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PALLADIUM
WE are proposing to take palladium for our drug picture this month, so like in some of its rare and peculiar symptoms to platinum: but Dr. patrick, of Bexhill, sent us an interesting resume of this little - known remedy and we will gratefully produce his paper, only prefacing it with a few remarks and comparisons.
Palladium, as the dictionary has it, is " a statue of pallas, on the preservation of which the safety of ancient Troy depended. any Safeguard. A rare metal in colour and ductility resembling platinum. " palladium was introduced as a drug, and proved in 1850, by Constantine Hering and his band of provers, It had been proposed as a remedy previously as early as 1833. We are told that platina, both proved in dust form, showed such similarity in their effects that the question arose whether corresponding differences might be found.
A very striking mental symptom common to the drugs is the sensation of tallness. Both are proud and haughty: and with both this extends in to the physical sphere, and they feel tall, while things around them look small and insignificant. STRAMONIUM also imagines he is large and tall, and surrounding object small.
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Palladium, with platina, has much uterine bearing down, with plat the sensation may be as if the uterus would come out Apparently plat affect the uterus more, pall the ovaries, especially the right ovary. But in prescribing these remedies, it is the peculiar mentality - the haughtiness, the overbearing; the sensation of tallness etc which distinguishes these rarer drugs from sepia with it dull indifference, or lilium tig, with its aimless hurry, and its worries, mental and even spiritual. A symptom a locality, do not make up a prescription They may suggest it: but it needs the whole picture, especially the mental picture to match, if the magic is to work.
Besides Palladium crocus, Thuja and Theridion have a sensation of some thing alive bounding about inside the body, but palladium goes one better: it has "as if an animal were snapping and tearing off small portions inside the abdomen"
Palladium has "crawling as from fleas" - on back, arms abdomen, thighs and ankles; and actual spot like fleabites appear on various places, lips nostrils, etc it has also violent itchings.
CLARKE says: "The chief characteristic of palladium is affections of the right ovary, attended with pains which are relieved by pressure. Skinner cured with palladium a young lady who had excessive pain in the right ovary during the menses. The only relief she could get was by including her sister to sit on that region. This relief be pressure distinguishes the pain of pall from the similar ovarian pain of plat.
PALLADIUM
A REMEDY OF WOUNDED PRIDE
BY Dr W. S. PATRICK
WOUNDED PRIDE ! How sharp the sting and how humiliating the mortification ! And yet the first step towards knowledge is the realization of how little one really knows. pride, conceit, egotism - these self made tyrants are just as much our enemies as any despot or dictator in human from; and must be vanquished before one may progress along the path that lead to liberation. and yet we have remedies to heal the winds of mental conflict and of the lesser known of these is palladium, rich in mental symptoms and worthy of deeper study. Palladium is one of the remedies often overlooked in favor of her sister platina. Those who care to personify may think of the green goodness pallas Athena, neglected by her votaries.
Let us see how the thread of mental conflict runs through the whole remedy, including rubrics in block letter and italics only.
FROM KENT'S Repertory - DELUSION THAT (s) HE IS NEGLECTED MORTIFICATION. WEEPING - TEARFUL MOOD AND IN ITALICS - ANGER (IRASCIBILITY). Ailment from bad news.
Desire for company. agg. alone.
Delusion - that (S) he is insulted.
Discontented with everything.
Egotism. Ailment from egotism.
Fear of evils.
Haughty, Hysteria.
Irritability. Obstinate. Easily offended.
From CLARKE'S Materia medica - " As if he had grown taller. " as if some thing terrible would happen" As if intestines strangulates. " AS if an animal were snapping and bitting off small portions of intestines. "
From BOERICKE'S Medica - (Italic symptoms) -
Love of approbation.
Easily offended. Keep us brightly when in company (much exhausted afterwards and pain worse).
Pain across top of head from ear to ear.
Pain and swelling in region of right ovary.
Outstanding particulars The symptom - complex of chronic oophoritis (right) Pain in right ovarian region ameliorated by pressure.
AGGRAVATION IN General - cold Motion exertion.
After social excitement.
AMELLIORATION in general - Touch (headache). Pressure (pain in ovary). Rubbing, rest. Open air. Sleep.
From the supplement of ALLEN's Encyclopedia - Mental symptoms strong inclination to use forcible and violent expressions.
Time seems longer to him.... The child was irritable.
III - humoured in the evening.
She is in a disagreeable mood; feels as if she could not bear or put up with anything, without anything having occurred. The child is the only one with whom she is not impatient.
Though usually tired in the evening, feels mentally" gone"
Is very awkward in speaking English, it is too much trouble, he is tired of it.
And to conclude, a few rubrics "worked out".:
HAUGHTY - Caust Hyos Ip, Lach Lyc pall. PLAT, Staph, stram SULPH. VERAT.
MORTIFICATION - Arg. n. Aur. Aur. m. bry. cham. COLOC. Ign. LYC. Lyss. Nat. m. op. Pall. Ph. Ac. plus. Seneg. staph. Sulph.
AILMENTS FROM BAD NEWS - APIS CALC. GELS IGN med. Pall. Nat. m. sulph.
DELUSION - THAT (s) he is neglected - arg. n. PALL.
EGOTISM - CALC LACH. PALL PLAT SIL, SULPH.
AILMENTS FROM EGOTISM - calc, Lyc, pall. sulph.
Palladium is the only remedy running through the above six rubrics. The careful study of our repertories is worth while there are other hidden precious metals besides gold !

From Tylers drug pictures