Variolinum vario.

BLOOD. Spine. Muscles. Metabolism.

Motion. Vaccination.

General aching, < in back, occiput and legs. Calcareous deposists in the blood-vessels, spinal cord, etc.

Green vision on rising. Every odor nauseates. Putrid, coppery taste. Tongue protrudes during sleep. Food seems to want to regurgitates. Tympanites, pouting upward; she looks pregnant. Breaking backache. As of bugs crawling under skin. Eczema of palms. Pustular eruptions; foul. Smallpox. Shingles and pains that follow. Ulcers look scooped out. As of cold water trickling down back. Violent chill. Intense burning fever. Foul sweat.

Related: Ant-t. Cimi. Maland.

Only fragmentary provings. Bears the same relation to smallpox that Antitoxin does to diphtheria. An extended clinical record by competent and reliable observers attest its curative value in variola - simple, confluent and malignant - as well as in varioloid and varicella. It has done splendid work in all potencies, from the 6th cent. to the c. m. As a preventive of, or protection against, smallpox, it is far superior to crude vaccination and absolutely safe from the sequenae, especially septic and tubercular infection. The efficacy of the potency is the stumbling block to the materialist. But is it more difficult to comprehend than the infectious nature of variola, measles or pertusis? Those who have not used, like those who have not experimentally tested the law of similars, are not competent witnesses. Put it to the test and publish the failures to the world.

Lymph from Small-pox Pustule

Used for "internal vaccination." Seems to be efficacious in protecting against, modifying and aiding in the cure of smallpox.

Morbid fear of small-pox. Deafness. Pain in occiput. Inflamed eyelids.

Oppressed breathing. Throat feels closed. Cough with thick viscid, bloody mucus. Feeling of a lump in right side of throat.

Excruciating backache. Aching in legs. Tired all over with restlessness. Wrists pain. Pains shift from back to abdomen.

Compare: Vaccin (same action); Malandrinum--the morbid product of the grease of the horse (a prophylactic of small-pox and a remedy for the ill-effects of vaccination; chronic eczema following vaccination).

Hot fever, with intense radiating heat. Profuse, bad-smelling sweat.

Hot, dry. Eruption of pustules. Shingles.

Sixth to thirtieth potency.

Variolinum. Nosode of Small-pox. Trituration of matter from small-pox vesicle.

Asthma. Backache. Chill. Fever. Headache; occipital. Herpes zoster. Neuralgia. Small-pox. Testicle, swelling of.

The cardinal symptoms of small-pox are the keynote symptoms for the use of Variolinum . The backache of small-pox is about the worst backache known, and Var . has cured in my practice a number of bad backaches that nothing else seemed to touch. Var . was Burnett's chief remedy in shingles; it generally, as he expressed it, wiped out the disease, eruption and pain as well. It will also cure neuralgia left by herpes. Var . has aborted many cases of small-pox, and has proved an efficient preventive against small-pox contagion and vaccinal infection. G. M. H. ( H. W ., xxxii. 546) records this experience: Var . 6 (three pilules) was given to the mother and children of a family, one of whose members was taken with small-pox and removed to an isolation hospital, with his mother to nurse him. The patient (who did not receive Var .) was dangerously ill for a month. Neither the mother who nursed him nor any of the other children took small-pox. Vaccine was sent by the Government and all the family were vaccinated, but it did not take with any of those who had taken Var ., although the vaccination was repeated. Moreover, G. M. H. himself, who had taken a dose of Var ., submitted to vaccination, but "although four thorough inoculations were given, they healed up immediately, and did not even itch or smart.". — These are cardinal indications for Var .: Severe cold; chill; chilly creepings as if cold water were trickling down the back; violent fever with extremely hot skin, with or without high pulse. Violent headache. Nausea. Pain in epigastrium. Pain in limbs as if in bones. Severe backache. There may be rash or there may not. Here is a case of Swan's, who is a pioneer with nosodes ( H. W ., xviii. 205): Miss H., 21, healthy, hearty; complained of the following symptoms: Confusion of head as if going crazy, with a sensation as if it was all in the back of the head and running down spine, followed by intense, heavy, hot headache in back of head and neck and region of medulla; sensation as if head weighed a hundredweight, with a tendency of it to fall backwards; deathly nausea in throat-pit during headache. During headache hands and feet icy cold, particularly the hands; tongue coated yellow in morning, with bad, disgusting taste in mouth; no appetite; knees feel weak as if they would give way, especially on going down stairs; pains in thighs and hips; severe aching, burning pain in small of back; skin hot and dry; pulse not feverish. Var . cm (Swan), in water, cured in six hours, the confusion of the head ceased after the pain did. A school of two hundred children was "internally variolated" with Var . cmm (Swan) on the evening of February 18th and the morning of February 19th. Of two schoolmistresses one was not at all affected; the other was two days in bed ill. On 21st many of the children were ill; by the 23rd all except forty were, the symptoms being the usual preliminary symptoms of small-pox, and later Swan found pustules on many. After the varioloid had passed off, but before the patients had recovered their vitality, twenty-three children were vaccinated without Swan's knowledge. All but one took and had terrible ulcers on the arms, and had to be remedied by Vacc . (cmm, Swan). Sensations of Var . are: As if a band tightly encircled head. Crazy feeling through brain. As if throat were closed. As of a lump in right side of throat. Like streams of ice-water running down back. Pain as if back were broken. The symptoms are < By motion.

Antidoted by: Malan., Thuj., Ant. t., Vacc., Sarr. Compare: Herpes, Mez., Rhus, Ars.

Contusion (enlarged testicle).

Delirium with the initial fever.

Vertigo. — Syncope in attempting to rise. — Forehead very hot, face red and bloated, carotids pulsating violently. — Headache: with or after a chill; all over head; particularly in forehead; severe in vertex; as if a band tightly encircled head; severe lancinating, throbbing; < with every pulsation. — Intolerable pain in occiput. — Crazy feeling through brain, hard to describe.

Keratitis, with small-pox and after vaccination. — Chronic ophthalmia with loss of sight. — Pupils contracted.

Deafness.

Skin of face and neck deep dark-purple hue. — Jaw falling when asleep, with trembling when aroused.

Teeth covered with thick brown slime.

Thick, dirty yellow coating on tongue. — When asleep tongue protruded, black coating, when raised it is with difficulty drawn back; looks like a mass of putrid flesh.

Throat very sore, redness of fauces. — Pharynx and fauces deep purplish crimson, with gangrenous appearance; breath horribly offensive. — Painful deglutition. — Sensation as if throat were closed. — Sensation as of a lump in r. side of throat. — Diphtheria with horrible fetor oris.

Food, esp. water, tastes sickish sweet.

Soreness in pit of stomach and across epigastric region. — Severe pain in præcordial region, frequent nausea and vomiting of bilious and bloody matter. — Frequent bilious vomiting. — As soon as he drinks milk he vomits it up.

Thin, bloody stools. — Several brown, green, at last grass-green stools, painless, loose, of intolerable fetid odour; no thirst; last stool slimy, with small quantity of blood. — Dysentery. — Constipation.

Urine: high-coloured, like brandy; turbid and offensive; stains a rose tea-colour, difficult to remove.

Enlargement of testicle. — Hard swelling of l. testicle in consequence of a contusion.

Oppressed respiration. — Asthma. — Troublesome cough, with serous and sometimes bloody sputa. — Hawking up thick, viscid slime, smelling bad.

Stiffness of neck, with tense drawing in muscles, < on motion. — Pain in base of brain and neck. — Chills like streams of ice-water running down from between scapulæ to sacral region. — Intolerable aching in lumbar and sacral region. — Pain in muscles of back like rheumatism; < on motion.

Hands icy cold during invasion. — Swelling of arm which had been half-paralysed.

Muscular rheumatism; < on motion.

Exanthema of sharp, pointed pimples, usually small, seldom large and suppurating, dry, resting on small red areolæ, frequently interspersed with spots of red colour, sometimes severe itching. — Petechial eruptions. — Var . 30 warded off an attack of small-pox after intense sickness of stomach had been caused by the smell of a case. — Var . 1m in water every two hours, given on third day of eruption of a confluent case cut short the attack. — Shingles.

Very severe chill, followed by hot fever. — Intense fever, commencing with chills running down back like streams of cold water, causing shivering and chattering of teeth. — Fever with intense radiating heat, burning hot to touch. — Hot fever, no thirst. — Very profuse, bad-smelling sweat.

Dr. Fellger gave Variolinum reports, giving Variolinum to hundreds of people, and none of them were ever attacked with small-pox.
In one family where the father had confluent small-pox, he gave Variolinum as a prophylactic, and of the others, although not one had been vaccinated, not one of them took the disease.
He reports case of a broker in Philadelphia who was well pitted from small-pox; when a child he was vaccinated, and he became idiotic in consequence. When sixteen years old he had a violent attack of small-pox, after which he recovered his reason.
Variolinum is indicated in small-pox where there is not much pain; the patient can even eat fairly well; the skin looks natural between the pustules; the appearance of the eyeball is white and natural; the mild uncomplicated cases of small-pox are the ones calling for Variolinum.

Delirium with initial fever.
Fear of death; wild excitement and begging to know if he was to die, and before the sentence was complete drops into a heavy sleep with loud breathing.

Vertigo.
Syncope in attempting to rise.
Forehead very hot, face red and bloated, carotids pulsating violently.
Headache: with or after a chill; all over head; particularly in forehead; severe in vertex; as if a band tightly encircled head; severe lancinating, throbbing; < with every pulsation.
Intolerable pain in occiput.
Crazy feeling through brain, hard to describe.

Keratitis, with small-pox and after vaccination.
Chronic ophthalmia with loss of sight.
Pupils contracted.

Deafness.

Skin of face and neck deep dark-purple hue.
Jaw falling when asleep, with trembling when aroused.
I once made a beautiful cure of a most intractable case of acne with Variolinum, which I was led to prescribe because the man's face was so disfigured by cicatrical marks so as to resemble one who had been afflicted with small-pox.
W. J. Guernsey.

Teeth covered with thick brown slime.

Thick, dirty yellow coating on tongue.
When asleep tongue protruded, black coating, when raised it is with difficulty drawn back; looks like a mass of putrid flesh.
Tongue coated white, as with a piece of white velvet, in variola with headache, backache and high fever.

Throat very sore, redness of fauces.
Pharynx and fauces deep purplish crimson, with grangrenous appearance; breath horribly offensive.
Painful deglutition.
Sensation as if throat were closed.
Sensation as of lump in right side of throat.
Diphtheria with horrible fetor oris.

Food, esp. water, tastes sickish sweet.

Soreness in pit of stomach and across epigastric region.
Severe pain in precordial region, frequent nausea and vomiting of bilious and bloody matter.
Frequent bilious vomiting.
As soon as he drinks milk he vomits it up.

Thin, bloody stools.
Several brown, green, at last grass-green stools, painless, loose, of intolerable fetid odor; no thirst; last stool slimy, with small quantity of blood.
Dysentery.
Constipation.

Urine: high-colored, like brandy; turbid and offensive; stains a rose tea-color, difficult to remove.

Enlargement of testicle.
Hard swelling of left testicle in consequence of a contusion.

Oppressed respiration.
Asthma.
Troublesome cough, with serous and sometimes bloody sputa.
Hawking up thick, viscid slime, smelling bad.

Stiffness of neck, with tense drawing in muscles, < on motion; Pain in base of brain and neck.
Chills like streams of ice-water running down from between scapulæ to sacral region.
Intolerable aching in lumbar and sacral region.
Pain in muscles of back like rheumatism; < on motion.

Hands icy cold during invasion.
Swelling of arm which had been half-paralyzed.

Muscular rheumatism; < on motion; Petechial eruptions, erythematous, on lower abdominal region, apex of triangular form being at pubis, and the base crossing the abdominal transversely, in neighborhood of umbilicus; also on lateral surface of trunk to axilla, invading folds of axilla, corresponding portion of arm and pectaralis major.
Terrible pains in back on right side of spine, and over and below shoulder blade; muscles sore to touch, nausea, pains all over especially in legs; tongue clean; pulse 120; Variolin. cm.; body completely covered with large pustules, face one mass of confluent pustules, pulse still high, constant expectoration of viscid mucus, mouth and fauces lined with pustules, even tongue covered with them; bowels constipated, mild delirium at times; eight days later temperature 104 1/2; pulse 120, very weak and stopping at intervals; great fear of death; begging to know if he must die, and before sentence was completed would drop into a heavy sleep with stertorous breathing, jaw dropped on breast, pupils contracted, teeth covered with thick brown slime, centre of tongue perfectly black, mucous membrane of mouth and pharynx of a deep purplish-crimson, with gangrenous appearance and breath horribly offensive; skin of face and neck of a deep dark purple; odor from body like a fetid stream; little control over tongue or jaw, later hanging down, and tongue protruding like a mass of decayed liver when asleep; an effort to speak when roused up caused violent trembling of jaw and tongue, which was drawn back into mouth with difficulty, was stiff, but looked like a mass of putrid flesh; urine dark colored, passing free through whole attack; had continued the cm.
Till now, gave one dose cmm. dry on tongue; next day almost convalescent; made a good recovery with but few marks.
Severe chill followed by high fever; severe pain in back as if broken; pain all over head, very severe and constant in occiput; frequent bilious vomiting; thick, dirty, yellowish coating on tongue; wild delirium and spasms; night before eruption appeared obstinate constipation; on third day very thick eruption of small-pox pustules, soon assuming confluent form, Variolin, cmm.
Small-pox; peculiar smell causes intense sickness of stomach; congestion toward head, palpitation of heart; two hours after took a dose Variolin. 30; and hour later crawling in back and feeling of coldness in lower extremities; cold feet; lame, heavy feeling in left arm; no appetite; sleep disturbed by heat; toward morning some perspiration over body; next day continuous pressing headache, especially in occiput; pulse somewhat irritated; disinclined to mental work; when reading heat in head and forehead; weak when walking; pain in joints of upper and lower extremities, as if lame; toward evening again feverish; pressing pain in small of back down to sacrum (Glonoin. 3 relieved headache); in bed, drawing in upper jaw and teeth; sleep full of dreams; toward morning again perspiration; urine smells ammoniacal; on fourth day red pimples on back of left hand, staying for several days without filling with pus; mental work still causes heat in forehead and pressure in head; escaped small-pox.
On third day of eruption, when pustules had filled, and were confluent on face, intense itching; Variolinum 1m. in water, every two hours; on second day itching nearly gone, pustules shrinking; third day drying; fifth day crusts fell from face; seventh day other crusts fell off, and tongue clean.
Have used and seen it used in many and severe cases, and when treated with Variolin. 200 disease is shortened nearly or quite one-half, sufferings of patients much mitigated, secondary fever either absent or very much lighter, pustules do not burst, but wither or wilt and fall off, suppurative stage immeasurably hastened and shortened, and patients are not marked.
Mrs. --- and Miss --- took Variolinum m. (Fincke), one dose, Nov. 22 and another dose Nov. 23. On the 24 a vesicle appeared on left side of neck, which became sore and itched severely where top was broken. It was red and angry, with a sharply defined areola about an inch in diameter; from the inflamed base were light-yellow, ray-like scales, like psoriasis. It ran its course in about two weeks. Several similar spots appeared on different parts of the body, with intense itching at times, but without systemic symptoms. On both, the eruption was similar in character and ran the course. Both had been vaccinated years before, but neither had any eruption of any kind.

Exanthema of sharp, pointed pimples, usually small; seldom large and suppurating, dry, resting on small red areola, frequently interspersed with spots of red colour, sometimes severe itching.
Petechial eruptions.
Var. 30 warded off an attack of small-pox after intense sickness of stomach had been caused by the smell of a case.
Var. in water every two hours, given on third day of eruption of a confluent case, cut short the attack.
Shing.

Very severe chill, followed by hot fever.
Intense fever, commencing with chills running down back like streams of cold water, causing shivering and chattering of teeth.
Fever with intense radiating heat, burning hot to touch.
Hot fever, no thirst.
Very profuse, bad-smelling sweat.