- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Moschus moschiferus, L. Class , Mammalia; Order , Ungulata; Family , Bovidæ; Tribe , Moschina. Common name , Musk deer. Preparations , Trituration of the inspissated secretion contained in the preputial follicles. Authorities. (Nos. 1 to 35 , from Hahnemann, with annotations by Dr. Hughes); 1 , Hahnemann, R. A. M. L…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Musk A remedy for hysteria and nervous paroxysms, fainting fits and convulsions, catalepsy, etc. The characteristic condition being aggravation by cold; there is great sensitiveness to air. Much nervous trembling and frequent fainting. Great flatulence. Diseases do not follow a normal course. Coldness . Tension in…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“AMMONIACAL ODOR CHILLY, cold FAINT, faints easily, etc. NERVES, nervous patients, etc. REACTION, poor (Comp. Inactive.)”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“NERVES: SENSORY. Genital. Respiration. Circulation. Excitement. Cold. Suppressions; menses, etc. Open air. Poor reaction. Spasmodic, nervous effects; laughter, hiccough, shuddering, etc. Twitchings. Chokings. FAINTS. Hysteria. Buzzing, squeezing or plug-like sensations. Globus. .................... Hurried, tremulous…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“moschiferus. Musk Deer. N. O. Mammalia. Trituration of inspissated secretion contained in preputial follicles. Angina pectoris / Catalepsy / Croup / Diabetes / Dyspnœa / Epilepsy / Fainting / Heart, failure of / Herpes, mercurial and venereal / Hiccough / Hypochondriasis / Hysteria / Hystero-epilepsy / Impotence /…”
- Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“MOSCHUS. The order of Ruminantia furnishes us with an article called Musk, which is obtained from the Moschus moschiferus, or musk-deer. It is found in a sac just back of the umbilicus, and probably consists of a secretion from the preputial follicles. The second word, "moschiferus," is a necessary qualification…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“We may think strongly of this remedy in nervous or spasmodic complaints where the patient feels very cold; in epileptic fits, for instance, where there is rigor or chilliness, or shuddering, as though the patient were very cold. In complaints where the smell of musk affords great relief. Where there is a sense of…”
- Hahnemann (MMP) — The proving record — numbered observations closest to Hahnemann's primary materia medica.
“(Musk.) (The unctuous substance contained in the hairy bag situated behind the navel of the musk deer (Moschus moschiferus), inhabiting the mountainous parts of Asia, is dried to the greenish musk of commerce.) From vol. i, 3rd edit., 1830. The following symptoms, which it would be desirable to see increased to greater”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Musk Deer. Moschina. The dried secretion from the musk sac of Moschus Moschiferous, a native of Central Asia. Provings by Hahnemann, Gross and Stapf (Mat. Med. Pura., vol. 1, p. 316). CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Epistaxis , Hartmann, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 413 ; Incontinence of urine , Young, Hahn. Mo., vol. 6, p. 172 …”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“MOSCHUS. &lB{M«tted and dried secretion of preputial follicles of the musk deer, MojcHs motcAt/rrujt L. Musk. 1. Provings. — I. HAHttEMASSy Mat. Mfd. Pura^vo\, i of onginzl^ vol. ii of translation. Contains 2 symptoms from self, ill from three fellow-observers, and 39 from authors. 2. GuNTz, on Feb. 9th, 1824, at 9…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“Moschus cures many hysterical girls who have come to adult age without ever learning what obedience means. They are self-willed, obstinate and selfish. When they have been encouraged to resort to crafty cunning, to have every whim gratified from infancy to eighteen years of age they become fit subjects for Mosch., Asa…”
- Lippe (KN) — Only the symptoms Lippe considered reliable enough to prescribe on.
“Trembling and quaking through the whole body. Tingling with heaviness in the limbs. Debility, which is more felt during rest than during motion. Fainting followed by headache. Spasm of the chest. The parts on which he lies pain as if dislocated and broken. The symptoms, especially those pertaining to the respiration…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Great anxiety with palpitation of the heart. Hypochondriacal anxiety and ill humor. Vertigo as soon as the head is moved. Stupefying, compressing headache, mostly in the forehead, with nausea in the evening, worse when moving the head and in the room, better in the open air. Tension in the back part of the head and…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: musk. Through the cerebro-spinal system it especially affects the sexual organs and nerves of motion (Bt.). The open air appears to him sensitively cold. The symptoms, especially those pertaining to the respiration, are aggravated by becoming cold. Tightness of the chest; is obliged to take a deeper…”
- Nash (Testimony) — The outcome — what the remedy did once the characteristic symptoms were matched.
“Angina Pectoris. (79) Case.—An old lady, Mrs. C, aged about 72, consulted me in September, 1877, for a sensation of trembling around the heart, with constriction in the whole chest, almost suffocation. In fact, the symptoms much resembled angina pectoris, and to confirm that diagnosis an arcus senilis existed, though…”
