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Materia Medica

Diphtherinum

Potentized Diphtheritic Virus

Potentized Diphtheritic Virus Adapted to patients prone to catarrhal affections of respiratory organs, scrofulous individuals. Diphtheria, laryngeal diphtheria, post-diphtheritic paralysis. Malignancy from the start. Glands swollen; tongue red, swollen; breath and discharge very offensive. Diphtheritic; membrane thick, dark. Epistaxis; profound prostration. Swallows without pain, but fluids are vomited or returned by the nose.

Relationships

Compare: Diphtherotoxin (Cahis) (Chronic bronchitis with rales. Cartier suggests it in the vago-paralytic forms of Bronchitis of the aged or in toxic bronchitis after grip).

Dose

Thirtieth, two hundredth or C. M potency. Must not be repeated too frequently.

Source: Pocket manual of homoeopathic materia medica by William Boericke (1906). Public domain, transcribed by OOREP. Also in Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed., p. 294.

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