Two acute cases

Abstract

Two acute cases are reported. The first gave verification of a symptom which occurred in the proving of Nux vomica, i.e. ‘pain in forehead extending to root of nose’. The second demonstrated the action of Manganum after Rhus toxicodendron had failed which was seemingly indicated. This was an astonishing result, because the symptoms of Manganum repertorized with the aid of Boenninghausen's Therapeutic Pocket Book could not be clearly identified in the materia medica. Apparently Boenninghausen was right when he said that his Pocket Book ‘opened a way into the wide fields of combinations’.