- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Tartar Emetic. Adapted to torpid, phelgmatic persons; the hydrogenoid constitution (of Grauvogl). Diseases originating from exposure in damp basements or cellars (Ars., Aran., Tereb.). Through the pneumogastric nerve it depresses the respiration and circulation, thus producing the keynote of the remedy, viz., when the…”
- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Tartar emetic, 2 [K(SbO)C4H4O6 Preparation , Triturations. Authorities. [Symptoms in Stapf (Archive, 3, 2, 146), from Shæfer, Hufel. J., 1810, are omitted , being observed after tartar emetic given in canelle water; also Schœnfelder, do; observed from a solution of antimony glance (crudum) in acetic acid; also…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Tartar Emetic. Tartrate of Antimony and Potash Has many symptoms in common with Antimonium Crudum but also many peculiar to itself. Clinically, its therapeutic application has been confined largely to the treatment of respiratory diseases, rattling of mucus with little expectoration has been a guiding symptom. There…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“BLACK, dark, etc. CHEST, INTERNAL COMPRESSION, squeezing, pinching, as of a vise, cap, etc. (Comp. Cramp.) DAMPNESS, getting wet, wet weather, bathing, working in water, damp rooms, etc., Agg. DISCHARGES, eruption appearing etc., Amel. DUSKY COLOR EXHALATION. Agg. INACTIVE, apathetic, lies down, lethargic (Comp…”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“MUCOUS MEMBRANES. Pneumogastric nerve: Bronchi. Lungs. Heart. CIRCULATION. Respiration. Stomach. Bowels. Sleep. Lumbar region. Skin. WARM: Room. Wraps. Weather. Anger. Lying. Morning. Overeating. Cold. Dampness. Expectoration. Sitting erect. Motion. Vomiting. Depression . LACKS REACTION. INCREASINGLY WEAK. DROWSY…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Tartar Emetic. Tartrate of Antimony and Potash 2 [K (Sb O) C 4 H 4 O 6 ] H 2 O. Trituration and solutions. Alcoholism / Aphthæ / Asphyxia neonatorium / Asthma / Bilious affections / Bronchitis / Catarrh / Chicken-pox / Cholera / Cholera morbus / Coccygodynia / Cough / Group / Delirium-Tremens / Dyspepsia / Ecthyma /…”
- Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“Antimonium tartaricum: 1. Throat and lungs—Baryta c., Lachesis; Ipecac., Kali hyd.; Phosphorus, Sulphur, Carbo v.; Laurocerasus, Ammonium carb.; Bromine, Iodine, Spongia. 2. Skin—Conium, Mercurius, Kali bi., Kali hyd. 3. Bowels—Veratr. alb., Merc. Antimonium tartaricum or Tartar emetic, as it is also called, is a…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“Prominent symptoms of this remedy are found in the respiratory apparatus: the larynx, trachea, bronchial tubes and lungs. Mental.--Pitiful whining and crying before and during the attacks, or paroxysms whatever they may be. Bad humor; melancholic, complains of his numerous sufferings; despairs of recovery…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Tartar Emetic. 2[K(SbO)C 4 H 4 O 6 ]H 2 O. An invention of the alchemists, very popular with them, forbidden by the French Academy, finally introduced and much used and abused by the Old School. Proved by Hahnemann and some of his students. Published by Stapf, in 1844, and proved since by many others. We have made use…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“ANTIMONIUM. TARTARICUM. PotattjoAjitimoniou tartrate, aK(SbO)C4H^O^,H,0. Tartar cractic, J Fried. Haknemank. In h h nausea^ followed by yawning, with great watering of bath eycSj then vomiting. Sensation at scrob, cordis hke cold water, at same time is faint, like to fall, then follows heat on head. Cold sweat…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“About the first thing we see in the study of an Antimonium tart. patient is expressed in the face . The face is pale and sickly; the nose is drawn and shrunken; the eyes are sunken and there are dark rings around the eyes. The lips are pale and shriveled. The nostrils are dilated and flapping, and there is a dark…”
- Lippe (KN) — Only the symptoms Lippe considered reliable enough to prescribe on.
“Great debility and weakness. Attacks of fainting and syncope. Internal trembling. The child wants to be carried and does not wish to be touched. One-sided complaints (rheumatic pains in the left chest), pulsation in one side of the forehead and one-sided headache. Nausea with frequent vomiting of bitter, sour…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“During the day hilarity, in the evening anxious and timid. Despair and hopelessness, with lethargy. Numbness of the head, with stupefaction and somnolency. Pressing headache, as if the brain were compressed, with stupefaction and lethargy; worse in the evening, at night, and while at rest; better when exercising and…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: tartar emetic. Through the pneumo-gastric nerve it depresses the respiration and circulation (A.). Diseases originating from exposure in damp basements or cellars (Aran., Ars., Dulc., Nat-S., Tereb.) (A.). GREAT DEBILITY AND WEAKNESS (Apis, Ars., Bism., Chin., Dig., Ferr., Gels., Kali-P., Lach., Mosch…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Great accumulation of mucus in the air passages, with coarse rattling with inability to expectorate; impending paralysis of lungs. Face very pale or cyanotic from unoxidized blood. Great coma or sleepiness in most complaints. Vomiting, intense nausea, with prostration; general coldness, cold sweat and sleepiness…”
- Nash (Respiratory) — The respiratory picture — the cough, the breathing, and the expectoration that separate one remedy from another.
“Antimonium tartaricum is almost always loose cough with much coarse rattling of mucus, which is so abundant that the patient becomes cyanosed and cannot raise it. This is a serious condition and Antimonium tart. will often help. It is particularly found indicated in children and old people. If, notwithstanding the use…”
- Nash (Testimony) — The outcome — what the remedy did once the characteristic symptoms were matched.
“Cholera Morbus. (61) Case.—I wish here to call attention to the very great value of this remedy in cholera morbus. Raue says, Veratrum is the most important and most frequently indicated remedy, and does not even mention Antimonium tart. Bell does not give it a prominent place. Jahr does not mention it in his “Forty…”
- Nash (Typhoid) — The course of the illness — which remedy fits which phase, and why.
“Antimonium tartaricum ought to be mentioned as a very useful remedy in pneumo-typhus, when the lungs or bronchi become so loaded with mucus, that cannot be expectorated, that marked cyanosis is present. There is coarse, rattling breathing, and when coughing it seems as if a whole cupful of mucus must come up, but none…”
- Tyler — The whole picture — temperament and leading symptoms drawn as one portrait.
“(“Tartar emetic”) Hering says of this drug, “An invention of the alchemists, very popular with them, forbidden by the French Academy, finally introduced and much used and much abused by the Old School.” Old School, Farrington says, does not make much play in these days with Tartar emetic: and he is borne out by its…”
