent Creator made iron He no doubt permitted the children of men to fashion it either into the murderous dagger or the gentle…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“The White Oxide of Metallic Arsenic. As 2 O 3 . One of the oldest of Hahnemann's provings, but not published in the Fragmenta, nor in the first volume of his Materia Medica. The reasons for this omission he gives in 1816, in the second volume. The ignorant, maltreated, easily frightened people, seeing the great…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“Generalities: From the time of Hahnemann to the present day Arsenicum has been one of the most frequently indicated medicines, and one of the most extensively used. In the Old School it is most extensively abused, in the form of Fowler's solution. Arsenic affects every part of man; it seems to exaggerate or depress…”
- Lippe (KN) — Only the symptoms Lippe considered reliable enough to prescribe on.
“Anxiety and restlessness very highly marked. Burning pains of an excruciating character. Tearing pains in the limbs, worse during the night and while at rest, after previous powerful exertion, and only relieved by walking about and by external heat. Periodical pains, with coldness, chills, debility and anxious despair.”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Anguish, driving one out of bed at night, and from one place to another in the day-time. Restlessness. Great fear of death, and of being left alone. Despair. He finds no rest, especially at night, with anguish. Anger with anxiety, restlessness and sensation of coldness. Madness; loss of mind (from the abuse of…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: white oxide of arsenic. SYMPTOMS GENERALLY WORSE FROM 1 TO 2 P. M. OR 12 TO 2 A. M. (A.). There is amelioration from heat of all complaints except headache, which is temporarily relieved by cold bathing (Nux-V., Spig.); burning pain relieved by heat (A.). ANXIETY AND RESTLESSNESS VERY HIGHLY MARKED…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Great anguish and restlessness; driving from place to place. Great and sudden prostration; sinking of vital force. Intense burning pains. Intense thirst; drinks often, but little, as cold water disagrees. Dyspnoea < on motion, especially ascending. Vomiting and stool simultaneous; < after eating or drinking…”
- Nash (Respiratory) — The respiratory picture — the cough, the breathing, and the expectoration that separate one remedy from another.
“Arsenicum follows well either of these three remedies (Merc., Euph. and Cepa) in fluent coryza, when neither of them seem sufficient, but the discharge becomes more BURNING in character. The throat also burns but is relieved by hot drinks so long as they are running over the part. The chill and heat alternate or…”
- Nash (Testimony) — The outcome — what the remedy did once the characteristic symptoms were matched.
“Cancer of Stomach. (72) Case.—July 31, 1887, I was called to J. P. G., aged 66, tall, spare man, stoop-shouldered, emaciated, of a yellow, waxy complexion; his lips and tongue of the same color. A more complete pallor could not be. For more than twenty years he had been a constant sufferer from a disordered stomach…”
- Nash (Typhoid) — The course of the illness — which remedy fits which phase, and why.
“The remedy that is very likely to be necessary if the case goes on from bad to worse, notwithstanding the use of one or more of those already noticed, is Arsenicum album. I know that some who are considered authority have taught that Arsenicum throughout its pathogenesis more closely resembles in all its stages a…”
- Roberts — Location, sensation, and modality — the three-fold basis Roberts used to separate remedies.
“Arsenicum may be of value in any form of rheumatism where the characteristic pains are shooting, burning, lancinating; where there is the great restlessness, peculiar thirst and extreme prostration. Everything about Arsenicum is intense. The heart symptoms are of importance. After Arsenicum, Nux vomica, Sulphur and…”
- Tyler — The whole picture — temperament and leading symptoms drawn as one portrait.
“Arsenicum is another of the very important homoeopathic remedies: that is to say, when it is given in homoeopathic potencies for its own striking and characteristic symptoms, previously brought out in provings and in poisonings. One remembers a man, brought dying into our hospital, poisoned: and one knew from the…”
