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Studies in the Philosophy of Healing
and others writing including The study of materia medica and taking the case
C. M. BOGER
WHY HOMOEOPATHY ?
Baby, S., age one month, suddenly developed a large,
strangulated, right inguinal hernia and could only be quieted by being continuously
carried. Obviously taxis and surgery were out of place and she got a single dose of Chamomilla
MM. In thirty-six hours the gut receded entirely, but the bowels remained paralysed for
five days when a dose of Opium 200 kept them going for a week, then failed to act
again. A very small movement now contained a little red sand. A single dose of Lycopodium
MM made a complete and radical cure.Mr. K., age 50 had gonorrhoea years ago. Then an attack of ileus was
cured by Thuja, which, however, had no effect on the enlarged prostate and
prolapsed rectum. Discouraged over this he called only occasionally, when suddenly a
prodigious ringworm eruption came out all over the genitals, the groins, inside of thighs
and in both axillae. With a warning of an impending storm crisis he received a single dose
of Sepia MM and was ordered home and to bed. Many boils in the affected areas and a
large perineal abscess followed, whereupon the good wife, to ease things gave a dose of
castor oil at bedtime. The result was startling; about midnight a brother physician phoned
saying that on an ermergency call he found my patient unconscious, vomiting and purging
and in collapse and that he had already given a hypodermic, but wanted to know what remedy
he should leave. I replied that the victim had probably had more than enough medicines by
this time and the antipsoric should be allowed to complete its action. The perineal
abscess soon emptied itself and the constipation with its attendant prolapsus disappeared.
He came to my office in a week in better health than for years.A nurseling of eleven months contracted “flu” along with the
rest of the children. The attendant in charge gave a number of doses of calomel whereupon
the following array of symptoms soon appeared : He sweated about the head. The scalp was
very sore and tender. He winked forcibly every little while and uttered piercing cries,
all the while putting his hands to his head. Red sand appeared in the urine which became
very dark and scanty. There was tenderness over the gall-bladder, and two yellow chloasmic
spots on the body. There was a little salivation. His temper was beyond all control. Lycopodium
helped for two days only, then Chamomilla did the same, but in the meantime
excessive oscillations of temperature appeared. Once or oftener twice a day, the
thermometer would register over 106 degrees in the axilla, along with profound stupor
lasting from two to four hours, then a drenching sweat, which always relieved and a
subnormal temperature followed. This feature made me think of Pyrogen, Salicylic acid,
Veratrum viride and Zinc.The metal only covered all the symptoms; one dose of the MM was given
and in three days there was a marked change, which was but the beginning of recovery.Irritable carbuncle is hard to relieve and still harder to cure, but I
cannot help mentioning a few successes. A prim spinster of the condescending type was
greatly humiliated and sorely afflicted wit this devilish complaint, but Platinum
5M then CM and lastly DM at intervals of ninety days has restored her to health. I do not
find any semblance of this affliction in its provings. It seems to have been a case of
mind over matter, in spite of an actual carbuncle being just behind the meatus.A patient aged 81 moaned, cried and was chilly for weeks, with a
smarting, burning pain in the urethra, while at the same time she craved acids. A large
carbuncle was in evidence. One dose of Hepar MM called forth a feeling of needles
in the growth, then rapidly cured.Mrs. C. age 55.
1. Chill to head, then joint pains, finally boring at heart and
endocarditis.2. It hot and sweaty.
3. Retches from the least motion.
4. Wants head high and is short of breath.
5. Surfeited by the least food. Anorexia.
6. Water gags her.
7. History of gall-stones, tonsillitis, and quinsy.
8. Phlebitis of whole right lower limb with intense pain and swelling.
A surgeon reported nothing could be done. Pulsatilla in various
potencies made a complete cure.