Main
Pathogénésies
de l’an 1900
New, Old And
Forgotten Remedies
By Edward
Pollock Anshutz
Presented
by Dr Robert Séror
Heloderma
Horridus
Proving of
Heloderma Horridus
(Dr. Charles D. Belden,
Dr. Robert Boocock, Dr.
Erastus E. Case, Dr.
Lilienthal)
Preparation
: The
virus, obtained by irritating the animal and allowing it to bite on glass,
is triturated in the usual way.
Dr.
T. L.
Bradford
furnishes us with the following classification of this reptile.
The
Heloderma
is classed as follows :
Order
Saurii. Lacertilia. Lizards.
Suborder
5. Fissilinguia.
Family
Lacratidae.
Heloderma
Horridus of
Mexico ; the crust lizard ; the Mexican Caltetopen. Called Heloderma from
its skin being studded with nail or tubercle-like heads.
The Gila monster is a native of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. It is
smaller than the Mexican variety, and is called, by Cope,
Heloderma
suspectum.
It is the only lizard whose character is not above reproach,
Heloderma
from its skin being studded with nail or tubercle-like heads. clavicles
not dilated proximally, a postorbital arch, no postfront-osquamosal arch,
the pre and post frontals in contact, separating the frontal from the
orbit, and furrowed teeth receiving the different ducts of highly
developed salivary glands.
There has been considerable difference of opinion as to whether the Heloderma
is poisonous or not ; but the following abstract from a paper on the
subject read before the College of Physicians, Philadelphia, 1883 by S.
Weir Mitchell, together with the provings made later, ought to very
effectually settle all dispute on this point; the conclusions are the
result of experiments on animals :
The poison of
Heloderma
causes no local injury.
It arrests the heart in diastole, the organ afterwards contracts
slowly-possibly in rapid rigor mortis.
The cardiac muscle loses its irritability to stimuli at the time it
ceases to beat. The other muscles and nerves respond to irritants.
The spinal cord has its power annihilated abruptly, and refuses to
respond to the most powerful electrical currents.
This virulent heart poison contrasts strongly with serpent venom, since
they give rise to local hemorrhages, causing death chiefly through failure
of respiration and not by the heart unless given in overwhelming doses.
They lower muscle and nerve reactions, especially those of the
respiratory apparatus, but do not cause extreme and abrupt loss of spinal
power.
They also produce secondary pathological appearances absent in
Heloderma
poisoning.
The briefest examination of the lizard’s anatomy makes it clear why it
has been with reason suspected to be poisonous, and why it poisons with so
much difficulty.
Unless the teeth are entire, the poison abundant, and the teeth buried
in the bitten flesh so as to force it down into contact with the ducts
where they open at-the crown of the teeth, it is hard to see how even a
drop of poison could be forced into the wounds.
Yet it is certain that small animals may die from the bite, and this
may be due to the extra-ordinary activity of the poison, and to the lizard’s
habit of holding tenaciously to what it bites, so as to allow time for a
certain amount of absorption.
The provings and the clinical cases that follow were from the virus of
the
Gila monster
obtained by Dr. Charles D. Belden,
of Phoenix, Arizona, in 1890, who suggested it as a possible remedy for
paralysis agitans and locomotor ataxia.
He obtained the virus from a captive monster by irritating it and then
letting it strike, or bite, a piece of heavy glass ; by this means he
obtained a few drops of a pasty yellowish fluid.
In his letters Dr.
Belden
quotes Sir John Lubbock
as follows :
This animal does not bite frequently, but when it does it is understood
that the result is a benumbing paralysis like to paralysis agitans or to
locomotor ataxia.
There is no tetanic phase, being, as I apprehend, a condition almost
reverse in objective symptoms to hydrocyanic acid or strychnia.
Dr.
Belden
also writes :
It seems to me that it (the poison) differs in so many points from all
present known venoms that it is worth our having.
In the first place, it is alkaline, and all other poisons of reptiles
are acid.
Second, its effect is not always sudden but is lasting-causing sickness
for months and death even after a year.
Again, although it does not produce paralysis it is, not the tonic
spasm, but rather the slow creeping death from extremities, It does not
seem to excite, but to depress.
(A supply of this poison was sent to Dr. Robert
Boocock
at his request for proving ; and he made three different trials of it, the
result of which were published in the Homeopathic
Recorder for
March and April, 1893 ; but as Dr. James E. Lilianthal
has arranged the matter in schema form we will here only give fragmentary
quotations from Dr. Boocock’s
papers, which are quite long, covering nearly thirty pages. The following
is from Dr. Boocock’s
paper.)
I am in my sixtieth year, sanguine, bilious temperament, fair
complexion and weigh 160 pounds ; height, 5 feet 6 inches.
My normal pulse rate is 72, full, round and regular. I am in very
good-health. I do not drink alcoholic beverages of any kind, neither do I
smoke nor drink strong coffee, or tea, or cocoa. My usual and favourite
beverage, is hot water with a little milk and sugar in it.
If much sugar or salt is used my stomach gets very sour, and waterbrash
is the result. I therefore use very little of either, though I am very
fond of sweetmeats.
When I received the first bottle of Heloderma
Horridus, I took a one drachm vial and filled it with
the 6x trit., and dissolved it in four ounces of diluted alcohol, of which
I took a few drops, dried my fingers on my tongue, and a severe feeling of
internal coldness, so intense as to cause me to fear being frozen to
death, ensued, I had some twitches about my heart, as if the blood was
hard to get in or out.
I was somewhat alarmed, but as I had no trembling I sat over the
register and tried to get warm. The day was a very cold one, but my office
was comfortably warm, and I had no consciousness of having taken cold.
I was not surprised at feeling this so soon after taking the few drops,
for I know that I am very sensitive to any medicine and have a bad habit
of tasting medicine, but never without being conscious of its effects,
sometimes very unpleasantly so.
Now, today is warm and damp, thunderstorm this morning, although it is
December 9th. The storm lasted three or more hours ; lightning very vivid.
I had already taken one drop of the 30 th, with a very severe nervous
headache, but I forgot that when I took the medicine. I have medicated 2
Oz- No- 35 globules with 30 th dilution, and having taken six globules as
a dose before they were dry.
A feeling of heat in head and face, some headache over the right
eyebrow. Cold feeling in my legs ; after two hours a numb feeling around
and down my left thigh ; feeling very drowsy, so took a short nap in my
chair. Was awakened suddenly with a jerking in my head. Central part of
frontal bone so queer as to awaken me. When my office bell rang it threw
me into a startled and trembling condition, something new to me. At 5-30
took four globules more.
8 P. M.
The pressure
at my heart and in my head and scalp is very great. A feeling of great
heat and some pressure. Not so much burning in my face, but a feeling on
my left cheek as if being pricked with points of ice. A very severe and
tired feeling, with coldness of legs and feet. A slight dryness of my
lips, with a tingling feeling and great dryness in my throat. Gurgling in
the region of the spleen.
9-30 P- M
. The
pressure and heat on the top of my head appears like an inflammation of
the meninges. It does not affect my mind ; that remains clear, and I can
think and read as well and as long as ever. No more medicine.
December 29, 1892
.
No medicine. Some trembling, but not so great or so extensive ; it does
not now extend along the whole limb. Parts of right arm and left thigh
hemiplegial ; no acute feeling.
But some muscles will twitch and tremble for a few seconds. just enough
to arrest my attention and amuse me, and feel like saying,
“Hello, Heloderma Horridus. ! have you not done with me
yet?”
For it is a great surprise to me bow these feelings will come on and
creep over. And I am inclined to ask myself, can it be that all these
strange and to me new feelings can be the effects following the taking of
these few doses ?
And yet, if it were necessary, I could swear they were. I have my fears
if I will ever be free from these nervous trembling spells, and the
feeling in my head and heart.
(The foregoing gives the gist of the first trials, The third and last
now follows. It was made with repeated doses of the 30 th potency.)
12 meridian.
Sensation as if a cold, freezing wind were blowing upon me from the
bend of my knees.
Head feeling as if the scalp were being drawn tight over my skull, and
my facial muscles were being drawn very tight over the bones.
A giddiness and a cold pressure from within the skull.
A cold, running chill from superior maxillary down to the chin.
Trembling of limbs.
Coldness extending from the knee into the calf of the leg.
Pain and pressure within the skull from crown to occiput, and from back
forward over the left eye.
A very drowsy feeling.
I could sleep if I gave way to the feeling.
January 4, 1843, 7-45 A. M.
Took another dose of six globules.
Pulse, 72.
Temperature, 97 3-5.
A flush of heat in my face.
A feeling as if I were walking on sponge or as if my feet were swollen.
Dull headache.
The arctic cold feeling is more in my right arm, elbow joint, and right
thigh and left foot.
A great trembling of my arm.
It is hard work to steady my hand, which holds my book, enough to
continue reading or writing.
The feeling of swelling in my feet of walking on sponges sensation
continues ; a springiness, with a sense of looseness in stepping out,
which requires some caution, as if I were not sure of my steps.
The trembling of my hands is on the increase ; feeling of soreness in
my heart, more under left nipple ; pain in my back, lumbar region.
Some little scalding of urine ; flow not so free and full,
intermittingly slight, as if I had some calculus in the bladder which
interfered with continuous flow.
Stool more free and full.
Earwax, which had been very dry, now flows from both cars,but is more
free on the left side.
Left nostril sore ; ulcerated.
Throat sore and tender to outside touch.
9 P. m. Very weak feeling, with pain in my heart ; same place, under
left nipple.
Head aches and arctic rays in various parts of my body.
January 5, 12 noon.
Took twelve more globules.
Numb feeling in my head.
A feeling as if I would fall on my right side.
A good drive this morning in the snowstorm ; and felt a desire to bear
to the right side and could not walk straight because of this, and had
repeatedly to stop or step to the left to get a straight curse on the
causeway.
A good deal of the same feeling, but very weak and sleepy ; was
compelled to lie down, but did not sleep, although feeling very drowsy ;
laid very quiet as if I was in a stupor ; the old feeling in various parts
of my body, only more acute ; a feeling in various parts as if a needle
were being thrust into my flesh.
4-45 P.M.
Took thirteen globules.
A very stiff neck the most prominent feeling.
All the previously recorded feelings, only more intensely.
I have a painful boring feeling in the middle third of left thigh.
8-30.
Flushed, hot feeling in my head and face, but no increase in color ;
but then I have just come out of the storm.
9-30.
Took twelve globules more and retired to rest ; very tired slept very
profoundly until 1 A. M., then could not sleep.
My back, in the lumbar muscles, ached so and my left leg that I could
not sleep for hours, and my brain felt as if scalded ; an intense burning
feeling in the meninges, for this did not affect my power to think.
This hot feeling commenced and spread down my back.
An intense pain over left eyebrow, through my left eye to base of brain
and down my back.
The pain in the back of my head caused me to bore my head deep into my
pillow, and reminded me of cases I have seen of cerebro-spinal meningitis.
An intense weakness, as if I had no power to move, and no wish to do
so, and yet I was afraid I could not attend to my business.
Yet, strange to say, I was not alarmed, but passively indifferent.
I could not open my eyes without great effort ; it was hard work to
keep them open and the easiest thing for them to close, as if there were a
great weight upon them, keeping them down.
I begged to be allowed to remain in bed until some one wanted me
professionally, and yet I could not thus give way to my feelings, and so
got up.
7 A. M.
Feeling very weak and giddy.
Staggering about my bedroom trying to dress.
It was all that I could do to lift a hod of coal to the stove.
The pains in my head and lumbar muscles, back of my head near atlas,
and middle, third of-left-thigh and right elbow are the most noticeable
from the great pains ; and arctic coldness in my feet and hands and arms :
have had a transient feeling of pain in the little finger and little toe
of right side.
Very feverish or parched in the night, and my breathing was hard and
sounded as if I was drawing my breath through iron pipes. I feel that I
must not take any more medicine at present.
When I remembered what a long time I was in gating to the end of die
previous proving, I feel that I dare not go any further.
The dose I have been taking, a No 35 globule, is as large as ten or for
high such as is ordinarily, used for the 30 th or for high dilutions, so
that I have taken as good as sixty high dilution globules as a dose, and
lately as high as one hundred and twenty-four and sometimes oftener daily.
I was surprised at these hot flushes and burnings in my head and along
my spine.
And these strongly reminded me of some feeling a proving of Gelsemium
caused, only that has sweat, whilst this has no moisture, everything
being dried tip.
Saliva, tears, nostrils, and earwax ; the great weakness and pain in
the body reminds me of cerebro-spinal meningitis.
My pulse rate is 68. 8-1.5. Temperature, 97 only.
1 P. M.
What fearful aching in my body !
Arctic feeling throughout my body, except my head and face, and oh ! so
tired.
A feeling as if it were almost impossible to keep my eyes open.
While out on my professional rounds a feeling came over me as if it
would be far easier to lie down in the snowy streets than to keep trying
to get along.
The trembling is very persistent.
9 P. M.
Oh ! this bad feeling in my head, the aching, aching in my bones, in
every part of my body, bead to feet ; no part entirely free from pain, my
body so cold ; a feeling as if I had holes in my garments, and cold,
frosty winds were blowing through and freezing my flesh ; cold penis and
testicles, no feeling but coldness.
A slight gluey discharge ; a fluent discharge from nose, with great
sneezing.
January 9th, 8 A. M.
Pulse rate 68 ; is not so full or jerky, but it is some.
Temperature under the tip of the tongue, 96 ; deeper in, 97.
This morning awoke at 3 A. m. and got up to urinate, but I could not
stand without I had hold of something.
Oh, such a weak, giddy feeling !
I never fainted but once, from loss of blood, and these sensations are
similar.
Plenty of strength to hold me up, but unable to balance myself, and
when I put forth an effort I staggered about like a man trying to walk
with paralysis or locomotor ataxy.
This idea was the most prominent in nay mind, but I have a patient
recovering from paralysis who has to swing his body as he walks, to get
his feet forward, and is very weak and shaky about his knees, and these
sensations very strongly reminded me of his efforts.
His weakness is in his knees, but mine was from the base of my
skull-cerebrum, where the pains have been so persistent near the atlas
extending downward.
When I arose, at 7 A. M., it was very bard work for me to balance
myself enough to complete dressing myself, and very hard to work to carry
my head.
If I bent forward, then it required great effort to keep from falling
on my face or backward.
This lack of balancing power was accompanied by a sensation of nausea,
as if I were going to vomit.
I persisted in my efforts to work, in hopes of shaking off these very
alarming sensations, and by effort got through my morning work.
Whilst shaving a severe jerk of my right arm caused me to gash my face
; very strange, but I ought not to have tried to do this.
I have now some numbness in my right hand and arm, and a good deal of
trembling.
Arctic feeling in my feet and in various parts of my body.
This feeling of want of balancing power does not entirely leave me ; a
full, pressing feeling in all parts of my head.
And when I walk I notice I lift my feet higher than usual, or than is
necessary, and I put my heel down hard, as if I was not sure of holding on
to the ground.
I notice some twitching, as if my feet would spring up, making me walk
as if I had the cock’s gait, as it is described.
7 A. M., January 10, 1893.
Thank God I began
this day with more comfort and more control of myself; my limbs are easier
to manage ; a little giddiness and staggering and stiff, bruised sensation
in my back and lower limbs.
My cervical vertebra is less sore and have little pain ; and altogether
feel very much better.
My pulse rate is 80 this A.M. full and round ; no jerks perceptible.
Temperature 98 under the tongue, by the root.
Mercury very slow in rising ; had to keep the thermometer in a long
time.
I have a flushed, hot feeling in my face and head ; no trembling, less
staggering, and can manage my limbs fairly well.
I feel as I dared not trifle with myself any further, for I am very
weak.
A very little exertion would make me feel very ill.
I am feeling like a man who had just come from under a deadly risk ; am
very weak and prostrated, with every nerve on the jump.
Oh, so very weak !
A sinking feeling.
A parched thirstiness in my throat and mouth.
My tongue is clean ; bowels regular ; a good deal of flatus, very fetid
pale yellow, greenish urine (specific gravity 1008), smelling very fetid
same smell as the flatus ; more like the smell of rotting sweet fruit or
vegetables.
January 14, 1893
Could not get out of bed at my usual time; very severe pain in head and
back of neck, going down my back and right leg ; twitches, with cold,
stinging, ice-needle pricks.
My right hand is feeling as if it were frozen.
Pulse rate 64 ; full, round, but appears to have a pendulum motion or
twitch.
Temperature 96 3-5.
Mind clear, but very weak in my body, and I can not get warm over a hot
register or with hot fluids.
This constant arctic cold is very hard to bear and makes me this
morning feel as if I had a cake of ice on my back.
My hands are blue with cold and my feet feel like lumps of ice.
Headache and giddiness ; could not keep from trembling while some
patients were in my consulting room, and had a good deal of difficulty in
steadying and controlling my voice ; when excited could not get hold of
the right words I wanted and dropped some when speaking, from a want of
flexibility or a catch in my tongue.
Pains in various parts of my body ; the same locations and character.
Quite a rush of business today and very ill-fitted to attend to it.
My hands and feet blue and aching with cold, even while I was sitting
over a hot register that scorched my boot leather, yet no feeling of
warmth in hands or feet.
A good deal of throbbing and aching in the upper part of my kidneys,
the right one the sorest.
Sharp pains in my bowels, near the caecum ; some trembling (when asleep
it awoke me) in my right arm and left leg, with a sharp pain near the
ankle joint.
January 20.
Awoke this morning in a shivering fit.
Trembling, giddiness and headache, but not very severe.
Cold arctic feeling.
Pulse 68.
Temperature 97 1-5.
My feet, 8 A.M., cold.
Severe pain in left testicle, extending through to the back to anus.
Bleed very much from old piles.
An aching at end of penis, and no sexual desire.
A feeling as if the testicles were swollen and painful, as in orchitis
; this is only a transient pain, and comes and goes at infrequent periods,
or remittent in their character.
I notice my urine is taking on the greenish-yellow again, and my right
arm is chilly from the arctic rays.
My feet are cold, and the coldness creeps up higher in my legs.
A great deal of arctic feeling in and around my heart.
My breath is cold.
Headache, but mind clear.
Cold chills run over me in various parts of my body.
My hands tremble very much at times, so that I can not write.
Pain, in testicles and coldness, as if they were frozen.
Pass a large quantity of urine.
January 21. 8 A. M.
Did not get up before, owing to the pressure in my skull, as if it were
too full ; dropsy or some swelling of my brain ; giddiness, and a numbness
down my left leg, and a jerking upward in both of them.
Some trembling and coldness around my heart, and in my lungs and down
my arms. My feet were very hot in the night until 5 A. M., when they
became cold, numb and jerky, upwards.
My pulse rate is very slow this morning, only 56 beats.
Temperature is slowly forced up to 98.
I have a sensation as if my left cheek were swollen, but it is not so.
Trembling very much in my hands
2-30 P- M.
Have not been warm yet today ; very intense arctic sensation in my body
and heart and lungs.
Slight cough.
Numbness in my right arm.
Much trembling, and a sensation of inward trembling in all parts of my
body.
Generative organs frozen cold, and this coldness extends up my back.
My feet so cold that I have burned my boots, and yet cannot get them
warm.
Coldness extends up to my knees.
Stiffness and pain in left thigh.
Cold arctic band round my head, with fullness in skull.
Pulse 60.
Temperature 97 4-5.
Good appetite.
Mentally clear, although very weak ; very tired and discouraged that
these feelings last so long.
They seem to be all beginning over again ; worse now than they were a
week ago.
I feel more like giving up and going to bed sick, but I cannot afford
to do so, so I brace up and resist this temptation to try and find an
antidote for these recurring series of feelings.
January 23
Slept well until 5 A. M. ; then awoke with pains in head and burning in
my feet, with some trembling and stiff feeling in my lungs and heart, as
if they were tied or unable to move.
As, I lay awake I could hear my heart pounding away, but, oh ! so slow.
Felt very weak and wanted to stay in bed, but after some hard thinking
I got up. 7 A. M.
Very weak ; staggered about while dressing.
Pains in the base of the brain.
Pulse 64 and irregular in its beats, some of them failing altogether to
declare themselves only by their absence to respond.
Temperature, after being held under my tongue ten minutes, 97 2-5.
Very cold in my back and over my shoulders ; hands and feet are blue
with cold.
Itching all over my body, and as if I was bitten with fleas or bugs
were crawling over me.
Skin of my hands very rough and cracks are in them.
My ears have a feeling as if wax were running out of them.
January 26, 10 P. M.
It has required a mighty effort to keep up this day.
My pulse 56, slow and irregular ; temperature 98.
Headache, yet mind clear ; backache.
Weakness in all my body ; my limbs so weak in walking that it was
difficult to keep going, and felt as if I could lay down or drop down
anywhere.
What heart failure symptoms are I do not know, but fear I came very
near it and yet I have resisted this feeling, and kept awake and about.
Have felt very ill all the day, and as so now on retiring, 11 P. M.
January 29. 9 A. M.
Just after breakfast, pulse 68, temperature 99 ; slept very heavy, but
dreamed of treating many cases of black diphtheria.
Awoke, slept, dreamed the same dream again, and again the same dream,
three separate times.
How very singular !
During these provings, I have done this three separate times.
Three dreams in one night – the same dream, the same disease, the same
families in my dream.
This singularity caused me to lay awake wondering what this can mean.
I have not any patients suffering from this disease, and I do not know
of any in the town, and nothing that I know of to bring this disease to my
mind.
Awoke feeling very stiff and sore.
January 30.
Head pains again, the same old character.
Sensation of swelling in my face and pain in nerves of teeth, molars.
Hot feelings.
Pulse, 68.
Temperature, 99.
Very weak, but my mind clear.
Much trembling and the oppression round my heart and chest producing a
suffocating feeling that makes me afraid, and I must now seek some means
to arrest this difficulty and give me some relief.
I know it looks cowardly to give up, but my family compels me to do,
something to enable me to keep about.
I cannot do any more ; this heart oppression makes me think of heart
failure.
Pulse, 56, and temperature 96.
Very weak.
I hope it will wear away and this trembling improve.
They have been caused by this drug, one of the most powerful.
I gave up and went to bed very ill.
I had to keep it from my family, but I was afraid my heart would stop
beating and had a very restless night.
I took acetic acid, as vinegar I had in some pickles I thought changed
or relieved the first class or effort of provings and caused me to stop
and begin again.
I think it did help me.
Next day very prostrated but did not take any note of my pulse or
temperature, because I had begun to try to find an antidote, and this
vinegar and lemon juice has relieved many of them.
I fear sometimes that the trembling in my hands may never fully leave
me now.
February 12, 1893.
Copying my notes has brought so vividly to my memory that I can almost
feel the old arctic rays through my body, and the giddiness and staggering
gait of the Heloderma
Horridus days.
I hope that you may have many others more courageous than I have been,
whose provings will compare or improve upon this poor effort of mine.
Clinical
The case of paralysis that I spoke of, whose staggering gait was called
to my mind by my feelings, is now taking
Heloderma.
In the following case, Mrs.
Ford,
eighty-one years of age, has been my patient several times during the last
four years.
She suffered from erysipelas and dropsy in the legs. In September I was
again called in for the same old trouble ; the usual remedies were
effectual.
In October she caught cold, and had also a bad fall ; her symptoms were
those of pneumonia, fever, delirium and cough, pain in chest and hard work
to breathe, blueness of lips, tongue and cheeks, cold extremities and was
very low in appetite, and appeared to be sinking.
Pulse, fifty ; temperature, ninety, and to all human appearance was
rapidly dying ; all said so, and I fully believed so, but left
Heloderma
Horridus, one
powder in water, and ordered her tongue to be moistened with a feather
dipped in this every half-hour.
I did not call the next day until evening. I was waiting to be notified
of her death, but no such notice coming called to see, and, to my
surprise, found everything changed.
I then gave
Helo.
hor. 200, every
four hours, with placebos. All the bad symptoms gradually disappeared,
breathing became natural, heart gained strength, pulse increased to
seventy, temperature to ninety-eight, and appetite became better, asking
frequently for food. This continued so long as she was taking this
medicine.
She was so well that I ceased to attend, she having no aches or pains,
was eating and sleeping well, – bowels moved regularly and night watching
was given up. All who saw the recovery were pleasingly surprised, and so
was I, and have frequently asked myself could anything else have done
this.
Lachesis
has
changed a slate colored tongue, and has aroused those who appeared to be
dying for a short time, but to extend the life of one as good as dead for
thirty days is a triumph for the Helo.
hor.
(To the foregoing we may add that some have thought that the proving
was too sensational, but other evidence that has not appeared in print
leads to the conclusion that it is essentially true, and that the, proving
was made-by one peculiarly susceptible to the remedy. We know of one
gentleman who laughed at it and in bravado took a number of doses during
an afternoon. He felt no immediate effects, but during the night awoke
with some very peculiar feelings that he could attribute to nothing but
the
Heloderma,
and they were of
such a character that he refused to take any more. It would be well to use
the remedy with caution until the practitioner has gauged its powers.)
Dr. Charles E.
Johnson
wrote as follows to Dr. Boocock
concerning the remedy :
“I have had under treatment a case that has been pronounced
incurable by many physicians. She has had most of the symptoms developed
in your proving, that awful coldness being most pronounced. She has had
two doses of the 200 th. I learn through a neighbor that she is delighted
with the result of the last medicine.
The coldness has nearly disappeared, leaving a comfortable glow upon
the body.
She tells her neighbours this without having been informed by me what
results I expected from the medicine.”
Dr.
Erastus E.
Case
contributed the following detailed clinical case to the Medical
Advance, July, 1897 :
An auburn haired woman, 55 years of age, had numbness in the feet two
years ago.
It has gradually extended upward until it now in cludes the lower part
of the abdomen.
Tingling, creeping sensation on the legs as if from insects.
Worse when lying in bed at night.
Worse from exposure to cold air.
Worse from touch ; she cannot endure to place her bare feet together.
Legis insensible to an electric battery.
Legs wasting away, skin very dry and inelastic.
Ankles turn easily when trying to walk.
Numbness of the arms from the hands to the elbows.
Forgetfulness.
Melancholy with weeping.
Worse in stormy weather.
Worse when thinking of her ailments, cheered by company.
Pain in the forehead in the morning, aggravated by turning the eyes,
Tongue dry and cracked in the morning.
Swallowing difficult.
Empty eructations, especially before breakfast.
Empty, gone sensation in the stomach.
Dislikes sweet things and worse from taking them.
Sensation of constriction about the whole abdomen.
Constipation from torpor of the rectum.
Hemorrhoids and itching of the anus.
Burning in the urethra during and after micturition,
Burning and dryness of the vagina.
Palpitation and dyspnea from slight exertion.
Drawing sensation in all the extremities.
Yellow skin.
April 11, 1895.
Heloderma Horridus
four powders, one every four hours.
April 23, 1895.
Decidedly more cheerful and memory is better.
Bowels more active.
Legs more reliable, with the numbness and tingling.
No medicine.
April 26, 1895.
Alarmed because the palms and soles are swollen and itching.
No medicine.
May 22, 1895.
She gained rapidly in both flesh and strength, until a week ago.
Heloderma Horridus
one
powder.
Soon after this an itching eruption came all over her, which subsided
without any further medication.
She was restored to a f air degree of health so that she has taken care
of her house and family up to the present time.
The
following arrangement of Dr.
Boocock’s
proving was made by Dr. Lilienthal
:
Mind
No inclination for exertion in any way.
Difficulty in remembering the spelling of simple words.
Depressed, feels blue.
Head
Sensation of heat in head ; heat on vertex.
Headache over right eyebrow.
Pressure in head and scalp ; pressure in skull as if too full.
Soreness and stiffness in occiput, extending down neck sore spot in
various parts of head.
Intense pain over left eyebrow, through eye to base of brain and down
back.
Aching at base of brain.
Sharp, digging pains.
Benumbed feeling all over head.
Burning feeling in brain.
Throbbing on top of head ; head sore and bruised.
Sensation of band around head.
Cold band around head
Sensation as if scalp was drawn tight over skull.
Bores head in pillow.
Vertigo and weakness when moving quickly.
Dizziness, with inclination to fall backward.
Eyes
Itching of eyelids, lachrymation.
Weight of eyelids, difficult to keep them open.
Ears
Pressure behind left ear ; pressure in ear from within outward.
Copious flow of wax.
Ears dry and scurfy.
Nose
Left nostril sore ; ulcerated.
Dry, itching scurfs in nostrils.
Severe attack of sneezing.
Fluent discharge.
Face
Sensation of heat.
Flushes of heat.
Cold, crawling feeling from temple down right cheek.
Sensation as if pricked with points of ice.
Sensation as if facial muscles were drawn tight over bones.
Stiffness of jaw.
Mouth
Dryness of lips.
Soreness.
Very thirsty.
Tongue tender and dry.
Throat
Dryness ; parched sensation.
Tingling.
Soreness, tenderness to touch.
Stinging, sore feeling in right tonsil.
Stomach
Acid burning in stomach.
Hypochondria
Gurgling in region of spleen
Abdomen
Sharp shooting pain in bowels, more on left side.
Pain across pubic bones, extending down into left testicle.
Stitching pains in bowels.
Throbbing in bowels.
Rumbling in bowels.
Stool
Loose, copious stool, lumpy, preceded by stitches in abdomen.
Stool loose, mushy with considerable flatus.
Stool soft, dark, difficult to expel.
Hemorrhoids swollen, itch and bleed.
Urinary Organs
Bladder irritable, frequent urging to pass urine.
Tenderness in urethra, with sensation of discharge.
Urine not as free as usual, muddy.
Intermittent flow. Urine, specific gravity, 1010 ; greenish-yellow,
fetid (decaying fruit).
Sexual Organs
Erections.
Cold penis and testicle, with gluey discharge.
Pain and enlargement of left testicle.
Female : none
Respiratory Organs
Slight, hacking cough, with pain in left scapulae.
Fullness in chest, requiring an effort to inflate the lungs.
Oppressed for breath from least exertion.
Chest
Sharp stitch through right nipple to inside of right arm.
Cold feeling in right lung.
Heart
Pressure at heart.
Tingling around heart.
Trembling and coldness around heart.
Oppression around heart.
Sticking pains, shooting from left to right.
Stitches in heart.
Soreness in heart, more under left nipple.
Pulse, 56-72 ; full and jerky,
Back
Stiff neck ; aching in bones of neck.
Painfulness of upper neck.
Coldness across scapulae.
Chill in back from base of brain downwards.
Pain in back ; pain in lumber muscles awakening him.
Aching in right kidney ; stitch pain in right kidney.
Upper Extremities
Numbness of right arm and hand with trembling.
Tingling in arms and hands.
Tingling in palm of left hand and along fingers.
Drawing in left hand, followed by tingling and prickling.
Pains in hands, if holding anything for some time.
Trembling of hands.
Hands blue, cracked and rough.
Lower Extremities
Numb feeling around and down left thigh.
Pain in left thigh and calf as if bruised.
Numb feeling down right leg.
Coldness extending from knee to calf.
Coldness of legs and feet.
Boring sharp pain on tibia of right leg.
Sensation of tight band around left ankle.
Trembling of limbs.
Jerking of limbs.
Tingling and burning of feet as if recovering from. being frozen.
Burning in feet, preventing sleep, had to put them out of bed.
Sensation as if walking on sponge and as if swollen.
Staggering gait.
Tendency to turn to right when walking.
When walking lift feet higher than usual and put down feel hard.
Skin
Itching of skin as from insects.
Sleep
Drowsiness, but inability to sleep.
Restless sleep; awakens at 3 A. M.
Awakened from sleep by jerking in head; trembling of limbs ; pain in
lumbar muscles.
Fever
Internal coldness.
Severe chill ran down back.
Cold rings around body.
Cold waves ascend from feet, or downward from base of brain.
Nerves
Startled easily.
Trembling.
Tired feeling ; very weak and nervous.
Intense aching in bones and all parts of body.
Trembling of left side ; hands shaky.
Trembling can be controlled by effort of will.
Generalities
Stretching relieves pains in muscles and limbs.
Stitch pains going from left to right.
Weak, giddy, making it difficult to stand.
Unable to balance myself.
Movement does not increase the pain.
Throbbing all over body.
Bone pains.
Numération, vérification, restructuration, Valorisation
multicolore,
Dr Séror, vendredi
15 décembre 2000