- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Lithium Carbonate, LiCO3. Preparation , Triturations. Authorities. (Hering's provings, Am. Hom. Rev., 3, p. 485). Memory for names less retentive than usual (second day), 3.”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Carbonate of Lithium Chronic rheumatism connected with heart lesions and asthenopia offer a field for this remedy. Rheumatic nodes. Uric acid diathesis Whole body is sore . Gout and tophi. Tension, as if bound; better, sitting and going out. Externally sensitive. Headache ceases while eating . Trembling and throbbing…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“DIRECTION of sensations, Outward JOINTS, arthritic complaints, etc.”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“Heart. Small joints. Lungs. Urine. Night. Menses; after; suppressed. Eating. Urinating. Motion. SORE and heavy. Acidity. Outward pressure or as of a dull point. Gout. Rheumatism. .................... Headache, > eating. Eyes dry from using them. Vertical hemiopia (r). Red nose. Lumps of mucus drop into throat. Gnawing…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Carbonate of Lithia. Lithic Carbonate. Li 2 CO 3 . Trituration. Albuminuria / Aneurism / Angina Pectoris / Barber's itch / Bubo / Dyspepsia / Eyes, affections of / Gall-stones / Gastralgia / Glands, swelling of / Gout / Headaches / Heart, affections of Hemiopia / Hernia / Menstruation, disorders of / Nose, affections…”
- Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“Lithium carb. has not a very extensive range of action. It is particularly useful in affections of the joints. It does have very much depreciating effect on the vital forces. It is efficacious in rheumatism and, above all, in some forms of gout. In its provings, debility is noticed only in connection with or as a sort…”
- Hale — The introduction story — early pathogenetic and clinical evidence for medicines new to Hale's generation.
“(Lithm Carbonas.) Pharmacology. — This is a white powder, sparingly soluble in water, and having a feeble alkaline reaction. It dissolves with effervescence in dilute sulphuric acid, and forms a freely soluble salt. It imparts to the flame of burning alcohol a carmine red color. Officinal Preparations. — Triturations…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Lithia. Li 2 CO 3 . Introduced and proved by Hering, assisted by Neidhard and Geist. See Am. Hom. Rev., 1863, vol. 3, p. 485, 1863. A proving of Gettysburg water, containing lithia, was made by Swan. See H. Mo., 1871, p. 389. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Weakness of eyes , A. R., Raue's Rec., 1870, p. 110 ; Hemiopia …”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“LITHIUM. Lithic carbonate, Li, COp 1. Prwingr. — t. C. L. K — , effects of triturating drug. Pains in eyes a» if little grains of sand were in them, decidedly greater in 1. eye ; later, stitches in r. (Hering^s proving^ Am. Horn. Rrv., iii, 485.) 2. a. Herinc took ^ gr. of 3rd trir. Pain in 1. side of head and malar…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Pain over the eyes and tension, as if bound in the temples; diminished while eating, but returning soon after eating, and remains as a pressure in the temples until in the night, and only goes away after falling asleep. Pains in a small spot in the right temple. Pressure in the temples from without inwards, with a…”
- Roberts — Location, sensation, and modality — the three-fold basis Roberts used to separate remedies.
“Lithium has been used by dominant medicine empirically but we should consider it more often in the gouty conditions affecting the heart, and where there are rheumatic pains at the last joints of the fingers and toes. Compare: Ammonium phos., Benzoic acid, Berberis, Calc. c., Lycopodium. DULL STITCHES IN CARDIAC REGION…”
