eo." "Aurum" (Gold), declared Glauber, 1657,) "medicina est catholica in senibus, et juvenibus—for both old, and young;—quia est in eo virtus dominitiva." The Greek word auron is parent of the Latin aurum, and of the French or; but the more usual Greek name of the metal is now kreusos.
" Aurum (Gold)," said the famous Hahnemann, " has great remedial virtues, the place of which no other drug can supply." Das Gold hat grosse, unersetzliche Arznei-hraejte.
Dr. J. C. Burnett published in 1879 a treatise on " Gold, as a Remedy in Disease," "
notably in some forms of organic heart disease." Bearing reference to
the quotation from Hahnemann given above, Dr. Burnett then said, in the
Preface to his booklet, "Having myself used Gold in my practice for
several years, I have come to regard it in the same light as
Hahnemann." " I cannot do without it." " To my mind there are varieties
of disease that Gold, and Gold only, will cure ; and others that Gold,
and Gold only, will alleviate to the full extent of the possible." "
As a heart-remedy alone it claims the most earnest attention of every
medical man." " In my practice I have used the Muriate of Gold a good
deal; but I prefer the pure triturated metal " ; " it being an
incontrovertible fact that metallic Gold, though otherwise insoluble,
may be so finely subdivided that it becomes operative upon the living
tissues of the body, and thus acquires medicinal properties of the
highest order." "The history of Gold," writes Dr. Burnett, " begins
very early in the records of our race ; it is the first metal
discovered by man ; and also the first metal mentioned in the Bible."
The eleventh verse of the
