The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica
Lapis Albus lap-a.
General
Silico Fluoride of Calcium.
The name Lapis Albus, or white stone , was given by Grauvogl to a species of gneiss which he found in the mineral springs of Gastein, which flow over formations of gneiss into the valley of the Achen, where goitre and cretinism abound.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Goitre (ten cases), Bellows, Am. Hom. Obs., 1867, vol. 411 (Grauvogl's reports did not appear until 1874) ; Carcinoma , Grauvogl, Hah. Mo., vol. 10, p. 182.
Lower face
Opening in cheek as large as a silver dollar. θ Carcinoma.
Scrobiculum and stomach
Burning, shooting, stinging pains in cardiac region and pylorus.
Female sexual organs
Burning, shooting, stinging pains in breasts and uterus.
Uterine carcinoma (5 cases).
Fluor albus.
Neck and back
Goitre, cretinism and scrofulous diseases.
Sensations
Burning, shooting, stinging pains : in cardia and pylorus ; in breasts and uterus.
Tissues
Affections of glands and lymphatics.
Scrofulous affections, abscesses and sores ; enlargement and induration of glands, especially cervical ; glandular tumors, where no glands are usually found ; goitre, cretinism.
Lipoma, sarcoma, glandular and fibrous tumors ; carcinoma, as long as ulceration has not set in, based on scrofulosis.
Scirrhus.
Tuberculosis scrofulosa.
Stage of life, constitution
Woman, æt. 50 ; carcinoma.
Relations
Compare : Arsen., Arsen iod., Badiaga, Calc., Calc. iod., Conium, Condur., Iodium, Kali carb., Kali iod., Silica, Spongia .