Syphilinum appears in 9 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.
- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Syphilitic Virus. (A Nosode.) Pains from darkness to daylight ; begin with twilight and end with daylight (Merc., Phyt.). Pains increase and decrease gradually (Stan.); shifting and require frequent change of position. All symptoms are worse at night (Merc.); from sundown to sunrise. Eruptions: dull, red…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“The Syphilitic Virus - A Nosode Utter prostration and debility in the morning. Shifting rheumatic pains. Chronic eruptions and rheumatism. Ichthyosis. Syphilitic affections. Pains from darkness to daylight; decrease and increase gradually. Hereditary tendency to alcoholism. Ulceration of mouth, nose, genitals, skin…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“COLD AND HEAT, Agg. FINE PAINS, needle, splinter, thread or hair-like, etc. FROST, frosty air, hoar frost, etc., Agg. INCREASING slowly, then gradually decreasing, sun pains, etc. MOTION, beginning, Agg., continued, Amel. NIGHT, Agg. (Comp. Time.) REACTION, poor (Comp. Inactive.) SADNESS, low spirits (Comp. Emotions.)”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“Mucous membranes. Nerves. Bones. NIGHT; damp. Sundown to sunrise. Gradual . Protruding tongue. Extreme heat or cold. Every alternate full moon. During thunderstorms. Changing position. Continued or slow motion. High altitudes. Applied heat. Poor reaction or it does not hold. Chronicity. Great weakness, with but few…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Luesinum. Lueticum. Syphilitic virus. A nosode. Attenuations. Abscess; succession of abscesses / Alcoholism; hereditary craving for alcohol / Anus, fissure of / Aphasia / Asthma / Breasts sensitive / Bubo / Constipation / Crying of infants / Deafness / Deltoid rheumatism / Dentition / Diplopia / Dysmenorrhœa /…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Syphilitic Virus. A Nosode. Provings by Swan, Med. Adv., 1880, vol. 21, pp. 123-142. Authorities quoted by Swan, Boardman, Wildes, Ballard, Eggert, Morgan, Ostrom, Bradshaw, Skinner, Theobald, Morrison, Clausen, Berridge, Burritt, Nichols, Jackson, Foster, Nash, Schmidt, Boyce, Hawley, Morrow, Haynes, Carr, Allen, H…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“Syphilinum Whenever the symptoms that are representative of the patient himself have been suppressed in any case of syphilis, and nothing remains but weakness and a few results of the storm that has long ago or recently passed, this nosode will cause reaction and restore order and sometimes do much curing, and the…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: syphilitic virus. Is indicated in affections that are dependent upon a latent syphilitic taint (Bl.). Is of great service in children with congenital syphilis, who show the effects of the disease (Aur., Bar-C., Nit-Ac.) (Bl.). Rheumatism in syphilitic constitutions (Aur., Kali-B., Nit-Ac., Phos-Ac., Sil.)…”
