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ON FISTULA AND ITS RADICAL CURE BY MEDICINES (1894)

ON FISTULA AND ITS RADICAL CURE BY MEDICINES (1894)

NATRUM MURIATICUM
THE theory of the dynamization of drugs was, perhaps, an arcanum of the jatrochemists in the Middle Ages, and was promulgated by Hahnemann as a doctrine, while this century was still young, and it may be regarded as the natural outcome of his law of cure ; he says :
OBSERVATION 1. — Mrs. B., aet. 24, came under treatment in 1876, in the early months of pregnancy, with very severe neuralgia of the face.
OBS. 2. — A young gentleman of about 21 years of age came under treatment for Synovitis of right knee with considerable effusion. Patient had a dirty looking skin, was constipated and had many Nat. mur. pains in the lower extremities.
OBS. 3. — Mrs. M., aet. 50, or thereabout, had a most severe attack of Rheumatic fever, the joints being much swollen, red and distressingly painful. The usual homoeopathic treatment was adopted but with no great success. It was her fifth attack of rheumatic fever.
OBS. 4. — At this stage of things I felt curious to know what the sixth centesimal trituration of Natrum muriaticum might do to my humble self pathogenetically, I being in my usual health. So I took nearly 3iv. in about ten days in little pinches dry on the tongue at odd intervals.
OBS. 5. — Mr. H., aet. 45, came under treatment for great pain in the stomach which sent him to bed and kept him there in great agony.
OBS. 6. — A girl of 15 suffering from Hemicrania dextra and cloudy, thick, red, sedimentous urine. I gave her Nat. mur. 6 trit. and received shortly thereafter a written report “urine quite free from sediment or cloud in a way it has not been for long.” The megrim was not affected.
OBS. 7. — A baby on the bottle some three months old. I find it has not slept well for some time and is now very restless and fretful, and vomits water.
OBS. 8. — Mr. P., wt. 26, has had very thick urine for months, and for two months very great pain in small of back, worse on bending and very much worse when digging in the garden.
OBS. 9. — A lady, wt. 54, with Stillicidium lachrymarum and bad chronic yellow excoriating Leucorrhea, Nat. mur. 6 trit.
OBS. 10. — Unmarried lady, wt. 24, Polyuria ; constipation with much flatus ; amenorrhea these two months. First symptoms worse at the seaside. She is rather thin with an ill-coloured skin. Nat. mur. 6 trit.
OBS 11. — A clergyman’s wife, about 50 years of age consulted me on February 29th, 1878, complaining of severe dyspepsia with other symptoms of Natrum. muriaticum.
OBS. 12. — A lad, set. 12, living at Parkgate. He suffers for some time from constipation, loss of appetite, dirty looking complexion. emaciation, frontal headache going round to the back, sleepiness towards evening and first thing in the morning, urine thick with nasty smell.
OBS. 13. — Young lady about 28 years of age : emaciation, chlorosis, for eighteen months slight bearing down in the hypogastrium, gradually getting worse, and the last week increasing to very severe cramp beginning in the back and coming round to the pubic arch, and, when walking, felt severely in the knees, had frequently to sit down to get relief from the hypogastric pain, urine muddy for a long time, obstinate chronic constipation, the mouth is dry but there is no thirst, taste disagreeable, bitter.
OBS 14. — Gentleman, aet. 34 or thereabouts, has suffered from a general feeling of chilliness (attributed by himself to a poor circulation), for more than two years, sleepiness and drowsiness after dinner for two months, compelling him to go and lie down ; black spots before the eyes ; disagreeable taste in the mouth, sour ; watery eyes ; urine dear ; bowels moved twice a day ; looks very pale.
OBS. 15. — Lad of 12 came under observation on March 30th, 1878, suffering from a group of symptoms that collectively are conveniently called Phlyctenular ophthalmia.
OBS. 16. — Boy of 9, with ganglion on leg of the size of a small hen’s egg.
OBS. 17. — Lady, aet. 63. Regular gout in left big toe and foot. Patient is fond of beer.
OBS. 18. — April 21st, 1878. John H., aet. 29, seaman, had fever and ague two or three times a day, with watery vomiting, in Calcutta, in September, 1877.
OBS. 19. — Mrs. B., aet. 53. For four or five weeks cold shakes many times a day and night, beginning in the shoulders like cold creeps, and going down the back and then all over ; cold creeps in legs in bed at night ; head cold and sweaty ; nauseous taste in mouth ; great sleeplessness these four or five weeks, viz. wakes at 2 a.m., and is unable to get off to sleep again.
OBS. 20. — Mrs. W., aet. 60. Came under treatment for coldness of the legs from the knees to the feet, for three months ; she cannot keep them warm in any manner ; at night she wraps them up in flannel, and encases them also by day, but still they are cold ; the coldness is subjective but not objective ; she suffers also very much from sleeplessness and great nervous irritability.
OBS. 21 — Constipation, of long standing, in a pale anemic young Lady of 23 ; only one motion in two or three days.
OBS. 22. — A gentleman, aet. 60, with oedema of the praeputium for some weeks ; severe intertrigo between thighs and scrotum, with a good deal of acrid discharge, and considerable excoriation ; this condition has existed for many months, notwithstanding daily ablutions often several times repeated. Patient is arthritic and very melancholy and despondent.
OBS. 23. — Gentleman of 35. Pain in left side of lower jaw extending to the end tooth of left upper jaw, and up to the left eye, always after food, throbbing wrenching pain, making the tears come into his eyes ; the pain he describes as terrible, and it lasts about an hour.
OBS. 24. — A gouty gentleman of 70. Until three years ago he was in the habit of perspiring freely, but latterly he perspires less, and for three years he has always felt chilly and cold.
OBS. 25. — Gentleman of 50, usually enjoying good health, and of splendid physique.