(See also "BACKWARD")
Syphilinum: To be given in alternation with Tuberculinum.
(Tuberculinum and Syphilinum in 200 or 1000 dilution given
alternately every week or fortnight according to the strength of the
dilution, will cure the dwarfishness).
Baryta Mur: In retarded physical and mental growths. Give 200
dilution. To be started one week after the administration of
Tuberculinum.
Argentum Nitricum: Rickets with diarrhoea-yellowish green. Give
200 dilution.
Sulphur:
Calcarea Phos:
If babies die during infancy, give to the mother during pregnancy Sulphur 6 and Calcarea Phos 6 alternately
daily one dose.
Xerophyllum: Dull, cannot concentrate much on study; forgets names,
writes last letter of words first; misspells common words.
Baryta Carb: Dwarfishness of the body and mind. Mental
backwardness or of organs. Children are late learning to walk, although
their limbs are fairly strong, late learning to talk or understand. Single
organ fails to mature whereas the other develops or over-develops.
Child is timid and bashful with fear of stranger. Keeps the hand up over
the face and peeps out through the fingers owing to bashfulness. Girls
at the age of puberty doing things as a child would do and behave like
children and play with dolls.
Natrum Mur: Children are late learning to talk.
Calcarea Carb: Children are late learning to walk and talk owing to
weakness of limbs. Late teething, fontanelles slow in closing; rickets
and caries.
Agaricus M: Children are late learning to talk and walk. Alfalfa.
Children or grown up boys who are otherwise robust dying at the age
of 18 by wasting out. Give in mother tincture two drops a dose for about
six months.
Calcarea Phos: Is indicated in dwarfishness in children who are small,
weak, pale, very large head, fontanelles large, open and bulging out;
bones of skull thin and cracking under pressure like thin tissue paper.
Secale Cor: Deformity due to structural changes in spinal cord. The
hands and legs do not row. They also drop out as in senile gangrene.
