- Per is taken from the glairy and stringy mucus contai ning the virus of whooping cough.
- Introduced by Clarke for the treatment of whooping cough and other spasmodic coughs.
- In Clarke's experience, it agrees well with all other whooping cough remedies and when their specific indications appear he gave them in alternation or alone.
- Per is an unproved remedy, except in the sense that every case of the disease is a provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces..
- Can be used a preventive in whooping cough or to treat the disease.
- Spasmodic coughing attacks.
- Dry cough, spasmodic of different intensity, comes suddenly.
- Repeated coughing fits which end in vomiting.
- Increasing jerking cough with cyanosisBluish discoloration of the skinA bluish or purplish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes due to low oxygen levels in the blood., with a phase of apnea followed by the taking of respiration.
- Predisposition to tuberculosis🩺 TuberculosisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Asthenia.
- Convu lsions.
- Muscularjerkings.
- Neuro-motor deficit.
- Polyneuritis.
- Paresis.
- ParalysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body..
- Myelitis.
- HemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse. from the meninges.
- AnorexiaLoss of appetiteA medical term for lack or loss of appetite for food..
- Sleepy and in a state of confusion.
- Troubles of conscience.
- COMMENTS-Clarke gave the 30c every four hours in all cases of whooping cough, suspected or defined, as a matter of routine, and as a rule it quickly assumed control of the case and did all that was necessary.
- Dr. Sheppard wrote about giving Per for whooping cough prophylaxis.
- “Pertussin 30c acts well as a protective against whooping cough.
- 364 cases were given daily doses of pertussin for two weeks after contact.
- “Many of these cases were seen in the day nurseries under my care and not one of these children developed the disease.
- As twoof the nurseries took in children from two weeks old, it was most essential that they should not be exposed to the infection, and it was gratifying to find that Pertussin was a means of preventing the spread of the disease.
- “In another private school, a child came back after the holidays with a fully developed whooping cough, in spite of carrying a doctor's certificate as being free from any infectious disease.
- All the twelve children in her class were infected.
- “The headmistress, on my advice, gave Pertussin 30 four doses hourly, and the children had the mildest attack of whooping cough she had ever seen.
- She was grateful to Homoeopathy, and to the nosode Pertus sin for turning so serious a disease into a mild one.”
