Anthracinum anthr.

Cellular tissue.

Terrible burning pains, with great prostration. Malignancy. Sepsis. Suppuration. Carbuncle. Abscess of septum. Quinsy. Succession of boils. (Arn. Sul.). Black or blue blisters. Gangrene. Hard cellulitis.

Related: Ars. Tarn-c.

In carbuncle, malignant ulcer and complaints with ulceration, sloughing and intolerable burning. When Arsenicum or the best selected remedy fails to relieve the burning pain of carbuncle or malignant ulceration. Haemorrhages: blood oozes from mouth, nose, anus or sexual organs; black, thick, tar-like, rapidly decomposing (Crot.). Septic fever, rapid loss of strength, sinking pulse, delirium and fainting (Pyr.). Gangrenous ulcers; felon, carbuncle, erysipelas of a malignant type. Felon: the worst cases, with sloughing and terrible burning pain (Ars., Carb. ac., Lach.). Malignant pustule; black or blue blisters; often fatal in twenty- four or forty-eight hours (Lach., Pyr.). Carbuncle; with horrible burning pains; discharge of ichorous offensive pus. Dissecting wounds, especially if tendency is to become gangrenous; septic fever, marked prostration (Ars., Pyr.). Suspicous insect stings. If the swelling changes color and red streaks from the wound map out the course of lymphatics (Lach., Pyr.). Septic inflammation from absorption or pus or other deleterious substances, with burning pain and great prostration (Ars., Pyr.). Epidemic spleen diseases of cattle, horses and sheep. Bad effects from inhaling foul odors of putrid fever or dissecting-room; poisoning by foul breath (Pyr.). Hering says: "To call a carbuncle a surgical disease is the greatest absurdity. An incision is always injurious and often fatal. A case has never been lost under the right kind of treatment, and it should always be treated by internal medicine only.".

Similar: to, Ars., Carb. ac., Lach., Sec., Pyr., in malignant and septic conditions. Compare: Euphor. in the terrible pains of cancer, carbuncle or erysipelas when Ars. or Anth. fail to >.

Anthrax Poison

This nosode has proven a great remedy in epidemic spleen diseases of domestic animals, and in septic inflammation, carbuncles and malignant ulcers. In boils and boil-like eruptions, acne. Terrible burning. Induration of cellular tissue, abscess, bubo, and all inflammation of connective tissue in which there exists a purulent focus.

Hæmorrhages, black, thick, tar-like, rapidly decomposing, from any orifice. Glands swollen, cellular tissues œdematous and indurated. Septicæmia. Ulceration, sloughing and intolerable burning. Erysipelas. Black and blue blisters. Dissecting wounds. Insect stings. Bad effects from inhaling foul odors. Gangrenous parotitis. Succession of boils. Gangrene. Foul secretions.

Similar to Arsenic, which it often follows. Compare: Pyrogen; Lachesis; Crotalus; Hippozoen; Echinac; Silica follows well. In the treatment of carbuncles, remember the prescription of the prophet Isaiah for King Hezekiah's carbuncle-i.e the pulp of a fig placed on a poultice and apply.

Thirtieth potency. Tarant. Cubensis.

An alcoholic extract of the anthrax poison prepared from the spleens of affected sheep.

Acne. Boils. Carbuncles. Cynanche cellularis. Erysipelas. Gangrene. Malignant pustule. Parotitis gangrenosa. Phlegmonous inflammation and ulceration. Small-pox. Splenic fever. Ulcers. Whitlow.

Anthracinum is indicated in all conditions of boils and boil-like eruptions (as acne in some forms, and in carbuncles). It was introduced into homœopathic practice by Lux the veterinarian long before the experiments of Pasteur. The keynote for its employment is "succession of boils" or carbuncles, but it is also of the greatest use in other cases. "Terrible burning" with carbuncle. The potentised virus is the best remedy for the disease from which it is obtained — "Splenic fever" in animals, and "Malignant pustule" in human beings. Erysipelas of a foul kind, and gangrenous erysipelas; cellulitis. "Hard, stony" swelling in region of right lower jaw and submaxillary gland. Anthrax-quinsy. Whitlow and sloughing. Glands painfully swollen. Induration of cellular tissue. Black or blue blisters. Horribly offensive gangrenous ulcers. A number of symptoms have been recorded from human patients affected with the anthrax disease.

Compare: Anthracinum bovum, Anthracinum suum, Laches., Tarent. c., Arsen., Carb. v. It follows well: Arsen. (burning and ulceration), Phos. ac. Is followed well by: Aur. mur. nat. (periosteal swelling of lower jaw), Silic. (cellulitis). Antidoted by: Camph., Ars., Rhus, Silic., Laches., Carb. v., Puls., Kreos., Carbol. ac., Salicyl. ac., Apis.

Headache, as if a smoke with a heating pain was passing through the head. — Headache with chill. — Swelling of head.

Parotitis gangrenosa. — Stony swelling around lower jaw. — Gland under chin painfully swollen.

Sensation as if diaphragm were pushed forward. — Enlargement of spleen. — Bellyache with chill.

Vomiting followed by a painless, often bloody diarrhœa. — Diarrhœa with fever. — Cholera-like collapse.

Heart-beats frequent but weak. — Cyanosis. — Blood does not coagulate.

20, 21. Back and Limbs. — Axillary glands swollen. — Severe pains in limbs and joints with the fever. — Œdema; ulcers; gangrene; sloughing whitlows.

Restlessness. — Clonic and tetanic spasms (marked rigor mortis after death). — Exhaustion and collapse. — Terrible burning pains.

Crusty oozing eruption. — Itching with dry skin. — Black or blue blisters. — Carbuncles. — Boils. — Sloughing ulcers. — Small-pox.

Anxiety, particularly in precordia. *
Delirium and excitement. θ With the fever. *
Loss of consciousness. *
Depression, with debility and chill. *
Thinks she feels death approaching. *
Animals howl, bite, run about, become greatly excited ; followed by paralytic symptoms.
Disinclined to work. θ Cynanche cellularis.

Dulness in head as from narcotics.
Confusion. θ With the fever. *
Dizziness.
Dizziness with pain in head. *
Loss of consciousness.

Headache, as if a smoke with a heating pain was passing through head (fum‚e de douleur chaude) ; two shepherds who caught it from their flock. θ Anthrax
carbuncle.
Head is affected in an indescribable manner. θ Poisoning by a foul breath.
Uncomfortable feeling in head, slight chills, mild fever *.
If fully conscious they complain of great pain in head. *
Pain in head, dizziness ; inner anthrax. *
Here and there in all parts of brain small and large hemorrhages of embolic origin ; after death from anthrax. *
Membranes of brain exhibit circumscribed or symmetrically extended bloody infiltrations. *
Headache with chill. *
Cerebral symptoms with carbuncle.

Flying gangrene.
Small swellings on temples and cheeks, extending through orbital sutures and foramina to dura and pia mater.
Carbuncles mostly on head, near ears or temples.
Flying gangrene, head swollen (in swine).
Swelling of head (sheep).

Great dilatation of pupils ; inner anthrax.
A pale yellowish or greenish swelling, if in eyelids, of a half-translucent aspect. *
A pale redness above brows along forehead.

Ringing in ears ; inner anthrax.
(OBS :) Parotitis gangrenosa, after scarlatina.
Swelling extending backward over angle of right lower jaw, which could not be felt, and up to near ear. θ Cynanche cellularis.

Nose swollen and red, fetid smell from it.
Bloody suffusions on mucous membrane of nose. *
Intense, redness of right half of nose, extending to cheek. θ Poisoning from foul breath.

Erysipelatous, dark brown redness and swelling over whole right side of face, nose and part of left cheek ; swelling very hard, redness does not disappear under pressure of finger. θ Poisoning
by foul breath.
Extending to cheek, redness from nose.

Could not move lower jaw as usual. θ Cynanche cellularis.
Could open mouth only far enough to put point of tongue out. θ Cynanche cellularis.
Impossible to open jaws. θ Cynanche cellularis.
Tearing in right lower jaw.
Beginning of swelling was the region of right submaxillary gland. θ Cynanche cellularis.
A stony swelling around right lower maxilla, inner space of mandibula filling up to half, reaches to nearly half the cheek, and disfiguring face, extending backward over angle of lower jaw, very little pain, not red, but sharply defined edges. θ Cynanche
cellularis.
Swelling extending from inner edge of left lower jaw across whole throat, in front and over edge of right lower jaw, and au niveau with upper surface of right lower molars. Cynanche cellularis.
A large, stony hard, pale swelling around right lower jaw, nearly painless, disfiguring face. θ Cynanche cellularis.
Gland under chin painfully swollen. θ Poisoning by a foul breath.

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In the septic fever of carbuncle, malignant ulcer and complaints with ulceration, sloughing and intolerable burning.

When Arsenicum or the best selected remedy fails to relieve the burning pain of carbuncle or malignant ulceration.

Hemorrhages: blood oozes from mouth, nose, anus or sexual organs; black, thick, tar-like, rapidly decomposing (Crot.).

Gangrenous ulcers; felon, carbuncle, erysipelas of a malignant type.

Felon; the worst cases, with sloughing and terrible burning pain (Ars., Carb. ac., Lach.).

Malignant pustule; black or blisters; often fatal in twenty-four or forty-eight hours (Lach., Pyr.).

Carbuncle; with horrible burning pains; discharge of ichorous offensive pus.

Dissecting wounds, especially if tendency is to become gangrenous; septic fever, marked prostration (Ars., Pyr.).

Suspicious insect stings. If the swelling changes color and red streaks from the wound map out the course of lymphatics (Lach., Pyr.).

Septic inflammation from absorption of pus or other deleterious substances, with burning pain and great prostration (Ars., Pyr.).

Bad effects from inhaling foul odors of putrid fever or dissecting room; poisoning by foul breath (Pyr.).

Continued fevers; septic, typhoid or typhus, with rapidly sinking pulse, loss of strength, fainting and delirium.

Restless sleep, great debility and depression for many days.

With debility; headache followed by loss of appetite and general malaise.

Septic infection; sewer gas, odors of the post mortem or dissecting room, absorption of pus or decayed animal tissue.

Chilliness, with great prostration, pain in back and limbs, increased fever and weakness; anxiety, restlessness, vertigo, dull headache and delirium; skin dry, later covered with cold sweat.

Pronounced chill, followed by colic, nausea, vomiting, and in two or three days with collapse, cyanosis and death.

Generally subnormal temperature.

Fever.—With thirst; with diarrhœa; with sweat.

General, debilitating, sticky. In severe cases copious, cold sweats.

Dry; thickly coated with a brown fur; taste sweetish, or lost.

Frequent, small, soft, almost imperceptible; red or discolored lines over the veins or lymphatics.

The septic cause first. The tendency to produce malignancy.

The marked prostration with subnormal temperature.

The intense burning pain which the best selected remedy fails to relieve.

Description:
The alcoholic extract of the anthrax poison prepared from the spleen of cattle ill with the disease. A nosode rejected by the old school, and by a majority of the new, in spite of its being a remedy which bears out our theory, and one which has proved of the utmost use in practice. It has not yet been proved, but the frequent use made of it and the verification of the toxic symptoms by some of our best practitioners justifies its reception. The first preparation was made according to Hering's propositions (laid down in Stapf's Archives. 1830), by Dr. G. A. Weber, and applied with the most astonishing success in the cattle plague. He cured every case with it, and also cured men poisoned by the contagium. His report, a small treatise of 114 pages, was published in 1836, by Recalm, Leipzig. No notice was taken of it. Only the talented Dr. P. Dufresne, the founder of the Bibliothèque Homœopathique, of Geneva, used it and prevented the further murderous spread of the disease, in a flock of sheep (among which it is always more fatal than among other domestic animals), and cured the shepherds as well (Biblioth. Homœop. de Genève. January and February, 1837).
The discovery of the bacteria and their incredibly rapid propagation, seemed to be of much more importance than the cure of cattle, and the loss of millions of dollars by this disease. In 1842 France sustained a loss of over seven millions of francs, and every year a small district of Germany had a loss of sixty thousand thalers, from the cattle plague; in Siberia, in 1785, 100,000 horses died with it; in 1800, one small district lost 27,000 horses. Radiate heat, proposed scores of years ago, for other zymotic diseases, by Hering, was discovered, in a very ingenious way, by Pasteur, to prevent the increase of bacteria. Now the heat (as it has done in hydrophobia), and the nosode may suffice to cure every case.
Doctor Käsemann had moral courage enough to introduce anthracin in gangrene and sphacelus, in 1852, and Doctor Raue has given it in carbuncles, since 1858 (see his Pathology and Diagnosis) and in gangrenic whitlow (see Journal of Clinics, 4, 142).
All symptoms produced by the poison on men are inserted, because the symptoms from the snake-bite and from the besting have been proved to be useful in numerous cases as well as the toxic symptoms of Arsenic, Opium and other drugs.
Dr. Hering says: "Homœopathic practitioners of the greatest integrity, and trustworthy beyond a doubt, long ago cured splenic fever in cattle, flocks of sheep and their shepherds by Anthracin, an alcoholic tincture made from the blood of a bacteric spleen. Of course the alcohol killed the infusoria, but what remained dissolved therein cured the disease in animal and men. "This proves conclusively:

1. That the crude poison and its alcoholic solution must possess similar pathogenetic properties; hence to a proving of Anthracinum must be added all the symptoms of uncomplicated splenic fever; to those of Hydrophobinum, the symptoms of every case of pure hydrophobia; to those of Syphilinum all those of pure syphilis, etc., etc.
2. That bacteria are not the cause but the effect of the disease, a doctrine which we hold to be true with regard to all parasites connected with deranged health, and that therefore their destruction by local application is not equivalent to the cure of the disease itself.

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