- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Gold (The Element) Sanguine, ruddy people, with black hair and eyes; lively, restless, anxious about the future. Old people; weak vision; corpulent; tired of life. For constitutions broken down by bad effects of mercury and syphillis. Pinning boys; low-spirited, lifeless, weak memories, lacking in "boyish go;" testes…”
- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Aurum foliatum, metallic gold. Preparation , Triturate pure gold with sugar of milk. Authorities. Religious excitement, 15. In a reverie he says something absurd, 1. The child woke after three o'clock, early in the morning, and spoke rapidly in a strong voice, and with red face, thus: "Mother, thou art my jewel of a…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Metallic Gold Given full play, Aurum develops in the organism, by attacking the blood, glands, and bone, conditions bearing striking resemblance to mercurial and syphilitic infections; and it is just for such deteriorations of the bodily fluids and alterations in the tissues, that Aurum assumes great importance as a…”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“MIND. Nerves. VASCULAR SYSTEM. Heart (R). Bones: NASAL. Skull. Patellæ. Joints. Glands. Liver. Kidneys. Emotions: Depressing. Disordered affections. Mental exertion. Cold. Night: Sunset to sunrise. Abuse of Merc. or Kali-iod. Cloudy weather. Cool; open air. Cold bathing. Becoming warm. Music. Walking. Vaso-motor…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Aurum foliatum (metallic gold). Au (A. W. 196.8). Trituration. Alcohol, effects of / Amenorrhœa / Angina pectoris / Asthma / Bone affections / Breath, offensive / Corpulency / Depression / Ears, affections of / Erethism / Erysipelas / Eye, affections of / Fevers / Gonorrhœa / Hæmorrhages / Hæmorrhoids / Hemiopia /…”
- Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“THE NOBLE METALS— AURUM. In this group we have Aurum metallicum, Aurum muriaticum, Argentum metallicum, Argentum nitricum, Platinum and Palladium. There are also two or three others of which we know but little. Aurum and Argentum have many symptoms in common, and yet their distinctive characteristics are sufficient to…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“General Characteristics.--Strongest symptom is a great desire to commit suicide. This idea is uppermost in the mind all the time, and every opportunity will be sought for self-destruction. Sleeplessness. There may be an irregularity in the labor pains, and when she rises up for anything, instead of lying down again…”
- Hahnemann (CD) — The antipsoric proving record — Hahnemann's later materia medica in its chronic-disease setting.
“GOLD. (THE WELL-KNOWN METAL.) Just as superstition, inexact observations and credulous conjectures have been the source of innumerable untrue statements as to the virtue of medicines in the materia medica, so also lack of proving and groundless theoretic reasons of physicians have with just a little reason denied to…”
- Hahnemann (MMP) — The proving record — numbered observations closest to Hahnemann's primary materia medica.
“(Gold, the well-known metal.) From vol. iv, 2nd edit., 1825. Just as superstition, impure observations, and credulous assumptions have been the source of innumerable falsely ascribed remedial virtues of medicines in the Materia Medica; in like manner physicians by their failure to resort to the test of experiment and…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Gold. Au., the element. Gold, the common metal, proved and introduced by Hahnemann in 1818, in Materia Medica, vol. iv (95 and 138) ; 2d ed., 1825 (151 and 201) ; in Chronic Diseases, 2d edition, 1835, 404 symptoms. The last proving was made by J. C. Burnett, in 1879. No preparation ought to be used except such as has…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“The general features of the remedy are such as relate to the mind and such as relate to the tissues of the body in general. If you run through the mental symptoms, taking them all in as one great whole, you will see that all the affections, natural to healthy man, are perverted. So great in extent is this that one of…”
- Lippe (KN) — Only the symptoms Lippe considered reliable enough to prescribe on.
“Melancholy. Fear, even to suicide. Paralytic drawing in the limbs in the morning, when awakening and on getting cold. Pain in the bones at night. Great ebullition and palpitation of the heart. Oversensitiveness to all pain and to the cold air. Desire for the open air. Hysterical spasms, with laughing and crying…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Melancholy mood, dejected, inclined to weep, and longing to die. Excessive anguish, increasing even to self-destruction. The least contradiction excites his wrath. Alternate peevishness and cheerfulness. Congestions to and heat in the head, with sparks before the eyes, and glossy bloatedness of the face, aggravated…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: gold. GREAT HOPELESSNESS; HARASSED, WITH A DESIRE TO COMMIT SUICIDE; WEARY OF LIFE (N.). Peevish and vehement; wrath at least contradiction (Bry., Nux-V., Sulph.) (R.). MELANCHOLY (Ign., Nat-M., Puls., Stann.). QUARRELSOME (Anac., Bell., Bry., Hyos., Nit-Ac., Sulph.) (R.). Imagines that he is not fit for…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Wants to commit suicide; thinks he is no good in the world. Nodes and bone pains, caries and necrosis with great depression of mind. Abuse of Mercury, in syphilis, in massive doses. “Looks on the dark side, weeps, prays, thinks she is not fit for this world, longs for death, strong inclination to commit suicide.”…”
- Nash (Respiratory) — The respiratory picture — the cough, the breathing, and the expectoration that separate one remedy from another.
“Aurum; in the form of the metal or muriate. It eats more deeply than either of them, involving the bones of the nose. Leading Symptoms—Crusts in the nose; obstructed, ulcerated, agglutinated, painful nostrils, ozæna; thick fetid discharge, severe frontal headache, caries. The patient is melancholy even to suicide…”
- Nash (Testimony) — The outcome — what the remedy did once the characteristic symptoms were matched.
“In the month of February, 1906, I was requested by a noted specialist to see a case in consultation of frontal sinus abscess. He said that he had operated on it, but the sore would not heal, and hoped that something might be done to promote the healing process. Abscess of Frontal Sinus. (6) Case.—Mrs. A. J. L., age 61…”
- Roberts — Location, sensation, and modality — the three-fold basis Roberts used to separate remedies.
“Aurum met. is to be thought of in those scrofulous, syphilitic or mercurialized constitutions suffering from rheumatic conditions characterized by very severe tearing boring bone pains, always greatly aggravated at night and in cold weather, when the accompanying symptoms are present. In inflammatory rheumatism Aurum…”
- Tyler — The whole picture — temperament and leading symptoms drawn as one portrait.
“In his Materia Medica Pura, if we turn up Hahnemann’s Preface to METALLIC GOLD, we find an account of its checkered medical history—How it was esteemed by the Arabian physicians and the ancients. How it was scorned, condemned and rejected, because of its insolubility and its indestructibility, by the Schools\ which…”
