The homoeopathic treatment of syphilis, gonorrhoea, spermatorrhoea, and urinary diseases / compiled by J. Ph. Berjeau.
- Jean-Philibert Berjeau
- Date:
- [1869], ©1869
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Credit: The homoeopathic treatment of syphilis, gonorrhoea, spermatorrhoea, and urinary diseases / compiled by J. Ph. Berjeau. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the Materia Medica itself. And the more closely the practitioner assimilates his prescription to the actual condition of the individual patient, so much the more rapidly and perfectly will he cure him.] Aconite. This remedy is always to be employed as soon as the first symptoms arise, and is to be very fre- quently repeated, being extremely efficacious in conjunc- tion with Cannabis and Petroselinum in allaying the inflammation and subduing the discharge. Cannabis. Dr. Curie states that this remedy is only useful in the premonitory stage, when the discharge is thin, and not partaking of the purulent character, and also at the termination of the complaint when the secre- tion has lost its distinctive features. In gonorrhoea proper it is perfectly useless.^ Dr. Herapel gives the following indications: Discharge of pus from the urethra; ulcerative soreness of the urethra when touching it; diffi- culty of urinating, with constant urging; sensation of tearing in the fibres of the urethra ; the urethra feels as if drawn up into knots. The glans may be sore, swollen, and inflamed. These symptoms may be accompanied with symptoms of vascular excitement, rush of blood to the head, frontal headache, &c. [The German Homoeopathic physician, Miiller,f finds this remedy useful only in strong doses, the first or mother tincture ; and declares its value in gonorrhoea [* This opinion of Berjeau I prefer to let stand as he left it; the reader can compare it with the opinions and advice of other physicians as here given.—F.] f U. S. Med. and Surg. Journal, Vol. I. p. 160.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21041477_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
