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| In the fall of 1899, I was called to a lady, married 35 years of age, mother of three children. She was quite emaciated, with a yellowish cachetic look of the face. A couple of years before, I treated her when she had an attack of vomiting, in which she vomited coffee-ground substances. She was relieved at that time by Ars alb 40m but had more or less trouble with her digestion upto this time. This last attack was more persistent and did not yield to Ars and some other remedies. After awhile it appeared that the sever pain and vomiting came on when the stomach was empty. She had to eat once or twice in the night for relief. The substance vomited was always black or brown looking like coffee grounds. Her sister had been operated for cancer of the breast, and of course she was very nervous and fearful of cancer of the stomach. The peculiar symptom of vomiting while stomach is empty, led me to Anacardium, which relieved promptly, and she has had no return of the symptoms since then. |
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| A bad case of tonsilitis, the swelling began on one side, the next day was even worse on the other side. So I told them, that as the first side was better I thought the last one would be better tomorrow; but alas, the next day number one was worse again, the patient could not swallow, food and drinks came back by the nose. It was with much difficulty, choking and struggling that even a spoonful of medicine could be taken. I hesitated no longer, but gave Lac-caninum cm, at noon, and when I visited her in the evening, found her taking oyster broth and she could speak distinctly, wheras she could not articulate a single word in the morning. |
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| I was called to treat a child five years of age suffering from birth with a most obstinate form of constipation. He had to be forced and held to the stool crying and screaming all the while, being totally unable to pass any stools even after an enema. After trying several remedies in vain, I asked the mother to turn the child over(he was in bed) to let me examine the anus and rectum. As she turned down the bed clothes to do so, a large chunk of solid faeces appeared in the bed. “There”, she said, “that is the way it is. Notwithstanding his inability to pass stool, when he tries, we often find these things in the bed, and he does not know when they pass, nor do we”. I then gave a few doses of Aloe 200 and cured the whole trouble quickly and permanently. |
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| A seventy year old man, was attacked with a severe pain in the abdomen. Finally, a large hard swelling developed in the ileo-caecal region very sensitive to contact or to the least motion. It began to assume a bluish colour, and on account of his age and extreme weakness, it was thought he must die. Having studied the case, it was found in Raue’s pathology the indications for Plumbum as the remedy. It was administered in the 200th potency, which was followed by relief and perfect recovery. |
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| A child three years of age, had eczema capitis. Under allopathic treatment, the eczema disappeared; but soon entero-colitis of a very obstinate character set in. Child greatly emaciated, little or no appetite, very restless, and stools brown fluid mixed with undigested substances, and of an intolerably foetid nature. Taking into account the suppressed eczema, I prescribed Graphites 6m and in a short time a perfect cure was the result. |
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| I once treated a case of what seemed to be locomotor ataxia. The patient has been slowly using the use of his legs; could not stand in the dark; and when he walked along the street, he would make his wife walk either ahead of him, or behind him, for the acts of looking sidewise at her or in the least turning head or eyes that way would cause him to stagger of fall. Conium cured him. It would always aggravate at first, but he would greatly improve after stopping the remedy. Taking an occasional dose from a week to four weeks apart completely cured him in about an year. I was a bad case of a year’s standing before I took him. |
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| A young lady about 20 years of age complained, a week before I was called, of weakness, or feeling of general prostration; headache and loss of appetite, but the greatest complaint was of prostration. She was a student, and her mother who was an excellent nurse, attributed all her sickness to overwork at school, and tried to rest and nurse her up. But she continued to grow worse. I prescribed for her Gelsemium and followed it with Bryonia according to her indications, and she ran through a mild course of two weeks longer and seemed quite satisfactory. Being left alone in a room, she threw off her clothes, caught cold and relapsed. A low form of delirium developed. staring eyes rolled upwards into the head, head retracted, complete unconsciousness, lying on back and sliding down in bed, twitching, or rather intense, violent trembling, all over, so that she shook the bed. Zincum metallicum improved her in one hour. She got no more medicine for four days and improved steadily. |
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| A young man of good habits was taken with nausea and vomiting. He was drowsy and after a couple of days he began to grow very jaundiced all over. The sclerotica were as yellow as gold, as indeed was the skin all over the body, even to the nails. The stools were perfectly colourless, while the urine was as brown as lager beer. When you could see through it, on the edge of the receptacle, it was yellow as fresh bile. The pulse was only thirty beats per minute, and often dropped out of beat. This was a perfect Digitalis case of jaundice, and this remedy cured him in a few days. |
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| Miss Anna Tanner, age 20, got creeping chilliness or shivering in the evening, rapid swelling of the tonsils with pains shooting up into the parotid and ears ; great redness of the parts (tonsils and uvula) ; difficult swallowing ; drinks escape by the nose ; horribly offensive odour of the breath ; flabby tongue, showing imprint of the teeth ; high fever and thirst ; perspiration profuse but affords no relief. Seems as though the tonsils must suppurate. Here is a typical case of tonsillitis. Mercuricus vivus (Fincke) CM in solution was followed with rapid and complete subsidence of all these symptoms and rapid recovery without suppuration. I have cured many such cases with the same potency of the remedy. (So have others). |
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| A patient consulted me about a painful,permanent feeling of cramplike contraction of the anus, from which he had suffered for 20 years and which was quite inexplicable because there were no haemorrhoids nor any other anomaly to account for the problem. Careful investigation brought out the fact that the pain, which was in evidence night and day, was relieved only while the patient was eating. I prescribed for him Anacardium in the 30th potency, followed later by the same remedy in the 200th potency, and the cure was rapid. |
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| On a certain fishing holiday in Derbyshire, I once met a young married couple, at the Inn where we were staying, who were just finishing up their eighteen months wedding tour around the world. I noticed at once, as we sat together at breakfast, that the bride’s face was covered with a rash and red pimples, and on enquiry of the bridegroom found that before starting on their tour, the parents of the bride had insisted that their daughter should be first inoculated as a prophylactic against enteric fever. The rash and pimples were all over the body and lasted the entire tour to the great torment of this beautiful young woman ! Gunpowder 3x, two tablets every four hours or three times a day cured in ten days and before she left ‘her skin became as that of a little child’. Eight years elapsed and I heard from the bride that the cure holds good. |
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| Eighteen months ago, I had to go to the Motor Engineer of a town in Suffolk – a friend of mine. His face was very sad…. ‘Hullo, old chap, what’s up ?’. ‘Oh, my poor dear old mother! She has had a gathered corn which continually discharges and the doctors cannot stop it, and the poison has gone all up her leg, and the doctors say, “She must have it off!”. And just think of it, she is 81 years and I am certain that if she has her leg taken off, it will kill her !’. My answer was ‘Cheer up,old man, the leg will not come off ! I will guarantee to cure your mother in three weeks !’ Left some tablets of Gunpowder 3x with instructions – two tablets three times a day and one dose of Silica 30 for each of the two weeks. Third week one dose of Hepar Sulph 100. At the end of the three weeks I drive over twenty-five miles. My friend’s beaming face tells its own tale ! ‘How is the mother ?’ ‘Thank God, and thank you ! Mother has gone out for a walk with my wife. She is perfectly well !’. |
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| A few years ago, whilst driving from house to house to visit my patients, I was detained at one place longer than usual, when my coachman sent in to tell me that one of the horses was suddenly taken ill. On going out to see what was the matter, the mare was lying flat on her belly, and suffering from a severe attack of colic. She was of a mild and gentle disposition, refused water, and was covered with cold sweat, although it was a warm summer day. From the fact of her lying so flat upon the abdomen, I interpreted relief from pressure, mild and gentle disposition, refused water, cold sweat all over, female sex. Pulsatilla 200 was then and there given upon her tongue, and in less than half an hour she rose, shook herself, and there was no more trouble, although I drove her to the stable, and did not take her out till the next morning. |
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| A.H at 8 years of age was on the point of being sent to a mental deficiency school. He was a sulky little chap. At school he could not ‘count’, read, write, recite or sing. After two months of Baryta Carbonica the headmaster reports a wonderful improvement. The boy is now bright, happy, plays with other boys,etc. I gave Baryta Carbonica 6, three times a day in this case. In this case, the boy was just saved from going to a mental deficiency school. In fact it had all been arranged when Baryta carbonica was given in time to save the boy. I wrote to the Surrey County Council doctor and he was quite pleased with my report. What a pity we cannot get in touch with the Mental deficiency schools. I am sure half the inmates could be cured by homeopathy. |
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| Adele W., 10, tall slender, pale, hollow-chested, delicate, was out walking one clear day in March 1881, and on returning home suddenly complained of being sick. Her symptoms were : raging headache, severe chill followed by intense heat, intolerance of light, very nervous, nausea, vomitting first food then bile. The following night very restless, dozed a little but on awaking always had headache, at times slightly delirious. Next morning, she was very feverish, high temperature, raging headache, loud singing noise in the ears, convulsive twitching of the muscles of the face, especially about mouth and cheeks, very sensitive to touch and irritated by the least noise. Bellad 3x was given every hour. Next day no change. The day after, March 4th, much better. Bellad was continued and hydrogeneous diet ordered. On March 7th she was fully taken with severe chills which lasted fully three days. It was now clear that it was a question of intermittent fever. Atrop sulph 6x and Nat sul 2x of each three drops was given on wafers, the body to be rubbed with spirits, and water only to be drunk mixed with wine. On March 14th she had another paroxysm in a light form and on the 21st still lighter. From that time she began to recover her health and appetite and grew stout. In March 1882, one night she went to bed well and woke up a few hours screaming with pain in right ear, cheeks flushed, more on right side, Atrop 6x. Next two days she was free from pain but on the fourth day she had another attack but less severe. Atrop 6x and Nat sul 2x every hour. There were four more attacks, all quartan and each time shorter and lighter. She was last seen in the winter of 1884 when she was well and had been so since the last attack. |
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| The patient, a woman of 65 years age, complained of a pain which began as a soreness in the epigastrium and right hypochondrium, increasing to a sore pain. The pain was > while sitting, > belching; < lying on the back, markedly < lying on the right side; < on motion, especially on turning over in bed. There was a constant sensation of pulling in the right hypochondrium, < lying on the right side. The pain causes sweating. There is pain as of repeated blows in the region of the right scapula. The mouth is exceedingly dry. There is a great aversion to food or drink, and the odor of food, or any other strong odors are very offensive and cause nausea. The patient vomits as soon as water becomes warm in the stomach; there is no thirst. Although there is much flatus, none passes. The urine has an offensive odour. Analysis the case using Allen’s “Boenninghausen’s Therapeutic Handbook”, the following is observed : Location : Epigastrium Hypochondrium Sensation : Pulling Hammering Sore pain, internally Conditions of aggravations and ameliorations : < Lying on back < Lying on right side < Motion of affected part < Turning over in bed < Strong odours > Sitting > Belching Concomitants : Sweat, with associated symptoms Thirstless Mouth, in general Dryness internally (of parts usually moist) Incarcerated flatus Urine, offensive Since Boenninghausen has no rubric covering the concomitant symptom vomiting |
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| A young woman, 35 years of age, was brought in by her family physician who felt he needed help on the case. She was greatly depressed, cried a great deal, and felt so unlike herself that “she felt frightened at herself”. She has “a mad desire to talk”, although she is averse to any work – mental or physical. She faces the day with dread; feels as if alone in the world; music of which she has been very fond, is now extremely distasteful. She admits there is no reason why she should not be happy and content, since she has pulled through some hard times and now the road has been smoothed out. She has not slept for several days. Previously, she would awaken from sleep with a general quivering, especially in the pit of the stomach. She feels weak in the knees and has an all-gone sensation which is better after 4pm. She has developed an aversion to being with people, especially crowds. There is a great deal of headache, dull pain that comes and goes across the forehead < in the morning; it becomes throbbing on stooping. There is a ringing in the left ear and sense of pressure in the ears as if they were stopped. Her tonsils are enlarged. She is eating poorly and has recently lost 15 pounds. She sweats all over. Her feet blister, and sweat. The nails are brittle. The following rubrics were used (Boenninghausen) :- Disposition, generally affected Of the 24 rubrics used the following remedies ranked :- |
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| I remember, years ago, a case of a small boy of about eight, hauled in by his waist-belt by an old woman to subside on the floor in the middle of the room, a shapeless heap, slobbering and passing urine. He was a most repulsive object, offensive to eye and nostril. He could not feed himself. He could scarcely swallow, when fed. He could not speak. He could not maintain the upright position for a moment, much less walk, without the support of that terrible belt,by which he was hauled up and dragged along. His one talent was screaming, and he did not hide that talent in a napkin….. he SCREAMED. He nearly drove his people and all the neighbours mad. A few drops of Sulphur in the course of a few months made a happy, smiling child of this monstrosity . Screams ceased. He improved all round. The belt was discarded. He appeared to be proud of his progress in the way of locomotion. |
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| Miss ___ consulted me because of a tumour in her right mamma which had been steadily growing for about a year or more. It was now the size of a hen’s egg, and as hard as ivory, evidently fibroid, and embedded in the gland, the skin and the nipple being in no way implicated. The case was severely handicapped by the fact that the patient received a letter stating that an only brother had died in a hospital from what was said to be cancer of the stomach. More than one surgeon had been consulted, and as a matter of course, they advised excision of the growth. Treatment — As all her symptoms pointed to Sulphur, I at once gave her Sulphur 100,000th potency after her menstrual period, and after the next one she got Sulphur 200,000th,and after the next, she got the 300,000th. With every dose there was a decided dimunition of the tumour and about a month after the third dose, on examining both breasts, it was impossible to detect any difference, the tumours having been entirely absorbed, leaving no trace of its existence. It has been more than three years since, and there has been no return. |
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| An allopathic doctor has been treated for weeks by his colleagues for a severe crural neuralgia. It was so severe that he had been in bed for many weeks . He had been given morphia and all sorts of sedatives, but like the woman in the scriptures, was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse. His wife decided to try a change of treatment for him. I was called and did not receive a very gracious reception. He told me that he did not send for me. I said I had received a message to come or would not have been there. After a little discussion, I was most graciously allowed to examine him. I could find nothing to cause the intense pain in the crural nerve, so decided it was pure neuralgia. I therefore prescribed acidum oxalicum, 6th potency, 3 drops three times a day, and told him he would soon be better. How dare I tell him so confidently when he had been treated so many weeks without relief ? Because oxalic acid can cause this unbearable pain, so I knew it was homeopathic to the condition. Did the medicine cure him ? Yes, in a few days, he was perfectly free from pain and was up and about again ! |
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| Kn, 13 years old, was burnt by a gunpowder explosion. His clothes and face were severely burnt. His eyelids, eyebrows and head hair had been burned off and both eyeballs had been so severely injured that he could not see. I was called a few minutes after the accident. I gave orders that the whole face should be covered with a piece of linen soaked in the tincture of Cantharides 3rd dilution, leaving only the nostrils open for breathing.The first application produced severe pain which disappeared after two minutes. The application was renewed and after 13 hours the whole face was painless, while the other parts of the body, not treated in the same way were full of blisters and vesicles. |
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| I was called to see a novice in a convent in Ghent, who suffered from inability to control her bowels and bladder, accompanied by a permanent headache and confusion. Her troubles had steadily increased. Her excretions were passed to her utter disgust without here noticing it. On the 9th of February, I prescribed Aloes 30th potency, 5 globules a day. I saw the patient again on the 19th. Considerable improvement had taken place and control of bowel and bladder had been re-established. On the 23rd a fortnight after the beginning of the treatment, the young lady was normal, and I ceased visiting her on the 2nd of March. |
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| A homeopathic physician in Albany, N. Y, was called in consultation on a so-called case of pthisis pulmonaris (consumption). The case was in allopathic hands. After carefully examining the case, he was asked : “What is your diagnosis doctor ?’ ,’Stannum‘, said the doctor. ‘What ?’, ‘Stannum’, replied the doctor. Stannum was the diagnosis of the remedy ; not of the disease. It was given and cured the patient. |
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| A woman came to me with her hands so crippled that they were almost closed. The joints were enlarged and she was hardly able to move a finger. If she did move a finger it was with a great deal of pain. The leading symptom in that case was that every time it rained her pains left her. She was then entirely comfortable. Causticum not only stopped all the pain but also took the swelling out of her joints. It was a beginning case of arthritis deformans, and as the remedy was given in the early stages the cure was complete. I saw her ten years afterwards and her fingers were as supple as they ever had been during her past life. |
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| A clergyman’s wife, about 50 years of age, consulted me on Feb 29th, 1878, complaining of severe dyspepsia with other symptoms of Natrum muriaticum. My visit was a hurried one so I did not enter very fully into the case. Nat mur 6 trit, 6 grains in water twice a day was the prescription : it cured in three days these symptoms : Hiccup occurring morning, noon and night, in evidence, for atleast 10 years, which was brought on by quinine ; it was not a hiccup that made much noise but “shook the body to the ground” ; it used to last about 10 minutes and was ‘very distressing’. “How do you know that the hiccup was really produced by quinine ?”, I enquired. She answered : “At three seperate times in my life I have taken quinine, for tic of the right side of the face, and I got hiccups each time; the first and second time it gradually went off, but the third time it did not; when the late Dr.Hynde prescribed it, I said, “Do not give me quinine as it gives me hiccups,” but he would give it to me; I took it and it gave me hiccups which lasted until I took your powders ; it is more than ten years since I took the quinine.’ The cure of the hiccup has proved permanent. |
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| Patient aged 45 years. Has had uterine haemorrhages for some time (for five consective weeks recently) and much pain. A solid mass behind the uterus was found, but no definite uterine neoplasm. Operations disclosed a cystic ovary the size of an orange, with free papillary outgrowth tending to spread over contiguous peritoneum. The whole mass was removed, but the papillary spread was necessarily left. There was no affection of the uterus. The patient was steadily kept on a medicinal series, including Thuja, Carcinosin, Silica, Calc carb up to recent date. There is now not the least pathological trace of any recurrence. |
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| Wm. T., aged 23 occupation clerk, consulted me, complaining of an impairment of speech, which had lasted seventeen years. No cause could be learned, although his mother and others had been interviewed. The case as taken presented the following :- February 16. Mentally he is weak, indifferent for the most part, with times of irritation and petulance. Aphonia < between 4 and 5 pm, at which time the voice is the merest whisper ; < in hot weather, < in winter, > by expectoration of a lump of black mucus. Three and a half years ago he had typhoid fever under allopathic treatment, since which time he is “nervous” with trembling of both arms. This is quite independent of whether or not he works. Voice lost in the evening, Brom, Carb v, Phos February 18. Gave Carbo veg 1M, single |
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| In the year 1876, in the course of a severe attack of typhus fever during my residence at Liverpool, my state, as I am told (for I was in delirium), suddenly became very critical through pneumonic consolidation of the right lung. Phosphorus was the remedy selected by Drs.Drysdale, Hayward and Hawkes, who attended me, and under its action I made a rapid recovery. Hard, dry cough, rusty sputum ; increased at twilight and until midnight ; < lying on left side; > lying on right side ; abdomen distended, sore, very sensitive to touch ; stools offensive, bloody, involuntary; the anus appearing to remain open. Each of the symptoms I have italicised is a keynote of Phosphorus. When any of them are present (with or without pneumonia) Phosphorus is likely to be the remedy. |
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| Mrs. B, aged 45, had for many years suffered from a very delicate and irritable stomach, from cankerous sore mouth (cured by Phytolacca), all in consequence of what is mistermed scientific treatment. She had also suffered from hay fever, regularly returning every year on the 16th of September. Mrs.B returned from Europe, after an absence of several years, on the 26th of July last ; the voyage had been a very unpleasant one; she had been very seasick all the time. From the time she left Liverpool till she was visited by me, on the 27th of July, she had taken literally no nourishment ; broken ice was the only thing that passed her lips. I found her in bed sitting up, occasionally straining to vomit, very weak, pulse 116 per minute ; she complained of a violent pain in the occiput, with great heat, which she had tried to relieve by applications of broken ice ; urinary secretions suppressed; mouth dry and hot ; she had not slept for a fortnight and she could not lie down on account of great nervousness, as she expressed it, which compelled her to change her position and her chair so very often ; she wandered about all night from chair to chair; was very disagreeable ; perfect loathing of food, and for a few days had a watery, very offensive and black looking diarrhoea. The choice of the remedy was easy enough. I gave her one dose of Arsenicum alb 50M (Fincke), on her tongue, July 27th. July 28th – has slept in her bed from 10pm to 1am, then became nervous and restless, but says that she feels better. No medicine. July 29 – She has been in bed all night, slept; and no return of the diarrhoea; urinary secretions re-established ; the hot water applications to her head would have very much relieved the pain; had later some milk toast, and relished it ; pulse below 90 ; is cheerful and hopeful. July 31 – Had a still better night ; is better in every respect, but complains of severe pains in a bunion on the left foot; it is much inflamed and stings. I gave her now one dose of Nitric Acid CM (Fincke). August 1 – The bunion is less painful, otherwise there is not much change perceptible. August 2 – Bunion still improving, and on August 3rd no more pain or inflammation in it. In the evening, same day, I was again summoned to see her ; found her quite ill; the loose motion and the headache had returned with great violence ; pulse over 110 ; the same headache as on the 27th had also returned, also the great restlessness. Gave her one dose of Arsenicum album (Fincke) dry on the tongue. Found her better the next day, and the improvement continued. On the 6th of August, her bunion began to pain again as on the 31st, gave her no medicine. Improvement continued satisfactorily ; when the 16th of September came she had that night ; about 1 am, some oppression of breathing, which reminded her of the terrible asthmatic attacks she had had years ago ; she had to sit up for half-an-hour. No medicine. She fully recovered and travelled for some weeks ; had no hay fever ; really has had nothing to complain of since ; enjoys better health than she has had for years. |
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Aswin, aged four, NOSE, Coryza, Chronic: Calc., Canth, Colch, Cycl., Sil., Spig. |
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A lady, the COMPANY, aversion to: 46 remedies (page 27 of Knerr’s Repertory) Only three remedies, viz., Carbo a., magn. m., and natr. m. are |
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| A lady (maiden) had been an invalid for fourteen years. Her trouble seemed to center in her stomach. So that for all that long period of time she could eat nothing but at little Graham bread and milk, hardly enough to sustain life and in the earlier part of her sickness for a long time was able only to take a teaspoonfull of milk at a time. She was an almost literal walking skeleton. I found, after much questioning and several failures to relieve her much, that about fifteen years before she had with an ointment suppressed an eczema of the nape and occiput. She boasted that she had never seen a vestige of it since. I gave that lady Sulphur 200th and in three weeks from that time had that eruption fully restored and her stomach trouble completely relieved. The deacon of her (Presbyterian) church exclaimed as she came walking up a long hill to service, “Here comes Susan F., who has been dying for the last fourteen years and lo and behold, she is the biggest, fattest one among us!” Now how about the relation of skin to internal trouble? I can report a number of as convincing cases in my own practice cured with Sulphur, Arsenicum, Causticum or other remedies. One thing must be recognized and never lost sight of, viz., that symptoms weigh whether we can give the pathological interpretation of them or not. |
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One She But |
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| I once had a case of very obstinate constipation in an old syphilitic case. He was at last taken with very severe attacks of colic. The pains seemed to extend all through the abdomen, and always came on at night. After trying various remedies until I was discouraged, for he “got no better fast,” he let drop this expression, “Doctor, if I could only keep awake all the time, I would never have another attack.” I looked askance at him. “I mean,” said he, “that I sleep into the attack, and waken in it.” I left a dose of Lachesis 200. He never had another attack of the pain, and his bowels became perfectly regular from that day and remained so. I could give more cases where this symptom has led me to the cure of ailments of different kinds. It is enough to say that I have no hesitation in adding my testimony to that of others as to the value of this symptom |
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