Coqueluchin
by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory
(PERTUSSIN)
Taken from the glairy and stringy mucus containing the virus of whooping-cough. Introduced by John H. Clarke for the treatment of whooping-cough and other spasmodic coughs.
Compare: Drosera; Corallium; Cuprum; Naphthal; Mephitis; Passiflor; Coccus Cacti; Magnes phos .
The thirtieth potency.
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Pertussinum appears in 2 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.
“Pertussin. The nosode of Whooping-cough. Cough, paroxysmal / Whooping-cough In 1906 Messrs. Epps published a little book of mine dealing with this nosode, to which I then gave the name of Pertussin. But it appeared that a German firm of chemists had registered in England a patent medicine under that name, and…”
