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LAPIS ALBUS

Lapis Albus.

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. [9]

Opening in cheek as large as a silver dollar. ~ Carcinoma.

SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17]

Burning, shooting, stinging pains in cardiac region and pylorus.

FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23]

Burning, shooting, stinging pains in breasts and uterus.
Uterine carcinoma (5 cases).
Fluor albus.

NECK AND BACK. [31]

Goitre, cretinism and scrofulous diseases.

SENSATIONS. [43]

Burning, shooting, stinging pains: in cardia and pylorus; in breasts and uterus.

TISSUES. [44]

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. [47]

Woman, aet. 50; carcinoma.

RELATIONS. [48]

Compare: Arsen., Arsen iod., Badiaga, Calc., Calc. iod., Conium, Condur., Iodium, Kali carb., Kali iod., Silica, Spongia.


DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR

Source: The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica Vol. 07, 1888
Description: Clinical materia medica of Lapis Albus
Remedies: Lapis Albus
Author: Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C.
Year: 1888
Editing: errors only; interlinks; formatting
Attribution: Legatum Homeopathicum