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on the Skinner machine, the 30th, 200th, 100th and the higher potencies. This preparation I have beenusing for fifteen years. Many of my friends have been using it, as they have procured it from me.From observing the effects of this preparation I have been gathering these notes in my interleavedHering's Guiding Symptoms, and they now guide me in the use of Tuberculinum. I do not useTuberc. merely because it is a nosode, or with the idea that generally prevails of using nosodes; that is,a product of the disease for the disease, and the results of the disease. This I fear is too much theprevailing thought in using nosodes. In certain places it prevails and is taught that anything relating tosyphilis must be treated with ; that anything relating to gonorrhoea must be treated with, anything psoric must be treated with , and anything that relates totuberculosis must be treated with Tuberculinum.That will go out of use some day; it is mere isopathy, and it is an unsound doctrine. It is not thebetter idea of Homoeopathy. It is not based upon sound principles. It belongs to a hystericalHomoeopathy that prevails in this century. Yet much good has come out of it.It is hoped that provings may be made so that we may be able to prescribe Tuberc. on thesymptoms of Tuberc. just as we would use any drug. It is deep acting, constitutionally deep, because itis a product of disease from a very deep-seated constitutional condition, like and . Itgoes deep into the life; it is antipsoric; it is long acting, and it affects constitutions more deeply thanmost remedies; and when our deepest remedies a few weeks, and they have to be changed, this remedycomes in as one of the remedies---when the symptoms agree- --and bring a better state of reaction, sothat remedies hold longer. It may well be considered a species of .One of the most prominent uses of this remedy is in intermittent fever. Some of our moststubborn cases of intermittent fever will relapse and continue relapsing, even when such remedies as and and the deeper-acting remedies have been indicated, have acted well, havebroken the fever, and in a few weeks, from exposure to cold, from sitting in a draft, from becomingfatigued, from mental exertion, from over- eating and from disordering the stomach this ague hasreturned.Any of these circumstances will bring back these stubborn cases of intermittent fever whenTuberc. is needed. When a patient is travelling toward phthisis and he is exposed and intermittentcomes out. He is of a feeble constitution and his complaints have a tendency to relapse, and remedieswell selected do not how long, though they act well at first---they must soon be changed-- changingsymptoms.It is not an indication for Tuberc. when the well selected remedy fails to act. Well selected is arelative expression and involves to much of human opinion. It may be thought to be well selected whenit is not related to the case. When the well selected remedy has acted and the constitution shows atendency to break down, and the well selected remedy does not hold, because of vital weakness andbecause of deep-seated tendencies; then it is that this remedy sometimes fits in. Such a case is oftentuberculous in inclination, even though no evidence is present of a pathological character.Burnett dropped an idea, that has been confirmed many times.Patients who have inherited phthisis, patients whose parents have died of phthisis are often offeeble vitality. They do not throw off their inherited tendencies. They are always tired. They take onsicknesses easily. They become anaemic; nervous; waxy or pale.These conditions are sometimes met, when the finer symptoms agree, although Burnettevidently used this medicine in a sort of routine way for this kind of constitution, which he called"Consumptiveness". Persons who had inherited phthisis, who were debilitated and anaemic.It seems from looking over the record of many cures that this remedy has been given manytimes for just that state on a paucity of symptoms, and if the records can be believed it has many timesbalanced up to the constitution in that anemic state, where the . It is notthe best indication for Tuberc., but where the symptoms agree in addition to that inheritance, then youmay have indications for the remedy.If Tuberculinum bovinum be given in 10m., 50m. and cm.potencies, two doses of each potency at long intervals, all children and young people who haveinherited tuberculosis may be immuned from their inheritance and their resiliency will be restored. Itcures most cases of adenoids and tuberculous glands of the neck.The notes that have guided me to its use I will attempt to explain. The mental symptoms that lhave seen give way while the patient was under treatment, and the mental symptoms that I have seencrop out under the proving, and the mental symptoms that I have so often seen associated when thepatient is poisoned by the tubercular toxins are such as belong to many complaints and are cured byTuberc. Hopelessness in many complaints. complaints.