The way of Homoeopathy in the exanthemata. – Elizabeth Wright Hubbard, M.D. New York, N. Y. Presented by Dr Robert Séror

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The way of
Homoeopathy in the exanthemata.
Elizabeth Wright
Hubbard, M.D. New York, N. Y.
Presented by Dr Robert Séror

(The Homoeopathic Recorder, March, 1939, No. 3, pages
4 and 5)
(Read before I. H. A., Bureau of Obstetrics and Pediatrics, June 15,
1938.)

One of the many boons of homoeopathy to the modern parent is its
power to free them from fear of the contagious diseases.

It does this by a medley of means.

In
the first place, it shows the usefulness of these supposed scourges of
our young, to wit, that they are a means of ridding the system of some
of its inherited taints, of the accumulated miasms of past generations.

Children come out stronger and often with changes for the better in
their personalities, after an exanthema wisely handled by a true
homoeopath.

To be sure, although the acute course is either brief or mild,
out-croppings follow from the deeper layers which call our attention to
the need for a chronic remedy.

So much the better : the patient might not have noticed the chronic
signposts, nor in these depression days, done anything about it, save
for the acute trouble.

These symptoms from the deeps should not be the conventional sequelae
: none such should develop, with proper handling ; but rather minor
items which the wise doctor interprets into radical help for the child’s
constitution.

Never discharge your acute cases in children till they have had a
chronic to follow through.

The adults who are sickly in a deep chronic way I find to be those
who have not had the exanthemas in their youth.

And many who seem healthy in maturity die sudden deaths, and they
also have usually NOT had the children’s diseases.

Mothers have a few instincts left, even in these times, and one is a
distinct aversion to having their children shot full of this and that
preventive serum or vaccine.

Blessed and sane instinct !

When they realize that the same good end can be accomplished by mild
internal protection by high potency, without introducing foreign blood
rhythms and with no fear of bad reaction, they are delighted.

If children have been exposed to, say, whooping cough, I ask the
parent whether this would be a convenient time to have them get it, in
case they need to, by inner necessity.

If so, no protection, if they are in good state to stand it.

If not, then a prophylactic remedy ; if they get it the case will be
mild ; if not, no harm is done.

For I believe that the potency, instead of suppressing Nature’s
legitimate urge to measles or whatever, gives Nature an out, releases
forces, rouses the body to combat the incipient evil in itself.

A third comfort to parents is the inexpensiveness of the treatment,
and the fact that the mild form can be well coped with in the home, and
the time out from school reduced to the legal minimum.

May I give you a few cases in illustration ?

CASE I :

Master B., an interesting but self-willed boy of 13, product
of a disharmonious wealthy background good soil for an eruption!-came
down with scarlet fever.

Throat abscess had been lanced.

Sudden profuse, repeated hemorrhages occurred, eight in an evening.

Pronounced not surgical, probably from the stomach.

Liver and spleen enlarged and tender.

Called in consultation, I found the patient plethoric, blond,
capricious, cantankerous, disobedient ; blood bright, gushing ; constant
nausea, clean tongue.

Ipecac 2c

., 3 doses,
one hour apart if needed.

No further bleeding after 20 minutes from first dose.

Three days after, case study showed

Arum
triph. and
Amm. Mur.
as the two most similar remedies.

Arum

was
given, 10 M., 1 dose, with relief of corrosive saliva, etc. This
might have carried the case safely from the start.

The follow up was a dose of

Nat.
mur. 1 M.

Swift recovery after the

Ipecac
was the loss of
blood therapeutic ?

Was the

Ipecac
more truly
related to the child than even I realized in the emergency prescription
?

CASE II :

Master A., aged 9, small pallid boy of tubercular stock on both
sides, came down with whooping cough.

Red face with cough, better in the air, worse 2 a. m. to 6 a. m.

Dros.
1 M., 1 dose.

Only slightly better for three days then cough incessant, weak,
short, running from one spell into another ; postnasal dropping;
ulceration of the ale nasi.

This latter peculiarity, together with the incredible continuance of
the cough, led to

Cor.
rub. 2c.,
1 dose.

Brilliant improvement for exactly one week. Return of cough, though
nose clear.

Cor.
rub. 1 M., 1 dose.
Startling amelioration for ten days.

Return of cough as before caused me to give

Sulph.
2c., 1 dose.
Aggravation for several days of general condition rather than cough.

Then cough returned in full vigor :

Cor.
rub. 10M.,
1 dose and a speedy end to the trouble.

Follow up :

Sepia
1M., 1 dose.

Boy gaining weight for the first time in a year and a half, rosy and
peppy.

Would

Cor. rub
10M. have settled
the whole thing in the beginning ?

Was the

Sulph.
an error ? Or did it lay some foundation for the Cor.
to hold by ?

CASE III :

Master M., 7, mumps, bilateral, hard swelling, constant need
to swallow a lump, sensitive to weather change, oily sweat without
profit, intense thirst for cold.

This textbook picture responded at once to

Merc.
viv. 10
M., 1 dose.

No symptoms appeared calling for a chronic : as this child comes for
one every two months or so anyway, none was given.

This is a very psoric child.

Were there no symptoms developed because the case was so perfectly
covered by the

Merc.
? Or because the
chronic remedies clear away enough anyway ?

CASE IV :

Master R., 10, slight measles rash on neck, Koplik spots, only
symptom subjectively : severe photophobia and aching eyes, with slight
yellow pus in canthi.

Euphr

. 1M.,
1 dose.

Rash blossomed, eyes cleared, in three days felt well.

Two weeks later, earache, flushed face, soft pulse, calm ;

Ferr.
phos. 1M.

Hives followed ;

Sulph.
1 M. brought him
round fast.

Numérisation, vérification, coloration, mise en page, illustration,
pour mon site.
Dr. R. S. Ce
samedi 27 avril 2002

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© Robert Séror 2002
Photos Copyright © Homéopathe International 2002

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