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Case 1
Abdominal pain and tumor suspicion
Mrs. K., aged 40, a midwife.
She complained of the abdomen ; she believed she had a tumor.
Severe knife-cutting pain in the region of uterus running up to left mamma ; pains, undefined, running up and through pelvis, worse lying down, aching up and through the pelvis, worse lying down, aching in the sacrum, dragging down in the uterine region as if the uterus would escape.
Empty, "all-gone" feeling in the stomach.
Greenish-yellow leucorrhoea, with itching in labia and mons veneris ; intense sexual desire. The os uteri was said to be ulcerated and eroded, and it was sensitive to touch. The contact of the finger with cervix brought on the sharp pain that she described as running to the left mamma. The uterus was enlarged and indurated.
She had been the mother of several children ; had had several abortions, and was accustomed to hard work.
She had been treated locally by a specialist of acknowledged ability, and she had taken many remedies of his selection as well as from her own medicine case, all very low.
Her catamenia quite normal.
To take up the important and guiding features of this case we must compare several remedies, but principally Murex and Sepia.
The cutting pain in the uterus has been found under Curare.
Murex and Sepia, but Murex is the only one producing a cutting pain in the uterus going to the left mamma.
The "all-gone" empty feeling in the stomach is characteristic of Murex, Phosphorus and Sepia.
Throbbing in the uterus, belongs only to Murex.
The dragging down is common to both Murex and Sepia, but the sexual teasing only to Murex.
Both have a yellowish green leucorrhoea.
Pain in sacrum is common to Murex, Sepia and many others.
"Enlargement of bowels" is found in Allen under Murex, not mentioned in Minton's Uterine Therapeutics.
The pains in Murex go upward and through, worse while lying down.
In Sepia the patient is better lying down, and the pains go around.
Murex 200, one dose was given.
She was much worse for several days. Then improvement went on for two weeks. The remedy was again repeated. One year later she complained of a return of her symptoms. One dose was followed by relief, since which time she has made no complaint, but praise the individualizing method.
Case 2
Abdominal tumor.
Tumeur abdominale
Lycopodium
M. A. W., aet. 30, asks treatment for abdominal tumor, which is large enough to give her the appearance of being about eight months pregnant.
She is a house maid, and her friends will not go out with her fearing that people will think they are associating with an unmarked pregnant woman.
She had consulted two surgeons who refused to operate because of the rigidity and extensive adhesions, and also because of the sickly aspect of the girl.
The face was indeed waxy and sickly looking.
These surgeons told her she would die from the tumor.
The tumor was first noticed five years ago.
It became prominent on the right side of the uterus and extended up to the pelvis ; was said to be movable until two years ago.
The uterus is now immovable and the tumor which hangs over the right side of the pelvis is very hard, as large as a child's head, and cannot be made to move in any direction.
June 1st, 1888.-
Pain in the pelvis now and then.
Swelling in the pit of the stomach not due to the tumor.
Swelling of the feet, indenting on pressure.
Constant congestive headaches which she could give no description of, only "it aches all over."
Eats but little, and what she eats causes nausea.
Constipation ; no desire for stool ; takes physic, hence no modalities of value.
Goes two or three weeks without a stool.
Always feels a constriction about the waist, which most likely is due to pressure of tumor, hence it is not a valuable symptom.
Sensation of great fullness after eating, and she mentions above that she eats but little.
Menses fairly regular "with cramps."
She has hot drank water for eight years, as it makes her sick.
Feet burn so that she must take off her slippers to cool them.
Starts in sleep, and when awake starts at the slightest noise.
Restless sleep.
Pain in left side of abdomen.
Teeth decayed when young.
They are dark and bad looking.
Wants hot things ; cannot take cold things into the stomach.
Pain in the stomach after cold things.
Pain and nausea after water, cold or warm.
Pain in left groin.
She had this pain before the tumor was felt.
Lyc. cm; one dose, and Sac-Lac. morning and night, dry on the tongue.
July 23rd.-
The remedy increased the symptoms so much that she was alarmed and would not return for many weeks, but now is so much better in a general way that she returns to report and ask for more medicine.
Upon close questioning it was found that for a week or more her symptoms were on the increase.
Her stomach symptoms at first grew worse, then improved and now are worse again.
Lyc. mm. She got one dose and SL.
Aug. 2d-
Reports that all the symptoms are better, and she is feeling greatly improved.
Aug. 31st.
Pain in pit of stomach.
Pain in forehead, vertex and temples.
Bowels no better. If she drinks water she feels so full and gets cramps.
Sleepless ; starts suddenly. S. L. No change in tumor.
Sept. 15th.-
Feet do not swell now.
She vomits and has a pain in stomach after eating or drinking.
Lyc. mm.
Oct. 28th.
Symptoms all passed away, except that she has a pain in right side, in the tumor.
Nov. 27th.-
No symptoms. Calls at intervals but gets only S. L.
Jan. 23d, 1889.-
Symptoms returning, especially the stomach symptoms.
Lyc. mm
June 3d.-
She has been improving steadily and was free from symptoms.
Bowels move every three or four days.
Stool normal.
Feels more swollen than for some time.
Uncomfortable.
Bad feelings return.
Pain in right groin.
Feet swollen.
Headache in forehead and eyes.
Pain in lumbar region.
Lyc. mm. Feet burn.
August 15th.-
Symptoms have been gone since here last, but now all are coming back.
Lyc. 2mm.
December 31st.-
She has reported several times, but there, were no symptoms.
Bowels regular.
She can eat and drink anything.
She looks well.
She says the last powders have made her well.
The tumor is what most readers will ask about, but has not been mentioned, as the tumor was not treated.
The patient was cured and the tumor at last report was small ; the uterus was movable and with it the small tumor also moved.
She did not mind the tumor as she was so well and shapely.
Case 3
Abrotanum : With Clinical Cases
Abrotanum illustré par des cas cliniques.
Irritable, weak-minded, worse from mental exertion.
The head topples over because the neck is emaciated ; the face is wrinkled and has a sickly look ; the temples are marked by distended veins.
The face looks old, the infant looks like a little old person. (Also, Bar-c., Iodine, Natr-m., Op., Sulph.) (If from syphilis, Aur-mur.)
The whole body is emaciated and wrinkled ; the emaciation spreads from the lower limbs upward (which is the reverse of Lyc and Natr-m.)
Enlarged glands, especially in the emaciated abdomen.
Diseases change from place to place (metastasis).
Mumps go to the mammae or to the testes.
Rheumatism leaves the joints and endocarditis appears with profuse sweat ; cannot lie down for the dyspnoea ; sinking as if dying, pulse feeble.
Rheumatism comes on when a diarrhoea has ceased too suddenly.
Piles which get worse as the rheumatism abates.
Bleeding from the piles in amenorrhoea. (Graph.).
Hydrocele in boys.
Distended abdomen. (Ars., Bar-c., Calc., Iodine, Lyc., Puls., Sulph.)
Piercing pains in the heart.
Piercing in the ovaries, mostly the left.
Wakes in a fright and trembles, is covered with cold sweat.
The extremities are numb and tingle as if thawing, after having been frozen.
High fever after the rheumatism has gone to the heart.
The wasting child has hectic fever with a ravenous appetite.
Lives well yet emaciates. (Also Iodine, Natr-m.)
Abrotanum attacks the white fibrous tissues, the joints, pleura, peritoneum, etc.
Gouty nodosities in the wrist and fingers.
Rheumatism goes to the heart, compare with Cactus, Dig., Kalm., Lach., Naja., Spig., Spong.
The grand features of this remedy are metastasis; marasmus spreading upward.
Case 1.
Mrs. P. suffered from gouty deposits about the finger joints, which were very painful during cold, stormy weather.
The joints and nodes were sore and hot at such times.
The nodes ceased to be painful and sudden hoarseness came ; ulcers in the larynx followed ; great dryness in the nose and painful dry throat; sticking in the cardiac region.
She lost flesh but the appetite kept good.
Calc-phos. had been prescribed by her former attendant.
After duly considering the case, Abrot. 45m. was given.
She suffered for many days after this dose with a most copious discharge from her nose and bronchial tubes ; expectoration was copious, thick, yellow.
Hoarseness ceased at once.
In a month she ceased coughing ; the finger joints became painful and swollen considerably.
In three months she had no pain and the nodes were scarcely perceptible.
She is now perfectly well and has been so one year.
She had only one dose of the remedy, as the case was doing well enough, i. e., as the symptoms were taking the right course to recovery in the proper way.
She suffered much pain on the road to recovery but I know of only one way to cure these cases, and that is to let the remedy alone when the symptoms are taking the proper course.
Case 4
Rheumatism of left ankle and knee
Rhumatisme de la cheville gauche et du genou
Abrotanum
Mrs. T. had suffered from chronic rheumatism of the left ankle and knee for several years.
She rubbed the limb with a strong liniment and the rheumatism was speedily cured.
But it was not long before she needed a physician.
I saw her friends surrounding her bed, she was covered with a profuse, cold sweat, sitting propped up on pillows.
Her friends said she was dying, and I thought so too.
She had a small, quick pulse ; there was pain at the heart and auscultation over heart, revealed the usual story, which is too well known to all, as there are many such cases.
She was six months pregnant.
Gave her Abrot., and she slowly recovered.
The little one now bears my Christian name in honor of the great cure.
She has recovered, perfectly free from rheumatism, and the lad is now several years old.
These two cases show what Abrotanum can do when properly indicated.
It is a powerful remedy and must not be repeated.
It acts many weeks, in waves or cycles ; it is too seldom used.
Case 5
Abscess on face
Abcès de la face
Tarentula cubensis
A middle-aged gentleman had an abscess on the side of the face just in front of the ear.
Suppuration was advanced and the fluctuation was marked.
Silicea had done some good as it had controlled the pain.
The cavity was aspirated by a surgeon several times but it continued to refill.
After three weeks there was no abatement of the difficulty.
The integument took on a new feature, becoming bluish, mottled with great burning and sharp cutting pains.
The hardness was extending and the opening gave out a bloody thin excoriating fluid of foul smell.
He was chilly and nauseated and had symptoms of pyaemia.
After one dose of Tarantula cubensis 12x an immediate change for the better took place, no more pus formed and he was well in ten days.
The discolored localization became a bright red and then faded to the natural color.
The nausea and general pyoemic symptoms were greatly relieved within twelve hours.
No more medicine.
Case 6
Aconite or Sulphur ?- Pneumonia
Aconit ou Sulfur ? Pneumonie
Aconit
Sulfur
Take a case of pneumonia that has advanced to the stage of exudation and let that patient get a little cold sufficient to arouse him to a state of mental anxiety.
With a superficial examination you will find Aconite indicated, but just as sure as you give it you will fail.
Give Sulphur at once and you will cure your patient.
Never mind the fact that Aconite has the superficial show.
I say in ninety nine cases out of one hundred give Sulphur.
When I first commenced prescribing I gave Aconite and I never had anything but failure, and have been disappointed many times by giving it.
Case 7
Adenoids cured with tuberculinum
Végétations guéries avec Tuberculinum
Tuberculinum
I recently met an old friend who said that he and his sister had lately become interested in a dear little child whose parents had died of tuberculosis.
These friends were trying to help the child along through school, but the school-doctor said it was useless effort : that the child's head was all stopped up with adenoids.
This child was also stupid ; it was sickly, having night-sweats and many symptoms suggestive of Tuberculinum.
My friend offered to pay for my attention but I said I would be as generous as he and that it would give me great pleasure to help the child ; and I did.
I sent Tuberculinum.
After a short time the child was breathing through the nose and was gaining in school.
In the course of about four months they thought the child was so much better that they showed her to the doctor to see if he still considered that adenoids were present.
He said they surely were there, very marked, but that now he did not see them at all ; that he also had heard of those things getting well of themselves.
I have cured probably 100 cases of adenoids with Tuberculinum alone, so that the children breathe through the nose, and close the mouth.
Only four weeks ago, a child with adenoids was brought to me ; I couldn't find much of anything else, except a history.
She was irritable ; Extremely stupid ; Unable to breath enough to keep going, day or night, except through the mouth ; and the doctor said there was nothing to do with that child but to remove those adenoids by operation.
To-day I received a letter, after only four weeks, telling that the child is now breathing through her nose.
Why, that is almost as quickly as you can do it with a knife or a red-hot iron !
Yes, probably a hundred cases cured with Tuberculinum alone ; that has some significance.
Another case I had took eighteen months for cure, but the father was a dyed-in-the-wool homoeopath and did not give up.
He reported that the specialist had said :
"It must be operated ; you are criminal if you don't do it at once."
But the father said :
"My doctor don't do such business :"
Well, sometimes the child was better, breathing through the nose for awhile ; then it would take a little cold and the nose would close again.
In eighteen months the child was entirely well and is the picture of health :
There are several children in the family, and this one, who was such a poor, sickly, good-for-nothing baby that required eighteen months to cure with Tuberculinum, is the healthiest.
Many of these cases could be reported ; it would be only about the same story over and over again. I advise you to study the symptoms.
Question :
So often we have children brought to us with adenoids, on whom the operation has already been performed. What are we to do ?
Dr. Kent :
There you will not succeed so often as you would if they let the patient alone. This is your problem.
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Case 8
Tubercular glands
Ganglions tuberculeux
Tuberculinum bovinum
Dr. Kent :
Speaking to another point : I have had a great deal of experience with tubercular glands on both sides of the neck.
Each had about four or five fistulous openings.
She had had such glands for some time :
The neck was whittled out, and very thin, the fistulous opening persisting.
She had a tuberculosis family history ; and other tubercular symptoms, with these glands.
I started her on a series of Tuberculinum bovinum.
I used the bovinum in that case because it comes from the glands of the cow's neck.
She was kept under a series of potencies, probably to the ten-thousandth.
Then those glands all subsided and healed, and the neck there was perfectly smooth.
She afterwards became pregnant and brought forth a healthy, perfectly normal child.
Before she finished nursing the child those tubercular glands rose again.
I then had her stop the nursing, placing her again under treatment.
At the end of about six or eight months she appeared perfectly well and, so far as I have heard, she has not had any return nor any sign from those tubercular glands of the neck.
Another case was operated three times by our excellent Dr. Pratt, here in Chicago ; the enlargement repeatedly returned, and he operated three times.
When they reappeared for the fourth time, advised by one of her friends she came to me.
Her symptoms were clear for Tuberculinum bovinum.
There were but two remaining glands, which became inflamed and nodular hard masses and she was suffering from the swelling of the tissues.
Tuberculinum bovinum took down all that swelling.
She came to me some time in the winter and I treated her until summer ; she appeared to be perfectly well, a picture of health, and gaining in flesh.
Then her mother thought her well enough to spend week in Canada where she could have a nice home and big time.
So she went up there. I advised and urged her most earnestly to remain where I could keep watch of her, so that when her symptoms should begin to return I might give the indicated remedy ; but, No, No, she must go.
So soon as she arrived there in the cold weather and storms, she took cold ; the cold went to her lungs and she died of tuberculosis.
I am satisfied from the way she had progressed that if she had been where I could watch her and keep her free from colds, she would have regained her health.
So I have seen any number of patients, with such glands of the neck, entirely restored to health by the aid of Tuberculinum bov.
Dr. Kent speaking to another point :
After removing the adenoids the child goes right on with whatever tendency happens to exist in that child.
Every individual born at the present time, with all the fierce tendencies of our living-bad governing, bad rearing, bad clothing and bad feeding, that we have at present in the entire human race-is capable, just as soon as you thwart one mischievous bent, of developing something else ! No one can foresee what that will be.
Suppress an eruption : some will then have brain trouble ; others, lung trouble, and others will develop abdominal troubles. Whatever is their weakest point will then be manifest.
If this child had been permitted to go right on with the adenoids, the disease-directions would have been continuously towards the adenoids ; to increase and intensify the catarrh.
But somebody operated : cut out the entire activity there, probably cleared it all up.
If he had left a part of the condition, there would have been, for this particular kind of disease, the things directing his attention there.
When that was carved out, so beautifully removed, then the next weakening that the child had would manifest : in this case, as hay fever ; so that has developed.
The probability is that the same remedy would be indicated now as was indicated before from center to circumference.
We can never tell what will happen, or what the direction will be, when you remove adenoids.
If the tonsils are not removed, it may be to the tonsils ;
Ear-troubles may develop ; It may be lung-trouble : Almost anything may appear ; but it is generally internal : very seldom is it an eruption.
If eruptions are removed, one can never tell what center will then be attacked.
What I wish to say is, that any part of the body may be affected, according to what is the weakened place.
When I make a test with Tuberculinum, the response for which I first look is :
The mother says the boy feels so much better ; He eats better ; He is feeling better, in a few weeks after he takes it.
If any such response is obtained, it is possible, if the symptoms are pretty certain, that I may test with another dose but generally I am pretty well satisfied that Tuberculinum is the basis of it.
If you have the symptoms of Tuberculinum, of course you will stand by it ; but in many instances, with those puny things with large glands, stopped-up noses, breathing through the mouth, and semi-idiotic or degenerate, we have nothing but the physical condition on which to depend : no symptoms.
Hunt here, hunt there, hunt somewhere else ; you have nothing on which to depend : everything is suppression.
I test such cases at once with Tuberculinum ; or : If there is pain with Psorinum ; and these tests are legitimate experiments with me.
First, one dose of one of these remedies, according to the symptoms ; as the symptoms develop, I try another dose.
The second dose may fail.
If a remedy is specifically indicated by the symptoms, I use this specifically homoeopathic remedy and then :
Continue with a series of potencies.
By developing the remedies and working up the vital strength, the child will begin to give symptoms ; the patient will begin to have symptoms, here and there.
It is a brilliant sight, to observe the anti-psoric remedy standing out, right clearly ; then I follow that out.
After getting indications, I commence to sound first the responses to my test for Tuberculinum, to see if possibly there is a tubercular test in this constitution, a tubercular tendency with that which is indescribable, that thing we have never been able to put into language ; I am guided by that instinct of which I am conscious, but cannot put into words : you will have to imagine it.
Case 9
Tubercular History Love and Mental Ability Revived
Etrange histoire d’amour et de tuberculose
Tuberculinum bovinum
Now another strange case I may tell you : A woman had been sick four years, declining steadily, when she came to consult me.
She had lost all her loves : had not the ability to exercise that function at all.
She was ashamed of it : did not like her husband ; did not love her children : and she said :
"What shall I do ! Don't tell of it. I don't want anybody to know that I do not love my husband ; he is a good man.
And my children ; I have lost all my love for my children."
She had no resolution whatever ; was entirely irresolute : was irritable ; had no desire to do anything : it was all lost.
Undertaking any mental exertion brought much pain in the occiput ; she put her finger directly on the spot : she felt hot right at that spot.
Hers was a marked tubercular history.
From her recital I recognized that there was a difficulty-it was clear to me that there was some obstruction in the passage between the third and the fourth ventricles ; it appeared to me that the cerebro-spinal fluid would not flow out of the brain to accommodate her mental exertion, and then she would have congestion.
I could strongly suspect that there were tubercular deposits in the brain ; I was convinced of this by her strongly tubercular history.
But I did not come to a conclusion until after studying her for more than six months, giving her such remedies as I could.
She would pick up slightly ; and then within a week would drop right back again ; I would select another remedy, and after another slight improvement she would again drop back.
Finally, I thought : Here is a tubercular history and here are the tubercular symptoms ; I am going to test her.
Putting her under a test with Tuberculinum bovinum 10m, she responded to it.
She said, "Doctor, I am a new woman."
All of her loves came back ; her mental ability revived.
She had 10m twice at long intervals and : had 50m twice, also at long intervals.
She responded and felt better after the first dose ; within three or four weeks her symptoms returned and I gave her a second one.
She is now on the third or fourth dose ; now, after about three or four doses she is a new woman, perfectly natural in everything.
Case 10
Anaemia
Anémie
Sulfur
Little Helen, seven years old, presented the appearance of a very sick child when seen.
Jan. 16. Blood on the pillow, on fingers and in mouth. (Sulph.) Has passed thread-worms. (Sulph.) Very hungry by spells. Headache frontal. Vertigo in the morning. Abdominal pains. Faintness. Thirst more than hunger. (Sulph.) Aversion to milk. Craves meat and sweets. Has never thrived but has been running down in general health during past year.
Aversion to milk : Calc., calc. p., carb. v., cina, LAC. D., NAT. C., nat. s, nat. p., phos. sep., sil., stan., sulph.
Craves meat : Sulph.
Sulphur 10m.
Feb. 13. Generally improved ; symptoms all lessened.
Return of some symptoms in mild form occasioned repetition of the remedy-first in 10m, then 50m potency-on Feb. 28, April 1 and May 1 ; the last time all symptoms reported absent except aversion to milk.
She was robust and rosy as a child should be.
This patient presented scarcely anything but common symptoms, yet the prescriber was able to find the characteristics of the patient suffering lack of nutrition, in the abnormal appetite.
The most peculiar symptoms of other parts were found to be in harmony with the peculiarities expressed through the stomach and the remedy met the requirements of a successful prescription.
Case 11
A Serious Case
Un cas sérieux
Calcarea carbonica
C. R. W. aged three years.
Parents and grandparents living and healthy.
Patient has been fed on modified milk which was invariably sterilized.
Teeth appeared slowly but without much trouble.
Previous illnesses : Capillary bronchitis soon after birth, for three days ; has had it several times since ; easily "takes cold," lungs most affected.
Whooping cough began when ten months old, very severe for two or three months.
Occasional croupy cough since : two or three coughs at a time, mostly at night.
Circumcised four months ago.
Adenoids removed from pharynx, after which color, sleep, etc., were improved.
Depression about the size and shape of the bowl of a table-spoon at ensiform cartilage.
Fell on the carpet several months ago, partially dislocated the hip-joint.
After a few days of quiet appeared quite well.
At times since that has pain in the knee of the affected side.
Strength good last summer.
Had rectal injections a few times.
Of good appearance and fairly developed.
March 5, 1903.
Coryza five or six weeks ago ; nose obstructed ; restless in sleep ; tired and sleepy frequently ; grinding teeth in sleep ; was better and worse again.
Sick following a sleigh ride ten days ago : temp. 101 or 102 degrees ; pulse 130 or more.
Urine scanty (three to five oz. in twenty-four hours), smoky, high-colored, sp. gr. 1028, albumin plentiful ; no appetite ; sluggish bowels, feces pasty, white.
Was treated with a purge, kept in bed, and given milk-diet.
Attempts to give him lithia water failed.
Nasal discharge continued only one day.
Third day, hot fomentations to kidneys gave some relief.
Fourth day, vomiting the milk ; unable to retain it in any way it was modified ; milk-toast vomited in two hours.
Cooked rice, milk, and oatmeal were retained.
Fifth day, urine slightly increased in quantity, color improved, sp. gr. 1028, less albumin-granular and hyaline casts, epithelial casts red and white, no blood-corpuscles in casts.
Until this time sleep poor ; fever and rapid pulse continued.
Glands on both sides of neck enlarged when he had croupy cough ; size of hen's egg on left side, very painful ; numerous other lymph-glands enlarged, resembling small string of beads.
Oedema of face and eye-lids noticed slight ; none now.
Past four or five days has rested comfortably at night, except that the glands on right side and the ears are painful, ameliorated by hot applications ; worse early part of night.
Fever absent ; pulse 90 to 100, during sleep, more rapid as soon as he stirs.
Tongue slightly coated ; urine gradually increased in quantity until nearly normal ; no thirst since fever ceased ; albumin absent or nearly so, sp. gr. 1020, color good ; plays in bed during the day Respiration no more rapid than accounted for by fever ; easy during sleep.
Fair skin face rarely rushed ; dark hair and eyes ; loving disposition.
Tonsils not especially enlarged ; adenoids visible in pharynx.
Bowels fairly active.
Fears entering an elevator or strange toilet-room since his sickness, fears having temperature registered or a poultice applied.
Fears something will hurt him and wonders if others are not afraid of the things he fears.
Past two days animal broth added to his diet.
Takes plenty of nourishment and appears stronger in many ways.
Has much earache or R. side, ameliorated by heat ; face appears swollen about the cheeks ; stomach and abdomen larger than normal though always had prominent abdomen ; abdomen not hard or sore to touch, but child dreads being touched, in fear of being hurt.
Aversion to being touched : Agar., ant.-c., ars., Calc., Camph., CHAM., chin., cina, iod., kali-c., lach., mag-c., mere., mez. plb., sanic., Sil., thuj.
Timidity : Ars., CALC., chin, iod., KALI-C., mere., plb., Sil.
Enlarged glands ; swelling of neck. CALC., iod., KALI-C., MERC., Sil.
Subject to earache : Calc., kali-c., MERC., Sil.
Enlarged abdomen : CALC., SIL.
Grinds teeth : Calc.
Calcarea 10 M.
The subsequent reports entered on this record reveal that the remedy was equal to the demands.
It altered the child in every characteristic, restoring order and nutrition.
The chief interest is in the method of selecting the remedy.
The characteristics of the child, revealed in the mental realm, are the basis for study.
From that basis it proceeds, selecting the symptoms that express the general character of the disturbances, and there is no tedious work before the list is narrowed to one or two remedies.
He who knows the characteristics of the remedies in our Materia Medica will quickly realize that the entire case is most similar to Calc.-c.
Subsequent treatment, of course, included the use of this remedy in a series of potencies, as improvement progressed under its influence.
Case 12
Asthmatic and dropsical
Asthme et oedème
Tarentula cubensis
Mrs. S, age 76, Also an inmate of the Memorial Home came to my charge the same time as Mrs. F.
She was dropsical and asthmatic.
The urine was loaded with albumin, and apparently, she was progressing to a fatal termination without interruption.
She took Ars., Apis., Apocyn. Lach., with some relief.
The latter seemed to give the only relief ; finally, she was becoming very large ; hands, face, limbs and abdomen all oedematous, while Lach. afforded relief I had decided not to tap.
Though she had taken medicine at proper intervals, when there seemed a demand for a repetition, yet the time came when she seemed to get no benefit from the remedy.
The suffocation after sleep was the special symptom guiding to Lach. 41m. was the preparation used.
Early one morning I was advised as to her condition.
She had suffered greatly during the night with pains in the feet and legs, and her feet were getting black.
The matron thinking that she was about to die, gave her some whiskey without relief.
The great pain in feet and legs, skin turning black, perhaps threatening gangrene.
Ars. and Lach. had failed, guided me to Tarantula cubensis, which was given, 12x one dose.
The pain subsided immediately, the dark color of the skin on legs became bright-red and in a general way, she felt improved and got up.
Next night she slept well until toward morning, when pain in lower limbs returned, Tarent. cub. 12x was repeated, with perfect relief.
The medicine has been repeated by necessity about every day since November 20th.
December 1.
There is now a fiery redness of the skin below the knee to the ankles on both legs, tender to the touch and covered with small blisters.
Everybody that looked at it thought it was erysipelas. A serious transudation is going on from the surface of both limbs from the feet to about six inches above the knees, which runs down and drips from the heels and also saturates the absorbent dressings in a few minutes.
A sheet placed on the limbs as an outer covering must be taken off every hour and another put on as the serum is so great in quantity. A sheet dried shows very little discoloration but is pungent to the smell. There has been no perspiration from any part of the body. The oedema appears to be going clown.
December 15th.
The oedema has gone from the face, hands and thighs. The abdomen has become nearly natural in size, and albumin has not been noticed in the urine since December 1 Urine has been very scanty. The legs are covered from knees to ankles with a profusion of flat ulcers which secrete a serous flow, and large yellow crusts are forming.
December 20.
Oedema gone out of feet and ulcers are still flat with red, and in the places blue margins and red and bluish interspaces on the skin. Yellow scales are forming. The patient is somewhat prostrated, but says she is more comfortable with ulcers than with the "bloat" as she nearly suffocated before. Since December 1, she has had an occasional dose of the medicine, as the pain in the legs became severe.
January 1, 1883.
She shows signs of sinking, though she says she is feeling comfortable except the occasional sharp pain in the ulcers.
It is evident she is going to die, but will she die of exhaustion or will the dropsy return and death occur as usual from such condition ? Such was my query.
January 9.
She died of exhaustion.
Case 13
Bladder symptoms.
Symptômes de la vessie
Eryngium.
Eryngium aquatium 30, cured a lady who had suffered with the following urinary symptoms :
For two years she was compelled to pass urine about every half hour night and day ; the urine was scalding.
There was burning during and sometimes after passing urine.
She was greatly reduced in flesh from the continued painful urging and loss of sleep.
She often lost her urine in bed because she became so exhausted it was impossible for her to awake in time to accommodate the call.
The urine was not examined chemically but was high colored and strong smelling.
After taking the remedy during the day she arose only twice the following night, after which she slept well and rapidly recovered her strength and flesh.
She was upwards of 50 years of age.
No cause could be discovered for the irritable bladder.
I have seen similar bladder symptoms cured with this remedy (Eryngium aq.) when used in the 3x, 6x, 12x, 30x, in a surprising manner.
The continuous teasing, and dribbling, drop by drop, smarting and burning night and day, I have often seen disappear under its use.
It is uncommon for the exaggerated sexual desire to be present, unlike Canth.
The patient is generally better in a warm place, unlike Apis.
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