- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Adapted to women, dark hair, rigid fibre; thin, of a sanguine temperament; who suffer from too early and too profuse menses. Sexual organs exceedingly sensitive; cannot bear the napkin to touch her ; will go into spasms from an examination; vulva painfully sensitve during coitus: will faint during or cannot endure…”
- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“An element. Preparation , Trituration of the metal precipitated on a steel rod, from a solution in Aqua regia. Authorities. Hahnemann's Chr. Krn.; 1 , Hahnemann; 2 , Gross; 3 , Dr. Musits, proving on a woman in perfect health, with one dose of the 200th dil. (MSS. to editor). Illusions of fantasy on entering the…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“The Metal (PLATINA) Is pre-eminently a woman's remedy. Strong tendency to paralysis, anæsthesia, localized numbness and coldness are shown. Hysterical spasms; pains increase and decrease gradually ( Stannum ). Tremulousness. Irresistible impulse to kill. Self-exaltation; contempt for others . Arrogant, proud. Weary of…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“BORING, grinding, etc. BURNT, scalded as if COMPRESSION, SQUEEZING, PINCHING, AS OF A VISE, CAP, ETC. (COMP. CRAMP.) CONSTRICTION, tight band, gathered together, squeezing, etc. CRAMP, colic, etc. EMOTIONS, excitement, etc. FEMALE ORGANS FINGERS OR HANDS, using, as in writing, sewing, piano playing, grasping, etc…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“An Element. (Also called Platina.) Pt. (A. W. 194.3.) Trituration. Amenorrhœa / Chlorosis / Constipation / Convulsions / Delusions / Dentition / Depression of spirits / Dysmenia / Erotomania / Fear / Gout / Hæmorrhage / Hæmorrhoids / Hysteria / Lead poisoning / Masturbation / Melancholia / Menorrhagia / Menses…”
- Dunham — The method — how symptoms are weighed before a remedy is differentiated.
“THE physical and chemical properties and reactions of this metal are described from another chair. It finds no place in the Pharmacopoeia of England or the United States. Trousseau and Pidoux cite a few vague and indecisive experiments upon animals and men with double Chloride of Platina and Sodium by Dr. Hoefer in…”
- Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“PLATINA, PALLADIUM, AND ALUMINA. Platina. Platina: Mental symptoms—Bell., Pallad., Phos.; Nervous system—Bell., Helon., Stan., Plumb.; Sexual organs—Pallad., Arg. met., Helonias; Puls., Phos., Aurum. The action of Platina is to be studied under three headings, namely: The mental symptoms, its action on the nervous…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“Mental.--Mental symptoms in general; amativeness; state of madness; hysteria. The patient is very haughty, looks with disdain upon everyone and everything. Sensation of dread and horror. Sexual.--Female: Nymphomania, which may occur even during the lying-in period. Menstruation, when the discharge is very abundant…”
- Hahnemann (CD) — The antipsoric proving record — Hahnemann's later materia medica in its chronic-disease setting.
“Chemically pure platina which is soft and can be cut with a knife, is dissolved in heated aqua-regia (nitric acid and hydrochloric acid), the golden yellow solution obtained, is properly diluted with distilled water, a smoothly-polished steel rod is suspended in it, on which the platina deposits as a crystalline crust.”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Platinum. An Element. Introduced by Stapf. Proved by Hahnemann and Gross (Hahnemann's Chronische Krankheiten), and by Musits, Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 7, p. 574 . CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Melancholia , Hirsch, A. H. Z., vol. 95, p. 57 ; Times Ret., vol. 77, p. 56 ; Gross, B. J. H., vol. 18, p. 247, from Hom. V. J. S…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“Platinum The Platinum proving represents the woman's mind perverted. It is especially suited to hysterical women such as have undergone fright, prolonged excitement, or from disappointment, shock, or prolonged hemorrhages. She becomes arrogant and haughty. One of the most striking characteristics of this drug is pride…”
- Lippe (KN) — Only the symptoms Lippe considered reliable enough to prescribe on.
“Dull stinging pains which press inwardly, as from a plug. Tension in the limbs, as if they were tightly bandaged. Numbness and sensation of stiffness of many parts mostly accompanied by sensations of coldness. Debility and tired feeling of the limbs, especially while at rest. Pains like constrictions in character. Bad…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Pride and over-estimation of oneself; looking down with haughtiness on others. Illusion; every thing around her is very small and everybody inferior to her in body and mind. Low-spirited, inclined to shed tears, worse in the evening. Anxiety, horrified by the thought that he would die soon. Great indifference. After…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: platinum. Is pre-eminently a woman's remedy (Ign., Puls.) (Br.). Hysteria, with much depression of spirits (Ign., Mosch., Nat-M., Puls., Sep.) (Bt.). Hysterical spasms, with full consciousness (Cina, Mag-C., Nat-M., Nux-V., Phos., Sep., Stram., Sulph.). Lead poisonings (Alum., Hep., Op.). Catalepsy…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Pride and over-estimation of one’s self; looking down on others; things look small to her. Genitals exceedingly sensitive, but excessive sexual desire; nymphomania, with ovarian troubles; prolapsus or profuse menses. Pains increase gradually and as gradually decrease (Stann.); sometimes attended with numbness (Cham.)…”
