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HAHNEMANNIAN ADVOCATE
A MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF
HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICINE
AND ALLIED SCIENCES
H. W. PIERSON, M. D., Editor.
VOLUME XXXVII—JANUARY TO DECEMBER, 1898-
HAHNEMANN PUBLISHING CO.
CHIOAQO.
1898 .
Digitized by CaOOQLe
Digitized by LjOOQle
...INDEX..
Abdominal Incision, 63.
Adams, E. T.
Mental Alienation,Crocus sat.,
79.
“ Surgical Shock, Arsenicum, 81.
Address to the Graduating Class of
Dunham Medical College, C. S.
Fahnestock, 193.
Adenoid Vegetations, 500.
Adjuvants, W. W. Johnsoi*, 710.
Aesculus—Hemorrhoids, H. W. Pier¬
son, 730.
Agaricus Muscarius, Poisoning from
635.
Aggravations Drug, H. 11. Baker,349.
Ailantus, Apis, Arsenicum, Carbolic
acid, Lachesis and Rhus toxico¬
dendron, Pathological Changes,
570.
Ailantus Glandulosa, Therapeutic In¬
dications, M. E. Douglass, 550.
Allen, Edmund T., Therapeutics of
Cataract, 339.
Allopathic Teaching—Its Defect,113.
Aloes—Involuntary Diarrhoea, 242.
Amalgam Fillings, Injurious Effects,
B. L. Hotchkins, 224.
Amendment, The Signs of Insipient
(§ 252-256) S. L. G. Leggett, 513.
Amenorrhoea—Pulsatilla, 41.
“ Sepia, Belladonna, 678
American Institute of Homoeopathy,
*60, 121,254,310,314, 434.
Angina Pectoris, Frank R. Waters,
362.
“Antidotal” Treatment, 274, 244.
Antikamnia—Proving, 293.
Antimonium tartaricum, Intermittent
fever, F. W. Patch, 97.
Apis—Erysipelas, 572.
“ (Edema, 567-243.
“ Mellifica, Therapeutic Indica¬
tions, M. E. Douglass, 551.
“ •Synovitis, 572.
Apology for combining Homoeopathy
with Allopathy, 56.
Appendicitis, Bill Nye, 498.
Appendicitis, Bryonia, Pyrogen, W.
A. Yingling, 30.
“ Complication of the
Pregnant state,633.
“ Oil Treatment of, 60.
Argentum Metallicum, Huber, 577.
“ Nitricum, 579.
Arnica—Gestation, W. W. Gleason, 41
“ Neuralgia, 679.
Arsenicum—Asthma, R. M. Barrows,
557.
“ Asthma, W.W. Gleason,
108.
“ Erysipelas, 572.
“ Gangrene, 572.
“ Intermittent fever, W.
W. Gleason, 41.
“ Intermittent fever, F.
W. Patch, 98, 94.
“ Pyemia, 572.
“ Septicemia, 571.
“ Therapeutic Indica¬
tions, M. E. Doug¬
lass, 541.
“ Surgical Shock, E. T.
Adams, 80.
“ —Diarrhoea, K.O. Austin, 734
Assimilated, No Medicine, 187.
Asthma—Arsenicum, R. M. Barrows,
557.
“ —Arsenicum, W. W. Gleason,
108.
“ C. S. Durand, 365.
“ —Ipecac, F. R. Waters, 235.
“ W. L. Morgan, 74.
“ —Rhus tox., 243.
Atresia of the Vagina, 631.
Austin, K. O., Hypnotism as an Ad¬
junct to Medicine, 481.
“ Mind, 681.
“ Thought, 684.
“ Psychometric Force, 617.
“ The Double, 746.
“ Hypnotism, 736
“ Animal Magnetism, 743.
“ Vital Principal The, 747.
Digitized by t^ooQle
Index.
iv
Baci 11 ilium —Incipient Phthisis,
Leslie Martin, 530.
Bacillius in Milk, 635.
Bailey, B. F., Let there be no Dis¬
crimination, 299.
Baldwin, W. Warren, Homoeopathy
and Drug Miasms, 269.
Barrows, Jennie E., Was it Tuber¬
culosis, 410.
Barrows, R. M.,
“ Asthma—Arsenicum, 557.
Cystitis—Catharides, Was it
Chance? 275.
“ Hereditary Syphilis, 165.
“ Lumbago—Rhus Toxicoden¬
dron, 557.
“ Pneumonia—Belladonna, 558.
“ Pregnancy, Vomiting of—
Ipecac, 556.
Beebe, James H., Mercury in Dentis¬
try, 713.
Belding, R. E., Organon, § 252, 521.
“ Diabetes Mellitus cured by
Sulphur, 31
Belladonna—Acute Mania following
Suppressed Scarlet Fever,
F. H. Lockwood, 33.
" Gallstone Colic, W. A. Ying-
ling, 28.
“ Intermittent Fever, F.W. Patch,
96, 98.
lt Neuralgia of the Throat, 243.
“ —Pneumonia, R. M. Barrows,
557.
Bender, Prosper.
“ Ovarian Tumor—Calc. carb.
and Sanicuia, 151.
“ Ovaritis—Lac. Caninum, 153.
“ Simillimum,Difficulties in Find¬
ing, 157.
“ Uterine Fibroma—Calc, jod.,
154.
Berridge, E. W., How to Advance
Homoeopathy, 263.
Bill Nye—Appendicitis, 498.
Blindness from Suppressed Itch —
Sulphur, 570.
Blood-beef Surgical Dressing, W. W.
Gleason, 110.
Brain Cells of Children, 637.
Bronchitis—Bryonia, F. R. Waters,
236.
Bryonia—Appendicitis, W. A. Ying-
ling, 30.
Bryonia—Bronchitis, F. R. Waters.
236.
“ —Intermittent Fever, F. W.
Patch, 94.
“ —Neuralgia of the Eyeball
due to coffee, 242.
“ —Rheumatism, W. W. Glea¬
son, 109
“ —Tonsilitis, W. A. Yingling,
32.
Calcarea Arsenica, 630.
Calcarea carb.—Chorea, Volney A.
Hoard, 523.
“ Chronic Malaria,
626.
“ Glandular Enlarge¬
ment, 568.
“ Grandular Enlarge¬
ment, W.P. Wes-
selhceft, 605.
“ W. L. Morgan, 69.
“ Sam’l Hahnemann,
657.
“ Ovarian Tumor,
P. Bender, 151.
Calcarea jodatum, Uterine fibroma,
P. Bender, 154.
California State Homoeopathic So¬
ciety, 430.
Campbell, John, Purification After
Child-birth, 43.
Cancer—Chelidonium, 298.
Cannabis indica—Proving, 61.
Catharides—Cystitis, R. M. Barrows,
275.
Carbolic acid, I. Dever, 418.
“ “ K. O. Austin, 735.
“ “ (hypodermic injection)
Hoarseness, F. R.
Waters, 237.
“ “ Septicemia, 571.
“ “ Therapeutic Indica¬
tions, M. E. Doug¬
lass, 549.
Carbo Vegetabilis—Epistaxis, 568.
Carr, A. B.Organon Sections 257-258,
706.
Cataract — Sulphur and Calcarea
carb.,W. L. Morghn, 71.
“ Therapeutics of, E. T.
Allen, 339.
Digitized by OaOOQle
Index.
v
Cataract — Zincum metallicum, F.
Wm. Payne, 455.
Causticum, Chorea, John Storer, 106.
Central New York Homoeopathic
Society, 12,312, 412, 415, 513,
705.
Chapman, S. E., The Negationist as
Related to Medicine, 210.
Chamomilla, 119.
Chase, C. E., Organon, § 263-256,
with Clinical Notes, 525.
Chelidonium—Cancer, 298.
Chemistry, Its Importance to Physi¬
cians, John Hoehn, 590.
Child bearing, Uremia in the Pro¬
cess of 632.
Child birth, Purification after, John
Campbell, 43.
China, Intermittent fever, F. W.
Patch, 89.
Chloroform, Dangerous, F. H. Lock-
wood, 395.
Chorea — Pulsatilla and Calcarea
carb., Volney A. Hoard, 523.
Christian Science Consistency, 764.
Chronic Constipation, John Storer,
106
Chronic Malaria—Calcarea carb,626.
Cina—Worms, W. W. Gleason, 40.
Circumcision of Girls, 502.
Clark, B. G., Tilia Europa, 385.
Clinical Certainties, W. S. Searle,
294.
Clinical Verifications, 28, 105, 163,
242, 449, 556, 673, 591, 723.
Close Stuart, Homoeopathy and
Drug Miasms, 129.
Cocainism, Chronic 118.
Coffea Tosta—Headache 673.
Colds—Hepar Sulph, 443.
Colicodynia— Veratrum album, S.
Hahnemann, 220.
College of the Future, The 493.
College Politics, 761.
Colocynthis—Gall Stone Colic, W.
A. Yingling, 28.
Combination Tablet, Valuable (?) F.
O. Pease, 240.
Comparative Study of Arsenicum,
Lachesis, Rhus tox., Apis, Ailan-
tus, Carbolic acid, 572.
Complexion and Diet, 636.
Compulsory Vaccination in the Public
Schools, A. R. Shannon, Esq., 689
Condensed Milk an an Infant Food,
120 .
Conium mac., Intermittent fevers,
F. W. Patch, 100.
Conjunctivitis Gonorrhoeal, Medor-
rhinum, J. P. Jones, 105.
Conjunctivitis—Pulsatilla, 675.
Conjunctivitis — Sanicula, R. E.
Belding, 461.
Conjunctivitis—Sulphur, R. E. Beld¬
ing, 461.
Constipation, Chronic, Jno. Storer,
105.
Consultation, A Case for, M. E.
Douglas, 49.
Cornell's New Microscopist, 634.
Correspondence, 1, 55, 490, 559.
“ Treatment of Pa¬
tients by O. M.
Drake, 1.
11 Treatment by 55.
Cough—Kali bichromicum, 297.
“ Phosphorus, 297.
Cranch, Edward, Cases of Suppres¬
sion, 37.
Crocus sativa, 116.
Croton tig., Intermittent fever, F.
W. Patch, 98.
Crutcher, Howard, A Surgical View
of Suppression, 35.
“ The Removal of Entire
Stomach not Practi¬
cal, 173.
Cuprum met., E. V. Ross, 527.
Cure of a Complicated Cerebral and
Nervous Disease, M. A. Ruhfus,
366.
Cystitis—Cantharis, R. M. Barrows,
275.
Damage from Exploding Shell, 503
Davis, F. S., A Sulphur Case, 75.
Death — Remote and Immediate
Premonitions, A Consideration
of, 628.
Delirium, Etiology and Pathology,
305.
Delivery of Twins after the Death of
the Mother, 632.
Dentistry, Use of Mercury, J. H.
Beebe, 713.
Diabetes Mellitus—Sulphur, R. E.
Belding, 41.
Digitized by LjOOQle
VI
Index.
Diarrhoea Involuntary—Aloes, 242.
“ “ —Veratrum album
242.
Diet and Complexion, 636.
Digitalis—Heart, 120.
Dills Malcolm, Indicated Remedy
vs. Ordinary Treatment in Uter¬
ine Troubles, 330.
“Double” The, K. O. Austin, 746.
Douglass, M. E., A Case for Consul¬
tation, 49.
“ Repertory of the Newer
Remedies—Nervous Sys¬
tem, 65.
“ Repertory of New Remedies,
661.
“ . Therapeutic Indications of
Arsenicum Album, Rhus
Toxicodendron, Lachesis,
Carbolic Acid, Ailantus
Glandulosa and Apis
Mellifica, 541.
Drake, Olin M., Treatment of Pa¬
tients by Correspondence, 1.
Dreams, Repertory of, E. H. Wilsey,
204, 285, 369.
Drowning, Significance ot Sudden,
639.
Drug Aggravation, H. H. Baker,349.
** Miasms and Homoeopathy,
W. Warren Baldwin, 269.
“ Miasms and Homoeopathy,
Stuart Close, 129.
“ Miasms and Homoeopathy,
F. O. Pease, 246.
“ Miasms, Isopathy and Hom¬
oeopathy, A. R. Morgan, 462.
Dunham Medical College, Registrar’s
Report, H. W. Pierson, 251.
Durand, C. S. Asthma, 365.
Ear —Removal of Foreign Bodies,
118.
Eczema—Graphites, W. L. Morgan,49
“ W. W. Gleason, 107.
Editorial, 55, 112, 126, 169, 249, 301,
379, 491, 561, 621, 699,
757.
“ Carbolic acid, Gangrene,
120 .
“ Medical College Politics,
491.
Egan, J. A., Osteopathy and the Illi¬
nois State Board of Health, 490.
Elbow, Injuries to 170.
Enureses—Natrum mur., 626.
Epilepsy from Suppressed Eruption,
Sulphur, 676.
“ F. H. Lockwood, 233.
Epiphegus—Headache, 143.
Epistaxis—Carbo veg., 568.
Erysipelas—Apis, 572.
“ \rsenicum alb., 572.
“ Lachesis, 572.
“ Rhus tox., 572.
Examinations, Be Thorough, 177.
“ and Douches in Nor¬
mal Labor, 633.
Exhumation of Hahnemann’s Body,
508.
Eye-ball Neuralgia—Bryonia 242.
Eye Symptoms of Kali bichromicum,
Frederick Wm. Payne, 592.
Fahnestock, C. S., Address to
the Graduating Class of Dun¬
ham Medical College, 193.
“Fallen from Grace,” 115.
Felony Debar from Medical Prac¬
tice, 499.
Ferrum pic., A. W. Holcombe, 269.
Ferrum met., Intermittent fever, F.
W. Patch, 92, 90.
Fever, Hay—Iodine, 147.
“ Intermittent, W. W. Gleason,
553.
“ Intermittent—Arsenicum, W.
W. Gleason, 41.
“ “ Arsenicum, 98,94.
“ “ Ant. tart., 97.
“ “ Belladonna, 98,96.
“ “ Bryonia, 93.
“ “ Crot. tig., 98.
“ “ Conium mac.,100.
“ “ Gelsemium, 99.
“ tl Hyoscyamus, 99,
95.
Ipecacuanha, 94.
Ignatia, 92.
Lachesis, 93.
Nux vom., 98, 94.
China, 89.
Ferrum met.92,90.
Nat. mur., 99, .97,
95, 90.
Pulsatilla, 88.
Rhus tox., 89.
Sambucus, 91.
Digitized by LjOOQle
Index .
Fever, Typhoid, 633.
“ “ R. E. Belding, 457.
Fibroma Mammary—Mercurius, F.
R. Waters, 163.
Fibroma, Uterine—Calc, job., Pros¬
per Bender, 154.
Fincke, B., Additional Provings of
Magnetis Polus Arcticus, Pulsa¬
tilla and Sulphur, 583.
Fistula-in-ano—Hepar sulph., Frank
R. Waters, 163.
Force Psychometric, K. O. Austin,
617.
Foreign bodies removed from ear,
118.
Foreign Bodies, Beneath the Nail,
A Procedure for Removing, 764
Fulton Insane Asylum, 249.
Gallstone C o 1 i c—Colocynthis,
W. A. Yingling, 28.
“ Colic—Belladonna, 28.
Gangrene—Arsenicum alb., 572.
“ Lachesis, 572.
Gastric Ulcer Mercurius, F. R.
Waters, 591.
Gastritis—Nux vomica, W. W. Glea¬
son, 108.
Gelsemium, Intermittent Fever, F.
W. Patch, 99.
Genito-Urinary—Pulsatilla, 498.
Gestation—Arnica, W. W. Gleason,41
“ —Pulsatilla, •* “ 41
Gilchrist, James G., Surgical Pocket
Case, 184.
Glandular Enlargement, Calc, carb.,
568.
Glandular Enlargement, Calcarea
carb., Sulphur and Thuja, W. P.
Wesselhceft, 606.
Gleason, W. W., 40.
“ Amenorrhoe—Pulsatilla, 41
“ Asthma—Arsenicum, 108.
“ Eczema—Sulphur, 107.
“ Gastritis—Nux vomica, 108.
“ Gestation—Arnica, 41.
“ “ —Pulsatilla, 41.
“ Intermittent Fever—Arseni¬
cum, 41.
* Rheumatism—Bryonia, 109.
“ Worms—Cina, 40.
“ Beefblood dressing, 110.
“ Red Vulcanite, 109.
“ . Was This a Failure? 553
vii
Gonorrhoeal Conjunctivitis Medorr-
hinum, J. P. Jones, 105.
Gonorrhoea, Maltreatment, Howard
Crutcher, 600.
Gonorrhoeal Rheumatism—Pulsatil¬
la, 627.
Gout and Uric Acid Diathesis, 190.
Graphites—Eczema, W. L. Morgan,
69,
Graham, M. E., Reflex Troubles
caused by Ovarian Diseases,
24.
** Use of Roentgen Rays in
Surgery, 534.
Haemostatic —Senecio aurens,189
Hahnemann, Samuel, Calcarea carb.,
657.
“ “ Cases Illustrated
of Homoeopath-
Practice, 723.
“ “ Colicodynia,
Verat. alb., 220.
“ “ Exhumation,508.
“ “ Spirit of the
Homoepathic
Medical Doc¬
trine, 641.
“ Tomb, International Com¬
mission for the restoration, 315.
Hall, Eliza Calvert, Mental Science
and Homoeopathy, 27.
Hay fever—Iodine, 147.
Haynes, J. R., Materia Medica and
Homoeopathy, 539.
Headache—Coffea Tosta, 673.
“ Ephiphigus, 243.
“ Pulsatilla, 673.
“ Sepia, Bryonia, 677.
“ “ L. Whiting, 732.
Health of Girls, 506.
“ A. C. Rasmussen, 604.
Heart, Action of, Digitalis, 120.
Hemorrhage, Therapeutic Indica¬
tions, F. O. Pease, 394.
Hemorrhoids—Aesculus, H. W.Pier¬
son, 730.
Hepar Sulphur in “Colds,” 443.
“ “ Fistula-in-ano, F. W.
Waters, 163.
Heioic Treatment, 498.
Hoard, Volney A., A Case of Chorea,
523.
Digitized by LjOOQle
Index.
vitt
Hoarseness—Carbolic acid (hypo¬
dermic injection) F. R. Waters,
237.
Holcombe, A. W., Ferrum pic., 266.
“ Homoeopathic Art, 216.
“ The Place of Nosodes in
the Homoeopathic Ma¬
teria Medica, 486.
Holden, C. H., Tabes Mesenterica:
Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treat¬
ment, 739.
Homing Pigeons vs. Telephone, 500.
Homoeopathic Art, W. A. Holcombe,
216.
Homoeopathic Medical Doctrine,
Spirit of, S. Hahnemann, 641.
Homoeopathic Practice, Cases Illus¬
trated of, Sam’l Hahnemann, 723
Homoeopathy and Drug Miams, W.
Warren Baldwin, 269.
“ and Drug Miasms, F. O.
Pease, 246.
“ and Drug Miasms, Stuart
Close, 129.
“ How to Advance, E. W.
Berridge, 264.
“ or Isopathy, 302.
“ Isopathy and Drug Miasms
A. R. Morgan, 462.
“ and Materia Medida, J. R.
Haynes, 539.
“ and Mentil Science, Eliza
Calvert Hall, 27.
“ to Potentized Drugs, The
Relation of, Maybelle
M. Park, 610.
“ Scientific, L. D. Rogers,
110 .
“ Liberal, Frank Kraft, 191.
Homoeopathicians, Society of, 69.
Hospital Records, Statistical Value,
764.
Hotchkins, B. L., Injurious Effects
of Amalgam Fillings, 224.
Hoyne, T. S., Antidotes of Sulphur,
147.
Hoyne, Temple S., Dean of Dunham
Medical College, 382.
Hyoscyamus, Intermittent fever, F.
W. Patch, 95, 99.
Hypericum, Traumatic Neuralgia,
243.
Hypnotism as an Adjunct to Medi¬
cine, K. O. Austin, 481.
Hypnotism, K. O. Austin, 736.
Hysterectomy, Vaginal 630.
Ignatia, Intermittent Fever, F. W.
Patch, 92.
Illinois Horn. Soc., Amends the
Legislative Bill, 562.
Illinois State Board of Health and
Osteopathy, J. A. Egan, 490.
Incipient Phthisis—Bacillinum, Les¬
lie Martin, 530.
Indiana Law Upheld, 563.
Indicated Remedy, vs. Ordinary
Treatment of Uterine Troubles,
Malcolm Dills, 330.
Influenza, H. W. Pierson, 229.
“ or La Grippe Remedies,
F. O. Pease, 232.
“ Persistent Recurrences, 189
Influence of State Examining Boards
upon Medical Education, 757.
Injuries to Elbow, 170.
Insane, Home Treatment, 629.
Institutes of Medicine, 1, 257, 402,
486, 610.
Institute Politics, 382.
International Commission for the
Restoration of Hahnemann’s
Tomb, 315.
International Hahnemannian Asso¬
ciation, 309.
Iodine—Hay Fever, 147.
“ Illustrated, S. L. G. Leggett,
422.
“ Carl Schumacher, 420.
“ and Carbolic Acid Symp¬
toms of, J. A. Biegler.
Iowa Medical Practice Act, 308.
Ipecac—Vomiting of Pregnancy,
R. M. Barrows, 556.
Ipecacuanha—Asthma, F. R. Waters,
235.
“ Intermittent Fever, F. W.
Patch, 99.
Isopathy, Drug Miasms and Hom¬
oeopathy, A. R. Morgan, 462.
Jaborandi —Night Sweats, 679.
Jelly Fish, Proving of, 625.
Johnson, W. W., Adjuvants, 710.
Jones, J. P., Gonorrhoeal Conjunc¬
tivitis, Medorrhinum* 105.
Digitized by
Google
Index .
ix
Jones, Malnutrition, 282.
Journal of Homoeopathies, 762.
Kali Bichromicum—cough, 297.
** “ Eye Symptoms of,
Frederick W. Payne, 592
“ “ 762.
Kalmia lat.—Intercostal Rheumatism
of left side, 242.
Kansas State Horn. Society, 482.
Kent, J. T., What the People Should
Know, 51.
Kidney Variations, S. J. D. Meade,
354.
Kimball, S. A. Phlegmon, 84.
Kraft, Frank, Who is the Liberal
Homoeopath ? 190.
Krichbaum, Philip E., 334.
Labor Normal, Vaginal Examina-
tion and Vaginal Douches, 633.
Labor Painless, A. McNeil, 358.
Lac caninum — Ovaritis, Prosper
Bender, 153.
Lachesis—Erysipelas, 572.
“ —Gangrene, 572.
“ —Intermittent Fever. F. W.
Patch, 93.
“ —Malignant Pustule, 678.
“ —Pyemia, 572.
“ —Therapeutic Indications, M.
E. Douglass, 547.
“ —Tonsilitis, R. E. Belding, 460
“ —Septicemia, 571.
Leggett, S. L. G., The Signs of In-
sipient Amendment, §§ 252-256,
513.
Legislation, Medical, 495, 700.
Let there be no Discrimination, B.
F. Bailey, 299.
Leucorrhoea—Borax, 298.
Licensure, State Medical, H. M.
Paine, 692.
Lockwood, F. H., Acute Mania, fol¬
lowing Suppressed Scarlet
Fever—Belladonna, 33.
“ —Epilepsy, 233.
“* —Is Chloroform Dangerous ?
395.
“ —Psychic Phenomena, 473.
4t —Significance of Mental
Symptoms in Nervous
Diseases, 175.
Lumbago—Rhus toxicodendron, R.
M. Barrows, 557.
Magnetis, Polus Arcticus, Addi¬
tional Provings, B. Fincke, 583.
Magnesia Carbonica, 762.
Magnetism, Animal, K.O.Austin, 743
Make a Note of It, 186.
Malaria, Chronic—Calc, carb., 626.
Malignant Pustule—Lachesis, 678.
Malnutrition, J. P. Jones, 282.
“ —Clinical Case, 763.
Mania, Acute, following Suppressed
Scarlet Fever, Belladonna, F.
H. Lockwood, 33.
Marriage Restrictions, 564.
Martin Leslie, Incipient Phthisis—
Belladonna, 530.
Marquette, 438.
Materia Medica, 65, 129, 204, 285,
316, 321, 385, 539, 567,577, 657.
Materia Medica and Homoeopathy,
J. R. Haynes, 539.
McLachlan, John, The Use of the
Higher Potencies, 182.
" Whitlow, 321.
McNeil, A., A Painless Labor, 358.
“ Rhus tox. Poisoning, 461.
“ Scrofula, 408.
Meade, S. J. D., Kidney Variations,
354.
Medicinal Action and Medicinal Act¬
ivity, 117.
Medical Bill Proposed for the State
of Illinois, H. M. Paine, 750.
Medical Practice Act of Iowa, 308.
“ Testimony, 566.
“ Treatment of Sexual Pas¬
sions, 505.
Medicine, 210, 595.
“ in War, 494.
“ The Outlook of 171.
Medorrhinum — Gonorrhoea Con¬
junctivitis, J. P. Jones, 105.
Medorrhinum—Spinal Irritation, F.
W. Payne, 449.
Menopause, Patient and the Remedy
at the, Philip E. Krichbaum, 334.
Menstruation, A Rare Variety of
Vicarious, 445.
Mental Alienation—Crocus sat., E.
T. Adams, 79.
Mental Science and Homoeopathy,
Eliza Calvert Hall, 27.
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Mental Symptoms in Nervous Dis¬
eases, F. H. Lockwood, 175.
Mercurius—Fibroma, F. W. Waters,
163.
“ Gastric Ulcer, F. W. Wat¬
ers, 591.
Mercury, as used in Dentisty, J. H.
Beebe, D. D. S., 713.
Modified Milk, 632.
Modalities, 239.
Monthly Review, 443, 564, 624, 762.
Morgan, A. R., Drug Miasms, Iso-
pathy and Homoeopathy, 462.
“ Repertory of the Prostate
Glands, 138.
Morgan, W. L. 69.
“ Asthma, 74.
“ Cataract—Sulphur and Calc,
carb., 71.
“ Eczema—Graphites, 69.
“ Prolapsus uteri—Sepia, 72.
“ Rhus tox. Poison—Rhus tox.
70.
“ Tumor in Throat—Calcarea
carb., 69.
Milk—Its Absorption vs. Its Diges¬
tion, 632.
“ Modified, 532.
Mind, K. O. Austin, 681.
Minnesota Medical License Law, 501.
Miscellany, 632, 764.
Missouri Institute of Homoeopathy,
187.
Nat-rum mur., Enuresis, 626.
“ Intermittent fever, F.
W. Patch, 90, 95, 97,
99.
Negationist as Related to Medicine,
S. E. Chapman, 210.
Nervous Diseases, Significance of
Mental Symptoms, F. H. Lock-
wood, 175.
Neuralgia—Arnica, 679.
“ of Thumb — Belladonna,
243.
“ Traumatic, Hypericum,243
Neurasthenia — Theridion, F. W.
Payne, 453.
“ Helen Parker, 360.
“ Sexual, 502.
Northern Indiana and Southern
Michigan Medical Society, 313.
Nosodes in Homoeopathic Materia
Medica, A. W. Holcombe, 485.
Nux vomica, R. E. Belding, 359.
<c Gastritis, W. W. Glea¬
son, 108.
“ Intermittent fever, F. W.
Patch, 94, 98.
Obituaries.
“ J. Heber Smith, 703.
" Joseph Sidney Mitchell, 704.
“ Eugene W. Sawyer, Jr., 704.
Obstetrics, 43.
CEdema—Apis, 243, 567.
One Full Regiment—Make it Two,621
Ophthalmoscope, Valuable A i d i n
the Early Diagnosis of Grave
Diseases, John Storer, 602.
Organon, § 252, R. E. Belding, 521.
“ 253-256, with Clinical
Notes, E. E. Chase,525*
257-258, A. B. Carr, 706.
“ 252-256, S. L. G. Leg¬
gett, 513.
« 245-251, E.B. Nash, 412:
“ § 44 et seg., 763.
Osteopathy and the Illinois State
Board of Health, J. A. Egan,
49 °.
Ovarian Diseases, Reflex Troubles.
Caused by, M. E. Graham, 24.
Ovarian Tumor—Calcarea carb. and!
Sanicula, P. Bender, 150.
Ovaritis—Lac. caninum, P. Bender,.
153.
Pain and its Homoeopathic Treat¬
ment, 379.
Paine, H. M., State Medical Licen¬
sure, 692.
“ “ Form of a Proposed Bill
for the State of Illinois, 750.
Park, Maybelle M., The Relation of
Homoeopathy to Potentized
Drugs, 610.
Parker, Helen M., Neurasthenia, 360.
Paronymous Plurals, 634.
Pathogenesy of Ailantus, Apis, Ar¬
senicum, Carbolic acid, Rhus,
tox. and Lachesis, 571.
Patient and the Remedy at the Men¬
opause, P. E. Krichbaum, 334.
Payne, Frederick W., Eye Symptoms,
of Kali bi., 592.
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Index.
xe
Payne, Frederick W., Cataract Cured
by Zincum met., 449.
44 Neurasthenia — Theridion,
449.
44 Spinal Irritation—Medor-
rhinum, 449.
44 Spinal Irritation-Picric acid,
449.
Pease, A. S., Sulpher vs. Pulsatilla,
467.
Pease, F. O., Epidemic or La Grippe
Remedies, 232.
44 A Valuable (?) Combination,
240.
44 Homoeopathy and Drug Mi¬
asms, 246.
44 To Students of Materia Med-
ica, 169, 252, 3u3, 399.
44 394.
Pectoris Angina, F.' R. Waters, 362.
Pediatrics, 165.
People’s Department, 49.
Pelvic Diseases, The Relation of the
Great Neuroses, 636.
Peritonitis, Puerperal, T. Dwight
Stow, 21.
Personals—Cordelia B. de Bey, Cora
Howerth, J. P. Cobb, Osteopathy
in our Colleges, Death of Dr. Galli-
vardin, Death of Peter Deidrick,
E. C. Price, Surgical Clinics in
Homoeopathic Department of
University of Michigan, 307.
Personals, News Items, etc , 496.
Dr. C. E. Sawyer—Annual Course
in Orificial Surgery, Death of Cor¬
delia Stettler, Wilson A. Smith,
Dunham Announcement, Materia
Medica Revision, Dr. E. G.
Sprague.
Personals, News Items, etc., 383, 701.
F. O. Pease, E. W. Sawyer, Har-
ret Kundson Burnett, G. W. Pal¬
mer, 241.
Perspiration on Fingers—Phosphorus
242.
Petroleum, 624.
Phlegmon, S. A. Kimball, 84.
Phosphorus—Cough, 297.
44 Perspiration of Fingers,
242.
Phthisis—Bacillinum, L. Martin, 530.
44 Pulsatilla, 675.
Phytolacca, 624.
Physician, Homoeopathic, Eugene
H. Porter, 190.
Picric acid—Spinal Irritation, F. W.
Payne, 451.
Pierson, H. W., Aesculus— Hemor¬
rhoids, 730.
44 Coffea Tosta — Headache,
673.
44 Pulsatilla—Headache, 673.
4 4 4 4 Conjunctivitis,675
44 4 4 Insipient Phthisis,
675.
44 Sepia—Uterine Displace¬
ment, 674.
44 Sulphur—Epilepsy from
Suppressed Eruption,
676.
44 Spirit of the Homoeopathic
Doctrine of Medicine,
257.
44 Registrar's Report of Dun¬
ham Medical College,
250.
Plumbum, F. R. Waters.
Pneumonia—Belladonna, R. M. Bar-
rows, 557.
44 Sequella of Mercurius,
R. E. Belding, 460.
Politics, Medical College, 481.
Porter, E. H., Definition of a Homoe¬
opathic Physician, 190.
Potassium iodide in Diagnosis of
Tuberculosis, 61.
Potency Exemplified, 262.
Potencies, The Use of High 57.
44 44 44 Higher, John
McLachlan, 182.
Pregnancy, Vomiting of—Ipecac, R.
M. Barrows, 556.
Professional Tact—A Lesson, 499.
44 Secrecy, 635.
Prolapsus uteri—Sepia, W. L. Mor¬
gan, 72.
Proof of the Law of Similars, 627.
Prosopalgia—China, 568.
Prostate Gland, Repertory of, A. R.
Morgan, 138.
Psora, Suppressed Rheumatism and
Gonorrhoea, a Clinical Study
from Prof. Pierson's Clinic, 402.
Psychic Phenomena, F. H. Lock-
wood, 473.
Psychology, 473, 617, 681, 743.
Psychometric Force, K. O.Austin,617
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Index .
Puerperal Metro-peritonitis, T. D.
Stow, 21.
Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Common
Errors in dealing with, 764.
Purification after Child-birth, John
Campbell, 43.
Pulsatilla—Chorea, V. A. Hoard, 523.
“ Conjunctivitis, 675.
“ Genito-Urinary, 498.
“ Gestation, W.W.Gleason,
41.
" Headache, 673.
“ Insipient Phthisis, 675.
“ Intermittent fever, F. W.
Patch, 88.
“ Amenorrhoea, W. W.
Gleason, 41.
“ Additional Provings, B.
Fincke, 584.
“ vs. Sulphur, A. S. Pease,
467.
Pustule Malignant—Lachesis, 679.
Pyemia—Arsenicum alb., 572.
“ Lachesis, 572.
Pyrogen—Appendicitis, W. A. Ying-
ling, 30.
Quackery in Germany, 561.
Quinine Poisoning, 633.
“ Sulphate—A Proving, 396.
“ K. O. Austin, 735
Rasmussen, A. C., Health, 604.
Red Vulcanite, W. W. Gleason, 109.
Reflex Troubles Caused by Ovaiian
Diseases, M. E. Graham, 24.
Reily W. E., Saw Palmetto—Gland¬
ular Enlargement, 737.
Relation of Homoeopathy to Poten-
tized Drugs, M. M. Park, 610.
Remedy Wanted—Clinical Case, J.
S. Watts, 470.
Remedy Wanted, J. S. Watts, 556.
Remedy Indicated vs. Ordinary
Treatment in Uterine Troubles,
Malcolm Dills, 330.
Removal of Foreign Bodies from
Beneath the Nail, 764.
Reorganization, 112.
Repertory of New Remedies, M. E.
Douglass, 65, 661.
Rhus tox.—Asthma, 243.
“ Erysipelas, 572.
Rhus tox—Intermittent fever, F. W.
Patch, 89.
“ Lumbago, R.M. Barrows,
557.
“ Poisoning,A. McNeil,461
** “ Rhus tox., W.
L. Morgan, 70.
“ Proving of, 625.
“ Proving, 567.
“ Rheumatism of Maxill-
aries, 243.
“ Rheumatism, F. R. Wat¬
ers, 592.
“ Rhus Poisoning, W. L.
Morgan, 70.
“ Septicemia, 572.
“ Therapeutic Indications,
M. E. Douglass.
Rhus venanata, Proving. 567.
Rheumatism—Bryonia, W. W. Glea¬
son, 109.
“ Gonorrhoeal—Pulsa¬
tilla, 627.
“ Intercostal — Kaliam
lat., 242.
u Is It Curable? 565.
“ Rhus tox., F. R. Wat¬
ers, 592.
“ of Upper and Lower
Maxillaries, Rhus t.
243.
Roentgen Rays in Surgery, M. E.
Graham, 534.
Rogers, L. D., Homoeopathy Scien¬
tific, 110.
Ross, E. V., Cuprum metallicum, 527.
Ruhfus, M. A., Cure of a Compli¬
cated Cerebral and Nervous
Disease, 366.
Rusty Instruments, How to Clean,
498.
Sabadilla, 625.
Sambucus, Intermittent Fever, F.W.
Patch, 91.
Sanicula—Ovarian Tumor, Prosper
Bender, 151.
Sanitary Science, 604.
Saw Palmetto—Glandular Enlarge¬
ment, W. E. Reily, 737.
Schrankia Nucurata, 625.
Scrofula, A. McNeil, 408.
Sectarianism in Medicine, 621.
Senecio Aurens—Hsemostatic, 189.
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Senccio Gracilis, 179.
Sepia—Amenorrhcea, 678.
“ —Bryonia—Headache, 677.
“ —Headache, L. Whiting, 732.
“ —Prolapsus uteris, W. L. Mor¬
gan, 72.
“ Uterine Displacement, 674.
Septicemia—Arsenicum, 571.
“ —Carbolic Acid, 571.
“ —Lachesis, 571.
“ —Rhus Toxicodendron,
572.
Sexual Neurasthenia, 502.
“ Passions, Medical Treatment,
505.
Shannon, Angus Roy, Esq., Compul¬
sory Vaccination in the Public
Schools, 689.
Signs of Incipient Amendment (Sec¬
tions 252—256), S. L. G. Leggett
513.
Silicea—Clinical Study, F. R. Waters,
278.
Simillimum, Difficulties in finding,
Prosper Bender, 157.
Skin Eruptions, Produced by Drugs,
301.
Society of Homoeopathicians, 69,
429.
“ Reports, 21,69,312,429, 513.
Spinal Irritation—Medorrhinum, F.
W. Payne, 451.
Spirit of Homceopathy, 699.
“ of Homoeopathic Medical Doc¬
trine, Samuel Hahnemann, 641.
“ of Homoeopathic Doctrine of
Medicine, H. W. Pierson,
257.
State Examining Boards upon Medi¬
cal Examination, Influence of,
757.
State Medical Licensure, H. M.
Paine, 692.
State Medicine, 689, 750.
Stayt, C. B., Jaborandi—Sweats at
Night and When Sleeping, 679.
Stomach, Removal not Practical, H.
Crutcher, 173.
Storer, John, The Ophthalmoscope's
Valuable Aid in the Early Diag¬
nosis of Grave Diseases, 602.
Storer, J., Chronic Constipation, 106.
“ Chorea, Causticum, 106.
“ Veratrum alb., 107.
Stow, T. D., Puerperal Metro-peri¬
tonitis, 21.
Students of Materia Medica, To, F.
O. Pease, 169, 252, 303, 399.
Such is Life, 189.
Sulphur, Additional Provings, B.
Fincke, 586.
“ Antidotes of, I. S. Hoyne,
“ A Case, F. S. Davis, 75.
“ Conjunctivitis, R. E. Beld-
ing, 461.
“ Diabetes Mellitis, R. E.
Belding, 41.
“ Dysentery, K. O. Austin,
734.
“ Epilepsy from Suppressed
Eruption, 676.
“ vs. Pulsatilla, A. S. Pease,
467.
Suppression, 55.
“ A Surgical View, H.
Crutcher, 35.
“ Cases of, E. Cranch, 37.
Surgical Dressing—Beef Blood, W.
W. Gleason, 119.
Surgical Hints, 119.
Surgical Pocket Medicine Case, Jas.
G. Gilchrist, 182.
Surgical Shock—Arsenicum alb., E.
T. Adams, 80.
Sycosis—Dr. Kunkle, 595.
Synovitis—Apis, 572.
Syphilis Hereditary, R. M. Barrows,
165.
Tabes Mesenterica: Symptoms, Di¬
agnosis and Treatment, C. H.
Holden, 739. i \ \
Taxes, Our New War, Compared with
those of the Sixties, 445.
Test for Purity of Water, 564.
Testimony, Medical, 566.
Theridion — Neurasthenia, F. W.
Payne, 453.
Tilia Europa, B. G. Clark, 385.
Tonsilitis—Belladonna, W. A. Ying-
ling, 32.
“ —Bryonia, W. A. Yingling,32
“ —Lachesis, R. E. Belding, 460
“ “ W. A. Yingling, 31
Traumatic Neuralgia —Hypericum,
243.
Treatment of Patients by Correspon¬
dence, Olin M. Drake, 1.
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Index.
Trional, Fragmentary Proving, 638.
Tuberculosis, Jennie E. Barrows, 410.
“ Potasium Iodide in diag¬
nosis of, 61.
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary, Common
Errors in dealing with, 764.
Tumor—Calcarea Carbonica, W. L.
Morgan, 69.
“ Ovarian, Calc. Carb. and Sani-
cula, Prosper Bender, 151.
Typhoid Fever, R. E. Belding, 457.
“ “ Inverted, 633.
Uremia in the Process of Child¬
bearing, 632.
Uric Acid Diathesis, 190, 629.
Urinalysis, 630.
Uterine Displacement—Sepia, 674.
“ Fibroma—Calc, jod., Pros¬
per Bender, 154.
Vaccination Compulsory in the
Public Schools, Angus Ro>
Shannon Esq., 689.
“ Evil Effects ot, 443.
Vagina, Atresia of, 631.
Vaginal Douches in Normal Labor,
633.
“ Examinations and Vaginal
Douches in Normal La¬
bor, 633.
Vaginal Hysterectomy, 630.
Vegetarianism, 311.
Veratrum Album—C o 1 i c o d y n i a,
Samuel Hahnemann, 220.
“ Album—Involuntary Diar¬
rhoea, 242.
“ Album, John Storer, 107.
Virtue—Its own Reward, 500.
Vital Principle The, K. O. Austin,747
Vomiting of Pregnancy—Ipecac, R.
M. Barrows, 556.
Was it Chance? R. M. Barrows,
275.
Waters, F. R., Asthma—Ipecac, 235
“ Amenorrhoea—Sepia, Bella¬
donna, 678.
“ “ Bronchitis—Bryonia,
236.
“ Gastric Ulcer—Mercuries,591
M Hoarseness—Carb. ac., 237.
Waters, F. R. Headache — Sepia,
Bryonia, 677.
“ Malignant Pustule—Lachesis,
678.
“ Neuralgia—Arnica, 679.
“ Angina Pectoris, 362.
“ Plumbum, 39.
“ Silicea—A Clinical Study, 278
Water Purity, Simple Test, 564.
Watts, J. S., Remedy Wanted, 410.
Wesselhoeft, W. P., A So-Called Sur¬
gical Case Cured by Calcarea
carb., Sulphur and Thuja, 606.
West Virginia State Society, 115.
What the People Should Know, Kent,
51.
Whiting, L.,Aloe—Diarrhoea. 733.
41 Sepia—Headache, 732.
“ Secale — Chronic Lead
Poisoning, 733.
Whitlow, John McLachlan, 321.
Welsbach, Gas Mantle, 638.
Wilsey, E. H., Repertory of Dreams,
204, 285, 369.
Worm—Cure, W. W., Gleason, 40.
Yingling, W. A., Appendicitis—
Bryonia, 30.
“ Gall-stone Colic—Colocyn-
this, 28.
“ Gall-stone Colic—Belladon¬
na, 28.
“ Tonsilitis—Lachesis, 31.
“ “ —Belladonna, 32.
“ “ —Hepar sulph.,32.
“ —Bryonia, 32.
Zincum met.—Cataract, Frederick
Wm. Payne, 455.
BOOK REVIEWS.
Alaska, its Neglected Past and Bril¬
liant Future, B. W. James, 63.
Book Reviews, 63, 64, 124,192, 256,
298, 317, 447, 512, 575, 640,
765.
Biochemical Treatment of Disease
Schussler, Translated by Prof.
Tafel, 575.
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xv
•Change of Life in Women and the
Ills and Ailings Incident There¬
to, J. Compton Burnett, 640.
-Comparative Materia Medica, by H.
Gross, 766.
-Conservative Gynecology and Elec.-
tro-Therapeutics, G. B. Massey,
512,
Cutaneous Medicine, Louis A. Dar¬
ing, 64.
Dr. Jones Picnic, 124.
Diseases of the Skin, J. Compton
Burnett, 447.
Elements of Latin, 128.
Hygiene and Sanitation, A Manual
of, Seneca Egbert, 317.
Hand-book on Diseases of the Heart
and their Homoeopathic Treat¬
ment, T. C. Duncan, 512.
History of Hahnemann Medical
College, by Thomas Lindsley
Bradford, 768.
Kent, J. T. Repertory of Homoeo-
pathicMateria Medica, 192, 256,
317, 765.
Lippincott's Pocket Medical Dic¬
tionary, 127.
Medicine, Epitome of History of, 128
Ophthalmic Diseases and Treatment
by A. B. Norton, 576.
Outlines of Renal Hygiene, 127.
Renal Therapeutics by Clifford Mit¬
chell, 766.
Repertory of the Symptoms of Rheu¬
matism, Sciatica, etc., by Alfred
Pulford, 765.
Therapeutics of Diphtheria by C. M.
Boger, 575.
“ of Facial and Sciatic Neu¬
ralgias with Repertory and
Clinical Cases by F. H. Lutze,
575.
Vade Mecum of Ophthalmic Thera¬
peutics, 128.
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A MONTHLY HOMOEOPATHIC MAGAZINE.
Vol. XXXVII Chicago, January 15,1898. No. 1
Institutes of flpebtctne.
TREATMENT OF PATIENTS BY CORRESPONDENCE.*
OLIN M. DRAKE> M. D., BOSTON, MASS.
Learned Colleagues and Friends: This evening, in com¬
pliance with your courteous and inspiring invitation, I will
address you upon the subject of prescribing by mail. For
nearly twenty-eight years I have made a specialty of treating
sick people through the post, and I have no hesitancy in af¬
firming that over eighty per cent of the acute and chronic cases
committed to our care, can be cured without seeing those who
apply for our ministry. This opinion is not founded upon the
treatment of a few or a score of cases, but upon many hundreds,
and covering a period of time extending over a quarter of a
century. From nearly every State of the Union, and the British
Provinces, my services have been sought after and very few of
these patients have I ever seen. They wrote out a description
of their cases, often most incompletely, and yet the great major¬
ity were relieved or cured by our benign, God-given homoeopathy
of Hahnemann.
Very early in my professional career I became convinced that
we could place in the hands of a patient some written hints or
suggestions which would enable him to send a fair report or de¬
scription of his case. With the object of giving practical effect
to my conviction, I corresponded with the older members of the
profession, and collected all the literature on the subject, from
"Read before the Boeaniaghauten Club, Nov. 11.1897
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every source available. I ascertained that many physicians had
published instructions for the use of their patients, and these I
obtained. The majority consisted of a multiplicity of questions,
concerning every region of the body, more or less puzzling to
the average layman. Some had questions which were numbered,
with the request that each indication be given, its aggravation
and amelioration; others consisted of a list of characteristic
symptoms, with the request that the patient mark with an X the
symptoms noticed. The main thought in the latter was to
secure three or more characteristic symptoms, or Hering’s three
legs for our prescription stool to stand upon. I gathered from
my conversations and correspondences with my professional
brethren that their methods vari°d and their successes likewise.
Where a few acknowledged success the majority confessed that
their practice by correspondence was most unsatisfactory. Now,
there must be some fundamental reason, I thought, why there
should be such a marked difference in the success of true and
skilful homteopathicians. In the case of our mongrel homoeo¬
path, or as he delights in calling himself, the modern homoeopath
—and the world is full of them—this woeful failure in the treat¬
ment: of chronic diseases, does not surprise any one here present;
but for the Hahnemannian, “that is another story,” as Rudyard
Kipling says. But to return to the various guides secured from
colleagues and publishers, I sent them to patients; they seemed
helpful in one way or another. Still I believed they could be
improved upon, anti I think I will demonstrate it to you before
we will have parted this evening.
I think it was in 1870 or ’71 that Smith, of New York, sent me
a copy of Dr. Hering’s “Instructions for Patients ,” as published
in his Domestic Physician , and revised by Dr. Hills. About this
time I happened to receive a letter from a patient residing in
Nova Scotia, and I sent her these instructions. In due time I
received her reply consisting of some fourteen pages of closely
written foolscap filled with an interminable string of symptoms
which completely bewildered and disgusted me.
The indispensable in treating a patient, in order to cure him
is, of course, to obtain the totality of his symptoms. Without it
successful prescribing is impossible, or nearly so. Now, the
next question is, how can this be most easily and most satisfac¬
torily secured? It is an easy matter to obtain a good or faithful
picture of the ailments of a patient if he be acquainted with
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what we consider essential, and he has the requisite mental powers
besides; but the task is a difficult one indeed, if homoeopathic,
methods are not familiar to him or only partially known.
The written instructions which I now send my patients embody
the crystallization of long and varied experience, and are neces¬
sarily different in many respects from those I sent years ago. It
is my hope that you will find in them just what you think neces¬
sary in your own practice. In this case you are perfectly wel¬
come to them; if, on the other hand, they fail to meet with your
requirements, perhaps you will be good enough to point out
their shortcomings or faults, and supply suggestions upon which
to build a better and a more useful edifice.
Without further preliminary remarks I will now submit to you
in full these instructions, and further on comment upon certain
passages:
INSTRUCTIONS TO PATIENTS.
Copyrighted, 1897. Olin M. Drake, M. D., Boston.
“Give your name in full, and address, age, married or single, complexion,
color of hair and eyes, and occupation. Mention size, large or small frame
of body; height and weight; constitution, feeble or robust; inherited family
diseases; diseases you may have had in the past; injuries received; and
habits, such as use of liquor or tobacco, tea or coffee. Give a full and minute de¬
scription of your present complaint or disease; its exciting cause or supposed ex¬
citing cause; when it began, subsequent symptoms in the order in whiihthey op
feared: in other words, specifying, which first, which next, and which last, and
method of treatment, and medicines used. If you have ever used ointments or
“washes” in skin diseases be particular to state the fact.
Do not forget to mention every symptom, no matter how trivial —everything
deviating from the natural, and every disturbance of the functions of the body.
Let me judge whether the symptoms are of importance or not. When you have
written all the symptoms, read over your report carefully and see if there are
not circumstances or symptoms or conditions you have omitted.
In relating your symptoms you never should omit those respecting the state of
your mind. A patient may endure pain or affliction patiently, or it may cause
him to weep, be morose, passionate, despairing, or anxious. The mental symp¬
toms in every case of disease are of the utmost importance, no matter of what
nature, and should be made known. If the memory be weak, or impaired, it
should also be mentioned.
In giving a description of pains and sensations, or in describing a tumor, ulcer,
or eruption of the skin, state precisely their location , on which side of the body
they are seated, and how large a space thev cover. If the pains extend in any
particular direction or if they shift about, do not forget to mention it. You will
make use of the accompanying figure of the body and indicate by an X the ex¬
act spot where they are located. When describing a cancer, tumor, ulcer, warts
or swelling, be particular to state if it feels hard or soft, if painful to the touch,
if attached solidly to the deeper parts or if movable, if the skin and parts over
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it are attached or loose, if there is any discoloration of the skin, or if an inden
tation is left after pressure with the finger. No matter what the symptom , pain,
or sensation mentioned may be , always describe its location and under what cir¬
cumstances , or conditions , or time it is worse or better.
The greatest difficulty in prescribing by mail is when patients give only the
name of their disease and the most trcublesome symptoms. Often patients will
say in their report: “I have told you everything I know,” when really they
have given nothing but generalities. For instance, a mother writes that she is
very anxious about her little daughter, who is suffering from catarrh of the head,
and has headaches. She should have mentioned the color of the discharge
and the odor, if any; if the child were sensitive to cold or heat, or affected by at.
mospheric changes; what part of the head ached, whether the pain was worse at
certain hours of the day or night, lying down or moving about, etc. There are
no two cases of disease precisely alike. You may have two patients, in one
family, sick with erysipelas, and while both cases may be apparently alike, it is
probable that they will vary in many respects. If we analyze the symptoms of
these two cases we are likely to find in one, the skin of the part affected of a
bright red color and smooth, with high fever and delirium, throbbing
headache, thirstlessness, sleepiness but inability to sleep, and aggravation of
all symptoms at 3 P. M. ; while, in the other case the surface of the parts
affected may be of a dark bluish color and covered with water blisters which
burn and itch; no headache, but dizziness; much thirst, with a dry brown
tongue; diarrhoea with involuntary stools; loud weeping during sleep and ag
gravation of all symptoms during rest. Now, the medicine indicated and
demanded, under Homoeopathy, in the first case would be entirely wrong
for the second. It is just these details which individualize one case from
all other cases of the same class, and which I should know, in order to treat you
successfully. Every symptom should be given , with its conditions of aggrava '
tion or amelioration.
There are two kinds of symptoms, objective and subjective . The objective
symptoms are those seen by the physician, attendants, or friends, such as the
general appearance of the patient and his actions, eruptions, sweat, rapid and
short respiration, palpitation, etc. Any symptom which comes under the visual
range is an objective symptom, whereas, those pains and sensations which are
felt by the patient are subjective symptoms. Only the patient can describe the
subjective symptoms, for he alone feels them. He alone can tell us that he has
a stitch in the side, he alone can point out its location, the direction it takes,
what provokes and aggravates and what relieves it. Disease manifests itself by
the presence of symptoms; when these have all disappeared no disease exists.
The objective and subjective symptoms constitute the whole case.
As regards diet: Avoid all medicines except what I shall give you, also min¬
eral waters, plasters, ointments, washes for the skin, gargles, snuffs and nasal
douches, alcoholic stimulants, coffee and green tea, meats or fish preserved in
brine or vinegar, sharp acids, such as vinegar, lemons, pickles, spices and con¬
diments of all kinds, (except salt in moderation) pork and articles fried in pork,
cake and pastry, food prepared with saleratus or cream of tartar, etc. You may
eat fruit, if it agrees, especially in the morning; fresh meats, fish, eggs, butter,
vegetables, bread and farinaceous food; drink cool water (not iced), milk, prep-
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arations of cocoa, weak black tea, wheat or barley coffee. As a rule, when not
hungry or food is distasteful, do not eat.
Before you have used all the medicine sent, please report. Be particular
to mention any change that may have taken place for the better or for the worse,
since your last report, and give the symptoms present at time of writing, de.
scribing especially any and all ne%u symptoms. If you have ever noticed any of
these nnv symptoms in your case before , be sure to report them. All your reports
are kept on file, and are always referred to before prescribing anew.
If you should be worse during the first part of the treatment let that not dis¬
courage you, for it is generally the beginning of a cure.”
You will have noticed, I am sure, that the directions contained
in the above “Instructions” are plain and simple and to the point
and cannot puzzle or mystify the average claimant for our ser¬
vices. The general character of the information sought to be
elicited will greatly facilitate our prescribing, as you will see
should you use them.
As it is possible that the relating of some of my experiences in
the treatment of patients by post may interest you, I will do so.
You may think my request for the full name of the patient is
hardly necessary, but when I tell you of what happened in my
early years of practice, you may think differently. Twenty-six
years ago I treated a woman by letter for a tumor of the breast,
and cured her too. In all of her reports she had used her hus¬
band’s initials unknown to me. It was nearly two years after¬
wards that I received a letter with the same name and initials.
The symptoms given were, among others: A constant dull ache
across the back low down, with a continual bearing down, as
though the whole bowels would protrude. A profuse discharge,
yellow, thick and very offensive, and occasionally bloody, worse
standing or after fatigue, and withal a frequency of urination.
In sending the medicine I remarked that on looking over the
records of her case, I found no indications of any uterine trouble,
which I thought a little singular, since she stated in the letter
just received that those symptoms were of some duration. You
can understand better than I can tell you, my mystification,
when, in a few days, I received a letter from my ex-patient’s
facetious husband. He wrote that he had seen fifty six summers
come and go. and during that interval of time had had his full
share of sickness, consisting of rheumatism, pneumonia, etc.,
but now he had concluded to “set his house in order” and pre¬
pare for “the suffling off of this mortal coil,” for he knew he
would not be able to pass through successfully a severe attack of
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“womb trouble!” His case proved to be one of internal slimy
hemorrhoids.
The stupidity and carelessness of some people is something
amazing. I am reminded at this moment of a very odd predica¬
ment I found myself in, in 1873, upon the receipt of the following
letter, post-marked Colorado, but the name of the town I could
not decipher:
"Dr. Drake , Dear Sir:
I am told that you can cure piles. For many years I have been a great suf¬
ferer, and for the enclosed $5.00 I want you to send me some medicine that will
cure me.”
That and nothing more; not even the name of the writer or
date, I have kept this letter, so that if the opportunity ever
offer, I should be able to return my absent-minded patient
his money, or offer him an equivalent in professional services.
Frankly, I think I prefer the latter.
The age of the patient is often of much consequence, and as
you are aware, frequently a decisive point in the selection of the
remedy. The fact of the patient being a child, or at puberty, or
at the climaxis, or advanced in years, are all invaluable guides to
us. If they are married or single, it behooves us to know too.
Often have I been led to prescribe Apis, Conium and Phosphorus
in complaints of widows; and Camphora , Kali bromatum and
Pulsatilla in those of widowers. The matter of complexion, in¬
cluding color of the hair and eyes, is of moment too. In the
brunette we more often find such medicines as Causticum , Ignatia ,
Nitri acidum, etc., called for, whereas in the blonde, Bromium,
Calcarea, Graphites , etc. Black eyes frequently demand Causti¬
cum , Nitr/acidum and analogous remedies; blue eyes, Calcarea,
Pulsatilla and others; dark eyes, Iodum, Lachesis and such like.
Black or dark hair calls for Causticum, Nltri acidum , Bryonia ,
etc.; blonde or light hair, Calcareay PhosphoruSy Bromiuniy etc.,
whereas the sandy or red hair will more particularly necessitate
Pulsatilla , Phosphorus, Rhus toxicodendron and others. And it
makes also a great difference whether our patient’s complexion
is pale, florid, freckled or sallow. Size, large or small frame of
body; height and weight; if the patient be dwarfed or stunted;
large and obese; tall and thin or very lean and emaciated, are
also factors in choosing our medicine. As regards the constitu¬
tion, feeble or robust is about all the patient will give in his
report; but if we can learn that he is of anaemic, gouty or rheu-
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matic, lymphatic or plethoric, scrofulous, sycotic or syphilitic
constitution, it proves a great help; and likewise if he tells you
of any hereditary affections. It is also essential to know of the
diseases and injuries he has had in the past.
No one here present this evening but knows the value of de¬
termining the occupation of the patient. The sedentary, gener¬
ally calls for a different class of remedies than the public
speaker, as the clergyman, actor or singer; and the worker on
stone will make you think of medicines that are not frequently
indicated in the diseases of the mariner.
Likewise much may be gathered deserving consideration, con¬
cerning the patient’s habits It is essential to ascertain if he
uses liquor or tobacco, drinks much tea or coffee or if he be a
high liver or the reverse; if he uses patent medicine, or if he has
been a subject, upon whom our allopathic neighbor has exhausted
his skill. As to temperament, bilious, choleric, melancholic,
nervous, sanguine, phlegmatic, etc, I say nothing in the “In¬
structions,^” strictly speaking, thinking it best to obtain this
detail in connection with the symptoms of the mind.
The mental symptoms are of course always paramount and
generally decisive in every prescription, but they are, in my ex¬
perience, the very hardest to get from the patient you do not see
personally. I therefore depend upon the progress of the case
and repeated reports, to see them crop out. Still, as you have
seen, I urge that nothing should be withheld in that respect, re¬
minding the patients of their great importance.
Let us now recapitulate what I have thus far requested from
ray unknown patient: the full name and address; age, married
or single; complexion; color of hair and eyes; large or small
frame of body; height and weight; constitution, feeble or robust;
diseases and injuries experienced; hereditary affections, occupa¬
tion and habits and cental condition. Thus far, there is not
one question that a person fifteen years old could not answer,
and what a mine of information is placed within our reach, if
they are properly answered! Not infrequently a successful pre¬
scription is made from this general knowledge alone. We have
been told that many of the old masters of the materia medica were
frequently able to name the remedy or remedies that were or
would be indicated in a patient, without asking a question.
There was no other way for them to know this but from these
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general details which their keenness of perception enabled them
to take in at a glance.
If I learn from my first report that the new patient has been
severely drugged and there is nothing to counter-indicate it, I
send Nux vomica; likewise Sulphur , if external treatment has
been resorted to for an eruption, or skin disease. This was the
routine practice of our older contemporaries. I object to it as a
rule, for reasons I have fully explained in a former paper before
this society; but still I am often obliged to follow it, not know¬
ing what else to do. I must, however, confess that I have often
secured results from this practice that have bordered upon the
marvellous.
I have long since given up the idea of securing a true picture
or obtaining all the symptoms of any chronic case from the first
report, or even in some cases after many. Very few patients are
so mentally equipped as to be able to give a good description of
their maladies in one or even more reports; but an experience of
over a quarter of a century satisfies me that frequently you will
receive such general knowledge of the patient’s condition as will
make an intelligent prescription possible, at any rate sufficient to
begin the treatment, or if that be an impossibility, a few more
additional questions will elicit the lacking symptoms. It is true
that the cases treated by letter often illustrate the zig-zagging
into health, alluded to by the late Dr. Ad Lippe, but generally
with the aid of such instructions as are embodied in my guide
you will finally cure the majority of cases entrusted to your care.
After I have secured the general details, as outlined above,
and whatever other symptom the patient may have volunteered
besides, I place them on record. Occasionally you will receive
some new symptoms in a later report which would have changed
your prescriptions from the very first if you had knowjn of their
existence. This is one of the many difficulties encountered in
prescribing by mail, but this often happens too. With the pa¬
tient who consults you personally who understands the “In¬
structions” and answers them fully, it is the exception
when this happens. The date of the beginning, the dura¬
tion of the patient’s illness and its supposed exciting cause
assist in the treatment; but the order of succession of the
symptoms, if it can be obtained, aids greatly in predicting the
curability or incurability ot a case. As we all know, if the symp¬
toms appear, for lucidity’s sake I will say, in the order of one*
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two and three, then a cure may be safely foretold, if they disap,
pear in the inverted order of their appearance, that is to say,
first three, then two and lastly one.
In no class of diseases is the benign effects of homoeopathy
better shown than in the old chronic disabilities, the result of the
suppression of some former trouble. With the allopath or one
of our modern, self styled homoeopaths, if a symptom disappears
it is considered cured, but generally it is only suppressed. It
vanishes from one part of the body, to re-appear sooner or later
in some more vital part of the system. As Prof. Kent says:
‘‘Certain results of disease can be removed after the patient is
cured, but not before. So sure as the results are removed be¬
fore the patient is cured, another part will be attacked.” And
this is truth itself.
Very many are the cases I have seen, in which this truism is
elucidated; such as head troubles improving after the reappear¬
ance of suppressed haemorrhoids by operations or by local treat¬
ment; cancer of the stomach after the suppression of skin dis¬
ease, a marked instance of which I am happy to say I cured.*
I also have had cases of recovery from lung affections after the
reappearance of “cured” fistula of the rectum; cures of skin af¬
fections and rheumatism after the reappearance of gonorrhoea
suppressed for years,f and many other instances pointed, es¬
tablish the above facts.
The most striking case of the serious danger of suppressing
symptoms I ever witnessed was the following: A woman, 28
years of age, apparently in the last stages of consumption. Her
history was. At the age of 18 or 19, she became afflicted with
a chronic ulcerated throat, accompanied with loss of voice, for
months at a time, but after the local application of nitrate of sil¬
ver for many weeks, she was pronounced cured. At 22 she mar¬
ried and within a year she complained of a leucorrhoea, which
was mild at first, but ere long became very profuse and most hor¬
rible offensive. Her old friend, the allopathic doctor, considered
it his worst case of ulcerated womb, and began his manipula¬
tions with speculum, tampons, injections and his old reli¬
able standby, the nitrate of silver, ad libitum. In some four or
five months, she was once more declared, by this exponent of
allopathic methods, a well woman; and she remained in apparent
* Vide First Prescription, Homoeopathic Physician, Vol. XV, p. 9.
+ Vide Ilommopathic Physician, Vol. XV, p. 104.
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good health until 27 years old, at which time she began to be
troubled with a hacking cough, followed in due time by all the
symptoms constituting the first, second and finally the third stage
of consumption. Her allopathic physician could not stay the
progress of the disease, although he resorted to inhalations, car¬
rying out the idea of local treatment to the end; but his adminis¬
trations were futile. And next homoeopathy was called in, in the
person of you humble servant, as a last resort, but with very little
hope held out by him. Now, there is not a true follower of Hahne¬
mann that does not know what a patient in this condition must
pass through, and the order of the disappearance of her symp¬
toms, if recovery is to come about. She did recover and is, or
was in perfect health four years ago, but it took over four years
to accomplish this result. Her symptoms left in the reverse or¬
der of their appearance; first she got better of hei lung symp¬
toms, then her leucorrhoea returned. This was cured compara¬
tively easy; but when the old ulceration of the throat made its
appearance, it was exceedingly obstinate. So, I say, if you can
get the order of succession of symptoms, it will help you very
materially, and especially in forming a prognosis.
The method of treatment and medicine used is of no little con¬
sequence, especially if we can ascertain what medicines were
taken, but it is the exception when this information can be ob¬
tained, for, frequently the last remedy is unknown.
The location of pains or sensations is of no little moment.
When patients write that they have a pain in the side, a distress
in the stomach, or a troublesome aching in the chest, you cannot
well base a prescription upon that symptom alone. The pain
in the side may be anywhere from the haunch bone to the arm
pit, or the distress in the stomach anywhere from the pubic to
the collar bone, and the aching in the chest will often prove to
be actually in the hypochondriac region. And when your pa¬
tient informs you that the trouble is located in the liver, kidney
or ovary, the chances are that the information is just as mis¬
leading.
I was once consulted by an old lady, who after her first salu¬
tation made the announcement that she was a great sufferer from
liver disease. Upon my asking her how she knew that her liver
was affected, she looked at me with some exhibition of indigna¬
tion as well as disgust, and exclaimed: “Should not a person
know when she has such distressing pains in the liver, that she
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is almost out of her mind! Well, I guess!” I asked her to
place her finger upon the precise spot of her pains. With the
vigorousness of a much younger person, she sprang from her
chair, threw back her shawl and placing her hand over the left
inguinal region, cried out: “It is right there, and you have lots
to learn if you don’t know it.” Turning myself in my swivel-
chair that I might, upon the pretence of looking out of my office
window, catch my breath and smooth my countenance, I asked
for the particulars of this singular liver disease. She told me
that the attacks would come suddenly, without perceptible cause,
consisting of cutting, drawing, contractive sensations, made
worse by motion or pressure. Otherwise she had nothing to
complain of, unless it was a marked nervousness of the lower
extremities. I was fortunate in my choice of the remedy.
Zincum relieved her of “her liver disease” very shortly. The good
old soul, ever after, neglected no opportunity of informing her
associates that “Dr. Drake, as a liver doctor, took the bun!”
There may be something worth considering in the old adage,
“where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise;” but misleading
statements will offer obstacles to a cure.
Upon the back of each certificate used by the United States
examiners for pensions are the outlines of the human figure,
giving front, back and side views. While I was examiner for the
government, I was in the habit of sending these cuts to my pa¬
tients, in order that they might locate precisely the seat of their
troubles. They often proved a very great help to me. I have
recently had made something similar, to be used in connection
with my “Instructions,” and I herewith produce them.
There is one more very important circumstance connected
with .every case of disease, no matter of what nature, and which,
if the patient knows nothing of homeopathy, he almost invariably
neglects to mention. I refer to the aggravation and ameliora¬
tion of symptoms. It is often necessary to remind the patient
in your letter that such details are most essential, and should
never be overlooked. And, in truth, without them it is frequently
impossible to find the curative remedy, or simillimum.
I also urge the patient to be particular to mention every symp¬
tom, no matter how trivial. It is often the simple, trifling symp¬
toms which prove the keynote to our prescription. Who among
us has not had a hitherto complicated, puzzling case, suddenly
become as clear as noon-day after the discovery of some simple?
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trifling symptom?* If it did not seem like taking coals to
Pennsylvania I would now relate several important cures in ill¬
ustration of the above.
I refrain, as you will have observed, from asking any questions
pertaining to the functions of any organ, like the stomach,
liver, kidneys or sexual system. I prefer to leave all this to
my patients. I want them to tell their own story, in their
own way, and, after their first report, as I have already stated, if
there be anything more I wish to know, I write.
It is well to request the patient to read over his letter before
•For an interesting case ny the author, vide “First Prescription/' Homeopathic Physi¬
cian, Vol. xv., p. 7. *
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posting it, so as to make sure that he has not omitted some cir¬
cumstance or symptom which it may be necessary to know. I
have endeavored to convey an object lesson by describing a few
hypothetical cases, and, many a time, I have been told that they
were of great use to the patient in giving him an idea of what 1
actually needed of him.
Many years ago I corresponded at some length with an old
school physician who was under my care, as to what we homeo¬
paths meant by the term symptom. After that I inserted in the
Instructions a definition of the word symptom. Some may
question whether it should find its way into the Guide , but so
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many patients have thanked me for inserting it, that I have
thought it best to leave it. These explanations help them to
describe their cases.
My experience in the matter of diet is, that it is often a very
difficult matter to tell a patient just what he should or should not
eat. We often advise a certain article and afterwards find,
owing to some peculiarity or idiosyncrasy of the patient, that it
was one of the worst things we could have ordered. I well re¬
member a case of chronic indigestion in which nothing could be
eaten but pork and beans, while the most delicate food would
occasion agonizing spasms of the stomach. This patient would
get up in the middle of the night and eat a pint of beans and a
large piece of salt pork, half the size of a man’s fist, and this too
without the least discomfort. I also remember another patient
who could not eat anything except hard boiled eggs, and he
lived upon them for many months. He was so extremely
emaciated, that had he possessed the necessary strength, he
could have made his fortune posing as a living skeleton. All of
you could relate similar cases.
Discrimination and good judgment about diet are as necessary
as in everything else pertaining to medicine. If we were to
draw such inferences or conclusions in our practice as that cele¬
brated fictitious Doctor Sangrado, in Gil Bias, did in the cases of
a carpenter and shoemaker he had under his care, we might lay
ourselves open to suits for manslaughter. The carpenter whom
he was depleting too much by repected venesections, and starving
besides, rose from his bed and in spite of the doctor’s orders
partook of a hearty meal of pate de foie gras and recovered al¬
most immediately. At about the same time Sangrado was at¬
tending a shoemaker who was suffering from typhoid fever, and
being impressed with the good effects of the pie in the first case
ordered it, with the result that his patient died the same night.
The doctor did profit by this experience, for an entry was found
in his journal which read as follows: “Pate de foie gras good
for carpenters, but fatal to shoemakers.”
In answer to the invariable question. * ‘Doctor, what shall I
eat,” I generally tell my patient to eat any plain food that seems
to agree best; but if the patient is one who is reckless or impru¬
dent, and I do not know but what he would just as soon sit down
to a bowl of carpet tacks, as he would to a cup of mutton broth.
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I put him upon a rigid diet, mentioning the articles only th^t are
permissible.
I am particular to forbid the use of mineral waters, plasters,
etc., because patients yearn for the “flesh pots of Egypt.” They
are very unhappy if deprived of their favorite pill or douche for
the different avenues and cavities of their body. Many patients
are positively wretched unless they are taken something daily to
keep the bowels open. You may have been treating a patient
for a week or more for diarrhoea during which he has averaged
a stool every two or three hours, and perhaps too he has often
asked you, in amazement, where it all came from, as he was eat¬
ing so little. And yet this very patien f , when his movements
cease, and the bowels remain in a quiescent state for more than
a day, he becomes very unhappy and anxious.
1 once had an Irishman come to me, whose wife was under my
care, to tell me that “his woman must have an operation on her
bowels!” I said: “Very well Mike, you get a syringe and give her
an injection of warm water, well soaped.” The next day my pa¬
tient informed me that in her opinion, “Mike should have been a
a doctor for he had been very successful in giving her the injec¬
tion.” Mike was present and he wished to show me his “squirt
gun,” which he said had worked “as slick as a whistle!” You
can imagine my surprise when he exhibited a large size horse
syringe, which he had borrowed of a neighboring veterinary.
I had an experience in my medical student life which estab¬
lishes the fact that sometimes, a good sized enema will work well
in more senses than one. My old preceptor, a much respected
and successful practitioner of this city, who was among the earli¬
est pioneers of Homoeopathy, is now the senior practitioner of
our system in New England, and who did no little, at one time
to advance and make popular its cause—Dr. O. S. Sanders, had
a patient, a colored man.
If any of you are familiar with the noted characters in this city
thirty years ago you may recognize this patient as I sketch him.
He was a man of some note, well provided for in this world’s
goods and a prominent member of the Baptist denomination.
He was always neat in his person, and well dressed, good look¬
ing, tall and of commanding presence, and wore gold spectacles
and and a white man’s wig. He was a bachelor and kept house.
His right hand man and servant was a very short, corpulent, duck
legged darkey, as black as the ace of spades, whom he called
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George Washington. His great bug-bear, that haunted him while
awake, as well as in his dreams, was, “the tremendous sluggish¬
ness of his bowels,” as he described it, and nothing made him
happier than to have a copious daily stool, and nothing would
depress him more than to be twenty-four hours without the much
desired operation. During an attack of slow fever, he once had,
he would daily greet my preceptor with the remark, “Oh! Doctor,
my sluggish intestines.” My preceptor would tell him that he
had nothing to worry about on that score, that as soon as his ap¬
petite returned and he could eat something of a substantial nature^
his bowels would act as of old; but this was all to no purpose.
George Washington was eternally turning up, like Banquo’s
ghost, at all times of the day and night at my preceptor’s office
to announce that Mr. Q. had sent him to say that he felt “he
must have a movement, come what may.” On one of these oc¬
casions my instructor called me, while I was wrestling with the
anatomical intricacies of the sphenoid bone, and asked if I could
give a patient an injection. Now, it was instilled into me from
boyhood, that “if you do not think well of yourself, no one else
will,” and I promptly answered, I could, although I had then
been studying medicine for only three weeks, excluding Sundays,
for upon the Lord’s day, I was required to read dilligently Bun-
yon’s Pilgrim’s Progress. As a matter of fact I then knew full
as much concerning injections, as a paroquet does about clean¬
ing a watch; but for all that, armed with an Essex syringe, I
started on my first professional call. When I reached the patient’s
bedside, I told him that the doctor had sent me in his place to
to give him an injection. Well, without much ado, I obtained
the necessary water and soap, got my patient into position and
administered what I considered a moderate injection. After he
had yawned and expelled the contents of the bowels, he rose
from the invalid’s chair, glanced into the receptacle, looked at
me steadily for a minute or so and then observed: “I am afraid
young man, such an injection will not be of much account;” but
I assured him that after a little while he would be much more
comfortable.
Upon my return to the office, my old instructor inquired what
my success had been, and I replied, very good. However, when
I informed him that I had used only about half a cup full of
water, he looked at me for a few seconds and exclaimed, “Half
a cup full! well, you tackle that sphenoid bone again and see if
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you can understand that any better than you do injections.” I
might have been at my studies forty minutes or so, when I heard
my preceptor call me and in a tone of voice which boded ill.
Upon reaching his office, he most peremptorily ordered me to go
and give Mr. Q. an injection that would amount to something.
When I asked how much water I should use, I received the in¬
structions to use all the bowels would hold. The patient ap¬
peared very much pleased to see me return so promptly. I im¬
mediately repaired to the kitchen and interviewed George Wash¬
ington. He showed me a wash dish and a two quart pitcher,
but I told him that neither was large enough. After hunting
around for a little while, I found a keeler tub which held about
eight gallons. I set George Washington filling it with water;
when it was full he remarked: “Mr. Q has had his Dath today,
Doctor.” That was the first time I had ever been called doctor,
and at first I felt like tipping him, but I changed my mind and
looked at him, with the same expression of countenance, as near
as I could imitate it, that my instructor had shown when I told
him that I had used about half a cup full of water for the enema.
We took the tub into the sick man’s room and placed it upon a
box by the side of his bed. The patient raised himself upon his
elbow, adjusted his gold spectacles and took a look at the tub,
then at me and enquired what I intended doing. Upon inform¬
ing him that the Doctor had instructed me to inject all I could,
he once more looked at the tub, took his position, and I began
proceedings secumdem arttm . After a perceptible lowering of
the water in the tub, the patient said faintly: “Perhaps that is
enough, doctor;” but I thought not. As the water was now being
thrown back around the pipe, I requested George Washington to
hand me a towel, which I wrapped around the pipe and succeed¬
ed in plugging him up so effectually that there was no leak. I
sat there serenely pumping on until Mr. Q. complained that he
was full up to his throat, and he could taste the soap in his gul¬
let. I accepted that evidence as a reliable signal to desist. After
removing the pipe and packing, I found that I had a ceaseless
playing fountain in operation before me. When the man at¬
tempted to get out of bed, a stream the size of a small hose was
ejected about five feet. George Washington had neglected to
place the vessel in the invalid’s chair, and my patient had to get
down on all fours to seize it from under the bed and during those
movements of his body, that stream swished in every direction.
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When the chamber was finally placed in the chair and the patient
had seated himself, then began a succession of explosions and
splutterings I can compare only to those I have heard when an
old hand tub fire engine was drawing water, as well as air, from a
shallow well. In a very short space of time the receptacle was
full, then the box-chair and from the overflow the floor was be¬
ing flooded. I concluded then, that it was time to leave and
bade Mr. Q. good bye, telling him I must hurry for possibly the
doctor might want to send me elsewhere to give another injec¬
tion. As I left the poor old fellow, he looked at me over the top
of his gold spectacles, with an expression of countenance, I can
liken to nothing else but that of a bull-dog I once saw, after he
had run two miles, with a tin kettle tied to his tail.
Upon my return to the office, my old teacher, concernedly en¬
quired about my success. With much self-satisfaction, I assured
him that it had been perfect, or rather was working perfectly
when I left the patient, and, in my opinion, would be completed
by the time the next Baptist conference met. Upon his asking
me why I did not remain with the patient longer, I gave for rea¬
sons that I did not have my rubber boots on, and further, that
the air in that neighborhood was not redolent of the perfumes of
Arabia. When I had finally given him all the particulars, he
simply pulled his glasses down off his forehead, adjusted them
correctly and looked unutterable things. But not only did the
enema flush the old colored gentleman’s colon pretty thoroughly
that day, but never afterward, in any subsequent illness, did he
ever complain, to my teacher of his “sluggish bowels.” He how¬
ever told the doctor that it might be well that I should be cau¬
tioned against giving injection^ too freely, or I might meet with
an accident. “I nearly burst after the one he gave me,” he con¬
fidentially remarked. Yesterday I read my dear old preceptor
these notes, and he laughed so that his whole frame was violently
shaken and tears streamed down his cheeks.
In prescribing by post as well as in person, the selection of the
second prescription is of the greatest moment, as all Hahneman-
nians know. I mean by second prescription, not necessarily the
one following the first, but the one which has to be selected after
a remedy has proved partially curative. A long article could be
written on this subject, but I have not the time to do so. I will
say only, if a remedy proves effective and belongs either to the
anti-psoric, anti-sycotic or anti-syphiltic classes, I await the ter-
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initiation of that case tfith the firm conviction that a cure must
ensue, and often have I seen the cure completed without any
change of remedy; but, on the other hand, if the remedy which
has helped does not belong to the miasmatic class, I watch the
patient with no little concern, for I know that a deeper acting
remedy will soon have to be found or the case will not progress
further. And thus the next step, the selection of the second pre¬
scription, is a matter of much consequence. If a wrong remedy
be selected, it may lead to such an entanglement of symptoms,
through the appearance of combined disease and medicinal
symptoms, that it may be almost impossible to find the similli-
mum. Even such cases, can, of course be zig-zagged into a cure,
but the task is a much greater one than before the case was com¬
plicated by the administration of a partially indicated remedy.
Therefore, the second prescription should not be made, without
every precaution has been taken, and the conviction, that we
have at command, all the necessary symptoms for a satisfactory
selection. In many cases, I am sorry to say, we only find the
similar remedy, and consequently the recovery or cure of the pa¬
tient is slow, while if we had been more skillful and had given
the simillimum, a brilliant and prompt cure would have been
gained, to our great credit and that of Homoeopathy.
I have had a patient under my care for the last four months,
under one single prescription. She has been rapidly improving
in health, but still it is likely that before long I shall have to se¬
lect another remedy for her. I fear to make the change. This
patient has been in the hands of many doctors, and some five
months ago was told at the leading hospital in her native state,
that she had an interstitial fibroid tumor of the womb. She was
solemnly informed that if she did not immediately submit to an
operation she would die. Her condition was pitiable; she was
extremely emaciated and almost bloodless, the tumor gave her
the appearance of being four months enceinte\ and she had fright¬
ful attacks of metrorrhagia, occurring from four to ten days apart,
compelling her to keep in bed most of the time. Improvement
began soon after I prescribed tor her, and in her last report,
which is before me, written several days since, she says, the drop¬
sy is entirely gone; bowels are perfectly regular; tumor has very
much diminished in size, which is easily perceptible owing to her
extreme emaciation. She has had but one flowing spell for six
weeks, apart from her menses. She has increased in weight 28
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pounds, and the color has returned to her cheeks; and she now
does her own housework, with the exception of the family wash¬
ing and scrubbing. The day before her last report was written,
she had walked one and a half miles and felt all the better for it,
and lastly she mentions that her appetite is so great that it morti¬
fies her and causes “guying” remarks from her family. She asks
if I think it can harm her to eat too much, when she feels nc dis¬
comfort and digests her food well.
Well, gentlemen, I gave this woman Heionias t and she has been
under its action for nearly four months. So far as we know, this
remedy is not an antipsoric, but the future may prove that it is.
If the decided improvement manifest in my patient continues, of
course, I shall make no change, but if it remains stationary, I
shall have to seek another remedy from the group of remedies
referred to. I shall make this change with no little hesitation
for the reasons above enumerated.
I fear I may have overtaxed your patience with the length of
this article; but the importance of the subject is my excuse. The
“Instructions” under review have yielded me ample satisfaction
of a practical character so far, as I have already said; but if you
can help me to make them more complete, I shall be greatly in¬
debted to you personally, and besides you will place many of the
adherents of our school under great and lasting obligation.
In concluding, allow me once more, learned colleagues and
friends, to thank you for your flattering invitation to appear be¬
fore you this evening, and for your very kind attention through¬
out the delivery of this essay.
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Society "Reports.
CENTRAL NEW YORK HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL
SOCIETY-
Rochester, N. Y., June 28, 1897.
The quarterly meeting of the Central New York Homoeopathic
Medical Society was held at the Rochester Club.
The officers being absent, Dr. T. Dwight Stow was elected
chairman, pro tem.
Members present: Drs. Stow, Carr, Graham, Sayles, S. G.
Herraance. <,
Visitors present: Mr. Dake.
The minutes of the March meeting of the C. N. Y. H. M. S.
were read and approved.
The resolutions offered by the committee upon the deaths of
Drs. Stephen Seward and A. J. Brewster were read and approved.
There was no report from the Board of Censors.
There was no reading of the Organon.
A paper was presented by Dr. Stow, upon:
PUERPERAL METRO-PERITONITIS.
Puerperal metro-peritonitis is a grave malady. Grave, not on¬
ly on account of a certain percentage of mortality, but also, be¬
cause of the liability to structural changes of the peritoneum and
uterus, which harass the women more or less for months, and, in
time, give rise to organic changes often requiring surgical inter¬
ference, or terminating fatally. On this account, it is of first im¬
portance, to take such measures during gestation as are calcu¬
lated to prevent the development of the malady in question; or,
else, by the early recognition of its existence, and by prompt
treatment, to bring the case to a favorable termination. And, it
is in just this class of cases, that the benign and beneficial effects
of homoeopathy are to be seen.
Puerperal metro-peritonitis is not of very frequent occurrence;
it generally appears singly, but, at times, it occurs epidemically,
and, in the latter event, it is attended with peculiar and alarm¬
ing fatality.
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The causes of metritis, or of metro-peritonitis—not epidemic
seem to be local, and often to be due to faulty drainage of the
uterus after delivery, or to be abnormal involution—too rapid on
the one hand, or too tardy on the other,—causing retention of
worn out plasma, or blood-corpuscles, in the walls of the uterus,
and consequent inflammation with or without abscess, ulceration,
or sepsis.
During an epidemic of metro-peritonitis, it is reasonable to in¬
fer, that, in addition to the local causes just mentioned, an exter¬
nal miasm , or external forces , have an influence upon the vital
force of parturients so depressing as to prevent healthful reac¬
tion, and to hasten severe lesions of peritoneum and uterus, or
fatal sepsis.
Great care should be taken to ensure to the parturient woman,
the best possible conditions, both hygienic and physiological.
Persistent cleanliness, a healthful regimen, pure air and plenty of
rest are among the first things to be considered. It is often the
case that an early recognition of the patient’s condition, and the
exhibition of indicated remedies, are of greater value than post¬
partum treatment.
It will not be necessary herewith, to give the diagnosis, or
symptomotology of metro-peritonitis, as this will be covered by
the description of a recent case of puerperal metro-peritonitis.
Case Illustrative.
Mrs. H-, a young woman of 26 years, stout, weighing
about 160 pounds, of florid complexion, and sanguine tempera¬
ment, passed through a period of gestation lasting 290 days, (ac¬
cording to her own date). On May 31, 1897, she was delivered
of a ten pound boy. Nothing unusual occurred, until the last
month of pregnancy, when the patient had a partial hemiplegia,
affecting sensation mainly, but motion lightly, from which attack
she recovered within thirty-six hours. Labor began at 12 noon,
was natural, terminated at 5 p. m. the same day, and was com¬
paratively easy. The secundines were cast off in due time, and
in more than ordinary quantity. The patient had considerable
hemorrhage of bright blood. At midnight of June 2, I was sum¬
moned to see her. I found her in a very anxious mood, fearful
and predicting the time of her death. She was restless from pain
and anxiety, with frontal headache, hot skin, a great thirst for
cold water—taking half a glass at a time—flushed face, short
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hurried respiration, nausea with gagging. A sharp chill had pre¬
ceded the condition at about 11 p. m. In addition, she had
much aching soreness, and, when moving in bed, sharp, lanci¬
nating pain in the fundus of the uterus, the sensitiveness of which
region was so great that she could not bear pressure upon it.
The vagina and os-tincae were hot; the lochia sanious, of putrid
odor, and considerably lessened in quantity; pulse 136; tempera¬
ture 105.
Such was the picture of her condition. I gave Aconite , 6th, in
water, every hour, until morning, when she was much easier. At
6 a. m., I made the intervals two hours, instead of one hour. I
left her at 7 a. m., and called again at 2 p. m., finding her so
much improved and in such profuse perspiration that I discon¬
tinued the Aconite . Kept her on water, until 9 in the evening.
At that time, her temperature was 102°; pulse 112; less thirst,
anxiety and restlessness. She still had soreness on pressure, and
a broader area of the peritoneum was tender to touch; the lochia
was freer, brighter, and not quite so putrid. She was sensitive
to noise, to light, to any jarring of the floor, or the bed. I left
Belladonna so , in water, to be given every two or three hours, until
the next day, but not so to disturb quiet sleep. During the early
morning of June 3, she was quite delirious, and had some tym¬
panitic distension of abdomen and increase in the size of uterus.
On June 4, she was considerably better, and during the preced¬
ing night, she had slept four hours. From that day, she con¬
tinued to improve, the process of involution was resumed, and
now, she is thoroughly convalescent.
This case corroborates others in the past, and will bear favor¬
able comparison with the mixed, slovenly, burdensome treat¬
ment of similar cases by the old school.
T. Dwight Stow, M. D.
The paper was presented for discussion.
Dr. Graham reported a difficult, obstetrical case delivered by
instruments, three weeks previously, and followed by symptoms
similar to those reported by Dr. Stow. The labor had continued
three days, os undilated, pains slow, moderate, and persistent, al¬
lowing the patient to be up about the room. Gelsemium had
been given during labor, without hastening delivery.
The lack of milk on the third day, the increase and height
of temperature from the fifth day, on, the lack of soreness in the
uterus, appendages or abdominal walls, and, at one time, the
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greenish tint of the lochia, were mentioned by the doctor. He
stated that, since labor, Puls . and Sep, had been administered
under counsel, without materially reducing the temperature,
which then stood from 99° or 100 2-10° in the morning, to 102°
or 103 Q in the evening.
Dr. Stow’s experience with the forceps led him to use them
only when the cervix and vaginal membranes were patulous.
Dr. Carr said that Gelsemium was not the only remedy indi¬
cated in the conditions, described and suggested remedies that
would probably have hastened a safe delivery. He also believed
Sepia to be the remedy needed at the time of discussion.
REFLEX TROUBLES CAUSED BY OVARIAN DISEASES. OVARIOTOMY.
It is not my purpose to describe the technique of this opera¬
tion, but rather to give some reasons why the ovaries should be
removed, and to describe the effect they have, when diseased,
upon other organs, through the reflex nerves.
I shall offer a case for your consideration, which has been ex¬
tremely interesting to me, owing to its varied conditions, both
before and after operation.
Miss M., age twenty-three, hysterical since puberty (which
made its appearance rather early), has suffered from many
troubles, both functional and organic. Her education is some¬
what limited, and therefore, perhaps, her mind reaches out to
the world and its lusts, rather than to things ennobling and ele¬
vating. I have no reason to say that she has been an immoral
girl, but through self-abuse, her mental faculties were materially
impaired, and she had lost self-control. At each menstrual
period, her pain in the ovaries was very severe, she became an
hysterical maniac, and required constant attention. She suffered
for years with ovaritis, which gradually increased, until 2 years
ago she had retention of urine. This at first was not constant,
lasting only a few days at a time. But it soon became continu¬
ous and had to be relieved with a catheter, every twenty-four
hours and sometimes oftener.
When my skill as a physician had failed to cure her, I suspected
that the retention was due to reflex irritation, and hoping that
the amativeness might be lessened, I decided that Ovariotomy
was the only remedy promising relief. I therefore removed both
ovaries with the fallopian tubes; finding one ovary much enlarged,
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and with an ulcer, while to the other were attached several small
cysts.
The patient rallied from the operation, and, on the same even¬
ing, for the first time in two years, voluntary passed her urine,
which she has continued to do ever since—now a period of four
years.
This result shows what irritation of the ovaries may produce,
through the sympathetic nervous system.
The sympathetic nerve is so called from the manifest sympa¬
thy which exists between the various organs. Its series of gang¬
lia on both sides of the vertebral column, extend from the tri-fa¬
cial nerve at the base of the skull to the coccyx.
These ganglia are united by nerves running from one ganglion
to another, and at each ganglion there is a branch received from
the spinal cord. In this way, the whole organism is in sympa¬
thy with any diseased part.
The cardiac plexu? supplies the chest, the solar plexus the ab¬
dominal viscera, and the hypogastric plexus the organs of the
pelvis, these being the largest of these organs. It becomes easy
to understand how the urinar> organs, or the urethra, may be¬
come functionally affected by a diseased ovary, when we know
that the same plexus of nerves is distributed to both organs.
Such affections are frequent in hysterical women in whom the
nervous system has become weakened by constant irritation.
In piles, the urinary organs are often affected, and, after opera¬
tion for piles, catheterization is very frequently necessary.
These conditions are sympathetic disturbances.
It is the rule and not the exception that pregnant women are
miserably annoyed, during certain months, with nausea and
vomiting. This is, of course, caused by the direct connection
between the great solar plexus and the hypogastric plexus. So
it is not so difficult to understand how the pelvic viscera sympa¬
thize with one another, since the same plexus supplies them all.
The nerves are composed of both fibre and cell. From such
composition there result so-called reflex phenomena. When a
nerve fibre is irritated, this irritation is transmitted to cells more
or less distant, and from the cells to the peripheries. The irrita¬
tion transmitted from a centripetal fibre to a central cell which
reflects it by a centrifugal fibre to another organ. Thus, we see
that the reflex centers present complicated phenomena; at one
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time, they are centers of diffusion; at another, they are centers
of co-ordination of the memory, movement, etc.
The office of the nerves is essentially that of conduction. The
nerves may be compared to a complicated system of wires carry¬
ing an electric current. A knowledge of this system is more es¬
sential to the physician, since he so frequently encounters its re-
fllex workings.
It has been the general belief among the laity and even among
physicians that removal of the ovaries deprived a woman of all
araativeness; that it made her masculine and sluggish. This is
not true, but if it were, her husband would prefer this state to
the trials which he is made to endure, if she suffer from ovarian
disease.
In the patient mentioned in the opening of my paper, I found
the worst case of self abuse that I ever witnessed. Nor has the
removal of the ovaries lessened that tendency to any perceptible
intent.
Although the young woman is cured of the great pain in the
region of the ovaries, of the urinary retention and of the hysteri¬
cal fits, and although her general health is very good, yet the evil
tendency remains, which fact goes to prove that the ovaries have
nothing to do with sexual desires, or sensations.
I certainly cannot conceive how a woman can have less of sex¬
ual desire when she is well after ovariotomy, than when previous¬
ly to the operation, she is suffering constant pain, I therefore be¬
lieve that when a physician has treated a case of ovarian disease
until he is satisfied that he cannot cure it, he should give the sur¬
geon a chance to cure the patient, rather than allow the woman
to suffer on indeffinitely.
There is one point in the dressings, and after treatment of my
laparotomy cases, that I wish to mention. I endeavor to make
my operations aseptic, or as nearly so as the surroundings per¬
mit; for I believe that asepsis, if properly carried out, is just as
effective as antisepsis.
After the incision is properly closed, I seal it with colodion
simple and pure, containing no iodoform in it, or any other in¬
gredients, either medicinal or antiseptic. The colodion pro¬
tects the wound from the atmosphere and keeps it aseptic, which
is all that is necessary to produce rapid union by first intention.
For five years, I have treated my cases in this way, which, with¬
out exception has been successful.
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I never open the dressings until the sixth day, when I find the
incision healed, and I remove the sutures.
If asepsis has not been perfect and any stitch abscess occur, the
pus will raise the colodion at the point of exit, and the incision
will not be infected with the pus; as it is so perfectly protected
by the colodion. This fact makes the colodion doubly useful;
sterilized gauze and cotton are used as dressings (externally to
this).
From my experience with colodion, I must say that I doubt
very much whether it can be improved by iodoform, or by any
other antiseptic agent.
M. E. Graham.
The paper was presented for discussion.
Dr. Stow thought that mobid conditions of the kind described
would produce nymphomania, and that such a peculiar cerebra¬
tion was a morbid condition.
Dr. Graham thought many conditions of the kind were due to
unfortunate up-bringing.
Dr. Carr moved that the paper be received and published in
the usual manner. Carried.
Adjourned.
S. G. Hermance, Sec’y pro tem .
Intelligence. Mental Science and Honkeopathy.— Eliza Calvert Hall
comments upon two articles appearing in the transactions of the American Insti¬
tute for 1896. bearing the following titles, ‘The Metaphysical the Permanent Ele¬
ment in Science”Dr Gray,of Minneapolis and“Has Suggestion a Legitimate Place
in Therapeutics,” by Dr. Sherman of Kalamazoo. She says his definition of
disease is thoroughly in harmony with metaphysical teaching. She says, disease
must mean an affection of the unity we denominate man. It is a modality of
his being, of his essential self. It exists as a form or a manifestation of him
and cannot be treated. The essential self of man is his mind, and not his body.
Disease is a form, a state or a point of view of this essential self. The medical
system that denies the entity of disease, that boldly declares that disease cannot
be treated, and that looks upon man as a mind or immaterial being or spirit-like,
self-acting vital force, must eventually triumph over any system, no matter how
long established, that makes disease an objective affair and regards man as a
body to be drugged and dosed without reference to his immaterial being. Ig¬
norance and stupidity may find occasion tor laughter at the Hahnemann theory,
that there is a spiritual dynamis in every drug and plant, and that this spiritual
dynamis can be directed to the healing of the essential ego in man. The
Homoeopath who slights mental therapeutics is thrice a fool, for in so doing, he
strikes a blow at the theories of Hahnemann himself. The beauty and ingenuity
of Hahnemann’s ideas will commend themselves to every mental scientist as a
matter of course, but advocates of mental healing will doubtless continue to pre¬
fer the spiritual dynamis that is taken into the mind by the direct path of
thought, to one that can reach the essential ego only through the circuitous trip
through the digestive and circulatory system.
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C linical Verifi ca tioas.
Clinical Verifications.
W. A. YINGLING, M. D., EMPORIA, KANSAS.
Gall-stone Colic—Colocynthis.
Mrs. B., aet. 58, dark complexion.
Oct. 23, 1897. Attacked with gall-stone colic. Has an attack
every two or three months. Sitting up in bed with arms
folded across upper abdomen, pressing over seat of pain
and weaving back and forth in the greatest agony; doubled
up; cannot straighten up nor lie down. Much groaning
and grunting and great excitement from the excruciating
pain. All her actions indicate great suffering. Says,
“the pain is dreadful—such a pushing and boring; it will
surely kill me; I just can't stand it.” Suffering too severe
to get all the symptoms, but the picture is plain.
Colocf Xm (F.) in water; spoonful five minutes apart till better.
In twenty minutes, after three doses, says, “there! I can
stand it now.” In a few moments more she lies down.
Pain gradually lessening. Nearly all gone in half an hour,
and inside of an hour she went to sleep and slept all night.
The next day she was very sore across upper abdomen
and over region of liver, but this gradually wore away and
she was in usual health in twenty four hours.
Six weeks before she had an attack and was attended by
an old school doctor. The usual morphine in repeated
doses failed to relieve. She suffered excruciating pain for
nearly twenty-four hours, and was sick for ten days after,
she says from the effect of the morphine and drastic
medicine.
Gall-stone Colic—Belledonna.
Mrs. D., aet. 27, medium complexion.
May 8, 1897. Attacked with gall-stone colic. Came on very
suddenly. Tossing and throwing herself about in the
greatest agony. Throws arms up, and bends backward.
Much worse bending forward. Says, “the awful pain is
right there,” placing her finger over the region of the gall
duct. Is unable to describe the pain and hardly able to
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do anything but cry out in distress. There is a very sud¬
den and quick intensification of the pain at times, yet there
is a continuously severe pain. Wild look. Declares she
cannot endure the pain. All her actions are quick; quick
in change of position and in tossing about. Has had fre¬
quent spells in the past, and usually lasts from six to
twelve or more hours.
(H. S.) two doses five minutes apart.
In about ten minutes, pain eases up so she can endure
it easily, with but two or three of the intensified spells,
which were further apart and less severe. In less than
an hour she turned over on her side and went to sleep for
the night. By the next evening she was as well as usual,
the tenderness in hepatic region passing away.
Gall-stone Colic—Belladonna.
Mrs. R., age 53, dark complexion.
August 16, 1897. Attacked suddenly with gallstone colic. Ex¬
cruciating, continuous pain in region o f liver; a boring or
pushing pain; soreness in the whole of the right side.
Quick, sharp, intensified paroxysms of pains at times.
Grunting and crying out with the pains. Keeps moving
and changing position while sitting up in bed. Bends
backward and toward right side. Face flushed, and per¬
spiration from the hard work to contain her feelings and
the motions she is compelled to make. No position gives
relief. Hot applications have done no good. Rather
quick in her actions.
Bell. cm (H. S.) two doses five minutes apart.
In ten minutes she quiets down and says the pain is
not so intense. The paroxysms are less frequent and
much less severe. In half an hour is nearly free from
pain and can lie quietly in one position. In about forty-
five minutes I leave her asleep.
Next day she has great soreness in the liver, tenderness
over right side, and some fever. Has strong indications
of bilious fever. In thirty-six hours after the attack of
colic, she receives a dose of Chtna btm (Desch) which cleared
up the case promptly.
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Appendicitis—Bryonia—Pyrogen.
Mrs. H., age 60, dark complexioned.
July 20, 1897. Has been unwell for a day or so and has had
some diarrhoea.
Hot skin and feverish. Pulse 96.
Tongue white. Thirsty. Mouth and throat dry.
Nausea or squeamishness, < from movement.
Aching all over, more in limbs and back; worse from
motion which starts the severe pain; pain eases up
when quiet.
Mouth bitter and dry.
Dizzy when rising up, or when on her feet.
Diarrhoea light yellow, worse from motion.
Frontal headache.
Generally better when quiet.
Eyes sensitive to the light.
Bry .*°° (B. and T.) in water, three doses two hours apart.
P. M. Less pain. Pulse 100.
Pushing out in left ear as if swollen.
Squeamish at stomach.
Mouth dry and bitter, but no special thirst.
Sharp pain in lower abdomen, worse on the right side
where she has had trouble for some years.
Some desire for lemonade.
Gapping and some chilliness.
Lips are parched and dry.
Restless, tossing about , can find no easy position; temporary
relief from motion; keeps changing position every mo¬
ment or two from restlessness .
Bed feels too hard.
Head feels big .
Pyrogen cmm (Swan), two doses, two hours apart, unless better on
the one dose.
July 21. Took but one dose of Pyrogen which quieted her, and
she rested till 1 a. m.
Head feels full and aches.
Stool sudden and urgent, can’t wait; scant, frothy look¬
ing, brownish water, dreadful odor, very slightly
bloody, slight pain before stool with sudden urging.
Was better for awhile. Weakness.
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Misery in lower abdomen, > on right side in ileo-caecai
region.
Not so restless. No nausea. Pulse 80.
Feels worse after sleep.
S. L. [Pyrogen, as above, when decidedly worse).
July 24. Had to take two single doses of Pyrogen when feeling
worse, otherwise a gradual improvement and was able
to be about the house on fourth day of her sickness.
Feels that she has been saved from a severe and long
spell of sickness.
A rapid and complete recovery.
Tonsilitis.
Miss E. H., age 18, dark complexion.
Dec. 10, 1897. Subject to sore throat for about three years.
Began yesterday on left side, now both tonsils and fauces
are greatly enlarged and inflamed, filling the throat.
Choking feeling; burning; feels hot. Painful swal¬
lowing food, drink or saliva. Choking on swallow¬
ing liquids. Desires to swallow saliva frequently;
pain shoots to left ear when swallowing.
Has fever. Has some hives. Some headache.
* Face purplish-red and hot.
No appetite. No thirst.
Slight pain in left ear.
Left side of throat sensitive to pressure.
Laeh. cm (F.) two doses two hours apart unless better.
Dec. 11. Throat worse. Felt some easier for a short time.
Very red and congested in fauces, soft palate and ton¬
sils; much worse on left side.
Feels like a knife cutting.
Desire to swallow, painful. Can swallow neither solids
nor liquids.
Throat pains when talking.
High fever last night; now feels hot.
Very dizzy rising up.
Some thirst. Tongue coated white.
External throat under left jaw and up to the ear very
sensitive.
Throat feels very dry, yet mouth is full of saliva and de¬
sires to spit often.
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Beil™ m (F.) in water, three doses two hours apart unless better.
P. M. Throat less swollen and less inflamed.
Not so painful to touch and swallows much easier.
Feels better generally.
Some phlegm in the throat.
S. L.
Dec. 15. Has been nearly well, feeling much better; went to
school and became chilled in the cool room.
Now somewhat worse, and the left tonsil feels as if a pin
or splinter was sticking in it.
Generally not so well.
Hepar* m (F.) two doses two hours apart.
The sticking feeling in tonsil left at once and a rapid
cure with no return.
It may seem strange that Lachesis failed in this case
and that Bell, cured so promptly. Though a left
sided case in the Guiding Symptoms, it was a mistake
to give Lack, at all.
Tonsilitis—Belladonna—Bryonia.
Miss L., age 17, fair complexion.
Dec. 12, 1879. Sent to the office for medicine.
For a day or so has had headache in forehead.
Face hot and flushed. Head hot.
Tongue white. Thirst for a little.
Mouth dry. Feverish.
Throat sore. Aches all over.
Rather costive. Pain in the back.
Be/l*° m (F.) three doses two hours apart unless better.
Dec. 14. Tonsils red and enlarged.
Tickling in upper part of trachea about Adam’s apple.
Thirst with > for a few moments after drinking.
Face hot and flushed each afternoon.
Headache in forehead, > quiet; when coughing feels as
though the head would burst.
Dizzy rising up.
Generally > when quiet, < moving about.
Throat not painful, except v/hen swallowing solids, less
so swallowing saliva, and none when swallowing liquids.
Bowels costive. Pain in abdomen, sharp, > when
quiet, < moving about.
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Some sweat about the mouth, nose and forehead.
Backache in small of back, >* lying on back.
Poor appetite.
Urine burns slightly.
Faint on rising up.
Bry .* m (F.) three doses two hours apart unless better.
Dec. 15. Thoat much better last evening, but worse this morn¬
ing on arising; better again by 9 a. m.
Tonsils and fauces less red and inflamed.
The principal trouble is at Adam’s apple; painful on
swallowing only.
Pain in forehead and occiput; worse in the afternoon;
sharp shooting pain from forehead to neck.
Tongue coated thick, dirty white.
Some dizziness on arising.
Aching in small of back and shoulders.
Mouth dry. Throat dry. Thirsty.
Bry. 9m (F) one dose.
Dec. 16. Much better generally. No trouble to speak of. No
further treatment needed.
From the standpoint of a true homeopath, these last two cases
do not seem difficult, but in the hands of the mongrel or allo¬
path thay continue sick for some time. These prompt cures
have brought me considerable prestige, especially as the brother
of Miss H., with the same trouble, had his tonsils removed and
was sick for a long while.
ACUTE MANIA, FOLLOWING SUPPRESSED SCARLET
FEVER.
F. H. LOCKWOOD, M. D., CHICAGO.
Prof. Nervous Diseases, Dunham Medical College.
G. B., age 11 years. Brown hair and eyes, naturally bright
mentally, large for his age. Oct. 3, *93, was called, when I
learned the following history, that came very near adding one
more inmate, to the already overflowing insane asylums from the
scientific (?) treatment of the opposite school of medicine.
The history given by the mother is as follows:
Last winter had scarlet fever, the eruption came out beauti¬
fully at the time, naturally the fever was high, the brain seemed
clear most of the time.
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The attending physician ordered a cold bath to reduce
the temperature, which order was carried out by the nurse ac¬
cording to instructions. This was followed directly by the dis¬
appearance of the eruption, (naturally) and with violent mania,
striking and biting at attendants, it being almost impossible to
control him.
At one time during the mania, he stole out of bed and was
about to strike his mother with a chair, which the nurse pre¬
vented just in time. This condition would last until the effects
ot the cold bath had worn off, when the eruption would return
with relief of the train of symptoms.
This sort of treatment was continued daily for several weeks,
always with the same result, until finally the eruption was sup¬
pressed permanently and the patient pronounced cured— Won¬
derful! I found the patient in this condition:
Severe frontal headache, radiating over the entire head
«< from light, the shades drawn and the room dark.
Extreme restlessness, particularly when the headache
was worse.
Headache constant, but at times more severe with acute
mania, which resembled that already described.
The aggravation lasting about five days.
No regularity as to recurrence, but always from one to
two attacks a month, lately seem to be more frequent,
since beginning school.
Always brought on by excitement.
Puffiness of eyelids, both upper and lower.
Vomiting of food and drink, can retain nothing on the
stomach during the aggravation.
No thirst.
Bloating of the abdomen, full and tense.
During these attacks, a pimply eruption makes it ap¬
pearance, each pimple surrounded by a white areola.
Itching not relieved by scratching, but which seems to
aggravate.
Relief by washing with ammonia water.
Eruption mostly on chest and arms.
Bowels constipated.
Urine scanty, high colored, thick and strong odor.
Frequently, goes a day or more without passing urine.
Sleep poor, waking often from frightful dreams.
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During the aggravation, no sleep from severe pain and
delirium.
Preceding an attack, cross and irritable.
Naturally very bright, but now gets confused easily; loss
of memory.
Pulse full and strong.
Head hot, eyes congested and staring.
Oct. 4, p. m., prescribed Belladonna lm ; one hour after went to
sleep.
During the night profuse sweat on the head, standing in
beads on forehead.
Complained of head during sleep, but when asked said
it was all right.
Woke in the morning without pain.
Asked for food which remained on stomach.
No more vomiting from this time.
Urinated this morning, about the same in color and odor,
but larger quantity.
Oct. 6. Two days after the Belladonna , a typical scarlet fever
eruption appeared, which by night was fully de¬
veloped.
With the appearance of the eruption the brain symptoms
cleared up.
From this time the patient made rapid recovery, the
eruption beginning to fade on the fifth day.
As the eruption disappeared the dropsical condition subsided.
He has remained well to this day, a large, strong, healthy boy,
attending school and learns as rapidly as ever
No other remedies were given, except one dose of Sulphur Jm
some weeks after. It is now four years, which seems long enough
to be positive proof of a complete recovery.
The one thing I am unable to account for, is, how it happened
he lived through the scientific (?) treatment, to come under my
care.
A SURGICAL VIEW OF SUPPRESSION.
HOWARD CRUTCHER, M. D., CHICAGO.
Prof. Principles of Surgery, Dunham Medical College.
By “Suppression,” I understand the interference with the ex¬
pressions of disease, such, for instance, the driving in of an
acute eruption from exposure to cold, as the application of vio-
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lent chemicals to the urethra for the purpose of cutting short a
profuse gonorrhoeal discharge. The condition is one that has
long been recognized. Wood {Practice of Medicine , 1868) speaks
of a case of psoriasis being driven in by a harsh astringent, the
result being an acute attack of endocarditis. Many other au¬
thorities refer to the part of suppression, but do not appear to at¬
tach much importance to it, until we come to the writings of
Hahnemann and his followers.
There is a surgical suppression, as true as a medical suppression.
As true physicians, we have but to assist the methods of nature,
for nature is something so wasteful and destructive that *he pa¬
tient is destroyed in the effort to get rid of the product of dis¬
ease. This is a subject of great practical importance, and is of
prime interest to the surgeon. The terrible sufferings in cystitis
often arise from nature’s inability to discharge a calculus through
the urethra. The stone lies in the bladder, a great mechanical
irritant, and the proper method of giving relief lies in opening
the bladder and removing the suppressed stone.
In another case, a suppressed stone will be found in the pelvis
of the kidney, or in the ureter, or, it maybe in the urethra itself.
In any case of the kind, nature’s efforts at ridding the system of
a burden have been supprssed, and the resources of the surgical
art must come to the patient’s relief.
One of the most fatal conditions, if left untreated, is known as
obstruction of the bowel, whereby the faecal current is suppressed,
generally by a tightening adhesive band. The systemic response
is very rapid and threatening, and unless the condition be re¬
lieved by surgery, or by some happy accident of nature, death
speedily follows.
An abscess might be defined as suppressed pus. But one rem¬
edy is to be thought of, and that is the prompt relief of the sup¬
pression—doing, in a word, in one minute what nature would not
do in a week, and might not accomplish at all.
Nature never gives a dose of Aconite or Mercurius , any more
than she plunges a scalpel into a collection of pus, but she lays
down the rules to be followed in both cases. Nature indicates a
lack of water by thirst, but she never gives a patient a drink. It
is by imitating the plan of nature, and assisting her through weak
places, that we attain ideal results.
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CASES OF SUPPRESSION.
EDWARD CRANCH, M. D., ERIE, PA.
On being asked for cases illustrative of the ill effects of sup¬
pression of eruptions, I am struck with the fewness of such cases
that I have to note; whether this arises from the facts, or from
my own imperfect observation of them, I do not pretend to de¬
cide, but truly I can think of only the following, in a review of
my records for several years back.
I. C., child of lithaemic parents, showed general, but not
strictly universal, eczema, about three months after birth. It
was washed with sulphur soap, and the skin very soon cleared
off, but the child then had convulsions. Recovering from these,
the rash again appeared, to be again washed with sulphur soap!
Again there followed recession of the eruption, and again con¬
vulsions. This time the rash did not return, and the child died
within the year, of marasmus, with convulsions. There are three
other children in the family, the oldest has had frequent attacks
of asthma, for which he had his nose “tunnelled,” but in vain,
being finally cured by Antim . crud l(m . Another child had a very
tedious convalescence from typhoid fever, with threatened atro¬
phy of one limb, but finally recovering; while another child was
marasmic and pot-bellied, but is all right now.
II. Miss Hart, aged about 21, had some sort of eruption on
her face, which obstinately resisted allopathic salves and washes.
She herself, her vanity being enlisted, was still more persistent,
and the rash finally fled, but in a short time she became insane.
I was called on as a supposed expert in insanity (though there is no
class of cases of which I have more horror), and I gave the best
prescriptions I could select, including Sulphur and Zinc &c., but
without effect, and she was sent to an asylum, where she has re¬
mained, now these fifteen years, mild, but uncured, although in
excellent physical health. Other members of the family, among
whom I still practice has showed no marked peculiarity of con¬
stitution.
III. Mrs. J. S., age 60. Had frequent sore throats, without
swelling, marked by a patch of vivid red on either side of the
fauces.
This alternated with slight patches of eczema on the hands and
arms. Sulphur , and Hepar were her principal remedies, and
Gclscmium and Coffca good coadjutors, when one day, about two
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years ago, she came with a true “eczema universale,” but re¬
marking that she “felt splendid.”
She got very little medicine, some Clematis and some Sulphur.
There was no remedy used locally, so far as I am aware, except
oil of sweet almonds, which I often employ in similar cases, as an
emollient. After three or four months, the eruption slowly sub¬
sided (not suddenly), and some of her old languid feelings re¬
turned. About three months ago, fully two months after the sub¬
sidence of the eruption, she had a slight stoke of paralysis af¬
fecting the left side of face and left arm and hand. There was
great debility, nervousness and wakefulness. Stools lumpy and
watery, tongue very white. Says paralysis is common in her
family, two brothers and her mother have had it. She got Ant.
crud. t and soon recovered from the paralysis, and now has her
old sore throat back again, and is slowly recovering her usual
health.
This might be called a case of metastasis, since no ascertained
cause of suppression intervened.
IV. As an illustration of another form of suppression, I will
give a chapter in a case I reported to your journal (The Advo¬
cate) last year. It was a case of fatty heart, with dropsy, leak¬
ing from the limbs, with impossibility of lying down. He recover¬
ed under Phos. l(m at long intervals, so that his dropsy wholly dis¬
appeared, and he can now sleep all night in bed, walk over town,
shovel snow, and attend to a little business, and breathes well.
A good case for one over 78 years of age! Well, a few days ago
he came into my office saying he has had an exhaustive diarrhoea
for several days, but had not liked to do an) thing to stop it, but
now he was utterly done out. I asked him about breathing, etc.
and prescribed China X{m . In the evening I was sent for, he had
great distress of breathing, regular “Cheyne-Stokes,” such as he
has had in his days and nights of dropsy, and he stated that he
had “not another stool.” I gave him one dose of Phos. 1000 , and
called in the morning, to find that he had slept well all night, and
had a natural stool in the morning. No more bad breathing,
and no other complaint. Hence, no medicine.
Here was a case, of which I believe there are many, not always
noticed, where the sudden stopping of one symptom developes
others. Sometimes such treatment seems needful, as in hemorr¬
hages, with the resultant head-ache, or in syphilitic iritis, with
threatened blindness, even though a new sore on the body fol-
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low, as I have witnessed, or in threatened apoplexy, treated by
Glonoinc , with resultant, (or consecutive) sciatica, and perhaps
in other cases.
Always, where possible, we should avoid sudden and profound
effects upon the mind or body, but “break it to them gently” not
like the messenger who announced a death by bringing along a
coffin, saying it would be handy to have when the next party
came in!
One lesson we can learn from modern pathology, is the prob¬
able identity of Hahnemann's “Psora” with lithaemia or gout,
with which at least one third of the human race is afflicted, and
which accounts for all the symptoms of “Psora,” except those be¬
longing to pure tuberculosis. Here we have the explanation of
*hese metastases from and to the skin, that often seem so ob¬
scure, when a customary outlet for morbid matter (not merely a
dynamis) is closed, and another has to be supplied.
The essential dynamic nature of disease is not questioned, but
the part played by the excretions must be fully recognized.
This subject is too extensive for further treatment here and
now, but I wish to go on record as affirming that “Psora” of
Hahnemann, and gout, are essentially the same thing.
PLUMBUM.
FRANK R. WATERS, M. I).,
Prof. DNeaaea of the Thorax and Phyc. Diag., Dunham Medical College.
Mrs. A., aged 50 years. Light complexion, brown eyes, light
brown hair, small, bowed, fleshy.
About twelve years ago while in company with some lady ac¬
quaintances was kindly (?) given a formula for the complexion
as follows: (quantity not remembered)
Flake White.
Rose Water.
Mix.
Off and on applications to the face were made up to 1895.
She has been my patient since Aug. '91 and in that time had
not discovered any evidence of such an article being used.
The symptoms have called for Bell,, Lyco., Sulph,, Che/.,
Graph,, Puls,, Rhus,, Bry,, and Apis,
May of ’95 had a condition that I called lumbago—severe
pains upon moving, though obliged to move—situated in the
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lumbar region. Scanty, high colored urine, tenesmus, and a
rise of temperature to 100 3-5 ° . Rhus was the remedy.
In about a month after this, she began to loose the use of her
arms and hands. Could not raise her hand to head to dress her
hair, nor hold a cup to raise it to her lips. Inability to take hold
of anything without spreading fingers apart and slipping the article
between them.
I knew nothing of this condition for perhaps six months.
When happened to call and found the condition of complete
“wrist drop” and also that she had acquired the “Dispensary
Habit” and was now taking Fowler’s Solution. Tried to per¬
suade her out of that treatment.
She was now reduced in weight fully thirty pounds, and condi¬
tion generally pitable—even her tongue was thick in talking,
pains in forearm, especially right extensors; left almost as bad,
(began in right went to left) almost total loss of use of both hands.
Legs and feet to end of toes pained as if pricked with needles.
Could hardly walk.
Not feeling inclined to be prescribed for, told her, would send
her some medicine by mail and she could do as she choose about
taking it.
Had not seen her for nearly a year, when she walked into my
office a picture of good health. What went through my mind as
to the probable cause of the cure, am not quite positive, for I ex¬
pected to see her again soon if the medicine sent her had done
its duty.
Her story was that the medicine she had been taking had given
out about the time my powders arrived, she had taken them.
The improvement commenced immediately and continued, had
taken no medicine since all symptoms had disappeared with the
exception of a slight numbness in ends of fingers—usual weight
had returned. Remedy was Plumbum 10m .
CLINICAL VERIFICATIONS.
W. W. GLEASON, ATTLEBORO, MASS.
Robert C., 8 years of age. Worms.
Aching in forehead.
Restless sleep.
Grating teeth at night.
Starting from sleep at every noise. Cina cm one dose,
cured.
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Mrs. N., four months pregnant—fourth child.
Feels as if she don’t want to know where her husband’s
razor is, for she is so discouraged, she would as soon
die as live.
Irritable, gloomy.
Constant aching from vertex to eyes.
(Diagnosis: misplaced foetus.) Pu/s . mm one dose cured.
Mrs. P., three months pregnant—fourth child.
Varicose veins of right leg excessive.
Constant aching of varices (no other symptom).
Arn. cm one dose cured.
Eugenia M., 13 years of age, never menstruated.
Constant headache, can’t bear light, can’t read or study.
Puls. 2 ™, four doses.
In two months menstruated. Headache cured.
Ernest E., Intermittent fever. Had it a year ago , same month.
Podroraic: Sleepy, yawny, weak, vertigo.
Chill: 2 p. m. Thirst for small quantities frequently.
Better from heat of stove.
Heat: Mostly internal. Restless. Thirst same as in
heat.
Sweat: Drank large quantities of water. Cold clammy
sweat. Ars 200 , four doses, cured.
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TWO CASES OF DIABETES MELLITUS CURED BY
SULPHUR.
R. E. BELDING, M. D., TROY, N. Y.
Mrs. H., aged about 65, for many years a sufferer from a va¬
riety of complaints, under Allopathic treatment, came to me in
the condition outlined below. She is short and very fleshy, with
dark hair and eyes and is of an obstinate disposition. She is
always disposed to make light of her sufferings She is very
weak, scarcely able to drag herself across the room. She is los¬
ing flesh and haggard. For a year or more she has had intense
burning in the stomach and oesophagus, worse after eating. Her
appetite is very poor but she drinks water by the gallon. Can¬
not eat rich food. Much gas in the stomach and has nearly
constant nausea. Tongue red and irritable with a white coating
in the middle, with very dry mouth. Dislike for sweets and
meat. Much pain across the region of the kidneys. Pain is
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somewhat relieved by leaning against something hard. She fell
two or three years ago and hurt her back. She used to have
much brick dust sediment in the urine, but now it is clear, profuse
and analysis shows a specific gravity of 1042 and sugar to the
amount of 16 grains to the ounce. Her sleep is broken by pain
in the stomach or back. She wakens regularly from 12 to half
past twelve, remains awake until 4, then sleeps until 6 o’clock,
when she has to hurry from bed for painless, loose stools of
which she has 5 or 6 between that time and 10 o’clock a. m., hav¬
ing no farther trouble with them until next morning.^ The abdo¬
men and limbs are dropsical. She received Sulphur lm in water,
five doses, two hours apart, on May 24th, 1897. On July 4th,
analysis showed specific gravity 1032, and sugar a little over five
grains to the ounce. A little pain in the stomach and back is
very weak, allowing her to walk but little. Sulphur * lm , one pow¬
der, dry on the tongue. July 26th she is better every way ex¬
cept that the back is still weak and lame, perhaps as a result of
the fall before mentioned. There is no trace of sugar and the
specific gravity is normal. She looks much better, is gaining
flesh, has a good appetite, sleeps well, bowels regular and has no
unnatural thirst.
CASK TWO.
Fred H., age 35, thin and a little stooped, a clerk, married and
the father of two lovely girls, smokes moderately. Urine cloudy
with a flocculent sediment, specific gravity 1035, sugar 4 grains
to the ounce about normal.in quantity. Two years ago there
was deposit of uric acid followed by rheumatism in all of the
limbs. Has traces of it yet. He chills easily and likes heat.
Back ache nearly constant, in lumbar region. Suppurating pim¬
ples on the back and shoulders, sore to touch. Had piles a year
ago which disappeared by the use of ointments. After Sulphur im
two powders 12 hours apart, the symptoms all disappeared.
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PURIFICATION AFTER CHILD-BIRTH.
JOHN CAMPBELL, M. D., GREEN ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND.
The Mosaic law was holy, just and good. One part of that law
viz: Leviticus ch. 12th, though railed against by some, yet has
in it many valuable hints for gentiles as well as jews, to which
we might do well to take heed.
It was not designed for the benefit of the Most High art, but
for them, for the nation of Israel to whom it was given.
It is a mistake to fancy that the law as given by Moses was
merely ceremonial or moral, or religious. It was all these, and
yet it was a great deal more. It was physical or physiological
law that went right down into the every day life of the people.
It took cognizance of their dietary laws, prescribing what they
might eat and what to avoid. To fast at least one day in the
year, and to eat bread, unleavened bread for one week in the
year. It included sanitary laws of life and health, and sexual
laws for both married and single. They are a treasure house of
knowledge, unknown, neglected and despised. They are looked
upon as obsolete, having passed away, never to be renewed or
enfored again. But even this belief is another mistake, for very
much of that law will be incorporated into the laws of life in the
age to come.
When the law of Lev. 12th is carefully and studiously read, it
can be seen that this is a sexual law for the married. A law
treated slightingly and passed over with small comment, because
it was given to the jews, and not for the gentiles. Indeed, so far
as this chapter is concerned, the learned commentations and the
prominent church goer see so little in it, either as a sexual or
typical law, that it is very seldo/n dealt with or enlarged upon.
I would feel honored in bringing this law out of its long past and
present obscurity, pressing its claims upon those whom it may
concern and upon the medical faculty.
Here then we notice that its provisions, primarily, are in con¬
nection with maternity, and the laws of childbirth. “If a woman
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have conceived seed and born a man child, then she shall be
unclean 7 days.” This however is not a fiction uncleanness, but
a proper and natural description of the state and condition of
the mother, during this period when she was separated or sancti¬
fied “according to the days of the separation for her infirmity”
shall she be unclean. She was set apart 7 days for a boy and 14
days for a girl. But here we ask, was this law merely ceremonial
or arbitrary? If a divine law, shall we not rather repeat that it
was “holy, just and good.” Not only a physical law, but in the
best interests of the mother and children to come. It established
a difference between boys and girls, for which reason, experience
and more exact knowledge in thus differentiating between the
sexes has yet to be made. This point is not unknown I admit,
and was known in ancient times especially, the other time period
given as 33 and 66.
We might say at least that He who made man in the beginning
and who appointed the laws pertaining to reproduction. He
knew the calls of nature to be absolute, with no sensible varia¬
tion, say that the mother in this law designed for her wellfare,
recovers sooner after a boy than a girl. So we say that the crea¬
tor and designer of the sexual apparatus, and the God of Israel,
gave to his people a law for their to study and observance, and
all for the conservation of the health, energy, beauty and
spirituality of the mothers in Israel—to lay up for a week or a
fortnight as the case might be, and then only visible to female
friends. But does a mother recover sooner after a boy than a
girl? We answer, yes! There are both physiological and sex¬
ual reasons involved in this law which gave us the meaning of
this difference. It observes in woman’s nature, and nature’s Law¬
giver just points it out and emphasizes it in this chapter. Rest
is essential after childbirth, and this rest of a week or a fort¬
night might be pointed as correct by all who understand the sub¬
ject. At a week old, or on the 8th day, the boy is circumcised.
The very best time for this to be done. But here we enter upon
another allotted period. The mother is thereafter to “continue
in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days.” Eight and
thirty-three would make forty-one days in home isolation.
Hut.that is not all—during those 6 weeks, she was still living in
sexual separation. Again, “she shall touch no hallowed thing,
nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purification
be fulfilled. ” Of course, this law was to her a religious disability
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and time here was an essential element of her state and condi¬
tion subjectively. She was passing through a process of blood
change, of blood purification and of womb change as well (in¬
cluding all the sexual apparatus), on to a natural or normal blood
life, back again, to her own sexual blood life and state as before
conception. To effect this, time is needed. This Mosaic law
defines that time to be for a boy, full 41 days, or say 6 weeks;
during this time, the husband was not to seek conjugal rites or
privileges. They were thus set apart sexually, until the time of
her separation was fulfilled. This tended to the crucifixion of
the flesh, on the one side and sometimes with both. But such
restraint was good. Then she would go to the Tabernacle or to
the Temple, to be cleansed of her issue of blood—to be washed
or baptized in running water as Jewish mothers do today after
they are clean. Let it it be on the 42d day, for that completes
full 8 and 33 days. Then the mother offered an offering unto
the Lord as described in the last verses.
This too under the sanctifying influences of maternity, was so
good, for it brought up and exalted the religious faculties in the
husband and yet more in the wife and mother, when the emo¬
tional part of her nature and all her religious instincts were ac¬
tive and her whole nature we might say in full sympathy with
her religious obligations. When she had thus become “clean”
Mosaically and duly prepared by those holy exercises at the
Place of the Name. We say, when husband, wife and child re¬
turned from this service, the marriage was renewed. Both have
waited the expiration of the legal period. The mother now and
not before was morally, spiritually and sexually fitted to enter
upon this feast of love, and to stamp her offspring with the same
high exalting religious emotions, as fitted herself—and not only
so, but of conceiving seed the more readily, just at this point of
time at the end of these 42 days, or possibly on the 50 th day, if
we alljw a week for further certainty as to cleanness. See Lev.
16: 28; then she might close the circle of her separate state with
the beginning again of loves privilege. Observe our contention
is—not before this time had elapsed. It meant abstinence accord¬
ing to law on the part of husband and wife and the subjection of
the will human and the will divine and the law of the flesh to the
law of the spirit. As a mental exercise and a physical gain, (oh,
how much to the wife and mother) it strengthened the organ or
faculty of the will, as it strengthened and excited amativeness
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when the time of mutual restraint had passed and they were then
legally free to come together again. Now, if we but considered
that the mother requires this full time for recuperation, for resto¬
ration, as applying to her whole sexual organism, then we might
say how sinful, how exceedingly sinful to break this law, as much
so to-day as when this law was given.
This is the meaning of the 12th chapter of Lev. A gracious
law for all mothers, and placing the husband on the plane of the
lover for the past six if not seven weeks (on the 50th day) after
giving birth to a boy.
But if a girl, the time is doubled—here my lady doctor friends,
might extend the scope of this paper—no handshaking, nor kiss¬
ing for a fortnight—not to be touched during these two weeks of
restful isolation from the husband. Then she was to count 66
days after that, or 80 in all. Here too I suggest another week
for cleanness or more likely 2 weeks, or double the time of sepa¬
ration for a boy i. e. 100 days before she is freed from this injunc¬
tion. The Jewess mother does this at the birth under the syna¬
gogue. We should mark well this difference between the time
for a boy and a girl, and to see that continence and self denial
is a gain and not an evil, which if it were known and strictly ob¬
served as its importance deserves, would enlarge the sphere of
human happiness give strength, long life and good health, and
would make our Sarah’s good looking and joyous to an advanced
life.
Courage, cheerfulness, and a desire to work, Moleschott says,
depends mostly on good nutrition.
By a recent act of the Connecticut Legislature, the marriage
of epileptics in that State is forbidden.
There is no doubt that physicians charge for their services in
accordance with the means of their patients, and none are re¬
fused treatment. If physicians would volunteer to treat the poor
of their respective circles, their would be no need of dispensaries.
Removal of Blood Stains. —According to Dr. Blenkiser, in
the Scalpel , surgical instruments, sponges, the hands of the opera¬
tor, and other blood stained articles, may be readily cleansed by
washing them in a tepid solution of tartaric acid, and then rins¬
ing in water without soap.
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Correspondence.
Boston, Mass., Dec. 20, 1897.
H. IV. Pier sort) M. D., Editor Hahnetnannian Advocate.
Dear Doctor: —Will you kindly publish the following correc¬
tions of the remarks in the discussions of the Society of Homceo-
pathicians in the November number of the Advocate. The cor¬
rections were sent you, but by some mistake, evidently were not
made according to the revised proof.
Page 678. Dr. Kennedy’s second remarks, third line, should
read “you did give it later.”
Page 679. Dr. Thurston’s remarks, third line, “all held” should
be “are told.”
18th line, “furnished” should be “finished.”
22d line, “antidote” should be “antedate.”
8th line, from bottom of page “dynamic” should be “dynamis.”
Very truly yours,
S. A. Kimball, Sec’y.
BCENNINGHAUSEN'S REPERTORY.
Am in a similar dilemma, with Dr. Gleason, quoted in last
number as to relationship in Bcenninghausen’s Repertory.
It seems to the uninitiated a blind and irrational scheme—to il¬
lustrate, Aconite under head of Mind; Apis has second place.
Apis under head of Mind gives Aconite fourth place. How
can the relationship be different, when two remedies are com¬
pared under Localities? Apis gets first place under Aconite, Aco¬
nite gets second place under Apis.
Does this refer to succession. Apis being in such a ratio,
more likely to succeed Aconite, or what interpretation are we to
put upon it?
We need all the help of the fathers in Homoeopathy, but often
wish that we understood their meaning better. Any one who
can unravel this, will confer a favor.
Am very much interested in the sharp prescribing of the ex-
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perts in our ranks, but would be pleased to know at times the
means, by which they arrive at their decisions as to remedies.
The query now in my mind is, what led Dr. Haynes to prescribe
Baryta jod. in the cancer case.
I do not ask in a spirit of doubt or criticism, but from a sin¬
cere desire to be able to do likewise. Although a practitioner
and student for man) years, I cannot follow his steps and reach
the remedy in that case.
, Yours truly,
Madison, Wis. E. A. Brown, M. D.
A WORK ON COCA.
504 W. 146 St., New York, Jan. 17, 1898.
My Dear Doctor :—For some time I have been preparing a
work on Coca, which will aim to exhaustively present in an im¬
partial manner, all that is known of this remarkable plant and its
application.
The marvelous tales with which we are familiar—of the won¬
derful sustaining powers of Coca, would alone indicate some inher¬
ent property of inestimable value. But either from prejudice
or neglect,—possibly from the greater interest directed to its
alkaloid, Coca has been overlooked and has not received that at¬
tention which through its physiological importance it is entitled.
To supplement data already at hand for this work, I addressed
many representative physicians, asking their experience with
Coca. While this collective investigation was commenced on
the supposition that the remedy was little known and less under¬
stood, the replies have impressively emphasized this. They also
have generally expressed a desire to more fully learn the true
properties of Coca.
I ask that you will kindly further this work by answering the en¬
closed queries, and also by calling the attention of your readers
to this inquiry of common interest, with a request to forward to
me the result of personal observation or experience in the use of
Coca, as a therapeutic agent or as a food.
Very sincerely,
W. Golden Mortimer, M. D.
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people's Department*
A CASE FOR CONSULTATION.
M. E. DOUGLASS, M. D., BALTIMORE, M. D.
Frequently seeing articles with the above caption in our medi¬
cal journals, I think I will report a case that came to my notice
the other day.
A tall, raw-boned, very black country negro, about forty years
of age, came into my office and wanted to know if “dis you was
mister Dugges.” I told him my name was Douglass. “Youse
de man Ise lookin’ fur. I cum ter git yo’ ter tole me wba’s de.
mattah wif me. Mister Robberson dun tole me youse a pow’ful
good doctah, sah, an I feels miserable all ober, an’ I don* no
wha’s de mattah.” Well! tell me how long you have been sick,
and how you were first taken; how you have felt ever since, and
what you have taken, how you felt before you were sick, and—
“Hole on doctah! how’s I gwine ter tole yo’ dat ar?” Do the
best you can, and don’t talk too fast, for I want to write down
what you say. “Wha’ yo’ gwine ter do wif it?” Keep it for ref¬
erence. “Ise gut a pow’ful mis’ry in mah side, boss, rite hyar,”
laying his hand over the region of the spleen, “an’ Ise gut anud-
der mis’ry in mah hed dat trubbles me mos’ all de time, but am
pow’ful bad ’er nites. Dere’s a noise in mah hed like a pile ’er
wheels all gwine sizzity-zip; an* I has de staggers pow’ful bad,
sah; seems if Ise gwine roun’ an’ roun’ all de same as ’er top.
Den dose wheels will go blam, an hit ’pears like mah hed gwine
ter bus* rite open. Den times I gits kinder blind like, sah, an I
ain’t got no sense no mohr fur er long time. Den, doctah, Ise
gut sich a pow’ful mis’ry in mah stummick, pears like I swallered
a lump er ir’n, hit hurts pow’ful bad. An’ boss dis yere mis’ry
dat goes plum frum mah grine clar down ter mah ankle are pow¬
’ful bad; it jis’ gits easy like, an* I tinks it am gwine way foh
shure, wen, blim, it goes down er leg like er stroke er litnin’, an
hit mos’ maiks one holler out. I don* plane er nuffin else, sah.
Ise got a pow’ful apertite, sah. Ise fraid I dun bin tricked boss:
deris a ole niggah woman dat dun pizen me, Ise mity feered. She
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am a pow’ful bad niggah sah.” What have you been doing to
her? “I ain’ dun nuffin to her sah, only jes druv her ole cow
often my lan’, an her pigs dun bodder me heaps.”
Where did you drive her cow? Did you take her home and
politely ask her owner to take care of her? * ‘No, boss, cant say
as I did perzakly dat ar way! Yo’ see, boss, twas dis yere way.
I jes druv her ole cow cross de crick inter de woods erbout er
mile er two maybe, whar she don trubble me no mohr dat ar day,
an’ she kinder git lostes out dar.”
When did the cow come home?
“Well, boss, twas erbout er week.”
How about the pigs?
“Well, boss, dem pigs am pow’ful mean pigs, jus de mos’
meaninest pigs yo’ eber seed; pears like dey was alius gwine ter
git inter trubble all der time; an’ one day Ise jes dribin ob dem
pigs outen mah cohn, kinder easy like, an I hit one er dem wif a
stick, an he tumble ober, and squele, an den he say no mohr.
Ob corse Ise pow’ful sorry dat I dun hurt one of dem pigs, but
'twant no mannah er use ter waist er good pig, so I jes bled him
sose de meat be good for sumfin.”
Did you take that pig to the woman who owned it, and tell her
just how it happened?”
“No, boss; dat ole niggah a pow’ful bad ooman, an she gwine
ter git mahd an kick up er pow’ful shinny, an sides boss, er dade
pig ain’ no count ter nohow.”
So you left that pig lying there for the buzzards to eat, or un¬
til the woman found it?
“No, boss, dat ar pig look pow’tul nice arter he war dressed, an
I jes tote it home an’ he maik mity good eatin’ sah.”
Let me see that rabbits’ foot you have in your pocket. Just
what I thought; this is the right foot, and you ought to have the
left one. And you ought to pay the poor woman for her pig that
you stole, and apologize to her for driving her cow away. I am
afraid you are a bad man sir, and ought to be arrested for your
meanness. This old woman has done nothing to poison you, but
your own natural meanness has poisoned you through and
through. You wont live much longer unless you make repara¬
tion for the wrongs you have done unto your neighbor.
“Well, boss, I gwine ter do jes as yer tole me; Ise gwine ter
git anudder rabbit’s fut, an Ise gwine ter gib dis hyar one ter de
ole ooman, and I ain* gwine ter kill no mohrob her pigs nudder.”
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After getting this promise from him, not one item of which he
has the least intention of carrying out, except the procuring of
the rabbit’s foot, I gave him some medicine, and sent him on
his way with an admonition to change his ways.
WHAT THE PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW.
All who know and desire the benefits of the homoeopathic sys¬
tem of medicine, or art of healing, should acquaint themselves
with the customs of the strict practitioners in order to avoid the
deception of pretenders who are willing to imitate for diminutive
fees, having no consideration for the patient nor the art of
healing.
There are physicians who call themselves homoeopaths, but are
so only in name, as they do not follow the methods worked out
by Hahnemann. They give two medicines in one glass or alter¬
nate in two glasses, or in some cases give medicines in three of
four glasses. They do not conform to Hahnemann’s rules in tak¬
ing the case and writing and preserving full records of the cases.
The people who are unacquainted with these facts cannot pro¬
tect themselves against impositions. The false and the true per¬
vade experiences and conditions of life, and the unenlightened
and simple suffer by the deceptions of the false. The time has
come when the followers of Hahnemann should furnish informa¬
tion to the people in order that they may recognize the genuine
if they desire the benefits of the homoeopathic art of healing.
It should be known, first of all, that true homoeopathicians
write out the symptoms of each and every patient, and preserve
records for the benefit of such patient and the art of healing. A
moment’s thought must convince any person that human memory
is too uncertain to be trusted with the long record of symp¬
toms, even in a small practice; then how much more does the
busy practitioner owe it to his patients to keep accurate records
of their sicknesses? No physician is competent to make a
second prescription if the symptoms upon which the first pre¬
scription was made have not been recorded with fullness and ac¬
curacy. Often in such a case the neglectful physician has for¬
gotten the remedy given, even the one that has caused great im¬
provement, but as there is no record of the case as to remedy or
symptoms, and many of the latter have passed away, there is
nothing to do but to guess at a remedy, which generally spoils
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the case or so confuses it that the case seldom ends in a cure,
and the sufferer always wonders why the doctor, who helped her
so much at first lost control of the case. Many cases that should
end in a perfect cure, result in failure from the above negligence.
Under such circumstances, when the physician has made a bad
guess, he goes on spoiling his case by guessing and changing
remedies to the disgust of the patient and injury to the art of
healing. Such failure leads to that experimentation and tempo¬
rizing which ends in disgrace. The people should be able to
know whether a physician is what he calls himself, or is of an¬
other sect. The temptation is very strong to be “all things to
all men.”
The people should not expect to obtain homoeopathic results
from a physician whose methods are not in accordance with the
nomoeopathic art of healing.
If a person wants mongrelism, regularism, polypharmacy, etc.,
by knowing the methods of the homoepathist, he will be able to
discriminate and select the kind of his preference, and it is rea¬
sonable to suppose that if he does not want a homceopathist he
will be glad to know how to shun him. Nothing is more humili¬
ating to a Hahnemannian than to be called to the bedside and
find that the people do not want him, but want one who gives
medicine in two glasses because some old family doctor did so.
Therefore, this information is as useful to him who would avoid
a homceopathist as to him who desires one.
Homoeopathic patrons going abroad and those far removed
from their own physician, often ask for the address of a good
Hahnemannian. Such address cannot always be given, yet there
are many reserved, quiet Hahnemannian physicians scattered
over the world, but they are sometimes hard to find. As far as
possible, traveling homcepathic patients should carry the address
of Hahnemannians. In the absence of this, a test may serve the
purpose. Go to the most likely man who professes to practice
after the manner of Hahnemann and tell him you want to con¬
sult him; but unless he writes out all the symptoms of the case as
directed by Hahnemann,* and continues to keep a record for
future use, you cannot trust your case with him, as you have
learned to have no confidence in the memory of the man. If he
refuses to do this because of lack of time or ignorance, he should
not be trusted, and it is best to bid him “good day” at once. If
he be what he professes to be, he will be delighted to find a pa-
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tient that knows so much of his system of practice, and the pa¬
tient and physician will become fast friends.
There is another matter that the people should know about:
that the homoeopathic physician cannot prescribe on the name
of disease; also, that names are often the cover of human ignor¬
ance; also, that two sicknesses of the same name are seldom given
the same remedy. If a physician could prescribe on a name
there would be no necessity to write out the many pages of symp¬
toms that some long cases present.
The people should also know that when such a record is on
paper it is in such form that the patient may become the object
of great study. In no other form can a likeness of his sickness
be presented to the understanding of the true physician. Any
physician who sneers at this plan shows how little he values hu¬
man life and how much he falls short of a Hahnemannian.
The people should also know that the true physician may now
compare such a record of facts with symptoms of the Materia
Medica until he has discovered that remedy most similar of all
remedies to the written record. And when the patient has be¬
come intelligent, he will say to his physician: “Takeyour time ,
Doctor . I can wait until you find what you think is the most simi¬
lar of all remedies , as 1 do not want to take any medicine you are
in doubt about.” This statement makes a grateful doctor, as he
now knows that he is trusted and known, and has a patient intel¬
ligent and considerate. Under such circumstances the doctor
can do his best and such patients obtain the best and most uni¬
form results.
People who are not thus instructed become troublesome to the
physician, and even suspicious, when they need to inspire him
with full confidence, and sometimes they even change physicians
and do the one wrong thing that is against the best interest of
the patient. It is possible and desirable for the people to be so
instructed that the may select the safest physician and know
when he is working intelligently. People who are instructed do
not intrude upon the physician’s sacred moments, but, on the
contrary, aid him with trust and gratitude.
Only the ignorant suggest this and that in addition to what is
being done, and the more ignorant the doctor the greater is the
number of things resorted to to make himself and others think
he is doing something. The intelligent physician does what law
and principles demand and nothing more; but the ignorant one
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knows no law and serves only his wavering experience, and ap¬
pears to be doing so tnuch for the patient, in spite of which the
patient dies.
The physician must often long for a patient so well instructed
as to say: “ Doctor , if you are in doubt about what to give me,
don't give me anything. ” Such words could only come from one
who knows that there is a law governing all our vital activities,
and that law must be invoked or disorder must increase to the
destruction of all order in the human economy.
If it were not true that the human race is ignorant of the high - 1
est principles of science, mongrelistic medication could not find
support upon the earth. It is true that if the people would study
Hahnemann’s Organon and thereby secure the safest medication
for themselves and their families when sick, crude compounds and
uncertain medication would not be the rule as it is at the present
day. In all trades a man must be somewhat skillful in order to
gain entrance to an intelligent patronage; but in the profession
of medicine, personal tact excuses such lack of training and ig¬
norance of science of healing.
People who know what homoeopathy really is, should seek to
introduce the principles among the most intelligent people by
reading, and not by urging upon them a favorite physician.—
Hahnemann Advocate of Rochester, N. Y.
Index for ’97. Through an oversight on the part of the
binder the index for Vol. XXXVI was omitted from the Decem¬
ber issue and will be found inserted in the January number. It
can be removed and attached to the volume already completed
at the convenience of the subscriber. Any one failing to receive
the aforesaid index will kindly notify the publishers when it will
be forwarded.
Surgical Era. With the January issue we find inserted a
sixteen page form entitled Surgical Era under the editorship of
Prof. Charles Adams. At first we could not comprehend the
motive which prompted the insertion of these pages in the midst
of the journal, but find on examination that it has been so ar¬
ranged that they can be separated from the rest of the magazine
and bound by themselves, thus constituting a journal devoted
exclusively to surgery. This will undoubtedly prove a valuable
innovation to modern journalistic efforts.
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EMtorial.
Attention is called to the first article appearing in this numbei
— Treatment by Correspondence. Every physician who has been
requested to prescribe for some absent patient, has felt their in¬
ability to make a suitable prescription, because of the difficulty
in securing a report that clearly pointed to any curative remedy.
If their work*has been somewhat extensive in this direction they
have been compelled to formulate some Instructions to Patients.
We have found nothing more satisfactory than that found in The
Organon of the Art of Healing § § 84-89, also § § 206-209 modi¬
fied, so as to be intelligent to the patient; but Dr. Drake has so
faithfully elaborated these simple instructions, as to put the readers
of the Advocate under great obligations to him for this practi¬
cal expression of his own experience. We would suggest that
the doctor have the same put in suitable form for sending direct
to the patient and supply the demand that will undoubtedly
follow the reading of this valuable article.
A number of articles appear in this issue, illustrating some of
the effects resulting from suppression. In these several reports
the suppression has been through the ignorance of the attend¬
ants or the misdirected efforts of some old school physician, but
cases almost without number may be cited, coming from the
hands of so-called followers of the law of similia. It does not
necessary follow that the force employed must be strong , in order
that the results may be serious; for the most difficult cases to
treat are those whose disease manifestations have been persis¬
tently suppressed by repeated but misdirected doses of potentized
remedies. The vital force becomes so irritated or sensitive by
reason of the nagging efforts of those who through ignorance of
the nature of the disease manifestations, try first one remedy and
then another, without waiting for any of them to complete their ac¬
tion. The law of similars is a wonderfully comprehensive art of
healing , but few there be who comprehend its powers or know
how to utilize the same.
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APOLOGY FOR COMBINING HOMOEOPATHY WITH
ALLOPATHY,
“I believe that opportunities for advancing the interests of homoeopathy are
very frequently lost for the simple reason that we have no accurate definition
of the immediate end sought for in any given practice of homoeopathy. How
frequently we are charged with inconsistency in that we identify ourselves with
the name homoeopathy, while cultivating not only homoeopathy but also what¬
ever else than homoeopathy is good in medicine. I believe that one cannot in
the best possible way refute this charge without accurate definition of the cure
sought in any given practice of homoeopathy.”—(Dr. Mack in New England
Medical Gazelle .)
The author says that there are many physicians in the old
school who, dissatisfied with their own practice, would investi¬
gate the practice of homoeopathy were it not for the inability on
the part of members of the homoeopathic school, who employ
anything and everything that will help their patient to answer
the following inquiry: “flow can you consistently call yourself a
homoeopath and at the same time cultivate whatever else than
homoeopathy is good in medicine?”
He says he feels sure the answer that will prove most satis¬
factory to many of these investigators involves an accurate
definition of that cure of which similia is the law. This law he
defines to be:
“Such modification of the quality of vital processes and their effects that
whereas these processes and effects are abnormal ', they shall , as the immediate
effect of the medicine usedbecome normal, or approximately so
This is a very fair statement of the cure brought about by the
application of the law of similars and when contrasted with the
reasons given for the employment of other agencies ought to be
sufficient to condemn the practice from whatever standpoint the
question might be viewed. For example, he says:
“//* alt practice , other than homoeopathy , ends entirely distinct from that of
cure are being sought for. For instance a patient has typhoid fever, the physi¬
cian seeks a homoeopathic remedy, so as to effect immediate cure above defined
as that of which similia is the law, but he may attempt the practice of killing
the typhoid germ, or he may attempt the practice of chemically destroying
ptomaines, or he may adopt the practice of stimulating, or he may adopt the
practice of cold pack or cold baths, or he may combine two or more of these
practices and at the same time administer a homoeopathic remedy. The im¬
mediate end sought for by the homoeopathic remedy is as different as that he
sought for with any of the other practices as is the immediate end he would
seek with a stimulant from the immediate end he would seek with a germicide.
* * * * From the definition above given it is evident that the cure of
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which similia is the law ranks above any cure that we may attempt to make iu
any other practice.”
“ When we have to do with an art whose end is the saving of
human life any neglect to make ourselves thorough masters of it
becomes a crime."
THE USE OF HIGH POTENCIES.
At the British Homoeopathic Congress, Dr. John McLachlan
presented the following reasons for the employment of remedies
in highly potentized form:
1st. The use of high potencies seems to me to be but a natural corollary
from the main proposition (Similia Similibus Curaniur) , for if a given drug
can produce such a state of suffering in a healthy person, i. e. a person whose
vital force has no tendency in the direction impressed upon it by the drug in
question, how much easier must it be for this same drug to produce its effects
in the sick man whose vital force has a tendency to go in the same direction
therefore how much less of the drug must l>e required. In the first case, tha t
of the healthy man, it is like two forces acting along the same straight line in
opposite directions, where the resultant is equal to the difference between them,
and has the direction of the greater component. Now the drug will always
form the greater component, and so it has first to bring the other force (health)
to rest, as it were, and then impress upon it a force causing it to move in the
opposite direction (away from health).
In the second case, that of the sick body, it is like two forces acting along the
same straight line in the same direction and the resultant therefore is equal to
their sum. Now it is evident that a very rfnich smaller force will be necessary
to produce the same change of velocity in the second case than in the first case,
i. e. a much smaller dose will be required.
2nd. Disease is not a material entity, but only a derangement of the spirit¬
like immaterial vital force. If we, therefore, oppose to this deranged imma¬
terial vital force, massive material forces or low potencies, can we be said to be
carrying out our principle similia similibus curaniur y for we are opposing some'
thing that is immaterial with that which is material?
3rd. In the physical universe there are but two things, matter and energy;
to these two either separate or combined we must trace all phenomena. Now
matter is indestructible; again it is perfectly impassive y and can neither originate
or change anything. On the other hand energy is associated with everything in
the physical universe, and in fact is the active part of the universe and all
change is due to it. There is conservation of matter , for on this fact chemistry
is based; there is also conservation of energy. Matter , therefore, has weight
and property. Energy we cannot perceive by our senses, except in the act of
transformation from one form to another. Now, as chemists we have to do
with matter beyond everything else, but as therapeutists we have to do with
energy for the healing power; that the healing with drugs must be a form of
energy.
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The doctor elaborates these several reasons for employing
remedies in the potentized form, and then comes to a practical
demonstration of his principles by citing three cases.
1st. Eczema since birth, < hollow of joints, legs, neck, face and in the
right hand; worse in spring and autumn. Itches intensely < about the
neck; worse in the evening; better on undressing; worse when warm in bed.
Much smarting after scratching. Two years ago to this was superadded asthma;
worse before and during menses; worse abcut 3 a. m.; had to sit up in order to
be able to breathe at all. Very difficult to be sure whether or not the itching
was < or caused by heat; but this difficulty may have been caused by her
previous free use of arsenic. The medicine seemed to me to be either arsent-
curn or sulphur , and I tried both of them, very diligently at various times,
never going above the thirtieth potency. I had come to the conclusion that
sulphur was the remedy and was therefore very much disappointed at its partial
success. Was advised to give one dose of sulphur ram and let it act a long time.
I sent her one dose of this potency and told her not to be in any hurry to come
to see me. The progress was slow, but steady and with an occasional dose of
the cm potency of sulphur she was discharged cured at the end of a year and a
half from her first visit. The marked connection between asthma and eczema
is peculiar, either alternating with one another catarrhal inflammation of the
skin with catarrhal inflammation of the lungs. I have known some rapidly
fatal cases of catarrhal phthisis to follow cases of eczema cured (?) by external
applications. Nature nearly always sends chronic diseases to the least fatal
situation, e. g. eczema to the skin surfaces, but the dermatologist tries his very
best to drive it from that surface; if unfortunately he succeeds, in many cases
there is no harm done, but in many others it means death. I believe that in al^
cases of such cures or suppressions, although they may escape immediate
evil results, a depraved constitution in some form or other will result, which
will be transmitted to their children and their children’s children. This way of
looking at the matter is of the greatest practical importance in considering the
important question of pre natal medication. Such mal treatment is, I believe,
the origin of the psoric constitution. To treat a diseased skin successfully and
safely we must treat the body that produced it. The skin eruption is merely an
effect, the outward and visible sign of an internal dynamic derangement. A
perfectly healthy body must possess a perfectly healthy skin and a diseased
skin cannot possibly exist upon a perfectly healthy body. I doubt if such a
thing as a disease of the skin can exist per se. In the treatment of skin dis¬
eases, as in other diseases, the totality of the symptoms must be our guide and
that includes everything that can be learned by every sense we possess abou*
the patient and his disease, not only subjective but objective as well, together
with its cause and all that can be known of its pathology and pathological
anatomy, so far as these can aid us in effecting a cure.
2nd. Lady 56 years of age. Frequent attacks of sore eyes, especially the
right one. The treatment for years had been to keep her in a dark room for
weeks at a time, together with frequent applications of a zinc lotion and atrop¬
ine drops. It was of frequent recurrence and getting worse and more frequen^
every year. Worse in spring and fall. Eyes very red; photophobia intense.
Discharge profuse, acrid, watery. Surface of cornea cloudy and opaque (like
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ground glass) covered with capillary blood vessels. During these attacks when
the photophobia and pains were at their worse, she always had a peculiar rush¬
ing noise in her ears. In Hahnemann*s Materia Medica Pura we find under
arscnicum % roaring in the ears at each attack of pain. And then as a foot note*
7'he occurrence of other symptoms during the pains is quite peculiar to arsenic .
Arsenicum at different intervals, but never above the thirtieth potency and the
improvement following its use never lasted very long. It was only when I used
arsenicummm that permanent and steady improvement began to show itself,
and it is now a year and a half since she received this potency.
3rd. A woman in her fifth pregnancy consulted me concerning lactation.
Her chief complaint was that hitherto all her children had refused to suckle
her, and some would not even attempt it and others if they did try it once after
long persuasion they could not be beguiled into doing it again. She said her
milk was watery and blue, that it was apt to run away of its own accord and
disappeared altogether soon after she got about at the end of the first month.
She had a genuine desire to be a real mother to her children. She wanted to
know if anything could be done to correct this abnormal state of affairs. I ex¬
plained to her that while one could not be absolutely certain, I believed it were
possible and in any case it was well worth trying.
History. Menses profuse, lasting too long, followed by white of egg like
acrid leucorrhoea during the rest of the menstrual month. Pressure and burn¬
ing on the top of the head. Burning of the hands and feet. Heavy, exhaustive
sleep.
Basing my hopes of success upon the teaching of Hahnemann in regard to
psora, or the previous suppression of chronic affections by external methods of
cure not in herself, for I could not discover any such sign in the history of her
case, but almost certain in the parents or grandparents. I decided to give in
the few months at my disposal, sulphur , calcarea carbonicum, calcarea phos. f
and silica.
The indications for the sulphur are given above.
Calcarea card. Profuse secretion of watery milk, which the child refuses to
take. Milk disagrees with infant. Milk has a disagreeable, nauseating taste,
the child will not nurse, but <yies much. The same remedy has also galactor-
rhoea.
Calcarea phos. Child refuses the breast, milk has a saltish taste.
Silica. Aversion to mother’s milk, child refuses to nurse and if it does nurse
it vomits.
Sulphur was given in the dm potency, two or three doses during the first two
days and then allowed to work undisturbed for the rest of the month. All the
other remedies were given in the 200th potencies. The result was far beyond
anything I had dared hope; for not only could she suckle the child, while he on
his part never showed any sign of refusing the breast, but in size, general build
and health he far surpassed all her other children, and this was well shown at a
later period when he produced a crop of healthy teeth.
There can be no time so appropriate for the eradication of evil constitutional
tendencies and for building up a sound constitution as the time when the body
is actually in the process of formation, and by adopting such simple means, I
believe we would gradually sweep such scourges as phthisis, cancer, etc., from
the face of the earth. I consider pre-natal medication well worth a prominent
place in any system of therapeutics.
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AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMCEOPATHY.
Anything endorsed by the west is sure of success, because they
carry with their endorsement enthusiasm that is untrammeled
and a determination to succeed born of the necessities which
have enabled them to create magnificent empire within the
present knowledge of man. The great Mississippi Valley has
practically never been brought within the range of the Ameri¬
can Institute and to-day there are thousands of earnest, ener¬
getic homoeopaths who are being fired with enthusiasm for the
coming meeting. It is almost certain to be a record breaker,
so far as attendance is concerned, but what is of greater import¬
ance is the almost certain fact that the power of this body will
be a potent factor in shaping the future of this representative
body of homoeopathy. As a result of the agitation of the past
year many suggestions, good, bad and indifferent will be brought
to the attention of the Institute and changes calculated to pro¬
mote progress and harmony will undoubtedly be incorporated in
the general policy of the Institute. Everything that will serve
to elevate the cause of homoeopathy should have, not only the
endorsement, but hearty approval of all the followers of Hahne¬
mann.
THE OIL TREATMENT IN APPENDICITIS.
Dr. M. O. Terry, a surgeon of great prominence, makes the
statement in the Medical Times for November, that in fifty-one
cases of appendicitis, he has treated forty-nine exclusively with
internal remedies and been compelled to use the knife in but
two cases. He believes that the appendix has a very important
mission to fulfill. That it is intended by its position and by its
unusually large solitary glands to act as a lubricating can for the
iliocaecal valve, thereby tending to keep the faeces thoroughly
lubricated and thus facilitating their passage through the intes¬
tines. Acting upon this theory, as soon as he comes to a case
presenting the characteristic indications of appendicitis with
evidence of unnatural dryness of the intestines and consequent
impaction of faeces he gives a tablespoonful of castor oil with
two tablespoonfuls of sweet oil, followed by a glass of hot water;
this is to be repeated in three or six hours, according to the
urgency of the case. In connection with this treatment colon
enemas are used every three or six hours. In the first instance
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four ounces of glycerine is injected, followed by bicarbonate of
soda and water, using one drachm to a quart of water. In sub¬
sequent enemas six to eight ounces of sweet oil injected after the
enema of the water, the patient having the hips well raised.
Fomentations of flax seed poultices are kept applied to the ab¬
domen and hot sweet oil is poured over the abdomen before
using the same. The skin and abdominal muscles will rapidly
relax under the oil, fomentations and heat. This reduces the
inflammation and prevents gangrene of appendix. Internal in¬
dicated remedies may be selected for the individual peculiarities
of each case.
POTASSIUM IODIDE IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF TUBER¬
CULOSIS.
Dr. Vetlesen, of Christiania, suggests the employment of Po¬
tassium iodide for determining the existence of tuberculosis and
bases his recommendation upon the cough and expectoration
resulting from a tablespoonful of the one and a half per cent
solution three times a day for two or three days; as a result of
this he found the cough and expectoration increased and on
auscultation sonorous rales were heard where there had been no
previous physical signs. He further states that Kock bacillus
conld be found in this expectoration and that it was absent in
every case in which there was no aggravation brought about by
this action of the drug. In the proving of Kali jodatum we find
under chest: “Dry cough mornings and evenings and with sore¬
ness of larynx, short, hacking cough from rawness of throat.
Respiration difficult, on awaking at night with loss of voice.
Cough with expectoration like soapsuds is said to be very
characteristic of this drug. Sticking pains as if cut to pieces in
various parts of the chest.” In the clinical notes, many cases of
pneumonia with pleuritic effusion and of phthisis have been re¬
ported cured, when associated with exhausting night sweats,
salivation, etc.
PROVING OF CANNABIS INDICA IN LARGE DOSE.
Dr. Robert C. Bickness reports in the Therapeutic Gazette of
January 15th, the following proving of Cannabis indica. At 5
p. m. he took three grains of the English extiact.
No effect was noticed until nearly three quarters of an hour had passed,
when a slight frontal headache was felt, dull in character and lasting only a few
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minutes. At 5:45 I was writing, when at the end of a sentence the right hand
was suddenly jerked upward, slightly impairing the symmetry of the writing.
A slight haze now became perceptible about the margins of the field of vision;
the pulse was noticed to be somewhat accelerated, full, and strong. On being
spoken to there was a perceptible interval before complete comprehension of
the words, the mind seeming to halt a little time before acting. Answering
speech was also slow, and after a short time was somewhat confused, not greatiy
so, but words would become transposed in a sentence, requiring two or three
trials to get them in their proper places. The haze gradually grew centerwards,
until by 6 p. m. only the object looked at could be seen, all the surrounding
field being dark as by a shadow from the circumference. Looking at my hands
the fingers seemed enormously long and quite large and were moved with per¬
ceptible effort—the movement following an interval, and with a jerk, as if the
impulse was delayed in transmission and reached the extremity all at once, not
gradually as is usual.
With the beginning of the impairment of vision the muscles at the back of
the neck began to be painfully contracted, the contraction beginning with those
attached to the occiput, gradually extending downward, and including the
muscles of the back until marked opisthotonos resulted. The contraction was
tonic and relaxed only when violent friction was applied over the affected
muscles.
The pulse was now 100, temperature normal, the respiration slightly hurried,
though this may have been owing to some nervousness which now became mani¬
fest. There was a sense of extreme tension all along the spinal column.
There were no visions up to this time, and no pleasurable sensations whatever
were experienced throughout. At this time I began to have an impression of
duality. I was fully aware that I was going through this experience, yet could
not rid myself of the impression that l was witnessing it in another. Gradually
I got farther away from reality, occurrences being given an interpretation quite
foreign to their actual significance. For a long time 1 could bring myself back
to a full realization of everything by an effort of will, a stronger effort being re¬
quired each time until finally occurrences—all except the most pronounced im¬
pressions—were wholly lost sight of. Until after 6 p. m., walking was perfectly
steady, and everything directly looked at could be seen, though near objects
seemed quite far away. The sense of the duration of time also became altered;
a minute seemed as long as an hour almost, and the passing of the minute hand
of the clock from one figure to another seemed to require an interminable time.
At 6:15 I lay down, and surrounding objects and subsequent sounds became
merely a part of a confused series of visions, many quite vivid for the time but
disconnected and too numerous to describe. I recall that at one time I saw the
earth free in space, and comprehended all the laws which maintained its posi¬
tion in the universe with its numerous relations to other bodies, and perceived
the result of every act, however trival, even to the ultimate end of time. Every
result, direct and indirect, was perfectly clear with but slight mental effort.
Mixed with these ideas were other impressions; views of the'room in which I
was, and of the people about me, and trains of thought doubtless started by
occurrences which I did not notice. Much of the imagery was quite fantastic,
though the sensations were rather of a painful and disagreeable nature. I was
aware of any violent movement or loud noise during the whole time. The
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teeth were firmly set, it being impossible to force liquids into the mouth, and
frequently strong convulsive movements affected chiefly the upper extremities,
occasionally involving all the muscles of the trunk.
I regained rational consciousness about 7 p. m., remaining drowsy and dazed
for four hours longer, though I comprehended all that was passing during this
time. At 11 p. m. I went to sleep, waking at 7 a. m. next morning feeling none
the worse for my night’s experience.
A SUGGESTION TO BE USED IN ABDOMINAL IN¬
CISIONS.
Dr. Henry J. Scherck, in the Therapeutic Gazette for January
15th, offers the following valuable suggestion:
In performing laparotomy I have noticed that after the abdominal incision
has beep made it frequently occurs that from the constant introduction and
manipulation of the fingers through the incision the peritoneum becomes separ¬
ated to a greater or less extent from the muscular tissue; and appreciating the
fact that several complications can arise from this condition of affairs, the idea
suggested itself to me to introduce a stout ligature through the center on either
side of the incision about half an inch from the margin of the wound, this liga¬
ture being first tied snugly, and a loop of from four to six inches allowed to
remain beyond the first knot. We accomplish by this procedure two results:
first, we prevent the separation of the peritoneum from the tissues overlying;
and second, we have two retractors which take up no room and cause less
traumatism than the ordinary metal retractors. When the operation is com¬
pleted the ligatures are clipped and removed, and the wound brought together
according to the method adopted by the surgeon.
Alaska, Its Neglected Past, and Its Brilliant Future.
By Bushrod Washington James, M. D., Philadelphia. Published by the Sun
shine Publishing Company , Philadelphia, pp. 444, price $2.00 net.
Alaska has become the one point toward which the eyes of the
world have been turned, on account of the marvelous outpouring
of gold along the many streams in this arctic region. Dr. James
has been an enthusiastic student of this neglected portion of the
globe for many years and has sent out many urgent appeals,
through the public journals, for a more thorough investigation of
the wonderful resources of this land; the enthusiasm being de¬
veloped by a personal visit and a thorough study of the land in
its many aspects. The entire book is written in that calm, de¬
liberate style so characteristic of the author and so convincing,
by the very simplicity of the narrative. It contains in maps,
charts, illustrations and text practically all that is needed upon
this subject and the reader will have the conscientiousness that
there was no ulterior motive in writing the book, and that he
can depend upon its general reliability.
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Booh Review*.
»oofc "Reviews.
Cutaneous Medicine. A systematic treatise on diseases of th** skin
by Louis A Duhring, M. D., Professor of Diseases of the Skin in the University
of Pennsylvania, Author of Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Skir, etc.
Illustrated. J. B. Lippencott Company.
Volume 1 of this valuable work met with a favorable reception
from the profession at large and part second cannot fail in in¬
creasing the favor already shown this new work on disease
manifestations peculiar to the skin. The description of these
various lesions,combined with the illustrations, are all that could
be desired, every variety being illustrated by full page half tone
engravings from photographs that almost make the text super¬
fluous. In speaking of the etiology of eczema the author says:
“It attacks people in all spheres, the rich as well as the poor, and may appear
at any period of life from infancy to old age. In some cases it is hereditary,
the term being used to indicate that a predisposition to its development to it is
handed down from parent to child. All temperaments do not seem to be
equally liable to the disease, for individuals with light hair and florid complex¬
ion suffer more frequently than those with dark hair and dark skin. There are,
moreover, persons so peculiarly constituted that their skin is ever ready to
manifest signs of eczema upon the slightest provocation. With reference to the
effects of suppression, the consequences resulting from suppression of eczema
and from metastasis have long been the theme of discussion, pro and con,
among scientific observers.” * * The French dermatologist, Rayer says:
“That it is dangerous to cure eczema too rapidly in the case • f infants and old
persons. In a period of two years he has seen the rapid cure of eczema by
mild application of the oil of (tide followed by very grave consequences. One
died in convulsions, another broncho pneumonia, the third was attacked by a
dangerous form of enteritis.”
The author relates a case in his own practice in which he
says:
“The disease was a persistent virulent pustular eczema, occurring in a nun
aged 19. otherwise in average health. The virulence of the pustulation and its
extraordinary persistence struck me as being remarkable. The case was under
observation for several months and resisted all treatment with singular ob¬
stinacy, no remedies used reduced the pustulation which undermined the entire
scalp. She was confined to the room, but nevertheless contracted ominous
pneumonia with oedema and died in a few days, the eczema having rapidly dis¬
appeared with the advent of the pneumonia.”
It is singular that these careful observers cannot recognize
and appreciate the significance of this experience and refrain
from their universal application of ointments and lotions. Their
persistence in this treatment can only be accounted for by the
fact that the victims of this pernicious treatment pass into the
hands of the general practitioner or some other specialist instead
of returning to the dermatologist, because the disease on the
skin has been so effectually suppressed that it fastened itself upon
some other portion of the body and there completes the work of
destruction begun by the dermatologist.
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A MONTHLY HOMOEOPATHIC MAGAZINE.
Vol. XXXVII Chicago, February 15,1898. No. 2
flDateria fl>et>tca.
REPERTORY OF NEWER REMEDIES—NERVOUS
SYSTEM.
M. K. DOUGLASS, M. D., BALTIMORE, MD.
Apoplexy. —Coma and a., sub-arachnoid, arising from passive congestion, with
nervous exhaustion. Gels .
Asphyxia. —Hysterical epilepsy, after suppressed menses, lasting an hour or
two; so severe was the spasm of the glottis that a. seemed inevit¬
able. Gels.
Burning. —Prickling numb sensations in the extremities, with b. and prickling
of left side of face and head. Bapt.
ClREBRO-SPlNAL-Meningitis.—C., ushered in by a severe chill, accompanied
by evident congestion of the spine and brain, etc. Gels.
Chills. —Nervous c., in which, with shivering and chattering of the teeth,
there is no sensation of chilliness. Gels.
Chorea. —C., of a purely nervous origin. Scut ell.
C. in a boy of fourteen. Calab. bean .
C. in a girl of twenty. Calab. bean.
C. of the right side; the tongue seemed too large. Calab. bean .
Congestion. —Cerebral congestion. Hydrob. ac.
Coma. —Coma and apoplexy, sub-arachnoid, arising from passive congestion,
with nervous exhaustion. Gels.
Contortions. —Spasmodic contortions of the extremities. Solan.
Contractions. —C. of the flexor tendons as though they would hop about.
Solan.
Convulsions. —Epileptiform c. Calab. bean .
Puerperal c. in the last stages of labor. Chlor. hydr.
C. and spasms; they stretch their hands during the spasms, as if they
would grasp something. After this the hands are carried to the
mouth, and they chew and swallow. Solan.
C., with moaning and coma. Solan.
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Convulsions. Thasp.
Tetanic c. afflicting mainly the muscles of the trunk, with predorai-
nant opisthotonos. Passiflora.
Violent tetanus, in opisthotonos, trismus, and c.,in a chill. Passijlora.
Cramps.--C. in the calves. Solan.
Dissipation. —Hysterical erethism of nervous woman, who suffer from the ef¬
fects of social d. Hydrob. ac.
Drawing.— D. in the fingers. Solan .
Epilepsy.— Thasp ., Gels.
Hysterical e., after suppressed menses, lasting an hour or two; so
severe was the spasm of the glottis that asphyxia seemed inevitable.
Gels.
E., preceded by dull feeling in the head and vertex, and some pain
and fullness in the region of medulla oblongata. Gels.
Erethism. —Hysterical erethism of nervous women, who suffer from the effects
of social dissipation. Hydrob. ac.
Fretfulness. —Nervous f. of children, when teething or from heat, even when
feverish, when Aco. and Coff. are not efficient. Hydrob. ac.
Grasp. —Convulsions and spasms; they stretch their hands during the spasms,
as if they would g. something. After this the hands are carried to
the mouth, and they chew and swallow. Solan.
Hysterical.—H. erethism of nervous women, who suffer from the effects of
social dissipation. Hydrob. ac.
Hysteria and h. spasmodic affections. Scutell.
H. epilepsy, after suppressed menses, lasting an hour or two; so
severe was the spasm of the glottis that asphyxia seemed inevitable.
Gels.
Intolerance. —I. of pressure on any part of the body—it causes soreness. Bapt .
Inversion.— I. of the feet. Solan.
Irritable. —Nervous, i., with prostration of the whole system. Iris v.
Irritation. -Spasms and nervous i. in teething children, or when the nervous
system is irritated from disordered bowels. Siutell.
Reflex nervous i. from uterine ovarian disease. Scutell .
Sleeplessness from mental or emotional i. Hydrob. ac.
Cerebral i. from overwork and business worry. Hydrob. ac.
Jactitations. —Nervous j. and tremors (in typhoid fevers). Scutell.
Large. —The hands felt 1., and were tremulous, with a peculiar thrilling sensa¬
tion through both hands and feet, somewhat like going to sleep—a
want of circulation. Bapt.
Chorea of the right side; the tongue seemed too large. Calab. bean.
Laryngismus stridulus.— Gels.
Mania. —Neuralgia; sleeplessness, with great restlessness and suicidal mania.
Passijlora.
Meningitis. — Uncontrollable sleeplessness from pain in the head in children
with m. Paler, of Zinc.
Muscular. —Progressive m. wasting. Calab. bean.
Nervous.— N. fretfulness of children, when teething or from heat, even when
feverish, when Aco. and Coff. are not efficient. Hydrob. ac.
N. chills, in which, with shivering and chattering of the teeth, there
is no sensation of chilliness. Gels.
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N., irritable, with prostration of the whole system. Iris v.
N. jactitations and tremors (in typhoid fever). Scutell.
Spasms and n. irritation in teething children, or when the nervous
system is irritated from disordered bowels. Scutell.
Reflex n. irritation from uterine ovarian disease. Scutell.
Nervousness. —N. from reflex irritation. Hydrob. ac.
Neuralgia —.Neuralgia, pain excessive in inferior maxillary and left temple.
Valer. of Zinc.
N. of the ovaries. Valer. of Zinc.
Sciatic n., with great nervous erythema. Valer of Zinc.
Spinal n. Valer. of Zinc.
N., sleeplessness, with great restlessness and suicidal mania. Passa-
flora.
N.; absence of organic lesion, with indistinct or double periodicity.
Gels.
Numb.— N. sensations all over the body. Bapt.
The left hand and arm entirely numb and powerless. Bapt.
Prickling numb sensations in the extremities, with burning and prick¬
ling of left side of face and head. Bapt .
Numbness.—N. and prickling, followed by temporary paralysis of the left side
of the body. Bapt.
Opisthotonos.—T etanic convulsions affecting mainly the muscles of the trunk,
with predominant o. Passiflora .
Violent tetanus, with o., trismus, and convulsions, in a child. Passi¬
flora.
Overwork. —Cerebral irritation from o. and business worry. Hydrob. ac.
Pains. —The severe pains in neck, spine and elsewhere, in the sequalae of cere
bro«spinal-meningitis. Valer. of Zinc.
General uneasiness, with twitching of the muscles, and sticking pains
in various parts of the body, occasionally extending up along each
side of the forehead. Scutell.
Acute, sudden, darting pains, evidently along single nerve branches,
in almost any part of the body and limbs, sometimes so sudden
and acute as to make me start. Gels.
Neuralgic and rheumatic pains. Chlor . hydr.
Paralysis. —Sensation of p. of the eyelids. Bapt.
Numbness and prickling, followed by temporary p. of the left side of
the body. Bapt.
General p. of the insane. Calab. bean.
Powerless. —The left hand and arm entirely numb and p. Bapt.
Pressure.—I ntolerance of p. on any part of the body—it caused soreness. Bapt.
Prickling —Numbness and p., followed by temporary paralysis of the left
side of the body. Bapt.
P. numb sensations in the extremities, with burning and p. of left
side of face and head. Bapt.
Progressive.—P. ^muscular wasting. Calab. bean.
Prostration. —Nervous irritable, with p. of the whole system. Iris v.
Reflex. —R. nervous irritation from uterine ovarian disease. Scutell.
Nervousness from reflex irritation. Hydrob. ac.
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Restlessness. —Great restlessness; violent, convulsive r. Solan,
Neuralgia; sleeplessness, with great r. and suicidal mania. Passiflgra.
Rigidity. —Tetanic r. of the whole body. Solan,
Sleeplessness.— Neuralgia; S., with great restlessness and suicidal mania.
Passijlora.
Uncontrollable s. from pain in head in children with meningitis.
Valor, of Zinc,
S. from mental or emotional irritation. Hydrob, ac.
Soreness. —Intolerance of pressure on any part of the body—it causes soreness.
Bap/.
Spasms. —Convulsions and s.; they stretch their hands during the s„ as if they
would grasp something. After this the hands are carried to the
mouth, and they chew and swallow. Solan.
S. and nervous irritation in teething children, or when the nervous
system is irritated from disordered bowels. Scutell,
Spasmodic. —Hysteria and hysterical s. affections. Scutell.
Sunstroke. —Chronic symptoms arising from s. Scutell.
Tetanus.— Violent t., with opisthotonos, trismus and convulsions in a child.
Passijlora.
Traumatic tetanus. Calab. bean. % Chlor. hydr.
Tetanus, from various causes, and trismus. ' Chlor. hydr.
Tingling. —T. in the extremities; preceding the convulsions. Solan.
Tremors. —Nervous jactitations and t. (in typhoid fever). Scutell.
Tremulousness. —T. and twitching of the muscles in various parts of the
body. Scutell.
Tremulous. —The hands felt large, and were t., with a peculiar thrilling sen¬
sation through both hands and feet, somewhat like going to sleep
—a want of circulation. Baft.
Trismus. —Tetanus, from various causes, and t. Chlor. hydr.
Violent tetanus, with opisthotonos, t., and convulsion in a child.
Passijlora.
Twitching. —Tremulousness and t. of the muscles in various parts of the body.
Scutell.
General uneasiness, with t. of the muscles and sticking pains in va¬
rious parts of the body, occasionally extending up along each side
of the forehead. Scutell.
Wasting. —Progressive muscular w. Calab. bean.
Worry. —Cerebral irritation from overwork and business worry. Hydrob. ac.
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Third Day. Afternoon Session, 3:00 p, m.
CLINICAL CASES.
WM. L. MORGAN, M. D., BALTIMORE, MD.
TUMOR IN THROAT,
Case I. July 3d, 1893. Saw Miss M. H., maiden lady, age
about 40. Small, slender, dark complexion. Had suffered
most of her life with indigestion. She asked me to examine
some thing in her throat, which was easy to do. Just behind
the right tonsil was the base of a peduncle, which suspended
a neat round tumor as large as a cherry, the same color of the
other mucous membrane. I was much tempted to cut the stem
and save the specimen, but investigated symptoms, viz: Per¬
spires very easily about the head, often at night. Cold feet as
if damp stockings. Constipated stools; large at first, latter ends
tapers down, putrid smell, light color, hard to pass. Sweaty
hands. A great deal of itching. Too clear a case to spoil
by cutting. Cal. car cm and S. L. Tumor gone in 30 days.
Excellent health ever since, gained flesh. I learned since that
she had taken lime water in milk for indigestion and sour stomach
for many years.
ECZEMA-GRAPH.
Case II. August 16, 1895. Called to see Willie, the 7 year
old son of my laundry woman; color pure black. His head was
a solid crust of scab and hair; watery pus dripping from under
the crust or cap, for it was all over his head, a hard scab with
pus underneath. A fair appetite. Bowels variable, often hard
balls, at other times formed lumps with muddy, pasty, sticky
faeces all mixed together. Much itching. Same kind of eruption
about the elbows. Graph cm , S. L.
Sept. 8. Great improvement; bowels natural; but for a few
days the suppuration or discharge worse. Graph . cm , S. L.
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No more treatment. In two months the boy had a clean head
and remains well to the present, June, 1897.
Case III. June 1, 1896. Saw a two year old son of Mrs. S. B.,
white; with head half covered with crusts, watery pus continually
running from under them; eruption on knees and elbows. Filthy,
pasty, and hard mixed stools; much itching and crying. Graph Qm
one dose, completely cured in a month.
AN IDENTICAL SIMILAR.
Case IV. March 20, 1897. Saw Rev. DeR. P., rector of a
fashionable church. Master of seven languages; had been a mis¬
sionary, and found him a very intelligent gentleman. He was
lying on a couch, beside which was a small table loaded with
many bottles of drugs and washes, which gave his wife employ¬
ment making numerous applications, without any relief to arms,
hands, legs, or feet, which were thickly covered, palms and all,
with fine watery vesicles, which constantly reminded him of his
duty in warning the people to keep clear of Hades, but it re¬
minded me of a bad case of poison oak, Rhus tox ., but he assured
me it was nothing of that kind. It burned like fire; itched in¬
tensely aggravated by heat. R. Rhus / mm one powder and
5. Z. Q. S .
March 21. Was soon easy. Slept well at night, and vesicles
drying up, feeling well. Pres. con.
March 4. Apparently well.
March 6, was called again; same irruption out all over, only
a little redder than before. Same torture but greater. R~
Rhus iox mxa one powder and S. Z. Q. S. Better in one hour.
Cured and well ever since. Subsequently learned he had been
poisoned by Rhus tox . some years before and had frequently
showed signs of it since.
The lesson in this case is that the symptoms was an exact
picture of Rhus and that it had in all probability been a secon¬
dary outbreak of a real Rhus poisoning.
A FINE OPERATION SPOILED—WITHOUT FAITH.
Case V. Mrs. W., age 66 years, weight 185. Good farrily, in¬
telligent—a poetess. Excellent company. Feb., 1896. Had
chronic diarrhoea for 20 years, and taken drugs ad nauseam.
Now a mental and physical wreck, with melancholia, and loves to
deride Homoeopathy. She was getting blind very fast, asked me
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to look at her eyes. Left eye totally blind. Right eye all but a
small opening in the outer side of the pupil. Could only see
sideways. I advised her to go to an occulist, which she did.
He disclosed to her that it was a cataract, and that an operation
was the only resort, and she must wait a year. I advised her to
do as directed, and that I would give her some treatment to try
to stop the progress, and get her health better, so she could stand
the operation. I told her daughter what I wanted to do, and she
became interested, giving me assistance in getting symptoms,
dates not kept, which was the well known: hurry out of bed in
the morning with other corresponding symptoms. Sulph cm , two
powders, one night and morning, stopped the diarrhoea for two
weeks, the first stop for many years.
Then it reappeared the same. Sulph cm , one powder night and
morning. It stopped two weeks; then it returned in the morning
while dressing with a pour, as from a spout. Phos r 50 night and
morning; diarrhoea then suspended for several months; soon after
perspired easily, cold damp feet and hands, as if with wet stock¬
ings. Calcar*™. Another attack in July. Phos mm f one pow¬
der. August 11, 1896, the daughter died of apoplexy, after which
she got Ign**, for two weeks, and another show of diarrhoea.
Sulph mm , one dose. January, 1897, symptoms again called for
Calcar mm , she got one dose.
February she came into my office to tell me that she could see
to read with her right eye, and could tell day from night with
her left eye. A very happy woman and a thorough convert; men¬
tally and physically restored, the left eye still improving. We
learn from this that to cure the patient the morbid growths will
disappear or never appear. The vital disease that caused the
diarrhoea, also caused the melancholy, and next the cataract.
The simillimum is better, surer and safer than the knife.
A SURGICAL CASE CURED.
Case VI. March 6, 1896. Called to see Mrs. C., age 46,
widow, and the mother of five children, two grown. She has
been a long sufferer from prolapsus uteri, with sensation of fall¬
ing out, must sit down and cross limbs to prevent it. Painful
weight in large abdomen now extreme torture, with protruding,
bleeding, and very painful hemorrhoids, passing large quanti¬
ties hot flatus, slimy stools with lumps like jelly. Sharp pains
shooting from piles to region of umbilious. Could not stand on
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feet; must lay on couch. Weakness in chest, and short breath.
Seeing a complete picture of the remedy in the symptoms she
got Sepia cm 9 one powder and S . Z.
Six months after she called to thank me for giving her such
prompt relief and said she was easy before I had gotten a square
from the house, and that the trouble was entirely well. She has
remained well ever since on “the one dose.” Spoilt a job for a
surgeon!
The indicated remedy in high potency, gave prompt relief
after years of experiments with paiiatives, and the prolapsus and
piles disappeared.
Case VII. This case is interesting for its history, its compli¬
cations with the abuse of drugs, and heredity. The wonderful
rapidity with which the symptoms indicating one remedy would
give way and show a full train of symptoms for another, which,
in turn would yield to the similar remedy and reveal symptoms
for another. Each change of remedy made, after carefully con¬
sulting Boenninghausen, Knerr, Gentry, and Guiding Symptoms,
where every symptom was clearly expressed in each change of
remedy too numerous to detail in this paper.
I saw Miss C-, January 15, 1897. Tall and slender. In¬
telligent. Literary habits. Very amiable. She had been suf¬
fering with asthma from childhood. At 2 a. m. she was wakened
from sound sleep with a violent attack; had to be propped up in
bed, could not lean forward; had to smoke a preparation of
stramonium leaves, nitre, and anise seed for relief. Stubborn
constipation. Consumption and gout in family. All symptoms
indicated Nat. mur. she got it cm and S. L .
January 19. Clock-like regularly of asthma, otherwise im
proved. CedrorP ° cm .
January 21. No improvement. No new symptoms. All
sulph., SuN m .
February 8. Some improvement. Symptoms Arg. w/V 200 , but
symptoms not clear for anything, and advised her to look for
something more to guide me. The next day her sister called to
inform me that Miss C-, had discovered a polypus in her
nose. On examining found both nostrils obstructed, and poly¬
pus showing plainly. She then told me she had three operations
in two, four and six years, before. And that she had great dread
of the torture of having them torn out, as it was a rough busi¬
ness: She appeared depressed, but much relieved when I told
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her that no operation was necessary; that she only had to take
powders for * few weeks, and the polypus would disappear, and
that this encouraged me to think she could be cured of all her
troubles, and live comfortable. Careful investigation led me to
Mercurf*, four doses, one a day.
February 17. Other changes showed Calcar ., I gave Calcar*™
and S. L.
March 19. Polypus much less, same remedy, Calcar*™
Skinners.
March 29. The polypus, a shriveled lump of mucous mem¬
brane slipped down into her throat and was hawked up. The
asthma continued to return, and I continued following symptoms
the best I could, viz: Nat. mur . and on April 29th, Lyc m .
May 12. Violent pains through head down back to feet, must
bend to painful part or press it. Colocynth*™ and S. L.
May 17. Somewhat better. Pains in paroxysms like light¬
ning from above down. Nux° m and S. L.
May 25. Pains all gone, asthma still the same. Paroxysms
2 a. m. I now learned that the least move of even a hand or foot
made the asthma worse. With all the other symptoms then
present made a full picture of Digitalis, Dig*™ and S. L. A
light attack that night was the last.
Feeling so well she undertook a severe job of entertaining visi¬
tors, with exposure to weather; took cold affecting head and
chest. A real case for Bryonia which did good service, but no
asthma. I still look for hidden miasms to yet develop in this
case.
I will now invite attention to the relation between the remedies
required by symptoms in treatment, and the drugs formerly di¬
rected by Allopaths.
Sulphur. Used to open bowels during infancy, also psora.
Nat. m. Salt used as bath, gargle, and many other ways.
Arg. nit. Supposed to be the thing used in local womb treat¬
ment.
Colocynth. Had been in a compound prescription.
Nux vom. Lapacta pills for constipation for 10 years com¬
posed largely of strychnia.
Calcar. Lime water for sour stomach for infants.
Digitalis. Had been used for heart.
Mercury. Often used for stomach and liver.
I will be glad to hear the opinions of this Society as to the re-
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lation between the symptoms requiring these remedies, and the
drugs used years before, which is the principal object in present¬
ing this case.
What drug caused the polypus ?
It will appear strange if there does not yet appear the horny
head of others that have not been noted in this report, especially
the Sulphur and treacle of earlier childhood, which show the
same signs.
These remedies were not selected because the drugs had been
used for asthma, but from the totality of the symptoms as they
came most prominent, and after very carefully comparing with
Boenninghausen and the proving in Guiding Symptoms.
My object in presenting this case is not to show a polypus or
asthma cured, but as a case where so many different remedies
are indicated one after another by the symptoms, and the symp¬
toms being the same as are produced by the abuse of the same
drug many years before; and now, when these symptoms appear,
the high potency of the same drug, removed that part of the case.
DISCUSSION.
Dr. Kimball—I would like to ask Dr. Morgan, why, when he
found he must look for other symptoms to guide him and found
a polypus, he gave Mercurius.
Dr. Morgan—There is where I made a mistake, I was im¬
pressed with that and wanted to hear the opinion of the Society.
I will mention why I used Mercury. Hahnemann had advised
preceding Calcar, with Mercury given in second quarter of the
moon, and Calcar. Carb. at the full moon for absorbing growths.
I have lost sight of it and have not thought of it for many years,
but some seven years ago an old German lady who was quite in¬
telligent, told me that was Dr. Hayne’s special practice when he
was in Baltimore years ago, and she had seen it work wonders,
and I think I was troubled with an anxiety to see that thing work
and the time just suited. I think that was the cause of ray do¬
ing so, which was perhaps a mistake. I would like to hear ex¬
pressions about this.
Dr. Kennedy—It seems to me that while the Doctor might
wish to test the truth of Hahnemann’s saying, that perhaps he
was rather unfortunate in selecting this case, for presumably if
he had left it alone an equally good result would have followed.
However, that we will never know, but at least, it seems to me
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that the Doctor’s desire for information on that point was
scarcely fulfilled.
Dr. Sawyer—It seems to me that we have had some remark¬
able cures here and a very small number of remedies used in
each case. So far as I am able to judge they have been selected
according to the laws of cure as laid down by Hahnemann, Para¬
celsus and Chiron, and I think they are cases to be proud of.
Anyway, I should feel so if they were mine.
A SULPHUR CASE.
F. S. DAVIS, M. D., QUINCY, MASS.
Feb. 22, 1897. Mr. G., age 68. Much reduced in flesh. Eyes
blue, large, but sunken. Face pale, pinched. Slight flush of
cheeks. Lips and jaw tremble on attempting to speak, voice
very weak and trembling. Lips red and dry.
Position on the back with head low. This was the picture pre¬
sented to view on my first visit after patient had been sick one
week with a severe attack of influenza. From her and her daugh¬
ter I got this further outline.
Not well all winter, had several colds in head with some cough
at times which was dry. Food not well retained; very little appe¬
tite. Only the simplest food would digest. Milk, fats and fruits
disagreed.
A very little meat, oat meal and stale bread was all she dared
to eat. Only a little cold water could be tolerated, it caused the
stomach to burn, and occasionally this would rise up and be ex¬
pectorated before the meal was finished. Felt nervous, could
not endure excitement or noise; any unexpected noise or event
caused prespiration to break out, and she would have a spell of
diarrhoea. Often would have a few loose stools, mornings; yel¬
lowish watery, sometimes dark brown, painless; causing weak
feeling in the abdomen. Occasionally this diarrhoea would dis¬
turb her from bed, mornings. Often would be easily chilled.
Went out doors but little, could not walk well. Right leg nearly
useless from injury to hip when she fell some years ago.
One week ago had a cold with feverish feelings, lost the appe¬
tite and began to feel very weak in a very short time. Aching in
back and limbs. Some thirst but did not drink much through
fear it would disturb the stomach. Weakness increased, became
restless and sleepless; painful cough; soreness in middle of chest
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after the dry cough. It hurt her all over to cough, could raise
nothing. The loose stools soon came on scanty, painless, soon
becoming involuntary, which confined her to the oed, and so
greatly reduced her strength that I was telephoned for.
The temperature was 103, pulse irregular 100 to 120. The
hands trembled very much, tongue red and dry. I asked her
what bad feelings had last appeared or most troubled her, and she
said the top of my head and my feet burn so, I must put my feet
about the bed to cool them off.
These peculiar and most recent symptoms decided me to give
Sulphur lm (F) one dose dry.
Feb. 23. No worse, no better. Placebo.
Feb. 24. Said she felt more comfortable, but could not tell of
any relief in particular; other conditions the same. Placebo.
Feb. 25. Slept better, feels rested. Burning in head and feet
gone or but little noticed. A new symptom appeared, urine
would not pass, until much effort was made; burning of the parts
after urinating, must have the urine washed off at once. Stool
not quite so frequent but involuntary. Urine colors the cloth
pinkish. Placebo.
Feb. 26. Less fever, pulse better, stools less frequent. Pains
in body and limbs less. Feels more rested. Hands tremble less,
can speak better. Less trembling of lips and chin. Placebo .
Feb. 26. Evening. Called by telephone, no urine had passed
since morning. Feels so much pressure in bladder, must have
relief, which is given by passing catheter.
Feb. 27. Slept quite well. Temperature 102, pulse 90. Less
pain in body, no burning on top of head; feet comfortable.
Urine burns just as bad as ever, but is passed more easily. No
appetite, mouth smarts and burns, looks very red. Can’t keep
vulcanite plate in mouth; can’t take food, mouth is so sore.
Tongue looks very red all over.
Feb. 27. Evening. Desire to pass urine but it does not flow,
wishes catheter used but I advised waiting.
Feb. 28. Urine passed last night, after much effort which
tired her very much. Urine continues to scald the parts, must
be washed off at once. Stools less frequent, very small watery in¬
voluntary. Cough troublesome with lameness under angle of left
scapula. Abdomen some sensative to pressure of hand. Has
felt some catches in muscles of left side from axilla to lower ribs.
Temperature 102, pulse 92, other conditions unchanged.
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Mar. 1. About the same. Urine causes more smarting, pains
only after much effort. Can move arms better. Calls my atten¬
tion to an eruption on inner surface of thighs, it is scaly, dry and
itches intensely with burning. Has been coming out for several
days.
Mar. 2. Cough easier. Pains in side is less. Rested better;
urinary symptoms the same. Tongue and mouth better, can eat
a little. Legs less lifeless, stools less.
Mar. 3. No change in feelings. Albumen is found in small
quantity in urine.
Mar. 4. Very weak; less disturbed in sleep.
Mar. 5 to 8. No change.
Mar. 9. Urine thicker. More albumen, more burning after
urinating. Can't get urine washed off quick enough.
Mar. 10. More difficulty in passing urine, the effort exhausts
her very much, she desires to have it drawn by catheter.
Mar. 11. Says she must have relief of the intense burning
from the urine. Give Sulphur lm (F) in water, one dose.
Mar. 12. Feels less burning; had a better night's rest.
Mar. 13. More comfortable; stools more natural.
Mar. 14. Feels better. Voice stronger. Tongue less red and
mouth less sore. Less burning of urine, albumen still present.
Mar. 15. Less burning from urine. Eruption in thighs scal¬
ing off very much. Itching of thighs less. Can move better in
bed. Fever less.
Mar. 16. A very restful night, feels better every way. No
fever. All pains less.
Mar. 17 and 18. Better.
Mar. 19. Stools normal. Tongue better.
Mar. 20 to 24. Much less burning of urine.
Mar. 25 to 31. Gaining all the time. Comfortable, except
weakness, pains nearly all gone. Very little albumen.
April 2. Could sit up in chair; very little burning. Dry cough
is the most troublesome symptom.
April 4. Can eat very well, tongue and mouth normal.
April 5. Feels much better. Less albumen in urine. Some
cough mornings; a little expectoration, quite thick white phlegm.
April 6. Sits up, only cough is troublesome in the morning.
April 11. Has improved all the time, is dressed and sits up.
From this time on to the present has continued to gain strength.
At the time the eruption appeared on the thighs, I told Mrs. G.
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that when she got about again she could eat anything in the line
of food that she desired and it would not hurt her, and that she
might yet become a fat old lady. My prediction is in part ful¬
filled, she can eat anything now and it does not hurt her.
The diarrhoea has never troubled since getting up.
The following symptoms which she had noticed almost con¬
stantly for 20 years, but which she did not tell me of until after
she noticed they did not return. Odor of stool clings to her in
spite of every attention to cleanliness . When sitting at work could
not bend over her work, if she did it caused a desire for immediate
stool , which quite loose.
Mouth and throat would get very dry while talking.
Profuse prespiration from excitement or any sudden noise .
Almost any article of food causes diarrhoea and pains in stomach
with rising up of food , particularly eggs, fruit and fat meats, and
nearly all vegetables. Cold water would often cause burning and
smarting in the stomach.
DISCUSSION.
Dr. Pease—I would like to ask Dr. Davis if the symptom just
spoken of, namely, the odor of the stool clinging to the patient
in spite of all care was a symptom of late development under the
Sulphur , or was it there when you gave Sulphurf
Dr. Davis—I guess the Doctor did not understand me. I
stated that they were old symptoms she reported to me as hav¬
ing not returned. She had had them for twenty years.
Dr. Pease—I would like to call the attention of the Society to
that symptom as belonging,. I believe, to Zinc Sulphate . Zinc
Sulphate , I think, has the same symptom, because in three or
four cases upon which I have used Zinc Sulphate with astonish¬
ing and curative effect, that symptom has disappeared.
Dr. Sawyer—Would like to ask Dr. Davis whether the old lady
had taken Sulphur and Molasses .
Dr. Davis—I did not know it at the time of prescribing, but I
have recently found out that she had taken Sulphur and Molasses
and Cream of Tartar.
Dr‘. Sawyer—There was no history of suppression of any skin
disease?
Dr. Davis—I asked her and she said she did not remember.
She had had this stomach trouble, and these peculiar symptoms
for twenty years, but I did not know of them when I prescribed
or her.
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CLINICAL NOTES.
E. T. ADAMS, M. D., TORONTO, CAN.
Miss McS., aged 27. A school teacher and a bright child
and girl.
Some five years ago, her friends noticed a change in her men¬
tal condition, becoming irritable and occasionally subjects to
violent attacks of ill-temper, in which she lost all control. This
state gradually increased until it became quite evident to her
friends that something must be done. Living far back in a newly
settled country, medical services were hard to obtain, but the
best within their reach was provided for her, but without benefit.
On the advice of a doctor, she was taken some one hundred and
fifty miles to consult a specialist in mental diseases, who gave
them no encouragement and advice, that she should be sent to
an insane asylum for the insane, stating that she was in a condi¬
tion to be dangerous to herself and others. But the friends
could not make up their minds to this and took upon themselves
the burden of a constant care and watchfulness. No change for
the better occurred, her condition varying between idiocy and
attacks of violent mania, in which she several times injured her¬
self and on two occasions, her guardians. A young man, a patient
of mine and a student of Divinity was sent into that region as a
missionary. Pitying the miserable state in which he found the
family, he induced them to write me. I undertook the case and
never had more difficulty in obtaining information on which to
prescribe. Finally I sent her a dose of Nux vom** (K) and Sac
lac., in quantity sufficient. This benefitted her general health to
some extent and so she went on for weeks. I trying to get the
required information, they trying to send it and both failing.
Finally when on the point of confessing that I could do nothing
further. The sister who acted as my correspondent, mentioned
that the patient's menstrual flow was black and stringy, a
ray of light, but not enough to warrant a prescription. So I
wrote enquiring as to the effect music had on the patient. The
reply was a fragmentary proving of Crocus sat., that she would
when in her quiet stupid state, sing or croon to herself by the
hour, that singing exerted more control over her than anything
else, even when wild and dangerous. Often in the middle .of the
night, she would sing so loudly as to wake the family, then she
never heard singing, but she would start and join or else go it
alone in opposition according to the state she was in. Eureka!
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I exclaimed and sent her a dose of Crocus saP m (F. K.)
Every two weeks I had a report and each better than the last,
first becoming more gentle, then outbursts less violent and less
frequent, then beginning to take interest in visitors. Next, be¬
gan to join in conversation and to show that she understood and
appreciated the subjects spoken of—and so it went on until in
about three months, she was herself again—an object of wonder
to all who saw or knew of her. This was about eight months ago,
there has never been the slightest relapse; she is well mentally
and physically, she enjoys life and is a subject for rejoicing to
all who come in contact with her. The last complaint I had was
that it was impossible to keep her from working, but in reply to
question as to its effect on her, they write that she enjoys it and
it agrees with her. Under these conditions I advised that they
let her work. After the summer holidays she returns to her
school teaching.
THE INDICATED REMEDY AS ASSISTANT TO THE KNIFE.
A few weeks ago I was called about 4 a. m., to a young man
of 17 years who was suffering intense pain through bowels and in
pit of stomach, abdominal muscles, rigid and firm as a board;
pulse rather below normal and persistent vomiting of bile. Al¬
ready his skin indicated lack of circulation. This was on a
Saturday morning and he had been lying alone in his room in a
large building, since the previous Wednesday, all his familv be¬
ing away, I gave a dose of Podoph cm and found on my return that
the pain had abated to some extent, with a lessened degree of
rigidity in muscles. But the surface circulation as indicated by
the color of skin, was worse and the pulse and patient weaker.
(The vomiting ceased after the first and only dose of Podoph).
So I ordered him to be sent to the hospital, which was accom¬
plished by 10 a. m. Several surgeons saw him, but all gave a
very unfavorable prognosis, still thought he, should have the
chance of an operation. The abdomen was opened and a black
rotten appendix, with surrounding omentum in like condition re¬
moved and the wound left open to drain. Before and during
the operation, the pulse was thread-like and at times impercepti¬
ble. Immediately after it rallied somewhat and the boy was car¬
ried to his bed; little hope, if any being entertained of his being
alive the next day. I saw him about two o’clock with no en¬
couraging signs. Again about 5 o’clock when he presented a
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perfect picture of a far gone case of Arsenical poisoning. You
know the condition and symptoms as well as I. I gave a dose
of Arsen, alb™* (F) and saw him again about 9 o’clock. No
change < if possible—sinking. We had a meeting of the full
hospital staff that night, so soon after 11 o’clock fully half a
dozen surgeons and physicians, tip toed into his room and out
again, each and ail gravely shaking the head and uniting in the
opinion that he might have anything the nurses fancied he
wanted. That he might be permitted to take any position his
restlessness led him into and that he would be dead by 3 a. m.
Of course I told him of my prescription which all endorsed is
being the only remedy possible—the simillimum.
At 1 a. m. when the final < to set in he changed magically for
the better—quieted down—thirst abated, got some sleep, pulse
rallied somewhat.
About 8 next morning, my telephone and a voice said “about
F. W., Doctor.” “Oh! yes, ”1 replied, “at what time did the poor
fellow die?” “He is not dead, but very much better and nurse
wants to know what extra nourishment he can have.” You can
imagine my surprise and pleasure. But he gradually improved
without further medicine, but of course the greatest of care in
nursing and food and he is now convalescent and almost ready
for his discharge.
For the first few days the surgeon who operated and his assist¬
ants, gave the credit deserved to the prescription, admitting that
while the boy could not have recovered without the operation.
The operation could not have been successful without the reme¬
dy, but after the lapse of a week, the wonderfully satisfactory
operation was spoken of and the remedy forgotten, except when
I or physicians who saw the case, were present, when it always
received a good half and I am uncertain, but it deserves more.
DISCUSSION.
Dr. Sawyer—These cases of Dr. Adams are beautiful cures
confirmatory of what we all believe of Homoeopathy. I have
been thinking while listening of what Hahnemann said about
taking the case. If I remember rightly he charges his followers
to be very careful and get a history of the drugs that had been
previously taken so as to avoid giving the same remedy. I do not
remember hearing any case reported at this meeting at which
there has been any record of previous drugging. If there has I
have forgotten it.
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Dr. Pease—Such a case as that and others that have been re¬
ported to-day will explain that kind of allegiance and enthusiasm
which brings together from all parts of the United States and
Canada believers in the law. I simply want to say in regard to
Arsenicum , and I might include a number of other of these
remedies that we have prominently in our minds in just such
cases as this one, where the vital forces are at such a low ebb,
and I want to speak of the relationship of these remedies to
Pyrogen . It is a wonderful remedy in just such cases as this,
and it seems to me that in it are many of the symptoms that are
so common to the whole group or the several remedies that we
have depended upon in collapse, prostration and other low
states. I simply speak of this so that the members will have in
their minds Pyrogen in just such places. I believe that many
times, time is lost and vitality weakened by not thinking of
Pyrogen . I have seen it work in all conditions where as to pre¬
scribing it is “touch and go" between several remedies, when, if
the prescriber knew about Pyrogen , he could save himself the
anxiety about making a mistake in the selection of remedies. I
do not mean to make any criticism whatever on Dr. Adam's
paper.
Dr. Adams—In response to Dr. Sawyer’s remarks, I tried to
get a history of the case. The sister spoken of drove many miles
to interview the Doctor previously in the case, but merely got
turned out of doors for her pains. They were illiterate, none
had an> experience in Homoeopathy, and did not seem to under¬
stand what I wanted. I thought myself very fortunate in the end
to get as much as I did.
Dr. Pease—I want to add to what I said a moment ago, that I
have several times tried to account for this peculiar grouping of
forces in Pyrogen , and I have wondered if it did not have within
itself a combination of effects of several drug miasms. We know
that it is a preparation from a morbid product, taken or collected
from clots and other septic matters, and I have wondered if the
reason back of its power in such cases as I am speaking of, is
not due to the combined results of drug miasms in the patient
which furnished the substance first proved. I would like to ask
Dr. Sawyer if he thinks that is true.
Dr. Sawyer—I will just add one word. I have seen Pyrogen
when indicated about typhoid fever. It is a remedy that I have
used a great deal and have learned to depend upon it. I have
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long been convinced of the truth of what Dr. Pease said, that
Pyrogen given early in septic conditions would prevent their
ever reaching the dangerous stage calling for Arsenic . Swan
considered it the greatest “anti malarial” extant, and there is
certainly some evidence confirming that theory.
Dr. Kennedy—It strikes me, however, that that is rather dan¬
gerous ground, for it seems wonderfully like the argument used
by our friend the enemy. I think, while there is undoubtedly
truth in what has been said regarding Pyrogen , we as Homceo-
pathists can never feel sure of our ground in prescribing a
remedy on any other foundation, for any other reason, than that
it is indicated by the symptoms. I believe we will find, however,
in the proving of Pyrogen , which as yet is meagre, when it is
proven more fully, a great many other symptoms combined that
are found under various other remedies. I have used Pyrogen a
few times only. I have not used it because there was, I may
say, a septic condition, but because the symptoms called for
Pyrogen. I cannot recall them now, but the fever is peculiar,
and other things which would lead one to infer that there is that
pathological condition from which perhaps Pyrogen was taken,
and I have no doubt but what it will prove itself, in fact I think
it has already proved itself to be a valuable remedy, but, as I
have said, until we have a very thorough proving I believe we
should go cautiously.
Dr Sawyer—I have taken it for granted that the listeners here
would understand the reason I have given it in septic cases was,
because those cases did correspond to what I understood the
nature of Pyrogen to have been proven by previous provings and
clinical experience. I forgot that it is thought here that I pre¬
scribed empirically.
Dr. Pease—In my remarks I said not a word about empirically
prescribing Pyrogen in such cases as this one Dr. Adams reported
and in conditions for which we have in our minds a group of
remedies. I simply wished to present Pyrogen as a remedy be¬
longing to the group of remedies. In regard to your statement,
Dr. Kennedy, that you believed that if the remedy was further
proven we would find certain of these symptoms, I wish to say,
I have thought that there was quite a full proving of Pyrogen
published in the Medical Advance some years ago. If I remem¬
ber rightly you will find in that proving many of the symptoms
belonging to such remedies as Arsenicum , Carbo veg., Camphor ,
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and China already in the group. I did not for a moment sup¬
pose I was understood as favoring the empirical prescribing of
Pyrogen in stages of collapse, only on symptoms when indicated.
Dr. Kimball—I believe that the Pyrogen potentized by Dr.
Swan, and from which the grafts have all come, was made from
the pus of a septic abscess of the thigh, which extended from the
trochanter to the knee. I think it was a case of Dr. Helrauth,
but I do not know whether the patient lived or died.
Dr. Kennedy—Probably as a result of my inability to under¬
stand I did not get the right idea, but I gathered the idea from
the remarks by Dr. Sawyer that it was a good thing to prescribe
Pyrogen in certain cases that seemed to us would eventually
come to a condition where Arsenicum might be required. I
failed to get the idea that we would find in these cases Pyrogen
indicated from the symptoms. It seemed as though he was ad¬
vocating it from the pathological standpoint. I feel that we
cannot as members of this Society be too careful, because there
are a great many who will read our transactions, and not getting
a correct idea, will run away and say that a member of the S. O.
H. recommends in certain pathological conditions a certain
remedy—ergo—where is the Homoeopathy?
Dr. Pease—The reason I spoke about Pyrogen was to bring
Pyrogen not only before the members of this association, but to
all who shall read the proceedings, but if Dr. Kennedy will turn
back to my first remarks on the remedy he will remember that
I said, “If he knew” or “With knowledge of Pyrogen ” With
knowledge of the remedy you will see Pyrogen indicated early in
those cases and prescribing it will be saved the awful conditions
that remind you of such remedies as Arsenic and Carbo veg.
A CASE OF PHLEGMON.
S. A. KIMBALL, M. D., BOSTON, MASS.
Mr.-, 63 years of age was seriously injured in the spring
of ’96, by being struck in the left side with the shaft of a heavy
wagon, a rib was probably fractured.
In September of the same year, he was thrown from his carri¬
age striking upon his head and shoulders which caused much
pain for some time in the dorsal and lumbar regions.
Nov. 23d of the same year, after great mental anxiety, he had
a chill with shaking, which in a few days developed into a double
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quotidian, Arsenicum cm (F) relieved this, so that by Dec. 1, he
was up and dressed.
He remained weak with considerable pain in his back, where
he was injured by his last accident, and about Dec. 11, a small
swelling came in the perineum, hard and painful. This was soon
followed by swelling of the testicles and cords, which in a few
days involved the whole scrotum with painful urination. There
was also a profuse gleety discharge from an old stricture, which
accompanied the increasing swelling.
Several remedies were given without apparent effect.
The swelling continued with increasing redness of the parts,
until Dec. 21, when his condition was as follows:
A swelling in the perineum as large as two fists, extending into
the leftin guinal region.
The scrotum was enormously swollen and rested upon the
swelling of the perineum extending straight out at right angles,
both these swellings were red and sore to touch, that in the peri¬
neum and inguinal region was hard, but the scrotum was more
soft as from a serous infiltration. There was a yellowish watery
discharge from the perineal swelling and the skin look wrinkled
as if parboiled.
He was restless, worse toward night; wished the room cool,
but was chilly on uncovering. Mouth dry, tongue red, dry,
cracked, craved cool drinks. Urination slow. Hiccough after
drinking. Visions on going to sleep. Vomiting yellow watery
last night.
Dr. Thurston saw the case with me and after careful study,
Rhus was selected and one dose dry of the cm (F) was given.
The next day Dec. 22, he had had a better night, but the swell¬
ing was the same, and while the tongue was not as red, the
mouth was still dry, the hiccough continued, and then was an in¬
voluntary stool on straining to urinate. There were no visions,
but he had vomited once a dark, bitter liquid.
In the evening his abdomen had become tympanitic and he
was having involuntary stools. Nothing was done however and
it was thought best to wait until the next day.
Dec. 23. Tympanitic abdomen with soreness to touch. Hic¬
cough. Swelling of scrotum, dark blue. Offensive biownish
discharge from perineum, involuntary stools, waking with sensa¬
tion of falling. Temp. 97.4, pulse 96. One dose dry of Lach cm
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(F) was given. That evening he seemed to have had a better
day. Temperature 98.4.
Dec. 24. Had a fairly good night, abdomen still swollen,
vomited several times in the night with involuntary slimy, offen¬
sive stools when vomiting. Temperature 97.6, pulse 96. In the
evening he was about the same. Temp. 97.6.
Dec. 25. The hiccough continued, abdomen still swollen.
Slimy stools, involuntary with hiccough or cough. Sweat on
neck and shoulders on waking. Discharge from perineum and
under part of scrotum, bloody, offensive. Craving for cold
drinks and cold food. Temp. 97.6, pulse 96. After careful
study one dose dry of Phost™ (F) was given that evening.
Dec. 26. Involuntary stools less, discharge still offensive and
the skin looks black in places, but he was taking more nourish¬
ment and felt better. In the evening he had less hiccough, no
stool since 4 a. m. Temp. 98. The swelling was decreasing
and he felt stronger.
Dec. 27. Temp. 97.8, pulse 96. Discharge was offensive,
brownish, frothy, abdomen still swollen, but he was better. From
this time he continued to improve. The discharge remained
very offensive and profuse.
On Dec. 29, the under part of the scrotum sloughed away, a
piece as large as the palm of the hand exposing the testicles and
cords and in a day or two the perineum began to slough until it
was entirely gone from the urethra to the sphincter ani, which
luckily was intact, and his temperature gradually rose to normal
and a little above and then began a tedious time of granulation.
The perineum was kept as close together as possible by adhesive
straps across the buttocks.
The suppuration was profuse and at first extremely offensive.
Jan. 7, he received one dose of S/7 cm (F). About Jan. 16, it
seemed as if the urethra was leaking up near the prostate and
that the urine was flowing over the wound. In a few days this
was a certainty and fully one half of the urine escaped in this
way. He was improving generally, the wound was granulating
well and filling up and the scrotum was being reproduced over
the testicles, so there was nothing to do but to let it leak. No
remedy was given.
Feb. 5. He received one dose of Cham ™ m (F) for an extreme
irritability which had been developing for a week. He was bet¬
ter after it.
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Feb. 10. The perineum was repaired by Dr. Winfield Smith,
of Boston, who performed the operation in a very skillful man¬
ner. The urethra was sutured and the whole perineum. The
stitches were removed on the tenth day and the result was much
better than was expected. A catheter was kept in the bladder
for about two weeks, but he soon regained his strength and in
about a month after the operation was in town attending to
business.
There is still a small fistula from the urethra to the perineum
through which urine at times escapes, but as he is in fairly good
health it is to be hoped that remedies will accomplish its cure
without resorting to a second operation.
DISCUSSION.
Dr. Pease—I think there is a case which would remind several
Chicago physicians of this remedy of which I have been speak¬
ing.
Dr. Thurston—The surgeon who was called in after the wound
was nearly filled with granulations said he had never seen any¬
thing like it. He was much surprised that remedies should have
saved the man’s life and repaired such extensive sloughing.
Dr. Dickerman—Had there ever been any injury to the peri¬
toneum?
Dr. Kimball—Not that I know of. There was a history of
gonorrhoea suppressed by injections, and there was a stricture,
as we found, with an occasional gleety discharge which had
bothered him for years. This case may aid us in regard to the
relationship of drugs. Lachesis seemed to follow Rhus well, and
PhosphoruSy Lachesis .
Dr. Sawyer—Between the time of the hurt and che localization
of the later trouble referred to, if between these two times you
had given your patient remedies with a view to reproduce the
suppressed gonorrhoea, what do you think the result would have
been?
Dr. Kimball—After his accidents remedies were prescribed as
they seemed indicated. As I remember it, the discharge came
with the first swelling of the testicles and cords, and increased
with the increasing swelling for a while, then ceased.
Dr. Dickerman—How long had the gonorrhoea been sup¬
pressed?
Dr. Kimball—He had had the gleety discharge off and on for
five or six years at times of great mental anxiety. The gonor¬
rhoea was suppressed by injections thirteen years before.
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INTERMITTENT FEVER.
FRANK W. PATCH, M. D., SOUTH FRAMINGHAM, MASS.
In accordance with the avowed intention of last year, it gives
me pleasure to submit the following detailed report of thirty-one
cases of intermittent fever treated under the Hahnemannian law.
There are also added a few notes, explanatory and suggestive,
gathered from cumulative experience with this disease. Before
taking up the body of the report it may be well to state that of
the sixteen cases reported here last year and treated during the
season of 1895 but one has returned up to the present date as
far as is known. This was reported as case viii, Nux vomica
being the remedy. The case was unsatisfactory when treated,
dragging on for some time and requiring several repetitions be¬
fore finally yielding, as was thought. The indications were not
clear for a change and it seemed best at the time to recognize
even that slow convalescence as a true one. But as the disease
returned in the spring of the present year in a similar though
aggravated form it is evident that even the highest potencies
possess the power of palliation, of so persistent a disease as In¬
termittent Ferer.
It was found this year that the true remedy in the above case
was Hyos. f which cured promptly and probably should have been
given in the first place.
The details of the case will come under the report of 1897.
In reply to any who feel that the symptoms noted in these re¬
ports are too general for value and not distinctive of the remedies
they represent, it may be said that close study will reveal some¬
thing peculiar in almost every case and it is just this feature
which the notes will endeavor to bring out. Mllny cases can
never be individually prominent without the patient before you
as an object; indeed with even this advantage it is often difficult
to bring out the desired information from those patients who
have not intellectual quickness enough to grasp our intent.
Report of 1896.
Case I— Pulsatilla™ (F)
G. C. Young man, medium complexion; blue eyes; active tem¬
perament; speech quick and animated; emotional; athletic.
Type, tertian.
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Prodrome. Headache.
Chill Beginning in hands; nails blue; throbbing
frontal headache; covered.
Heat With cough; cold feet; ringing in left ear;
restless; congestion of conjunctive increas¬
ing from light; slight thirst, nausea after
drinking; aversion to conversation in the
room; uncovered.
Sweat General, light.
Concomitants Tongue white.
The above case is unusual in some particulars. The patient
was not of the type expected to respond to Pulsatilla. The
symptom “cough during the heat” is unusual, never having been
met with in books of practice under this remedy. The guiding
feature of the case seemed found in the combination of intense
fever and dry mouth, yet very little thirst; other symptoms, of
course, agreeing.
Case II —Rhus tox? m (F)
C. M. Tall, thin, large boned man of about seventy years, dark
complexion, mild disposition. Type, tertian.
Chill At about sunset, each attack; nausea and
vomiting; thirst for large quantities; chill in¬
termits; dry hacking cough beginning with
each attack; more comfortable from external
heat.
Sweat General; immediately after the chill; with
thirst.
Concomitants Tongue with red streak in center, red
tip. Dyspnoea on exertion.
The chief characteristics pointing toward the curative remedy
are to be found in the tongue, the cough, and the restlessness.
Bryonia and Rhus cases have usually an aggravating cough as¬
sociated with the other symptoms and marking the onset of the
attack. The differentiation of two may, of course, be easily
made by the other symptoms.
Case III —China*™ (F)
M. F. An Irish woman of about 60, thin, worn and small;
black hair and eyes. Attack began as a severe enteritis with
great prostration, relieved by Verat. alb. Tertian intermittent
followed changing to Quotidian.
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Chill Beginning in stomach and hands; lips dry,
thirst; restless; headache; shaking in upper
parts; fingers blue.
Heat With thirst and dizziness.
Sweat Absent.
Concomitants Mouth bitter; tongue coated a dirty yel¬
low; constipation.
Case IV —Natrum mur cm (F)
Mrs C. F. A. Woman of slight build; reddish complexion;
dark auburn hair; strength always below par. Type, Quotidian,
anticipating.
Prodrome Nausea, backache.
Chill Beginning in shoulders and descending; cov¬
ered; no thirst; quiet.
Heat Long, begins in the feet and ascends; face
flushes; quiet; feet cold; backache; head¬
ache; slight thirst; eyes swollen and painful;
dyspnoea.
Sweat Nearly absent.
Concomitants Hydroa about the mouth, tongue dry and
white.
Case V —Ferrum meF m (F)
E. C. Unmarried woman of 30; short stature, stout, florid,
medium complexion; phlegmatic. Slight attack ten years pre¬
vious with Quinine treatment. Present attack began six weeks
previous and was suppressed with “India Cholagogue.” Later,
appearing, was again suppressed with Quinine. First prescrip¬
tion, Chin . sulph zm (F). Some time later, Aug. 10, reported no
change and between that date and Aug. 29 several remedies
were given with little apparent effect or bearing on the condition.
Present experience would lead me to feel that Sulphur or some
similar and deep acting antipsoric should have been given at the
start in order to stir the old conditions into activity.
Aug. 29. Chills returned in tertian, anticipating type.
Prodrome Yawning.
Chills Beginning in spine; shaking for three hours;
sensation of machinery in head; backache;
no thirst; nasty, bitter taste in mouth; slight
vomiting of bile; covered; cold feet; chilli¬
ness from motion; goose flesh; nails blue.
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Heat With flushed face; headache beginning in
nape and ascending over head; thirst for
quantity but much drinking causes nausea;
• headache; uncovered; restless.
Sweat Light; offensive; staining linen; no thirst;
pain continuous.
Concomitants Tongue pale, bloodless and flabby; face
blanched.
In the two last cases the type of patient and general symptoms
present rather than any peculiarity of the paroxysm led to the
proper selection. The first was a typical Natrum woman who,
since the attack, has been much better than for several previous
years; many old psoric symptoms disappeared with recovery.
The second, with bloodless tongue and face, prostration and
debility, with the other symptoms agreeing, could not be mis¬
taken. Ferrum was stamped on every feature.
Case VI— Sambucus cm (F)
C. E. D. Intermittent following rheumatic peritonitis. Pa¬
tient tall, dark; easy disposition. Type, quotidian, slightly an¬
ticipating.
Chill Every afternoon between 3 and 3:30; begin¬
ning suddenly, lasting an hour; no pain,
thirst or nausea; violent shaking.
Heat Dry, with thirst; quiet.
Sweat On waking in morning.
After SabadillcP m (F), improvement began and continued till
the attacks entirely ceased. Ten days later the fever returned
as a tertian.
Chill Same as before, beginning between scapula
and in arms; lies on left side; shaking only
on right side in upper parts; deafness in left
ear.
Heat Beginning in head and descending; thirst;
uncovered; restless; tired; burning of feet.
Sweat Profuse, beginning on temples; on upper parts
only; dizziness and blindness on rising.
Concomitants Fine rash on body; restless and uncom¬
fortable after midnight.
This time Pu/satilla cm (F) was given and again the attacks
ceased after two days, improvement going on for ten days longer
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when another relapse occurred with the same symptoms as pre¬
viously noted, chiefly on account of the profuseness of the sweat
and the time of the attacks. Sambucus cra (F) was now selected
with but little hope of success, it must be owned, yet permanent
relief followed.
Case VII —Ferrum meP m (F)
S. H. Boy of 10, thin, active, wiry child; reddish complex¬
ion; freckles. Type, tertian, anticipating.
Prodrome Headache. Restlessness the night before the
attack.
Chill Beginning in back; an hour’s severe head¬
ache and backache; no thirst; nausea; rest¬
less.
Heat Beginning in forehead; throbbing; headache;
thirst; mouth dry; restless; sleep, wakes
frightened.
Sweat Light, only on head; sleepy; headache.
Concomitants Mouth bitter; tongue red with deeper
color in center and white sides; moist. Arms
over head; wants head held tightly when it
aches hard.
Case VIII— Ignatia cm (F)
C. F. Six
years; fat. chubby, light haired boy. Partly de-
yeloped attacks for two weeks. Present condition, tertian, an¬
ticipating, paroxysms.
Chill
At about 11 a. m. for an hour; general shak¬
ing.
Heat
With thirst; sleep; headache.
Sweat
Absent.
Tongue
Dull white with raised papillae.
Case IX— Ignatia? m (F)
A. H. Ten years, slight, wiry build; dark complexion. Type,
quotidian. Very slightly anticipating.
Chill
About 1 p. m.; short, followed by sleep; pain
in thighs.
Heat
Thirst, sighing.
Sweat
Siight, on waking.
Concomitants Tongue white with raised papillae.
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Slight return after two weeks; readily controlled by the same
remedy.
The two above cases were in children of entirely opposite
types, one slight, dark, active and nervous; the other light and
plegmatir, yet both answered well to the same remedy, showing
that the type of the sickness should be given as much prominence
as that of the individual. Sleep following the chill was guiding
in each of these cases and seems a more prominent symptoms
with Ignatia than “relief from external heat,” upon which so
much stress is laid by some authors.
Case X— Ignatia? m (F)
Mrs. H. C. Colored woman, mild disposition. Type, tertian,
anticipating. First clear attack began at 2 p. m., with great
pain all over the body, headache, &c.
Chill With chattering of teeth; thirst for cold water;
covered; quiet, frequent urination; nausea;
shooting, needle-like pains; eyeballs painful;
covered, more chilly if uncovered.
Heat With thirst; pains continue; bed hurts her;
frequent urination; throbbing headache.
Sweat General except face; pains; sleep; frequent
urination; throbbing head.
Concomitants Tongue white; tearful if spoken to.
This case returned at the menstrual period, after a few weeks,
when a dose of Sepia™ (F) cleared up all the symptoms per¬
manently.
Case XI— Lachesis cm (F)
N. F. Eight years; thin; reddish hair; nervous temperament.
Type, tertian; anticipating.
Chill In forenoon; pain in stomach, fretful and
tearful; restless; vomit; nausea. Slight thirst
for cold drinks.
Heat Intense; long; shifting pain; restless, irrita¬
ble; sleep in latter part of heat; wants noth¬
ing to touch her, even the bed clothes.
Sweat Absent.
Concomitants Cries on waking; epistaxis.
The intense sensitiveness to contact first called attention to
this remedy. The sheet, her mother’s hand, anything which ap¬
proached her body bringing a tearful protest from the patient.
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Case XII— Arsenicum (F)
Mrs. E. S. M. Seventy years; spare; dark; nervous tempera¬
ment. Began indistinctly; had an attack previous years under
Quinine treatment. Type, tertian.
Chill Very indistinct and mingled with heat; in¬
tense restlessness, thirst for little, often; wake¬
ful after 12, aching in head and limbs.
Heat Prolonged several hours, burning, dry.
Sweat With sleep from exhaustion.
Concomitants Tongue dry, stiff, red on one side.
Case XIII —Bryonia™ (F)
H. C. Infant. Attack began with convulsions; chill during
sleep; blueness of the skin; cough before chill; thirst in heat;
quiet in all stages; sweat profuse, followed by sleep; starts in
sleep.
Case XIV— Bryonia cm (F)
M. C., Irish laborer.
Chill Every day; attack in early part of afternoon;
sensation of heaviness; pain in bones; cramps
in legs without shaking; thirst in all stages;
hard dry cough all through attack.
These Bryonia cases, as was remarked above, are usually
characterized by a severe cough which forms a prominent feat¬
ure of the attack. It is rather more deep and pronounced than
the Rhus . cough which is particularly dry and irritating.
Case XV —Nux vom cm (F)
W. H., Slight build; dark. Tertian, anticipating type. At¬
tacks begin with frontal headache.
Chill With vomiting of bile; chill begins in extremi¬
ties and back; great thirst for ice water which
seems to augment vomiting; covered; restless.
Heat With headache; less thirst; uncovered; restless.
Sweat With but little thirst; some sleep; less head¬
ache. An immense crop of fever sores about
mouth.
Case XVI —Nux vom CTa (F)
M. M., slight, dark complexion, 10 year old girl.
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Chill In forenoon proceeded by vomiting, with
pains.
Heat With thirst and sleeplessness.
Case XVII —Nat rum mur cm (F)
H. D., 30 years, thin; dark. Attack began with continued fever
and diarrhoea developing into true Intermit¬
tent; tertian, anticipating type.
Prodrome Coldness.
Chill With shaking for an hour; slight nausea; with¬
out coldness; covered.
Heat With thirst; great aching as though torn apart
in abdomen and back; sensation of restless¬
ness without moving; headache.
Sweat Absent.
Concomitants Impatience; wants to be let alone; craves
bitter food and drink; tongue red, sides, tip
and center coated.
The craving for bitter things finally decided the selection of
the curative remedy in this case. Not that this was the only
Natrum symptom, but the common symptoms were not charac¬
teristic of that remedy, and the case as a whole was, seemingly,
unlike Natrum cases in general, lacking in distinctive features.
Case XVIII —Natrum mur CTn (F)
Mrs. J. K., 50 years; dark complexion. Tertian; anticipating
two hours.
Chill With shuddering in body. Thirst for cold
drinks.
Heat With headache, pains in legs, back and abdo¬
men. Thirst. Vomiting; which eases her
bad feelings.
Sweat Profuse, all over. Thirst.
Concomitants Headache all night following attack.
Wakes with sensation of a crash. Tongue
white. Smarting at meatus urinarius.
Case XIX— Hyos™ (F)
Capt. M. Retired seafaring man, 70 years, phlegmatic dispo¬
sition. Tertian, changing to quotidian, anticipating.
Chill Short and preceeded by fever for two or three
hours, no thirst.
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Heat Long and distressing, restlessness; thirst; in¬
voluntary urination; flushed face; nausea; pro¬
fuse slimy saliva; delirium; cold extremities;
wants to get out of bed.
Sweat Absent.
Concomitants Mild delirium, has no remembrance of
the attack after it is over.
After Merc . sofc m (F) the fever changed to tertian again, but
there was no further improvement. Hyos* m (F) completed the
cure. This was the first Hyosyamus case seen and it was some
time before its peculiar symptoms were recognized. It seemed
at first, after the Merc . was given, that recovery must follow al¬
though it is now evident that except for the salivation there was
no proper indication for its use. Afterwards it was easy to see
that the prescription was a mistake and that the salivation pould
as well be found under Hyos ., which also had the peculiar mental
conditions.
Case XX— Belladonna™ (F)
H. F.
Prodrome Thirst.
Chill Beginning in back and spreading all over the
body.
Thirst for cold drinks; quiet; vomiting of
bile during or at close of chill.
Heat With thirst; quiet; eyes and nape ache; head¬
ache; burning heat of skin; great heat of
palms and soles; occasional sleep; throbbing
in head much annoyed by noises outside of
house.
Sweat Without thirst; all over; pains relieved.
Concomitants Tongue white with raised papillae; mouth
tastes dirty; wants to be let alone; poor sleep
before midnight.
It has been said that Belladonna will not cure true Intermit¬
tent fever, that its provings do not show such a type; that it can
and will cure such a condition seems perfectly evident from the
above case and also No. XXIV of this list; certainly it would
seem difficult to find more typical cases. It’s well known symp¬
toms of throbbing headache, aggravation from noise, light, etc.,
proved guiding here as elsewhere.
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Case XXI —Nat rum mur* m (F)
Mrs. D. G.
Chill Beginning in back; two hours. Thirst for ice
water; nausea from sight of food; restless;
sensation of pounding and hammering in head.
Heat With thirst; restlessness; headache.
Sweat Relieves all symptoms. Tongue white and
dry.
Case XXII —Antimonium tarP m (F)
R. C. B., large, stout, phlegmatic man of 60; dark complexion;
quotidian type. Has taken quinine and proprietary medicines.
Prodrome Restlessness and flushed face.
Chill With faintness, all gone sensation; begins in
in hands, arms and back; dyspnoea, gasping
for breath; mouth sweet, sticky; backache; no
thirst; bitter vomiting at close of chill.
Heat With faintness, dyspnoea worse, slight deliri¬
um. Thirst; restlessness; passes downward;
uncovered; ringing in left ear; cold feet.
Sweat Light, general on upper parts.
Concomitants All goneness in stomach; urticaria; slip¬
ping down in bed; continued lethargy.
This was one of the most difficult cases ever seen. Day after
day with tedious regularity except for a slight anticipation the
paroxysm went on for more than six weeks. It was only the
strongest faith in the power of the correct homoeopathic remedy
that gave me courage to continue; what gave the family courage
enough to cling to me it would be hard to tell for they had never
employed Homoeopathy before, but cling they did, and nobly.
Picture after picture of the case was taken and study after study
made without avail until the characteristics of Antimonium tart.
began to show themselves more strongly as the patient became
weaker. The lethargy, the phlegmatic quiet of the man lived
through it all; the gasping struggle for breath during the severity
of the attack. This was all, no rattling of mucous or other pecu¬
liar element. The remedy was chosen in despair, but did splen¬
did work and brought about a perfect recovery which has already
stood the test of nearly a year without further medicine. There
is no credit in such a case, however, when one has the conscious¬
ness that the remedy ought to have been recognized much earlier
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and that no case of Intermittent under a master could possibly
drag out such an interminable length.
Case XXIII —Croton t/g cm (F)
C. W. Quotidian.
Chill Lasting an hour with thirst; shaking, followed
by sleep; worse from motion.
Heat With great thirst; delirium; involuntary stool.
Concomitants Stools short but with much gas. Tongue
white.
Case XXIV —Bella don na cm (F)
G. N., large, boistrous, full blooded, dark complexioned man.
Chill
With great pain all over.
Heat
With cold extremities; but little thirst; tight¬
ness in head; pain; blurred vision; eyes con¬
gested; noise irritates him.
Sweat
Without pain.
Concomitants Restless all night following attack; dreams
of work.
Case XXV —Nux i>orn cm (F)
C. T. Stout, phlegmatic boy of 10.
Chill
In afternoon with sleep; thirst.
Heat
With aching in bones; restlessness; thirst.
Sweat
In the night.
Tongue white and dry.
Case XXVI-
-Arstnirum cm (F)
Mrs. G. W.
Fifty-five years, stout, florid.
Chill
Creeping and indistinct mingled with flashes
of heat, worse in extremities and across chest;
no distinct, shaking; coughing and gasping;
occasional chattering of teeth; chilliness up
and down back; very slight thirst; chill long,
tedious; worse from draft or motion.
Heat
With vomiting of bile; sense of suffocation;
restless; headache; coldness of legs below
knees; burning and soreness of chest; cov¬
ered; tongue very dry; pain in right eye and
ears; aching pain in left lower chest; <from
jar of bed; headache; delirium; feels that
she is not at home.
Sweat
Light; general; covered; headache improved.
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Concomitants Tongue red, dry streak down the center,
white sides; bitter taste, <from milk.
The character of the chill, the restlessness, the condition of
the tongue and the thirst all pointed t) Arsenicum here. Cases
calling for this remedy seldom present a distinct shaking chill
and they are more apt to be found in debilitated or aged sub¬
jects. (See No. XII).
Case XXVII —Natrum mur* m (F)
E. W. Thin, tall girl; medium complexion, 15 years. Type,
tertian.
Prodrome Nausea.
Chill With shaking; thirst for cold drinks; quiet.
Heat With sleep; less thirst; quiet; headache.
Sweat When sleeping.
Case XXVIII— Hyoscyamus cm (F)
C. S. Swede; light; thin; nervous temperament. Tertian
type.
Chill With thirst; headache; vomiting at close of
drinking causes vomiting; short.
Heat Covered; headache from nape up over vertex,
worse night before chill; thirst; delirium.
Sweat Profuse; general.
Another Hyoscyamus case, in which the type of patient, the in¬
tensity of the heat with the delirium led to the selection of the
curative remedy.
Case XXIX— Gelsemium cm (F)
F. G, Boy of 8 years; light complexion; tertian type.
Chill With thirst; restless; pain in legs; headache.
Heat With vomiting; thirst.
Sweat Profuse, thirst.
Case XXX— Ipecacuanha (F)
H. W. G. Dark complexion; muscular young man.
Prodrome Headache; drawing, stretching pains; pain in
splenic region; profuse flow of saliva im¬
mediately preceding chill.
Chill Beginning in feet and ascending; restless;
drinking <pain in side; headache; aching of
neck and back; deep, sighing respiration;
dry mouth without thirst; eyes feel as though
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J>eing pushed out from behind; desire to keep
£yes closed; violent shaking; noise aggra¬
vates and irritates; toes feel as though frozen;
dozes into heat; head hot; nails blue; blow¬
ing respiration.
Heat Light sleep, wakened by noise; stupid, tired
and weak; bed and pillow feel hard and un¬
comfortable as though wooden; worse from
noise; thirst; throbbing headache in parietes,
<raotion, ^pressure of hand.
Sweat Absent.
This was another difficult and tedious case which was expected
to yield at once to Rhus or Arnica but which was only slightly
modified by either of these remedies and proved at last to re¬
spond to Ipecacuanha , although there was hardly a suspicion of
nausea or vomiting in any part of the attack. It was this fact
which proved so deceptive in the study of the case and which
was only remedied when the persistent salivation before the chill
made itself sufficiently prominent to gain proper recognition.
Case XXXI —Conium mac° m (F)
H. S., medium complexioned; quiet; sullen disposition.
Type Quotidian, chill every afternoon between one
and three o’clock.
Prodrome Dry cough.
Chill Beginning suddenly; shaking worse in shoul¬
ders and arms; one hour; thirst; hacking, con¬
tinual cough; bitter vomiting at close of chill;
nausea.
Heat With thirst; noise in right ear.
Sweat Profuse, all over; thirst; sweats most when
asleep.
Concomitants Dizzy on rising in a. m. Restless, sleeps
first half of night; bitter taste.
The indications in this case were particularly meagre and
turned mostly on the symptom “cough during and preceeding
chill.” The only place found where Conium was mentioned un¬
der “cough during chill” was as a minor remedy in Boenning-
hausen’s Repertory. Bryonia , Rhus , Sabadilla and the few
other remedies having this symptom were contra indicated in
other ways. “Sweat during sleep” also occurs under Conium ,
but is not characteristic.
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Now may we ask again what is the lesson of these cases? That
our art is sufficient to cope with all forms of disease is so well
understood by members of this society that its further statement
might seem superfluous. For the sake of others, however, we
would still insist on its claims.
The fact that nineteen different medicines were used in this list
of thirty-one cases speaks volumes for the truly individual method
of the Homoeopathic system. It also emphasizes the fact that
no endemic remedy has yet been found for our locality. Nor is
such to be expected. The disease has been present many years
and has become so mingled with the individual life of the people,
with psora and drtigs etc., that no one remedy could possibly
reach its many sided manifestations.
There is nothing new to say of the general treatment of Inter¬
mittent fever. Nothing but what has already been spoken by
Hahnemann in no uncertain tones. With each year’s experi¬
ence it becomes more and more plain that his instructions were
all sufficient. Strong emphasis must be placed on the necessity
of observing particularly the individual and uncommon symptoms
and using the common symptoms simply as filling for the picture.
The necessity for antipsoric treatment in connection with a great
majority of cases also becomes patent.
In reporting old cases, chronic cases and the like, it is never
safe to consider a patient cured unless there has been a return of
chills which had previously been suppressed by crude medicine.
This return will not usually be brought about by a high potency
of any proprietary mixture, nor by a potency of quinine itself,
which, of course, form the basis of most of the so called “cures.”
These medicines will often cause a temporary improvement in
the condition of the patient, but this is delusive and in no way
resembles a true cure. Perfect health can only be restored by
the use of some deep acting antipsoric remedy which seems to
stir the very center of the organism and bring out the original
condition of the attack. When this is secured the vital force
alone may carry on the case to the end, symptoms disappearing
in inverse order, or a new, non-antipsoric medicine may be
needed to complete the cure.
DISCUSSION.
Dr. Pease—I believe that Dr. Patch gave us a very valuable
paper on Intermittent fever last year, to which this is a very
worthy supplement. The closing remarks I certainly endorse
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with all my heart. I do not see any chance for argument on the
cases. I notice from a description of the cases that there seems
to be a close relationship to those we have in Chicago. The
southern part of the city is being built on the low bed of what in
the past, the geologists call the Chicago lake which was a very
large body of water existing there in pre historic times, and prob¬
ably the changes which have come since that lake was in exist¬
ence, there are countless layers or strata of fresh deposits and
settlings there, and in the memory of the last two or three gener¬
ations that whole country was a morass, and today in the progress
of the development of the city there is digging of sewers, streets,
etc, and also filling in with dredgings from the river and lake. As
a consequence there is a centre of malaria out there for many
square miles. I have noticed that the cases coming from that re¬
gion of the city have all the characteristics of the intermittent
type in the different diseases we have to treat. It makes no dif¬
ference whether intermittent fever or children’s diseases, we have
the same miasm which seems to be related to that malarial country.
I speak of it because Dr. Patch’s cases remind me of it.
Dr. Sawyer—We often hear it stated that you may cure your
ague and other malarial diseases in the North and East with your
potencies, but that you cannot do it in the South. I lived for
seven years in Memphis, Tenn. Across the river when it was
high, sometimes it would spread out there fifty miles, when it sub¬
sided, leaving a deposit of everything that is foul, consequently,,
it produced the worst kind of chills and other malarial diseases,
and to my certain knowledge Homoeopaths in Memphis did cure
these malarial diseases with the potentized remedies. I had over
20 years experience in the Wabash Valley, where malaria was as
bad as it ever was in the world, in that swampy section, recently
opened up by ditching, leaving those morasses there to dry out in
the sun and giving off their accumulations of filth. The entire
country suffered from malarial troubles. I want to say that when
the test was made and the remedy administered in extremely high
potencies, if the remedy had even four hours start of the chill, in
the immense majority of cases the chill failed to materialize after
exhibition of the correct remedy. I think Dr. Morgan will bear
me out in the correctness of that.
Dr. Morgan—We would have rainy seasons, would ride on
horseback six or ten miles with water knee deep. In the fall the
mud would dry up until you could put your hand down in the
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seam. There was a great deal of malaria came out of those cracks.
I soon found that quinine did not cure, simply suppressed. I
commenced the Homoeopathic treatment, and 1 soon found that
it would cure, and the higher potencies I used the quicker the
cure would come, and not only that but when the cure was made
it nearly always was permanent. It did not appear that season
or the next, and very often the single dose made the perfect cure.
While then I did not get higher than the 1000th, and the worst
cases of suppressed ague had re-appeared in the form of indiges¬
tion, pulmonary and kidney troubles, the indicated remedies
would redevelop the ague generally in just the form it had been
before it had been suppressed, and generally cured the case with¬
out further prescribing. I find that in Maryland down the west¬
ern shore of the bay there is a great deal of ague, mostly of the
suppressed character, not well defined as it was in the West, much
more difficult to get the symptoms, and cure the case, but they
cure just the same when we get the symptoms, and a single remedy
or a single dose will generally make a complete cure, and most
always a 1000 potency works better than a 30. These are gen¬
eral observations, but it is more difficult in Baltimore to treat a
case properly from the fact that the people are so thoroughly
skeptical that ague can be cured without quinine. The idea of
curing the ague without quinine was as mysterious and wonder¬
ful, even to the doctors, as the idea of curing the polypus or cat¬
aract without the knife, and if the case did not yield to my first
or second prescription the howl for quinine would come.
Dr. Sawyer—When I first went to Kokomo, I belonged to the
progressive class of Homoeopaths. The first case of ague I had
called for quinine. I had no potency of quinine so I made the
first decimal trituration and gave a few powders of it. It cured
or suppressed the case promptly. I think cured for this reason.
While those cases had been suppressed by immense doses of qui¬
nine, my case did not require such, and my patient remained in
good health otherwise, which makes me think that while these
very low potencies are not desirable for the reason that they do
leave a drug disease, yet, they frequently cure. One of the things
I prize most dearly is the fact that when Homoeopathy cures the
patient it does not leave another disease in the place of the one
removed. People often ask me about that when extolling the ad¬
vantages of Homoeopathy, and object to crude medicines on ac¬
count of their leaving drug miasms. They ask me, “Do not
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your Homoeopathy medicines leave diseases after them as well
as old school remedies?” I assure them that they do not, and
that is one of the reasons why I prefer Homoeopathy, and that
if it did not have one single advantage in the cure, that it did
have that immense advantage of not replacing one disease with
another.
Dr. Kennedy—I am glad Dr. Sawyer has emphasized this point.
I think as Homoeopathicians we do well always and everywhere to
emphasize the cleanness and thoroughness of the cures wrought
by Homoeopathy. With regard to Dr, Patch’s cases, I am glad
he has sent them. Personally 1 feel indebted to Dr. Patch for
giving us these cases so carefully given in detail, because, as I
think I said last year, they serve to demonstrate to us the fact
that intermittent fever can be cured. You mention that to an
old school physician and he shrugs his shoulders and says, “Yes,
in a way.” You and I know that these cases are cured now. It
is a significant fact that Dr. Patch, for example, located in a ma¬
larial section, has treated and cured beyond a probability, not to
say possibility of return, thirty or more cases of intermittent
fever with nineteen remedies. Imagine what could be done by
the physicians who are located in that section, provided they
would each do as good work as Dr. Patch. Think of the number
of individuals who today could be attending to their business
without the fear almost daily of an attack of malaria; and what
can be done there can be done anywhere by like workmen.
Dr. Adams—In this connection, and in reply to Dr. Dicker-
man’s question as to low potencies of the indicated remedy prov¬
ing curative, I remember a case, I think my first while I was a
progressive Homoeopathist, in which I knew I had made a cure
and a clean or Homoeopathic cure. A child of about 6 years of
age had suffered with ague over a year of its little life. It had
been treated by many physicians, and undoubtedly had had all
the anti malarials in the dispensatory. Natrum mur. in the 6th
potency cured her. I had the pleasure of knowing the child as
she grew into a woman, and in all these years since she has never
had the slightest return or indication of ague.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
Dr. Sawyer was elected a member of the Executive Committee
for five years. Dr. Kimball was elected Secretary. Dr. Davis,
Treasurer.
Adjourned sine die .
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Clinical Verifications.
GONORRHCEAL CONJUNCTIVITIS.
J. P. JONES, M. D., CHICAGO, ILL.
Prof, of Anatomy, Dunham Medical College.
Case I—Mrs. L. P., married, mother of five children, Swedish
born. Could not get much family history, except she said her folks
were all healthy. The patient came to me July 10, 1896, com¬
plaining of a severe conjunctivitis of right eye and headache
when lying down. She had not been able to sleep lying down for
eight years with any comfort. An early history showed an in¬
flammation of genito urinary system which I suspected to be of
Gonorrheal origin. This inflammatory difficulty had been cured
(?) she said, by a wash given to her by a friend . This was pre¬
vious to her having any children, in the first weeks of her mar¬
ried life.
About eight years ago, the patient was clipping her finger nails
when she felt something fly into the right eye. In the course of a
few days she went to a doctor and he removed some foreign body,
so he said, charged her the regular fee and sne went home. But
the inflammation did not subside, but instead continued to get
worse, finally going to the other eye, leaving the first somewhat
better. In course of time the inflammation went back to the
right eye and there continued until the day I saw her.
The eye that had been affected, first showed marked atrophy of
eyeball and sight much affected. I prescribed a Placebo the first
two weeks; while I was looking up the case, I found in the Reper¬
tory to the Guiding Symptoms, where an inflammation of one
eye changing to the other eye and then back to the first eye affected
was medorrhinum , so from the history I decided to give Med .,
I gave one dose on the tongue the 24th of July.
Aug. 1, the patient complained of a burning sensation all over^
gave Placebo.
Aug. 8, the burning had centered mostly in the hypogastric
region, frequent urination with same burning. Placebo.
Aug. 22. No complaint of eye could sleep perfectly natural.
No irritation of the urethra, same burning in region of ovaries.
Placebo.
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Sept. 6. Feels well, can do all her own work, some burning
across the hypogastric. Placebo .
Sept. 20. Eyeball almost its natural size. Feels well. Placebo .
Oct. 4. Complained of much burning in hypogastric region and
along the back. Gave Lach tc in six doses, one three times a day.
Nov. 1. Complaining of much burning, same as I prescribed
for Oct. 4. This time I gave Lach rm one dose.
Nov. 15. Burning nearly gone. Placebo . I had the patient
visit my office every two weeks, so to keep watch of the progress
of her case for three months and to get my share of the proceeds
as the patient said she had paid out over a thousand dollars to
various doctors for treatment, and had received not a penny’s
worth of benefit. This patient is well at present writing and as
she is nearing the climatric period of her life, I verily believe she
will pass over it with the utmost impunity.
This case not only shows the ease with which most chronic
diseases can be cured, but also the necessity of not repeating a
prescription that is doing good work. In this case I have no
doubt had I interfered with some other remedy would have
mixed the case all up so that no one could have unraveled it*
As it was I gave plenty of Placebo and let the medicine work to a
finish unmolested, which it did.
This case which appeared at first to be a very stubborn one,
only took two remedies to clear up. Some of her occulists
wanted her to bring them some of the medicine I used. She told
them she had no time as she was all right now.
CLINICAL CASES.
JOHN STORER, M. D., JAMAICA PLAIN, MASS.
Case I—Mrs. B. S. Chronic constipation ever since a western
physician gave her large doses of an Emmenagogue to produce
an abortion, which result was attained. My remedies failed to
relieve the constipation, she did not know the drugs in Emmena¬
gogue and so I had her mail me a couple of the pills which I
potentized and returned her a few of the powders to take. A few
weeks later she wrote that the constipation was wholly relieved
and there has been no return.
Case II—Wm. L. Chorea affecting all the muscles, been get¬
ting worse for nearly two years. Legs stiff after sitting. Con¬
stipation. Tickle in throat >■ a. m. Urine often, < cold rainy
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weather. Stiff sensation brain. Stiff sensation chest. Nervous,
restless, tired mentally and physically. Does everything in a
hurry. Chorea<afternoons,>eating. Is a letter carrier. Had
gonorrhcea and syphilis. Caustic Im (F) three doses dry, and
Sac. lac ., improvement began at once and in three months, with¬
out any more medicine, he called himself a well man and was
happy enough.
Case III—S. J. Diarrhoea and vomiting at same time.
Cramps arms and legs. Skin cold. Abdomen cramps. Thirst
for large quantities cold drinks and would immediately cause
diarrhoea and < pain in abdomen. Stool fetid, with flatus, tenes¬
mus. Stool involuntary and in sleep. Restless, fever, very weak*
< after stool and then almost collapse. Verat alb cm (F) Sol.
dose every ten minutes. All symptoms were at once relieved,
three doses only of medicine were given. The patient was up
and about in a few days.
CASES FROM PRACTICE.
W. W. GLEASON, M. D., ATTLEBORO, MASS.
Mrs. S-. Eczema. This case came to me May 1, 1897.
There was eczema in axillae, on the arms, under the knees, on eye¬
lids, neck, and on chin. The eruption was flat, red, dry and scaly,
itching intensely. It would sometimes itch and burn in warmth
of bed, and sometimes was better in warmth of bed and itched
and burned when coming in cold air. Sometimes the feet of this
patient were cold as ice, and sometimes she would put them out
of bed into the cold air to get them cool. There was a record of
allopathic dosing of the extreme kind for three years previously
to my receiving the case. There was also the fact to be consid¬
ered, that the eczema was of four years duration, having appeared
directly after vaccination. The father of the patient had been
troubled all his life with eczema. Menstruation of patient was
very dark in color, regular, but accompanied by griping pains in
groins, abdomen and lumbar region. May 1, 1897, Vaccitf m was
given and allowed to work two weeks, when Sul au was admin¬
istered and allowed to work four weeks. Improvement com¬
menced and continued until June 8, when it was necessary to
give another dose of Sul. Improvement went on until July 9,
when the case seemed at a stand still and itching had become al¬
most unbearable and was worse in warmth of bed. Psot iXm was
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given and again improvement set in and went gradually on until
Sept. 20, when the itching yet remaining severe in the warmth of
bed Su/ mm was administered. It was not necessary to give any¬
thing more until Nov. 23, when some copper colored pustules
appeared and Psor* m was repeated. This cleared the case en¬
tirely up so that every symptom of skin trouble disappeared and
menstruation became normal. An interesting fact in this: The
eruption appeared first in axillae, then on neck, then on chin,
arms, and eyelids. Menstruation was disordered after appear¬
ance of eruption. The eruption first disappeared from eyelids,
then from arms; menstruation then had become normal. Erup¬
tion afterwards disappeared from chin and last from neck.
Case II—Mrs. T. Asthma Nineteen years duration. She
has for many years smoked and inhaled every quack nostrum to
be obtained. Asthma is brought on by raising arms above head,
or by physical exertion. Has not missed having asthma a single
night for years. Sour taste in mouth. Lips blue, dry. Mouth
dry. Severe cough, expectoration being white, frothy. Wakes
after an hour’s sleep at night with asthma. Constipation so
severe has not had operation of bowels for ten years without
physic. Faeces in small jagged lumps. Urging constantly day
and night to urinate, must strain to pass urine. After voiding
urine sensation as if some remained in passage, which causes
tenesmus. Circumscribed redness of cheeks. Aching in fore¬
head in afternoon and night. Darting pains as if needles in eye¬
balls. Darting pains through right chest on drawing a deep
breath. Tired, weary all time. Nov. 12, ’97, she received two
powders of Arstn cm and improvement commenced, no more
medicine being needed. She has had no more asthma. She has
had spells of severe aching of limbs both upper and lower, with
pains under shoulder blades, and numbness of third and fourth
fingers of right hand. She has passed lumbricoides. She has
tabs and pendulous lumps of flesh looking like condylomata come
on inside of cheeks and in throat. But I have not given any
more medicine; am waiting developments.
Case III—Unmarried woman 25 years of age. Irritable, quar¬
relsome if crossed, quite malicious in disposition, very excitable.
Yet over-sensitive and easily offended, easily frightened, noises
and odors illy borne. Bloodless. Complexion ashy. Tired
and weak all time. Vomiting of food immediately after eating
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in condition as eaten, has not kept any food down for six weeks.
Severe pain in stomach and about navel after taking food into
stomach until it is rejected. Everything sours as sour swill, (her
expression) even water, as soon as taken into stomach. Cada¬
verous odor from mouth scenting whole room. Nov. 15, ’97, she
was given Nux voni in water every two hours, and this was con¬
tinued for four days when the vomiting had stopped and she was
keeping liquid food down. She has not vomited since After
the vomiting stopped she was given one dose of Nux vom cm
which cleared up the case.
Case IV—Woman 50 years of age. Rheumatism of left arm,
Dull aching when still, but when moved the arm springs into sud¬
den severe pain. Has taken quack stuff by the pint without
benefit and quantities of quinine. Wrenched pain in wrist. Sharp
pains in fingers. All worse on first moving them. Bry* m cured
in a week.
Case V— Amalgam Poisoning. Woman 50 years of age.
While on ocean voyage three years ago, caught a severe cold and
had sore throat. The throat remained weak for many months and
domestic troubles arose that caused her severe nervous strain.
She became debilitated, the tongue became inflamed, causing
constant desire to swallow and the throat felt as if there was a hair
in it. Sciatic rheumatism set in with severe neuralgia of feet.
After a while the sciatica and neuralgia gave way and there en¬
sued distressing spasms of burning nervousness in throat with
clutching sensation at the thorax. Then came loss of strength in
arms and legs as if paralysis would ensue. The burning pain in
tongue was constant. She preferred to do the cooking for the
family (although in affluent circumstances) but had to desist from
so doing, because the steam or smell of cooking food especially
fresh fish, caused great pain in the throat. The submaxillary
glands were swollen and painful. The throat dusky purple in
color. She had a chill every morning as soon as she arose and
moved about. Throat was dry and swallowing painful. I no¬
ticed also that she was wearing a red vulcanite plate which she
informed me she had worn for ten years.
heb. 1, 1897, she received one powder of Red Vulcanite cm ,
Feb. 6, another of same. This was allowed to work until Mar. 3,
when she received Arsen. alb cm one powder. Improvement was
rapid and she received Sac. lac. until June 7, when improvement
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seeming on the wane she received Arsen. a/b dm one dose. Im¬
provement was again rapid until Sept. 6, when she had regained
comparative health and strength, but there remained the follow¬
ing symptoms: Burnt feeling on back of tongue. Dryness of
mouth. Thick yellow coat on tongue. Right side of throat
sore and dark bluish red. Metallic taste in mouth. She re¬
ceiving Phy/o cm which was the last medicine she obtained, ex¬
cept prescriptions of Sac. lac. for two months after. She was
then cured. The vulcanite plate I induced her to discard in the
first month of treatment. I do not think that as long as that re¬
mained in her mouth any doctor could have cured her. Nor do
I think she could have been cured without antidoting the red
vulcanite with which her system was saturated. She had been
under treatment by allopathic specialists for two years constant¬
ly without benefit.
Case VI—A Surgical Case. (Given because of its novel treat¬
ment.) Young man employed in a machine shop. Was thrown
against an emery wheel and his leg just above the knee gashed
to the bone by a cut four inches long inflicted by the rapidly re¬
volving wheel, the flesh for a half inch all around the cut being
severely burned, (literally cooked) and filled with emery parti¬
cles. As much as possible of the burned flesh was cut away, and
the gash dressed with beef blood, and kept saturated with it. It
healed in a surprisingly short time, the young man keeping at
his work.
HOMOEOPATHY SCIENTIFIC.
L. D. ROGERS, A. M., M. D., CHICAGO.
A remarkable confirmation of the homoeopathic principle of
treatment has just been reported from Berlin. It was discovered
several years ago by Binz that the number of white blood cor¬
puscles could be increased four times by giving the individual,
tincture of myrrh. The normal number of white corpuscles in a
healthy person is 7,500 to the cubic millimetre. When the num¬
ber is temporarialy above 9,000 the condition is abnormal, and
the term leucocytosis is used to designate it. Now, surgical
pathology teaches us that leucocytosis is confirmatory of the sus¬
picion of pus in the system. For instance, if a deep abscess were
conjectured in some part of the body, as in the appendix, the
lung, the liver or brain, the condition of leucocytosis is positive
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proof that there is no suppurative process in any part of the
body, whatever the other symptoms may be.
The Berlin correspondent of the Therapeutic Gazette for Jan¬
uary, 1898, says that the most remarkable fact in therapeutics in
that city at the time of his writing was the treatment of the mixed
infection of diphtheria with tincture of myrrh. Out of eighty
cases treated only one died. Reports from three hundred cases
showed remarkable results. The cases of mixed or secondary
infection are those complicated with pus germs. In all pus cases
we find leucocytosis. In these the remedy that has been so success-
julproduces leucocytosis when given to a well person . The tinct¬
ure of myrrh is given also in small doses; four drops are mixed
with eight drops of glycerine and two hundred drops of water.
To infants a coffee spoonful is given every half hour, to children
under fifteen one to two teaspoonsful and to adults proportion¬
ately larger doses.
It is evident that the principle is homoeopathic, namely, to give
to the sick that drug which , given to the well , produces symptoms
similar to those possessed by the sick t the size of dose or strength is
homoeopathic, about 2x,and the frequency of repetition is homoe¬
opathic. We predict that within another decade the homoeo¬
pathic law will be fully demonstrated by means so scientific as to
place its validity beyond dispute by any physician proficient in
the science of medicine.
Dyspepsia Proof. —Much is said about American dyspepsia, but there
is one native race of America that is certainly not greatly tronbled by the mod¬
em curse, says Popular Science Nexus. The sturdy little Esquimaux defy all
the laws of hygiene and thrive. The Esquimau, like the ordinary dweller in
America, eats until he is satisfied, but there is this difference, that he is never
satisfied while a shred of the feast remain unconsumed. His capacity is limited
by the supply, and by that only.
He cannot make a mistake about the manner of cooking his food for, as a rule,
he does not cook it, nor so far as the blubber or fat of the Arctic animal is con¬
cerned, about his method of eating, for he simply does not eat it; he cuts it into
long strips an inch wide and an inch thick, and then lowers the strips down his
throat as one might lower a rope into a well.
After all that he does not suffer from indigestion. He can make a good meal
off the flesh and skin of the walrus, provision so hard and gritty that in cutting
up the animal the knife must be continually sharpened.
The teeth of a little Esquimau child will meet in a bit of walrus skin as the
teeth of an American child would meet in the flesh of an apple. And when the
hide of the walrus is from one half to one and a half inches in thickness, and
bears considerable resemblance to the skin of the elephant, the Esquimau child
will bite it and digest it, too, and never know what dyspepsia means.
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Editorial — Reorganization.
Editorial.
REORGANIZATION.
For several years the entire management of the Medical Ad¬
vance and its successor the Hahnemannian Advocate has rested
upon the shoulders of one man. It has become so great a burden
that in the future the work will be so shifted that while the respon¬
sibility may still rest upon one, willing hands and earnest minds
will share in the labor of preparing the cream of medical litera¬
ture for the easily assimilation of the busy practitioner. Instead
of long, prosy articles upon topics interesting to but a limited
number of our readers and passed over with but a glance by the
great majority, the future numbers will be filled with short pithy
articles containing the meat, the substance of both theory and
practice of medical science. The superiority ot the law of Simi-
lia Similibus Curatur will enliven every page as in the past, but
a more comprehensive view of the subject will be given in the
future than possibly could be thought of in the past.
Gleaning from nearly two hundred different medical journals,
will give such a rich supply of material that when combined with
the exceedingly valuable character of the original articles con¬
tributed to the columns of this journal, no one can lay aside the
magazine with other feelings than those of deep satisfaction.
The faculty of Dunham Medical College have practically
united in this great work; and each one will reach out for those
“choice bits” coming within the scope of his professional ac¬
tivities. These will be enriched by comments made practical
through personal experience.
Materia Medica and Homceopathics will be edited by F. O.
Pease, assisted by Eugene W. Sawyer, A. W. Holcombe and
B. L. Hotchkin; Surgery by Howard Crutcher, assisted by
C. S. Fahnestock, and C. W. Eaton; Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
by John F. Beaumont, assisted by Milton S. Smith and Helen
M. Parker; Obstetrics and Gynecology by Hubert Straten,
assisted by O. I. M. Grover and Stella E. Jacobi. Medicine
by H. W. Pierson, assisted by Temple S. Hoyne, J. B. S. King,
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R. M. Barrows, Frank R. Waters, F. H. Lockwood, B. A.
Cottlow, Grant J. Gray, J. P. Jones, G. P. Waring, C. B.
Stayt, etc.
The work of this editorial staff will be facilitated by regular
monthly meetings, in which the general scope of the work will be
carefully considered, in order that this magazine may advocate the
cause of Homoeopathy in such a way as to bring many recruits to
her banner.
The fruits of this new work will be shown in the issue of April
fifteenth to which your attention is hereby directed.
ALLOPATHIC TEACHING—ITS DEFECTS.
The Bulletin of the American Academy of Medicine is the jour¬
nal of the new Association of regular physicians. The elect
Association is smaller in numbers than the American Medical
Association, but the membership is presumably greater in cul¬
ture.
The October issue of the Bulletin devoted sixteen pages to the
discussion of “the relation of the literary college to the medical
school,” by such eminent men of their ranks as Dr. Bayard
Holmes, Prof. Warfield, President of Lafayette College, Drs.
Pepper, Wilson, Gaston, Talley, Hurd, DeLency, Marcy, Connor
and Elmer Lee. The last named gentleman <r let the cat out of
the bag” in the following language:
“The remarks of Dr. Pepper have made a deep impression in
my mind; the conclusion is that as he had A. B.’s for his students,
it does not follow that failure to pass the examinations is the
fault of the University of Pennsylvania, than which there is no
better equipped institution for the teaching of medicine, nor is
it the fault of the teacher or students. Then, gentlemen, where
is the fault } and what is the cause; of these low examination per¬
centages and sad disappointments of which Dr. Pepper speaks?
Is it not possible the oft-repeated statement which medical men
make, and made by one no less distinguished than Dr. N. S.
Davis, that it takes every student ten years to revise that which
was learned in the medical college , indicates the weak point in the
medical educational system? Is it not probable that that which is
taught, not the one who teaches, nor the method by which teach¬
ing is performed, but the thing itself may be the cause of con¬
fusion and disappointment in examination papers? Do you not
know that the practice of medicine is a system of empiric contra -
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114 Editorial—Allopathic Teaching—Its Defects.
diction , as popularly taught at the present time? My opinion is,
not wishing to disagree with anybody, that the trouble in medi¬
cal education is largely with that which is taught, not with the
teacher. * * * It would appear, then, that the systematic
college training was not an aid to a comprehension of medical
theory and practice. In my recollection as a student of medi¬
cine, the discouraging effect owing to the inconsistencies and con¬
fusion of materia medica 7vas so great that it almost determined
me to change my plans and enter some other profession, for it
seemed to me well nigh impossible to master the subject as ap¬
plied to the treatment of disease. I assert after fifteen years of
active experience that it is impossible to harmonize the materia
medica , and that it is impossible to understand and practice
surgery, or any single one of the branches of medicine, under the
present system of accepted beliefs, the basis upon which these
empiricisms are founded. Empiricism is at the root of the prac¬
tice of medicine; physicians* opinions differ according to the
length of time since they left the medical school, according to
experience and incidents of life. These formulated differences
of belief called papers, when read before our scientific bodies
and printed in books, constitute the material which is placed
before students and studied as the science of medicine. Is that
right?”
We have italicized the important points. These glaring de¬
fects are openly acknowledged by the leading teachers in the
regular colleges; they are defects in teaching the regular system
of medicine. Of what value is it to graduate men well versed in
the pathology, etiology and diagnosis of disease, when there is
such a culpable lack of any knowledge of true drug action, and
the ability to successfully treat disease? What would be the ad¬
vantage of living in a house in a storm, even if it had a solid
foundation and good walls, if the roof was entirely lacking?
Where has the vaunted centuries of the so-called science of medi¬
cine (allopathic) landed the faithful? Of what use can four
years college study of the fundamental branches be, if it leads to
a “system of empiric contradiction,” to “inconsistencies and
confusion of materia medica”—if it takes “ten years to unlearn
what was learned in college?”
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But a truce to this facetious dissertation. The world is in¬
debted to our regular friends for many valuable remedies. Many
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brilliant men have contributed to the progress of medical educa¬
tion in the name of regular medication. Conspicuous scholars
have devoted their lives to Ihe cause of medicine under the name
Regular. Alas! the fault of our regular friends is, not that they
have done little, but that they do not give credit to others for
the work that others have done. Could they do this, and unite
their energies with other physicians, much suffering might be
saved humanity. Were they free to meet gentlemen who have
thought in other lines, and investigated in other fields, no harm
•could come to either party. But that execrable code of ethics
which says, you can not consult with a scholar of any other
school, but you must meet on a level the blackleg of your own,
stultifies him who claims to be regular, because of this stain on
his birthright.— (Editorial, Eclectic Medical Journal ).
HOMCEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS ORGANIZE A STATE
MEDICAL SOCIETY.
A very important meeting of the Homoeopathic physicians of
the State was held in Parkersburg, W. Va., February 1st, for the
purpose of organizing the West Virginia Homoeopathic State
Medical Society. The attendance was very large and a prelimi¬
nary organization was successfully effected.
Another meeting will be held at Wheeling, May 17, to com¬
plete the organization. The following officers were elected:
Dr. C. M. Boger, President.
Dr. C. L. Muhleman, Secretary.
Dr. E. H. Wilsey, Treasurer.
Committee on Constitution and By-laws—Dr. F. P. Ames, Dr.
J. M. Fawcett, of Wheeling; Dr. C. L. Muhleman.
Executive Committee—Dr. J. W. Morris, of Wheeling; Dr.
Geo. S. Wells, of Sistersville; Dr. M. L. Casselberry, of Morgan¬
town.
“FALLEN FROM GRACE.”
The following clipping is taken from a circular sent broadcast
throughout the country by the manufacturers of a proprietary
medicine. It reads as such circulars usually read and would not
cause a moment's thought were it not for the fact that the author
of the paper in question is a recent graduate of a college that
teaches nothing but the purest application of the law of similars,
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and still no one could depart farther from the inductive reason¬
ing of Hahnemann. A study of the cases so meagerly reported
reveals one fact that ought to condemn the treatment, namely,
that it required from seventeen days to four weeks to effect a
recovery.
A. W-, age 25, was brought to the infirmary suffering with peritonitis.
Her pulse was 140, her respiration 80, and with a fever amounting to 103 3 F.
She suffered a great deal of pain, so sensitive was she that she could not bear
the weight of the bedclothes upon her. She had been affected with peritonitis
as a result of an induced abortion. She was at once put upon Papine in doses
of a teaspoonful every hour until she got under the influence of it. She was
kept under close watch, and never allowed to get from under its influence. She
was confined to her bed for fourteen days, and made a complete recovery. She
left the infirmary about two weeks later fully restored to health.
Mr. J. P-, age 39, as a result of an injury had a violent attack of peri¬
tonitis, was seen, and he was given Papine in sufficient quantity to keep him
only partially conscious. His bladder was paralyzed during the time the opium
was given in this liberal manner, and the catheter had to be regularly employed.
This man made a recovery in about seventeen days from the date of the attack.
Mr. S. O-, age 29, was stabbed in the bowels, and he was operated
upon and the divided tissues sewed up, and while the operation was done under
the strictest antiseptic rules, he soon was attacked with a violent case of peri¬
tonitis. He was put upon Papine in the manner already described, and like¬
wise made a happy recovery.
These cases show the value of the opium treatment; and the practitioner who
fails to employ it in the management of peritonitis finds his success will be
wanting. There is, in fact, no other treatment worthy of the name that can be
brought to bear in this disease.
CROCUS SATIVUS.
Dr. Morey, in Medical Century for February, gives the follow¬
ing interesting verification of the action of the above remedy:
M iss M-, a domestic, in the month of July, 1895, sat down one day in a
grove on the banks of the beautiful Chemung to chat awhile with a companion,
unmindful of the fact that she was sitting in very close proximity to a vine of
poison ivy. A day or two later she was a pitiful looking object. Her face,
neck, chest, arms and hands were terribly inflamed, red as scarlet, badly swol¬
len and watery vesicles appeared here and there. The itching and burning
were almost unbearable. Under Belladonna and Rhus internally and the
application of oxide of zinc ointment externally, to relieve the itching and
burning, the case appeared to make a rapid recovery and the patient was able
to go to her home several miles away in about a week. The poisoning, as I
afterward learned, occurred during her menstrual period. About the first of
September, this year, and without, to her knowledge, having been near the ivy
again, she had another severe attack very similar in character, and this time
also it developed during the menstrual period. A short time ago she came to
me again, very much alarmed, as her old trouble was apparently developing
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rapidly and as bad as ever. Upon questioning her carefully I learned that
since she was so badly poisoned she has frequently had some recurrence of the
eruption and always at the menstrual period. She said her flow came on about
a week before she came to me the last time, that it was very scanty, dark and
clotted, as had been the case for some time; that she had only fairly begun to
flow when she ceased suddenly and then the eruption appeared.
The scanty, very dark and clotted flow led me at once to think of Crocus,
which I gave alone. A few days later she reported that the first dose re estab¬
lished the flow, which was normal both in quantity and color and the eruption
at once disappeared entirely.
MEDICINAL ACTION AND MEDICINAL ACTIVITY.
Dr. W. N. Fowler offers some valuable suggestion* in the
Medical Century for February upon the above subject.
“Are we as homoeopathic physicians having the success in the application of
our remedies to diseased conditions that Hull, Hemple, Hering, and others of
the pioneers of our system had? It not, why not? Is it not due to the differ¬
ent methods of teaching?”
The question will be undoubtedly answered in the affirmative.
A law is a law—a truth a truth. It can neither be added to or
taken from without marring its effect. The pioneers of homoeo¬
pathy were inspired, by the results following the strict applica¬
tion of the law of similia similibus curantur , to proclaim its truth
whenever oppor f unity presents itself, but at all times they in¬
sisted upon a thorough knowledge of the principles involved.
“When I commenced practice I prescribed Graphites , when indicated, in the
third potency or trituration, and I scored many failures where the drug was uir
doubtedly indicated. Later I went from the third to the sixth trituration, with
the results that I relieved my patients but failed to effect permanent cures.
Later, going from the sixth to the twelfth and thirtieth, I effected cures in
every case where the symptoms indicated the drug,—and I repeated the dose
only at long intervals or when the improvement had ceased. I have yet to re¬
cord a cure with the third, and only one with jthe sixth trituration.”
Hahnemann experienced similar results and in his investiga¬
tion for the causes of the frequent return of fancied cures, he
discovered that the employment of remedies capable of produc¬
ing similar symptoms was only one of the principles involved in
the treatment of complicated diseases. The plane of disease
actively is located in the sphere of vital energy , consequently the
indicated remedy must be brought up to the same degree of
activity. The doctor was led up to this line of thinking because
of the failures of the past, but had he stopped even here the re¬
sults would have been unsatisfactory. He had to learn the
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further lesson of duration of medicinal activity and the rules
governing the same.
My experience has been the same with other drugs in the treatment of chronic
diseases. And to me it is an indication for a more careful study of drug-
activity and such reconstruction of our materia medicn as will point out to the
students the importance of a careful study of the medicinal activity as well as
medicinal action, the whole to be crowned by a perfect knowledge of the symp¬
tomatology, that we may be prepared to differentiate between drugs exhibiting
power in the low potencies and drugs more active in the higher potencies.
It is extremely important that we have not only a thorough
knowledge of the genus of the drug, its scope of medicinal action
as well as activity, but we must have an equally intimate knowl¬
edge of the nature of the disease studied from the subjective as
well as objective disease manifestations, to which must be added
that knowledge of how to adapt the one to the other so as to remove
the symptoms (largely subjective) that proclaim the presence of a
disturbing influence.
CHRONIC COCAINISM FROM CATARRH SNUFF.
The following indication of the action of cocaine is taken from
the report of a case in the Montreal hospital. The patient had
suffered from a chronic catarrh for a long time and had been
persuaded to use Agnew's Catarrh Powder , which she took for
several months. The bottle held eighty grains and contained
over one grain of cocaine; she was in the habit of using three or
four bottles per week.
Trembling of hands, staggering gait, extreme insomnia, serious derangement
of the stomach, resembling chronic alcoholism. Also visual hallucinations,
dictation of the pupils, mental dullness, and pronounced moral depravity. She
had always been a woman of quiet, modest character and had never taken
stimulants in any form.— (Journal of the American Medical Association).
REMOVAL OF FOREIGN BODIES FROM THE EAR.
Dr. Hummel, in the Munchener Medical lVochenschrift f lays
down the following rule for the removal of mechanical obstruc¬
tions from the ear:
Inanimate bodies produce no reaction through the ear, consequently there is
no necessity for haste in the removal of the same. As a rule syringing is the
most efficient means, providing there has been no previous interference. If it
cannot l»e removed in this way no one should make the attempt without pro¬
viding himself with an autoscope or some oiher means of a thorough inspection
of the auditory canal.
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CHAMOMILLA.
The following editorial taken from the Eclectic Medical Jour¬
nal for February, contains some fine indications for the use of
Chamomilla in the treatment of various diseased manifestations:
Under all circumstances chamomilla is said to be a tonic due to its bitterness,
antispasmodic and stimulant, owing to its oil, diaphoretic, emmenagogue and
emetic. We lock upon the remedy as having a specific action upon the nervous
system and upon the mucous membrane. The second action may depend upon
the first. We are positive, however, that it is an excellent remedy for both the
child and the adult in troubles of an emotional nature as well as in many dis¬
eases of a catarrhal nature due to the affected membrane. The child is ex¬
tremely restless and irritable, nothing satisfies, it wants to be petted and carried
and cries when its wants (legend) are not satisfied. The adults are peevish,
extremely impatient and sensitive to pain. They are hyperesthetic, they are
on the borderland of hysteria of hypochondria. Matricaria is indicated in
many cases of incipient inflammation of the mucous membrane when there are
cough and evidences of cold and perhaps alternate flushing and pallor; shiver¬
ing with internal heat or coryza, eyes hot and swollen. The stomach and
bowels are disturbed, there may be pain, colicky diarrhoea or sour vomiting,
etc. In debility of the digestive tract of children and in many of the digestive
wrongs incident to dentition, tnatricaria is a most valuable remedy. The child
is nervous, fretful, more or less hot, dissatisfied. It is restless, it twitches,
turns and cries, there may be griping colicky pains due to flatus and diarrhoea
is frequently present and the stools are green and watery, or green and white,
and slimy, often green, white and yellow mixed. The odor is foul and there is
excoriations on the anus from the acidity of the discharge. There may be
much or little fever with or without tendency to spasm. It is just as efficient in
“liver-grown’’ babies, those in which the liver is full, congested and tender. It
is an excellent remedy for some urinary disturbances in children, an involuntary
eneuresis due to irritability of the bladder from cold, etc. When there is diffi¬
culty and pain in voiding uiine. Matricaria is highly recommended for the
swollen breasts frequently seen in babies. We doubt whether it is as efficient
as phytolacca in this disturbance. In adults malricaria will prove as efficient in
the same class of diseases, with the same symptoms prevailing. It is especially
recommended for amenorrhasa, dysmenorrhcea, neuralgia, headache and for the
false pains of pregnancy and many other nervous manifestations in these same
patients.
SURGICAL HINTS.
The horrors of the catheter life to the aged male individual
will be greatly lessened, if the physician remembers that with
the introduction of the soft catheter the fountain syringe is at¬
tached, carrying ahead of the inserted catheter a stream of hot
water, which easily dilates the urethral tract and allows the easy
introduction of the catheter. If the physician will use the above
method m the introduction of the soft catheters, he will be greatly
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surprised at the result, which are easily attained, and enable
him many times to easily insert the catheter through irritable strict¬
ure tissue, which otherwise might require the use of an anaesthetic
and the forcing of the tissue by the use of the steel sound.
Doctor, remember this suggestion and it will save you many an
annoyance.— Eclectic Medical Journal.
INFLUENCE OF DIGITALIS ON THE HEART MUSCLE
WHEN THE DRUG IS ADMINISTERED FOR
A LONG PERIOD OF TIME.
Prof. Hare in the Therapeutic Gazette presents the following
summary as the result of an exhaustive experimentation of this
drug upon the heart muscle. He find first:
That the ventricular wall is much thicker in the digitalis hearts than in others.
It also cuts with much more resistance and seemed much firmer. The increase
of the left ventricular wall was very much more marked than the right. This
thickening seems to be due to an increase in the size of the muscular fibers
rather than an increase in the number. Digitalis seems to have a special affin¬
ity for the pneumo gastric nerves, which are the trophic nerves of the heart and
by inference the conclusion is drawn that this increase in size is due to a greater
supply of blood, by reason of the increased force of systole, the heightened ar¬
terial pressure and prolonged and increased diastole. It is fair to assume that
the homoeopathic indications for digitalis in heart disease will be associated with
evidence of hypertrophy.
CARBOLIC ACID GANGRENE.
Czerny in Munchener Med. IVochenschriJt, warns his students
against watery solutions of carbolic acid, because the anaesthetic
action induces the patient to leave the dressing on. The part
becomes grayish-white and then black without a sensation of
pain. Circulatory disturbances caused by firm bandaging and
severe injuries predisposes to it. The gangrene is of a dry char¬
acter.
OBJECTIONS TO CONDENSED MILK AS AN INFANT
FOOD.
Condensed milk contains but one-eighth the amount of fat and
one-third the amount of proteid found in normal breast milk,
when given in one part of condensed milk to twelve of water.
If made twice the strength the solution contains but one-fourth
the proper amount of fat, but at the same time an excess of sugar,
the greater part being cane sugar. Second: Dr. Holt says with
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his large experience he has never seen a child raised exclusively
on condensed milk that did not show more or less evidence of
richitis. They are frequently fat to be sure, but they commonly
present fat rachitis with starved muscular and catarrhal tenden¬
cies who fall an easy prey to broncho pneumonia in winter and
gastro-intestinal diseases in summer and to the infectious dis¬
eases throughout the entire year. The chief objection to con¬
densed milk being the absence of proteids and fats these necess¬
ary ingredients must be added. This deficiency can be cor¬
rected by the addition of cream, an impossibility among the
very poor. An occasional substitute of meat broth may be
agreeable, but the doctor who directs the use of fresh cows milk
sufficiently diluted will lay a surer foundation of strong and vig¬
orous childhood. He must, as a matter of necessity remove the
evidences of constitutional miasms by the selection of the proper
remedy.—( Pcediatrics .)
A CORRECTION.
Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 8, 1898.
Dr. Pierson:
Dear sir —In crediting the article “What the People Should
Know/’ used in your January Advocate to our Hahnemann Ad¬
vocate, you made a mistake for which you are not in the least to
blame, as it was not properly credited in our paper. It was the
printer’s omission, and we have been much annoyed that Dr.
Kent’s name was not attached as the article was his. We shall
correct the error in our next number and trust you will do the
same. Very truly,
Mrs. R. C. Grant,
279 South Ave. Editor of Hahnemann Advocate.
P. S.—Of course you will know that I mean Dr. J. T. Kent,
of Philadelphia.
A PLEA FOR A WESTERN PILGRIMAGE.
The Local Committee of Arrangements for the Omaha meeting of the Ameri¬
can Institute of Homoeopathy are very much encouraged in their prospects of
making at least two records in the history of Institute meetings.
First, as to attendance, and second, as to new members. The inquiries as to
what we are doing in Omaha are so numerous as to indicate that the interest in
our next meeting is beyond that shown for many years. This is, of course, es¬
pecially true of the West, but is also equally gratifying from all over the East-
The plans for a most thorough canvass for new members throughout the states
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west of the Mississippi River are being carefully laid and a surprise is in store
for our beloved Institute.
We are glad to report to the members and friends of our National Society
that arrangements are progressing satisfactorily and that we will soon be ready
to make an official report to the Executive Committee in detail.
Omaka is to be the National Convention City this year. Over sixty National
and Sectional meetings are already booked for the Exposition City in 1898.
We wish to assure our visitors that hotel accommodations are ample and satis¬
factory. A list will be given in a few weeks and it is urged that engagements
for rooms be made early through our Sub Committee for hotels. Our meeting
occurring probably the last week in June, bookings for rooms should be made
early in May at least. This is important and should be borne in mind.
The railway facilities for reaching Omaha are unexcelled. Fourteen lines of
railway converge at Omaha from all directions. The train service between
Chicago and Omaha in point of elegance of equipment is equal to that between
Chicago and New York, so nothing more need be said, as that is the finest in
the world.
While here in attendance of the Institute sessions, nothing will be allowed to
interfere w'ith the regular program of the meeting, but to him who desires re¬
creation and entertainment, most ample facilities will be provided. If the
visitor wishes to see something large, he will be shown an Ore Smeller which
turns out more gold and silver than any other Refinery in the world.
He can also see the extensive meat-packing establishments of Armour,
Cudahy, Swift, Hammond, and others, who have national fame as millionaire
packers, and find that Omaha is crowding Chicago hard for first honors as to
the volume of meat products distributed. Omaha’s Parks, Public Buildings,
Art Galleries, Libraries, etc., must not be overlooked in the dazzling magnifi-
cenceof the Great Trans• Mississippi andjlnternational Exposition, which begins
June 1st for a five months exhibition.
The plan of this Exposition is modelled after the World’s Fair and its archi¬
tectural beauty w’ill recall vividly the magnificence of Chicago’s famous Court
of Honor. A booklet giving some idea of this Great Fair will be mailed to
each member of the Institute and to all others upon application.
A word to our tourists. Omaha is the Gate to a realm of sublime scenery
and unrivalled w f ealth. From this Gate City radiate an half-dozen great rail¬
way mink lines, through Nebraska, the greatest corn producing state in our
country, and with its great stock, industries and beet sugar factories and varied
farming products, is fast becoming the richest of the western states.
Beyond are the Alps of America, snow-capped, ice-mantled, with silent,
eternal, congealed rivers projecting into the valleys as mighty glaciers; moun¬
tains ot gold and silver; Gardens of the Gods; springs; veritable Fountains of
Youth, and scenery of unrivalled grandeur. To the northwest are the Black
Hills with their golden treasures; the world renowned Homestake mines; the
Hot Springs with the famous hot plunge-bath; the Wonderful Wind-cave with
ninety-six miles of subterranean depths already explored; fishing, scenery,
hotels and transportation facilities all that can be desired. Two trunk-lines
compete lor travel here.
If you are looking for fine fishing, you can bs accommodated by a few hour’s
ride from Omaha, viz.: Lake Tekamih, Spirit Lake. Lake Okoboji, Lake
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Washington, and a dozen others contiguous to Omaha by rail; or you can go
farther into the trout regions of Wyoming and the Mountain districts.
Many of our visitors will wish to visit Yellowstone Park, a most delightful
trip into a veritable wonderland which has no prototype; incomparable in Na¬
ture’s domains, a veritable museum of scenic freaks and beauty, with its geysers,
lakes, canons, springs, cataracts, weird petrifactions, and game preserves of,
elsewhere, all but extinct American wild animals.
Colorado needs no mention. You will hear of the attractions of that won¬
derful state from Denver. Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana, all have their
special features for the tourist.
All this wealth of scenery and inspiring grandeur is within reach of the most
modest and most economical of Institute members. Excursions will be made
through the great Rocky Mountains, extending through points of interest from
the Black Hills to Colorado and Utah, Yellowstone Park, etc. The season
will be delightful for such excursions, and our visiting doctors and their friends
will get so full of mountain ozone and patriotic enthusiasm that they will be
carried many years beyond three score and ten allotted to man.
Friends, doctors, countrymen, begin early to plan for this trip to Omaha.
Enjoy the great meeting of our National Medical Society. Educate yourselves
by attending the brilliant Exposition, an artistic object-lesson of the resources
of your country, the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, in which
millions of dollars are being judiciously expended to worthily present to your
view the splendid products of American industry.
Broaden your knowledge, your lungs, and your hum-drum experience by visit¬
ing the wonderland of your native country, the envy of all lands, the great
Rocky Mountains, with tlieir primeval glories. Do this, and believe me, when
you shall have returned to your several homes, there will come into your life
daily with its weary rounds, a bright troop of blessed memories, and splendid
visions. When you turn your eyes toward the setting sun, your heart will
prompt you to bless the friends who urged your pilgrimage hither, and you will
find your love and admiration cemented eternally to the Great West, Your
West, Your Country. D. A. Foote, M. D.
Chairman Sub-Committee Press and Correspondence, Local Committee of
Arrangements.
Dr. Phillips recommends the ligation of the dorsal vein in cases of atonic im¬
potence.
Preserve and treat food as you would your own body, remembering that in
time food will be your body.
The Shah of Persia has selected as his family physician Dr. William S. Vane-
man, of the University of Pennsylvania, 1888.
The French Academy reports the case of a fcetus having been letained fifteen
years, an attack of peritonitis being the only inconvenience experienced.
Half a drachm of carbonate of ammonia in a wine glass of water is said to be
a prompt emetic and sobering restorative in cases of alcoholic intoxication.
It is claimed that hypertrophy of the left ventricle occurs in normal preg¬
nancy, and that a certain amount of dilatation of all the chambers of the heart
also occurs.
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»oofe ’Reviews.
Dr. Jones’ Picnic.
By S. E. Chapman, M. D., published by Whitaker and Ray
Co., San Francisco, Cal., pp. 177.
The author is known to most of the readers of the Advocate
as a strict Hahnemannian with a bright mind, vivid imagination,
wonderful command of language and a deep sense of his respon¬
sibility to his fellowraan by reason of the God-given power
entrusted to his care through knowledge of the law of similars.
Dr. Jones' Picnic was written with the definite, fixed purpose of
presenting the Truths of Homoeopathy to the public that they
would be impressed with the simplicity and at the same time,
superiority of this system of medicine over that of any and all
others combined.
The frame work of the romance consists of an aluminum globe
200 feet in diameter so constructed that it can be raised or low¬
ered at the will of the operator, thereby coming under the in¬
fluence of winds blowing in the desired direction when it will be
carried along with great rapidity. In this ship a party start to
find the North Pole. The simplicity of the descriptive passages
carries such an element of reality that the reader forgets that he
is reading a romance and enters heartily into the spirit of the
hour, but of this we have little to say because of our wish to
commend the method employed for bringing important truths to
the notice of the people.
Starting from Washington in April, 19—, they strike a current
which carries them in the direction of Cleveland, O., and from
this point they are carried into the barren wastes of Labrador
where they are surprised by the appearance of a small settlement
or fort which they decide to investigate with the hope .of getting
some fresh meat or other supplies. It turns out to be the home
of a highly cultured family who have been led into this uninvit¬
ing region through a train of circumstances and finding much to
their liking have made of it a very inviting home; but a heavy
cloud hangs over the horizon in the form of that hydra-headed
monster psora garbed in the frightful dress of cancer. The
mother is nigh unto death. Every thing that medical science
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cotild do to relieve suffering has been employed to no avail and
she has now returned to her home to die. The doctor is wel¬
comed by the family who apologize for the absence of the mother
by stating her condition. The spirit of professional zeal over¬
comes all things else and he soon secures a true picture of the
case which is presented in the following language:
“In this pocket case book you will observe that I have taken Mrs. Barton’s
symptoms very carefully and minutely.
“1. A fearful and apprehensive state of mind. She cannot tolerate being
left alone.
“2. Intolerable thirst for cold water. Drinks often, and but a sip or two at
a time.
“3. The pains are very sharp, lancinating and burning.
“4. She is always worse at night, from 12 o’clock until 2 or 3 a. m.
“5. Great restlessness.
“6. Skin yellow, or straw-colored, dry and wrinkled.
“7. Very emaciated and weak.
“There are quite a number of other symptoms of less importance, but all are
found under but one drug in all the earth, and that drug is arsenic . Do not be
alarmed at the game, for the doses I give are absolutely immaterial and can do
no harm. But they do possess a curative power that is truly miraculous and
past the comprehension of man. What gives me gi eater hope and confidence
in your wife’s case is the fact that she has never been under the surgeon’s
knife. Operations for cancer not only do tw good whatei , er % but they reduce the
palienVs chances for cure , so that after the second or third one the case is ren¬
dered absolutely incurable . And another thing greatly in her favor is that she
has taken but little medicine, and so I have been able to get a clear picture of
the case. And I must strictly forbid the use of any drugs whatever, internally
or externally, except what I give you.’’
“But, Doctor, the terrible odor,” said Barton. “Must I not use the disin¬
fectant as I have been doing?”
“No; nothing but washing with warm castile soap-suds, two or three times
daily. The odor will all disappear within a few days.”
“Well, that is astonishing! And is arsenii the remedy for all cases of cancer?” '
“Not by any manner of means. That is the great mistake of the medical
world in all ages. They are continually on the lookout for specifies, or medi¬
cines that cure all cases of any given disease, irrespective of symptoms. Every
case must be taken upon its individual merits, and differentiated upon symp¬
tomatology alone. And a drug must be prescribed that is indicated by the
symptoms. Anything more or less than this is unscientific, and contrary to one
of God’s most beautiful and universal laws —sitttilia similibus curantur —like
cures like. That is to say, arsenic is the remedy for your wife, because when
taken in material doses, it always produces symptoms identical with those man¬
ifested in her case. Hence I meet them with immaterial doses of that drug.
Had her symptoms been different, then I should have been obliged to seek and
find, if possible, a drug capable of causing this different set of symptoms, what¬
ever they might have been. Now this rule of law holds good throughout all
the field of medicine, except that which is purely surgical. Do you catch the
idea?”
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They again start on the voyage of discovery and again adverse
winds carry them away from the goal for which they have
started and try as they may they are carried across into the
depths of the Siberean forest. Deciding to seek protection be¬
hind a range of mountains over which they are passing, the
“Silver Cloud,” as the ball has been named, is lowered until
anchorage can be secured in some tree tops. They now find
themselves in what seems to be a gentleman’s park and in the
distance a large stone house or fort can be seen. Toward this
their steps are directed and they soon find themselves in the
presence of a Russian nobleman who is suffering so intensely
with sciatica that he cannot keep still. From inquiries made by
the doctor a picture of Rhus toxicodendron is soon made and
very positive assurance is given of a speedy recovery.
“He was about to leave the room, limping painfully, when Dr. Jones stepped
up to him, and pulling a small vial from his pocket-case, said: ‘Put out your
tongue, Count; I will give you a dose of medicine that will cure your sciatica.”
“After the Count had withdrawn, Prof. Gray said: ‘Dr. Jones, I do not at
all understand how you could tell the Count his symptoms as you did without
any previous knowledge of the case. Does sciatic rheumatism always present
just the same picture, or set of symptoms, that you should be able to so rapidly
and correctly tell his purely subjective sensations? 1
“Not by any means, professor. A scientific prescription, like a stool, must
have at least three legs to stand upon. You remember Count had already told
me that moving about^ especially at nighty mitigated his pains; that he contracted
his ailment from getting wet; and I noticed that he favored the left leg in walk
ing. These were the three legs for my stool, or prescription. I felt positive
that the remedy indicated was Rhus toxicodendrom. So I merely mentioned
some of the leading characteristics of that drug and was not mistaken.”
It is in this manner that the salient features of Homoeopathy
are fastened upon the mind of the reader.
Incidentally it may be mentioned that they located the North
Pole and also discovered the utter folly of any navigator attempt¬
ing the job in any other way.
Enough has been said to show the purpose of the book and to
make you want a copy to show your friends.
Review of Reviews.
The January number is one of the best issues in the history of
that magazine. From cover to cover it is thoroughly “live,”
alert, and forceful. The opening editorial department of “The
Progress of the World” gives a clear and exhaustive New Year’s
summary of political conditions in both hemispheres at the
threshold of 1898. The elaborate article on “The Future of
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Austria-Hungary/’ by an Austrian, is by all odds the best ac¬
count yet given in the English language of the warring forces
which threaten to undermine the dual monarchy of central
Europe; Mr. Charles A. Conant’s clean cut analysis of the pres¬
ent demands for currency reform in the United States is some¬
thing that no practical man of affairs should fail to read; Dr.
W. H. Tolman’s summing up of the municipal progress of New
York City under Mayor Strong is just what is needed at this
time as an encouragement of efforts for civic betterment every¬
where; Lord Brassey’s remarkable paper on “The Position of
the British Navy,” with Assistant Secretary Roosevelt’s com¬
ments, is full of food for thought when read in connection with
the compact digest of the United States annual navy report,
which follows, and the review of Captain Mahan’s new book;
two noteworthy letters of Count Tolstoi on the doctrines of
Henry George, one addressed to a German disciple of George
and the other to a Siberian peasant, are also published in this
number. Besides these important and spirited special features,
the magazine’s regular departments of “Current History in Cari¬
cature,” “Leading Articles of the Month,” “Periodicals Re¬
viewed,” and “New Books” cover such timely topics as Hawaiian
annexation and the great strike in England.
Lippincott’s Pocket Medical Dictionary. Edited by Ryland
R. Greene, editor of Lippincott’s complete Medical Dictionary. Published by
J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 421 pp. Flexible leather covers, gilt
edge, round corners.
A dictionary is either a thing of value or it is worse than useless—actually
misleading. It must be accurate, up-to-date and convenient. If it possesses
other attractions its value is greatly enhanced thereby.
Lippincott’s Pocket Dictionary is made up of modern medical terms—about
20.000 in all. All obsolete terms so far as we could test the matter have been
eliminated. The definition is concise and clear. The pronunciation is reliable.
The shape very convenient. To all of these features have been added valuable
tables upon the following subjects: Arteries, bacilli, bacteria, muscles, nerves,
pregnancy, duration of, weights and measures in metric, also apothecary values.
The book is especially adapted for the medical student and for ready use in
the medicine case or pocket.
Outlines Of Rural Hygiene. For physicians, students, and sani¬
tarians. By Harvey B. Bashore, M. D., Inspector for the State Board of
Health of Pennsylvania. With an appendix on the Normal Distribution of
Chlorine by Prof. Herbert E. Smith, of Yale University. Illustrated with
twenty (20) engravings. 5|x8 inches. Pages vi-84. Extra cloth, 75c. net.
The F. A. Davis Co., Publishers, Lakeside Building, 218-220 So. Clark St.
Chicago, Ill.
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The necessities of, the care of the sanitation of cities are so apparent that
adequate attention is given the same by modern cities; but the rural districts are
allowed to suffer many times through ignorance or indifference. The country
doctor should be the most potent factor in correcting these abuses.
This little book offers valuable outlines upon this subject.
Vad© Mecum of Ophthalmic Therapeutics, by Drs. Landoth
and Gygax. J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, $1.00.
The entire work is composed of local applications designed for suppression of
local manifestations of disease in and abrnt the eye and cannot be condemned
too severely by the medical practitioner. It is just such practice as this that
has made so many chronic nervous diseases possible in this nineteenth century.
Elements Of Latin. For students of Medicine and Pharmacy. By
George D. Crothers, A. M., M. D., Teacher of Latin and Greek in the St.
Joseph, (Mo.) High School; formerly Professor of Latin and Greek in the
University of Omaha; and Hiram H. Bice, A. M., Instructor in Latin and
Greek in the Boys’ High School of New York City. 5^x7J^ inches. Pages
xii-242. Flexible cloth, $1.25 net. The F. A. Davis Co., Publishers, 1914-10
Cherry St., Philadelphia; 117 W. 42d St., New York City; 9 Lakeside Build¬
ing, 218-220 S. Clark St., Chicago, 111.
All students of medicine are compelled by colleges and State Boards of
Health to have a practical knowledge of Latin. It must be the equivalent of
one year in high school, but it is an impossibility for any teacher in any medicaj
college to secure such results within the limits of one college term of six months.
It is therefore of great importance that the knowledge to be secured is of
sufficient practical value to compensate for the time spent by the medical
student.
This work is the most admirable combination of rules and applications that
we have ever seen upon the subject and will be welcomed by all medical stu¬
dents as well as teachers of medical Latin.
An Epitome of the History of Medicine. By Roswell Park,
A. M., M. D., Professor of Surgery in the Medical Department of the Univer*
sity of Buffalo, etc. Illustrated with portraits and other engravings. One
Volume, Royal Octavo, pages xiv-348. Extra cloth, beveled edges, $2.00 net.
The F. A. Davis Co., Publishers, 1914-16 Cherry St., Philadelphia; 117 W.
42d St., New* York; 9 Lakeside Building, Chicago.
The majority of our progressive medical colleges have a chair upon the His¬
tory of Medicine. This book supplies the basis upon which such a study may
be successfully applied. Medicine is said to be a good exponent of the civiliza¬
tion of any period, so in this brief epitome the student may discover the reasons
for the slow conservative nature of medical science. The author makes little
claim to originality but simply writes what history has placed at his hands. It
will be noted that while he gives over four pages to vaccination, less than half
of one page is given to the subject of Homoeopathy or rather Hahnemann.
The work is an exceedingly interesting work to the student.
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Vol. XXXVII Chicago, March 15,1898. No. 3
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HOMCEOPATHY AND DRUG MIASMS.
STUART CLOSE, M. D., BROOKLYN, N. Y.
Wise and witty Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes once said that “if
all the drugs in the world were dumped into the sea it would be
the better for mankind—and the worse for the fishes!”
It would be interesting to know how much disease would exist
in the world today if crude drugs had never been used. It is
probable, as another great author has said, that more sickness,
suffering and death has been caused by drugs, than by war, famine
and pestilence put together. How small the list of natural dis¬
eases is may be seen by observing primitive peoples. Psora,
Syphilis and Sycosis in their various manifestations, have been
augmented and perpetuated almost as much by the fearful drugs
used to combat them, as by any inherent tendency in themselves.
Crude drugs not only stir up and render more active these great
miasms, but set up their own morbid processes, which may be
quite as bad as the original disease. Any drug capable of cur¬
ing Syphilis is capable of setting up a process in the human or¬
ganism as bad as Syphilis, under certain conditions.
Almost complete freedom from disease is to be found in per¬
sons and families brought up under a homoeopathic regime , whose
few ailments have been treated by the use of potentiated medi¬
cines, under the law of similars.
This gives us an idea of the enormous extent of the ravages of
drugs. It behooves us not to overlook this fact, and to give
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more heed to the injunction of Hahnemann to ascertain as nearly
as possible the drugs which have been taken by the patient com¬
ing to us for treatment. But how is this information to be used?
Ordinary observation of symptoms, and prescription of similar
medicines by the homoeopathic method, enables us to benefit or
cure the majority of cases with tolerable promptness. But there
remain^ a class of cases which baffle us, wholly or partially, in
our -dforts to effect a cure. It is in these cases that what has
come to be known as the Theory of Drug Miasms is helpful, by
enabling us to discover and define more clearly certain latent or
partially developed conditions, through the study and use of
isolated symptoms.
Recently the attention of the Homoeopathic profession has
been directed anew to the study of so-called drug diseases or
drug miasms, by papers and reports of discussions appearing in
the journals of the day.
Hahnemann recognized more clearly than any before him the
pernicious and long-lasting effects of allopathic drugging. After
a careful examination of the subject and much practical experi¬
ence, he declared the diseases so produced to be the most in¬
veterate of all chronic affections, and in their worst forms incur¬
able. ( Organon , Sec. 41). Doubtless this dictum of Hahnemann
largely discouraged his followers from further investigations in
this line. True it is that beyond tracing out certain antidotal
relations between drugs, based upon a superficial application of
the principle of Sim ilia, and incorporating in our materia medica
the recommendations of the most prominent teachers that certain
drugs should be administered to antidote the effects of certain
other drugs, little has been done until very recently.
Up to the present some unknown and seemingly undiscover-
able or insurmountable obstacle has stood in the way leading to
the cure of certain disease conditions. Hahnemann soon learned
this and began investigations which led to the discovery of the
three great miasms, Psora, Syphilis and Sycosis. This was an
important step in the right direction. It simplified the problem
by limiting and defining the field of research. Instead of the
innumerable diseases of the text books, three great miasmatic
diseases comprised most of the phenomena of chronic diseases.
Some light was also thrown on their origin, but the problem of
cure was not solved yet.
This generalization led to the discovery of some new remedies.
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and some old ones were studied anew in relation to the new
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grouping of symptoms, all being classified according to their
relations to the great miasms as anti-psorics, anti-syphilitics and
anti sycotics. Much had been gained in power to cure, but the
proportion of incurable cases was and is still too large. Our
best men labor over certain cases until, as Dr. Wells used to say,
they “break their heads and their hearts too,” and yet cure does
not reward their efforts. Hahnemann saw clearly the influence
of drugs in producing this condition, but he did not have time to
work out the method of overcoming it, though he evidently had
a glimpse of it.
In the renewed study of this question the isolated observations
of many individuals are being brought together and a method of
procedure outlined. Briefly stated, the application of the prin¬
ciple Similia Similibus is logically extended to cover drug dis¬
eases as well as natural diseases, by the administration of the
Simillimum, which consists, under certain definite conditions, of
a high potency of the drug abused. This is the true curative in
cases which otherwise often prove incurable, as experience
shows.
The advocates of this method, however, in their enthusiasm
are in danger of carrying it to an extreme. Extremes are always
dangerous. The particular danger which lies in carrying this
method beyond certain limits is Routinism. This means death
to Homoeopathy and accurate prescribing. Rightly used the
theory and method are valuable, but as carried out by some of
its advocates it deserves the severest condemnation. The essen¬
tial truth must be carefully separated from the errors which have
already gathered around it.
Homoeopathy is based upon the power of drugs to produce
disease in the healthy organism. In this lies the power of drugs
to cure disease arising from so-called natural causes. The dis¬
eases produced by drugs are quite as definite and often as long-
lasting as those arising from natural causes. We have only to
recall the long lasting effects produced in almost any of the great
provings. Such effects have continued many months, and in some
cases years, and this from minute and infrequent doses, in pre¬
viously healthy subjects. The chronic effects of massive doses
of drugs administered by allopathic physicians are ever before
us. Many years afterwards we find symptoms of Sulphur , Mer¬
cury, Iron, Iodine, Quinine and many other drugs, in patients
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whose cases are our most puzzling and obstinate problems. The
testimony of all observers from Hahnemann down is that cases
which have been drugged in this manner are the most difficult to
cure, and often that a cure is impossible. Any theory or obser¬
vations, therefore, which throws light on the best method of
treating these cases is welcome.
Hahnemann observed, in both provings and cures, that second
or subsequent doses nullified or antidoted the first dose, and was
thus led to the use of the single dose. He says:
“A second dose , by its curative effect , will often remove some of
the symptoms of the previous dose” (Organon , Sec. 131).
The full significance of this wonderfully acute and true observa¬
tion has never been seen until very recently. It is not only the
very best argument ever advanced for the use of the single dose
in treatment, but it is the key to the drug disease problem which
has baffled us so long.
Boenninghausen, Hering, Guernsey, Swan, and many others,
have advised giving a dose of the high potency of a drug known
to have been abused, and the effects of which constituted a part
of the case as shown by the symptoms. This advice has been
strenuously condemned by others, who in their fear of routinism,
or from excessive conservatism in general, have regarded it as a
heresy. These objectors would never use the same drug, but
only similar drugs for antidotal purposes. To them, knowledge
that a drug had been abused was sufficient to cut that drug ab¬
solutely from the list of available medicines to be used in the
treatment of the case. Thence came the lists of “antidotes” in
our materia medicas, consisting of a varying number of drugs
mentioned as bearing some antidotal relation to certain symp¬
toms, or groups of symptoms, produced by the drug abused.
These were selected partly from clinical observations, and partly
from their similarity, known by comparison of symptoms.
These workers were content to base their treatment of drug
diseases upon similars , often of a very low degree. Hence their
failure, and the dogma of the incurability of drug diseases. The
conception that there existed a simillimum, or absolute equal to a
group of symptoms known to have been produced by a drug,
and that simillimum the high potency of the drug itself, had
never entered their minds.
Accepting as true the law of Similars and the law of Potentia¬
tion, there can logically be only one simillimum to the effects of
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any drug or morbid agent whatever, and that is the high potency
of the drug itself. The most that any other drug can be is a
simile. This must be perfectly evident to any one who will re¬
flect upon it. The last infinitesimal degree between simile and
idem, between simility and identity, between similar and the
same, is expressed by the term Simillimum. It is synonymous
with Equal, but is not identical. Nothing can be so similar to
the actual drug abused, and yet not be the same thing, as a high
potency of the drug itself. Potentiation changes the foim but
not the essential nature of the drug.
In what is called natural disease we may find the simillimum ,
but we cannot be certain of it beforehand, because we cannot
know with certainty what agent produced the symptoms. The
best we can do may result in finding only a simile . Fortunately
similes are also curatives, in proportion to the degree of similar¬
ity. But the simillimum , having the highest degree of simility
short of absolute identity, is the equal or perfect curative.
In a case depending upon a drug miasm, however, it is differ¬
ent. We find a certain disease condition in the patient, repre¬
sented by symptoms. The symptoms correspond to the symp¬
toms of a certain drug. By careful inquiry we trace them back
to the use of that drug in crude form or in massive doses. Under
the homoeopathic law we have found the Simillimum , and in
giving the high potency of that drug we are making the highest
known application of that law. Under these conditions no other
remedy will so quickly remove the symptoms and cure the case.
No other drug or agent could produce or cure the same condition
or symptoms. This is self-evident, and properly conducted ex¬
perience confirms it.
From this point it is very easy to generalize^ and here the
danger line is drawn. It is easy to assume that a given patient’s
condition has been brought about by drugs, taken or used in
some way during his past life. It is easy to make a list of the
drugs thus used. It is easy to make and give, in a routine man-
• ner, high potencies of every drug so learned, and to waste from
six months to two years in doing so, if the patient does not die
in the meantime. It is easy—wofully easy—to go to such ab¬
surd extremes as giving high potencies of the kerosene the pa¬
tient happened to get on his fingers while filling the lamp, or of a
perfume he has smelled, without reference to the actual symp¬
toms of the case. Such a proceeding is neither dignified nor made
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more scientific by making divisions of the drugs thought to be
involved in the case into classes, according to their supposed
power or importance, and “antidoting” the greater first, although
it is true that a lesser miasm cannot be removed in the presence
of a greater. Such a proceeding is not Homoeopathy. It is
gross superstition, in which drug ghosts take the place of ghosts
of the human variety in enslaving the mind to fear. It sees in
every substance touched, tasted or handled a drug demon to be
exorcised.
The tendency is to make the “antidotal” practice largely, if
not entirely empirical, basing it upon the fact that crude merely
drugs have been used, without reference, or at least more than
the slightest reference to the actual symptoms of the case, and
without recognition of the existence and absolutely controlling
power of the law of Susceptibility. There is reason to believe
that these things are actually done, to the subversion of pure
Homoeopathy and sound philosophy.
This mode of practice assumes that every drug acts in the
human organism unconditionally, and that its effects remain
until antidoted by art.
It assumes that every drug used in crude form acts injuriously.
Neither of these assumptions is true. Crude drugs some¬
times cure, being potentiated to the proper degree in the fluids
and tissues of the body, under the action of* the life force,
though it may be with some difficulty and loss of time as shown
by the “aggravations.” That drugs act unconditionally is evi¬
dently untrue, for it leaves out of consideration entirely the
fundamental principle and condition of all vital activity, namely,
Susceptibility. Not every person, patient or prover, is suscepti¬
ble to every drug in crude form. This is too well known to need
illustration. Under the law of correspondence or similars, a
person is normally susceptible only to those drugs whose charac¬
teristic symptoms, especially the mental symptoms, correspond
to his own characteristic symptoms or traits as an individual.
To all others he offers a resistance which is effectual up to the
point of actual breaking down and overwhelming of the life
force by massive and poisonous doses. When this occurs an
artificial or morbid susceptibility is set up which becomes itself
the basis of treatment.
A patient may have used many drugs during his lifetime and
been actually impressed or injured by very few of them. Those
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to which he was susceptible at the time of use, or those so abused
as to destroy his normal resisting power and set up an artificial
susceptibility, will be made known by the presence of symptoms
which will be disclosed by a careful examination and study of
the case. They cannot be known in any other way. Some
symptoms of the drug or drugs involved in the case will be
found by the careful examiner, and these must be the subject of
careful consideration.
It may be that only one or two symptoms of the original group
produced by the drug remain, owing to the lapse of time or the
limitations of the patient's memory, but there will be some dis¬
cernible evidence present.
This gives added importance to what may be called isolated
symptoms, and here we reach the really practical part of the anti¬
dotal theory. Not infrequently, in making an examination and
record of a case, certain symptoms will be found which seem to
bear no relation to the related totality. Like Dundreary's bird,
they persist in flocking by themselves', and cannot be covered by
the remedy which corresponds to the related totality. We have
been accustomed to say of these isolated symptoms that they
probably belonged to the pathogenesis of the remedy corres¬
ponding to the related totality, bul have never been observed in
its provings. They have been noted, therefore, “for further
confirmation,” and the related remedy given. Too often such
prescribing fails to cure the case, much to our perplexity. The
patient may improve slowly, but we do not get the brilliant,
clear cut result we desired and expected, and the empirical pre¬
scription of an “intercurrent remedy” lik e Sulphur or Opium does
not help us out, the “old masters” to the contrary notwithstand¬
ing.
Sometimes, braving the finger of scorn pointed at those who
“prescribe on a single symptom,” we have given the remedy
corresponding to the isolated symptom, and have had our efforts
at prescribing on the apparent totality put to shame by securing
just such brilliant result as we had expected under better
methods.
At rare intervals, perhaps once in a decade, we have learned
accidentally that the remedy corresponding to the isolated
symptom, which cleared up the case, had sometime been used or
abused in crude form, but it has served to awaken only a passing
curiosity in our minds, and we have learned but little from it.
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The drug miasm or “antidotal” theory accords with these
facts, and when rightly conceived and used, furnishes a method
by which we are enabled to cure certain cases in a much shorter
time than we can by confining our attention solely to the related
totality. We no longer ignore these isolated symptoms, nor
relegate them to the list of “not observed,” but use them as clues
to engage and guide us in doing a little detective work in search¬
ing out the drugs the patient has used in crude form. These
lone symptoms are perfectly true and faithful messengers, bring¬
ing reliable and important information of an attack made upon
the citadel of life, perhaps years before—so long before that
their fellows have fallen by the wayside and been forgotten.
That they have persisted so long is evidence enough of the im¬
portance of their message, of the vigor of the original attack,
and of the havoc wrought thereby.
We do well to listen attentively to their message. The symp¬
toms of that original attack are a part of the anamnesis of the
case. By calling the patient’s attention to the drugs which cor¬
respond to the symptom, he will often be able to recall incidents
or other symptoms by which we can identify the particular drug
most influential in the case. That drug sometimes proves to be
the true simillimutn and clears up the case.
In the use of such a method we are on safe ground, and guided
by facts only. It simply gives added importance and value to
certain single or apparently unreiated symptoms, completes the
anamnesis , and enables us to cure some cases that have hitherto
perplexed us by their inveteracy. It aids us in developing the
“partial” cases referred to in Sections 172-185 of the Organon .
The persistence of these symptoms indicates the patient’s sus¬
ceptibility to the drug in question, not only at the time it was
abused, but at the time of discovery. So long as there remains
even a single symptom of a group originally produced by a drug,
the patient is still susceptible to that drug, and is under its in¬
fluence.
To give a high potency of a drug which has been abused,
under the conditions already stated, is not Isopathy, as some
have objected. It is Homoeopathy, pure and simple, as shown
by Hahnemann in his remarks upon the use of Psorinum . (See
Chronic Diseases , page 152, Tafel’s translation). Referring to
Isopathy and the homoeopathic use of potentiated Psorinum , he
says:
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“I say homoeopathic use, for it does not remain idem (the same);
even if the prepared itch substance should be given to the same
patient from whom it was taken, it would not remain idem (the
same), as it could only be useful to him in a potentized state,
since crude itch substance which he has already in his body as
an idem is without effect upon him. But the dynamization or
potentizing changes it and modifies it, just as gold leaf after
potentizing is no more crude gold leaf> inert in the human body,
but in every stage of dynamization it is more and more modified
and changed.
“Thus potentized and modified also, the itch substance (. Psorin .)
when taken is no more an idem (same) with the crude original
itch substance, but only a simillimum (thing most similar). For
between IDEM and SIMILLIMUM there is no intermediate for
anyone who can think; or in other words, between idem and
simile only simillimum can be intermediate. Isopathic and
cequale are equivocal expressions, which if they should signify
anything reliable can only signify simillimum, because they are
not idem. ”
Thus does Hahnemann define and dispose of Isopathy. Noth¬
ing could be clearer or more logical, and the argument of the
Master is final.
Let it not be forgotten that the highest ideal of the Hahne-
mannian prescriber is to be able always to find the simillimum
for his patient.
Actuated therefore by the scientific spirit, which is always
seeking to enlarge the bounds of knowledge, and which “seeks
the truth; come whence it may, cost what it will,” we welcome
the labors, the discussions, the carefully reported cases of our
brethren who are so enthusiastically engaged in working out this
new line of thought and investigation, only sounding a note of
caution, and calling attention once more to the golden words of
Hering:
“If our school ever gives up the strict inductive method of
Hahnemann, we are lost, and deserve to be mentioned only as a
caricature in the history of medicine.”
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REPERTORY OF THE PROSTATE GLAND.
A. R. MORGAN, M. D., WATERBURY, CONN.
Prostate Gland.
Hypertrophy, Enlargement of, (See Prostatitis , swelling of p. g):
Aloe, Alum., Amm. mur., Apis, Asar., Aspar.,
Aur. mur., Baryt. c., Benz, ac., Calc, c , Cann.
s., Canth., Chimop. u., Con. (like a stone),
Cop., (indurated p. g. with slight enlargement,
great pain on urinating), Cub., Dig ., Fer. mur.,
Hyos., (slight enlargement with frequent urina¬
tion), Iod., Kali iod % , Lith. c., Lyc., Merc. sol.,
Natr. c. (small, painless), Natr. s., Nitr. ac.>
Par. br., Phos. (with chronic urethral dis¬
charge), Puls., Sabal. ser., Selen., Senecio,
Sil., Spong ., Sulph., Thuj.
- chronic; Calc. c., Con., Baryt. c., Iod., Natr. c. (sm'ill
and painless), Phos., Spong., Sulph., Thuj.,
Uva ur.
- scirrhus; Amm. mur., Con., Crot. h. (with haematuria).
- senile: Aloe , Benz, ac., Baryt. c., Con., Dig. (heart
symptoms), Iod., Nux. v., Sabal ser., Staph.
(haemorrhoids), Trit. rep.
- urine, dribbling of, with: Aloe (old men), Arn., Baryt.
c , (u emitted in drops). Dig., Mur. ac., Nux.
v , Par. br., Petrol., Puls., Sabal ser., Selen.,
Sep., Staph.
- retention of, with: Bell. Benz. ac. (offensive urine),
Canth., Cact. g., Chimop. u. Ferr., Hyos., Kali
iod., Merc, dul., Par. br., Sabal ser., Stram.,
Trit. rep.
Prostatorrhcea: Agar., Agnus, Alum., Anac., Amm. c., Apis,
Aur. met., Bell., Calc, c., Cann. s., Canth.,
Case., Chimop. u.. Con., Dig., Flaps,Eryng. aq.,
Euphorb., Gels., Hep., Lyc., Man g.,Natr. c.,
Petrol., Phos., Phos. ac., Pic. ac., Plumb., Psor.,
Puls., Sabal. ser., Selen., Sep., Sil., Spig ., Staph.,
Sulph., Tabac., Thuj., Zinc, (copious).
Prostatitis.
Prostatitis/ acute, inflammation p. g: Aeon, (from colds),
Aesc. h., Agnus, Alum., Apis, Arn. (traumatic),
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Prostatitis',* acute, Bell., Bovis., Cact. gr., Cann. i. (white, glairy
mucus), Canth., Caust., Chimop. u. t Con., Cop.,
Cub., Cycl., Dig., Ham., Hep., Hippom.,
Kali bi., Lach., Lyc., Lil. t., Lith. c., Merc,
dul., Merc, sol., Petrol., Puls., Sabal ser., Sec.
c., Selen., Senecio, Sil., Staph., Sul. ac., Thuj.,
Zinc.
—- chronic: Caust., Kali bi., Nux v., Petrol., (inflam¬
mation prostatic of urethra with imperfect
erections and frequent seminal emissions),
Senecio, Staph, (old men).
- gonorrhoea, with or after: Cupr. (with pain in p. g.),
Merc. dul. (maltreated stricture, suppressed
gonorrhoea), Nux v. (chronic gonorrhoea),
Nitr. ac. (suppressed gon.), Petrol ., Sulph.,
Thuj.
- agony on urinating, with: Apis, Par. br.
- atony of sexual organs, with: Selen.
- anus, contraction of sphincter with spasm of rectum,
with renewed desire to urinate: Caust.
- oozing from, with: Caust. (serous, excoriating),
Nitr. ac. (with pricking pain), Sep., Thuj.
- pain in, with: Nitr. ac. (pricking), Lyc. (near
anus, aggravated during and after micturition),
Staph, (to urethra, aggravated by walking,
riding).
-sensation of: Bry., Crot. t. (forced out¬
ward) Kali bi. (can scarcely sit), Lach., Lil.
tig. (hard body pressing backward), Sep., Sil.
(heavy lump).
-in rectunr. Aloes (plugged up), Anac.
- weight in, sensation of heaviness: Cact. gr. Sep.,
Sil. (heavy lump).
- ball, sitting on a, sensation of : Cann. i., Chimop. u., Sep.
(not relieved by stool), Sil. (heavy lump in
anus).
-in rectum, with sensation of: Cann. i., Caust. (like
a pippin lodged there).
- urethra, intruding upon: Selen (?)
- biting in prostate gland: Con. (and itching).
- bladder, burning in neck of: Cham , Nux v., Petrol., Sulph
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Prostatitis, bladder, constriction of, with: Cact. g., Caust.,
Puls . (painful).
- catarrh of, with: Aspar., Ham., Pod. (painful
micturition).
-- - irritable , with: Benz. ac. (with muco-purulent
discharge).
“ - pain in, with: Apis (excessive in region of),
Cact. g. (constriction), Calc, ph . (and neigh¬
boring parts, weak stream), Caust . (after a
few drops of urine have passed), Cepa (after
coition), Puls, (worse from motion), Sulph.iod.
- sensibility of, with: Benz. ac.
- neck of: Apis, Calc, ph., Nux v., Puls.
(aggravated sitting or standing).
- spasmodic pain after urination, with: Caust. (and
in rectum with contraction of sphincters),
Dig., Puls.
- bleeding from prostate gland: Crot. hor. (cancer),
Caust. (abscess).
- burning in prostate gland: See Pain, burning inp . g.
- cardiac symptoms: Dig. (palpitation), Lith. c. (?)
- caused by taking cold: Aeon., Bell , Chimop. u. (sitting
upon cold, damp objects).
- coition, after: See Pain in p. g.
- contraction of sphincters, with: Cact. g., Caust.
- cramp-like: See Pain in p. g.
- cystitis, with: Canth., Con.
- dribbling, with: See Hypertrophy of p. g. with dribbling.
- degeneration senile, with: Iod .
- dryness, with sensation of, in prostate gland: Cop.
(region of, and in urethra).
- dysuria, with: See with Urination difficult, effort in¬
effectual.
- epididymis enlarged: Caust . (indurated), Spong. (fistul¬
ous openings).
- emissions, seminal, with: Aescul. h., Merc. sol. (mixed
with blood), Selen. (during sleep).
- erections , with: Petrol, (imperfect), Phos. ac. (painful),
Puls.
- faces flattened, with: Puls., Verat. a. (ribbon-like).
- genitals, numbness of, with: Baryt. c., Dig. (and weakness).
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Yrost Kims, gonorrhoea, with: Caps . (painful), Daph. (aggravated
by smoking), Merc. sol. (?), Selen., Sulph.,
Thuj,
- after: Cann. s., Caps., Merc. dul. (sup¬
pressed), Nitr. ac. (suppressed), Petrol., Sep.,
Sulph., Thuj. (suppressed).
- gurgling sensation in prostate gland, with: Phyt.
- hcemorrhoids , with (See with Rectal troubles ): Aloe,
Aesc. h., Cact. gr., Canth ., (vesical), Staph.
(with pain in back and pelvis).
- heat in prostate gland, with: Ptel., Puls, (and pressure).
- induration of p. g. with (See Hypertrophy of): Con.
(like a stone), Cop. (very painful, with or
without enlargement), Iod. t Plumb., Selen.,
Senecio, Sil. (irregular, some places hard,
others soft, painless).
- inflammation of prostate gland: See Prostatitis.
- itching in prostate gland: Con. (and biting).
- irritation in prostate gland: Cact. gr. (with constant
desire to urinate), Dig., Gnaph.
- -jerking in region of prostate gland: Form. ruf.
- mucus and pus , with discharge of: Benz ac., Natr. s.
- onanists , of: Tarent (with imbecility).
- pain in prostate gland, with indefinite: Aeon, (while
descending stairs), Bell, (aggravated by jar,
concussion), Caps, (with gonorrhoea), Calc. ph.
(worse from motion), Cepa (aching from coi¬
tion), Chimop. u., Cub., Cup. ars. (with sore¬
ness of penis), Cop. (and induration, great pain
in urinating). Graph., Gnaph., Lyc., Par. br.
(spasmodic), Polyg., Puls, (aggravated by
motion), Staph, (aggravated by walking or
riding), Sulph. iod., Tarent. (aggravated after
masturbation).
- aching in prostate gland, with: Cepa, Sebal ser.
- biting in.: Con. (and itching).
- burning in: Cepa, Cop. (and sensation of dryness),
Lyss. (and tenemus in region of), Merc, dul.,
Phos. ac. (with frequent erections).
- coition, after: Caps., Cepa, Salen.
- constrictive in: Canth., Caust., Puls, (extending to
bladder).
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Prostatitis, cramp-like: Par. br. (on attempting to urinate).
- d r *ggi n gv&\ Sil. (extending forwards).
- heaviness in, with: See weight in.
- kidneys in: Gnaph.
- plug, (See Anus, plug in, sensation of): Anac. (in rec¬
tum), Aloe (as if wedged between coccyx and
symphysis).
- pricking in p. g.: Nt'lr. ac.
- pressing in p. g.: Apis [downward/region of neck of
bladder], Brom. [when walking], Cepa [pain¬
ful], Merc . dul., 01. an., Puls, [as from a stone
extends to pelvis and thighs],
- pulsation in p. g.: Polyg.
- perineum,fullness, sensation in [See pressing in]: Alum.,
Chimop. u. [as if swollen], Berb., Bry., Cycl.,
Nux. v.
- heat in: Puls, [and pressure].
- jammed feeling in: Lyc.
- 1 - pain in: Alum, [during erection], Bovis, [dart¬
ing from, to rectum and genitals], Calc. ph.
[shooting to pelvis], Caust., Lyc . [clawing],
Selen. [dull].
- pinching in: Puls, [after urination].
- pressing in: Alum, [during erections and when
blowing nose], Apis [region of], Chimop. u.
[as from a ball], Cycl. [and drawing], 01. an.,
Lyc. [during and after urination near anus],
Puls, [as from a stone, extending through the
whole pelvis and down the thighs, aggravated
by motion].
- pressure in. [See fullness of]: Alum . [begin¬
ning of an erection or during coition], Cycl.,
Phos., Puls, [and heat], Lyc. [near], Selen .
[dull].
-:- pulsation mi Caust. [strong].
- sorenesss in: Chimop. u.
- welling in: [See fullness ].
- weight in: [heaviness]: Ant. t. [tension],
Cact. gr., Con. [as from a stone], Cop., Grap.,
Hydroct., Puls, [stone].
-, prepuce, itching of, with: Con., Euphorb.
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Prostatitis, rectal troubles, with [See hemorrhoids with]: Cact.
gr., Caust. [spasm of rectum with desire to
urinate renewed], Pod., Puls., Staph.
- rectum, ball in, with sensation of [See anus , with ball
in]: Cann. i., Caust. [something hard like a
pippin lodged in rectum], Merc. dul. [swelling
of p. g. almost closes rectum], Sep. [not re¬
lieved by stool].
- scirrhus of p. g.: [See Hypertrophy, scirrhus of.
- sexual powers lost: Sabal ser., Staph.
- seminal emissions , with: Aescul. h., Merc. sol. [bloody],
Selen.
after, feels as if a drop of something were
running out of the urethra: Dig.
- soreness in p. g.: Sulph. ac.
- stitches in p. g.: Bovis., Con., Cycl. [with urging to
stool and to urinate]. Kali c., Kali bi. [must
stand still while walking], Kali n. [painful
while urinating], Lyc. [in bladder and anus,
same time].
- urination, during: Aeon., Cact. gr., Caust. [after
few drops], Cop. [intense], Kali n., Merc, dul.,
Par. br. [with agony and cold sweat, head
bowed to floor], Selen.
wandering to pelvis and thighs: Puls.
- stool flattened, with: Arn. [Lilienthal], Pues., Sulph.,
Verat. a. [ribbon-like].
- strangury, with: [See with urination difficult ].
- suppuration of p. g.: Hep., Sil.
- swelling of p. g.: [See Hypertrophy of]: Cann. s.,
Chimop. u., Con,., Cop. [with hardness], Cub.,
Hippom., Jod., Merc. dul. [both lobes enor¬
mous], Selen. [hard, intrudes upon urethra]
Senecio.
- tension in p. g.: Ant. t., Lyc., Thuj.
- thighs , lameness of: Puls, [left side, worse from stand¬
ing], Selen. [tearing posteriorly].
- twitching in p. g.: Form. ruf.
- uneasiness [sensation] in p. g.: P*el.
- urethritis, with: Ham., Par , br., Petrol., Puls.
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Prostatitis, urethra: Caust. [with pain in], Dig. [somethinges¬
caping from], Cup. ars. [burning in], Ham.
[catarrh of], Selen. [feels contracted].
- urine , with: Benz. ac. [offensive urine, muco-purulent
discharge], Lith. c., Natr. s. [loaded with
mucus and pus], Puls . [flows in gushes], Sep.
(urates, stains clothing), Thu/, (full of shreds).
- incontinence of: (See Hypertrophy with dribbling).
- involuntary escape of, drop by drop: Aloe, Am.,
Bell., Cop. (ropy), Dig. [dribbling], Mur. ac.,
Petrol., Puls., Sep., Staph.
- retention of: [See Hypertrophy, with retention].
- urinary stream small , feeble: Calc, ph., Chimop. u.,
Graph., Hep., 01. sant. [?], Oleand., Nitr. ac.,
Sars., Spong ., Staph ., Sulph., Zinc.
delayed , slow in starting: Alum., Apis,
Cact. gr., Cann. ind ., Canth., Hep., Pod. [?],
Puls., Raph., Sec. c., Selen., Sep., Staph., Tax.
- urination difficult: Apis [agony in voiding], Cact. gr.,
Calc, ph., Chimop. u., Cop. [painful], Dig.
[throbbing in neck of bladder], Hep. [stream
falls perpendicularly], Hippom. [retarded by
sensation of swelling], Par. br. [cramp, kneels
with head bent forward to floor, agony], Puls.,
Selen.
- urination , ineffectual efforts: Apis , Cact. gr. [at first],
Dig.) Par. br.) Puls., Sep.
- urging to urinate: Aescul. h., Apis, Cact. gr., Dig.,
Par. br.. Puls., Staph.
- constant: Apis, Cact. gr., Cyc., Par. br., Puls.
frequent: Apis, Hyop.
- even after urination: Amm. m., Anac., A pis,
Aur. ? Cact. gr., Caust. [spasm of the rectum],
Cop., Crot. t., Dig., Hep., Iod., Merc, sol.,
Natr. c., Puls., Staph., Sulph., Thuj., Vio. tr.,
Zinc.
Prostatic fluid, emission of: Agar, [or of tough, viscid slime],
Agnus, Alum., Apis, Aur. met., Cann. s. [trans¬
parent], Canth., Carb. v., Chimop. u., Con.,
Daph., Dig., Elaps, Euphorb., Eryng. aq.
[from slight causes], Hep., Lyc. [without ap-
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parent cause], Mag. c., Mag. p., Natr. c., Nair .
m., Nitr. ac., Phos., Phos. ac., Puls., Selen.,
Sep., Sil., Spig., Sulph., Tabac., Thuf, [in
threads], Zinc, [no apparent cause, copious].
Prostatic, coition , after: Sabal ser.
- emotion , from [See sexual thoughts]: Con. [without
lascivious thoughts, itching prepuce], Puls.
[painful].
- erections , after: Phos. ac. [copious, worse in the even¬
ing], Puls.
- excesses, sexual , after: Staph.
- flatus , while emiting: Con., Magn. c.
- glues up meatus: Natr. m.
- emissions of, lascivious thoughts: [See sexual thoughts |.
- meatus glues up: Natr. m.
- milky: Aram, c., lod., Kali c. [flocculent], Lach., Natr .
m., Petros., Selen. [slimy], Sep.
- odor, musty: Lyss. [or salty].
- onanists, of: Gels., Staph., Tarent. [hypochondriacal],
Ustil.
- penis relaxed , from: Arn., Aur. met. [with suicidal
tendency], Bell., Cann. s., Con., Eryng. aq.
[from slight causes], Euphorb., Bye., Lyss.,
Natr. m., Phos.
- seminal emissions, with: Aesc. h., Agnus, Merc, [bloody].
- sexual thoughts , caused by: Con., Lyc. [lewdness], Natr .
m., Nitr. ac. [lewdness], Phos.
- sitting , while: Angus. [?] Selen. [feels drop escaping
from meatus].
- sleep, during: Selen.
- stool, before: Cycl. (with urging to stool), Selen. (and
after).
- during: Agar., Agnus, Alum., Amm. c., Anac.,
Ars., Calc, c., Carls., Carb. v., Caust., Con.,
Coral, r., Elaps, Eryng. aq., Hep., Ign., Kali
bi ., Na.tr. c., Nitr. ac., Nux v., Phos., Phos. ac.,
Sabal ser., Selen., Sep., Sil., Staph., Sulph .,
Zinc (copious).
- difficult: Agnus, Alum., Anac., Con., Hep.,
Natr. c., Nitr. ac., Phos., Sep., Zinc.
- first hard, then soft: Bovist.
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Prostatic, hard: Agnus, Alum., Anac., Alum., Con., Hep.,
Natr. c., Phos., Selen. (caused by immense,
hard stool), Staph.
-- soft: Anac., Ars. (diarrhceic).
- emission of, stool, during, while straining: Agnus, Alum.,
Carls., Card, v., Con., Cels,, Hep., Hippom.,
Ign., Kali bi., Natr. c., Nitr. ac., Phos., Phos .
ac., Selen., Sep., Sil , Zinc.
- after: Amm. c., Anac., Calc, c ., Caust., Curare,
Daph., Hep., Hippom., Iod., Kali c., Lyss.,
Natr. c., Nitr. ac., Selen., Sep., Sil., Sulph.,
Zinc.
- urination, before: Psor.
- during: Anac, Gels., Hep., Natr. c., Natr. s.,
Sep., Sulph.
- after: Anac., Calc, c., Curare, Daph. (worse
from smoking), Hep., Hippom., Kali c., Lyc.,
Lyss., Natr. c., Natr. m. (milky), Sep., Sil.,
Sulph.
- 7 - walking, while: Agnus, Selen., Sil.
COMPARISONS.
Dr. A. S. Ironsides, of Camden, N. J., gives in the Recorder
for January a verification of the Hydrocyanic acid symptom—
“Liquids gurgle and roll audibly from oesophagus to bowels,” but
does not mention the potency used.
Cina, Cuprum, Laurocerasus, Thuja have “gurgling in throat
when drinking/’
Arnica, Cina, Curprum, Laur., Thuja, “swallowing with a
rattling noise.’*
“Swallowing with a crackling noise,” Causticum.
In one case of typhoid, the symptom disappeared under
Pyrogen zm after Laur. failed.
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HAY FEVER—IODINE.
Head —Severe frontal headache, centering in a small spot above
roof of nose.
Eyes —Smarting with pain as from excoriation.
Nose —Dry, stuffed up, in house, fluent out of doors.
Coryza, thin, excoriating with high fever, hot, dry skin,
sleepy sensation, face fiery red, sneezing.
Alae nasi in active motive.
Thoat —Burning pains with profuse fetid saliva.
Larynx —Inflammation intense with short dry hacking cough-
paroxysmal.
Increased secretion of mucus in trachea.
Chest —Burning with accumulation of mucus in bronchi and in¬
ability to expectorate.
Respiration, wheezing, difficult asthmatic, breathes
heavily even when quiet.
Characteristics —Extends downward from head to nose then
eyes, throat, bronchi.
Associated with this has been noted a peculiar symp¬
tom of an agonizing molar toothache, neuralgic in
character.
THE ANTIDOTES OF SULPHUR.
T. S. HOYNE, A. M., M. D., CHICAGO.
Read before the Cook County Homoeopathic Medical Association, Peb. 1,1806.
In our books we are told that Aconite , Camphor , Chamomilla ,
China , Mercurius, Nux vomica , Pulsatilla and Sepia are all good
antidotes to over doses of Sulphur. Practically only once have
I been called upon to antidote its baneful influences and this
was accomplished by Nux vomica . The patient had been taking
Sulphur water for her constipation for a year or more, and the
symptoms present, while evidently those of Sulphur, compared
very closely with Nux .
The following table shows at a glance where these antidotes
compared and where they differ from the symptoms produced
by Sulphur. Of course in a paper of this kind only the more
prominent symptoms have been selected, as it would be impossi¬
ble to compare the entire pathogenesy of the various drugs.
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Sulphur._ Aconite. _ Camphor.
Upper left side. Lower left side.
Lower right side. Upper right side.
Painless eruptions.
Sleeplessness before mid- Sleeplessness after mid¬
night. n«ght.
Better in bed.
Worse after sleep. Worse during and after
sleep.
Better after sleep.
Worse or better after stool.
Worse after stool.
Better in open air; worse Better in open air.
in doors.
Aversion to open air;
better in open air.
Aversion to fatty things.
Urine often but scanty. Urine infrequent and
scanty.
Urine infrequent and
scanty.
Menses too late, too scanty Menses too late,
and of short duration.
Menses too profuse.
Dreams of fire. Anxious dreams.
Anxious dreams.
Better or worse after sweat. Worse while in a sweat.
Better pfter sweat.
Better or worse when tak- Worse when taking a deep
ing a deep breath. breath.
Worse when looking down. Worse when looking down.
•Better or worse from touch. Worse from touch.
Better on empty stomach.
Worse after breakfast.
Worse after meals.
Sweat increased when walk¬
ing out of doors.
Sweat on back of body. Sweat of the parts lain on.
Sweat increased after meals.
Internal chill with external
heat.
Chill abates in warm room.
Chill lessened in warm
room.
Loss of taste. Loss of taste.
Acute taste.
Worse from sleeping too
long.
Better after a long
sleep.
Better when lying on back; Ditto,
worse lying on side.
Worse when lying on
side; better lying on
back.
Itching relieved by scratch- Itching unchanged by
ing. scratching.
Better from rubbing
and scratching.
Remission p. m. and before Remission during the day
midnight. and before midnight.
Remission in the after¬
noon.
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Chamomilla.
China.
Mercurius.
Left side
Left side, upper left side,
lower right side.
Heat left side.
Painful eruptions.
Painful eruptions.
Painful eruptions.
Sleeplessness before mid¬
night.
Sleeplessness before mid¬
night.
Sleeplessness.
Worse after sleep.
Better after sleep.
Worse after sleep.
Worse after stool.
Worse after stool.
Worse in open air.
Worse in open air; better
in doors.
Worse out doors; better
in doors.
Aversion to broth.
Aversion to fat things.
Aversion to fat things.
Urine often scanty or
copious.
Urine infrequent and
scanty.
Urine often and copious.
Menses too soon and too
profuse.
Menses too soon, profuse
and too long duration.
Menses profuse or
scanty.
Anxious dreams.
Dreams unpleasant.
Dreams of water.
Better after sweat.
Worse after sweat.
Worse after sweat.
Better or worse when tak¬
ing a deep breath.
Worse when taking a
deep breath.
Worse when looking
toward light.
Worse from touch.
Worse from touch.
Worse from touch.
Some complaints better on
empty stomach.
Better on empty stomach;
worse after breakfast.
Worse after meals.
Worse or better after
meals.
Better or worse after
meals.
Sweat increased when and
after getting out of bed.
Sweat lessened in doors.
Sweat increased when
walking out doors.
Sweat only on head or cov¬
ered parts.
Sweat often only on back
part of l>ody.
Sweat on front part of
body.
Sweat lessened after meals. Sweat increased when
eating.
External chill with internal
heat
Chill lessened in warm
room.
Chill lessened in warm
room.
Chill increased in warm
room.
Bitter or fat taste.
Delicate taste.
Loss of taste.
Worse from sleeping too
loftg.
Worse from being awake
at night.
Worse when lying on back; Worse when lying on back; Better when lying on
better lying on side. better lying on side. back; worse lying on
side.
Itching aggravated or un¬
changed by scratching.
Itching lessened by scratch
ing.
- Itching relieved or ag¬
gravated by scratch¬
ing.
Remission cool evening air
or midday heat.
Remission afternoon and
evening.
Remission of complaints
during the day.
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Nux._Pulsatilla._Sepia.
Upper right side.
Right side lower.
Lower right side.
Left side upper.
Painful eruptions.
Painful eruptions. Painful eruptions.
Sleeplessness after mid¬
night.
Sleeplessness before mid- Sleeplessness before
night. midnight.
Better after sleep.
Better or worse after sleep. Better after a good
sleep.
Worse after stool.
Better or worse after stool. Worse or better after
stool.
Worse in open air; better
in doors.
Inclination for open air; Sometimes better, some-
worse in close room. times worse out of
doors in cold air.
Desire for fatty things.
Aversion to fatty food. Aversion to fatty food.
Urine too seldom and
scanty.
Urine infrequent and Urine involuntary, too
scanty. seldom.
Menses too soon, profuse
and of long duration.
Menses too late and too Menses generally too
short. late.
Anxious dreams.
Dreams of money. Indifferent dreams
Better after sweat.
Worse or better after Worse after sweat,
sweat.
Better on inspiration; worse
on expiration.
Better or worse when tak- Better or worse when
ing a deep breath. taking a deep breath.
Worse when looking to¬
wards light.
Worse when looking up. Worse when looking up.
Worse from touch.
Worse from touch. Worse from touch.
Better or worse on empty
stomach; worse after
breakfast.
Worse on empty stomach; Worse after breakfast,
better after breakfast.
Better after warm meals.
Better or worse after meals. Worse or better after
meals.
Sweat increased when walk¬
ing out of doors.
Sweat lessened when walk¬
ing out of doors.
Partial sweat on back part
of body or suffering side.
Partial sweat on back of Sweat on suffering part;
body. sometimes general.
Sweat increased after
meals.
Sweat increased after
eating.
Chill abates in warm room.
Loss of taste.
Loss of taste. Loss of taste.
Worse after sleeping a long Worse after a long sleep. Better after a long
time. sleep.
Generally worse lying on
back; better on side.
Sometimes better when ly- Better when lying on
ing on side and some- right side, worse when
times when lying on lying on left side,
back.
Itching unchanged or
abated by scratching.
Itching unchanged or ag- Itching aggravated by
gravated by scratching. scratching.
Remission evening till mid¬
night.
Remission from midnight Remission after noon,
till noon.
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SOME CLINICAL CASES, WITH COMMENTS.*
PROSPER BENDER, M. D., BOSTON.
•Written for and read before the Boeoninghausen Club, Feb. 10,1896.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: My contribution on this
occasion consists of some clinical cases of more or less interest,
according to the bias of the auditor; but all exemplifying the
great value of the armamentarium at the disposal of every homoeo¬
path—the gift to humanity of the immortal founder of our
school.
My first is that of a tumor of the right ovary diagnosed as
such in the first instance, by a surgeon and gynaecologist who ex¬
amined the patient under ether. She was told that nothing
would avail but an operation, and the sooner it was performed
the better chances it offered of success. This woman, aged 34 r
tall, dark complexioned, had suffered from Severn 1 attacks of
ovaritis, the first following an abortion artificially produced.
These attacks were exceedingly painful, accompanied by fever
and restlessness, and generally lasted 8 to 10 weeks. The pains
radiated from the ovary as spokes from the hub of a wheel,
towards hip, back, abdomen, and the thigh of the affected side.
Status prcesens : Menses regular, but too abundant in quantity,
and lasting too long. Leucorrhcea, yellow in color, especially
after the menses. She wakes in the morning, with a dull head¬
ache, situated over eyes and forehead. Cough, after rising in<
morning; expectoration in greyish balls flying out of the mouth
while coughing; trickling of mucus down posterior nares, easily
brought up per orem\ palpitation of the heart after meals and
when excited. After a hearty meal, vomiting of food, with some
sour mucus. Excitement, or the receipt of unusual news flurried
and confused her. Inclined to be depressed and apprehensive.
Aching of sacrum, more or less constant, > by pressure; dull
pains most of the time in right ovary. While in the recumbent
posture is generally better, but frequently has palpitation of the
heart when lying upon her left side. Fulness of stomach after
food, > by loosening clothes. Perspiration at night during
sleep, chiefly towards morning, and also during the day from
least exercise. Perspiration in armpits, foetid and discoloring
clothes. Feet almost constantly cold and clammy. She is very
sensitive to drafts. Upon the neck a whole colony of tiny, pedic-
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ulated warts. Any wound or scratch of the skin healed slowly.
A tumor, the size of a navel orange, could be felt, by palpation,
in right ovarian region and also per vaginam , and a smaller one,
was found apparently located in the fallopian tube of' the same
side. I prescribed ten doses of Calc, card * 00 to be followed with
Sac. lac. At the expiration of six weeks there was no noticeable
change, except perhaps that the patient was more nervous. Upon
a closer examination of her symptoms, selected and administered
Sanicula* mm for a whole week. Within three weeks the morale
began to improve and soon afterward the physical symptoms
lessened. At the end of a year it was impossible to find any
growth in the ovarian region, although I examined her very care¬
fully. And the gynaecologist who had first diagnosed the case,
corroborates my statement.
It occurs to me I should mention that about three months
after I began the Sanicula , my patient was confined to her bed
with a severe attack of grippe, and some six weeks later she was
laid up with acute neuralgia of a painful character. I did not
like to prescribe anything which might interfere with the action
of the remedy under which she was progressing so favorably, but
I had no choice owing to the distressing character of her suffer¬
ings. I prescribed Eup.perf 200 for the former, and Rhus 800 for the
latter. I mention the remedies as it is possible some of you may
wish to know, with the view of drawing your own inferences as
to the influence they may have had in the ultimate cure. If I
may venture to express an opinion, I do not think the remedies
then given interrupted in the least the impulse given to the vital
force by the first remedy. As soon as my patient was better of
her acute troubles, in both instances I resumed the Sanicula, giv¬
ing it for three days. It may be of some interest to you to hear
that I had occasion to attend this same patient some two years
later for ovaritis on the left side, which she attributed to fatigue
and exposure to cold. The pains were shooting in character
spreading towards hips and back, and down the left thigh to knee,
compelling her to lie upon the back with the limb of the same
side flexed toward the abdomen. The ovary was very sensitive
to pressure of the hands or clothes, and there was much restless¬
ness and nausea as concomitants. A half dozen doses of Lilium
ac ted almost like magic, so rapid was the relief afforded,
and within a week this patient was on her feet again, grateful “to
the little pills” which had wrought so prompt a cure.
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The above case of ovaritis brings to mind a very gratifying
cure which occurred in my practice only a short time ago. The
patient, a nervous subject of bilio-lymphatic temperament, for¬
merly a great sufferer from rheumatic gout, which I am credited
with having cured after many others had failed in their endeav¬
ors, was afflicted on the 4th ultimo with sharp pains in the lum¬
bar region. These pains recurred every night, obliging her to
rise from her bed and walk about; there was some relief from
heat. After two sleepless and painful nights she consulted me.
Rhus* mm enabled her to sleep very comfortably that same night
and she continued well until the 24th when, she believed she
took fresh cold. She sent word that she had sharp pains all over
the abdomen, but chiefly on the left side and also over the left
hip. Her sufferings were increased by motion and she com¬
plained of much nervousness and restlessness. I sent her Actoe
rac* 00 . It quickly subdued, I was told subsequently, the pains
and the nervousness; but two days later her sufferings increased
in severity and seemed to concentrate in left ovary, left hip and
back, with sharp pains extending down the front part of thigh to
leg. I was now requested to visit her. I ascertained that she
had been menstruating 24 hours when she had her chill, and im¬
mediately the menstrual flow ceased. It was replaced by an
abundant greenish leucorrhoea of a very foetid nature. There
was much anxiety and restlessness of mind and body. The
slightest motion increased the pain and yet she could not keep
quiet. Extending the limb of the affected side intensified her
sufferings; moist heat alone palliated the acuteness of the pains.
This heat was obtained by placing over painful region a piece of
moistened spongio-piline upon which was laid a rubber bottle
filled with very hot water. I gave Lac . can dmm every 5 minutes
for 6 doses and then told nurse to give it every hour or two until
relieved. The patient remarked on the occasion of my next visit
that she thought I would laugh at her statement, but she must
say she was actually better before I left the house. She con¬
tinued improving for the next 48 hours, but on the 4th day a new
symptom arising, aching on the outer side of both hips and thighs
on awakening in the morning and lasting all the forenoon, I ad¬
ministered Sepia 200 . A few days later I discharged my patient
well. Perhaps I was impatient when I changed my prescription,
for it is quite likely that Lac . can. alone would have completed
the cure.
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Of course when I make use of the word “cure,” here or else¬
where, I mean it in a relative sense, for an absolute restoration
to health without the existence of one or more symptoms in a man
or woman is certainly unusual. The human being who is entirely
free from some psoric manifestation of one kind or another is a
rara avis indeed, as I think you will all readily admit. And
consequently, when, a hitherto suffering patient tells me, that he
or she is no more nervous, is feeling strong and hearty, is eating
and sleeping well, and the growth or serious inconvenience for
which I have been consulted has disappeared, I feel justified in
speaking of a cure having been performed and crediting the
agency resorted to as the means by which it has been achieved.
Within the last two years I have had a patient afflicted with
interstitial fibroid tumor of the uterus. I had prescribed several
times before I became aware of the actual nature of the victim’s
troubles. She was 44 years of age, of nervo-lymphatic tem¬
perament, with symptoms of menopausic changes going on
—such as frequent recurring menorrhagia, flashes of heat
about head and face, followed by perspiration, with imperative
desire to rush to the window for fresh air, even on the coldest
day or night. The blood discharged contained many small
clots, was very foetid and left a stain of greenish color upon the
napkin. The feet were cold and clammy; back and legs ached
considerably, especially while walking; abdomen swollen < after
meals. The condition of her nerves was one of constant appre¬
hension and restlessness, particularly when driving or in crowds.
She does not like to talk with people, because she often forgets
what she intended to say, embarassing and humiliating her not a
little. I prescribed Lac. can., Lack . and Calc. card, at different
times to meet varying symptoms, the relation of which I will
spare you. I could not, however, notice any effect from these
medicines. Finally I declined to treat her any longer unless she
permitted a vaginal examination to which she reluctantly con¬
sented. I found a fibroid tumor of about the size of a man’s
closed hand, nearly one inch above the os, and to the right of
the uterus. A specialist the next day confirmed my diagnosis
and urged an immediate operation, considering delay dangerous.
I dissented from the latter opinion, as I wished to try further
treatment before I could believe so serious an operation indis¬
pensable. Without any study I then and there prescribed Calc,
tod 30 (the only preparation I had at the time) and gave it three
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times a day for a week. Three weeks later the patient thought
she was feeling less nervous; she had had only two attacks of
metrorrhagia and the loss of blood had been much less too.
From that time she continued gaining in every way, so that 14
months later the growth had decreased to about the size of a
pullet’s egg. And further the patient informed me that “she felt
like a new woman,” and certainly the change for the better, in
her appearance, was striking and gratifying. Whether what re¬
mains will or will not disappear entirely or continue in its pres¬
ent state I do not know, of course; but as long as she feels as well
as she does now, any operation is out of the question, if I have
anything to say in the matter. I may state here en passant , that
about 18 years ago I cured a somewhat similar case, which
created at the time no little sensation in my native city, with the
same remedy in the 3x potency. The patient enjoyed excellent
health for ten years Subsequently, when she suddenly died from
cerebral haemorrhage.
Ia connection with the first case of interstitial fibroid, I have
to acknowledge that in this instance too, I had, some months
after having began the Calc, iod. f to interrupt the favorable in¬
fluences at work, to prescribe for pressing incidental troubles.
I am aware that this is considered reprehensible practice by some
of our leading homoeopathists. We are warned not to do so,
except when absolutely demanded by urgent conditions; but I
must state that I have not seldom done so, and without any ill-
effects or delays in the cure of the patient, in so far as I could
judge. Nor have I always given lower potencies than the one
originally administered, as advised, in the hope that they would
be less likely to disturb the impulse given the vital force towards
the restoration of health. And I may say further, that I have had
occasion, as in the case now under consideration, to give Nux
vom. too, without any disturbing effect. Of course, as soon as
possible after the disappearance of the acute symptoms, I give
three or four more doses of the remedy which I had temporarily
discontinued.
Although not quite germane to this subject, but still bearing
on the treatment of the sick, I would like to add that I have often
been led by the symptoms to return to a remedy in a late stage
of an illness which had failed to relieve in an earlier, and fre¬
quently with gratifying results. I have done this in spite of what
I have often been told would prove useless if attempted. These
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are all personal experiences, and I give them for what they are
worth.
Since I have taken up my residence in this city, most of the in¬
termittent fever patients I have had to treat, had been previously
drugged by the ofd school. I am satisfied with the results of my
practice in treating cases which come to me under such condi¬
tions, but 1 must admit that I accept with some reluctance the
charge of cases that are “new from the mint,” as it were, and
the same confession I humbly make as regards gonorrhoea. I
have no trouble in combatting the acute symptoms of the latter
disease, but the sub-acute stage exercises my patience consider¬
ably, and I fear that of my patients likewise.
But why I should be more successful in making prompt cures
in the intermittent fever or gonorrhoea subject, whose system
has been saturated with drugs are facts beyond my understand¬
ing. I can anticipate the explanations some of you might offer,
but these would not solve the problem to my satisfaction. Of
one thing I am perfectly confident, however, that the trouble or
fault cannot be laid at the door of homoeopathy, but must be
entirely ascribed to the ignorant practitioner who cannot apply
its unerring laws.
I have not essayed Dr. Sawyer’s methods in treating such
cases, and yet take my word for it gentlemen I have cured many
afflicted ones with Natr. mur., Sepia, Lycop . etc in the first class
of diseases, and with Nux , Sep., Thuya etc. in the second. I
could give details of many cures from both classes, but why in¬
flict them upon you when you have your own daily records before
you, which doubtless make a better showing of the efficacy of
the law of similars than my own humble efforts could.
Allow me one word more as regards Dr. Sawyer’s remarkable
achievements. There must be something more than assumption
in his methods, or else we would not hear of so many cures of
aggravated cases of malignant and other affections from un¬
doubted reliable quarters, but personally I have seen little good
from them, except in a few isolated instances. I have however
seen brilliant results from the antidotal effects of Nux after the
abuse of cathartics; Hep. and Nitr . ac. after excessive use of blue
mass; Puls, and Natr. mur. after large doses of quinine etc., but
rarely any satisfactory effect from the potency of the remedy
which had been too freely and injuriously used. Still the future
may have surprises in store for us all.
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But to return to the subject of intermittent fever, J had a case
some time ago which proved a helpful stimulant. A young
man of this city who had gone to live in New York state was
taken a short time after his arrival there with paludial fever.
Not obtaining relief, although under good homoeopathic treat¬
ment, he decided after a while to return here to put himself un¬
der my care. 1 have mislaid the notes I took at the time, but I
remember that the evening of the day he reached Boston, he
awoke out of a sleep with great pressure over the heart and lungs,
and a sense of suffocation and palpitation of the heart. He
could not keep quiet, but walked about, wringing his hands, and
declaring he would surely die unless he was allowed to go out
into the open air. It was difficult to prevent him from leaving
the house, although he had only his night clothes on at the time.
A few doses of Puls 300 soon quieted him in, when he returned to his
bed and slept soundly all that night. In a few days, afterward,
he seemed to have regained his normal condition. Some three
months later, while in Baltimore, Md., he was again attacked
with in*ermittent fever. He had, this time too, homoeopathic
treatment, but as he did not improve he came back to Boston.
His symptoms once more pointing to Puls, it was administered,
and he quickly got well. A few months subsequently while re¬
siding in Dorchester, Mass., he had a violent return of the
old trouble. Every second day, about 7 a. m., a hoarse bark¬
ing cough of the spongia type would set in, and his back
and limbs would ache most painfully, driving him to walk
about. The thirst for cold water was pronounced and he
drank freely of it. About 8 o’clock a violent chill would set in,
shaking the whole bed; chattering of teeth; severe pains in head,
back and legs with great restlessness; intense thirst; face hot; lips
and finger nails blue; hands cold; much pressure over chest and
stomach < while breathing deeply; hoarse cough which increased
head, chest and stomach pains and rasped the throat; tempera¬
ture 104, pulse 120. In about one hour’s time, vomiting of bitter
yellow fluids would set in and soon afterward a profuse warm
sweat, thirst continuing meanwhile. A very peculiar symptom
prevailed during all stages, the water tasted so sweet! Rhus, did
not help, notwithstanding that it was so well indicated. After
two more chills which were almost identical with the preceding
ones,except that they anticipated one hour each time,I gave is*// 200
perf. On the occasion of the next attack which came two hours
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later than the usual time; he had all the prelminary symptoms ac¬
companying the preceding ones, with the exception of the chill
which did not materialize. This time only the stages of heat
and perspiration with their concomitants appeared, but they
were much less intense. The patient has been well since.
Our much esteemed colleague and the distinguished founder
of this club, Dr. Rufus L. Thurston, to whom I happened to re¬
late this case, says that the fever was suppressed and not cured
by the Pulsatilla given some months previous; but I think my¬
self that the patient’s relapse was due to another exposure to
malarial influences. While I generally defer to our friend’s
knowledge and acumen in professional matters, yet in this in¬
stance I will leave to others to decide which of us is correct.
I wish now to touch briefly upon a few of the difficulties which
I have occasionally encountered when in search of the similli-
mum. I am sure that your path to successful prescribing has
been frequently beset by similar trials, and I allude to the sub¬
ject this evening more especially with the hope of receiving new
and inspiring light. Not only do we not always correctly inter¬
pret the symptoms of the patient or those elicited by the prov¬
ings, but we not seldom err in over-rating the importance of cer¬
tain symptoms which are valueless in that particular case, or
again we may subordinate general symptoms which are of more
value than those we choose to consider as peculiar and charac¬
teristic. But it is not my intention this evening to do more than
refer to the above. What I wish more particularly to hear
your views about, relates to certain modalities which we observe
in drug action. Some remedies like Ars., Cycl ., Lyc. f Nux. t
Phos. and Zinc have aggravation of the head symptoms by heat,
while the symptoms of the body are relieved by the same agency;
we have also remedies which show both improvement and aggra¬
vation by heat and cold, as Ars ., and then again we have a med¬
icine like Thuja which has > from heat of the aching eyeballs,
while the aches of the head are > by cool air etc. The same
exceptions are to be found as to motion; some medicines like
Rhus., Bry. and others have < and > by motion, but the aggra¬
vation of the former by motion is exceptional and so is the > by
motion under Bry. Owing to my having overlooked,at times these
exceptional conditions I fear I did not cure some patients as soon
as I should have done. Interpreting an important modality as
pointing to one class of remedies, I have overlooked the other
class where the simillifnum was to be found.
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You may perhaps understand me better, if I cite a few cases
where I have experienced some ot the trials in question. I re¬
call at this moment, one of rheumatism of the dorsal and lumbar
muscles which proved rebellious to treatment for nearly a year,
and finally yielded to a remedy I had not thought of in connec¬
tion with the symptoms. The pains would come on after sitting
or lying for awhile when the aches obliged her to rise and move.
On first moving, the pains were very sharp, but would lessen
after she had walked a few or more steps. I essayed several
medicines, including Rhus, and Puls., with only temporary effect.
One day she was suddenly taken ill with severe abdominal pains,
compelling her to bend forward; while absolutely quiescent there
was not much pain, but the moment she moved, even lifting her
arm, her sufferings would be greatly intensified. Within 15 min¬
utes after taking Bry* w she experienced marked benefit, and the
next day she informed me that I must again make an attempt to
cure her old trouble, for if homoeopathic medicines had such
virtues in acute cases they must also have in chronic difficulties.
In her reply to my queries, I found the back pains had been bet¬
ter since she had taken the Bryonia and consequently I gave her
blanks. To my astonishment from that time she steadily im¬
proved, and a few more doses of Bry ., later on ultimately com¬
pleted the cure.
I am reminded of another case likewise bearing upon excep¬
tional modalities. This was a case of sub-acute inflammatory
rheumatism in a man advanced in years. The pains were in the
feet and legs which were swollen and red; heat of any kind, arti¬
ficial or otherwise, and also motion, unless it were slow, aggra¬
vated all his sufferings. He was given Puls., Thuja, Sepia, Sul.
and Medorrhinum (the latter was because he had gonorrhoea some
years previous), but to no purpose. Finally, not knowing what
else to give, and as > by motion was still a marked condition, I
administered Rhus, ven 80 (the only potency I had then). The
effect was prompt and lasting.
By the bye, this very man came under my care again, about a
month ago. He had enjoyed the best of health in the meantime,
until a few days previous, when a severe ache over the right gluteal
region and back set in. The pains would appear between 7 and
8 p. m., and last all night; they were aggravated lying down or
sitting; > rising and exercising—in fact the only ease he experi¬
enced was while walking, and if in doors he would remove his
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clothes so as to keep cool. When trying to get rest in bed he would
lie with the aching part exposed,for the heat of the bed<the pains.
The poor old fellow was much depressed and inclined to weep.
I gave him Puls . uselessly; Rhus . vet i 30 , Rhus . /ox, Lycop and
Thuja also signally failed. At one time he became very irritable
and the anguish from the pains so marked that I felt sure Cham.
would afford him ease, but I was grievously disappointed. I
then decided to give him a few doses of Sulph^ mm as an inter-
current, and afterwards take another picture of his case, when lo
and behold he began to improve, and soon “Richard was him¬
self again” to the gratification of both of us.
One more instance: A young woman who had suffered at in¬
tervals for several years from attacks of very acute abdominal
pains, notwithstanding the best Christian science treatment avail¬
able in this city, decided at the urgent solicitation of friends to
place herself under my care. The paroxysms came on at irreg¬
ular periods, and apparently without any particular cause.
They would last several days with aggravation between 6 and 7
p. m. The abdomen was generally sensitive to touch or pressure;
the pain being especially accentuated as the pressure of the hand
was being removed. During the exacerbation of pain there were
nausea, weakness and free warm perspiration. She described
the pain as a distressing ache felt chiefly over the uterine region.
It was not made worse in any marked degree by exercise, but
there was decided aggravation afterwards. The only relief she
experienced was when lying on either side with limbs drawn
up. She complained of much aching over sacral region, < lying
on back and during motion. More or less of the time she felt
a void, or empty feeling in abdomen, with occasional pul¬
sating sensation in the same locality. Pressure over dorsal ver¬
tebrae caused nausea. She was intolerant of warmth in the room,
the heat made her faint, but she thought heat over seat of aches
afforded comfort. Sudden flushes of heat would come over her
at times with a sense of suffocation, necessitating the opening of
windows for the admission of fresh air. The beginning of this
trouble came after getting her feet wet while menstruating, and
was doubtless rheumatic in character She had never been preg¬
nant and yet the uterus seemed that of a woman’s who had re¬
cently miscarried. It was enlarged and sensitive to touch, with
os soft and patulous. I never found a womb in the same state
before, under similar circumstances, but once, and the cross-
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examination, to use a legal phrase, I submitted my patient to, some¬
what offended her. I believe, however, that she told the truth.
During one of her attacks she complained of a pain extending
from the abdomen to the rectum, and this led me, with other
symptoms present, to prescribe Nux vom™> which effectively re¬
lieved her, improving her general condition for quite awhile.
The remedy, however, which ultimately cured her was Vcratr. alb.
I have yet another clinical narrative to submit to you, but
pray pick up courage it is my last this evening. A young woman
who had been troubled with headaches for several yeais and who
had been prescribed for unsuccessfully by practitioners of both
schools, came to live in this vicinity. As I had attended her
mother some years previously she decided to consult me. She
com plained most of the time of much aching in occiput, extending
to vertex and temples, with occasional throbbing of the whole
head < from heat of room, from sleeping and during rainy
weather. Rest, local applications of ice and the open air were
the ameliorating conditions. Very much depressed, weeping
most of the time, and easily startled from the least noise. Little
appetite, but she would occasionally waken in the middle of the
night with sinking at epigastrium, > by food. Frequent desire
to stool without ability to empty the bowels, except by means of
enemas; stools large in caliber. Sharp pain low down in sacrum
when moving, while seated or when rising from the sitting pos¬
ture, but at no other time. Cramps in the legs at night, < while
stretching limbs. I gave Sulph Amm without any result. She now
mentioned that any pressure around the neck < the head pains
and also sleep. I prescribed Lack 2 ™. At the end of a week
she reported that she had not improved in the least and was dis¬
couraged. In addition to the above symptoms she said that she
had had for the last few days recurring cramps in her stomach
which were very distressing. I was in a hurry at the time and
instead of giving her Sac. lac ., as I usually do under such circum¬
stances until I have had time to study the case, I hastily pre¬
scribed Nux vom 20 °. I think that at the time there was running
through my mind a lurking suspicion that some of the symptoms
present were possibly due to drug effects, and therefore it might
be well to give this medicine as an antidote. A month now
elapsed without hearing from my patient,and I had about conclud¬
ed that she had deserted me for a more skillful medical attendant,
when one afternoon she walked into my office looking ruddy in
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health and radiantly happy. She informed me that the very
same evening of the day I gave her the last medicine she felt bet¬
ter and soon afterwards her headache vanished. She became
pregnant some months later, and was safely delivered by me of
a healthy child last December.
The only conclusion I can draw from these several experiences
is that we do not often enough take into consideration the
secondary or exceptional effects of remedies, and in that way
fail to bring about the cures we could otherwise make, or at any
rate unnecessarily delay their completion. We must therefore
seek to acquire a better knowledge of the action and reaction of
drugs.
In matters of faith, individual views or inclinations guide one;
but in all relating to science, notably medicine, the crucible of
experience is the only touch stone. The successful treatment of
the cases of ovarian and uterine tumors I have so imperfectly de¬
scribed, and the many cures cited by members of the club at our
meetings, could not have been accomplished without the aid of
the infallible compass of the law of similars, the discovery of
which is the crowning glory of modern times, surrounding Hah¬
nemann’s brow with a halo such as no other mortal deserved.
The remarkable therapeutical truths promulgated by this great
benefactor o c his race, are daily, aye, hourly, verified the world
over in the practice of thousands of his followers, bringing solace
and comfort to the afflicted in millions of homes.
There have been but two deaths out of ninety major opera¬
tions at the new hospital for women in Euston Road, London,
England. All the surgeons are women.
After you have put a man through your routine treatment and
he fails to get well, do not tell him medical science has done
all it could for him, and he would better try. another climate,
some health springs, etc. Such a course is mere shrinking.
Conclude, rather, that your routine is not suited to all and indi¬
vidualize your cases. Study up each on its merits. Doubtless
there are many excellent drugs which have served other physi¬
cians well, but which you have never tried because you had
your regular routine. A routine has its advantages, it saves time
and thought, but it is sometime an obstruction in the path of
progress.— Med. Fortnightly .
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Clinical Verifications.
BLIND FISTULA IN ANO.
FRANK R. WATERS, M. D.
PROF. DISEASES OF THE THORAX AND PHYS. DIAG. DUNHAM MEDICAL COLLEGE.
Mr. B., age 27, tall, dark hair, brown eyes, light complexion,
nervo-bilious constitution.
In the fall of ’96 developed what appeared to be an abscess near
the joint of the coccyx, causing him to stop bicycling for the re¬
mainder of the season. Being a long distance and hard rider,
thought it might have come from some bruise or friction, not
having noticed it before.
Had made all arrangements to have an operation and lay up
for two or three weeks. When his “best girl” hearing of an in¬
tended operation made him promise that he would go and see a
homoeopath first. He went.
Jan. 19, ’97. The condition was as before stated an indura¬
tion near the joint of coccyx, sensitive to touch, inflamed, occa¬
sional needle-like stitches with a hardened ridge running toward
the anus and a fistulous opening above the sphincter. He said
a mattery-like substance escaped through the anus, at intervals
of a day or two. After finding that scratches and other injuries
would tend to ulcerate, could get no other symptoms. Hepar ■ 60m .
Improvement was continuous with two or three slight aggrava¬
tions from incomplete drainage through the anal opening which
took care of themselves and gradually decreased in size.
April 19. Case discharged—cure complete—century runs
continued.
Feb. 1, ’98. No further trouble, now on the way to Alaska.
FIBROID—ANTIDOTAL.
Mrs. R., age 26, sandy complexion, dark eyes, medium figure.
1892 treafed for chancre. Had been mercurialized. Sliver¬
like sensation in chancre from touch, bleeding easily. Nitric
ac* x was used and chancre disappeared.
April 10, ’97. Appeared at office, very nervous, complaining
of a lump that had developed in the left breast, lower outer seg¬
ment. Had been noticed in the last five weeks.
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Now especially sensitive from the pressure of corset st&ys.
Size at this time of an English walnut, hard, smooth, non-adherent.
Had no symptoms of aggravation at menstrual period, which was
normal.
Abnormal amount of saliva.
Perspiration on slight exertion.
Restless latter part of night.
Metallic taste in the morning.
Amalgam fillings. Merc fi0m .
May 6. Fillings removed.
Improved. Tumor noticeably decreased. Sac . lac.
July 10. Improving. Tumor size of a shelled almond. Sac. lac.
Feb. 12,'98. Sore throat. Increased saliva, < stormy weather.
Merc cm .
Says she has not thought of tumor for months. It cannot be
found.
HOW TO HANDLE CANNED FRUIT.
Open a can of peaches, apricots, cherries or other fruit—for
all fruit is acidulous—let it stand for some time and the fruit
acids and the tin are ready to do their work of poisoning. A
chemical knowledge that tells just how the dangerous compound
is created is unnecessary to an avoidance of the peril. The rule
to follow is never to make lemonade or other acidulated drinks
in a tin bucket nor allow them to stand in a vessel of tin, and in
the case of canned fruits or fish immediately upon opening the
can turn* the contents out upon an earthenware plate, or into a
dish made of earthenware or glass. Fruits in hermetically sealed
cans, if properly prepared, generate no poison. As soon as
opened the action of the acid on the tin, with the aid of the
atmosphere, begins, and in a short time the result is deadly
poison. This brief treatment of the question should be remem¬
bered by every one and its instructions followed. The general
press also should aid in disseminating this simple knowledge.—
Fruit Grower .
Keller, British Medical Journal , is one of those who now dis¬
pense with ligation of the umbilical cord, as unnatural, tending
to cause secondary hemorrhage from inflamed tissues, and as
dangerous from raising pressure in the right ventricle.
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peMatrke.
HEREDITARY SYPHILIS.
R. M. BARROWS, B. S., M. D., CHICAGO.
PROF. OF PEDIATRICS, DUNHAM MEDICAL COLLEGE.
My attention has been directed to this disease by a case sent
to me by a neighboring physician some weeks ago. The case
was of an infant three weeks old who was born with symptoms
of this terrible disease. The mother had lost her two previous
children, both being still born. The prognosis of the case given
me by the physician and friends was a fatal ending in a short
time, and if candidly asked mine after examining the child I
would have confirmed their statement. Before stating the case
to you and giving symptoms and treatment it might not be amiss
to review briefly the salient points of this disease. Syphilis in
children may be inherited or acquired. While the former is the
most common, we should not forget the later is possible. Syph¬
ilis is inherited from the father or mother separately or both
conjoined.
When the transmission is by the latter method the effect of the
syphilitic poison on the foetus is intense, resulting in an abortion
or if the child is carried to full term, it is still born.
Some authors deny the paternal transmission of this disease—
but the majority favor it. Vogel declares that the majority of
these cases descends from the father.
It has been considered that the power to transmit this disease
is lost at the end of six years. This time can be reduced by
treatment.
It will follow then that the chances of the infection of the
foetus and the severity of the type of this disease, if infected,
will depend on the activity of syphilis in one or both parents.
It is a curious phenomenon that a child may be born syphilitic
and no trace of the disease can be discovered in the mother.
Some authors explain this by declaring the mother has the dis¬
ease but in a latent form.
A physician should early diagnose this disease in an infant for
if a wet nurse should be employed and she should contract
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syphilis through an abraded nipple legal questions might arise of
a not very pleasant nature to the doctor employed.
Syphilitic symptoms sometimes show themselves at birth, but
but more often do not develop for from ten to thirty days or
even longer. There is also a latent type appearing in childhood
whose earlier symptoms have been so mild as to be overlooked.
The earlier the symptoms show themselves after birth the severer
the type and conversely the later the disease manifests itself, the
milder it appears and the more amenable to treatment.
The child may be born looking healthy only to develop later
the symptoms of this dread disease. Those symptoms which ap¬
pear upon the skin and mucus membrane are the first to appear
and later those of deeper tissues, as the bones, internal organs
spinal cord and brain.
There is a characteristic syphilitic rash resembling roseola
which is easily diagnosed from it by its change from red to a
copperish tinge. This is pustular eruption and may cover the
whole body, sometimes it exudes a serum and forms yellow scabs.
Syphilitic pemphigus accompanies severe types of this disease,
especially on the palmer surfaces of the hands and feet. The
pustules contains a purulent secretion which usually bursts in a
few days leaving superficial ulcer. These cases are said to be
invariably fatal.
A persistent and distressing coryza is rarely absent in these
cases. There is purulent discharge which excoriates lips and ex¬
tends to the face making ugly sores. The nose becomes blocked
up so a child has to breath with mouth open. If the disease is
not arrested, ulcers may form in nose and caries, destroy the na¬
sal bones.
The most characteristic lesions of syphilis in children are the
cutaneous ulcers and fissures which break out afterbirth. These
appear in the mucus outlets of the body, as mouth, anus and va¬
gina, and when the parts are stretched bleed easily.
In severe cases we have mal nutrition from the atrophy of all
the structures of the body, the child presenting a weazen ap¬
pearance. These cases are usually fatal.
Many other structures of the body may be affected, as the en¬
largement of the epyphyses of the long bones, also inflammation
of phalanges; the early decay of the teeth, certain eye troubles,
loss of hair, besides general nervous disturbances. The obstinate
wakefulness at night which easily appears in this disease is often
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quite persistent and distressing. It is supposed to be caused by
nocturnal pains in the bones.
With this brief resume, we will proceed to the case in point.
When called I found our little patient a girl of three weeks in a
decidedly horrible state. The face of the baby was covered
about mouth, lips and cheeks with an ulcerated looking surface.
Its nose was stopped so it had to breath through the mouth. A
good deal of mucus came from the nose. The child looked
puney with withered hands and feet,, the nails were clubbed on
fingers, and fingers were curved in so it was hard to open them
out. The skin on palms of hand was loose and unhealthy look¬
ing. The phalanges on the little and ring finger of the right hand
was swollen and red. The skin on body and limbs hung in folds
showing the child had lost flesh. I learned that the baby had
been suffering almost from birth with catarrh, but it seems to di¬
gest its food fairly well.
The child was bottle fed. From the symptoms present and
what history I could gather through mother and nurse, I diag¬
nosed hereditary syphilis. My first prescription was Mercurius
cor* m for the catarrhal symptoms present, but with no appreci¬
able effect. I th'en gave Syphil/inum cm one powder and when I
called the next morning found my patient much worse. It seem
to bring to the surface many new symptoms and intensify old
ones. The gums and lips began to bleed, so we had to stop the
bottle and feed the baby with a spoon. Large nodules raised on
the baby’s head, and the sub-maxillary and sub-lingual glands
swelled up. The oder from the discharges from mouth and nose
was like a stench, filling the whole room. The inflamed fingers
swelled up much larger. The mother complained that the baby
didn’t sleep at night. Had to be taken every few minutes, also
baby’s appetite seem to fail. The catarrh seemed even worse
and the face was still a disgusting sight. My next prescription
was Nitric acid ^ m . The tendancy to bleeding of gums and lips,
foetid nasal discharge, odor from the mouth and sleeplessness led
me to this remedy. The effect of this drug was a very marked
improvement in a week, no other remedy being given. The ca¬
tarrh had entirely disappeared, the face was nearly cleared, the
bleeding of the mouth had ceased, so we could return to the
bottle again. The child could breath through its nose and its
night sleeping had greatly improved. With the catarrh the odor
entirely disappeared, nor did either appear again in the case.
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The only other remedy the case required to complete a cure was
Silica 60 ” 1 for the swelled glands and the boil-like excrescences on
the head. The hypertrophied glands slowly disappeared, the
swellings on the head and fingers speedily came to a focus and
discharged a yellow healthy looking pus that quickly dried up
and when I left the case/the head, face and hands looked as
healthy as any baby of her age.
DON’T.
Dr. Luther C. Toney, offers the following valuable suggestions.
Don’t fail to say “insanity is an exaggeration of sanity”
(Toney), if you wish to avoid the lawyers’ arrows.
Don’t say insanity exists because of inability to tell the differ¬
ence between right and wrong.
Don’t call delusions insanity. Some are sane delusions, and
hallucinations should not be used for delusions, as is often done,
and partial insanity exists no more than partial syphilis. Men
of strong minds have delusions. Lord Kenyon had an unrea¬
soning fear of poverty; so had Lord Stowell, though a man of
immense lortune, his home was destitute of the comforts of life.
Lord Erskine would not remain in company with thirteen per¬
sons. Lord Eldon, after giving his opinion, was in grave doubts.
Judge Breckenridge, of Pennsylvania, on a hot day, holding
Court at Sunbury, took off all his clothes, till he sat naked on
the bench. Judge Baldwin, of the U. S. Supreme Court was a
hypochondriac. A distinguished New England Judge imagined
that a dropsical affection that he had was a pregnancy None
of these men was insane. In a sense, all unfounded suspicions
are delusions, but they do not for that reason excuse crime.
Don’t forget that a bag of shot at wrist often stops bleeding
from the hand.
Don’t forget that “asylums are cemeteries of unexecuted mor¬
bid influences.”
Don’t try fluctuation across, but along, a muscle.
Don’t forget to open abscesses early when situated, (a) in the
neighborhood of the joints, (£) in the abdominal wall, (*r) in the
neck under the deep fascia, (d) in the palm of hand, (<r) beneath
the periosteum, (/) in the rectum, (g) prostate, (A) urethra.
Don’t treat a sprain with placebos. Apply adhesive “splints.”
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Editorial.
TO STUDENTS OF MATERIA MEDICA.
Since the Homceopathician should be and is par excellence a
scientific prescriber, it follows that he must be a thorough stu¬
dent of drug action upon the human organism, in all its phases.
He must know the elementary principles that underlie the ther¬
apeutic application of the forces represented in materia medica,
as well as those principles that are the guide to the use of those
forces, in accord with the law of prescribing.
It is not enough that he should have a retentive memory of
characteristics, key notes, etc., etc., but that memory must act
in the line of accumulating knowledge that goes to make the
wisdom of the successful prescriber. Botany, Toxicology,
Chemistry are useful ai>d necessary, with the physiology of
health, and that of drug disease , as it occurs in the prover, and
in clinical experience, that he may recognize the changes that
are due to the artificial or accidental presence of a substance in
the economy, as also the pathological or other manifestations
that are due to spontaneous or natural disease movement. Our
student must know and be quick to recognize all the factors that
collectively form the group of phenomena classed as the primary
or physiological action of the drug, and the further phenomena
that are not, strictly speaking, physiological action of the drug
but the physiological reaction of the power of life, or secondary
action. The knowledge of the primary action is necessary to
the medical man, irrespective of his particular creed or school,
is demanded by the accidents and emergencies that call for his
services. That of secondary reaction is of utmost value to the
presciiber, as it is the guide to the procedure in “healing the
sick” by applying or directing the forces that form the arm¬
amentarium of the homceopathician under the law, “Similia
Similibus Curantur.”
Study of primary physiological phenomena includes observa¬
tion and classification of perturbations and changes from orderly
functional activity, while the organism is in the first stage, so to
speak, of this mechanical irritation, and also the nosological
relationship between the degree of disturbance and its quality
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(as referred to injury or danger to life) and the size or strength
of the dose,—in a word Toxicology. Then comes in close touch
with this first action, and the second or reaction, the study of
that very valuable element in the student’s progress, Suscepti¬
bility. Knowledge of this factor will add very much indeed to
the wisdom of the prescriber and value of materia medica
knowledge.
All of this helps us to understand that our student in laying
the foundations, or fundamental beginnings of knowing materia
medica, is preforce a student of the physiology of health, as well
also that drugged healthy that he may know how far the mani¬
festations lean toward literal disaster and death, or away from it.
He must gain knowledge of the power ot life as it behaves in
health, in order to know or recognize the conditions of that
power Of life when swayed by the power of drug (life) or force in
health and disease. Thus in his progress, which is laborious at
first, he will be led into a growing knowledge of the real plan of
curative relationship between drug force and disease force, un¬
der the law. Dr. Latham many years ago, said: “After all,
remedies are the best analyzers of disease”—and we as students
will learn that disease is the best analyzer of remedies.
We look upon practitioners as students, none are too old to
learn, and the Advocate asks the help of all to make this de¬
partment of real assistance in adding to our knowledge of “this
most distinctive branch of our school,” as Dunham said of
materia medica. Send us facts of experience, clean cut verifica¬
tions, especially those aiding in comparisons, differentiations,
and relationships of drugs as remedies.
We will offer a schematic suggestion of method for study in
the near future, which may be open to criticisms which will be
valuable as it will tend to remove error or add help to this de¬
partment.
Frederick O. Pease.
INJURIES TO ELBOW.
The Homoeopathic Journal of Surgery and Gynecology presents
the following excellent suggestions in cases of recent injury to
the elbow joint where the pain and swelling are too great to
enable the physician or surgeon to make a proper diagnosis.
Put patient under anesthetic. Apply an Esmarch’s elastic bandage, start¬
ing at the hand and going very slowly but firmly up the forearm, over the
swollen elbow joint and so on until the arm pit has been reached. Leave the
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bandage on for—let us say—fifteen minutes. At the end of this time, remove
it, beginning at the hand, but leaving the final few turns at the upper part of
the arm still tightly in place.
The elbow thus exposed will be pale, bloodless, and no longer swollen. All
the congestion, all the oedema for the time being gone.
The diagnosis can now be made with comparative ease. If there is a dislo¬
cation it can be reduced; if a fracture it is set. The remaining turns of the
Esmarch bandage are now removed and the swelling allowed to assume its old
condition, but the surgeon has accomplished his purpose. He knows the real
position and is able to protect his own reputation. The proper line of treat¬
ment can be clearly formulated and a prognosis made with some degree of
accuracy.
THE OUTLOOK OF MEDICINE.
The editor of the American Journal of Surgery and Gyncecology
presents a pesimistic outlook for the medical world in the March
issue of his journal. He says:
“To the close student of current events in the medical world the outlook for
the near future is not a bright one. In every direction—for some occult reason
—the tendency seems to be downward. This is true not only of the great cities
where too frequently (as in St. Louis) the men who have been considered lead¬
ers have so prostituted themselves as to conduct cheap hospitals, to advertise
themselves in the daily press, to send “drummers” throughtout the country
stealing patients from their local medical advisers, etc., but also to the smaller
towns and the country at large; there appears everywhere an inclination to de¬
generacy in the body medical.”
A stream can never rise above the level of its source and be¬
cause a man puts on the professional gown of the physician, does
not of necessity elevate the standard of his moral character. A
different class of men are being attracted to the study of medi¬
cine in this country than in any other. The commercial spirit is
so pronounced that no thinking, observing mind can wonder at
the rivalry and strife and position so prevalent throughout the
length and breadth of this great land. This rivalry naturally de¬
velops business lad at the expense of scholarly attainment , and
demads the employment of means found successful in the busi¬
ness world for the building of a successful business career. This
spirit is so prevalent that the usual salutation now-a-day is “How
is business'* instead of “How is practice.”
“It is probably true that the doctors are themselves greatly to blame. The
way in which members of the “regular” (!)—God save the mark!—profession
have vilified and abused their “homoeopathic” and eclectic” brethren in the
past and the spirited manner in which these practioners have repelled attacks,
have had much to do with their fall in public opinion. The time is ripe for the
burying of sectarianism in medicine. If the progressive, honest, far-seeing
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members of the American Medical Association will openly and freely pass a
resolution which shall allow all affiliating bodies to accept for membership,
graduates of reputable homoeopathic and eclectic schools, who do not use the
term “homoeopath” or “eclectic” to trade upon, who are simply known as “phy¬
sicians” and practice as they please (as do we all), and allow consultation with
such practitioners, the problem of obliteration will soon solve itself; and one of
the chief obstacles to proper medical legislation will have been removed.”
The same spirit which promulgated sectarianism in religion
prevails in medical circles even to this day— ignorance. Bigotry
is only another and more hateful name. It is just as pronounced
today as it was at the beginning of the century. The advances
made in medical science have been so neutralized by this spirit
of nineteenth century enterprise, that the most important ques¬
tions considered by the majority of our State Boards of Health,
prompted by the profession of which they are a part, is, How
can we regulate the practice of medicine so as to protect—not
the dear people—me and my friends?
It will do no good for the American Medical Association to
pass a resolution allowing outsiders to come under the protect¬
ing arm of their society. No one wants to go because there is
nothing to be gained except in the line of class legislation. So
far as healing the sick is concerned—and that should be the sole
duty of the physician—the follower of Hahnemann has no favors
to ask of any one; but notwithstanding the superior excellence
of their work—and comparative statistics has thoroughly estab¬
lished this claim—they are always willing to welcome any in¬
quiring mind into their fold, setting forth the best things in their
possession for the entertainment of their guest, who usually be¬
comes an enthusiastic brother.
“The old plea that homoeopaths and eclectics are ignorant, or not well
grounded in the fundamental branches of medicine, no longer ho ds good. To¬
day the average graduate of one of the “sectarian schools” is “as well posted”
—to use a purely medical expression which originated when and where no one
seems so know—as his “regular” opponent; the course of instruction he had was
just as thorough, just as liberal, just as complete (except in the one item of ma¬
teria medica), and the terms of admission to the school probably higher than
those which governed the other.”
For many years, the so-called “sectarian schools’* have led in
the demand for higher education and the dominant school has
boen compelled to follow in the wake.
Conceding that the tendency of the medical profession seems
to be away from the highest ideals of professional dignity and
honor, what is the remedy? Brother Lamphear says:
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“Let every city and county medical society in th^*country which is in affilia¬
tion with the American Medical Association pass this resolution and instruct its
delegates to vote for it:
Resoirtd, That henceforth all local and State medical societies in affiliation
with the American Medical Association be permitted to admit to full member¬
ship any graduate of a reputable homoeopathic or eclectic college who is an hon¬
orable man, a conscientious practitioner and who does not use the name “homoeo¬
path” or “eclectic” upon his sign or card or in any other manner calculated to
secure business upon the assumption that he is practising some peculiar system
of medicine.”
Truth ultimately v/ill prevail and this process of evolution must
keep step with the advance of civilization. No one can hasten
the march by legislative measures unless these measures become
so offensive that the people rise in their might and wipe them off
the statute books. In which case they are liable to have their
eyes opened to the truth and thereby hasten the millennium.
The time will come when the government will establish schools,
similar to those in the days of Athen’s greatness, in which the ut¬
most liberty will be given for the investigation of all forms of
scientific research, and in that day, medicine will become a science;
and the believers in the theory of potential energy applied in ac¬
cord with similia similibus curantur have no reason for dreading
the coming of that day.
H. W. Pierson.
NOT A PRACTICAL OPERATION.
The operation of Schlatter, the successful removal from the
living human subject of the entire stomach, is one of the most
extra 9 rdinary feats of operative surgery in the history of the
world. It is possible the foremost of all surgical providences,
when all the circumstances are considered. But the perform¬
ance is not destined to travel much beyond the leaves of the
record of the curiosities of medical practice. As a life-saving
measure it will have no practical value. It has been performed
twice within a short time in America, at St. Louis and again
in Milwaukee, both cases ending fatally; it will doubtless be at¬
tempted many times hereafter, but it is almost too much to hope
that it will add a hundred years to human life within the next
century. It is applicable, in the abstract, only in malignant dis¬
ease of old people, and its performance requires such prolonged
and dangerous manipulation that a death-rate approaching a
hundred per cent, may be depended upon.
Watts’ great feat of tying the innominata artery was performed
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on May 16, 1818, and is justly esteemed as one of the greatest
triumphs of human skill, but the operation has not added as
many years to human life as have elapsed since the date of its
first performance. Many of the wisest and most skillful sur¬
geons doubt whether it is even a justifiable operation. The ab¬
dominal aorta has been ligated ten or more times in the living
subject, but no patient has survived longer than a few days.
The nineteenth century is so full of surgical glory that little re¬
mains to be won in legitimate fields hereafter. The greatest and
most beneficient discovery of all time, surgical anaesthesia, be¬
longs to this century, but it is so transcendantly great that the
human mind can hardly comprehend its vastness. Its blessings
are accepted like sunlight and pure air, things that require no
eulogiums from human tongues. We do not doubt that pleas¬
anter and safer agencies for inducing anaesthesia will be brought
forth in the future, but the principle itself reflects undying glory
upon the noble profession that gave it to the world.
The twentieth century will turn from the glories of surgery and
therapeutics to the greater glories of preventive medicine. The
destinies of the human family are too important to turn upon the
edge of a knife or a bottle of pills. Cancer is on the increase.
This is not creditable to our knowledge and skill. To cure a
malignant tumor is a splendid work of art, but to prevent the ap¬
pearance of a tumor is yet a more perfect work. In this con¬
nection we recall nothing so appropriate and eloquent as the clos¬
ing paragraph of the famous McDowell memorial oration of
Prof. Samuel D. Gross.
“Young men of the Kentucky State Medical Society, listen to
the voice of one who has grown old in his profession, and who
will probably never address you again, as he utters a parting
word of advise. The great question of the day is, not this opera¬
tion or that, not ovariotomy nor lithotomy, nor a hip-joint am¬
putation, which have reflected so much glory upon Kentucky
medicine, but is preventive medicine, the hygiene of our persons,
our dwellings, our streets; in a word, our surroundings, whatever
they may be, whether in city, town, hamlet, or country, and the
establishment of efficient town and state boards of health, through
whose agency we shall be better able to prevent the origin and
fatal effects of what are known as the zymotic diseases, which
carry so much woe and sorrow into our families, and which often
sweep, like a hurricane, over the earth, destroying millions of
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human lives in an incredibly short time. The day has arrived
when the people must be aroused to deeper and more earnest
sense of the people’s welfare, and when suitable measures must
be adopted for their protection as well as for the better develop¬
ment of their physical, moral and intellectual powers. This is
the great problem of the day, the question which you as the
representatives of the rising generation of physicians, should urge,
in season and out of season, on the attention of your fellow citi¬
zens; the question which, above all others, should engage your
most serious thoughts and elicit your most earnest co-operation.
When this great, this mighty object shall be attained; when man
shall be able to prevent disease and to reach with little or no suf¬
fering his three score and ten, so graphically described by the
psalmist, then, but not till then, will the world be a paradise.
With God Almighty, all-wise and all-merciful, in its midst, re¬
flecting the glory of his majesty and power, and holding sweet
converse in a thousand tongues with the human family.”
Howard Crutcher.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MENTAL SYMPTOMS IN
NERVOUS DISEASES.
We all know from experience the importance of the mental
symptoms in prescribing for a patient, and the importance which
Hahnemann gave to them.
We can see the objective symptoms such as tissue changes etc.,
and hear a recital of the objective symptoms, after which, we
are as a general rule, no nearer a true simillimum than in the be¬
ginning, from the fact that so many remedies will appear to be
indicated, by having changes in tissue, discharges, eruptions, etc.,
so much alike that it will be impossible to select our remedy from
the number as a true simillimum with any certainty, it would be
purely guess work.
It is in just such cases, that the importance and value of the
mental symptoms are realized, for it is through these that we
learn the peculiarities of the patient, and how differently patients
are affected by the same diseases; in this way leading to the se¬
lection of one remedy that is peculiar to each patient from among
a number of remedies. Hahnemann says, “after carefully tak¬
ing all the symptoms, both subjective and objective into con¬
sideration, then lay special stress upon the mental symptoms.”
This is true from the fact that the disturbed vital force manifests
itself through the nervous system, which contain it.
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The brain, the greatest nerve center would naturally then pre¬
sent the truest picture of how the disease producing element af¬
fects one individual differently than another, as it is through
the brain and nervous system that we should expect to get the
peculiar symptoms, those that are not common to the disease
but peculiar to the one patient and by which only the similli-
mum can be selected. Where the importance of the mental
symptoms is true to all diseases, it is decidedly true in the class-
known as nervous diseases, and it is through the importance given
these symptoms, that Homoeopathy has gained such advant¬
age over the old school in treating this class of cases in par¬
ticular.
While it is highly important that we as practitioners are able
to diagnose , (congestions of the brain and cord, hypertrophy or
atrophy of nervous tissue here and there), in fact all disease con¬
ditions so as to be equally as skillful as our neighbors, yet we
have the advantage over them in treating the patient (or the pe¬
culiar symptoms) instead of the pathological changes which are
as much the effects of the disease as are the symptoms.
For illustration.—Sufferer from mental diseases, may have gen¬
eral symptoms very much alike, as stomach troubles etc., which
would be of no importance to us whatever in selecting the remedy.
So many of our remedies have general symptoms so much alike
that it is almost impossible to distinguish them, but they do not
have all the mental conditions, such as being jolly or sad, irrita¬
ble, or patient.
I might go on indefinately with these illustrations since they are
as different in this respect as people.
When we get such symptoms as, proud t haughty , dictatorial in
our case, in another the opposite mental condition, how can one
help but select the proper remedy, when he studies the charac¬
teristics of the different remedies as he studies the characteristics
of the different patients, in order to draw out these peculiarities.
F. H. Lockwood.
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BE THOROUGH IN YOUR EXAMINATIONS.
It should be a crime for any physician to trifle with the slight¬
est ailment of any patient. Life is so precious to the sick and
should be so sacred to every physician that every source of
knowledge should be employed in the preliminary study of every
case, because from small beginnings come the most serious con¬
sequences. The child of today “takes cold” easily, has croup
under certain conditions, may have sore throat, receives “home
treatment” or an occasional prescription from the family physi¬
cian. When the burden of active business life begins to demand
much of him he succumbs to nervous prostration Bright’s dis¬
ease etc. A thorough knowledge of the probable outcome of
such constitutions would lead the “family” physician to recog¬
nize the tendency in its incipiency and the correction of disease
manifestations that would have saved much suffering and many
failures in life.
There are two classes of physicians who are to be avoided.
The first class makes light of every ailment, because it requires
too much exertion and time to make a thorough systematic study
of the case, while the second makes no more thorough examina¬
tion, but magnifies the importance of every symptom for the
purpose of securing the self aggrandizement which follows the
rapid amelioration of superficial and therefore temporary suffer¬
ing. There is a happy mean between these two extremes occu¬
pied by the careful, consciencious, thoroughly reliable student
of health. He is known and honored of all men; and no one
is quicker to recognize and appreciate his sterling worth than
members of that large first class.
In every case of sufficient importance to warrant the patient in
seeking the advise of a physician, you can be certain that they
will appreciate the thoroughness which removes uncertainties and
gives a clearly defined positiveness to the report, and it may be
noted in passing that such practitioners are always busy.
The instructions given by Hahnemann have never been im¬
proved upon and can bear frequent repetition.
“The patient details the history of his sufferings; those about him tell what
they have heard him complain of, how he has behaved and what they have no¬
ticed in him; the physician sees, hears, and remarks by bis other senses what
there is of an altered or unusual character about him. He writes down accu¬
rately all that the patient and his friends have told him in the very expressions
used by them. Keeping silence himself he allows them to say all they have to
say, and refrains from interrupting unless they wander off to other matters.
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The physician advises them at the beginning of the examination to speak slowly,
in order that he may take down in writing the important parts or what the
speakers say.
He begins a fresh line with every new circumstance mentioned by the patient
or his friends, so that the symptoms shall all be ranged separately one below the
other. He can thus add to any one, that may at first have been related in too
vague a manner, but subsequently more explicitly detailed.
When the narrators have finished what they would say of their own accord,
the physician then reverts to each particular symptom and elicits more precise
information respecting it in the following manner: He reads over the symp¬
toms as they were related to him one by one, and about each of them he in¬
quires for further particulars; e. g. at what period did this symptom occur?
Was it previous to taking the medicine he had hitherto been using, whilst
taking the medicine, or only some days after leaving off the medicine? What
kind *>f pain, what sensation exactly, was it that occured on this spot? Where
was the precise spot? Did the pain occur in fits by itself, at various times, or
was it continued, without intermission? How long did it last? At what time
of day or night, and in what position of the body was it worst, or ceased entire¬
ly? What was the exact nature of this or that event or circumstance mentioned
—describe in plain words?
When the patient (for it is on him we have chiefly to rely for a description of
his sensations, except in the case of feigned diseases) has by these details, given
of his own accord and m answer to inquiries, furnished the requisite information
and traced a tolerably perfect picture of the disease, the physician is at liberty
and obliged (if he feels he has not yet gained all the information he needs) to
ask more precise, more special questions.
For example, how often are his bowels moved? What is the exact character
of the stools? Did the whitish evacuation consist of mucus or freces? Had he
or had he not pains during the evacuation? What was their exact character,
and where were they seated? What did the patient v mit? Is the bad taste in
mouth putrid, or bitter, or sour, or what? before or after eating, or during the
repast? At what period of the day was it worst? What is the taste of what is
eructated? Does the urine only become turbid on standing, or is it turbid when
first discharged? What is its color when first emitted? Of what color is the
sediment? How does he behave during sleep? Does he whine, moan, talk or
cry out in his sleep? Does he start during sleep? Does he snore during inspir¬
ation, or expiration? Does he lie only on his back, or on which side? Does he
cover himself well up, or can he not bear the clothes on him? Does he easily
awake, or does he sleep too soundly? How does he feel immediately after
waking from sleep? How often does this or that symptom occur? what is the
cause that produces it each time it occurs? does it come on whilst sitting, lying,
standing, or when in motion? only when fasting, or in the morning, or only in
the evening, or only after meal, or when does it usually appear? When did the
rigor come on? was it merely a chilly sensation, or was he actually cold at the
same time? if so, in what parts? or while feeling chilly, was he actually warm to
the touch? was it merely a sensation of cold, without shivering? was he hot,
without redness of the face? what parts of him were hot to the touch? or did he
complain of heat without being hot to the touch? How long did the chilliness
last? how long the hot stage? When did the thirst come on—during the cold
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stage, during the heat or previous to it? or subsequently to it? How great
was the thirst, and what was the beverage desired? When did the sweat come
on—at the beginning or the end of the heat? or how many hours after the heat?
when asleep or when awake? How great was the sweat? was it warm or cold?
on what parts? how did it smell? What does he complain of before or during
the cold stage? what during the hot stage? what after it? what during or after
the sweating stage? &c.
We must not rest content with even this thorough examination,
because it is necessary for us to determine the exciting cause be¬
fore any treatment can be thought of. There may be a mechani¬
cal condition entirely outside the domain of remedial agents,
whose removal is followed by a complete subsidence of all the
subjective symptoms. The knowledge of anatomy, physiology,
and chemistry should be so accurate that this examination will
determine the nature of any pathological changes that may have
taken place, thereby eliminating all elements of uncertainty and
at the same time determine how much can be corrected through
the restoration of harmony between the vital energy and the ma¬
terial elements over which it may have control.
H. W. Pierson.
SENECIO GRACILIS—“RAGWEED.”
Dr. Frederick Kopp, of Greenwich, N. S. W., gives the follow¬
ing additional as well as confirmatory symptoms of this widely
distributed plant in the Homoeopathic World .
The prevalence of hay fever beginning about the fifteenth of
August and charged to the potent from this plant floating in the
air, makes this systematic study of interest.
The mother tincture was used, fifteen to twenty minims being
taken at frequent intervals during each day for a period extend¬
ing over three or four weeks.
Mental —Great depression alternated with elevation and great
cheerfulness.
Impossible for prover to fix mind upon anyone sub¬
ject.
Constant feeling resembling home-sickness.
Desponding, sad and meditation < evenings.
Head —Fulness with dull stupefying headache.
Vertigo with pressing forward sensation.
Wave-like feeling of dizziness from occiput to sin¬
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Lancinating, sharp pains over left eye and through
left temple .
Cutting, sometimes shooting, pains passing from
within outward < frontal.
(Closely resemble pains common to headaches of
a catarrhal nature especially when due to sup¬
pression).
Faci—Sharp, cutting pains inside left angle of lower jaw, vari¬
ous parts of body.
Darting pain, left side.
Left side.
Very pale and distressed look.
(Neuralgia affecting left side of face).
Eyes—Sharp stitching in forehead and both eyes, passing from
within outward.
Sharp, lancinating, in left temple, left eye and in¬
side left half of lower jaw.
(Ophthalmia from suppressed secretions).
Nose —Fulness, burning with sneezing, followed by profuse flow
of mucus, which temporarily relieves the other
nasal symptoms.
Constant inclination to sneeze with great dryness .
Dryness of fauces, throat and mouth.
Teeth—sensitive with digging and almost throbbing
in decayed molars.
(Useful in that class of toothache with acidify of
stomach).
and Abdomen —Nausea on rising in morning.
Eructation of sour ingesta and gas.
Sharp stitches in both right and left hypochondria
with sharp pains in epigastrium.
Colicky, griping pains in abdomen > bending for¬
ward.
Rumbling with sharp, griping and pinching pains.
Pain begins around umbilicus and spreads out from
thence all over abdomen > stool.
Stool —Thin, watery intermingled with hard lumps of faeces;
hard lumps mixed with small quantities of mucus
of a yellowish color.
Straining at stool.
Diarrhoea early in morning accompanied with great
Throat
Mouth
Stomach
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prostration and debility.
Thin, dark-colored, bloody with great tenesmus.
Urinary Organs —At first, very frequent, profuse, clear and
limpid, then very scanty with exceedingly high-
color and even tinged with blood.
Large quantities of mucus sediment.
Great tenesmus in bladder with great heat and con¬
stant urging to urinate.
Urine acid, scalding and of reddish color.
(It has proved to be a valuable remedy in the treatment of chronic inflamma¬
tion of the kidneys. In nephritis it has done great service, and, if it does not
cure that dreaded disease, it at least very often palliates its most prominent and
distressing symptoms. It is also useful in cases where the neck of the bladder
is in a state of chronic inflammation, where the urine is bloody, and there is
great tenesmus of the bladder. In these cases it has proved very effectual, cur¬
ing a large number of cases, some of them being of a very obstinate character.
Children who suffer from irritation of the bladder, accompanied with or pre¬
ceded by pains in the head, derive great benefit from its use. It is a prime
remedy in renal colic, whether accompanied by nausea or not. Sometimes
young women suffer from dropsy and swelling of the lower extremities; these symp¬
toms will be found amenable to Stnecio gracilis. It will thus be seen that the
symptoms affecting the urinating organs are very important, and, for this cause
alone, should Senecio gracilis not possess any other valuable medicinal property,
in would occupy a very important position in our materia medica. Bloody
urine is one of the most important of the secondary symptoms of the drug, and
adds greatly to the importance of the remedy in the treatment of those diseases
in which the urine is passed either bloody or else only tinged with blood).
Sexual Organs —Lascivious dreams, with involuntary emissions.
Prostate gland became enlarged and felt hard to
the touch.
Dull, heavy pain in left spermatic cord, extending
to testicle.
Induced also suppressed or retarded menstrual flow.
(In the treatment of gonorrhea and gleet it has been used with very satisfac¬
tory results, and also in cases of prostatitis of a chronic character. It has proved
very effectual in cases of amenorrhea, especially in young girls, in which drop¬
sical symptoms are present. In anemic dysmenorrhea it has earned for itself a
good name. It is especially useful it strumous cases, and where the symptoms
are aggravated in the night. It is also effectual in other cases of dysmenorrhea,
in which the flow is either profuse or scanty, and where urinary troubles are
present. In retarded, scanty, or even profuse menstruati<?n, it is very rapid in
its action, often proving of great efficiency, and rivalling some of our most
prominent uterine remedies, such as Pulsatilla , Caulophyllum , Calcar ea carbon-
ica % Erigcron Canadense , and Sepia. It is also useful during menstruation
when it is premature and too profuse. It is also often indicated in regular men-
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struation, when the menses come on either too early or too late. Where the
menses have been suppressed through a cold Senecio gracilis often speedily re¬
stores them to their natural state. Very often, in some girls, leucorrhea takes
the place of the catamenial flow, and the patient suffers greatly from urinary
troubles.
It is also a very valuable remedy in chlorosis in girls having a scrofulous
taint. A dropsical condition in such cases is an additional indication for its use.
It is sometimes indicated in the complaints peculiar to the critical period,
especially in those cases in which great sleeplessness is a most prominent and
distressing symptom. In such cases it very often restores the menses and in¬
duces sleep. By the above it will be seen that this is a very important remedy
for the treatment of many of the complaints peculiar to women, having a special
affinity for the female generative organs. It is a valuable remedy, whether the
patient is suffering from amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, or menorrhagia).
Respiratory Organs —Increases secretion from bronchial mu¬
cus membrane.
Cough loose with mucus rales, accompanied with
labored inspiration.
(It is a prime remedy in mucus catarrhal coughs, especially those (in the case
of woman) where amenorrhea is also a prominent symptom. It is also effectual
in the treatment of chronic hemorrhage from the lungs, accompanied with the
following phthisical symptoms: A dry, hacking cough, great sleeplessness,
hectic fever, and emaciation. It is also indicated in those coughs, generally
following a cold, which are at first dry, but soon become loose, accompanied
with a very copious expectoration of a thick yellow mucus, of sweetish taste, and
often streaked with blood; there is also a soreness or rawness in the chest with
emaciation and great prostration; flashes of heat in the face with hectic flushes,
with night sweats and (in the case of females) very irregular menstruation).
Back and Extremeties —Pain in small of back, and loins of
of rheumatic character with soreness of joints.
Generalities —Great sleepiness with unpleasant dreams. Affec¬
tions of mucus membranes of catarrhal character
Great thirst.
Feeling as of a ball rising from stomach to throat.
Great nervousness and a decidedly hysterical ten¬
dency.
THE USE OF HIGHER POTENCIES.
In the January Advocate, page 57 and extended excerph of
the paper read by John McLachlan, M. D., B. Sc. Edin., F. R. C.
S. Eng., before the British Homoeopathic Congress was given.
This paper was criticised by members present. His reply in the
Monthly Homoeopathic Review for February , brings out a num¬
ber of valuable points.
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“My paper was a mere contribution to the already overwhelming proofs of
the past. I did not need to go to Hahnemann’s Organon for that idea, for I
held it long before ever I knew there was such a book, and I believe it to day
more firmly than ever; call it what you will, there it is; and I fail to perceive
the distinction between Dr. Hughes’ “ dynamic disturbances ,” and Hahnemann’s
^derangement of the vital force.” John Hunter believed just as strongly in the
“vital force’’ as Hahnemann did, but perhaps, like the latter, he may not have
been in his “prime” when he did so. I cannot tell.
Modern science does not forbid our following Hahnemann in this point; ignor¬
ance of science may do so, and a few of the so called scientific men, but those
at the best are one sided in their views, being heavily weighted by materialism,
which has been and is the curse alike of medicine and religion. The idea of a
“vital force” is a mere hypothesis {scarcely rising, indeed, to the rank of a theory ),
and as such is incapable of proof or disproof; but it in no way violates any of the
known analogies of science, and useless it does, it is in no sense unscientific.
Science gives us many statements which have not been proved, but it does not
follow on that account that they are worthless. Darwin’s evolutionary hypoth¬
esis is in capable of proof or disproof, yet few scientific men doubt its truth. The
hypothesis of a “vital force,” better than any other hypothesis yet put forward,
enables us to explain and connect observed phenomena, and as such it is an ade¬
quate or working hypothesis'^ and further than that it is fruitful, as it has led to
many useful facts, and an hypothesis, even if false, if it does this is worth re¬
taining. When it ceases to be fertile, by all means throw it aside like a useless
tool that has served its day and generation.
Dr. Hughes says there is no such thing as energy without matter. How does
he know? I grant it cannot be manifested to our senses , as at present constituted,
without the presence of matter upon which to act, but whether it can exist apart
from matter no one can say. It is not, like elasticity for example, a mere property
of matter; if it were, then of course it could not exist apart from matter, but it
is something as different from matter as it is possible to be. Energy does not
mean matter in motion; matter in motion has kinetic energy, and it is by that
means that it is measured, but it itself is something quite distinct.
I do not believe it is possible to attenuate a medicine so highly as to destroy
all traces of the matter originally present; but whether that be possible or not,
that is altogether beside the question, for it is energy, not matter, with which
we are dealing. Now the special characteristics of energy are its easy trans-
formability and transferability, and there is nothing absurd or impossible in the
idea that the energy of the drug to heal can be transferred to the menstruum
used for the purposes of attenuation. It is not so easy to get rid of matter as
Dr. Hughes seems to think, and so much is this the case that to the experimen¬
tal chemist such things as pure reagents and clean vessels are absolutely unreal-
isable ideals. Furthermore, the chemist can never be accepted as a trustworthy
exponent of the divisibility of matter, since the question whether it is or is not
infinitely divisible does not concern chemical science. The molecular weight of
hydrogen is for convenience arbitrarily fixed at two , and we assume that there
are two atoms present. We do not know; there may be two millions for all we
can tell. Further, the atom and molecule, of nearly all the metals at any rate,
are identical.
Although arsenic has caused alopecia areata , yet had I given it I would not
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have been carrying out the “rule’* similia similibus curantnr , and there is no
reason, therefore to believe that it would have cured the case. Dr. Hughes is
content with general resemblances, neglecting the most important features, viz.:
—the specific individual differences between one case and another. Had the
patches been dry, rough, and dirty looking, in all probability arsenic would have
cured the case, but the patches were clear, white and smooth, and therefore I
gave Phos.y and not merely “because Dr. Guernsey advised that it should be
given.” Now although all cases of alopecia areata have certain close corres¬
pondences in general features (else they would not be examples of the disease in
question) yet these are of little value to us in our efforts to find the simi/li-
mum t the all important points being the specific individual differences . It is ex¬
actly the same in other sciences. When the chemist, for example, wishes to
recognise and differentiate the members of an homologous series , e. g., the alco¬
hols, or the different isomers of any one alcohol, e . g. t amylic, he does so by
noting the specific individual differences , since the general properties would be
of little, if any, value for such a purpose.
Dr. Hughes says: “When you get up to Hahnemann’s 30th, surely you have
got far enough for all conceivable action of drugs.” I confess one would natur¬
ally think so; but here again the only test of any practical value is the experi¬
mental one. No man’s ipse dixit can suffice. In the cases I gave I had tried
the 30th and 200th potencies again and again, but only to meet with repeated
disappointments; they were patiently tried, but were found wanting, and that
was why the millionth was used in the cases in question. I am unable to say
what special potency between the 30th and millionth might have cured the
cases, nor do I think the question is one of any importance.
Our primary mission is to restore the sick to health, whether with “unim¬
aginable potencies’’ or impossible dilutions,” not as Dr. Hughes seems to think
to convert our old school brethren—certainly not, at any rate, by means savour¬
ing strongly of Jesuitism; besides all this, a 3rd or a 6th potency (not to speak
of a 12th or a 30th) is to the most of them even more impossible and unimagin¬
able than the millionth is to Dr. Hughes, even though the physicist may ex¬
press the lengths of light waves in fractions of millionths of a millimeter.
But besides this, the potency question is one entirely for those who are con¬
verted—for the Children of Light only, not for those who are sunk in even
more than Cimmerian (therapeutic) darkness. As well might one accept the
dicta of an avowed atheist concerning the purely experimental truths of the
Christian religion.
I am just as anxious for union as anyone, but not at the expense of principle.
Maintain the truth at all costs, yielding not a nail’s breadth; if union can be
promoted in this way so much the better but maintain the truth.
SURGICAL POCKET MEDICINE CASE.
Prof. James G. Gilchrist in the Homeopathic Journal of Sur¬
gery and Gynecology offers the following valuable summary:
It has occurred to me that some specific indications for remedies more con¬
stantly useful in post-operative conditions would be, or might be, helpful. Of
course the “indications” are the same, no matter whether the case is medical or
surgical. If I were asked to give a list of remedies for a surgical pocket medi-
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cine case it would be something as follows, mentioning the remedies in the or¬
der in which they are oftener indicated:
Hypericum Perfoliatum.
As a routine remedy, Hypericum is used more or less in all operations, both
a& a vulnerary and analgesic. Certainly it has a marvelous influence in con¬
testing, or even preventing, pain. In all operations, practically with no excep¬
tions, the first dressing is a compress of gauze soaked with the watery extract,
or so-called tincture. The same remedy is given internally, once in twenty
minutes for an hour or two, and then at longer intervals for about twenty-four
hours. It is very rare that pain is complained of, no matter what the operation
has been.
Aconite.
Aconite is always given when there is a rigor, with rapid rise of temperature,
dryness of the skin, restlessness, and some thirst, with anxiety. It is given in
the 6th or 30th dilution, in frequently repeated doses, say fifteen or twenty
minutes, until the symptoms improve. If no improvement follows in about two
hours, one of the following is to be used:
Arsenicum Album.
When the former conditions continue unchanged or aggravated, particularly
when the urine is suppressed or markedly dimished, intense burning heat is
complained of, and weakness occurs, Arsenicum is indicated. Particularly do I
find it indicated when there is diarrhea, not profuse, but watery and exhausting.
Belladonna.
When the wound looks bright red, shining and swollen; very sensitive to
touch, shrinking from the approach of the finger, Belladonna is required. Pains
are considerable, often pulsating, and indisposition to move; or if position is
changed it is done gradually, and with great care.
Khun Tox.
When there are febrile symptoms taking on a typhoid character, or, when an
open wound becomes dry, or the parts are dark red, vesicular, and hard, Rhus
is called for.
Arnica Montana.
Arnica has two spheres of usefulness. Ono is prophylactic, when parts have
been much handled in the operation; the other is when a diarrhea develops,
which becomes involuntary.
Cantharis.
Cantharis is given for the customary symptoms of strangury coming on after
operations in the pelvis, or on the genitalia.
Carbo Vegetabilis.
Carbo veg, is beneficial in meteorism and flatulent states, particularly when
gulping up wind gives some relief. If a few doses do not improve I always give
a cathartic, usually salts.
Veratrum Album.
Vomiting, without nausea, gulping up a brown or bilious fluid; coldness of
surface of the body, covered with sweat, calls for Veratrum.
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Colocynthis.
The well-known colic symptom often occurs, for some reason, in my practice,
very often after operations for varicocele. The symptoms are well known. Now
and then have had prompt results in flatulent conditions, when there is no rise
of temperature,and no suspicion of peritonitis. Colocynthis is here very valuable.
Nu\ Vomica.
Nux often gives good results in curtailing the vomiting after anesthesia, or
vomiting that comes on later, particularly if there is soreness all over the ab¬
domen.
Ipecacuanha.
Ipecac is more often successful in the vomiting from anesthesia. In one case
with extreme nausea Tartar emetic cured promptly.
Apis Mellifica.
Apis has been useful in a few instances when the urine was suppressed and
edemas occurred in various parts of the body. It has saved at least two cases
from death from edema of the glottis after operations on the throat.
Remedies for Tetanus.
Very infrequently I have had some indications of tetanus; one of these reme¬
dies usually aborts the threatened danger.
Llet/adonna, when the muscles of the jaw are stiff and painful.
Cuprum medium, when the pressing pain on the sternum, with nausen, is
present.
Stramonium , w'hen there >s muscular irritability, and starting at every sound.
Ledum palustre , by the way, gave prompt results in one case, in w'hich the
injured part felt cold, objectively and subjectively.
MAKE A NOTE OF IT.
The college terms are nearing a close. The Chicago Homoeopathic and
Hahnemann have had successful years. Hering as much so as it may with rea¬
son expect thus early in its career, while the National and Dunham are not
much heard from. The latter is said to be rifted with strife within and without,
at which small wonder is expressed in Chicago. Might it not be just as well for
the National and Dunham to end their careers with the present season?— (Med-
ical Century.) •
Predictions, warnings, suggestions, threats, and malicious
misrepresentations have been made against Dunham Medical
College from its first inception; and today there is not a hom¬
oeopathic college upon the continent more widely known or
more thoroughly advertised. During the entire period of “strife
without ” there has been perfect harmony within and instead of
the college being “rifted” or torn assunder by internal differ¬
ences, there is npt a medical institution, in the city, bound
together by closer ties. It may be noted in passing, that the
National and Dunham Medical Colleges are making but
little noise outside, because they are tending strictly to business
and instead of their careers ending with the present term (as
their opponents would wish) they have practically entered upon
a life filled with unlimited possibilities. H. W. p.
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MISSOURI INSTITUTE OF HOMOEOPATHY.
The next meeting of this strong society, will be held in St. Louis,
April 19-21. Several matters of great importance will undoubt¬
edly make the attendance one of the largest in its history. At
the meeting held two years ago, a Committee on Legislation was
appointed, which secured a just recognition of the claims of
of Homoeopathy for a share in the management of State Insti¬
tutions. As is well known, Governor Stevens turned the Fulton
Asylum over to a Board of Managers, friendly to Homoeopathic
interests. The recent trouble in the asylum will make it incum¬
bent upon this society to so investigate matters as to clearly un¬
derstand the situation and be prepared to act intelligently in the
future.
The Institute draws upon much of the Mississippi Valley for
material, and this region is intensely interested in the success of
the American Institute, and being in the vanguard of spring
meetings will undoubtedly put into action plans for a hearty co¬
operation with that Local Committee.
The society is just about large enough for profitable sessions
and the general character of the papers have strong drawing
powers. h. w. p.
NO MEDICINE IS ASSIMILATED.
The following pertinent editorial appearing in the Medical
Gleaner is worthy of reproduction, because it strikes at the root
of the entire question of medication.
No medicine is assimilated. If you give something which you call medicine
and it adds itself to some tissue then it turned out to be a food instead of a med¬
icine. Four fifths of the high dilutionists (if by this the doctor means the true
homoeopathist, he is surely mistaken, for they never give medicine in the mate¬
rial form or for the sake of supplying a lack, and many of the eclectics prac¬
tice under the insane hypothesis that medicine is assimilated. Who does not
know that almost all physicians, of all schools give such agents as phosphorus,
iron, etc., under the delusion that they will be assimilated and supply a lack?
Under this ankle-deep philosophy the lack of a systematic element constitutes
the disease. Thus, in most anemas there is a lack of hemoglobin. The ankle-
deep philosopher reasons thus. We will supply this lack, which is disease,
and presto, the disease will disappear. Then he orders his favorite prescription
of iron. If it happens that the primal lesion in the case is susceptible of being
shaken up by the acids contained in the prescriptions good may result; but how
much less expensive to the vitality of the patient to have given him the com¬
bined hydrochloric acid and nitous ether, without the iron element. It is cer¬
tain that the iron would not be assimilated, for, in this case, the lack of iron
depends upon the non assimilation of it even when offered by nature. This
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lack of hemo globin is a proximate, evident effect , the cause being located in, or
behind the assimilative apparatus. If we could directly supply this lack the
cause would still persist, and, of course, the disease would still remain in full
force. To put your therapeutic pry under this effect is to put it under the
wrong end of the disease. But this is just what four fifths of all of the doctors
are doing. There is no direct medicinal lack supplier; there is no direct medici¬
nal tonic. Medicine does not import into the system any vital element. All it
does is to create a general or local perturbation, as the legitimate effect of its
foreignness. Foods do not do this, unless taken intemperately, toward either
extreme and that is why foods do not cure.
If there be any efficacy in high delutions, the fact depends upon the effects of
the dynamization and not upon its infinitessimals.
True, brother Cooper, an immaterial energy or force pervades
all Nature, and, according to the laws of physics, acts upon the
atoms or molecules of the primary elements in accord with defi¬
nite fixed principles. Any disturbance of the relationship be¬
tween this energy and matter results in a derangement , not of the
energy or of the primary elements , but of the effect of this combi¬
nation— the organism. When applied to animal or vegetable or¬
ganisms we call this disturbance of relationship , disease. We
cannot conceive of one material element acting upon another
material element, because they are always being acted upon.
The action must come from an immaterial force. This energy
is liberated from its material environment by the process of dy¬
namization and thenceforth cannot be measured by weight or
size, but is free to exert its peculiar power whenever opportunity
presents.
When a man becomes sick, we see the nature of the disturb¬
ance by the sum total of subjection and objection symptoms.
Our first effort will be to ascertain and remove the exciting cause.
This of itself may be sufficient to restore harmony between the
vital force or energy and the organism over which it exerts con¬
trol. If not, according to the law of similia similibus curantur ,
we seek to introduce a force energy (always immaterial in char¬
acter, so it may act upon the same plane of the vital force) cap¬
able of disturbing the vital force in a manner similar to that force
which made the man sick. By so doing we expect to see an
equilibrium established whereby the life force again resumes its
normal activities. The first thing we notice, will be the effects
of this force to repair damages and as this goes on we say the
patient is getting well. With the restoration of harmony, the
remedial agent or force (if mild enough) ceases its effects and the
life force takes up the work and carries it on unaided. h. w. p.
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A NEW HAEMOSTATIC.
According to Dr. Gundrum, the fluid extract of the life root or rag wort
(senecio aureus) possesses powerful hemostatic properties, which he was enabled
to turn to good account in the treatment of cases of hemoptysis and hematuria.
The plant has long been employed unofficially as an expectorant and diuretic,
and it has been credited with a “peculiar” but undefined action on the uterine
functions. It does not appear to possess any directly astringent properties, and
it is surmised — though suggestion savors of a pis alter —that its hemostatic ac¬
tion is brought about through the vaso-motor nerves.— Med. Press and Circular.
A careful study of the pathogenesy of the Golden Ragwort
will explain the reason for its powerful hemostatic properties.
SUCH IS LIFE.
The Cleveland Medical Gazelle deplores the fact that “The clergy are very
prone to advocate patent medicines and quack methods of treatment,” and ac¬
counts for it upon the quite reasonable supposition that “the quack recognizing
the influential position of the clergyman in the community, more often select
him for a dupe, that others may follow his example.”
There are others. As a rule, it is a purely selfish motive which
prompts members of the “noble profession’’ to get on the “right
. side” of the preacher. If their influence can be secured they
feel that a valued ally has been obtained, a good advertising me¬
dium, and for that reason the new man seeks to attach himself to
one or many preachers by offering to care for their families
gratis. It is useless crying against the enterprise of the “quack”
for they are only men like unto ourselves whose commercial spirit
predominates over the humanitarian. P.
PERSISTENT RECURRENCES OF INFLUENZA.
Dr. Thibaudet remarks that immunity from influenza, supposing that it exists
at all, is of short duration. From a symptomatic point of view nothing occurs
in the interval between the different attacks. The apyretic patient recovers in
the usual way, more or less exhausted and asthenic, according to the mode of
reaction peculiar to each person, and, above all, according to the presence or
absence of anterior morbid conditions. Suddenly the disease returns; fever re¬
appears, and at the same time the characteristic pains in the head and limbs,
coryza, coughing, laryngo-tracheo bronchitis in the thoracic form, vomiting and
diarrhoea in the gastro intestinal form, and prostration and extreme lassitude in
all forms, appear. Generally the symptoms which predominated the first time
appear again, but this is not always the case. Aside from complications, the
duration of these new attacks is not longer or shorter than that of the first attack.
Hahnemann recognized the truth of the above statement, even
when he had met the symptomology of the disease with reme¬
dies possessing a similar pathogenesy; and then commenced that
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great study which resulted in the formulation of the declaration
that the recurrences are due to deep seated constitutional ten¬
dencies, which are impervious to hygiene, climate and environ¬
ment and can only be removed by the employment of anti psoric,
anti syphilitic, anti sycotic or (if due to persistent abuse of drugs)
remedies capable of removing their effects. Ignorance of this
factor, is the greatest barrier to a permanent cure of disease to
be found in the entire domain of medicine. H. W. P.
WHAT IS A HOMCEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN?
I define a homoeopathic physician as one who adds to his knowledge of medi¬
cine a special knowledge of homoeopathic therapeutics. All that pertains to the
great field of medical learning is his by tradition, by inheritance, by right. The
difference between the schools to day is as great as it ever was. There will be
courtesy and fairness, but no abnegation. The true policy of the homoeopathic
school is the development of its resorces; the avoidance of any alliances that
may in any way be derogatory to its honor or dignity; an uncompromising atti¬
tude toward allopathy; a cultivation of that stalwart spirit and fiery energy that
characterized the pioneers; the strengthening of our institutions; the proving of
drugs; in short, the advance of homoeopathy in the only way in which it will
ever be advanced, by the loyal and faithful work of homoeopathists for homoeo¬
pathy. “So we will labor that what came to us as seed shall go to the next
generation as blossom, and that which comes to us as blossom, may go to them
as fruit.”
Dr. Eugene H. Porter, President of the New York State So¬
ciety and General Secretary of the American Institute of Hom¬
oeopathy, gives the above definition of a homoeopathic physician
which is commended to every reader of homoeopathic literature.
Now is the time to stand by our colors. The enemy is begin¬
ning to sue for terms of peace, but they want us to lay down our
arms. This is strange ! Be not deceived, there can be no com¬
promise.
GOUT AND URIC ACID DIATHESIS.
The Medical Sentinel draws the following conclusions from an
article prepared by Dr. Robert Newman.
Conclusions.—1. There is a variety of causes and symptoms of gout.
2. The diet and treatment, etc., cannot be stated as a routine for all cases
alike.
3. It is wrong to treat the disease; the patient must be treated as an individ¬
ual, according to indications.
4. There are some points in gout and the uric-acid diathesis which are not
understood at present.
5. Hereditary gout exists, and will manifest itself in individuals without
their own fault.
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6. Hereditary gout as a diathesis cannot be eradicated by any treatment,
nor is it the consequence of overfeeding or the use of fermented liquors, for the
reason that it hns been observed in females who dieted and never drank liquors
or beer.
7. Static electricity is the best treatment in hereditary gout, and will pre¬
vent attacks, if used judiciously at the right time, and thereby keep the patient
comfortable and apparently well.
8. Static electricity and other electric currents will cure many of the other
varieties of rheumatism and gout.
Hahnemann states especially that Gout, as well as the uric
acid diathesis, is only one of the manifestations of a psoric miasm
is never due to improper eating or diet and can never be cured
by diet or change of environment. Many times the cause is
transmitted from parent to child. The curative agent must be
sought for among the anti psories. Electricity may be classed
with the anti psories. The above conclusions are therefore
simply confirmatory of the ancient teachings of that old vision¬
ary Dutchman. h. w. p.
WHO IS THE LIBERAL HOMCEOPATH ?
It is one who employs all of the art known to Homeopathy; one who is not
afraid or ashamed to use the highest potency and to avow its successful admin¬
istration; one who has no fear of ridicule when he dips into the 8x or the 0; who
sticks closely to the homeopathic law as given by Hahnemann; one who is not
ashamed to admit that he uses but a drop of the 80th or the 200th in a glass
half-full of water, a tea-spoonful every two or three hours, in the cure of dan¬
gerous diseases; one who does not use combination tablets; one who does not
give an hypodermatic of morphine to allay present pain and something else at
the same time to cure the patient; in short, one who will adopt every reasonable
means to cure his patient, and be able, after it is done, to tell what course he
pursued and the reason therefor so that others, seeing his good works, may go
and do likewise. 7'hat , in our estimation, is a Liberal Homeopath! If the
homeopath has imbibed the surgical trend, he may dabble in current chemical
discoveries of the other schools, in order not to put himself under the ban, in a
mechanical operation, of having neglected to apply the very la est scientific
advances to his case; but this does not hold as to disease per se. Let us not for¬
get that the diploma reads “Physician and Surgeon”; and that the first para¬
graph of the Organon clearly enunciates the physician’s highest and only call¬
ing.— (Am. Homeopath.)
The truly scientific student of homoeopathy is never a narrow,
ignorant bigot; but knowing the foundation upon which he stands
to be grounded upon the rock of Truth, he alone can afford to
be liberal and generous with his handicapped and less fortunate
brethren. h. w. p.
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Book Reviews.
Book 'Reviews.
The Homoeopathic* Journal of Surgery and Gynecology.
—This journal is well named— Homceopathtc Journal instead of
Journal of Homoeopathic Surgery, etc. The initial number is well
made and the Century Co., may well be proud of its mechanical
excellence; the indefatigable editor is to be congratulated on
the auspicious birth of this new journal while the surgical pro¬
fession will undoubtedly show their appreciation in a most fitting
manner.
Repertory of the Homoeopathic Materia Med lea by J. T.
Kent, 31. L>., Philadelphia. The Homoeopathic Materia
Medica is so voluminous and the homoeopathic prescription is so
dependent upon the subjection symptoms with their many finer
shades of differentiation, that a repertory is imperatively de¬
manded by the careful prescriber. The demands has been fre¬
quently anticipated but defects can be found in every one. The
most perfect one thus far has been Boenninghausen’s, but it is so
compressed that few can successfully apply its wonderful store
of information. It requires the mind of a master of therapeutics
to adapt it to the image of a case as ordinarily taken.
Jahr's repertory to the great Symptomen Codex is one of the most
reliable concordances to Boenninghausen’s Pocket Repetory in
existence and greatly aids one in the study of the latter, but is not
conveniently arranged for a rapid study of the materia medica.
Knerr y s repertory to the Guiding Symptoms , the most ambitious
work of the kind ever attempted, and very satisfactorily directs
the student to the different remedies from which may be found
the simillimum, but it pretends to be nothing but an index to the
Guiding Symptoms and loses much of its value when the physi¬
cian is not in possession of that work.
From a careful study of the first fascicle, it would seem as if
this latest and most voluminous work of Dr. Kent supplied all
the deficiencies to be found in all of the other works. It begins
with the general like Bcjenninghausen and then takes up the dif¬
ferential points similar to Jahr, but in a more systematic and
therefore more satisfactory manner. In addition to this advant¬
age, it will be over three times its size and contains many items
to be found in no other book.
After everything has been said, the very simplicity of its ar¬
rangement is one of its strongest features.
For convenience, the work will be printed in parts—each part
to contain one rubric which will be delivered to subscribers as
fast as it comes from the press. The price of each fascicle will
range from one to three dollars, depending upon the size. Full
particulars can be obtained by addressing the author at 2009
Walnut street, Philadelphia.
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A MONTHLY HOMOEOPATHIC MAGAZINE.
Vol. xxxvli. Chicago, April 15, 1898. No. 4
ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS OF DUNHAM
MEDICAL COLLEGE, BY THE DEAN C. S.
FAHNESTOCK, M. D., APRIL 7, 1898.
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Graduating Class: With
the close of this afternoon program the pleasant relation be¬
tween yourselves as students and the Faculty of Dunham Medi¬
cal College as instructors, will end. You will receive the diplo¬
ma of this college, documentary evidence, that you have com¬
plied with the necessary requirements, successfully passed your
final examinations and earned the degree of Doctor of Medicine
conferred upon you by this institution. That diploma, granted
through the power vested in our Board of Trustees by the great
state of Illinois and recognized by the State Board of Health,
will be your legal passport, entitling you to all the lawful rights
and privileges extended, educated physicians and surgeons. It
commemorates the close of your student life and attests that
you have mastered the rudiments of medical knowledge. We,
who have directed your studies and witnessed, with pleasure,
your faithful application and untiring zeal, bid you a kindly fare¬
well as pupils and extend to you a heartfelt welcome and frater¬
nal greeting as members of the medical prosession.
Medical students may be divided into two classes. The first
embraces those, who enter the profession through purely selfish
motives. Allured by their exagerated ideas of the enormous pe¬
cuniary benefit to be derived from medical practice, they count
the time and money spent in acquiring their degree, as a pure
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matter of business. They study medicine as they would learn a
trade. To them graduation is a completion of study. They
have mastered the trade, and being without love for the science,
and devoid of any idea of the moral responsibilty of a physician,
there is no incentive to further application. They practice
medicine as the average mechanic does his daily labor, in a rou¬
tine way with as little study and personal discomfort as possible.
Their whole professional life is but the bartering of the wares of
a “medicine man” and a drugery endured only for profit.
The second class engage in medicine from love of the work.
They have a just appreciation of the great responsibility they
must assume. They make the acquiring of knowledge their life
work. They burn the midnight oil that brings reward in the con¬
sciousness of a duty faithfully performed. Careful obseivation
compels your teachers to locate each of you in the rank of the
second class. You will bear then with your Dean if in this ad¬
dress, his parting words to a class he has learned to respect and
love, he points out some of the pleasant and some of the annoying
features of the future and offers a little advice to smooth down
its rough edges.
With all the enthusiasm of a young graduate, you are now
anxious to open an office in the field you have chosen and to of¬
fer your services to your fellow citizens. From childhood you
have regarded your family physician and the profession with re¬
spect and reverence. You have placed implicit confidence in
their skill and judgment. Naturally you will expect the people
among whom you settle to receive you with the same kindly feel¬
ing. In this you will be disappointed, for respect and confi¬
dence are plants of slow growth and mature only as the result of
constant and careful cultivation. Difficult indeed is it to so con¬
duct your life as to win and retain them. You will be looked
upon with suspicion as to your professional ability. Your
brother practitioners, who should be your friends, will be open
enemies or at best occupy a position of armed neutrality. It
will probably be true, that the majority of your competitors will
not be your equal in professional training, and while a lack of
opportunity prevents your demonstrating what you can accom¬
plish, and while you may daily see evidences of the incompe¬
tency of others, your lips must be sealed, for the public has not
the knowledge of disease and medicine to pass judgment upon
your ideas, and the criticism of others under such circumstances
will only lower you in its estimation.
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Amid these unkind surroundings you may feel downhearted
and discouraged, but you should not be too hasty in blaming the
public. What do you ask of them? That they confide to your
care the well being, nay, perhaps the life of those near and dear
to tnem. Would not you too hesitate in confiding to a perfect
stranger such responsibilities ? But you think, “How can I gain
public confidence, when it is no judge of my ability and will
grant me no opportunity to prove my worth ?”
There are other ways than a display of professional skill to
win friends and secure respect. Just as you judge of others by
their conduct so will others from an opinion of you, and that
opinion will be based upon the closet scrutiny of your personal¬
ity. Your dress and address, habit of study, pleasant ways, the
absence of any display of egotism, and your faithfully keeping
every engagement, will in time win you personal friends and pub¬
lic respect; then the ice bound arctic circle, that surrounds you
professionally will soon be broken through by the first patient.
It may be the mendicant of the neighborhood, some worthy poor
citizen, someone accidentally injured or some chronic sufferer,
who, having exhausted the resources of the older physicians and
as the result of the good reports he has heard of you personally,
has concluded to try the “new doctor.” This first professional
call brings a flood of sunshine through the clouds of discourage¬
ment, and at the same time a feeling of uncertainty steals over
you. You realize now for the first time in your medical career,
you must rely upon your own efforts. Heretofore you have had
preceptor and instructors, older and wiser heads than yours, to
guide you in your work and counsel with when you felt the case
too grave for one of your experience. Now, you must act upon
your own judgment with the eyes of the whole community upon
you and professional rivals ready to criticise your work. It is
not to be wondered that you should feel this and when the time
comes, remember it is but the natural result of your very fitness
for the labors you have chosen.
Before you reach the bedside of your patient, all thoughts of
what the community may think or rivals may say, will have
passed away and you will enter with confidence bred of knowledge,
not with the assurance of ignorance that makes “fools rush blindly
where wise men fear to tread.” Whence this knowledge and this
confidence? From the sense of doing right. The appreciation
of your moral obligation tells you, that having accepted the case,
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it is your duty to do your best in every way. You have studied
the human body thoroughly and have been impressed with its
wonderful and perfect mechanism. You have become convers¬
ant with the functions of every organ and have been taught to
detect any aberation resulting from disease. More than all this,
you have learned that there is something we cannot comprehend,
something beyond the material, something that passes our under¬
standing, an essence of devine origin pervading this aggrega¬
tion of bones and flesh, that commands our admiration and be¬
fore which we stand appalled; for God blew into man’s nostrils
the breath of life and man became a living soul. You are cog¬
nizant that pain is as severe in the poor as in the rich; that life,
being of divine origin, is as dear to one as to another. Any phy¬
sician, entertaining such feelings, cannot go far astray in his
efforts to minister to the suffering.
You will proceed with this case as you have been taught in the
clinic. The history is taken, the diagnosis made and then the
means necessary to restore the invalid to health, considered. It
may be a fracture, where you will be called upon to employ me¬
chanical means only; it may be a poisoning requiring in addition
to mechanically emptying the stomach your aid as a chemist and
toxicologist in administering the proper antidote; it may be dis¬
ease brought on and perpetuated by violating the laws of health
where in addition to selecting the proper remedy you will make
use of your knowledge of hygiene, enforcing the laws of physi¬
ology and so regulating your patients mode of life as to elimi¬
nate the evident cause of disease; it may be a confinement, where
all the physician has to do is watch and wait, while the noblest
function of the body progresses to a completion without his in¬
terference. Having an exalted idea of your duty, you feel that
if hemorrhage or other accident occur during this labor and you
are not ready and prompt to meet it with the proper means and
calamity befall your patient through your ignorance and incora-
petency, you and you alone will be responsible and if you are
not held to account by your fellow men, you will carry a guilty
conscience to the your grave. The true student realizes ail this
during his years of preparation and will be ready and prompt to
act in cases of emergency. True he may make some mistakes,
but who does not? It is not a sin to make a mistake, but it is a
crime to repeat it. Following your first case others will come.
Your early cases will be mostly among the poor and your kind
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and considerate attention to them, your deep interest in their
well doing, your cheering presence in the sick room will all be
noted and gradually you will gain the clientage of those better
able to remunerate you for your services.
You will find great trouble in collecting your bills and this will
be in proportion to your youth. This is not right, for the young
physician just starting out is in straightened circumstances and has
need of his fees. While you have not entered the profession
from selfish motives, there is no reason why you should not have
that which is justly your due. The laborer is worthy of his hire
and the nearer you bring true business rules into your habits of
bookkeeping and collecting, the better will you prosper in every
way. If you place no value upon your work, the public will do
the same. It will be right however, in doing this to make the
burden of the poor no greater than your own.
It is during your early years of practice that you will frequent¬
ly be humiliated by a lack of implicit confidence in your skill.
Often after conducting a case through all difficulties and danger,
the relatives and friends will become alarmed and dismiss you.
You feel and know that this is unjust and that another will re¬
ceive the credit rightfully belonging to you. You can only make
the best of it. The patient and friends have a perfect right to
make a change of physicians and it will not have an injurious ef¬
fect on your professional standing.
While you will have these annoyances, you will also experi¬
ence the greatest pleasure of the true physician. When, with a
patient whose condition is such as to almost deny a shadow of
hope for recovery, by carefully selected remedies and a masterly
directing of his surroundings you gently lead him back from the
valley of the shadow of death to health, then as you consider
how by your skill you have conquered the destructive forces of
nature, you will experience the ecstasy of delight. There is no
greater, keener pleasure. No source of intense satisfaction can
equal that which follows a successful fight with disease in al¬
most hopless cases.
Perhaps you will turn your talents to surgery and then you
will appreciate the anxiety of those, whose many and successful
operations you have witnessed, whose skill you have admired
and whose work you wish to emulate. Your first operation is at
hand and weighed down with the responsibility you assume, you
are wearied before you begin the work. You know that difficul-
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ties may arise and must be overcome. As they become apparent
and are one by one disposed of, you are in a state of nervous
tension such as you have never experienced before. The opera¬
tion completed your patient is placed in bed and properly cared
for. You exhausted turn wearily homeward reviewing mentally
each step of the work. You perceive how at this point and at
that you could have done better. This severe criticism of your
own work almost discourages and you feel that if death follows,
it is in part due to your own inexperience. The day wears on.
You have made several calls on that patient who is not out of
your mind a moment. You cannot care for others so persistent¬
ly is he before you. You retire for the rest so greatly needed
but you cannot sleep and if finally yoti do, your dream calls you
to his side. As you still reflect upon the case a step is heard on
the walk and instinctively you feel it is a messenger to call you
to your patient. But no, it is only some one living further up
the street. You note the time. Midnight and no sleep nor wiil
it come. Another step is heard and this time you know it is
from him. It passes by as did the first. Again you try to sleep
yet straining every nerve to hear that which you fear will come.
You can stand the strain no longer but rise, dress and hasten to
the bedside. You find your patient sleeping quietly and all
seems well. Returning home you catch a little sleep. The
second day is but a repetition of the first. Thus it goes on day
and night until all danger is past. Then comes the pleasure and
the more hazardous the work, the greater the worry and care, the
keener the satisfaction. Money cannot repay you. Money
could not tempt you to go through the same experience a second
time, but the great pleasure of succeeding will force you to re¬
peat the experiment again and again. Those who work in sur¬
gery for money only, have neither this suffering nor this great
pleasure.
There is one other service you will be called upon to render
your patrons and while not in the line of therapeutics, it will
greatly aid your efforts in that direction. As your stay in a com¬
munity lengthens, you will find yourself making warm and trust¬
ing friends. In many families you will be looked upon as one of
their number. In these an intimate relation and confidence will
spring up, growing closer and dearer year by year. Your ad¬
vise will be sought by old and tried friends in matters sacred to
each. Family sorrows will be poured in your ears. Family se-
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crets unfolded to you. Thus your association with the skeleton
will not end with the termination of college life, for your inves¬
tigations into the cause of various troubles,, will unveil in nearly
every home its skeleton. This suffering lady will not respond to
your most carefully selected remedies and you will be at a loss
to account for it, till the fact ot her husband being addicted to
gaming, makes the cause apparent. The nervous and anaemic
condition of a daughter will not yield to your prescriptions and
on most careful investigation of her habits, you find her grieving
for the companionship of her favorite brother, banished from
home. In this way more than one chronic case will clear up
and convalesce under your kind unraveling of family misun¬
derstandings that had long resisted the efforts of other physi¬
cians, who lacked in the appreciation of this noble work.
In dealing with the public you will be called to care for the
educated and the ignorant, the rich and the poor, the sinner and
the saint, the spendthrift and the miser, the wild youth and
the demure spinster, the brazen prostitute and the timid maiden,
those holding to every political faith and every religious creed.
It is needless to tell you that it will demand great tact on your
par* to handle them all so as to secure that confidence which
every patient should give his physician. There are a few simple
rules, the observance of which, will aid you greatly in accom¬
plishing that result.
While it is not obligatory that you accept every case seeking
your attention, it is well to remember that a large proportion of
every community is unable to pay for medical services. Dr.
Rowsey often remarked that as the average life of the physician
in active practice was about thirty years, he should devote a fair
proportion of the first fifteen to the poor and during that time
should turn no one from his door if it was in his power to give
the case the proper attention. From so doing a double benefit
results, help for the poor and experience to the young physician.
When you assume the care of a case it is your positive duty to
extend every attention to that patient and exert yourself in every
way to hasten his recovery. It matters not whether he be pen¬
nyless or wealthy, low or high, your obligation is the same.
Maintain at all times and under every circumstance connected
with your profession the dignity consistent therewith, by not re¬
tailing gossip or permitting others to repeat the latest scandle to
you, by not entertaining your patients and acquaintances with
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an account of the enormous business you are doing or the num¬
ber of calls you have made that day. They will meet your smile
with a smile, possibly congratulate you on your success, but be¬
hind your back characterize you as a professional braggart.
Never speak to one patient about the ailments and troubles of
another. Many people are very sensitive about their ills and if
you impart such information to one, while he may be interested
and listen politely, he will think “my own case will be commented
on at his next visit and I will secure the services of a physician
who can hold his tongue.” Carrol Dunham once observed that
a physician should have three eustachean tubes. A first to ad¬
mit air to the middle ear that he might hear, a second to convey
all valuable information to the brain to be stored away for future
use, a third leading to a pit of forgetfulness and oblivion where
all that is told him in & professional way should be forever
buried.
Never intrude religious or political arguments into .the sick
room or into the patients home. They are subjects upon which
people generally feel deeply, and while you may entertain direct¬
ly opposite views, you are employed by them and it is your duty
to respect their opinions and so far as lays in your power to fur¬
nish such information as will enable them to perform their full
duty as they interpret it.
You will be careful to avoid misunderstandings with your pa¬
tients in relation to fees for special work. A physician con¬
stantly having such misunderstandings is more to be blamed
than the patients and is continually making enemies. If you
make a bad bargain keep to your word. Hold every promise
sacred, for you can have no standing in any community if you
do otherwise.
Never solicit patients or offer professional advice as a favor.
If your services are worth anything, they are certainly worth the
asking. Volunteered medical aid is never appreciated and when
you permit the public to think, a favor is conferred on you when
they seek your assistance, your usefulness is at an end. Never
make promises of what you will accomplish as an inducement to
employ you, for you will excite such great expectations as no
living physician can fulfill, and when you fail, as you surely will,
you will be dubbed a quack.
When a man comes to you, telling the great amount he has
paid and the numerous favors he has rendered Dr. B., and has
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just learned what a mean man and ignoramus he is, you will
know that he has never settled with the doctor and is resorting
to this trick to secure your ready response to his calls. If you
cater to him, he will be your friend by securing other patrons of
the same stamp, but on the first provocation, presenting your
bill will be the only act that will provoke him, he will serve you
as he has Dr. B. Every community has a per cent of such
people.
Physicians are proverbially poor business men. This results
partly from a lack of business training and partly from the fear
of losing patronage if he insists upon collecting his bills prompt¬
ly. The public is fully aware of these facts and will impose on
every physician who permits it.
In addition to the relation you sustain to the public your ob¬
ligations to the profession and brother practitioners are to be
noticed. You owe to the profession to which you belong more
than merely rendering faithful service to your immediate patrons.
Whatever you may discover that is beneficial and is not known
to the general profession should be added to the common stock
of knowledge for the benefit of all. It is not the proper spirit
and the true physician will not keep to himself, that which he
finds to be of great value in the treatment of any illness.
Never speak unkindly of a rival. If you cannot speak well of
him, say nothing. In consultations avoid taking any advantage
of him who calls you, but it is not incumbent on you to shield
him to the detriment of the patient or if you will be obliged to
stultify yourself in so doing. The first would be unjust to the
patient, the second would make you untrue to yourself. To reg¬
ulate the physicians conduct in professional intercourse, our
bretheren of the older school framed and adopted the socalled
“Code of Ethics.” When this document was endorsed it was
not intended to apply to any physician outside of their circle.
That their own members were very far from being fair and hon¬
est in their personal treatment of each other, the promulgating
of this code attests. It is pleasing to known, that in a spirit of
justice much of the old code has been abrogated. In the year
eighteen hundred and seventy two, a new code was given the
graduates of a New York college. It is very short and easily
learned. It will cover every relation in which you may be placed
and is equally adapted to govern intercourse with physicians as
well as patients. Learn it well and when tempted, if ever you
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are, repeat it before you act. “As ye would that men should do
to you do you even so to them.”
Upon superficial observation it often appears as if those who
utterly disregard the feelings and violate the rights of others,
thrive the best, but upon looking further into the position such
an offender occupies, it is learned that he is tolerated only for
his supposed skill, and when that too is found to be as little as
the other good qualities in the man, his course is run.
One consideration more and I have done. Although con¬
sidered last, it is of the greatest moment. The duty of the physi¬
cian to himself. It may be expressed completely in these words:
“Physician to thine own seif be true.” Although serving the
public, be true to yourself in not being its slave. In claiming
ail the rights of citizenship and of an individual, be true to your¬
self, for they are yours by birth and you forfeit them not in be¬
ing a good Samaritan. The mental worker needs recreation, the
man of cares and responsibilities must have some social pleas¬
ures, the one subjected to constant annoyances and mental strain
pines for the quiet hour at his own fireside with his good wife
and happy children. Physician be true to yourself and secure
all these. The labor of man should be proportioned to his en¬
durance and powers of reaction, therefore be true to yourself,
that love of gain lead you not to destruction from over work.
God has endowed every man with a divine atribute, his power of
reasoning and it is that which stamps the individual in every
human being. Let the physician be true to himself, that he loses
not this ego, but regulates his life in accord with his own con¬
science and belief, religiously, politically 1 and socially, and while
his personal ideas should not be thrust upon the sick and suffer¬
ing, he should when occasion demands, state his views in terms
so plain that there can be no misunderstanding them.
When temptations come, be true to yourself. There is no vo¬
cation of trust, responsibility and intimate relations without its
accompanying temptations. As the physicians calling is made
up entirely of the former, it must have its full measure of the
latter. The facilities for deceiving his patrons, who are easy
victims because of their ignoiance of medicine and confidence in
their physician, the oppertunities of dealing unkindly and taking
unfair advantage of members of the profession to their seeming
detriment and his gain, are such as to be almost irresistible to
one whose sole object is the accumulation of money. The greed
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of such a one will protect him from sins against himself, which
so ferquently lead to ruin his generous, brilliant and warmhearted
competitor. When loss of sleep, irregular meals and anxiety
have wearied one and unexpected work is asked of the already
exhausted body, it is the philanthropic man who becomes un¬
true to himself and stimulates the body that he may be enabled
to respond to the necessities of others. Well can the public
read character, for when they ask this noble man to do that
which he cannot without the sacrifice of self respect, the appeal
is not to his averice but to his sympathy, not to his greed but to
his generosity, and often times it is hard indeed for him to be
true to himself. If you would be just to all men, first, “To thine
own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day. Thou
canst not then be false to any man.”
That you may all be such, that the great pleasures of the true
physician may be yours in abundance, that you may be honored
for your personal integrity and your additions to the store of
medical knowledge, that as the years roll on health, wealth and
true friends may be yours, and when old age is attained that you
majr look back with the consciousness that many men and women
have been the happier for your having lived, is our sincere wish
as we bid you adieu.
V
Whenever a man settles all things by his eyes, and fingers, pseudo science
and theories, he reasons from lasts to firsts; in other words from himself, and
is insane.
You can never look from the toxic, to see what is in harmony with the
dynamic, but may look from the dynamic to see what is in harmony with the
toxic.
Toxicology shows you the ability, or extent of the effects of a drug.
All human beings have like possibilities of degradation; so we cannot look
down upon any member of the human race. We sometimes find in the lowest,
characteristics that are the noblest.
Does any one know what Chemical Affinity is, except, that certain substances,
seem to take a liking to each other?
Susceptibility exists in the Vital Force, and not in the tissues.
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A REPERTORY OB DREAMS.
E. H. WILSEY, M. D., PARKERSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA.
Absurd, Chin., Cina, Thuya.
Abyss, precipitous, Anac.
Accidents, Amm. m., Ant. c., Anac., Am., Ars., Bell., Cham., Chin., Cic.,
Con., Cimicif., Graph., Ign., Inc., Iodof., Jab., Kali c.,
Kreos., Led., Lyco., Mag. c., Nux., Phos., Puls., Sarsa., Sul.,
Sul. ac., Thuya.
Acquaintances, each of which complained of a different indisposition,
Ferr. i.
- of distant, Flour, ac., (death of, Kali, n.)
- of friendly conduct of, Rumex.
Adventures of the day, Bry., Cic., Rhus t.
- of break-neck, Senecio.
Affectionate, with reminiscences of his youthful love, (Cocc. c.)
Alarming- even afier waking, Calc., Chin., PhOS. ac., Psor.
Amputating- a man’s arm, Atroph.
Angry of being made, Rumex.
Animals, Amm. c., Amm. m., Am., Bell., Bov., Hyos., Merc., Nux.,
Phos., Ran. s., Sil., Sul. ac.
-which bite, Merc., Phos., Puls.
- black, Puls., Daphne.
- of black cats seizing him by the hand, Daphne.
- of encounters with wild, Lyco.
Annoying, Absinth., Mang., Nat. c., Nat. m., Kalmia, Petrol., Sep., Sil.,
Sul.
- dream the whole night, which also after waking is continued in his
second sleep, Nit. ac.
Anxious, Aeon., Ars., Anac., Arg. n., Am., Aur., Agar., Amyl.,
Alumina., Agn. c., Ant. t., Alum, m., Bap., Bry., Beil.,
Bar. c., Bov., Chant., Can. i., Can. s., Carb. v.,Camph.,
Canth., Caust., Coccul., Con., Coloc., Cist., Calc., Calc,
ph., Carbol. a., Carbo. an., Chin., Clem., Coca., Dig., Diosc.,
Dros., (iamb., Graph., Gambog., Gua; . Hepar., Hell.,
Hyos., Iod., Kreos., Kali, br., Kali, c., Kali, n., Lyc.,
Led., Lyc. Laur., Mag c., Mag. m., Merc., Merc. i. r.,
Mag. C., Mag. c., Mang., Mez., Mar. v., Mur. a., Nat. m.,
Nux., Nat. c., Nat. s., Nit. ac., Op., Petr., Phos., Plb.,
Puls., Petr., Plat., Rhus., I tail, s., Kapil., Rhod., Ran.
b., Rheum., Spoug., Sil., Sul., Saba., Sars., Strain,
Sep., Sul. ac., Selen., Spig., Stann., Staph., Thuya., Tarax.,
Yer a., Verb., Zinc.
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Anxious very, in his first sleep, Nat. c., Nat. m., Nit. ac.
■ ■ if he lies on his left side, Lyc., Phos., Puls., Sep., Thuya.
- after midnight every night, Sul.
- at night as if he would die, Nit. ac.
-confused without end, Euphorb.
—■ as if fire fell down from heaven, Sul.
- at 3 a. m., Amm. c., (all night Hepar).
" —■ before menstruation, Conn,
- dreams which drive him from his bed, Sep.
- - as if her child was being beaten, Nitr.
- - and at same time annoying, Nat. m.
- as if something important were left undone, Hyper.
- with heaviness on chest, like a nightmare, Mag. m.
- as if he could not find his way in his own house, Mag. c.
- as if his father was about to beat him, Kali. c.
- confused dream, immediately after falling asleep, from which he
awakes after an hour with inflated stomach and dry tongue, Nat. c.
- dream with sweat on back on awaking, Hepar.
- - of threatening forms passing by her, some of which threaten
to lie on her, Kali. c.
- - toward morning, Zinc.
-- at night so that when she awakens, pulses are all throbbing,
Nit. ac.
■ - — - - at a row he hides from danger, Lyc.
- - calls for help, Kali. C., (vivid Bism.)
- - several in one night. Calc. c.
Anxiety on waking, Phos., Chin., Graph., Sil., Phos. ac., Sul
Apprehensive, Phos.
Arrested, as if he would be, Clem.
Ascending 1 a height, Brom.
Astray, of going, Nat. c.
Awakened after 3 hours sleep, tormented with heavy anxious dreams, Phos.,
Lyco.
Awake, dreams much while half awake, Aur., Calc.
Bad dreams, Agar, Carb. s.
Ball, of playing base ball, Atroph.
Banqueting, vivid dreams about, Phos. ac.
Bat, that a bat was flying in the room, Ham.
Battle, of which he took part, Bry., Ferr.
- Aes. h., Bry., Cepa., Ferr., Guaic., Plat., Ran. b., Stann., Thuy.,
Verb.
Beaten, anxious dreams as if she was being beaten so that she prespired all
over, she remained anxious all day, Nat. m.
Beetle, that he held a large beetle between his thumb and index finger and it
tried to bite him. Coca.
Before, seems to dream before getting to sleep, Cinnabar.
Bird, singing which awakened him and caused him to listen, Comoc.
Bitten, by a dog, Calc, c., Sul., Merc.
■ by a forocious black horse, Phos.
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Biting animals, she cried out and awoke in anxiety, Phos.
Black, dreams that black cats are biting him, Daphne.
-forms, Am., Ars., Puls., Nat. ars.
Bloodshed and war, Plat.
Bleeding which is true, Sec., (orgasm of blood, Calc, c.)
Boasting recklessly, Asclep. t.
Boat, dreams of ferry boat sinking in the nver, Alumina.
- of a dangerous sail in a small boat, Nat. m.
Boll, of having boils, Prunus. sp.
Bottle, that a horrible figure at her bedside presented a bottle to her, Merc. c.
Bound down with a chain across mouth, Bapt.
- with ropes, Coca.
Breath, anxious dreams taking away her breath, Graph.
Brook, that her daughter had fallen into the, Iod.
Bugs, Oxytropia., (that his head was attacked by large, Myrica).
Burned, of being, Xan.
Burning, anxious dreams of fire and of burning up, Mag. c.
Business, of, Apis., Anac., Bell., Curare, Chel., Cic., Croc., Cinnab.,
Canth., Elaps., Gels., Kali, c., Lyc., Lach., Merc., Nux.,
KhllS., Sil., Sars., Staph.
- of the day, Lyc., Sars., Stann., Bry., Merc., Arg. m., Nux., Puls.,
Rhus., Kali, c., Lyc.
- which he could not finish, Phos.
- is neglected, Sil., Stann., (Busy dreams, Carb. a., Cina., HyperJ.
Burled, of being, Alumina, (alive, Agn., Chelid. Arn.)
Cadaverous smells, of, Calc. c.
Called, he has been, Merc.
Calling out. Kali, c., Thuya.
Care, full of care, Ars., Apis., Arg. m., Mur. ac., Nux., Phos.
Cats, Am., (black Daphne), Ars., Graph., Hyos., Lac. c. Puls.
-horrid dreams, that she is surrounded by cats and other animals,
Carb. s.
-of large black dogs and cats on going to sleep, Arn.
-anxious dreams of furious cats springing at him soon after falling to
sleep, Hyos.
Carriage, that she was thrown from a carriage, Nat. s.
Cellar, of being confined in a cellar and could not escape, the walls of which
had fallen in, Bov.
Changing places often, Led., Lyc.
Chased, he was being, Phos. ac., Xan , Sil., Sep.
-by big dogs, Sil., Ver. a.
Chest, as if someone was lying across chest and abdomen so he was in
danger of suffocation, Kali. b.
Cheerful, first then horrible dreams, Nit. ac.
Chilliness, many dreams and chilliness in sleep, Nat. c.
Choked, of being, Phos., Zinc.
Churches, Lyss., Asclep. t., Cocc. c.
Clairvoyant, Aeon., Phos., Phos. ac.
Climbing, mountain, Hyper, Mur. a.
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Closet, that he is on closet and thus nearly soils the bed, Psor.
Coffins, Brom., Merc. i. fl.
Comical, Iber. Mygale., (Cion., of heads) (Sill., with loud laughter con¬
tinued after waking).
Complicated, but containing its own explanation as if it had happened the
night before, Asclep. t.
Confused, Alumina, Am., Brachy., Bary. c., Bry., Aeon., Can. s.,
Caust., Calc., Cedron., Chel., Cic., Chin., Croc., Coif.,
Cina., Clem., Dulc., Eugen., Ferr., Graph., Gloil., Hell.,
Igu., Kali. br., Lyco., Lach., Mag. c., Nat. c., Nat. m.,
Nux , Phos., Petrol., Puls., Stann.,Sep., Sul., Sil., Staph.,
Valer., (Lyss., disturbing sleep).
-fearfully has to get up and walk about the room, Dulc.
—— after midnight, (Sep , restless sleep) Chiu.
-frightful dreams with restless sleep, Lyc.
-in which he was very anxious, Bry.
-and at times anxious dreams, emission then sleep of exhaustion,
Cann. s.
—— every night which were remembered after waking, Cann. s.
-and frightful dreams of what had been spoken or done during the
day, Croc.
-dream while sitting at desk at work in the forenoon, Bism.
—— and vivid all night, of ever varying subjects, Mang.
-always of same objects, Colch.
Conf usedly dreams even in his noonday nap, Plat.
Constantly dreaming all night, Apis, Agn. c., Jatrop., Lil. t., Phos., Plat.,
Zinc.
Continuous dream every night, for a week, Pallad.
-of a thunderstorm, Ars.
-dream all night, Petrol.,—of one thing, Hyper.
Continues to dream about what had occured last in the evening, Phos. ac.
Continuation of former ideas, Ant. t., Asaf., Igii., Puls., Rhus.
-of former dreams upon going to sleep again, Ars.
Contention dreams full of, Meld.
Convulsions, awoke with fright from dreaming of, Calc. s.
Cooking, Canth.
Country, Asclep. t.
Corpse, that she saw a corpse, at which she awoke in fright when it seemed
as though a dead acquaintance stood before her, which made her
scream, Nat. c.
Corpses and dead people, Ars., Amm. c., Anac., Aur. m., Calc., Chel.,
Chin, bol., Crotal., Elaps., Graph., Kali, c., Laur., Mag. c.,
Phos., Plat., Sul., Verb.
-when sleeping on back, Arn., —on left side, Thuya.
-dreams he smells, Calc. c.
Crowds of people, Equiset.
Crowding one upon another with restless sleep, Sil.
Crimes which he commits, Nit. ac., Rumex.
Cruel dreams, Nux., Selen., Sil., Nat. m.
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Cruelty without anger, Sil. Stann.
Curious in epilepsy, Lach.
Crush him, anxious dream.as if something would, Sul.
Crying^ violently in his dreams, Kali. c.
Dancing, Mag. c., Mag. m., Gam bog.,—old man, Zinc.
Danger, Anac., Ars., Amm. c. f Ars. met., Aloe., Cann. i., Chin., Con.,
Calc, ph., Graph., Hepar., Iod., Kali, c., Kali. bi., Kali, iod ,
Lach., Lyco., Mang., Mag. c., Nitr., Nat.c., Nux., Phos., Puls.,
Psor., Ran. b., Rumex., Sul., Sul. ac., Thuya.
- that he is in danger of drowning, Ars. met.,—of water, Graph.
- that he was in danger, but he could not cry out for his hoarseness,
Aloe.
-of flying from, Hepar.
- of impending, Calc. fl.—from water, Kali. n.
—— sound sleep with anxious dreams of danger to his life, Mang.
- of danger from a flood, Nat. c., Rumex.
-frightening anxious dreams of mortal danger and about the dead, Sul.
- dreams of danger from fire which awaken him, Bell., Chin.
Dangerous, he awakens after each dream, and dreams something else upon
going to sleep, Ars.
Daytime, periodical dreamy attacks in the, Cann. i.
Darkness, Ars.—dreams the whole night he was in, Aur.
Daughter going down in great expanse of water, Nat. s.
Dead people, Alumina, Anac., Amm. c., Aur., Arn., Ars., Alir. m.,
Bar. c., Brom., Bry., Calc. Calc, fl., Callad., Cocc. c., Cann. i.,
Chelid., Con., Crotal, Codeinum., Dirca. pul., Elaps.,
Graph., Iod., Kali, c., Laur., Lyc., Mag. C., Mag. m.,
Mur. ac., Nat. c., Nit. ac., PhOS., Phos. ac., Plat., Ran. b.,
Ran. s., Rheum, Sars., Sinapis, Spong., Sul., Sul. ac.,
Thuya., Verb., Zinc.
-people when sleeping on the left side, Thuya.
-of relatives long dead, Sars.
-men and corpses, with violent weeping while sleeping, Calc.
-that he was dead and ordered the rapid removal of the corpse from
the house, Flour, ac.
-people as if they were alive and he quarrels with them, Kali. c.
-relatives, Rheum.
Death, Alumina, Amm. c., Aur. m., Brom., Calc., Coccul., Chin, bol.,
Plant., Peonia, Sul.
-of a brother, Plant.
-of friends, Coff. t., Ratan
-of his daughter and great weeping, Calc. fl.
-of her distant sister, dreams about the death, Plat.
-of relatives, Peonia., Calc, fl., Grat., Plant.
-painful dreams of, Raph.
-dreams of dying when sleeping on the left side. Thuya.
-dreams he is dying, friends around the bed taking last leave, awakens
six or seven times, Arn.
- that his approaching death is announced to him, Kali, c., Kali. chi.
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Descending a steep place but awakened when feet touched cold floor, Brom.
Deer, vivid dream of a, Canth.
Defamatory dreams Mosch.
Deformed as if his body was, Sep.
Defecated, toward morning that he had defecated in his breeches, Aloe.
Deliberation, with, Ign.
Delicious dreams, Opium.
Delightful dreams, various, Cann. i., Nux. v.
Devils, dreams of, Kali, c., Lac. can., Nat. c., Nice.
Disagreeable, Ab. es,, Cann. s., Caust, Euphorb., Ferr., Graph.,
Kali, b., Lyss., Mag. c., Mag. m., Nit. ac., Nat. m., Op., Puls.,
Rheum, Rumex, Senecio.
- when she falls asleep night or day, Lyss.
-and frightful dreams, he is disappointed in everything and filled with
anxiety, Cann. s.
- in part and in part pleasant, Agar,
- in metritis, Lac. can.
-after midnight. Gels.
-with restlessness at night disturbing sleep, Apis, Agari., Bell.,
Comu8., Dig., Nat. s., Petrol., Sep.
- and a half waking at night, Nit. ac., Lil. t., Merc.
Difficulties, Amm. m., Anac., Ant. t., Ars., Cann. s., Caps., Croc.,
Graph., Mag. c. t Mag. m., Mur. ac., PhOS., Plat., Rhus.
Disappointing dreams, Ustil.
Disconnected, Agari.
Diseases, Amm. m., Anac., Asar., Bor., Calc, c., Cocc. c., Dros., He par.,
Kali, c., Kreos., Nux., Phos. Sumbul., Sep., Squilla, Zinc.
- of wretched diseases. Con.
Diseased parts of the body, Kali. c.
Disgusting, Chrom. ac.. Inula., Kreos., Nux., Puls.
-of dirty clothes, Kreos.
- of being smeared with human excrement, Zinc.
- of vulgar scenes, Chin. hoi.
Disquieting, dreams, Phos. ac., Graph., Nat. c.
(continued.)
The Simple Substance is the substance of substances, and all things are from
it. It is really first, in which rests all power.
Weight cannot be predicated of the Simple Substance, neither time, nor
space.
No power known to man exists in the concrete substance, but all power ex¬
ists in the Primitive Substance.
The Primitive Substance, or Radiant form of matter, as certain scientists
term it, is just as much matter as matter in its aggregate form.
The real and general holding together of the things in this world is by Simple
Substance.
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"THE NEGATIONIST AS RELATED TO MEDICINE.
S. E. CHAPMAN, M. D., NAPA, CALIFORNIA.
The propagandist of truth has usually a hard time of it in this
sin-cursed world of oilrs. History records but few cases where
the apostle of any great scientific, moral or spiritual truth has
not suffered indignities, injustice, and even death, at the hands
of the Negationist.
Socrates, because he taught the self evident fact that a Supreme
Individual God existed, was forced to drink the lethal cup of
•hemlock infusion.
Jesus Christ was crucified by blind and devilish Negationists,
notwithstanding the fact that he had lived a life of spotless purity,
and had substantiated his claims to divinity by miracles that
oven his enemies were compelled to acknowledge to be such; but
in them was the spirit of negation so fixed and deeply rooted,
that rather than honestly confess the truth, they committed the
sin against the Holy Ghost, and ascribed the power of his mi¬
racles to Beelzebub, the prince of devils!
Galileo was faced with the alternative of death, or the recan¬
tation upon his knees of the simple scientific truth that the sun
is the center of the solar system.
Christopher Columbus was the butt of ridicule in the courts
Europe when he contended for so axiomatic a proposition as
the globularity of the earth. And to the eternal shame of the
race, his reward for the discovery of America was vile injustice,
imprisonment, poverty, and a death of shame and neglect.
And so I might mention Harvey, the discoverer of the circula¬
tion of the blood, and many others who gave their time and lives
to the advancement of truth, of whom the world is not worthy;
•who suffered the same unappreciation and cruelty from those so
Jiard of heart and slow to believe.
At last there stepped into the arena a man of irtcomparable
genius; one who had the courage of his convictions. Who for
the conception of the truth that God had given him, counted the
rank, honors and emoluments of a royal court as nothing, rather
than prove in the least degree recreant to the “heavenly vision”
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which had been given him of the only law of cure, similia simili-
bus curanter. He was made of sterner stuff than Galileo, or he
too would have crouched before Ignorance and Negation, and
the medical world today would have been wallowing in the same
old quagmire of superstition and unbelief. For I dare to assert
that whatever advancement the dominant school has made in
the past century toward scientific therapeutics is due entirely to
the influence of Homoeopathy.
Without further preliminaries, I will proceed to classify the
Nagationist, and treat him in detail from the homoeopathic stand¬
point. It is hardly necessary for me to add that the honest in¬
quirer who refuses to believe without proof, does not come with¬
in the scope of this paper. “Prove all things and hold fast to
that which is good” is the divine injunction.
I. The first in the series is the Lay Negationist . This is the
only honest and at all corrigible class with which we have to
deal. And but for the Medical Negationists, whom we shall
consider further on, the laity would long ago have been con¬
verted to Homoeopathy. The Lay Negationist usually is an
honest seeker after cure. He knows but little about “pathy”
and the blind prejudice and hatred of the Medical Negationist.
He comes into your office with a quizical look of unbelief in his
eye, and perhaps will tell you frankly that he does not believe in
“sugar pills” at ail; but he has been the round of physicians of
other schools and patent medicines without relief. He has come
to you now without a particle of faith in Homoeopathy, as a der¬
nier ressort. If you be a worthy exponent of our school and
cure the case, our Lay Negationist immediately becomes an en¬
thusiastic Affirmationist of the power of Homoeopathy on earth
to heal the sick. So the Lay Negationist is not responsible for
the fact that Homoeopathy has not yet accomplished the work,
nor the need of honor and recognition to which it is entitled in
the scientific world.
II. The second class I will denominate the Allopathic Nega¬
tionist. Under this caption we will classify all medical practi¬
tioners other than homoeopaths. I am aware that this is a very
arbitrary classification, and is hardly fair to our eclectic friends;
I do so as a matter of convenience, and am only sorry to be
obliged to rank them among the Negationists at ail.
Bitter and to the death has been the fight of this class against
the tenets and propagandism of Homoeopathy. Never has a
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point or concession been gained from them by the friends of
Homoeopathy but as the result of fierce and determined warfare.
Never have they honestly investigated the claims of our school,
but have written tomes on tomes of contumely and ridicule of
the only law of cure. And what is still worse and utterably de¬
testable, when we have forced a therapeutic point upon them,
they calmly ignore us and the law, and with the assurance and
placidity of the devil appropriate our thunder!
On they go through the long weary years, chasing more deter¬
minedly after specific medication, stubbornly shutting their eyes
and refusing to see that God has given us an all sufficient law of
cure. Will they never learn that the only specific possible in the
treatment of disease is the remedy indicated by the totality of
symptoms in every case, irrespective of diagnosis or pathoiogy ?
Picture of meaness and stupidity though the above be, still
we may throw about the majority of them the mantle of charity;
for, like Saul of Tarsus, they do it ignorantly. But suppose
these Allopathic Negationist had each been taught and led up to
the point where they saw clearly, or professed to see, that the
tenets of Homoeopathy were founded in truth, and then went
about practicing anything and everything that was unhomceo-
pathic and unscientific, letting hundreds and thousands die that
should have been cured—what shall be said of these? This
question leads us naturally to the consideration of class.
III. The Homoeopathic Negationist . This is the man just de¬
scribed. The diploma he carries from his alma mater and hangs
upon his office wall, is presumptive evidence that he has beep
thoroughly drilled in, and has subscribed to the tenets of homoeo¬
pathy. The very fact of such a diploma hanging so conspicu¬
ously before the public pledges him to the practice of that
system.
When Paul was stricken down at noonday on his way to Da¬
mascus, and received occular and auricular evidence that Jesus
Christ was the son of God, what sort of man would he have been
if he had afterward spoken slightingly and sneeringly of the
Heavenly vision, and had gone on in his diabolical work of per¬
secuting the saints ? Surely no one could have expressed the
contempt that he would have deserved. My Homoeopathic Ne¬
gationist, “Thou art the Man!”
But Paul, standing in chains before King Agrippa, cries out in
the exultation of his soul, “I am not disobedient unto the Heavenly
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vision, Oh, King Agrippa!” and so became the greatest man
of history.
“Oh, but doctor,” cries the Homoeopathic Negationist, “your
comparison is not fair. Any one could believe in and practice
Homoeopathy if he could have such miraculous proof of its val¬
idity as Paul received.”
I say to you that if your diploma be not a snare and a delu¬
sion, both to yourself and a long suffering public, then you have
witnessed many exemplifications of the curative power of the in¬
dicated potentiated drug. You have the testimonies of a long
line of glorious homoeopathic prescribers. You have the law
and the prophets, and if you believe not them, neither would
you believe though one arose from the dead.
And now we have arrived at the logical position of the Ho¬
moeopathic Negationist. He actually would not believe though
one arose from the dead attesting to the truth of the principles of
our school. This assertion is not strained nor far-fetched. A
well known homoeopath of San Francisco told me that he was
called in consultation with a Homoeopathic Negationist. Said
Negationist had declared that the patient could not live. Our
friend did not fully concur in this absolutely unfavorable prog¬
nosis, gave the indicated remedy, and the patient recovered.
One would have thought that this Nagationist would have sang
the doxology over this heavenly vision, and would have gladly
sat at the feet of this man who knew so much more of our bene-
ficient art than himself. On the contrary he is the bitter enemy
of our friend who had saved a life that he had devoted to death!
I have read somewhere that the monks of the middle ages spent
much time in controversy over the probable size of the soul.
Some believed it be colossal, while others contended that thou¬
sands could dance at one time upon the point of a cambric
needle. The latter must have had experience with men like this
Negationist.
Of all phases of human depravity none is so unlovely and in¬
comprehensible as this rejection of light and positive evidence.
The solution of the problem is that “men love darkness rather
than light, because their deeds are evil.” If one of our schools
practice methods that are unhomceopathic, he hates the work of
the Hahnemannian, because it is a reproach to him. There are
certain immutable laws that prevent such an one from apprehend¬
ing and coming into the light. This is equally true in the scien-
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tific, moral or spiritual realm. They have eyes but see not;
ears have they but hear not. Wrapped in their cloaks of conceit
and self sufficiency, they do not realize the sickness, hence they
need no physician. There is no power that can bestow upon
them the “giftie” to “see themselves as ithers see them. ,, The
prayer of Burns is good poetry, but utterly impracticable, unless
we be honest and earnest seekers after truth. The Almighty him¬
self cannot invade the realm of human will except at the request
of the individual. But the individual under consideration is not
a seeker after abstract truth. He will tell you with beautiful
glibness that an extensive experience has taught him that palia-
tive doses of morphia, etc., do not in any degree interfere with
or modify the action of homoeopathic drugs. Notwithstanding
the fact that opium inhibits all the physiological operations of
the body to a considerable degree, yet in his hands the indi¬
cated remedies (for two or more are always indicated in his cases)
go prancing so beautifully and unerringly to and through the
morbid anatomy, and treat with such contempt and oblivious¬
ness said opium, that the humiliation the latter must be com¬
plete.
One of our Homoeopathic Negationists in a certain city not
many years ago, read the signs of the times— or, at least, the
daily papers—and concluded that a choleraic invasion was im¬
minent. Upon the strength ot such conclusion he invested
his earthly all in carbolic acid. Now whether he did this as a
business speculation, simply working up a little corner on said
article; or intended it merely as a trifling addition to his stock
of homoeopathic drugs, I cannot depone; but his purchase
amounted to something more than two thousand pounds! The
conception was profundity itself; but
“The best laid plans of mice and men
Aft gang a lie. ’’
That foul fiend, Cholera Asiaticum, hearing of the malodorous
reception awaiting him, sheered off and left this tremendous
stock upon the hands of our unhappy Negationist. There it still
remains, waiting either for a rise in the price of carbolic acid, or
a return of that treacherous destroyer—cholera.
And while upon the subject, perhaps some of you read in a re¬
cent issue of one of our homoeopathic journals, where the author
of one article tells of injecting subcutaneously sixty minims of
pure carbolic acid into the tissues immediately contiguous to an
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immense carbuncle, located upon the nape of the neck. Them
with an ingenuousness and naivete that is beautiful and childlike,,
he tells of a slough that amounted to thirty cubic inches! (?)
But you are to distinctly understand that this tolerably liberal
slough was in no degree attributable to the acid. Furthermore^
you are to remember that he did “all that homoeopathy could
do,” giving Arsenicum and Silicea alternately. Who could be so*
unreasonable as to suggest that this patient should thank God
tor a jackass constitution that pulled him through in spite of the
vilest mal-practice ?
There are several causes for all this error so prevalent in our
school.
I. The first is a neglect to investigate the claims of our
school. The proofs of the eternal truth of each and every dog¬
ma of homoeopathy are abundant and exoteric in their nature^
No unbiased, intelligent person can investigate them without be¬
coming an enthusiastic convert to the homoeopathic faith.
II. The mind thus negligent where the interests at stake are-
so vital, owes it to lack of energy or perversion of the wilL
With the lazy man we have no controversy. The corn is not
shelled and the funeral may as well move on. The one who
willfully closes his eyes and positively refuses to make a practi¬
cal test of the proofs, especially if he be ostensibly a follower of
Hahnemann, is an incorrigible sinner. He will assure you with
such a show of frankness and honesty as would deceive the very
elect, that he cannot conscientiously trust the life of a danger¬
ously sick person to the single potentiated drug. And yet this
very conscientious individual can live a life diametrically at va¬
riance with his profession, and practice that which is unsuccess¬
ful and unscientific.
III. A want of ability or skill to use our knowledge. This I
believe to be the most common of the causes of unbelief among
Homoeopathic Negationists. How came these men in posses¬
sion of homoeopathic diplomas? Tell it not in Gath, and pub¬
lish it not in the streets of Askelon; but the sad, sad truth is that
our colleges are largely—or, shall I say it ?—wholly responsible
for all this miserable work. Did they but teach the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and grant diplomas to
to none but those entitled to them upon these lines, then would
homoeopathy shine forth as the meridian sun, and her effulgent
rays would illumine the darkest corners of the medical world.
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It is the old, old story. The fountain being impure, the
stream cannot rise higher than its source, and can be nothing
but filthy. No man, be he a college professor, or humble and
obscure as the hero of “Beside the Bonny Briar Brook,” unless
he be honest, earnest and philosophic by nature can ever appre¬
hend the truths of homoeopathy. Unless he be possessed of a
mental breath and grasp that shall inductively and deductively
apprehend similia as a scientific fact, then is he in no wise, nor
ever can he be entitled to a homoeopathic diploma.
IV. And lastly the Homoeopathic Negationist lacks that vital
element without which no man can enthusiastically and success¬
fully practice homoeopathy—faith! As a man thinketh in his
heart, so is he. It is not possible to practice homoeopathy in its
purity unless the practitioner be animated by a deathless faith in
the law and tenets of that science. And, as a corollary to the
above, any one possessed of this faith will practice accordingly.
By their fruits ye shall know them.
These are what I deem to be the principal sources of error
among the weaklings of our school. When the writer was
younger, more sanguine and optimistic, he believed that homoeo¬
pathy would soon overcome all opposition and take the world.
Now he would not venture to prophesy that that much to be de¬
sired event would ever occur. It cannot be until we have cleansed
our fountain heads of learning of all filthiness and unbelief.
Then shall the Homoeopathic Nagationist, the one who has the
legal form of homoeopathy but denies the power thereof, become
a thing of the unregretted past. Until that time the same sense¬
less chase after specific medication will go on, millions of human
beings will yearly drop into premature graves, and the millenium
of medicine will dawn upon a sick and weary world—when?
HOMCEOPATHIC ART.
A. W. HOLCOMBE, M. D., KOKOMO, IND.
PROF. OF MATERIA MEDICA IN DUNHAM MEDICAL COLLEGE.
Science may be defined as classified knowledge, and Art, as
applied science. Homoeopathy is both a science and an art.
The science of homoeopathy embraces the principles and laws
upon which it is founded, and the philosophy of their relation
to the life forces. The application of this science in the healing
of the sick, is the healing or homoeopathic art.
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The Organon of the Healing Art, is an elucidation of the science
of homoeopathic art. In the Organon , Hahnemann give com¬
plete instructions foow to apply the science of homoeopathic in
the healing of the sick. To be a true homoeopathic artist re¬
quires an understanding and appreciation of the science of
homoeopathy as Hahnemann has explained it, and without this,
it is impossible to practice the true homoeopathic art, and any
practice or proceedings in medicine which is contrary to the
principles and teachings of the Organon is unhomoeopathic, and
if practiced under the name of homoeopathy, is fraudulent.
Hahnemann is the supreme judge of what is, or is not, true
homoeopathic art, and from his decision there is no appeal.
That his disciples might make no mistake in the practice of
the new art, and that the public might not be deceived by pre¬
tenders, he makes some broad and plain statements concerning it.
In the preface of the 5th edition of the Organon , he makes a
statement, which 75 per cent of those who append homoeopathic
physician to their names, disregard daily. He says, homoeopa¬
thy sheds not a drop of blood, prescribes no emetics or laxatives,
it removes no external disease by local applications, it orders no
medicated bath nor enemas. The homoeopathist dispenses
only selfmade simple remedies, whose effects he has accurately
and carefully studied, and he avoids all mixtures and needs no
Opium to sooth pain.
As true practioners of homoeopathic art, we are commanded
to write down all the symptoms of each case, and to select a
remedy whose known effects on the healthy human body, are
most similar to those found in the patient. An honest apprecia¬
tion of the truth of homoeopathy, demands a consciencious and
persistent effort to discover the indicated remedy.
Hahnemann says in the foot note to Sec. 149: “But this often
very laborious search and selection of a homoeopathic remedy
adapted in every respect to morbid condition in hand, is a busi¬
ness demanding the study of original resources and much care¬
ful circumspection as well as serious reflection, notwithstanding
the existence of many praiseworthy books, intended to facilitate
the burdens of an office, which finds its highest reward alone in
the conciousness of having fullfilled a duty. How can this la¬
borious, careful occupation, which alone furnishes the possibility
of accomplishing the best cure of diseases be expected to suit
the convenience of the members of a new mongrel sect, who
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boast of the honorable title of homoeopathists, and who for the
sake of appearances make prescriptions in the form and charac¬
ter of homoeopathic medicines, merely snatched up at haphazard
and who, if the inaccurately chosen remedy does not bring im¬
mediate relief, do not throw the blame upon their own inexcus¬
able indolence and carelessness in transacting the most import¬
ant and serious affairs of mankind, but saddle the fault upon
homoeopathy, accusing it of great imperfections, because it does
not supply them with the proper homoeopathic remedy for every
morbid condition without any trouble on their part. Who would
honor this careless and pernicious class with the title of homoeo¬
pathic physicians? asks Hahnemann.
Nothing should be condoned, that Hahnemann condemned.
The practice of prescribing mixtures or drugs in alternation, the
use of local applications, or opiates as palliatives cannot be
too strongly condemned as they are not only unscientific, but
Hahnemann says, unhomoeopathic. The writer once accom¬
panied on a professional call, a man who made strong claims of
being as good a homoeopath as anybody. This being the case,
we expected to see a brilliant demonstration of homoeopathic
art. We were not disappointed. This good homoeopath called
for three glasses of water, into the first he put three kinds of
medicine, into the second, two kinds, and into the third he made
a cider colored liquid of Hammamelis , and before we could re¬
cover our breath of astonishment, he had put a few drops of
Sulphur 3x in each glass. Directions: A tea spoonful from each
glass in rotation every half hour.
Behold the simplicity of Homoeopathy! How exceedingly
simple is the homoeopathic art! What a scientific prescription,
for homoeopathy is the only true science of medicine, and this
man was a good homoeopath.
What a homoeopathic prodigy! In 15 minutes this wonderful
homoeopathic artist had found seven simillimums, while it fre¬
quently takes the writer an hour to find one. But is this homteo-
pathic art? Is that the work of a homoeopathic artist, or is it
not the crude work of a careless dauber ?
In Sec. 169, Organon , Hahnemann says that where two reme¬
dies are apparently indicated, the choice shot.Id be one of the
two, and the other should not be given at all, until the one given
had completed its action, and another picture of the case taken.
He speaks of only two remedies being apparently indicated, and
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seems never to have dreamed of any man claiming to be a
homoeopathic physician finding equally well indicated remedies,
and too indolent or too ignorant to search for the single one in¬
dicated.
Nowhere in the Organon has Hahnemann recommended or
even sanctioned alternation as practiced by the majority of
those claiming to be homoeopathists, but he has taken special
pains to denounce it as entirely unhomoeopathic.
In Sec. 246 Organon , Hahnemann says, a single dose of the
well selected homoeopathic remedy should be allowed to termi¬
nate its action, before the same or a new remedy is repeated.
The homoeopathic physician considering human welfare to be
his highest aim was to administer one most minute dose at a time
of a carefully selected remedy in a case of disease, to allow this
dose to act upon the patient and terminate its action. I say
most minute, since it holds good, and will continue to hold good
as an incontrovertable homoeopathic rule of cure, that the best
dose of a carefully selected medicine will always be the smallest
in one of the high potencies for acute as well as chronic disease.
A truth which is the invaluable property of pure homoeopathy,
and which will continue to stand as an imperishable barrier to
shield homoeopathy from quackery. A careful homoeopathic
physician would scarcely dare to repeat the dose of the same
remedy again and again, since no advantage was ever gained by
such a course. How then is our good homoeopath who alter¬
nates and rotates going to harmonize his practice with this plain
statement by Hahnemann? Either he is not a careful physician,
or he is not a homoeopathic physician. Alternation evidences
either one of two things, or both, the physician is too indolent
and careless to search for the Homoeopathically indicated
remedy, or he is ignorant of what it takes to constitute a homoeo¬
pathic prescription. In either case he is not a true homoeo¬
pathic artist. Again, is alternation honest? Is it not a specie of
hypocrisy and fraud, unintentional perhaps, but a fraud notwith¬
standing. The physician who claims to practice homoeopathy,
morally pledges himself to furnish his patients homoeopathic
treatment, and if through indolence, ignorance or carelessness
he substitutes that which the founder of homoeopathy denoun¬
ces as unhomoeopathic, he defrauds his patients to that extent.
Hahnemann says, homoeopathy prescribes no mixtures, yet
the growing demand for combination tablets evidences the fact.
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that a large majority of so-called homoeopaths employ and pre¬
scribe these unhomoeopathic mixtures, and some have even gone
so far as to recommend Pierce’s Favorite Prescription to their
patients, and pretend to feel grievously offended if the orthodoxy
of their homoeopathy is questioned.
Hahnemann again says, homoeopathy employs no medicated
baths, yet we find men who would make affidavit to the ortho¬
doxy of their homoeopathy employing the very things Hahne¬
mann says homoeopathy does’not employ.
The prevailing use of the caisson, depurator and the cabinet
and other allopathic inventions are examples of how far away
from the straight and narrow way some of our professional
brethren have wandered. The spectacal of a homoeopathic
physician boiling a patient in steam impregnated with Beech-
wood kreasote for incipient tuberculosis, or oil of wintergreen
for rheumatism, is to make the old masters of homoeopathy turn
in their graves. How scientific! What a brilliant exposition of
the homoeopathic art! How convincing to the public that
homoeopathy is the only true science of medicine! Why spend
precious time and brain power searching for the similhmum,
when it is so easy and withal so scientific and so homoeopathic
to boil our patients in medicated steam.
Hahnemann says homoeopathy employs no medicated baths,
but he was an old fogy and the Latter Day Saints say homoeo¬
pathy does employ medicated baths, for they employ them and
they are homoeopathists.
Why it is that men claim to be homoeopathists, while they re¬
fuse to practice homoeopathy as Hahnemann taught it, and do
practice as homoeopathy, the things he denounced as not homoeo¬
pathy, they alone can know.
If they do not know better, they are criminally ignorant, for
Hahnemann says, when we have to do with an art, whose end is
the saving of human life, any neglect on our part to make our¬
selves thorough masters of it, becomes a crime. If they do know
Better, how much more reprehensible is their failure to measure
up to the standard demanded by a consciencious application of
the true homoeopathic art.
A CASE OF RAPIDLY CURED COLICODYNIA—
HAHNEMANN.
Mr. L., a compositor, 24 years of age, lean, of a pale earthy
complexion, had worked at the printing press a year and a half
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before coming to me, and then for the first time felt great pain
in the left side which obliged him to keep his bed, anti which
after several days went away under the use of ordinary medi¬
cines. Ever since that, however, he has experienced a dull dis¬
agreeable sensation in the left hypochondrium. Some months
after when he had overloaded his stomach with sweet-beer soup
flavored with caraway, he was attacked with a severe colic, the
violence of which he could not express, but at the same time
could not say whether it corresponded with the colicodynia which
succeeded it.
The attack passed off this time, I don’t know how, but he ob¬
served that after it, he could not bear certain kinds of food. The
mischief increased unobserved, and the colicodynia with its dis¬
tinctive features took firm root.
The worse kinds of food for him were carrots, all kinds of cab¬
bage, especially white cabbage and sour kraut, and every species
of fruit, but pears in particular.
If he were so incautious as to eat any of these things within
eight days after the attack which had been brought on by them,
the liability was so increased that he could not eat even a morsel
of a pear, for example, one or two weeks after without bringing
on another severe attack.
The course of a severe attack was as follows: Four hours or
four hours and a half after eating such food having previously
felt quite well, a certain movement was felt about the umbilical
region; then there took place suddenly, always at the same place,
a pinching as if by pincers, but attended with the most intoler¬
able pain, which lasted a half or a whole minute, and each time
went away with borborygmus extending to the right groin, about
the region of the coecum. When the attack was very bad the
pinching came back, and the subsequent borborygmus more and
more frequently, until in the worst attacks they were almost con¬
stant. There occurred also the sensation of a constriction above
and below, so that flatus could pass neither upwards nor down¬
wards. The uneasiness and pains increased from hour to hour,
the abdomen swelled and become painful to touch. Along with
all this suffering, which resembled a fever, there came an incli¬
nation to vomit, with sense of constriction of the chest, the
breath was shorter and attended with more difficulty, cold sweat
broke out, and there came a sort of stupefaction with total ex¬
haustion. At this period it was impossible for him to swallow a
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drop of liquid, much less any solid food. Thus he lay stupefied
and unconscious, with swollen face and protruding eyes, and
without sleep for many hours; the attack of spasmodic colic
gradually subsided by diminution of the pain, then followed
some escape of flatus either upwards or downwards, and so the
attack went off, sometimes only after sixteen or twenty-four
hours after its commencement. The strength only returned after
three or four days, and thus he was again like a person in health
without any uneasiness except the dull fixed pain before de¬
scribed, and general weakness and sickly appearance. He could
not positively say whether this dull pain went off during the se¬
vere attacks or not, but he thought it did.
In these circumstances he could not retain his situation at the
printing press; he became a compositor. The attacks always re¬
curred after the condition described, and had continued to do so
for more than a year when he put himself under my care.
It might easily be supposed that the attacks arose from flatu¬
lence; this however was not the case. He could take, without
the least inconvenience, a good meal of dry peas, lentils, beans
and potatoes, and he was obliged to do so moreover as his posi¬
tion did not allow him the opportunity of getting much else.
Or it might be supposed to arise from some inflammation in
the primae viae, or from some idiosyncrasy in respect to sweet
things. But nothing was further from the case. But could take
cakes baked with yeast and sugar and milk as much as he pleased,
even to satiety, without the slightest threatening of colic, al¬
though the first attack, seemed, as I have said to have been caused
by the beer soup.
Or could an injurious acidity have occurred within the four
hours for the attack never occurred sooner, after partaking of
the above things? This was not, because lemon juice and vine¬
gar were both innocuous. Neither did he ever vomit sour mat¬
ter, either during the retching that occurred with the attack or
when ordered an emetic. None of the absorbent earths or alka¬
lies were of any use to him, whether taken during or after the
attack.
A physician had suspected tape worm, and subjected him to
Herrnschwand’s treatment, without any result. Neither before
or after he had passed anything which had the smallest resemb¬
lance to a tape-worm or indeed any kind of a worm at all.
When he came to me the idea of tape-worm had taken so firm
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a hold on his mind that I was obliged to order for him all that
was peculiar in the methods of Nuffer and of Clossius. He used
all the medicine with patience, and pressed me to try every
means with this in view. Tartrate of Antimony, Gamboge, Scam -
mony, Male-fern, (four ounces daily for four hours together) Char¬
coal, Artemesia, in large quantities, Colocynth with oils, Castor
Oil, Tin, Iron, Sabadilla, Sulphur, Petroleum, Camphor, Asa -
foetida, and laxative salts, nothing was untried; but they were
given, as I have said, rather on account of his urgent request
than to satisfy my own conviction, for besides the fact that no
worms were seen, the two symptoms which I have so often ob¬
served to attend worms were absent, viz., the deeply wrinkled
countenance and the sensation of a cold stream winding itself
towards the back immediately after a meal.
Immediately after the Sabadilla, which produced a creeping
sensation like ants upon the skin, formication, and a heat in the
stomach and over the whole body, I let him try the test of eating
a pear. It appeared as if the attack was returned quite mildly,
but after I left him medicine for eight days and again tried him
with a small piece of pear the colic came on just as bad as ever.
I have forgotten to mention that I had already previously tried
all sorts of so-called antispasmodic remedies at the commence¬
ment of the paroxysm. Small doses of Ipecacuanha taken dry,
luke warm foot baths, and larger baths, opium and cajeput oil,
without any result, even without any palliative effect. I sought
to palliate the symptoms at the time in order that he might con¬
tinue without molestation to use Cinchona bark and to wash with
cold water, to get the better of weakness.
As his condition required immediate help, in as much as the
colicodynia began to appear even upon the use of the smallest
quantity of vegetable, and all I had done at his intreaty had been
of no service whatever, I determined to give him a medicine
which produced very similar morbid symptoms . The similarity of
the griping pain, anxiety, constriction of the chest, fever, loss of
strength etc., produced by veratrum album appeared to me cal¬
culated to give permanent relief.
I gave him four powders, each containing four grains, and told
him to take one powder daily, but to let me know at once if any
violent symptoms appeared. This he did not do. He did not
return until five days thereafter. His unlimited confidence in
my aid had nearly played him an awkward trick. The benefit I
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had promised him from the powders, had induced him to take
two daily. After the second powder, without his having eaten
anything injurious , there began an attack which he could not
otherwise describe than as his spasmodic colic, or something very
much like it. This did not prevent him, however, from taking
the third and fourth powder the following day, thus taking six¬
teen grains in rather less than two days, upon which this artifi¬
cial colic , if I may speak, increased to such a fearful extent, that,
to use his own expression, he wrestled with death , covered with
cold sweat and almost suffocating. He had required the remain¬
ing three days to recruit, and had returned for further directions.
I reprimanded him for his imprudence, but could not avoid com¬
forting him with prospect of a good issue. The result confirmed
it; under the use of a tolerably good diet he regained his strength,
and he has not for half a year had even a threatening of an at¬
tack, although from time to time he has eaten of the food which
before was so injurious to him, but in moderation, as I impressed
upon him he should. Since this event he has taken no more
medicine, and no tape-worm was passed after the use of the
veratrum.
The dull pain in the left hypochondrium likewise went at the
same time.
[This case was reported by Hahnemann in Hufeland's Jour¬
nal , 1797, while he was practicing in accord with the established
form of treatment; it seems to have been nothing more than an
accident, but contributed to that experimental knowledge which
ultimately led him to a knowledge of the law of similia similibus
curantur . It shows likewise that the crude drug can cure when
indicated, but only through suffering which may be obviated by
the use of the minimum dose.— Ed.]
AMALGAM FILLINGS.
B. L. HOTCHKINS, M. D.
PROF. OF MATERIA MEDICA IN DUNHAM MEDICAL COLLEGE.
I can best illustrate some of the injurious effects by a few
cases.
Mr. H., aged 41, bilious, sanguine temperament, dark hair,
blue eyes, slow in action, both mentally and physically; pulse
sixty but full and strong. Cold blooded, always hanging around
the stove or over the heat, likes the house warmer than is com¬
fortable for the rest of the family, sweats very readily about the
head and chest upon slight exertion.
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He has been a great sufferer from canker sores in the mouth
for nearly twenty years, generally they would appear on the in¬
side of the lower lip and occasionally on the edge or tip of the
tongue. As the years rolled by, they became more frequent and
for the last ten years, scarcely a month went by, without a cank¬
er sore; if occasionally he should miss a month he would be sure
to make up for it the next month, by having two or three large
ones. For the last fifteen years these canker sores were accom¬
panied with dyspepsia, these attacks would begin in the fall and
again in the spring, each attack lasting about a month. These
attacks would increase in duration each succeeding year, until
he was a continuous sufferer for about nine months in the year;
the hot months of summer would give him a short respite from
his sufferings; but as soon as the weather began to change and his
work became harder, the old symptoms would return, which
would be a feeling ot hunger, or gnawing and a sensation of
goneness about three hours after each meal and there were days
at a time when these symptoms were present almost constant day
and night, the flatulence was great and when he could raise the
gas he would get temporary relief; he soon learned that heat was
his best friend and if he would take a glass of hot water it would
start the gas and supply heat internally, a heavy w’oolen band
over the stomach and bowels contributed its share to the relief
of his sufferings. Eating would ameliorate these attacks at first,
but later as the attacks grew more severe even that seemed to
have but little effect, about the only thing that would relieve
would be a glass of hot water.
He was obliged to let his clothing out as he could not bear
anything tight about the waist. If his feet became cold, the gas¬
tric symptoms were greatly aggravated and to afford relief to the
stomach he would wear heavy arctics early in the fall to late
in the spring. The pains would cause a sensation of heat start¬
ing from the stomach and spreading upward over the body. He
cared nothing for cold water, in fact he was greatly averse to it,
for it would chill the stomach and cause an accumulation of gas
with the hungry, gnawing pains. He would eat a whole meal
without drinking a drop, unless the drink was warm. It rarely
happened that he would drink a glass of water during the day,
unless heated by exercise. There was aversion to cold drinks
and food.
Several remedies were given at different times as they seemed
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indicated, with but little more than slight palliation. The great¬
est relief was obtained for a time from Lachesis which made
the patient comparatively comfortable for several months. Abies .
nigr 3 followed with good results for a few weeks longer, when, it
too failed to further relieve.
When the canker sores were unusually severe he got into the
habit of taking Merc. cor s t which always moderated the severity
of the canker sores, provided he took but one dose a day; but if
he crowded the remedy, the canker sore would become decidedly
wor*e. This line of treatment had finally to be abandoned how¬
ever, for he noticed that when the cankers improved, the stomach
was aggravated to the degree of unbearance. I then prescribed
A7 tic <ic;V/ 50ni one dose which did more to alleviate his suffer¬
ings than any of the remedies previously taken; but it would not
remove the trouble entirely. He was then ordered to remove a
couple of amalgam fillings and as the symptoms still lingered a
dose of Ama/gatu cm was given two weeks later, which put an end
to the suffering; it is now nearly three years and he has not had a
single canker and his gastric trouble is the thing of the past.
Only on one or two occasions has he had a very slight return of
his gastric trouble, as the result of severe colds; but they were
speedily relieved, lasting but a couple of days. As further evi¬
dence of his good health, he has gained fifteen pounds in weight
in spite of being a very hard brain worker at times. He says his
health is better now than for twenty years.
Case II. Mr. D., age 35, nervo motor temperament, light
complexion, blue eyes. Has been having for the last four or
five years, during the winter months, three and four severe at¬
tacks of pharyngitis, which would lay him up for a week or ten
days at a time. The suffering was simply dreadful. High fever,
flushed face, aching all over and great prostration. The attacks
would commence on the left side and extend to the right.
There was chronic hypertrophy of the tonsils. He was annoyed
with great accumulation of saliva, necessitating continual swal¬
lowing which greatly aggravated the throat. Thought the throat
was worse at night. Upon inspection, the uvula, soft palate and
both tonsils were of a purplish red with considerable heat and
congestion of the surrounding parts.
Previous history revealed a weak, sensitive throat at all times
of the year with frequent expectoration of copious yellowish
sputa, the same catarrhal state extended to the nasal tract. The
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impression one would have from looking at the throat was, that
it was specific. Lachesis 30 was prescribed every two hours with¬
out the slightest relief; the throat seemed to grow rapidly worse
as the evening wore on. At ten p. m. word was send over that
he was no better, but growing worse if anything and that he was
getting so nervous and the pain so great, that he could not sleep
and to be sure to send him a sleeping powder. A powder of
Merc. bin. /W 1000 was sent with instructions to put it in water
and to take a dose every half hour for three doses and to wait an
hour for it to act. Next morning he reported that only one dose
of the sleep medicine had been taken, as he fell asleep before it
was time to take the second dose and woke the next morning in a
dripping perspiration and the sore throat’practically well. This
was a great surprise to him as he expected to have a week siege
of it at least. In about four weeks he came down again with the
same kind of a sore throat which was quickly relieved with the
same remedy and potency. The conclusion arrived at, was that
some fifteen or more amalgam fillings had more to do with his
throat trouble than anything else. They were ordered removed
and gold substituted and Ama/gam cm given. He has now gone
through two winters without loosing a day from his work, nor
has he had another sore throat; he says his mouth has a clean
feeling to it now and he has gained ten pounds in weight.
Case III. Robert H., an artist of eighteen years of age, leu-
co phlegmatic temperament, dark hair, blue eyes, the very picture
of health to look at, with a good deal of color to the face.
Family history showed him to be a croupy child and a brother
and sister dead from consumption. Was poisoned with poison
ivy about ten years ago, which has annoyed him two and three
times a year ever since, by breaking out anew. His mother has
always been very successful in suppressing it every time with
soda and water. Has been troubled with spells of dizziness at
times for the past year which was likely to be followed with head¬
ache. Bowels sluggish, going two or three days generally.
Seminal emissions two and three times a month. Always per¬
spired very freely on slight exertion. Easily discouraged. Hy¬
pertrophied tonsils ever since he could remember and has had
severe ulcerated sore throats for years; but his mother’s skill was
brought into use again and by swabbing the throat with pinus
can., she could always suppress the sore throat in a couple of days.
But early in the winter of ’97 an attack broke out that neither
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pinus can., or anything she could do, would choke it of!. It was
like a pent up volcano bent on active operation, nothing would
stop it and when I called, we had a severe case of tonsilitis to
deal with. Upon inspection the left tonsil was enlarged to that
degree that it nearly filled the entire throat, accompanied with
pulsating pains. The gums were spongy, purpleish, and blood
would exude from around the teeth if pressed with the finger, a
condition I learned had been present for five or six years.
The mouth was full of saliva and as he lay in bed would run out
on the pillow. Head, face and neck covered with perspiration.
The pain was so great, that he could be heard moaning all over
the house; the prostration was great and it was with effort that he
could open the mouth so as to get a good view of the throat.
Neither Lachesis lm or Merc, bin . iod lm gave any material relief.
Hepar. sulph cm moderated the severity sufficiently to allow him
to sleep part of the night; but its energy seemed to be consumed
in about two hours, so that it was necessary to repeat the remedy
about every two hours, when at the end of twelve hours the ab¬
scess presented a point and a prick of the mucus membrane lib¬
erated a great quantity of pus. His recovery was uneventful.
In about a month the same performance was repeated only in
a much milder form. After convalescence had taken place, five
or six large amalgam slugs were removed and gold substituted
and a dose of Amalgam cm given. In two weeks the report
showed, saliva rapidly decreasing, gums bleeding but very little,
bowels regular, the emissions growing less frequent and perspira-
tion of not as bad in odor. He was then put on constitutional
treatment, which consisted in antidoting chlorate of potash,
iodine, quinine and Hood’s sarsaparilla. He has gone through
another winter without requiring a prescription for the throat or
the loss ot a single day from his work. The gums have tightened
up around the teeth and there is no more bleeding. The color
of the gums, uvula and throat is of a healthy, pale color and the
tonsils normal in size, which goes to show that chronic enlarge¬
ment of the tonsils can be cured by the homoeopathic remedy;
that it is not necessary to extirpate them, to reduce them.
The miasm or exciting cause that had been creating all the dis¬
turbance has been removed and the tonsils will stay cured, which
is not always the case when the knife is used.
I am satisfied from these three cases and several others that I
could report, that Mercury , whether in the form of amalgam, or
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calomel or blue mass or in any other crude form, when put onto
the system is a lasting detriment to the patient’s good health.
It is so powerful and all pervading in its action that it holds the
field against any other remedy that might be given to remove
acute or chronic conditions that arise from time to time. It is
like a bull dog before the door, allowing no one to enter to see
what repairs are needed inside, it is necessary that the obtruding
agent be removed; this is the reason why many a fine prescrip-
scription fail us. This is what Hahnemann meant when he said,
we must remove the cause. We must not only remove the cause
but we must antidote the damage already done in order to per¬
form a perfect cure. When the rubbish is removed, we can
easily see what is covered up by it.
INFLUENZA.
The medical profession, throughout the world, is more care¬
fully considering the manifestations of this disease than at any
time since the beginning of its invasion in 1890. The present
epidemic brings out some peculiar phases of the disease
which mark its miasmatic character and reveals the necessity
for deep constitutional treatment. The concensus of medical
opinion today is to the effect that this disease is capable of
finding the weak points in almost every constitution, with the re¬
sult that no two persons are affected alike. Like all other epi¬
demics, it is important for the physician to learn the prevailing
type, because it will be found there are certain peculiarities
which point to a genus epidcmicus> which prevails in different lo¬
calities and must be met before the constitutional will be of avail.
The observing physician will soon find two or three remedies
perfectly meets these peculiar indications when the treatment
becomes very easy. A careful inspection of the current litera¬
ture leads to the conclusion that gelsemium is the genus epidemi-
cus remedy for the present attack. This is closely followed by
baptisia and veratum album or viride . A study of the patho-
genesy of these different remedies, gives a general indication of
the characteristic disturbance predominating throughout the
country. The Monthly Homoeopathic Review for March is large¬
ly devoted to the consideration of this subject. One of the most
logical and comprehensive papers being from the pen of Dr.
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John McLachlan whose contributions to the recent issues of the
Advocate have been read with such pleasure and profit.
He says:
“My firm conviction from long and extended observation is that the allo¬
pathic methods of treatment are far m< re dangerous to life, than the dis¬
ease itself. Nor is the reason far to seek. The allopathic policy is one of sup¬
pression and concentrated attack upon single symptoms—symptom treatment in
fact in its most violent and fatal form. There can be no such thing as a specific
remedy for this disease, because each and every case must be treated according
to its peculiar and characteristic and consequently points in a certain direction.**
Many writers have placed Aconite at the head of the list, but a
careful analysis of their work reveals the fact that their prescrip¬
tion is based upon its physiological action of being a “fever re¬
ducer,” and they have forced the action until the vaso-motor
nerves were paralyzed and the walls of the blood vessels were
relaxed thereby reducing temperature for the time being.
Hahnemann says:
“In order to remove from our conscientious treatment, all that routine prac¬
tice which is often too apt to regulate its treatment in accordance with delusive
names of diseases, it is indispensable the chief symptoms should be found accu¬
rately reproduced.’* Again he says, “In the selection of Aconite as a homoeo¬
pathic remedy, particular attention should be given to the symptoms of the
disposition , so that they should be very similar. Restlessness and uneasiness
of mind and body, causing frequent change of posture, coughing and sighing,
forebodings, anticipations of evil, anguish of mind, dread of death and even dis¬
tinct anticipation of its occurrence.**
It will be seen from this picture, that Aconite bears no re¬
semblance in the mental symptoms to the features of any mias¬
matic disease, and can therefore be of little or no use in any case
of genuine influenza , but it may be used as a means of differentia¬
tion between that of a disease brought about by a specific poi¬
son, and that due to exposure of different kinds. On the con¬
trary, Gelsemium seems to be almost a universal remedy in this
trouble in some form or other. It may be the mental depression
or stupor, or it may be indicated from the profound physical
prostration. In addition to this we may have a soreness of the
muscles, suffused redness of the face, and peculiarities of the
fever pointing strongly to the action of this remedy. The gen¬
eral picture being that of a person well under the influence of in¬
toxicating liquors. Now what has been said with reference to
Gelsemium , may be applied to those profound stages calling for a
deeper acting remedy which you will find most perfectly covered
by Baptisia , with it fever, drowsiness, semicomotose condition of
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the brain, the uniformly diffused redness of the face, extreme
prostration with great restlessness, trying to find a comfortable
place in the bed because of the soreness of the flesh. This pic¬
ture suggesting a “typhoid” condition.
Dr. McLachlan takes up the subject presenting the following
general indications.
Eupatorium perfoliatum (“Thoroughwort” or “Boneset.”) This medicine
is useful in cases where the bone pains are specially prominent—intense aching
in the limbs and elsewhere as though every bone in the body was being broken.
In such cases we have constant change of position by the patient ezum though
the pains are not worse by repose; he complains of a bruised, broken feeling all
over the body. Both this remedy and baptisia have marked soreness of the eye¬
balls.
Natrurn muriaticum .—This very useful medicine is to be kept in mind for
those cases where the loss of taste and smell accompany the catarrh (compare
Pulsatilla ) together with hydroa or • cold sores” on the lips and cracks at the
angles of the mouth. It will be still further indicated if the patient has been
dosed with quinine, ammoniated or otherwise.
Arsenicum .—This is a remedy of great value in the aged and in children,
and especially in the catarrhal form of the disease when we meet with the char¬
acteristic prostration and weakness, with its sndden onset and rapid advance,
with burning heat and unquenchable thirst and restlessness. Further it is of
great use in those cases where the gastro-intestinal irritation is a marked feature,
giving rise to diarrhoea, and more especially if the diarrhoea should be brownish
or coffee colored and provoked by every attempt to eat or drink We are taught
in a general way that Arsen, should not be given too soon in a disease lest we
increase the downward tendency (e. g., in typhoid fever), and that Rhus. tox.
may with advantage preceed it. But, as in most cases, there is an exception to
the rule, and that is in gastro enteric inflammations, as in the cases now under
consideration Arsenicum is often called for at the very beginning of the case,
and nothing but benefit follows its administrations when properly indicated.
The restlessness is one of the characteristic indications for Arsenicum; the pa¬
tient cannot rest in any place, though he is fatigued by so doing. The period
of general aggravation is from 1 to 3 o’clock a. m.
There is at first sight a considerable likeness between Aconite and Arsenicum;
viz.: The restlessness, full bounding pulse, great thirst, hot dry skin, anxiety
and fear of death; but Aconite , as we have seen, has practically no effect on the
tissues or fluids of the body, whereas Arsenicum affects both profoundly.
Arsenicum iodatum .—This a remedy I have not used much, chiefly because
the provings are so meagre. It is said, however, to be specially useful, and
should therefore be kept in mind. In a general way the indications for its use
(chiefly clinical , I believe) are the same as those of the oxide, but it is to be pre¬
ferred when the symptoms indicating Arsenicum occur in marked strumous con¬
stitutions. It is stated to be specially useful for influenza affecting horses chief¬
ly, in Canada, and the United States, east of the Mississippi river.
Rhus toxicodendron should not be forgotten, as it may occasionally be useful.
It has the well known restlessness, which compels the patient to toss about, is
worse on first moving but better from continued motion; it compels him to toss
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about in bed, and he is better for a short time in each new position, but very
soon he has to change again. 1 his tossing is not, like Arnica and Baptisia, be¬
cause the bed feels hard, but because of the tearing pains in the muscles and
fasciae. There may be copious coryza with sneezing and dry cough, the cough
being worse from evening until midnight, and excited by cold drinks.
Arnica mont. is occasionally useful. Like the others, it has a restlessness.
In this case the patient may be kept awake till 3 o’clock a. m. by heat, rest¬
lessness, and constant desire to change position, the bed feels too hard, and so
he moves often in order to find a soft spot. The patient at the same time may
be drowsy and stupid and very apathetic.
Complications: Under proper treatment there are no compli¬
cations other than aggravation of the constitutional susceptibili¬
ties of the individual. It will be noted that psoric individuals
are more susceptible to the repeated invasions of influenza and
consequently are more liable to complications—the most fre¬
quent being that of bronchial irritation with its distressing cough.
The following remedies may be suggested, Sticta , Phosphorus ,
HyoscyamuSy Bryonia , Drosera , Rumex, Antimonium tart , Causti-
cum and Sulphur.
EPIDEMIC AND LA GRIPPE REMEDIES.
F. O. PEASE, M. D., CHICAGO.
PROF. OF MATERIA MBDICA, DUNHAM MEDICAL COLLEGE.
Ac tea Racemosa ( lm and cm ).
This remedy has been very frequently of valuable service. It
has the aching of muscles, the bruised soreness generally, chilli¬
ness, great languor; “so tired;” the spells of sharp crampy pains
in head, chest, abdomen, or legs. Sleeplessness and nervousness
with heat in back of head and gloomy mental state. Nausea and
vomiting with the goneness in stomach, but no desire to eat.
China sulph. in any potency above cc still more frequently has
been the Joshua to lead influenza off the victims, because the
remedy has, much pain, neuralgic or congestive or anaemic in
the head. There may or may not be “ringing in the ears;” vari¬
ous pains here and there, aching of deeper structures, general
feeling of extreme illness impending and reminding them of for¬
mer attacks of la grippe, or ague. Especially brilliant curative
action in those who have abused quinine.
There are the usual symptoms of dry mouth, pains in face or
head left side, high rate of pulse, temperature may be abnor¬
mal, great weakness and trembling; extremities cold, often night
sweats, periodicity of aggravations.
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Gelsemium , Excessive irritability of mind and body, mucular
aching most complained of while lying in bed or sitting. Great
tiredness or heaviness. Headache, forehead, or vertex, and es¬
pecially in nape extending to shoulders or down spine. But little
thirst or appetite, but eats because he “wants to keep up
strength.” Eyes feel heavy, with the headache, and in the sleep¬
lessness they feel heavy or just the opposite, “they won’t stay
shut.*' Feet cold, head and face hot. Usually worse every day
at the same hour.
Catnphora . In the beginning when there is great depression
mentally and physically, congestion to stomach or chest, feeling
of coldness in stomach up through chest, neck feels stiff and sore,
chilliness in the back. Stiffness of muscles generally, cramps in
calves or in the cold feet. A feeling quickly comes on of great
prostration, utterally tired out, sleepy, drowsy in day time.
Sleep stupid and unrefreshing, coldness of skin surface, but wants
no covering. Blondes most affected. Pains are better when
thinking or talking about them, may have great thirst or none at
all.
Other remedies of course have been successfully used, as Bry. t
Rhus., Eupat . perf. etc. These above noted are not usually
routine remedies.
EPILEPSY.
F. H. LOCKWOOD, M. D., CHICAGO.
PROF. OF NERVOUS DISEASES IN DUNHAM MEDICAL COLLEGE.
So much has been written about the disease known a Epilepsy
that there remains but little more to be said. In regard to epi¬
lepsy in women I might say that both epilepsy and hysteria can
and does exist in the same patient as independent diseases, each
being characterized by its own peculiar symptoms. Frequently
epilepsy has attacked an hysterical subject without the hysteria
affecting in the slightest degree the course of the epilepsy and
vice versa.
The disease known as hystero-epilepsy is a combination of
symptoms of both diseases in the paroxysm.
This should not be mistaken for the ordinary hysterical fit or
spasm, as they differ quite materially, that is the hysterical fit is a
reflex convulsive affection, an accidental or incidental accom¬
paniment or complication of hysteria.
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In hystero-epilepsy the paroxysms are very similar to true
epilepsy particularly in the first stage, but one characteristic in¬
dication is that the aura is always referred to the abdomen.
The second stage shows more particularly the hysterical nature,
if you observe the patient closely you can see that the spasmodic
movements are to a great extent intentional and also that they are
more pronounced. In this affection also compression of the'
ovaries will greatly modify or completely stop the seizure, nor
are the epileptic symptoms complete as will readily be noticed
on close observation, also you will observe even after the dis¬
ease has existed for some time that the health of the patient is
not materially affected and there never is a rise in temperature.
Epilepsy is caused by any irritation direct or indirect upon the
nervous centers of those who are predisposed by inheriting a
weakened or lowered condition of the nervous system.
This predisposition has often been noticed to have been
handed down from choreic parent.
This convertibility is not only in reference to epilepsy but it
holds good in all nervous affections.
These irritations, which will be better known as the exciting
causes may come from any part of the body, peripheral or inter¬
nal, mainly the latter.
I recently cured a case of 6 years standing that was caused by
rectal fistula, the patient having no attacks in early life, the pre¬
disposition simply lying dormant until the rectal fistula developed
which was the match to start the flame.
The fistula was curetted and given as healthy a condition as
possible, then with the aid of internal constitutional remedies, it
healed with the disappearance of the epilepsy. The paroxysms
gradually growing less severe, and less frequent during the heal¬
ing of the fistula. The patient has been entirely free from the
attacks up to this writing now beveral months, and there is no
trace of the fistula left. Several eminent men have since in¬
formed me that fistulas cannot be cured so easily. It remains
to be seen in this case and I will watch it closely. If there
should be another outbreak, I shall still have faith in the old
saying, “if at first you don’t succeed try, try again.” As for the
treatment of epilepsy, I will say that it is almost useless to sup¬
ply the remedy during the paroxysm.
It is best to study your case carefully, and after you are
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thoroughly convinced of the proper selection then give it during
the interval between the attacks.
A remedy selected for the paroxysms will have no benefit
whatever, in the aura, as the paroxysms are the effects, or the
manifestations of the disease and are not the disease proper.
This I believe is where our mistakes have always been in treat¬
ing this class of cases, and why they have been pronounced in¬
curable; and so they are if we continue to treat the paroxysms
with bromides, etc.
The popular idea that most cases are incurable I think is a
mistake, and the majority of us go at a case of this kind in a
half hearted way, because that idea is in our minds.
But if we take a case with the same feeling of assurance that
we do with other diseases which we know to be curable, then our
labors will meet with better success.
We must expect at times to meet with disappointments, but so
we do in other instances without loosing courage, and why
should we in this, even with the popular idea.
Let us have patience and work faithfully and I am sure our
labors will be rewarded as they have been before in other sup¬
posed incurable cases.
ASTHMA—IPECAC.
FRANK R. WATERS, M. D., CHICAGO.
PROF. PHYS. DIAG. AND DISEASES OF THE THORAX, DUNHAM MEDICAL COLLEGE.
Mrs. L. age 22, short, stout, brown eyes and hair. Dark com¬
plexion.
Has been my patient for eight years and in that time has taken
no medicine but homoeopathic. Previous to being under my
care had been treated by the old school.
Feb. ’97. Has a baby—the first—three months old which she
nurses.
Has been suddenly taken, several times lately, with a suffoca¬
tion and difficult breathing.
*< inspiration.
< damp air.
< cold air.
< laying down.
< warm room.
Seemingly < from nursing child.
< noise.
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< gas light.
Nervous.
> leaning forward—breathing. -
Lips darkened.
Face flushed.
Hacking cough.
No expectoration.
Sibilent and sonorous rales.
No other symptoms discoverable at this time. Bell**™.
Spell shortened, symptoms almost entirely disappeared.
These conditions would return at irregular periods and con¬
tinued thus for a year. From the symptoms it would always seem
to be Bell., so raised the potency to cm . It seemed that there
must be something back that interfered with the action of the
remedy.
The mother was “quizzed” time after time on the daughter's
previous treatment—prior to my attending the family. At the
last consultation on the subject she said as a child she would
often catch cold and for the cough would procure from the drug¬
gist a cough syrup which would make her vomit the mucous and
she would get better after awhile.
Upon inquiry of the patient she said she was often obliged to
“gag” during these * ‘spells” of suffocation. Without further
thought gave Iftecae 60 ™.
Jan. '98. It worked like a charm. Has not had a bad spell
to this date and considers herself well in that respect.
BRONCHITIS—BRYONIA.
Mr. W., tailor, age 24, dark complexion.
Has been troubled with this condition for five years, at which
time got a severe chilling.
Has been to California three winters where it would almost
entirely disappear, but upon returning to Chicago the difficulty
would return.
Has been treated faithfully by “regular” practitioners.
Nov. 4, ’97. Headache—bursting upon quick motion, raising
head from a stooping position.
< hot head—wearing hat.
< coughing jars head.
Pain in forehead to base of brain.
> rest.
Mouth tastes bad, slimy in morning.
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Appetite fair.
<< after eating—short breath.
Stomach heavy like a stone.
Bloated.
Bowels constipated. Hard, dark burnt-like stool.
Piles, smart after stool.
Cough dry, scanty, difficult to detach.
> cold, dry, frosty weather.
< damp, foggy weather.
< nights, getting warm in bed.
> keeping still.
< walking—breathing.
Respiration—difficult, rapid.
Draw long breath at times.
Moist raeles.
Sleep—dreams of daily affairs.
Has felt a more or less tired feeling for years. Never was his
disposition before this condition come on. Bry 70m .
Nov. 13. Mentally better.
> jaring symptoms.
> cough.
> breathing after eating.
Constipation same, Sac. lac.
No. 20. Symptoms all generally better, except constipation.
Sac. lac.
Nov. 27. Constipation > Sac. lac.
Dec. 3. Has taken a fresh cold—symptoms like first condi¬
tion but not so severe. These have held on without change for
four days. Bry™ m .
Dec. 11. Symptoms much better in every way. Bowels
regular.
Apparently well today.
A HYPODERMIC INJECTION.
Prof. D., age 28, dark complexion, muscular, powerful voice.
Has been an unusually well man, with the exception of a right
direct inguinal hernia. Had worn a truss up to spiing of ’97,
when he underwent treatment for the cure by the hypodermic
method, which was apparently successful.
Shortly after this became quite hoarse, would be obliged to
clear the throat often. Had a dry hacking cough. The huski-
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ness of his voice when speaking was tedious, noticeable and per¬
sistent.
Jan. 15, *98. Symptoms the same as above. Knowing that
he over-used his voice continually, and with the symptom an ag¬
gravation towards evening, gave Causfi m .
Feb. 1. Hoarseness >* Sac. lac.
Hoarseness < had been doing a greal deal of vocal work.
Weather damp etc. Rhus *°°.
Mar. 2. The subject of the treatment of this hernia came up.
Made inquiry of him what sort of liquid was used hypodermi¬
cally, said it had an odor something like carbolic acid. Card,
ac. 60m .
Reports hoarseness entirely disappeared—voice normal.
The strangest thing of all is that the hernia almost returned.
Was obliged to resort to his truss again—it now, the 25th, seems
better.
Hydrocele. —Dr. John a Wyeth (A Tew York Medical Journal)
does not believe in the application of the so-called “radical”
operation in ordinary cases of hydrocele, on the ground that such
an extensive procedure is not at all necessary. He injects a
few drops of a mild solution of cocaine into the skin of the
scrotum and through the anaesthetic area plunges a small trochar
and canula, through which the fluid is allowed to run off. A
hypodermic syringe is now fitted to the canula and a moder¬
ate amount of 95 carbolic acid is thrown into the sac and the
tissues manipulated until the acid is brought into contact with
all parts of the scrotum. A cure will almost certainly follow, al¬
though the chronic thickening of the scrotum, induced by pres¬
sure, may never entirely disappear.
Successful Ovariatomy in a Woman over eighty. —Dr. A.
M. Cartledge, of Louisville, Ky., reports {Medical News) the
successful removal of a multilocular cyst from a woman over
eighty years of age, the patient making a prompt recovery.
Enlarged Prostate. —Helfericn prefers resection of the vas
deferens in hypertrophy of the protate, because it is a much safer
operation than castration and yields quite as good results.
Iodoform Poisoning. —Dr. W. H. Walthen, of Louisville,
(Medical Times) reports a clear case of iodoform poisoning re¬
sulting from a vaginal tampon composed of gauze saturated with
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this chemical. Cases of this kind are no doubt of frequent oc¬
currence. The trend of surgical practice is undoubtedly away
from the application of dangerous chemicals to raw surfaces.
A recent case of supperation resulting from anintra-uterine douche
of a-3000 solution of corrosive sublimate is known to the writer.
Fecal Impaction —Dr. J. M. Mathews reports {Medical Times)
a highly instructive case of fecal impaction in the sigmoid, the
mass being putty-like and the size of a foetal head. The case
had been diagnosed as enlarged prostate. Prompt relief followed
the appropriate treatment.
Reduced Mortality after Pylorectomy. —Kocher reports
that his mortality following pylorectomy has fallen to twenty per
cent.
Howard Crutcher.
THE MODALITIES.
Dr. S. N. Watson in the Medical Era for February presents
an interesting paper upon the above subject. It contains some
well-founded truths and some of its conclusions are based upon
a misunderstanding the real teachings of Hahnemannn.
The illustrations of his Pathogenetic Drug effects will be ap¬
preciated by every student of materia medica.
Apis is pathogenically characterized by edema. From this fact it follows
naturally that Apis conditions are worse from warmth and exercise, which stim¬
ulate the circulation, and that its pain is relieved by cold water.
Arsenic, Aurum and Mercury are deep acting systemic poisons, and their
condi ions are naturally worse at night, after the vital forces have been largely
expended in the extra exertions of the day, when the system is overloaded with
carbon, and the heart beats sluggishly, and the life processes run feebly.
Belladonna means congestion, and we have no question that Belladonna
conditions will be worse from motion, from touch, from sudden changes, and
from the heat of the sun.
Bryonia’s modalities are indicated when we known that its chiefest charac¬
teristics are serous inflammation, exudation, and effusion; and we expect to find
that its conditions are aggravated by motion and coughing, heat and eating; and
that its pleurisy is better from lying on the painful side, which is but a synonym
of “worse from motion.”
Calcarea carb. and Silicia represent mal nutrition, and so we expect to
find them < from cold air and exertion and better from being warm and com¬
fortably wrapped.
The hysterical remedies, Ignatia and Pulsatilla, are made better by any¬
thing which will take their minds off themselves, and their own complaints.
Nux Vomica modalities give a fine description ot the dyspeptic and neurotic
patient. He can’t do anything; he is worse in the morning, worse from mental
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exertion, worse from eating, worse from motion. In other words, the spring is
run down, and it is hard work to make the machine go.
Lilium tig., Platina and Sepia are woman's remedies; the day’s house¬
work tires them, and makes the back ache; yet they are so nervous from that
dragging, wearing, heavy burden in the pelvis that motion, and getting about,
and keeping busy will relieve them, if they are not too badly off to stand any
motion at all.
Rheumatic remedies in general, such as Ranunculus, Rhododendron and
Rhus, are worse from change of weather. The stimulation of continued motion
relieves the Rhus congestion in the muscles, though the first motion is painful.
Sick headaches are generally worse from light and noise and motion, and so
w*e find the Modalities of Sanguinaria what we would expect. Nor does it sur¬
prise us that Spigelia’s neuralgia is worse from the same conditions.
Croup is always worse at night, and when the head lies low on the pillow,
and Spongia fits the same condition.
Sui.phur has a dyscrasia of its own; and how could it be otherwise than that
a psoric patient should be worse from the warmth of the bed, from washing,
from bathing, from standing still, or from touch ?
He closes with the following statement:
A pure symptomatologist may be an expert man; but a man must be some¬
thing more to be a good prescriber. He must also be a good pathologist and a
scientific student of the conjoined processes of drugs and disease, in order that
the science of medicine may not be obscured in his mind by medicine as an art.
One of the first things taught by Hahnemann in his Organon
of the Healing Art contains the above in the following language:
§ 8 “If the physician clearly perceives what is to be cured in diseases, that
is to say, in every individual case of disease (knowledge of disease-pathology ),
if he clearly perceives what is curative in medicine (knowledge of the medicinal
powers , genus of the drug , pathogenesy) and if he knows how to adopt, accord¬
ing to clearly defined principles , what is curative in medicine to what he has dis¬
covered to be undoubtedly morbid in the patient, (symptomatologist-pathologist -
scientific student of the conjoined processes of drugs etc.) , then he understands
how to treat judiciously and rationally (a good prescribe))
A VALUABLE COMBINATION (?)
In the Homoeopathic News for Feb., is given 1 ‘A Valuable Com¬
bination Tablet for Rheumatism,” containing Kali iod iK , Phyto -
lacea }*, Guiacum lx , Colchicum Xx . This is followed by indica¬
tions and symptoms. All pointing to pathological conditions
which are valuable only for the diagnosis and of little value to the
prescriber. The whole group of “symptoms” are usual or come
as a matter of course in the majority of rheumatisms. Follow¬
ing the formula and symptoms, are given various additional drugs
etc., linaments and plasters whereby are added to the treatment
alkalies, salts, Sulphur , Belladonna , Iodine , Aconite , Chloroform ,
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Bryonia , and Rhus iox; poly-pharmacy with a vengence. How
can materia medica knowledge or therapeutic experience, be
gained from such a confused conglomeration of potent drugs,
recommended too in the guise of homoeopathy. Is such teach¬
ing to be tolerated by the adherents of the one and only scientific
system of medicine ? Is it homoeopathy, or is it eclectro-allo-
pathic nonsense? Is it homoeopathic materia medica thera¬
peutically applied, or is it a rehabilitation of the slip shod and
legendary medication of the ancients, who, by some sorry trick
of masqueradery has come into our nineteenth century of prog¬
ress to simulate homoeopathy in a guise that by the ears alone can be
and should be recognized as a travesty. Such pretence to homoeo¬
pathic therapeutics should be barred from our literature. The
publishers or editors of such journals evidently are working for
dollars for the sale of nostrum and “combinations” which will
tickle the fancy of a class of doctors, who also are such for the
“money there is in it,” who think little and careless for the prin¬
ciples of law, either of homoeopathy or humanity. It would be
a hard matter for a true physician, homoeopathic or otherwise
to recognize method or system or duty from reading the direc¬
tions , given in such articles as that in the News , and a still harder
one to learn anything in therapy or materia medica.
F. O. Pease, M. D.
PERSONALS.
Dr. F. O. Pease and Eugene W. Sawyer have removed from
the Columbus Memorial Building, to suite 806 Stewart Building,
diagonally across the street from their old place.
Dr. Harriet Knudson Burnett, of Newark, N. J., has been very
seriously ill, following a severe attack of diphtheria brought on
by performing tracheotomy on a smalll boy.
Dr. G. W. Palmer has removed from West Branch, Iowa, to
Port Huron, Mich. He writes, “The Feb. number of the Advo¬
cate, is the best I have ever read, and trust it may continue just
as is the last. A library in each number.
93,500.00 Cash. Homoeopathic practice for sale, in
Jamaica Plains, three miles from Boston, Mass. Rare chance;
owner to leave the state, giving up general practice for that of a
specialist. Purchaser thoroughly introduced. Price |(j>00.00
cash. Address “S” care Hahnemann Advocate.
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Clinical Dertficattons.
Dr. A. Von der Luhe presents a number of clinical verifica¬
tions in the North American for April.
Veratrum album 200c in Involuntary Diarrhcea. My patient was
an Indian woman, 82 years of age. When called in, she had been suffering for
a day with this disease. The last twelve hours of that day the stools would
occur every fifteen minutes, half hourly. The symptom that guided me to se¬
lect above remedy was, she would have a slight cramp in one of her feet at times.
In two houis the effect was so marked she had perfect control of her stools. No
other remedy was used and she made a perfect recovery from the diarrhcea.
Aloes 30th in Involuntary Diarrhcea. An old gentleman, 82 years of
age, who suffered with frequent involuntary stools, accompanied with a great
deal of wind. This was controlled in a day, and he recovered entirely in two
or three days, after the use of the remedy. I have had the best success with
the three following remedies in involuntary diarrhoea, that is China , Aloes and
Verat. alb. high, that is the 30th or 200th. China 200 would be indicated,
where great weakness or protration was the marked symptom.
Bryonia 200 in Neuralgia of the Eyeball, Due to the Use of
Coffee. A gentleman not accustomed to the use of coffee drank a cup. Soon
after this he had an attack of ciliary neuralgia of the right eye. Pain was ag¬
gravated by moving about. lie rectived one dose of the above remedy. He
kept quiet and in two hours it had disappeared. This was tried several times
in his case and was always successful.
(Coffea crude inpotentiated form might have removed the sus¬
ceptibility to coffea and thus have cured the patient.—E d.)
Phosphorus 30c in a Case of Perspiration of the Fingers. This
patient enjoyed good health, and this was the only thing that troubled her.
She had suffered with this from six to nine months. It was so excessive that it
would rot the ends of her kid gloves and her fingers looked as if they had
been held in lye. In two weeks she was completely cured. It is now some
years ago, and she has had no recurrence.
(Will the doctor give the indications upon which Phosphorus
was given?)
Kalmia lat. 200c in Intercostal Rheumatism of the Left Side.
This was accompanied by a numb sensation of the whole left arm. The pain in
her left side was so intense that she could not lie down or sleep at night. She
had it for two days before I was called. The above remedy was prescribed
hourly in water for awhile, then every two or three hours. In three or four
day" she was cured. After the second dose she found relief. The keynote in
selecting this remedy was the numbness in the left arm. In neuralgias and
rheumatism where you have marked numbness, Kalmia lat. is the remedy.
Acts best on the left side.
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Apis m 200 in (Edema. A little girl of eight years, who had recovered from
typhoid pneumonia had oedema of her face, eyelids and feet. In three days,
this entirely had disappeared by the use of the above remedy. No doubt the
above symptom arose from the fact that the kidneys were not carrying out their
proper functions. Apis m rectified this.
Belladonna 200c, Neuralgia of the Thumb. A gentleman has slight¬
ly bruised the end of the thumb. Five days after that had throbbing pain in it
all night and was restless. Took one dose of above remedy and in two hours it
had disappeared.
Rhus tox. 30th in Asthma. This was a peculiar case. For many months
he had suffered with asthma. During the week while he was working he was
entirely free, but Sundays he would have an attack. From the fact that while
he was active during the week days he was free from asthma, I selected this
remedy. After taking this medicine one week he was completely cured.
Rhus tox. 200c in Rheumatism in the Articulat of the Upper
and Lower Maxillaries. It was accompanied by stiffness; and the lower
jaw had been partly forced out, so that the face was very much deformed. She
suffered more from it at night. She had had it for sometime. After taking
Rhus tox . for four days every three hours she fully recovered. She never had
a recurrence. Before that she had a number of attacks for more than two years.
Epiphegus 30. Headache. Nearly eight years ago I was called to a young
lady, who was suffering from a headache, that was located in the occipital re¬
gion. The pain extended from there over the top of the head towards the
frontal region, the serverest pain existing in the occipital region. These head¬
aches would always come on after the excitement of shopping all day or after
going to evening company. She would be compelled to go to bed, it made her
very nervous, only slept part of the night, and that restless. Had very little
appetite, and was accompanied by great nervous prostration. Gave above rem¬
edy and the headache was better after a few doses. The headache disappeared
entirely in a few days. The prostration remaining was entirely relieved by
China m. It was a complete cure, for she never suffered the same way. The
second case was a young school teacher. For several months she would have a
frontal headache, pains extending into the eyes; this was during the school ses¬
sion. After school the headache would gradually pass away. This would oc¬
cur every school day. Gave her Epiphegus 30, four times daily for a week.
She has had no more headaches, and it is now over two months ago. The key¬
note of this remedy is this: headache brought on by a mental strain, whether
shopping, visiting or any other mental exertion, as teaching.
Traumatic Neuralgia — Hypericum 30. 1st. An old lady over 70, fell
and struck her chest and bruised her muscles. For a few days she treated her¬
self, until she found she could not relieve the intercostal neuralgia. The pain
was so severe it made her nervous and prevented her from sleeping at night.
The above remedy made a complete cure in four days. 2d. A gentleman
while abroad in Scotland fell off his bicycle and sprained his shoulder joint and
bruised the muscles of the upper arm. When he called upon me he had suf¬
fered with traumatic neuralgia for six months. Several fly blisters were tried
in Scotland but gave him no relief. His upper arm was never free from pain.
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sometimes very painful. He never had during that time been able to sleep well
at night, but was compelled to get up and walk about his room, until it eased a
little, then he could lie down for awhile. 1 gave him a bottle of disks saturated
with Hypericum 30. Three days after he called, and said his arm had under¬
gone a marked improvement. The second night after taking this medicine he
was able to sleep all night. His words were these: “This was the best sleep I
had in six months.” He has slept well ever since, and his neuralgia has been
perfectly cured. 3d. A gentleman, while gunning in the neighborhood of
Cooperstown of this state, was accidentally shot in the forearm of his left arm
by a friend. The forearm was filled with a great number of bird shot. He
came home to Brooklyn and called on a surgeon who treated him, and removed
all the shot he could, locating a number of them by the use of the X-rays. He
suffered intense pain in the forearm and hand supplied by ulnar nerve. There
was partial paralysis of hand. Outward applications were used which gave him
temporary relief for a few hours a day. Electricity was persistently used but
had no effect on pain or numbness of hand. There is no doubt the ulnar nerve
was lacerated. After nine months he came under my treatment. Gave him
Hypericum , which gradually relieved him, and in three weeks was entirely
cured of the traumatic neuralgia. Then gave him Lachesis 30 on disks to take
four time a day for numbness. At the end of a week reported improvement.
Then I gave him seven powders of Lachesis 200. Each powder to be dissolved
in two tablespoonful of water; to be taken in two doses night and morning.
This was two weeks ago. Last week took no medicine. The improvement in
his hand has been remarkable. The numbness has nearly passed away from
his hand. He could separate his fingers so that the tips of his fingers of his left
hand could touch the tips of the fingers of his right hand, when separated. As
long as there is improvement, he will receive only Placebos . His hand im¬
proved so much, he went away for a few days on a hunting trip. He was able
to use his gun.
The following will be the last case I will give. It is one of interest. A gen¬
tleman, during our late war was so badly wounded in the upper arm of the left
side that it was necessary to amputate it five inches from the shoulder. For
many years at times, he has suffered from neuralgia in the stump. Several
operations were performed on the stump and the enlarged ends of the nerves
removed. This would relieve him for awhile, but then the attacks would be
just as severe. He dreaded another operation. At my advice he tried Homoeo¬
pathy. 1 gave him Hypericum 80 at first, this had no effect. Then knowing
he had a tobacco heart from excessive smoking, also that the pains would ex¬
tend over the w-hole stump, and into the muscles of the left chest, I gave him
Kalmia /at. 30^. This gave him prompt relief, so when he has an attack his
wife always gives him three to four doses in a day, and he has immediate relief.
The attacks are less frequent. This has been used for over two years and
never failed.
“ANTIDOTAL” TREATMENT.
The following interesting paper was read by Dr. B. Fincke
before the Brooklyn Hahnemannian Union and appeared in the
Homoeopathic Physician for March. Dr. Sawyer lays the same
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claim to priority that Hahnemann did to the law of Similars.
We are pleased to present all sides of this interesting question.
A case of hemicrania mercurialis cured with two pellets of Mercurius-vivus ,
3,GC0 (F.), in 1856, in the Brooklyn Homceopajhic Dispensary , has been recorded
in High Potencies and Homaopalhics % 1865, p. 8.
A case of Rhus poisoning was rapidly cured later with Rhus-tox. t Lippe’s
Distillate 97m (F.), by Dr. Lippe. In 1865 poisoned again. Rhus tox. f 103m
(F.) and 60m (F.) did not help any more, and Dr. Raue cured it with Anacar-
dium-orien ta le.
A case of Rhus poisoning from collecting the poison-oak in the New Jersey
swamps in 1865, causing itching eruption of blisters all over the hands in and
outside, beginning at the wrists, which, after breaking, produced a bad odor and
formed thick scabs, after using all and everything externally and internally for
two weeks, yielded to a dose of Rhus toxic. 60m (F.). Being deprived of sleep
for two weeks, patient slept well the first night. After a second dose, 40m (F.),
patient was healed in six days. Medical Investigator , Vol. VI, p. 6.
These are some prior claims to antidotal treatment than those of Dr. Swan
and Dr. Sawyer, though they never were made, and considered only as simple
homoeopathic treatment.
To this comes what Boenninghausen says in his Aphorisms of Hippocrates'.
“The antidotal power of a substance depends entirely upon its characteristic
property of acting upon the living organism, of course after the eventual chem¬
ical or mechanical action is removed and only the dynamical remains. For this
reason there are not only no universal antidotes against all poisons, just as there
is not or never can be any universal medicine against all diseases, but even for
the various poisoning symptoms of one and the same medicine different anti¬
dotal poisons are necessary, of which every one again has its particular and ex¬
clusive range of action, beyond the limits of which its power does not extend.”
(Book V. p. 271.)
Speaking of the abuse of Iodine in diseases of enlargement and induration,
he remarks that the worst of its action is the uncommon intensity and obstinacy,
so that it is extremely difficult to find antidotes for it. “We have,” he con¬
tinues, “in such cases besides Ilepar, and Arsenicum , the best result from the
highest potencies of the same remedy in repeated but smallest doses, dissolved
in water, with the precaution, before taking the medicine, to shake the vial con¬
taining the fluid several times in order to exalt the dynamization somewhat, be¬
cause otherwise, according to experience, the continued use is not well borne.”
(Book VI, p. 416.)
To this passage Boenninghausen makes the following note: “If there is any
experience to prove not so much the more penetrating but rather the more ex¬
tended efficacy of the highly potentiated medicine, this is especially the anti¬
dotal power which such remedies have gained against the ill effects of a former
abuse of the same medicine. In such cases the repeated administration of the
same remedy in the lowest attenuations causes each time a distinct aggravation
without following improvement; whereas, if given in high potency , though not
always, yet for the most part it produces a more agreeable and extensive im¬
provement than most other antidotes which meet and annihilate only those com¬
plaints within their range, but remain without effect beyond it.”
Boenninghausen’s work was printed in 1863, and it is therefore probable that
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he has practiced what is now claimed as a distinct branch of Homoeopathy un¬
der the name of antidotal method a long time before, because it is to be ex
pected from a practitioner of well known sagacity that he would not have spoken
of this topic in such a comprehensive manner if he had not a trusty experience
behind him.
Now, since questions of priority generally do not amount to much, and it is
difficult to settle the merit of the invention upon an individual because there
may be no record of it, it would be well to let it rest upon our good old friend
Boenninghausen, and with it lay the ghost which can only lead to useless con¬
troversy and leave the value of the invention itself out of question.
That it is a question of importance is true, and its discussion will no doubt
lead in time to a proper application in practice if its limits are clearly defined.
There is no doubt, as Hahnemann has already demonstrated, that the simil-
limum is the true antidote, and if so, it will also be found the best prophylactic.
HOMOEOPATHY AND DRUG MIASMS.
It is encouraging indeed to meet with clear level headed dis¬
cussion by brainy men, of a largely discussed subject such as
“Homoeopathy and Drug Miasms” gives us in the March Advo¬
cate, by Dr. Stuart Close. Expressions from observers like him
are valuable toward elimination of error, correction of false con¬
cepts and enforcing allegiance to truths that are being made
clearer day by day.
Those who are investigating are liable to go wrong in individ¬
ual cases, but should be excused from censure for such mistakes,
because they are laboring to establish rules or to discover prin¬
ciples. They are searching for and learning from the facts of
experience. In so far as investigation shall be in the line of care¬
ful and safe experiment in search of the suspected or proved
simillimum, they should be applauded.
While it is true that more ‘ ‘sickness, suffering and death has
been caused by drugs than by war, famine and pestilence put to¬
gether.” We must go deeper than that, must place the respon¬
sibility more carefully and righteously by saying: The cause
of the real or supposed need of drugs, in “famine, suffering and
pestilence” is found in man’s willful or ignorant disobeyance of
physical laws, to say nothing of his selfish gratification of per¬
verted appetites and cravings, his immorality and greed en¬
gendered from his wrong use of the independence that was given
him by the Creator. “Primative people’s” having fewer civilized
(?) or depraved longings have less need for medicinal or drug in-
terferance, therefore fewer sophisticated (drugged) diseases. As
a matter of course, diseases among primitive peoples (many are
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found even in our rural districts) are more easily and quickly
cured, homceopathically, just as they are more surely made to
carry a larger burden of disease and pestilence if they are drugged,
and drugged by the false and harmful methods which the modern
and of the antique school of drug users—practice. Investiga¬
tors in this matter of drug miasms find, contrary to Dr. Close’s
assertion, that any substance, in many organisms will leave their
effects more or less permanently. And as one of the investiga¬
tors, I protest against the assertion, “Not every person, patient,
or prover is susceptible to every drug in crude form.” Suscepti¬
bility may not be patent at the time of the impact of a given
drug, but nevertheless that impact on the vital force or organism
is there to stay, for the time being it may with the susceptibility
for that drug, remain latent, to become later, active or patent.
The truth as to whether the doctor’s assertion is the end of the
matter is a debatable question. Hahnemann makes the broad
assertion that “no substance can be placed in the human organ¬
ism that does not produce symptoms. , * (Lesser writings).
Another phase of the subject is; what constitutes a drug?
Different aliments, strawberries, milk etc., are not classed as
drugs, yet many of these are verilable poisons to some people,
while to others they are real foods or stimulants, all producing
their particular effects for good or ill; when they proveto be dis¬
turbers of the healthful peace they must be classed as drugs, and
in provings of these foods even, we have valuable medicines , when
used according to the Law.
Susceptibility may not, at once be shown by a person, to a
given drug; Belladonna or Aconite e. g., but to the compound
Bell, and Aeon, distinct and prompt susceptibility may be patent,
because the combined drugs furnish a new substance.
If Bro. Close speaks from the plane of crude drug action, and
from his experience or mode of observation he may be correct.
Hahnemann goes farther than any one by leading us to infer that
all substances do act unconditionally. This would suggest a
possibility that a sign of action of a substance, to one observer
might mean healthy action, to another a sign of departure from
health. I think it is safe to hold to a safer middle ground , and
say: The action of every drug or substance, on the human or¬
ganism does produce action, through the vital force. (I like
“power of life” better) upon the organism, leaving its mark or ef¬
fect, which may, in the presence of another and stronger drug ef¬
fect, (miasm) remain latent until conditions are so changed by
continuation of life (or the power of life) either in sick or well
condition, that such latent effect, becomes patent to the “person”
or to the keen observation of the medical man.
I would hold also; in regard to susceptibility to characteristic
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mental symptoms of a drug, or of a disease, that this susceptibil¬
ity begins from the human side and not from the drug side.
Therefore, a drug which today seems to meet with insusceptibil¬
ity, may next month or year emerge from its latent and “quiet
nook’* in the organism ready to mount its “susceptibility” steed
and “do exploits” after its kind, when the “persons” mental con¬
dition has wrought its spell and produced functional or physical
conditions that show the signs of susceptibility to that drug. It
is from this state of inaction that the use of a potency of a sus¬
pected latent drug miasm, has roused, by its similitude of potent-
ized force or action, the reaction of the power of life to marked
symptoms of a desire to throw off the incubus and become free.
This hypothesis seems to harmonize with the thought, concern¬
ing the “homoeopathic aggravation,” resulting often from the ex¬
hibition of a potency of a suspected drug. This aggravation left
to work itself out has frequently been followed by beautiful and
curative results according to the law.
This leads to an observation made by Dr. Sawyer, “a potency
of a drug or substance cannot produce an aggravation, unless
there is in that organism the miasm of that drug or substance.”
This observation more carefully examined in the light of ob¬
served facts of experience is probably and philosophically true.
The same law is bourn out when we observe the action of potent-
ized nosodes and morbid products— Fsorinum , Medotrhinum } eXc.
I want to be understood all along as being opposed to routin-
ism and empirically prescribing potencies from “the list” of sus¬
pected drugs, even though the practice of prescribing according
to indications based upon “isolated symptoms” bears out a phase
of symptomatology before alluded to by the writer, viz: It is in
these isolated symptoms that often is found expressed the totali¬
ty; the isolated image of, it may be a particular drug or disease
identity as expressed by the particularly susceptible organism,
or its function in patient or prover. If expressed by change of a
particular function from health to disease action, it would be an
isolated expression of a sub*totality that for the time being is in
obstructive relationship to the larger miasmatic totality of the
general disease picture. Therefoie the potency of a drug called
for this “isolated symptom” is probably in homoeopathic rela¬
tionship and its exhibition warranted. Facts of experience
strengthen this view and practice as Dr. Close states. Because
such prescribing does not cure the whole case is not an argu¬
ment against the homoeopathicity of the practice, but is a decided
one for the rationality of removing what ever miasm is great
enough to stand in the way of curative sequence of remedies.
At least, thus prescribing on an “isolated symptom” (Key note?)
a potency of a drug suspected (from the symptom) as having
been abused, is better homoeopathy than empirically giving an
“intercurrent remedy” or Sulphur or Opium “if well selected (?)
remedies do not act.”
F. O. Pease.
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Editorial.
THE FULTON INSANE ASYLUM.
This asylum has been taken out of the ranks of common every
day institutions for the insane, because of the tremendous kick
from the “old school,” when Governor Stephens removed the
old Board of Managers and appointed a new board favorable to
homoeopathy. The new Superintendent, Dr. J. T. Combs went
into the institution under adverse circumstances, but by his ex¬
ceptional executive ability completely changed the institution,
raising the standard, enlarging the capacity and at the same time
reducing the expenses of maintainance; but he was under the
constant surveillance of enemies inclined to magnify every act.
On the 22d of Feb. an anonymous letter was sent the chairman
of the Board of Managers, charging the doctor with immoral
conduct. A meeting of the board was called for the 24th, who
after an investigation in which the supertintendent was excluded
and no one was allowed to make a cross examination, declared the
superintendent guilty and ordered his resignation, and Dr. Ray
was appointed to fill vacancy.
On the 2d of March, the Governor convened the State Board
of Charities at Fulton and gave the matter a thorough investiga¬
tion which exonerated the doctor. On the 8th of March, the
doctor was re-instated and undoubtedly will remain in charge un¬
til the expiration of the year.
While charges of conspiracy are made by the doctor’s friends,
judgment should be suspended until the question is definitely
settled. In the meantime the friends of homoeopathy should
bury personal feelings and look to the one great end—the ad¬
vancement of the cause of the single law of cure.
DUNHAM MEDICAL COLLEGE.
Contrary to the convictions of her disinterested (?) competi¬
tors and in spite of the unfavorable report of the Inter-collegiate
committee of the American Institute of Homceopathy, Dunham
Medical College is not only alive but actually flourishing.
She has passed through three trying and eventful years and has
come out crowned with glory and honor. These three years has
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been a period of probation with the promotors of the institution
as well as the whole profession. They have carefully studied
every factor entering into the make up of the college, noting the
weak as well as the strong points. At the same time, abundant
opportunities for listening to the voices of the profession have
been given which was not ignored.
Much interest has been excited through the controversy over
the action of the Inter collegiate committee of the American In¬
stitute of Homoeopathy, but none of it has reflected unfavorably
to the college except that emanating from the source whose cus¬
sedness and underhanded trickery made the formation of a new
college possible. Policy or wisdom would have closed their
mouths, but this could not be expected when there was such a
lacking of these two virtues.
The following extract appearing in th t American Homceopathist
with editorial comment tells the whole story.
It was isopathy, not “pure homoeopathy,” to which the inter collegiate com¬
mittee objected and on which the unfavorable report was based. It was for not
teaching homoeopathy, pure or impure , that a certain medical college was denied
fellowship or recognition by the American Institute of Homoeopathy. Neither
was it because of its youth and inexperience, as set forth in a series of rest lu
tions passed by the Des Mdines (la.) Homoeopathic Medical Society, for at the
same session a college more recently organized received recognition. Neither
was it “persecution,” for application for this same recognition was made a year
previously and leferred to a sub committee, that a thorough investigation of its
teaching and standing might be made. Oh, no! It was not malicious. There
is “something rotten in Denmark,” and the committee was frank and honest
enough to so report.—//. C. Allen Editorial.
[Sir ? How does the Medieal Advanee know all these things? There is not
a word or a whisper of a word concerning Dunham Collkgk in the American
Institute Transactions for 1897. All that the profession knows Now concerning
the controversy is the report of that sub inter collegiate committee which ap¬
peared in the Hahnkmannian Advocate, which report is not now and never
has been denied! And upon that report the profession rests its decision! Read
it again, Mr. Advance , and then say what business that sub committee had to
define homoeopathy for Dunham, and not for Hering; what business it had for
referring to the number of professors of Dunham who are not members of the
Institute, any more than it had to do the same not-malicious thing for Hering,
or Pulte, or the Cleveland Ilonueopathic; what business had it to refer to fads
in Dunham, when the members of the sub committee, with one honorable ex¬
ception, live in exceedingly brittle glass-houses. If Dunham is knowingly do¬
ing that which is unhomoeopathic, or unprofessional, let the committee come out
in the open with it, so the Institute and the profession at large—many of whom
have students in that college—may know what it is and give its decision accord¬
ingly. If that sub committee or its full committee, voted {ex post facto) to sup¬
press all mention of that sub committee’s, report in the Transactions, then we
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fail to see how it has bettered its standing with the profession. Suppressing
that report after attention was called to its exceeding puerility by the homoeo¬
pathic press is patterning after the ostrich: the head is in a hole but the other
parts vividly visible. To damn a homoeopathic college in star-chamber, and
then suppress the proceedings lest an aroused and indignant profession con¬
demn the process, smacks very much of the Dreyfus investigation. Does no 1
the quoted article give color and form to our former charge that the Dunham
fight was engineered from Chicago and for distinctly Chicagoese purposes?
REPORT OF DR. H. W. PIERSON, REGISTRAR OF
DUNHAM MEDICAL COLLEGE.
Dunham Medical College has passed through three interesting
and successful years, and at the close of her third session is able
to make such a report as will be read with pleasure by her many
friends throughout the length and breadth of this great land.
The crime of multiplication of colleges comes from old estab¬
lished institutions, who seem to regard priority of existence in
the light of a patent which confers upon them not only the
authority of imparting knowledge of medicine, but of determin¬
ing the scope of the knowlege imparted, also the mediums through
which it shall be given to others. This is the policy of monarch¬
ical forms of government, but contrary to the very foundation of
a republic, which declares the power of making as well as gov¬
erning shall be vested in the people and through them to their
accredited representatives.
An ever increasing number of people have petitioned the rep¬
resentatives of existing medical colleges to give to the students,
who might be entrusted to their charge, thorough and explicit
instruction in the principles discovered and perfected by Samuel
Hahnemann. They have been repulsed by the assertion that
Hahnemann was a visionary, fanatical crank, whose teaching
have no place in a scientific up-to-date college and that “they
own that college any way and will run it in accordance with their
own judgment. ” The murmurings of dissatisfied men and women
grew stronger, until charges of actual dishonesty were made, de¬
claring that any college that failed to teach the system of medi¬
cine as formulated under the distinctive title of Homoeopathy by
Samuel Hahnemann, had no moral right to make use of that dis¬
tinctive name as a means for drawing students into its fold.
In response to this demand, Dunham Medical College was or.
ganized, and during the past session thirty-seven men and women >
coming from New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Michi-
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gan, Illinois, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and Egypt, have
become enthusiastic believers in the law of similia similibus cu-
rantur as laid down by Hahnemann. Of this number, three
were graduates in medicine from the College of Physicians and
Surgeons (Medical Department of Columbia College of New
York City), Hahnemann of Chicago, and Homoeopathic Depart¬
ment of State University of Iowa, who were willing to give six
months of their time, listen to the same lectures and attend the
same clinics with under graduate if by so doing they might learn
that which had been as a sealed book in the past.
The degree of Doctor of Medicine was conferred upon six can¬
didates, every one capable of going out into the world and de¬
fending, single handed, the truths of homoeopathy.
The past three years has been regarded as a period of proba¬
tion by the promotors of the institution, and every expression
uttered either for or against, from within or from without has
been carefully weighed and a proper estimate placed upon it.
The result of this thorough investigation has been so gratifying
that steps are being taken to place Dunham Medical College
upon a solid financial basis. To this end, the incorporation has
been placed at One hundred thousand dollars, divided into seven-
five thousand assessable stock and twenty-five thousand paid up
and non-assessable stock. Of the former, fifty-four thousand
has already been subscribed, and of the latter nearly ten thou¬
sand has been taken.
The substantial evidence of permanence, together with the high
standard of teaching required has resulted in bringing to her sup¬
port men of influence and experience, who have stood aloof
watching and waiting for evidence of stability before identifying
themselves with its destiny.
The college property will be purchased by the new corpora¬
tion and steps taken in the near future for the erection of a suit¬
able hospital upon the vacant lot adjoining.
As soon as all the details have been perfected, a Preliminary
Announcement will be made to the profession, which will be fol¬
lowed in due time by the regular college announcement.
TO STUDENTS OF MATERIA MEDICA.
In suggestions for study of Materia Medica, we propose to
outline what would be a good method for the student who has
actually begun his work on the subject. Thus, as a preceptor I
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would advise and insist on careful reading of records or original
provings, explain why these provings are made; also, induce him
to “Prove” a drug, either upon his own organism or upon some
one with whom he is closely associated, but in ignorance of name
or nature of the drug proved. Such drug preferably, one which
is well known and pronounced in its pathogenesis. The results
of his provings to be later used by him as a copy from which he
is to discover the name from his own observation. He also
should do a fair amount of text book reading on the subject of
Materia Medica and Therapeutics, advising to so read as to learn
the relationships or at least to begin acquaintance with the rela¬
tive aspects between symptomatology of disease, drug provings
and therapeutics.
As text books, I insist upon the Organon , Chronic Diseases,
Vol. I, Raues’ Pathology and Therapeutics, (not the last 1898
edition) also The Hahnemannian Advocate, and the old vol¬
umes of the Advance and the Homaopathic Physician , also Dun¬
ham’s Materia Medica and Therapeutics. When our student has
read himself into a really interested condition of mind, faculties,
alert and hungry, I would select a special drug whose patho¬
genesis promised to interest him, see that he carefully studies the
provings that drug—in Hering’s Guiding Symptoms, then in the
condensed. Also to make notes from all cases that he can find
in journals when that remedy has been prominent or curative,
and further illustrate from my own bedside practice. During
this special work on the one remedy, I take pains to show the
difference between this and other remedies similar in action, and
emphasize the leading characteristics.
From the result of this study, and the thoroughness and inter¬
est taken by the student, I know whether he is ready to more
systematically take up the study of drug pathogenesy, with a view
of gaining a real knowledge of the medicinal forces, which he is
to wield when flitted for active work as a physician.
To this end I propose to have him work along the lines of a
systematic schema, which takes in Pharmacy and at least an ac¬
quaintance with the Botany and Chemistry of the most promi¬
nent drugs and substances to be studied.
I offer the following elements of the study: Medical Chemis¬
try and Botany as reading exercise. Pharmacy more carefully
read and especially as to the classification and preparation of
drugs, which includes Tinctures, Drugs and Medical Chemicals.
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Nosodes and Morbid products with methods of potentization by
trituration, fluxion etc., etc., according to the classification of the
homoeopathic pharmacopoea.
As to the phenomena to be recorded from drug action, in sys¬
tematic and accidental provings, clinical etc,, etc., there seems
to be a natural arrangement suggested for each department—i. e.
drug pathogenesis and disease symptomatology, which may be
indicated in this way, each step suggested in sequential order, as
we go on in the study. 1st (a) Physiological action, this may be
Toxic and pathological. The Toxical action divides into
Paralyzing and Blood or nutritive changes. Pathological action,
divides into Tissue metamorphosis, Chemical action and func¬
tional modifications.
F. O. Pf.ase
TO BE CONTINUED.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMOEOPATHY.
To the Readers of the Hahnemann Advocate: The an¬
nual meeting of the American Institute of Homoeopathy to be held
at Omaha, Neb., beginning on June 24th, 1898, bids fair to
eclipse all previous gatherings of this vigorous association. The
interest in the Institute has been stimulated and strengthened,
and it is evident that an united effort will be made to advance
the influence and power of the Institute in every possible way.
There should be but one desire, one aim, and ambition in com¬
mon to all the members of the Institute, and that should be to aid
by every endeavor to try and make this meeting of 1898 exceed
all our former records. The various Chairman of the Sections
have prepared excellent progress, and they have made it a
special point to consider, not quantity but quality in the papers
presented. Each paper will be definitely arranged for in the
sectional programs, and will be well and ably discussed. Some
of the Sections have in preparation programs which will be en¬
tirely novel to most of the members of the Institute. Whatever
changes are made will be made to increase the interest in sec¬
tional work. The Local Committee at Omaha have been most
thoroughly occupied since last fall, and have done an immense
amount of work. They are prepared to afford us a number of
welcome surprises while we are their guests; in fact there seems
to be no limit to their hospitality. There will be ample accom¬
modations at Omaha so far as the hotels are concerned for all
who attend the Omaha meeting, and the rates will be extremely
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reasonable. It will not be forgotten that the great International
Exposition will be held at Omaha during the time of the Insti¬
tute meeting. This in itself, as it will be the greatest Exposition
held in this country since the Chicago World’s Fair will be a
great attraction, various excursions have been arranged for, one
to Yellowstone Park and return, another to Denver, to the Gar¬
den of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Salt Lake City, Glenwood
Springs and return to Omaha. Others will be announced. The
reports from various sections of the country indicate that the at¬
tendance at the Institute will be very large, and it is expected
not only that every member should come himself to attend this
meeting, but that he should try to bring with him at least one
new member; this is certainly not a laborious task and could
easily be done if earnestly undertaken.
Let us all pull together at Omaha, and make that session not
only the most pleasant in its relationships, not only the greatest
in its record of attendance, but the most perfect in harmony, the
most marked in progress and in contributions to medical science.
Railroad rates and different routes for reaching Omaha, and state¬
ment of hotel accommodations will be found in the annual cir¬
cular. I am, Very truly yours,
E. H. Porter, Gen’l Sec’y.
Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, celebrates its
fifteenth anniversary on the 12th of May next. The Alumni As¬
sociation are making arrangements for a very extensive celebra¬
tion of this anniversary. Class reunion will be held in the morn¬
ing, the commencement in the afternoon, and the banquet in the
evening. Assuming that the spirit of fraternal hospitality shown
by the Alumni of this College, at the last meeting of the Ameri¬
can Institute in Buffalo, is but a shadow of the real feeling, when
under the inspiring influence of their Alma Mater, it would seem
that every alumnus of this grand old institution, would strain
every nerve, rather than be denied the privilege of this semi-cen¬
tennial anniversary.
Dr. R. B. Leach of Minneapolis, has succeeded in getting his
Arsenization method for treating Cholera before the United
States Senate and the same has been referred to the committee
on public health and national quarantine, and ordered to be
printed. The Doctor makes a very strong presentation of this
subject, and it is to be hoped, that the aforesaid committee will
not allow it to die on their hands without some recommendation.
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Book Reviews.
Book 'Reviews.
Repertory of the Homoeopathic Materia Meciica, by J. T.
Kent, M. D., 2009 Walnut St., Philadelphia. Price $1.00 for every 40 pp.
HEAD External and Internal.
This fasicle contains 120pp of which 84pp are devoted to the
most thorough, comprehensive, differentiation of pains in the
head to be found in a repertory. This is not only an index of
the character of the pain, but also of the concomittant symp¬
toms going with it. It also gives a complete range of the modal -
ities, thus grouping everything necessary in directing the physi¬
cian to the remedy that will prove the simillimum. This serves
to resolve that bug bear of the physician’s life —headache into a
comparatively simple matter. It seemed as if the first part—
Mind and Vertigo would be the most valuable number of the
entire work, that a practical application of the second part shows
its indispensible character.
Eye and Ear— 80pp.
This number is of great value to the general practitioner, by
suggesting to him remedies which have escaped his thorough
study, where there seems to be a localized expression of disturb¬
ance in these two organs. The same plan runs through this
rubric, going from the general to particular with reference to loca¬
tion, character, modality and concomittants.
American Monthly Review of Reviews.—The March num¬
ber is another achievement in monthly journalism. The topics
treated in this magazine are such as occupy much space in the
daily press, but the Review is able to treat them more deliberately
and in a more carefully adjusted proportion. No other illus¬
trated monthly appearing on the first day of March had so
much as a reference to the De Lome letter, the Maine disaster,
or the Zola trial in Paris; but these great themes of the hour are
fully discussed in the Review's pages. The Review's readers ex¬
pect to have them discussed there, so accustomed have they be¬
come to the essential qualities of timeliness and comprehensive¬
ness in the “busy man’s magazine.”
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A MONTHLY HOMOEOPATHIC MAGAZINE.
Vol. xxxvii. Chicago, May 10, 1808. No. 5
Institutes of ADeMclne.
SPIRIT OF THE HOMOEOPATHIC DOCTRINE OF
MEDICINE.
In March, 1813, Samuel Hahnemann wrote an essay upon the
above subject which made no impression upon the scientific
world; twenty years later it was reproduced, and brought forth
some strong criticism. It is now reproduced for the second time,
because there is nothing more imperatively needed, than that we
should get back to the first basic principles. It will not do for
us to say that we have a law of cure, but we must know why we
have that law, and how it works in all its minor details. The ig¬
norance upon this very subject, is the great stumbling block of
the profession today. The more thorough the knowledge, the
greater becomes the expertness of our application of the same.
We must not be content with even a superficial knowledge of its
workings, but must become so intimate with the deeper and finer
shades ot meaning, that we may truly enter into its very spirit.
We hope, that the army of new readers to the Advocate may
be lead through the reading of this article, to a thorough and
critical study of Hahnemann’s Organon of the Art of Healing .
Hahnemann says “it is impossible to divine the internal essen¬
tial nature of diseases and the changes they effect in the hidden
parts of the body, and it is absurd to frame a system of treat¬
ment on such hypothetical surmises and assumptions; it is im¬
possible to divine the medicinal properties of remedies from any
chemical theories or from the smell, color or taste, and it is ab-
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surd to attempt from any such hypothetical surmises and as¬
sumptions, to apply to the treatment of diseases these substances,
which are so hurtful when wrongly administered.”
To the explanation of human life, as also its two-fold condi¬
tions, health and disease, the principles by which we explain
other phenomena are quite inapplicable. With nothing in the
world can we compare it save with itself alone; neither with a
piece of clock work nor a hydraulic machine, nor with chemical
processes, nor with decompositions and recompositions of gases,
nor yet with a galvanic battery, in short with nothing destitute
of life. Human life is in no respect regulated by purely physi¬
cal laws, which only obtain among inorganic substances. The
material substances of which the human organism is composed
no longer follow, in this vital combination, the laws to which the
material substances in the inanimate condition are subject; they
are regulated by the laws peculiar to vitality alone, they are them¬
selves animated just as the whole system is animated. Here a
nameless fundamental power reigns omnipotent, which suspends
all the tendency of the component parts of the body to obey the
laws of gravitation, of momentum, of the vis inertia, of fermen¬
tation, of putrefaction etc., and brings them under the wonder¬
ful laws of life alone, in other words, maintains them in the con¬
dition of sensibility and activity necessary to the preservation of
the living whole, a condition almost spiritually dynamic.
Now as the condition of the organism and its healthy state de¬
pend solely on the state of life which animates it, in like manner
it follows that the altered state, which we term disease, consists
in a condition altered originally only in its vital sensibilities and
functions, irrespective of all chemical or mechanical principles;
in short it must consist in an altered dynamic condition, a
changed mode of being, whereby a change in the properties of
the material component parts of the body is afterwards effected,
which is a necessary consequence of the morbidly altered condi¬
tion of the living whole in every individual case.
The exciting causes of disease act by means of their special
properties on the state of our life, only in a dynamic manner,
very similar to a spiritual manner, and inasmuch as they first de¬
range the organs of the higher rank and of the vital force, there
occurs from this state of derangement, from this dynamic alter¬
ation of the living whole, an altered sensation, uneasiness, pains,
and an altered activity, abnormal functions, of each individual
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organ and of all of them collectively, whereby there must also
of necessity secondarily occur alteration of the fluids and secre¬
tion of abnormal matters, the inevitable consequence of the al¬
tered vital character, which now differs from the healthy state.
These abnormal matters that show themselves in diseases are
merely products of the disease itself; which, as long as the malady
retains its present character, must of necessity be secreted, and
thus contitute a portion of the morbid signs. They are merely
effects , and certainly do not react upon the diseased body that
produces them as disease-exciting or maintaining substances,
hence by clearing away or mechanically removing these waste
products, the source of the disease can just as little be cured, as
a coryza can be shortened or cured by blowing the nose fre¬
quently.
Now because diseases are only dynamic derangements of our
health, and vital character, they cannot be removed by man
otherwise than by means of agents, which also are capable of
producing dynamical derangements of the human health, that is
to say, diseases are cured virtually and dynamically by medicine.
These active substances and powers (medicines) which we have
at our services, effect the cure of diseases by means of the same
dynamic power of altering the actual state of health, by means
of the same power of deranging the vital character of our organ¬
ism, in respect to its sensations and functions, by which they are
able to effect, also the healthy individual, to produce in him dy¬
namic changes and morbid symptoms, the knowledge of which,
as we shall see, afford us the most trust worthy information con¬
cerning the morbid stage, that can be most certainly cured by
each particular medicine. Hence nothing in the world can ac¬
complish a cure, no substance, no power can effect a change in
the human organism of such a character as that the disease shall
yield to it, except an agent capable of absolutely (dynamically)
deranging the human health, consequently of also morbidly al¬
tering its healthy state. On the other hand, however, there is
also no agent, no power in nature capable of affecting the
healthy individual, which does not at the same time possess the
faculty of curing certain morbid states.
Now, as the power of curing diseases, as also the power of
morbidly affecting the healthy, is met with in inseparable combi¬
nation in all medicine, and as both of these properties evidently
spring from one, and the same source, the power of dynamically
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deranging human health, and as it is impossible that they car*
act according to a different inherent natural law in the sick, ta
that in which they act on the healthy, it follows that it must be
the same power of the medicine , that cures the disease in the sick
as gives rise to the morbid symptoms in the healthy. Hence
also w'e shall find that the curative potency of medicine, cannot
be ascertained by any purer and more perfect manner than by
the morbid phenomena and symptoms (the kind of artificial dis¬
eases), which the medicine developes in the healthy individual.
It is self-evident that medicine that tends to develop in the
healthy subject different symptoms from those presented by the
disease be cured from the very nature of things can never be
suitable and efficacious in this case.
It is equally self-evident that remedies employed in a pallia¬
tive manner can never effect a permanent cure, because accord¬
ing to a wonderful provision of nature, organized living beings
are not regulated by the laws of unorganized (dead) physical
matter. They do not receive the influence of external agents
like the latter in a passive manner, but strive to oppose a con¬
trary action to them.
The living human body does allow itself to be changed by the
action of physical agents, but the change is not, in it, as in inor¬
ganic substance, permanent. On the contrary, the living human
organism tries to develope by antagonism the exact opposite of
the affection produced from without, as for instance a hand kept
in ice cold water long enough and being withdrawn does not re¬
main cold nor merely assume the temperature of the surrounding
atmosphere as a stone ball would do or even assume the temper¬
ature of the rest of the body. The colder the water of the bath
was, the longer it acted on the healthy skin of the hand, the more
inflamed and hotter the latter will become. Therefore it cannot
but happen that a medicine having an action opposite to the
symptoms of the disease will reverse the morbid symptoms but
for a short time, and give place to the antagonism pervading the
living body which produces an opposite state, that is to say, a
state the direct contrary of that delusive state of the health af¬
fected by the palliative which actually constitutes an opposition
to the now recurring uneradicated primary affection and is con¬
sequently an increased degree of the original disease. And thus
the malady is always certainly aggravated after the palliative has
exhausted its action.
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In chronic diseases—the true touch-stone of a genuine healing
art, the injurious character of the palliative remedy often dis¬
plays itself in a high degree, since from its repeated exhibition,
it must be administered in large and even larger doses which are
often productive of serious danger to life or even of actual death.
It would not be difficult therefore to perceive what are the laws
of nature according to which the only appropriate cure of dis¬
ease, the homoeopathic, takes place and must necessarily take
place. The first of these unmistakable laws of nature is: the
living organism is incomparably less capable of being affected by
natural diseases than by medicine. A multitude of disease-excit¬
ing causes act daily and hourly upon us but they are incapable
of deranging the equilibrium of health or of making the healthy
sick; the activity of the life sustaining power within us usually
withstands the most of them, and the individual remains healthy.
It is only when these external inimical agencies assail us in a very
aggravated degree and we are especially exposed to their influ¬
ence that we get ill, but even then we become seriously ill only
when our organism has a particularly affectable, weak side (pre¬
disposition) that make it more disposed to be affected by the
morbific cause in question and to be deranged in its health.
If the inimical agents in nature that are partly physical and
partly psychical which are termed morbific injurious agents, pos¬
sessed the unconditional power of deranging the human health,
they would, as they are universally distributed not leave any one
in good health. Every one would become ill and we should
never be able to obtain an idea of health. But, taken on the
whole, diseases are exceptional states of the human health and it
is necessary that such a number of circumstances and condi¬
tions, both as regards the morbific agents and the individual to
be affected with disease should conjoin before a disease is pro¬
duced by its exciting causes , it follows, that the individual is so
little liable to be affected by such injurious agencies that they 9 can
never unconditionally make him ill , and that the human organism
is capable of being deranged to disease by them only by means of a
particular predisposition.
But it is far otherwise with the artificial dynamic agencies
termed medicine. Every true medicine acts at all times, under
all circumstances, on every living animated body and excites
in it the symptoms peculiar to it (in a perceptable form if the
dose be large enough), so that evidently every living human organ-
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ism must always and inevitably be affected by the medicinal dis¬
ease and infected so to speak, which, as is well known, is not the
case with respect to morbific injurious agents. Even the pesti-
lentual diseases do not effect every one unconditionally, and the
other diseases leave many more individuals unaffected even when
all are exposed to changes in the weather, the seasons, and to
the influences of many other injurious impressions.
All experience proves incontestably that the human body is
much more apt and disposed to be affected by medicinal agents
and to have its health deranged by them than by the morbific
injurious agencies and contagious miasms, or, what is the same
thing, that the medicinal powers possess an absolute power of
deranging human health, whereas the morbific agencies possess
only a conditional power, vastly inferior to the former.
To this circumstance is owing the possibility of the cure of
diseases by medicines generally, but in order that the cure should
take place, the second natural law should also be fulfiilled towit:
a stronger dynamic affection permanently extinguishes the weaker
in the living organism , provided the former be similar in kind to
the later .
Now as the dynamic affections of the organism (caused by dis¬
ease or by medicine) are only cognizable by the phenomena of
altered functions and altered sensations, and consequently the
similarity of its dynamic affections to one another can only ex¬
press themselves by similarity of symptoms; but as the organism
must be more susceptable to the medicinal affection and must be
more disposed to allow itself to be influenced and deranged by
medicine, than by the similar morbid affection, it follows unde¬
niably, that it will be freed from the morbid affection if we allow
a medicine to act on it resembling it very closely in similarity of
symptoms; for the organism, as an individual unity, cannot re¬
ceive two similar dynamic affections at the same time, without
the weaker yielding to the stronger similar one, consequently as
it is more disposed to be more strongly affected by the one (med¬
ical affection), the other similar, weaker one (morbid affection)
must necessarily give way, where upon the patient is cured.
Since the human organism even in health is more capable of
being affected by medicine than by disease, so when it is dis¬
eased it is beyond comparison more affectable by homoeopathic
medicine than by any other, and indeed it is affected in the high¬
est degree possible since it is already disposed and excited by the
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disease to certain symptoms, it must now be more liable to be
deranged to similar symptoms by the homoeopathic medicine—
just as similar mental affections render the mind much more sen¬
sitive to similar emotions; hence only the smallest dose is neces¬
sary and useful for their cure.
Hence the organism will be powerfully affected and possessed
by the potency of even a very small dose of a medicinal sub¬
stance, which by its tendency to excite similar symptoms, can
outweigh and extinguish the totality of the symptoms of the dis¬
ease; it becomes as I have said, free from the morbid affection
at the very instant that is taken possession of by the medicinal
affection, by which it is immeasurably more liable of being
altered.
HOW TO ADVANCE HOMCEOPATHY.
E. W. BERRIDGE, M. D., LONDON.
Mr. President , Ladies and Gentlemen: Through the courtesy
of our President I have been invited to address you on some
subjects connected with our beloved science and art. In re¬
sponding to this flattering appeal, I cannot help feel how imper¬
fectly I can acquit myself of this pleasing task. In your ever
progressing and enlightened country, free from the fetters of the
king-craft and priest craft of the old world, our art of feeling
has advanced so rapidly, that it is to the veterans of America
to whom the rest of the world should look for aid rather than to
us who seem to be of yesterday. Nevertheless, I will attempt,
however imperfectly to present for your endulgence and con¬
sideration, a few thoughts on that subject which we all profess to
have at heart, namely: How Can We Best Advance Homoeopa¬
thy?
It cannot be denied that Homoeopathy has not advanced, and
is not advancing as rapidly as we could desire, nor as rapidly as
we once had just and reasonable grounds for expecting it to ad¬
vance. In the United States, where it has taken the firmest root,
and where its spreading branches the most widely overshadow
the land with healing in their leaves, the old school is yet
triumphant in point of numbers; and to this day the rules of
medical trades unionism, euphemistically called “professional
etiquette,” are brought to bear upon us by our opponents. In
Great Britain we have but two hundred and seventy-five vowed
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homceopathic physicians, and this number includes not a few
who have not the slightest claim to this honorable title, and
while there are many colleges and universities empowered by the
state to grant degrees in medicine, we have not one legally recog¬
nized school of Homoeopathy. On the continent, matters are in
the same unsatisfactory condition. Except in the United States,
and for the last few years in Great Britain, there seems to be
everywhere stagnation, if not retrogression. It ought to be far
otherwise. More than forty years have elapsed since Hahnmann
penned the last edition of his Organon\ more than eighty years
since he first announced the law of Similia, and yet how little
fruit has his life work borne in comparison with what should
have been. Why is this? To v/hat causes are we to attribute
the fact that the profession and the public have not more uni¬
versally accepted Homoeopathy?
There are those nominally among ns, who have a stereotyped
answer to this question. Hahnemann, they say, was too dog¬
matic, too uncompromising, too visionary; and as a panacea for
for the unbelief that now prevades the allopathic mind, they rec¬
ommend that we should give up what they call our “sectarian
attitude,” that we should drop and disavow the name of Homoeo¬
pathy; that we should repudiate as untenable that which they
term the extravagances of Hahnemann, such as his doctrine of
chronic diseases, etc., and finally that we should claim for Simi¬
lia Similibus Curantur, not the position of a universal law, but
only that of a very good and useful rule of practice to which
there may be many exceptions. ‘‘Do this” they say, “and the
old school will advance to meet us half way; the medical millen¬
nium will arrive, and the lamb will lie down with the lion.” Yes,
truly; but the lamb will be inside the lion. The experiment has
been tried in both in the United States and Great Britain, and
with what result. Fortunately for our school, not by accept¬
ance of the proffered amalgamation. On the contrary, the old
school repulsed these well-meaning but erring colleagues with
scorn and contempt. And so it will ever be. Do not let us be
mistaken in this matter. Our allopathic brethren are not all
fools; they can discern the difference between the gold and the
counterfeit, they are honest though in error and they will always
reject the overtures of men who are not true in practice, to the
principles which they profess, or who show signs of wavering in
the presence of the enemy. If we wish the old school to amal-
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gamate with our own, it will never be effected by compromise.
Truth and error cannot co-exist. No man can serve two masters.
No man can halt between two opinions without suffering the nat¬
ural consequences of his indecision. If Homoeopathy be false,
then let us at once relinquish our distinctive name, and avow
ourselves eclectic if it be true, let us stand firm, nor yield a single
inch of our vantage ground. Magna est verritas ec praevalebi .
Truth has no occasion to descend from her lofty eminence, and
ask permission to be heard.
I speak unhesitatingly upon this subject because I speak from
experience. My friend and co-editor of our Anglo American
quarterly, “The Organon” was a leading allopathic physician,
well versed in the science of which the old school boasts. He
was one of the bitterest opponents of Homoeopathy, and the orig¬
inator of the law of the Liverpool Medical Institution which en¬
acts that no Homoeopathist should be eligible for membership,
and that should any member adopt that system he should there¬
by forfeit his membership. I cannot wonder at it. He had seen
the so-called “Homoeopathy” practiced in that city; he knew
how utterly false were the pretensions of many of its nominal ad¬
herents. It is to be wondered that he made no distinctions,
knowing none and classed all under the same category? But
when we became acquainted with each other and when I ex¬
plained what the true Homoeopathy of Hahnemann was, he list¬
ened attentively, put the matter to the practical test, became
convinced of its truth, sent in his resignation to the Liverpool
Medical Institution, as he was compelled to do under his own
law, and is now as we all know, one of the most enthusiastic
and uncompromising of Hahnemann’s followers. Long after¬
wards he said to me, “if you had not been a Hahnemannian,
you would not have converted me.”
Such has been the effect of our wavering upon the rrinds of our
allopathic brethren; what effect has it had on ourselves? Ever
since that fatal error was committed by one we nevertheless hold
in honor, of proclaiming “absolute liberty in medical opinion
and action,” a change for the worse has taken place in our own
ranks. Ever since that time the name of Carroll Dunham has
been held to sanction every kind of empiricism; lorgetting that
he himself in his teaching and practice was a true Hahnemar.-
nian, men have eagerly caught at his well-intentioned though
mistaken, perhaps misunderstood words, and ever banded them-
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selves together to overthrow those that remained true to the
teachings of the great Master. I need not recount the various
phases ot the struggle, they are all well known to you; suffice it
to say that the crisis is past, and convalescence has commenced.
There are indications both here and in my own country, of a
desire to return to a purer faith and a truer practice. How can
we best accomplish that great work? How are we to advance
Homoeopathy, and render it the sole, and universally received
science and art of therapeutics?
The answer is simply this: we must go to the fountain, and
there drink of the water of life freely. We have neglected
this; we have thought we were wiser than our teacher; we
have attempted to run before we could walk, and the usual con¬
sequences have ensued. We must undo all this; we must be
willing to begin again like little children, and learn the ABC,
and when we have mastered the alphabet, we must try our hand
at reading, and perhaps in time even writing an original work.
The great error of the present race of homceopathist’s is their neg¬
lect to study the Organon of Hahnemann, and it is to this great
work, the very Bible of Homoeopathy, that I especially desire to
call your attention. I do this with the more earnestness, be¬
cause I find there are many who have never even read it, much
less studied it. The Organon , they say, “is full of Hahnemann’s
theories.” Leave out the theories then, Hahnemann merely gave
them for what they were worth as the best explanation he could
give for certain facts. His theories were based upon his tacts,
not his facts upon theories. To know the true meaning of a fact
is of scientific interest, but it is not essential to the fact itself.
Destroy Hahnemann’s theories if you chose, you will not there¬
by shake one single stone of the temple of Homoeopathy. Yet
even to the present day we find men wasting their time writing
against Hahnemann’s theories. Perhaps they do so because his
facts are too strong for them.
“But,” says another, “we have the new law, what more is
needed?” Aye, the law; but of what use is a law unless you
know how to apply it? You meet with a chronic case which is
benefitted by your remedy; the symptoms cease, then return in
a milder form. What are you going to do now? Will a mere
knowledge of the law help you? If you have not the rules of
Hahnemann to guide you, you will probably repeat the medicine
and so do harm; whereas if you have studied his writings, you
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will know that such periodical exhibitions are of frequent oc¬
currence, and that the remedy must be allowed to act without
interference. Will the law alone tell you how long to wait be¬
fore deciding that the medicine will not act, and is therefore in¬
correctly selected ? Will the law alone tell you that in all peri¬
odical diseases the best time to give the dose is just after the
paroxysm ? You talk of the law of Similia, but do you know
what is the “like” ? To judge from the perscriptions frequently
made, the sole idea of “like” in the minds of many, appears to
be a vague pathological resemblance instead of the minute semei-
ological correspondence of Hahnemann. Pathology is not with¬
out its use, but that use is not in the problem of selecting the
most appropriate remedy. Pathology does not indeed often tell
us whether a new symptom, is of favorable or unfavorable im¬
port, and hence whether it requires to be treated or not; but in
the actual selection it is not of the slightest value, not only be¬
cause it is theoretical, and more or less uncertain, but because
even at its best, it can only generalize, and not individualize.
Was there only one utterance I could make during this visit to
your mighty continent, it would be “study the Organon of Hahne¬
mann.” Read it again and again. Those who study it the most,
testify that it never wearies them, that it seems ever fresh, that
something new, or something the full force of which they have
never grasped before, at each perusal meets their mental eye.
Do not be led astray by those whose utterances would lead you
to first study fallacious manuals on pharmacodynamics, or es¬
says written by men whose object is to glorify themselves at the
expense of a system which they have never comprehended, though
they are indebted for the very reputation they possess. Do not
be let astray by the fallacious dictum that the Organon should
be placed for “frequent perusal, and is a trusted guide in the
hands, not perhaps of the student, but of the educated, earnest
practitioner.” On the contrary, I maintain that the Organon of
Hahnemann is the very first book which the student should read,
without which he can really learn nothing about Homoeopathy.
The Organon is like the mariner’s compass, without which the
finest ship is in danger of being wrecked. You may know your
materia medica by heart, but without a knowledge of the rules
by which to apply it, your success will be imperfect; but with
this knowledge, and with faithful adherance in actual practice to
the teachings of Hahnemann, your success will be certain.
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It is not as a blind bigot or a fanatical enthusiast, or a mere hero
worshiper that I urge these matters upon your attention. I am
as ready as any man to worship a hero, but his right to the title
must first be demonstrated to me. Since I first discovered how
I was raised in early days by teachers, and taught to believe im¬
plicitly much that reason and maturer judgment have compelled
me to reject as fallacious, I have become skeptical in all things,
and required absolute proof before I accept a statement as ab¬
solutely true. And my absolute and unwavering acceptance of
the truth of the practical teachings of Hahnemann is based upon
experience. It is now eighteen years since I first commenced the
study of Homoeopathy;I have compared it with allopathy,and with
eclecticism. I have tested it in the most severe acute diseases
threatening life; in the most chronic and inveterate diseases
which have baffled all other treatment, and in incurable cases,
when only euthanasia was possible, and I have never once found
Hahnemann’s teaching to be wrong. Nay more, though Hahne¬
mann’s faithful followers have made many discoveries in the
same field in which he labored, so vast was his insight, so pro¬
found his genius, that there is scarcely a therapeutic discovery
of modern times of which you will not find at least the germ in
his writings
Hahnemann’s system is the true, the only science of therapeu¬
tics, and if my words have persuaded any of you who may have
departed from his standard to adopt a purer practice and a truer
faith, I shall feel that my visit to you had not been in vain.
(The above paper was prepared for the American Institute of
Homoeopathy and was read and received by that body at its fa¬
mous meeting in Milwaukee in 1880, and on the following day
the writer was compelled to withdraw the same, because it
touched too many vulnerable points in lives of many present.
As a matter of self protection, all reference to the discourteous
act was expunged from the Transactions of that year.
The general tenor of the meeting was so antagonistic to the
theory of dynamics in medicine, one of the most vital princi¬
ples involved in the law of cure, that the International Hahne-
mannian Association was formed with the following well known
and highly honored men as their first representatives: P. P. Wells,
President; T. E. Pomeroy, V. Prest.; J. P. Mills, Sec. and Treas.;
E. W. Berridge, Cor. Sec’y; Ad. Lippe, Chairman of Materia
Medica; C. Pearson, Clinical Medicine; E. A. Ballard, Therapeu¬
tic Surgery; T. E. Pomeroy, Obstetrics and Diseases of Women
and Children.— Ed.)
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HOMOEOPATHY AND DRUG MIASMS.
Editor of Hahnemannian Advocate: Sir —Many will have
read with much interest Dr. Close’s article entitled “Homoeopa¬
thy and Drug Miasms” published in the March number of your
journal. As some of its arguments appear to me illogical and
therefore misleading, will you permit me through your pages to
offer a little friendly criticism.
If I have read the article aright, Dr. Close is one who, while
admitting the fact that the effects of a drug can often be cured
by a high potency of the same drug, yet fears lest the too uni¬
versal adoption of this method of treatment may lead to the es¬
tablishing of that dreaded principle of isopathy to the subversion
of true homoeopathy, the priceless heritage bequeathed to us by
the great Master in the heart of healing, the immortal Hahne¬
mann.
A correct definition of isopathy and its true relation to homoeo¬
pathy are questions which are occupying the minds of many
homoeopathists today and is certainly to the interest of homoeo¬
pathic philosophy that they should if possible be determined.
I cannot but feel that many are facing these questions with a
prejudice which must ever bar the way to correct solutions.
What are the known facts bearing on these questions, admitted
by all and which may therefore form a common ground of argu¬
ment? First, there is the fact expressed in the formula similia
similibus curantur; secondly, there is the fact that the effects of
a drug have been cured by a high potency of the same drug.
The questions at issue are: First, Does the latter fact estab¬
lish the principle of isopathy, and may isopathy therefore be cor¬
rectly and comprehensively defined to be the practice of curing
the effects of a morbific agent by administering the same mor¬
bific agent? Secondly, If this be isopathy, does it constitute a
separate law of cure, or is it simply an application of the law
similia similibus curantur ? What is the true relationship of
isopathy to homoeopathy?
Now, the prejudice with which some face these questions is
born of the consciousness that, in admitting that the cure of the
effects of a drug by the drug itself is an application of the law of
similars, they must logically accept it as the most perfect appli¬
cation of the law, and therefore that which is always to be aimed
at. To be forced to this conclusion is what they most dread, for
it engenders the fear that the practice of homoeopathy must then
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degenerate into a simple effort to discover in every case what
has made the patient sick, and having done so to administer it
regardless of the symptoms present.
Even if this must be considered a degeneracy, surely the fear
is unfounded for the symptoms in the case must always be looked
to as the crowning evidence that any particular agent has caused
the sickness. Whether or not, however, there be ground for the
fear, and however much those who entertain it might deplore
what they would consider the degenerating of homoeopathic
practice into routinism, they must remember that in the search
for truth it must not be allowed to warp their judgment or turn
them aside from logical deduction.
Influenced by this fear of routinism, Dr. Close takes what ap¬
pears to me to be an utterly illogical position. He contends
that under certain definite conditions a high potency of the drug
abused, that it to say the force that has made the patient sick, is
the simillimum, but warns us against and severely condemns the
too extensive application of this method of prescribing. We are
thus compelled to infer that under certain other conditions, the
simillimum is not a high potency of the sick-making force and
must be looked for among other drugs.
Let me quote from Dr. Closed article:
“Briefly stated, the application of the principle similia siraili-
bus is logically extended to cover drug diseases as well as natural
diseases, by the administration of the simillimum, which consists
under certain definite conditions, of a high potency of the drug
abused. This is the true curative in cases which otherwise often
prove incurable, as experience shows.
“The advocates of method, however, in their enthusiasm are
in danger of carrying it to an extreme. Extremes are always
dangerous. The particular danger which lies in carrying this
method beyond certain limits is routinism. This means death
to homoeopathy and accurate prescribing. Rightly used the
theory and method are valuable but as carried out by some of
its advocates its deserves the severest condemnation.”
The difficulty of maintaining this position is evident from the
following contradictory statement which appears further on in
the article, when Dr. Close in the effort to show that a high po¬
tency of the drug abused is simillimum and not idem, something
between simility and identity, upsets entirely what has gone be¬
fore and tells us plainly that there can only be one simillimum
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to the effects of a morbid agent and that a high potency of the
agent itself.
He says: “Accepting as true the law of Similars and the law
of Potentiation, there can logically be only one simillimum to
the effects of any drug or morbid agent whatever, and that is a
high potency of the drug itself. The most that any other drug
can be is a simile. This must be perfectly evident to any one
who will reflect upon it. The last infinitesrnal degree between
simile and idem, between simility and identity, between similar
and the same, is expressed by the term simillimum. It is synony¬
mous with equal, but it is not identical. Nothing can be so
similar to the actual drug abused, and yet not be the same thing,
as a high potency of the drug itself. Potentiation changes the
form but not the essential nature of the drug.”
Thus to refute Dr. Close’s first contention that only under cer¬
tain definite conditions the high potency of the drug abused is
the simillimum, we have only to accept his statement that there
can logically be only one simillimum to the effects of any drug
or morbid agent whatever, and that is the high potency of the
drug itself.
There is surely, however, a manifest fallacy in the argument
which attempts to show that the use of a high potency of the drug
abused is the use of simillimum and not idem, is homoeopathy
and not isopathy. Dr. Close uses the argument commonly ad¬
vanced by those to whom isopathy is a bugbear, and who yet
cannot deny that the effects of a drug have been cured by the
drug itself, and maintains that difference of potency constitutes
a difference of identity. If we admit that difference of potency
constitutes difference of identity then clearly the simillimum,
that which is most similar and yet not the same, is not a high
potency of the drug abused or sick-making agent, but that drug
or agent in the least conceivable departure in potency from that
which caused the sickness.
If we introduce the factor of potency in determining what is or
is not the simillimum, we land ourselves in utter confusion. The
similarity of one force to another force and its consequent effica¬
cy as a homoeopathic remedy for the effects of that other force
must depend solely on the power inherent in it to produce simi¬
lar symptoms. The appropriate potency to be used depends
solely on the susceptibility of the life f)rce of the patient.
Whether *we prescribe the force that caused the sickness and thus
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practice isopathy or a force as nearly as possible similar and yet
not the same and thus practice homoeopathy, we assuredly do
not attempt to prescribe it in a potency as nearly as possible the
same as the potency of the sick-making cause, but seek only to
suit our potency the susceptibility of our patient.
In concluding his article, Dr. Close states plainly that to give
a high potency of a drug which has been abused is not isopathy
but homoeopathy pure and simple, and in support of his state¬
ment he appeals to the following words of Hahnemann on the
use of Psorinutn:
* ‘I say homoeopathic use, for it does not remain idem (the
same); even if the prepared itch substance should be given to
the same patient from whom it was taken, it would not remain
idem (the same), as it could only be useful to him in a potentized
state, since crude itch substance which he already has in his body
as an idem is without effect upon him. But the dynamization or
potentizing changes it and modifies it, just as gold leaf after po-
tentizing is no more crude gold leaf, inert in the human body,
but in every stage of dynamization it is more and more modified
and changed .”
“Thus potentized and modified also, the itch substance (Psorin)
when taken is no more an idem (same) with the crude original
itch substance, but only a simillimum (thing most similar). For
between idem and simillimum there is no intermediate for any¬
one who can think; or in other words, between idem and simile
only simillimum can be intermediate. Isopathic and aequale are
equivocal expressions, which if they should signify anything re¬
liable can only signify simillimum, because they are not idem.’ ,
Thus does Hahnemann define and dispose of isopathy and ac¬
cording to Dr. Close nothing could be clearer or more logical
and the argument of the Master is final.
With all due deference to Hahnemann, in honoring whom I
will not take second place to any, to my mind nothing could be
more confusing or illogical.
Hahnemann’s argument is that because crude itch substance
does not produce the same effect as potentized itch substance,
therefore potentized itch substance is not the same itch substance
as crude itch substance, and because crude gold leaf is inert in
the human body and potentized gold leaf may produce an ef¬
fect, therefore potentized gold leaf is not the same gold leaf as
crude gold leaf. Surely it would be as reasonable to argue that
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because we obtained a curative effect from the cm potency of
Lycopodium when the flx failed to act, Lycopodium in the cm poten¬
cy is not the same Lycopodium as Lycopodium in the #x . Indeed
we might almost as reasonably say that because 3 grains of Ar¬
senic killed a man when one hundreth of a grain had no effect,
therefore the Arsenic in the 3 grains is not the same as the Ar¬
senic in the one hundreth of a grain.
If however we admit the force of Hahnemann’s argument and
with every stage of dynamization of crude itch substance, the
wider the difference, then certainly to give a high potency of itch
substance, is not to give the simillimum which must be the least
possible departure in potency from the crude substance.
To the question, Does the fact that the effects of a drug have
been cured by a high potency of the same drug establish the
principle of isopathy,and may isopathy therefore be correctly and
comprehensively defined to be the practice of curing the effects
of a morbific agent by administering the same morbific agent?
I would unhesitatingly answer, Yes. One single instance of the
fact clearly demonstrated does away with difference of identity
between the curative force and the sick-making force as an es¬
sential factor in the operation of the law of cure. If this factor
be done away with we cannot avoid the conclusion that the force
that caused the sickness is always the most appropriate remedy,
for nothing can so surely produce the same symptoms as the
same force. Isopathy may be correctly defined to be the prac¬
tice of curing the effects of a morbific agent by the same mor¬
bific agent, because such definition correctly explains the term.
It may be comprehensively so defined, because such definition
includes all that it is necessary to say about it and to add that
the morbific agent must be in the same potency would be to de¬
stroy its correctness.
To the question, Does isopathy constitute a separate law of
cure? There can surely be only the one answei; certainly not.
Inasmuch as the law of similars will the more effectually operate
the more surely the remedy administered is capable of produc¬
ing the same symptoms, and as nothing is so surely capable of
so doing, as the force that caused them, to administer that force
is to make the most perfect application of the law.
I cannot conceive it possible logically to defend the statement
that to give as a remedy a high potency of the agent that has
caused the sickness is not isopathy; nor can I conceive of a log-
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ical position between refusing to admit that an isopathic pre¬
scription can cure, and accepting such prescription as the most
perfect application possible of the law of similars, and therefore
that which is most to be desired.
It is to be hoped that these important questions in homoeo¬
pathic philosophy will continue to be much discussed, in order
that they may be the more speedily determined.
W. Warren Baldwin.
Port Carling, Muskoka, Canada.
ANTIDOTAL TREATMENT OF DISEASE.
This question is receiving so much attention at the hands of
the profession, it may be interesting to quote the following liter¬
ature from the Medical Advance for February, 1880, page 102.
Miss F., age 22, dark complexion, stout and fleshy, was attacked with nerv¬
ous headache in November, 1879. The pain was very sharp as if pierced with
a knife extending from the frontal region to the occiput. An allopathic physi¬
cian was called and diagnosed rheumatism. He treated it with liniments and
opiates, which would give relief for from one to three or four days at a time,
when it would return with increased severity. The menses, which were light
colored and scanty for months previous to the attack, became more and more
scanty with each molimen, until Jan. 1880, the flow entirely ceased. In De¬
cember, 1879, she began to be deaf and towards the end of Jan., 1880, could
not hear a shout close to her ear.
In April, 1880, I was called and prescribed Belladonna, which entirely re¬
lieved her headache in a few hours, since which time she has been free from
pain except at the menstral nisus when it resembles labor pains in character and
continues about two days quite severely.
In May, 1880, at the time of the menses, on waking in the morning her hear¬
ing returned and she became blind the same day. This change was accomp¬
lished without any pain in the head, but on attempting to rise she felt giddy
and fainted. During the entire summer she has been unable to see any object
and most of the time could not detect daylight.
The pupils are widely dilated and a nervous twitching of the recti-muscles
trouble her at times. In every other respect her eyes are normal. She can
now, Nov., 1880, detect the windows in the room and at times define the out¬
lines of a person, but her tongue is getting so thick and clumsy she can scarcely
articulate a word and lisps badly when attempting to speak. Wanted from
some of the experts, diagnosis and probabilities of cure.
On page 168 of the same volume, Dr. J. B. Morgan writes as follows: It
reads very much like a case of hemorrhage or meningeal inflammation, or
both or even a tumor at the base of the brain, and involving the trunks of
the second, third, auditory and hypoglossal nerves. A ophthalmoscopic exam¬
ination will greatly aid in the diagnosis. Also urinary tests. The original Al¬
lopathic treatment probably included quinine in large doses. I have witnessed
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similar symptoms after fever treated by that drug used during sickness. Qui¬
tting in high potency and other antidotes to the crude drugs offer the best prospects
of cure. The prognosis is in my judgment very doubtful, but as the patient is
yet young and the symptoms are unsteady, most of the trouble, with great care
may be made to yield.
Several things are to be noted in this article which must be
taken into consideration in every question involving the selec¬
tion of a remedy with the hope of effecting a cure. In the first
place, it will be noted that the blindness and deafness do not
come as a result of direct medication, neither external or inter¬
nal. Weeks and in all probability months have passed since any
medicine has been taken that was capable of producing patho¬
logical conditions. In the present case,it was the result of changes
in the relationship between the vital energies and the material
substance gradually increasing in severity, because nothing was
being done to restore harmony. It was, therefore, purely dyna¬
mic in character. It would be interesting to know the condition
which preceded this nervous headache. But be that as it may the
fact that she was under the care of an old school physician from
November until April is very strong proof that the deafness and
blindness were the result directly or indirectly of the treatment
received. But the interesting part of the question lies in the
fact that eighteen years ago, Dr. Morgan was advocating the
use of quinine high, in such cases as these. The study of the
pathogenesy of Quinine Sulph . will give the grounds upon which
he reaches the conclusion that quinine has been abused. An¬
other thing to be noted in the practice of those who find the
simillimum in the highly potentized form of the same agent which
has been abused is, that the remedy is selected after the material
effects of the drug has disappeared and nothing remains but the
evidence of a dynamic disturbance. It cannot, for that reason,
be regarded as an antidote, but the selection of that remedy
capable of producing a dynamic disturbance, most perfectly re¬
sembling that of the existing miasm and therefore coming within
the law.
WAS IT CHANCE?
R. M. BARROWS, M. D., CHICAGO.
PROF. DISEASES OP CHILDREN, DUNHAM MEDICAL COLLEGE.
The following case which occurred in my practice a number
of years ago when I first began employing the higher potencies,
marks in a measure a new era in my life.
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Bred as I was in the old school ways and methods, the adop¬
tion of the new school practice was a gradual growth with me.
I remember with what fear and trembing I employed a 3x poten¬
cy of Phytolacca in a case of threatened abscess of the breast,
not daring to figure out the amount of medicine my patient was
receiving, but just going it blind, having been assured by my
homoeopathic friend, Dr. Burt, that it would do the business—
and it did, much to my surprise and joy. Thus with feeble and
uncertain steps, I began to find a better method for the treat¬
ment of diseases. I emerged as it were from the chrysalis state
of routine practice with its massive doses of crude drugs given
purely on the name of the disease present to a new and advanced
state of existance in which potentized drugs are given according
to a fixed law.
But while this was a great stride ahead over old school
methods, I found as time went on, I was unable to meet many
conditions which arose in my practice by the 3x potencies and
lower to which I had confined myself. My remedies would not
act or if acting would aggravate the case. What must I do?
Change the remedy. This I did frequently with no better result.
What did I finely do? What every so-called homoeopath must
do until he finds a better way, resort to old school expedients, or
let the case go to another doctor. This last no one would think
of doing while there is a remedy or expedient in the universe, one
could lay hands on. Nor do I blame anyone for so doing if he
knows not a better way. But I wish this article to show you
there is a better way. I believe it is through ignorance that
most of us have—sinned by compulsion as it were—our homoeo¬
pathy not being sufficient to meet many cases. Either homoeo¬
pathy can’t reach all cases or we don’t practice it right. Believ¬
ing the latter to be the case with myself I began experimenting
with the higher potencies. It was with a good deal of hesitan¬
cy I began to employ the 30th and 200th potency. To my old
school mind it seemed like giving moon-shine, but when indi¬
cated how quickly and certainly they acted. My using the very
high potencies was marked and emphasized in a striking manner
by the case I am about to relate. It was of a lady who holds a
prominent place in society, a Mrs. B-, and the circumstances
of my securing the case were in themselves peculiar.
The lady in question was about thirty-five, married, the mother
of two children. She had been suffering for a week with an
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acute attack of cystitis. Her sufferings were terrible. Every
few minutes she was obliged to pass her water which was attend¬
ed with great pain and tenesmus. This occurred both day and
night and was wearing her out. She had severe pain in her back
over her kidneys. Her urine was dark colored as if mixed with
blood. Mrs B’s antipathy to the medical profession was so in¬
tense, from some past experiences of an unpleasant nature, that
her husband did not dare suggest calling in a physician. A friend
of the family who was a patient of mine, formed a scheme with
the husband to get some medicine of me and give as coming
from this friend. It was done. I sent a powder of Cantharides
5ftm to be given in water two doses only, half an hour apart and
then Sac. lac. The husband came in my office the next fore¬
noon a happy man. Said within two hours his wife was sleeping
and she had to get up but twice the whole night to pass her
water. All the pain in the bladder and back was gone, except
when actually urinating and this had much diminished. I was
asked to call and look after the patient with her free and willing
consent. This I did and am happy to say that in three days she
was about attending her work as usual with no return of this dis¬
tressing malady. I have attended this family through a number
of years and am happy to say the lady has gotten entirely over
her dislike to the profession.
To myself, the question came forcibly home, 4 ‘Was it chance’*
that Mrs. B.-was so suddenly relieved by my administrating
the 50111 potency of Cantharides ? Ask Mrs. B., or her husband
or friends. Was the disease about to get well of itself? No,
any candid mind would reject such an offense. It was a clear
cut case of cause and effect as you can imagine. It made a deep
impression on me and from that day to this, I have pioved the
effect of the higher potencies in a wide range of cases, both acute
and chronic. I therefore beg of you my friends who have not
tried the higher potencies to do so without fail before resorting
to old school guessings, or remedies that cover up. I would not
advocate the discarding of the lower potencies, they will reach
cases that the higher can't touch, but in the vast majority of
cases you will be charmed with the success that the latter will
give you and they will remove oceans of worry from your soul.
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CASE FROM PROF. WATER’S CLINIC, DUNHAM
MEDICAL COLLEGE.
Mr. D., age 45, dark hair, brown eyes and dark complexion;
weight 180.
Come to clinic for “heart trouble.” Family history good.
Mother died of spinal meningitis.
Had all of the children’s diseases very hard.
While in college did a great deal of smoking; the habit has
been continued to this time.
About nine years ago first noticed a heart trouble.
Vertigo—tendency to fall forward.
Palpitation of heart.
Gall stone colic oft and on for 20 years, last attack five years
ago.
Nov. 11, ’97. Mentally, usually cheerful, not easily irritated.
Fear of being up high, feels as if he would jump from a roof.
Thought of being on a height, causes him to give away.
Would not attempt to go in an elevator to the top of a tall
building for fear of being tempted to jump down.
Headache starting in left occipital region, going up over head
to left frontal.
Occasional darting, shooting pains.
Radiating over forehead.
< stooping, “like it would fall off.”
< walking.
«< morning, gets up with it.
<1 hot temperature.
> cold.
> rest.
> gentle stroking of forehead.
< light closes eyes.
< light artificial.
< when nervous.
Sleep—awakens at 2 or 3 a. m., cannot go to sleep again.
Has to read himself to sleep.
Has to be perfectly quiet.
A chill starts in feet and goes up. (Nervous).
Dreams seem to continue on from the day’s line of thought.
Irregular appetite.
Eructations alternating with anorexia.
Hunger with loss of appetite when he sits down to table.
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Likes plain food best.
Dislikes sweets.
Likes tart food.
Likes fats, but they cause sour stomach.
Eructations sour.
Taste disagreeable, foul, on awakening in morning.
Bloated, occasionally after dinner.
< before a spell of palpitation is coming on.
Heaviness of stomach after eating, feels like a load at times.
Bowels—tendency to constipation—regulates them by diet.
Chest—sharp pain in cardiac region.
Stitch like when reaching around to left with right arm.
Twisting the body.
< lying down—palpitation.
< lying on left side.
> lying on right side.
Pulse, 96.
Heart sounds normal, but fast.
Spine—sore spots along spine at times.
Cramping pain only occasionally.
Feet—cannot stand cold damp, it causes an < stomach symp¬
toms.
Sweats—feet—profuse.
Offensive.
< cold wind on back of neck.
< change of weather—makes nervous.
> dry cold weather.
Sweat—profuse general upon exertion.
Crude medicines abused.
Strychnine—recently has tried to quiet his nerves with this.
Coffee.
Tobacco.
Quinine.
Si/icia cm .
Nov. 18. >• Mentally.
Headache one day not so bad as usual.
Tired and drowsy, when well started is very active.
Sleep— > not awakening so early as formally.
> chilliness in bed.
Wants to go to bed now, did not formerly.
> weariness on awakening in morning.
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> appetite > dislike for sweets.
> eructations sour.
> taste in morning.
> bloating after dinner.
Bowels loose and very offensive.
Chest > sharp pains.
> lay on either side.
> spots on spine.
> feet.
Pulse 90.
Sac. lac. Dec. 16.
Nov. 24, had an attack of gall-stone colic come on while
writing at 4 p. m., and lasted two days. Did not report.
Had dull, steady pain.
< pressure like a sharp pointed instrument in pit of stomach.
White of eyes yellow, skin yellow over body.
Great itching of skin of forehead at this time.
Urine loaded with bile.
Stool at first ash colored and remained so 8 or 9 days. Then
a diarrhoea of almost pure bile for 4 or 5 days.
Bowels sensitive to pressure.
> nervousness.
Takes no stimulants.
Still craves smoking.
Felt dull and clouded during attack.
Hungry from morning to nigbt.
> dreams.
> palpitation—slight last night.
< sour after jaundice attack.
Pains in chest gone.
Pulse 80.
Feels better today than for years.
Sac. lac.
Dec. 23. Marked improvement.
Stool still offensive—dark.
> vertigo better.
> heart fluttering.
> appetite.
Taste like podophyllum.
Sac. lac.
Jan. 6, *98. Headache last week.
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Bowels regular, dark and offensive.
Sensation as if another attack of gall-stone colic was coming on.
Dull pain almost constant in epigastrium.
Nux iim . Jan. 13. Reports feeling very well.
Feels sleepy all the time.
Weaker than formerly.
Still craves tobacco >
Sac. lac .
Jan. 20. No change.
Cal. Phos™.
Jan. 27. > drowsiness.
> tired feeling.
> tobacco craving.
Sac. lac.
Feb. 3. Dull pain from lower end of sternum to back.
< changing position of body.
< jarring or sudden moving.
> tobacco craving.
Thinks he passed another gall-stone.
Sac. lac.
Feb. 10. Headache before getting up in morning at base
of brain.
Passed a gall-stone Thursday—less pain.
Stool light—offensive.
< thirst, drinks a pint occasionally.
Works better, writes four hours at a time.
Craving tobacco continues.
Tab a cum.
Feb. 17. Feb. 24. General improvement. Sac. lac .
Mar. 3. Has gained twenty pounds since Jan. 1, ’98.
Slight occipital headache in morning, a heaviness which passes
off in a few minutes after rising.
Mar. 10-17. Reported well, better than he has been in
years.
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CASE OF MAL-NEUTRITION.
J. P. JONES, M. D., CHICAGO.
PROF. OF ANATOMY, DUNHAM MEDICAL COLLEGE.
K. W., male, age 10.
Parents history fair.
When child was born he weighed 11 pounds and seemed in
good health until about four months old, then he commenced to
“run down,” at the time I saw him he weighed but 6 pounds.
No eruption of the teeth.
Fontanelles open. Head out of shape from lying. The sutures
being so loosely united.
Bowels constipated.
Stomach very full (abdomen bloated). Stomach would not re¬
tain scarcely anything.
Temperature 1.04
Skin very dry and hung down from the bones like rags.
The child was taken first with a rash, which was out to quite
an extent when I was called. He looked more like an old man
than anything else I could compare it too. I was sent for, so I
was told afterwards to have it said in the neighborhood that they
had every physician in town, so I came last and of course could
not lose much in way of reputation in the case, nor much out
side, for I was like some others about there had not much to lose.
I found by inquiring there had been a number of physicians
called in from different cities. This made the case still harder
in my estimation.
My first visit was at 2 a. m.
Jan. 10, 1895. The neighbors were all on hand, I saw six
women in the part of the house I was in, and don’t know how
many more there were, I could hear sounds of whispers in other
rooms. The mother was worn and tired out. Father had lost
all hope. The clothes were ready to lay the little fellow out as
the “Doctor” just before me in the evening had told them “he
would soon pass out of his suffering.”
At this juncture, I arrived on the scene, I looked the little pa¬
tient over and made the bold statement that I was of the opinion
there could be something done in the case yet. You ought to
have seen the expression in the neighbors faces, some laughed
and made so much light of my opinion I was almost disheartened
myself. But just as soon as I laid my eyes on the case I thought
of some high remedy 1 long wanted to test, and concluded now
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was a good time. As I had much help sitting around, I thought
best to put them to work and ordered a cold bath. This occupied
some of my company, those that did not want to work, were sent
home. By this time I made up my mind I was master of the
situation and was going to run it or take my case and go home.
I forgot to mention that the child would lie with the head thrown
back and had two spasms in the fore part of the evening. I got
things buzzing just as fast as I could, for with such a tempera¬
ture I looked for spasms shortly. The first dose of medicine I
gave was Gcl cm one dose, after the bath, which I superintended
myself, the patient was robed in a flannel blanket. By the way
I think every physician should be thoroughly posted on all forms
of baths, as I believe they are, at times, great adjuvants to
other remedies. In four hours I repeated the bath, after the last
bath I found the temperature had fallen off to 101 l /i °. I left my
thermometer with orders that if the fever went up to 104 to give
another bath and send for me at once. I gave Placabo and went
away. The next day I called and found my little patient resting
easy.
Jan. 11. I now gave a deeper remedy, Cala. carb cm in three
doses, six hours apart, Placabo every hour. After I had given
the medicine, the servant came in with the “stock” of medicines
that had been left over from numerous prescriptions. I took an
inventory and found 15 different kinds, part of the bottles empty,
some never opened at all. Powders by the sack. Remember
the medicines were nearly all Homoeopathic ?
In three days the temperature was down to normal and I could
see some change in general condition. The mother began to get
uneasy, because I was not giving more medicine. As the child
was very weak, I ordered him rubbed all over twice a day with
sweet oil, and especially the abdomen producing “massage”
movements to help relieve the constipation. This oil was ab¬
sorbed to such an extent that feeding by stomach was almost aban¬
doned for two or three weeks. This gave the stomach the need¬
ed rest and the work imposed on the parent occupied her to such
an extent that it was meat and drink for her. I did not disturb the
action of the Calc . carb. until I thought it had worked to a finish
which was about six weeks. The constipation continued very
obstinate, hard lumpy passages. I prescribed Alumen cm one
dose, March 20. This I thought at first was all that would be
necessary, but did little good.
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April 20, gave Sul cm . This opened up a number of new symp¬
toms, the former rash came out much worse; stomatitis, which
was early in the case reopened, and things began to look as
though I was going backward in the case. But I held my nerve
for I knew if the neighbors and family could be held in check I
would take care of the rest. With a wise look and very little
talk to out siders (the neighbors) I kept the confidence of the
family.
After three weeks of severe aggravation, the case began to im¬
prove nicely, with the exception of the constipation, which
lasted until the child was over two years old. The case moved
steadily on to a complete recovery, and today is a living monu¬
ment to high prescribing. I have all the reason in the world to
believe that all the low medicine in Christendom would not have
had the least effect on this case. For in the * ‘stock” of medicine
I found some four or five bottles of Cal. carb. 2x and 3x empty,
which had gone down this patient's throat with no apparent
avail. Such cases as this should teach us a great lesson. Non¬
interference, nerve, and a will to run a case, or not have a thing
to do with it. This case has been the foundation of the position
I hold today.
Diagnostic Nervous Manifestations of Syphilis.— Dr. j. Alli¬
son Hodges, in concluding a paper recently read before the Richmond Academy
of Medicine and Surgery, gives the following:
1. Headaches, which disappear if paralysis occurs.
2. Insomnia, nearly always associated with headache, anddis appearing with
the appearance of convulsions or paralysis. It differs from the insomnia of neu¬
rasthenia and melancholia in that it occurs in the early night, the victim arising
in the morning ready for his daily labor.
8- Vertigo, occurring usually with the headache. It may be transient, but
becomes worse as the disease progresses.
4. Tremor, present in one-half of the cases. It occurs most often in the or¬
der named: In the hands, tongue, and over the whole body, and is accom¬
panied by headache. If it occurs in a limb it is the precursor of paralysis of the
limb.
5. Hemiplegia.
6. Erratic distribution of paralysis, as aphasia with or without hemiplegia,
ptosis, insanity or epilepsy, with paralysis of one arm or leg. It is suggested
that ptosis occurring suddenly points nearly always to syphilis.
7. The use of electricity to determine central or peripheral lesion.
8. The presence of great weakness and mental dullness. This is one of the
most valuable of the nervous manifestations, being out of proportion to the seem¬
ing condition of the patient.
9. History of the case. In women the history of many abortions in succes¬
sion would point to syphilis.
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flDaterta flDefclca.
A REPERTORY OB DREAMS.
Continued from page 209 .
E. H. WILSEY, M. D., PARKERSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA.
Dissecting room, with a corpse which sprang and seized him by the throat,
Chelid.
- a woman who was hang by the heels in his office, Iris. v.
Distracted, efforts of over study, Cup. ac.
Distressing, Aescul. hip., Amm., Cornus., Hyper., Jab., Lachn., Nit. ac.,
Merc, c., Petrol.
- with restless sleep, Iod., Itaph.
Doctor, about 3 a. m. he dreamed that he was awake and with his, Mang.
Dogs, Am., Graph., Lyss., Merc., Sil., Sill., Ver. a., Zinc.
' - of being attacked by large dogs, Atroph.
- as young dogs clung to his body, Lyc.
- the flayer forced dogs meat into his mouth, Alumina.
Dog, of killing a small rabid dog, Rumex.
- that he was followed by a, Sil.
- was biting him, Ver. a.
Dragon, Op.
Dreadful dreams, Caust., Nux, Nit. ac., Psor., Ran. sc., Verb., Zinc.
Drinking, Dros., Med.
Driving, Amm. c.
Drowning, Alumina., Igt., Merc., Merc. i. fl., Papaya, v., Ran. b., Rumex.,
Sil., Samb., Ver. a.
- that he is near, with an erection, Ran. b.
Duels, Asclep. t.
Dwellings, of attempting to enter, Merc. i. r.
Dying, and that his bed is surrounded by friends, Am.
- sees his relatives, Fluor, ac.
- of a funeral and a wedding, Chelid.
■ —■ and* of dead, Coccul.
Ears cut off of having, Nat. c.
Earthquake, Ratan., Sil.
Eating, Iod.— human flesh, Sol. tub.
Emaciated, of being, Kreos.
Embarrassment, with, Amm. m., Ars., Graph., Phos., Mag. c.
Endless dreams the whole night, Sep.
Enemies, pursued by, Con.—by a large powerful enemy, Arg. m.
Errors, in a dream he reproaches himself about past errors, he is full of rest¬
lessness and anguish, Nat. m.
Events, of the previous day, Aeon., Arg. m., Dry., Calc, fl., Cicut.
Camph., Fluor, ac., Graph., Kali, chlor., Puls.
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Events, which seems weeks and months to transpire, Sang 1 .
- of recent events, Sumbul.
- about what is intended to be done, Camph.
- late events, Calc. p.
- last events of the evening, Phos. ac.
- long past events, Calad., Ferr. i., Sil., Spig., Seneco.
- of old events with great mental exertion, Anac.
- of happenings of morning hours, Camph.
- painful events, Osm.
- of past years, after awaking falls to sleep again and continues to
dream of, Calad., Nat. c.
-after 3 a. m. the events of two days previous, Euph., Graph.
- important events, Osm.
- of his youth, Sil.
Evil dreams with violent weeding, Sil.
Explosion, he hears a loud explosion in his dreams, Stann.
Extravagant dreams. Magnolia—in half sleep, Aeon.
Eyes, of violent stitches in, Calc. c.
- with open, Cann. i.
Falling, of plans Ign., Dig., Op., Mosch.
Fall, d reams he must fall from a height, Alumina.
- that he is about to fall from great height, Aur.
Falling, Amm. m., Aur., Bell., Caps., Chin., Cainca, Dig., Dui., Ferr.,
Guaj., Hep., Ign., Kali, n., Kreos., Merc., Mag. m., Mez.,
Phos. ac., Plb., Puls., Sars., Sabin., Sul., Thuya., Zinc. ox.
- from a height out of a hammock, Phos.
-from the roof of a house, Zinc.
- as if or being cast down, Calc. c.
- as, from a precipice, Hepar.
- that he was tumbling down a high mountain, Kali, c., Sep.
-from a height into water. Dig.
- from high places, Nux. m.
-when going to sleep, all manner of things come before her fancy,
frightful dreams of falling down and so forth, Mag. m.
-from high banks, or being let down into deep wells, Merc.
- frightful dreams with starting up, he dreams he is falling from a
height, Aeon., Aur., Atroph., Calend., Chin., Mez., Merc.,
Nat. s., Sul., Sumbul.
Fatiguing, work all night, Asclep. t., Aur., Bell.,Carb. s., Graph., Mag. c.,
Phos. ac.. Phos., Ver. a.
Fantastic, Aeon., Ambr., Ant. t., Arg. n., Ars., Bar. c.,CaiC., Carb. an.,
Carb. v., Fer. iod., Graph., Kali, c., Kalm., Kali, n., Each.,
Lyc., Merc., Nat. c., Nat. m., Nat. s., Nux., Nit. ac., Nitr.,
Op., Sep., Spong., Sul., Sil., Zinc.
Farming, Merc. i. r.
Fasting, of, Aeon., Bry., Calc., Ign.
Father had died, Alum.—fallen out with his father, Crot. h.
-was about to beat him, Kali. c.
Fearful, Ars., Calc, c., Graph., Sul., Sars., Sil.
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Fearful, vivid, Mang.
-dream of danger threatening from water, Graph.
Feasting* of, Phos. ac.—and merry company, Asaf., Zinc.
Fight, anxious dreams of a fight with robbers, Ferr. iod , Mag. c.,Nat. c., Sil.
Fighting, Brom., Coca., Cal ad., Cepa., Ferr., Guaj., Iris, v., Lyss.,
Mosch., Nitr., Nat. c., Nat. ars., Nat. m., Ran. s., Verbas.
Fingers are stiff, Calc. s.
-of being seized by the, Sil.
Fire, dreams of, Anac., Ars., Amm. c.. Ant. t., Bell., Bar. c., Carb.
ac.. Calc, ph., Calc, c., Curare, Clem., Croc., Daphne.,
Euphr., Fluor, ac., Graph., Hep., Kali, n., Kreos., Laur.,
Mag. c., Mag. in., Merc, s , Nat. c., Naja., Nitr., Nat. m.,
Osm., Phos-, Plat., Papaya, Rhus , Rhodo., Spig., Spong.,
Stann., Stront., Sil., Zinc., Zing.
-while sleep is otherwise sound, Anac.
-she dreams about fire, she cannot get ready with her preparation to
go, Plat.
-of, but without many flames. Calc. ph.
- of vivid, waking him, when he found that he was feverish and the
room was cold, Carbol. ac.
- and conflagrations from lightning, Euph.
Fishes of, Chin. bol. f Arg. m.—Fishing, Ver. v.
Fit, that he had an epileptic fit, Mang. c., Sil.
Fixed idea, Aeon., Puls., Stann.
Flayed, that men are, Arn.
Flood, fixed idea, Mag. m., Merc , Nat. c., Sil.
Flowers, of buying a beautiful bouquet of, Nat. s.
Foolish, Merc. ». r., Sep.
Flying, Atroph., Apis., Lyc., Nat. s.—over housetops, Xan.
Foreign, great dowsiness in the evening, as soon as she closes her eyes she
dreams of far off foreign things, but at once awakens over them,
Plat.
Forest, dreams, of Canth., Mag. m., Sep.
Forgets dreams, Aur., Aeon., Arn., Ars., Bary. c., Bapt., Bell., Carbo. v.,
Hell., Laur., Meny., Merc., Plat., Spig., Stram.
Formations, of syphilitic, Cocc. c.
Fretful, and vivid dreams, Cocc. c., Graph.
Friends, of old, Ferr., Rumex.
Frightened, dreams that some one seized him by the fingersothat he was, Sil.
Frightful dreams, Amm. m , Aur. m., Asclep. t. f Atroph., Bad., Bell.,
Bov., Brv., Calc, c., Camph., Cann. s., Chain., Chin., Con.,
Coccul., Croc., Cycl., Cop., Cornus., Diad., Dig., Dory.,
Dulc., Kup. pur., Elaps., Euphr., Graph., Hepar., Hydrast.,
Jac. cor., Kali, b., Lye., Lyss., Lach., Mang., Magn. m., Merc.,
Merc. i. fl., Merc, i. r., Morph., Mur. ac., Nat. m., Nat. s.,
Nit. ac., Nice., Nat. ars., Nux. v., Op., Ox. ac., Petrol., Plat.,
Populus., Peonia., Phos., Ptel., Puls., Paris., Ran. sc., Rhus.,
Sabad.. Sang., Sil., Sul., Sars., Sep., Sec.,Thuya., Tarax., Zinc.
- waking him at night without knowing where he was, Caust.
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Frightful dreams which make him jump out of bed, Dulc.
__with sound sleep, Sars.
_ all night awaking him at 5 a. m., Asclept. t.
, Sep.
_in cerebro spinal meningitis, Nux. v.
_with crying and moaning, Puls., iVIftg. m.
_with restless delirious sleep, Lyc.
_.. with restless sleep nights, Nat. c.
__ in dysmenorrhoea, Cycl.
_awakens her, Lyc., Sul.
_. awakens with dyspnoea, NllX. v.
- after awaking, dyspnoea, Chel.
_ awakens in the morning exhausted and unrefreshed, torteln
__ after falling down stairs, Rhus. t.
_dreams one to three hours after cold stage, Eup. pur.
._ in intermittent fever, ArS.
_ about fighting and killing (delirium tremens), Stram.
_ tha t the world is on fire, with paipatation on wak.ng, Rhus. t.
_ cannot free himself upon awaking, CalC- c., Dig.
— dreams all night, Amm. m.
__ toward morning, (Brights disease) Ar».
__disturb short naps when exhausted, Lach.
__awaken him at 3 a. m., Ascl. t.
__with paipatation, Arg. m.
____ _ rheumatism, Thuya.
__screams out cannot sleep again, Diact
__cause him to start from sleep, Nux. v.
___in typhus. Aru., Bapt., (yphoid fever, Phos.)
__from which she cannot after waking recover herself for
anxiety, and cannot sleep again, Caust.
___if he lies at night on his back or on his right side, he starts
up and talks deliriously and cries out about his frightful dreams,
_every night, each dream lasts all night and she is weak in the morn-
ing, Petrol. , ..
_ dreams of mortal danger, misfortune, mutilation, robbers etc., Mag. m.
Frolicing, with girls, Cocc. c.
Fruit, hanging on trees fresh in winter, Cast. eq.
Full of shame. Am., Con., Led., Mur. ac., Mosch.
Funeral, Ratan.—sad vivid of a funeral procession,
Future, P sle S dreams of such things as are actually seen threat day, Sul.
Garden, after midnight dreamed of entering a beautiful garden, Comoc.,
Phelland.
_of stealing fruit in a garden, Plb.
GhOStS, Alumina., Amm. c. Arg. n„ Bov., Camph , Carboy, Cham
Chloral., Graph., Ign., Kali C., Med., .Nat. c., Nat. m., Ol.
jec., (grinning, Op.) Puls., Sul. Sars., Spig., Sil.
_of being pursued by a, Sil.
_Of a ghost sitting upon his chest and oppressing his breath, Peoma.
, Formica, Nat. c., Brom.
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GllOStS, dreams of fisticuffs with, Sars.
Gloomy and frightful dreams, Asclep. t.
God, awful dream that God had repudiated him, Hyper.
Gold, Cycl , Puls.
Grave, of falling into grave when digging up corpse, Iris v.
- pits, Anac., Am.
Hanging, that he saw a recently deceased friend hanging dead by legs for
hours, Coca, (of being hanged. Am. m.)
Happened, of what happened many years ago, Amni. c.
-with reference to everything that happened last two days, Graph.
-to her children, that something had, Kreos.
-of something that really happened the next day, Mang., Sul.
Happenings, dreams about things transacted two days before, after 3 a. m.
Euphorb.
-of the day, Chel , Graph., Sep., Sil., Sars., (Kali, c., Nit. ac., vivid)
-of the evening, Nat. c.
Heavy dreams, Aur. m., Aloe., Ant. t., Arg. n., Chin , Colch., Chel., Dulc.,
Hepar., Hyos., Kali, br., Kali, chi., Laur., Lobel., Lyc., Mang.,
Merc., Nat. m., Nat. s., Nux v., Phos., Phos. ac., Sars., Thuya.
--toward morning, Nux v., Phos.
--leaving behind them a state of fright, Hepar.
--with cries and groans, Bry.
Head was excessively large, Sil.
Help, of calling for, Kali. c.
Hemorrhages, Phos.
Hickories, that his feet had grown into two, Crotal.
Hideous dreams, Phos.
High places, Lyss.
Historical, Aram, c., Ant. t., Caust., Cham., Croc., Hell., Mag. c.,
Merc., PhOS., Selen., Sil., Stram.
Home, gladsome dreams of home, Mur. ac., (far from home, Aeon.)
Homesickness, Gion.
Horrible dreams. Ant. c., Arg. n., Case., Chloral, Coccul., Calc. fl. t Calc. c.
Diosc., Graph., Kali, c.. Kali, iod., Lyc., Med., Merc, s.,
Nat. m., Nux V., Nit. ac., Petrol., Phos., Phos. ac., Psor.,
Ran. sc., Sul., Sars., Selen., Sep., Verb., Zinc.
-as if they would kill him, Lyc.
-dreams about mutilations of men, Ant. cr.
Horrid, Con., Physos., Plant.
-places on earth only, Croc. h.
- of dead persons returning to life, Rumex.
Horses, Alumina., Zinc., Asclep. t., Hyper.
-running, Atroph.
- of stealing a horse, Rumex.
Horse back riding, Nat. c.
Houses, Pallad.
House-hold affairs, Bry., Bell.
Hunting, of Hyper., Merc. i. r., Ver. a.
Hungry, in the morning it awakens him, Arg. n.
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Humming birds, Op.
Hurries for a distant place but he cannot reach it, Croc.
Hurt, anxious dreams as if he was to be, Ant. c.
Imaginative, Kali. c.—poetical, Ars. h.—sentimental, Kali. c.
Images, of hateful, Lyc.
Immediately, on falling asleep, Ars., Ambra., Bell., Granatum., Kreos.,
Kali, c., Mang., Phos., Sit., Thuya.
- on closing eyes dreams of horrible grimaces, Sul.
-on falling asleep she starts up from anxious dreams, Cor. r.
-on falling asleep dreams of the business of the day. Staph.
Incoherent dreams in the evening, when dropping off into slumber, Plat.,
Sil.
Indians, of being among, Jug. c.
Indifferent, Bry, Chin., Mag. c., Nux v., Phos. ac.. Puls., Rhus, t., Sep.,
Sul.
Insane asylum, Lyss.
Insect had burrowed deeply into his heel, Arg. n.
Insulted, of being, Nat. s.
Intellectual dreams, Senecio.
Intoxicated, of being, Raph.
Invention, full of Lach., Sabin.
Jealous, dreams, Camph.
Journeys, Apis., Bufo., Crot. t., Chel., Calc, ph , Carbol. ac., Chin, bob,
Crotal., Hyper., Lach., Lac. c., Merc, c., Mag. m., Merc. i. r.,
Nat. c., Op., Psor., It tills., Sang., Therid.
-of long, Nat. m.
-of a journey he could not take, something held him back, Nat. c.
-of a distant, Sil.
-vivid dreams of journeying, Brom.
Joyful, Croc., Grat., Kali, iod., Lach., Mur. ac.
Jumping of, Ver. a.
Killed of being, Chel.,—that she would be, Kali, iod., Lach., Mur. ac.
Knees, were swollen and painful, Coccul.
Knives, that she was pierced with, Guaic.
Laborious, Curare.
Ladder, that he was standing upon a high, Laur.
Lard, that she poured boiling lard into the fire, Nat. s.
Large, dreams that he had grown very, and was from thirty to fifty feet high,
Ftrr. i.
Laughs aloud while dreaming. Caust., Croc., Kreos.
Lectures of, Cinnab.
Lice, Amm. c., Gambog., Mur. ac., NllX v., Phos.
-of great lice upon her shoulder and thinking long from whence they
come, Chel.
Lightning, of being struck by. Arn., Euph., Spig. /
-struck close by him, Phelland.
Lively, Chel., Mang.
Lion, that he was a, Physos.
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Loathing, dreams full of, and on awaking nausea, Sul.
Loathsome things, Arg. m.—diseases of others, Anac.
-dreams of defilement of human excrements and urine, Zinc.
Long lasting dreams, Aeon., Bry., Calc, c., Coflf.. China., Ign., Nat. c., Puls.
Lost on mountains, Ind.—m woods, Sep. *
Love, Aeon., Agn., Alumina, Amm. m., Ant. cr.. Am., Ars., Aur., Bor.,
Bism., Bov., Calc, c., Cann. i., Canth., Carbo. an., Caust.,
Chel., Chin., Clem., Cub., Cocc., Coloc., Con., Cop., Euph.,
Graph., Hyos., fgn., Kali. c., 'Kreos., Lach., Led., Lyc.,
Mag. c., Mag. m., Meny., Merc., Mez., Mur. ac.,Nat. C., Nat.
m.. Nit. ac., Nux m., Nux V., Oleand., Opt., Ox. ac., Paris,
Phos., Phos. ac., Plat., Puls., Ran. b., Rhodo., Sabad.,
Staph., Stram., Sill., Tarax., Thuya, Valer., Ver. a., Viol,
t.. Zinc.
Lovely of a distant beloved person, Plumb.
Luck, of bad, Alumina., Amm. m., Anac., Ant. cr., Ars., Am., Bar. c.,
Bell., Cann. s., Carb, an., Cham., Chin., COCC-, Croc.,
Graph., Guaic., Ign., Kali, c., Kali, n., Laur., Led., LyC.,
Mang., Merc., Mur. ac., Nux V., Op., Petrol., Phos., Phos.
ac., Puls., Ran 'b., Rhus t., Sars., Selen., Spig., Spong.,
Stann., Staph., Sul., Sul. ac., Thuya, Ver. a., Verb., Zinc.
Lump in his throat and right ear, of a, Cinnab.
Lying in bed, as if someone was, Petrol.
Magnificence, vivid of Coff. t.
Man, that he saw a man in his room, Aesc. hip.
-grasped him by the throat and tried to choke him, Phos.
Many, Aeon., Alumina, Ambra, Ang., Arn., Asaf., Bar. c.. Bell., Bov.,
Bry., Calc, c., Carb. v., Caps., Chin., Cic., Clem , Coloc.,
Crotal., Coca, Crot. t., Hepar, Kreos., Hyper., Dig., Ferr.,
Ferr. m., Graph., Ign., Kali c., Lach., Lyc., Kali n., Mag. c.,
Mag. m., Mag. s., Mang., Merc., Merc. i. r., Nat. c., Nat. m.,
Naja, Nat. ars., Nit. ac., NllX, Paris, Petrol, PliOS., Phos.
ac., Plb., Puls., lthus., Sabad., Sep., Sll., Stann., Staph.
Strom., Stront., Sill., Tarax., Tart., Tereb., Therid., Thuya,
Zinc.
-anxious dreams at night, Nat. m.
—— dreams at night with loud talk in sleep, Sep.
- dreams at once on going to sleep and anxiety all night through with¬
out waking, Hepar.
-dreams after 4. a. m., Amm.
Marriage, Alumina, Sil., Nat. c.
Men, dreams of many, Cocc. c.
-were on her bed, Merc.
- dreams there is a naked man wrapped in her bed clothes, Puls.
- fell dead from a height, Sabin.
- that large men followed her and wished to violate her without sex¬
ual excitement, Kreos.
Mental of exertion, Aeon., Ambr., Anac., Am., Bry., Camph., Carbo
a., Chin., Cic., Clem., Coloc., Dulc., Graph, Ign., Iod.,
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Kali n., Lach., Laur., Led., Mar. v., Mosch., Mur. ac., Nat.
m., Nux V., Oleand., Op., Paris., Phos., PhOS. ac., Plb.,
Puls., Rhust., Saba., Sabina, Sars., Sec. c.,Staph., Sul.,
Thuya, Viol, t., Zinc.
- activity great, and awoRe with clear intellect, Carbol. ac.
-of excelling in mental work, Aeon., Anac., Am., Bry., Camph.,
Car bo an , Graph., Ign., LacR., Nux v., Puls., Rhust.,
Sabad., Sabina, Thuya.
Merry dreams, Asaf., Croc , Caust., Coif., Dig., Lach., Mang., Op., Phos.,
Squilla.
Mice, Colch., Sep.
Mind affecting the, Bry., Chin., Ign., Lach., Nat. m., Nux v., Oleand.,
Phos., Phos. ac.. Sab., Sabina, Sul., Thuya, Viol. t.
Misfortune, Clem., Kali bi., Led.
Mishaps to others, Can. s.
Money, Alumina, Cycl., Mag. c., Puls.
-of counterfeit, Zinc ox.
-matters, Phos.
Mormons, of. Hyper.
Morning 1 , many dreams in his morning slumber, Nat. m.
Mortifying, Ign., Mosch., Rheum., Staph.
Mother, dreams of mother’s death, Mur. ac.
Mowing, of people mowing grain and clover, Glon.
Mud, of walking in, Iod.
Murder, Amm. c.» Bell., Calc, c., Carbo an., Calad., Chrom. a., Guaj., Ign.,
Kali iod., Kalm., Kreos., Lach., Lact. ac., Led., Lyc., Merc.,
Naja, Nat. ars., Nat. c., Nat. m., Oleand., Petrol., Rhus,
Rumex, Sil., Spong., Staph., Sang., Zinc.
-dreadful dreams of murder, fire and the like, Lappa, Nat. m., Naja.
-of committing, Petrol., Sil., Thea.
-accused of murder and was betrayed, Sil.
Murdered, of being, Amm. m., Agari., Atroph., Guaj., Ign., Kali iod.,
.Lyc., Merc., Sil., Zinc.
-is to be, Sil.—murdered men running naked, Rumex.
Mutilations, horrible, Ant. cr., Nux v., Con.
Nausea, of, Arg. m.
Needle, of swallowing a, Merc.
Nonsensical, Pip. meth.
Objects, which he has longed for, he sees, Sil.
Ocean Atlantic, Ver. v.
Occupied, that she was, with many people and she wished to get away, but
did not go so far as that, Bell.
Occurrences, in afternoon nap about the days, Crot. t., Sil.
- vivid dreams at night about the days, Sep.
-of the occurrences of his youth, Sil.
-vivid dieam about something which actually occurred the ntxt day,
Mang., Sul.
- of the last days. Kali chlor., Selen.
—-many of the day, Graph., Lach., Plat., Plant.
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Odors, of burning punk y of sulphur, continuing after awaking, Anac.
Paill, at night he feels his pain in sleep and dreams about it, Lyc.
Painfully anxious dream as if she had a swollen cheek, Nitr.
Painful dreams, Cain., Med., Nitr. Osmium.
Paradise, dreams she has a view of, Coff. t.
Peevish, Ant., Asar., Bry., Caust., Graph-, Hep., Mag. s., Mang., Nat. m.,
People, of, Apis., Art. v., Ars. h., Bell., Calc, a., Diosc., Equiset., Lyss.,
Merc., Puls.
-he had not seen for years, Calad.
-sleeplessness till 1 a. m., then dreams of people moving about dis¬
figured in such a way that the perpendicular diameter of the face
almost equalled the size of the body, with delirium, Atroph.
Periodic, returning in the day time, Can. i.
Picnics, of delightful, Nat. s.
Pinched, that she was, in the back, Phos.
Pins, Merc., Sil.
Places, new scenes, Calc. fl.—where he had been, Arg. n.
Plans, of mixed plans he had made, Anac.
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ANTIPYRINE—ITS SYMPTOMATOLOGY.
General Action —Reduces ihe temperature very rapidly.
Allays pain. Alters the shape of the red blood corpuscles.
Separates and decomposes the haematin. Leaves a depressant
influence on the brain. Diminishes the oxydation. Acts as a
heart tonic. Fills the capillaries.
Mind.—Anxiety. Loss of memory. Loss of consciousness.
Feels drowsy, or rarely exhilarted. Peevish and irritable. Talks
in a jerky manner. All motions are made in the same way.
Sensorium. —Numbness. Snapping sensation in the head,
nearly driving crazy. Prostration and dizziness. Vertigo.
Feels as if intoxicated. Sensation as if the inside of the body
were filled with ice.
Headache. —Great migraine. Pain in the frontal sinuses.
Eye. —Closed on account of the erythematous swelling. Dim¬
ness of vision. Pupils dilated. Suffused, with great conges¬
tion. Catarrhal congestion, with great swellings of the lids.
Ephemeral amaurosis.
Ears. —Ringing in the ear with much congestion. Buzzing
sensation.
Nose. —Violent and long continued sneezing. Coryza. Irri¬
tation of nasal fossae. Coppery smell, which is not constant,
but comes and goes.
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Mouth. —Itching and burning of the mouth, especially on the
roof. Coppery taste, which is not constant but comes and goes.
Throat. —Itching and burning. Hoarsenesss. Cough, with
or without expectoration. Tight constricted feeling. Loss of
voice. Swelling of lining of mucous membrane, giving sensation
of suffocation.
Appetite. —Anorexia. Thirsty only in a. m. on rising.
Stomach. —Vomiting. Epigastric pain, causing to bend double
and cry out. Gastro- enteritis. Expanding sensation rising from
the stomach. Nausea, with or without vomiting. Burning sen¬
sation in the pharynx. '
Urine —Incontinence of urine. Amount is diminished. Great
excess of nitrogen, as in typhoid fever.
Chest. —Pain and tightness of chest. Dyspnoea. Tumor-like
sensation over the notch of the sternum, with slight dyspnoea.
Breathing hard and labored; can’t lie down on this account.
Pulse.— Rapid and full. Goes up and down with the temper¬
ature.
Back and Limbs. —Limbs swollen. (Edema of arms and hands.
Pains in the shoulders running into arms and neck. Pains in the
groins running down the inside of the thighs. Pain from the
cardiac region to the left shoulder. Great coldness of the feet,
without collapse. Great pain in all the limbs.
Skin. —Profuse sweating. Cyanosis. Erythema beginning in
the arms and running down. Urticaria, especially on the inside
of the thigh. Swelling of the face and hands. Livid color of
the face.
Fever. —Intermittent sensations of cold. Cold sweat. Quick
rising in temperature with the chill. High fever in the morning
on rising.
CLINICAL CERTAINTIES.
Dr. W. S. Searle, in Hahnemannian Monthly for March, gives
some interesting points from which we collect the following:
The Tongue of Veratrum Viride. —There is a peculiar-looking tongue,
not seldom seen in practice, and when it is found, no matter what the disease ,
Verat. v, is certain to cure. On the edges this tongue is moist and of a natural
pink color (coated or not), but the central portion, from tip to root, is dry and
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dark red, looking as if a red-hot iron had been applied to it. A tongue like
this or any minor approach to it, positively indicates the employment of this
drug.
Black Tongue.—A dry, blackish tongue, looking as if charcoal had been
chewed, and had colored the tongue; more deeply over its central portion, and
more thinly near the edges, indicates Chloral hydrate.
Sudden Clearing of the tongue in acute disease, especially when a smooth,
red surface is left, always indicates a lingering convalescence.
Stomach Worms. —The only positive diagnostic symptom is swallowing
during sleep. If it is present, worms are there. If it is absent, they are not
there.
Purpuric Hemorrhages. —If physicians habitually inquired of their
haemorrhagic patients whether they found “black and-blue” spots on their limbs
which they could not account for, they would discover purpura much more
often than they do. Of course, the serpent poisons are here the most effective
remedies, and, of them, Crotalus is most often indicated and curative.
Biliousness. —Always look to the urine for proof or disproof of the existence
of this condition. If this secretion has a natural dmber color, there is no lack
of function in the liver. The only exception is in cases of lithemia, where the
excretion of uric acid is paroxysmal.
The Lobule of the Ear. -Few, if any, octogenarians exist who have not a
long lobule. It goes with a solid, square built frame, while those in whom the
lobule is short or non existent, have long necks, big “Adam’s apple,” narrow
chests, stooping shoulders, and the like. Of course, one with the best heredity
may die early from zymotic disease. But these and accidents excepted, people
live about as long as the ancestor or ancestors whom they most resemble physi¬
cally. This law runs throughout nature. The plant lives after its kind. The
parrot outlives the canary ten times over, and for no reason but heredity. The
length of the lobule of the ear is, therefore, always a factor in my prognosis.
Offensive Excretions.—I t is just as true of chronic as of acute disease that
the worse the patient smells, the worse he is.
An Indication of Heart Disease. —Frequent, ineffectual belching should
lead the physician to examine the heart.
Don’t anaesthetize a female unless a third reliable person is present. Remem¬
ber the disagreeable experience of an eminent Eastern surgeon.
Don’t use vaginal washes in normal labors; use them only when the temper¬
ature is elevated. Never allow “nurses” to use them ad libitum.
Don’t vaccinate a syphilitic, or one in whom symptoms point, without thor¬
oughly boiling the scarifier afterward.
Don’t extract a lens when patient has trachoma, or any other disease from
which infection may follow.
Don’t agree to “cure” syphilis under two years.
Don’t sound a bladder. Only dilate the urethra.
Don’t call herpes chancre.
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NEW REMEDIES.
A. W. HOLCOMBE, M. D., KOKOMO, IND.
PROF. OF MATERIA MEDICA IN DUNHAM MEDICAL COLLEGE.
In many of the medical journals we see reports of cases cured
by the use of some new remedy, of which we have no proving.
The reports of these cases are very beneficial, if the observer
gives a full report of the symptoms constituting the “totality,”
but unfortunately, many of the new remedies used, are alternated
with one or more others while the credit of the cure is given the
unproven new one.
This is not only unscientific but misleading, since it renders
the clinical indications utterly worthless, as a guide to the selec¬
tion of the new remedy in another case.
In a late number of the Advocate, Dr. J. R. Haynes, of
Indianapolis, reported a case of cancer of the nose, cured by
Bar. iod., giving all the symptoms upon which it was prescribed,
and as the remedy was not altered with any other, there can be
no doubt as to the efficacy of Bar. iod. in the case.
Such reports are exceedingly valuable, as they furnish reliable
information concerning as yet unknown and unproven remedies.
The following cases are given with the hope that they may add
something to the knowledge and usefulness of a practically un¬
known, and so far as I know, an unproven remedy.
Some years ago, I saw in one of our journals, name forgotten
now, an article in which Ferrum picricum was recommended for
warts, but I had never had occasion to use, until the following
cases came into my hands.
Case I. Nellie McC., age 5 years, blond, well formed plump
child. A close examination failed to elicit any symptoms ex-
this: Her hands were both literally covered with warts, from
the tips of the fingers to above the wrists there was not a space
the size of a silver dime that was not covered. These were con¬
fined to the dorsal surface, and ranged in size from a grain of
corn to a pinhead, some were smooth and many were rough and
hard, while many were conglomerate, two or three uniting to form
an extra large one.
Thuja was given high and low, with no appreciable change,
then remembering Fer. picricum , I gave her the 6th potency, a
dose 4 times a day. Result—in 4 weeks the warts had entirely
disappeared, and the hands were as smooth as her face.
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Case II. .Willie B., age 12 years. Rather large of his age,
and of lymphatic temperament. Face very freckled, and has
tendency to tonsilitis and pharyngeal catarrh, but no other symp¬
toms that I could get at, except both hands on dorsal surface,
completely covered with warts of the same kind as Case I, ex¬
cept warts were larger and rougher, single and conglomerate.
Gave him Fer picricum 6th on 50 pellets, and had him take one,
4 times a day. Result—his mother reported that in about 3
weeks warts had all disappeared, and he was the proudest boy in
Kokomo. I have not seen him since giving the Fer. picricum^
and have not had opportunity to observe what effects the medi¬
cine had on the throat or freckles.
From the results obtained in these two cases, Fer. picricum
impresses me as being a very useful Anti-Sycotic remedy, and
one well worth proving.
The Cough of Kali Bichromicum. —According toCowperthwaite, this drug
is frequently prescribed for, and is of great value in, subacute and chronic in¬
flammations of the lower air passages, but is never of value in the early stages.
The cough is usually dry, deep, rough, hoarse, and accompanied by a difficult,
tough, stringy expectoration. Kali is often needed for the hard, deep coughs
that prevail after a common cold. While the tightness and constriction of
Phosphorus are not present, yet there is no element of looseness in the cough it¬
self wherein it differs from Ilepar sulphur . The cough is usually brought on by
tickling in the trachea, or at the bifurcation of the bronchi, and, according to
clinical observations, is worse after eating, when undressing, and in the morn¬
ing when walking; better after getting warm in bed and when exercising. The
usefulness of kali in membranous croup, with symptoms characteristic of that
disease, has led to its abuse in being empirically prescribed in all forms of croup
in all stages, regardless of indications. Usually it is indicated only in the later
stages, and when there is little or no fever.—A r . A. Jour, of Horn. , January, ’98
Phosphorus as a Cough Remedy.— Cowperthwaite, of Chicago, believes
that in a general way Phosphorus deserves first place as a cough rtmedy. Its
sphere of usefulness usually begins after Bryonia and similar remedies would
cease to be indicated, whether in an advancing catarrhal condition ending in
bronchitis, laryngitis, tracheitis, or in pneumonia. Phosphorus is never indi¬
cated early, but only after product formation is fully established. In the first
mentioned the cough is dry, caused by tickling in the trachea, with some mu¬
cous expectoration, and accompanied by soreness, oppression and some constric¬
tion of the chest, the latter being an important differentiating symptom. The
cough is usually worse when the patient lies on the left side, worse from talking,
laughing or reading, and, contrary to Bryonia , is better in doors, and worse
when going from warm to cold air. In pneumonia Phosphorus is irdicated
where there is a dry cough with bloody mucus of rust-colored expectoration,
with violent oppression or tightness of the chest. It may also be useful in tu¬
berculosis when the hollow, hacking cough is present.— N. A. Jour, of Horn..
January, 1898.
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CHELIDONIUM—CANCER.
A writer in the Homoeopathic World quotes from a Russian
authority with reference to the remarkable value of Chclidonium ,
in the treatment of cancer, whether the growth be external or in¬
ternal, and side by side with this report describes the external
appearance of the great Johannas Bram who recently died from
cancer. He says that when the first signs of his serious illness
appeared last year he turned yellow and then brownish, and his
strong frame shrank visably from month to month. It was the
talk of all classes. In conjunction with these two reports, he re¬
ports from the proving of Chclidonium the following: whites of
the eyes, dirty yellow, face grayish yellow, sallow sunken yellow
especially forehead, nose, and cheek. Tongue, coated thickly
yellow, skin, yellow, yellowish grey especially adapted to spare
subjects, disposed to abdominal phethora. Who that has seen a
true case of cancer has failed to be struck with the yellow grey
complexion. The above is, to say the least, suggestive of a pos¬
sible homoeopathic cure for this direst of diseases.
LEUCORRHCEA—BORAX.
Dr. Wilson A. Smith, in the American Homceopathist reports a
case that is diagnosed as a reolar hyperplasia and ulceration
of the cervix. An examination presented a red inflammed
mucus membrane partly covered with a secretion resembling the
white of an egg. She said it made her sore and that she was
worse before and after the menstrual period. It was accompanied
with a sensation as of a hot fluid running down the thighs and
she complained of a sticking pain in the clitoris at night. The
menses were too soon and too profuse, although she never
thought of them as being like a flooding. She was exhausted
during the flow. The guiding symptom in this case was the
stitch in the clitoris —characteristic of Borax. Upon searching,
all the other symptoms were found under this drug and she was
cured with but five powders of the medicine.
It would be interesting to know whether borax had been a prom¬
inent constituent in the douches employed in former treatment
of this case, and it would also be interesting to note whether the
character of the leucorrhceal discharge was changed under the ac¬
tion of borax t or boracic acid from that which first called for its
use. In other words whether the borax failed to cure the cause for
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the original leucorrhcea because it was not indicated and because of
its persistent use constituted a drug disease of itself and of course
could not be cured while it was being employed. The question
of catarrhal discharges or discharges in general constitutes a
very interesting phase in the study of medicine and should re¬
ceive greater consideration than it has in the past.
LET THERE BE NO DISCRIMINATION.
Lincoln, Neb., May 10, 1898.
H. W. Pierson, M. D., 6401 Stewart Boulevard, Chicago.
My Dear Doctor —Nowhere are there to be found more patri¬
otic and loyal men than there are found in the Homoeopathic
ranks. As a natural result of this condition, when President
McKinley issued his call for volunteers there were numbers of
good men, graduates of Homoeopathic colleges and successful
workers in our ranks, who saw fit to offer their services. It
shortly came to my notice that the governor of at least one
state desired to make some appointments from our school, but
for the knowledge that they would not be accepted by the sur¬
geon-general of the United States. Inasmuch as the surgeon-
general has always held, when importuned by us, that no discrim¬
ination was practiced, this was to my mind sufficient reason for
an indignant remonstrance. That we might be positive as to the
status of affairs before taking action in the matter, I sent the fol¬
lowing telegram:
“Lincoln, Neb., May 3, ’98. J. B. Gregg Custis, M. D., 110
East Capitol St., Washington, D. C. Wire surgeon-general’s
decision relating to appointment of Homoeopaths in army.” I
received the following reply:
“Washington, D. C., May 3, *98. B. F. Bailey, M.D., Lincoln,
Neb. Theoretically eligible. Practically debarred. Last one
rejected because had not had yellow fever. J. B. Gregg Custis.”
In reply I immediately sent the following telegram to Dr. Cus¬
tis. “May 4th, ’98. J. B. Gregg Custis, M. D , 110 East Capi¬
tol St., Washington, D. C. Request Senator Allen of Nebraska
to introduce resolution forbidden discrimination against any
school of medicine in appointments to army or navy, and at¬
taching penalty clause. (Signed) Benj. F. Bailey, President
Nebraska State Board of Health. I endorsed this request, Silas
A. Holcomb, Governor.”
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Senator Allen has complied with this request, and introduced
this resolution, and inasmuch as it seems that we cannot expect
justice from the spirit of the law, but must demand it by the let¬
ter of the law, it behooves us to see to it that we take strong and
rapid advantage of this opportunity and place upon the statute
books of the country a law which shall recognize us in fact as
well as in spirit. To this end I ask that you bring to bear upon
the senators and members of the house from your state such im¬
mediate influence as will insure their vote in behalf of this reso¬
lution. Refer to above resolution as Senate File 164.
Fraternally yours,
Benj. F. Bailey.
A HEAVY PENALTY.
Medical Colleges in the state of Pennsylvania now file a bond
of $1,000 in the Court of Common Pleas as a guarantee that they
will not dissect any human bodies except those that come to
them through the regularly appointed legal channel. This bond
is forfeited if they are discovered using any other body. In the
State of Illinois a bond of three hundred dollars must be deposit¬
ed with the Demonstrator’s Association that none of the bodies
furnished by that association will be used for any other purpose
than that of demonstrating within the college, anatomical or
surgical facts or ideas.
The action of Pulte Medical College in foregoing its regular
banquet and, it is said, contributing two hundred dollars to the
Hahnemann Monument Fund, is worthy of being especially
mentioned in the columns of this magazine. Three important
results were secured; the Monument Fund received not less than
two hundred dollars; the public were made familiar with the glo¬
rious character of the founder of Homoeopathy, and the con¬
tributors to the fund realized, that it was more blessed to give
than to receive. It would have been a very appropriate place
for taking up a collection, whereby the public would have en¬
joyed the same great blessing as the faculty and alumni.
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SKIN ERUPTIONS PRODUCED BY DRUGS.
The pathogenesy of most of our drugs, and especially those of
the anti-psorics, shows a marked action on the skin. There are
many drugs in active use to-day of whose pathogenesy we know
but little and many times the general practitioner fails to rec¬
ognize its action by the appearance of the eruption and is in¬
clined to attribute its presence to the existence of some skin
disease or external manifestation of some of the common ex¬
anthema. When a careful investigation into the previous life of
the patient, with especial reference to medicine taken will reveal
the fact that under the direction of some physician or at their
own responsibility they have abused the use of some medicine or
other forms of treatment. This eruption is nothing but the logi¬
cal sequence of the same. With reference to this very question
a recent contribution in one of our old school journals gives
voice to the following sentiment. He says: “It is surprising
how many cases are sent me by physicians who were not special¬
ists of diseases of the skin, on the supposition that the individual
was suffering from some true skin disease when in reality the
discontinuing of the medicine the patient was taking for some
other complaint was speedily followed by a complete recovery.”
The above statement that the simple withdrawal of the offending
medicine is sufficient to bring about a complete recovery is sub¬
ject to certain modifications; it depending altogether upon the
susceptibility of the patient to the drug used, and the amount of
exposure or rather the length of time to which the patient had
been subjected to its influence. Many times the external evi¬
dence of the drug may have disappeared but the dynamic effect
only requiring certain favorable conditions in the environment
to bring out all its peculiarities, e. g. chronic effects from Rhus
toxicodendron poisoning. Of all drugs which may produce
lesions in the skin closely resembling certain forms of true skin
disease the Iodide of Potassium ranks first—urticaria, wheals,
bullous eruptions and even exanthematous patches may follow
its administration, and in other cases an intense pruritis will de¬
velop which is thought perhaps to be due to the gout from which
the patient is suffering rather than to the drug. Another drug
which is abused with great frequency is that of quinine . This
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produces an eruption more frequently than is commonly recog¬
nized, resembling urticaria in its form of eruption or that of an
intense erythema. The eruption of quinine and belladonna may
so closely resemble that of scarlet fever as to make the diagnosis
of quinine or belladonna and that of scarlet fever very difficult to
make particularly if the remedy employed has been that of bella¬
donna , and antipyrine is said to produce an eruption somewhat
similar to scarlet fever, although as a rule it more closely re¬
sembles that of measles. The question of treatment need not
be discussed at this pbint because that is always governed by
the one rule that the simillimum must be that remedy that most
perfectly covers the totality of the symptoms. However, if the
totality of the symptoms is covered by the pathogenesy of those
drugs it then offers an inviting field for the employment of the
high potency of that drug or combination of drugs which has
been known to produce a condition most perfectly resembling
that of the present disturbance.
IS THIS HOMOEOPATHY OR ISOPATHY?
A boy aged eight, was affected with intestinal worms (lumbrici)
and for more than a year was subject to violent abdominal pains
and frequent attacks of syncope and convulsions and authelmin-
tics were prescribed by physicians even in large doses only ex¬
pelled single worms. By the advice of a paper his mother ad¬
ministered to him a powder made with a dry lumbrine rubbed up
with sugar. This was followed by the expulsion of two masses
almost as large as a childshead, consisting of worms coiled to¬
gether. The cure was perfect and there was no relapse. The
editorial remarks—“Quite Homoeopathic.” To this the editor
of the Homoeopathic World replies that Isopathy would per¬
haps be the most suitable term to apply to this treatment, or it
might be considered as an illustration of the wisdom of the ad¬
vice “Set a thief to catch a thief” or as an example of the dis¬
credited operation of casting out Devils Beezelbub.
Why was Hahnemann so bitter in his denunciation of Isopa¬
thy? Was it not because of the fact that all of his predecessors
in the line of investigation, similar to his own, had stumbled
and fallen over this rock? There can be but one law of cure
and it matter little whether it bear one name or another, the im¬
portant thing being the demonstration of the fact that it is the
application of a law universal.
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TO STUDENTS OF MATERIA MEDICA.
Resuming our schematic study, we find that under the above
first division that, given a drug or substance for study, it matters
not in what form of preparation it is, so soon as it is present in
the human organism, modification of function will soon or late
be manifested. In so far as the signs of such modification ex¬
hibit changes in the line of beneficial or harmful effects it becomes
of interest to the student. When evidence of disturbance is
shown, departure from normal and reconstructive phenomena,
e. g. the symptoms are more or less valuable, and we should note
whether such changes are toxical pathological (structural and
functional), etc., etc., as suggested above. As we proceed in
studying these various phenomena, we find another element of
drug action obtrudes itself, viz., the ease or difficulty with which
the drug effects the prover. It is in this field or method of drug
action we find evidence of the primary and opposed aspects.
The drug force per se on the one side, and the provers’ powers
ot resistance on the other. That is to say, the drug force
(dynamis) when entered into or in contact with the vital life
power (dynamis) of the prover meets with more or less pro¬
nounced resistance. If this resistance is marked in the prover
we have less noticable evidence of disturbance; if it is weak in
the prover, more evidence of disturbance, i. e. strongly marked
symptoms of drug action is the result. We assume, in this con¬
nection, that we all understand that the drug force is a constant
quantity, while the power of life, as shown in the prover, is an
ever varying (changing) quantity. Hence we observe in the
phenomena presented by the provers, a set of peculiar manifesta¬
tions which we may classify in our schema as the second element
for study of the physiological action of drugs, viz.—2d (b.)
Physiological action, as to Susceptibility. This is shown to
us in the behavior of the power of life in the phenomena of the
various temperaments, as indicated by action of the nervous
system, e. g. in Anaesthetic or Hyperaesthetic conditions; re¬
flexes, metastases, etc., etc. It is from a general observation of
these elements of action that we are enabled to understand and
note that these are quite plainly or naturally two modes of action,
or rather, two classes of phenomena, forming the next section of
our diagram of physiological action, viz.— Primary and second¬
ary action. Primary action is studied from the view point of
observed symptoms or effects, as related to the above mentioned
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chemical action, and these chemical effects may be devided into
plainly observed phenomena that are common to all provers
and easily tracable to the mechanical irritation of the drug
particles, or to the simple chemical action of the drug accord¬
ing to the laws of chemistry. We may then see that this primary
action by mechanical and chemical relationship to the symptoms
first developed that the organism of the prover is reacting
against or with the drug primarily, and the symptoms that show
the effects of the power of life to recover from these primary
(primative) effects, become the secondary. Thus we can add
to our schema this—primary or physiological effects are due
to and correspond to the crude drug material, which may be
actually found in the mother tincture, lx, 2x, and often in the
3x (decismal); also in the 1 and 2 (centesimal), while the sec¬
ondary systemic effects are probably capable of being caused by
the potencies above these numbers. Again, the primitive action
may result not only from absorption (chemical) and from me¬
chanical contact of tissues with the material particlbs of the
drug, but also from inhalation and dynamic contact as in elec¬
tricity and magnetism; or from intoxication from fumes of
alcohol, ether and other potent gases or fluids. We may now
for dearness assemble these various rubies as follows: Study of
the Proving from reparation or substance. This divides in¬
to drug—mother tincture,potency; producing 1st (a.) Physiologi¬
cal action, which may be either, or both, Toxical or Pathological.
The Toxic divides into paralyzing, and blood or fluid (secretory)
changes, while the pathological divides into Tissue metamor¬
phosis, functional modifications and other signs of material or
chemical action of the drug. Physiological action (b.) shown
by Susceptibility of the power of life to the drug force in various
temperaments, indicated through the nervous system in either
direct or reflex phenomena. Physiological action (c.) shown by
the natural division into primary and secondary groups or
classes of symptoms. The primary divides into the mechanical
irritation of drug particles, and the chemical action of those
particles, according to the laws of chemistry, per se, and these
effects correspond to the crude, mother tincture, and the 1st, 2d
and 3rd decimal preparations, and 1st and 2d, possibly 3rd
centesimal potencies, added to the above list.
The secondary signs of physiological action, showing the
(more properly speaking) reaction of the power of life to recover,
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or overcome the primary action. These secondary symptoms
may be caused by doses of the potencies higher in the scale than
those above mentioned.
From this on our studies, on the line of secondary phenomena,
becomes more broadly helpful to us as homceopathicians, and
leads us to the very natural division, viz., systemic action. So
far as we have gone, it seems reasonable to conclude that having
studied and learned in this schematic method, we can say, the
whole includes what is meant by Pathogenesis.
(to be continued.)
F. O. Pease.
THE ETIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY OF DELIRIUM.
A boy, aged 14, of nervous temperament, timid and backward in disposition,
caring very little for ihe society of bo>s of bis own age, acquired a marked de¬
lirium during the course of an attack of typhoid fever. He had the usual
hallucinations which commonly accompany such a condition, but developed a
marked change in disposition and an acuteness of the memory. While in de¬
lirium he would assume the attitude of a bold and courageous boy and make
use of the choicest and most accomplished diction imaginable, employing words
and phrases his parents had no idea he even knew the meaning of. During one
of his delirious spells he recited verbatim four stanzas of a piece he had heard
only once two years previously, and, strangely enough, hesitated at ihe very
verse where hesitation occurred when he had heard it. The strangest part of it
is that he could not remember a line of the piece after he was well, and has not
been able to yet.
1 could cite many parallel cases, but this one will serve to illustrate more
forcibly than words the present paper.
None of the hypotheses advanced by the medical profession up to the present
time concerning the etiology of the various phenomena observed in delirium
have ever been proven , and one theory therefore is just as tenable as another.
General statements, theories, and time worn platitudes are of little value when
compared with the specific statements which should be made regarding this ex¬
pression of nervous trouble. To arrive at the true etiology, however, is no
more difficult than is a proper conception of the morbid causative condition of
the system at the time of the presence of the phenomena. A definite knowledge
of the one will undoubtedly lead up to the other.
Whatever the true etiology and pathology may be, however, it is not the
province of this paper to more than suggest, but there certainly is a constant
and definite relation-between the morbific influence and the cerebral centers
presiding over the various mental faculties, all of which are abnormally affected.
It becomes an interesting and, indeed, a difficult study in psychiatry to trace
the actions of a patient in, for example, acute typhoid mania, as in the case
cited, to the conditions producing the observed phenomena.
One thing which we find in all delirious patients is interference with the
normal interpretation of impressions conveyed to the cerebral centers by the
various special senses, or a disassociation of ideas or conceptions, in conse*
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quence of which, partly, we have the various manifestations of hallucinations,
illusions, etc. But while this faculty is thus perverted, some of the other fac¬
ulties, like the memory (as noted in the case referred to) are abnormally active.
In point of etiology is it not probable that there is a disturbed equilibrium
between the inhibitory and accelerator cells of the gray matter? A paresis of
the inhibitory cells would account for the over-activity of some of the faculties
and a paresis of the accelerator for the depression observed in others.
Still this does not explain upon what morbid condition of the nervous system
such phenomena depends. We know that delirium which takes place in acute
diseases like typhoid fever is preceded by fever, which, according to Ott, is a
disease of the nervous system, the thermogenic centers being stimulated by
various substances thrown into the circulation. If the heat centers are dis¬
turbed by toxic products passing through the circulation^ it is only reasonable
to suppose that the same pathological state is accountable later on for disturb¬
ance of the other cerebral cenleis which are the longest to resist the toxic in¬
fluence, and such a “toxic” causative condition of the system is no doubt at the
basis of all forms of acute mania. — {N. Y. Medical Times').
The above articles illustrates the difficulties under which the
dominant school is compelled to labor in every case upon which
they are called to administer. If they cannot find the exact
cause for the disturbance and remove the same mechanically
they are first compelled to guess at the etiology or cause then
guess at the degree of the pathological changes which have
already taken place and when a conclusion, which is always the
result of guess work, has been reached (and it is dependent upon
the thoroughness of their preliminary investigation) they are
compelled to guess at the treatment and because of this uncer¬
tainty they resort to polypharmacy with the hope that in some
way the result will be satisfactory to the patient. It is never
satisfactory to the thoroughly scientific observer, and they are
constantly on the lookout for something better while their eyes
are wilfully closed to the truth as revealed in the law —simtlia
similibus curantur.
“None of the hypotheses advanced by the medical profession up to the
present time concerning the etiology of the various phenomena observed in de¬
lirium has been proven.’*
Hahnemann says that all disease phenomena is due to a dis¬
turbance of the harmonious relationship between the vital energy
and the material elements over which it exercises control. This
applies perfectly to every case, and the beauty of the theory is
that it provides a logical theory for the employment of an agent
capable of restoring harmony when the patient is cured.
It was because of the absence of law and consequently the
multitude of theories which confronted the investigation that led
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me away from the employment of drugs to the use of electricity,
oxygen, hygiene and mechanical means and finally into the com¬
prehension of the existence of a real law governing the entire
phenomena of life not only in health but disease. The investi¬
gation and consequent application of this principle for the treat¬
ment of the sick is so satisfactory that no desire exists for any¬
thing but a more perfect comprehension of its wonderful adapt¬
ability to the many phases of disease.
PERSONALS.
Dr. Cordelia B. DeBey now occupies a pleasant office, cor.
63rd and Stewart Ave., Chicago.
Dr. Cora Howerth of the class of *97, Hahnemann Medical
College of Chicago, goes to Europe with her husband, Prof.
Howerth of the Chicago University for a more extensive study
in the hospitals.
Dr. J. P. Cobb, Registrar of Hahnemann Medical College, has
gone south with his residence to 254 E. 47th St., Chicago.
Since osteopathy is bound to be taught in one way or another
it is far better that Colleges properly equipped for teaching the
science of medicine should make it one of their chairs instead of
relegating it to a body of men who have run wild on this or any
other fad. It will be noted that the new Homoeopathic Depart¬
ment of the University of Kansas City has established a chair
on Osteopathy.
It is with regret that we announce the death of Dr. Galivardin,
Lyons, of France. He was one of the staunch Hahnemannians
of that country and has made good use of his knowledge and
professional abilities by his liberal contribution to the literature
of the Homoeopathic school. He will best be known by his
book on the Cure of Alcoholism.
The readers of the Medical Advance and the Hahnemannian
Advocate have been honored by contributions from the pen of
Dr. Galivardin through the courtesy of Dr. Clark of London.
Dr. Peter Deidrich, Dean of the Kansas City Homoeopathic
Medical College, died about the first of last April from septi¬
cemia. The doctor was only about 60 years of age and for the
past twenty-five years has been a staunch supporter of his chosen
profession.
We were surprised by the recent announcement that Dr. Eld-
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ridge C. Price, so long connected with the Southern Journal of
Homoeopathy , has severed his connection with the American
Monthly Magazine . His many friends will miss the scholarly
contributions which regularly appeared in the columns of his
magazine.
The following prominent physicians and surgeons were present
at the recent surgical clinics given under the auspices of the
Homoeopathic Department of the University of Michigan:
Drs. F. E. Palmer of Albion, G. G. Towsley of Lowell, Dean
T. Smith of Jackson, G. P. Hale of Memphis, P. Cornue of
Ypsilanti, E. Noyes of North Adams, S. J. Allen of Charlotte,
L. A. Hendershott of Irving, C. L. Stitt, of Stockbridge, J. A.
Walker of Salem, A. V. Leonardson of Corunna, M. Graham of
Jonesville, C. G. Jenkins of Mason, E. D. Osmun and O. E.
Goodrich of Allegan, F. H. M. Long of Eaton Rapids, B. M. Por¬
ter of Centerville, F. C. Gilcher, and C. E. Womer of Republic,
Ohio, N. R. Simmons of Toledo, Ohio, W. J. Mills of Howell
and A. B. Avery.
MEDICAL PRACTICE ACTS FOR THE STATE OF
IOWA.
The Secretary of the Iowa State Board of Medical Examiners
has sent out a very interesting document, which should be read
by every physician desiring to become a legal practitioner of
that state.
Section 2582 provides, that after January 1, 1899, no person
can begin the practice of medicine in the state of Iowa, except
upon examination; that no person can be admitted to the ex¬
amination, except upon graduation from a medical college
recognized by the board as of good standing, and that no college
can be recognized by the board that does not require of those
graduating after January 1. 1899, attendance upon four full
courses of study, of not less than twenty-six weeks each. No
two of which courses shall have been given in any one year, as a
condition for such graduation.
The meetings of the Board are held quarterly, on the first
Thursday of February, May, August and November. The ex¬
aminations are held on the Tuesday and Wednesday, two weeks
prior to the Board meeting. The fee for the examination is
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twenty dollars, which entitles the applicant to re-examination in
case of failure, without additional fee.
The Secretary of the Board is Dr. J. F. Kennedy, of Des
Moines, Iowa, to whom all communications should be addressed.
INTERNATIONAL HAHNEMANNIAN ASSOCIATION.
We have, at the present writing, nothing but the bare state¬
ment, that this society will meet at Atlantic City, N. J., June
14th, and will continue in session until the work of the Associa¬
tion has been completed.
It would have afforded us great pleasure to have given fre¬
quent and extended notices of the coming meeting of the society,
with the expectation that by so doing greater interest would
have been aroused among those who are indifferent because the
matter has not been thoroughly impressed upon their minds.
Judging of the future by the past, however, we may say with¬
out any fear of contradiction, that those physicians who have a
desire to know wherein lies the superior excellence of the law of
Similars over any other form of treatment, will find greater satis¬
faction from one session of this Association than from that of
any other they have ever attended. The work is radically dif¬
ferent from that presented in any other National Association,
being a consideration of Homoeopathy pure and simple in each
and every paper presented, in each and every bureau of the
society. Homoeopathy is not presented as an incidental factor,
but is given its logical place at the head of the list of all means
employed, for the healing of the sick.
It would seem that an Association made up of men and women,
agreeing so thoroughly as touching one particular thing, would
be very tame, and lacking in interest, but the opposite is the
characteristic of every session for the reason that the members
of the Association are so familiar with the finer shades of mean-
ing given to the different features of the law, that they are quick
to take exception to any remarks that may seem to be contrary
to their understanding of the application of the law. The high
character of the papers presented, together with the thorough
discussion of each subject, makes it a meeting of great helpful¬
ness to the conscientious student of medicine.
The assurance of a profitable meeting, combined with the at¬
tractions of Atlantic City at this time of the year, ought to make
this one of the largest attended meetings this Association has
ever held.
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AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMOEOPATHY.
Every homoeopathic physician in the United States, who is a
reader of its journals, has been notified over and over again of
the coming meeting of the Institute. Those who have read the
literature of the school during the past year, know that from this
meeting is liable to come forth measure fraught with great possi¬
bilities, for the future of homoeopathy.
Unlike the International Hahemannian Association , the purpose
of this society, is to look after the temporal welfare of the pro¬
fession. It is the representative body of Homoeopathy through¬
out the world, and being a strong central organization, it carries
with its deliberation, immense power for good. It is a body of
earnest and aggressive men and women, who have the great sub¬
ject of Homoeopathy at heart, whether they give any audible ex¬
pression to the same at these meetings or not. It is a represen¬
tative body, because each and every member of the profession
are urged to be present, and have an equal opportunity for ex¬
pressing their opinions, be the same good, bad, or indifferent.
There are many subjects of importance to the profession which
are thoroughly discussed, and carefully put into execution by
this association.
It makes the world at large, and the profession in particular,
know of the power of Homoeopathy in this land, and for that
reason, if for no other, it should have the loyal support of every¬
one who believes in the law of Similars.
It is the great social organization of our school, and the men
and women who frequent its meetings enjoy a spirit of fraternity,
that is known no where else among the profession, and as years
come and go, these meetings assume much of attraction of a great
family reunion. This year the social feature of the Institute
will begin in Chicago.
Nearly every member, east of the Mississippi river, will be
compelled to pass through Chicago. They can arrange so as to
reach the Western Metropolis in the morning of June 23d, spend
the day with their friends and join a party, taking a special car
over the Chicago , Rock Island Pacific , in the afternoon, and
thereby reaching Omaha on the morning of the 24th in time to
get thoroughly rested before the opening session of the Materia
Medica Conference.
If enough applications are made to the city ticket office, cor¬
ner of Dearborn and Adams streets, a special sleeper will be at-
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tached to the Rocky Mountain limited , the finest train out of
Chicago. One railroad fare plus #2.00 for the round trip.
This magnificent train leaves Chicago at 4:30 p. m., reaching
Omaha at 5:30 a. ra. The sleeper will be side-tracked and you
can sleep until time for breakfast.
Among the many hotels offering inducements to members and
friends of the American Institute during their stay in Omaha is
The New Mercer , corner 12th and Howard streets. This is one
of the newest and best of Omaha’s hotels and are making a
special effort to secure a large clientelle for future patronage.
Remember that the Exposition is in full blast and that it is im¬
portant for you to engage your accommodations in advance if
you would not be disappointed.
In writing either the Railroad or Hotel for particulars, it will
do no harm to refer to the editor of this journal and special con¬
sideration will be given your request.
As a parting word, if you will notify us of your plans, we will
make you acquainted with the arrangements made in Chicago
for your comfort during your short stay.
Vegetariatlisill. —In a recent communication to the Societe d’Ethno’
graphie, in Paris, Verrier treated of vegetarianism from the point of view of
its moral and intellectual effects upon the nations who, either from choice or
necessity, are to be classed as abstainers fr6m animal food. While fully recog¬
nizing the dangers of a too abundant meat diet, as well as the advantages of a
purely vegetable nourishment, the speaker nevertheless felt constrained to come
to the conclusion that nature intended man to be carnivorous. The physical
constitution of the human race is so ordered that to insure the development of
their higher qualities its members are of necesssity compelled to become to a cer¬
tain extent meat eaters. The attributes that make for dominion and progress
are but imperfectly present among the eschewers of animal food, and hence
vegetarianism causes the downfall of dynasties and leads to the enslavement of
peoples. If, continued M. Verrier, the Hindus, instead of following an abso¬
lutely vegetable regimen, had made use of meat in a rational manner, perhaps
the British might not have found their subjugation such an easy matter. His
argument was equally applicable to the Irish, who lived exclusively upon pota¬
toes. As for the Japanese, with whom rice was formerly the staple food, the
energetic nature of this people could not be cited in subversion of the rules laid
down in his thesis. The reawakening of the conquerors at Port Arthur and the
Yalu River was coincident with the establishment of a trade in butcher’s meat
throughout their archipelago. Concerning these statements the Lancet remarks
that with regard to British supremacy in India, M. Verrier has entirely omitted
to take into consideration the numerous and warlike Musselman population.
In addition to whom, moreover, there are in Hindustan many millions t.f native
meat eaters; and with regard to his Hibernian argument, surely such an erudite
ethnologist cannot be ignorant of the fact that even in the most distressful cabin
from Malin Head to Cape Clear the national animal may still be found. Now
a pig does not yield any milk to speak of, neither can it be shorn to advantage
or utilized for purposes of draught. The inference is too obvious to need eluci¬
dation.
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CENTRAL NEW YORK HOMCEOPATHIC MEDICAL
SOCIETY.
The annual meeting of the Central New York Homoeopathic
Medical Society was held at the rooms of the “Citizen’s Club,”
Syracuse, New York, Sept. 16, 1897. The meeting was called to
order by the acting president, Wm. M. Follett, of Seneca Falls,
New York.
Dr. Gordon W. Hoyt was appointed Sec’y pro tern.
Members present: Drs. Follett, Gwynn, Dever, Schumacher
and Hoyt.
The minutes of the June meeting were not presented.
There was no report from the Board of Censors, or from the
Sec'y and Treas.
There being a quorum, the president called for the election of
officers for the coming year.
The Society, proceeding in the usual manner, elected the fol¬
lowing officers: President, Wm. M. Follett, M. D., Seneca Falls,
N. Y.; Vice President, Carl Schumacher, Syracuse, N. Y.; Sec’y
and Treas., Dr. S. L. Guild-Leggett (re-elected); Censors, Dr.
Stow, Jr., Chairman; Drs. Martin and Dever (re elected).
In the absence of essayists, informal discussions occupied the
time.
Dr. Follett related a case of pernicious ancemia y asking sugges¬
tions for treatment from the members present. He stated that
there were few symptoms, except a general pallor of skin and of
mucous membranes, with persistent sleepiness. He acknowl¬
edged that the case had puzzled him, and that although Arseni¬
cum had seemed to be indicated, it had failed to help the case,
whether used in high, or in low potencies.
Various suggestions were made by the members present.
Dr. Schumacher related a esse of erroneous diagnosis, in which
he had obtained most decided advantage over the Regular phy¬
sician who succeeded him. The case was one of Cirrhosis of
the liver.
During an acute attack of the complaint, the patient was per¬
suaded that he needed more vigorous treatment, and, with the
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consent of Dr. S-, a leading allopath was called. Dr. E-
regarding the case as a grave one, called Dr. D-as counsel.
Both physicians diagnosed Cancer of the Stomach, and proceed¬
ed accordingly. Within a few days, the patient was dead. The
diagnosis recorded in the burial certificate would have been an ob¬
stacle to life insurance, and the family (German) being dissatisfied,
asked Dr. Schumacher to make an autopsy. The doctor, out of
consideration for the family—who were old patients—laid aside
his objections and yielded to the request, with the proviso that
the son, a veterinary surgeon, should be present.
The autopsy confirmed the original diagnosis of Cirrhosis of
the liver, and notice to that effect was filed before the authorities.
The stomach was found in a perfectly healthy condition; the liver
in an advanced stage of induration, although it was not so dis¬
eased, but that with proper care and treatment, the patient
might have had months and, perhaps, years of useful life.
Meeting adjourned at 4 p. m.
Gordon W. Hoyt, Sec’y pro tem .
THE NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHERN MICH¬
IGAN MEDICAL SOCIETY.
The 14th semi-annual meeting of this Association, was held in
the parlors of the Century Club, at Elkhart, Ind., May 11. Dr.
T. C. Buskirk, of White Pigeon, Mich., presided. After the
reading of the minutes of the previous meeting, the names of
Dr. F. H. Parmelee, Toledo; J. B. Allen, Fort Smith, Arkansas;
J. Richey Horner, Cleveland, Ohio; and E. S. Mather, Pat¬
terson, N. J., was presented for membership. The credential
committee made a favorable report and they were elected mem¬
bers of the Association. The names of Dr. J. C. Gross, of Chi¬
cago; Dr. John C. Saunders, Cleveland, and F. A. Benham, Elk¬
hart, Ind., were duly elected honorary members of the society.
The following interesting programme was then read, and thor¬
oughly discussed by the members present.
A Ruptured Drum-head, by Dr. W. B. Kreider.
Argentum Nitricum, by Dr. A. L. Fisher.
Action of the Salts of Barium on the Heart, by Dr. E. M. Hale-
Surgical Shocks, and how to avoid it by Dr. W. H. Parmelee.
Parturition, and how to minimize its suffering by Dr. J. B. Allen.
A Double Quatrain, Poem, by Dr. T. P. Wilson.
Report of Cases, by Drs. Thomas and T. A. Buskirk.
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Chairmen of the bureaus for next meeting. Surgery, H. G.
Kenyon; Ophthalmology and Otology, W. B. Kreider; Materia
Medica, J. Borough; Practice, R. L. Lockwood; Gynecology and
Obstetrics, M. H. Parmelee; Pediatrics, M. G. Thomas.
The following members of the society were present: T. C.
Buskirk, White Pigeon; C. S. Fahnestock, La Porte; M. K. KreL
der, Goshen; H. G. Kenyon, Adamsville; M. H. Criswell, Ed-
wardsburg; John Boroughs, Mishawaka; John B. Rollman, Burr
Oak; Martha Thomas, South Bend; A. L. Fisher, W. H. Thomas,
Porter Turner, R. L. Lockwood, H. A. Mumaw, of Elkhart.
The election of officers resulted in the following: Pres. T. C.
Buskirk; First Vice President, M. K. Kreider; second, John C.
Rollman; Sec. and Treas., H. A. Mumaw. Meeting adjourned
to Tuesday, Oct. 11th, in the city of Elkhart.
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE.
In reply to many inquiries, will say that Membership fee is
$2.00, which entitles the elected member to the elegant certifi¬
cate of membership and “bronze button” with Hahnemann’s
Medallion thereon.
The annual dues $5.00 entitles the member to a large annual
volume of Transactions, worth to any physician “double the
money.” The first year’s dues should be sent, if possible, with
the membership fee so that the name may appear in the pro¬
ceedings. No doubt arrangements can be made each year so
that the Transaction will be sent C. O. D. New members can
get back volumes of the Transaction at a small cost by address¬
ing the Secretary, Dr. E. H. Porter. There are full of valuable
information, and make a grand addition to any medical library.
We would urge all the young graduates to strain a point to join
the Institute this year. Those who are isolated from their col¬
leagues need the help this national body can bring. In its
Transaction will be found valuable facts about the spread of
homoeopathy, and the comparative success over other methods
of medical treatment, that should be copied into every local
paper. The old physician know the value of this sort of propa¬
ganda. If you cannot attend the sessions of the Institute once
in a decade, it can come to you every year. “Come with us and
we will do you good.” Send for a blank application. We want
to double the membership this year.
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BOARD OF CENSORS.
T. C. Duncan, M. D., Chairman, 100 State St., Chicago.
R. B. Rush, M. D., Salem, Ohio.
Geo. R. Peck, M. D., Providence, R. I.
A. C. Cowperthwaite, M. D., Chicago.
Millie J. Chapman, M. D., Pittsburg.
INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THE RESTORA¬
TION OF HAHNEMANN’S TOMB.
Very few of the followers of homoeopathy are aware of the sad
fact that the grave of Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of the
homoeopathic method of treatment, in the cemeteiy of Mont¬
martre in Paris, is in a very greatly neglected condition, the
body having lain there for fully fifty years and the surroundings
having gradually and almost completely decayed.
The Quinquennial International Congress of 1896, held in
London, which coincided with the year of the celebration of the
centenary of homoeopathy, resolved to signalize this event by
the restoration of Hahnemann’s tomb; and in order to carry
this resolution into effect, elected an International Executive
Commission, composed of members whose names are signed
below.
It was the duty of the Commission, first of all, to secure the
consent of the owners of the grave to the carrying out of the
necessary works and to the legal transfer of it in perpetuity to
the French Homoeopathic Society, to be maintained by that
body.
This task has been fulfilled.
The Commission will now have to occupy itself with the
financial side of the matter; and with this object it has opened
an international subscription and now appeals to all homoeo¬
pathic societies, to all homoeopathic physicians and to all fol¬
lowers of homoeopathy throughout the whole world with an
earnest request for assistance.
It is impossible to longer suffer that the grave, which preserves
the mortal remains of one of the greatest physicians and bene¬
factors of mankind, should remain in such lamentable neglect;
and the Commission hopes that everyone enjoying the inestim¬
able benefits of homoeopathic treatment will consider it a matter
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of honor to contribute his mite towards the erection of a monu¬
ment, worthy of the undying fame of Samuel Hahnemann.
Subscriptions are received by the members of the Commission
or are sent direct to the Secretary of the Commission in Paris.
The list of subscriptions will be printed in the “ Revue Homceo -
pathique Francaise ” and other journals of the countries repre¬
sented on the Commission.
Leon Brasol, M. D., Chairman , Russia.
Si. Petersburg,, Nikolaie^eskaia, S
Francois Cartier, M. D., Secretary , France.
Paris y 18 Rue Pig non .
Richard Hughes, M. D., England.
Brighton , j6 Sillwood Road.
Bushrod W. James, M. D., U. S. America.
Philadelphia , Pa ., N. R. cor. /Sth Green Sts.
Alexander Villers, M D., Germany.
Dresden , Luttichaustrasse , 7 .
MATERIA MEDICA CONFERENCE.
The Materia Medica conference will hold but one session at
Omaha. This session will be held Thursday, June 23, in the
afternoon. The subject for discussion is “The Underlying Prin¬
ciples of Symptom Revision .” The chairman, Dr. T. F. Allen,
will introduce the subject in an opening address. The discus¬
sions will follow the address.
W. A. Dewey, M. D., Sec’y.
Ann Arbor.
It it were not icr Uie .niupic S ^stance, such states as antipathy, sympatny,
sc affinity, could not be. It is «nher« of Homoeopathy to deal with these
things; to glean what is the real Esse and existence.
What reason has man to say that Energy or Force is first? Energy is not
energy per sc, but a powerful substanee. The very Esse of God is a scientific
study.
Bodies are not drawn together by means of their bodies, but by means of
their Primitive Substance.
The Simple Substance is the means of identification in nature. The mineral,
the oak, the wheat, are all identified by their Primitive substance, and exist,
cmlv. because of their Primitive Substance, which makes them what they are.
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Book 'Reviews.
A Repertory of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica, by
J. T. Kent, Professor of Homoeopathies in the Philadelphia Post¬
graduate School.
Has become an object for which we look forward to with great
eagerness; and to say that we are pleased with the latest number,
The Nose and Throat, is but to feebly express the satisfaction it
gives us in the study of our cases; and this satisfaction over the
work in general is heightened by the knowledge that at least one
new part will be placed upon our table each and every month.
We cannot commend this valuable work too highly to the pro¬
fession. It is true that it is expensive, but it will amply repay
its cost by the saving of time alone that would otherwise be spent
searching through a Materia Medica for the indicated remedy.
If you will buy the first section and make a careful study of it I
will guarantee that you would not be without the additional
copies, at any price.
A Manual of Hygiene and Sanitation, by Seneca Egbert,
A. M., M. D., Professor of Hygiene and Dean of the Medico-
Chirurgical College of Philadelphia, and published by Lea Bros.
& Co., Philadelphia.
The author does not pretend that this is a comprehensive work
upon sanitary science, but has so carefully compiled the accepted
teachings from larger works as to make a very valuable manual
for the use of students and those who do not care to go into an
exhaustive study of this subject, important though it may be; and
taken as a whole the work may be commended for its simplicity
of expression, and completeness of detail. But exceptions may
be taken to many of his general statements for example in his in¬
troduction he says:
“That health is that condition of the body and its organs necessary to the
proper performance of their normal functions, and disease may be defined as a
condition of the body marked by inharmonious action of one or more of the
various tissues or organs, owing to an abnormal condition or structure.”
Then in another place he says:
“Disease is an entity, not a spiritual thing; a condition, not a theory. Con-
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sequently it is to be combated with matter, force, and physical means though
not necessarily with violence. In fact when we once understand the minuteness
and delicate structure of the ultimate cells and tissues affected, we realize that
oftentimes the gentlest application of the forces and means employed may be
the most helpful and efficient. But when one has seen the ravages caused by
it, as revealed in the pathological laboratory and at autopsies, not to speak of
its manifestations in the living, as seen in the sick-room and in hospitals, I am
sure that he cannot logically or even for a moment give credence to those who
proclaim that it can be dissipated by the mere action of mind or of faith. Or
to those others who declare that by subdividing and diluting, and subdividing
again a single grain of substance, whether primarily powerful or inert, you
endow it with a miraculous power to remove the ‘ills that flesh is heir to.’ ”
“There are none so blind as those who will not see,” and there
are none so unfortunate as those who fail to look beyond the ma¬
terial element for the life principle. How logical and natural it
is to look to the vital energy or force for the beginning of all
things! When we remember that this vital force in its normal
condition combines the primary elements, that form the organ¬
ism so as to build them according to fixed and definite laws, into
a perfect form. But when disturbed in its action, we have evi¬
dence of the disturbance in the various forms of disease mani¬
festation. Since these disease manifestations never precede the
disturbance of the life's force, it logically follows the true seat
of the trouble must lie in the disturbed relationship between the
life force and the organism. Hence the reason for selecting an
immaterial agent acting upon the same plane as a curative agent.
After making due allowance for this primary error in his prem-
isis, the final arrangement of the book is admirable in all partic¬
ulars. He begins with the air, the atmosphere, as the most po¬
tent factor for the conveying of miasmatic influences and care¬
fully considers the conditions incident to a healthy invigorating
atmosphere and the conditions that may contribute to the vitiat¬
ing of the same together with the means that must be employed
for its restoration.
Following this he takes up the atmosphere within the close
confines of our buildings and considers the question of ventila¬
tion and artificial heating of our rooms. This of itself is a very
important factor and has been carefully considered. Next in
order he takes up water and food and then goes to the consider¬
ation of stimulants and beverages. He very properly classifies
stimulants as force liberators and gives the admonition to remem¬
ber that they scarcely give anything at all to renew or replace the
energy which they have set free. For example, he says that
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beef-tea, that almost universal stimulant, simply acts upon the
vital and nervous functions to increase their activity , thus re¬
quiring that either tissue or food be oxidized to produce the
necessary energy, but beef tea as ordinarily made is no food in
itself\ and unless this be otherwise supplied the body tissue
must be consumed and the result in the end must be injurious.
With reference to tea, coffee, and cocoa, he says that they supply
fluid for the system and that stimulation of the assimilative func¬
tions that gives the sense of comfort after their use, cocoa and
chocolate also having the advantage of supplying some food.
But he says it is not uncommon in our hospitals to find tea or
coffee drunkards; and with reference to alcoholic stimulants he
says:
“Alcohol stands second only to fat as a respiratory material
but the same effects could be produced in the body by the
means of saccharine and farinaceous articles of food at one-
fourth or one fifth the cost of the alcohol/*
His reference to beverages of any kind is reduced to the fol¬
lowing: “That an ample supply of drinking water is essential
to the satisfactory removal of the various waste matters of the
body, and without it the latter may readily develop conditions
favoring disease.” In the final chapter he gives definite instruc¬
tions for examining and testing of the air, water and food, thus
making a final conclusion to the matter which add to the value
and general interest of this profitable little work.
The American Monthly Review of Reviews. When once
familiar with the admirable arrangement of this magazine it be¬
comes absolutely indispensable to the busy man. It is not only
comprehensive, but it is reliable and from month to month we
get a brief but complete regime of the history-making of the
world. The April and May issue have been filled with the ex¬
citing theme incident to the Spanish-American question, and
many points overlooked in the daily press is here brought out in
its logical relation and the real significance presented in a most
forcible manner. A complete file of the American Monthly Re -
view will give a most valuable history of the conflict now raging
and will increase in value as time passes by.
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Index ,
...TABLE OF CONTENTS..
INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE. Page.
Spirit of the ilomoeo iathlc Doctrine of Medi¬
cine, Hahnemann.. 257
How to Advance Homoeopathy, E. W. Ber-
ridge. *63
Homceopaihy and Drug Miasma, W. Warren
Baldwin. 289
Antidotal Treatment ol Disease — Editorial.. 274
Was It Chance? R. M. Barrows. 275
Case from Prof. Water's Clinic. 278
Malnutrition, J. P. Jones. 282
Diagnostic Nervous Manileetalions of Syph¬
ilis. 284
MATERIA MEDICA.
A Repertory of Dreams (continued). 285
Antipyrlne—Its Symptomatology. 293
Clinical Certainties, W. S. Searle. 294
New Remedies, A. W. Holcombe. 296
Cough ol Kalt bichromicum, Cowperthwaite 297
Phosphorus as a Cough Remedy. 297
Cheldidoniuin—Cancer. 298
Leucorrhoea—Borax. 298
Let There Be No Discrimination, B.F. Bailey 299
A Heavy Penalty. 300
Pulte Medical College. 300
EDITORIAL.
Skin Eruptions Produced by Drugs. 301
Is this Honue-'pathy or Isopathy?. 80*2
To Students of Materia Medica, F. U. Pease . H08
Etiology and Pathology of Delirium. 305
Personals. 307
Medical Practice in Iowa. 308
International Hahnemanman Aniociatiou. . 309
American Institute of Homoeopathy. 310
Vegetarianism. 311
SOCIETY REPORTS.
Central New York Homoeopathic Medical... 312
Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan... 313
American Institute—Board of Censors. 314
International Commission for the Restora¬
tion or Hahnemann's Tomb. 315
Materia Medica Conference. 316
BOOK REVIEWS.
K**niV Kepertoiy of Homoeopathic Materia
Medica. 317
Manual of Hygiene and Sanitation, Egbert.. 317
American Monthly Review of Reviews. 319
j Here are two worlds; the world ot thought, or immaterial substance, and
the world of matter or material substance.
Name everything that is, or moves; it is sustained, from, and by power of
this Primitive Substance. We do not argue that ihis is first power, but this is
first substance.
Susceptibility is only a name for a state that underlies all possible sickness
and all possible cure.
Now when a person becomes sick, he becomes susceptible to a certain remedy,
which will affect him in its highest potency; while upon a healthy person it will
have no effect.
When the dose is too large to cure, man receives it as a sickness.
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A MONTHLY HOMtEOPATHIC MAGAZINE.
Vol. xxxvii. Chicago, June 15, 1808. No. O
flDaterta ADeMca.
WHITLOW.
JOHN M’LACHLAN, M. D., B. SC., EDIN; F. R. C. S. ENG.
Synonyms: Paronychia; Felon; Panaris (French); Panaritium
(German).
In general practice one comes across cases of whitlow not in¬
frequently, and at times they cause a good deal of anxiety to the
practitioner. Whitlow has been defined as an erysipelas inflam¬
mation of the finger , and it certainly has many points in com¬
mon with that variety of erysipelas known as cellulitis . 1. The
causes are the same. 2. There is usually great constitutional
disturbance. 3. The inflammation is diffuse and tends to go
on to suppuration and sloughing. 4. There is the erysipelas¬
like blush of the back of the hand and arm.
Classification. —We may classify the varieties of whitlow in
various ways:—
1. Paronychia ungualis.
2. Paronychia cellulosa.
3. Paronychia osseosa, or rather, Periostei, (the maligna of
some writers).
4. Paronychia tendinosa.
1. Ungualis. This is the simplest and most superficial form,
in which we find a drop of pus between the dermis and epidermis;
this variety, as the name implies, is usually limited to the ungual
phalanx, and is often at the side of, or round the root of, the
nail, (a “runaround”). It corresponds, I believe, to the super -
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ficial whitlow of Abernathy; and, in its early stage, to the “mere
erythema ” of Christopher Heath, and in its later stage to the
M superficial whitlow” of the same author. The pus may pene¬
trate the true skin and so merge into the next form by direct
extension , or it may give rise to it from the absorption of its septic
matter. It may also affect the matrix of the nail, and thus lead
to onychia , with temporary or permanent deformity of the nail.
Whatever treatment may be adopted, I believe a poultice of
boric lint is of great value, together with clipping away any dead
cuticle. I mean by a boric poultice , three or four layers of boric
lint wetted with hot water and covered by oiled silk and cotton
wool; the essential nature of a poultice is simply that it is a
means of applying heat and moisture, and the boric acid present
in this case makes it antiseptic as well.
A form of superficial whitlow is sometimes seen occurring
without any apparent cause and attacking one finger after an¬
other. The fluid beneath the cuticle is not always purulent,
sometimes being merely albuminous and mixed with flakes of
lymph. It never leads to any deep suppuration. It is most
common in children and females, and is consequent upon gen¬
eral debility, or upon unknown epidemic or endemic influences
being most frequently met with in the spring—perhaps “sycotic”
in nature. It is described by French writers under the name of
tourniole or panaris phlyctenoide . Clinical experience would
seem to indicate that Natrum Sulph. ought to be very useful in
this variety of whitlow.
2. Cellulosa. —The cellular tissue whitlow is usually the result
of a poisoned wound, though it may sometimes arise idiopathi-
cally, or it may be secondary to the superficial form. As a rule
it arises either in the cellular tissue of the pulp of the ungual
phalanx, or at the root of the finger. It may lead to necrosis of
the terminal phalanx, or it may open the sheath of the tendons.
3. Osseosa. —This variety usually leads to necrosis of a part
of the terminal phalanx. It may arise (a) as a primary “acute
necrosis,*’ ( b ) secondary to the cellular tissue whitlow. Usually
only a part of the phalanx dies, the proximal end where the
termination of the flexor sheath is attached and where the long
flexor tendon is inserted as a rule escapes death, and thus the
joint is preserved intact. The distal portion of the bone dies
(1) because of the interference with the periosteal blood supply
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from the great tension, and (2) because of the absence of the
tendon sheath on that part of the bone.
4. Tendinosa .—I doubt whether this variety—the true “ thecal
abscess ” as it is termed—ever occurs as a primary affection; but
it may be (a) secondary to the osseous and cellular tissue varie¬
ties. ( b ) Caused by the surgeon opening the sheath of the
tendon when incising a cellular tissue whitlow. By this means
the synovial sheath is infected with septic matter, and the usual
results are, spread of the inflammation, sloughing of the tendons,
and a useless finger. In such cases when the little finger or
thumb is affected (the synovial sheaths of which are continuous
with the common sheath at the wrist under the anterior annular
ligament) the suppuration rapidly extends to the palm of the
hand and to the forearm above the anterior annular ligament;
further the wrist joint itself may be opened and destruction of
the whole hand result.
It must not be thought that I mean to imply that a teno¬
synovitis never occurs, for undoubtedly there are at least two
distinct varieties. ( a ) Suppurative, which is usually traumatic
and septic, (b) The lymphy variety resulting from constitutional
causes; but then these forms of teno synovitis would hardly be
included under the head of “Whitlow.”
Treatment. —When I was a student the diagnosis and treat¬
ment of whitlow were exceedingly simple—for the surgeon. A
patient is brought in to the out-patient clinic, suffering, we will
suppose, from whitlow. The presiding surgeon asks one question,
“Did you sleep last night?” The patient probably says “No.”
“Ah!” says the surgeon, “whitlow in the sheath of the tendon;
free incision down to the bone.” But perhaps the patient affirms
he did sleep last night, but it does not make much difference for
the fiat still is—a free incision down to the bone lest it burrow
into the sheath of the tendons . In this little operation two points
were strongly insisted upon (1) to have something firm and un¬
movable (wood or stone) behind the patient’s hand, so that it
would be impossible for the hand to descend from the knife,
though it might be drawn towards the patient; (2) to cut in the
middle line with the edge of the knife directed towards the tip
of the patient’s finger, so that as the hand can only be pulled
towards the patient, and not depressed, the incision will be en¬
larged in the proper direction, and no injury done to the
patient (?) or surgeon. Now if a student, being examined in his
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final “triple qual,” let us say, the subject under discussion being
whitlow, did not give these cut and dried answers on the treat¬
ment of this affection, he would have stood in great danger of
being “referred to his studies” for three months at least. I am
ashamed to confess that once upon a time I believed and taught
this method of treatment, being at that time sunk in the deepest
depths of therapeutic darkness, knowing nothing of the real heal¬
ing powers of drugs in such conditions, and ready to sneer at
anyone who ever suggested the possibility that drugs could be of
use in such an evidently surgical case.
Are we then never to use the knife in whitlow? I would not
go quite so far as to affirm that it should never be used though I
have not used it for many years, and if I had to use it, I would
look upori the case as a failure, not of homoeopathy, but of my
powers to apply it properly. One thing is certain, if the knife
is to be used it ought not to be done in that blind and reckless
manner usually recommended, for the sheath of the tendons
must not be lightly opened into as the risks to the patient may
be very serious. I have seen the sheath opened on various
occasions but never yet saw it contain pus, nor the synovial
lining even evidently inflammed. I have frequently seen fingers
so disorganized as to be deemed worthy of amputation, and yet
when the tendon sheath was laid open afterwards it was abso¬
lutely unaffected, being as smooth and shining as in health. If,
however, a case is really doubtful, then give the patient an
anaesthetic, render the limb bloodless by Esmarch's method, and
dissect calmly and quietly through the doubtful part; in this way
the exact position of the pus can be ascertained with certainty,
and all haphazard butchery (misnamed “heroic” surgery) avoided.
A poultice of boric lint is of great value as already stated, eleva¬
tion of the hand by means of a sling and entire functional rest
to the limb absolutely imperative.
Therapeutics .—Various remedies have been credited with pro¬
ducing panaritium, or “a feeling as if” or a “tendency” to it. It
is unnecessary for me to give a list of such, I will content myself
with giving a few particulars (culled from various sources) of a
few medicines which I have found most generally useful in prac¬
tice, together with the names of one or two others which though
I have used but little in practice, I have always in mind when I
meet with cases of whitlow.
Anthracinum: Said to be useful in the worst cases of felon or
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whitlow, with sloughing and terrible burning. Compare its use
in the worst forms of Carbuncle. Often useful where Arsenic
seems indicated, and fails to relieve.
Apis: I have never had occasion to use this remedy in whit¬
low. It has cured many cases of whitlow with burning, stinging
and throbbing; especially useful in “run-arounds” after abuse of
Sulphur^ also in “dessecting wounds.” From its action upon
serous membranes generally, it is likely to be useful in cases of
teno-synovitis septic or otherwise, as well as in traumatic erysip¬
elas with great oedema. Sulphur is its complement and follows
it well.
Arsenicum: When gangrene is present, with a great desire to
have the part wrapped up warmly. In its general indications it
resembles Anthracinum f though the latter remedy seems to be
suitable for a more advanced and a more serious state of affairs.
Hence Anthracinum is given after Arsenicum fails to relieve the
intense burning pains and other symptoms.
Fluoric acid: Cases of whitlow where this remedy is likely to
be of use are relieved by washing or sponging with cold water,
and aggravated by the application of heat. It seems to affect
the fingers of the left hand rather than those of the right, and
the pus tends to point on the dorsum of the finger. About a
month ago I had a typical example of this variety, and where
fluoric acid acted like a “charm.” The “pointing” on the dor¬
sum is a real thing, and not a mere sympathetic cellular tissue
abscess. It is possible that incisions are frequently made into
the pulp of the ungual phalanx of the finger when the pus is
really on the dorsum; this mistake arises from the sense of fluct¬
uation yielded b> the pulp of the swollen finger covered by its
thickened cuticle, even when no fluid is present. Fluoric acid
and Silica are both useful in bone felons, but observe that
Silica is aggravated by cold applications and ameliorated by
warmth—the reverse of Fluoric acid. Fluoric acid is also useful
in cases of onychia resulting in deformity of the nail, as often
happens in cases of paronychia ungualis.
Hepar: Useful in cases where there is extreme sensitiveness
to touch; cannot even bear the weight of a poultice, through the
heat of the poultice ameliorates; patient likes to sit besides the
fire. Parts affected often the right thumb or finger, with violent
throbbing “gathering pain.” Lachesis is complementary to
Hepar in this affection.
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Lachesis: Resembles Arsenicum and Anthracinum in its ap¬
plications; in cases of gangrene, or where the swelling is of a
bluish or purplish hue. Felons with “proud flesh.”
Ledum: For whitlows, the result of punctured wounds,needle
pricks, hang nails ( Natrum mur.) t splinters, etc. Affected part
most comfortable when cold ( Fluoric acid).
Natrum sulph.: Whitlow beginning as a blister , and the pain
is more bearable out of doors; suppuration round the roots of
the nails, caused by living in damp houses, cellars, etc.
Nux vomica: Patient is usually very cross, and prefers to sit
by the fire and have the hand wrapped up warmly, and wants
doors and windows shut. All his senses too acute. Thumb,
right or left, most frequently affected.
Pulsatilla: The pains are accompanied with chilliness, relief
from cool applications and the open air, aggravation in the
evening, from warm applications or from letting the limb hang
down. Patient very tearful.
Silica: Whitlow, where the inflammation extends to the ten¬
dons, cartilages and bones; bone felons (see Fluoric acid ) and
“run-arounds.” Like Fluoric acid } useful in cases resulting in
deformity of the nail; usually most comfortable when warmly
covered. Fluoric acid is the complementary remedy. (Consult
Allen's Encyclopaedia , under Silicea).
Pathogenesy of Whitlow: —I do not suppose that any medicine,
with the exception perhaps of Fluoric acid , has actually produced
whitlow, during its proving. One can hardly expect provers to
be so energetic and self-denying as to persist with a proving
until such painful organic lesions are produced. For this reason,
therefore, we are chiefly dependent upon clinical symptoms and
clinical experience when we attempt to treat whitlow by the
method of Hahnemann, and not as mere surgeons. In saying
this I do not mean it as a sneer at the surgeon, for to be a sur¬
geon was once my own dearest wish, but that was before I knew
anything about homoeopathy. At the same time, if ever I had
to resort to purely surgical means in the treatment of this affec¬
tion, I would regard the case as a “failure.” Doctors in general
are but necessary evils, the surgeon probably most of all, but
nevertheless both are necessary.
In other diseases it is the same as in whitlow. Take pneu¬
monia for instance, one can hardly expect provers to go on with
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any given drug till it has actually produced a genuine pneu¬
monia. It has therefore been suggested that the lower animals
should be used for this purpose, and by the continuous use with
gradually increasing doses of the given drug to see whether it
can produce lobar pneumonia, or any other well defined organic
lesion. Such a suggestion cannot be too strongly condemned,
both on humanitarian grounds and because it is unscientific, and
can only find a place in a science, falsely so called. Such a
method could not by any possibility lead to any useful result,
that could not equally well be attained by more legitimate
means, so far as healing the sick is concerned. Suppose, for
example, that six medicines can be proved in this way to have
produced pneumonia, of what earthly advantage is it to know
this, when we are face to face with an actual case of pneumonia?
The mere physical signs of pneumonia are practically the same
all the world over by whatsoever means produced; the dullness
on percussion, the increased vocal fremitus, the crepitations,
fine or coarse, give no indications that will guide us to the ap¬
propriate medicine; thus our half dozen medicines that have
been thus proved to have produced pneumonia, simply become
half a dozen harassing doubts at the bedside of an actual case.
To be sure one might try them all in turn, taking twenty-four
hours for each, and then by the time they were finished the pa¬
tient would either be dead or the crisis passed. No! leave all
such rubbishy methods to the “Old School,” the homoeopathy
of Hahnemann does not need them.
To treat any disease successfully, we must know, or at least
do our best to find out, specific individual differences both of the
different medicines and of our patient, before we can use medi¬
cines intelligently. This is only another way of putting Hahne¬
mann’s dictum . “In making this comparison, the more promin¬
ent , uncommon and peculiar features of the case are specially and
almost exclusively considered and noted; for these in particular
should bear the closest similitude to the symptoms of the desired
medicine, if that is to accomplish the cure.” In other words,
the specific individual differences of medicine must be similar to
the specific individual differences of the patient . The lower ani¬
mals can never give us this knowledge, and without it we are
but little better than the allopaths. Leave us rather in our fools'
paradise, hugging to our hearts the pleasing delusion that only
one , or at the most two , medicines, can both produce and cure
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pneumonia. This will at least give us an appearance of confi¬
dence (bom of ignorance it is true) at the patient’s bedside,
which if of no benefit to the patient cannot fail to impress the
patient's friends —a most important point if a doctor wishes to
“get on.”
1. Anthracinum: The indications for this medicine are, I be¬
lieve, only clinical.
2. Apis: “Inward burning about a hang-nail on the outside
of the right fourth finger; no redness where it pains inside, and
not aggravated by pressure. Fine burning and pricking in the
finger tips. Sensation as if the finger nails were quite loose and
as if he could shake them off.”
3. Sulphur: Many hang-nails on the fingers. Pain in the tips
of the fingers in the morning, as if the nails had been cut too
short. Pain on the flexor surface of the right middle finger as
from a sticking splinter . Burning in the balls and tips of the
fingers. At night, in bed, a semi-lunar painful drawing in the
root of the nail of the right little finger. Tearing and drawing
pains very marked. At night in bed tearing under the nail of
the left ring finger, as if a needle were thrust in, especially violent
in the evening. Shooting in the tips of the fingers at night.
Stitches in the tips of the fingers. Crawling and prickling in the
tips of the fingers very acute, worse on hanging the arm down.
4. Arsenicum: The indications for this medicine are chiefly
of a general character.
5. Hepar: Indications chiefly general, though we find
“stitches in one finger as from needles ”
6. Nux vomica: Indications chiefly of a general character,
we find “jerking, sticking pains along the bone of the thumb, but
extending backward. Burning in the ball of the thumb on lying
down after dinner.”
7. Pulsatilla: Indications chiefly general. Also “pain as if a
panaritium would form on the side of the nail of the index finger.
Violent stitches in the tips of the right fingers.”
8. Fluoric acid: “The pains in the hands became exceeding¬
ly violent and the hand much swollen; next day the fingers, and
especially the thumb, were violently inflamed; the hot bright-red
skin on the tips was discolored, the last phalanx almost immov¬
able, with violent pains in the hands extending up the shoulder,
and fever; towards evening of the second day the pains become
throbbing and the tips of the fingers more swollen; on the third
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day the tips of all the fingers were white, and the thumb was en
veloped by a white blister, upon which the nail seemed to rest,
with constant tormenting throbbing pains; on opening the blis¬
ters there was discharged a thick brown very offensive fluid,
which was very acid; under these blisters was seen on the fingers
the uninjured true skin; on the thumb there was underneath a
second blister, upon opening which commencing suppuration
was found; the fingers healed rapidly; the thumb continued to
secrete a thin pus and was only healed after four weeks. Pain
in the left index fingers, as if in the bone, now and then during
the day; the whole finger is painful internally, particularly in the
evening. Burning internally about the bone. A violent burn¬
ing stitch in the fleshy part of the left thumb. Prickings in the
ends of the index fingers, most in the left. Acute prickings, as
with a needle, in the fingers. Now and then a pain resembling a
contusion in the ends of several fingers, as it were in the bones.
Painless sensation beneath the nail of the left thumb, as if some¬
thing were gradually working its way out, in the forenoon.’ 1
9. Lachesis: Visible pulsation in a large portion of the ball
of the left thumb, and frequently recurring jerking. A panariti¬
um on a finger in which there had formerly been frequent jerk¬
ing preceded by jerking and pains, so that she could not bear
the arm under the covering, frequently shooting upward and
often downward into the arm, which was weak. Stitches in the
tips of the fingers. Gnawing and crawling in the bones and flesh
of the right third and fourth fingers; also under the nails as
though something were crawling about under them.”
10. Ledum: A feeling in the nail of the left third finger as if
raised up by pressure from beneath, together with prickling in
the tip of the finger. Stitches as with needles beneath the right
thumb nail. The periosteum of the phalanges is painful on pres¬
sing it.
11. Nalrum sulph.\ Violent burning in the tips of the fingers.
Boring in the joints of the fingers (many drawing and pressing
pains) sticking pain in the tips of the left thumb behind the nail,
evening. Sticking pain in the tips of the fingers. Violent
stitches in the le't thumb, in jerks, almost like pulsations of the
pain. Fine sticking pain in the points of the right thumb and
forefinger, as if the veins were being pulled out, whilst knitting
at noon, (tearing pain in various fingers, very frequent). Stick¬
ing ulcerative pain under nail of the right forefinger. Beating in
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the tip of the left little finger, like a pulsation, for several min¬
utes.
1?. Silicea: Pain as from a splinter in the flexor surface of
one finger. Pain in the left index finger as if a panaritium would
form. Sensation as if the tips of the fingers were suppurating.
Feeling of numbness of one finger as if it were thick and the
bone enlarged (tearing and sticking pain in various fingers),
stitches in the ball of the thumb.
The above symptoms are taken from Allen’s Encyclopedia. I
regret that I am unable to make use of the Encyclopedia of Drug
Pathogenesy, the repertory to that work being as yet incomplete.
Oxford, April, 1898.— {Monthly Homeopathic Review).
“INDICATED REMEDY VERSUS TREATMENT IN
ORDINARY UTERINE TROUBLES.”*
MALCOLM DILLS, M. D., CARLISLE, KY.
In this short paper I assure you I shall not attempt to go over
the field of uterine troubles in detail, nor shall I attempt to give
a text book citation: what we want in this day is practical facts
and not experimental theories. The general practitioner must
be able to meet his female clientelle with some assurance of re¬
lief or cure. “Doctor! I have womb disease is a “Shibboleth”
that is current with almost every woman in the land. Their
complaints be what they may this organ is at once thought of as
the “causus morbi.”
When a female patient calls for treatment of a long and tire¬
some list of ailments, the Doctor, if he is fin de side , will take
the case about as follows: Are you married? Have you given
birth to any children? If an affirmative to this: Examination
is asked for; results with a large majority about as follows. Yes,
Yes.
Well, Madam, at your last confinement you sustained a lacera¬
tion of cervix, that is, the mouth of your uterus was tom.
This accounts for that backache, headache and all the various
symptoms with which you suffer. An operation is submitted to
performed and in great majority of cases little or no relief.
If the patient be a young woman, with painful menstruation
and all its accompaning symptoms, she is advised to have uterus
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curretted or ovaries removed. Uterus curretted, packed and the
patient still continues to suffer as of old.
A specialist gets hold of this case and he promptly advises re¬
moval of ovaries. Good fat fee, patient sent home a physical
and mental wreck.
I have seen so much of this foolish and unscientific work done,
that I am almost a crank against such work and might err on
the wrong side. I would not for a moment be understood as
claiming surgical interference is not urgently demanded in many
cases, but the modern methods of operating have been so wonder¬
fully improved, that it is a pleasure to perform hysterectomy,
remove the ovaries, etc.
What we need to appreciate is the fact that the class of cases
met with in our city hospitals are very different from the class of
patients we meet in our general practice. The difference is so
patent that I shall not worry you in giving details. A conscienti¬
ous homoeopathic gynecologist is a man of beauty and to be
much admired. He will give his patient the best and most
scientific treatment, with every prospect of cure, but the gynecol¬
ogist only talks and dreams of hysterectomy laparotomy, etc.
•God pity the poor deluded woman that falls under his scalpel,
save for such diseases that come under strictly mechanical
measures, which are few compared with the great number of suf-
erers of this class. I undertake to prove that the well chosen
remedy will right the great majority of these ills.
Having practiced my profession for 27 years with an experi¬
ence of a good clientelle to draw from I feel that I have some
grounds at least to express myself on these lines. For thirteen
years of my professional career, I was strictly orthodox from an
old school standpoint and believed in heroic measures and de¬
cided doses. The change has been so radical and results so
gratifying, I now frequently get so high in doses, that I become
alarmed at the wonderful transition. Pardon this long preface.
I shall give you three cases, that I believe are typical ones, to
show what the indicated remedy will do. I select these from the
fact that the diagnosis and treatment had been given before
they came to my hands.
Case I. Sept. 20, ’97. Lady 37 years, weight 225 pounds,
married six years, four years ago gave birth to child, still born,
shortly after this began to feel bad, as she expressed it, menstrual
period every three weeks, flow scanty, pain in back, headaches,
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constipation, pain in region of uterus, a heavy bearing down,
profuse, lucorrhoea very offensive. She gave these as the symp¬
toms when she first consulted a physician six and one-half years
ago. She was treated locally by him for two years, using during
this period all manner of applications, douches, suppositories
ad nauseam consulted specialist, he curretted, packed and
treated case for two months with no marked relief. Advised re¬
moval of uterus, to this the patient objected; she returned home
and continued local treatment until she finally gave up in de¬
spair. Some friend prevailed on her to try little sugar pills. She
finally came to me. The language she used in expressing her
opinion of doctors would be interesting reading. After her spleen
was delivered about doctors, I recorded her case in detail. I
give the principal symptoms that guided me in my prescription.
Menstrual period every three weeks, scanty, colored clothes
green, lasts seven or eight days, severe headaches, a crazy feel¬
ing, attacks before menses so severe she loses her mind, gets
crazy, believes she is going crazy, when she gets up she feels as
if everything was pressing out, afraid to walk without supporting
abdomen, tired and worn out feeling, the bearing down so severe,
kept a recumbent position two-thirds of her time.
Gave one dose Lit. tig m to be repeated every twenty-four
hours for three days. Fourth day, patient walked into office with
an expression that gave me more satisfaction than words could
convey. Her report was that bearing down pains had all left
her, headache relieved but she felt weak and was very appre¬
hensive that her troubles would return, mind seemed anxious
about this, as from some impending trouble, Ignatia** one dose
night and morning until relieved, to report in one week; patient
returned in four days, relieved of all pains and aches and you
may be sure she meant it. Handed me a check for $50.00 with
the remark that “she was my patient from this time on.”
Now gentlemen there is the case, make of it what you may. I
never examined her uterus and do not know that she has one,
the patient is well and free from any trouble at this writing.
Case II. Lady 27 years of age, married six years, one child
five years old, two years ago began to suffer during menstrual
periods, flow scanty and in shreds, vacillating mood, depression,
ill humor, then lively, deep seated pain in head, frightful dreams,
sticking pains in various parts, sensation as if menses would ap¬
pear, better in open air; lucorrhoea offensive, uterus has been
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curretted twice, no relief. This was done by a competent
specialist.
Owing to her mental condition, the removal of ovaries was ad¬
vised; the patient refused and returned home as she believed a
physical wreck. The menses always came away in strings as she
described it.
Crocus 30 * one dose night and morning for one week, reported
much relieved, mental symptoms are better, gave Sac. lac . until
next period came on without warning, flow natural, no shreds.
This was in January, 1898. Has menstruated regularly ever
since. No further medicine, patient remains well.
Case III. Young lady 21 years of age, has been irregular,
going from six weeks and then three weeks for several years.
Dark complexion, bright intelligent woman, a graduate of Cin¬
cinnati Conservatory of Music. Six months ago began to grow
despondent, pains in uterine region. Dysmenorrhoea, had to
take her bed for two or three days each menstrual epoch, bowels
constipated, began to lose flesh very rapidly, would cry over
trifles, crampy sensations in vagina, limbs would go to sleep, dis¬
gusted with everything; this was a prominent symptom spoken
of by her a dozen times. On this leading characteristic I gave
Puls m two doses. Sac. lac. for one week. Patient made rapid
recovery and is her lively and cheerful self again.
These cases could be prolonged indefinitely and are^ by no
means exceptions to the rule as indicated by title of these cases.
Man may have been developed from the quadruped and his nat¬
ural position to be on all fours as some claim; we may be a set
of degenerates and medicine as commonly understood may and
is largely empirical.
One thing, I do know, in the language of Fitz James.
“Come one, come all this rock shall fly
From its firm base as soon as I.”
So firmly rooted is the law of Similia Sirailibus Curantur in
my mind. I would add that in taking all cases, the mind is
often the key note that will reveal a world of information on
which to base our selection of remedy. Let the trouble be what
it may, the nervous system is the individual.
By keeping this thought in our mind seemingly incurables will
be reached through the dynamic force of our remedies.
The great trouble with us is, we are simply too lazy to study
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our cases and want some short cut. Our cures would be multi¬
plied ten fold if we would wake up and use what nature has so
generously given us—a sure method of cure.
Do not be afraid to use cm potency if your symptoms are
properly taken, prescribe pathologically if you will, but give the
remedy indicated by your pathological symptoms and remember
to give the one remedy at a time. No one, two or three glass
method, if one is correct two cannot be at one and the same time.
Common sense with a little knowledge and industry will bring
you success.
A good deal of knowledge and hard study and close differentia¬
tion will bring to your patient good health and to you the chief
end of man in this age—dollars.
THE PATIENT AND THE REMEDY AT THE MENO¬
PAUSE *
PHILIP E. KRICHBAUM, M. D., SOMERSET, KY.
Perhaps at no other period of a woman’s existence, in her role
of patient, do we encounter such a confusion of symptoms, such
misleading reflexes, such vitally important nervous phenomena,
such alarming hemorrhages, and such a demand therefore for
clear and painstaking prescribing, as we frequently find con¬
fronting us at the termination of our patient’s menstrual life.
Several remedies immediately suggest themselves as the possi¬
ble Simillimum in this disturbed state of the female economy. I
propose to differentiate a few of the prominent ones, and am led
first to consider, what I will term the Hemorrhagic group, since
some aggravated form of uterine hemorrhage is very often the
moving factor in the case, that is the symptom that most alarms
the patient.
While it is true that the patient and not the hemorrhage must
here as elsewhere constitute the basis for our prescription, yet
it is justifiable to advocate almost empirically a few remedies
because of the frequency with which we are called upon to use
them in the conditions under discussion. Secale , Kreosote ,
Ustilago , Trillium , Crocus , Hamamelis , and one or two of the
great serpent remedies, Lachesis , Naja , Elaps Corallinum etc.,
may be mentioned, each presenting important points for re¬
membrance in this connection.
The symptoms calling for Secale , are generally confined to
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either the nervous system directly, or to the circulation. The
action of Ergot on the uterus is too well known to need touching
upon here. It is to the Secale patient that I would direct your
attention. Typically she is a thin, scrawny woman, with a dry,
harsh, shrivelled, yellow skin, old before her time. The flow of
blood is dark, thin and persistent, passive rather than active, but
in severe cases reducing the woman to such an extent that she
may lapse into unconsciousness when the flooding paroxysms
are present. Formication under Secale is often noticable. She
will spread her fingers apart and complain much of the disagree¬
able tingling. (Lac Caninum also has this symptom). Prostration
is extreme. The mind is disturbed and full of anguish. When
Secale is indicated at the climacteric, you will be apt to elicit a
history of old menstrual difficulties with a tendency to miscarry.
Ustilago is Secale 1 s boon companion, and it is difficult at times
to decide between the two. It will also be remembered as a
fungus growth very similar in action to Secale. The hemorrhage
under Ustilage , however, is characteristically bright red, partly
fluid, and partly clotted. Ustilago causes passive congestion of
the uterus. Even the slight touch necessary to a digital ex¬
amination, brings on a return of the hemorrhage. Ustilago also
finds a place in retroflexion of the uterus. The cervix is soft
and tumified, the os patulous.
Under Ustilago , vertigo is prominent, with severe frontal head¬
aches. The drug is said to have an affinity for tall, slim women
who have for years been threatened with tuberculosis.
Hamamelis is distinguished by the preponderance of the sore
feeling in the affected parts. This is your patient’s chief wail
of complaint. The exhausting hemorrhage is of minor im¬
portance.
Trillium has a most profuse hemorrhage at the climacteric
period. The flow may be bright red or dark or clotted and in¬
duced by the slightest over-exertion. Syncope, vertigo, dimness
of vision, palpitation, severe pain in the back, and persistent re¬
currence of the flow every fourteen days, should direct your
thoughts to this remedy. The face of the Trillium patient is
generally sallow, and she may even present the yellow saddle
across the nose, so characteristic of Sepia.
Kreosote is useful in those cases that are characterized chiefly
by the great offensiveness of the discharges. The flow is also
intermittent. Fainting fits frequently attend the discharge of
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large clots of putrid blood. There is great burning and swell¬
ing of the labia. Corrosive itching within the vulva and burn¬
ing on urination. The feet swell. There is restlessness which
is especially aggravated during repose. The value of Kreosote
at the menopause is very frequently unnoted.
Crocus encroaches on Kreosote in the putridity of its hemor¬
rhages but the Crocus discharge is dark and stringy. The well
known sensation of something alive in the abdomen, has often
led to the selection of Crocus for climacteric difficulties. The
patient is sure to incline to hysterical manifestations. The
nervous system is on a tension and breaks out anywhere.
Lachesis stands very high in the list for cases of uterine hemor¬
rhages at the climaxis, but the nervous symptoms under Lachesis
generally guide one to this remedy very readily. The aversion
to pressure about the neck, waist or abdomen, the chilliness at
night, and flushes of heat by day, showing that the circulation is
sluggish and fitful, the aggravation after sleep, the heart irregu¬
larities, the mental anxiety, and sensitiveness, all this belongs to
Lachesis. In disposition, we find the Lachesis patient proud,
jealous, melancholy, and distrustful. Her physical makeup is
below par. She is a frail creature, constitutionally very poorly
fitted to bear the culmination of physical distress that seems to
be measured out to her in overwhelming proportions, just at the
time in her life when she is longing for some respite from many
years of suffering.
The serpent remedies all show their relationship and remind
us forcibly of their orgin in the sluggish conditions to which
they apply, as evidenced in the circulation, the coldness of the
external parts, the extreme sensitiveness to every impression
whether it be of light or noise.
Sulphur at the menopause is a standby. When this remedy is
indicated the individual is apt to present certain physical pe¬
culiarities, old land marks as it were, so familiar to you all that
I would not recall them, were it not for the fact that they go to
make up the picture which I wish to focus upon your mind’s
eye. We are told that the constitutional bias under Sulphur is
the key note to the remedy. An old student of Materia Medica
is generally able to prescribe Sulphur without putting a single
interrogation to his patient. He notes the stooping shoulders,
the narrow chest, the dirty hue of the skin, where the marks of
past eruptions are still apparent to practiced observation, the
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temperament of the patient, as indicated in facial expression,
carriage, movement, voice, all bear their quota of significance.
The woman is sure to complain of headache, usually a vertex
pain. She will tell you of her burning feet, her “smothering
spells,” and the tormenting hot flashes indicative of the general
vaso motor disturbance that is so often a morbid accompaniment
of this period. She will complain of intense itching and burn¬
ing in the vulva, any leucorrhoeal discharge that she may have
will be acrid and excoriating. If she suffers from metrorrhagia,
the flow will be thick and black, and markedly intermittent like
Kreosote. Her appetite is variable. On rising in the morning,
she feels no desire to eat, but grows faint and hungry around 11
a. m., and must then satisfy her craving for food or she knows
that she will succomb. She is irritable in mood, exacting and
imperious, a difficult person to live with, disposed to overesti¬
mate her own importance, similar to Platina in this respect,
though under Platina the exalted state of mind has more of the
strictly personal in it. Sulphur magnifies the attractiveness of
her belongings. She has fantastic illusions, old rags appear to
her fancy like rich garments. Platina considers herself superior
to her associates.
In sharp contrast to the Sulphur temperament, we find Pulsa¬
tilla another great remedy for women suffering from any of the
many disturbances peculiar to their sex. The mild, gentle, tear¬
ful Pulsatilla patient, does not always receive the sympathy
which she deserves. She will describe her sufferings volubly,
indeed she delights in going over the subject of her many aches
and pains, but the true Pulsatilla patient is very timid, and is
almost certain to shed tears during the recital. When suffering
from metrorrhagia, at the change of life the flow will be of dark
congulated blood, emitted in paroxysms and attended with
severe labor-like pains. Its pronounced variabilty however, is
the distinguishing feature. Under Pulsatilla , the symptoms are
ever shifting. The neuralgic pains that belong to this remedy
shoot all over the body. They never appear to find a secure
location. The various discharges from the body, also change
in color and consistency. Then though the Pulsatilla patient is
proverbially chilly, she insists upon having fresh air. A close
room stifles her. Her face flushes from the slightest exertion.
She is delicate and dainty in her appetite, turning with especial
loathing from fat, greasy food, but indigestion, pain and pres-
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sure at the pit of the stomach, bad taste in the mouth, and this
last of the rankest kind, quite naturally suggest the drug. Your
Pulsatilla subject finds it difficult to sleep during the forepart of
the night. She is restless and anxious about her health, full of
cares about her domestic affairs, differing so widely here from
Sepia; who is ever ready to take unto herself the administration
of her neighbor’s difficulties, but is perfectly indifferent to the
nearer concerns of home, Pulsatilla has great dread of men,
the proving reads, and is subject to many queer fancies. Al¬
together the characteristics under this remedy are so clear cut,
and run with such marked directness throughout all of the many
morbid states in which the drug is called for, we can readily un¬
derstand its high place in our school of medicine as a tried and
proven polycrest.
Sepia often figures at the menopause with brilliant results. It
follows well after Pulsatilla , but temperamentally, the remedies
are as far asunder as the poles. The Sepia patient may and
does possess a fine organization. Her constitution is delicate,
her hair dark, her skin fine, her brain particularly active. She
is subject to all manner of mental perturbations. It is a great
remedy for women. When indicated at the climaxis, you may
be reasonably certain that your patient has long been afflicted
with uterine and ovarian difficulties, and you have reached her
at the approaching conclusion. Leucorrhcea, prolapsus, blad¬
der involvment, irregular and painful menstruation, disorders
during pregnancy, headaches, constipation, all these she can re¬
call in retrospect.
Metorrhagia often tends to chronicity at the climacteric
period, the uterus prolapses, and annoys the patient immediately.
The discharge of blood is easily excited, and is accompanied by
icy coldness of the hands and feet, flushes of heat, and paroxysms
of shuddering. The patient becomes exhausted. Bitterly too
does she complain of a sensation of emptyness at the pit of the
stomach. Constipation is usually present with a feeling of
weight in the anus. In mood she is sad and despondent, irrita¬
ble, and fault finding.
Sanguinaria Canadensis at the menopause is often overlooked.
For cases of chronic sick headache which have long resisted all
medication, this remedy has been known to achieve wonderful
results. The headache is characteristic. Beginning in the
occiput, the pain runs up over the head, like Sepia and Silica ,
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and settles over the right eye, but differing from the two drugs
named, it is accompanied by decided nausea, distended veins,
marked redness of the face, and is usually a day time headache,
decreasing as night advances. Quiet and rest soothes the dis¬
tress in the head. Vomiting also relieves.
Atnyl Nitrate has a sphere of usefulness in those irregularities
at the climacteric, which result in overcoming the patient from
sudden rushes of blood to the head.
Actcea Racemosa meets those conditions in a woman’s sexual
life that are characterized by, or more properly speaking, belong
to the so-called rheumatic habit.
Cinchona , Calcarea carb.> Ammonium carb., and a score of
other remedies might be mentioned and enlarged upon, but I
feel that I have gathered the most prominent ones into this little
discussion. As I remarked before, when we hold ourselves true
to the governing rule of Homoeopathy, that of considering the
patient and not the disease, the whole Materia Medica becomes
our field.
Whenever any personal idiosyncrasy of our patient takes us
into remote pastures, and new remedies loom up, we need not
hesitate, for restriction in drug selection is a thing unknown.
THE THERAPEUTICS OF CATARACT.
EDMUND T. ALLEN, M. D., CHICAGO, ILL.
Since the publication a few months ago of a paper upon catar¬
act, a great many inquiries have reached me asking for the key
to an apparent therapeutic enigma therein contained, the pur¬
pose of which was to render as concisely as possible by means
of numbers the indications for our remedies.
I have cheerfully furnished this as far as I could, but as the
requests still come I have decided to give the subject in detail,
together with the authorities quoted. The numbers at the be¬
ginning of each remedy are the same as those used in the former
article, but from this paper have been omitted all symptoms ex¬
cept those of the eye itself.
It must be remembered, however, that the choice of a remedy
in any given case of cataract, must be determined not alone by
the eye symptoms as here given but by taking into consideration
the taut ensemble of the case, the entire personality.
Again, all eye-strain of whatever variety must be removed by
the proper glasses, or if necessary by other means.
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The symptoms of this list are largely culled from Hering’s
masterly work on Materia Medica. Burnett says: “A specific
for cataract in the very nature of things cannot be found, be¬
cause there are no two cases exactly alike.” And Dr. Malen
adds: “The cause ol cataract is psora; the remedies principally
antipsorics. It is not possible to say that in this or that species
of cataract this or that remedy will cure. The taut ensemble of
the symptoms must always decide us in the choice of the
remedy."
No. 1. Sulphur. Dimness of vision as of a veil or gauze
before the eyes; as from a fog; weakness of the eyes; blindness;
cataract, with innumerable dark spots floating before the eyes.
Gas or lamplight appears to be surrounded with a halo (cat¬
aract or glaucoma). Amaurosis after the sudden disappearance
of an eruption; can only see outlines of objects; web-like forms
appear before the eyes; single objects seem double and indis¬
tinct. Burning in eyes. Photophobia in gaslight.
In middle of lens an opacity as if it had been punctured with
a needle; cortical cataract. Dimness of vision so marked as to
prevent recognition of friends. Mist and fog before eyes with
beginning cataract in right eye. Cataract after suppression of
an eruption.
Clinical. This is the king of cataract remedies. Dr. Malen
reported the following:
Case. Lady, 60 years old; vision slowly lost during two years
until she was completely blind with mature cataracts. After a
few months' treatment such improvement occurred that she
wrote me her vision was as good as one of her age could expect*
Case. Man, aged 51, lymphatic, mature cataracts of both
eyes; could not see to walk; could barely distinguish daylight
from darkness. Sulphur was given which brought out an erup¬
tion over the body and with its appearance the vision returned.
Case. Man, aged 42, bilious temperament, blind in left eye
from cataract for six years. Twenty years before had had itch
which was suppressed. Sulphur was given and a violent itching
eruption came out over the body. Vision improved until he
could count fingers and make out the outlines of objects.
Dr. Jahr reported the following:
Case . Infant, born with cataract. Was greatly benefitted
with Sulphur .
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Dr. Kirsch reported:
Case. Mrs, E., aged 48, heav^ eyelids, mist and grey fog be¬
fore eyes, and feeling as of sand in them; burning and flashes of
light; beginning cataract, nebulous sight. Under Sulphur eyes
became clearer and an eruption came out behind her ears.
Dr. J. Mouremans reported:
Case . Man, cataracts nearly mature; greatly benefitted by
Sulphur .
Dr. DeKeghel helped a case of soft cataract with Sulphur .
Dr. Becker:
Case. Carpenter; tetter of face suppressed; sight became im¬
paired; pupils misty, smoky. After Sulphur was exhibited the
ciuption reappeared, and the vision improved.
Dr. Emerich:
Case . Mr. M., tinsmith; terrible itching eruption disappeared
and blindness supervened in left eye. Lens was hazy. After
taking Sulphur for some time the eruption returned and the
vision cleared.
Recommended also by Drs. Norton, Bachr and Jahr.
No. 2. Causticum. Photophobia in daylight.
Sight obscured as from a gauze before eyes; as from a mist.
Flickering before eyes as from swarms of insects. Eyes be¬
came dim and vision indistinct; it seems as though a thick cloud
or fog was before the eyes.
Obscuration of sight as if a veil was drawn before the eyes.
Perpendicular half sight in partial cataract.
Asthenopia with dimness of sight after eruptive fever.
Burning in the eyes with ophthalmia.
Clinical. Dr. Kirsch reported a perfect cure under Causticum
of a lady with cataract. Dr. Hanbold mentioned a case of a
lady aged 61 cured by Sulphur and Causticum .
Recommended also by Drs. Bernard and Norton.
No. 3. Calcarea carb. Cataract in farsighted eyes.
Great dread of light, especially in the evening; worse from
artificial light. Ophthalmia.
Rainbow around the light.
Dimness of vision as if looking through a gauze.
Cataract; shadows before the eyes.
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Clinical . Dr. Charge succeeded in curing a case of cataract
that co-existed with general psoriasis, after the administration
of Sulphur and Calcarea . Dr. Martin cured a case of hard cat¬
aract with Calcarea .
Dr. Villars reported:
Case . Man, aged 50; scrofulous. “Partial opacities of the
crystalline lenses were clearly observable in both eyes.” Cured.
Recommended also by Drs. Hughes, Marcy, Baehr, T. F.
Allen, Bernard, Norton and Jahr.
No. 4. Magnesia Carb. Black spots or motes before the
eyes.
Burning of eyes and dimness of vision.
Lenticular cataract.
Scrofulous ophthalmia with obscuration of cornea.
Clinical. Dr. Prie says that this remedy was largely instru¬
mental in the amelioration of thirteen out of twenty-two cases of
cataract which he treated.
Recommended by Drs. Jousset, Jahr, Schrcen, Norton, Marcy
and Hunt.
No. 5. Phosphorus. Halos, flashes of light and black spots.
Photophobia.
All objects appear to be covered with a grey veil, or look red.
Sees better in dim light.
Amblyopia and amaurosis; objects appear misty.
Rapidly increasing myopia. Senile- cataract; lens white.
Cortical cataract.
Clinical . Dr. Schuler:
Case . Mrs. E., opacity of lens, cataract immature. Gradu¬
ally became clear under Phosphorus.
Dr/Burnett:
Case. Lady, had been nearly blind with cataract several
years. “Under Phosphorus the opacities cleared up and her
vision became clear and remains excellent.
Dr. Streintz:
Case. Retired major, aged 75, amelioration almost equal to
a cure from Phosphorus.
Dr. Bernard:
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Case . Maiden lady, aged 34, cataract in left eye. Great im¬
provement of sight and diminution of cataract.
Recommended by Drs. Martiny, Bsehr, Norton, Marcy and
Hunt.
No. 6. Silicea. Photophobia in daylight.
Cataract; dim vision after suppression of foot sweat.
Black spots or sparks before the eyes.
Dim vision as if looking through a gauze, or grey cover.
Cataract; lens cloudy; cannot discern objects.
Choroiditis in myopes.
Scrofulous ophthalmia.
Clinical . Dr. Martiny treated one case of hard cataract suc¬
cessfully with Silicea and Phosphorus .
Dr. Becker:
Case. Lady, whose profuse foot sweats were stopped and
vision became dim as if she saw through smoke; could only
read large print. Silicea taken a long time cured.
Dr. Hering relates cases helped with Silicea.
Dr. Kirsch reported:
Case. Man, aged 61, cataract which entirely disappeared
with great improvement of sight after exhibiting Silicea for two
years.
Dr. J. Mauremans reported a cure completed under Silicea .
Recommended also by Drs. Jousset, Bernard, Jahr, Norton,
Marcy and Hunt.
No. 7. Graphites. Photophobia, worse by daylight.
Nearsightedness with asthenopia. Sees as through a mist.
Chronic ophthalmia, with moist skin eruptions.
Clinical. Recommended by Drs. Marcy and Hunt.
No. 8. Iodine. Obscuration of sight, like a veil before eyes.
Optical illusions in bright colors.
Pain and smarting in eyes.
Clinical. Recommended by Drs. Jousset, Marcy and Hunt.
No. 9. Lycopodium. Photophobia, worse by artificial light.
Floating black spots before the eyes.
Vision weak, as if a veil or feathers were before the eyes.
Sees things dimly, as through a fog; can only see rude outlines
of objects; haziness of lens.
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Cataract with suppressed menses; after typhus; with chronic
dyspepsia.
Burning, sticking pain in eyes.
Clinical, Dr. Diez:
Case. Mrs. B., aged 31, cataract in left eye with suppression
of menses. Lycopodium was given with reappearance of cata¬
menia and improvement of sight until vision was completely
restored.
Recommended by Drs. Norton, Jahr and Baehr.
No. 10. Mercurius. Failing sight; dark spots or clouds
before eyes; cannot bear light of a fire.
Dimness of vision; eyes hot. Lachrymation; muco-purulent
discharge.
Chronic syphilitic ophthalmia.
Clinical, Dr. Buchan affirmed that he had “resolved a recent
case of cataract by giving the patient frequent doses of Calomel,”
Dr. Boerharve declared u cataractas mercurius solvit,”
Recommended by Drs. Marcy and Hunt.
No. 11. Conium. Objects look red.
Black spots before the eyes with vertigo.
Appearance as of a fringe falling over the eyes.
Weakness of sight; amaurosis.
Nearsighted with asthenopia.
Intense photophobia, worse by daylight.
Cataract from contusion; grey lens.
Scrofulous ophthalmia; burning.
Clinical. Dr. Hughes mentions a case ot traumatic cataract
which had continued for eighteen years, as cured by Dr. Bayes
with Conium,
“A priest afflicted with cataract took Conium and applied
the bruised leaves. This enabled him to read his breviary
without difficulty, and to walk about without a cane or guide.”—
{Frank's Magazine).
“A girl, aged 23, had dim sight two years, and complete cat¬
aract for more than one.” Under Conium treatment in really
dangerous doses, her “vision cleared wonderfully but all objects
appeared red and her menses became suppressed.”— {Ibid). *
Dr. Staerk relates three cases as cured by Conium. One, a
man aged 50, who was totally blind; the second, a girl of 22,
whose vision was scarcely better; and the third, an old rheuraa-
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tic whose aches were aggravated with every change of weather,
ad omnem temporis mutationem excruciabatur.
Recommended also by Drs. Jousset, Bernard, Buchan, Burnett
and Jahr.
No. 12. Calcarea Fluorica. Cannot see distinctly because
of a blur or mist before the eyes. Flickering and sparks before
the eyes.
Clinical. One of my best cases was cured by this remedy.
Man, aged 48, who had cataract in the centre of each lens. He
suffered with deep fissures or cracks in the palms of his hands
and was continually trying to cure them with all kinds of oint¬
ments. I forbade anything used locally except cold cream or
mutton tallow, and kept him upon Calcarea fluor . for several
months, with the result of completely restoring vision.
No. 13. Natrum Muriaticum. Fiery zigzags around objects.
Dim sight as if looking through gauze; objects seem covered
with a thin veil.
Amblyopia; amaurosis; asthenopia. Ciliary neuralgia.
Muscular insufficiency.
Sensation of sand in eyes.
• Clinical. Dr. Burnett reports:
Case. Man, middle aged, double cataract; great liability to
take cold; eyes painful. “All of these symptoms disappeared
under the use of the remedy.”
Case. Woman, aged 38, cataract in right eye; ophthalmia^
mist before the right eye; exceedingly fond of salt; had habit of
putting it into her tea. The Doctor stopped the use of salt and
in a year the cataract disappeared of itself.
No. 14. Sepia. Black spots before eyes.
Gauze or stripes before eyes.
Dullness of sight with photophobia.
Incipient cataract; vision failing; appearance of spider webs
or lace before the eyes.
Conjunctivitis in scrofulous subjects. Worse in summer.
Clinical. Dr. Gaullon reports:
Case. Lady, aged 67; incipient, hard cataract. Great im¬
provement under remedy.
Recommended also by Dr. Norton.
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No. 15. Pulsatilla. Oversensitiveness to light.
Dimness of sight as from a mist.
Amblyopia and amaurosis.
Asthenopia with menstrual derangements.
Ophthalmia. Burning, itching of eyes.
Clinical . Dr. Stender reports a case of a cataract in a scrof¬
ulous boy cured by Pulsatilla and Sulphur.
Dr. Caspari:
Case. Mrs. D., aged 36; inflammation of the eyes, followed
by immature cataract. Under Pulsatilla vision cleared and the
cataract disappeared.
Recommended also by Drs. Bernard, Baehr, DeKeghel, Bur¬
nett, Norton, Marcy and Hunt.
No. 16. Ammonium Carb. Cataract.
Sparks before eyes at night.
Large black spots before eyes. Eyes weak and watery.
Clinical. Dr. Quadri:
Case. Woman, aged 22. Hereditary tendency to cataract.
Insipient cortical cataract, greatly improved by local application
to skin. Dr. Goudret mentions twenty cases cured by remedies
of which an ammoniacal pomade was a constituent part. His
treatment was very harsh, but it accomplished results.
No. 17. Cannabis Sat. Scrofulous sore eyes.
Opacities of cornea and lens.
Cataract; weakness of eyes and diminished vision.
Clinical. Recommended by Drs. Bernard, Martiny, Jahr,
Schroen, Marcy and Hunt.
No. 18. Euphorbium. Lens milk white; cannot see to go
alone; though she sees better on a dark day. Cataract.
Chronic ophthalmia; lids itch and burn.
Clinical. Dr. Hering records one case as improved by this
remedy.
No. 19. Colchicum. Soft cataract.
Cataract with increased size of lens.
Lens pressed forward against iris. Iritis in rheumatic subjects.
Dimness of vision with opacity of the cornea.
No. 20. Euphrasia. Eyes very sensitive to artificial light
and sunlight.
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Vision dim as through a veil; worse evenings.
Obscuration of vision. Cataract.
Dryness and burning in eyes.
Ophthalmia; hot tears.
Clinical. Dr. J. Mauremans.
Case. M. J., aged 77, cataract; saw appearance of snowflakes
and spider webs in the air all of the time. Everything seemed
surrounded by mist. Improved.
Dr. Rummel mentions the case of a girl aged 12, with soft
congenital cataract, greatly helped with Euphrasia .
Recommended also by Drs. Marcy and Hunt.
No. 21. Calcarea Phos. Light, particularly candle or gas
light, hurts the eyes. Conjunctivitis.
Veil over eyes; eyes misty in amaurosis or cataract.
Clinical. Recommended by Dr. Norton.
No. 22. Chelidonium. Photophobia, with pain and sparks
before the eyes.
Misty appearance before the eyes. Cataract.
Amaurosis with rheumatism; also after suppression of skin
eruptions.
Opacity of lens, weak sight, cannot distinguish letters. Neu¬
ralgia in eyes.
Clinical. Dr. Buchmann gives two cases of cataract cured
by it.
Dr. Burnett reports one “brought about.”
It has been used empyrically by dropping the liquid into the
eye, a very reprehensible practice.
The name is derived from the Greek word for swallow, be¬
cause it was believed this bird used the remedy to cure her
blind nestlings.
No. 23. Senega. Dim vision.
Promotes absorption of lens fragments after cataract opera¬
tions or injuries to lens.
Paralysis of muscles.
No. 24. Kali Jod. Vision dim and foggy; sees objects in¬
distinctly.
Syphilitic choroiditis and iritis.
Clinical. Burnett records a case of cataract in an elderly,
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gouty gentleman, whose sight decidedly improved while taking
this remedy.
Recommended also by Drs. Jousset, Marcy and Hunt.
No. 25. Spigelia. Weakness and dimness of vision, with
sparks before the eyes.
Photophobia; neuralgia.
Sensation as if eyes were too large.
Cataract associated with rheumatism.
All things appear as if seen through a gauze; dimness of lens.
Clinical. Dr. Hoffendahl reported one case cured by this
means.
No. 26. Carbo anim. Dim sight; eyes feel weak.
A net seems to swim before eyes.
Senile cataract.
Water. A puncture of the capsule which admits the aqueous
humor into the substance of the lens produces cataract, but if
enough water is imbibed the entire lens liquifies and is absorbed.
“The cloudiness of the fibers of the lens is occasioned by the
action of reagents which withdraw water from it.” (Babuchim).
Hence cataract patients ought as far as possible to abstain from
the use of salt, sugar and alcohol.
Clinical. “It is an admitted fact that certain persons having
gone to Carlsbad and used the waters have returned cured of
their cataracts.” (Burnett).
Dr. Garcia-Lopey published a memoir upon the effects of
cataract treated with Sagura-water , giving a table of 118 pa¬
tients, of whom 14 were cured; 65 relieved; 15 received no
benefit, and of 24 he had no knowledge.
I give my patients large quantities of water to drink at proper
times, for there is a time and a manner to do even that with
most benefit and least discomfort, and at the Sanitarium I use
that form of electricity which stimulates the nutrition of the
lens.
I have largely abstained from giving my own experience for
two reasons; first because I desire to tabulate it and thus make
it more servicable, and second because while I use the above
remedies according to indications I have had the best results in
many cases with an African product called Jubannia , but which
I am as yet unable to furnish to the profession as I have hoped
to do.
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In conclusion, no one has any right to expect any results in
the treatment of ordinary cataract in one or even in two months.
To do so is to ignore the nature of cataract, for it consists of a
structural change which is slow in coming on and it must be
slow in going away.
We occasionally cure a case in five or six months; but many
cases have been cured eventually which for one or even two
years showed very little signs of improvement. Patients, pa¬
tience!
DRUG AGGRAVATIONS. *
H. H. BAKER, M. D., TERRE HAUTE, IND.
When I was asked to present a paper before this Institute, I
quickly selected the subject as announced for several reasons:
1st. In studying the theories of Homoeopathy it has been up¬
per most in my mind for some time.
2d. It is a question on which I myself wish more light, and
which I hope to obtain from the discussion which will follow.
And lastly, because they are little utilized by those who recog¬
nize Drug Aggravations, too much neglected by others who ad¬
mit a possibility of Drug Aggravations, and even unpractical no¬
tion of the theories by the great majority of our profession. I
might say that I have not written upon this subject with a view
of augmenting your knowledge so much as to impress upon you
its importance, and urge the more careful consideration which
that importance demands.
I shall not spend time proving that there are Drug Aggrava¬
tions; but if any doubt such to be the case, I shall merely re¬
quest them to be a little more painstaking in their observation,
when aggravations can hardly fail to be recognized. The fact
that the author of our superior system of medication, the
“Learned Hahnemann” as he was styled by even his critical
contemporaries, had so much to say on this subject, backed by
his keen and almost unequalled power of observation, together
with an extensive experience, should convince us of the great
importance of our subject.
This is not one which belongs only to the realm of the theor¬
ist, or of the high potency physician, and which can be scanted
by the dilutionist as of no practical importance—for to all , the
•Read before the Indiana Institute of Homoeopathy, May 24 and 25, 1898.
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Materia Medic a.
Drug Aggravation should be either a guiding finger to a curative
potency, or a confirmation of a well selected remedy.
Now, what is a Drug Aggravation ? I would define it as an
exacerbation of disease symptoms already existing, produced by
a drug, and not assignable to the disease itself.
I make a distinction here between Drug Aggravation and Drug
Effect* A drug may have an effect entirely foreign to the train
of symptoms constituting the disease under treatment—may pro¬
duce an entirely new set of symptoms. Such a prescription
would be more allopathic than homoeopathic. Let us limit this
paper, therefore, to the consideration of. such drug effects only
as are an increase in the disease symptoms already existing.
Why should we strive to avoid Drug Aggravation?
First, because they are injurious. Hahnemann says (Organon
Sec. 275). “Too strong a dose of medicine, though quite
homoeopathic, notwithstanding its remedial nature, will necessa¬
rily produce an injurious effect.” We have all seen and admit
the serious effects of the strong dosing of our allopathic brethren;
and yet how often is this disregarded or even disbelieved. Hahn-
mann’s statement (Organon Sec. 276), that “too large a dose of
medicine—homoeopathic to the case, will prove to be far more
injurious than an equally large dose of unhomoeopathic medi¬
cine, in every respect unsuited to the disease.” So the nearer
we come to a perfect homoeopathic prescription; the more inju¬
rious would be large doses; and *he more alert must we be to
recognize a Drug Aggravation.
Second, Drug Aggravations should be avoided, because they
are unnecessary, and, by careful observation and consideration
of the changes in the symptoms, they may be avoided. What
may seem strange to many of my hearers, I firmly believe, that
many a life is jeopardized by the long continued exhibition of a
drug. I well remember the first case of diphtheria, I ever saw
—a boy about nine years of age, presenting a well defined deli¬
rium of Hyoscyamus —the low muttering—the picking at imagin¬
ary flocks in the air, etc. The physician in charge—an old
homteopathist and an excellent prescriber—remarked that the
boy had been in this condition two or three days, and he had
been giving him Hyoscyamus ; but it seemed to do no good.
The Hyoscyamt^ was discontinued and the delirium soon ceased.
Now I am confident one or two days delirium would have been
saved this patient; and valuable time not lost, had the physician
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omitted his Hyos. after exhibiting it at a reasonable time.
I have seen this same delirium with involuntary discharges
develope in typhoid fever—get considerably worse under Hyos** ,
and disappear shortly after the withdrawal of this remedy.
There is a point in this connection which is generally over¬
looked, and which should be emphasized, viz. That diseased
organs are much more susceptible to the homoeopathic remedy
than healthy organs. In Sec. 28, Organon, Hahnemann states
that “an adult patient is more easily effected by a minute dose
than a healthy infant a day old.” If this is true there is less rea¬
son for the large doses than is assumed by most prescribers.
We use large doses, most of which are not homoeopathic to the
case—hence see little if any result unless it be aggravation.
Then when we do select a remedy strictly homoeopathic to a case,
and on account of the large doses produce a Drug Aggravation,
we are loath to admit it, but consider the result an exacerbation
of the disease. The drug is pushed still further, and the Drug
Aggravation correspondingly increased until the discouraged
physician changes the remedy and so releases his patient. Just
here is where I urge the necessity of careful discrimination be¬
tween Drug Aggravations and disease symptoms. If it is a Drug
Aggravation, the remedy should, of course, be withdrawn.
But the question naturally arises, and it has often puzzled me
—How are we to distinguish ? Perhaps the suggestions I can
make may be of some service.
A Drug Aggravation is apt to appear as a more or less sudden
intensification of the symptoms; while any change in symptoms
due to the disease would be more gradual, or at least in keeping
with the known character of the disease. By sudden I do not
mean in an hour or so necessarily—but the intensification of
symptoms comes much more quickly than can be accounted for
by the course of the disease. For instance: A patient with
chronic rheumatism which had affected during six to eight weeks
one foot, then another, a knee, hip, and a hand and wrist; and
whom I had relieved from time to time with Rhus y Pulsatilla ,
Colchicum , etc., sent for me one day when I found her left ankle,
considerably swollen, hot, red, and quite painful on least motion.
I prescribed Bryonia 11 , 20 to 25 drops in y's glass of water.
Next morning the report was “ankle more swollen than ever;
more inflamed, and more painful when it is moved,” a decided
change for the worse over night; and a much more decided
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change than had appeared in the case at any time while under
my care, and on this account I assumed I had an aggravation.
What was the indication for medication? I prescribed Bry 30
in water, a teaspoonful every half hour or hour till better, then
less frequently. Improvement was quite marked, and patient
up and around inside of 24 hours, since when she has had 2 doses
a day of Bry so . Three or four weeks later there had been no re¬
currence. Now it may be argued that without this last prescrip¬
tion of Bry 30 the case would have improved just the same. I
think not. But however, the point I wish to emphasize is that
it would have been a poor prescription to have continued the
lx of Bryonia . I need not multiply illustrations.
Another means of distinguishing between Drug Aggravations
and disease symptoms is that frequently some new symptoms will
arise foreign to th*» disease—and yet known to be in the patho¬
genesis of the drug—hence assignable to the drug.
Third, we should strive to avoid Drug Aggravations because
they delay the progress of the case. As long as a drug aggrava¬
tion exists and the physician is fighting this phantom disease
with the very drug which produced it and is continuing it, so
long is he wasting time which should be directed against the dis¬
ease proper.
Of course the physician who has not heard of Drug Aggrava¬
tion, and would not recognize a full fledged one if he met it on
the street, has many more severe cases than the other class of
physicians, and he gets the credit of “pulling them through,”
when there was little hope.
But this is not the “highest aim of healing” with a conscien¬
tious physician, which, according to our Master is “the speedy,
gentle and permanent restitution of health, or alleviation and
obliteration of disease in its entire extent, in the shortest, most
reliable and safest manner according to clearlyintelligible rea¬
sons. (Organon Sec. 2).
So far I have been considering Drug Aggravations of consider¬
able severity and of long continuance, and showing why they
should be avoided.
But now let us consider our subject in another light. If the
Drug Aggravation is only slight or the physician is sufficiently
skillful to prevent its long continuance, then it is beneficial in¬
stead of baneful; a help rather than a hindrance; a confirmation,
not a condemnation.
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A Drug Aggravation (not drug effect, please note). A Drug
Aggravation whenever noticed, is an indication that the remedy
is correctly chosen. Too severe and long lasting an aggrava¬
tion, as we have seen should be avoided either by changing the
potency of the remedy or discontinuing it. But a slight homoeo¬
pathic aggravation should be hailed with delight as suggestive of
a cure.
If we continue the discussion from this point we are immedi¬
ately involved in the question of potency, which I had intended
to avoid, as a question which will doubtless remain as far from
settlement in medicine as the tariff question has in politics.
But a few general remarks touching on potency seem necessary
to conclude my points. Hahnemann (Organon Sec. 278) in
answering the question. “How small must be the dose to fulfill
the requirements of a perfect cure” says: “To determine the
dose of each particular medicine for this purpose, and how to
render this dose so small as to accomplish its purpose gently and
rapidly at the same time, is a problem which obviously is neither
to be solved by theoretical conjecture, nor by sophistic reason¬
ing. Pure experiments and accurate observation aloiie can solve
the question.”
Again he says (Sec. 279 Organon). “Experience proves that
the dose of a homoeopathically selected remedy cannot be re¬
duced so far as to be inferior in strength to the natural disease,
and to lose its power of extinguishing and curing at least a por¬
tion of the same, provided that this dose, immediately after hav¬
ing been taken, is capable of causing a slight intensification of
symptoms of the similar natural disease.” He does not state
that the converse of this is not true, viz. that if a slight Drug Ag¬
gravation is not produced a cure will not result—for cures are
doubtless often made where no Drug Aggravation has been per¬
ceived.
But if we do notice a Drug Aggravation, even though it may be
ever so slight, we are convinced of being on the right track in
our medication. Then what a valuable point it becomes in mak¬
ing the prognosis!
I would therefore urge that this question be kept in mind; that
every prescription be watched with the Drug Aggravations in
view; and if they are observed and treated as Hahnemann sug¬
gests, I bespeak for our school of medicine better prescribes,
more thorough homoeopaths, and far more successful results.
Look out for the Drug Aggravation!
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KIDNEY VARIATIONS.*
S. J. D. MEADE, M. D., CINCINNATI, O.
PROF. OF ANATOMY, PULTE MEDICAL COLLEGE.
When I was a medical student fifteen years ago I had the good
fortune to have for my preceptors two of the best diagnosticians
in the State of Ohio, Drs. J. M. Crawford and J. D. Buck, and
when I reached my senior year I began thinking that I, myself,
was not usually far afield when the question of the diagnosis of a
case came up; and at this time I developed an irresistible temp¬
tation to hold a necropsy on all my patients who died (and the
percentage was quite large in proportion to the number treated
during my dispensary work in college and the first few years of
my practice), that I might confirm my diagnosis in the case.
After I had been in practice five years I changed my tactics in
this line, my desire to do post mortem work did not abate in
the least, yet the object in view underwent a radical change and
I secretly resolved to expend even a greater amount of time and
energy in this work than ever before, my principal object being
to find out how many mistakes I had made in the diagnosis of
each case.
For the last four years I have been the official pathologist to
our County Coroner and this position has opened up a much
wider field for me in researches of this kind. All these cases are
homicides or death caused by violence in some form or other,
and I find not only extensive pathological lesions with absolutely
no history of a previous sickness, but all kinds and sorts of
transpositions and variations of the viscera. I have given
especial attention to the variations as to position, relative size,
number and relations of the kidneys. One decade ago these
deviations would have been interesting to the anatomist and
pathologist alone; but now that clinical methods have become
more exact and the domain of the surgery of the kidney fully
established, a brief and concise report of a few of these cases
may be interesting to the profession in general.
I would classify these abnormal conditions as follows:,
1. Variations as to positions.
2. Variations as to numbers.
3. Malformations.
4. Vascular abnormalities.
5. Alterations in form and relative size.
* Indiana Institute of Homa*opathy, Indianapolis, 1899.
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These abnormalities are much more common in males than
in females, the proportion being as four to one. The left kidney
is more commonly absent than the right.
The first case I wish to call attention to is that of a male, age
40, homicide. I examined the left kidney and for a time could
not locate the right, and was just ready to announce a case of
single kidney when I discovered it in the posterior part of the
right iliac fossa, resting upon the psoas and iliacus muscles, in
the angle formed by the bifurcation of the right common iliac
artery. This gland weighed four ounces. Its outline was that
of a flattened ovoid body, the long axis being parallel to the
long axis of the trunk. The base of the mesentery was attached
obliquely across the anterior surface of the kidney, the lower
half of which projected free from the pelvic brim. The hilus
occupied almost the entire anterior surface from which the
ureter emerged and the two renal arteries entered. There were
four arteries to this right kidney, two coming off from the ab¬
dominal aorta and two from the right common iliac. The
principal vein merged from the hilus in three rootlets, which
soon united to form a vessel of the usual caliber; pursuing an
oblique course upwards and inwards to join the inferior vena
cava.
Case 2. Male, age 42, homicide. Right kidney misplaced,
lying in front of the bodies of the fourth and fifth lumbar verte¬
brae and the first sacral. It curved upon itself at the promontory
of the sacrum. It was fixed by the normal areolar tissue. The
pelvis was placed on the anterior lower extremity. Blood supply
was normal, shape triangular, weighed two ounces, the suprarenal
capsule was normal.
Case 3. Male, age 40. Left kidney two inches lower than
the normal situation, rectangular in shape, pelvis on the anterior
surface, stone in the pelvis as large as an olive, blood supply
from three arteries, two from the abdominal aorta and one from
the left common iliac—anterior common iliac in this case, be¬
cause there was an axial rotation of the abdominal aorta, the
left common iliac lying anterior to the right from the bifurcation
of the abdominal aorta at the fourth lumbar vertebrae and the
promontory of the sacrum, the point of the divergence.
Case 4. On the 8th of this month I made a necropsy on a
subject, a prosperous farmer 53 years old—homicide—in which
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each kidney weighed one pound. The left was two inches
higher than its normal situation, the right contained a teaspoon¬
ful of pus in its pelvis, the cortex of both were thick and white,
pyramids dark red, had the gross appearance of the large white
kidney. All the viscera in this body were very much enlarged,
yet there was absolutely no history of disease. This man had
not seen a physician but once for years. Possibly a brief de¬
scription of the viscera in this subject will not be out of order
here. The brain weighed sixty-four ounces, convolutions, sulci
and fissures not prominent, abscess as large as a walnut at the
apex of the tempero sphenoidal lobe on the right side. The
lungs weighed four pounds (normal forty-two ounces); the heart
weighed two pounds (normal ten to twelve ounces), there was a
mitral insufficiency; the liver weighed six pounds (normal four),
there were three abscesses in the liver as large as an olive, con¬
taining a greenish pus, one large cicatrix enclosing a calcarious
mass, the result of encapsulated pus; the spleen weighed two
pounds (normal seven ounces), containing three abscesses as
large as a cranberry containing yellowish gray pus; pancreas
degenerated; the prostate was very much enlarged, the bladder
was sacculated, two large pouches being formed which contained
a thick, flaky urine which had a very strong odor. As I said
before, this subject was hale and hearty, did not know that he
had a lesion of any kind in his body, at least he had not com¬
plained enough to consult a physician except the one time above
mentioned.
The two kidneys are not usually the same shape but if normal
have the same weight. The left is usually longer and more
narrow than the right. I have in several instances found con-
siderable difference in the relative size, one being one-fourth,
one-third to one-half as large as the other. In these cases the
smaller viscus had undergone a fibrous transformation, while the
corresponding one had become hypertrophied. I have found a
slight relative difference in very many cases, and I am inclined
to believe this is more common than is generally supposed.
Case 5. Homicide, male, age 46. No kidney on the left side
and no renal vessels or ureter. Adrenal body present. Right
kidney weighed six ounces, not diseased as far as a gross exam¬
ination could determine. Corresponding vessels were larger
than normal. No deviation from the normal in other viscera of
the body. This condition was congenital and the cause of a
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single kidney in all probability was the absence or small size of
the artery at whose termination the viscus was developing or
was about to develop. Single kidney does not seem to influence
the health or comfort of the patient nor the duration of life,
some of these cases living to a ripe old age.
Case 6. This was a foetus in which I found what is called the
horseshoe kidney. The kidneys were situated in the lower lum¬
bar region and were bound together at their upper portion by a
transverse band, had two ureters, the hilum was absent, ureters
passing out from the lower extremity of the kidneys. I do not
know the exact period of gestation. On external inspection one
would say full term, but on internal inspection I found that the
ossific centers of the lower extremity of the femur, the upper
part of the tibia and of the inferior maxillary were not developed.
These are the characteristic indications for full term gestation.
These variations are as common in the animal as in man,
especially in the horse, the cow and the sheep. Butchers tell
me they frequently find a single kidney in the bullock, and some¬
times a supernumerary gland, placed either near the other two
or in another part of the abdomen, and sometimes as low as the
pelvis, each possessing its own ureter. Absence of both kidneys
is exceedingly rare, yet there have been such cases reported.
Royer, a French writer, reports several cases in the foetus and in
full term children and one in a monstrosity. Coen mentions
one case. Life, of course, is impossible after a few days.
Moulin reports a case of a girl 14 years of age, at whose necropsy
neither kidneys, ureters nor bladder were found. She urinated
through the umbilicus, which was near the pelvis. There is
room for speculation in regard to this case. Moulin endeavored
to account for this condition by surmising that the urinary pro¬
ducts were secreted by the liver and carried to the umbilicus
through the umbilical vein. Polk, of New York, removed the
only kidney a patient had. Death did not ensue until the
eleventh day although there was a complete anuria.
Displacements of the kidneys are very common. This class
includes hot only cases where one or both viscera occupied al¬
tered positions, but also those of movable kidney, regarding
whose features, causation, symptomatology and treatment so
much has been said and written. Some authors classify these
as fixed and movable, others movable and floating. It is ex¬
ceedingly difficult to separate cases of fixed dislocation from
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those in which the mobility is very slight. In children I almost
invariably find considerable range of movement, and even in
adults there is always a small degree of mobility. What one
surgeon will call a movable kidney, another will term a fixed
dislocation. Then again, great confusion has arisen because
many writers refuse to recognize any difference between the
terms movable and floating kidneys other than mere degree, i. e.
floating kidney being a very movable one. It seems to me the
following would be a good classification.
1. Fixed displacement, where the mobility is not more than
one inch in any direction.
2. Movable kidney, where the mobility exceeds one inch, i.
e. where the viscus is decidedly movable in its related bed of
areolar tissue.
3. Floating kidney, where the viscus has a mesonephron and
floats freely in the peritoneal cavity.
I have a patient, female, age 37, who has been the possessor
of a floating kidney for ten years. It took me quite a while to
diagnose this case. At first I looked upon it as a trouble due to
gastric derangement, as all that train of symptoms was present,
but finding no indicated remedy giving any relief whatever I
made a more careful physical examination and found myself
chasing the right kidney all over the peritoneal cavity. Several
times I have asked for an operation, insisting that fixation is the
only permanent relief she may ever hope for, yet these symptoms
do not constantly annoy her, but she is afraid of the knife. I
have applied abdominal support which gives some relief. She
has implicit faith in high potencies and said to me not long since,
“Dr. Meade, you perform such wonders with your high potencies,
do you not think you will be able to anchor my kidney with
them if I will persistently take your medicine and follow your
directions? 1 ’ I was just leaving her to get into my buggy when
she asked the question and have never given her an answer.
A PAINLESS LABOR.
A. M’NEIL, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
March 18,1897, Mrs. K. called to engage me for her approach¬
ing parturition. She is about 30, a brunette, varying towards
plumpness, health good. This is her second pregnancy. She
related the history of her first and it appalled me. She was in
hard labor forty-eight hours, the forceps were then used, pro-
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ducing a rupture of the perineum, which was immediately re¬
paired and successfully healed. Her baby died when a week
old.
This pregnancy has proceeded with but little disturbance so
that she did not present a clear case on which to base a pre¬
scription. However, doing the best I could, l gave her Sepia m f
one dose.
On the morning of the 28th, I was informed by telephone that
she was in labor. Soon after was called urgently. When I
reached her I found the baby had been born, afterbirth passed
and she as happy as any mortal could be. She told me that the
labor, if it could be so called, lasted between two and three
hours and was painless, only involuntary straining.
Was there any relation between this and the powder of Sepiaf
At the risk of being called credulous or worse, I maintain the
affirmative. My experience has led me to believe what is laid
down in the books, that usually a woman’s labors resemble each
other. There is a woman in this city that has had three births
under my supervision and all of them aiike, viz., only one pain f
but that contains the concentrated suffering of an ordinary labor.
Just one excruciating, prolonged agony and all was over; and
labors like Mrs. K.’s are so rare that when they do occur we are
compelled to conclude that something has caused them. And
moreover, several years ago I reported a case to the Association
that was also painless, in which labor had begun of the ordinary
type. She was a primipara , and when I discovered that every
pain produced a desire to deposit, of course I gave Nux vomica ,
one powder of the 200th, and in an hour or so the child was
born with no suffering except what I have mentioned. Even
when the head was passing the perineum she kept asking me in
calm tones if “it was passing.”
Now when I have one of the usual labors I feel that if I knew
enough that there would have been no suffering. I know the
incredulous will shake their heads and say that is a remarkable
assertion to hang on two cases in thirty years’ practice. Yes! I
know it. And it was a prodigious thing for Hahnemann to con¬
clude that similia was the law of cure, because after taking
Peruvian bark he experienced symptoms like those he had cured
with that drug.
Why should the performance of any function be painful? We
have all cured cases of dysmenorrhoea that were as painful as
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ordinary labors. As for the curse that Eve and her daughters
should in sorrow bring forth children, there was also a maledic¬
tion laid on the ground at the same time that it should produce
thorns and thistles. But that does not prevent the former from
using labor-saving machinery to kill weeds. But pardon me, I
am a physician, not a theologian.
NEURASTHENIA.
HELEN M. PARKER, M. D.
PROF. NOSE AND THROAT, DUNHAM MEDICAL COLLEGE.
Miss Ruth P-, age 18 years. School girl. Tall, plump
girl with brown hair, blue eyes, of amiable, lively disposition.
Normally inclined to be rather more plump than the average.
Family history: Father was an inebriate, died in his 40th
year, when the above was 8 years old, of tuberculosis following
pneumonia. Two of his sisters died of consumption.
Mother—living, aged 42 years, has had a fair degree of health,
though not strong. Recently has had a growth in roof of mouth
which she feared was malignant, proved to be an exostosis on a
molar tooth. Her father and mother both died of cancer.
Aug. 1, 1896. Patient presented herself for treatment, saying
that her mother said she was so “cranky” that something must
be done or she would turn them all out doors.
She also complained that her breath was very fetid, that she
had a short hacking cough, loss of appetite, aversion to greasy
or sweet food, with asthenopia and burning in fauces.
Observation showed numerous very bright red small pimples,
with yellow tops over the nose, on chin and forehead. Inquiry
elicited the information that they were very sore and came some¬
times in an hour or two, and after bursting went away in nearly
as short a time.
Nasal mucous membrane very red, dry and glistening.
Long and persistent questioning failed to bring out anything
further except that she had lost thirty pounds in weight during
the preceding eight weeks, that she could not sleep at night and
that she cried nearly all day.
S. L. Three powders, to be taken daily on rising and report
at end of week.
Aug. 7. Reports no improvement. Was able to get the fol¬
lowing in addition to the above.
Patient is constipated, says that it is natural for her, never
had more than one evacuation a week, and that with great Strain-
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ing and much lameness following the effort in the abdominal
muscles.
Patient menstruated first at 11 years of age. Had very pro¬
fuse and two frequent menses for four or five years. When aged
16 had the measles, since which the menses have been very
irregular and very scanty. Last period was during the preced¬
ing October.
Still feeling that the real cause of all this disturbance was yet
to seek, I called upon the mother when the daughter was not at
home. I found that at the beginning of the previous school
year this girl, who had always easily maintained a high rank in
her class, began to worry over the school work. Notwithstand¬
ing the fact that she was still one of the best pupils in the class
she fretted, fearing that the preceding years* work was not well
done and that at the end of the year, when she would be a can¬
didate for graduation, she would fail to “pass” the examination.
In spite of the assurance of friends and teachers that she had
always done her work well and that she surely had no cause for
fear, she still worried. Largely as a consequence of this mental
state and its physical effects, it is believed, she did ingloriously
fail to graduate.
The chagrin and grief that this caused was the cause of her
sudden loss of weight.
She was the victim of many sympathizing friends who pitied
and condoled with her so that she never was allowed to forget
the cause of her grief.
Causticum' bm .
She was sent away to some friends who were ignorant of her
troubles, where she rode on country roads every day and all
day. Was coaxed to eat new laid eggs, cream, fresh fruit, etc.
When she came home she was put to work in an office where
no one knew of her blighted ambition but where she was stimu¬
lated to read and think in different channels.
Every week she reported and received a supply of S. L.
She reported that she never was constipated a day after taking
the medicine, for three months. She improved in every way
except the cough; pimples and still no menses but an acrid
mucous discharge.
Dec. 1. Causticum CTn .
Dec. T. Reports that the next day after the last visit her
menses came. Had a great deal of pain. Flow very scanty,
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only lasted three hours, followed by a discharge of mucous.
S. L.
Eight weeks from the December menstruation she had a return
of the menstrual flow, complained of constipation again.
Causticum 301 , three doses.
The patient continued to improve until June when she fell and
sprained her wrist. For the pain and lameness which attended
this she received Rhus tox cc .
The wrist recovered and improvement continued.
This case was under treatment six months longer, receiving
one dose each of Sulphur cm and Graphites 60111 to complete the
cure.
Last week the patient and her mother called to tell me of her
continued good health. Feels better than she ever did since she
was 10 years old.
Remembering Hahnemann’s assertion that it is useless to try
to cure a bodily condition brought about by grief, anxiety or
other emotions while the same state of mind or feeling exists,
I set about changing the habits of this patient and insisted that
those ’friends who could not see her without reminding her of
her misfortune, must not visit her and that the family should go
their daily ways as if nothing had happened.
ANGINA PECTORIS—CACTUS GRAND.
. FRANK R. WATERS, M. D.
PROF. PHYS. DIAG. AND DISEASES OF THE THORAX, DUNHAM MEDICAL COLLEGE*
Mrs. S. Light, sandy complexion. Nervous. Age 26.
When a child and up to 16 years of age her parents were in
affluent circumstances and she had no cares. At this time busi¬
ness reverses changed affairs—the father died—this 16-year-old
girl through her exertions supported herself, mother and two
younger children until she was 21.
The strain of this undertaking was the starting point of a heart
condition and with a number of exciting experiences increased
the tendency to bring on spell after spell of nervous aggravation.
Mrs. S. was married to an exceptionally fine gentleman with
means and they have consulted a number of physicians both in
New York and the west, and was finally recommended to go into
the mountains of Colorado which, from the rarity of the atmos¬
phere, nearly finished her and they hurried away, Mr. S. having
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business interests calling him to Chicago, where he expected to
remain but a short time.
Jan. 17, 1898, was called to their hotel. Found Mrs. S. having
one of her heart spell—found her laying upon a lounge, her
hands pressing forcibly in the region of the heart.
Labored beating of heart—90 per minute.
> Pressing with hands.
Clutching sensation “like a strong hand.”
Unconscious at times.
Lips cyanotic.
Comes in exacerbations.
They have usually lasted two hours or more.
A spasmodic clucking sound during respiration.
<From excitement.
Cactus™™.
Jan. 21.
Has had a slight symptom of clutching in region of
Sac. lac. heart.
Feb. 14.
Has taken cold.
Like a pressure on chest.
Has had a chilling.
Hot and cold sensation up and down back.
>Quiet.
Head heavy. <Motion.
Slight cough.
Bryonia 200 .
Feb. 16.
Slight improvement except cough.
Bryonia *°°.
Feb. 17.
Return of heart symptoms. Not nearly so severe
(probably from the coughing).
Cactus 60 ™.
Feb. 25.
Cough—improvement stopped.
Bryonia l0u <
They concluded as there was a decided improvement in heart
symptoms, would select and change to more convenient quar¬
ters.
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Feb. 26.
Was taken about 1 a. m. with colic and running off
of the bowels.
Stool offensive—sharp odor.
Burning discharge from bowels.
Thirsty—little water and often.
Cold water <cramps.
Mr. S. was affected about the same way; could find no cause
in food eaten.
Arsenic -* 00 .
Mar. 5.
A return of bowel symptoms, same character as before. No¬
ticed a handsome green calsomined wall, and concluded it was
the cause; probably containing arsenic.
Arsenic 60m .
Residence corrected, no further bowel trouble.
Mar. 15.
Headache—neuralgic.
Left temple.
Comes and goes.
Flushed face.
Artificial light <eyes.
Easily startled by noises.
Belladonna™*.
Mar. 16.
Some return of heart symptoms. Remained a short
time.
Hard throbbing most noticeable.
Soreness, bruised-like sensation in region of heart re¬
mained.
Arsenic i0m .
Mar. 22.
Feet burn on bottoms; will put them ont of bed at
night.
Sulphur™*.
Mar. 24.
(Trouble for the Doctor). Has developed an itching eruption
over face, much to her disgust. (Had not remembered an itch
she had when a child).
April 1.
Sac. lac. Eruption improved. Feeling much better.
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April 10.
Headache—neuralgic—left temple, etc.
Belladonna cm .
April 24.
Slight clutching in region of heart. Not so severe as
the last attack.
Cactus™ 1 *.
April 30.
Sac .lac. Continued improvement.
May 30.
She feels perfectly well, has gained thirty-one pounds in
weight. Claims she was never so well in her life.
During the treatment of this case circumstances were con¬
stantly producing tests of her improvement. One such oc¬
curred about six weeks ago: while down in the business district
an officer fired his revolver in the air to frighten an offender into
stopping from running away—the law-breaker running in front
of Mrs. S. and fell at her feet, she not knowing whether he was
shot or not. She informed me that her heart gave several hard
thumps and that was all. Another time a man was thrown from
a car against an upright support of the elevated railway, creating
considerable excitement, with but a slight effect upon her heart,
although it happened almost directly in front of her.
A CASE OF ASTHMA.
C. S. DURAND, M, D., COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.
Miss R., age 19. Has had asthma since childhood. Has
had typhoid fever, diphtheria and all the diseases of childhood,
at which time the asthma did not trouble her.
Attacks every two weeks formerly, but now nearly all the time.
First came on pneumonia.
Family history, mother and two brothers have asthma.
Symptoms: Oppression of chest, dyspnoea, worse at night
and in summer.
Severe attacks during menses, lighter between the periods.
Menses irregular for six months.
Wants to go out of doors during paroxysms. Better riding
rapidly as long as she continues to ride.
Nov. 26, 1897. Buis 200 .
Nov. 29. Began menstruating. Sac. lac.
Dec. 6 . Some return of asthma, worse about midnight. Ars 1000 .
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Dec. 24. Ars 100 at intervals since last report. Improving.
Jan. 17. Severe attack of pleurisy, very painful, lasting for
three days for which Bry 30 was given.
At the present time, Mar. 14, 1898, she remains well. Not a
single severe attack of asthma since the first dose of Ars 100 °, and
no symptoms of it for two months, whereas she had it nearly all
the time before.
I want to give all the credit that is due in this case to the cli¬
mate. While the climate alone would not have cured, neither
probably would the medicine have been sufficient in Illinois, her
former home. If homoeopathic physicians in the east have oc¬
casion to send patients to the Rocky Mountains for consumption
or asthma, there is no other place in my judgment as good as
Colorado Springs. I shall be pleased to meet any at the trains
that may be sent to my care, and assist them in every way possi¬
ble.
CURE OF A COMPLICATED CEREBRAL AND NERV¬
OUS DISEASE.
M. A. RUHFUS, M. D.,
Translated by A. McNeil, from the Allgemeine Homoeopatbiechen Zeltnng.
Every novice in homoeopathy accepts a case that has been pre¬
viously diagnosed as atrophy of the brain and, of which another
physician had declared that a hundred medical men could not
cure such a case only with reluctance. At least these were my
feelings in the following case, which I consider worthy of publi¬
cation because of the successful result.
The patient was a boy of 12 and had the following symptoms:
cloudiness of intellect, weak memory, vertigo, headache which
he could not describe only that it was in the region of the sagi-
tal suture, violent pulsation in the temporal and carotid arteries;
head hot, face hot and red, dilated pupils which did not react to
rapid changes of light, fiery sparks before the eyes at times, and
he could not see small print. The nose was inclined to dryness;
tongue had a thin mucus coat, taste flat, little appetite or thirst,
stomach and abdomen slightly tympanitic, or frequent vomiting
of ingesta, bile and mucus and obstinate constipation. The urin¬
ary secretion not much affected, the urine was red and without
sediment, voice hoarse, rough, hollow and almost aphonic, his
language was therefore unintelligible and lisping. Inspection of
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the mouth, throat and the somewhat flat chest revealed nothing
abnormal.
The patient was lying almost continually on his back and re¬
quired help to rise up in bed or to his feet. As soon as his head
was raised, increased vertigo, retching to vomiting, attempting
to walk revealed great weakness and uncertainty of movement in
his legs, he must be led and supported to avoid falling, his legs
became tangled and at every step he lifted his feet too high.
Examination of the spine by pressing on the spinous processes
and the practice of Copland's experiments gave negative results.
Along the course of the crural nerve, there were some anaesthetic
spots. The vascular system was in an irritable condition, the
pulse beating from 90 to 100 per minute, with chilliness some
times in the evening. The skin which was perfectly dry was hot¬
ter on the head than on the legs. The sleep was sometimes rest¬
less, during sleep the cervical muscled drew the head backward;
mind quiet and calm.
No cause for the disease was discoverable. The time in which
it began was not definite. Its course was chronic and certainly
the prognosis was very unfavorable.
Before the homoeopathic treatment there had been, notwith¬
standing the diagnosis of atrophy of the brain and the statement
that it was incurable, there had been leaches, blisters etc., em¬
ployed.
I explained the origin of the present condition in the follow¬
ing manner. Without doubt there was a congestive, inflamma¬
tory condition which was manifested by the signs of determina¬
tion of the blood to the head; strong pulsations of the temporal
and carotid arteries, headache, vertigo increased warmth of the
head, redness of face, the seeing of sparks and more particularly
the frequent vomiting and persistent constipation. The menin¬
ges took part in the irritable condition, and thereby were ex¬
cited into an increased secretion of serous fluid which as a mat¬
ter of course caused a pressure on the brain and thereby the pa¬
ralytic weakness in the different nerve tracts, the clouding of the
mind, the weakness of memory, the dilatation of the pupils, the
decrease of vision, the almost aphonic voice, the anaesthesia of
the spots on the thighs and the almost entire absence of the con¬
trol of the lower extremities by the mind.
The patient was therefore afflicted with a chronic hydrocepha¬
lus internus . In order to remove the symptoms of irritation of
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the brain and thereby to guard against a farther increased secre¬
tion from the meninges, to assist in the resorption of the serous
exudation and to avert the pressure on the brain, I gave Bella¬
donna 5 pellets in a ^ pint of rain water, a teaspoonful every
two hours the first day. As the symptoms lessened in the even¬
ing, on the second day, every four hours, and the third only three
times.
On the fourth day there was a considerable change of the con¬
dition perceptible, the mental cloudiness, the weakness of mem¬
ory, the dilitation of the pupils, the diminished vision, the signs
of congestion of the head, the vomiting, the irritation in the vas¬
cular system were gone without leaving a trace.
In the hope that the medicine would continue to act benefi¬
cially only sugar of milk was given for 8 days. But during this
period the condition of th“ patient did not change. I believed
myself justified in thinking that the present state of the patient
was no longer dependent on the pressure of the exudation on the
brain and that its long continuence on that organ another com¬
plaint had arisen viz: The paralytic weakness of the affected por¬
tion of the nerves. I was therefore under the necessity of looking
for another remedy, capable of causing an increased innervation
of the paralyzed nerves. Experience had taught me that Phos¬
phorus performs glorious service in different diseases of the res¬
piratory organs and as its physiological action in the healthy
human organism, produces severe hoarseness, bordering on ap¬
honia and paralytic-like weakness of the lower extremities. I
gave it in the 30th two pellets night and morning. After using
6 pellets I found on my visit that the voice was clear and plain
so that the patient could read and speak intelligible. The weak¬
ness and unreliability of the legs remained the same the next 8
days. During this time, probable from a diatetic fault there
arose gastric complaints, sour eructations, pressure in the
stomach, pressing frontal headache etc., and the stools which
had been regulated by water clysters were constipated. As the
physiological effects of Nux vow. shows similar symptoms of
paralytic weakness of legs, I gave it in the same way I had
Phos. In four days he took 8 pellets of Nux which removed the
gastric condition and regulated the stool.
The beneficial action on the spinal cord and the nerves of the
lower extremities was unmistakable, which manifested itself by
the patient walking better, so that the feet were not lifted sc
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high and he could go alone across the room supported by two
canes, although with uncertain steps. The anaesthetic spots on
his legs were not discoverable, no further improvement occurred
in 14 days and as longer waiting on account of the impatience
of the parents and of allopathic interference, was not possible, I
resolved to try Aluminum metalicum , which had been given twice
successfully by Boenninghausen in two similar cases of paralytic
weakness of the legs. 1 gave a solution of 5 pellets (Aluminum 90 )
in a half pint of water, a dose of a teaspoonful night and morn¬
ing, on the third day there was an improvement and therefore
the remedy was given only in the evening.
The benefit was progressive and on the 18th day after giving
Aluminum , I had the joy of discharging him fully cured. The
boy could now go to school every dhy with a clear mind, healthy
eyes and strong legs so that he could not only walk but run.
A REPERTORY O* DREAMS.
Continuedfrom page 293.
E. H. WILSEY, M. D., PARKERSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA.
Pleasant dreams, Aeon., Agn., Alumina., Ambr., Amm. c., A mm. m..
Ant. cr., Ant. t., Am., Ars., Asaf., Aur., Bar. c., Bell.,
Bism., Bor., Bov., Bry., Calc. c., Can. s., Canth., Carb. a.,
Cic. Caust., Chel., Cham., Chin., Clem., Cocc., Codein., Coff.,
Con., Coloc., Como., Croc., CycL, Dig., Dros., Euphorb.,
Graph., Hell., Hyos., Ign., Jacea., Kali, c., Kali, n.,
Kreos., Lach., Laur., Led., Lyc., Mag 1 , c., Mang., Mar. v.,
Meny., Merc., Mez., Mur. ac., Nat. C., Nat. m., Nit. ac.,
Nux m., Nux v., Opt, Oleand., Paris., Petrol., PhOS., Phos.
ac., Plat., Plb., Puls., Ran. b., Rhodo., Sabad., Samb.,
Sars., Sep., 811., Spig., Spong., Squilla, Stann., Staph.,
Stram., Stront., Sul., Tarax., Val., Thuya, Ver. a., Viol, t.,
Zinc.
-well remembered dreams with sound sleep, Plat.
- before midnight, afterwards frightful, Phos. ac.
- of earthly splendor and greatness, which on waking up, continued to
keep her in a cheerful mood, Stann.
Poisoned, of being, Kreos., Nat. m.
Praying in a public place with great applause, Ars. h.
Precipices, Cepa., Lac. acid., Anac., Hepar.
-that he was decending a, Chin.
Preaches without having memorized and “gets stuck,” Ant. t.
-that he must preach without having committed the sermon to memory,
Anac.
Pregnant of being, Pic. ac.
Priests had discovered that she had committed crimes, Nat. s.
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Materia Me die a.
Prisoner, of being taken a,' Nat. m.
Projected occupation, Camph.
Procession, with music, he awakened as from sound of kettle drum, Chel.
Provoked, of being continually, Ver. v.
Prophetic, Can. i.
Pursued by wild beasts, Sul., Sil., Hydrast.,—mad bulls, Ind.
-by a ghost, Sil.--by persons seeking to harm her, Nux m., Ver. alb.
-by cats and dogs etc., Nux v.—hunted, Ver. alb.
Pustules on his face, covered with white ugly, Anac.
Quarrel, Aeon., Alumina., Amm. c., Ant. cr., Arn., Aur., Bapt, Bary c. f
Brom., Bry., Calc, c., Canth., Caust , Cham., Con., Guaj.
Kali, n., Hepar., Mag. c., Merc. i. r., Nice., Nat.c., Nat. ars.,
Nitr.,Nux V., Opi., Phos., Phos. ac.. Plat., Puls., Sep.,
Sabin., Helen., Spig., Stann., Ratan., Sil., Staph., Tarax., Ver.
alb., Crotal., Peonia., Stram., Zinc.
— ■ — with dead people as if they were alive, Kali. c.
-in which he stabbed his antagonist in the chest with a large knife,
Nat. c.
Quarreling with a beggar, caused him to scream out, Mag. c.
- with someone which awakens her in tears, Sabina.
-with a dead sister and other dead friends, cried about it, woke with
night mare and sensation of stone in stomach, Cedron.
Queen Victoria, of seeing, Rumex.
Queer dreams, Phos. ac., Quiet dreams, Atroph. s.
Quiet dreams, of death from nervous fever, Kali, chlor.
Rainbows, that the sky is spanned with, Coff. t.
Rape, anxious dreams of a threatened, Sep.
Rasb, that she has a, Amm. m.
Rational, dreams are very, Aur.
Rats, could see, Sep.
Recalling things long forgotten, Calad.
Reconciliation, vivid dreams about a, Mang.
Recollected, Mang., Meph., Genseng., Carb. v., Nat. m.
Remember, cannot, Aril., Aur., Bapt., Bell., Bov., Bry., Cactus.,
Canth., Carbol. ac. Carbo. an., Carb. v., Chel., Cic., Chrom.
ac., Cocc., Con., Granatum, Lyc., Mag. c., Mag. m., Meny.,
Merc., Mur. ac., Nat. m , Phos. ac., Plat., Rhus, Sa d .,
Samb., Sars., Helen., Seneg., Spig., Stann., Staph., Stram.,
Sul., Sul. ac., Tarax., Ver. alb.
Reflection, of wearying, Ars.
Repeating, Am., Nat. m.
Restless dreams, Led., Bry., Lyc., Nitr., Oleand., Sul., Zinc.
Revelling, Graph., Kali, c., Lyc., Nat. c„ Nat. m., Nux v.
Petrol., Sil., Sul., Zinc.
Reverie, full of, Ambr., Ars., Bar. c., Calc, c., Carbo an., Carb. v., Con.,
Graph., Kali, c., Led., Lyc., Nat. C., Nat. m., Nitr., Pe¬
trol., Psor., Sep., Sil., Spong., Stront., Sul., Tart., Zinc.
Ridiculous, Codein., Jug. c.
Riding horses, Therid.
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RiOt8 9 Bry., Con., Guaj., Ind., Kali, c., Lyc., Nat. c., Nat. in., Phos., Puls. r
Stann.
Robbers, Alumina., Arn., Aur. met., Bell., Kali, c., Mag. C., Aeon.,.
Mag. m., Merc., Nat. c., Nat. in., Petrol., Phos., Pib., Psor.,.
Sil., Sinap., Ver. alb., Zinc.
-with loud screams while asleep. Aur.
-after 4 a. m., Rumex.
-- anxious dreams about robbers, awakens with loud screams and is
hardly able to convince himself after he gets fully awakened,
Nat. c.
Romantic, dreams, A mm. c.
Robbers after a blow on the h^pd, Nat. m.
- anxious, awakens frequently with violent palpatation and screaming,.
Zinc.
-and fighting with them, Fer. iod.
-has fallen among, Alumina.
-that they are in the house and will not believe it till a search is
made, Nat. m.
-and murderers when sleeping on the back, Arn.
-from street, Bell.
-with fright upon waking with fixed idea that dream is true, Ver. alb*
Rocks, of rolling among, Crot. h.
Sad, of, Aur., Ars., Ascl. t.. Can. i., Carb. s., Caust., Guarea., Graph., Lyc. r
Laur., Nat. c., Nat. m., Nt ac., Nux v., Op., Phos., Puls.,.
Rheum., Stront., Spong.. Zinc.
-past experiences, and on waking he did not know, whether it was
real or not, Caps.
—— dreams of diseased relatives, Mag c.
Scientific subjects, Guaj., Carbo. an., Ign., Phos., Spong.
Scaffold, he was on a very high scaffold without being anxious, Laur.
Schoolmate, about seeing an old, at which he rejoiced. Ant. cr.
Scolding, full of, Hepar., Phos. ac.
-and reproach for immoral conduct, Arn.
Screams, anxious vivid dreams at night so that he is awakened, by his, Euph.
-aloud in his sleep with anxious dreams, Nit. ac., Sil.
Scenes, of new, Calc. fl.—beautiful, Coff. t.
Scuffling, about, Phos.
Sea voyage, two nights in succession, though he had never been at sea, Sang^
Sentimental, dreams, Kali. c.
Sexual, amorous, Aesc, h., Ant. t., Carb. ac., Coloc., Chin., Canth., Con.,
Diosc., Graph., Ind., Ign., Jacea., Lach. Lyc., Merc., Nat. c.,
Nux. v., Nat. m., Nat. ars., Oleand., Phos., Peonia., Plat., Puls.*
Sabad., Sep., Sil.. Staph , Viol. t.
-amorous with debility in both sexes, Plat.
-- with erections and pollutions, Camph., Can. i.
--emissions, Graph., Iris., Kali, br., Op., Sep., Staph*
--with emissions later, long continual erection, Rhod.
- - with two emissions in one night, Puls.
- - with emissions every second or third night, Nux v.
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Sexual, amorous with one to four emissions every week, Ustil.
- - erections without an emissions, Merc.
-- with erections, Phos. ac.
- —1- nocturnal erections without lewd dreams, Stann.
- - dreams with erection all night, Aur.
Coition, she dreams of it without voluptuous sensation, Bor.
- dreams at night as if she felt the excitation, from coitus in the pu¬
denda, Lyc.
- with no emission, Lyc.
- with profuse sudden emissions, and waking on right side, Sumbul.
_ lewd dreams of practicing coitus, but being disturbing in it on awak¬
ing, erection and voluptuous fancies, Sil.
_ lewd dreams of coition and on awaking sensation as after an emission,
Aram. c.
-that she had coition twice and orgasm twice, Sul. ac.
_ she dreamed of strong desire for coition, and on awaking a tumultu¬
ous desire therefor, which was especially seated in the clitoris,
Sul. ac.
_ dreamed of coition but without emission, on waking painful erection,
Thuya.
- dreams of, Bor., Amm. c., Amm. m.
- without emission, Lyc.
- without emissions, Ars. s. f., Bism., Lyss.
_ that she was about to have connection with a man but for some un¬
known reason the dream changed before the act was accomplished,
no emissions, Iod.
Erectic dreams. Kali c., Aur. m.
Excitement of sexual organs, Op., Sep.
Intercourse, dreams of, with erections but no emission, Lact. ac.
_ of having unsuccessful intercourse with men, Ind.
___ _ _ husband, Nat. m.
Lascivious dreams, Aeon., Amm. c., Amm. m., Anagalis, Astac., Arig.,
Bor., Canth., Clem., Con., Cycl., Diosc., Graph., Hyos.,
Ind., Inula., Kali, br., Lach., Lyc., Merc. i. r., Merc, s.,
Nat. c., Nat. m., NUX. v.. Op., Oxytropis, PhOS-, Sep., Sil.,
Staph., Thuya., Tromb., Vine.
_ with emissions, Bism., Caust., Calc, c., Coloc., Camph., Dig.,
Euphorb., Iris v., Jacea., Kob., Lil. t., Nat. ph., Op., PhOS.,
PhOS. ac., Rhod., Sil., Senecio, Sinapis.
- dreams with exhaustion, Lil. t.
_ with emission which awoke him, Selen.
__ dreams and erections disturb sleep, Cainca., Sep., at 6 a. m. Kobalt.
_ with copious emissions, Merc. i. fl., Rhod.
_ without emission but excitement of genitals, Hyos.
_dreams with awakening emissions, Carbol. ac.
_ _ Several nights in succession with emissious, Ant. cr., Meny.
_ _ with one to three emissions a week, Sars.
_ _ with erection, wakes him up with headache, Sar8.
- - with painful erections, Cact.
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Lancivious, dreams with painful emissions, Sars.
- ■ ■ - are very repugnant to her, Sil.
- - with leucorrhoea, Petrol.
- - after midnight, Cann. s.
- - with relaxed penis, Sabad.
- - awakens him often, Cainca., 811.
- - with a profuse emission, a sticky fluid with aversion to coit¬
ion, Plat.
- - vivid, Bism., Carb. v., Hydrast.
-- with emission without erection, Stann., Coloc.
-- uncontrolable erections without emissions, Coloc.
- - in the morning during which he would have had an emission,
had he not have awakened, Arg. n.
--after coition, with emission and long continued erection,
Rhod.
, - - - of a beautiful girl, with an emission, Caust.
- - with strong sexual impulses, Sil.
- - with violent emissions, Kali m., Sep., Cact.
- - with erections, Cann. i., (disturb sleep), Lith.
_ _ and frequent waking with erections, tenesmus, vesicea and
lacivious tillilation in the urethra, on the account of the
, erection he could not pass water, Lilh.
_ _ with erections and emissions, Formica.
Priapism, Camph.
- and emission as soon as he falls asleep, Pic. ac.
VolliptUOUS dreams, Amm. m., Ant. cr., Agn c., Calc, c., Coloc.,
Graph., Genseng, Kali n., Kali c., Merc, c., Opt, Sars.
_with emissions, Cain., Can. i., Coloc., Kali c., Kali ch., Oleand.
- images in his dreams, with emissions. Ant. cr.
-without emission, disturbing the sleep, Coloc., Ran. b.
- dream with sensation as if he had had an emission, Mez.
- dreams with painful erection, Cactus.
- - without erection with emissions, Spig., Stann.
__ with violent erections and emissions in restless sleep, Nat. c.
_ _ in which he had an emission without awaking, Nat. c.
_ _ disturbing sleep, awoke weak with swollen sensation in
ovary, Nux m.
_at night with emission and great voluptuous excitement, alter beiflg
half awakened by a thunder storm, so that he was led to mastur¬
bate, Nat. c.
_ dreams in afternoon with profuse emission and hard erection, Paris q.
_nocturnal sleep disturbed by voluptuous dreams, emissions and long
continued erections, Nat. m.
_dream in afternoon, with erection without emission, Plumb.
_dreams, restess sleep on account of, without, but often with emis¬
sions, Bism.
-— dreams, vivid, with erections without emission, Led.
khame, full of. Con., Led.
8hlp» 9 dreams of, Senecio. — Ship- wreck, Papay v.
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Shooting, of, Merc., Merc. i. r., Alum. m.—hears shooting, Hep.
Sick, that a gentleman she knew lay sick in her house, Nat. s.
- dreams of sick men, Calc, c., Mag. c., Spong.
■ ■■ of a sick mother without thinking of her through the day, Cast. eq.
Sickness, Amm. m., Anac., Asar., Bov., Calc, c., Cocc., Dros., Hep.,
Ign., Kali, n., Kali, c., Kreos., Moscb., Nitr., Phos.,
Nux V., Rat., Rheum., Syph , Sil., Squill., Zinc.
Sinking 1 in sleep, Croc., Bell., Sull.
Slanderous, dreams, Mosh.— Sleigh riding, Sars.
Small-pox marks, that his face was full of ugly, Anac.
Smoking cigars which he never does, Tell.
Smother her, that an immense sheet of letter paper was coming down to
Merc. i. fl.
Snakes, dreams of, Alumina., Arg. n., Bov., Colch., Grat., Iris, v., Kalm.,
Kali, c , Ran. b., Ran. sc., Rat., Sil., Sep., Tab.
-being in bed with her, Lac. c.
Snow, of, Kreos , Art. v.
Sobbing, anxious dreams with weeping and, Mag. c.
Song, dreams of trying to sing political songs in spite of being in the presence
of spies, Asclep. t.
Soldier, Chel.
Solicitude, of, Mur. ac.
Son, dreams of the death of his son, Fluor, ac.
Sorrowfhl dreams, Ars., Graph., Mur. ac.
Spider of a large, Sars., Oxytropis.
Spinning, Sars.
Stabbed while dreaming, dread of being, Lach.
-dreams as if she would be killed by being, Guaj.
Stealing, fruit in a garden, Plumb.
Stone, that he is about to knock his foot against a, Ars,
Stool, of soiling himself, Aloe.
Stories, she dreamed whole, Amm. c.
Storms at sea, Cepa , Sil.
Strange, finds himself laughing when awakens, Aeon.
Straining, head, Graph.
Strife, dreams full of, Caust.. Hepar, Kali n., Mosch., Phos. ac., Stann.,
Staph.
Studies, Cinnab., Ign.
Stung, anxious dream of being stung behind the ear by an insect, PhOS.
Suffocating, when sleeping on back, Am.
Suffocation, Iris v., Xan.
Swollen, that his body was excessively, Squilla.
-that she was, Carbo. s.
Supernatural things, Asclep. t.
Suicides, Naja.
Swimming, Bell., Chin, bol., Iod., Lyc., Merc. i. r., Ran. b.
Talking to her, dreams that someone is, Aur. •
-suprised with the elegant language with which he can express him
self, Lyss.
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Teeth, of breaking off a tooth, Kali n., Nitr., Ther.
- falling out of. Nux v.—tooth, Tabac.
- that she herself pulled out a fine tooth, Nat. ra.
- that teeth were loosened by medicine, also a piece of the jaw, Coca.
Terrifying dreams, A mm. c.
Thieves, dreams, robbers, see.
Thefts, Camphor.
Thirsty, of being. Dros., Mag. c., Nat. m.
Thirst, at night she awakens with thirst which she had already before felt in
her dreams, Mag. c.
Throttled, terrifying dreams as if about to be, Sil., Zinc.
Throat, dieams the throat grew up, Xan.—stoppage of, Kreos.
-being sore, Bor.
Thunderstorm, Am., Ars., Buphr., Nat. c., Spig.
Tickled the soles of her feet, that someone, Phos.
Tinder, dreamed she smelled burning, Anac.
Tiresome, dreams, Asclep. t., Equest., Sep.
Tomb, of being near a, Anac.
Tongue, was so large that it extended out of her mouth, Tab.
Tormenting dreams after 8 a. m., Mez.
-dreams, Alumina., Carbo. v.
Traveling, journeying, see.
-but she could not go, something like nightmare held her back,
Nat. c.
-by railroad, Piper, m.—mostly by r. r., Apis.
-but could not get off, it vexed her, Kali n., Nitr.
-in all parts of the world, Crotal.
Trees growing on fences without ground under them, Lye.
Trouble, Rhus, t., Acte, r., Bapt., Rumex., Ustil., Nuxv., Hyper.,
Cepa.. Hydrast., LyC., Ars., Hyos., Carbol. ac., Kalmia.,
Aur. mar., Led.
Troublesome dreams, Graph., Cinnab., Lycopus., Asar., Sang.
True, seeming as if true on waking, Nat. c., Nat. m.
-dreams which come true, Asaf.
Unhappiness, heavy dreams of impending, Aur. mur.
Ugly, dreams, Cann. i., Myrica.
Unpleasant dreams, Cycl., Cornus., Ferr., Gels., Kal., Merc., Merc. c.
_ dreams with disposition to swear, and act like a rowdy, in latter part
of dream, Cajup.
_that he is about to be put to death and at same time he is innocent
of crime, Chrom. ac.
Unremembered, Agari., Agn. c., Arg. m., Bell., Carbol. ac., Chel., Cic.,
Canth., Carbo. v. f Cocc. c. t Chrom. ac., Cinnab., Coca., Coccul.,
Fluor, ac., Hydrast., Hell., Hyper., Iod.,Ip., Laur.,Lil. t., Mez.,
Mur. ac., Plat.
Urinating in a decent manner when he is wetting the bed at night, Kreos.,
Sul., Sep.
-that he is, and on awaking has urgent desire, Sep.
Urinate, that he must, Merc. i. fl.
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Urinate, that he was trying to urinate in a bottle, but could not do so on ac¬
count of being in a crowd of men and women, Amm. br.
-that he wants to, wakens that he 6nds it be a fact, Lac. c.
-that he has an attack of stranguary, which proves to be a fact the
next morning, he did not get over it for two hours, Chrom. ac.
Vermin, Alum., Amm. c , Bov., Chel., Kali, c., Lac. c , Mur. ac. t NllX v.,
Phos., Sil.
Vexatious, Aeon , Agari., Alumina., Ambr., Amm. c., Amm. m., Anac.,
Ant. cr. # Am., Ars., Asar., Bor., Bov., fcry., Calc, c., Cann.
i., Caust., Cham., Chel., Chin., Cina., Cocc., Con., Dig.,
Dros., Gambog., Gels., Graph., Hep., Ign., Kreos., Lach.,
Led., Lyc., Mag. c., Mag. m., Mosch., Mur. ac., Nat. c.,
Nat. s., Nat. m., Nit. c., NllX v., Op., Petrol., PhOS.,
Phos. a., Puls., Kheum., Rhus t., Ruta., Sabi., Sars., Sep., Sil.,
Spong., Staph., Stront., Sill., Sul. ac., Zinc.
-about the ill treatment of others, Dros.
-conduct of a strange servant, Rumex.
-anxious dreams, Graph.
-— with moaning and groaning in sleep, Graph.
Vexing 1 dreams, sleep full of, Kali, chlor.
—-—-causing one to scream out, Sul. ac.
Vivid dreams, Aeon., All. s., Am bra., Amm. c., Anae., Arg. m., Ant. t.,
Ars , Am., Ars. s. r., Aur., Bapt., Bary. c., Bell., Bism., Bry.,
Brom., Calad., Calc, c., Calc, fl., Calc, ph., Cann. s., Canth.,
Caps., Chel., Carbol. ac., Carbo. an.. Car bo. v., Cham., Cic.,
Chin., Clem., Chron. ac., Cinnab., Coccul., Cocc. c., Coff.,
Con., Coloc., Cycl., Croc., Dig., Dros., Euphorb., Ferr., Fer. i.,
Graph., Guaj., Hyper., Ign., Iod., Ip., Kali c., Kali s., Led.,
Lach., Laur., Lyc., Lob., Mag. c., Mar. v., Meph., Mang.,
Meny., Mag. m., Merc., Mez,, Mosch., Mur. ac., Nat. c. f
Nat. m., Nit. ac., Nux m., NllX v., Ol. jec., Opi., Peonia.,
Petrol., Phos., phos. ac., Plat., Psor., puls., Ran. b..
Rheum., Rhus t., Ruta., Sabad., Samb., Senecio, Sep., Sil.,
Sinapis, Spig., Stann., Stram., Staph., Sul., Tarax., Thuya.,
Valer. Ver. alb., Viol, t., Zinc.
- anxious dreams at night, Lyc.
- awakened by, phos.
- busy about them for a long time after awaking, Nat. m.
- dreams in cerebro spinal meningitis, Rhus t.
- of days occurrences, Aeon.
-all night long, Mang.
- with new plans for the morrow, Naja.
-of images life-like, Ast. r.
- with nocturnal emissions, Jacea*
- of past events, Sil.
-like a living reality, Nat* Ill., —after midnight, Can. s., Mez.
-of persons he had not seen for years, Calad.
- believes them to be true, Arg. m.
-not easily remembered, Aur., Petrol.
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Vivid, about old occurrences, Anac , Calc, c., Sil.
- vexing dreams, Ars.—vexed by her daughter, Nat. s.
-uneasy dreams as soon as he falls asleep, Ambra.
—— dreams after midnight, they are before his eyes even in the morning.
Zinc.
—— dreams can only partly be recalled, Phos.
-about persons and events, Aster, rub.
- very before midnight, Mez.
-about scientific subjects, Guaj.
-strange dreams, Bary. c.
- at night and talking in sleep, Lyc.
- she awakens from vivid dreams about the days business and she be¬
lieves even after awaking that she must do what she has dreamed,
Lyc.
Vomiting pus and blood, Hepar.
-worms, Chinbol.
Wagons and teams, Senecio.
Waking state, in a Aeon., All. s., Amm. c., Am., Bell*, Bry., Cham.,
Chin., Graph., Hepar., Ign., Lach., Merc., Nui. v., Op.,
Oleand., Petrol., phos., Phos. ac., Rheum., Sep., Samb., Sil.,
Strain., Sill., Selen.
Walking up and down the room reading, Agar.
- on hot floor, Apis.
-Aeon., Bry., Cham., Sil., Sul.
Wandering, dreams, Kali. i.
War, frightful dreams of, Verbasc.
Warts, that back is covered with warts and excrescents, Mez.
Water dreams of, All. s.. Alumina., Amm. m., Ars., Cepa., Dig., Graph,,
Ign., Kali, c., Kalm., Mag. c., Mag. m., Nitr., Merc., Murex.,
Sil., Ver. v.
Water, of bathing in, Chin. bol.
-of being in, Ver. v.—near, Cepa.
-has fallen into, Ferr.
-of black water and darkness, Ars.
-of beat foundering in, Alumina.
-of boat capsizing and people drowning, Lyc.
-of drowning, Sil., Ver., Ver. v.. Zinc.
-of driving in, deep, Valer.
-of falling into, Amm. m., Dig., Ferr., Ign., Phos. ac.
——— of having water poured over him, Ox. ac.
-of being on water, Ver. v.
-of putrid, Arg. n.
-of riding on horseback through a stream and the water freezes on
him, Chrom, ac.
-of sea water, Chin, bol., Sang.
-of high waves, Cepa.
-of a shallow stream, Comoc.
-that his daughter has tumbled into the, lod.
-frightful dreams of, Polyporus.
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Water, of danger from, Mag. c.. Kali, n., Nat. c.
Weakening, dreams, Med.
Wedding, Alumina, Mag. m., Zinc., Nat. s., Nat. c., Chel.
Weeping, Kreos., Chel., Sil., spong., Nat. m.—with tears, Glon.
-violently in a dream at night. Kali, c., Mag. c.
Wells, of deep, Cepa., Merc. c.
Windows two nights in succession, broken, Hepar.
Window, that he tried to break a, Bry.
- of people standing before the, Merc.
Woman, of cutting a, to pieces as an animal for salting. Calc. fl.
Women, of marrying two, Nat. c.
Woods, dreams of straying in the, Mag. m.—Canth.
Work full of, dreams, Ambra., Gels., Zinc.
World, sees end of, Rhus, t.—of Bloody Wound, Chel.
Wrong, that he has done something, Coccul.
Wormscreeping, Amm. c., Mur. ac., Nux v., Phos.
Writing, Prunis. sp., Senecio.
Cure rests in the degree of susceptibility.
Remedies operate by contagion. He caught the disease, and catches the
cure.
Dynamic wrongs are corrected from the inside.
Principle teaches you to avoid suppression. A Homoeopath cannot tempor¬
ize. Those sufferings are necessary sometimes to show forth that patient’s
sickness so that a remedy may be found.
The affections in a very large degree make the man.
You must see and feel the internal nature of your patient as the artist sees
the picture he is painting in oil. He feels it. Study to feel the economy, the
life, the soul.
If Homoeopathy does not cure sick people you are to despise it.
You cannot depend on lucky shots and guess work, everything depends on
long study of each individual case.
This opens a field of tedious labor, and many failures, but if once in awhile
you succeed in curing one of these lost ones it pays.
Memorizers have not perception; they can only remember what they see,
and they do not see much.
Memory is not knowledge until it is comprehended and used; then grows the
ability to see.
Understand the remedy first, the keynotes last.
Every ignorant man thinks that what he know s is the end of knowledge.
What aoDears to be intuition comes from using that which is in the under-
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Editorial;
PAIN AND ITS HOMCEOPATHIC TREATMENT.
Whenever Dr. William Bcericke, of San Francisco, puts his pen
to paper for the purpose of writing a good Homoeopathic article,
success is sure to crown his efforts, because he has a thorough
practical knowledge of the subject to be treated. An excellent
illustration of this fact is to be found in the leading article of
the North American Journal of Homoeopathy for May from which
we take liberal extracts. He says: “Pain is always a symptom;
true, at times one of much dignity with imperious demands for
immediate consideration, but nevertheless a symptom of mis¬
chief somewhere, and it behooves the wise physician to discover
whenever possible, its pathological basis, as it does the careful
prescriber to analyze its character and condition.” We are apt
to find two extremes in medical practice, those who would
ignore the pathological basis, and those who would insist upon
it as the foundation upon which all prescriptions must be made.
It will be observed here that he says “the wise physician should
carefully note the pathological basis/* but he does not say for
the purpose of selecting the simillimum. Again, “how futile to
cover it up by some pain killer, and thus not only deprive our¬
selves of much valuable information as to the disease, but more¬
over loads the system with some foreign intruder and possibly
lay the foundation for some drug habit, by no means an imagin¬
ary evil.**
There is nothing that will drive a sane man crazy or deprive a
man of ordinary good sense of his reason so quickly as the
presence ot pain, and the more severe its character the more
determined will he be to resort to illogical and improper means
for relief, and perhaps to no other source may be attributed the
long lasting, almost irradicable effect of drug disease than to this
very cause—a determination to get relief from pain, cost what it
may, and the matter of cost is usually out of proportion to the
•cause.
The cause for pain is varied and must always be cdnsidered
in the Homoeopathic prescription. While the prescription may
mot seem to be based on pathology, strictly speaking, the path-
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ology of the cause must be considered by the careful physician,,
in order that he may determine to a certain degree the nature of
the trouble to be remedied. If the close observer detect evi¬
dence of deficient nutrition and therefore properly interprets the
cry of the hungry system for proper nourishment he will have
gone a long ways in his selection of the simillimum. If his care¬
ful study or investigation for the exciting cause leads him ta
detect a certain train of circumstances bearing out the theory of
a malarial history, if he sees the periodicity, which is one of its
manifestations, he will look for his remedy within a certain
scope. If the history of the case, on the other hand, points to
an infection of syphilis or gonorrhoea, his investigation will fol¬
low in this line. It is true that the Homoeopathic remedy may
seem to have no connection whatever with any of these accepted
pathological causes, but many times they will aid in the differ¬
entiation; but whatever may be the condition, jt will never do to
allow the central thought to escape the attention of the observer,
that it is the patient which must be treated and that the totality of
symptoms expressed by him must be the basis of the prescription.
Boenninghausen gave us three legs for the therapeutic stool:
Location—place; Character of sensory disturbance; Modality—
modifying factors, weather, time of day, environment, heat, cold,
dampness, etc..
Every complete symptom must be made up of these three
elements, and whenever possible they should be so analyzed in
the true prescription. In the pathogenesy of any drug those
symptoms which furnish these three conditions are the symptoms
of greatest value and as a rule are the symptoms upon which the
greatest dependence may be placed. Considering these three
conditions separately we find many well tried and thoroughly
verified remedies adapted to and acting especially upon certain
parts of the body. This elective affinity for certain organs of
the body is very evident from the proving and from the results-
following the application of the same. “Our provings are simply
records of symptoms produced independent of their pathological
interpretation and the builders of our homoeopathic materia
medica worked wiser than they knew by keeping the record pure
of all pathological speculations and making the outward expres¬
sion of the morbid condition produced, the objective and sub¬
jective symptoms, the only legitimate basis for recording drug,
action and for guidance in drug selection.”
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“As an illustration of the importance of location in the selection
of a remedy, a careful study will show how intimate Cactus is
associated with the heart; Podophyllum with the duodenum; Ar¬
gentum with the joints; Oxalic acid with the spine; Belladonna
with the brain; Aloes with the rectum; Ceanothus with the’ spleen ,
etc. But the differentiation must be drawn much finer than this
and it is in this fine discrimination that we find the elements of
success in the careful prescribes ”
“For example, we naturally think of Chelidonium for pain un¬
der the right shoulder blade; Cedron for supraorbital pain; Gel-
semium and Picric acid for occipital pain; Spegelia when pain
centers around left eye; Coffea for pain in the parietal bone , as if
a nail were driven in; Mezereum when the trouble seems to be
located in the malar bone , etc.
u Myrtus becomes associated with the upper left chest about the
third rib, and Illicum with the corresponding place on the right
side; Kalmia for all sorts of flying pains in the region of the
heart; Ulmus for pain in the wrist; Zinc , aching in the last lum¬
bar vertebra; China for sensitiveness of scalp, mel-cumsale hypo¬
gastric pains, and so on indefinitely. In this catagory belongs
sensory hyperesthesia which is characteristic of certain drugs;
for example, the olfactory hyperesthesia of Carbolic acid and of
Phosphorus; the acoustic hyperesthesia of Belladonna and Sali¬
cylic acid; ophthalmic hyperesthesia of Oxalic acid and Conium;
cutaneous hyperesthesia of Ergot , etc.”
In the treatment of pain such changes in the functional integ¬
rity of the senses, whether increased or decreased or perverted,
becomes helpful indications, thereby showing the value of the
second leg to the stool, the kind of pain; for example, “the valu¬
able suggestion offered by the burning character of pain to
Phosphorus , Arsenicum , Car bo vegetabilis , etc., independent of
the fact that burning pains are usually associated with morbid
conditions of the mucous membrane and skin and these tissues
determine the form of pain more certainly than does the char¬
acter of the morbid process, although as a rule burning pains
are effects of passive state or incipient decomposition.”
“Pain located in bone is, as a rule, of a gnawing , boring char¬
acter and is usually worse at night and influenced by changes in
the weather; remedies presenting similar conditions will be
found to act on bone, for example, Aurum , Mercurius , etc.
:Serous membrane gives us the sharp , sticking pain as is also pro-
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duced by Bryonia and Kali carbonicum , which experience teaches
has a direct relationship to Serous membranes. Throbbing , beat¬
ing, hammering pains point to movements of the vascular walls,
congestion, inflammation, etc., easily covered by Aconite , Bella¬
donna , Glonoin , and Veratrum viride. Drawing and tearing sore
pains occur in muscles , tendons , fibres , etc., and are usually
rheumatoid in character with remedies like Arnica , toxico¬
dendron , r a dicans, Cimicifuga , etc. The stinging pain calls
to mind the corresponding sensation and Theridian ,
Natrum muriaticum are t>pes of this class. We also have the
erratic pain of Pulsatilla and Aa// carbonicum . The blood like
sensation of Anacardium , the hot needle sensation of Arsenicum ,
the corresponding icy needle sensation of Agaricus , the general
coldness of Veratrum , and the absolute refrigeration of Heleo-
derma. Constricting pains are frequently met with a feeling of
constriction of the trunk as if the clothes were too tight or as if
a cord were compressing it often present in spinal affections.
Plumbum produces a similar sensation. Local constrictive sen¬
sations are certain indications when present, such as che con¬
striction about the heart of Cactas , around the sphincters of
Apis. The opposite sensation of expansion points to Canabir
indica in the head, Medorrhinum if located in the eye they feel
as if tearing, and to Argentum if in other parts of the body. Ia
thoracic pain of a severe type due to poor digestion with flatu¬
lence that becomes incarcerated, Argentum nitricum in men and
Nux moschata in women are of exceptional value. For the in¬
tense pain located in the left side of the chest in or near the
cardiac region and pointing strongly to Angina pectoris , there is
no remedy so perfectly meeting this condition as that of Nitrate-
of amyl , although Spigelia and Oxalic acid are somewhat simi¬
lar to it in their pathogenesy. Pain associated with defecation,
aside from the commencement of dysentary should lead to a
careful examination pointing as it does to inflamed hemor¬
rhoids, fissures, ulceration, etc. Homoeopathy possesses two-
remarkable remedies for rectal pains, Rhatania , Sanguinarict
nitrate.
Of even greater importance in the selection of the indi¬
cated remedy than that of location and character of sensation is-
the third factor, the modality . When these are clearly defined
you are often able to select your curative agent without special
regard to the character of the pain or the location of the same.
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Of prime importance in this third class will be found aggravation
with reference to time; for example, the morning aggravation of
all the Kali's and of Nux, the forenoon aggravation of Natrum
muriaticum and Stannum, the afternoon aggravation of Pulsatilla,
the early evening aggravation of Lycopodium, remembering here
that many congestive and vascular affections are worse in the
evening; the night aggravation of many remedies like Aconite ,
Mercurius, Syphilinum, etc., etc., the after midnight aggravation
of Arsenicum , and of which nothing is more characteristic. The
remarkable aggravation of Lachesis after sleep and the amelior¬
ation of Nux.
The Doctor closes this valuable paper as follows: “There is
nothing more satisfactory than to see the wonderful restorative'
and quieting effects of a well chosen Homoeopathic remedy in
cases that have passed through the gamut of all sorts of treat¬
ment and palliative measures with the disease more firmly estab¬
lished and fastened upon the patient, plus discouragement if not
despair; it can be done in but one way, not in any haphazard
fashion, only by following out the principles of our art faithfully
and patiently. It is not an exaggerated statement that Homoeo¬
pathy can take the incurable cases of the old school, the victims
of mere palliations, the candidates for narcomania, and cure a
good percentage. How? Just in this way. Make our diagnosis
according to the most approved method of the up to date physi¬
cian, bring in all our pathological theories and lore, apply all
hygienic and dietetic aids, but then for purposes of homoeopathic
prescribing, forget for the time being most of this interesting
knowledge, take the patient as a morbid symptomatic being—
take account of his stock of symptoms, subjective and objective,
arrange the totality according to location, sensation and modality,
fit your remedy to this organized morbid human form and the
curative response will come just as sure and as long as there is
reactive vitality left.”
NEWS ITEMS.
Temple S. Hoyne, A. M., M. D., was unanimously elected
Dean of the newly organized faculty of Dunham Medical College
and Hospital. The College enters upon the coming session in
the best shape for hard, earnest work of any time in its history.
Dr. John Storer of Boston, has recently opened up an office in
the Columbus Memorial Building, occupying the suite with Drs.
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Crutcher, Beaumont, Ludlam, Harvey, Sayre and Ward. He
will have a chair in the Department of Ophthalmology, Otology,
Rhinology and Laryngology. Many other changes in the faculty
have been made which will be announced later in the season.
Politics of the American Institute is waxing hot and at present
writing the only thing that is in any way certain is that there
will be a hot time in the old Institute on the night before elec¬
tion. It is known that there are two candidates for the presi¬
dency, Chas. E. Walton of Cincinnati, who by all rights should
have been made President at the meeting in Buffalo, and Benj.
F. Bailey of Lincoln, Neb., who made such a vigorous run in
Buffalo.
For Recording Secretary, Dr. Wilson A. Smith of Chicago,
editor of the rejuvmated Medical Visitor , is willing to step into
the shoes so ably filled by Dr. Frank Kraft of Cleveland, Ohio,
editor of the American Homocopat hist. The simple fact that a
vicious fight is being made against Dr. Kraft because he is
such a vigorous exponent of justice and truth, should bring to
his support all lovers of fair play. It must not be understood
that Dr. Smith is a party to this malicious piece of spite work,
for he is above any such petty manipulations of the franchise o
any member of the Institute of Homoeopathy. f
It is reported that the headquarters of the American Institute
has been transferred to The New Mercer, corner of Twelfth
and Howard streets, because of the crowded condition of the
Millard. This hotel is practically new and contains fifty very
large rooms with bath and one hundred exceptionally large and
pleasant rooms without; it is within a short distance of the
College where the Institute is to be held. They are making
special arrangements for parties and it will be well to engage
room before starting for Omaha.
Experience has demonstrated the uselessness of attempting to
get up exclusive or official trains for any such meetings because
people will follow their own inclinations and the best roads will
only agree to attach special cars to their regular trains when
there is an unusual demand for space. The Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific road gives us the privilege of riding in their
magnificent “Rocky Mountain Limited ** without additional cost,
and surely that is enough of an inducement to fill the train, es¬
pecially when they leave Chicago at 4:30 p. m., cutting off our
sleeper in Omaha the next morning at 5:00, allowing us to sleep
until we are ready to get up. The “Lake Shore’* and “Nickle
Plate” now run into same depot in Chicago. Write George F.
Lee, City Agent, 91 Adams St., Chicago.
It is rumored that Dr. Frank Kraft has been “ousted” from
his place in the Cleveland Medical College because of his
espousal of the cause of Dunham College vs. Intercollegiate
Committee.
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A MONTHLY HOMEOPATHIC MAGAZINE.
Vol. xxxvli. Chicago, July 15, 1808. No. 7
flDaterta flDebtca.
TILIA EUROPEA.*
B. G. CLARK, M. D., NEW YORK.
Gentlemen: In presenting this study of Tilia Europea for
your consideration, I desire to say that I have followed the or¬
der outlined by Dr. Ad. Lippe in a book published in 1854, en¬
titled “Key to the Materia Medica or Comparative Pharmaco¬
dynamics,” in which Tilia was one of the eleven remedies pre¬
sented for comparison in the following order: Aconite , Sulphur ,
Arsenicum , Phosphorus , Belladonna , Calc are a Car tonic a, Pulsa¬
tilla , Tilia f Sepia , Agaricus , and Rhus Toxicodendron . That this
remedy should have been selected by so gifted a teacher, and
placed among the polycrests for comparative study, would
seem to indicate that he considered it a very valuable remedy.
Yet in our later works the remedy is seldom mentioned, and on¬
ly a few of our physicians seem to have any knowledge of it. It
is for these reasons that I have brought this study of Tilia to
your attention.
I have compared all the remedies given by Dr. Lippe and in¬
cluded them among those presented for comparison with one or
two exceptions. I have added other symptoms which seem to
be of importance, with their comparisons, making in all one
hundred and forty-eight (148) remedies with corresponding
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symptoms occurring five hundred and fifty (550) times. Of these,
Pulsatilla and Sulphur each occur ... 22 times
Lachesis, . . . . . . . . 16 “
Sepia,.. 15 14
Belladonna and Phosphorus each occur, . . 13 “
Calcarea Carb., Carbo Veg. and Rhus Tox. each occur, 11 “
Mercurius and Thuja “ “ 10
The others occur from one to nine times.
I would call special attention to its value in muscular weak¬
ness of the eyes, and to its peculiar hemorrhage from the nose
(and other organs) blood being thin and pale. As a remedy in
diseases of the antrum (maxillary), typhoid fever, diarrhoea, sub¬
involution, amenorrhoea, and rheumatism. The sweats of this
remedy are profuse and easily excited. I trust this work may
lead others to study this valuable but much neglected remedy.
Symptoms. Corresponding Remedies.
Generalities.
Especially suitable for females. Bell., Cham., Ign., Plat., Puls.,
Sabina., Sec. c., Sepia.
Especially after parturition.
Arn., Cham., Coff., Caul.,Puls.,
Rhus, Carbo veg.
Especially for children.
Calc, carb., Cham., Sil.
Especially during dentition.
Bell., Calc, carb., Cham., Ign.,
Lach., Sil., Sul.
Left side of body is mostly af¬
fected.
Lach.
Aggravation in afternoon.
Alum., Bell., Calc. Phos.,
Kali. Bich.
And evening.
Kali carb., Kali nit.. Lyc.,
Puls.,Rhus., Sepia.,Sil., Sulph.
Sinnop. n., Thuja, Zinc.
Aggravation in warm room.
Iod., Mez., Puls., Sec. c., Sen¬
ega, Thuja.
Aggravation by heat of bed.
(skin symptom)
Alu., Bov., Calad., Calc, carb.,
Clem , Cocc., Cycl., Dolich.,
Kobalt., Lactic ac., Merc.,
Puls., Rhus., Sulph., Sars.
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Aggravation during motion on*
ly (rheumatic symptom).
Bry., Calc. Phos., Colch.,
Ledum., Nux vom.
Amelioration in cool room.
Iod., Mez., Puls., Sec. c., Thuja.
Amelioration from motion.
Ars., Aur., Caps., Con., Cycl.,
Dulc., Euphorb., Ferr., Lycop.,
Puls., Rhod., Rhus., Sabad.,
Samb., Sulph., Tarax., Valer.
Mind and Disposition.
Melancholy, disposed to weep. Aur., Calc, carb., Caust.,
Graph., Ign., Lycop., Nat.
mur., Puls., Sulph., Viol. od r
Sensorium.
Giddiness with staggering. Kali carb., Nux vom., Petrol.,
Sec. c., Sars., Stram.
Giddiness with feeling of gauze
before the eyes.
Aeon., Bell., Cicuta., Ferr.,
Nux vom., Puls.
Head.
Stinging pains in forehead. Aeon., Bell.,Canth., Nat. carb.
Stinging with heat in head and
face.
Nat.* mur., Sil., Sulph.
Eyes.
Sensation as of gauze before Calc, carb., Caust., Crocus,
the eyes. Kreos., Lycop., Lach., Nat.
mur. r Phos., Petrol., Sepia.,
Sulph., Tabac.
Bin-occular vision imperfect Caust, Coniura, Gels., Hydr.,
(Muscular asthenopia) Macrotinura., Mur. ac., Nat.
raur., Nux v., Kalmia, Ruta,
Secal., Tabac.
(Retinal asthenopia) (China, Spig.)
Ears.
Stinging in ears. Bell., Caps., Conium, Merc.,
Nux vora., Puls., Sang., Sil.,
Spig., Sulph., Zinc.
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Nose.
Bleeding from nose—the blood
is thin.
China, Kreosote.
Blood. Pale but quickly co¬
agulates.
China, Dig., Dulc., Kreos.,
Merc., Nit. ac.
Coryza with sneezing.
Arg. nit., Ars., Al. cepa,Calad.,
Calc, carb., China, Dros.,
Euph., Gels., Merc., Nat. mur..
Puls., Staph., Tart, em., Squil-
la, (Skookum chuck).
Coryza with tickling in nose.
Arg. n., Arg. m., Asar. caps.,.
Carbo v., Ign., Mag.c., Physos.,
Sepia.
Coryza with roughness in the
throat.
Carbo v., Caust., Puls.
One side obstructed.
Alu., Bov., Chel., Ign., Kal-
mia, Nux m., Rhod., Staph.,
Sulph., Sulph. ac.
Face.
Pain. Sore, as from sub-cutan- (As a remedy for disease of the
eous ulceration in the right antrum, Maxillary, also Kali
side of the face over cheek iod., Chelid.)
bone, followed by a similar
pain in the left side of the
face beginning in the temple
and extending to jaw bones
ending in the gums. (Hepar., Puls.)
Pimples about the right corner
of the mouth.
Bell., Hep., Merc., Sepia.
Teeth.
Shifting pains in all the teeth
“ “ aggravated by
cold water.
Mang., Puls.
Arg. nit., Ant. cr., Bry., Calc,
carb., Caust., Cham., Hepar.,.
Lach., Mang., Merc.,Nat. mur.,
Nux vom., Nux m.. Puls., Rhus,
Sil., Staph., Sulph.
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Painful tension in the left arti¬
culation of the jaw.
Am. mur., Lach., Merc., Nux
vom.
Painful articulation—prevent¬
ing mastication.
Hyos., Spig., Rhus, Sulph.,
Verb.
Mouth.
In the morning when awaking Bell., Cocc. c., Graph ., Hydr.,
the mouth is covered with Ign., Iod., Magn. c., Mur. ac.,
mucus, which even covers Nice., Puls., Rheum., Selen.,
the teeth and impedes speech Sil., Spig., Staph., Stront.,
Tabac.
Appetite and Taste.
Disgust even when thinking of Ars., Asaf., Colch.
eating.
Desire for something refresh¬
ing.
. Caust.,Cocc., Phos.,Phos. ac.,
Puls., Rheum., Sang., Valer.,
Ver. alb.
Throat.
Burning in the throat. Ars., Apis., Canth., Carb. veg.,
Croton tig., Euphorb., Merc.,
Mez., Phos., Ran. bulb., Ran.
scl., Sabad., Sang., Sec. c.,
Verat. alb.
Sensation of swelling of uvula.
“ with desire to swallow.
“ and hoarse voice.
Alu., Bell., Carbo veg., Cocc.
c., Merc., Nit. ac., Nux vom.,
Seneg., Sabad., Sulph., Thuja.
Stomach.
Eructations, putrid. Aceticac.,Arn., Cocc., Hepar.,
Kali b., Merc., Nux vom.,Puls.,
Sepia., Sulph., Valer.
Eructations with nausea.
Alu., Acetic ac., Am., Ars.
Asar., Bell., Canth., Caust.,
Cocc., Colch., Hepar., Iod.,
' Kali b., Lact. ac., Lyc., Magn.
c., Pet., Sulph. ac.
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Materia Me die a.
Nausea from thought or smell
of food.
Burning mentioned by Dr.
Lippe occurs during first day
of proving, and is not con¬
stant.
Colch ., Mosch., Sepia.
Abdomen.
Bloated abdomen; pain as from Calc. Phos., Carbo veg., China,
incarcerated flatulence, and Fluor, ac., Iris, v., Lach.
repeated noisy discharge of it
with much relief. Lycop., Nat. carb., Nat. mur.,
Nat. sul., Nux vom., Olean.,
Sulph., Ver. alb.
Loud rumbling and rolling in
the abdomen, with discharge
of fetid flatus with which #
watery faeces escape occa¬
sionally.
Aloes, Am., Caust., Dulc.,
Hyos., Phos., Phos. ac., Puls.,
Stront.
Abdomen painful, when touch¬
ed, especially around navel.
Aeon., Bell., Bry., Canth.,
Carbo veg., Caust., Cham.,
Cup., Lach., Phos., Rhus,
Samb., Verat. alb.
Sensativeness, soreness, and
sensation of sub-cutaneous
ulceration in upper part of
abdomen.
Coni., Hell., Rann. sc., Sulph.
Stitches suddenly appearing in
the A., and extending into
the pelvis, and impeding
breathing.
Chel., China, Kali c,, Lach.,
Ran. sc., Samb.
Burning around the navel, ex¬
tending into the small of the
back.
Aeon., Berb. v., Carbo v.,
Diosc., Lach., Nat. carb., Plat.,
Sepia.
Stool and Anus.
Frequent desire for stool, with Calad., Grat., Merc.cor., Puls.,
repeated but scanty s. of soft Sulph.
faeces.
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First part hard, last soft.
Discharge of putrid flatus with
which some watery contents
the rectum escape—moisture
Oleand.
Garbo a., Carbo v.
Nat. mur., Nit. ac., Rann. sc.,
Sil., Sulph., Thuja.
Urgent desire for stool while
urinating without previous
desire.
Aloes., Canth., Cicu. v., Squilla
Urinary Organs.
Constant almost painful pres- Canth., Cocc. c., Dig., Dulc.,
sure upon the bladder with Equiset., Eupa. pur., Lil. tig.,
frequent micturition. Lyc., Phos., Ruta , Sepia., Squil-
la, Stann.
Micturition very early in the
morning with delayed evac¬
uation and swollen feeling of
the urethra.
Arg. n., Am., Can. sat., Clem.,
Cocc. cact., Conium, Hepar.,
Mur. ac., Rheum., Sepia, Thuja
Female Sexual Organs.
Frequent pressing on the uter- Ant. cr., Bell., Coni., Graph.,
us as if everything would fall Lil. tig., Mag. mur., Murex,
out of the pelvis. Nat. c., Nux vom., Pallad.,
Plat., Puls., Sepia, Sulph.
Leucorrhcea, pale mucus, worse
while walking.
Bov.,Carbo a.,Carbo v.,Graph.,
Lil. tig., Mag. mur., Merc, v.,
Nat. mur., Phos., Sars., Stront.
Sensitiveness and soreness of
uterus as after parturition.
Am., Bell., Bry., Lach., Lil.
tig., Plat., Puls., Rhus tox.,
Thuja.
Menses delayed (8 days) flow
only one day, (blood pale)
Ars., Bov., Dulc., Graph.,
Lac. ac., Nat. carb., Phos.,
Puls., Sepia, Sil., Sulph.
Soreness and rednesss of ex¬
ternal genitals.
Amb., Ars. Calc, carb., Carbo
v., Graph., Petrol., Sepia.,
Sulph., Thuja .
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Larynx and Trachea.
Stitches in larynx aggravated
by talking.
China, Lach., Lauro., Nit. ac.,
Sil , Sulph. ac., Psor., Zinc.
Hoarseness with mucus in the
trachea.
Ang., Bar. carb., Cannab. sat.,
Cham., China, Iod., Lach.,
Nat. mur., Nit. ac., Stann.
Chest.
Oppression with numbness of Cann. sat., Carbo a., Cham.,
arms. Cocc., Crocus, Cup., Lyc.,
Kali c., Nux v., Ox. ac., Rhod.,
Sil.
Drawing in left nipple.
Darting “ “ “
Euonymus, Zinc.
(Sil.)
Upper Extremities.
Weakness of the arm. Agar., Am. carb., Ars., Bism.,
Calc, c., Caust., Coff., Colch.,
Gels., Kali c., Lach., Nux v.,
Pet., Plat., Phos., Ruta., Sec.,
Zinc.
Tearing in the forearm down
from elbow.
Aethusa, Asaf., Angus., Berb.
v., Bism., Bry., Carbo v.,
Caust., Dulc., Calc, c., Kali c.,
Magn. c., Mez., Nit. ac., Phos.,
Ran. bulb., Rhod., Sars.,Staph.
Lower Extremities.
Trembling and weak or weari- Arg. n., Ars., China, Coni.,
ness. Eupat. purp., Nat. s., Nux v.,
Physos., Sec. c.
Drawing pains in hip joint.
Sulph'., Coloc., Lach., Nat. s.
Thuja, Valer.
Knees, drawing and tearing
pain.
Alu., Caul., Caust., Bry., Coni.,
Ferr., Nat. mur., Phos., Psor.
Feet and ankles, drawing and
tearing.
Ambr., Alu., Anac., Bry., Caul.,
Chel., Can. sat., Mag. carb.,
Oleand., Rhod., . Rhus tox.,
Nat. s.
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Feet and ankles with distended
veins.
Ambr., Ferr., Ham., Plumb.
Sleep.
Sleeplessness with restlessness, Am., Bapt., Laur.
the bed seemed to be too
hard to him.
Sleep.—Unrefreshed. More
tired in morning than when
lying down in evening.
Magn. c.. Sepia.
Fever.
Chilliness in the evening. Arn., Hepar s., Kali c., Laur.,
Lyc., Magn. m., Ox. Ac., Phos.,
Puls., Plat., Rhus, Sabad.
Heat all over, but most in head
and cheeks.
Aeon., Bell., Bry., Calad.,
Cina, Dros., Hepar., Hyos.,
Ipec., Nat. c., Nux v., Petrol.,
Plat., Sabad., Sepia., Stram.,
Sulph., Thuja.
Sweat.
Sweat warm, profuse soon after
falling asleep.
Coni., (Selen) Nit. ac.
In rheumatic fever with in¬
creasing pains just in propor¬
tion as the sweat increases.
This symptom is given in
“Lilienthal’s Therapeutics” as
a special indication, and I have
verified it in one case, but do
not know where he obtained
the symptom.
Symptoms of Ferr. are also
worse while sweating. Rem¬
edies having “profuse sweat
not affording relief” are China,
Merc., Sepia.
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Night sweats. Acet. Ac., Am. m.,Bar. c.,Bry.,
Calc.c., Carbo a.,Caust., China,
Ferr. pic., Jabor., Graph., Iod.,
Ipec., Kalmia, Kali c., Lach.,
Lyc., Nat. c., Nit. ac., Pet.,
Phos., Puls., Rhus tox., Sabad.,
Sepia., Stann., Staph., Sulph.,
Thuja, Zinc.
Skin.
At night in the heat of the bed
eruption of small pale red
pimples in clusters, with vio¬
lent itching and burning af¬
ter scratching.
Anacard., Am. c., Ars., Caps.,
Carbol. ac., Caust., Dolich.,
Lach., Led., Merc., Gambo.,
Puls., Sil., Sulph.
SOME INDICATIONS IN HEMORRHAGE, EPISTAXIS &c.
F. O. PEASE, M. D., CHICAGO.
PROF. OF MATERIA MEDICA, DUNHAM MEDICAL COLLEGE.
Paris quad. —Sensation as if the eye was pulled by a thread
towards the brain; marked congestion and fullness at
root of nose, epistaxis.
Millefolium —Epistaxis with congestion of the chest cavity, at¬
tacks may cease or seem to stop from cold water ap¬
plications &c., but begin again. In cases of scanty
menstruation, but long continued, with epistaxis;
fingers cold and tremulous hands; skin very relaxed;
anxiety.
Coccus cacti. —Epistaxis with severe sneezing and whooping
cough.
Carbo veg. —With paleness of the face.
Coffea —With heaviness in the head.
Conium —Blood in small drops, dark in color in old persons.
SYMPTOMS RELIEVED BY HEMORRHAGE.
Bromium —Chest and eye symptoms better from bleeding.
Bufo —Headache better (also Magn ., Sulph. and Merc.)
Chamomilla —Confusion of thought improved.
Hamamelis —Bleeding from nose and ears improved the head
symptoms.
Petroleum —Moderate epistaxis improves the headache.
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AGGRAVATION FROM HEMORRHAGE.
Borax —Headache worse from bleeding.
Phos. acid —Epistaxis in typhoid without relief.
Crocus sat. —Hemorrhages destroy the health of the child (de¬
spairing mood) dark blood; daily epistaxis in warm
weather; nose bleeds easily; blood is hot, thick and
black.
GENERAL.
Coffea —Blood starting suddenly; watery blood.
Oleum jecoris —Bleeding from nose on stooping, with amen-
orrhcea.
Nat. mur. —Frequent epistaxis at night, brought on by stooping.
Rhus glabra —Hemorrhage from left nostril and mouth.
Corall. rub. —Bleeding every night (A fat. mur.).
Mercurius —Epistaxis during coryza, also at 10 a. m. with
bleeding from the ear.
IS CHLOROFORM DANGEROUS?
F. H. LOCKWOOD, M. D., CHICACO.
- PROF. OF NERVOUS DISEASES, DUNHAM MEDICAL COLLEGE.
There is a general impression that this question should be
answered with a decided affirmative, and that the action of the
drug on the heart is responsible for many deaths.
From the report of the chloroform commission, held a few
years ago, we learn that it does not act in the heart at all, but on
the respiratory organs, and that there is not the slightest danger
in it if it is only properly given.
I quote from Dr. E. A. King’s article on the subject.
The objects of the chloroform commission, kept in view
throughout their experiments, were to test the safety of chloro¬
form as an anesthetic and compare it with ether, and with the
mixture of alcohol, chloroform and ether known as the A. C. E.
mixture; to persevere with these anesthetics till death resulted; to
note the different effects produced by the drugs and by asphyxia;
and to investigate especially the alleged liability of chloroform
to produce stoppage of the heart. To this end no fewer than
558 experiments were made, principally on dogs and monkeys,
who passed from unconsciousness to a painless death. The re¬
port gives the fullest scientific details of each case, and embod¬
ies the results of the most lengthened and most carefully tested
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series of experiments with anesthetics ever made. Its key note,
recurring over and over again with added emphasis, is that chloro¬
form anesthesia is entirely free from risk, so long as the breath¬
ing is in no way interfered with; and that in death from chloro¬
form the respiration always stops before the heart does. The
commission has been able to demonstrate conclusively that
chloroform has no direct action on the heart, and has proved
that the sudden effects on the heart’s action are not really due to
the chloroform at all, but are the result of asphyxia in suffoca¬
tion.
Now in the common method of giving chloroform, Dr. King
asserts, no attention whatever is given to the respiration; the pa¬
tient is allowed to choke, and struggles as he breathes the pure
vapor, which should be diluted with air, while the physician
anxiously watches the heart.
He says doctors may dispute over the question from their own
standpoint, but his object is to draw attention to the fact that
there are two distinctly different methods used in administering
chloroform, within the principle laid down by the commission,
in which the operator is guided entirely by the respiration,
watching it in such a way as never to allow it to be interfered
with; the other in the principle of attending only to the pulse;
from his own experience he can testify that under the one method
there is nothing to excite or distress the patient, while under the
other he is made to take the very bitterness of death.
SULPHATE OF QUININE.
Ever since the discovery of Sulphate ot Quinine by the French
chemists, Pelletier and Gaventon, there has never been a drug
so misused and abused except opium and its alkaloids. The
Cinchona as used by the Jesuits was fully as successfully in
fevers as the alkaloids, in these latter days the objection being
its bulk. The bark will often cure, when the Sulphate of Quinine
fails. My early medical education at three of the best Allo¬
pathic colleges in American and the Hospitals of London,
Dublin, Edinburgh, Paris, Berlin and Vienna, taught me that
the Sulphate of Quinine was as harmless as flour and the
panacea for all the ills that flesh was heir to. In the earlier
years of my practice, Sulphate of Quinine was administered
in nine-tenths of the cases that I prescribed for. The first
case that I noticed, the injurious results of its administration
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was a Mrs. T-. She had a bilious remittent fever. I
called to see her one evening and found her pulse and tempera¬
ture normal and perspiring nicely and bowels open. I left three
Quinine Sulphate Powders of 2 grains each (P. and W. make)
with instructions to give one every 2 hours. After the first pow¬
der was given, the family went about their duties and when the
time came to give the second powder, they found Mrs. T. breath¬
ing heavily and unconscious and unable to be aroused. I was
hastily summoned and seeing the condition of my patient, called
the most skillful physician in consultation; we applied electricity
and used every means to restore the patient, but the lady never
rallied. She was murdered by the Sulphate of Quinine!
I was so annoyed at the incident, that I had Prof. Wheeler,
then professor of chemistry in Chicago Medical College, exam¬
ine the two remaining powders, and he pronounced them pure and
unadulterated Sulphate of Quinine.
Case No. 2, came into my hands through the Odd Fellows,
the brother had been given up to die of pneumonia, under Dr.
S-, an eclectic; under Aconite , Bryonia , Phosphorus and Tart .
emet ., the brother was convalescing. One morning I called
to see him and found him sitting up in a chair, washed and
dressed. His wife said that their old family physician had made
a friendly call and suggested that quinine would expedite his re¬
covery. I freely expressed the opinion that quinine would be
sure death. At 2 o’clock the old family doctor made another
friendly call, and he and the brother’s wife persuaded my patient
to take a 2 grain powder of Sulphate of Quinine. At 3 p. m. I
was hastily summoned and found my patient comatose. I worked
with him for an hour and in spite of my efforts, he crossed the
river, in two hours after the administration of the Sulphate of
Quinine. Dr. 9. was so mystified that he sent a specimen of his
drug to Cincinnati for examination and the result was that it was
pronounced pure Sulphate of Quinine.
Case No. 3, was that of Mrs. S. who went home to visit her
mother after a long journey. She was attacked with neuralgia
of bowels and spent a restless night. The next morning Dr.
R- called and found her comfortable, he prescribed 3 two
grain powders of Sulphate of Quinine. The first powder was
given and her mother went about her household duties, leaving
her daughter to rest. In about an hour she returned and find¬
ing the patient sleeping heavily, she did not disturb her. In two
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hours, when the time for the second powder came, she re¬
turned to her daughter to administer the medicine and to her
horror she found she could not arouse her daughter. The doc-
toi was hastily summoned and did everything within his power
to restore his patient, but in spite of all his efforts she passed
away in four hours after the fatal dose. The two remaining
powders were sent to me and I had my old professor of chemis¬
try, Theodore G. Wormley examine them and he pronounced
them pure and unadulterated Sulphate of Quinine.
Let the observing tourist visit a strange city and he can tell
its morality by the number of its church spires, its intelligence
by the number of its school houses and the practice of medicine
in vogue by the number of people wearing glasses, using ear
trumpets, and the number of cases or chorea he meets with.
Some of my professional brethren, that I have mentioned the
deleterious results from taking the Sulphate of Quinine, suggest¬
ed that they were isolated and simply idiosyncrasies, and to sat¬
isfy myself, one Sunday morning, I took a 2 grain pill of Sulphate
of Quinine at 8 and 10 o’clock a. m. At 10:30 a. m. I attended
church. I could not follow the speaker and it made me mad.
I felt a dulness in my head with vertigo.
My head throbbed and ached.
Left side of head broke out in a hot sweat.
My left eye had dazzling, bright objects flickering be¬
fore it, following with dark spots, which terminated
in complete blindness of the left eye.
No effect on ears.
Nose had a watery discharge with sneezing.
Neuralgic pains from left to right side of face.
Lips dry and burning.
Teeth ached.
Bitter taste in mouth with metalic taste when swal¬
lowing and salivation.
Throat felt rough with difficult swallowing.
Craved whiskey, and when taken did not satisfy.
Nausea and throbbing at pit of stomach.
Stitches in liver and spleen.
Colic in abdomen.
Stools yellow and watery.
Urine frequent, scalding with a pink sediment.
Sexual desire increasing.
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Voice husky.
Oppressed breathing.
Dry spasmodic cough.
Pressure in chest.
Palpatation of heart.
Stiffness of neck and lumbago.
Hands tremble.
Weariness of legs.
Debility.
Unrefreshing sleep, and numbness of the parts on
which I laid.
Numb feeling all over.
These symptoms continued till Monday following, when I took
Natrum mur. 6x at 8 and 10 a. m., when all the pathological
symptoms gradually disappeared. Every case of confinement
that I have attended in late years, where the child was afflicted
with strabismus chorea, or “3 months colic,” I found that the
mother, during her pregnancy had taken Sulphate of Quinine for
neuralgia or ague. Where the heroic treatment is extensively
used, is it any wonder, that there are such a large number of
sudden deaths, that are attributed to “heart failure” and other
mysterious causes?
TO STUDENTS OF MATERIA MEDICA.
(CONTINUED.)
In our investigations into Systemic Action, and for purposes
of coherent progress and study we divide this into: Action
showing cessation of symptoms, i. e. towards health; action
showing continuation of symptoms, i. e. towards chronicity
and, ACTION SHOWING intensification of symptoms, overcom¬
ing the power of life, i. e. decline of vital power —death.
In these divisions is manifested all the phenomena included in
the formula “reaction of the vital force.” The student will learn
from study of the prover, or of the symptoms presented by a
group of provers under the same drug, how to recognize the
symptoms that point to recovery and also that some of these
are attended with others that do not so point, and which should
be classed as concomitants . These may indicate that while some
symptoms move towards return to healthy, normal action of
some of the functions, others, concomitant to these, indicate
that the power of life is striving for the mastery over the disease
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making force, and if the concomitants are becoming less and less
in intensity, then the student will recognize that health (normal
equilibrium) is returning. If these concomitants are increasing
in intensity, then the decline is fore shadowed. Again, if it is
observed the symptoms are moving in expression of equal action,
that is to say, the concomitants seem to hold the forces of life in
check, so that there is neither decline from or return to the nor¬
mal equilibrium of forces—health, then the condition of chron -
icity is shown.
From this, we learn that the relationship of the drug or dis¬
ease making force, to the powers of resistance (susceptibility) of
the power of life, shown in chronicity, is a parallel relationship.
(This would seem to explain why the higher potencies are
used more frequently and effectually in chronic diseases). This
relationship is noticable in all conditions of disease movements,
acute as in chronic; where the duration of action of a dose, in
potency, varies in direct ratio to the movement of declination of
the power of life, the duration of action is shorter, and longer,
when the power of life rises toward equilibrium or health. Fre¬
quent doses if the curative movement ceases or does not Con¬
tinue, repetition so long as the remedy is in homoeopathic ad¬
justment to the conditions calling for it, and a change to another
potency or remedy if the conditions change. In the Systemic
Action then, we become acquainted with the more subtle “reac¬
tion of life,while in the earlier physiological action, we learn
of the mechanical and chemical actions. Following up the study
of this systemic action, we find that the three divisions above,
viz: Movements towards health, chronicity and decline, ex¬
press themselves in the natural re-division thus. Reaction shows
movement towards: Resolution or subsidence; Continuation or
chronicity; Retrograde or destructive, and often Reproduction of
action . Study in accord with this division, or with this in mind
to direct our studies will certainly guide us to a comprehensive
knowledge that will lead to orderly conclusions.
It is from an observation of the above phases of systemic ac¬
tion of drugs, and of the power of life while under the influence
of those drugs, that we will come into an understanding of
Symptomatology , both of drug and disease manifestations, and
which will enable us to recognize the Similitude of the drug
pathogenesis 1 to the symptomatology of miasms, whether artifi¬
cial or spontaneous (natural).
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In studying the behavior of the power of life, under the sway
of sick-making forces, as expressed by Resolution, Continuation,
Declination, Reproduction etc., of the signs of the systemic ac¬
tion, we also become acquainted with and must st\idy the next
natural divisions, viz: Idiosyncracy, Individuality, Peculiari¬
ties and Modalities, and in these as in all the phases of drug ac¬
tion will be found the genuine key notes of remedial value, as
also those of diagnostic value from the symptomatic point of
view.
In the further handling of this subject, we intend to define
the several elements, last noted, suggesting the natural divisions
that result from orderly study.
(to bk continukd.)
F. O. Pkask.
The human mind should not be burdened with technicalities. They destroy
description, and close the understanding.
You must be able to recognize every ambassador of the internal man.
The physician must see, and feel, as the artist does his picture. He must
perceive, by his knowledge of the human heart, that good woman's state whose
religious melancholy he could not otherwise understand.
Every scientific man today is trying to find something he can claim as his
own. Such a man cannot understand Homoeopathy. lie worships himself.
Has dwelt on the externals so long that it is impossible for him to think ration¬
ally.
The physician who violates his conscience, violates his ability.
Man's unbelief and opinion do not affect truth. The experience which the
Homoeopath has, is experience under law and confirms the law.
What matters it what people think of a just man? His reputation will take
care of itself,
A man, whose services are worth having, can starve in the gutter, in order
that he may do good, for the love of his neighbor; and he will acquire this
power, this perception. Such a physician may realize what it is to have a duty
to perform.
Materia Medica never inspires perception. The physician must have the
love of his use, and he becomes wise in pro|>ortion as he loves his use, and in
proportion as he lives uprightly with his patients; that is, desires to heal them;
beautify their souls. Can the physician, who does not love his neighbor as
himself, get into this position?
You cannot meditate too much on even the extreme of the human race. It
becomes your solemn duty to heal the good, bad, and indifferent.
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PSORA, SUPPRESSED RHEUMATISM AND GONORRHEA
REPORTED BY GUERNSEY P. WARING, M. D., CHICAGO.
The following case received treatment in Prof. H. \V. Pierson’s
clinic, Dunham Medical College, and became of general interest
to the students as well as others attending this clinic, held
more especially to illustrate and demonstrate the teachings of
the Organon.
March 21, 1897.
Mr. C-, Englishman, age 34, shoemaker, married,
light complexion, blue eyes, weight 190.
Predisposition .
Grandparents negative.
Mother—much rheumatism and neuralgia.
Father—always good health.
Four brothers, two sisters, two died with scarlet fever, all
had other children’s diseases, much croup, other¬
wise healthy.
Childhood\
Had children’s diseases, much croup.
Vaccinated, human viris, no immediate bad effects.
Foot sweat, much, offensive, long standing, until 18.
Feet blistered easily, much burning and scalding.
Eruption on wrists in warm weather.
Nervous, frightened easily, followed by stomach trouble
and diarrhea, attacks short, no vomiting.
< thunderstorm; excitement; at night; when alone.
Rheumatism.
Age 18, came on suddenly, “after curing foot sweat.”
Eegs, calves, muscles.
Pains cutting, pulling, aching, with heaviness, some sore¬
ness but no swelling.
<; walking in rain; from cold; lying.
> sitting; feet up; rubbing; heat.
> limbs drawn up when lying.
Use local application of vinegar, red pepper and salt
petre, followed by relief, attack lasted one week.
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Rheumatism.
Age 25, second attack, soon after coming to America.
Came on after working in basement in cold damp draughts.
In the onset same as before, excepting calves which were
more painful, and much swelling.
Used some local application, with less relief.
Also took black cathartic pills.
Swelling soon subsided, followed by fainting, prostration
and palpitation.
Pains went to the chest, < left, and was confined to the
' house for twenty-six weeks.
Pains extending from chest to shoulders, and down to
lower end of sternum.
Sensation of heavy weight pressing in.
< lying, could not get breath, (did not lie down for more
than a fear).
< walking; deep breathing; at night.
> sitting up straight; quiet.
> warm room with plenty of fresh air.
Sleepy, but could not sleep, would wake with a start, sen¬
sitive, irritable, thought would die.
Sweat, much, steaming hot, chilly after.
< least exertion or excitement.
< days and early in the attack.
Great prostration, very low.
Treatment, allopathic, much purging, with all sorts of
local applications.
Convalescence, slow, two years before could lie down and
sleep naturally.
Pains seemed to settle in left chest, causing more or less
“heart trouble” ever since.
Gonorrhoea.
Age 28, only one attack.
Discharge, yellow, and greenish, lasting three months.
Treatment, injection of sugar of lead, and Zip.
Soon after discharge ceased, chest trouble grew <, con¬
tinuing to the present.
Present Symptoms.
Mental —Cheerful, anxious to get well, some irritable but
not despondent.
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Head —Some dizziness, head whirls.
in house; working hard; when tired.
Headache, vertex, dull heavy pain, hot.
< morning, 5:00 to 9:00; damp weather.
> after clearing head and expectorating mucus.
Nose —Catarrh, discharge white, thin, offensive, with
sneezing.
< mornings, from beer and tobacco.
Stomach —Appetite and digestion fair.
Some bloating and erructation after eating,
beer, tobacco, milk, salads.
Chest —Pains same as during long sickness, only not so
severe.
Pains, under left nipple, extent to shoulder and arms.
Sharp, catching, with smothered feeling, palpitation.
< excitement; hurrying over vJork.
< sitting and bending forward, stands at his work.
< damp weather, before a storm.
;> moderate exercise; artificial heat.
Skin —Rash, wrists, summers only.
Itching much, always had it.
> scratching; in cool air; using sulphur ointment.
< at night, getting warm.
Hoils, three past year, one on chin, two behind right ear.
Surface of body very clear from eruption or hair.
Hands and Feet —Swell some.
< exercise or hard work; towards night.
Feet burn, smart, scalding sweat, offensive.
after standing; toward night; in bed some.
Sleep —Starts and jerks in first sleep.
>> on right side (since chest trouble).
> fore part of night, wakeful after 4:00 a. m.
Dreams, being in trouble, traveling in a boat or in the
water.
Sweat, often wakes in profuse sweat.
< chest, some on all parts of body.
Followed by chilliness.
Weather.
3> warm, clear, settled.
cold (very sensitive to zero temperature).
< damp, cloudy, cold, windy.
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Bcenninghausen’s Checking System brought out the following
remedies: Sul 1 *, Puls 71 , Br/‘\ Mux* 9 , Rhus**, Calc**, Sil n ,
Merc* 9 .
This group without doubt contains the simillitnum. Upon its
selection for the first remedy, depends largely, not only the cure
of the patient, but the reputation of the physician; consequently
the real study of the case has now only begun.
In the process of exclusion of remedies the question arises at
once, “Is this an acute, or chronic case?” Let us see.
Among the first predisposing symptoms we find the father had
rheumatism, and the patient's brothers and sisters all had much
croup with other children’s diseases, two dying with scarlet fever.
The patient in childhood also had a persistent skin eruption, of¬
fensive, scalding, foot sweats, nervousness and gastric troubles,
all proving that a chronic condition was even born with the
child.
Later in the record attacks of rheumatism and gonorrhea are
found, which were treated in a wa> to suppress rather than cure.
Hahnemann distinctly teaches that chronic diseases develop as
a result of suppressed local or acute expression of some internal
affection, and that the process is from Mow uproard, and from
without inward.
This patient’s rheumatism is traced from the calves to the
chest, “from below upward,” where it remains. The gonorrhea
and skin eruption, treated with the most repelling local applica¬
tion known, were evidently suppressed, same with the foot sweat,
thus filling the other requirement, “from without inward.”
Hence, we sec at once that the chronic condition inherited has
been farther developed in the patient’s lifetime.
Having a chronic case, the next step will be to discover that
which has been the predisposing cause. Until the predisposing
causes are removed no permanent cure can be made. All the
treatment this patient has received during years of sickness has
not been curative because the predisposing miasmatic conditions
have not been eliminated, perhaps never even sought for.
Glancing over the list of remedies “checked in,” we find three
great constitutional deep acting remedies— Sulphur , Calcarea
card., Silicea , all powerful anti-psorics, the first named ranking
the highest. This could not have occurred unless psora had
been the greatest predisposing cause, and in case there are symp¬
toms of other causes present, it is safe to conclude that they
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have developed by reason of psora having been the first condi¬
tion.
Again, a remedy in order to be curative in this case must be
one that will act in harmony with Hahnemann's teaching; name¬
ly: that the process of all cures in chronic cases are from within
outward , and from above dowmuard, the same being an unfold¬
ing process in the reverse order through which the chronic dis¬
ease has developed. Therefore, a remedy must be selected in
this case which will accomplish this unfolding process, or we
shall fail in our attempt to cure the patient. No remedy is more
often called for to bring such a result than Sulphur .
We will prescribe Sulphur**™ one dose dry.
March 29,1897. (One week later).
Pains in back, third day after medicine, continuing three
days.
Much aching, early before rising, back and legs.
>> lying on back; first rising in morning and moving
about.
Chest —cutting pains, left side.
< lying on left side, > on right side.
Fains less severe, but moving around, extending to
arms, back and left knee. Can lie down with
more comfort.
Sac. lac.
April 5.
Pains now extend down left leg to foot.
< in calf, at night. Also in different parts of the
body, shifting from place to place.
> in the chest, only had one attack past week.
Diarrhea —for three days, profuse, offensive.
< mornings on first rising.
General improvement.
Sac. lac.
April 19.
Pains in legs, resembling first attack of rheumatism. If
anything more severe, continuing for several
days.
]> now. Can lie down without bringing on chest
pains.
Still greater improvement than last report.
Sac. lac.
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It will be sufficient, perhaps, to state that during the next two
months the patient gradually improved, the pains finally leaving
by way of the feet, without any repetition of the dose or other
medicine being given.
June 20.
Return of the old symptoms.
Slight pains in the chest, increasing in severity.
Sul cm one dose dry.
July 1, 1897.
Patient came to ray office greatly 'alarmed, declaring he
had the clap, but such a thing could not be, as
he had not been exposed.
Discharge, profuse, greenish and yellow.
Sac. lac. (with sufficient explanation to patient).
July 15.
Chest pains all gone.
Discharge less, thicker.
Urine, frequent, urging, < at night.
Pains, burning, < after urinating.
Cordee < left side, very painful.
Sac . lac.
July 22.
Urination, less painful, some burning.
Cordee, not so frequent though just as severe.
Prepuce swollen and much irritated.
Sac. lac.
August 2.
Discharge, soreness and burning some less.
Night sweats, like used to have during long sickness.
<1 face, head and neck.
Skin, eruption on wrists, “Same old thing.”
Feet, burn after walking, standing.
Sac. lac.
August 18.
Night sweats same, only < every other night.
Very prostrating, sour and offensive, followed by
chilliness long lasting.
Generally about same as last report.
1 Mental —irritable, must have something clone.
Irritated because of sweats and pain.
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Discharge thicker, greenish.
Pains > cold water, out doors.
Puis 30 (one powder at night till better).
September 0.
> in every way.
Discharge much less, very thin, only drop at a time.
Pains in chest seldom noticed.
Eruption on wrists all disappeared.
Can work sitting at the bench now.
Following this date there was nothing of much importance in
the case, only the usual convalescence with an occasional aggra
vation until January, four months later.
January 17, 1898.
Very sensitive to cold, chilly anywhere, all the time, weak,
nervous, irritable.
Constipated, cramping pain in bowels, bloating.
< afternoon and evening after eating.
Sweat some upper part of body, cold below knees,
in bed, when first retiring.
Si/icea iitm .
March 1.
Patient reports all well, and had remained so when last
seen, about the fifst of June.
Siiicea naturally followed Pulsatilla and in this case proved
to be the finishing remedy.
SCROFULA.
A. MCNEIL, M. I)., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
December 16, 1897. E. S., age 6, brunette, emaciated, was
brought to me. She is precocious mentally and physically; cut¬
ting her first teeth at four and one-half and walking at ten and
one-half months. Has had diphtheria twice since the glandu¬
lar disease appeared. Had ophthalmia with morning agglu¬
tination of the lids, and when they were separated, stringy
pus would flow from the eyes. Apis high cured this. Was
four years under one physician who treated her from the be¬
ginning of the enlarged glands without any benefit. Then
another for two months. He, after the medicine first given
did not benefit, lanced the swelling, although at that time
there was discharge of pus from another part of the tumor. She
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lost strength and flesh very fast at this time and a consultation
being held, it was agreed that a more radical operation viz: lay¬
ing the sore open and scraping the gland offered the only chance
for recovery, and it was by no means certain that that would
save her. Her father refused to permit the operation and she
was brought to me.
She is gentle, plays well, is heroic in enduring suffering. She
has much darting, lancinating or shooting pains from the occi¬
put forwards. The pains in the diseased glands are of the same
character and run in the same direction. The pus is stringy, yel¬
low or green, fetid and acrid. The side of the suffering is on the
left side. She has pains in different parts of her system. She
likes milk, bread, butter and potatoes and these all agree. Has
no thirst for water. Has never eaten meat, as her father is a
vegetarian. Is subject to vesicles on the lower lip. Has leucorr-
hea which is acrid and streaked with blood. Toe nails bend
over the ends of toes and are sensitive.
I worked out her case, by the aid of Bcenninghausen,on Under¬
wood’s Checking Lest. Sepia had all the 14 symptoms and it ag¬
gregated 38 points. Silicea was next with 34, but one of the
symptoms was absent and moreover it had been given by one of
her physicians. I therefore gave her Sepia 800 one dose Decem¬
ber 17, 1897, and on the 30th another of the I00 °.
February 28, 1898, the ulceration is almost healed. Feels,
eats and plays well. She has dandruff in her hair which she
never had before. The leucorrhea which had disappeared has
returned, and she has an enormous appetite for eggs. I gave
her Calcarea 1000 one dose.
March 20, was called and found her suffering from malarial
fever, for which I gave Sabadilla 30 one dose. In 3 days the fever
was gone and she was convalescent. The ulcers have healed.
At this date, June 4, she has gained flesh and color and is a
very healthy child. I forgot to say that I permitted no medical
applications to the ulcers, and made no change in her diet. Still
refrained from meat.
She only received the three doses I have mentioned and I am
confident that the second dose of Sepia was at least unnecessary.
There is one point to which I wish to call attention viz: the giv¬
ing of Calcarea after Sepia . If we turn to the Relationship of
the Remedies in Bcenninghausen, under Sepia in the rubric of
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glands we will find 14 medicines mentioned, one of which is
Calearea in the lowest type.
The craving for eggs belongs pre-eminently to Calearea , al¬
though Oleum animale has craving for soft boiled eggs. The
dandruff also points to Calcarea, while Sepia has it, but only
when it comes in circular patches resebibling ring worm. All of
these were sufficient reasons for the administration of Calearea
and the result proved that the choice was right. The Relation¬
ship of the Remedies is a point that has been much neglected.
Always, when a remedy has done all that it is capable of doing, its
curative action having ceased, even in highest potencies, the
case should be restudied and the Relationship of the Remedies,
as found in Boenninghausen, given due weight in the selection of
the next medicine. Permit me to remind you of the paper bv
him in the Transactions of the I. H. A. for 1893, page 200,on the
Relationship of Remedies. He it was who developed this sub¬
ject and no one has written on it so well.
WAS IT TUBERCULOSIS?
JEN NIK K. HARROWS, M. !»., BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA.
Mr. K. R., aged 31 years, came to me March 23d, 1897. The
history of his case given by himself was that in November, he
caught a severe cold resulting in pneumonia and pleurisy, the
right lung being most affected, hollowing pneumonia he had in¬
flammation of bowels, followed by piles, which were suppressed;
then an attack of rheumatism followed by eruption on body and
limbs which was also suppressed. When the eruption was on the
surface, the cough was better (his physician was an allopath).
After the eruption healed, his cough was again as bad as before
it came out, his doctor used an aspirator to try and draw off the
pus and finally sent him to the surgical ward in the hospital, to
have an operation for the purpose of washing out the lungs, so
my patient was told.
The surgeons after making a thorough examination, said he
was not a surgical case and to put him in the consumptive ward,
which he immediately left and came to me. He was pale, waxy,
emaciated and coughed at every breath. He could walk with
difficulty. I ordered a warm bath and gave him one dose of
Sulphur cm . He was raising two-thirds of a large vessel of pus
during the night with very little rest night or day from the inces-
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sant coughing. He raised in 24 hours over two quarts of very
offensive sputa, which looked like pus.
March 24, the day after taking the Sulphur , and for several
days he raised masses of black, tenaceous sputa which resembled
decayed lung tissue, they growing less frequent and lighter and
then in shreds or strings. The sputa more liquidfied than before
taking the remedy. It would come about half a tea cup full at a
time. After coughing he was enabled to sit up and was very
greatly exhausted after each coughing fit. He perspired at night
freely and the sputa and perspiration was so offensive that it
scented the room, requiring disinfectants. His appetite was very
capricious, desired things he never cared for when well, would
cough and vomit any food taken. The sputa became more
liquidfied, with yellow green lumps and more profuse and watery.
April 6, I gave him two powders of Syphilinum Qm Swan’s
preparation, one at night and one in the morning, the effect was
marvellous. The cough became less frequent and the sputa
lighter, more frothy occasionally, greenish yellow lumps, some¬
times the whole mass raised would look green; the taste of the
sputa would nauseate and cause him to vomit. In 30 days from
the time he came to me his cough was entirely gone, and from
this time he relished his food and ate heartily. In thirty days
from the time he came he gained in weight 17 lbs. In 60 days
he gained thirty-two pounds, and says he feels better than before
he was ill. The selection of Syphilinum was from my attention
being drawn to the marks on his limbs from the eruption he had
before I saw him, they being of a copperish hue and also the
great offensiveness of the sputa and breath, both of which left
him upon the cessation of the cough. The question arises was
this Syphilis transferred to the lungs by suppression, (he insists
he never had Syphilis). He had the advice of several allopathic
physicians, who told he had but a short while to live, and I do
not think he could have done so had not the disease been ar¬
rested.
There was one peculiarity in his case, he never felt cold. I
had a physician of our own school examine him when he first
came to me and again when he had been with me one month and
gained 17 lbs, he said there was no hope for him when he first
saw him, and when he had gained in flesh 17 lbs. He said it was
a temporary relief and he would fall back and probably die sud¬
denly. There was no back set and on June 8th he went to work
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as butler in a large boarding house, and at the present writing,
has not been ill since his recovery; before he was sick he had for
several years a bronchial cough that has never returned. I
have seen him on an average every month since his recovery and
he is well. I regret not having had the sputa microscopically
examined, but I only hoped to relieve him, not anticipating a
cure possible. Would like to hear the opinion of others on the
subject.
THK CENTRA!, NEW YORK HOMOEOPATHIC MEDI¬
CAL SOCIETY.
Rochester Club, Rochester, N. Y., Dec. 12th, *97.
The quarterly meeting ol the Central New York Homoeopathic
Medical Society was called to order by Dr. R. C. Grant, Chair¬
man fro tem.y at 11:40 a. m.
Members present: Drs. Carr, Grant, Biegler, Hoard, Ross,
Sayles, Graham, Kaiser, Clapp, Schumacher.
Visitors present: Drs. Howland, Jones.
The minutes of the June and September meetings were read
and approved, in so far as they were complete.
The privilege of the floor was granted to visitors.
Dr. Carr was appointed to read the Organon, Sections 245-
251, with the notes.
Dr. Nash, who was unable to be present, had sent an essay up¬
on those sections.
Sections 245-251.
“The Mode of Administering Remedies/'
An ambitious young theological student preached a sermon
before the faculty of his college. He took for his text—“In the
beginning God created the heavens and the earth." The sermon
was a wonderful effort , but judge how his “fine feathers" must
have drooped when he heard his favorite professor, in reply to a
question upon its merits, say: “very good, but he can't beat Moses. 19
In re-reading these paragraphs I am reminded of that story,
and I confess to many misgivings in setting about the task of
elucidating them. It is impossible to believe that anyone ever
has written, or can write, a clearer, or, in any way, a better ex¬
position of the principles of homoeopathy than Hahnemann.
Still, it is the duty and privilege of every lover of these princi-
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pics, to endeavor, with care, to interpret the meaning of each
paragraph truthfully.
First; we come to the question: how shall we<r///y the curative
remedy? The application is no less important than the selec¬
tion. A man, in the face of an enraged lion, having a gun of
the latest improvement, properly loaded, might as well be un¬
armed, if he knew not how to use it. So with the physician and
his remedies. The remedy , when and how to give it, and when
to ivithhold it, becomes an important problem.
The first proposition, when, is easily answered by the phrase,
now almost a truism, “when indicated" \ but to know when it is
indicated often puzzles the wisest head. The second, proposi¬
tion, or how to give the “indicated remedy,” is as easily answered
by one of the strongest tenets of homoeopathic philosophy: in
the “minimum dose”; but to judge of that dose is as often and a&
equally puzzling. The third proposition, ivhen to withhold , is
answered in paragraph 245 of our subject today: “perceptible
and continued progress toward improvement, in either acute, or
chronic disease, as long as that progress lasts, invariably contra¬
indicates the repetition of any medicine whatever,” etc.
Different degrees of susceptibility to the impress of the cura¬
tive, or of the vital power to sustain that impress, will often de¬
lay improvement to the “perceptible” point.
This is the case in different individuals, even in the same dis¬
ease. In these cases we are again puzzled to know the exact
time necessary to wait. No doubt a curative is, for this reason,,
many times unnecessarily repeated, or abandoned.
Of course, in chronic disease, we are justified in waiting, and
still waiting, if we are reasonably sure that the remedy is well
chosen. In acute disease, according to the severity of the case,
I have repeated the medicine every one or two hours, until I, or
the attendants, saw either aggravation or amelioration.. I then
withdrew the medicine, that reaction might be unobstructed. I
know that a medicine continued after the impress is made, hind¬
ers reaction, and often leads the inexperienced to conclude that
the right remedy has not been given. I had this lesson to learn
many times in my early practice of homoeopathy. As an in¬
stance: A bad case of Apis erysipelas, remained in statu quo
several days. At last I was unavoidably detained, the patient
got out oj medicine; after which the nurse reported “ rapid im¬
provement. ” Moral: Don’t let a patient get out of medicine,.
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unless you want him to get well, or to get yourself into disrepute
with the nurse.
Sac . lac . is a “powerful good” remedy to give, after either im¬
provement or aggravation has been established by the appropri¬
ate remedy. And most people would rather have two tumblers
on the table than one. The physician seems to be doing more,
and will do better if these are skillfully managed.
I have little to say concerning Section 246, but recommend a
careful study of the note of explanation appended. In chronic
cases, my rule is, not to repeat, during unquestionable progress,
or improvement. Many fine cases are reported every seven days.
But I know that failures are frequent along that line of treat¬
ment. When such treatment is successful, it is because each
dose has exhausted itself before the next is given, or because re¬
action, once established, is so strong that repetition does not up*
set, though it may retard and obstruct it.
Sections 247—248 are very true, and I have nothing to say
concerning them.
As for the “new and troublesome symptoms” mentioned in
paragraph 249, these are, simply, drug provings, and if carefully
observed , they may eventually be utilized, and incorporated into
our Materia Medica. So, also, the cured symptoms (those not
covered by the present provings of the indicated remedy), may
be utilized. But all such symptoms whether produced or cured,
can be employed only after long experience.
Now, this paper is not an exhaustive treatise upon those para¬
graphs, but, rather, a suggestion by which to open free discus¬
sion of the subject which is often much more profitable than a
lengthy discourse.
In conclusion, let me advise every physician, to read what
[ahr says upon this subject, on page 20 of his “Forty Years'
Practice.” Some have sneered, and still do sneer at Jahr, as an
“indefatigable compiler,” but he was a good observer, and I
would that more were like him in that respect.
E. B. Nash.
The paper was presented for discussion.
Dr. Grant moved that as Dr. Biegler had something to say il¬
lustrative of Iodine—the subject of one of the essays—and as he
was unable to remain but a short time, he should be invited to
present the illustration at once. Motion seconded and carried.
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Dr. Biegler said that he was daily more impressed with the
truth of the sections, forming the text of Dr. Nash’s paper.
He found that next to the difficulties of selecting the remedy,
comes the danger from repetition of the dose. He felt that a
frequent reading of the paragraphs mentioned, with the supple¬
mentary notes, was necessary to the full understanding of the
author’s meaning. A case that he had visited that morning,
might teach a lesson. The patient, had suffered a few hours of
exacerbation, after three days of perfect comfort following the
prescription of a remedy carefully selected, four days previously.
The physician in charge had prescribed a new remedy which Dr.
Biegler thought was a mistake. Dr. Biegler said that the physi¬
cian should have waited at least 12 hours, before administering
a new remedy, or repeating the first one. Dr. Biegler said that
he should give lurther and careful attention to this case. He
then said that a fine example of the effect of an unfrequent repe¬
tition of the dose was present. That personal application of a
truth was not always justifiable, but that the evidence in this case
was so remarkable as to be irresistible. That the case mentioned,
now, apparently, in such good health, had had, to his knowledge,
but two prescriptions; one preceding its entrance to the hospital,
and one during its residence therein. He then read the illustra¬
tion of the use of Iodine.
The paper was received with applause and it was moved, sec¬
onded and carried that this paper, and the discussion thereof,
should be incorporated in their proper order, with the minutes
following the essay upon Iodine, by Dr. Schumacher.
Adjourned.
The meeting was again called to order by the vice-president.
Dr. Carl Schumacher, at 2:40 p. m.
Dr. Grant, appointed to give clinical illustrations to sections
245-251—cited two cases illustrative of faulty repetition.
The first, chronic, had occurred in his own family. His wife,
after a siege of typhoid fever some years before, had remained
for a long time in an unsatisfactory condition. Dr. Grant final¬
ly consulted Dr. Julius G. Schmitt; who took the case carefully
and made a prescription of Sulphur. The prescription was fol¬
lowed by some <; and a subsequent relief that lasted more than
six months. A part of this time the patient had spent with Dr.
G-who was on his vacation, and she had continued to im¬
prove, except in one respect. This one symptom had not been
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relieved, although the general health was so much better. Dr.
Grant again consulted Dr. Schmitt, who tried by repetition,
accelerate the action of the remedy. It was a mistake. Al¬
most immediately, the patient suffered a return of old symptoms
which have continued all these years, off and on, under the most
careful prescriptions. Dr. Schmitt recognized the mistake the
moment after the dose was on the tongue, and had it been pos¬
sible, would have removed the remedy.
The second, acute, was a well advanced case of diphtheria.
When first called, the doctor found a bright red, glossy pharynx,
with patches of dirty grayish membrane, and an redematous
uvula.
The latter condition at once indicated Apis, and a potency of
the 200, in solution, was left to be repeated at intervals until
evening. The evening report showed an alarming increase of
symptoms. The entire throat and roof of mouth had become
<edematous, and the membrane had rapidly extended. The
symptoms were still Apis; but the danger from oedema of the
glottis was so great that the doctor chose the next most similar
remedy, which was an antidote, ( Lac/t.) t and gave one dose. In
the morning he found the patient convalescent. The lesson de¬
rived from that experience was long lasting.
Dr. Carr acknowledged the instructiveness of the cases re¬
ported by Dr. Grant. Like Dr. Grant, he had through experi¬
ence, acquired the ability to wait on the single dose. As an in¬
stance of the quick response of the perfectly indicated remedy,
he mentioned the case of a woman who during her entire life¬
time had been subject to tonsilitis. The first time this patient
came to his office with premonitory symptoms of tonsilitis, she
received a dose of Merc. bin. A little later, she had to leave for
four or five days her home, and because of symptoms at that time
developed, received two doses of Phyto. She improved for a
week, when suddenly, she developed fever, aphonia, wheezing,
anxiety and restlessness. She was given one dose of Lac. can ct "
and while the doctor was preparing the Sac. lac. powders to fol¬
low, she remarked, “why Doctor! I am better!” It is needless
to say that her recovery was rapid. The doctor considered that
the nature of the attack and its progression to the larynx, with
anxiety and dyspnoea, indicated Lac. can.
Dr. Schumacher mentioned three cases of diphtheria, a dis¬
ease that had been very prevalent in one part of Syracuse. The*
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first case was one in a family in which three patients were finally
affected. It was far advanced when he was called; the mem¬
brane had invaded the larynx, and he had little hope of success.
However, the patient did well on Merc * m for two weeks, but was
then suddenly taken with violent screaming, and died within two
hours. The second case, like the third, he had in time. It was
left sided and recovered promptly on Lack, The third was right
sided, and responded equally well to Lyc,
Dr. Carr thought that early in a case of diphtheria, before the
deposit takes place, there would be indications for a remedy,
either in the hour of invasion, or in some < and > of circum¬
stance. He believed that the deposit should not be waited for,
but that it should be anticipated.
Dr. Ross.believed that, in making a prescription, we should
remember the line of drug action; i. e., if a drug causes evening
< , it should not precede, but follow that time, etc. He ques¬
tioned Dr. Grant upon the second case reported (the Apis case)
asking if it were rulable to antidote, during an aggravation.
Dr. Grant said that it was when life is threatened.
Dr. Carr thought that a violent < from repetition, or over
dosing, is wisely antidoted.
Dr. Grant believed that Dr. Ross’s exception would hold in a
chronic case, but that with rapid action and threatened life, in
acute disease, it is unwise to await possible reaction. As to
Lachesis, in the case reported, he thought that it simply modified
the over action of Apis,
Dr. Hoard called attention to the observation made by Dr.
Biegler, during the morning session, concerning the choice in
dose, as well as in remedy. Dr. Hoard had verified this state¬
ment many times. In a case of his own, an asthmatic with
Puls, indicated, a few doses of 30, made no impression whatever.
Being called later to the same patient when suffering from a se¬
vere attack, he gave one dose of a high potency, which relieved
for six months. In a case of heart disease, with Puls, indicated,
the 200 had no effect while the 6x., in repeated doses, gave per¬
fect comfort.
Dr. Ross verified these facts by his own experience. He had
been called to a woman whose sickness began with a chill. This
was followed by heat, fainting, and evening <; must have win¬
dow open; regular scant, dark menses; and a sensation “as if
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hovering in the air.” He gave Puls . 30, 200, 1000 without
effect, and a cm with relief of all symptoms.
He quoted a second case, one of sciatica, in which he could
obtain no symptoms except that the patient was better from mo¬
tion and warmth. He gave Rhus 20 °, 500, 1000 without effect.
The 50 m caused slight >, and the cm >, for six weeks.
A paper, prepared by Dr. Dever, was then read.
Carbolic Acid.
The value of carbolic acid, as a therapeutic remedy, is but
little appreciated, by the profession at large. There was a time,
not far remote in the history of medicine, when you could scarce¬
ly pick up a journal (allopathic), for the examination of a clini¬
cal case, without finding Carbolic acid in a majority of the pre¬
scriptions. This, of course, was an abuse of a good remedy and
no exception to the allopathic method. Nevertheless, as in all
cases, the excessive use of the remedy left in the minds of the
thinking men some valuable suggestions as to its homoeopathic
use. Bacmeister, Boyce, Duncan, Hoyne, Hodges, and others
have given us provings of the remedy, which appear in Vol. Ill,
page 353 of Herings Guiding Symptoms. But it is especially to
Dr. Hoyne that we wish to give the credit for the cure of a case
in detail.
The history of this case extends over a period of forty years
or more. And while we must necessarily omit many of the mi¬
nor symptoms, which appeared from time to time, we shall try
to present a faithful picture, of the leading characteristics, from
which Dr. T. S. Hoyne selected the remedy. The writer of this
paper was the patient. The following is a careful description of
the symptoms which led to the prescription.
During the winter of 1848, when I was a boy, I contracted the
disease described by Dr. Raue as Prurigo contagiosa, or (Prairie
Itch). The disease was suppressed by a combination of lard,
gun powder, nitrate of potash, hepar-sulph, and flowers of sulph.
well rubbed in. The suppression was followed by inflammatory
rheumatism, which gave way to a chronic form of that disease.
This was aggravated by damp weather, and attended by a numb¬
ness in the whole system. There was, also, a hard, pressing,
numb headache in the frontal bone, extending backward over
the occipital bone, to the neck, with a feeling of constriction, or
band tight around the head. This condition lasted for a num-
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ber of years, during which time I received prescriptions from
Lippe, Guernsey, Hering, and Raue, without the slightest bene¬
fit. From the study of my own case, I was lead to the conclu¬
sion that Ambra-grisea might help me. I accordingly took one
dose of the 200th Dunham, with relief of the rheumatic symptoms,
and a reproduction of the itch which ended in carbuncles.
These were attended by an excessive inflammation and an inor¬
dinate degree of burning. After suffering for over a year, with
no prospect of relief, Dr. F. Woodruff of Ann Arbor prescribed
one dose of Ars ic Dunham. No more carbuncles. No eruptive
disease from 1873, and a period of uninterrupted good health un¬
til 1886, when I had a recurrence of the carbuncles. These were
attended with burning and itching. Brown crusts or thick scabs
would form over the smaller pustules, and when detached, they
would bring out a center composed of thick pus, leaving a clean
hole right through the skin, which had the appearance of having
been punched out. The larger carbuncles differed somewhat
from the small pustules which we have just described; inasmuch
as they first appeared as a small, itching, burning pustule, with a
small blister in the center which would break, and discharge a
clear water, changing to pus mixed with blood. The discharge
was much less than so great an inflammation would appear to
warrant. At the end of from two to four weeks, the whole top
of the carbuncle would slough out leaving a deep, clean, but
ragged cavity to heal by granulation. Heat aggravated all of
the symptoms. While there was more or less eruption on the
skin, at all times of the year, the greatest difficulty appeared
about the 20th of June, and subsided the first of September. So
regularly did this condition recur, that I learned to look for an
attack at each successive season. The eruption which appeared
at all seasons of the year, was attended with an itching, burning
sensation, and an irresistable inclination to scratch, until the
blood came through the skin. The itching was always aggra¬
vated by undressing to go to bed. The breaking of the skin was
followed by thick scabs which burrowed deep into the skin, and
when detached left a brown spot with a sensation in the skin as
if it had been burned.
For the symptoms here given, Dr. T. S. Hoyne prescribed
Carbolic acid cm 1 dose; and although this prescription was made
in June, 1892, and the first carbuncle had already made its ap¬
pearance, it soon dried up, and no others from that time to the
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present writing. The eruption continued to be virulent for the
first year, since which, there has been but little skin disease.
The appearance of the carbuncles, together with that of the cu¬
taneous difficulty, has not been followed by other abnormal con¬
ditions.
I. Dever.
The paper was presented for discussion.
Dr. Carr recognized the numb, prickling, burning pain men¬
tioned as belonging to Carbolic acid .
Dr. Ross said that the constriction “as of a band about the
head,” was marked under Carb. ac.
Dr. Carr thought that the “clear-cut, punched-out holes” re¬
sembled a condition produced by Anthracinum .
Dr. Ross mentioned the “intense burning” of Anthracinum.
Dr. Schumacher then read a paper upon
Iodine.
Iodine , and its various compounds, so extensively used by both
homoeopathic and allopathic practitioners, have not been given
the credit due to their value, in the treatment of acute, or crou¬
pous pneumonia of their sphere of action.
The physiological pharmacodynamics of Iodine show a great
effect upon the respiratory process which is registered in the
Homoeopathic Materia Medica as: “ anxiety , great oppression of
the chest with burning , tearing , or stitching pains; sensation as if
something resisted expansion; cough , with asthmatic breathing , and
stitching pains in the chest; blood streaked, or rust-colored sputum;
shortness of breath , with pain on taking a deep breath; difficult
breathing
Such are the proven symptoms of Iodine , and such a group of
symptoms whether the diagnosis be physical or toxicological,
confirmed or not confirmed, means an Iodine pneumonia. And
Iodine is the curative remedy.
In such cases as developed only the pleuritic symptoms of
Iodine , and when physical examination shows pneumonia to be
present, Kalijod. is the better remedy. In these circumstances,
Tart . em. may have been given without benefit.
Kali jod. is, also, often indicated in a secondary croupous
pneumonia, developed during the course of bronchitis, and when
Phos. had acted unsatisfactorily.
When croupous pneumonia is seated in the clavicular, or sub-
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scapular regions, and there is a disposition to tubercular deposit,
the early administration of Kali jod., is of great importance.
Kafka, after 12 years of experience with Iodine in pneumonia,
writes in his'‘Homoeopathic Therapeutics, 1865:” “Iodine will
abort croupous pneumonia, within 6 hours, at the beginning of
localization; and, with good care, without unfavorable interfer¬
ence, it will subdue all cough and expectoration within 24 hours.”
‘‘The Iodine is to be given in the 3 or 1 centesimal potency, 6
to 10 drops in y 2 pint of water, one teaspoonfnl every half hour,
or hour.”
I have no recorded cases of pneumonia treated with Iodine to
report. I follow Kafka’s therapeutics, strictly, and find Iodine
sufficient and superior to all other remedies that I have used in
treatment of this form of the disease. The stage in which this
kind of case is received by me, makes no difference in the treat¬
ment. I give Iodine and it cures radically within 10 days.
I give Iodine , even in high fever and delirium; but, in that case,
I begin with the third potency, following with the second, or the
first, as the fever, or delirium decreases.
The first centesimal potency according to the homoeopathic,
pharmacopoeia is the tincture. The tincture given in the high
fever, or delirium of croupous pneumonia will undoubtedly ag¬
gravate the symptoms.
Carl Schumacher.
The paper was presented for discussion.
Dr. Carr was much pleased with the very interesting paper
just read by Dr. Schumacher. He found but one thing to criti¬
cize: i. e. the doctor seemed to recommend Iodine for croupous
pneumonia. Dr. Carr would have preferred to find the emphasis
placed upon the indications for the use of Iodine and its various
compounds.
Dr. Schumacher: “The difference in the use of the two reme¬
dies is regional. When the pleuritic indications are present,
Kali jod. is the better remedy. As to diagnosis, one can hardly
avoid it, as not only the patient but his friends desire to know
what is the matter.
Dr. Carr said that he was very careful not to give a diagnosis
too early. He spoke of a case, to which he had been lately
called, that had been treated two weeks for symptoms of inflam¬
matory rheumatism. When asked his opinion as to the disease
present, he said that he did not know the nature. The next day,
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examination of the urine revealed a sp. gr. of 1039, and of 1
per cent of sugar.
Dr. Schumacher said that certainly homoeopathy knew noth¬
ing of sick nomenclature.
Dr. Ross was much interested in the paper and the discussion.
Six years before he had a case of pneumonia, which he treated
according to Kafka’s method, and in a week the family wanted
another physician. He said that it was not the fever, nor the
pathognomonic symptoms, that should be treated, but rather the
totality of symptoms. The homoeopathic physician should be
able to diagnose the remedy from the symptoms, not from the
disease signs. He had produced excellent results in pneumonia
with Bryonia . In the case of his mother who was violently ill
with extreme thirst, > by pressure, < by motion, Brf m relieved
at once, and produced rapid convalescense.
Dr. Leggett ventured to suggest that the title of a brief illus¬
tration of the use of Iodine which she would present might please
the sticklers for proper expression.
Dr. Grant after hearing the title, insisted that it must have
been written during the late discussion.
One case in which the remedy indicated the disease miasm before
it was known.
On Oct. 22, 1896, Mrs. B. aged 33, saying she had been ill
one year, reported the following history:
Married 9 years.
Labors, 5.
Miscarriages 1 at 6 weeks.
Last child, July 6, 1896, still born.
During the last pregnancy, she had treated a goitre from a
recipe found in an old doctor-book.
For internal use:
Iod. pot. 1 fl. oz.
Sars. 6 “
Tarax. 4 “
Dissolve in 1 tea cup of water, and add 1 pint of simple syrup.
Dose: 1 teaspoonful before each meal.
For external use:
Tinct. Iod. - - 2 oz.
Soft water, - “
Sulphite of soda, to remove color.
Applying with solf brush, once daily.
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The goitre disappeared before iabor, but returned afterward.
During pregnancy, the disappearance was followed by swelling
of the left leg, which was consequently bandaged. The band¬
aging of the left was followed by the swelling of the right leg.
The bandaging of the right leg was followed by swelling of the
right hip, and this by great distress in the left side. The dis¬
tress, after shifting several times, from left side to right hip, went
to the head, where it continued, with some > after labor, until
such time as I was visited.
During pregnancy, the headache was constant, the pain shifted
to side lain upon, with the sensation of something rolling about
in the painful side. At the time of report, the pain was better,
but there was a constant sensation of soreness and weakness in
the vertex.
The further disturbances during pregnancy had been: hydram-
nion; eruption, both papular and pustular, in the hypogastric re¬
gion, with frightful itching and smarting, that would drive the
patient out of bed; itching > by scratching, and a hot bath.
The eyes were troublesome, intensely photophobic, and glasses
alleviated only for a week or two. At the time of report, there
was: < from light; > from heat and hot applications.
Across the upper face there was a colony of pinkish, painless
blotches, and a flushed and swollen appearance of the nose; alae,
septum, and anterior nasal passages.
Other symptoms:
Tongue: deeply cut.
Throat: raw, < swallowing.
Eats little, hunger soon after.
Gas: impossible to eructate.
Chilly: cold hinds and feet.
Sleep: fair.
Forgetful.
> Out of doors, but no ambition to go out.
Aching pain left hypogastrium, < lying, at night.
Leucorrhcea: bland, “like white of egg.”
Menses: regular; first dark then bright.
“ before and after, pain size of “thumb-end”
on crest of illium.
Goitre: first noticed one year previously.
“ hard, solid, very little pain.
There being few but local indications that pointed to any
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remedy, I finally began with such as were productive of, or use“
ful in the case of goitre. The anamnesis pointed to Iodine, and I
found that it covered and described the eye and the nasal symp¬
toms; the cracked and fissured tongue; the pressive pain in the
vertex; the dry sensation in the throat; the various eruptions;
the dyspnoea caused by bloating of the abdomen; the difficulty
of lying down; the eating every few hours, etc. So, I gave one
dose of led (F).
Nov. 10, *96.
Improvement both general and particular. Goitre
smaller.
Dec. 13, *96.
Improvement less.
Iod™ m (F).
Jan. 2, ’97.
Still better.
In the second month of the visits of this patient, she expressed
a desire for me to see and treat her husband for “constipation. 17
So on Nov. 11, ’96, he walked into my office saying, “I am Mr.
B-I have syphilis, and have had it for seven months!”
The last vestige of doubt concerning the woman was removed
at once. I realized that at the time of her inoculation, the
woman had been under the influence of Iod. of Pot., and that the
Iod . of Pot. had prevented a more violent attack of syphilis than
had developed.
The husband was much worse. Aside from the syphilitic at¬
tack of eyes, mouth and throat, he had a thoracic fistula of 14
years standing, that had followed an attack of pyo-thorax. He
had begun to cough, had lost flesh, and was in an alarming con¬
dition. He needed Ars. iod., and was greatly benefitted thereby.
I was to be absent from the city for three months; so I suggested
that he go to Dr. H-who was to have charge of my patients.
But I suspect that he went to fields where Syphilis could be
treated scientifically.
S. L. Guild-Leggett.
This paper was but slightly discussed.
Dr. Biegler during the morning session, had described the
marked indications, for the use of Iodine in chronic disease, as
emaciation, hunger and fears . The fears were of all kinds, and
the patient was full of them. The Doctor considered it best to
give in regular case, together with the results of prescription,
and so presented his case under the caption:
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Symptoms of Iodine and Calcaria-Carb.
August 14, 1897.
Patient, 21 years of age.
Anxious and fearful.
Impressed with all kinds of fear.
Fear of sickness; fear of evil, including the doctor.
Fears some misfortune may befall him; fear of going
from home.
Incapacity for mental exertion; cannot concentrate
his mind upon anything, except very active physi¬
cal work.
Feels as if going crazy, and must keep in motion.
Avoids people; fears they will look at him and notice
his mental condition. t
Anxiety, causing restlessness.
Walks all the time; will not sit down, pulls at his
shoe strings, even when walking.
Anxiety with impatience.
Worried when car loads of lumber and coal are not
delivered at specified time.
He is always ready and willing to do the most labori¬
ous work, such as delivering coal, and unloading
lumber.
He does not like Sunday because he may not work.
He does everything in a hurry.
Excitable mood; irritable.
Any mental effort hurts his head.
Thunder-storms cause pains in his head.
He is tall and emaciated; has a ravenous appetite;
eats in haste.
Cannot bear to be touched.
It is with great effort that he shakes hands.
Decided aversion to be washed; aversion to noise.
Profuse icy-cold sweat on back of hands, when ex¬
cited.
Aversion to heat and < from heat, although he does
not like cold weather.
Feet cold.
He has been salivated with Bin. Iod . of Mercury , by
one of a hoide of medical vagrants who pretend to
practice homoeopathy.
Eruptjon repelled; its form unknown, and a subse¬
quent eczema suppressed.
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On this, the first visit, he was brought to my office; but no
amount of persuasion, by mother and father, could induce him
to remain. After I had taken his hands, which were covered
with icy-cold sweat, he ran out to the side-walk, where he clung
to the fence with a grip that could not be loosened, until he
started for the train. This was fear.
At this time he received a dose of Iodium zm .
August 24.
Mother reports him much better; the symptoms “must
keep in motion, felt as if going crazy,” much >.
Fear of evil and of physician changed, for the >.
He speaks kindly of the doctor.
Appetite not so ravenous.
Does not shun people so much, at home.
Stated, for’the first time, convulsive twitching of
hands, face and mouth. Wringing and twisting in
chair.
September 16.
Mental and physical symptoms the same, but amelio¬
rated. Repeated dose of Iodium cln .
November 5.
Generally >, but mental application bad.
Anxiety and fear in a less degree, but yet pronounced.
Calcaria carlfi m .
November 17.
Patient came to the office, and, although he would
not remain with me, he was agreeable, and talked
pleasantly for an hour, with people present in an¬
other room.
His memory is extraordinarily good. He can name
the page of almost any account in his father’s
books, but, he has not the patience to find it; nor
is he capable of mental application.
This is a case in which the symptoms of lodium and Calcaria
are about equally mixed. No doubt Sulphur must come in,
somewhere, but not after Calcaria .
Joseph A. Biegler.
Dr. Biegler having finished the record, said, that it was most
remarkable to see a tall young man of twenty-one years, starting-
ly emaciated, stand clinging to a gate-post, (for a full hour and
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a half, with a grip that could not be released), while his parents
reported his case. The doctor thought that the improvement
under the prescriptions, was quite as remarkable.
Dr. Graham mentioned the case of a carpenter who feared to
pass ‘‘Four Corners” i. e. Powers Block; as he was sure that the
buildings would fall upon him. The doctor said that the man
would shake and tremble in abject fear, when driving past those
buildings. The doctor asked if it were possible to cure such a
symptom in a perfectly healthy man, who was accustomed, in
his business, to be at any height, or below any height, without
shadow of fear. The doctor had been unable to relieve the case.
Dr. Carr thought that the case carefully taken from its child¬
hood up, and each variation from the normal noted, might give
the key to a prescription that would remove the condition.
Dr. Kaiser recalled a peculiar symptom exhibited during his
late sickness; the sensation “as if every loaded wagon, going by
the house, passed over his body.”
Dr. Biegler acknowledged the difficulty of obtaining a key to
the situation. He related an instance: a case of diarrhoea fol¬
lowing so-called typhoid. The symptoms were such as caused the
doctor to inquire “if there had been a fall.” The reply was no.
At the second visit, there was twitching of the muscles of the
face, which led again to the inquiry, and a second denial. At
the third visit, the mother suddenly recalled that just before the
typhoidal attack, there had been a fall from an apple tree to
which but little attention was given. One prescription cured
permanently.
Dr. Carr recalled the case of a child of two years, whom he
was called to treat for indigestion. (Ah! exclamation from all.)
The child could sleep for only 10 minutes at a time. After
long questioning, the doctor elicited the fact of a suppressed
eruption. A prescription was then easy.
The discussion being finished, the Sec’y offered the delayed re¬
port of the Sec’y and Treas. The report was read and accepted.
The Sec’y also reported brief visits to Drs. R. Gibson Miller
of Glasgow, Scotland; E. W. Berridge and Thomas Skinner of
London, England.
Dr. Miller said that he was almost alone in Glasgow in the
practice of pure homoeopathy. He made kindly inquiries as to
its progress among his old friends in America. He inquired es¬
pecially for Dr. Kent, whose pupil he had been, and i/j whose
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work he had always taken great interest. It was Dr. Miller’s
father who founded the Miller prize, formerly awarded by the
Homoeopathic Medical College of Missouri in St. Louis, for the
best examination in the philosophy of Hahnemann.
Dr. Berridge kindly inquired for his many American friends,
and wished to be remembered to them. The Sec’y could find no
better way to reach them all, than through the reports of the
C. N. Y. The great usefulness of Dr. Berridge’s “Repertory of
Eye Symptoms” is well known to the profession.
Dr. Thomas Skinner recalled the “warm” reception he had
received in America of which the memory would be lasting.
(He was in Philadelphia during the hot season). He gave the
Sec’y an interesting description of what is known as the Skinner-
potentizer, showed the first machine, explained its principles and
action, and was very indignant that a perfect machine, packed
and forwarded to H. W. Pierson, of The Advocate has been
“smashed” by the American Express Co.
These visits of the Sec’y to these firm adherents of the greater
homoeopathic principles of Hahnemann were enjoyed, and will
long remain a pleasant memory.
The appointment of essayists for the next meeting was re¬
ferred to the President.
The motion to adjourn until March 17, 1898, was seconded
and carried.
S. L. Guild Leggett, Sec’y.
it is the imperfect machine that causes death. The Vital Force is of the
boui, am cannot be destroyed or weakened. It can be disordered, but it is all
there.
Man cannot be made sick or be cured except by some substance as etherial
in quality as the Vital Force.
It is unthinkable to speak of motion or Force without a simple, primitive
ubstance. Force, or action of a nothing is unthinkable.
It is a serious matter to allow the mind to drift into thinking of anything but
quality when speaking of Force.
There is nothing in the world which does not exist by something prior to
itself. With the grossest materialistic ideas man can demonstrate this.
x here is at the present time, a continual discussion of Force as having prior
to it Energy, with nothing behind it. This is confusion.
There is an Innermost to everything that is, or else the Outermost co^>J
not
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Society ‘Reports.
SOCIETY OF HOMCEOPATHICIANS.
The fifth annual meeting of the Society of Homoeopathicians
lield its session at “The Oriental/’ Manhattan Beach, Long
Island, the week of June 27th.
A good attendance of members showed unflagging interest in
the aims of the Society, and a goodly number of visitors from
New York, Brooklyn, and adjacent cities showed awakening in¬
terest and certainly an appreciation of the work already accom¬
plished in past meetings.
The first session promptly began on schedule time, Tuesday
morning at 11 o’clock. Dr. Stuart Close, of Brooklyn, was ap¬
pointed Chairman, and the Bureau of Homoeopathies opened by
a paper read by F. O. Pease of Chicago. The discussion upon
his subject, “What the Power of Life Is,” by members and visi¬
tors also, who were voted the privileges of the floor, was intense¬
ly interesting and instructive. Dr. Close, Chairman of the
Bureau, announced that there were three papers upon the same
subject with titles very similar and that his own paper, “The
Vital Force; What Is It?” would discuss that of Dr. Pease’s.
Dr. F. S. Davis, of Quincy, Mass., followed with an able paper
on “Susceptibility to Disease,” giving remarkable cases illus¬
trating his theme. The discussion of this and other papers took
up nearly the first and second days of the meeting. The Clinical
Bureau was rich in papers and reports that as to value and re¬
sults of adherance to the law, and the more instructive discus¬
sion following each paper, reminded us of the good old days of
the I. H. A. and made more poignicent the regret that selfish
and mistaken motives should have divided that once flourishing
association. It is too true that allegience to men, and their
medical politics and special methods instead of to the principles
that were declared in its Constitution, that almost annihilated
the I. H. A.
All assertions that the 9. of H. is given to favoring any
method or practice outside of the law of similars is not true. As
-evidence of this, and to contradict or annuli the statements of
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those who are opposed to the S. of H. and who from intention
or ignorance of the aimes and objects of this Society, repre¬
sented it as favoring any method, the following resolutions were
adopted by the Society.
“Whereas, We believe the Law of Similars to be the Law of
Cure, and similarity of symptoms to be the only guide in selec¬
tion of the curative remedy, and
Whereas, The treatment of artificial or drug diseases, the
same as natural diseases, must be governed by homoeopathic
principles; therefore be it
Resolved , That the empirical prescription of remedies for any
purpose whatever, whether under the name “Antidotal Treat-
ment’ , or any other name has not been and cannot be endorsed
by this Society.
Resolved , That this Society repudiates the practice of pre¬
scribing as an “antidote” for any drug, irrespective of the actual
symptoms, whether it be to give a high potency of a drug known
to have been used in crude form or whether it be to give a dose
of Sulphur ‘when well selected remedies fail to act.’ ”
It was the sense of the meeting expressed in the above resolu¬
tions which should be accepted in the true spirit of standing for
the right, and also that individuals who may choose to investi¬
gate in line of wider applications of the law of cure have rights
to their opinions and observations, but as a society and members
of that society the resolutions expressed the position held by it.
The meeting was a decided success and the papers will show
the high class of work done, and that the members are alive to
the truth as it is in the teachings of the master.
It was good to meet and talk homoeopathy with such men as
Close, Kimball, Patch, Rushmore, Howard, Carleton, Butler,
Adams, Kennedy and a dozen others, good men and true. Ap¬
plications for new members gives hearty encouragement for the
future ot the Society of Homoeopathicians.
F. O. Pease.
CALIFORNIA STATE HOMOEOPATHIC.
At the last meeting of this Society, Dr. J. M. Selfridge gave
a talk on Dr. Bcenninghausen’s idea of the high potency of a
drug antidoting the ill effects of a low potency of the same drug.
He said:
“Doctor Sawyer, of Chicago, has made a sort of fad of this
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subject, and time will tell whether he is correct or not. Hahne¬
mann says in the Organon that it is his experience that medici¬
nal diseases are incurable, that is, where the diseases have been
made chronic by the medicines given. Sawyer claims that the
effects of a drug taken to excess can be antidoted by a high po¬
tency of the same drug. In getting the history of the case he
commences on the first drug taken, antidoting it, and then the
others until he has covered them all. He then gives the indi¬
cated remedy and cures. He even potentizes a compound ca thar-
tic pill and gives it to antidote the effects of too much drugging
from these pills. I have a case at present which is partially cured*
A lady who once in two weeks would be attacked with very se¬
vere pain in the right side in region of liver, with indigestion eruc¬
tation of gas, vomiting, immense accumulation of faeces in colon,
great tenderness of the liver, and, undoubtedly gallstones. Two-
years before had been paralyzed on the right side. Had diabe¬
tes also. Was confined to bed. The only thing which seemed
to give relief was tincture of opium. Some thought relief might
be had by removal of gallstones. In taking her history I learned
that when she was thirty-seven years old, her father, who was a
physician, had given her twenty-seven blue mass pills. I was
satisfied it was a medicinal disease started at that time. I sug¬
gested that she take a very high potency, the C. M. of Mercurius
vivus, a single dose. In two weeks she was on her feet, bowels
susceptible to enemata of moderate quantities of water. Since
then she has had paroxysms now and then, but lighter. The ap¬
petite is good at present, bowels fairly active. Repeated the
remedy several times, but not oftener than once in ten days.”
Dr. Pratt—I have known the case for years. She had a dark,
yellow color which has disappeared, and she sleeps well now and
has a regular stool every day. I believe there is a great deal in
Boenninghausen’s idea. It requires good judgment to know when
to use the high potencies. We used to think the 30th high, but
not now.
Dr. Tapley—Two years ago a lady who was lean, lanky and
hardly able to get up stairs, came to my office. The diagnosis
was polypus of the uterus. Two doctors said she could not live.
There was every indication of a cancerous condition. I treated
with different remedies for some time but could not stop the
haemorrhages. She had symptoms of mercury poisoning. I
made her remove a red-rubber plate she had in her mouth, gave
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a high potency of the red vulcanite, then several other remedies.
She passed the polypus, the haemorrhages ceased and she is now
•cured, and says is better able to do the work than she was ten
years ago. Another case with lycopodium symptoms, sour vom¬
iting, etc., with aggravation in the afternoon. She had had many
physicians. She had many mercury symptoms. I advised her
rubber plate removed. Three months afterward a friend called
and she said was well. I'have seen beautiful results by the re¬
moval of amalgam filling and red-rubber plates.
Dr. Buell—I would like to ask Dr. Tapley if he believes the
Tubber plate caused the polypus and allowed it to pass away by
the removal of the plate?
Dr. Tapley—I believe the rubber prevented the action of the
remedies. If the soil is there I believe the rubber is liable to
cause cancer. I believe the removal of the polypus surgically
would have killed that patient.
UNION MEETING OF KANSAS DOCTORS.
Kansas is unique among the sisterhood of states. We nat¬
urally look to her citizens for the espousal of something new, so
it was no surprise when the announcement went forth about a
year ago that the different schools of medicine would meet in
Topeka on the fourth of May, 1898, in joint session for the dis¬
cussion of points of common interest.
In accordance with the program, a large and representative
audience met in one of the legislature halls of the State Capitol,
Wednesday evening, May fourth.
The exercises were opened with a selection by Watson’s Or¬
chestra and was followed by an invocation by Dr. H. Z. Gill,
member of the State Board of Health.
Governor Leedy was to have given the address of welcome on
behalf the state, but was detained at his post of duty as com-
mander-in-chief of the State Militia and Dr. H. A. Warner acted
as substitute.
Mayor Fellows, on the part of the citizens of Topeka, gave a
very appropriate welcome. He spoke of the good effects to be
derived from such an union, saying that physicians had a com¬
mon enemy—disease—which was worthy of their keenest metal,
and that union bore with it an element of strength that was not
to be ignored.
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It would remind one of the admonition of Hahnemann that,
“The mission of the physician was not to construct so-called systems by in¬
terweaving empty speculations and hypotheses concerning the internal essential
nature of the vital processes and the mode in which diseases originate in the in¬
visible interior of organism whilst suffering humanity sighs in vain for aid.”
Dr. H. M. Orchiltree of Haddam responded to the addresses
of welcome on behalf of the three state societies. He said the
purpose of the meeting was the devising of ways and means for
promoting the physical and mental welfare of afflicted humanity,
and thought it eminently proper that the great state of Kansas,
already famous for its advances in social and political govern¬
ment should be the commonwealth that would make an epoch in
medical history, by the breaking down of insignificant barriers,
which had grown almost insurmountable by reason of the preju¬
dices of ignorance.
Dr. Henry Robey next spoke on the “Sanitary Supervision of
Schools.” He preceded his discourse upon the subject by a few
preliminary remarks, speaking of the gigantic proportions of the
undertaking to bring together the three schools of medicine.
He then opened his address by speaking of the advancement of
the world, saying it resembled rather the progress of the glacier
than the comet. He said that civilization was beginning to wake
to its duty and to see that “public health is public wealth.” The
saving of life is the paramount duty of the world, and the world
looks to the medical profession to bring the state to the ideal
condition of sanitary supervision.
The public school is the last to yield to sanitation and it is
probably because the teachers are not sanitarians. Often the
pupil reads his own death warrant on commencement day. The
time is drawing near when sanitary conditions will be more ob¬
served in the school room. The home is the only place besides
the school room that so badly need sanitation.
Dr. E. M. Hoover of Halsted next addressed the meeting,
taking for his subject, “The Relation of Disease to Crime. ,, He
spoke first of the creation of man the necessary beauty of his
early condition, being without disease or crime. Then of the fall
and the inception of crime and disease. These two discordant
notes, disease and crime, go hand in hand.
Some are caused to be punished where they rather deserve pity
and they are drawn into crime by impulses too strong to be with¬
stood. In such cases* hovering on the border land between
health and disease lies the danger of injustice.
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Dr. G, W. Hogeboom was the next speaker and his subject,
“Medical Legislation,” was of interest to all the members of the
three societies. He began his paper by asking whether the pub¬
lic exercise of what might be called the “healing art” for a fee
or reward a proper subject of legislation by the state. He
thought that all who were in the business of preying off the pub¬
lic by selling to them as medicines, impure and unwholesome ar¬
ticles, that would quicker kill than cure, should receive the se¬
verest penalties that could be inflicted under the law.
There are laws already in force, which are evidences that a law
could be enacted which would make it a crime for any one to
swindle the poor and ignorant in matters, where life and death
are involved. He believed that a law could be passed mitigat¬
ing the nuisances if the support of the citizens outside of the
medical profession could be enlisted.
A resolution was offered at the close of the address that those
present should do all in their power to secure favorable medical
legislation.
* After the speaker had finished, Watson’s orchestra gave an¬
other selection and the rest of the evening was devoted to a gen¬
eral introduction and handshaking.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMOEOPATHY.
It Was Hot! No matter what “it” may be made to stand for
the descriptive statement is apropos . The town was hot—the
streets were hot—the air, sweeping over vast prairies, was hotter
than anything else unless it was poor, sweltering humanity who
could find no place in which to get anything to cool his parched
tongue except in the halls of the exhibitors at Creighton College.
The local committee had poor material for an ideal conven¬
tion town but did exceedingly well with the material at hand.
The College building was all that could be desired—large,
airy amphitheatres, an abundance of convenient side rooms for
committees, plenty of light, comparatively little noise and very
convenient to all the hotels.
The majority felt they must be with the crowd and were almost
unanimous in their condemnation of their accommodations.
Every one who went to the Mercer had large comfortable
rooms and a liberal table and seemed happy and contented.
The receptions and public meetings were exceedingly enjoy¬
able affairs. No one will forget the lavish hospitality of Hon.
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and Mrs. Geo. W. Lininger. The free and easy reception by
Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Hanchett ac their beautiful home and last,
but not least, the reception and initiation into the Order of the
Knights of Aksarben. Many and varied were the tests of loyalty
but once having passed through the trying ordeal no fear is ever
felt of any lack of fidelity on the part of even the most insignifi-
cent subject of this wise and noble potentate.
The usual trolley rides, trips to the packing houses, smelting
works and exposition filled in the chinks and afforded abundant
opportunities for that exchange of friendly greetings which con¬
stitute such a prominent factor in all such gatherings.
The Institute proper was a success, the papers were of a high
order of merit and the discussion were marked for their clearness
and incisive character. Many old familiar faces were absent
and those who have assumed to lead off in the different bureaus
gave way to younger aspirants for public favor. The change
was refreshing and to a certain degree tended toward a freedom
of expression not usually witnessed on the floor of the Institute.
The rankest of heresy had its exponents which only served to
bring out the strongest expressions of loyalty to the law of
similars. In the Materia Medica Conference which preceded
the regular meetings of the Institute, the Materia Medica and
Clinical Medicine bureaus was this especially noticable.
Materia Medica Conference. This was like the play of Hamlet
sans Hamlet. There was to have been but one paper, on the
“Underlying Principles of Symptom Revision” by Timothy
Field Allen, M. D., of New York, but neither the essayist or the
paper materialized, so the discussion became general and be¬
cause it was unencumbered it was very interesting and instruc¬
tive. It was the consensus of opinion that little of real worth
had been accomplished by the special meetings of the confer¬
ence and that the work of the Bureau of Materia Medica could
be so divided that proper consideration could be given this
subject within the Institute. A committee was appointed to
make such report to the business session of the Institute.
Bureau of Clinical Medicine. This was the first of the sec¬
tional meetings on the program, and under the efficient direction
of Van Baun of Philadelphia and Gatchell of Chicago, the In¬
stitute had reason for expecting valuable symposiums of three
important topics, viz., Croupous Pneumonia , Antitoxine and
Mountain Fever , and the work of the bureau was not unsatis-
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factory although many of the original essayists were absent
which resulted in a heterogeneous presentation of the subject of
croupous pneumonia, thereby marring the symetrical effect.
With reference to the Etiology, the discussion brought oul
the fact that croupous pneumonia was not an infectious disease
but a local manifestation of a distinct constitutional weakness
and that the diplococcus pneumonia was simply an effect and
never the exciting cause. That the heart was really the barom¬
eter of pneumonia but that the use of alcohol, nitro-glycerine
and strychnia was to be condemned in the treatment of threat¬
ened heart failure because they destroyed the reliability of the
heart symptoms without adding any to its potential energy.
That in this disease as in all others the remedy indicated under
the law of similars was the most valued aid. The use of local
applications came in for its full share in the discussion and
had many advocates but the strongest argument was against
its use. Some of the views presented sounded somewhat out of
place in a Homoeopathic discussion but the prevailing sentiment
was in favor of the strict application of the law.
The Action of the Antitoxines in the Prevention and Cure of
Disease.
Dr. Ch. Gatchell started out with the proposition that the
therapeutic action of antitoxines was an explication of the
homoeopathic law of cure. He then made the statement that it
was an established fact that certain antitoxines acted in a cura¬
tive manner when administered in a related diseased condition.
His third statement was the most important of all—that when
given in pathogenetic doses to the healthy subject , the antitoxines
produce symptoms resembling those of the related diseased condi¬
tion.
His conclusion was that antitoxines differs in no respect from
that of other medicinal remedies.
These propositions brought out the most vigorous discussion
of any paper before the Institute and those who had used the
remedy outnumbered the others three to one but hardly a man
could be found who gave it because of its homoeopathicity to
the case but because of the exigencies of the case and his feel¬
ing of impotence without it. Some strict Hahnemannians stated
that their rate of mortality was lower without the antitoxines
than could be shown by those who depended upon it and this
only tended to show that the dependence upon this new agent
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was to a certain degree an index of their knowledge of the un¬
derlying principles of Homoeopathy. The discussion was a
profitable one.
Materia Medica. Unlike the Bureau of Clinical Medicine
this section made an unwise selection of topic and comparatively
little good came from the discussion of “The Four Pathies—
Antipathy, Allopathy, Isopathy and Homoeopathy. Their Place
in Therapeutics. Jf any one point was clearly established by
the spirited discussion it was the woeful ignorance of the real
meaning of all the pathies, including homoeopathy.
Surgery came next in order and as usual “drew a full house”
and no one can wonder at it for the papers were scholarly pro¬
ductions and were discussed by the keenest, brightest minds in
the profession. They showed by their every word and act that
they knew what they were talking about. This is the saddest
comment that can be made upon the medical side of the profes¬
sion. It is too much theory, speculation, dogmatic statements
not backed up by tangible, logical, invincible proof. It is a
pleasure to listen to a discussion by a body of surgeons because
there is always something to be learned; the wisest among them
is always ready to listen, and here is another significant fact that
whenever you find a surgeon who has a knowledge of Materia
Medica it is generally reliable and in this field as in surgery he
knows what he is talking about.
The Bureau of Ophthalmology , etc., commenced its work in
Chicago, but brought some valuable thoughts to the Institute;
which for some reason did not attract the general membership,
although every topic was especially suggestive to the general
practitioner.
Section of Pedalogy . The day was hot and the members were
getting restless but the general character of the papers were ex¬
cellent.
The general subject was Nutrition and the Disorders Depend -
ent upon Faulty Nutrition. Marasmus, Dyspeptic Diarrhoea,
Scorbutis, Rachitis, etc. It seemed as if too much dependence
was placed upon the nutriment and not enough study given to
the abnormalities of the infant and its progenitors.
Neurology. The gem of the entire session was given Tuesday
evening in the parlor of The Millard—Proof of the Law of
Similia from the Electro-Physiologico—Chemical Standpoint by
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Prof. E. H. S. Bailey of the State University of Kansas. It
was a masterly presentation of facts from different standpoints
demonstrating beyond question the solid foundation, as a scien¬
tific fact, upon which the law of similia has been built. (We
hope to publish the paper in extenso).
MARQUETTE.
What is Marquette? Can they offer sufficient inducements to
justify a man in riding three hundred miles, in a dusty train,
through an uninteresting country and after a stay of but thirty
hours retrace his steps and again take up the work where he left
it?
These were a few of the questions suggested by an invitation
received from the citizens of Marquette by about fifty of the
leading physicians of Chicago. It might be stated, parentheti¬
cally, that Marquette showed good judgment in sending such
able representatives as Mr. Geo. W. Hibbard, the General Pas¬
senger Agent of the “Marquette Route,” and Dr. Albert Foster,
for their affable manners did more to dispel imaginary objections
than many words in the mouths of others. Suffice it to say that
thirty-five physicians and surgeons with v their wives, daughters
or sons accepted the generous hospitality of the citizens of Mar¬
quette and on the night of the 14th of July (which, by the way,
was the anniversary of our last appearance upon this mundane
sphere), marched in single file through the gate of the North¬
western depot to the special sleepers reserved for our party.
An uneventful ride brought us into the midst of the pine re¬
gions of Northern Wisconsin by morning, where evidence of the
relentless destruction of valuable forests by fire was apparent on
all sides. No vigorous growth of timber was visible from the
windows of the rapidly moving train, but many well cleared
farms in a fair state of cultivation showed the results of a gener¬
ation of hard work.
The only thing to mar the pleasure of the morning ride was
the difficulty soon made apparent of securing breakfast. The
heating apparatus of the buffet had become deranged in some
way and many were compelled to be satisfied with the mental
suggestion that there was no such a thing as hunger before
reaching Marquette.
The last fifty miles of the journey was through a broken, hilly
country in which limestone first put in its appearance, to be
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followed shortly by the inexhaustible supply of iron ore for
which this country is justly celebrated. One peculiar fact noted
is the entire absence of coal, necessitating the substitution of
the expensive charcoal for the reduction of the iron ore. This
means that most of the ore is shipped away in the crude state,
necessitating immense docks especially adapted for economi¬
cally loading of the many vessels which are drawn to Marquette
for this purpose.
At Negaunee, the terminus of the Northwestern, we received
the first whiff of the invigorating, ozone laden air of which we
had heard so much. The sample was very refreshing, especially
for those whose morning repast had been nothing but the empty
promises of the greatly perplexed waiters. Advantage was here
taken of the delay to fill up on the more substantial provisions of
Negaunee’s restaurants.
This place has an elevation of nearly one thousand feet above
the level of Lake Superior, thus giving it an altitude of about
fifteen hundred feet above sea level.
One of the first tokens of the approaching welcome came in
the form of a blue card which was handed us before leaving the
train, upon which was printed—
Marquette City & Presque Isle Railway Co.,
PASS BEARER
on July ijth and 16 th , 1898 .
F. O. Clark, President.
At about 11 o'clock the train pulled into the depot of Mar¬
quette where it seemed as though the whole town had turned out
to welcome returning friends. They were not idle curiosity
seekers standing around to gaze upon the stranger, but the friendly
host welcoming his guest. Enough carriages were drawn up at
the other side of the depot to swiftly bear the entire company to
the elegant Hotel Superior (of which more will be said later on).
Signs were indicative of an active campaign, so ample justice
was given the bounteous luncheon spread before us. At 2 o'clock
the engagement opened with a trolley party to Presque Isle, one
of the most delightful breathing places any city can boast of. It
is a natural park of about five hundred acres projecting out into
the clear depths of Lake Superior. Its base consists of brown
sandstone, rising in some places to a heighth of from fifty to one
hundred feet, and showing the effects of the ceaseless beating
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of the waves by its deep caverns and grotesque markings similar to
the famous “Pictured Rocks” for which the south shore of this
lake is noted. Man has done much to beautify the spot with
his fine roads, etc., but the greatest charm is to be found in the
fresh, invigorating air, constantly coming in from over this broad
inland sea. Malaria is a thing unknown the year round and a care¬
ful investigation failed to disclose the presence of a tired or lazy
looking man or woman. Everyone looked so bright and cheerful,
skins clear and fresh—evidence of perfect health—that I wondered
what Chicago would do if her naturally busy, energetic people
could have such a wonderful life preserving influence about
them from day to day. They tell the story of their host of cen¬
tenarians and pointed out several worthy citizens who have been
“about 90” since the memory of the rising generation was to be
trusted; but this like their fish stories must be taken with due
allowance for the stimulating effects of an overcharge of Nature's
“laughing gas,” ozone. Carriages, steam and naptha launches,
enables each one to pass away the time as best suited, his or her
fancy, so our first taste of Marquette’s hospitality was charming.
Indeed, it so far surpassed anything expected that we were
ready to throw down our arms and make an unconditional sur¬
render, but they would not have it so and the siege was con¬
tinued.
It was evident that the steward of the hotel knew the effect upon
the appetite of the fresh arrival, for there seemed to bean abund¬
ance after eating double what would have seemed sufficient at
home. Thoroughly reinforced by the bountiful dinner we prepared
for a bombardment at the Opera House, expecting to listen to
eulogies on the place by those who knew all about it, when much to
the surprise of those present, the tables were turned or to retain
the same figure of speech, the Chicago doctors spiked their guns.
Dr. A. K. Crawford was the first speaker who responded to the
Address of Welcome by Judge Stone. He said, the earth was
divided, climatologically into two divisions—mountains and sea—
the rest amounted to nothing from a health standpoint. The pure
air, charged with ozone being the great desideratum in both cases.
Marquette, he went on to explain, possessed peculiar advant¬
ages by virtue of its location. It was neither too hot or too cold,
too wet or too dry; its altitude was just right and by virtue of
these facts it was an ideal spot for the curing of consumption,
bronchial affections, including asthma and pleuretic adhesions,
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catharrhal diseases, including hay fever; malaria; heart troubles;
but more important than all else he would recommend it to
people with nervous troubles.
Dr. D. A. K. Steele, Dean of the Faculty of the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, was the next speaker from Chicago.
He said the physicians had come for the purpose of investigat¬
ing the claims of Marquette as a health resort and were simply
charmed by the beauty of scenery, the purity of its waters, the
invigoration of its air and the delightful effect produced in the
strong healthy appearance of its citizens.
The Hon. Peter White contributed his share to the entertain¬
ment of the guests by reciting two of his famous French dialect
poems. The music, both vocal and instrumental, was charac¬
teristic of the people—charming.
Owing to the lateness of the hour the informal reception was
omitted and a general exodus was made for the hotel where the
cry was “on with the dance.” Until the wee sma’ hours brave
men and fair ladies kept step to the enchanting strains of music.
It might be mentioned, in passing, that Hotel Superior was
really built for a Sanatorium some five or six years ago, and is
consequently designed for the comfort of its inmates, instead of
the satisfying of the insatiate greed of the manager of the ma¬
jority of our summer resorts. This is a beautiful structure with
large, light and airy rooms, broad and inviting corridors and ver¬
andas and placed upon a high elevation facing the lake.
The second day was a repetition of the first, a drive to the
State Prison for the incorrigibles—Michigan is opposed to capi¬
tal punishment in any form. From thence to the Steamer
Marquette for a ride upon the lake, the round of pleasure to
terminate in a garden party upon the spacious lawn of the Hon.
Peter White. This was a most appropriate picture to leave in
the minds of the departing guests for the wealth and beauty of
Marquette—both products of the soil—were there.
Acquaintances were made which will ripen into lasting friend¬
ships and in the future a bond of fraternity will exist between
Chicago and Marquette which will grow stronger as time passes.
At 5 o’clock Saturday afternoon a tired but happy party
boarded the special on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul R.
R. for a night’s ride to Chicago. Before leaving, the following
resolutions, beautifully engrossed, were presented to the Recep¬
tion Committee as a feeble expression of the appreciation of
their guests for the many courtesies shown.
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Marquette, Mich., July 16, 1898.
“We cannot but express our deep and heartfelt thanks to the
committee and citizens of the city of Marquette for their more
than kind and delightful entertainment of us since we left our
homes in Chicago and Milwaukee. And what is of even greater
import is the conviction we each and all of us carry away of the
beneficient influence which this climate will exert over the
myriad sick and afflicted beings whom we shall direct to your
hospitable shores.”
The following names were appended to the same:
Drs. Edward Andrews, D. A. K. Steele, A. R. Crawford,
Bayard Holmes, P. M. Woodworth, H. C. Allen, S. S. Bishop, A. C.
Cowperthwaite, E. Wyllie Andrews, J. E. Gilman, W. P. Walters,
F. C. Holtz, W. Jayne, J. P. Cobb, J. C. David, W. L. Ballin¬
ger, W. M. Harsha, J. R. Boynton, R. W. Bishop, A. C. Wiener,
John Bell, Bertha Van Housen, C. P. Pruyn, G. Gurnee Fellows,
A. C. Crofton, C. S. Kahlke, W. P. MacCracken, H. F. Patrick,
F. A. Metcalf, J. C. Gill, T. H. Patterson, Sanger Brown, H.
W. Pierson and W. J. Cronyn, O. W. Carlson of Milwaukee.
Measles and Smallpox are not on the outside. Man is protected on the out¬
side, and is attacked from the inside when there is susceptibility.
There are degrees in susceptibility. The Old School calls a certain kind of
susceptibility “Idiocyncrasy,” though they have failed to find out what this is.
Think how susceptible a man is to sickness, when the Rhus vine will poison
him when he is on the windward side, half a mile away.
An individual will be susceptible to nothing else; gross, coarse, vigorous in
constitution; yet there is one thing he is susceptible to, and that is what he
needs.
The signs are visible, but the Esse is invisible.
The endency of the human mind to run after things visible, that can be felt
with the fingers, leads one to adopt foolish theories like the Bacteria doctrine
and the Molecular theory.
A physician above all men if not innocent should be anything else but a doc¬
tor. A bad man has only coarse, vicious ideas of the human heart
The time may come when Homoeopathy of the purer kind will be popular,
but it is a very long time ahead.
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Hepar Sulphur in “Colds.”—It is useful in that of catarrh
when there is aching all through the body. It should be here
placed, not as a remedy useful in the incipiency, but for the ad¬
vanced stage of “cold.” If it be given at the commencement, it
frequently spoils the case, whether it be one of coryza or of sore
throat, .because it is more suitable to what has been termed “a
ripened cold” when phlegm has formed. Swallowing produces
the sensation of something sharp being in the throat; it is often
likened to a fish-bone. Again it will seem as if there was a
crum of bread there. Here we should compare Mercurius,
Nitric acid\ Argentum nitricum and Alumina . The colds for
which Hepar is the remedy are re-excited by the least exposure.
When Mercury has been abused there will be an additional indi¬
cation for the choice of Hepar .—( Horn . Eye , Ear and Throat
Journal .)
Evil Effects of Vaccination. Dr. Bepin Behari Maitra pre¬
sents the following succinct statement in the Calcutta Journal of
Medicine for January, 1897:
Dr. Compton Burnett, in his excellent little work on Vaccin -
osis, has very truly observed that “the protective power of
vaccination is due to a diseased state of the body,” and that this
diseased state or “Vaccinosis shows itself as a formidable acute
disease that may terminate fatally, or it may manifest itself as a
chronic affection,” and that “chronic vaccinosis more particu¬
larly lies completely beyond the ken of ordinary medicine, and
although it will sometimes turn up in literature as ‘ill-effects of
vaccination,’ it is, nevertheless, but an unrecognized waif, mUch
to the disadvantage of suffering mankind and of medical science.”
He has given cases illustrating the following sequelae of Vaccin-
tion, with their successful treatment by Thuja:
1. Actual acute vaccinia, and other serious acute disease
threatening life, imbibed by infants from vaccinated mothers
and wet-nurses.
2. Pustular eruptions on the skin.
3. Post-orbital neuralgia for twenty years.
4. Chronic headache of nine years’ standing.
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5. Enlargement of the glands.
6. ' Fallin’g'bff of the hairs.
7. Habitual influenza, general illness and headache.
8. Acne of face and nose, and nasal dermatitis.
9. Chronic catarrh of the nose.
10. Diseases of the nails.
11. Ptosis or paralysis of the upper eyelids.
12. General paralysis.
13. Irritation of the spinal cord.
14. Scrivener’s cramp, cephalagia and enlarged spleen.
15. Neuralgia of eyes of nine years’ standing.
16. Arrested development of hemiparesis.
During the last few years I have been watching cases of vac¬
cination and have noticed the following evil effects from it:—
1. Acquisition by the patient of a scrofulous constitution.
2. Enlargement of the lymphatic glands.
3. Liability to catch cold on the slightest exposure; thus
giving rise to various sorts of lung mischief, as bronchitis and
pneumonia. A few years back I read in one of the American
Homoeopathic Journals, that a veteran practitioner had stated
that ever since his first vaccination, in his twentieth year, he
could not stand cold as he used to do before.
4. Enlargement of the liver and spleen, with various disor¬
ders, arising therefrom.
5. The loss of tone in the muscles.
6. Various eruptions and ulcerations in the skin.
7. Loss ot digestive power.
8. Tympanites of the abdomen, constantly noticed ever
since.
9. Inflammation of the tympanum of the ear.
10. Dysentery.
11. Fever.
12. In case there be no present illness, still at a future time
during an attack of fever, or during teething of children, severe
form of diarrhoea or dysentery.
13. In some cases, without any marked illness, general mal¬
aise or a feeling of weakness for some time, which would recur
several times.
14. In case of arm to arm vaccination, the second child ac¬
quires from the first hereditary syphilis or a scrofulous constitu¬
tion.
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15. If the child happens to be suffering from ulcerations,
scabies, or otfyer forms of skin disease, hepatic or splenic en¬
largement, vaccination has been found to aggravate them.
16. Inflammation of the axillary glands, a fortnight after the
vaccination.
A Rare Variety of Vicarious Menstruation. “Dr. Oswiem-
cinski has observed a rare form of vicarious menstruation, where
a female, menstruating first hi her eighteenth year, married at
the age of twenty-four. After a childless marriage of ten years
her husband died.. Three months before his death her menses
disappeared for the first time, while at the same time a colossal
swelling of the right mammary gland appeared in their stead. A
large quantity of colostrum could be pressed out. At the same
time there were pains in the breast which radiated into the arm.
These symptoms lasted for three days and gradually disappeared,
to reappear every month in place of the regular menses. The
left breast was unaffected. He has observed this peculiar phe¬
nomenon six times.”— Wiener Medizinische Rresse, No. 42, 1895.
Our New War Taxes Compared with those of the Sixties.
The main feature of this law will naturally be compared with
the successive revenue laws of the civil war period, and nothing
will be more noticeable in such an examination than the large
number of possible sources of revenue which have been passed
over on the present occasion. The greatest similarity between
the revenue systems of that war and of this is in the stamp taxes.
Nearly all the business documents formerly subject to duty have
been included in the present act, though in many cases at lower
rates than before,and a few additions have been made. But instead
of the few articles now taxed under Schedule B, the excise for
merly applied to a long list of manufactured and other products,
including such articles of common use as coal and oil, gas,
candles, ground coffee and spices, cotton, sugar and confection¬
ery, chocolate and cocoa, salt, slaughtered animals, furniture,
umbrellas, and photographs; and the rates were high enough to
make a decided difference in retail prices. Over against the
business taxes now imposed upon a few occupations must be set
a long list of corporations which were formerly taxed from 1 to
5 per cent, on their gross receipts, and a still longer list of occu¬
pations reached by means of license taxes. Thus the tax on
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gross receipts applied to railroads, steamboats, ferry-boats, toll-
bridges and toll-roads, telegraph, express, and insurance com¬
panies, lotteries, theaters, and museums, while the license taxes
applied under the act af 1864 not merely to the occupations pre¬
viously enumerated, but also to every other trade, business, and
profession. In addition to the taxes on legacies, there was a
succession tax applying to real estate. Finally, besides the in¬
come tax, there was a whole system of direct-consumption taxes
on such articles of pleasure and luxury as yachts, carriages,
pianos, private billiard tables, gold and silver plate, and watches.
It has been said that “contemporary budgetary history makes
no like exhibit of unopened resources and unemployed powers.”
The new law serves rather to emphasize this statement than
otherwise, by showing that even in war it is not necessary to tax
everything taxable, or even everything which might easily bear
taxing. The taxes imposed are certainly not excessive, and it is
quite possible that some portions of the act will be found so sat¬
isfactory that it will be advisable to retain them as permanent
sources of revenue in time of peace, to take the place of the in¬
come tax, which has been declared unconstitutional.—From
“Our New War Taxes,” by Max West, in the American Monthly
Review of Reviews for July.
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Diseases Of the S kin , Their Constitutional Nature and Cure , by Dr
J. Compton Burnett, Boericke and Tafel pp. 264. Third Edition, Revised and
Enlarged.
The preface to the first edition of this valuable little work so perfectly covers
its scope, that we produce it in this review with the hope that it may induce
every reader of this magazine to not only buy, but carefully study its contents.
In the following pages I take largely the clinical standpoint,
and consider the Diseases of the Skin constitutionally. The
treatment of skin diseases as merely local affairs concerning the
skin only, as is now current with nearly all medical men of all
schools and all the world over, is, in my opinion, nothing less
than a crime against humanity, and eminently characteristic of
the cultured shallowness of the medical profession of to-day.
In “these days of ’scopes and meters,” thinkings in the profes¬
sion, is well-nigh dead. One sees no end of percussing and aus¬
cultating: the faintest murmurs, sounds, tinkles, rales and bruits
are well known and learnedly discussed of, but what of the cur¬
ing? what ot the real aetiology of the Consumptive process itself?
Bacilli. Yes, but what went on before bacillary life became pos¬
sible? and how are the bacilli to thrive unless the soil be, for
them, of the right kind?
I do not maintain that there is no such a thing as a skin dis¬
ease of a purely local nature, such as commop phtheiriasis and
other parasitic dirt diseases that impinge upon the skin, but,
speaking generally, I do maintain the following points:—
1. That the skin is a very important living organ of the body.
2. That it stands in intimate, though ill-understood, relation¬
ship to all the internal organs and parts.
3. That its healthiness is conditioned by the general healthi¬
ness of the organism,—/. e. t a healthy skin on an unhealthy body
is inconceivable.
4. That, speaking generally, its unhealthiness—its diseases—
come from within, sometimes even when they initially impinge
upon it from without.
5. That being biologically within the organism, bein % fed from
within , having its life from within , having its health front within ,
and having its diseases from within , it must also be treated medi¬
cinally from within .
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6. That skin diseases are most commonly not mere organic,
but at the same time organismic, or constitutional.
7. That the skin being an excretory organ, and being spread
out all over the organism, is often made use of by Nature to keep
the internal organs free from disease.
, That as each portion of the skin corresponds vitally with
some internal organ or part, so the skin disease is often merely
the outward expression of internal disease.
9. That, in fine, the generally received external treatment of
Diseases of the Skin, whether with lotions or ointments or what¬
soever else, is demonstrably shallow in conception, wrong in
theory, harmful in practice, and therefore inadvisable.
These points embody my views on Diseases of the Skin;.they
guide me in my practice, and I might call upon the dermatolo¬
gists to refute them, did I not hold them to be absolutely irrefut¬
able.
If disease of the body bubbles up, so to speak, into the skin
like water from a spring, to treat this Disease in (of) the skin by
washes and ointments, or other outward applications, is really
not treating the diseased state at all, but only preventing its per¬
ipheral expression.
The skin does not live an independent life of itself—hung on,
as it were, outside of us—but is of all our organs the most sys¬
temic; but what can we expect from an age in which people think
they get a beautiful healthy skin from soap, and sound teeth
from tooth-powder?
The bark of a tree is a very fair analogue of the skin, and when
I one day asked my gardner why the bark of a certain apple tree
was so knobby, rough, and unhealthy-looking, he replied, “The
roots have got down on the clay, Sir.”
So it is, I opine, when a person’s skin becomes diseased.
“The roots have got down on the clay.”
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A MONTHLY HOMOEOPATHIC MAGAZINE.
Vol. xxxvii. Chicago, August 15, 1898. No. 8
Clinical IDerifications.
CLINICAL CASES.
FREDERICK WILLIAM PAYNE, M. D., BOSTON, MASS.
Three of the following cases, illustrate conditions of spinal
irritation, with long, persistent, trying backache; two of whom
had suffered in this way* practically, all their lives; one was
cured with Medorrhinum; one with Picric acid, and the third
with Thcridion; the fourth case being that of a cataract cure.
Spinal Irritation—Meclorrhinum.
Young man; age 21 years; a refractive eye error existed, with
insufficiency of the external recti muscles, of a degree as to
make me feel that, if the eye strain should be corrected, the
backache would also be dissipated; for I reasoned, that the re¬
flex from the eyes was of a sufficient degree to account for
the spinal suffering; a correction of which straining, in many
cases, often cures backache and spinal irritation. Glasses were
adjusted, that exactly neutralized the refractive error, and this
with prism-exercises, that were applied to the weak eye muscles,
brought the heterophoria into obeyance, so that the defective
muscular eye relation was reduced to a minimum, and a condi¬
tion of reasonable orderly balance resulted; yet notwithstanding
this correction the backache continued unrelieved. The young
man stated that he was never free from backache, and never re¬
members to have been without pain there; he has constantly a
sense of tension in the lumbar region, and in the posterior as-
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pect of the thighs, that extends down the legs, especially notic-
able when the muscles seem stiff and drawn, as if too short. He
has indurated submaxillary glands, the left one being much the
larger, and very prominent, as large as a good sized marble, and
very hard to the touch; he suffers from more or less neuralgic,
crampy pain in region of the left submaxillary gland, which ex¬
tends to the corresponding ear, and to the side of face, produc¬
ing a sensation as if “knotted” at times; feels generally worse in
damp weather; the backache is better from walking, but aggra¬
vated on sitting; he has a disposition to stretch the legs, and is
ameliorated thereby; the ischiatic bones ache while sitting, so
that he must constantly change his position for relief; when re¬
tiring at night his back aches hard, and the pain is aggravated
by lying upon it. Disposition for urination is urgent, and until
he micturates he has an increasing aching in the renal region,
which is relieved however by voiding the urine. Formerly had
much involuntary seminal drain, but now seldom does. Has a
disposition for sexual intercourse, but on attempting it, the penis
suddenly relaxes, without seminal loss. Has acne, with scars
and indurations, in the face and about the shoulders. Lips are
red and bloated. When the back aches hard, he feels like with¬
drawing from the company of his friends; wants to be alone.
His legs become numb, if he rests the buttocks, rather toward
the base of the os sacrum, in the chair tilted backward, with the
legs elevated as high as the head, on the window-sill, for instance.
Feels desperate and unreconciled concerning his backache. . Had
watering and sandy feeling in the eyes, that was dissipated by
the use of glasses.
The following symptoms of this case are found under the
proving of Medorrhinum, viz:
Mind. Wild and desperate feeling; feeling of desperation; very
impatient; alteration of happiness and gloominess.
Eyes. Watering of eyes, heat and sensation of sand under the
lids; decided tendency to irritation of edges of lids.
Upper Face. Swelling in region of left submaxillary gland ,
size of a goose egg; at times sharpy shooting pains in it. Face
covered with acne; dry herpes.
Lower Face. Swelling of submaxillary glands.
Urinary Organs. Pain in renal region, profuse urination re¬
lieves.
Male Sexual Organs. Impotence.
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Neck and Back. Tenderness of spinal column , on stretching;
lumbar vertabrce sensitive to touch; pains in lumbar portion of
spine; myalgic; induration of testes; pain in back of hips f running
around and down limbs; pain in sacrum and coccyx.
Lower Limbs. Longing to stretch legs. Rheumatic pains in
muscles of legs; legs dead and heavy.
Temperature and Weather. Aggravation in damp weather;
pains in limbs.
The following additional symptoms disappeared as improve¬
ment progressed, viz: Fully bloated , red lips. Sexual disability.
Tension from back to legs on stooping , as if the flexors were too
short. Pain in ischiatic bones while sitting and leaning backward.
Aggravation while sitting; impelled to keep legs in motion and
stretch them. Legs easily get numb , as if paralized , if he leans
back , resting on ischiatic bones , with the legs raised as high as the
head. Starting and jumping , as he is about falling asleep , causing
violent jerking up of the legs. Medorrhinum was given in the cm.
potency, three powders at first, then allowed to rest upon it for
two months; marked relief in the backache was noticable almost
at once, and after the first week he reported a decided gain,
“never having been so free from backache so long as he could
remember;” improvement steadily progressed thereafter; in
three months he called his back perfectly well; the sexual abil¬
ity had not completely returned, however, but seemed to steadily
gain; in other respects, general vigorous health was surely as¬
serting itself; he now considers himself perfectly well, though
the left submaxillary gland is still somewhat enlarged and in¬
durated, though perceptibly reducing in size.
Spinal Irritation—Picric Acid.
Mrs. B., 57 years old; has not menstruated for two years; had
the right eyeball enucleated some fifteen or twenty years ago,
for what she said was a tumor in it; the left eye of late years
has become painful on use, having a hot and strained feeling,
with darting pains, and a sensation as if the eyeball was puck¬
ered, drawn, and sandy, especially so on reading or sewing. Her
principal complaint, however, was of the backache, extending
from the head down the spine, which she has had ever since
14 years of age, coming on immediately after having fallen
heavily upon it, in consequence of a chair having been pulled
out from under her, as she was about sitting down; she fell
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forcibly upon the coccyx, and seemed to jar the whole spinal
system, since which, she affirms, she has never been free from
pain along the whole length of the back. She now suffers from
haemorrhoids, with a feeling as if the rectum was filled and
heavy; aggravation on going up stairs, and on standing; has, by
spells, a dull, throbbing pain in the piles that protrude, also
smarting and burning, at times, that makes her feel weak; has a
sense of lameness in the lower part of spine, as if a piece was
gone; she is sleepy and languid all the time; has much hot pain
below the waist, that is much worse if physically or mentally
tired; has much sense of heat in the vagina and bowels; dispo¬
sition to urinate often, but more so when lying down than when
in the erect position. Feels discouraged and indifferent; sense
of great weakness across the sacrum; it hurts the back more to
sit than to stand, or walk in the house, though it is much worse
if she walks out of doors; head feels tired throughout, as if the
brain itself, and mental capacity was too tired to be used.
Aesculus hip . 2c was given first, and seemed very efficacious in
relieving the haemorrhoidal trouble, and the back felt consider¬
ably better for a time. On measurement of the refraction, the
eye proved markedly astigmatic, so that a cylinder of plus 0.75
for the distance, placed at an axis of 75 degrees, neutralized the
error; while, for the presbyopia, plus 3 dioptrics, being added
to the above mentioned cylinder, made the reading distance
comfortable; with this combination the vision was relieved from
strain, and the back, for a time, seemed better. It was not long,
however, before the old backache reasserted itself, though the
haemorrhoids continued greatly relieved. A study was now
again made for the simillimum , and Picric acid was the remedy
chosen and prescribed, thereby proving its efficacy by curing the
patient. Under the proving of Picric acid are the following
symptoms, viz:
Mind. Great indifference; lack of will-power. Cannot collect
thoughts; quickly prostrated from using mind. Disinclination for
mental and physical work; desire to sit stilly without taking any
interest in surroundings. Mental prostration after least intel¬
lectual work , developing burning along spine, with great weakness
of legs and back . Brain fag .
Inner Head. Dull headache in forehead or occiput , extending
down spine; aggravation from slightest attempt at using mind.
Any attempt at using mind brings on headache and causes burning
along spine.
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Sight and Eyes. Feeling of sand in eyes, smarting pain. Eyes
smart and burn.
Stool and Rectum. During stool: burning, smarting and
cutting at anus. After stool: great prostration; burning and
smarting at anus.
Neck and Back. Burning along spine and very great weak¬
ness of legs and back, with soreness of muscles and joints. Tired
aching feeling and some burning in back and legs; in women. Heat
in lower part of spine; aching and dragging feeling in lumbar
region, aggravated from motion. After doing fine work especially
at night, failing of sight, blur before the eyes; played-out feeling of
whole body; bodily exhaustion with mental clearness.
liower Limbs. Great weakness and heaviness of lower limbs
and back, with soreness of muscles and joints. Great weakness in
region of hips.
Nerves. Tiredfeeling on least exertion; all over body.
Sensations. As of sand in eyes. Aching in back. Smarting
pain in eyes. Burning along spine; and of eyes. Heat in lower
part of spine. Heaviness in small of back; in region of hips.
In addition to the above enumerated symptoms of Picric acid ,
the following were also dissipated under its use, viz: Great dis¬
couragement. The left eye feels puckered up, hot, drawn and
strained. Hcemorrhoids feel heavy, and as if the rectum was filled,
aggravated by ascending, and on standing. Dull throbbing pain
in rectum, making her feel weak. Heat in vagina and bowels .
Urging to urinate, worse when lying, than when standing. 4 Back¬
ache is much worse while sitting, than when walking or standing
in the house, but is worse while walking out of doors. Tired,
sleepy feeling all the time. Work {walking), in open air prostrates.
Neurasthenia-Tberidion.
Theridion cured the following case, in a lady about fifty years
of age. She had been a patient of mine for years; having had
much serious, refractive trouble with the eyes, as well as an un¬
balanced condition of neurasthenic exhaustion about to be de¬
scribed. After several unsuccessful attempts at a correction
of her refractive defect. I finally succeeded in getting the
following glasses, notwithstanding she had an esophoria of 2
degrees, and a R. hyperphoria, varying from 1 to 3 degrees;
the glasses were as follows, and were worn with comfort,
vi 7 fnr dictanrp J R. Dins 0.25 O cyl. pins 0.50, ax. 82V* degrees. ( . w u:u f ftr
viz., ror distance, f l pi ue 0.75 c cyi. plus o. bo, ax. so degrees. i > wnue tor
reading, plus 2.75 dioptrics were added. I fully attribute this
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acquired ability in adjusting her glasses, to the effectiveness of
the remedy that proved to be the simillimum, for until this was
found, the eyes continually went wrong, and her physical and
mental ails were great and persistent; this opinion is also
strengthened by the fact that, although able to use her glasses
with considerable comfort, she was subjected to a spell of gen¬
eral and serious aggravation, that was promptly met, and dissi¬
pated by another dose of Theridion tz \ since which she has re¬
mained perfectly well. The history of this case is as follows, as
copied from my case-book. Eyeballs ache and burn much,
amel. by pressure, and by cold, wet compresses. On attempting
to move the eyes they feel stiff, and unwieldly, hurting more to
look up, than downward; the simple act of looking however, mak¬
ing them ache hard, rather more so; the right eye, has a dull,
hard, aching pain in forehead. Eyes and head feel tired, with
hard aching. Tired, weary feeling of head, which is aggravated
by the talking of others. Tension and clutched feeling, at times*
about the spinal nerves. Feels better, in all respects, for a short
time after having eaten. Dull pain across shoulders, making her
feel sick and disheartened; the back is very sensitive and painful
when resting it against the chair, so that she must avoid it.
White bread always disagrees, but she can eat brown bread, made
of rye and indian meal, with impunity. Sees a large black speck
floating before the left eye, mornings. Is made tired, both men¬
tally and physically, by lectures, etc., so she can’t go to church,
in consequence. Has perplexing, trying, vivid dreams, often
ludicrous and annoying, of extensive traveling, etc. She wakens
very tired, after the night’s sleep. Eructations of wind, tasting
of the food. Misty look of near objects. Feels irritable and
impatient with herself. With pain in back; it feels heavy and
weighty. Occasionally has leucorrhoea, somewhat thin and yel¬
low, flowing away. Sore feeling as if bruised the whole length
of spine, and across shoulders, aggravated by using the mind, in
listening to a lecture; the pain in spine is distressing and marked¬
ly discouraging, making her feel depressed and disheartened.
All mental worry aggravated the suffering in the spinal system.
The back is not relieved by lying, though a long rest ameliorates,
and she feels much more comfortable after the morning bath.
Stomach feels full, especially after her evening meal, and this
sense of fulness continues through the evening. A long time
after eating, has sour rising, and much raising of gas. The me-
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chanical use of the arms, as well as an effort of the mind, makes
the back ache and causes nausea. She is very sensitive to shrill
sounds, that shock the system, and vibrate through the body.
Don’t get a comfortable place when lying down, so that sire must
move much, in an effort to get composed, and is a long time in
getting there. Mind becomes very much depressed, with the
spinal pain; don’t see the pleasant side of life; its events seem to
trouble and worry her, although, naturally, of a very happy dis¬
position. Several remedies were prescribed, covering a long in¬
terval of time, and although apparently somewhat better, by
spells, she would invaribly fall off again. After the first dose of
Theridion cur* c was given however, she promptly felt much re¬
lief, and continued better for months; at the time, of her last
visit, she reported, that she had been feeling less well for several
days, and I found her suffering from a general aggravation of all
her symptoms, especially those of the back and mind. She was
given another dose of Theridion cur ; she then disappeared
from my attention, but has reported to me occasionally, as I have
met her on the street and elsewhere, that “the medicine again
acted like a charm,” and her health seems perfectly good. My
theory is that the remedy, by its curative influence, permitted the
establishment of a passive condition of the muscles, whereby the
measurement of the defective refractive error was made permis¬
sible, and although the eye symptoms were much relieved there¬
by, yet the neurasthenic condition continued practically unre¬
lieved, and was only permanently corrected by a repetition of
the simillimum. The straining reflex to the spinal system, from
the eye error, was minimized by the artificial correction of the
eye defect, by means of the glasses, and the Theridion empha¬
sized and completed the cure through its own, inherent, correct¬
ing force, from its power in directing the proper application of
the misdirected vital forces, in accordance with the usual won¬
derful methods of our law of similars . The symptoms of Therid-
ion , that called attention to its possible usefulness in this case,
were, first, the sensitiveness to shrill sounds , that shockedandpre -
vaded the whole system , vibrating through the body; and secondly
the sensitiveness of the vertebrae to pressure in sitting , resting the
back against the chair , when she must change the pressure there , by
sitting sideways, in order to avoid it.
Cataract Case—Cured by Zincum met 2 c.
This case was that of a lady, 58 years of age. Striae of
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opacity existed in both crystaline lenses, but the left one
was so dense, and the visual acuity so greatly blurred, that
it had become practically useless for vision, in consequence.
The history of the case showed a condition of inflammation
of the choroid in the left eye, whereby a degenerating change
had occurred in the crystaline, causing numerous and dense
stripes of opacity in its cortex, with much haziness existing
in the interstices between the radiating, dense striae. Her
symptoms, all being referred to the left eye, consisted of a
severe , bruised\ sore , smarting, burning, itching and stinging
sensation, at intervals , coming suddenly , as if pepper had been
thrown into the eye , causing great, and scalding lachrymation, much
spasm of the lids , and general cringing therefrom; these spells oc¬
curred more markedly and more often in the evening. The eye and
lid had spells of burning and dryness , so intense as to produce a
feeling as if the eyeball was adherent to the eyelid , accompanied by
a sensation as if a stick 7oas under the lid, scratching the eyeball.
Had spells of flickering before left eye; sa7V blue and green
rings, floating in the left visual field; a green halo is seen , at
times , around the flame of the gas jet. Although these ob¬
jective symptoms might suggest a possible tension of the eye¬
ball, such did not exist. A slight conjunctival irritation ex¬
isted, with a tendency to agglutination. Eye symptoms were
all markedly worse from warmth, from warm days , and by
artificial heat , both of 7uhich caused an aggravation of all her
symptoms. She was impatient, nervous, tremulous, all being
aggravated by every mental emotion. A marked choreic condition
existed, with jerking of individual muscles of the face , nose , ears,
mouth , and sometimes of the arms, which latter symptom necessi¬
tated much effort of the 7idll to restrain , and which proved only
partly successful. She had some jerking of the body during sleep.
The choreic expression was largely instrumental in calling my
attention to Zincum , which proved also equally effective in clear¬
ing the advancing opacities in the lens substance, as well as
curing the spasms of muscles. In six months, under an occas¬
ional dose of Zincum 80 , the right lens had become perfectly
clear, and the vision in the left was markedly and steadily gain¬
ing. Her eyes had compound, hyperopic astigmatism; the pre¬
ponderance of astigmatic curve being vertical (90 degrees) in
the right eye; while in the left it proved exactly at right angle to
this, viz., horizontally (180 degrees). Glasses were adjusted
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that exactly neutralized the refractive error, and proved a com¬
fort in use. Eleven years later, the right lens was still fully
transparent, and the left lens, though having a few dense streaks
in its substance, had cleared so that large, perfectly transparent
interstices existed throughout its area, that permitted entirely
•distinct and practical vision. Under the proving of Zincum met .
are the lollowing symptoms, viz:
The left eye is more markedly affected than the right , though
both are influenced. Redness with intense burning , smarting,
biting and itching , as from salt in left eye. Scalding lachrymation .
Sensation as if the eyelids adhered to the eyeball , and actually do
so. Marked aggravation from all kinds of heat. Aggravation
in the night. Mental symptoms of Zincum are those of nervous¬
ness , irritability , irrascibility , and great impatience. Twitching
of muscles , as well as jerking of various muscles. Choreic jerks
through the body during sleep.
There are no symptoms under the proving of Zincum* that re¬
fer to opaque lenses, and it is probable that a proving would not
be voluntarily carried so far as to produce this great arrest of
nutrition to the crystaline body, that would permit such an
opacity to occur, hence always the importance to be ascribed to
concomitant symptoms, both objective and subjective, to what¬
ever part of the body they may be referred, in order to find for
us the simillimum in every individual case, without regarding as
of so much importance the material expression , or result of dis¬
ease, as shown in opaque lenses , for instance.
CASES FROM PRACTICE.
R. E. BELDING, M. D., TROY, N. Y.
Case 1. July 27, 1891. Grace P., aged 12 years, with dark
hair and eyes, of slender build, has been sick for a week. For
three days she was beset with chills at irregular intervals with
great thirst for large quantities of water. For the past forty-
eight hours a high fever has supervened with the pulse at 144
and the temperature 103.6. The skin is dry, the tongue coated
white with brown center and red edges. Everything tastes sweet.
There has been no appetite for several days. The flesh is sore
from head to heels, felt, especially, on moving. She is faint and
pale on rising from lying and is very sleepy, and although she
dream she talks in her sleep. Is rational but too weak to talk much.
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Four boils have appeared on the privates and have discharged
their contents. She has been drugged with old school treatment*
Nux vom** c (F.), one powder, was given her.
July 28th, 10 a. m. Pulse 120; temperature 102.6. Skin
moist. She slept several hours. Pains and soreness of the
flesh all gone. The tongue appears the same as yesterday. A
vertigo which she had is gone but she is too weak to stand.
July 29th, 10:30 a. m. Pulse 114; temperature 102.8. Her
mouth is sore; she is very restless after midnight; moves about
to find a cool spot. Talks and starts in sleep. Drinks often
and little at a time. The urine is dark colored and very strong
smelling. Arsenicunt l0m , one powder left her.
July 30th, finds that she was restless through the night and
her morning temperature is 102.8, and the pulse 120. Other
symptoms remain as yesterday. There is an offensive discharge
from the sores at the vulva. There is a bloody mucus discharge
from the nostrils and she has occasional single coughs. Syph -
ilinum lm (Swan), one powder.
July 31st, the pulse is 105 and the temperature 102. The
tongue is clearing off. There is* no appetite, no pain and little
taste. The thirst is nearly gone. 7 p. m. Since 4 o’clock
she has spit up quite a quantity of blood, probably coming from
the posterior nares. A dose of Phosphorus 5m (F.) was given her
and the hemorrhage ceased. She slept well all night and was
sleepy the next day when I called to see her. She has a dislike
for sweets and her tongue is becoming brown coated again. The
urine is clear, pulse 110 and temperature 103. Her sleep was
quiet.
August 3. She has had a restless night, talking much. Her
mouth is very dry, also her throat. She lies with her mouth
open. Tongue trembling. Perhaps this added trouble arose
from drinking some milk last night when her stomach was in¬
capable of digesting it. Pulse 108, temperature 102.8. Lach~
esis * m (F.), one powder.
August 6. No pain but she groans from weakness and stam¬
mers. Pulse 120, temperature 103.2. Mutters in sleep. She
dislikes to talk, wants to be covered, is delirious when partly
asleep and can’t see clearly when awake. The urine is scanty,
she perspires slightly, the tongue is brown and she has an in¬
creased dislike for anything sweet. Baptisia cm (Swan), three
powders, one hour between them.
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August 7. Pulse 102, temperature 100.2. She slept well*
Relishes beef juice. Her lips are sore and cracked. There is
less stammering and she looks brighter. Baptisia? m , one pow¬
der.
August 8. She is more delirious and talkative in her sleep
but is rational when thoroughly awake. Her temperature has
risen to 101.8, and the pulse to 114. She is thirsty, picks her
lips, the tongue is still brown and trembling and a bloody saliva
drops from her mouth. The jaws and throat are stiff on awak¬
ing and she can neither articulate well nor see plainly. Tender¬
ness is in right iliac region. Arum tri, 30 , five powders, one each
hour.
August 10. Pulse 102, temperature 98. She is exhausted.
The cold sweat is streaming down her face aft$r a profuse, in¬
voluntary, watery, not very offensive stool, for which she was
taken up and set on a vessel. Is sleeping nicely, is fairly warm
always wants to be covered. Bowels less sensitive. Much
belching of flatus which also escapes with stool. Lips less sore.
August 11. The pulse is 120 and the temperature 98. The
other symptoms remain unchanged. The bowels give her no
trouble.
Angust 12. She sleeps very quietly; is flighty on waking but
is soon rational. Says very little beyond yes and no; the lips
are cracked and the saliva bloody; the tongue still brown. She
is very pale and whines when she talks. She cries out when any
one approaches her. The urine is clear and not offensive.
Arnica 110 , one powder cleared up the case and on August 20th
she was discharged cured.
This case is remarkable for the changable pulse and the dis¬
crepancy between the pulse rate and temperature. It is not
given as a model of accurate prescription. The last prescrip¬
tion, Arnica , was entirely satisfactory. (The time of year, the
general picture of gastro-hepatic trouble points to Bryonia .
Case 2. Nux vomica 330 (F.) Edna S., age 11 years, has been
fleshy but is now in moderate flesh. She vomits after eating fat
food, oatmeal or rice with sugar and milk. Frontal headache
worse in the morning, after drinking cold water or after using
the eyes. The letters run together from reading but a short
time. She is tired in the morning, moans during sleep and her
bowels are delaying. Her feet are cold and dry. She has pain
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between the scapulae and in both hypochondria. The mammae
become hard and swollen and sensitive to the touch by spells.
In the summer she has urticaria. December 25th she received
one powder of Nux vomica 330 (F.), which relieved all the above
symptoms.
Case 3. TonsUitis-L,achesis 40m . Mrs. S., Jan. 15, 1898, has
a very dry, smarting throat, worse on the right side, from the
posterior nares downward, tonsils and tongue swollen largely
and tongue coated white. She wants to swallow frequently to
get rid of the bad feeling in the throat. Coughs up a little yel¬
low mucus some of which is in dry chunks. Very nervous and
tearful of her disease and is restless and sleepless on that ac¬
count. She is worse after sleeping. Sleep with her mouth open.
General headache worse in the night. No appetite and no
thirst but drinks a little to wet the dry throat. Lachcsis iQm in
water, dose every two hours.
Case 4. Pneumonitis, Sequella of Mercurius. Mrs. Kate
L. D., age 25; always poor in health, thin in flesh, is the mother
of two healthy children. Her hair and eyes are dark. She has
just pulled through a seige of pleuro-pneumonia under old school
treatment. The trouble was in the right chest, beginning with
pain in the right shoulder, running down the right chest and
across the stomach, finally settling in the left lower chest. The
spine is now tender to pressure in its whole length, more sensi¬
tive to light pressure. She is gloomy, is better with company
and worse in damp and cloudy weather. She has an unnatural
craving for food and is not much relieved by eating. Bowels
quite constipated without much urging. Uses enemata-water.
Great dysuria, burning, scalding, and can only be passed with
any freedom when lying on the back. The urine is offensive
with* the odor of rotten eggs and is scanty. There is prolapsus
of the uterus and the neck of the womb is very sore where it
rests against the bladder. The vagina and vulva are much
swollen. She had much leucorrhcea which has been suppressed
by local applications. It was very corrosive. The feet are cold
and sweaty and she sweats much about the body and limbs even
when she is cold. Mercurius ,cm (Swan) in water, a dose every
six hours for two days, cleared up the case as well as could be
expected of a patient who had been ill all her life. Months
afterwards I heard from her that she was in quite good health.
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Case 5. Conjunctivitis (Scrofulous)—Sulphur^. Martin
W., aged 7 years, for six weeks has had scrofulous sore eyes. It is
in the left one and it feels rough and scratchy, and is worse from
lamplight, evenings. There is a great deal of lachrymation in
the wind and from light. A yellow matter sticks the lids
together in the morning. The child is cold and hugs the fire
continually. He cannot'look up on account of the pain it gives^
the eye. One powder of Sulphur* m cured the case in a few
days.
Case 6. Chronic Conjunctivitis—Sanicula 10m . Alexander L.,.
age 5 years, August 14, 1898. Since he was one year old he has
had infiammed eyes, especially the conjunctiva, which is very
red, worse from playing hard. Photophobia, worse from sun¬
light. The lids are stuck together in the morning with a brown
matter so profuse as to run out on the pillow. The eyeball is
covered with mucus which obstructs the sight and has to be fre¬
quently wiped off. He has frequent diarrhoea in the day time
or in early morning. He has also a few itching pimples on the
upper arm. Sanicula 10m (Skinner), seven powders, one to be
given each day, cured in the space of one month.
RHUS PROVING.
A. M’NEIL, M. D., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
Henry C., age 13, attending an academy, came home April
28, 1898, sick. He has vomited, has rheumatoid pains, amelior¬
ated by exercise, slight febrile movement. His face shows in¬
dications of poison-oak. I gave him Rhus tox. 30 in three tea¬
spoonfuls of water, one to be given every hour.
April 29, clearly better, except the skin symptoms, which are
worse. No medicine.
April 30, he is well, except the skin, which is worse. His face
is swollen on the left side as if he is suffering from toothache.
It is red, rough and indented. It itches much, especially when
warm, from exercise, or the heat of the bed. Gave Sulphur 30
in water, as the Rhus had been given.
May 1, itching much better.
May 2, it has disappeared; only the redness and roughness
remain. Desquamation begun.
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May 4, the scaling off progressing; no other symptoms. Is
practically well.
This case is a clear demonstration of the fallacy of Sawyerism.
It was, as seen from the results, one of those instances men¬
tioned by Hahnemann where two dissimilar morbific forces
occupied the system at one time. Several years ago I reported
a case of Rhus poisoning in myself. I took Rhus tox 75m one
dose with no benefit in forty-eight hours. Then Graphites , and
afterwards Anacardium , but the disease progressed so that my
sufferings were intense. I then wrote down my symptoms and
worked them out by the aid of Boenninghausen’s Pocket Book.
The result showed Rhus tox 9 , Phosphorus and Calcarea each 14,
and Sulphur 16 . After one dose of which the itching ceased and
I went on to complete recovery with great rapidity.
Since then I have treated every case of Rhus poisoning, of
which we have a great deal in this state, by giving the drug
which covered the totality of the symptoms and always with
satisfactory results. Sulphur has been more frequently indicated
than all the others; and in one case after curing a patient several
times she has become immune.
“DRUG MIASMS” ISOPATHY AND HOMOEOPATHY.
A. R. MORGAN, M. D., WATERBURY, CONN.
M. A., for several months has been suffering from frequent at¬
tacks of choking with sensation of constriction about the upper
chest and throat.
When severe, these attacks are accompanied by an indescrib¬
able distress in the region of the heart, and a painful sensation
of fullness extending up each side of the neck—carotids—and
down both arms to wrists, worse on the left sfde.
During these attacks the face becomes red and turgid, and is
moistened with a cool sweat. The pulse becomes weak and slow,
and at times is almost imperceptible.
The anguish at times is so intense that he can neither sit quiet¬
ly nor lie down, but tosses from side to side finding relief in no
position, gets up and lies down immediately, moans and repeats
over and over again, “What shall I do, What shall I do,” yet
there is no mental excitement.
The paroxysms of pain come on sometimes without premoni¬
tion and without any apparent exciting cause.
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They have occured when about to sit down at the dinner table,
when going to bed at night, and one very severe attack came on
while quietly enjoying and unexciting game of b^se bail, and “the
subsequent proceedings interested him no more.”
The attacks are brought on by walking, even slowly, and for
short distances, has often been obliged to stop and stand still for
several minutes waiting for the distress to abate, and after so
waiting could move on only by proceeding very cautiously.
During these paroxysms there is no dyspnea, no difficulty in
swallowing, although there has been occasionally a sensation as
of a lump in the region of the supra-sternal fossae felt only on
swallowing or on taking a deep breath. Appetite good, bowels
regular. Diagnosis—Angina Pectoris.
The patient had Arsenicum and then Rhus tox. in different po¬
tencies from 200th to M. without preceptable relief. During an ex¬
ceptionally severe attack on the evening of Oct. 28th, ’97, after a
careful study of the case, he got one dose of Tabacurn rm with re¬
lief which seems almost magical, and what is very remarkable,
there has been no return of the distress since although some¬
time in March last, there was “just a suspicion” of the choking
sensation which disappeared after another dose of Tabacum cm
and has not since returned, June, ’98.
Remarks —The symptoms in this case, it will be observed, are
closely covered by the pathogenesis of Tabacum which remedy
probably would have been given at first by a more careful pre-
scriber.
It turned out that the patient was a reformed tobacco drunk¬
ard who had been in the habit of “burning the weed” exclusively
for many years, without being aware of any detrimental effects.
Four or five years previous to this time, he had abandoned the
habit of smoking, and had instead acquired the habit of carrying
in his mouth almost constantly an unlighted cigar, but even this
habit had been discontinued for several weeks previous to these
attacks.
Under the circumstances, it explains how the patient came by
his tobacco symptoms, and the speedy relief following the ad¬
ministration of potentized tobacco, seems a remarkable corrob¬
oration of the modern claim for the antidotal power of dyna¬
mized drugs, when used in accordance with our law of Similars,
which however is quite a different affair, from using drugs for an¬
tidotal purposes without regard to pathogenetic relation.
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Hahnemann had no conception of the application of drugs, as-
we may justly infer from his having made no mention of it, and
from the utterly hopeless view he took of disease brought on by
allopathic misuse or abuse of drugs, for among numerous other
discouraging statements he says in Section 76 of the Organon.
“An art of healing intended for re-establishing to their normal
condition , those countless morbid changes of the body which are
often induced by the mischievous art of allopathy , does not or can¬
not exist"
We wish here to briefly refer to Hahnemann’s use of the word
miasm which occurs in this Section—76—and in many other
places.
When he made the announcement of the “three chronic
miasms” he forced upon the word miasm, a construction which
has never been accepted by Lexicographers, and we are com¬
pelled to admit that there is nothing in the nature of either Syph¬
ilis, Sycosis, or Psora which entitles them to consideration under
the definition given to this word in any dictionary to which we
have access, and therefore we cannot see the propriety of pro¬
ceeding further in the same direction by attempting to crowd
drug diseases into the same unaccepted category.
Might we not with equal inconsistency include therein all our
drug provings thus extending the miasmatic field from Aconite
to Zizia?
We have consulted the dictionaries of Webster, of Worcester,
The Standard and The Century, The English Dictionaries of
Johnson and The Imperial, the French Dictionary of Lettre,
The Medical Dictionaries of Dungleson and Gould, and find each
and all, without exception practically agreeing in the following
definition viz:
“Miasm, infective emanation in fine particles of noxious germs ,
arising from decaying or putrifying animal or vegetable matter r
and floating in the atmosphere . ”
This definition of the word, which is accepted throughout the
civilized world, rules out of consideration Hahnemann’s three
chronic miasms, and drug miasms also. There has been con¬
siderable contention of late, as to who is entitled to credit for
priority of announcement of the peculiar antidotal power of
drugs.
Since this article was begun several papers have appeared in
our medical journals bearing upon this feature.
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Dr. Fincke in an article in the Homoeopathic Physician 9 Vol.
xviii, p. 185, put in a modest claim for Boenninghausen, and
another for Dr. Adolph Lippe with the Fincke potencies, rang¬
ing from 18&6 to 1865.
I distinctly remember more than thirty years ago, hearing
Rhus tox** recommended for the effect of poison ivy, and so
tried it without making impression enough, however, to induce
me to repeat the experiment.
It must be conceded that the formal announcement of such
antidotal properties in drugs is of comparatively recent date,
and like most other important discoveries in the world, it ap¬
pears that many physicians in many places, remote from each
other, were simultaneously working out this problem, and that
no particular individual is entitled to exclusive credit for the
discovery.
A feature bearing directly upon the question which should
never be overlooked is, that the antidotal properties depend upon
certain definite and fixed conditions, conditions which have ap¬
parently been lost sight of by those over-credulous individuals
who are gaining enviable notoriety by advocating the empirical
use of all sorts of unproved drugs, and of compound nostrums—
the constituents of which they are usually entirely ignorant—
simply because it has been ascertained that at some former
period, the patient had been dosed with said drugs or nostrums,
a conclusion too frail and illogical to be redeemed from absurd¬
ity even by their pretext of potentiation.
It is the habit of some practitioners in the treatment of a case,
to begin with the higher potencies and when it is found neces¬
sary to repeat, to go to lower attenuations, while others begin
treatment by using comparatively lower potencies and when
called upon to repeat, to gradually ascend the scale of dynami-
zation. For illustration, it is my own usual course to begin with
the 200th, and when called upon to repeat, to follow with the
m, cm, or M, and I have yet to learn of a single case where such
a source of procedure has culminated in antidoting or neutraliz¬
ing the curative action begun by the lower potency, but on the
contrary, success has so often followed the method that the
hat>it has been confirmed.
Such experiences show that whatever may be the antidotal
power of high potencies over the effects of crude drugs, they
exercise no such influence over dynamizations or, at least, when
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those dynamizations have been carried beyond the appearance
of the original drug substance in the attenuation.
The homoeopathic use of dynamized drugs for antidotal pur¬
poses, has by some of our too impulsive friends been confounded
with the isopathic use of nosodes, while really the two ideas are
quite different as may be seen by a moment’s reflection upon the
definition of Isopathy as given with great uniformity by all
Lexicographers, i. e., “the theory that diseases may be cured by
the products of the disease, as smallpox by minute doses of
Variolous matter.”— Century Dictionary .
“The theory that contageous diseases contain in their own
contageous matter the means for their cure.”— Standard Diction -
ary.
“The system which undertakes to cure a disease by means of
the virus of the same disease.”— Webster's Dictionary .
Webster and the Century also add, “The theory of curing a
diseased organ by eating the analogue organ of a healthy
animal,” the latter being the revival of the homely adage, “every
part strengthens a part,” a method which has quite recently been
dug from the moldy grave of antiquity, and grafted to the so-
called “regular” practice under the name of “The animal ex¬
tracts.”
The above definitions of Isopathy rule out of consideration
the question of including therein the antidotal power of a drug
over itself, for drugs are not morbid products.
The isopathic use of nosodes by adoption into the empirical
methods of the old school has now become the regular and
orthodox practice.
The homoeopathic use of nosodes, like the use of every other
homoeopathic remedy, depends, first, upon the similarity found
to exist between the morbid symptoms of the patient, and the
pathogenesis of the particular nosode employed; secondly, upon
an alteration brought about in the nature of the crude nosode
by attenuation and potentiz&tion according to pharmaceutical
rules, an alteration which changes the range of action from an
idem to a simillimum as set forth by Hahnemann in Chronic
Diseases. See Hempel’s translation, Vol. 1, pp. 195-196, or
Tafel's translation, p. 142, where he gives the following sufficient
reason for omitting all the so-called isopathic remedies from his
list of antipsorics: “ because their effects have not yet been suffi¬
ciently determined by provings upon the healthy .”
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He also refers to Psorinum which had already been poten-
tized, and quite thoroughly proven by himself and colleagues,
blit not enough, he tells us, to warrant its adoption into our
Materia Medica.
It is an established feature of our method of cure that no
pathological similitude can possibly be determined without re-
liable drug provings as a foundation.
From these considerations it is plain that the homoeopathic
use of nosodes does not consist in the administration of crude
and unproved morbid products to the person from whom such
products were taken, but in the intelligent administration of
dynamizations of a thoroughly proved remedy applied in strict
accordance with the law of similars.
It follows that the isopathic use of morbid products, whether
upon the individual from whom such morbid products were taken,
or upon his ailing neighbor, whether in the form of vaccine pus,
diphtheritic serum, tubercular lymph or any other vile and
pestitcntial anti-toxin virus is unworthy the curative methods of
the opening verge of the twentieth century.
SULPHUR versus PULSATILLA.
A. S. PEASE, M. D., CHICAGO.
Mrs. K., age 46. Last child was delivered by myself, May
27, 1897.
June 22.
Called for some medicine for a cough. Had gotten
up too soon after her confinement; had done a large
washing.
A bad cold resulted.
Symptoms:
Dry cough, with more or less dyspnoea.
Pulse 60 beats per minute.
Temperature 97.
Not getting any more satisfactory symptoms, gave
a Placebo and told her to call again.
June 26.
Called early in the morning.
Much worse.
Face wore anxious, distressed expression.
Extreme dyspnoea.
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Had been unable to sleep for want of breath and
could rest only in a sitting position.
Cough dry and distressing, causing sharp stitching
pains in lower part of right lung.
Deep inspiration caused the sharp pains.
Temperature 95, pulse 60.
A cold, clammy sweat, profuse on face and hands.
On examining the lungs, found a large area of dull¬
ness in lower and middle lobe of right lung.
Absence of respiratory sound, and of motion of right
lung.
Told patient to go home and to bed and to put on
hot compresses over area of affected lung. Being
a German who could speak little English, she mis¬
understood me and tried to use cold cloths but
could not, fortunately.
I gave her Bry lm and said I would call soon to see her.
In two hours I saw her, sitting in a chair struggling
for air, cold sweat pouring from her face and hands.
The fanlike motion of alae nasi led me to prescribe
Lyc lm j without any results.
My next call, three hours later, found the condition
no better.
I had studied on the case carefully and though I
found Sulph . and Phos. indicated, I gave the latter
hoping it would do some good.
9 p. m., found patient almost in collapse.
Lying on bed with head propped high up.
Prostration extreme.
Respiration shallow and showing indications of par¬
alysis of the lungs.
Icy cold sweat running in streams from face and arms.
Begging for “frische luft.”
On the symptoms of the lack of reaction from appa¬
rently indicated remedy, symptoms at a stand still,
or steady tendency toward death, and the symptom
as given in H. G. S. “Pneumonia assumes a tor¬
pid character with slow solidification/ 1 “Feels
suffocated, wants doors and windows open/’ Gave
Sulph lm a powder in three teaspoonfuls of water.
Ordered hot water bottles put all about her,
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and, what may have been unhomoeopathic, put four
teaspoonfuls of good brandy in half glass of water,
giving a spoonful every half hour, but giving the
Sulphur first, and in 15 minutes another teaspoon-
ful, then waited developments. Expected to see her
go into complete collapse and die before morning,
but she soon fell into a fitful slumber, the repira-
tions, at first weak and unequal, became less pro¬
fuse and the forehead warmer.
At 12 o’clock she awoke, said she felt better and could
get her breath more easily.
She now received a goodly supply of “colored water”
(burnt sugar being the coloring matter) and I left
feeling sure she was out of danger, and 9he was.
Improvement was rapid and surprising.
July 7.
She called at my office to pay her bill, and said she
felt well, only her appetite did not improve and was
not as strong as before taken sick.
Sulph Mm .
Aug. 11.
Called stating that she was feeling about the same.
Decided it was time to “retake the case” and found
the following:
Dyspnoea in the evening, especially if atmosphere is
at ail damp. Same on damp days.
Fqels better in the open air, but chilly if air is cold or
damp, yet indoors it is too close.
No appetite at all.
Stomach sensitive to touch and pressure.
Distress in stomach after eating, which she does be¬
cause she thinks she must eat to keep her strength.
No thirst. Aversion to water, but strong craving for
beer.
A glass of beer makes a good meal for her.
In the left side of chest she has a feeling as if warm
WATER WERE ROLLING OR GRUMBLING ABOUT.
Is of a mild, jolly disposition.
Daft hair and eyes.
A tenent on her farm causes her much trouble yet she
dreads to “oust” him preferring to endure the an¬
noyance.
Sac. lac.
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To make a sure study of the case, the peculiar symp¬
tom “as of warm water rolling or grumbling about
in left chest” puzzling me.
Aug. 16.
I did what any one should have done; took the total¬
ity of the symptoms which were plain enough.
Puls lm .
Told patient to report in three days.
Aug. 19
Reports a good appetite.
No craving for beer.
Soreness and sensitiveness in stomach gone.
Damp air does not bother her a bit now. Breathing
perfectly easy at all times.
The sensation as if water were rolling or grumbling
about in left chest is gone.
She said “those little pills took everything away,” and
I believe it for when she shakes hands with me I
am inclined to think she could bear another 12
children if not so old.
REMEDY WANTED.
J. S. WATT, M. D., BELVUE, KANSAS.
On June 11th, 1898, 1 was called to see a patient, male, age 70.
History: When in health he had carried on a meat market
and light business—a general merchandising. Some years previ¬
ously had engaged in gardening, and 30 or 40 years ago went to
the Pacific coast, where he engaged in mining, trading and herd¬
ing sheep during the years of his stay there.
Before leaving his early home, he had been given up to die of
what was thought to be consumption, but life in mountains of
California and Nevada brought recovery and fair degree of health,
but had nasal catarrh < in the north wind, (Give character of
discharge and effect produced upon nasal passages— Ed. ) which
he has treated by various local means, all of which I cannot
find out. The latest Glyco-Thymoline, he pronounces good,
but says that a few years ago he got great benefit from insufla-
tions of salt and water. After getting the statement of his symp¬
toms, I learned from one of his relatives that he had a trouble
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in his stomach when quite a young man, which after poulticing
an abscess opened. (Where?— Ed.)
For ten or twelve years has not been very rugged, but could
do light work. He has indulged in alcoholic drinks quite liber¬
ally, sometimes drunkenness. I think whiskey was his favorite
drink, but he sometimes took bitters of various kinds for their
/ “tonic” effects. Had several attacks of lung fever and malarial
fever.
Status prasetts. Present sickness commenced about eight
months ago, was under treatment of an Eclectic-Schuessler
Homoeopath for a short time. He then changed to* homoeo¬
pathic graduate, but growing worse changed to regular. The
drugs taken cannot be enumerated but quinine in early years as well
as calomel . During the last seven months of regular treatment,
he has been regularly dosed with calomel , digitalis , a mixture of
wood creosote and cod liver oil , strychnine etc. The present
sickness was brought by a “a cold.” When called I found the
pulse 64, respiration 20, temperature 99}£ degrees. The pulse
beat almost normal in strength. Voice reasonably strong and
clear.
Mind. Clear. Patient with all his suffering, but despairs of,
recovery lately. Has shown ambition to get well.
Head. Some ache on top slightly back of forehead. (Give
character of pain and modality— Ed.)
Mouth. Sour taste in mouth, tongue coated white for four
months, for which he took calomel and salts , but
got nothing more than very temporary relief.
Sometimes salty.
Appetite. Sometimes good, at other times poor.
Stomach. Belching, (gas or fluid— Ed.) with sensation of burn¬
ing in gullet.
Stool. Constipation lumpy, dark green, sometimes whitish
. gray (accompanies the sour mouth). Whiskey
and water half and half, sour on the stomach.
Urine. Reported scant, high Colored previous to my call,
but “cured”—chamomilla tea. Test of urine
showed s. g. 1022; reaction, acid; color, amber;
slightly flocculent after standing 24 hours, no
test for sugar, not thought necessary in normal
gravity. Albumen, none.
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Upper Rheumatism in both < in left, commenced in left
Extemities and went to the right. Fingers: Nodosities on
fingers, says he never had it to amount to any¬
thing until the regular doctor gave him a hyper-
podermic injection, which the doctor said was
not morphine, but he felt easier of some chest
pains and felt sleepy. But when awake and con¬
scious could see spots on the wall like silver and
sometimes like gold . (See Hahnemann’s Chronic
Diseases, Digitalis Symptoms 124 and 125).
Potash and Sarsaparilla taken 30 years ago for
neuralgia disagreed with him, “Potash sets me
afire.” Cured neuralgia with common salt.
Chest. Pericarditis with effusion.
(No prescription can be made upon the present report of this case because it
is so incomplete in the very essentials necessary for a scientific application of
the law of similars. The proper recording of a case is one of the difficult fac¬
tors in the treatment of chronic cases, and failure to properly grasp the signifi¬
cance of the picture drawn by the patient, to select the wheat from the chaff,
to sift out the peculiar , characteristic indications upon which the selection of
the remedy depends leads to all the unsatisfactory work which follows. The
record in this case is far above the average and still so much has been omitted
that no physician can select the simillimum without having a more intimate
knowledge of the case than has been placed in the record. If such a record as
this can bring but indifferent success what must be the result in the practice of
that great majority of practitioners who make no record and consequently are
continually shifting from one remedy to another without attaining to that for
which they strive and are forced by their ignorance to resort td questionable
expedients which finally terminates in a dismissal or consignment to the me¬
chanical specialist who removes the effects of the disease without interfering
with the cause.
In this case it will be necessary for the physician to carefully go over the
case several times with the patient before that totality will be obtained which
will indicate the proper remedy with which to begin the curative action. In
the meantime the patient will be wanting medicine. This demand may be
satisfied with sac. lac. which will not interfere with the action of the simillimum
when found. It is more than probable that the prescription will be based upon
half a dozen peculiar characteristic symptoms which will have been found run¬
ning through the history from the beginning of his departure from health.
Tendency to lung fever, malarial fever, sensitive to heat, cold, dampness, etc.,
etc. The prolonged abstinence from medicine'other than the sac . lac. will see
the elimination of many of the symptoms by the reserve force inherent in na¬
ture and from those remaining the simillimum must be selected from the most
prominent.—E d.)
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PSYCHIC PHENOMENA.
F. H. LOCKWOOD, M. D., CHICAGO.
PROF.'OF NERVOUS DISEASES, DUNHAM MEDICAL COLLEGE.
All human beings are endowed with two minds. These are
designated as the objective and the subjective mind. The sub¬
jective mind is constantly amenable to control by suggestion,
and is capable of inductive reasoning. The broad idea that
man is endowed with a dual mental organization is far from be¬
ing new.
The essential truth of the proposition has been recognized by
philosophers of all ages and nations of the civilized world. That
man is a trinity, made up of “body, soul and spirit” was a car¬
dinal tenet in the faith of many ancient Greek philosophers, who
thus clearly recognized the dual character of man's mental or
spiritual organization.
Plato's idea of terrestrial man was that he is a “trinity of soul,
soul-body and earth-body.”
Indeed, it may be safely assumed that the conception of this
fundamental truth was more or less clearly defined in the minds
of ail ancient philosophers, both Christian and pagan. It is the
basis of their conception of God as a trinity in his personality,
modes of existence, and manifestations.
In recent years the doctrine of duality of mind is beginning to
be more clearly defined. Thousands of examples might be cited
to show that in all ages the truth has been dimly recognized by
men of all civilized races and in all conditions of life.
Indeed, it may be safely predicted of every man of intelligence
and refinement, that has often felt within himself an intelligence
not the result of education, a preception of truth, independent
of the testimony of his bodily senses.
Until recently, no attempt has been made to define clearly the
nature of the two elements which constitute the dual mind; nor
has the fact been recognized that the two minds possess distinct¬
ive characteristics. It is a fact, nevertheless, that the line of
demonstration between the two is clearly defined, that their
functions are essentially unlike; that each is endowed with sepa-
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rate and distinct attributes and powers; and that each is cap¬
able under certain conditions and limitations of independent
actions.
The two minds, as before stated, are designated the objective
and subjective. In general terms the difference between man’s
two minds may be stated as follows:
The objective mind takes cognizance of the objective world.
Its media of operation are the five physical senses.
It is the outgrowth of man’s physical necessities.
It is his guide in his struggle with his material environment.
Its highest function is that of reasoning.
The subjective mind takes cognizance of its environment by
means independent of the physical senses.
It perceives by intuition.
It is the seat of the emotions, and the store-house of memory.
It performs its highest functions when the objective senses
are in abeyance.
In a word, it is that intelligence which makes itself manifest
in a hypnotic subject when he is in a state of somnambulism.
In this state many of the most wonderful feats of the subjec¬
tive mind are performed.
It sees without the use of the natural organs of vision; and in
this, as in many other grades, or degrees of the hypnotic state,
it can be made, apparently, to leave the body and travel to dis¬
tant lands and bring back intelligence oftentimes of the most
exact and truthful character.
In short, it is the subjective mind that possesses what is popu¬
larly designated as clairvoyant power, and the ability to appre¬
hend the thoughts of others without the aid of the ordinary,
objective means of communication.
In point of fact, that which is designated the subjective mind,
appears to be a separate and distinct entity; and the real dis¬
tinctive difference between the two minds seems to consist in
the fact that the “objective mind” is merely the function of the
physical train, while the “subjective mind” is a distinct entity,
possessing independent powers and functions, having a mental
organization of its own, and being capable of sustaining an ex¬
istence independent of the body.
In other words, it is the soul.
One of the most important, as well as one of the most striking
points of difference between the two minds, relates to the sub-
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ject of suggestion. It is in this that researches of the modern
hypnotists give us the most important aid.
The objective mind, or, let me say, man in his normal con¬
dition, is not controllable against reason, positive knowledge, or
the evidence of his senses, by the suggestion of another.
The subjective mind, or man, in the hypnotic or unnatural
state, is unqualifiedly and constantly amenable to the power of
suggestion.
The two minds being possessed of independent powers and
functions, it follows as a necessary corollary that the subjective
mind of an individual is as amenable to the control of his own
objective mind as to the objective mind of another.
One of the most important distinctions between the objective
and subjective mind pertains to the function of reason. The
objective mind is capable of reasoning by all methods—induc¬
tive and deductive, analytic and synthetic. The subjective mind
is incapable of inductive reasoning.
Understand this refers to the powers and functions of the
purely subjective mind, when the influence or control of the ob¬
jective mind is entirely to rest. The subjective mind never
classifies a series of known facts, and reasons from them up to
general principles; but, having a general principle to start with,
it will reason deductively from that down to all legitimate in¬
ferences, with a marvellous power.
One of the most striking and important peculiarities of the
subjective mind, as distinguished from the objective, consists in
its prodigious memory.
It would perhaps be hazardous to say that the memory of the
subjective mind is perfect, but there is good ground for believing
that such a proposition would be substantially true.
Understand this applies only to the most profound subjective
state.
We must bear in mind that there is a wide distinction between
objective and subjective memory.
The former is one of the functions of the brain, and, as we all
know has an absolute localization in the central cortex; and the
different varieties of memory, such as visual memory, auditory
memory, memory of speech etc., can be destroyed by localized
disease, or by a surgical operation.
Subjective memory, on the other hand, appear to be an in¬
herent power, and free from anatomical relations; or, at least, it
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does not appear to depend upon the healthy condition of the
brain for its power of manifestation. On the contrary, as we
have all seen repeatedly that abnormal conditions of the brain
are often pioductive of the most striking exhibitions of subjec¬
tive memory.
The more quiescent the objective faculties become, or, in
other words, the more perfectly the functions of the brain are
suspended, the more exalted are the manifestations of the sub¬
jective mind. We have often heard, and undoubtedly a great
many of us have seen, cases in certain diseased states where
they would talk in foreign languages, etc., which in their natural
state was entirely unknown to them.
Indeed, the whole history of subjective phenomena goes to
show that the nearer the body approaches the condition of
death, the strong^ become the dtottbndtr&tions of the power of
the soul. •
The irresistable inference is that when the soul is freed en¬
tirely from its trammels of flesh, its powers will attain perfection,
its memory will be absolute.
Thus far I have confined myself to the operations of the sub¬
jective mind when the subject is in a diseased, or in a deeply
hypnotic condition, with the objective senses in complete
abeyance.
The phenomena of purely subjective mental action are, how¬
ever, of little practical importance to mankind when compared
with the action of the subjective mind modified by the co¬
ordinate power of the objective intelligence.
It is not to be supposed that an All-wise Providence has
placed within the human frame a separate entity, endowed with
such wonderful powers as we have seen that it possesses, and
hedged about by the limitations with which we know it to be
environed, without so ordaining its relations with man's objective
intelligence as to render it of practical value to the human race
in its struggle with its physical environment.
It might at first glance seem incongruous to suppose that the
subjective mind could be at once the store-house of memory and
the source of inspiration, limited as to its methods and powers
of reasoning, and at the same time subject to the imperial con¬
trol of the objective mind.
A moment's reflection, however, will show that in the very
nature of things it must necessarily be true, “A house divided
against itself cannot stand."
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There must be a controlling power in every well-regulated
household, municipality, nation, or organism.
There is a positive and a negative m in the greatest physi¬
cal power known to mankind.
There is a male and female element in every race and order
of created organisms; and those philosophers who hold that there
appertain to every man a male and a female element have dimly
recognized the duality of man’s mental organization.
Why is it that the objective mind has been invested with the
controlling influence limited as are its resources and feeble as
are its sources, is a question upon which it would be idle to
speculate.
It profits us only to know the fact, and its practical signifi¬
cance, without wasting our energies in seeking to know the ulti¬
mate cause.
We rest assured that in this, as in all other laws of nature, we
shall find infinite wisdom.
If any one doubts the wisdom of intrusting the objective mind
with the controlling power in the dual organization, let him visit
a madhouse. There he will see all shades and degrees of sub¬
jective control. There he will see men whose objective minds
are in pursuit of one idea,—controlled by one dominant impres¬
sion, which subordinates all others.
There are the monomaniacs,—the victims of false suggestions.
These suggestions may be given from without, in a thousand
different ways which will be readily recognized by the student of
insanity, or by auto-suggestion.
Long and intense concentration of mind upon one subject, and
inordinate egotism, will be readily recognized as striking illus¬
trations of the power of auto-suggestion as a factor in monoma¬
nia.
The maniac is one whose objective mind is disorganized by
disease of its organ, the brain; the result being distortion of ob¬
jective impressions, and consequent false suggestions to the sub¬
jective mind.
Those who study the subject from this standpoint will find an
easy solution to many an obscure problem.
The subject is here adverted to merely to show the conse¬
quences arising from allowing the subjective mind to usurp com¬
plete control of the mental organization.
It will be readily seen that human society, outside of lunatic
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asylums, constantly furnishes numerous examples of abnormal
subjective control. So generally is this fact recognized that it
has passed into a proverb that “every man is insane on some
subject.” The question arises, what part does the subjective
mind play in the normal operation of the human intellect?
This question may be answered in a general way by saying
that the most perfect exhibition of intellectual power is the re¬
sult of the synchronous action of the objective and subjective
minds. When this is seen in its perfection the world names its
genius.
In this condition the individual has the benefit of all the rea¬
soning powers of the objective mind, combined with the perfect
memory of the subjective mind and its marvelous power of
syllogystic arrangement of its resources.
In short, all the elements of intellectual power are then in a
state of intense harmonious activity.
This condition may be perfectly normal, though it is rarely
seen in its perfection. True genius is undoubtedly the result of
the synchronous action of the two minds, neither unduly pre¬
dominating or usurping the powers and functions of the other.
When the subjective is allowed to dominate the resultant acts
of the individual are denominated “the eccentricities of genius.”
When the subjective usurps complete control, the individual
goes insane. There are certain classes of persons whose intel¬
lectual labors are characterized by subjective activity in a very
marked degree.
Poets and artists are the most conspicuous examples.
The successive action of the two halves of the brain can be
explained upon the same ground, which has been so able done
by Dr. Andrew Wilson in an article on “Some By-ways of the
Brain,” contributed to Harper’s Magazine (April).
In speaking of the sensation of “Having been there before,”
he says:
“When one has gone to visit some place or other to which one
is a perfect stranger, there will occasionally come over him a
wierd feeling of absolute famililarity with the features of the
scene. I am not here alluding to instances in which infantile
memory has simply been revived; that is to say, when a person
who in early life has been taken to the place in question has
suddenly had his inoperative and dormant memory-cells awak¬
ened to the recollection and perception of the scene before him.
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“Nor am I speaking of show places. It would not be surpris¬
ing if on visiting, say, Shakespeare’s tomb or Ann Hathaway’s
cottage, one should experience a certain sense of familiarity with
the surroundings.
“That to which I refer is a distinct feeling of consciousness
that we have been in the place before; that it is well known to
us, even if the recognition of it is also dimly appreciated; and
that it is an experience of actual past familiarity with the scene,
and not a mere chance recollection of the situation which is
present with us.
“I say, such feelings are not uncommon, and they have been
alluded to by poets without number, and by prose writers as
well.
“It seems as if ‘our life for the moment exists in duplicate, that
we have lived through that moment before, and shall agin,’ as
Thomas Hardy puts it. This is what Tennyson means when he
says:
“Moreover, something is or seems,
That touches me with mystic gleams,
Like glimpses of forgotten dreams—
Of something felt, like something here;
Of something done, I know not where,
Such as no language may declare.”
Rossetti’s words attest the same idea:
“I have been here before,
But when or how I cannot tell;
I know the grass beyond to door,
The keen sweet smell,
The sighing sound, the light around the shore.”
Dickens, too, in “David Copperfield,” speaks of “a feeling
which comes over us occasionally of what we are saying or doing
having been done in a remote time; of our having been sur¬
rounded, dim ages ago, by the same forces, objects and circum¬
stances; of our knowing perfectly well what will be said next, as
if we suddenly remembered it.”
Out of some such ideas, I dare say, the old doctrine of
metempsychosis itself may have arisen; of antecedent states of
being, whereof some dim remembrance have become projected
into the life that now is.
I well remember an elderly lady, who was persistently affected
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with such phases of mind, arguing with me that it sufficed to
establish her in a firm belief that she had been “somebody else”
before she became her present self. What is possible to her
may have been possible in the case of the ancients, merely trans¬
lating an aberrent phase of brain, and translating it erroneously,
in terms of the mystical. In this feeling of ill-defined con¬
sciousness, I think, we find merely an illustration of the irregular
action of the two hemispheres of the brain.
Let us suppose with Wigan that in our natural life we have
practically a simultaneous action of the two halves of the brain;
or, what amounts to the same thing, let us imagine that the left
half of the brain, attuned in its action to the work of the right
hemisphere, gives us normal perceptions, and enables us to
draw normal and correct conclusions.
Then on visiting an absolutely strange place, we experience
no such sense of past familiarity with it. Our consciousness ex¬
ercises its functions properly and sedately, and we know the
scene to be new and unfamiliar to us.
But suppose, on the other hand, that one hemisphere of the
brain acts ever so slightly out of time with the other lobe, what
will be the result?
The more active half—let us presume the left—will rapidly
take in all our surroundings independently of the other hemis¬
phere, so that when the latter has, independently, in its turn
also viewed and appreciated the scene before it, it is confronted
with a consciousness already ours in virtue of the quicker action
of the left lobe.
We have in this way acquired a double consciousness of what
is seen, and the first intelligence is the cause of the sense of
familiarity to the second.
If it were not for the Simple Substance, such states as antipathy, sympathy,
* affinity, could not be. It is the sphere of Homoeopathy to deal with these
things; to glean what is the real Esse and existence.
What reason has man to say that Energy or Force is first? Energy is not
energy per se, but a powerful substanee. The very Esse of God is a scientific
study.
Bodies are not drawn together by means of their bodies, but by means of
their Primitive Substance.
The Simple Substance is the means of identification in nature. The mineral,
the oak, the wheat, are all identified by their Primitive substance, and exist,
onlv. because of their Primitive Substance, which makes them what they are.
— Kent's Aphorisms and Precepts,
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HYPNOTISM AS AN ADJUNCT TO MEDICINE.
K. O. AUSTIN, M. D., CHICAGO.
LECTURER ON NERVOUS DISEASES, DUNHAM MEDICAL COLLEGE.
Case I. Mrs. B., age 36. Mother died at her birth and was
said to have had consumption.
History of past five years points to latter ailment, and at the
time of examination, presented numerous symptoms of pulmon¬
ary tuberculosis but no microscopical examination was made
as the case was sufficiently clear.
There were skin symptoms of the three prominent miasms—
psoric, chancroidal and sycotic.
Had always had old school treatment, and I secured long list
of remedies taken in the crude form.
Husband living, have had two children.
The first four months of the treatment were occupied in anti¬
doting symptomatically some of the drugs she had taken, which,
with the exception of drug aggravations, resulted in ameliora¬
tion of many of the symptoms, the coughing becoming less pain¬
ful, and the patient more hopeful.
It became evident after the second month’s treatment that she
was pregnant, but as the patient’s condition hardly justified in¬
terference, I concluded, after due consideration, to proceed with
the treatment regardless of this complication, leaving nature and
the indicated remedies to take their course.
CM. was the potency regularly prescribed.
During the fourth month of treatment expulsion of the con¬
tents of uterus took place. She was convalescing nicely, when
symptoms pointing to inflammatory rheumatism were noted.
The patient informed me that she had had the same “thing”
some years ago, being laid up for six months with much suffer¬
ing, not being able to step on her feet.
This condition yielded to the remedies inside of a weak, at the
end of which time she felt all right except was very week and
still had the chronic painless cough.
At this juncture one of her children was taken with measles,
and contrary to my advice, nursed the child herself. Conse¬
quently the patient soon contracted a severe attack of measles.
The malady at first responded to the indicated remedies, and
the eruption duly developed, disfiguring the patient almost be¬
yond recognition.
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As the attack advanced the disease process became very
active, the bronchial irritation becoming very severe, accom¬
panied by an intense gastritis.
The retching and vomiting became almost incessant and
yielded only momentarily to the chosen remedy.
The following factors of the case confronts us:
Tuberculous patient; measles of a severe type; in an adult
preceded by miscarriage and inflammatory rheumatism.
The patient’s strength was at a low ebb and from a material
standpoint the conclusion was natural that there would be a
speedy end of the strife. With a knowledge of some of the
unseen forces the case presents a different aspect.
In consideration of the unseen powers with us, we may say
with conviction, “Where there is life there is hope.’*
In the course of the process described, Cantharides became
the leading remedy; 200th every fifteen minutes kept her easy
for two hours, then coughing, vomiting and retching as before.
Cantharides 80c followed by relief for about one hour.
Cantharides was finally tried, followed by temporary relief.
The disease process seemed more violent with each reoccurrence
and dissolution seemed imminent.
Clearly a case where Hahnemann advocated passing of hands
over patient’s body. ( Organon , p. 293).
She bade farewell to husband, and made some requests with
reference to funeral and plan of burial.
On a former occasion I had suggested hypnotism to the pa¬
tient, as a valuable aid in the treatment, to keep the mind and
nerve forces in a state of equipoise. But being rather closely
tied to the views of some of the Methodist persuasion of the
town, she declined to subject herself to this “power of the devil”
and I did not press the matter any further. At the mentioned
crisis, I explained it would be advisable to make use of all that
science offers and that hypnotism may yet save her life.
There was no time for discussion; at that juncture the initia¬
tive process of death had begun, the mental functions were
negative, she had, in fact, no will of her own, and readily yielded
to my suggestions.
In five minutes she was under complete hypnosis. Making
my suggestions that, when I tell her to awake she would have no
more pain, no more cough, no vomiting, that she would be com¬
fortable, get well, and feel like having something to eat, I kept
her in this state for fifteen minutes in all.
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When told to awake, she smiled, arose in bed and asked for
something to eat, which was granted, and felt all right.
Cantharides** was then given. She had no relapse, was treated
subsequently according to pure homoeopathic principles, and is
now a well and strong woman, acknowledging that I saved her
life until it came to the payment of her bill.
Case II. Mrs. H., aged 28; husband living. Has chronic
ovaritis and endometritis, constipation, and frequent attacks of
headache, colic, and sometimes fainting. Has been married
ten years, but remains sterile, the ambition of her life being to
have a child of her own to love and cherish.
She had spent years of time and much money taking treat¬
ment from professors of the old school, and finally, when her
doctors committed the indiscretion of suggesting the removal of
the ovaries it so shocked her mind that she at once left the great
teachers of the healing art, and came to your humble servant
for advice.
After a careful examination I was able to make the promise of
a perfect cure of all her ailments provided she would do her
part. I could see that she was an easy hypnotic subject, and
hence could be readily induced, through hypnotism, to follow
all rules, and keep up the treatment. This case came to me two
years ago.
The amalgam fillings and its effects were removed, together
with the influence of all the drugs she had taken as far as could
be ascertained from history and symptoms.
The first three months, the headache, colicky pain, and aches
of different kinds were removed by hypnotic treatment twice a
week. Subsequently pain and aches were removed by hypno¬
tism as the occasion required, until by the conjoined action of
the medical treatment they were removed forever.
At the present time the lady is two months pregnant, and
started this, to her, new career with severe morning sickness, on
which no medicine I could select made any definite impression.
The nausea and vomiting would persist during the entire day,
and it was evident that she could not have long endured that
state of things.
Her procreative energies being by nature weak, the growth of
the foetus taxing her vital forces to the utmost, the nausea and
vomiting resulting purely from a physiological condition; hence,
the lack of any decided response to the indicated remedy.
Hypnotism v/as resorted to with the result that since the first
treatment she has been perfectly well.
She receives one treatment weekly.
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Psychology .
MENTAL SUGGESTION AS A THERAPEUTIC AGENT.
An innovation was made at the last regular meeting of the
Englewood Homoeopathic Society, August eighth. Dr. A. C.
Halphide had consented to give a lecture upon Mental Sugges¬
tion as a Therapeutic Agent and to illustrate the same with clinical
cases if possible.
Dr. H. W. Pierson had kindly consented to open up his home
to the members of the society, their families and invited friends,
so at the appointed hour about fifty were waiting the demonstra¬
tion of principles of which all present had some knowledge.
The doctor commenced by stating that he would not dignify
the evening’s entertainment with the title of a lecture, but pre¬
ferred an informal talk in which everyone present would be free
to interrupt with any question bearing upon any phase of the
subject. After a careful definition and a general history of the
evolution of the subject, he came down to his theory for its gen¬
eral application in nearly every phase of disease.
The element of fear was an important factor as a disturbing
influence in disease. The suggestion may come from within or
from without, but it must be entirely dispelled before a restora¬
tion to health can be accomplished. This he illustrated by cit¬
ing several cases who imagined they would be sick within a cer¬
tain time by reason of previous exposure; and if they knew the
character of the disease their chances of escape are exceedingly
slim. Epidemics are changed from a mild form to one of virulent
character by the conviction that death will result from any expos¬
ure. People who were the picture of health have been made very
sick by having the suggestion come to them, from varied sources,
that they were looking badly.
The theory presented, involves the duality of mind—the sub¬
jective and objective or reasoning, individuality. If the subjec¬
tive predominates, the person is easily impressed and accepts
the suggestion of other without subjecting them to a rigid analy¬
sis. It is for this reason that sick people are so amenable to
mental suggestions that fill them with hope and courage.
The wise physician attempts by every word and look to impress
upon the disturbed intellect that he is sure to get well. It is
half the battle to win the confidence of the patient, hence the
necessity for removing every influence that will tend to neutral¬
ize the suggestions of the family physician. The homoeopathic
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physician has confidence in his remedies Which beget a degree of
positiveness in all of his expressions which suggests a hope in the
mind of the patient that all will be well in the end. Nothing is
being given which will counteract the mental suggestion, so they
go hand in hand, soothing and quieting the disturbed vital force.
The cure has been made and the vital force at once begins the
reparative process.
A lady in the audience had a persistent cough and many of the
symptoms pointed to tuberculosis. She was easily placed under
control and it was suggested to her that the soreness in the lungs
was all gone that she would waken without the inclination to
cough; that she could talk without any irritation to the vocal
cords etc. The cough ceased entirely (an examination of the
sputa will be made and the case reported on at subsequent meet¬
ings of the society). Another case who was at the time under
treatment for a susceptibility to hay fever returning with great
regularity, August 15th. He could not put her into the cata¬
leptic state, but suggested to her t^iat the treatment she was tak¬
ing would be sufficient to avert the attack (the fifteenth has
passed with but a slight suspicion of trouble which soon passed
away under the action of arsenicum).
A young man was present who had been under his influence
for over a year. Had been an inveterate cigarette smoker. Near¬
ly a year ago, while in the hypnotic state it was suggested to him
that a cigarette would make him sick and that there would bejio
desire for tobacco in any form after he awoke. It was further
suggested to him that he would send his tobacco pouch home to
his mother. He was then awakened and in a short time those
present commenced to light their pipes. This made^him so faint
and sick that he had to excuse himself and go to his own room.
No hint was given him of the nature of the suggestions, but a few
days after he told the professor that he had sent his tobacco
pouch home to his mother and had decided to let tobacco alone
for the future. He had not seen the doctor for several months,
but he told the audience that he could not sit in a room where
tobacco was being smoked. A. F. C.
(It would seem from the cases presented that to the homoeo¬
pathic physician was given the best opportunity for the applica¬
tion of this agency, and further investigation may show that this
influence or dynamis is projected along the same lines with the
indicated remedy.— Ed. )
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Institutes of Medicine .
Institutes or flDeOtcine.
THE PLACE OF THE NOSODES IN THE HOMOEO¬
PATHIC MATERIA MEDICA.*
A. W. HOLCOMBE, M. D., KOKOMO, IND.
I’ROF. OF MATERIA MEDICA, DUNHAM MEDICAL COLLEGE.
The use of Nosodes has probably given rise to more conten¬
tions in our ranks than any other one thing, and their advent as
therapeutic agents has been combated by many physicians, on
various grounds.
The administration of disease products, internally, has been
and is opposed by many as unscientific, and consequently un-
Homoeopathic, and as filthy and consequently dangerous; each
objector basing his objections to their use upon good reasons,
as seen from his individual point of view.
J^et us consider these objections and see, if possible, whether
or not they are valid.
A great number of physicians sailing under the banner of
“Similia,” object to their employment because they are filthy.
Since most of these physicians use no remedy higher than the
3x, it is fortunate for their patients that the objection in their
case is sustained, especially with such Nosodes as Psorinum ,
Pyrogen , Syphitinum and Medorrhinum . This objection is a
valid one, were it always consistently maintained, which un¬
fortunately it is not. The prevailing “fad” of “Serum Therapy”
has turned the heads of many of our erstwhile “purists,” and
what they conscientiously refuse to administer “per orem,” they
unhesitatingly administer “hypodermically.” Their attitude to¬
ward the Nosodes furnishes an interesting study in “moral
philosophy,” demonstrating that their “conscience” in located
in the gustatory nerve.
This objection is merely a personal one, simply a matter of
“taste,” and can not be admitted as a scientific objection to the
Homoeopathic use of the Nosodes, since these objectors who do
not use the Nosodes claim there is nothing in a potency higher
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than the 12x, while those who do use them, never think of using
lower than the 200th or the lm potency.
The only other objection worthy our consideration as Homce-
opathists is, it is unscientific, and consequently un-Homceopathic.
This charge covers two points, Isopathy and Empiricism.
Isopathy is the administration of the virus of a disease for the
cure of the same disease, and might be expressed by Idem t Idem
Curantur , the same cures the same, which we do not believe to
be true. Isopathy and Homoeopathy have nothing in common,
and are as distinctly different as Homoeopathy and Allopathy.
Speaking of the potentized Nosode Psorinum in the Chronic
Diseases, Hahnemann says: “I say Homoeopathic use, for it
does not remain Idem (the same). Even if the prepared itch
substance should be given to the same patient from whom it was
taken, it would not remain the same, as it could only be useful
to him in a potentized state, since the crude itch substance,
which he has already in his body as an Idem , is without effect on
him. But the dynamization, or potentizing, changes and modi¬
fies it—just as gold leaf, after potentizing, is no more crude gold
leaf inert in the human body, but in every stage of dynamization
it is more and more modified and changed. Thus potentized
and modified the itch substance, Psorinum , when taken, is
no more Idem (the same), with the original itch substance, but
only a Simillimum . For between Idem and Simillimum, there is
no intermediate place for any one that can think.” In other
words, as soon as a substance has been subjected to the process of
potentization, it is no longer the same, but becomes a Similli¬
mum. Therefore we conclude that the use of dynamized or
potentized Nosodes is in perfect harmony with the Homoeo¬
pathic Law of Similars, while the lower the potency, the nearer
it approaches Isopathy, and consequently the farther from
Homoeopathy.
Now, is Nosode prescribing Empiricism? How may we de¬
termine? The prescribing of a potentized Nosode for symptoms
similar to those produced upon a healthy human organism is
certainly orthodox Homoeopathy, and as certainly contains no
element of Isopathy or Empiricism. But is it yet Empiricism
to prescribe a Nosode simply upon the fact that the disease of
which it is the virus has been diagnosed? That is a question.
Why may not the totality of the symptoms present be consid¬
ered the proving of this particular virus upon this particular in¬
dividual?
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Institutes of Medicine .
A drug is given to a prover till the poisonous or pathogenetic
effects are obtained, and these are recorded; the same drug is
given to a different prover, and the effects are recorded, and
again and again is the drug given to different provers and the
effects on each one is recorded, and all these different effects are
incorporated into the sum total of the effects of this drug. In
some of the provers, perhaps all, a number of effects or symp¬
toms are the same, while each individual prover exhibits effects
or symptoms peculiar to himself alone, and which are not found
in any of the others, yet these individual symptoms are as au¬
thentic and reliable as any, and in many instances have been
verified.
It has been demonstrated by many of the best Homoeopathi-
cians in this country, that a very high potency of a drug will an¬
tidote, neutralize, remove, cancel or cure, the symptoms pro¬
duced by the crude drug. If this is true, and it needs but to be
put to trial to prove it, it must be because the highly potentized
drug, being changed or modified, as Hahnemann says, by dyna-
mization, becomes, not the same, but the Simillimum , to the
symptoms caused by the crude drug. What could be more simi¬
lar to every phase of any substance, than the same substance
changed or modified by dynamization ? Then why may not the
dynamized virus or Nosode of a disease be prescribed as the
Simillimum to that same virus or disease, the symptoms present
in the individual, constituting the proving of the virus upon that
individual person ?
Will the dynamized Nosode cure the disease of which it is the
virus? Most assuredly. This has been demonstrated times
without number.
Will the dynamized Nosode always cure the disease of which
it is the virus? If the disease is not complicated with any other
disease or miasm, probably. If it is, as is frequently the case in
the beginning—No.
Psorinum would not be expected to cure a case depending up¬
on a combination of Psora and Sycosis: Medorrhinum alone,
will not cure a case depending upon a combination of Sycosis
and Syphilis: Syphilinum will never alone cure a case of Syphi¬
lis engrafted upon a Psoric base, and to which has been added
the miasms of Mercury and Iodide of Potash . The Nosode of
one miasm will not remove the symptoms produced by two or
more different miasms, any more than Iodine will remove the
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■symptoms produced by Iodide of Potash , or Arsenicum , those by
Kali Ars.
Wonderful cures have been made by giving a patient his own
dynamized Nosode, and experiments in the line of individual
Nosodes would render material aid in determining when an un¬
proven Nosode may be homceopathically indicated.
The Nosodes that have been proven have made for themselves
a place in our Materia Medica that nothing else will or can fill,
and their efficiency has earned for them a welcome into our ar¬
mamentarium. As Dr. Bell so aptly says, “Whether derived
from the purest gold, or from the purest filth, our gratitude for
their excellent services forbids us to inquire or care.”
Every individual with whom you converse, has his own ideas and theories.
When he questions you about Homoeopathy, you hesitate because he has not
the beginnings.
When he questions you about Homoeopathic facts, if you tell him what your
opinion about it is he will listen to you; but when you say it is so and so, he
looks at you in wonder and doubt.
\ our enemy on the ground of common sense can say so much more than you
can that many individuals can be reasoned away from you.
Anything which looks away from exactitude is unscientific. The physician
must be classical; everything should be methodical. Science ceases to be
scientific when disorderly application of law is used.
A profane man can have no more idea of the sentiments of a gentle, highly
religious woman, than can a lobster.
Eternal Principles, themselves, are authority. The law of Similars is a Di
vine law. So soon as you have accepted the Law of Similars, so soon have
you accepted Providence, which is law.
If you do not use your Homoeopathy you will lose it. This is a responsi¬
bility so great that where one has gone into the Truth and does not make use
of his knowledge, he will become like Egypt of old.
The sick are entitled to exact knowledge, not to guess work.
Leave names out when prescribing. They are only for the foolish and for
the boards of health.
The disease is not to be named but to be seen: not to be classified but to be
viewed, that the very nature of it may be discovered.
Throw aside all theories, and matters of belief and opinion, and dwell in
simple fart.
— Kent's Aphorisms and Precepts .
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Correspondence —“ Osteopathy" Etc .
Correspondence.
“OSTEOPATHY” AND THE ILLINOIS STATE BOARD
OF HEALTH.
Springfield, Illinois, June 6, 1898.
To the Editor of the Hahnemannian Advocate :
Sir: A concern in Chicago claiming to teach the alleged
science misnamed osteopathy makes the following remarkable
statement relative to its so-called courses, in circulars which are
sent broadcast over the country:
4 ‘Terms of study are so graded and the courses of study so
broad and complete that they comply with all the requirements
of the Illinois State Medical Board and allow our students two
years’ credit on a regular medical education. These credits are
recognized in any medical college in this country and will be
equivalent to two years’ work done there.”
If by the “Illinois State Medical Board” is meant the Illinois
State Board of Health, the assertion made in reference to that
body is a lie in the fullest acceptation of the term. It is not true,
furthermore, that the “credits” named are recognized in any
medical college in this country. On the contrary, it is exceed¬
ingly doubtful if a single reputable medical institution will grant
any advanced standing whatever to applicants from this and
other “colleges” of similar character. Should this, however, be
done, it is needless to say that the institution or institutions con¬
cerned will receive no further recognition from this board, and
it will be remarkably strange if the various State boards of medi¬
cal examiners throughout the Union will view such irregular pro¬
ceedings with complacency.
As the circulars, are calculated to deceive the unwary, and to
cause prospective graduates in medicine to waste two years of
time, I will ask you to give this letter a prominent place in your
journal, in order that the facts of the case may be widely dis¬
seminated.
J. A. Egan, M. D.,
Secretary of the Illinois State Board of Health .
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Editorial.
MEDICAL COLLEGE POLITICS.
Medical College faculties, as a rule, are a very sensitive aggre¬
gation of people. The band which holds them together is a brit¬
tle thread easily broken and with difficulty mended.
The ease with which faculties are created and the selfish mo¬
tive prompting many to accept responsibilities therein constitutes
the most serious factor in the whole question, often proving the
rock upon which the college, with all of its many interests, is
wrecked.
No faculty can be harmonious so long as the interests of self
predominates. So long as favors are at the disposition of the
few, politics will exist, cliques and factions will jealously guard
and seek to promote the interests of their members, regardless of
college polity or interest; and combinations are as pernicious in
faculties as in drugs.
In every organization will be found keen, active, aggressive
men and women ready to assume any responsibility, put any plan
into operation and in fact ready to “run the whole institution.”
If their motive is a selfish one their career is self limited, because
others prompted by the same unworthy motive will combine with
those of a similar but of less executive ability and thereby not
only defeat the plans of the first party but destroy the organi¬
zation.
A medical college actuated by no higher motive than the sup¬
plying of desirable positions upon her faculty at so much
a head deserves a tempestuous experience and is sure to get all
she deserves. There is no use trying to make water run up hill,
it can be done, but the result obtained is not commensurate with
the cost. You may build all the safeguards you please, but their
very existence is an acknowledgment of threatening danger. It
were better that the cause be removed when the danger will be
reduced to the minimum. A case illustrating the whole matter
came to our notice this morning. The letter addressed to the
alumni of this college reads as follows:
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Editorial—Medical College Politics .
-, August 15th, 1898.
My Dear Doctor: At a recent meeting of the Board of Regents of the-
School of Medicine, a majority of that Board, contrary to the plain letter of the
statute which expressly forbids the removal of any professor unless recommend¬
ed by a majority of the Faculty , assumed the right to declare vacant the chairs
of Drs.-. This was done at the instance of Dr.-, who
himself secured in 1886 the very statute which protects the tenure of office of
the various professors. On the faith of that statute the professors invested
very largely in property and fitted it up for teaching.
Legal advise has been taken upon the action of the Board, and the opinion
expressed that without doubt the action of the Board was wholly illegal and
void.
After this futile attempt at usurpation of power on the part of the Board, Drs.
-, and perhaps the gentlemen whom the Board assumed to elect,
met in a pretended meeting of the Faculty and went through the form of elect¬
ing Dr.-, Dean, and Dr.-, Secretary, although, as you may
know, Dr.-had previously been elected Dean for a year by the whole
Faculty, and Dr.-, had been elected Secretary for the year by the whole
Faculty.
Much as this dissension and internal trouble in the management of the school
is to be regretted, it is nevertheless the duty of the Dean to make known to the
Alumni the true state of affairs. The right of the Board to do what it has un¬
dertaken to do will be as speedily as possible brought to the test of judicial de¬
cision, and no doubt is entertained that the action of the Board will be prompt¬
ly declared void.
Trusting the right will triumph and the College continue her career of useful¬
ness and honor, I am
Very truly your obedient servant,
For the past 10 or 12 years, there has been a division in this
college headed practically by two men. The man leading this
present insurrection was dean of the college for a number of
years, but was defeated 3 or 4 years ago by the one who signs
the present letter. Since which time there has been a bitter
struggle for supremacy, which culminate in the recent action of
the Board of Regents.
The only way for the elimination of politics from any institu¬
tion is to close the doors of that institution and as soon as it has
been determined that factions have risen which threatens the har¬
monious working of the entire faculty, it would be the part of
wisdom to bring about a thorough reorganization of the institution
by placing it upon such an elevated plane that men and women
of high professional worth will feel honored by an invitation to
occupy a place in its faculty.
Principles and purposes must stand pre-eminently above
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or any of its individual segments. They must be so far above
the attainments of even the wisest that there will be a laudable
determination on the part of each member of the faculty to
excel. This higher spirit for scientific attainment and real value
generally finds a full and an hearty recognition from fellow work¬
ers seeking for the same knowledge. The reward, so dear to all
mankind—just appreciation—is thus conferred without intrigue
and is made perpetual because of the real worth back of it.
The ideal college of the future will have no politics, but its
halls will be crowded by students.
THE COLLEGE OF THE FUTURE.
Every member of the medical profession should aspire to the
honor and dignity of a professorship in some medical college.
It should be a badge of honor, a fitting title conferred by the
profession upon those whose knowledge and ripe experience have
been demonstrated. Before any such results can be accomp¬
lished, radical changes will have been made in the education of
the medical student.
It should mean much to become a student of medicine; years
of preparation will have been required and the inquiry of the
student will not be how soon can I get through, but what oppor¬
tunities can I have for acquiring a thorough knowledge of dis¬
ease and the means needed for restoring the sick to a state of
health ?
Opportunities must be provided whereby the prospective stu¬
dent can investigate along lines adapted to his peculiar inclina¬
tion. The faculty must be large, the instruction personal, the
whole aim and purpose being to draw out instead of driving in.
The didactic lecture, that relic of a by gone civilization must
give place to laboratory work, individual investigation under the
guidance of those who have completed the work, recitations and
finally the demonstration by the student of work satisfactorily
done.
The signs of the times point to just such a conclusion of the
whole matter, and in the meantime many of the hindrances to the
realization of this idea will gradually melt away under the silent
but irresistible law of evolution—the survival of the fittest.
The student becomes an instructor and by so doing is enabled
to thoroughly assimilates that which he has been masticating.
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Editorial—Medicine in War .
instead of storing it away like the herbivorous animal, to be
digested during the years of waiting for people to get up enough
courage to put their lives into his hands. The entire college
course should be a process of natural development by the em¬
ployment of all five senses. The latter half of the term of service
should be devoted exclusively to the application of those principles
which have been taught, for the purpose of determining their truth
or falsity. This state of affairs would solve the problem of the
dispensary abuse, because the work would be done under the di¬
rection of those who had earned their right to the title of Pro¬
fessor, the highest title which can be conferred upon any teacher.
This vast amount of clinical material could be profitable utilized,
the profession raised thereby to a higher plane of excellence(with-
out legislative interference) and those who are able to render
proper compensation for valuable services would do so, thus per¬
mitting the Doctor of Medicine sufficient time and opportunity
for original research along those lines best suiting his nature, in¬
stead of living the life of a slave.
MEDICINE IN WAR.
The world looks upon the big guns, the formidable battleships
and the large aggregation of men as the elements constituting the
greatness of an army; but the hardest battles are often fought in
the tent of the commander, the chamber of the diplomat, or in
the council room of the cabinet. To know how to prevent war
requires greater skill than is exercised upon the field of battle.
The soldier is trained to meet force with force, but the force
employed is purely material. Orders must be obeyed without
hesitation and without question. The orders generalize and
never individualize.
Millions are freely appropriated for research in method for in¬
creasing the efficiency of the munitions of war and suggestions
are received and carefully considered from whatever source they
may emanate; but the line is closely drawn when suggestions are
made with reference to the ph>sical well being of the real life of
the army—the soldier. Ignorance—bigotry—closes the door in
the face of any suggestion that would modify the routine prac¬
tice of the Medical Department of the Army, notwithstanding the
mortality of the camp is greatly in excess of the battle-field.
That which cures is to a large degree preventative, but the
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treatment employed by the Medical Department of the Army is
neither curative or preventative. On the contrary, the employ¬
ment of the massive doses of quinine, which are issued like ra¬
tions, indiscriminality, is one of the most fruitful causes of that
lowered vitality which makes the army so susceptible to the heat
and generally unhealthy environment, in which the different
camps have been located.
In sanitation, no criticism can be offered, because in this there
is no difference of opinion, but if the men in every regiment were
given their choice of medical attention, the government would
have such an object lesson as would forever after prevent dis¬
crimination against any established system of medicine.
The need for action in this matter is becoming more urgent as
the opportunity for the demonstration grows less. The precise,
well defined law governing the selection of the simillimum ought
to make it a very easy matter for a corps of medical men to com¬
pletely revolutionize the medical practice of the army.
MEDICAL LEGISLATION.
State legislatures will begin to grind out the grist brought to
their hoppers in a few short months. Already the State of Illi¬
nois, or rather a few interested parties in the aforesaid state,
have prepared legislation for the purpose of restricting the legit¬
imate members of this noble profession in their lawful work,
while those who are a curse to humanity are allowed to go Scot
free.
Illinois has an excellent Medical Practice Act, and is moving
in the right direction. Her Board is seeking to raise the stand¬
ard of the colleges in the State by refusing to recognize the
diploma of any institution which does not conform to their mini¬
mum requirements; and at the same time keeps out all undesir¬
able practioners who cannot comply with these same require¬
ments. What more is needed ? We have laws for the punish¬
ment of crime and when the educated members of the profession
cannot hold their practice against the blattant assumption of the
quack, there must be something decidedly wrong with their prac¬
tice. Your patient will never leave you so long as you are do¬
ing good work and since legitimate medicine leaves in its course
such a large list of “chronics,” “incurables,” they should have
no “kick” coming if people will become discouraged and run
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Editorial — Personals .
after every new fad that enterprising man offers for their relief.
A great many times there is as much ignorance shown within the
fold as can be found on the outside. As soon as the profession
will come to the realization of the fact that their protection de¬
pends upon making the standard of requirements so high that
none but competent men can enter the medical profession, then
the very superiority of their work will prove their greatest safe¬
guard.
One of the features of State meeting in Rock Island next month
will be the discussion of the report of the committee on medi¬
cal legislation appointed by the different state societies. It is to
be hoped that the action of the society will be a refusal to
endorse any form of restrictive legislation, other than the
strengthening of such weak points (if there be any) along the
line of past legislation.
PERSONALS.
Dr. C. E. Sawyer, of Marion, Ohio, has added another exten¬
sive addition to his already roomy sanitarium. This speaks well
for his work.
The annual course in Orificial Surgery by Prof. Platt, will be
given in the Chicago Homoeopathic College, early in September.
Full particulars may be secured by addressing the doctor at 100
State St., Chicago.
Word comes that Dr. Cordelia Steetler, for so long a time, as¬
sistant to Dr. Ludlam, in his gynecological work, suddenly ex¬
pired while on her vacation in Europe. Particulars with refer¬
ence to her death are unknown to us at the present moment.
Dr. Wilson A. Smith, editor of the Medical Visitor , is prepar¬
ing a paper on The Uses of Echinacea for the coming meeting of
the Illinois State Homoeopathic Society and is desirous of secur¬
ing all data possible. Due credit will be given every contribu¬
tion. If you have had any experience with this remedy, send re¬
sult of same to the doctor without delay . His address is 65
Washington St., Chicago.
The faculty of Dunham College has been strengthened by the
addition of the following well known members of the profession.
A. G. Smith, formerly of Louisville, Ky; K. O. Austin, of Blue
Island; Martha Bonnell, John Hcehn, John C. McPherson, John
H. Stotts, John Storer, Hugo Wightman and A. C. Rasmussen.
The new College Announcement has just been issued and is fully
up to the high standard always followed by this institution.
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The question of the revision of our materia medica seems to
be such a stupendous undertaking that no one or very few are
willing to attempt it, but Dr. E. S. Hodson, of Washington
Courthouse, Ohio, make a suggestion in the Medical Visitor
which is well worth consideration by the profession. He says,
“If 100 prominent men will each take one drug and keep a com¬
plete record of it, noting the part used in medicine where the
plant grows, the time it is gathered, watching its physiological
effects, etc., and during the year make a personal and careful
study of its action upon the well as well as the sick, and at the
end of the year, make a complete report of his observations to
the State Society, that a great and valuable addition will have
been made to our Materia Medica.” This suggestion includes
not only old and thoroughly tested remedies, but the remedies
that are being drawn to the attention of the profession through
other sources.
Wherever state institutions have passed out from under the
control of the old school and come under the benign influence
of homoeopathy, a record has been established which will last
forever. The latest report comes from the Home for the Feeble
Minded in Nebraska, at Beatrice. Dr. E. G. Sprague, of Omaha,
was appointed Superintendent last October, and now reports
after nine months that the number of epileptic attacks have been
reduced 50 per cent from the previous records. The time is not
far distant when every state as well as the national government
will be compelled by public opinion to recognize the justice of
an equal apportionment of all the eleemosynary institutions.
j nere are two worlds; the world of thought, or immaterial substance, and
the world of matter or material substance.
Name everything that is, or moves; it is sustained, from, and by power of
this Primitive Substance. We do not argue that this is first power, but this is
first substance.
Susceptibility is only a name for a state that underlies all possible sickness
and all possible cure.
Now when a person becomes sick, he becomes susceptible to a certain remedy,
which will affect him in its highest potency; while upon a healthy person it will
have no effect.
When the dose is too large to cure, man receives it as a sickness.
— A'ent's Aphorisms and Precepts.
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To Clean Rusty Instruments. Brodie ( Journal of the British
Dental Association) gives the following as an effective method of cleaning rusty
instruments:
Fill suitable vessels with saturated solution of stannous chloride (chloride of
•tin) distilled water. Immerse the rusty instruments and let them remain over-
• night. Rub dry with chamois after rinsing in running water, and they will be
•of a bright silvery whiteness.
Heroic Treatment. The following interesting account of bone-setting
by the natives of the Congo River appears in the new magazine, “ The Wide
' World." It would appear that the local white doctor could not get a fractured
leg to unite, the patient being a most intractable one, but the difficulty was sur¬
mounted by one of the patient’s fellow-tribesmen in the following way: He
was laid on the ground on his back, and under his head was placed a box. The
broken leg was then stretched straight out and covered with a little hillock of
soft clay. This clay, being pressed hard down upon the leg and a fire kindled
upon it, was practically turned into brick. The patient was kept in this posi¬
tion for five weeks, being fed during the time by two attendants. The result
is said to have been perfectly satisfactory.
Pulsatilla in Genito-Urinary Diseases. Dr. Hooper presents
a case in the July number of the American Medical Monthly , illustrating
the application of pulsatilla in genito urinary diseases. He says the case
was one of an Irishman, sixty-four years of age, married, light hair, blue
eyes, disposition variable, one time exilerated, the next depressed, constipat¬
ed sense of fulness in the region of the bladder, with almost constant de¬
sire for urination. This symptom was very annoying and was aggravated at
night causing him to arise five or six times during the night. Sexual desire was
strong. On examination, found an enlarged and extremely sensitive prostate
gland with a sensitive urethra and with difficulty a pass No. 17 American or
25 French sound. Under the action of pulsatilla , there was a general subsid¬
ence of all the acute symptoms which gradually went on to complete recovery.
Bill Nye on Appendicitis. A case of appendicitis required an oper¬
ation some weeks ago and the surgeon had never tried it before. When he
had removed the appendix on account of some typographical error that he
found in it, he began to put back the other organs, but after three or four days
and an apparent healing of the wound “by first intention,” he found an odd
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looking organ behind the lounge, which had evidently been left out. The
other doctors have worried him a good deal about it and at the funeral of the
patient tried to get the clergyman to make an illusion to it in his sermon. A
doctor cannot be too careful in that way. I once knew a young surgeon to
operate for appendicitis on a large, roomy man, and had it not been for a timely
autopsy, he would not have known to this day that a good twenty cent cigar
dropped out of the physician’s pocket and was sewed up in the patient’s annex.
Had it not been for the post-mortem the cigar would have been a dead loss.
A Lesson in Professional Tact* The following story, though old,
is true, and as illustrating professional etiquette, which, like all true courtesy, is
merely the application of the Golden Rule, is worth repeating from its repro¬
duction in the “ Toledo Medical and Surgical Reporter" for May. Being called
in haste to a patient under the care Of a very young practitioner. Sir William
Gull found that brandy and water was being given at intervals, with certain
other treatment. The great physician carefully examined the patient and said:
“Give him another spoonful of brandy.” He then retired to a private room
with the young doctor in charge. “It is a case of so-and-so,” he said, as soon
as the door was closed. “You shouldn’t have given him brandy on any ac¬
count.” “But,” said the junior practioner, in amazement, “I thought, Sir
William, that you just told the nurse to give him another spoonful ?” “So I
did,” said the great man. “An extra spoonful of brandy won’t hurt him; but
we mustn’t destroy his confidence in you, or he’ll never feel comfortable or be¬
lieve anything you tell him again.”
Can a Physician Practice Medicine After Conviction of
Of a Felony? This question came up for adjudication in New Yt^rk State,
in the case of the People vs. Benjamin W. Hawker. In 1878 this man Hawker
was convicted of having performed a criminal abortion, and was sentenced to
imprisonment for ten years. After having served his sentence he attempted to
resume practice, with the result that the Medical Society of the County of New
York brought suit against him for violation of a State law. His counsel argued
that such a construction of the law, making it illegal to practice medicine after
having been convicted of a felony, was unjust and unconstitutional, inasmuch
as it, in effect, added a new pnnishment for his crime. The people contended,
however, that the State had, in its police power, the right to exact good moral
character as one of the qualifications for the practice of medicine. The first
trial resulted in a verdict of guilty, and the imposition of a fine of $250. On
appeal, four judges decided to set aside the conviction, but one judge, Ingraham,
delivered a vigorous dissenting opinion. On a final appeal to the United States
Supreme Court, nine judges confirmed the conviction and sustained the consti¬
tutionality of the law, citing many decisions in support of their position—
“Philadelphia Medical Journal"
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Homing’ Pigeons Versus Telephone* The members of the Medi-
co-Chrirurgrical society of Central New York, were treated to quite a novelty at
the recent meeting of this society held at Syracuse. Dr. N. H. Haviland, of
Fulton, an enthusiastic breeder of Homing pigeons, read a paper on the value of
Homing pigeons as messengers between the sick and their physician. He gave
a very interesting description of his method of rearing and cultivation of these
pigeons, the necessary care that must be taken in making their home pleasant
and thoroughly ventilated, also the method of training them for the carrying of
messages. It is to be borne in mind that the pigeons only carry the message
one way and that is toward his own home and in order that a return message
should be given it is necessary that lofts be established at both ends of the
route, but his usual method of employing pigeons in his work is to take a basket
filled with the birds on his first visit and if the case requires frequent reports,
instructions are given to fasten the message to a small band firmly attached to
the leg of the bird and allow him his liberty when he will immediately bring the
message home. In this way a report may be given every few hours where there
are no telegraphic or telephonic communications are possible. These birds will
travel from forty to fifty miles an hour.
Adenoid Vegetations. Dr. Irving Townsend in the July issue of the
Homoeopathic Eye , Ear and Throat Journal , hits the nail on the head in the
following statement, he says: “As homoeopaths we rely on the action of indi¬
cated remedies, and resort to operation only when other treatment fails, or we
have learned from experience that it is useless. It, therefore, behoves us to
make use of drugs in those cases only, where delay in operating will not impair
the chances of recovery and to operate promptly when required.” In another
place in the same article he says: “It seems to be as essential for us to know
the limitations of our remedies as to know the full extent of their applicability
to the cure of the disease; and by keeping in mind the former we may avoid
the error of promising more than we can fulfil and expecting to relieve by reme¬
dies, conditions dependent on mechanical obstruction, without attempting to re¬
move the cause of it.
“As an enthusiastic believer in the value of homoeopathic remedies, I feel
confident that these foregoing remarks will not be construed as discrediting their
use, and I desire only to emphasize the fact, that we as homoeopathic physi¬
cians may glorify our cause quite as much by accurate diagnosis and prognosis
as by our knowledge of materia medica and ability to select the indicated reme¬
dy.” Where the cause of the obstruction is external and due to mechanical
forces, the indicated remedy can have no value whatever,
Virtu© hft8 its Own He ward.— Dr. Love once said, with regard to
medical meetings, it was desirable that a man should come away having im-
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parted something if possible, but that it was imperative that he should at least
have picked up something. Here is something, quoted from Love's Medical
Mirror for July, that the genial doctor “picked up” in Denver: “A bright little
Denver boy, one of a class of children six or eight years old, who had been re¬
quested by their teacher to write a story, selecting their own subjects, and whose
compositions were not to be subject to revision by the teacher, but to be read
before the children’s parents exactly as written, submitted the following:
“ Virtue has its own Reward*. A poor young man fell in love with the daugh¬
ter of a rich lady who kept a candy shop. The poor young man could not marry
the rich candy lady’s daughter because he had not money enough to buy furni¬
ture. A wicked man offered to give the young man twenty-five dollars if he
would become a drunkard. The young man wanted the money very much so
he could marry the rich candy lady’s daughter, but when he got to the saloon
he turned to the wicked man and said: “I will not become a drunkard even
for great riches. Get thee behind me, Satan.” On his way home he found a
pocket book containing a million dollars in gold. Then the young lady con¬
sented to marry him.
“They had a beautiful wedding, and the next day they had twins. Thus, you
see, “virtue has its own reward.”
Minnesota's Medical License Law. At the recent Omaha meet¬
ing of the American Institute, the statement was made, and it has since ap¬
peared in several of our journals, “that the Medical License Law of Minnesota
had been knocked out by the recent decision of one of the District Courts of
the State.”
The case is this: “A so-called Doctor,” LaChance by name, a “Divine
Healer,” was arrested for practicing without a license. The court held that
inasmuch as he prescribed no medicine, gave no advice, and did nothing but
take the money of the patients, and let the latter believe that he and God
would cure them, he (La Chance) was not amenable to the law, and conse¬
quently the case went against the prosecution. The Supreme Court sustained
the finding of the lower court.
We, editorially and individually, believe the law to be unconstitutional and
have good legal opinion to sustain our belief. But no physician of good stand,
ing has yet been found, who had backbone enough to make the fight against
the law, so it remains on our statute books a bugaboo and a bogey man to
frighten away practitioners who would like to come to the state. For it does
frighten men away. Many a good man well versed in medicine has told us
personally, that he would not come to Minnesota and run the risk of being
turned down by an examining board. A needless fear, for we know that any
medical man of average intelligence could and would pass the examination.—
(Editorial , Minnesota /foUiaopathic Magazine ).
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Circumcision Of Girls. Dr. T. Scott McFarland, in the Journal of
Orifidal Surgery % for July, cites an interesting case of a girl two years old, large
for her age, with an abundance of long, light golden hair, fair smooth skin, blue
eyes, and a child who had never appeared to notice anything, could not sit
alone, not help herself in the least, could not speak a word. Every few mo¬
ments she would grind her teeth, of which she had her full complement, squint
her eyes, straighten out and utter a cry,” not unlike the familiar one of an epi¬
leptic.
She had been the rounds of doctors, and each and every one had pronounced
the case hopeless. The doctor being prompted by an article by Dr. Pratt, had
the child stripped and immediately saw that the body was covered with hair, as
completely as if she were a fully developed woman, instead of a two-year-old
child.
Knowing that such a growth of hair came at puberty, and puberty meant an
activity of the sexual system, he examined the clitori«, or where it ought to
have been, but found that it was completely closed in by an hypertrophied hood,
and amputation of the hood was followed by almost immediate improvement*
and fifteen months later the child could walk, talk some, sleep and eat well.
During this time, zincphos. 6x had been given. The probabilities are that a
careful study of the case would have pointed to the selection of calvaria card .
or calvaria plios, y which would have resulted in greater improvement than that
recorded in the article.
It was apparent in this case that the mechanical condition was in existence
since birth, and consequently acted as a cause instead of an effect.
Sexual Neurasthenia. Dr. Hubbell, in the Journal of Orifidal Sur¬
gery , has an instructive paper on this subject, in which he insists that the sexual
debility or apathy is the result of constitutional disturbances, instead of a local¬
ized trouble with the sexual organ. The symptoms presented by the neuras¬
thenic are surely constitutional and the careful student of disease manifestation
will see the underlying cause for the whole trouble, and consequently will seek
for the cure of the same in the employment of constitutional measures. It
should be borne in mind at all times that remedial agents can be of no avail un¬
til the exciting cause, be it located within the organism or without, has been re¬
moved. It must be borne in mind, however, that there is a vast difference be¬
tween cause and effect , and the observing physician must be able to differentiate
between these two factors, and to remember that the removal of the effect by
any other means than that of the influence of the same force that brought it
about, is never of a curative nature. The following symptoms of the neuras¬
thenic speak louder than words of the constitutionnl origin of the trouble, and
at the same time indicate the nature of the curative agencies.
The first minifestation is usuilly a dull aching in the occiput, which may ex
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tend over the whole head, causing a sense of constriction, which is usually
worse in the morning, after a restless night; patient feels as if he had been dis¬
sipating, is more tired than when retiring. The appetite becomes capricious or
lost; bowels usually constipated; has a tired, jaded or haggard expression.
Mental or physical effort is very tiresome, or even irksome, so that he must
drive himself to work. The memory becomes weak or defective, the disposi¬
tion altered, worries over trifles, is irritable, gloomy, and feels prematurely old,
often indulging in tears or suicidal thoughts, even to the act of suicide. Sleep
much disturbed, often lying awake night after night. He complains of a thou¬
sand and one symptoms, and yet is not really sick. He is arouifd attending to
his duties, but usually in an indifferent way. Some seem fairly well nourished,
in good flesh, and fair color, yet will surprise the physician with the wealth of
symptoms he can relate. Usually he carries the stigma of his nervous trouble
in his face. With each visit to the surgeon’s office he will have a long list of
symptoms to relate that he has not thought of before, and which you hope he
will not think of again. He complains of twinges of pain in the head, back, ex¬
tremities, heart or lungs, any and everywhere.
The extremities are usually cold and clammy, has hot flashes, weak, faint feel¬
ings, imagines he has cancer, consumption, heart disease, has difficulty of
breathing—sexual asthma—night sweats, etc. Of course the chief center of
his morbid thoughts is upon the sexual apparatus, such as lost manhood, incom¬
petence, weakness, shriveled, cold, relaxed organs with losses, premature ejacu¬
lations, etc.
In no class of cases coming to the hands of the physician should greater at¬
tention be given to the mental symptoms than in this class of diseases. Dr.
Hubbell calls attention to phosphoric acui y phosphorus , kali curb., conium, nux
vomica , passijiora , saw palmetto , puhatilla, iodine , thuja and others, closing
with the statement that some of these remedies seem to give better results in
the higher potencies, while others act best in the crude form.
What a Shell Did, Exploding:. The following article by Assistant-
Surgeon Raymond Spear, on board the flagship New York, showing the effect
of the explosion of a 14 cm. shell, appeared in the Medical News;
During the bombardment of San Juan de Forto Rico on May 12, the New
York was struck once by a , 14 cm. shell at a distance of about 5,500 yards.
The shell came over the stern of the ship and struck an iron stanchion three
inches in thickness, which was broken short off at the point of contact. The
shell went on for a distance of about fifteen feet and exploded in a wooden boat,
whichwas c >vere 1 with canvas. The boat was demolished, the lighter plank
ing being badly splintered and driven downward and forward against an iron
steam winch. The oars in the boat were broken and one piece was driven for-
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ward along the spar deck, but did no damage. The canvas covering the boat
was torn and rent into shreds by the force of the explosion, and by splinters
passing through it and then caught fire, showing that canvass under such condi¬
tions will not stop splinters.
The shell itself burst into many pieces, varying from the size of a pea to large
pieces, weighing about five pounds. The direction these fragments took was
forward, downward, upward and to both sides, many of them going over the
ship’s side, others passing through the copper ventilators and smoke pipes and
doing little damage.
The fragments that went downward and forward struck about the port 8-inch
waist gun, where there were 12 men stationed, killing one man and injuring
several others. The man killed, Wiedemark, was struck by a piece of shell
about two inches square by one inch thick. It entered the left side of his neck
near the angle of the jaw, severed the blood vessels, proceded upward and back¬
ward into his brain, probably injuring the medulla, and lodged under the skin
just beneath the occipital pretuberance. The man fell forward, losing con¬
sciousness immediately. His respiration ceased as soon as he was struck, but
his heart continued to beat feebly for about five minutes, when all signs of life
disappeared.
Another fragment of shell of about the same size struck a man named Fett-
mann on the anterior inner surface of the left thigh, about three inches above
the knee, and went through the limb, taking a backward and downward course.
The femur was shattered into numerous fragments, and the muscles were torn
considerably in the track of the wound.
The effect of the missile on the bone was peculiar in that the bone was not
only splintered for about three inches of its length, but it was also pulverized,
hundreds of minute pieces of bone being imbedded in the muscles. At the
point of exit there were shreds of tissue protruding from the wound, showing
that the ragged piece of steel drew muscular fibers and fascia along with it.
The leg was operated on and a portion of the femur resected, the splinters and
crumbs of bone were removed, the fragments were trimmed off and wired to¬
gether, and through and through drainage established, the limb being put up in
a fenistrated plaster dressing. The wound at last accounts was healing by pri¬
mary union, and there is every reason to believe that the leg will be saved.
Another man was struck in the left leg by a piece of shell about one inch by
y 2 inch. It entered the leg about its middle on the outer side, went inward and
outward, grooving the anterior surface of the tibia. The fragments of bone
were taken out of the leg by the piece of shell.
There were several other minor injuries. Pieces of shell struck several men*
but did no damage. One man felt something hot on his breast, and on investi¬
gation found a piece of shell that had burned its way through his clothing and
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reached his skin. The fragments of the shell were all hot, as was shown by
burnt wood and canvas. The men injured by the shell all said they felt a burn¬
ing, stinging sensation about their wounds, and in some cases the clothing was
scorched.
The shell receives a great deal of heat from the friction it incurs in leaving
the gun, some of this heat is lost through radiation in its flight through the air,
more heat is developed on the impact of the shell, and still more energy takes
the form of heat when the missile explodes, making the fragments hot enough
to set fire to wood. All of the wounds made by the pieces of shell were asep¬
tic, but they all were sluggish in healing, due to the lowered vitality and burn¬
ing of the injured parts.
Medical Treatment of Sexual Passions. Dr. J. Arschagouni,
of New York, has an able article in the Hahnemannian Monthly for July upon
this important subject. Much of the matter has been taken from Casper, West-
phal, Kraftt-Ebing, Moll and others, and the medical treatment has largely been
culled from the writings of the late Dr. Gallavardin, who perhaps made the
most extensive study of this subject of any physician in the Homoeopathic
School. Those who have read the classical work of Kraftt-Ebing “ Psycho fa -
thin Sexual is" and Moll in this “ Perversion of Sexual Instinct ” will appreci¬
ate the importance of this subject from a medical standpoint. If in addition to
this he has read the brief work of Dr. Gallavardin, and realizes how potent are
the remedies at his command, will be inclined to enter into the study of the sub¬
ject not only with interest but with profit. From this work by Dr. Gallavardin
the following illustrations are collected, for instance:
Incontinency: Alumina, Cans ticum and Coni urn are well indicated.
In lubricity of imagination, a most difficult symptom to abate and found in
senile dementia: Conittm , China , Lycopodium , Nttx vomica , Pulsatilla.
In sensual lubricity: Belladonna , Causticum , Cant ha rides. Phosphorus , Pla-
iina , Stramonium , Veratrum.
For those who are after little girls: Causticum, Platina , Phosphorus , l'era-
/rum.
For onanism: Coffea , China , Causticum , Major ana , A r ux vomica , Organum ,
Pulsatilla , Sulphur and Staphisagria.
For unusual habits between married couple: Causticum , Platina.
In homo sexuality in both sexes: Calcarea carbonica and Platina.
For uranists: Platina.
For those who have no bashfulness: Belladonna , J/yoscyamus , Phosphorus.
For corporal antipathy caused by the individual temperament, which often
exists between two persons: Aururn , Ammonium muriaticum, Calcarea carbo¬
nica , Crotalus, Nitric at id.
For those who attempt intercourse only when they are intoxicated, thus
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causing many disturbances to their wives, insomnia and uterine disorders, with
chance of procreating vicious, idotic children: Comum , Calcarea carbonica ,
Causticum and Xux vomica. Dr. Gallavardin goes still further and claims to
cure adultery with Cans ti cum, Lachesis , Pulsatilla, Platina , Phosphorus, Staph -
isagria and Veratrum. He also mentions cases of bachelors who, under Lache-
sis , Phosphorus, Platina , Staphisagria and Veratrum have abandoned their
mistresses and got legitimately married, and claims that Lachesis, Xux vomica ,
and Straphisagria are efficacious in creating not a passion but a taste for mar¬
ried life. In this occasion, he mentions our lamented Constantin Hering, who
used to give Lachesis in cases of young people who for no reason were unde¬
cided to be married and Lachesis seems to have produced the desired effect.
Several weeks and months are necessary to succeed, he says, and yet at times
one single dose may be found sufficient. For instance, one single dose was suf¬
ficient to cure a case of jealousy of sixteen years standing in a husband of forty-
eight, and another of thirty-two years standing, in a husband of sixty. Dr.
Bourgoise wrote many years ago a book “ Passions and Their Relations to Medi¬
cine ,” and describes their homoeopathic treatment with a record of many cases
cured. He mentions in his work the verifications of Aconite , Arsenicum, Pella -
donna, Cina t Per rum, I gnat la. Iodine, Mercurius, Xux vomica , Pulsatilla and
Phosphoric acid. It would be well for every reader of the magazine to review
his materia medica with reference to this subject, and put the same to the prac¬
tical test of thorough experimentation.
The Health Of jOur Girls. Dr. Charlotte B. Brown, of San Francis¬
co, in a recent paper on this subject, said: “The general number of invalids
amongst women, and the multiplication of specialists in diseases of women,
may call the attention of physicians to its cause, and their duty towards the pre¬
vention of this disease in the earlier stage. During the last two years the writer
found that one-sixth of the new cases in her practice had been girls and single
women under 32 years of age. One fourth of this number were teachers, type,
writers, telegraph operators and dressmakers, the rest mostly school girls under
19 years of age. The cases are similar in type and general history; tall and
thin, or overgrown in flesh, but languid, easily tired, irritable, with backache*
irregular menses, anemic and sallow, capricious appetites, dyspeptic, constipated.
Examination of the cases shows, in general, a small uterus, with endometritis,
more or less profuse catarrh, frequently stricture of the internal os, and some¬
times displacements. The need of local treatment in such cases is brief, but
much time and thought should be expended to procure the proper adjustment of
the whole machinery, and to prevent these girls from lapsing into special inva¬
lids for years. The author believed that the foundation for this ill-health was
laid somewhere in the schools, for California, with its climate, was especially
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favorable to young people. An inspection of the ninth grade of the grammar
schools of San Francisco, during the past three months, shows several hundred
girls of the age of 15. Twelve to thirteen years of age is the usual time in Cali¬
fornia for the establishment of the menses. This age corresponds to the seventh
grade of the schools, and teachers find that girls rarely ask to be excused on ac¬
count of dysmenorrhoea. In the ninth grade the attendance was over 90 per
cent., showing that mothers do not regard it as necessary to keep their girls
home during the period. Evidently, the cause of the girls* ill-health was to be
sought elsewhere than in puberty. A list of questions was therefore prepared
for the ninth grade of the grammar schools and the first year of the high
schools, and, through the board of Education of Oakland and San Francisco*
the following questions were submitted to the girls, it being understood that
their replies were optional: 1. Do you eat breakfast? 2. What does your
breakfast consist of, generally ? 3. Do you have a warm lunch ? 4 . At what
hour do you go to bed at night ? 5. Do you often go to bed later ? 6. What
regular duties, if any, do you have at home, daily, in connection with house¬
work, or anything else, and how much time do they take ? These were
answered by 287 girls in Oakland and 1,000 girls in San Francisco. In reply
to the second question, 386, or more than 33 per cent., answered, “coffee and
bread, or roll and hot cakes.” Thirty said “no breakfast” or “a glass of hot
lemonade,” or “coffee and cod-liver oil,” or hot gruel.” The rest detailed the
usual American breakfast. Four hundred and ninety-three, or nearly half the
girls, eat lunch, and 10 p. m. was the average hour of retiring for 1000 pupils,
206 retiring after that hour. Five hundred and nineteen girls, or about one-
half, report some duties in housework, from fifteen minntes to three hours daily.
Three hundred and fifty-nine girls carry on special studies in music, French, etc.
The author inquired whether it was surprising that a sensitive girl, after study¬
ing too late at night, eating a poor breakfast, a cold lunch, and having but a
small amount of exercise, should begin to suffer with the symptoms already re¬
counted ? All the more will this state of things maintain if a girl goes once or
twice to the theatre, or to a surprise party, and then tries to adjust lessons in
study by taking time needed fo/exercise and meals. Two needs that occurred
to the author in this connection were, first, the establishment in all towns and
villages of outdoor gymnastic fields especially for women; second, a building
near the large grammar and high schools for training in physical, manual and
domestic science, as part of their regular school work. In conclusion, the
author presented the following points for the consideration of physicians and
for general dissemination in the school boards, of which they are often members:
1. Rising early enough to fill one’s lungs with pure air, after a suitable toilet,
a cheerful, generous breakfast of material choosen on which to do four good
hours’ work before noon; that is, some home duty, a brisk walk to school,
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with three hours of study. 2. A warm lunch, even if but a cup of cocoa or hot
milk, or lunch-basket meal. Conveniences for preparing such a dish should be
provided in every school, office or factory where human beings eat the noon
meal, unless a place near-by offers such food for a few cents. In some cities
this want is filled by the New England kitchen, which sends large receptacles of
hot soup to the schools. The contents, too, of the lunch-basket are worthy of
inspection. 3. The great need of exercise and, besides the morning duties,
an hour at least, after school, should be given to out of-door sport. Errands,
which were many times noted on my list of answers, are good; so is a bicycle
ride, or outdoor gymnastics, or a good walk, which should be felt, not a duty,
but a pleasure. 4. No study allowed after 9 p. m., and every girl of 15 years
should be asleep at 9:30 p. m., later being permitted Friday or Saturday nights
only; even then, not very often. 5. Urge upon parents that the social life of
schoolgirls should consist of afternoon entertainments, and almost never even¬
ing parties .—**Canada Lancet .”
Exhumation of Hahnemann. On Tuesday, May 24, 1898, in the
presence of the civil authority and of thirty-five other persons, the solemn ex¬
humation of the body of Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of Homoeopathy,
took place. The ceremony began at half past 8 o’clock in the morning by the
arrival of the Commissioner of Police representing the civil authorities. There
were present:—
Dr. Suess Hahnemann, grandson of Samuel Hahnemann, who came from
England; Mr. Cloquemin, Vice President of the Transatlantic Company, repre¬
senting the Baroness Boenninghausen; the International Committee was repre¬
sented by Dr. Kichard Hughes of Brighton, and by Dr. Francois Cartier, Sec¬
retary of the Paris Committee. There were present also the following doctors
and chemists: Leon Simon, President of the French Homoeopathic Society,
Parenteau, Conan, Jousset Senior, Jousset Junior, Nimier, Faure (J. B.),
Guinard, Faure (Elie), Tissot, Dezon, Nuguay, Boyer, Love, Chancerel Senior,
Chancerel Junior, Georges Tessier, Trichon, Peuvrier, Heermann, Yautier,
Koenick, Girardeau, Ecnlle, and Bernard Arnulphy, of Chicago.
Dr. Gannal, who was present at the embalming ol the body of Hahnemann
as an assistant to his father, fifty five years ago, was also at the ceremony.
Thirty five persons in all gathered for the occasion, including five who were not
medical men.
OPENING OF THE COFFIN.
After the speeches were concluded the workmen proceeded to the exhumation
of Hahnemann’s coffin. In the presence of the Commissioner of Police the
workmen raised the coffin to the surface by means of ropes; it was placed on
the boards which covered up the hole made by the previous exhumation of
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Madame Hahnemann. Dr. Gannal, who superintended the operations, dis¬
covered that the lead coffin of Hahnemann had been screwed down and not
soldered, and he told the physicians that he feared the body might not be well
preserved. The workmen removed the screws which were not too rusty, and
forced out those which were worn out by age. The lead cover gaped at the
end, and those who were present perceived Hahnemann’s feet, wrapped up in
cloths, resting against the sides of the coffin; they appeared well preserved,
but as they continued pulling out the screws, and as the lid opened wider, it
was noticed that there was water in the coffin, and the fears that the body would
not be well preserved increased.
At last the lid opened wide, and Hahnemann’s body was seen, covered and
wrapped up with silk bandages. The conformation of the body, outlined under
the embalming bandages, was preserved; the body was slightly shrunken, but
what most struck the onlookers was the short stature of Hahnemann. On
asking those who knew him, we got the reply that the founder of Homoeopathy
was, in fact, very short. The body was lying in water, the fluid not being pro¬
duced by the embalming, but coming from the outside. The soil of Montmartre
Cemetery was continually infiltrated, according to competent authorities, the
water flowing along from the clay bottom; but if the coffin, in 1848, had been
soldered and not screwed, it would not have penetrated. Water in the coffin
necessarily brought about the decomposition of the body.
The embalmer took great care, besides applying the silk bandages, to cover
the head and the hands with pieces of wool soaked in “essence.” At the end
of the half century, these pieces of wool appeared like large Sponges enveloping
Hahnemann’s head, and his hands which were crossed over his body.
Dr. Gannal removed from the face and hands the remains of the wool and
silk bandages, which were better kept than the rest.
The head was found to be a mere mass of decomposed tissue and bones. He
searched for the glass eyes which had had to be placed in the orbits.
Hahnemann’s body was completely decomposed. There only was found
long tress of woman’s hair twisted round the neck, probably Madame Iiahne
mann’s hair.
In view of its being an impossibility to recognize Hahnemann’s features, Dr.
Gannal fortunately was able to produce for us several tokens from the coffin.
FIRST—THE WEDDING RING.
This gold ring was shown to the spectators; it was made of two small ones,
which could be separated by a penknife, and on one of them was engraved
these words:—
“Samuel Hahnemann. Melanie d'Hen illy.
Verbunden Coethen , iS Janvier , /Sjj."
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The ring was replaced on one of the bones of Hahnemann's hand by order
of the Commissioner of Police.
SECOND—THE GOLD MEDAL FROM THE FRENCH HOMOEOPATHS.
At Hahnemann’s feet was found a bottle corked with emery and sealed up.
The police officer gave permission to break it; it contained papers respecting
Gannal’s process of embalming, the gold medal from the French Homoeopaths
to their master, together with an autograph letter from the late Madame Hahne¬
mann, which formed the final link in the chain of evidence of identiiy furnished
by the coffin. The gold medal, in an excellent state of preservation, represents
on one side Hahnemann’s profile, by David of Angers, the sculptor of Hahne¬
mann’s famous bust, which is used as a model for his portraits. On the other
side is the following inscription:—
il A leur maitre t Us homaopathistes Francois.
Similia Si mi/thus Cur ant ur .”
This medal was struck in bronze. Dr. Boyer had brought with him an ex¬
actly similar specimen to that found in the coffin. After having been examined
by the company the gold medal was replaced therein.
THIRD —THE AUTOGRAPH OF THE LATE MADAME HAHNEMANN.
Among the papers concerning the embalming, found stored in the bottle, was
an autograph letter from Madame Hahnemann.
AT PERE-LACHAISF..
By contrast with the retired spot in Montmartre, so small and mean, the new
resting place of Hahnemann appears a veritable rehabilitation. The Chemin
du Dragon at Pere*Lachaise, where the founder of Homoeopathy is now buried,
is one of the most picturesque of roads, planted with a variety of trees, and
having about it something at once grand and mysterious. Perhaps this name
was given to it on account of a likeness to the places which this mysterious and
incomprehensible creature was supposed to frequent. At every turn in this re¬
nowned corner of Pere-Lachaise the mind lives again with all the grand and
celebrated men that France has sheltered in science, the fine arts and war.
Here music is represented by Rossini, Auber, Donizetti; there the poets and cel¬
ebrated writers. Racine lies almost beside Hahnemann; a little further on are
Moliere and Lafontaine. Science is represented by Gay-Lussnc and Arago.
The celebrated physician and neurologist, Gaul, is a few steps lower down than
Hahnemann. Lastly, on the same side are the tombs of the marshals of the
First empire—Ney, Davout, etc. The Chemin du Dragon is the route usually
taken by tourists who visit this renowned cemetery—the chief in Pans—by
thousands.
A temporary railing and a crown will be the simple ornaments over the pre-
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cious remains of Hahnemann, until the day when, deeply moved, the homoeo-
pathists from all parts of the world will complete the work of restoration in
honour of their venerated master—a work the more brilliant because so long
deferred .—(Homeopathic Review).
DON’T.
Dr. Luther C. Toney, offers the following valuable suggestions.
Don’t use acid in nervous cough.
Don’t permit patients with cardiac disease to ride a bicycle.
Don’t forget that bicarbonate of soda dissolves ear wax (cerumen).
Don’t forget Prewitt’s o^.niuon <f a.' .imputation, “confession of failure.”
Don’t “fall down” on the differential diagnosis between melancholia and
dementia.
Don’t fail to elect version as preferable to high force;»s when head is above
the brim.
“Don’t fail to know the pelvis of your lying-in patient, as you know her
face. ’ ’—(Brothers.)
Don’t do symphyseotomy to save life. A foetal mortality of 15 per cent is
not a life-saving operation.
Don’t fail to suspect syphilis if “sore throat” persists 5 or 6 weeks. Lift up
the uvula and look for the ulcer.
Don’t forget that injuries to thumb and little finger are of more serious prog¬
nosis than injuries to the others.
Don’t attempt to extract foreign bodies from urethra with forceps unless it be
through a No. 29 or 80 (French) tube straight.
Don’t imagine that harm can not be done with a curette (blunt or sharp). If
you cannot use a sharp, don’t use a blunt one.—(Sims.)
Don’t forget that the semi recumbent position (as practiced and learned from
the North American Indians) is the best in labor.—(Engelmann.)
Don’t “fall down” when you get to the sinus of the bulb. It is the “bug
bear” in catheterism in the male. Pass through or by this “mile post” gently.
Don’t forget that bottle fed infants are subject to scurvy, and that the three
prominent symptoms are: 1st, bleeding gums; 2d, swollen and tender thighs;
and 3d, purpuric spots.
Don’t burn a soft chancre with nitrate of silver. If you don’t know why, you
would better read up. We learned why from Posner, Arthur Lewin, Oberlaen-
der, Wasidla, and Taylor.
Don’t forget that ovariotomy is not limited to adults. Dr. Chiene, of Edin¬
burgh, did an ovariotomy on a child of three months, yet none but specialists
should ever diagnose and operate on such cases.
Don’t brag should you chance to take out a few inches of gut, as Dr.
■Giuseppe Ruggi (// Polidinico , February 1, 1896) resected ten feet and nine
inches of gut from a boy 8 years old, and the boy got entirely well.— Pediatrics .
vol. 1, No. 8, p. 376.
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Book Reviews.
Book 'Reviews.
Hand Book on Diseases of the Heart and their Homoeo¬
pathic Treatment by Thomas C. Duncan, M. D., Ph. D., LL. D., Prof,
of General Medicine and Diseases of the Chest, National Medical College,
Chicago. Halsey Bros. Co., Chicago, Publishers, pp. 114, price $1.00, net.
Evidently this book constitutes a course of lectures on diseases of the heart;
and consequently many practical points, presented in a plain, simple manner,
which are eliminated from a more ambitious treatise, will be found incorporated
here. Many times these hints become nuggets of the purest gold to the inex¬
perienced man. The therapeutic suggestions are alone worth the price of the
book and should lead to such a study of the remedies as to bring out those con¬
comitant symptoms which make up the totality upon which the remedy must be
selected. Sufficient numbers of clinical cases are presented to illustrate the
text.
Conservative Gynecology and Electro-Therapeutics. A
Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Women and their
Treatment by Electricity. Third edition, revised, rewritten, and
greatly enlarged. By G. Betton Massey, M. D., Physician to the Gynecic
Department of Howard Hospital, Philadelphia; late Electro Therapeutist to
the Infirmary for Nervous Diseases, Philadelphia; Fellow and ex President
of the American Electro-Therapeuiic Association, of the Societe Francaise
d’Electrotherapie, of the American Medical Association, etc. Illustrated with
twelve full-page original chromo lithographic plates in twelve colors, numerous
full-page original half tone plates of photographs taken from nature, and
many other engravings in the text. Koval octavo. Four hundred pages. Ex¬
tra cloth, beveled edges, $3.50 net. The F. A. Davis Co., Publishers, iy 14-16
Cherry St., Philadelphia; 117 W. 42d St., New York City; 9 Lakeside Build¬
ing, 218-220 S. Clark St., Chicago, Ill.
No organ of the human body should be sacrificed until it is known beyond
the shadow of a doubt that conservative measures are of no avail. It is the
common practice of the medical profession to refer every case of suspected
pelvic inflammation or mechanical displacement to the operating surgeon who
knows of no other procedure than the removal of the offending organ with as
many of its appendages as will be submitted to.
It is encouraging, to say the least, to pick up a book entitled Conservative
Gynecology. Study along any lines which tends to the preserving of the human
body intact should be commended, and everything added to our literature on
the subject of Electro therapeutics should receive the careful consideration of
the conservative portion of the profession.
This book bears on its face the stamp of real worth. There is no elaborate
effort made to impress the reader with the importance of the subject and at the
same time make the ideas so cumbersome that no one but an expert can assimu-
late the same. The common every day doctor will be pleased with the elegant
simplicity of its diction. A matter of-fact tone pervades the whole book. This
impression is heightened bv the illustrations which are largely made from
photographs taken from living models.
With reference to the value of electricity as a remedial agent there may be a
wide difference of opinion. Some believe it to be the greatest curative agent
in use because it comes so near to the “Heart of Nature.” The author dis¬
claims “cure all” properties to electricity but shows in this book how any one
may safely test its virtues and determine for himself its scope of action.
The work is commended as a safe guide to follow in making a practical study
of this very important subject.
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A MONTHLY HOMOEOPATHIC MAGAZINE.
Yol. xxxvii. Chicago, September 15, 1898. No. 9
Society Iteporte.
CENTRAL NEW YORK HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL
SOCIETY.
Institutes of Medicine.
Citizen’s Club, Syracuse, N. Y., March 17, 1898.
The quarterly meeting of the Central New York Homoeopathic
Medical Society was called to order at 11:30 a. m., by the Vice-
President, Dr. Carl Schumacher.
Members present: Drs. Carr, Grant, Graham, Gwynn, Hoyt,
Hoard, Martin, Stow, Schumacher, Leggett.
Visitor present: Dr. Howland.
The minutes of the December meeting were read, corrected
and approved.
The Chairman of the Board of Censors reported the informal
application for membership of Dr. Josephine Howland, Auburn,
N. Y. The application was accepted.
The Organon —Sections 252-256—was read by Dr. Allen B.
Carr, Rochester, N. Y.
The essay upon these sections was presented by Dr. Leggett.
The Signs ok Incipient Amendment—Sections 252-256.
We are often lost in wonder at the remarkable insight of the
author of these sections. The masterly appreciation, the deli¬
cacy of intention, the clearness of expression by which he is
enabled to give the result of his observations to the profession,
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are truly awe-inspiring. Let us see how far our experiences ac¬
cord with his observations.
Section 252. “But should we find, during the employment of
the other medicines, in chronic (psoric) diseases, that the best
selected homoeopathic (antipsoric) medicine, in the suitable
(minutest) dose, does not effect an improvement, this is a sure
sign that the cause that keeps up the disease still persists, and
that there is some circumstance in the mode of life of the pa¬
tient) or in the situation in which he is placed, that must be
removed, in order that a permanent cure may ensue.”
Of course, this section refers to the simillimum only. In other
words, if the properly selected remedy produces no effect, then
we may know that there is something in the circumstances, or
the regimen of the patient, which must be removed before a heal¬
ing effect can be obtained.
The ability to recognize an exciting cause is almost universal
among homoeopathicians. If a simillimum meets with ’no re¬
sponse, the homoeopathician immediately institutes a searching
inquiry, as to the circumstances and regimen of the patient.
Finding such conditions as are caused by business worries,
grief, or other mental disturbances due to the unselfishness, or
devotion of the patient; or such physical indulgencies as are
due to his selfishness; or, again, finding a drug abuse; he at
once tries to remove, or to alter these conditions, until his efforts
in behalf of the patient are repaid by improvement. In many
cases this may be done, if the hearty co operation of the patient
can be obtained.
In cases wherein mental anxiety due to business worry is the
exciting cause of the physical disturbance, relief may be obtained
to such extent as to enable the patient to carry out his designs.
This must be accomplished through the co-operation of the pa¬
tient as to circumstance and regimem. He must remember,
always, that “men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are
men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.”—Cicero. This shifting
of the burden to the point best able to bear the weight, is alter¬
ing the exciting, or aggravating cause that has aroused miasmatic
activity. The simillimum then applied, supplies the moral
strength, and restores equilibrium in all curable cases.
Cases of neurasthenia in people of latent psoric tendency, ex¬
cited by accumulated anxieties as to ways and means, by shocks
to the affections, by constant strife against besetting evils, are
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only assisted by careful and painstaking prescriptions added to
the same adjustment of burdens. These patients are usually
morbidly restless to be doing something , and, in such manner,,
accumulate burdens too heavy to carry. The readjustment, or
“altering the conditions,’’ is that referred to by Hahneman in
the text.
Of course, the depth and breadth of such derangements de¬
pend upon the amount of miasmatic latency , in the system, or
the extent to which that latency is aroused. If this were not true
—as Hahnemann shows in “Chronic Diseases”—improvement
would begin with removal of the cause, and without medication.
It is in cases like above, where Christian Science, Mental heal¬
ing etc., have obtained foothold. The change of the patient’s
attitude toward surrounding conditions, is a re-adjustment of
burdens to the bearable point, which, many people are ready to
say—is health. This change, from subjective to objective, self¬
ishness to selflessness, all physicians strive to accomplish; but all
physicians do not think it wise to accomplish this purpose by
falsity, or self-deception.
There is a class of cases even harder to manage, as to the de¬
termining, or exciting cause of disturbance. These are: cases of
physical excess in those acts or indulgencies which give tempo¬
rary pleasure, and which, when committed, give rise to nervous ex¬
haustion, with final functional, if not organic derangement. Too
great indulgence in Tobacco, Alcohol, Coffee, Tea; too great in¬
dulgence in sexual pleasures, are causes which puzzle the wisest
to remove. These are impossible permanently to benefit;—i. e^
perfectly cure—without removing the exciting cause, which is
rarely accomplished. There is a marked difference in cases,
caused by an acquired habit, and cases < by indulgence in one,,
or more, of those habits. It is in the former wherein exist the
difficulties mentioned. %
It is an interesting question strongly bearing upon this subject,
as to whether an abnormal appetite in any of the diiections men¬
tioned, produced and increased by its indulgence, is not a sign
of increased activity in a latent miasm.
Of drug abuse, its consequences and difficulties, all homoeo-
pathicians have had abundant experience. Theories in relation
to the removal of results are rife, but untenable. Theorists up¬
on this subject, as in other pathological conditions, forget to take
account of either the stage of life, or of disease, at which such
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patients are received by the homoeopathic physician. Hahne¬
mann, in section 75, points to the results of drug abuse, as the
most “deplorable and most incurable” of all diseases, and re¬
grets the apparent impossibility of finding remedies for their
cure, “when they have reached any considerable height.” This
also depends upon the virulence of the cause as well as upon its
stage of progression.
All students of the methods of obtaining drug proving, know
the lasting influence of drugs upon the remainder of the life of
the prover. They know the effect produced upon the lives of
Dr. and Mrs. Rubini in the proving of Cactus-Grandiflorus, and
at how great a sacrifice that proving was made. If provings with
potentized remedies in the vegetable kingdom, can produce such
effects, what may be expected of crude drugs in cumulative mas¬
ses? There seems to be no question. The proof is indubitable.
The tranquility mentioned in section 253, is a delightful expe¬
rience which is often seen in the administration of the similli-
mum. A physician may, when it appears, await the outcome with
patience, even though the direction of progression is still down¬
ward.
At times, the relief is so slow in coming that the physician al¬
most loses heart. He would quite despair, were he not satisfied
that nothing else can do so well. Many times, the improvement
is perceptible only to the most careful observation. But, by
measurement of symptoms, even when the family, or the counsel
called in extremity, can see no signs of coming relief, a renewed
struggle of the vital force to relieve the burdened organism, can
be discovered by the physician.
To illustrate: During the sickness of Dr. H.. who had heart
failure with dyspnoea from hypostasis, a careful study of symp¬
toms decided Dr. L. and Dr. K., upon Phosphorus. Phos mm (F)
was given and followed by an < which lasted several days, and
then, by complete relief, which lasted three months.
Again symptoms of dyspnoea arose, and Phos mm (F) was re¬
peated without effect. The symptoms remaining the same, upon
a memorable Saturday, Phos°' mm (F) was given, and Dr. S.,called
in consultation for the next day.
On Sunday, the two doctors arrived. Dr. S., was greatly
alarmed by the state of the patient, wished to do something at
once. Dr. L. having seen the patient daily and being satisfied
with the appropriateness of the medicine given, saw s/ight signs
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of improvement in the patient, that were not apparent to others.
Dr. S., read up the symptoms, adding some that had arisen since
the prescription of Phos imm } selected a remedy, and insisted upon
its immediate administration.
The position was difficult. Dr. S., was the senior. Dr. L.
saw signs of improvement, and, also, had the responsibility of
the life of the patient. She rebelled against the insistance, es¬
pecially as the remedy suggested ( Secale ) had not the remotest
affinity to the case. She did not desire an altercation with a se¬
nior, who had so many years of experience in his favor. So, she
turned to the desk, rapidly made up a powder of Sac. lac. f went
to the bedside, and administered it. Both doctors left the bed¬
side to meet there again the next morning.
With the morning came the physicians, and, lo! a transforma¬
tion had occurred. Dr. H., was breathing comfortably, and was
happy. There was no further symptom of hypostasis during the
remainder of his sickness.
The favorable appearance of the patient was not the end of
the consultation for Dr. L. Dr. S. solemnly motioned her to
follow him to another room, and said “I wish to know if you
gave the remedy recommended by me.” The reply: “No sir, I
did not. I gave Placebo ” was followed by: “Well, I see the
improvement, and, therefore, I wish to know what did it.” It
need not be said that apologies for the apparent discourtesy, and
reasons therefor were forth coming.
The “incipient signs of improvement,” in this instance, were
so slight at the first consultation, that the family had been un¬
able to perceive them, nor, of course, could any consulting phy¬
sician have observed them.
In the appended note to Section 253, Hahnemann apparently
callsfhe high potency a “small dose.” Most homoeopathicians
are now inclined to disagree with this nomenclature, as entirely
inadequate to express that which is expected of, or accomplished
by, the dose. The practical application of potentized remedies
has taught increased action and power, with increase of potency,
and, as a result, has entirely changed the point of view.
As to the potency required to produce the tranquility here
mentioned, all agree that it results from the action of the similli-
mum, and that it is difficult to judge from previous experience
what that simillimum will be. While the simillimum is daily ob¬
tained from the high and highest potencies, many cases are re-
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corded in which the simillimum has proved to be a low potency.
It is but a short time since the writer saw the record of a case
of intermittent fever in which one dose of the 3x of Op. proved to
be the simillimum, and it was repeated but once, and that, ajter
a slight return of the paroxysm. The simillimum found in so
low a potency, and without repetition, evoked profound admira¬
tion and surprise.
The tranquility mentioned by Hahnemann, followed by the
gradual disappearance of all symptoms and signs of sickness,
under the action of the carefully selected remedy, is the best
proof that the simillimum has been found; and it is the highest
possible application of the Art of Healing.
These results are frequently obtained in acute disease, and oft¬
en, in chronic conditions of long standing.
The reappearance of old symptoms, even when not previously
known by the physician, is a sign of a happy re-turning to a state
of health, as many steps of chronic disease must be retraced,
before complete recovery takes place.
It is a question whether the appearance of new symptoms,
recognizable as symptoms of the drug prescribed, are indications
that the simillimum has been obtained, even though the lesion,
considered as a symptom in the choice of the remedy, is gradu¬
ally disappearing. In fact, Hahnemann particularly shows that
a prescription followed by such symptoms i^ unhomoeopathic.
A prescription of Carl>ol. ac. made by the writer, was followed
by a gradual relief of prominent symptonjp of the skin A month
later, the patient complained, when waking in the morning, of
occipital headaches > by breakfast, ( Carb. ac.) and > by a cup
of tea, {Carb. ac.). Inquiry, concerning the general conditions,
revealed the “embarrassment” of the vital energies, mentioned
by Hahnemann, without describable or definite symptom# upon
which to base a prescription. The patient was inclined to think
that he was better, but grave doubts assailed the physician who
decided to await further developments before giving an opinion.
S. L. Guu.d-Lecgett.
The paper was presented for discussion.
Dr. Carr spoke of the difficulty of convincing a patient, who
was suffering from chronic miasmatic disease, that the return of
an old symptom, during the process of recovery, was a good sign,
i. e: Hahnemann’s “reverse order of their coming.” He also
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noticed that the discussions following the Dec. report had placed
considerable emphasis upon the causes, as one symptom for se-
• lection of a remedy. It had seemed to him that a fail (for in¬
stance) might cause other symptoms than those calling for
Arnica.
To illustrate: A lady of Oswego, N. Y., just before starting
for Rochester, had cut her hand upon a broken pitcher, and had
found difficulty in staunching the flow of bipod. That night,
after her arrival in Rochester, she had an attack of diarrhoea.
By a misstep, in attempting to reach the closet, she had fallen
down stairs. An attack of coleitis, with symptoms of tenesmus,
mucus stools, and nausea without vomiting, had followed. She
was treated allopathically for a few days and then Dr. C. was
called. At first the indications pointed to drugging. After those
had subsided the indications for the homoeopathic remedy, that
cured, included that of fright.
Dr. Hoyt thought that it was not always easy to convince a
patient that the return of a symptom was a good sign. He illus¬
trated, with the case of a woman who, after years of drugging,
had complained of frequently recurring pains, “like a buzz saw”
that were > by a dose of Phos. Further study of the case dis¬
covered a history of boils up and down the spinal column.
Sulph. indicated and given reproduced those pains in the spine.
Informed that it was a good sign, and that often patients must
retrace the steps of disease progress to be cured, she concluded
that she preferred not to be cured rather than to go through the
old suffering.
Dr. Stow took up the theme of the difficulty found in persuad-
in patients to wait upon a remedy. He thought this due to the
practice of Allopaths and some homoeopaths who prescribe for
the relief of local symptoms only. He said that it was often dif¬
ficult to convince patients that improvement had begun. Six
months previously a woman had come into his office looking so
troubled and down-cast that he had said to her, “You are not
well this morning, you seem low spirited.” He then learned
that she had a stubborn, chronic, nasal catarrh, with thick, heavy
discharge. He saw that she was depressed, that she cried, hated
heat, and asked if she might have the doors open. He gave
Pul& m one dose and Sac. lac., and requested her to call when
the powders had been taken.
After those powders, she called and said that she was no
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better but thought she would take another prescription. Dr. S.
saw an improvement in her spirits and made her confess to an
< after the first powders with subsequent improvement.
At the next call, she admitted improvement in hearing and the
sense of taste and smell.
In a month she was well. Time, only, was needed after the
first prescription.
Dr. Hoard thought a record was the most convincing thing
that could be offered in those cases. He remembered a case of
prolapsus, that the patient had reported as without improvement.
The record had shown her that she was very much better.
Dr. Grant had found lots of patients who never admitted im¬
provement, until they were quite well.
Dr. Carr considered that a failure to improve—as in 256—was
a strong indication to re study the case for the cause.
He related a case in which the conditions were probably
caused by mental shock. A little child who had witnessed and
been frightened by a quarrel or scuffle, between its parents at
table, wakened at 1 or 2 a. m., with vomiting and convulsions.
It seemed that the child had been pacified, persuaded to finish
its supper and go to sleep as usual. But “the memory of the
fright remained.” A dose of Op cm cured.
Dr. Grant desired to know if the remedy had been selected up¬
on the pathogenesis of the drug?
Dr. Carr, said that this symptom had pointed to the remedy
which was found to cover the entire case.
Dr. Grant said physicians often prescribed Arnica after a fall,
or bruise, without learning the true symptoms produced by the
cause.
Dr. Schumacher, cited a case of convulsions in a child of 18
months, in which it was impossible to get at the cause of the evi¬
dent mental disturbance. The child was cross, would slap its
mother, scratch its face, strike, bite etc., and Straw, relieved
completely.
Adjourned to 2 p. m.
The meeting was called to order by the vice-president, at 2:15
p. m.
A paper was presented from Dr. R. E. Belding, of Troy, N, V
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Section 252 of Hahnemann’s Organon.
Matters, in Hahnemann’s time, must have been vefy similar to
what we find them in our day. The people who were his patients
were victims of there own pernicious habits, or the^ lived with
vile surroundings. They were victims of the “Drug fltoie” habit,
or took their own sulphur and molasses every spring. The old
women steeped their teas from bitterest herbs, and every ulcer
was treated with a healing ointment, or burned with an escharot-
ic, or actual cautery. Suppressions of disease were the rule,
and the sins of the individual added to those of his ancestors
were pent up in his body with no one to loose them and let them
go. The medication of that day, as well as this, under so-called
regular treatment, too often superimposed drug poisons upon ex¬
isting miasms. • .*
I doubt not, fellow workmen, that you have found the most
trying part of our daily practice lies in the effort to discover
those things which are a perpetual hindrance to the action of our
well selected remedies. The work of selecting the proper drug
for a given case would not be so very difficult, if the disease
were but the result of a natural misasm, uncomplicated by arti¬
ficial influences the nature of which it is not always possible for
us to know, and knowing it, it is not always possible to judge
with certainty, which is the greater miasm, that we may first at¬
tack and subdue it.
Perhaps a few cases from practice will serve to illustrate the
difficulties that confront us.
A middle aged, married woman, is suddenly taken with an ul¬
cerated sore throat, with pains in the head, back and limbs, with
great difficulty in swallowing saliva. She is worse from the heat
of the fire. She perspires but is no. better of her pains. We
have reason to expect a speedy cure from Mer curias but.the
symptoms yield very slowly. A more careful examination of the
case reveals the fact that she has worn a red plate in the mouth
for the last three months. Under treatment the most violent
symptoms subside, but there remains a condition of tongue,
fauces and other mucous membranes that is abnormal, and un¬
less she rids herself of the objectionable plate it will not be long
before she has another attrck of a similar nature.
Here is the case of a girl of eight years which shows a large
and flabby tongue, with teeth impressions along the edge, a throat
omewhat red, but flabby like the tongue; a little difficulty in de-
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glutition, and a pain running into the left ear. She desires to
swallow, because a thick, sticky saliva accumulates which has to
be taken care of. Mercurius seems to be the remedy and it
ought to give relief, but she has amalgam fillings in her teeth,
and, can be but partially cured. Her symptoms will recur.
In some of these families, where ulcerated sore throats so fre¬
quently confront us, we wonder what may be the reason. There
are no teeth filled with mercurial amalgum, no rubber plates
colored with vermillion, but, perhaps, the wails and bedsteads
are besmeared with corrosive sublimate, so our best efforts are
partially futile.
A woman of sixty-five has frequent colds with dyspncea, great
restlessness and anxiety, much pain in upper chest, thirst for fre¬
quent drinks, but a swallow suffices. She is always worse at
night and especially after midnight. She wants to be wrapped
up very warm and is better when in a profuse perspiration. Ar¬
senic gives temporary relief, but how can she expect to be well
while she wears the deadly rubber plate in her mouth, the amal¬
gum fillings in her teeth, and if nature attempts to find an outlet
for relief through some eruption, it is soon squelched by Cuticura
ointment. The last misdemeanor was but lately revealed to me,
although the woman has been a patient of mine for twen f y years
or more. It is a difficult thing except in rare cases to get a pa¬
tient to have these hindrances removed, either because they dread
being hurt, cannot give the time, or poverty prevents.
In the autumn of 1897 I had a case of intermittent fever with
many symptoms. It took much study, and remedies selected
with greatest care, were unavailing for two weeks. I then learned
that many years ago she had an attack of intermittent fever for
which-she had been given large doses of Quinine. Although the
symptoms calling for that remedy were not many, I gave her a
dose of the potentized drug and her symptoms began to clear up.
The better indicated remedy was enabled to do duty and the pa¬
tient was soon on the road to health.. She is now in better con¬
dition than for many years.
Marvelous are the cures made by our potentized remedies,
even when the patient is seemingly under very adverse circum¬
stances. God has endowed his creature, man, with a conserva¬
tive force which makes it possible for him to exist and even pre¬
serve health under most unfavorable conditions. Microbes,
bacilli and poisons of many kinds beset his*path, yet with plenty
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-of exercise, air, and a cheerful disposition, he will frequently
maintain his physical integrity. But if, from an overdraft on
his physical resources the vital power is so diminished that it is
unable to cope with its adverse environments, then the attack of
that enemy to which his vitality is most susceptible will be suc¬
cessful, and he will become sick. Fortunately, the greater num¬
ber of miasms are not of a sufficient power to withstand the com¬
bined forces of the vital force assisted by the drug which is the
simillimum. Therefore the majority of diseases are curable, even
while the exciting cause is still in operation. This would seem
to demonstrate the superior power of drug miasms over natural
miasms. Thus it appears that the strongest foes with which we
have to deal are the continued action of drug poisons, and he
who best understands the method of eliminating drug effects, will
prove to be the most successful physician and most useful to his
■fellow men.
R. E. Belding, M. D.
The paper was roundly applauded as excellent.
Dr. Stow moved that not only a vote of thanks be extended to
Dr. Belding for the instructive and able paper sent, but that the
Sec’y be instructed to request Dr. Belding to present himself to
this Society, many of whose members would be delighted to see
his “phiz” once more. Seconded and carried.
Clinical Verifications.
An essay was then read by Dr. Volney A. Hoard, Rochester, N. Y.
A Case of Chorea.
Oct. 26, 1897, M. W., aged 11, Boston, Mass.
Dark hair, dark blue eyes, sallow complexion, large joints and
an angular awkward figure.
Chorea had been increasing for several months. Had been
unable to attend school. Had been treated by their family phy¬
sician, (of old school). Has jerking of facial muscles, mouth,
eyes &c. Head jerks from side to side when talking; impossible
to sit still, particularly when talking; arms, hands and fingers in
almost perpetual motion, some motion of legs and feet. Worse
left side. In walking, legs swing out in a partial circle, giving
her the appearance of one with paralysis. Tongue is stiff and at
times talking is very difficult. Depressed and low spirited, cry¬
ing easily. Wakes from sleep crying. Sleeps poorly in early
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night, better after midnight. Has shivers and chilliness from, 5
to 6 p. m. Then feverish until about 10 p. m. Sweats much
about the head from any excitement or exertion. Has profuse
sweat of feet, not particularly offensive, sweats in axilla. Appe¬
tite poor, craves sour things, averse to potatoes. Has tumult¬
ous action of heart with marked numbness; probably anaemic.
6 powders, a powder every morning.
Nov. 3. Better in every way.
Nov. 12. Improvement continues. Sleeps better and eats
well. Constipated. Sac. lac.
Nov. 24. Continues to gain. Bowels regular and appetite
good. No chills. No fever. Looks very much better. Jerking
very much improved.
Dec. 11. Is gaining in flesh. Tongue coated white and appe¬
tite not so good. Hiccough mornings. Puls^ m .
Dec. 31. Feet sweat, feet cold and damp. Vertigo when ris¬
ing in morning, with nausea. Wants fresh air. Tongue coated
white in center. Hearts action violent, with occasional pain
about heart. Shortness of breath. Calc* 0 .
Jan. 20. Much improved in every way, continues to gain in
flesh. Ca/c lm .
Feb. 9. Much better. Legs and arms very quiet. Twitch¬
ing of face much improved. Tongue clear. Heart sounds more
normal and less pain. Not so much dizziness. Sac. lac.
Mar. 5. Continues to gain in every way. Is now going to
gymnasium and able to take some of the exercises. Sac . lac.
April 2. Twitching all gone. Sleeps well, eats well. Heart
sounds much better but not all gone. Is riding bicycle and has
perfect use of legs. Has gained much in flesh and the angular
awkward look has disappeared.
July 21. I read a letter from her aunt containing the follow¬
ing: “Marguerite has changed so much. She seems perfectly
well and is so happy in her opt door exercises. She has grown
tall and fleshy and as brown as a berry. She rides the wheel so
nicely and we are all so happy over her recovery.” -
Volney A. Hoard.
The subject was presented for discussion.
Dr. Grant asked if the constipation, mentioned in the second
report, was a new, or the return of an old symptom.
Dr. Hoard said that he had failed to record it in the first
record.
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Dr. Carr wished that the case had been left on one dose of a
high potency of Calcaria in the first instance.
Dr. Hoard stated that a differentiation between the two reme¬
dies was, at first, quite difficult.
A. paper was presented by Dr. C. E. Chase, Utica, N. Y.
The Lesson of Sections 253—256 and Some Clinical Notes.
One of the strongest indications of intellectual strength and
acuteness of perception, in the immortal Hahnemann, is furnished
by those paragraphs on the “Signs of incipient amendment”
which form the subject of inquiry and thought, in the readings
from the Organon for to-day's meeting. Especially is this seen
in paragraph 253, as having reference to signs furnished by the
mental symptoms and conditions of the patient. Nothing can
be more obvious to those who believe in the dynamic origin of
disease—a belief which is gaining ground, more and more, in
the minds of the more advanced members of the profession—
than that the mind of man—that portion of the human trinity
nearest to, and most readily influenced by those perturbations of
nervous force, which ultimately result in grave and easily recog¬
nized physical manifestations of disease—must of necessity fur¬
nish the first indications of its approach. It is a matter for great
regret that a series of observations have not been made looking
towards the possible recognition of the character of approaching
illness.
There are many difficulties in the way, which possibly may be
insuperable, but it would certainly be a very interesting fact for
observation. It is a great source of pleasure and satisfaction
for the observing physician to witness the calming of the dis¬
turbed material nature, and the expression of peace and restful¬
ness observable in the patient’s face and manner after a careful
prescription. This shows a tendency to the return of health,
even before it is perceptible to the patient himself, or in his
graver physical symptoms. One can often assure a patient of an
amelioration of his condition by taking note of his mental atti¬
tude.
The first glance at a patient, in entering the room, for the daily
visit, is often sufficient to indicate to the physician the character
of the expected report. Many a time has a load of care dropped
from the physicians mind in witnessing the welcome change, after
a night of anxiety, and a feeling that he has come nearly to the
end of his resources.
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I regret very much that I have not time to pursue this subject
further, and that though this is ostensibly a clinical paper I have
not more clinical facts to offer.
I wish to call special attention to a remedy which I think is
somewhat neglected, though it is, in my opinion, a very valuable
one, in a serious class of cases. The remedy is Ustilago , and the
special use is uterine hemorrhage. It is similar in some respects
to Secale , but is adapted to a class of cases very common now-a-
days, among overworked and comparatively feeble American
women. Especially is it adapted to those who, owing to impa¬
tience and sometimes necessity, get up too soon after childbirth,
with consequent tendency to subinvolution and passive hemor-.
rhage. The hemorrhage is generally menorrhagic in character,
and the menstrual flow is generally too early and lasts too long,
sometimes coming every three weeks and lasting 10 days or two
weeks. The flow is profuse, dark colored, painless, aggravated
by motion and sometimes necessitates rest in bed for several
days.
One case, Mrs. H., aged about 35 years, a widow, had, when I
first saw her, been troubled for many months with menorrhagia;
always lasting for two weeks, and recurring so often, that she had
frequently an interval of only a week, between the attacks. She
had been under old school treatment for a year, or two, with n6
improvement and had been threatened with a serious operation.
I found a greatly enlarged womb; the endometrium of body
and cervix hypertrophied, bleeding at the slightest touch, and al¬
most a fungoid degeneration. She had one or two local appli¬
cations of a tampon saturated with glycerols of iodine. Other-
wise the treatment was internal, and consisted almost entirely of
Ustilago. The condition gradually improved. In a few months
she married again, and has been quite well since, in that respect.
Other cases have been similar in character, but milder in degree.
These cases seem to be quite common and are usually controlled
by Ustilago.
I wish to report, also, a confirmation of some symptoms of
Ferrum aceticum which gave me much satisfaction at the time.
It was a case of ulceration of the stomach. The lady had had
several attacks of severe vomiting with hemorrhage, from which
she recovered in a measure. The present attack was quite a se¬
vere one, though the bleeding had been slight. She was greatly
troubled with retching and vomiting of a very sour water. After
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ineffectual trial of several remedies, the characteristic symptoms
of the case were found, in Jahr's Manual under Ferr . acet . as fol¬
lows: “Vomiting before midnight, most violent when lying, par¬
ticularly when lying on one side .” “Everything she vomits tastes
sour and acrid. 1 ' She recovered speedily after taking Ferr . acet .
She ultimately died of the disease, which assumed a malignant
character.
Chas. E. Chase, M. D.
The subject was presented for discussion.
Dr. Leggett has found Ustilago useful in a case of catarrh of
uterus, with the symptom: “a feeling as if the head were lifted
three or four feet from the shoulder,” during the menses.
Dr. Grant supposed that certain homoeopathic prescribers
would consider the symptom which Dr. Leggett had reported,
one that should properly be expunged from Materia Medica as
simple nonsense* He stated a peculiar symptom that led to the
prompt cure of a cough, in a lady who said she felt “as if there
was an empty space between the forehead and the brain.” Caust .
cured promptly.
Dr. Stow reported the case of an old lady who said she had
sensation “of a ball in the forehead.” This peculiar sensation
led to a prescription of Staph . which covered and cured the en¬
tire case.
Dr. Schumacher said that Calc . caust . had the peculiar symp¬
tom of downward pressure in the vertex. He had frequently
found this symptom as a sequella of grip. Calc, caust. always
cured.
Dr. Grant moved a vote of thanks to Dr. Chase for his paper.
Seconded and carried.
Dr. E. V. Ross presented a paper on
Cuprum Metalljcum.
To the average student of Materia Medica, the thought of
Cuprum is at once associated with convulsions and painful spas¬
modic contractions. From even a superficial study of this metal
it is plainly to be seen that the brunt of action is upon the nerv¬
ous system. Cramping, spasmodic pains and spasms dominate
the majority of complaints for which Cuprum is curative. It is
a deep acting antipsoric, corresponding to chronic and deep-
seated disease, especially nervous diseases that have their origin
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in psora, or are engrafted upon a psoric diathesis. Psora that is
manifested chiefly through the nervous system. Epilepsy offers
a fair example as a disease in which Cuprum has a record second
to none. In eruptive diseases when the rash fails to make its
appearance or recedes, the frightful spasms ensue, a timely dose
of Cuprum frequently re-establishes the rash, and the spasms
subside. {Comp, with Bry., Calc, ostr., Camp., Caust., Stram.,
Sulph. and more especially Zinc.)
Now as to the character of type of spasms produced by Cup¬
rum. In a general way “epileptoid” is fairly descriptive. The
attacks are ushered in by a shrill, piercing cry, that is fairly
blood-curdling. {Bufo, Cicuta. vir., Oenanth.) Sudden blind¬
ness may proceed the attack. Spasms begin in hands, or feet,
thumbs clutched, eyes fixed and staring, or the lids may be closed,
and the eye-balls oscillate from side to side. Froth at the mouth
and the face is fairly black. Body rigid, or may be bent forward.
If the patient should be lying face-down the breech is spasmodi¬
cally thrust upward; this is characteristic of Cuprum During
the attack there may be involuntary escape of urine and faeces.
The symptom “Sudden blindness followed by convulsions” led
the writer to give Cuprum to a married lady, aged 30 , who for
two years previously had suffered from spasms at the menstrual
period. Suddenly, and without any apparent warning, the eyes
would become fixed, she would cry out: “Oh! I can’t see,” then
the spasms such as I have just described would ensue. There
was no escape of urine or faeces. Cupum mel** m made a prompt
and complete cure.
Convulsions followed by headache, Coryza, epistaxis , or pro¬
fuse discharge of pale urine, which gives relief, (headache). Con¬
vulsions from difficult dentition. Convulsions from suppressed
eruption. Convulsions occurring, or worse at new moon. Con¬
vulsions coming at night, during sleep. {Comp., Bufo, Chlorof.,
Hyos., lariat., Lach., Op.)
Cuprum is full of crampings, or painful spasmodic contractions,
('ramps beginning in toes and extending to calves of leg, causing
the muscles to knot up in hard bunches. Cramps that begin in
the feet, then jump to the abdominal recti, causing them to be¬
come rigid and in hard knots, accompanied by severe agonizing
pains. Cramps in lower extremities during labor. (During
pregnancy, Secalc). Cramping pains that shift rapidly.
Cuprum is applicable to what’might be termed the fidgety pa-
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tient. One who is constantly picking at her clothes, or fumbling
with her handkerchief; the feet move incessantly. Whether they
are sitting or standing, the feet are constantly on the move.
The patient must be continually on the move. There is a de¬
sire to go somewhere. In spite of this restless desire, movement
aggravates all symptoms. Restlessness of the teet, or “fidgety”
feet is found under: Amm. carb., Cactus ., China ., Sepia., Zinc.
There is a loss of co-ordination in the lower extremities. On
attempting to walk he staggers as if intoxicated. Cannot con¬
trol legs so as to walk in a straight line. On standing or walk¬
ing the knees give out and the patient falls in a “heap.”
A case of locomotor-ataxia presenting these symptoms with
additional lightening-like, stabbing pains, which now and then
would excite painful spasmodic contraction of muscles of legs,
was rapidly relieved by Cuprum met Um , so that now, 8 months
later, the patient, a lady aged 50, gets about the house fairly
well, without any assistance. A thing she could not do before
in over three years. The pains are occasionally felt in a mild
degree, a dose of Cuprum banishes them at once. I am confi¬
dent that had this patient received Cuprum early, (history shows
it was indicated), a cure would have resulted.
Under Cuprum viz. find the abdomen greatly distended, how¬
ever the opposite condition may prevail; i. e. the abdomen may
be drawn in. (Aturn., Plumb.)
“Violent, griping and pressing in stomach followed by vomit¬
ing.” “Violent pains and cramps in stomach and bowels.”
Cuprum is frequently indicated in cholera morbus. However,
we have found Ant. tart, to rival it in this complaint, it being
the most frequently indicated remedy.
Cuprum cures a terrible cutting pain in the region of the
stomach, or beneath the ensiform cartilage, as though the patient
was transfixed by a sword, and he dare not stir hand or foot.
Deathly feeling of constriction beneath the sternum, with pain
beneath the ensiform cartilage. Pressure in pit of stomach <
from pressure.
Cholera asiatica finds a remedy in Cuprum when there is icy
coldness of body, and liquids roll audibly down the oesophagus,
(Laurocerasus) combined with violent cramps in lower ex¬
tremities. Vcratrum alb. is the nearest analogue to these cases.
Think of Cuprum when there is a terrible cutting pain in the
umbilical region as though a knife was thrust through to back.
(ATux, Plumb.)
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Whooping cough, when the attacks are so violent as to bring
on spasms with clutched thumbs. Respiration so interrupted by
the violence of the cough, as to be suspended for a time, and it
seems as if the child would suffocate. The face becomes so tur¬
gid as to look fairly black. These attacks are relieved by a drink
of cold water.
Causticum has a cough relieved by drinking. Coccus cacti, an¬
other remedy having this modality, bears a close resemblance to
Cuprum in pertussis. Sepia has violent “spells” of cpughing;
the child “coughs until it seems to cough the breath out of the
body,” throwing up tough gelatinous mucus.
Cuprum has cured haemorrhoids with violent itching of arms
and legs, worse at night, ameliorated by rubbing, and accom¬
panied by constipation. Guernsey in the Homoeopathic Thera¬
peutics of Hemorrhoids, does not mention Cuprum in this dis¬
order.
For convenience, remember Cuprum in gastric troubles
brought about by eating sweets and accompanied by obstinate
vomiting.
Its complement is Calc. ostr. Its dynamic antidote is Hepar.
E. V. Ross, M. D.
The subject was presented for discussion.
Dr. Stow considered spasm brought on by “looking upward”
was also a sharp indication for the use of Cuprum.
Dr. Leggett noticed “cramps in lower extremities” mentioned
by Dr. Ross, as indicating Cuprum in labor, and Secale during
pregnancy. She had verified this symptom as indicative of Secale
in hemorrhage from the uterus.
Dr. Stow moved a vote of thanks be extended to Dr. Ross for
his very excellent paper. Seconded and carried.
Dr. Martin presented a short paper on
Incipient phthisis—Bacillinum cc. (Burnett).
Mrs. H. W., aged 28, light hair, light complexion,family with¬
out lung trouble.
After over work in damp yard became lame in knees and ham¬
strings. The next day after papering the house was lame; lame
in elbows, and from right shoulder to chest.
Cough. 1 1 / 2 weeks; wakeful; throat husky; appetite lost;
stomach feeling badly; bitter taste, < mornings.
“ dry, short, hacking.
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Cough, morning and afternoon.
“ < using arms, leaning back in chair.
“ from tickling in throat.
“ > leaning forward.
“ expectoration, white, frothy, scanty.
Sore spot two inches below right clavicle, < cough.
Chest: Hurt by lying, or leaning ^backward; pain in
chest, like a stitch.
Burning in bronchial tubes.
Breathing: Difficult nights; wants more air; weight on
chest; palpitation of the heart.
Wants to fan in a warm room.
Sweat: Nights, some, for week.
“ Back of chest and head.
Takes cold easily.
Catarrhal, but is now relieved.
Is worse from motion.
Left leg <; used liniment.
“ “ tibia, very sore spot; slightly red; bruised and
sore on pressure.
Lameness in knees and chest, >• keeping still.
Has lost flesh rapidly.
Weeps easily.
Menses: Regular, but suppressed three or four days.
Urine: Whitish sediment; dark sediment adheres to
vessel and is hard to wash off.
Temp. 98 degrees.
Pulse 104, under exertion of sitting or talking, one dose
Bacill™ and Sac. lac .
May 22. Sore throat right side.
“ spot shin bone, >.
“ slight, under right arm.
Bad taste mornings.
Sweats gone.
Rests better.
Menses three or four days late.
Pain in chest gone.
Appetite, better.
Less sore and lame.
Cough less, except when using arms.
Bacill tc as before.
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June 1. Urine, high colored with sediment.
Steady, aching across kidneys at different times, but
feels weak all the time.
Cough: Less.
Soreness: Throat and arm pit.
No appetite.
Rests very well.
Spots on shin bone have changed position, one higher,
and the other lower than before.
Soreness: A trifle below the top of collar-bone, felt
with drawing a breath to fill the lungs.
Very little change in lameness.
Stomach feels unnatural at all times, with bad taste.
Cough: Some light, frothy expectoration.
Ankles: Swell badly, > over night.
Knees and ankles about the same.
Back: Less sore.
Cough: Worse (?)
Bacill Cc as before.
June 1. General symptoms, same.
Cough less.
Upon the whole a little better.
“ 3. Cough still less.
Back hurts less badly.
Red spots on shin-bone less prominent.
“ “ —another—red, on right limb, lower, and
towards ankle.
Ankle still swollen, no worse.
Lameness worse.
Sore spots in chest, about same.
Better in general way.
“ 4. General symptoms rather better, have felt and moved
about better.
Sore spot, again shifted.
Cough: <.
Urine: Muddy arid high colored, sediment sticks to
vessel.
“ 5. Cough better, back troublesome.
Chest less sore.
Generally better.
Stomach better all the week.
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June 5. Easily fatigued.
Ankles less swollen-
Back symptoms alternate in severity with cough.
“ 7. Felt good.
Cough <.
Viscid sputa.
Bacill >cc to be given only when <•
June 8. Very good aside from cough, which is the same as yes¬
terday.
Ankles: Better.
Urine: Muddy and high colored.
Sleeps well.
Appetite better.
“ 9. Stool: Regular and natural.
Stomach better and stronger.
IJats things that were once distasteful.
“ 10. Cough <.
Symptoms all same.
“ 11. A marked general improvement.
* “ 12. Soreness axilla.
Throat less sore.
Cough better.
Back is the worst of present symptoms.
Sore spots, shins >.
Urine nearly normal.
Mouth and stomach, better.
“ 13. Back <.
General and marked improvement.
Appetite better.
“ 14. Pain, chest, gone.
Rests well.
Sac . lac .
June 15. Better, more strength.
“ 16. Tired, dull a. m., worse p. m.
Soreness chest and cough, better.
“ in shin, >.
“ 17. Chest and throat >.
Respiration >.
Tongue, slight coating.
Appetite, better.
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June 17. Lameness and cough < each day.
Urine: Muddy.
“ 18. Back and cough >.
Continued improvement until last of July, 1897, when
she claimed to be “perfectly well in every respect/*
On Oct. 26, 1897, the husband called and said the wife was
well in every respect with the exception of having to clear the
throat of a little whitish mucus.
I sent one powder of Baci// cc to be taken that night on going
to bed.
On Feb. 10, 1898, the husband reported his wife, “well in every
respect.**
For sometime previous to this sickness the patient had been
under the treatment of an eclectic for rheumatism.
Leslif. Martin.
The paper was presented for discussion.
Dr. Grant, asked Dr. Martin if the potency had been changed
during treatment.
Dr. Martin said that it had not.
Dr. Carr had noticed an < every third day and had been im¬
pressed with the idea that the mental was the first symptom im¬
proved.
Dr. Gwynn inquired as to the wisdom of a record of symp¬
toms kept by the patient. Had found a nurse could do it as well,
and that patients were apt to be < if allowed to so concentrate
their minds upon themselves. He had seen patients greatly in¬
jured by a knowledge of the variations of temperature.
Dr. Graham then gave a paper with illustrations upon his per¬
sonal experience with the X-rays.
The Use of Roentgen Rays in Surgery.
It has been a prevalent idea among the many who are not
familiar with the work of locating foreign substances in the hu¬
man body, that an X-ray machine and a Huoroscope are all that
are required to locate, exactly, by mere observation, these sub¬
stances. It is true that a shadow of a foreign substance, is cast
upon the Fluoroscope, but, instead of being an aid to localiza¬
tion, the shadow may mislead from the true position of the sub¬
stance, by several inches.
There is an accurate and scientific method of locating foreign
substances in the human body. If this is not used, the diverg-
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ence of the rays from the Crook’s tube will so baffle the ob¬
server, who wishes to use them for surgical purposes, that he will
wish the whole outfit at the bottom of the sea, and think he can
dq better without than with it.
I attach so much significance to the accuracy of the methods
of locating foreign substances within the human body, that I cer¬
tainly would not operate without first verifying an observation.
If a surgeon understands the method of measurement and lo¬
cation, he has more confidence in his own, than in anothers
work, and according to the exactness with which this work is
performed the scalpel will, with certainty and quickness, uncover
the substance.
In November, 1897, a man entered the Hahnemann Hospital
of Rochester, N. Y. He had received a bullet in his right arm,
about 3 inches above the wrist. The bullet was not probed for
—an old usage, often followed by serious consequences—but the
arm was immediately brought under influence of the X rays, and
the bullet located,by the use of theFluorometer,at about 3^ inches
from the point of entrance. It had taken an upward and inward
course until it struck the radius, had passed along the under and
inner side of it, and rested in the thickest part of the arm.
An attempt at probing would have been utter failure as the
channel could not have been followed.
The location accurately determined, an incision, 1^ inches
deep by about 2 inches long, reached the bullet in just 3 minutes
from the time the operation was begun. I did not vary a hairs’
breath from the proper point for incision. I found a piece of
the patient’s flannel shirt had been carried into the arm with the
bullet, and none can tel! the amount of suppuration and even
blood poison that might have resulted.
This accuracy can be attained in each case if the proper meth¬
ods are employed with understanding.
In the fall of 1896, a young man was brought to the Hahne¬
mann Hospital of Rochester, who had been shot in the shoulder,
by a revolver. I probed thoroughly and failed to find the ball.
The case progressed favorably and was discharged from the hos¬
pital at the end of five weeks, passing from my observation.
Later, a radiograph was taken by the Roentgen ray and the
bullet located on the anterior surface of the humerus, close to
the front. A skillful surgeon, by the use of the radiograph, at¬
tempted removal of the bullet, but failed.
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In the meantime, I had provided myself with a Dennis Fluoro-
meter, a scientific appliance used as an adjunct to the Roentgen
ray, which corrects the distortion caused by the uncertain posi¬
tion of the body, as well as the distortion caused by the diverg¬
ence of the X-ray. The condition of the shoulder was unsatis¬
factory, so the attendant physician again brought the patient to
me. I submitted him to the Roentgen rays, used by the Fluoro-
meter to correct the distortion of the shadow upon the Fluoro-
scope but took no pictures. The chart, resulting from the use
of Fluorometer, indicated that the bullet, instead of being near
the anterior surface of the arm at the head of the humerus, was
imbeded in the bone, one and one-half inches deeper.
The observation, by Fluorometer, showed that the bone was
neither shattered nor splintered, and as the patient had a fair
use of his arm, I decided not to operate at present. This be¬
cause of the danger of exciting a disease of the joint, if the bullet
was removed.
Late in November, 1897, Mr. B. was brought from ast¬
ern New York, to the Hahnemann Hospital at Rochester. More
than thirty years before he had received a charge of squirrel
shot in the right leg, midway between the knee and ankle. At
two different times some of the shot had been removed, but, such
was the condition of the limb, that it was determined by his home
surgeons, that an attempt should be made to remove the shot by
the use of the Roentgen rays.
The day after the patient arrived at the hospital, the leg was
placed under the Roentgen rays and measurements made by use
of the Dennis Fluorometer. The first observation was made
from the side, and a cross section view of the leg secured.
About the center of the leg, a group of foreign substance was
seen. A Fluorograph was taken after a satisfactory position was
obtained. This showed that the foreign substances were con¬
siderably scattered.
The next observation was obtained from beneath the leg with
leg in the same position. This showed that the shot were practi¬
cally in a line which extended about one inch above the line of
the cross section formed by the Fluorometer, and about two
inches below the line of the cross-section: i. e. up and down the
leg. The forked sights were placed in position and the diverg¬
ence or obliquity of the rays corrected, thus showing the exact
position of what may be called the layer of shot.
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The diagnosis was based upon this observation, and it was,
later, followed by an operation, which is, perhaps, of sufficient
interest to warrant a more detailed description.
After the observation from the side, a line of india ink was
drawn around the leg, marking the cross-section established by the
Fluorometer. A cross piece was then placed over and upon the
right arm of the Fluorometer, for maintaining the cross-sectional
view during the second observation. The tube was then placed
above the limb instead of the side, and the observer, with the
Fluoroscope, placed himself beneath the table. The first obser¬
vation, from this second point of view, was directed to the find¬
ing of the shot. These were seen, as has been said, practically
in a thin layer, the edge of which was toward the observer.
One of the forked sights was placed upon the arm of the Fluo¬
rometer nearest the observer, and so, nearest the screen of the
Fluoroscope, and in such a position that the layer of shot inter¬
sected the notch of the sight, about midway of its length, i. e:
up and down the leg.
On the upper arm of the Fluorometer, nearest the tube (now
the cross-piece), at a point equi-distant from the left side of the
Fluorometer with the first, was placed a second forked sight.
The tubes were then shifted until the grooves of the sights coin¬
cided, i. e: until a straight ray passed through both. By means
of the metallic grating which had been placed on the level of the
top of the table, under the Fluorometer, it was then noted that
the layer of shot appeared about one-half inch to the left of the
right line through the forked sights. The sights were then
moved one-half inch to the left, the tube then shifted slightly un¬
til the straight ray was through the notch of the upper sight, the
center of the layer of the shot, and the notch of the lower sight,
bringing the three in line so that a coincident shadow was thrown
upon the screen of the Fluoroscope.
All that now remained was to draw a line in India ink, upon
the upper surface of the leg, corresponding in position with the
notch of the upper sight, and to draw a similar line upon the un¬
der position, or the calf of the leg, corresponding to the notch of
the lower sight. When thus corrected, the line was two and three
fourths inches long and, of course, at right angles with the line
that marked the cross section of the leg. The sights were then
removed and another Fluorograph taken, as a matter of record.
A few days later, under an anesthetic, operation was per-
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formed for the removal of the shot. The India ink markings be¬
ing used as a guide. At the very first incision, made in careful
conformity to the lines intersecting the cross-section line on the
upper and lower portions of the leg, the scalpel encountered three
of the shot, showing the geometrical accuracy of the diagnosis.
These three, and fourteen other shot were removed, some of them
imbeded in the bone, and all were found on the line between the
two and three-quarter inch Fluorometer markings above and be¬
low the leg.
The Fluorograph placed this layer of shot, apparently, three
inches from the left side of the Fluorometric appliance. Exam¬
ination of the leg while in the Fluorometric appliance showed
the indicating lines to be a fraction less than two and three-quar¬
ter inches from the outside of the appliance. This difference (in
this case something over one-fourth of one inch) represents the
divergence or obliquity of the rays between the upper*most shot
and the sensitive plate. In other words: an incision, three inches
from the 'square edge of the Fluorometric appliance, would
bring the scalpel a trifle over one-fourth of an inch astray. With
this distortion corrected as described, the first incision of the
scalpel resulted in its encountering three of the shot.
The Fluorometer is so constructed that the effect of distortion
caused by the obliquity of the rays is ascertainable in each and
every Fluorograph,
M. E. Graham.
Dr. Stow moved a vote of thanks for the very interesting de¬
scription of this use of the Roentgen rays. Seconded and carried.
The Secretary begged the consideration of the Society for
some definite aim toward the disposal of its funds.
The Society adjourned until June, 1898.
Essayists subsequently appointed by the president, for the June
meeting:
Organon, Sect. 257-258, . A. B. Carr.
“ illustrated, . . A. R. Morgan*
Mercury, its use in dentistry, . [as. H. Beebe.
Clinical or Medical, . . .A. C. Hermance.
Psora. ...... Josephine Howland.
W. W. Johnson.
S. L. Guild-Leggftt, Sec’y.
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flDateria flDebica.
MATERIA MEDICA AND HOMOEOPATHY.*
J. R. HAYNES, M. D., INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
Materia Medica and Homoeopathy are so intimately blended
together that it is almost impossible to separate them; in fact
they mean one and the same thing, which should be considered
and studied as one subject matter.
There has been a considerable number of drugs which have
been very well proven and these provings have been extensively
published, i. e. all that is known of them, and it seems to me
that it would be a waste of time to write them out and read
them here, unless I can give some new symptoms which have
never been published or some that have been well verified so as
to give them greater importance.
It is a well known fact that the recorded symptoms which
have been published were mostly obtained, either by massive
doses of crude drug or by very low potencies of them, and yet
a tremendous hue and cry has gone forth, for a thorough purg¬
ing of our Materia Medica of all non-reliable symptoms. Now
who are those that are making this cry, and who are those that
are a going to make this sifting? Are they the ones that make
the provings? Where is the one that is able to tell us which,
or what symptoms are unreliable and should be eliminated?
Shall a “Grand Council of Nice’* be called upon to settle this
matter and tell us which are and which are not “Cannonicle V r
How shall we be able to tell the one from the other? Or
must we still grope in the dark ? v
The provings which were made with the crude drugs and the
lower potencies can only bring out the crude (or objective)
symptoms, whilst if they had been made with the higher and
highest potencies, then we would get the finer (or subjective)
symptoms, which are of the utmost importance when endeavor¬
ing to select the simillimum for any patient which may come
before us and which expects a cure. This brings up another
*Read at Indiana State Society, May 24,1898.
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question. Should not all of our remedies be proved in the
higher and even in the highest potencies? It is the subjective
(unusual), symptoms that are of the utmost importance to
us as well as to our patient when they apply to us for help; at
the same time we should not ignore the objective symptoms;
but they should not be allowed to outweigh the subjective
{unusual) ones. If we are in doubt in the matter, then place
the unusual symptoms at the head and give them the utmost
import.
There are around us an unlimited number of remedies, many
of them are looked upon as a nuisance and utterly worthless,
which if they were thoroughly proven undoubtedly would be¬
come extremely valuable to us; and so far as I know no attempt
has been made to give them a proving in any form.
There is not a disease or diseased condition, nor never will be
one that nature (or infinity) has not supplied the similliraum for
its cure; but we must search it out, by the proving and studying
of them before they can become useful in the cure of disease.
They will not come to us already manufactured to our hand and
beg us to give them a trial so that we may become convinced of
their efficacy or usefulness. Who ever supposed that a small
piece of oyster shell could become an extremely valuable reme¬
dy, until after Hahnemann had triturated and proved it and ad¬
ministered it to the sick? Or that the red coral, another
combination of animal matter and lime, or the polen of the
Lycopodium could ever be made such valuable remedies?
There are a number of combinations of animal matter and lime
which have never been proven, yet every one of them must pro¬
duce symptoms which would be of the utmost value in the
treating of disease. The great family of Solaniums , of which
but two or three has been proved so far as I know, and there is
scarcely a plant that grows that would not be of value if it were
well proven.
I have seen very serious disturbances set up by the picking of
tomatoes from the vines when they were wet by the morning
dew, the (solanium lycopersicum). Also the handling of the
vines of the solanium tuberosa (the common potato) when in
bloom and wet with dew. A large number of the metals, are
they not all worthy of a thorough proving also, as well as some
of the others?
Would it not be more profitable to change this bureau or
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create another bureau of proving? Every one of these remedies
would add valuable assistance to our armamentum and save
human suffering. Why do we meet with so many failures, and
then turn our attention to allopathic palliatives and proprietary
compounds, which the manufacturers keep constantly under our
noses by sending specimens to us? Is it not because we look
upon Hahnemann’s Organon as obsolete and worthless as a guide
for study?
Was there ever a person who practiced Homoeopathy who did
not make the Organon his chief study? It is one of the things
that is utterly impossible. When they do so, then they will
have no use for the compounds and palliatives which are per¬
sistently stuck under our noses. Shall we throw away what we
know to be the truth and take up with the false?
THERAPEUTIC INDICATIONS OF ARSENICUM ALBUM,
RHUS TOXICODENDRON, LACHESIS, CAR¬
BOLIC ACID, AILANTUS GLAND-
ULOSA, APIS MELLIFICA.*
M. E. DOUGLASS, M. D., BALTIMORE, MD
Arsenicum album. Arsenicum alters the blood. It is use¬
ful in low types of disease, when the blood changes are serious.
The inflammations of this remedy are characterized by their in¬
tensity, and by the tendency to the destruction of the tissue which
is inflamed. In these local inflammation of arsenic you will find
burning pains the characteristic sensations. Now this burning
when Arsenicum is the remedy, indicates destruction, of tissues;
hence it calls for this remedy in gangrene, in sloughing, fn car¬
buncles, and in cancer.
If this burning is a mere sensation, arising purely from nervous
causes, Arsenic is not indicated. But if there is burning pain as¬
sociated with inflammation, Arsenic becomes a remedy of the ut¬
most importance. All those cases in which Arsenic is called for
are relieved by hot applications, and greatly aggravated by cold.
The most important sites for the Arsenicum inflammations are
the stomach and bowels primarily, and next to these the heart.
This inflammation in the stomach and bowels may vary from
slight irritation to the most destructive gastritis. The mouth is
* Read,before Maryland State Homoeopathic Society.
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dry, the tongue white as if whitewashed, or, in some other cases
of irritable stomach, the tongue is red with raised papillae.
Thirst is intense, but the patient drinks but little at a time be¬
cause water hurts the stomach. The least food or drink is
vomited as soon as taken.
But we may have another group of symptoms: Weak, sinking
sensation at the pit of the stomach, relieved by eating, but so
soon as he begins to eat, he has urging to stool with diarrhoea.
The stools are slimy and bloody, and are attended with violent
tenesmus and burning in the rectum. If this goes on, the stools
become brownish or blackish, and horribly offensive, showing
that it is indicated in most serious cases of enteritis and dysentery.
The exciting causes for these various sets of symptoms may
be sudden chilling of the stomach with ice water or ice cream,
alcoholic drinks in excess, certain poisons, as sausage meat that
has spoiled, rancid fat, spoiled butter, or fat that has undergone
decomposition, and lobster salad at certain seasons of the year.
Arsenicum also excites intestinal disease which is almost iden¬
tical with cholera Asiatica. Even the organic growths of choleia
are found in the discharges from the Arsenic proving. Yet
Arsenicum will not cure every case of cholera Asiatica. It is
indicated for the following symptoms: Intense vomiting and
purging, the stools being not so much like rice water as they are
brownish-yellow, profuse, and offensive. The vomited matters
are green, yellow and bilious. There is burning thirst, with the
intense agony which belongs to arsenic. The surface of the
body is as cold as ice, but internally the patient feels as if full
of fire.
We find Arsenicum often indicated in intermitting types of
fever. It is especially indicated after the failure of Quinine to
cure, or after the abuse of that drug; also when the fever has
been contracted in salt marshes along the seashore. The chill is
not so well defined; in fact, it is rather irregular, but the heat is
unmistakable. It is intense, with burning thirst, especially for
hot drinks; cold drinks make the patient feel chilly. Sweat does
not always relieve. The apyrexia is marked by severe symp¬
toms, dropsy showing itself as the result of enlarged spleen or
liver. The patient is scarcely able to sit up. He is often an¬
noyed by neuralgia, this neuralgia being typical in its appear¬
ance. The pain usually affects one side of the face, and seems
to be almost maddening, driving the patient from place to place.
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At the height of attack there are nausea and vomiting and buzz¬
ing in the ears.
In typhoid fever Arsenic is indicated late in the disease, when
the blood changes have so far progressed that you have a picture
of complete exhaustion. The patient thinks himself still able to
move about until he finds out how weak he is. He has fainting
attacks, which are very alarming; he faints dead away; with cold
sweat on the body. The delirium is worse after 12 p. m., and
is attended with great restlessness. He is sleepless at 3 a. m., on
account of the great heat. The mouth and tongue are covered
with sordes, and with a dark brownish coating. Sometimes the
tongue is very red. Around the dorsum and tip of the tongue
you will find the papillae red and raised, as under Belladonna ,
but the concomitant symptoms enable you to differentiate it from
that remedy at once. The mouth is full of blisters and aphthous
ulcers which bleed readily. In other cases, the tongue is bluish
with ulcerated edges. Sometimes, in severe cases, water cannot
be swallowed because of partial paralysis of the oesophagus.
Diarrhoea is almost always present, and seems to be provoked by
every attempt to eat or drink. Sometimes stool and urine are
involuntary. The stool is yellowish and watery in character,
horribly offensive and worse after midnight. At other times, the
stools contain blood, slime and pus. The fever is intense, being
almost sufficient to consume the patient. Sometimes we have
the haemorrhagic diathesis to contend with, and there is oozing
of blood from the various parts of the body, from the eyes, nose,
etc. This is a dangerous symptom.
In diphtheria, Arsenic comes into use as a most valuable drug.
In its potentized state it is a most valuable assistant. It is par¬
ticularly indicated when the breath is foetid. There is adyna¬
mic fever with a great deal of somnolence. This sleepiness is
broken by starts, crying out, and by jerking of the limbs. The
membrane looks dark and is gangrenous. The pulse is rapid
and weak.
In the exanthematous diseases we find Arsenic indicated first
of all in urticaria. Here it is a valuable drug when the wheals
are attended with burning, itching and restlessness.
In scarlatina Arsenic is to be used in some of the worst cases
when the rash does not come out properly. The child is thrown
into convulsions, and lies pale and in sort of stupor. It is very
restless, moaning during the stupor. Suddenly it seems to arouse
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and immediately goes into convulsions, and then relapses again
into this stupor. It is also useful when, during the course of
scarlatina, the parotid glands swell and suppurate, after the fail¬
ure of Rhus .
Arsenic is useful in gangrene, particularly in the dry gangrene
of old people, with great soreness and burning in the affected
part, with relief from warm or hot application.
We may use Arsenic in carbuncles or in boils with numerous
openings in them, and dipping deeply into the cellular tissues.
It is indicated by the cutting lancinating pains, with aggravation
after midnight, and irritability of mind and body.
The ulcers for which Arsenic maybe given are not usually very
deep. They are rather superficial. The pains are burning and
lancinating. The discharge is apt to be excoriating, dark and
sanious. They are apt to bleed very readily.
Rhus toxicodendron. This remedy causes an erethism, an
increase in the circulation, or, in other words, ebullitions of the
blood. It acts on the central organ of the circulation, the heart.
Thus we find it indicated in uncomplicated hypertrophy of that
viscus, that is, hypertrophy not associated with valvular lesions.
This condition is brought about from the effects of over-exertion,
as may frequently happen in athletes, and in machinists who
wield heavy tools.
When Rhus tax. is the remedy in heart disease, we usually find
accompanying the disorder a sensation as of numbness of the
left arm and shoulder.
Let us next take the typhoid symptoms of Rhus\ by this I
mean typhoid-like symptoms, symptoms, which indicate sinking
of the vital forces such as appear in diseases assuming a low type.
Other things being equal, you may rely on Rhus whenever acute
diseases take on a typhoid form. You will find that dysentery
assuming this form may call for it. You will find the same to
be true of peritonitis, pneumonia, scarlatina and diphtheria un¬
der similar conditions and when no other remedy is positively
indicated. Rhus must, therefore, act on the blood, poisoning
that fluid.
The symptoms which indicate it in typhoid fever proper are
these: In the first place, the temperament helps a great deal.
The patient is of a rather mild temperament. The delirium is of
a mild character, and not violent. At times, it is true, the pa-
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tient may exhibit a disposition to jump out of bed, or try to es¬
cape, but when he is more or less conscious, he manifests little
petulance or irritability. You will notice that this delirium is
associated with restlessness, not only mental, but physical as well.
The patient constantly tosses about the bed. He is first lying on
one side of the body, then on the other. At one moment he is
sitting up, during the next he is lying down. There is a constant
desire to move, and it is even possible that the patient is reliev¬
ed by the change of position. Sometimes the patient has hallu¬
cinations. He fears that he will be poisoned. He will not take
the medicines you leave him, or the food and drink that is offer¬
ed him, as he fears that his attendants desire to poison him. As
the stupor progresses, the patient answers very slowly as if re¬
luctantly, or else in a petulant way; but he is not violent. He
has violent headache, the pain of which he compares to a sensa¬
tion as of a board strapped to the forehead. This is often asso¬
ciated with a rush of blood to the head, as shown by sudden
flushing up of the face. He has epistaxsis, and this relieves the
headache. The blood that escapes is dark in color. The typhoid
poison may affect the lungs and produce pneumonia, with the
usual cough attending that affection, difficult breathing, rust
colored sputum; with all these symptoms you find the tongue
dark brown, and dry and cracked. The cracks gape consider¬
ably and at times bleed. Sometimes the tongue and mouth are
covered with a brownish, tenacious mucus; at others, you find
the tongue taking the imprint of the teeth. There is a triangular
red tip. There is disturbance of the stomach and bowels. The
patient has diarrhoea with yellowish-brown stools of a cadaver¬
ous odor. Stools may come involuntarily during sleep. The
urine escapes involuntarily, and sometimes leaves a reddish stain.
The patient complains of tearing pains in the limbs with almost
intolerable backache. If he falls asleep he is restless, and he
dreams of roaming over fields and undertaking arduous labors
Sometimes he dreams of the business of the day. The surface
of the body is dry and hot, and often redder than is natural.
Sometimes red spots will be found on the skin. If he has sweat,
it is copious and sour-smelling, and is accompanied by a miliary
rash. The abdomen is tympanitic, and it is especially sensitive
over two important points, the right iliac region, and the region
of the spleen (which organ is swollen). Finally, the stools be¬
come scanty and greenish and are unattended by tenesmus. In
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women a uterine hemorrhage may appear, but this gives no relief
to the symptoms. Symptoms of pulmonary congestion appear.
Rales are heard all through the chest. Especially is the trouble
marked in the lower lobes of the lungs. The cough is at first
dry, and then becomes more frequent and loose with expectora¬
tion of blood-streaked sputa.
Rhus is also suitable for intermittent types of fever when the
chill begins in one leg, usually in the thigh. In some cases it
starts between the scapulae. Along with the external chill there
is interal heat. Thirst is absent. Often, too, we find skin symp¬
toms, as urticaria and fever blisters, the latter being situated
about the mouth. The sweat is very general, excepting on the
face.
No remedy has a more profound action on the fibrous tissues
than has Rhus tox . We find it useful wherever the tendons of
muscles are inflamed, whether it be from over-exertion or from a
sudden wrenching, as in the case of a sprain.
The general characteristic which helps to decide for Rhus in
all cases of this kind is this: The patient has relief of his symp¬
toms by continued motion , while he experiences aggravation on be¬
ginning to move . The reason for this symptom is that the fibrous
tissues become limbered up as the patient continues to move.
In rheumatism Rhus is indicated, not so much in the inflam¬
matory form as in the rheumatic diathesis, when the character¬
istic modality just mentioned is present, and when there is aggra¬
vation during damp weather, or from exposure to cool air.
Rhus may be used when the patient, from exercise, has become
warm and has been in a free perspiration, which was checked by
rain or dampness.
On the skin, Rhus produces an erythema, this rapidly progress¬
ing to vesication, accompanied with oedema and with the final
formation of pus and scabs. The cutaneous surface about the
eruption is red and angry-looking.
Rhus gives us a perfect picture of vesicular erysipelas. The
structures for which this drug has a special affinity are, the scalp
and the skin of the face and the genital organs. The affected
parts are dark-red, and the inflammation (in the sick) travels
from left to right.
In scarlatina Rhus is indicated, especially in the adynamic
forms, and should very quickly supplant Bell when the following
sypmtoms appear: The child grows drowsy and restless. The
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tongue is red and sometimes smooth, a very unusual symptom
in scarlatina. The fauces are dark-red and have a peculiar
oedematous appearance. The cervical glands are enlarged, and
there may be enlargement of the left parotid. There may even
be impending suppuration of the parts. The cellular tissue
about the neck is inflamed, so that the cutaneous surface here
has a dark-red or bluish erysipelatous hue. If the child is deli¬
rious, the delirium is always mild. The eruption does not come
out fully, but when it does appear, it is of a dark color, and is
apt to be miliary. The secretions are altered, becoming acrid.
In variola, Rhus is indicated when the pustules turn black
from effusion of blood within, and when there is diarrhoea with
dark tfloody stools.
In diarrhoea calling for Rhus , the stools consist of blood and
slime mixed with reddish-yellow mucus.
Lachesis* Possibly the most important disease for which
Lachesis is called for is typhoid fever, and in all diseases of a
typhoid type. Under the use of this drug, the blood becomes in¬
oculated, decomposition sets in, the fibrin of the blood is de¬
stroyed, and we have, as a result, ecchymoses, hemorrhages,
asthenic inflammations, abscesses, malignant inflammations,
gangrene, pyaemia, and with all, and as a result of all, a general
typhoid condition.
The symptoms calling for Lachesis in these conditions are:
The patient is nervous, anxious, loquacious, jumping from one
subject to another. Sometimes with fear of being poisoned, he
refuses the medicine you offer. Sometimes the anxiety assumes
a peculiar type, and he imagines that he is dead, and prepara¬
tions are being made for the funeral. There is apt to be deliri¬
um of a low muttering type. At another time the patient seems
to be going deeper and deeper into a torpid state, with coolness
of the extremities, trembling of the hands and body. When
asked to protrude the tongue, it comes out tremblingly, or
catches in the teeth, or, if he does get it out, it is trembling, and
is usually coated dark-brown, sometimes with little blisters on
the tip. The lips crack and ooze dark blood. Loquacity is
commonly followed by depression, and by weakness. Another
mental state which these typhoid patients may have as indicat¬
ing Lachesis , is that they feel as if they were under the influence
of some overwhelming power.
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The patients are always worse after sleep. Diarrhoea is usual¬
ly present, and is characterized by the horribly offensive odor of
the stools. Even when the stools are formed, and in every way
natural in other respects, they give forth this horrible odor.
Lachesis may also be indicated late in the course of typhoid
fever, when the patient lies in a stupor with dropping of the lower
jaw, and other symptoms indicative of impending paralysis of the
brain.
Lachesis is sometimes indicated in erysipelas of the face. Usu¬
ally, the disease is most marked on the left side. The face at
first may be quite bright red, but it soon takes on a dark bluish
hue. There is considerable infiltration into the cellular tissue,
so that we have puffiness of the eye of the affected side. Charac¬
teristic with the bluish face is the accompanying weakness.
Even from the beginning, when the skin is yet red, the pulse,
though accelerated, is weak, the feet are apt to be cool, and the
head is affected sympathetically, so that the patient readily be¬
comes drowsy, with muttering delirium or the opposite condi¬
tion of pseudo-excitement, the loquacity, which I have already
mentioned, obtains.
Upon the female organs, Lachesis acts very powerfully. It
seems to have special affinity for the ovaries, particularly the left
ovary; ovaritis, ovaralgia, tumor, may be relieved when there are
tenderness to pressure of the clothing and other characteristic
symptoms of the drug. Menses scanty, feeble, blood lumpy,
black, and very offensive; pains in the hips, bearing down in the
left ovary,—all better when the flow is established. The uterus
is intolerant of the least pressure.
Lachesis may be used in puerperal metritis, especially when the
lochial discharge is foetid. The face is purple, and the patient
unconscious.
Ulcers on legs are flat with blue surroundings; the parts are
sensitive and livid; ulcers burn when touched. The surrounding
skin is mottled. Ulcers tend to spread superficially, the dis¬
charge is scanty, and the strength is failing. Dark blisters sur¬
round the ulcers and the skin around is dead. Sometimes the
discharge ceases, the patient is stupid, cold, the leg becomes
oedematous, and a bluish-red swelling along the course of the
veins shows that phlebitis exists.
Lachesis affects the circulation markedly; it causes flushing of
heat, as at the climaxis, rush of blood headward, with coldness
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of the feet, palpitation of the heart, with feeling of constriction
about the heart as if tightly held in cords.
Lachesis is indicated in general dropsy when the urine is dark,
almost blackish, and contains albumen, and the skin over the
oedematous parts is dark bluish-black.
Lachesis may also be indicated in those forms of scarlet fever
which have a malignant tendency. The child is drowsy and falls
readily into a heavy sleep. The rash comes out very imperfect¬
ly or very slowly, and has a dark purple hue. It may be inter¬
spersed with a miliary rash. It is apt to be complicated with a
membranous deposit in the throat having the character as seen
in diphtheria. The cellular tissue of the throat is inflamed, and
threatens suppuration. The cervical glands are swollen. On
looking into the throat, you find it to be dark red with a dirty
white deposit on the tonsils, especially the left. The tongue is
coated dirty yellow at the base, and the red papillae show promi¬
nently through this coating. The pulse is weak and the surface
of the body cool. There is apt to be dark blood oozing from
the mouth and nose.
In diphtheria, Lachesis is called for when the membrane forms
first on the left tonsil and spreads thence to the right. The
symptoms are worse from empty swallowing, and they are
often relieved by eating, or swallowing solid food. There is a
constant feeling as of a lump on the left side of the throat; this
descends with ecch act of deglutition, but returns again. Some¬
times, on arousing from sleep, there is a feeling as if there were
needles in the throat, which create suffocation. Sometimes, when
the tonsils are very much swollen, fluids return through the nose.
The fauces are of a dark purplish color, and there is great pros¬
tration. The heart is weak in its action. There is aggravation
after sleep, and the throat is sensitive to the slightest touch.
Carbolic acid. The sphere of action of Carbolic acid is the
cerebro-spinal centres , and the disorders of the mucous surfaces,
of the blood and secretions, of digestion, etc., are but the con¬
sequences of this primary action on the central nervous system.
All the symptoms closely resemble the headache and abnormal
sensations from cerebro-spinal irritation, and it has been used
successfully by some physicians in the headaches following men¬
ingitis, or those occurring after sunstroke. Personally, I have
had but little experience with the drug, and am not able to veri-
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fy many of the recorded symptoms. I have used the drug main¬
ly as a local application. Internally, it is highly recommended
for the following diseases: Morning nausea of pregnancy. It is
said to cure vomiting of ingesta during pregnancy, and in child¬
ren.
Dr. Hoyne considers it indicated in attacks of diarrhoea from
bad drainage . It may be useful in diarrhoea from drinking im¬
pure water.
The cough and laryngeal symptoms are important. It causes
short hacking cough, with tickling in the throat. The cough is
constant, irritating, and generally dry, or may end in expectora¬
tion of thick white mucus. It should be prescribed internally in
the 3x or 6x, and used in a spray or steam atomizer, in about the
same strength.
It is a favorite remedy with many of our physicians in whoop -
ing cough. Some prefer it in the middle attenuations, others in
the lowest, and a few claim brilliant results from its use when in
haled from an atomizer.
It caused, in the provers, itching of the skin all over the body;
vesicular eruptions, itching excessively, better after rubbing, but
leaving a burning pain.
It is said to have cured leprosy, prurigo, pityriasis, lupus, car¬
buncles, indolent and irritable ulcers, acne, impetigo, scabies,
and psoriasis.
Ailantus giandulosa. A careful study of the pathogenetic
and toxical effects of this drug shows it to be a powerful blood-
poison. The ultimate effects of Ailantus correspond to that con¬
dition and type of disease known as scarlatina maligna.
It is in/the putrid, malignant, and typhoid varieties of scarlet
fever that Ailantus is indicated, not only by the symptoms, but
also by the pathological state of the blood and secretions. Like
the poison of the above disease, its moibific effects involve the
brain and cerebro-spinal centres, and destroy life in the same
manner. The eruption is peculiar; it is dark, almost livid, irreg¬
ular, patchy, of a violet hue, even scaly, covering the whole
body, or delayed and irregular in its appearance. In some cases
there are maculas or bullae filled with dark colored serum. It
(the eruption) remains livid—it never takes on the genuine scar¬
let color. It sometimes takes the form of petechial. The fever
is intense, with pungent heat, a rapid small pulse, hardly to be
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counted, great thirst, delirium or coma, and heavy, hurried, ir¬
regular breathing.
The head is burning hot, with great pain, eyes sparkling, with
delirium, or inflamed (conjunctivitis). The nose discharges a
copious, thin, sanious fluid, which irritates the skin, or blood and
pus; the tongue is of a livid hue, dry, parched, and cracked; the
throat livid and swollen; tonsils studded with numerous, deep,
angry-looking ulcerations, exuding a scanty foetid discharge; the
pain when swallowing extends to the ears , and the teeth are cov¬
ered with sordes. The urine is scanty, and voided unconsciously.
During an epidemic of scarlet fever in Danville, Va., I had
three cases that presented the above symptoms, and Ailantus 2x
proved curative in all three cases, although two of the cases were
pronounced hopeless by my professional brethren there. Besides
this disease, the Ailantus has proved curative in congestion of the
brain; purulent ophthalmia; conjunctivitis; ozoena; malignant ul¬
cerated sore throat; tonsillitis with ulceration; and bronchitis
with asthmatic oppression, cough oppressed, deep and painful,
with muco-purulent expectoration, free in the morning, sticky
and scanty during the day; excessive tenderness all over the
lungs; feeling as if the air-cells were stuck together; inability to
expand the lungs, crepitant rales; cough constant, dry, with op¬
pressive, with burning and stitching aching pains in the chest. As
these conditions often occur during the progress of measles and
small-pox, as well as scarlet fever, this remedy will meet all the
indications in all the eruptive fevers , when they are attended by
the unfavorable symptoms above mentioned.
Apis inellifica. In scarlatina the fever runs high, and the
attending restlessness is one of nervous agitation. Mouth and
throat are very red, with blisters on the borders of the tongue,
and swollen puffy fauces; burning, stinging and a scalded raw
feeling in mouth and throat. The skin pricks as from needles,
the rash being interspersed with a miliary eruption. There is al¬
ways puffiness of some part of the surface. Prostration is early.
Urine scanty or suppressed. High fever and drowsiness.
In typhoid fever the delirium is of the muttering kind. The
weakness is so great that the tongue is protruded with difficulty,
and the muscles are so relaxed that the patient slides down in
bed. The tongue is blistered, dry, cracked and even ulcerated.
Very important is the soreness of the swollen abdomen to touch.
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Apis is a useful drug in dropsies. The symptoms calling for
it are briefly these. In general dropsies we find it indicated by
the peculiar appearances of the surface of the body. There is a
sort of waxen hue to the skin; the skin has a transparent look,
with a whitish or perhaps a slightly yellowish tinge. The urine
is scanty, and there is almost always absence of thirst.
Apis is especially useful in dropsies of renal origin. The urine
is scanty, and highly albuminous, and contains casts of the uri-
niferous tubules. There is a swelling about the eyelids. The
surface of the body feels sore and bruised. If the dropsy is of
cardiac origin, the feet are oedematous, especially after walking.
This is attended with almost intolerable soreness and burning.
In pleuritis with exudation, Apis is one of the best remedies
we have to bring abou* absorption of the fluid.
We have still another form of dropsy in which Apis is a reme¬
dy, that is, dropsy of the brain. The symptoms which call for
it are these: The child bores its head backwards into the pillow,
and rolls it from side to side; every little while the child is
aroused from sleep with a shrill piercing cry. One side of the
body is convulsed and the other lies as if paralyzed. Strabis¬
mus shows itself. The pulse is rapid and weak, and the urine is
scanty. Sometimes you will have to wait 3 or 4 days before you
notice any effects from its administration. The favorable action
of the remedy is first shown by increased flow of urine.
Apis is also useful in erysipelas, particularly of the face, when
it commences under the right eye or about the eye, and spreads
thence across the face to the left side, the parts quickly becom¬
ing oedematous, and at first assuming a pinkish rosy hue. The
soreness becomes very severe, and burning stinging pains follow.
There is high fever, with dry skin, and usually thirst.
In typhoid states of fever, Apis is sometimes indicated. We
select it first of all by the mental state. The delirium is not of
an active type; the patient lies in a stupor, with muttering; the
face is either flushed red, or more frequently, pale and waxen; at
other times there is a happy expression of the face. The skin in
this type of fever we will find to be burning hot in some places,
while in others it is unnaturally cool; the prostration is so great
that the patient slides down in bed. The tongue is dry and red,
and like that of Lachesis , it catches on the teeth when the at¬
tempt is made to extrude it.
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WAS THIS A FAILURE?
W. W. GLEASON, M. D., ATTLEBORO, MASS.
Geo. C. R., thin, spare, irritable, subject to hepatic ailments.
Was called June 15, to attend him, and found him in the hot
stage of intermittent fever, he having had a chill at 1 p.m. The
chill was without thirst, beginning in hands and feet, the right
leg and foot to the knee very cold; nose and face cold; pit of
stomach cold and distressed; no nausea; hands cold; chilliness
running down back; shuddering.
The heat was severe in head, nose and forehead, with very red
cheeks. Urination frequent in heat. Whites of eyes yellow.
Aching commencing in left occipital protuberance and running
around and above left ear. The sweat was mostly during sleep,
the headache continuing as in the heat. Sweat over whole body
but more on uncovered parts.
After the paroxysm was over he was given Chel cm . The next
day he felt quite well but weak. June 17th the chill came
at 12 noon and much lighter. Symptoms as given above the
same, and with added symptoms of roaring in ears during chill,
grayish yellow countenance and dry throat during heat, and severe
palpitation of the heart, and profuse turbid urine during sweat,
with marked increase of distress at stomach during all the stages.
Sac . lac . was given after this paroxysm, and as the chill had
been lighter with anticipating of the paroxysm, encouragement
was given him that he would have no more chills. But the 18th
he was weaker than on the 16th, and on the 19th, at 2 p. m. he
had a heavy chill with the following course:
Chill : without thirst; chill commenced in hands and feet, as¬
cending from feet; chilliness along spine to nape of neck; wants
to keep very still; feet feel as if in cold water; chill leaves dur¬
ing sleep; feels good to be held firmly so that he don’t shake so
much.
Heat: no thirst; general heat; sleepy; stupid; wants to be
allowed to be very still; eyes close involuntarily.
Sweat: profuse which relieves headache; (same headache as in
the previous paroxysms). Sweats freely when moving in bed;
languid; weak. Tongue was coated yellowish white in center
with red margin; breath fetid; taste foul, bitter. Gels° m was
given, and I thought sure the fox would be holed by this pre¬
scription, but was disappointed. On the 20th he was free from
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symptoms but very weak and languid. He was irritable and
very nervous. I looked with confidence to the next day, and
was surprised the 21st to be summoned at 9 a. m., finding him
in another chill which, however, was very light and not materially
changed in character from that of the 19th, except that there
were added symptoms of aching in back and limbs, with aching
in occiput extending to forehead. The heat stage was quite
intense, especially of face and head. Slight sweating spells dur¬
ing heat and relief of headache during the sweat. I was still
confident that the Gels . was the medicine and gave Sac. lac . after
this paroxysm was over. Again was I disappointed. The
apyrexia was marked by prostration and increase of irritability
and nervousness. I took these to be indicative of the possible
aggravation of the Gels, and waited with confidence again for the
chill day. The chill was there, with the day, on time at 9 a. m.
the 23rd, and was the same as far as symptoms could be obtained
to the chill of the 21st, and heat and sweat had the same marked
characteristics yet quite light. Alter this paroxysm Sac. lac. was
administered.
June 24th he felt better than any time since being sick, and
was up and dressed and took a short walk. June 25th he felt
only a slight chilliness at the morning hour, with heat and sweat
both very light. I was now confident—very much so—that the
enemy was conquered. But June 27th I was summoned again
at 11a. m. and found my patient down with a severe chill and
almost disgusted with everything, including homoeopathic treat¬
ment. The course now was:
Chill', no thirst; internal heat—burning up inside; hot water
bottle made chill worse; warm room disagreeable to him; shiv¬
ering; hands and feet cold with cold sweat.
Heat\ thirst slight; nausea and distress at stomach as of a
load; red cheeks; pupils of eyes somewhat dilated.
Sweat: nausea; sour sweat; sweat increased by motion; sweat
rather light; cough; nosebleed; claminess of uncovered parts;
tongue coated yellow; taste bitter; craves sweets and delicate
food.
I was requested to give Quinine and break up the chills. I
foresaw difficulty ahead if I did not, but stuck to the ship.
fpecac* m was given, but with some fear and trembling, for while it
was quite well indicated, as far as I could see, so had other
medicines been which had failed to lay the ghost. The Ipecac .
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was given when the sweating was about over. The 28th was un¬
eventful, with no marked weakness.
The chill came on the 29th, but not so severe as that of the
27th. The paroxysm was at 11 a. m. and was allowed to work
itself out, when Sac. lac. was given. The 30th was a good day
for the patient, and all thought he would certainly be at work in
a few days.
July 1st, another severe chill introduced itself at 12 noon, and
a doctor who would give Quinine was summoned. The family
lived near me and I kept track of the case. I had failed, and I
wanted to see what the next fellow would do. Four hours be¬
fore the time of expected chill, on July 3rd, (that is at 8 a. m.)
fifteen grains of Quinine were administered, and the next hour
(9 a. m.), fifteen grains more. There was no chill that day.
The next day more Quinine was given probably, at least some¬
thing bitter was given I was afterwards told. The next morning
(July 5th), at 8 a. m. more Quinine was administered, and the
chill did not appear that day. I met that other doctor that day
and he smiled at me as much as to say, “ Quinine beat you this
time.” I was out of town for several days after that, getting
back home July 12th. On the morning of July 13th, I was seen
by the wife of the patient and informed that that morning at 9
a. m. there was another chill. She wanted to know if I would
administer Quinine , which I declined to do, but I advised her to
go with her husband the next day, to Block Island, and, putting
her husband under a homoeopathic physician there, perhaps
with the aid of the sea air, her htisband might be cured. I do
not know how the case came out eventually.
I have never been satisfied that I treated this case right, and
yet I don’t, with my limited knowledge, see where or why I
failed to cure it. I will say here what I see I have neglected to
state in the preceding notes, that this patient was a chronic
psoriasis patient, but the eruption was out freely during his
whole indisposition. Could it be that the miasm prevented the
cure?
(The above case presents some valuable lessons which should not be ignored
by a single careful, conscientious reader of the Advocate.
The image of the intermittent disturbance is very carefully drawn and reme¬
dies selected to meet the same without permanent effect. Why ? The answer
is plain and simple. The patient is only indirectly prescribed for. The record
should show the condition prior to the present attack. From the few points
dropped incidentally i. e: “no thirst during heat;” localized chilliness; irregular
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attacks; sweating on uncovered parts etc., etc., we learn of the psoric diathesis
which must receive the particular attention of the prescriber. The man was
thin , irritable , subject to hepatic attacks and was a chronic sufferer with psoria¬
sis. The picture present with what we can read between the lines would suggest
Thuja , Sulphur , Sepia and possibly Arsenicum to include all the remedies that
would be indicated in this case and it is not too late to try the same, provided
the man is living.—E d.)
CLINICAL VERIFICATIONS.
R. M. BARROWS, M. D.
PROF. DISEASES OF CHILDREN, DUNHAM MEDICAL COLLEGE, CHICAGO.
I offer the Advocate a few cases from my practice which illus¬
trate the power of the single remedy to relieve pain and prompt¬
ly cure disease when prescribed according to our law of cure.
The symptoms of the disease present in each case pointed un¬
erringly to the remedy required, and any careful homoeopath
must have given the same indicated remedy if confronted by
these same cases. This is a clinching argument, it seems to me
that our system of medicine is founded on a law of cure.
Case I.
Vomiting of Pregnancy—Ipecac.
Mr. T., called at my office last February to consult me on the
advisability of using artificial means to cause my wife to miscarry,
as a means of saving her life. He said her present pregnancy
by her constant nausea and vomiting of all food and drink, was
reducing her to the same condition she was in before, when in a
similar condition, which resulted in a lingering case of typhoid
fever in which his wife nearly lost her life and the child was born
prematurely, having been dead for some time previous. He had
tried all means and medicines with no relief. I persuaded him
to still farther try medicines with the understanding if they failed
other measures would be used for her relief. I send her a prescrip¬
tion of Nux and said I would call the next day. I did so and found
her in a sad condition. She was in bed, prostrated, pale and
anaemic. All foods and drinks on being taken were vomited im¬
mediately, together with billious looking matter, which tasted
bitter. She had nausea continually. She felt bad and played
out. Ipecac** m one powder and Sac . lac . was prescribed. I left
another powder of the same potency to be given by evening if
not improved. Next day her husband reported she was much
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better, had retained her breakfast without vomiting, besides hav¬
ing a good night. Two days later there was a partial return of
the bad symptoms. Three powders of Ipeca<^ m was left, but
only two taken. All vomiting ceased from that time and in a
week she was able to be about eating anything and everything
with no disturbance. This case proves that the bete noir of the
old school can be easily cured by ours if the remedy be carefully
selected and as carefully given.
Case II.
Asthma—Arsenicum.
I was called last April to see Miss D., a maiden lady of about
forty. I was summoned at ten on a rainy evening and found my
patient sitting up in bed, her knees drawn up and her head bent
forward, the only position in which she could get any relief.' She
was coughing and wheezing constantly. She said she had not
slept for thirty-six hours and begged me to give her something to
make her sleep. Her marked symptoms were inability to lie down
from the suffocating cough and difficult breathing, expectoration
of a white cottony mucous, constant thirst which a little would
satisfy, attacks worse about midnight, with a pale anaemic ap¬
pearance of the patient pointed strongly to Arsenicum. This
she got in lm potency with the effect that in two hours she was
able to lie down and sleep peacefully till morning. In fact her
sister reported next day that she slept nearly all the day. She
made a good recovery with no repetition of the remedy.
Case III.
Lumbago-Khus tox.
January 28th, *95, I was called to see Mr. H., a neighbor of
mine, a man of about forty, of large build, florid complexion and
married. I found him suffering from a pain in the small of his
back. He thought he had sprained himself while working in his
basement. The symptoms carrying out his diagnosis, I ordered
him to bed and prescribed Arnica internally and hot applica¬
tions to his back.
Jan. 30th, I was called again and found my patient had
crawled down to his office the day before and had returned
much worse and spent a night of terrible pain which all appli¬
cations had failed to relieve. I found his temperature 103 deg.,
pulse 110, and pain in back very severe. He was constantly
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changing position to get an easier one. I then diagnosed lum¬
bago and from its characteristic symptom prescribed Rhus tox?* m
three doses, half hour apart, and then Sac. lac.
Jan. 31st. On calling in the forenoon, I found my patient
greatly improved. The pain had left two hours after giving
medicine. Profuse perspiration had broken out and patient had
slept several hours. He remarked when I saw him, “That was
powerful medicine you gave me last night.” It certainly was.
Sac. lac. was continued and my neighbor made an uninterrupted
recovery.
Case IV.
Pneumonia—Belladonna.
A young man of about twenty, was seized with a severe chill,
followed by pain in right side, and a distressing cough. I was
called on the second day of the attack and found a temperature
of 103.6, rapid, bounding pulse, constant cough with blood-
streaked sputa. A pain in right side extend to arm-pit. Found
congestion in right lung in lower and middle lobes. I gave
Acorf* m three doses, and then Sac. lac. In the evening I changed
to Ver. Ver 60 ™ which seemed to be indicated, as Aconite had failed
to relieve.
Jan. 12. Found patient had passed a restless night. No im¬
provement; eyes red and watery, sweating a good deal, can't lie
on painful side. I thought of Belladonna , but had never given it in
pneumonia, so resolved to read it up carefully before changing
remedy, so gave Sac. lac. In evening, same day, I found same
while temperature registered 104.2. I then unhesitatingly gave
Belladonna 10m . The guiding symptoms leading to this were the
red face and eyes, sweating, thirst, and pain worse lying on the
painful side, also the disease attacking the right side. The ef¬
fect of this prescription was wonderful, as the report in the
morning showed when I called. Found the patient had spent a
good night, sleeping two hours at a time; temperature was re¬
duced to 101.6; eyes better, and cough not to severe or bloody
and less pain. I pronounced the patient practically out of the
woods and the subsequent history proved this prognosis correct.
Sac. lac . was given and the next day the temperature fell to 99.6.
Patient could lay on right side for the first time and cough less.
Two days later the patient was sitting up in bed dressed and no
fever. Recovery.
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Corresponfcence.
REMEDY WANTED.
Editor Advocate: —In my report of a case on page 470, in
the August number of the Hahnemannian Advocate, the first
line should be July 11th instead of June 11th.
I tried to give you the “essentials necessary for a scientific
application of the law of similars.” I admit “the proper record¬
ing of a case is one of the most difficult factors in the treatment
of chronic cases.” I now attempt to supply some of the miss¬
ing links.
The character of the nasal discharge is generally bland, some¬
times streaked with blood.
The abscess was opened about an inch below the umbilicus
and half an inch to the right of the median line. He has had
boils and what he terms “Kansas itch;” also a breaking out
from the effects of a fly powder used in the house.
Head . Character of the pain not well defined, described by
patient as a dull ache. Pain in left temple which he calls
neuralgia.
Stomach . The belching is of gas.
Stool . Since writing he has had an attack of diarrhoea.
Stools at first gray, later yellow, thin, scant. Pains in bowels
moves downwards. Three to four stools in twenty-four hours.
The rheumatism has its aggravations before storms and in
damp weather. He catches cold easily. The pains move to¬
ward the body.
Eyes . Itching of eyelids. Drooping left eyelid, nearly com¬
plete ptosis when he's weak from protracted illness. It recurred
on the 28th inst, with the diarrhoea.
In all fevers the pains move from hands and feet toward the
body. Heat applied makes him chill.
Complexion fair, hair dark. Hair and beard, now at the age
of nearly 70, iron gray; skin fair, and clear blue eyes.
J. S. Watt.
(An analytic study of this case shows a typical psoric diathesis
—weak, sickly in childhood, given up to die with consumption.
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subject to pneumonia, malaria, abscesses, boils, etc. Appetite
for stimulants either inherited or acquired from the persistent
drugging to which such constitutions are subject.
His present condition would seem to be largely attributed to
improper living—drunkenness and that unnatural craving for
“tonics.” The vital force does not seem able to throw off the
incubus and his treatment has only seemed to add to his troubles
until he naturally despairs of recovery.
The second report adds but little to the characteristics found
in the first report. There must be greater trouble with stomach
than has been mentioned in the report. A persistent acidity of
the mouth with white tongue and no soreness either of mouth,
tongue or throat gives evidence of a chronic weakness of the
stomach due to constant abuse of the same. This condition can¬
not be corrected by medicine until the cause has been removed.
The stomach must be given a chance to regain its normal state by
absolute rest. There must be total abstinence from everything
of an irritating nature. Nux vomica, Sulphur , Psorinum, Anti-
monium crudum , etc., are suggested The potency will depend
upon the individual, but nothing below the 30th or 200th should
be thought of and three or four doses within 48 hours would be
sufficient. In the course of a month, indications will appear
pointing to the constitutional treatment. If indications come up
showing the preponderating influence of some of the drugs which
have been abused, it is then time to meet the indications.— Ed.
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Editorial.
QUACKERY IN GERMANY.
The following report from the National Medical College of
Saxony for the year 1896, furnishes a point for pleasing comment.
“Seven hundred and forty-five quacks flourish in Saxony. The proportion
of quacks to legally authorized practitioners is as one to two. The following
special lines are represented: “Nature healers,” 230; “Sympathy,’* 106;
Jlomaopathy 97; Massage, 72; “Magnetic,” 46, and tapeworm specialists 19.”
It will be noted that this list includes 541 who can do no direct
injury through the employment of injurious agents, so that all
injury arising from their employment may be charged to the side
of omission. Another fact to be noted is, that over two hundred
quacks are still unaccounted for. From inference it would not
be far from the truth to judge that this large list comprised those
who have broken from the ethical bonds and are standing out
with as much independence as they dare assume in that bigoted,
illiberal medically regulated nation.
In America it has been decided that any man or woman is a
“regular” physician who complies with the laws of the state in
which he resides. The requirements in some states are very
meager and their inhabitants are burdened with those who could
not meet the more rigid requirements of other communities, but
the quack is the man who refuses to be bound down by the ethi¬
cal requirements of the profession, either because he would
starve under those conditions, or because he is possessed of supe¬
rior attainments and at the same time is possessed of the spirit
of business enterprise which uses this knowledge of medicine and
human nature in such a way as to make money. The significant
fact is brought out in this connection that the great majority of
quacks in this country boast of diplomas from one or more of the
leading “old school” colleges, and were forced into their unpro¬
fession relations by reason of the fact they could not make a liv¬
ing. We have within the pale of the ethical some of the most
notorious quacks to be found anywhere upon the face of God's
foot stool and it is because of their unblushing effrontery that
the public fail to see where the line of legitimacy ends and quack¬
ery begins.
Raise the standard of medical knowledge so high that every
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college graduate shall be worthy the confidence of the public
the very day he leaves the halls of his alma mater and the pro¬
fession can rest assured that a prop*er recognition will be given
their medical attainment, and that the illiterate or ignorant prac¬
titioner will be compelled to step down and out, because no one
will employ him.
ILLINOIS HOMCEOPATHIC SOCIETY AMENDS THE
LEGISLATIVE BILL.
At the meeting recently held at Rock Island, the question of
medical legislation received a large share of attention. The com¬
mittee which had been appointed the year before had performed
a vast amount of labor and as a result of their deliberations and
conferences with like committees appointed by the allopaths and
eclectics they presented a bill (the same bill) which had been ap¬
proved of by the other two societies and which on its face seemed
fair to all concerned. The committee deserved and received the
thanks of the society for their untiring labors.
But the society deemed it wise to amend the bill in two impor¬
tant particulars, first: by striking out the last clause which while
appearing to be a punishment for the violation of the law was in
reality a license, whereby quacks may be enabled to practice un¬
lawfully by the payment of a nominal fee.
Secondly: by striking out the clause which creates an examin¬
ing board, because of the conviction that the bill if enacted in¬
to a law would prove the death knell of the homoeopathic col¬
leges of the state. This was clearly proven by the remarks of
Dr. Paine, of New York, who demonstrated from experience that
unless there were three separate boards, new comers to our state
would have to pass a distinctively allopathic examination. The
result being that students even though leaning toward the homoeo¬
pathic system of medicine, would attend allopathic colleges for
the sake of the training which would enable them to pass this
virtually allopathic board.
The president, Dr. Cowperthwaite made a very eloquent and
logical address against this proposed legislation. Another argu¬
ment urged, was that the standard of the colleges being raised,
an examining board was unnecessary and that it was a great deal
better to adhere to the excellent law we now have than to
venture out in a strange and untried craft.
Again it is a great injustice to students, many of whom have
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used up their last dollar in acquiring a medical education to
compel them to pay this examining board $25 for a needless and
utterly unjust examination.
If any of our homoeopathic physicians still possess an unlimited
and child-like confidence in allopathic protestations of love f let
them try to secure a license to practice medicine in Alabama,
where this experiment has been tried and has succeeded so ad¬
mirably according to allopathic standards. True it is claimed
that the homoeopathic and* eclectics would each be given two
members on this examining board, the bill does not so state it,
simply says that not more than three members of the seven shall
belong to any one school of practice.
We all know that the eclectics with few exceptions are allo¬
pathies in practice and sympathies. On similar boards in other
states their representatives invariably side with the allopaths in
personal experience. This then would make the complexion of
the board as 5 against 2, and we have no assurance except the
governor's personal whom that one of these two would not be a
physio-medic or an osteopath. Why then should we as homoeo¬
paths be foolish enough to put our heads into the lion's mouth at
the mere beck of our allopathic confreees and for the sake of not
offending our committee, who stated that they had spent seven¬
teen entire nights in working with the allopaths to bring about a
law (destructive to homoeopathic colleges). e. t. a.
THE INDIANA LAW UPHELD.
The supreme court of Indiana has rendered an opinion up¬
holding the validity of the medical practice act of that state.
The court declares that the board of medical registration has the
authority to decide whether a person holding a license to prac¬
tice medicine under the law of 1885, obtained it rightly, and
also whether he is a fit person to receive a certificate under the
new law. The right to revoke a license atter it is granted, for
cause, is declared vested in the board, subject to an appeal to
circuit or superior court of the county in which the person re¬
sides. The decision makes it plain that the old license to prac¬
tice, issued under the act of 1885, was revoked by the law of
1897, and that such license would be considered as remaining in
force only until the board could act on the application for a
new license, and if that be refused, the applicant cannot practice
without the intervention of the proper court.
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Marriage Restrictions. Opposition to the bill introduced in
the Ohio legislature last winter is coming in from varied sources,
but the Cleveland Journal of Medicine presents the following
excellent summary:
“No fact in biology is now better established than that the defective mem-
beis of society tend naturally to sterility and extinction. Did our criminal and
infirm depend upon self-propagation for successors we would never hear any
more of the increase of crime and insanity. It is the falling into these classes,
from all other ranks of society, of those unfit for the struggle for existence
which accounts for the increase of defectives. It is proper to treat them hu¬
manely, as is the present tendency of society, but nevertheless, broadly speak¬
ing, they are simply the lower branches of the social forest which fail to reach
the sunlight of race progress, and under inexorable natural law degenerate, fall
to the ground and finally become lost in the mould lying by the wayside of ad¬
vancing evolution. There is something sinister in the records of all our law¬
making bodies of recent years in the great number of bills proposed and passed
which aim to reform man's body and mind by human statute. It is all a dis¬
tinct sign of degeneration, of reversion to the days of the savage, when the in¬
dividual was hampered at every step by precise and inviolable rules of proced¬
ure, founded, it is true, in superstition, but clearly showing that social evolu¬
tion is always away from the communistic and toward the freedom of the indi¬
vidual. In the present state of our knowledge, of our social organization, and
especially of our politics, it would be the height of folly to enact such a statute.
The weapon of true progress is always education.
Simple Test for the Purity of Water. Fill colorless bottle
with the water; look through the water at some black object; the water
should then appear perfectly colorless and free from suspended matter. A
muddy or turbid appearance would indicate the presence of soluble organic
matter, or of soluble matter in suspension. It should be “clear as crystal.’’
Empty out some of the water, leave the bottle half full; cork up the bottle
and place it for a few hours in a warm place; shake up the water, remove the
cork, and critically smell the air contained in the bottle. If it has any smell,
and especially if the odor is in the least repulsive, the water should be rejected
for domestic use. By heating the water or boiling, an odor is sometimes
evolved that otherwise would not appear.
Pure water should be tasteless and remain so after being warmed. It should
also be odorless, but, since the delicacy of smell and taste varies greatly, sani¬
tarians attach special importance to Heisch’s test for sewage contamination or
the presence of putrescible organic matter. A clean pint bottle is filled three-
fourths full of the water to be tested, and in the water is dissolved a teaspoon¬
ful of the purest sugar-loaf or granulated sugar will answer; the bottle is then
corked and kept in a warm place for two days, if in from twenty-four to forty-
eight hours the water becomes cloudy <jr muddy, it is unfit for domestic use-
If it remains perfectly cle^r it is probably safe to use.— {Health.)
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Is Rheumatism Curable ? ‘ By hygienic living you cannot eradi¬
cate your rheumatism t but you can most assuredly so control it that your exist¬
ence will be almost free from its torturing pains.*’ That is what Dr. Leyden
of the University of Berlin said to an American recently. To Dr. Leyden he
had gone as the leading authority on rheumatism in Europe, and after having
been told by many physicians that he must grin and bear his affliction with
all the philosophy he might, when hope and the efficacy of drugs ebbed low,
the German’s opinion seemed almost too good to be true.
“We don’t give any medicine in snch cases as yours,’’ said the doctor*
“What you need is diet and exercise, and plenty of both. The rheumatic who
lives a sedentary life and feasts daintily is bound to come to a bad end. Hearty,
frequent, well-chosen meals and much bustling about in the open air are abso¬
lute essentials to a cure. The prime cause of rheumatism is indigestion, and,
though you may eat prodigious meals, if your stomach does not assimilate what
is given it you are quite as poorly nourished as the man who gets but a crust a
day. As to what you can and cannot eat here is the rule: Of meats you must
deny yourself heavy, dark flesh. Under this head is itemized mutton, venison,
goose, and anything that is cut off a pig. Devote yourself to chicken, lamb,
game, sweetbreads, brains, and more delicate fish, when simply cooked and
served without rich sauces. Avoid lobster and crabs and every fried fish, but
enjoy oysters and clams.
“Of vegetables never touch tomatoes, cucumbers, and all salads that have a
vinegar dressing, for an inadequate stamach is busy manufacturing a more power¬
ful acid than the system can endure. Eat lightly of potatoes, dried beans or
peas, and raw onions, but let yourself indulge freely in green beans and peas,
carrots, turnips, and well cooked greens. For all the starch your body needs
rice is the proper source of supply. An abundance of well cooked rice is worth
all the bread and beans and potatoes put together.
“Strawberries, raw pears, and raw apples are cut off from the rheumatic, how¬
ever wholesome they may be for others, and, strangely enough, where grape
and orange juice will set a man’s joints to throbbing, he can help himself safely
to lemon and lime juice. A divina healing quality is found in the acid of both
these fruits. There is but one sentence to cover the use of sugar: Don’t eat it
in any form whatsoever. Americans make the best sweetmeats in the world
and suffer most cruelly from their use of them.
“Almost as sweeping a denunciation may be made of all liquids save water
and milk. Beer, claret, port, and champagne act as a sort of poison on the
rheumatic system, and though whisky and brandy, gin and rum are not so inju¬
rious, if taken sparingly and at long intervals, they are best abjured and water
and milk substituted. In the last ten years mineral waters have been consumed
in enormous quantities by rheumatics in the belief that they afforded especial
aid, and they are efficacious, chiefly, though, from the fact that they are pure,
and that the use of them induces a patient to imbibe an unusual quantity of
sweet cleansing liquid.
“I am willing to say that where mineral waters are not easily obtained any
pure water, taken at the rate of two or three quarts a day, has an equally salu¬
tary effect on the system. It most be pure, however, and filtered, if there are
any doubts about its cleanliness. This liquid taken slowly in small tumblerfuls,
and for the most part between meals, will largely serve the purpose of mineral
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water. Not more than a tumblerful is wholesome at each meal, and it is best
not to take the water just before or after eating or on getting into bed.
“A rheumatic must be nourished, and most especially one who has a languid
appetite. Three meals a day are not enough for such a patient. Between
breakfast and lunch and between lunch and dinner a fresh egg, beaten up in
sweet, fresh milk, is an excellent stimulant, more valuable than all the milk
punches ever devised. All these reasonable courses do not lead to a cure,
though, unless exercise that is regular and never stinted is taken every day.
First of all, don’t pretend to try for athle'ics or violent motion of any kind, since
it is just us injurious to strain the aching limbs as to let them lie inert.
“For example, when rheumatism attacks the knees, to swim, to bicycle, or to
play golf simply overtaxes the tortured nerves and muscles, but if you will take
a cane and walk quietly for a mile or two, or if the weather is dry take your gun
and go prowling through fields and woods in search of game, or lacking intesest
in that, try to cultivate a taste for hunting botanical or entomological specimens,
the exercise then serves as a tonic. The main point is to use the muscles regu¬
larly. In wet. weather bedroom gymnastics serve as an excellent substitute for
the more intelligent outdoor pleasures, but only in wet weather. Care must be
taken never to exercise so violently that any danger is incurred from cooling off
too suddenly.
“The average American puts considerable faith in baths, and naturally pre¬
fers the stimulating cold water. This is well enough when the twinges are not
severe and the joints not swollen. In violent attacks of rheumatism it is most
essential to avoid cold water and substitute a hot daily bath, dissolving in the
water a piece of sulphur as big as a hen’s egg. Such a bath may not seem so
invigorating as the cold water, but if taken rapidly, followed by brisk toweling,
with no sudden after-exposure for an hour to any cold air or drafts, the hot dip
is as embracing as the cold.
“Last on the list of aids to the rheumatic is massage. It is one of the few
real aids to relief in severe attacks. Amateur rubbing is often of as great in¬
jury as genuine help, but a good Swedish masseuse can help an invalid over the
hardest places, and really help to tone up the system. A rheumatic must, more¬
over, submit to the unpleasant bondage of flannels—not the thick swathings that
the patient American, in his steam heated house, dutifully puts on in October
and wears until the 1st of June, but close, lightweight flannels, and in so chang¬
ing a climate as that of the Northern States every rheumatic should own several
sets of flannels of various degrees of weight. These must be shifted off and on
as the thermometer rises and falls so that at no time need the body be exposed
or overclothed, but invariably carefully protected. This is the whole tactics of
war against rheumatism, and it’s the only way that modern science can assume
to battle such a dire enemy to human well-being.”
Medical Testimony. The leading editorial in the Medical
Standard for July contains some interesting points, also some
true suggestions from which we take the following:
A number of state associations have taken up this question of expert testi¬
mony with an earnestness which promises excellent results. In this movement,
the Iowa association has taken, by reason of the systematic character of its ac-
jion, a leading part. The committee on medical testimony, of which Dr. F. A.
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Porterfield of Atlantic is chairman, sent inquiries for opinions to the judiciary
department of each state in the Union, to every civilized country, and to prom¬
inent members of the medical and legal professions. The principal queries re¬
lated to who summons the expert ? Who pays the fee ? Who are experts and
who are not, and how is this latter point determined ? The responses show that
in no state is medical expert testimony summoned, except by the paity who de¬
sires the expert’s evidence. The question as to who are and who are not ex¬
perts the committee thought was best answered by the attorney general of Ala¬
bama, who said “Most anybody is an expert who will swear that he is one.”
The committee reported that in Germany, France, Austria and Belgium the
expert is virtually an officer of the court, and one of its component parts; th» y
may not be chosen hap hazard, or according to the length of purse of the
parties desiring the testimony, the result ,being, that in these countries expert
witnesses command a high measure of confidence and respect.
The reasons for the disrepute into which medical testimony in this country is
rapidly falling are not difficult to ascertain. The distinctness with which these
causes stand out, should render correction of the deplorable condition compara¬
tively easy. It is the medical profession that must take the initiative in forcing
the desired action by the state legislatures. It is true, as some will be heard to
say, that a very small proportion of the profession will ever have occasion to
give evidence in a court. Granted, but the capabilities of the few for bringing
reproach upon the entire body are unlimited, and the opportunity is being used
to the utmost extremity. To appreciate why the public opinion of medical tes¬
timony is unfavorable it is only necessary to say that no attorney ever allows an
expert to go upon the witness stand until one is found who will give just such
testimony as is required to support the attorney’s side, and the fact that experts
appear on both sides does not of itself indicate a difference in their views in the
case, but that they have had certain questions submitted to them and have sig¬
nified their willingness to answer those questions on the stand in a certain way.
Cross examination, however, seldom fails to reveal the exparte nature of the
testimony, exposing the expert’s part in the deception sought to be perpetrated,
and thus bringing ridicule and distrust upon all testimony from this source.
The effectual way in which to secure the improvement desired is, first, make
it impossible for the enterprising lawyer to call to the witness stand anybody
willing to swear that he is an expert and ready to state half truths, and second,
to create such a sentiment among the members of the profession that none will
appear in a case unless he can honestly maintain opposing views upon important
and material facts.
The question of compensation, about which some physicians are making
much noise, can well wait until the features of the issue vitality affecting the
integrity and good repute of the profession are settled satisfactorily.
MATERIA MEDICA.
Oedema—Apis. Oedematous swelling with burning, smarting and itch¬
ing, aggravated by heat and relieved by cold.
Proving of Rhus venanata or Rhus toxicodendron. Eye
lids are a favorable location for the action of the swamp sumac and poison ivy #
The skin is much reddened and swollen and in some cases are completely closed
‘ and thecase is diagnosed as erysipelas until inquiry revealscontact with these vines.
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The characteristic vesicles with watery or yellowish fluid being present, while
in the more susceptible individuals the vesicles become confluent and the burn¬
ing and itching becomes intense, especially if the skin becomes moist from
perspiration.
Epistaxis—Carbo veg. Dr. Kent O. Foltz in Eclectic Medical
Journal , reports several cases of passive hemorrhage in which
Carbo vegetabilis seemed to be the simillimum.
Have had several cases of persistent nose bleed in which I tried a remedy that
gave good results in all that it was tiied on. The drug is Carbo 7 >eg. lx in five-
grain doses. One case in which I used this was a case of vicarious menstrua¬
tion in a lady aged 35, who had chronic albuminuria: Plugging the nares did
no good, and as a last resort I turned to my case and found the ergot bottle was
empty, but the bottle of Carbo veg. was full. Remembering the advice received
in college about passive uterine hemorrhage, and that use of this drug, 1 th >ught
I would try it. It was given without any confidence in its beneficial effects,
however. In fifteen minutes the dose was repeated. After five or ten minutes
the bleeding diminished, and soon stopped altogether. The following month I
was called again and tried plugging with no good results. When the Carbo veg.
was resorted to again, the bleeding ceased. The third time I used the drug
alone, and for two or three months afterward used nothing else, and no other
treatment was necessary.
A second case, in w hich I had good results, was a little girl, who w as subject
to nose bleed. When I called, she had been bleeding for nearly two hours, and
was very weak. The point from which the oozing came was about the size of a
silver dime, and it was almost impossible to wipe the blood away fast enough to
see whe her any other points were visible. I plugged the nostril, and gave
Carbo veg. I left several powders with directions to give one every two hours,
and to bring the girl to the office the next day. On examination the next day,
I found that all the discharge had proceeded from the one point. Give a dozen
more of the powders w ith directions to give four a day. From that time to the
present, over two years, there has been no more complaint of nose l>leed.
I have used this in probably a dozen cases of passive hemorrhage of the nose,
and in every case have had good success. Whether the cases w ere simply co¬
incidences or not I am not prepared to say, but shall give the drug a more ex¬
tended trial.
Cures by Oue Dose. I)r.-reported the case of a child of 9 months
who was poisoned by allopathic treatment consisting of large doses of Nitrate
of silver. He cured it perfectly by Belladonna 910 one dose.
He also reports a case which had excited much attention, of violent inflam
mation of the br.dn in an 8 year old girl which was cured by a single dose of
Belladonna 2000 (Jennichen) after the Medical Councilor who had treated her
had declared the case incurable. The 30 and 200 were given first but accomp¬
lished nothing.
BY DR. KUNKEL, OF KIEL.
Mrs. H., age 27, childless, emaciated, pale yellow' complexion, sick for five
or six years, consulted me May 20, 1800, on account of a number of tumors
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•(about 60) on different part of her body, but particularly on both sides of the
chest. They were in the form of a chain from the height of the mammae and
exterior to them to the sides of the neck. The largest had a diameter of up¬
ward i of two inches, were globular and more or less flattened, were below the
skin, which is normal and are easily moved cystic tumors in which she feels
violent tearing pains when the weather changes.
The patient is much reduced under the constant allopathic treatment she has
received (she has been under 8 physicians) being horribly emaciated, "always
chilly ” and so weak that she cannot lift a plateful of soup. At night she is often
unable to lift her arms. She is very sensitive to cold air, drawing pains in the
head, limbs and teeth, which are violent in the warmth of the bed ; stool retarded,
tenacious; frequent urging to urinate with s< an tv discharge, /the quantity of
which I cannot learn), mensess canty and too early, palpitation of the heart both
when at rest and when exercising; cold hands with numbness of the last two
phalanges’, feet cold and moist . No organic change was discoverable.
She knows nothing of diagnostic value except a long continued it terns, ac¬
companied by urinary difficulties, which terminated two years ago, and an erup¬
tion on the legs which she had for several years.
I prescribed-CV//rtf/'/'</ carb. 30 /cent ) five globules in two ounces of water to
be taken in three days.
June 3. Apparent improvement of the general condition, temporary passing
of sand in the urine—I had instructed her to look for this—and several times a
much purulent sediment. The deficiency of vital heat seemed to be better.
No medicine.
June 25. I saw her in person. The improvement in every way was unmis¬
takable. The smaller tumors had decreased considerably. Without any fur¬
ther medicine she continued to improve steadily after the one dose of Cali ana,
so that at the end of July she was able to perform the usual harvest labor. In
the same ratio the cystic tumors decreased. In a report in January, 1861, of the
larger only a trace was discoverable, the smaller had long since disappeared.
•Owing to the similarity of the trophic relations of the cystic tumors and cata¬
racts, the conclusion is permissable, that in the treatment of the latter a similar
course, viz: a single dose may cure.— (Allg. Horn. Zeitung , Translated by ./.
Me.Veil.)
Prosopalgia. R. St., a child’s nurse, about 25 years old, of middle size,
face pale, suffered a year ago almost the entire winter from neuralgia of the
face which allopathic treatment failed to cure. In the beginning of November
she was attacked by toothache as a result of catching cold, which increased so
much up to the 8th of November that she called for my treatment. The pain
appeared to go from the canine wisdom teeth of the right side and radiate theme
to the ears, towards the eye and even to the occiput and the right side of the neik.
Neither cold or hot liquids taken into the mouth affected the pain. She covered
her head warm but without positive benefit. She cannot lie on either side nor
•on her back , but rest on her abdomen, her head elevated from the pillow. Pulse
accelerated, tolerably full, no thirst, chilliness in the evening. She had al*
ready taken Aconite and Belladonna without benefit.
China 3 /cent ) relieved rapidly and entirely removed the disease in eight
•days.— (1'ranslated from Allg. Ifont. Zeitung by Dr. A. Me .Veil),
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f The symptom, relief from lying on abdomen cannot be found in the patho-
genesy of China and is interesting on that account.—E d.^
Blindness from Suppressed Itch. Nu kolas Remisoff, one year
old, son of a citizen, was brought to the clinic, Dec. 23, 1859. He was suffer¬
ing from dry itch, which covered the entire surface. He received Sulphur in a
low dilution, March 18, 1860, his mother brought him back for the first time
with amaurosis of both eyes. He was entirely blind which was demonstrated
by repeated examinations, beyond a doubt. In reply to my questions as to the
cause and manner of his becoming blind, she replied that after using the pow¬
ders I had given him in December, 1859, the itch had not disappeared, so they
resorted to external applications among others of Aqua Goulandi with which the
child was washed, after which the eruption very soon disappeared. Soon after
it was observed that in going about the room he ran into the furniture which
surprised the family, caused them to observe more carefully and they were soon
convinced that there was total blindness. I could not doubt that in this case
that the sudden driving in of the itch was the cause of the present amaurosis.
For this reason I gave Sulphur 30 one dose and fifteen blank powders.
April 18, the mother brought the child again. He was sprinkled all over with
boils as if sown. But his vision was perfect which was proved by repeated ex¬
periments. Sulphur was given as before and soon thereafter no more boils
formed and the existing ones healed by degrees and the child has his natural
vision to the present without any more medicine, not even a third dose of
Sulphur.
Is Hahnemann’s psoric theory such great nonsense as is asserted by so many ?
—Dr. Bajrmus , Moscow, Russia. Translated from A tig. Horn. Zeitung , by A.
McNeil, M. D., San Francista, Cat.
Ailantus, Apis, Arsenicum, Carbolic acid, Lachesis and
Rhus toxicodendron. The following is taken from the report
of the Maryland Homoeopathic Medical Society, published in
the July issue of American Medical Monthly. It is interesting
to note that this society devoted more than half of its session to
the study of Materia Medica and by the systematic arrange¬
ment of the matter presented scored such a decided success that
other societies would do well to follow their example.
Pathological Changes.
Arsenicum acts through organic nervous system upon the red blood corpuscles,
diminishing their power of taking up oxygen in the lungs, the carbonaceous com¬
pounds thus unconsumed being deposited in the form of fat; the blood becomes,
dark or even black, unduly fluid and non-coagulable.
Carbolic acid produces no definite action upon the blood.
Lichesis: Blood dark, incoagulable, venous hemorrhages; Destroys red
blood corpuscle; Produces peiipheral inflammation through non elimination of
tissue waste. Emaciation, prostration.
Rhus toxicodendron : No well defined action on blood. Action seems to be
through nervous system.
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Ai/antus—Chinese Sumach: No direct action on blood.
Apis : Acts on vegetative nervous system, producing weakness, prostration.
Pathogenesis.
Arsenicum ; Mental depression with suicidal tendency, but withal a fear to
commit the deed, emaciation, great restlessness, intense thirst, weakness, burn'
ing or lancinating pains.
Rhus toxicodendron : Dr. C. F. Millspaugh decides that the plants begin as
toxicodendron and may change into radicans if given proper support. Not¬
withstanding this drug was proven by Hahnemann and its sphere of action is
thoroughly well developed, the author of the paper rejects all because sufficient¬
ly accurate data has not been attached to the same.
Apis: General sphere of action is in the circulation, the heart becomes
weakened, stasis with oedema follows, mucus membrane involved are genito¬
urinary tract, throat, bronchi, intestinal canal including oesophagus and stomach;
cellulan tissue; serous tissues.
Ai/antus: Nervous system, stupor, 'vertigo, headache; eruption resembling
scarlatina; mucus membrane, throat, intestinal canal; respiratory tract with pain,
cough and oppression of chest.
Acidum Carbolicum : This drug is no’ an acid but a phenylic alcohol. It is
more liable to produce toxic effects in diluted form because the crude form is
liable to form an insoluble compound with the tissue, thus become a protection
against its own action. This drug acts on the nervous system, causing re/axa -
tion % languor , etc. Paralysis of heart and respiratory apparatus may follow its
use and the innervating effects is shown in the mental fatigue so characteristic
of the drug. Destruction of connective tissue not by direct action but through
nervous system seems to explain action of Carbolic acid in the treatment of can¬
cer specialists. (It may be well to investigate this matter).
Lachesis Trigotiocephalus : The general sphere of action is upon the entire
nervous system—both the cerebro spinal and the sympathetic. This profound
disturbance is marked by its effects upon the throat, heart and lungs through
the pneumogastric nerve, destructive changes in the blood and through the
blood producing a picture indicating a curative sphere in low forms of disease
having a tendency towards death.
Uses in Medicine.
(See Therapeutic Indications of Arsenicum album etc. on page-).
Uses in Surgery.
SEPTICEMIA.
Arsenicum album: Small, thready, rapid pulse; vomiting, involuntary
diarrhoea, enlarged and tender spleen, rapid emaciation and general sinking of
the vital forces.
Carbolic acid: Low, typhoid condition with marked gastric disturbances—
belching, nausea and inclination to vomit; depressed and irregular heart action
with great sense of constriction about the lower part of the chest.
Lachesis: Profound state of blood poisoning when the systemic prostration
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is so great that the patient can scarcely breath. There may be paralytic weak¬
ness of left side with irregular action of the heart; tongue is coated brown;
diarrhoea is offensive.
Rhus toxicodendron: Low typhoid state with softness of muscular system ,
distension of abdomen, muttering delirium, watery diarrhoea, dry tongue and
sordes on lips and teeth.
Pyemia.
Arsenicum album: General sinking ol vita^ powers, face pale, sunken or
puffy, tongue glazed or brown, intense thirst for small quantities of water;
vomiting; involuntary diarrhoea; rapid emaciation; restlessness; urine bloody or
albuminous with tube casts or partial suppression; petechial spots.
La thesis: Asthenic symptoms, stupor, low muttering delirium; tongue dark,
cracked, bleeding easily; inflamed glands and dark purplish appearance of all
inflamed joints; boils.
Gangrene.
Arsenicum is more applicable to the systemic state attending this condition
than any other remedy. Small, thready, rapid pulse; great depression of vital
forces with profuse sweat or watery diarrhoea. It is also suited to the dry,
shrively form of senile gangrene.
Lachesis has greater putridity of discharges with foul, dark and disgusting ap¬
pearance of the sotes. There is entire absence of evidence of collapse.
Erysipelas.
Apis has great (edematous swelling of the eye lids forming reddish, watery
bags under the eyes; stinging, pricking, burning; smooth or blistered eruption.
Lachesis has a purplish, leaden hue; tongue dry, glossy and tremulous; deli¬
rium as soon as he closes his eyes; aggravation from noon until midnight.
Rhus toxicodendron is vesicular; spreads from left to right; burning and itch¬
ing, worse on hairy parts, wotse from cold, worse from rubbing; flesh ache,
worse during rest and after getting wet.
Arsenicum indicate when progress of disease is irregular with dispostion to
leave skin and affect internal organs (where external manifestation has been
repressed by local applications and the inflammation attacks internal organs,
giving characteristic restlessness and terrible suffering. — Ed.) Eruption may be
mottled, dark, bluish, or like ecchymoses.
Synovitis.
Apis indicated by great redema about joints especially in a patient with a
strumous diathesis; sharp, lancinating and stinging pains, worse heat; it is also
indicated in “white swelling.”
Comparisons.
In making comparative study of the group of medicines under discussion, we
find that time w ill permit us to dwell only upon their use in those diseases in
which the initial changes are believed to take place in the blood, as septicemia,
diphtheria, carbuncle, erysipelas, the exanthemata, and fevers of the typhoid
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type, and we endeavor to succinctly present resemblances and differences in this
relationship, under three head*, viz/
a. Adynamia, b. Malignancy, c. Local conditions; the study being based
upon pathogenetic effects, not clinical symptoms.
ARSENICUM.
a. There is an excessive prostration of strength—may even be syncope—out
of all proportion to the objective conditions, and yet ‘‘irritability of fibre” is
always evident.
b. There is fetor of all excretions or exudations; at times dryness of secret
ing surfaces; ecchymoses; dark hemorrhages.
c. Oedematous swelling: dryness of skin; malignant ulcerations.
Note.—Modalities: better at rest and from cold.
LACHESIS.
a. Great and sudden physical prostration, out of all proportion to febrile
movement; trembling; mental depression.
b. Jaundiced appearance; pelechioe; dark coating of tongue with bleeding of
cracks on tongue and lips; hematuria.
c. Low grades of inflammation, cellulitis, abscess, phlebitis, gangrene; with
secondary conditions of septic or typhoid type from re infection; dry, bluish, or
purple skin or mncus membrane.
Note.—The absence of the nervous and vascular erethism of arsenic is a dif¬
ferential indication for lachesis.
RHUS.
a. Less marked than in previous drugs, although the medicine acts decided¬
ly upon the organs of animal life, which may be an indication for use in condi¬
tions of dulness of the senses, indifference, prostration, stupor.
b. Suitable in the erethistic type of fevers, where more severity would re¬
quire arsenic; rheumatoid complications.
c. The local manifestations are vesicular and of dark red appearance.
Note.—Modalities: better from motion and from heat.
APIS.
a. Great prostration, with tendency to syncope, but not high fever.
b. Suppression of urine, anasarca, or oedema rapidly supervening.
c. More oedematous than vesicular; purplish, livid hue of skin; especially
traumatic erysipelas.
Note.—Keynote is oedema.
AILANTUS.
a. A condition of restless anxiety is rapidly followed by small frequent pulse,
•and great muscular weakness.
b. Rapid supervention of drowsiness, insensibility, coma, livid rash.
c. Low forms of angina, or exanthemata.
ACID CARBOLICUM.
a. Congestion of nerve centres is followed by coma and paralysis. Heart
stops in diastole. The condition may only be a languor of mind and body.
b. Changes of the blocd, dusky hue of mucus surfaces.
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DON'T.
Dr. Luther C. Toney, offers the following valuable suggestions.
Don't promise much in aortic regurgitation.
Don’t give morphine in abdominal wounds and injuries.
Don't operate on unbilical hernia in the female. It always kills.
Don’t fail to change the bandages in fractures if pain persists after 24 hours.
Don’t forget that prostatectomy is not justifiable when patient is content with
catheter life.—(Keys.)
Don’t forget that the best anti-gonorrhoeal remedy is to observe strictly the
seventh commandment.
Don’t permit your patient to suffer untold agony in vesiculitis, but proceed to
“strip” the seminal vesical.
Don't forget the claim made that “infantile hiccoughs is an indication of
hereditary syphilis.” Look for it.
Don’t find a “stone” in the bladder, cut and find none . Use a regulation
“searcher” and you cannot be mistaken.
Don’t cut through muscle when connective tissue is far better. Good sur¬
geons follow this rule.—(Professor A. C. Bernays.)
Don’t you know that a Dibrell needle gives you all the advantages of a Haga-
dorn, and none of its disadvantages? (Tiemann & Co.)
Don’t forget that the great surgeon Gross placed his property in his wife's
name. A* “charity” negro once sued him for amputating his valuable (?) arm.
Don't forget the dangers of cocaine when used in the eye. That atropia does
harm in glaucoma, and eserine does much good. That half of aneurism is
syphilitic.
Don’t become discouraged if the urethrotome fails to go through the stricture
first trial. Pass silk thread through, give it a sawing motion, and it never fails
to “plow out” a place big enough.
Don't think that an abdominal lesion does not exist because external signs
are absent. See 58rd “don’t,” where 10 feet of gut was cut out, and there
were no external signs of abdominal injury.
Don't you know how to sterilize instruments without rusting them? Use a
per cent sol. of non sulphurous hydro-oxydatum causticum. Don’t sterilize
aluminum, silk, or brushes in it, though. It spoils them.
Don’t allow a patient to die with syncope without making tractions on the
tongue. (Laborde’s method.) Also try Dew's method. Should both, or all
other things fail, do a tracheotomy. In diphtheria, try catheterization of larynx
with No. 12 catheter. Loosen membrane, and withdraw it quickly.
Don’t forget the following practical points in genito-urinary diagnosis: (a)
Pain in mid penis means seminal vesicles, prostate or caput gallinaginis, ( b ) pain
at end of penis means bladder disease, (c) that much pus in urine means kidney
disease, (it) much mucus, bladder disease, (e) much oxalic acid exaggerates
urethral symptoms, (/) many tubercle bacilli can often be found in the last few
drops of urine, (g) rectal touch often means the only way to diagnose the case.
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Therapeutics of Diphtheria by C. M. Boger, M. D., Park¬
ersburg, W. Va. This little work or 82 pages is divided into two parts: Indi¬
cations of sixty different remedies with characteristics presented in bold face
type and space left after each remedy for the insertion of additional symptoms
which have been proven of value in the hands of the individual practioner;.and
an admirable repertory of the same remedies.
The book is small enough to be carried in the hand-bag and bears the stamp
of thorough and conscientious compiling and will be prized by all who believe
in the superiority of remedies selected according to the law of similia over that of
all other expedients combined.
Therapeutics of Facial and Sciatic Neuralgias with Rep¬
ertory and Clinical Cases by F. H. Lutze, M. D. Boericke & Tafel,
Publishers, Philadelphia. Pp. 800, price $1.25. By mail $1.32.
1 his valuable compilation is arranged on much the same plan as the majority
of homoeopathic compends, but owes its great excellence to the fact that the
repertory has been arranged to the modality instead of the alphabet .
One hnndred and forty-nine different remedies are presented with many clin¬
ical cases, verifying different symptoms, and this entire number grouped under
the following heads in the repertory, viz: Agg.; Amm.; Causes; Concomitants
fbefore, during and after the paroxysm^; Direction of Pains; Location of
Pains; Character of Pains and Sensations. The entire arrangement commends
itself to the thoughtful student of medicine.
Biochemical Treatment of Disease by Schuessler. Pub¬
lished by Boericke & Tafel, Philadelphia, pp. 178, price $1.00. By mail $1.07.
This is a translation by Prof. Tafel of the twenty-fifth edition, just as it comes
from the pen of Dr. Schuessler and may therefore be regarded as the real idea
of the originator of this system of medicine. It differs quite materially from
other editions. The doctor was educated as a homoeopathic physician and
gained great honors from his skillful treatment of the sick. He disclaims any
homoeopathicity in his system of medicine by declaring that his system is found¬
ed on the physiologico chemical processes which take place in the human organ¬
ism. “By my method of cure, the disturbances occurring in the motion of the
molecules of the inorganic substances in the human body are directly equalized
by means of homogeneous substances, while homoeopathy attains its curative ends
in an indirect way by means of heterogenous substances.” Therefore whenever
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a physician employs a homogeneous substance, he is unconsciously employing
the biochemical system. There is much of value in the system, but it has been
determined by provings and experimentation, that by the law of similars the
same remedy oftimes will be selected for simillimum as would have been chosen
under the bio chemical theory, which tends to strengthen the principles upon
which Homoeopathy is founded.
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Ophthalmic Diseases and Therapeutics by A. B. Norton*
M. D* Boericke & Tafel, Publishers, Philadelphia. Pp. 650; price, cloth
$5.00. By mail, $5.85. Half Morocco, $6.00. By mail, $6.85.
If there is any class of physicians who need a thorough knowledge of Homoeo¬
pathic Materia Medica it is the specialist.
Dr. Norton recognizes this in his revised edition of Ophthalmic Diseases and
the Therapeutics is given its proper place throughout the book.
In the past, this book has been recognized as the best exponent of homoeo¬
pathy in the treatment of disturbances of the eye and in the future it will be
still more difficult for any other author to present this line of investigation in a
more satisfactory light.
The latest, with the best methods for securing an accurate knowledge of the
nature of the trouble, are presented in such a way that the student as well as
the specialist will be alike interested.
Another important feature of the book is a chapter devoted to Hygiene of the
Eye. In this he gives prominence to the cardinal principle that diseases of the
eye are more frequently the result of negligent care of the bodily health than
the cause of bodily ailments.
Following this comes a tabulated statement of diseases with more or less
characteristic eye symptoms.
Valuable as this book is, it might have been improved by the elimination of
all forms of local medication, e. g. he says on page 106. “In the treatment of
chronic inflammation ot the margin of the lids, external applications are of
great value and without their use a cure is almost impossible.” His reason for
this advice is that it saves time , which is seriously questioned for the reason
that the vital energies can repair the effects of previous derangements in a safer
and speedier way by working from within outward.
Another unique feature which should receive the highest commendation is
the fact that the treatment begins with the selection of the indicated remedy
instead of the employment of doubtful expedients.
The work is completed by a brief review of the remedies employed through¬
out the book considered from an objective, subjective and clinical standpoint.
It will undoubtedly become the text-book of every homoeopathic college in ex¬
istence and occupy a high place in the literature of the homoeopathic school.
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Vol. xxxvii. Chicago, October 15, 1808. No. lO
HDateria flDetrtca.
ARGENTUM METALLICUM.
Characteristic Peculiarities. The following symptoms
were observed by Dr. Huber, who furnished the pathogenetic
symptoms of silver contained in the Oester. Zeiischrift , about a
fortnight after he had taken the last portion of the drug:
a. Drawing , tearing in the region of the right malar bone .
b. Pain in the region of the cricoid cartilage as if a plug were
lodged in that part; the pain is excited by a current of air; the
part feels bruised when pressing upon it, (Dr. Huber had always
been affected with slight tonsilitis when exposing himself to a
current of air; this affection had left him entirely under the
action of the silver).
c. Symptoms in bed before midnight: inclination to sleep, but
inability to go to sleep, on account of a heat and stinging in the
skin as if occasioned by the hulls of grain; when half asleep, the
prover was seized with vertigo , with sensation as if the head
would fall out of bed; this was followed by a violent convulsive
shock of the body, after which vertigo and inclination to sleep
had disappeared.
d. Feeling in the anus as if small oblong bubbles of air passed
through it.
e. Cutting pain, as if sprained, in the cartilages of the false
ribs, on the left side and near the pit of the stomach, in a hori¬
zontal direction; the pain is excited i by sneezing.
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According to Dr. Huber, the first and principal effect of silver
is to produce congestion and hyperaesthesia, although it acts
likewise upon the motor nerves.
The pains occasioned by silver, may be divided into three
categories:
a. Pains which comes on in rest , abate or disappear entirely
during motion, and, by pressing upon the part, assume the char¬
acter of pains as if the part had been bruised. In very few
cases the pain is removed entirely by an increase of pressure.
These pains are: drawing, tearing, beating, lancinating, aching,
digging, and burning. They appear to be analogous to similar
pains excited by Mercurius , Rhus , Pulsatilia i and frequently
wander from one place to another.
b. Pains which come on both in rest and during motion, and
are continuous. Of this class is the pain as if bruised in the
joints and in the muscles around the joints.—In respect to this
kind of pain Rhus corresponds to Argentum.
c. Pains which only come on during movement, particularly
violent movement, and abate or disappear entirely in rest. To
this class belongs the pain as if sprained in and around the joints.
—Arnica corresponds to silver in that respect. These three
classes of pain are uniformly accompanied by a feeling of lame¬
ness in the interior of the affected part ; sometimes by a jactita¬
tion of the muscles in the neighborhood of the joint, and by
stitches like electric sparks in the skin around the joints.
As regards time, Dr. Huber thinks that the pains which silver
is apt to occasion, show a tendency to manifest themselves in
the morning and evening , when in bed.
The left side of the body seemed to be principally affected.
The most violent pains were felt in the left hip joint , left fibula ,
and the right shoulder .
The voluntary muscles were likewise affected. Silver causes
an involuntary jactitation of those muscles in the neighborhood
of joints (if the part is pressed upon, the jactitation is perceived
higher up in the same muscle above the part pressed upon), or
it causes involuntary, convulsive, violent concussions of whole
extremities, taking place while the prover is on the point of fall¬
ing asleep, and destroying the inclination to sleep; they emanate
from the joint.— Oest. Zeitschrift.
Clinical Observations. According to Noack and Trinks,
Argentum is useful is diabetes, mercurial cachexia, chronic
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laryngitis. It will probably be of some use in diseases of the
heart, in coxalgia , but especially in certain affections of the elbow
and knee, which require a close investigation; rheumatic and
arthritic affections of the joints.—Itching of the skin.—Hypo¬
chondria.—Chronic, inflammatory conditions of the stomach
and mouth; syphilitic ulcers of the fauces —Seminal emissions.
According to Dr. Huber, silver acts principally upon the fol¬
lowing parts:
1. The articulations. The action of silver upon the articula¬
tions is so uniformly the same and so certain that but few
remedies equal it in this respect.
2. The bones , especially the long bones.
3. The cartilages , particularly the cartilaginous surface (carti¬
lages of the ears, Eustachian trumpet, tarsal cartilages, cartilages
of the nose, false ribs, etc.).
4. The muscles , tendons and ligaments, particularly those
which are in the neighborhood of joints (the psoas muscle,
triceps, brachialis, etc.). Silver has a specific action upon
5. Certain Glandular Organ i (salivary glands, testicles); and
particularly upon
6. The heart.
Silver will probably prove curative in the following affections:
1, Arthritis articularis (arthralgia, arthritis, coxalgia, omagra);
2, congestive and inflammatory affections of the bones and
cartilages, and of their membranes (periosteum, synovial mem¬
branes, etc.); ostalgia, ostitis, periostitis, perichondritis; 3,
psoitis; 4, inflammation of the salivary glands; 5, orchitis; 6,
morbid hunger; 7, helminthiasis; 8, nocturnal emissions, dim¬
inution of the sexual instinct; 9, sleeplessness; 10, partial con¬
vulsions of the limbs, when commencing in the joints and taking
place while on the point of falling asleep; 11, spasm of the
heart; 12, paralysis of the extremities; 13, mercurial cachexia.
ARGENTUM NITRICUM.
General Symptoms. Lassitude and weariness of the lower
limbs, accompanied with dizziness, as from intoxication. Great
debility and weariness in the lower limbs , the whole afternoon , as
after a long u' on foat, accompanied ith sick feeling, dread
of labor, drowsiness, chilliness, and sickly appearance. Peculiar
debility. Debility in the afternoon. She feels so debilitated that
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she is scarcely able to walk across the room , complaining a good
deal about rigidity in the calves . Lazy and debilitated. Feeble,
weary, and without appetite. He is almost exhausted, having
had sixteen diarrhoeic stools in the night previous. In the after¬
noon he felt so weak that he had to lie down, accompanied with
an increase of warmth in the whole body and heat in the palms
of the hands. In the morning, after rising, he feels very much
debilitated, tremulous, irritated, and apprehensive. Tremulous
weakness, accompanied with general debility, as after great
physical exertion, and apathy. Great debility and despondency.
After breakfast he feels extremely debilitated, nervous, tremul¬
ous, afraid to undertake anything, lest he should not succeed.
Nervous, faintish, tremulous sensation, as if a severe disease
were going to attack him. Excessive debility, wretched appear¬
ance and emaciation. Trembling, and tremulous sensation.
Tremor of the limbs, general debility as from physical exertion.
Powerful excitation of the muscles and nerves, and consensual
excitation of the nerves of the stomach. Her nerves are so
much affected, that she apprehends she v/ill lose her senses, ac¬
companied with constant chilliness. Disagreeable sensation
moving about in the body, now in the limbs, now in the head.
Orgasm in the whole body, with increased temperature. Sensa¬
tion as if the body, and especially the face and head , expanded; he
feels as if the bones of the skull separated , with increase of tempera¬
ture. Sensation in all the limbs as if they would go to sleep or
become rigid. Complete insensibility of the body. Convulsions.
Violent convulsions. Convulsive contraction of this or that
portion of muscles. Presentment of the approaching epileptic
fit. Paralysis of the extremities.
Characteristic Peculiarities. The pathogenetic effects of
the nitrate of silver upon the healthy organism, as well as the
morbid phenomena which the nitrate of silver is capable of
curing, are characterized by a few peculiarities, which we will try
to indicate in a few broad traits:— Scarcely any of the pathogenetic
symptoms of the nitrate of silver are as well marked as the head
symptoms; in almost all morbid effects of the nitrate, the head is in¬
volved; many of those effects, especially the disturbances produced
in the abdominal organs, co exist with vertigo, dizziness or cloudi¬
ness of the heady as if from intoxication. Nervous irritations
{erethism of the nervous system , neuralgia, etc.), are never char¬
acterized by acuteness, but by being deaf seated and spreading over
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a large portion of the ramifications of the affected nerve. The
moral and nervous disturbances (especially chorea and epilepsy,
which occur generally at nighty or in the morning on rising), are
characterized by a sort of type; the paroxysms are apt to occur in
the night, early in the morning, or about noon (especially shortly
after dinner ), and generally come on every day. The debility
caused by the nitrate of silvery especially that of the lower extremi¬
ties, is very striking, and is excessive, even when the other symptoms
are less marked . Among the febrile symptoms, chilliness (shifting
chills or constant chilliness) and nausea are the most troublesome
and lasting .
Clinical Observation# on the nitrate of silver are as yet
scanty. It has been successfully used in the following affections:
Epilepsy. — Diabetes. — Typhus abdominalis. — Dysentery. —
Eysipelatous inflammation of the skin.—Asthenic, superficial
ulcers.— Congestion of blood to the head, with vertigo, ophthalmia;
ophthalmia neonatorum.—Amaurosis.— Spongy, readily bleeding
gums.—Chronic affections of the stomach of a nervous and inflam¬
matory character; periodical gastrodynia.—Blennorrhaa of the
genital organs. — Asthma; angina pectoris.
The gastralgia for which the nitrate of silver is successfully
used, is characterized by the following symptoms: particularly
suitable to delicate, nervous females, when the affection arises
from depressing causes, night-waking, etc.; a troublesome feel¬
ing of malaise in the region of the stomach, relieved by pressure,
the patients frequently press the clinched fist into the stomach;
feeling of emptiness in the stomach, desire for piquant food and
drinks, insatiable hunger, depression of spirits, water-colored
urine;—the nitrate is moreover employed against vomiting of
water in full-grown persons consequent upon suppressed itch;
for chronic affections of the stomach, whether they appear in
the shape of a neurosis, consensual gastrosis, or chronic inflam¬
mation; for oppressive or burning-drawing cardialgia, painful,
either continual or paroxysmal; after a meal, accompanied with
acid or black vomiting; for cardialgia and sour vomiting from
an arthritic cause, cardialgia which threatens to pass into cancer
of the stomach; scirrhus ventriculi.
NOTE BY DR. GRAY.
According to my observations the nitrate of silver is eminently
indicated in disturbances of the brain, and the consequent de-
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rangements in the system generally, which have arisen from
moral causes. The opinion advanced above by Muller does not
correspond with the facts I have witnessed.
Epilepsies produced by moral causes (such as, for example,
very impassioned lay-preaching), are promptly and durably
cured by a few small doses of this drug, whilst those proceeding
from abdominal irritation, independently of moral causes, are
at best but poorly palliated by very large and frequently-repeated
doses. The same observation must, I am persuaded, hold good
with respect to gastric disturbances; those only will be really
cured by it which have arisen during too great or too long-
continued mental exertion.
The bodily symptoms being similar to those produced by this
drug, I should regard it as an indispensable remedy when there
are the following moral conditions:—
1. A crowd of impulses to act, to move, to be busy, which,
without any distinct purpose to effect, keeps the patient in con¬
tinual motion; a state of.unrest which gives the appearance of
hurry and discontent to all his conduct.
2. The opposite of the foregoing condition; not the calmness
of deportment which occurs when the mind is in healthful con¬
templation, but an apathy indicative of a privation of motive or
purpose; a state verging upon, and often ending in, perfect im¬
becility. Or,
3. Errors and defects of perception. The erroneous percep¬
tions in which I have seen nitrate useful, have been:—1, As to
time; the patient constantly fearing he should be too late, and
supposing that one or two hours had elapsed, when not more
than a quarter or an eighth of the supposed time had passed,
and this all the while, night and day, for many weeks together;
and 2, Errors as to the velocity of gait, the patient supposing
that he was walking very rapidly when he was in fact moving
but very slowly indeed.
Moreover, I should regard the nitrate as the remedy, (other
indications existing for its use), in all severe commotions of the
system arising from too great acuteness of the perceptive organs;
e. g., certain forms of epilepsia and chorea.
It is, I think, probable, that silver will be found as strictly
adapted to the cure of morbid perceptions, and their concomi¬
tant disturbances in the digestive, motor, and genital apparatus,
as gold is to the removal of morbid affections, and their con-
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sensual motory and genital diseases. However the reader may
regard the foregoing speculations of Muller, he cannot, if he be
a thorough student of Hahnemann, permit them to have the
slightest weight with him in the choice or rejection of the nitrate
of silver as a remedy for a case in hand; they are beyond the
limits of possible testimony, and for all known purposes of the
homoeopathic art they would be useless, even if demonstrably
true, because we have no possible means of knowing when the
pneumo-gastric nerve or the abdominal ganglia are the essential
seat of disease.
ADDITIONAL PROVINGS OF MAGNETIS POLLS
ARCTICUS, PULSATILLA AND SULPHUR.*
1L FINCKE, M. D., BROOKLYN, N. V.
I. Magnetis Polus Arcticus.
1. Mr. M., 50 years, short, thick-set, blonde, grey eyes, of
sanguino-choleric temperament; after passing the north pole of
a horse-shoe magnet from head to finger-points and down the
spine to the toe-points:
Hot flowing motioar down the finger-tips.
Living motion as of a mouse in sacrum.
Creeping and running as of a million of ants from
head to foot-points, most disagreeable.
Ice cold sensation in cheeks.
Cold hands.
Pulse full and tense.
Disagreeable sensation of coldness and weakness
through whole body, especially hands.
Hot cheeks after half an hour.
Chilliness and weakness.
At another time from holding the north pole of the same mag¬
net upon the chest for one or two minutes:
Running like ants in fingers and left foot with stiff¬
ness.
Cold cheeks.
Five minutes later:
Crashing in sacrum as if the bone were broken.
Weakness.
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2. Miss S., an elderly lady, sitting before the horse-shoe
magnet lying on the table:
Panting.
Spasms of chest.
Shaking of heart.
Turning both hands out and downward.
Weeping without sadness.
Pain where she touched her body.
II. Putaatilla.
1. The following symptoms were observed upon a healthy
man from one dose of the millionth fluxion potency on pellets,
in 1887, April 11th, at noon.
50 min. p. m. Drawing pain in occiput, right upper
half, from without inward for a few seconds, fol¬
lowed by a repeated attack.
A potato eaten tasted bitter.
3:30 p. m. Twinges of pain and tingling at base
of right great toe at metatarsal joint, with sensation
of numbness.
3:45 p. m. Tingling and numbness about left great
toe-joint, with twinges of pain and aching.
Sensation of heat and swelling at the same place,
better by elevating foot and walking.
4 p. m. Aching of second joint of left great toe.
April 12, a. m. Aching and soreness of internal
left abdominal ring, slightly sensitive to deep pres¬
sure, worse by coughing, moving, walking, especially
when going up stairs as though a hernia were form¬
ing, so that he examined it several times.
Eyes suffused and running in open air.
Light-headed in walking, staggering, great effort to
walk straight.
Great nervousness.
When writing, omits words and destroys many sheets
of paper before suited.
3:40 p. m. Tingling, prickling, burning sensation in
left great toe-joint.
Sensation of great heat in the left great toe-joint, es¬
pecially inside with slight redness, but no external
heat, better by cool air and elevating foot and
walking.
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Slight aching left side of head.
Worse when thinking of pain.
Wants to keep foot in motion.
Burning prickling in left great toe-joint and spread¬
ing over upper surface of foot, extending up to
ankle.
Sensation of great heat inside of left foot from great
toe-joint to heel, subsiding to return.
Throbbing with heat in left great toe-joint.
Pricking with heat at bottom of right foot.
April 13. Dull aching in left abdominal ring.
11 a. m. Prickling burning across lower abdomen.
Weak feeling across hypogastrium with throbbing.
Yellowish foetid stool.
3:15 p. m. Tingling burning, with dull aching of left
great toe-joint, as if the part had been frost-bitten
without itching, and sensation of swelling with
heat and prickling.
Lameness in left great toe-joint, worse going up-stairs.
April 17. Aching across upper back and shoulders
on a line with seventh vertebra, very severe like a
heavy weight.
Cold fat corned beef at once nauseated him after eat¬
ing and continued to do so in evening.
Aversion to fat.
April 18. Early in morning dark brown watery foetid
diarrhoea slightly acid, after fullness and rumbling
in bowels during it; nausea and chilliness after it;
nausea with great weakness and emptiness in
stomach and abdomen.
Occasionally griping pain in abdomen.
Aversion to food, especially fat meat.
Abdomen feels heavy and sore on pressure.
Odor of stool clings to clothes.
Internal soreness, raw burning in abdomen.
Burning of left great toe joint.
Burning across region of transverse colon.
Rumbling in abdomen with tendency to stool, ex¬
cited by motion, especially walking, and worse by
eating.
1 p. m. Water dropping from left nostril.
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Voice sounds hollow as from exhaustion.
Legs feel weak with trembling sensation.
Aching across shoulders.
Weight at the prominence of the seventh vertebra.
Dream of being in a snow-storm.
Heavy sleep.
Bowels sore and distended during night.
Loud rumbling in abdomen.
Yellow watery stools.
April 19. Dream of floating on water.
7 a. m. Yellow mushy stool.
Whilst eating, sensation as if diarrhoea would return.
Feet cold and damp.
10 a. m. Yellow mushy stool after slight pain in
bowels.
Prickling burning of left great toe-joint.
Drowsy in evening, can scarcely keep awake.
Urine frothy, remaining so four to five hours like
sugar-urine, syrupy.
April 20. Restless night, particularly after midnight,
frequent waking, vivid dreams; constantly chang¬
ing position.
Dream of a long, brown lizard creeping up inside his
trowsers.
Awakened with sensation of crawling up legs.
Fell asleep and dreamed of traveling and remarked
to a companion that he was getting good symptoms
to report with reference to lizards.
Worse lying on left side, better on right side and
stomach.
'Awakened twice lying on left side.
Right arm asleep and so lame that he could hardly
move it.
Unrefreshed in morning.
Urine frothy, remaining so for several hours, clear
and syrupy without smell.
Prickling sensation over the body like an approach
to numbness.
Desire for fresh air.
III. Sulphur.
1. Mrs. T., 60 years old, took a drop of the 5m cent, potency,
freshly prepared, in evening and observed:
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Chilliness over whole body from neck going down
the back between skin and flesh.
Itching in right ear.
Head hot and occupied.
Dryness of throat as if it would close.
Profuse perspiration in morning.
2. B. F., 28 years old, 1849, Oct. 20th, took one drop of the
6m cent, potency to test its efficacy, because the 5m potency
had not been shaken lege artis by mistake.
It produced a furuncle as large as a walnut on the back of the
left hand between the tendons of the index and middle finger,
which caused such a tearing, burning and stinging under great
swelling of whole hand with dark shining redness, that he had to
stay in the house for a whole week and could not do the least
work, not even writing with the right hand. Under the use of
various remedies, such as Belladonna , Rhus tox., Lachesis , Arsenic,
Stlicea , the boil broke Nov. 9th, and discharged a dirty reddish
water from the epidermis, and then pus from interior of abscess.
The cyst came out next day and the opening healed up soon.
Another small boil formed a few days later at left upper arm
and dried up in a scab.
3. The above Mrs. T., later took a drop of the 20m cent,
potency, 1849, Oct. 28th, in the evening, and observed, after two
hours, sensation of swelling of the head before midnight.
Audible pulsation in ears.
Sensation of heat streaming out of ears.
Sensation as if teeth became longer and were drawn
longer so that all the roots burned.
Good sleep.
After 6 a. m., burning in whole mouth, teeth, jaws,
as far as ears with swelling, glowing hot for half an
hour, then it was as if a cool wind was wafting
over the face, after which she fell into a restless
sleep.
Perspiration in morning.
4. Mrs. M., 40 years old, took two pellets 310m cent, po¬
tency in the evening and observed:
Stinging and swelling of liver.
Left sided headache, drawing, burning on left parietal
bone on a small place.
Intolerable burning, stinging and swelling of feet.
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In spite of that, good sleep.
Obscured sight.
After a fortnight:
Sudden vertigo with falling over, turning of objects
around her, soreness of both legs as if beaten, with
tearing in lower back.
Burning and stinging in feet.
Cutting in bowels.
Red tip of nose.
Continued dizziness.
5. The same in 1862, Feb. 14th, took a drop of the 20,000th
cent, potency prepared on Korsakoff's plan, dissolved in a tum¬
bler of water, one tablespoonful and observed:
Dizziness shortly after taking.
Pain in lower back, first night.
Swelling of feet with much pain.
Fine red eruption at upper lip the second day.
Pain in lower back the second day.
Fine stinging and watering in right eye with obscured
sight the third day.
Frequent cramp in toes, contraction and extension
of same the second night.
Cramp in chest and stomach, making her so weak
that she had to sit down.
6. Her sister, the old lady mentioned before, took a table¬
spoonful of tl e same potency and observed:
Tongue like burned next morning.
Pressing in of eye-balls like swollen.
Much yawning.
7. Dr. John George Gunther, 50 yecrs old, in 1867, Nov. 9th,
took a few pellets of the 100,000th fluxion potency at 10 p. m.
before retiring and observed:
Immediately, slight pain in heart’s region.
Uncommon good sleep.
Nov. 10. All day very heavy in legs, with oppression
of chest especially on going up stairs.
Slight painful drawing at the upper side of penis.
Nov. 11. This painful drawing continues during the
forenoon.
Yesterday and to-day, tickling in larynx, with expec¬
toration of tougher mucus than before.
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After dinner, on lying down, violent itching in right
foot close to middle toe where a pale red spot is
seen; repeated in evening but weaker.
11 p. m. After lying down drawing in left elbow,
then in tendons of the two last left fingers lasting
quite awhile (these fingers thirty-three years ago
had been stiff for almost a year after a dislocation
of the left elbow with rupture of the ligaments by
a fall).
Violent compression at heart.
Violent itching at right side of scrotum and between
it and thigh, followed by drawing pain at the under
part of penis.
A peculiar but not disagreeable sensation under the
tongue, left side.
After writing down these symptoms, lying down
again.
Tickling sensation under right side of tongue, termin¬
ating in violent sneezing, preceded by a peculiar
pressure on the bone at the side of the left eye.
Tickling in right ear and itching and pricking on
many parts of body, especially on back of hands,
in the hair of the pubes and on the loins.
Occupancy of the occiput especially strong on wak¬
ing up.
Nov. 12. After taking some glasses of beer, uncom¬
mon copious urination, so that the urine shoots out
as from a watering pot.
Nov. 13, 5 a. m. On awaking, pains in neck and
occiput, disappearing afur rising.
Pains in left side of chest.
Nov. 14. In evening in bed, painful drawing on the
bones of left fourth finger on left side.
Scratchy sensation on hard palate down to pharynx.
8. Dr. P. P. Wells took 1882, Dec. 28th, a dose of Sulphur
million (F.) and suffered the whole day from depression of
spirits, didn’t want to do anything. Everything looked dull and
gloomy. He was at first surprised, wondered what the reason
for the change might have been, because he generally is cheer¬
ful, but then he thought of that dose of Sulphur and knew.
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IMPORTANCE OF CHEMISTRY TO PHYSICIANS.
JOHN HOF.HN, PH. C., CHICAGO.
LECTURER ON PHARMACOLOGY, DUNHAM MEDICAL COLLEGE.
A thorough knowledge of Pharmaceutical Chemistry is of in¬
estimable value to physicians, as it enables them to determine
when to use a remedy in the liquid or powder form. Some
remedies are so sensitive to light and to air, that they undergo
a complete chemical change during trituration and the physician
would be unable to obtain results expected. For example, in
the case of Phosphor us , in triturating, it changes to Phosphoric
acid , by the presence of moisture, a substance entirely different
in its action. Hence Phosphorus should only be prescribed in
Alcoholic dilutions as it Is the only form in which it retains its
elementary properties for any length of time. Phosphoric acid
is readily detected by its sour taste and odor in the lower po¬
tencies.
Argentum nitrate is a remedy that should never be used in
trituration or tablets , as the exposure to the air during tritura¬
tion with sugar of milk changes it to Argentum oxide , detected by
its dark color, in the lower triturations. The dilutions of Argen¬
tum nitrate up to the 5x should be made with distilled water , as
Argentum nitrate is sparingly soluble in Alcohol and the lower
dilutions should be made fresh.
In making dilutions it is of vast importance to know what
solvents form explosive compounds. Even in the mixture of
water and sulphuric acid extreme care is necessary, as great
heat is generated by this combination, although no chemical
change takes place.
Nitric acid and Alcohol form an explosive compound at ordin¬
ary temperature, resulting in Nitrous acid and Nitric ether being
made. Consequently the lower dilutions of Nitric acid should
not be made with alcohol but with distilled water .
With Muriatic acid , alcohol will form Hydrochloric ether in
the lower potencies, so this dilution should also be made with
distilled water.
These few examples serve to show what danger and fatality
might result from a physician's ignorance of chemistry.
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GASTRIC ULCER.
FRANK R. WATERS, M. D.
PROF. PIIYS. i) I AC i. AND DISEASES OF THE THORAX, DUNHAM MEDICAL COLLEGE. •
Mar. 17, 1898. Mrs. C., age 38 years, light hair, nervo-
bilious.
Emaciated, anaemic.
About one year ago after drinking some port wine commenced
vomiting.
Vomiting whenever she eats.
The vomited matter is reddish brown and very acid.
In bottom of vessel is deposited a pepper-like sediment.
After eating there is a sharp, burning, sore pain in the splenic
end of the stomach.
Pain radiates through to a point below the left scapula, to the
top of the shoulder and down the arm.
There is no tumor upon examination.
The contractions of the stomach have caused a sore, bruised
sensation in the region of the stomach.
Saliva increased.
Throat dry—water, she says, can hardly remove the dryness.
Teeth—front, loose, gums receded.
(Has taken Blue mass, Quinine etc.)
Sweats easily.
Sleep—restless, especially latter part of night.
Bowels—constipated.
Weather—can tell when a storm is coming or changes in the
weather.
Has been examined and treated by homoeopathic as well as
allopathic schools. Has been before several clinics in the city.
No one would make a diagnosis, but intimated it might be can¬
cer. Aferc :,0m .
June 12, 1898. Letter—have not seen case since first time in
March. v
In a few days could eat a little without vomiting.
Sharp, burning pain better, also.
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Could not sleep for some time.
Had an exhausted feeling.
Could scarcely lift arms or hands.
Could scarcely lift legs.
They would fall asleep.
Shoulders and neck so heavy and muscles sore, had to-be
lifted by somebody else.
(Anaemia from want of nourishment).
As soon as.the strength would permit went to the country.
Symptoms at this writing:
Mentally better—(Thought herself incurable).
^Appetite.
>Gas on stomach.
Acid food still. <
Able to work in garden hard all day.
New symptoms:
Works in damp soil.
Joints of wrists, arms and legs stiff.
Swell, sore feeling.
“As if salt was placed in an open wound.”
“Rheumatic,” her diagnosis.
When kneeling it is hard to get up again.
>From moving around.
Profuse sweat at night.
Head feels too heavy.
Head feels too large.
Voice bad.
Hearing bad—deaf (from scarlet fever).
Eyes—photophobia.
>Bright day-light.
Aug. 7. Considers herself well—has gained 25 lbs. in weight.
EYE SYMPTOMS OF KALI BICHROMICUM.
FREDERICK WILLIAM PAYNE, M. D., BOSTON.
The following Eye Symptoms of Kali bich ., found in Hering’s
Guiding Symptoms , I have confirmed as being genuine, reliable
and curative, viz.
Corneal Abscess with hypopion; the cornea having perforated
at its inner wall, thus permitting the pus from the abscess to
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seek the bottom of the anterior chamber, more or less filling it.
Dense cicatrices of the cornea, from old ulcerations.
Dimness of cornea , in conjunctivitis scrofulosa.
Long-lasting, deep obscuration of the cornea , following keratis
ulcerosa.
Conjunctivitis; the conjunctiva is swollen, and has small points
of dirty, yellowish-brown, distributed throughout its substance.
Pustular phlectenules on the cornea, with pricking pain, es¬
pecially of the left eye.
Vesicular phlectenules on the cornea, especially about the
margin.
Kali bich. cures small, white, granular pustules of the cornea,
with pricking sensation in them.
A peculiar symptom of cornea, cured by Kali bich ., is a sen¬
sation as if a skin was on it. (Ratanhia has also a similar
symptom).
Opaque macula of the cornea , to which large red blood vessels
run from the injected conjunctiva across the clear outer margin
of the cornea to the opaque spots. (In a condition of catarrho-
strumous ophthalmia).
Kali bich. has proved servicable in a case of conical cornea,
as have also Calcarea iod., Euphrasia and Pulsatilla.
A peculiarity in the appearance of the ulcer of the cornea, in
which Kali bich . is more often serviceable, is that it is disposed
to bore in deeply, like an auger hole, rather that to spread later-'
ally; this is also characteristic of the Kali hyd. and the Lachesis
ulceration; whereas instead, that of Silicea spreads, with great
destruction of the tissue; and that of Calcarea carb . is long and
deep, like the cut of a knife in its appearance, situated near the
limbus corneae, and showing a strong disposition to perforate.
In a case of pannus and trachoma , the right cornea was com¬
pletely obscured, and the left one partly so, with considerable
stringy tenacious discharge; there was marked amelioration
from lying on the face. Kali bich . promptly cured.
Kali bich . has proved curative in a case of croupous conjunc¬
tivitis , where there was much chemosis, and the characteristic
stringy, tenacious, rubber-like discharge; the lids were much
swollen and the cornea hazy.
In a case of catarrhal conjunctivitis , cured by Kali bich., the
discharge was scanty and stringy, worse in the morning on
awaking.
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Kali bich. cured a case of true descemetitis, with fine punc¬
tated, opaque deposits in the membrane of Descemet, situated
especially over the area of the pupil, accompanied by only
moderate irritation of the eye.
Granular lids , with dense pannus of the right, and partly so of
the left cornea; vision seems as if looking through a red or yel¬
lowish atmosphere.
Blepharitis ciliaris; itching and redness of the burning and
inflamed eyelids; the tarsal edge seems rough, scratching the
eyeball as if with sharp sand.
A large polypus , dependant from the palpebral conjunctiva of
the upper lid was cured by Kali bich* 0 .
On ophthalmoscopic inspection the retinal blood vessels look
enlarged and extended.
Amblyopia with blindness, followed by headache; as the sight
returns the headache becomes intense with great aversion to
light and noise; must lie down; also in amblyopia the vision is
often dim and confused before the headache, and a condition of
vertigo often accompanies the dim and confused vision.
A peculiarity of vision for which Kali bich. is sometimes ser-
vicable, is.that of objects appearing yellow; this illusion of vis¬
ion is also found under Alumina , Amyl ., Canth., Cedron , China f
China sulph., Che lido n ., Cina, Dig., Iod., Plumb., Pod.
u 13 ttie imperfect machine that causes death. The Vital Force is of the
bout, an* cannot be destroyed or weakened. It can be disordered, but it is all
there.
Man cannot be made sick or be cured except by some substance as etherial
in quality as the Vital Force.
It is unthinkable to speak of motion or Force without a simple, primitive
ubstance. Force, or action of a nothing is unthinkable.
It is a serious matter to allow the mind to drift into thinking of anything but
quality when speaking of Force.
There is nothing in the world which do?s n t exist by something prior to
itself. With the grossest materialistic ideas man can demonstrate this.
i here is at the present time, a continual discussion of Force as having prior
to it Energy, with nothing behind it. This is confusion.
There is an Innermost to everything that is, or else the Outermost co^>|
not l»°
— Kent's Aphorisms and Precepts.
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SYCOSIS*
DR. KUNKEL OF KIEL.
There appeared in Berlin six years ago a work by Dr. C. W.
Wolf, entitled il Homceopathische Erfahrungen ” (Homoeopathic
Experiences) in which was collected the experience of many
years obtained in an extensive practice. As far as I know the
work has only been superficially and cursorily mentioned. I
know only of its being favorably received by Bcenninghausen and
by Grauvogel. I need not add that I have followed rigidly the
directions and practical hints in the book and have not permitted
myself to make any arbitrary alterations.
The most that is new in the work of Wolf is contained in the
chapter on Sycosis and I will treat only of that. I will limit
myself to giving such very characteristic symptoms of this miasm
as have presented themselves to me in actual practice, in the
main referring to Wolf, and I expressly state that the most of
what I have written is a corroboration of what he has already
mentioned.
Depression both of intellect and disposition is a very frequent
symptom of sycosis. The severest forms of melancholia may be¬
long to it. Clearly stamped cases resting on this basis I have
not met frequently. I only remember two cases in my practice.
One of religious mania, in a girl 6f sixteen years. It had existed
between one and a half and two years and was perfectly cured in
about four weeks, by one dose of Thuja 300 (Jehnichen). The
second case, abulia (loss of will power) affected a married woman
whose husband suffered from condylomata on the glans penis.
She was treated, with some interruptions, several years in the
house of an alienist and twice the last time, one and a half years
in a lunatic asylum. After one dose of Thuja 30 her condition im¬
proved so that at the end of six weeks nothing morbid could be
found in her. Mental depression in a mild degree accompanies
a majority of cases of Sycosis. In children the co/istant irrita¬
bility , aversion to play and attacks of sudden violent anger (Jceh -
zom) are characteristic.
* Translated by A. McNeil, M. D., San Francisco, Cal.
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Sleeplessness is a very constant symptom of Sycosis and it
should always, particularly in children and most of all in the new
born attract attention to this miasm. The sleeplessness is pecu¬
liar in that the patient constantly changes his position because the
part on which he lies becomes sore (Sensation as if the bed is
hard). Often not until morning does he fall into a dreamful
sleep, or as a reciprocal effect of the morbific agent, the reverse,
deep heavy sleep out of which he can be aroused with difficulty.
The skin manifests a characteristic peculiarity, viz: it is covered
in some places , particularly on the knuckles and even on the entire
body, as if with dirt which no washing can remove. And besides
here and there by small\ white , shining spots , (Wolf says more
particularly on the scrotum) sometimes they are smooth and other
times are stippled like vaccination marks. Sometimes they have
originated in small pustules, others form warts , and still others
are the result of chicken pox pustules . A present I am treating a
girl of 12 years of such an extraordinary vulnerability that every
bite of an insect , such as a midge , produces a violent dermatitis .
These little wounds leave behind them white spots. The arms
are sown broadcast with them. One dose of Thuja has, after six
weeks, almost entirely removed this condition. No less charac¬
teristic ia a brown, brownish-red or bronze pigmentation of the skin.
I have seen it as small spots which are the most frequent on the
backs of the hands, on the face, and most of all on the forearms,
hands or the abdomen. They are sharply circumscribed from
adjacent skin.
Sometimes there is perceptable a net work of the normal integ¬
ument in them. These with the general and other concomitants
presents the picture of the so-called Addison's Disease. The
implication of the supra renal capsules which is often anatomi¬
cally demonstrable is not always present. Nor can the opinion
of Ruhl, that the nature of the disease consists of the develop¬
ment of very firm miliary tubercles in the parenchymatous organs
and that they therefore become enlarged, be accepted, as such
changes belong to other diseases. Whether it originates in atro¬
phy of the sympathetic nerve which has been discovered present
a couple of times, is another question. In the cases which I have
cured the spots have disappeared by their becoming smaller from
the periphery towards the centre and by the appearance of
islands of normal skin in the pigmented surface and not if I re¬
member rightly from the spots gradually fading away.
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Another form of the localization of Sycosis on the skin is
pemphigus. It is well understood that this exanthem is one of the
obscure fields of pathology. Here as in other diseases it is fre¬
quent that therapy must solve the problem. I have several times
observed pemphigus as a symptom of Sycosis. I remember one
case of the so-called pemphigus foliaceus (Hebra). The serum
excreted, spread from one or more sores under the cuticle and
thus extended over a great extent of the surface of the body.
The patient looked as if he has been covered by immense blisters.
This one, a girl of 8 years, recovered under the administration of
one dose of Thuja* 0 . Hebra asserts the disease is absolutely
fatal. Pemphigus blisters developed in a child three weeks after
birth. They were from one to one and a half inches in diameter
on different parts of the body. Some of them bursted and thus
made farther progress. I was called towards the end of the case
which lasted 14 days on account of a telangiectasis which was
discovered soon after the breaking of the blisters, as a small red
spot. It had now become an inch in diameter. One dose of
Thuja arrested its further progress, then white spots appeared in
it here and there which spread from the centre while at the same
time on the most of the surface heavy layers of the epidermis
formed which thus became thicker. At present, after four
months, the bluish-redness of the tumor has entirely disappeared,
become empty of blood and redness to half its former size. The
first child (this was the third) died at three months of atrophy
(marasmus) after persistent sleeplessness . The second a few days
after birth. My little patient suffered besides from sleeplessness ,
inflammatory redness of the genitals etc., which very soon disap¬
peared. The father is apparently healthy; the mother is sub¬
ject to periodical attacks of migraine which have been cured by
Thuja 300 one dose. The formation of warts is a well known
symptom of Sycosis. There were membraneous oblong warts
on the neck of a girl of 12 on the site of “scrofulous” scars.
One dose of Thuja removed these and the cure of her entire dis¬
ease clearly established its nature.
The alterations of the horny tissues gives a very characteristic
support to the diagnosis of Sycosis. The nail becomes crippUd,
brittle , grow very quickly or very slowly and are often enormously
hypertrophied ; the fingertips become correspondingly enlarged so
as to be clubbed , the hair dry and withered and difficult to keep
in order, the ends enlarged or as if burnt, curled and become
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short from breaking and falling out. In blondes, particularly in
children, it takes on a green tinge while the ends are brown.
The individual hairs are in children very fine and flaxen. Under
the microscope, dark granulations may be seen adhering to the hair.
A further peculiarity of Sycosis, is a disposition to take on fat
general as well as local; general and local hypertrophy of the pan -
niculus adiposus . I am now treating a woman who has the above
mentioned brown color on the skin of the forearms and a great
lipoma five inches in diameter in the left lumbar region which
is sessile, and, finally, according to the neighbors, has mental aber¬
ration. I gave her a dose of Thuja 300 June 4. On the 14th, to
my astonishment, and hers, the tumor was reduced to half its
original size, although the general health had not improved; but
this followed later and the induration of the skin also. At pres¬
ent the swelling is approximately only one sixth of its former
size and it hangs in a loose fold.
Sycosis offers a considerable contingent to the paralyses. I will
only mention that of the long muscles of the back. When it has
continued long, atrophy of the affected parts attend it. A wad¬
dling gait in consequence of inability to move the legs normally
was the first symptom. Then gradually the cushions of the
muscles on both sides of the spinal column, in the lumbar region,
disappeared. In extreme cases, the atrophy affects the whole
length Of the back. I have treated two clearly marked cases
which did not end fatally. One was a child of two years. The
wasting of the muscles of the lumbar region was unmistakably
present. She could not sit erect, and if she was put on the floor
her head fell forward and she tried to support it by keeping her
knees together and bending her back so that her head would rest
on them. She was fully restored after nine months treatment
with one dose of Thuja.
In a boy of 14, the atrophy was still greater. The symptoms
came as in the girl. A )ear ago he received Thuja™. Accord¬
ing to a report recently received his general health is fully re¬
stored. The weakness of the back remains unchanged so that
he walks with difficulty on clutches. Several other cases still
more clearly marked ended fatally. Yet even in these there was
temporary improvement from the action of the Thuja visible.
The progressive paralysis like Addison's disease belong to the re¬
cent period. Otherwise the older physicians who in my opinion
observed vital phenomena sharper than the younger would no
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have overlooked them. I must give briefly a case of paralysis
of the lower extremities, which clearly records the casual rela¬
tionship before mentioned. It had existed with varying severity
for about three years in a young married man. He had gonorrhea
a long time ago which had been finally suppressed by injec¬
tions. Notwithstanding his health was thus affected, in his in¬
tervals of improvement, he could not resist sexual temptation; but
every time he suffered for his weakness by a relapse , although his
friends who had been his partners in the caresses of the fair , frail
one escaped unscathed. I gave him June 1st of last year one
dose of Thuja 300 . The next morning the discharge was more
profuse than ever and thus continued from five or six days and
then disappeared for a long time. It then returned for a shorter
period and so on with constant improvement in his general con¬
dition. I discharged him cured Sept. 29. Characteristic of
Sycosis are these transitory paralyses which attack the patient in
the midst of his daily duties. For example the arm falls to his
side and then he immediately goes on with his labor. Sometimes a
sudden pain seems to be the occasion and he says it feels as if a
sudden blow struck him on the arm. A general paralysis comes in
the same way.
Trosseau mentions a transient speechlessness (aphasia ) which is
characterized by inability to finish a sentence he is saying, nor
can he write it if desired to do so. In a case of Bright’s disease
which doubtless rested on a sycotic basis, I observed the same
thing happen. He did not attempt to write. The aphasia lasted
15 minutes. In a girl of 8 whom I saw a couple of days ago, in
whom the presence of Sycosis has not been demonstrated, the
symptoms continued 15 minutes.
Caries of the teeth is a very frequent symptom when it is char¬
acterized by the teeth, more frequently decaying at the roots , so
that they may break off by very slight violence. At first the
enamel becomes black and a black strip along the roots of the inci¬
sors is seen. Close inspection often reveals perforated spots in
the enamel here and there thus the sound may discover the caries.
I might speak of St. Vitus dance , gout with anchylosis spuria of
the joints which forms of disease many times are sycotic, but will
confine myself to making a few brief remarks.
The treatment of sycosis although often very easy, aside from
its diagnosis is often complicated by the presence of psoric afflictions.
Here again I have found Wolf’s statement that the reaction of
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Thuja is disturbed by the administration of very few remedies.
After it I have found Natrum mur. more frequently indicated
and I may add that given after Thuja it often helped while ad¬
ministered before , it did nothing. That Nitric acid stands beside
Thuja and must often be exhibited to complete the cure is well
known.
It is well worth while to institute extensive experiments to as¬
certain if Wolf’s statement that small pox and the gonorrhoeal viris
are identical , is correct by giving a dose of Thuja a shorter or
longer time before vaccination. In one patient to whom I had
given Thuja; m , the course was exactly that described by Wolf,
viz: very rapid development and complete cicitrization within eight
days while in another person who was vaccinated simultaneously
with the same virus the usual course was run. I have treated
successfully 12 or 14 cases of disease which appeared immedi¬
ately after vaccination and in every case but one with Thuja and
that was helped by Sulphur.
Six months or a year ago the so-called syphilis vaccine at¬
tracted much attention in the medical journals. Whosoever reads
the cases carefully will hardly recognize syphilis in all of them.
Several speak more strongly for sycosis, for example, the craving
hunger lasting until death which is a common symptom of sycosis
but is not seen in syphilis.
A year ago I treated a child of three years. It became sick
soon after vaccination and was constantly but ineffectually treated
for a long time, just how long I did not learn. Besides the gen¬
eral symptoms which coincided clearly with sycosis, there was
beneath the tongue a round elevated ulcer with a lardaceous bottom
surrounded by a slightly elevated margin which appeared to be
nearly smooth and uniform . Examination with the sound showed
that it was composed of a mass of condylamata arranged like
shingles on a roof. One dose of Thuja cured this in about two
months.
THE MAL-TREATMENT OF GONORRHOEA.
HOWARD CRUTCHER, M. D., CHICAGO.
PROF. OF SURGERY, DUNHAM MEDICAL COLLEGE.
The first mistake that is generally made in dealing with gonor¬
rhoea is to regard the disease as a trifling malady, hardly worthy
of serious attention. The ignoramuses in the profession and
the youngsters amongst the laity all know better than this. It
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would be difficult to name a malady about which there is greater
popular misconception.
Lydston, whose authority will hardly be called in question,
says that gonorrhoea cannot be cut short, and that the one who
devises a method of treatment that will cure it under a month or
six weeks will be worthy the name of benefactor of his race. My
own experience is that, whilst the disease cannot be aborted, its
course can be greatly modified by proper treatment, and that
the usual complications can be prevented almost entirely.
During my student days I remember to have heard Dr. P. S.
Conner remark at the Cincinnati Hospital that, in his experi¬
ence, gonorrhoea killed ten times as many people as syphilis. It
may well be questioned whether the proportion is not very much
greater than this. A death from syphilis is something very un¬
usual; a like result from gonorrhoea is extremely common.
Under rational treatment, gonorrhoea is not a deadly malady;
on the contrary, it yields in time to proper methods and leaves
in its trail none of those frightful lesions that are amongst the
most formidable in surgery. The urethra is an exceedingly
sensitive canal, and its diseases must be dealt with as gently as
those of the conjunctiva. By this I mean that no chemical
solution must ever be thrown into the urethra that cannot with
safety be thrown into the eye. All rough exploration must be
avoided. It is surprising how readily strictures are produced by
meddling with an inflamed membrane.
If a violent astringent be thrown into an acutely inflamed
urethra, orchitis or stricture, or both, will be invited. Occas¬
ionally a dangerous outbreak of gonorrhoeal rheumatism will
follow such a procedure.
For the information of those who keep great tanks of “gleet
mixture” on their shelves, it may be stated that a gleety dis¬
charge means stricture or strictures y and that no amount of
“mixtures” will cure the condition. Strictures of the pendulous
urethra are mechanical affairs, and should be dealt with ration¬
ally or left alone. They cannot be located nor cured by the
use of graduated steel sounds. Their location can be fixed and
their caliber determined by the olive-tipped bongee. The ap¬
plication of the Otis urethratome under cocaine anaesthesia,
followed by systematic dilatation, gives such prompt and lasting
results that I have no occasion to employ any other method.
Strictures in the deep urethra are less fibrous than the others,
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and should be treated by gradual and prolonged dilatation. An
impermeable stricture in the deep urethra presents one of the
most difficult problems in all surgery. It is very easy under
such conditions to make a false passage with an instrument.
Such cases demand prompt and radical treatment, and should
under no conditions be meddled with by unskilled hands.
The complications of gonorrhoea would fill a very large library,
but it is not too much to say that most of them can be traced
directly to irrational treatment.
THE OPHTHALMOSCOPES VALUABLE AID IN THE
EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF GRAVE DISEASES.
JOHN STORER, M. D., CHICAGO.
PROP. OPHTHALMOLOGY, OTOLOGY AND LARYNGOLOGY, DUNHAM MEDICAL
COLLEGE.
Case I. Mrs. A., aged 33, has complained for years of her
eyes and head, she wears a plus .75 sph. before each eye, given her
by her former oculist, who assures her the trouble is amblyopia
and cannot be helped, being dissatisfied her physician referred
her to me. Upon examination, I found vision O. D.=6
with a plus .50 sp. Q plus .50 cyl., axis is 60, the vision was im¬
proved in right eye to 6-9 only, and with left eye,—1. sp. 3 plus
.25 cyl. axis is 105. gave vision 6-24, the best I could do and it
was far from satisfactory. The ophthalmoscope was now used
to discover if possible the cause of her poor vision, a refractive
error being now excluded. The cornea revealed no opacities,
the crystalline lens was perfectly transparent and the vitreous
humor clear, but upon reaching the fundus, found cause enough
to account for the poor vision, a marked case of optic atrophy,
extending to the vessels with cupping of the disk. This con¬
dition has probably been slowly developing for many months;
an examination of the right eye revealed the same condition,
but not nearly as advanced. Upon questioning her she replied
that she had not been well for years, a persistent backache, in
spite of faithful uterine and rheumatic treatment. Tenderness
of the soles, profuse debilitating menses, not sure of her legs in
walking. Band like pains. Statistics show that fifty per cent
of the cases of optic atrophy are associated with Locomotor
Ataxy, and from the above symptoms and the pupil reacting so
feebly to light, I had no hesitation in so diagnosing this case.
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Different remedies, as indications might arise, were recommended
as the only possible hope at this late stage nf prolonging life.
The atrophic condition will probably go on to total blindness.
It is to be regretted that this case could not have been diagnosed
a year earlier; at that stage intelligent treatment could at le.ast
have saved her for this world many years of usefulness and
comfort.
Case II. Mr. S., aged 48. Called upon me for relief of the
following symptoms:
Frequent severe headaches, <move, <light, <noise.
Early morning nausea and vomiting.
Dyspnoea from slight causes.
Very little food distresses. Weak.
Frequent pains in region of heart.
Is losing in weight.
Has been under a physician’s care for six months. Gets bet¬
ter and worse, but on the whole feels he is failing.
The symptoms pointed to no particular disease and as he
complained so bitterly of his headaches, I decided to test his
eyes for glasses, thinking perhaps an aggravated refractive error
might be at the bottom of his trouble, but soon found this was
not the case. The ophthalmoscope was then called upon and
right royally did it do its work; the conditions there revealed
pointed unquestionably to Bright’s Disease. There were the
engorged veins and irregularly shaped white spots on retina, to¬
gether with numerous hemorrhages.
The case could now be treated intelligently, but had developed
to such a degree that palliation only was all that could be hoped
for. The urine, on testing, would often show as high as fifty
per cent albumen and perhaps next day there would be none.
The case went from bad to worse. We soon had dropsy ex¬
tending higher and higher, with total blindness and convulsions
threatening. Death finally came to relieve him of further suffer¬
ing. The remedies acted nobly in ameliorating the conditions,
but there could be but one result.
In this case also could an Oculist have been called six months
earlier. The result from an early diagnosis and intelligent
treatment, would certainly have been long postponed, if a posi¬
tive cure had not followed.
That the Ophthalmoscope in proficient hands is a great aid in
diagnosis and treatment, goes without saying; it should be used
and understood far more. The many conditions it reveals are
oftentimes positive and startling. One learns to love the instru¬
ment and look upon it as a faithful friend.
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Sanitary Science.
Sanitary Science.
HEALTH. '
A. C. RASMUSSEN, M. D., CHICAGO.
PROF. OF SANITARY SCIENCE, DUNHAM MEDICAL COLLEGE.
Mens sana in corpore sano is one of the oldest apothegms of
antiquity, and may well be considered next to life the greatest
blessing of God to man. There can be no doubt about a sound
mind being the first and best gift, and next a sound body is the
greatest possible gift to us. All through the civilized world we
find temples, schools and colleges raising their spires to heaven,
cathedrals, churches, chapels, schools, seats of sacred and pro¬
fane or secular learning, where they teach a knowledge of God,
the way to heaven (hereafter), a knowledge of all things earthly,
comprised in the sciences, the professions, the arts, and so far
assisting the body as to cure, or endeavor to cure, diseases when
they occur. Still until very lately little or nothing was done to
prevent disease or protect and increase health. I dare say that
few, even among the physicians, are thoroughly acquainted with
health; few can accurately define it. We are introduced to
man when he is in a state of disease; and from this point only
we study him. It is of course our business to remove disease,
which is often not done or done, at times, so imperfectly as to
leave impressions, not only of the disease but of the cure, for
life. I have at present under my care a gentleman, a traveler
for a New York commercial house, who twelve years ago was
treated by a prominent old school doctor of that city for a
diarrhoea he contracted during the hot weather; he took a single
1 gr. pill composed of Opium and Camphor —only one—after
which he became so dyspeptic that he is since a perfect picture
of misery—and feels one too. This is the greatest fault of medi¬
cal teaching, to prescribe for the disease regardless of the
patient or his constitution, hereditary and congenital disposi¬
tion, susceptibility, sanitary environments, acceptation, etc.
The schools of medicine can scarcely be called schools of
health. The medical students should study to become experts in
the science of health; that would, perfect their medical educa-
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tion and render them more than doubly successful in their pro¬
fessional career. Whilst now many physicians can check and
cure disease conditions, few are able to lead back their patients
from a sick bed to perfect health, leaving this to time and na¬
ture, notwithstanding the spreading influence of Hahnemannian
philosophy. I have among my patients, a lady who fifteen
years ago had typhoid fever, and was treated by a very promi¬
nent old school physician who could not remove a nervous
headache, that even now at times almost drives her to dispair,
although I have spent many hours over Boenninghausen, Knerr,
King and Underwood’s checking lists to find a simillimum that
would relieve her for a few months at the most.
One reason why the science of hygiene has been so sadly
neglected, I believe, is because it is considered not strictly
within the province of the physician. Within a few years, how¬
ever, a change is taking place, many of the medical colleges
placing sanitary science on their curriculum of studies, whereby
a great deal of good is being done by agitating and preparing
the universal mind for higher advances and more systematic
teaching of the science of health and life.
While preparing this paper I received a friendly call from our
pastor, Rev. N. Bolt, who insists on my speaking on this sub¬
ject iii his church. This is as it should be. If the clergy are
the right hand of our Divine Redeemer, we physicians certainly
are his left. I believe the time is approaching when parents
will consider the teaching of the science of health, and the
knowledge of the human system, the laws that govern its exist¬
ence and perpetuate its continuance, and the causes that pro¬
duce disease and shorten life, of the greatest possible importance
to their children; and no education should be considered “up
to date” that does not early communicate the science of health
—that good health is the greatest wealth.
But what is the reason we are, as a class, so ignorant of the
science of health? It is because we consider it effeminate to
attend to this great subject. In general we possess a most
beautiful climate, the best material tor food in abundance, and
every means of creating the healthiest and longest lived race in
the world. All that is required is a correct knowledge of the
subject of health and the facts and principles from which it is
derived and continued.
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Surgery .
Surgery.
A SO-CALLED SURGICAL CASE.*
W. P. WESSELHCEFT, M. D., BOSTON, MASS.
C. C. Pale, otherwise well nourished girl, rather inclined to
obesity; dark complexion, age 9 years. A child of an intem¬
perate and dissolute father.
When 3 years old, a hard swelling appeared under the chin
which increased so that it disfigured her, and in her seventh year
was removed. Soon after removal, tumors appeared on the
right side of the neck, and she now has a string of them, reach¬
ing from below the ear to the clavicle, varying in size from a
pea to a hazel-nut.
During the last year, a tumor appeared anterior to the left
axilla and reaching about midway into the axilla; this has now
attained the size of a goose egg.
The tumor in the neck and the one in the axilla, are freely
movable, very hard and slightly sensitive.
Six months ago an ulcer appeared on the left cornea which
was treated locally, leaving a patch of opacity nearly covering
the pupil, seriously impairing the vision of that eye. Partial
ptosis of left eyelid.
A week ago a similar ulcer appeared on the right eye, situated
over the inner edge of the iris. This ulcer is now quite well
developed. There is photophobia, lachrymation, otherwise not
painful. The former ulcer on left eye was very painful, with
intense headache and supra-orbital neuralgia.
She has a chronic, yellowish green, bloody discharge from
nostrils, which is also post-nasal. Cold, damp, clammy feet;
stockings always wet. Extremely sensitive to cold air, com¬
plains all winter of feeling chilly.
When a year old she had a moist, scabby eruption on chin
and forehead which was locally treated.
She is a gentle child, but has seasons of great irritability and
impatience. Calcarea carl>. cm 9 one dose dry.
Report two weeks later. Ulcer on right cornea is healed; no
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photophobia or lachrymation remains. Tumor in left axilla
has increased decidedly, with a slight blush of skin and increased
sensitiveness; all indications of an abscess forming. S ’. Z.
Report two weeks later. Redness over tumor in axilla has
nearly disappeared. Much less sensitiveness; no indications of
fluctuation, which I expected to find by this time.
Left eye on which the first ulcer occurred is weak, slight
photophobia and increased ptosis. No change in the glands of
the neck. Sulphur cm , one dose.
Report two weeks later. General improvement. Mother has
noticed much less sensitiveness to cold, and the stockings are
not as wet. The most marked change, however, is in the nasal
discharge, which has so far improved, that instead of using three
handkerchiefs daily, she now uses one. The tumor in the axilla
has slightly decreased. No change in the glands of the neck.
5. Z.
Report one month later. No further improvement. Has six
or seven loose stools daily, occurring chiefly in the forenoon,
preceded by slight pain in abdomen, and after stool. Sulphur *™,
one dose.
Report two months later. Stools much less frequent, no pain.
Mother makes special note of improvement in her irritability.
Tumors in neck and axilla remain about the same as two months
ago. Sulphur*™™ % one dose.
Report one month later. Stools are now regular. Appetite
improved. Axillary tumor is smaller. S. Z.
Report six weeks later. Steady improvement. Child looks
much better. Some color in cheeks; all the tumors decreasing,
especially the one in the axilla. The old scar over left pupil
less dense.
Report one month later. Diarrhoea is troubling her again,
driving her out of bed in the morning, followed by from four to
six stools during the forenoon. Tumors remain nearly station¬
ary. Sulphur*™™.
Report one month later. Swelling in axilla nearly disappeared.
Tumors on neck have decreased so that the outline of neck is
nearly natural. The tumors, however, can be detected by taxis.
Old macula on cornea can hardly be seen except by lens. Dur¬
ing the last two months a large seed wart has come on the mid¬
dle knuckle of each hand. Thuya cm , one dose.
Report two months later. Large wart on right hand has dis-
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appeared, the one on the left hand is about half its former size.
A very small wart on finger has appeared during the last month.
The swelling in the axilla is now'about the size of a fibert. Has
no complaints to make except a slight headache on awakening
in the morning.
Report two months later. All warts have disappeared. The
child is looking rosy. Swellings in neck and axilla can hardly
be detected. Slight opacity of the left cornea still exists, but
is not noticeable. No more foot sweat; no catarrh.
This child is still under observation, but I shall probably not
see her again for many months. She is taking S . L. daily. All
this was accomplished with three remedies in highly attenuated
doses during eighteen months. Calcarea was given once; Sul¬
phur in increased attenuations was given four times at intervals
of over two months. Thuya was given in a single dose six
months ago, and I think she will need no other medicine.
This child was brought to me on account of the ulcer on the
eye, and to get my opinion as to the advisability of having the
tumors removed.
Taking this case into consideration with reference to the
Hahnemannian Psoric Theory, I think it of great value.
Here we have a child, apparently in so-called good condition,
well nourished, inclined to be fat. In her babyhood an erup¬
tion was suppressed on the chin and forehead. In her third
year a swelling appeared under her chin. This was cut out.
Soon after this removal, other swellings appeared which were
hard and not inclined to suppurate. When these began to de¬
crease (after the Homoeopathic remedy) another constitutional
poisoning made itself manifest in the appearance of warts on the
hand.
Taking into consideration the parentage, a dissolute father,
who, however, is still strong and robost, it is presumable that she
inherited a sycotic disease from him. The mother has many
marks of psora. She is hard of hearing, with occasional offen¬
sive Otorrhcea; irregularity in menstruation; continual back¬
ache, and periodical headaches. Two such persons producing
a third, it is manifest that something must be inherited. Work¬
ing upon this basis, I have had the great satisfaction of restor¬
ing this child to health. The more I observe, the stronger be¬
comes my conviction, that Hahnemann was right in his assump¬
tion of three constitutional poisonings, which lie at the bottom
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of all chronic diseases, with the exception of those which are of
medicinal origin, or caused by privations, or profound mental
emotions. (
If this eruption on the forehead and chin, which occurred in
babyhood, had been treated according to the methods of Hahne¬
mann, it is very probable that the child would have h*d neither
ulcers on the eyes nor tumors, fortunately for the child, the
tumors multiplied after the removal of one under the chin, and
consequently these deep poisons did not attack the internal
organs or tissues.
Supposing continued excisions had been performed, is it not
reasonable to suppose that the child would have been a chronic
invalid for life, or have died before reaching puberty? Then
the Pathologists would have said, she died of this or that disease,
whereas, disease or death would have been due to suppression
of the eruption, and the continue^ excisions of the tumors,
which kind nature had established for her relief.
Whenever n man settles all things by his eyes, and fingers, pseudo-science
and theories, he reasons from lasts to firsts; in other words from himself, and
is insane.
You can never look from the toxic, to see what is in harmony with the
dynamic, but may look from the dynamic to see what is in harmony with the
toxic.
Toxicology shows you the ability, or extent of the effects of a drug.
All human beings have like possibilities of degradation; so we cannot look
down upon any member of the human race. We sometimes find in the lowest,
characteristics that are the noblest.
Does any one know what Chemical Affinity is, except, that certain substances,
seem to take a liking to each other?
Susceptibility exists in the Vital Force, and not in the tissues.
A disease may be suppressed by a medicine as well as by a stronger dissimilar
disease.
In Epilepsy, so long as Bromides suppress nature is paying more attention to
the disease of Bromides than to the disease of Epilepsy.
If we would accept opinion we should have to go back to Allopathy, because
we find there only a record of man’s experiments; a mass of heterogeneous
opinions.
Homceopathicity is the relation between the symptoms of the patient and the
remedy which will cure.
HomoeoDathv is an aDDlied science not a theory.
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THE RELATION OF HOMCEOPATHY TO POTENTIZED
DRUGS.*
MAYBELLE M. PARK, M. D., H. M., WAUKESHA, WIS.
I hesitate, from ray few years of practice, to speak to you onr
a subject of such weight and fundamental importance, but F
voice not only ray own thoughts but the words of Hahnemann,
the Master of Homoeopathies, who gave us the Organon , the Bible
of medical literature, the Materia Medica Pura } the master¬
piece of materia medica, and the Chronic Diseases , the crown of
therapeutics. Just as we go to The Bible for moral and spiritual
guidance, so we should go to the Organon for definite and specific
directions in any difficulty in our medical practice; it contains
the alpha and omega of the laws governing the conscientious
homoeopathic physician. Says Dr. Kent:
“Very few are able to read the Organon at first and see anything in it but
words, and yet the oldest practitioner of pure homoeopathy finds nothing in it to
change and the older he grows and the more active he becomes in work, the
more he depends upon it and the more consistent it becomes. ”
We are all apparently unanimous on the one law, u similia sim-
ilibus curantur ” but we are not united on the method of apply¬
ing, or gaining, the result to be reached by the simillimurn. We
jeer at the allopathic shot gun prescriptions but I wonder how
many before me have examined their own ammunition lately.
In the Organon we find what Hahnemann says in regard to the
ingle remedy.
Section 169: “On account of the limited number of thoroughly known
remedies, cases may occur where the first examination of the disease, and the
first selection of a remedy prove that the totality of symptoms of the disease is
not sufficiently covered by the morbific elements (symptoms) of a single remedy;
and where we are obliged to choose between two medicines which seem to be
equally well suited to the case, and one of which appears to be homoeopathic to
a certain portion of the symptoms of the case, while the second is indicated by
the other portion. In these instances, after having decided upon, and pre¬
scribed one of these medicines as most eligible, it is not advisable to administer
the remedy of our second choice without further scrutiny because it may no
longer correspond to the symptoms which remain after the case has undergone
a change.”
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Section 272: “In the treatment of disease, only one simple medicina
substance should be used at one time.”
Section 274: ‘‘Perfectly simple, unmixed and single remedies afford
the physician all the advantages he could possibly desire.”
Note [139.] Section 272* “Some homoeopathic physicians have
tried the plan of administering two medicines at a time, or nearly so, in cases
where one of the remedies seemed to be homoeopathic to one portion of the
symptoms of the disease, and where a second remedy appeared adapted to
other portions, but I must seriously warn my readers against such an attempt,
which will never be necessary even if it should seem proper.”
[140*] Section 274* “Supposing the right homoeopathic remedy to
have been administered in a well considered case of disease, it would be pre¬
posterous to order the patient to drink some other medicinal herl>tea, to apply
herb cushions, medicated fomentations, injections, salves,or ointments; a sensi¬
ble physician will leave such practice to irrational allopathic routine.”
Some physicians even put two or more remedies in the same
glass, saying whichever cures, let it cure. Is this the true phy¬
sician whose “sole duty is to heal the sick in a mild, prompt and
permanent manner” who doses the sick with many powerful drugs
in hopes some one may turn the delicate, deranged vital force in¬
to order? We can not tell how two remedies will work together
for they have been proved separately and their combined action
must necessarily be different than either acting singly.
Section 124. “For these purposes [proving] every medicinal substance
should be employed entirely alone.”
Only one remedy should be used and only a single dose be
administered—no other medicines being given until the first dose
has been allowed to do all its work and the symptoms begin to
return.
Section 240* “A very fine dose of the well selected homoeopathic remedy,
if uninterrupted in its action, will gradually accomplish all the curative effect it
is capable of producing in a period varying from forty to one hundred days.
But it is rarely uninterrupted, and besides, the physician, as well as the patient,
usually desires to accelerate the cure by reducing this period of time, if possible,
by one*half, one quarter or even less. Experience has proved in numerous in¬
stances that such a result may actually be obtained under the following three
conditions: First, by careful selection of the most appropriate homoeopathic
medicine; secondly, by administering the medicine in the finest dose capable of
restoring the vital force to harmonious activity, without causing violent reaction;
and, thirdly, by repeating the finest dose of an accurately selected medicine at
proper intervals, such as are proved by experience to be the most conducive to
a speedy cure.” Also in
Note [126] , Section 246, which I will not quote.
Even the practice of giving repeated doses until reaction sets
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in, is a bad one, condemned by Hahnemann, for the vital force
cannot be hurried; the doses accumulate and act as one large
dose which over-powers the economy.
To accomplish his wonderful cures Hahnemann found crude
drugs inefficient; after years of study and research, he discovered
a law as great as the law of similars—the law that substances
become more and more active as they are deprived of the ma¬
terial through which they manifest themselves. The German
chemists have lately re-discovered this same law. “Raullin suc¬
ceeded in showing that nitrate of silver in proportion of one
part to 1,600,000 parts of water would inhibit the growth of
Aspergillus and still further, discovered that this organism
would not live in water placed within a silver vessel, al¬
though no silver could be detected in the fluid with the most
sensitive reagents.’' Carl von Naegeli, the late distinguished
botanist followed out these clues, finding that Spirogyra could
not live in the most delicate solution of nitrate of silver . “He
found that death occurred in three or four minutes in a solution
of 1-1,000,000,000,000,000. In such a solution there could not
be more than one or two molecules of the salt to each litre.
Was the distilled water itself at fault? No, for within it the
spirogyra thrived. Corrosive sublimate gave even more pro¬
nounced results; the organism died in a solution of 1-1,000,000,-
000,000,000,000,000,000. This could contain but a trillionth of
a molecule to a litre. He discovered that many substances
hitherto reputed unsoluble in water, such as the metals, gold,
silver, copper, iron, mercury, lead and zinc, by their mere pres¬
ence in the water, possessed this property.” This hitherto un¬
known force he named oligo-dynamia. If these great chemists
and botanists had listened to Hahnemann, they might have
heard him say some seventy years ago in
Section 269: “To serve the purposes of homoeopathy, the spirit-like
medicinal powers of crude substances are developed to an unparalleled degree by
means of a process which was never attempted before, and which causes medi¬
cine to penetrate the organism, and thus to become more efficacious and
remedial.”
Section 128: “The most recent experiments have taught that crude
medicinal substances, if taken by an experimenter for the purpose of ascertain¬
ing the peculiar effects, will not disclose the same wealth of latent powers, as
when they are taken in a highly attenuated state, potentiated by means of
trituration and succussion. Through this simple process, the powers hidden
and dormant, as it were, in the crude drug, are developed and called into
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activity in an incredible degree. In this way, the medicinal powers, even of
substances hitherto considered as inert, are most effectively developed.”
Hahnemann then gives the process of potentization as well
known to you all. He worked from these low potencies higher
and higher, until during the last years of his life, he used the
highest potencies he had made—the thirtieths, but he did not
say “thus far, and no further shalL you go,” for we read in
Section 160: “The dose of the homoeopathic remedy can scarcely be re¬
duced to such a degree of minuteness as to make it powerless to overcome and
completely cure an analogous, natural disease of recent origin and undisturbed
by injudicious treatment.” And
Section 280: “This incontrovertible principle, founded on experience,
furnishes a standard according to which the doses of homoeopathic medicines are
invariably to be reduced so far that even after having been taken, they will
merely produce an almost imperceptible homoeopathic aggravation. We should
not be deterred from the use of such doses by the high degree of rarefaction
that may have been reached, however incredible they may appear to the coarse,
material ideas of ordinary practitioners; their arguments will be silenced by the
verdict of infallible experience.”
Hahnemann, in the Materia Medica Pura , under Arsenicum
says:
“Can the subdivision of a substance, be it carried ever so far, bring forth
anything else than a portion of the whole? Must not these portions, reduced in
size to the very verge of infinity, still be something, something substantial, a
part * f the whole, be it ever so minute?” Also section 279, note [143] and
last on note [126].
These higher potencies allow us to go deeper and deeper into
the vital economy and turn into order states that one could never
dream of effecting with the third, tenth or even thirtieth. It is
our duty not to yield to our prejudiced ideas and biased minds.
We have solemnly taken upon ourselves to cure speedily, gently
and permanently, and high potencies will cure more speedily,
more gently and more permanently than the low forms. Some
claim that high potencies do very well for old chronic cases, but
are not suitable and will not act quickly enough in acute cases.
They will relieve more quickly, of course, always taking for
granted that they are accurately prescribed, and if given in
time will break up the long runs of fevers which are always said
to have to take their course.
I was called, hastily one morning, to a very sick girl. She
had all the symptoms of so called appendicitis of the Bryonia
type; on the third day she came to my office, saying: “Now,
doctor, I want you to tell me what was the matter with me.”
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When I said “appendicitis** she laughed outright. “Well,” I
continued, “if you want a longer attack you will have to go to
another doctor.**
Our family has always been accustomed to so called homoeo¬
pathic treatment. My brother had a large boil on the side of
his neck; he took cold in it and was suffering tortures; I gave
him one dose of a high potency, about which he had been told;
the next morning he said there must be something in it, for he
was never relieved so quickly before.
Others claim that high potencies do very well for acute cases,
but when it comes to long, old, deep, chronic cases you have to
have something strong —with the idea that strength is always
connected with material quality, taste and smell. By beginning
a case with a low potency the curative power seems to go in a
few months, although the symptoms still indicate the same
remedy. What is to be done? The patient is not well; the
first prescription was good for it acted well for a time. Now is
the time to go to a higher potency; it takes up the work where
the lower left off; goes deeper into the dynamic force and re¬
covery continues.
Case—Nov. 6, 1896. Miss A., 24 years of age:
Menses painful, irregular, every five, seven, or ten days, or
two or three weeks; began when 15; back of head painful for
two or three days before; bearing down, heavy pains when
standing; feels as if something inside was tearing her to pieces;
nausea, can*t eat; restless; flow lasts about five days, intermit¬
tent, very scanty, very dark, flows more when quiet; periods get
worse and more irregular during the school year; pain in back
first two or three days; loses one or two days of school; back of
head prickly, goes down back when menses are overdue; leucor-
rhoea for a week or ten days after menses; appetite good, can
eat anything except milk, ice cream and fat; very thirsty;
bowels not regular as a rule, better before menses, no urging,
uses injections of warm water or salts on second day. Sleep,
restless before menses, terrific dreams. Perspiration stands out
when in pain. Urine, sediment brick-dust last year. Better in
morning after breakfast, dozy after dinner. Worse on damp,
muggy days, can scarcely breathe. Warm rooms make her
dull, heavy, goes to head; better in open air. Worries about
work, keeps her awake all night. Eyes weak, smart, must wink,
wore glasses for awhile; worse at menstrual period. Catarrh,
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must clear throat, white glossy discharge, takes cold easily.
Breath offensive, bad taste in mouth, worse before menses.
Cave Puls*™. Has the blues, despondent, sensation of every¬
thing leaving her.
Nov. 14. Eyes examined, far-sighted, slight astigmatism,
greatly diminished by glasses. Stomach out of order, breath
bad, tongue coated in morning. Backache in cervical region
and in lumbo-sacral. Gave Sac . Lac. Dreams much, dumpish
if she doesn't go to bed early.
Dec. 1. Pain in back of head and lower back, burning, could
hardly sleep one night. Constipation last week, then three and
four stools a day, thin, offensive; regular since then. Lips
crack and scale. Gave Sac. Lac. Nervous headache from
worry over school work.
Dec. 10. Feeling perfectly Well. Constipated, much urging,
stools dry and hard. Sac. Lac. Restless for two or three
nights, menses overdue.
Dec. 17. Menses began yesterday, two weeks late; great pain
for a few hours; cold sweat; vomited breakfast; heavy weighing
•down in uterus, better lying on right side, steady dead pain if
lies on left side; flowing profusely; increases when quiet, none
when walking. Better with hard pressure on back. Sac. Lac.
Bowels irregular. Feels splendid; ambitious.
Jan. 30, 1897. Is well, menses twice, no pain whatever, in
school all the time.
1898. No return of the trouble.
This is a perfectly simple case, but it shows the effect of one
remedy; the patient had no other treatment. It shows the
direction of symptoms from within outward for, mentally, she
herself, was feeling splendidly, while some of the more super¬
ficial symptoms still remained. She got well while going on
with her school work, improving instead of growing worse as she
had done during the previous year.
You may say these cases would have recovered of themselves,
although you are homoeopaths, you say the patient thought he
was taking something, and so just got well There need never
be any doubt as to whether a case was cured or merely got well,
for Hahnemann tells us that symptoms must go from within out¬
ward, from above downward, and in the reverse order of their
coming, and in chronic cases under this last head, the return of
•old symptoms which may have been suppressed for years, show
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that the vitality is returning on its old course and regaining its
normal activity.
One cannot use high potencies successfully, unless he keeps
records of the cases. This may seem at first a great waste of
time to spend, possibly from one-half to two hours in taking a
case, but in reality it is a time saver. 'When you once have the
case, it is there for future reference; you can let it go from your
mind with the assurance that you can turn to the details at any
time, and as the patient returns from week to week you have to
spend only a moment to determine the prescription; whether
Sac . Lac. y a repeated dose, or a new remedy. While with no
record, you forget many important details, you have to reques¬
tion the patient each time, you have forgotten the potency and
the time of administration, and the case becomes hopelessly
confused.
The high potencies should never be used by one who is un¬
willing to work or think, but with a careful taking of the case, a
thorough study of the remedies related to the case by means of
repertories and the materia medica, the administration of a
single dose of this remedy highly potentized, a patient watching
and guarding of the case, giving no other medicine or applica¬
tion of any sort so long as improvement continues, nor the
symptoms begin to return, such a procedure will be rewarded by
a success you have never attained before.
The Simple Substance is the substance of substances, and all things are from
it. It is really first, in which rests all power.
Weight cannot be predicated of the Simple Substance, neither time nor
space. *
No power known to man exists in the concrete substance, but all power ex¬
ists in the Primitive Substance.
The Primitive Substance, or Radiant form of matter, as certain scientists
term it, is just as much matter as matter in its aggregate form.
The real and general holding together of the things in this world is by Simple
Substance. r
—Kent's Aphorisms and Precepts .
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PSYCHOMETRIC FORCE.*
K. O. AUSTIN, M. D., CHICAGO.
Ladies and Gentlemen: My course of lectures will be devoted
to a consideration of the unseen forces operating on, or express¬
ing through the human organism in health or in disease. Ex¬
cepting the well known forces of electricity and magnetism, which
also are invisible, we may, for the sake of convenience, conceive
of these other forces of which I shall treat, under the generic
term, psychometric force. You may recognize the same forces
under more specific terms than I, in my lectures, shall make use
of, but, the term psychometric force as a general name embrac¬
ing the elements concerned in hypnotism, thought transference,
mental therapeutics, and so forth, will answer the purpose at
hand.
I hope to make it evident that this department of study merits
as much attention, and will be of as much practical utility to the
physician who wants to understand human nature in all its feat¬
ures, as that commanding subject of your curriculum, the guid¬
ing symptoms of your materia medica.
Psychometric force comes into operation, in different degrees
of imperfection, consciously or unconsciously to the physician,
in every case where cure of disease occurs. For, as a human be¬
ing has a physical part, and an unseen part acting on the physi¬
cal and the two parts reacting on each other, so disease is, not in
any case, a condition of the physical alone, but each symptom
has its duplicate in the unseen, or etherial part.
Disease, therefore, has two aspects, one visible or evident to
some of the five senses, and the other invisible or psychometric.
One of these aspects may be removed without the departure
of the other. For instance, the disappearance of symptoms
may be induced by the properly selected remedy without any
psychometric influences, being brought to bear on the unseen
aspect of the disorder; or, the unseen aspect may be removed by
hypnotism, whereby the physical aspect assumes a latent state.
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In both cases the old condition may in time, reassert itself in
in a state of activity in the two aspects of the disease.
I can say with conviction founded on close observation, and
on knowledge of the different elements which must be present in
order to make disease, that, no disease was ever cured without the
conjoint action of medicinal and psychometric treatment. Under
the combined influence of these two methods of healing—with
medicinal treatment as taught at this college, which is the most
advanced institute of medicine of to day, and psychometric
treatment, as it will be taught,—every disease is curable where
there is vitality enough left to sustain the process of change.
Time will prove to the world the correctness of this statement.
Such perfection, however, does not belong to the plane of phy¬
sical consciousness. That is why we yet breath it softly beneath
the stars.
There is something behind the veil of clay which penetrates
matter and sees truth in the absolute. This something of which
we shall learn, does* not depend on the brain cells for its percep¬
tions. Quickly, as a flash, it perceives, and knowledge is re¬
ceived, not by slow reasoning, but by influx from the universal
fount of knowledge.
Under favorable conditions much of this knowledge can be
thrown on the physical consciousness, and in this state the in¬
telligence over and above our anatomical frame of matter can
even through the mind or consciousness look through the dis¬
guises of matter.
If knowledge were sought more from within, our culture would
be more worthy the name.
A thought or act is imperfect in proportion to its being a
purely mental process or not, and perfect in proportion to the
amount of light from the higher intelligence by which it is
tinged; and our success in curing disease depends on the sus¬
ceptibility of the mind to that part of us which is above mind.
As probably many of you know, the symptomatology of a
remedy can not be reduced to mathematical exactness, because
even characteristic symptoms will differ some with the idiosyn-
chracy of the prover. And in drug diseases a half dozen reme¬
dies may apparently be about equally indicated simultaneously.
No person can, therefore, become master of the problem of
disease and its remedy througlr a sheer process of mental rea¬
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Homoeopathy, in the first place, did not come into existence
in this way.
Do you suppose that Hahnemann, or whoever preceded him
in the discovery of these facts, would have so far insulted their
sense of logic as to proceed to take two drops of a drug, add
ninety eight drops of alcohol, give a few succussions, take two
drops of this dilution, and add ninety-eight drops of alcohol,
shake as before and repeat this process twenty-nine times, and
then administer this preparation for the cure of disease, or relief
of suffering ?
Do you expect a sane man, through mental reasoning alone,
would commit the apparently insane performance of triturating
a grain of medicine, leave it under the hydrant for twenty-four
hours, or several days, and then apply it as a suitable remedy for
disease? Impossible.
There is something above mind that prompts the reason¬
ing in these cases; and this higher intelligence which illumines
the reason is required in the skillful application of principles, as
well as in the detection of the same. On the plane of conscious¬
ness, per se, we cannot see what exists on the other planes, and
our power of discernment on this plane has narrow limitations;
hence the successful physician cannot always, in the physical
consciousness, keep pace with the knowledge of the higher in¬
telligence acting through him, and so he often knows the remedy
without going through the ordinary mental process of arriving
at a conclusion.
Not receiving the knowledge himself through the common
process of reasoning, he cannot make it evident to the mind of
others, through reasoning, why he selects the particular remedy
he makes use of. He can only make a few suggestions; and
these suggestions are the same as the higher intelligence made
use of in throwing the knowledge on his consciousness.
As is the case wjth the primitive truths of homoeopathy, so the
facts which I shall present to you can, in our present conditions
of life, be only partially proven.
You cannot, through a process of reasoning, make a person
see that there must be medicinal property in a twenty-four hour
fluxion potency of a drug. He must see its action before he can
believe.
Psychometric force belongs principally to a plane above the
physical consciousness, hence the difficulty of bringing its dem¬
onstrations within the range of the physical.
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Oh the plane of mind or physical consciousness, we can per¬
ceive only such things as occupy that plane. On the plane of
the higher self,—that part of us which knows and acts independ¬
ent of the mind—we perceive things on that plane. Unless the
physical, with the unseen elements immediately associating it,
has gone through a process of training and purification through
which the mind becomes more closely blended with the higher
self, not much of the higher plane can be demonstrated to the
mind on the physical plane. If, however, the development has-
been gone through, so that the mind or personality becomes
almost absorbed by the higher ego, all the facts of which I shall
treat are demonstrable on the physical plane. The knowledge
of the higher self, in that state becomes the knowledge of the
mind.
Extraordinary conditions are necessary for the realization of
such a state; years of trials and discipline may be required.
It is possible for any one, however, to suspend judgment and
take propositions for granted until, following this line of thought
for a time, the mind becomes capable of receiving much of the
higher plane, and thereby gains a power of which it was uncon¬
scious.
As you could suspend judgment sufficiently to try the twenty-
four hour fluxion, so you can suspend judgment with reference
to the facts I shall give, until self has thrown the knowledge on
the consciousness, for that is the only way this subject can be
taught under our present conditions of life.
It will be necessary for you, in following this course of study,
not to let previously formed opinions interfere with your recep¬
tion of new ideas. You may find yourself compelled to abandon-
certain preconceived conclusions, but that which takes its place
will be of a nature to raise your standard of morals and give yon
added knowledge and power not alone as physicians, but as men
and women.
Keeping, through the course, the mental faculties in a recep¬
tive state, the higher intelligence will be able to so broaden the
perceptions in the physical consciousness that you will in time
assimilate most of this knowledge, and you may then be able to*
look back with a knowing eye, and understand many of the
things which seemed strange at the time they were presented.
In the discussion of each subject I shall endeavor to avoid a
common mistake in medical and metaphysical leterature, namely,
making much out of little.
There is enough of importance to occupy our attention, with¬
out cramming our heads with non-essentials. The first subject
to be considered will be The Mind.
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ONE FULL REGIMENT—MAKE IT TWO.
Since last May we have added nearly 1200 new subscribers to
the Advocate for the last year of the century and are very de¬
sirous of bringing the number of the new recruits up to the
strength of two full regiments, battling for the* cause of pure
homoeopathy against the world.
Our Monthly Review for the coming yes*r will contain an ab¬
stract of the contents of five of the leading homoeopathic maga¬
zines in each issue and extracts from every article contributing
to the fund of knowledge of homoeopathy or materia medica.
IVe purpose making this Department the most complete and the
most valuable, to our readers, of any periodical in our school.
Homceopathic philosophy, Materia Medica and the Clinical
Verification of the same will continue to be leading character¬
istics of-this magazine. In fact everything placed upon the pages
of the Advocate is designed to be of practical value to the man
or woman who has a desire to practice the art of healing in ac¬
cordance with the law of cure, similia similbus curantur.
Your attention is called to the special announcement appear¬
ing in this issue.
SECTARIANISM IN MEDICINE.
A few months ago, when the volunteers were being mustered into the service
of the United States for hostile operations against Spain, a great hue-and-cry
went up from homoeopathic partisans against what was claimed to be official dis¬
crimination against their “school” in the selection of regimental surgeons.
Homoeopathic journals took the matter up, and the agitation soon reached the
newspapers, from which it received considerable attention. The President and
the Secretary of War were appealed to by petition and in person to remove the
“ban upon homoeopathy” and to give professed practitioners of that “school”
equal advantages with those claimed to be held by members of the regular pro¬
fession. In the usual course of events, some practitioners of the homoeopathic
profession were appointed to the position of regimental surgeons. Inquiry
amongst those best informed seems to put the fact beyond much question that
the “ homoeopathic ” treatment dispensed by “ho mao pat hie” surgeons did not differ
in any essential from that employed by the regular surgeons . It is just to say
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that the “homoeopathic” practitioners appointed were men of creditable stand¬
ing, whose practical scientific attainments were clearly recognized and generous¬
ly acknowledged by their regular associates.
But the inexplicable thing is why men who treat wounds according to modern
methods, who possess a high degree of knowledge in the essential branches of
medical science, and who prescribe medicines precisely as they are prescribed
by regular physicians should glory in a sectarian designation and demand cer¬
tain privileges solely by reason of factious opposition to “the old school.” /
have no quarrel with any honest beliei>er in homoeopathy , and I am glad to accord
to homoeopathic physicians the respect due to all sincere professional gentlemen of
that faith; but is it not asking a little too much of the regular profession to
stand aside, with due deference, for a clamor that is backed by nothing more
substantial than mere sectarian selfishness? If a qualified surgeon desire army
service, his practice differing in no degree from that of other surgeons, why
should he not enter the service upon his merits rather than claim “recognition”
as the representative of a therapeutic faction ? Does homoeopathy stand today
for nothing more than a hollow opposition to regular medicine ? From the les¬
sons of the late war no other conclusion appears possible to an unprejudiced
mind. Physician.
The above is a just and an honest criticism of the part played
by homoeopathy in the late war. Homoeopathy as a sect made
no demand for recognition in the medical service of the army
or navy. Unfortunately homoeopathy is not, militant, she wants
no fight with anyone; but is content to limit her knowledge of dis¬
ease to the special study of disease manifestations in private life
and the means necessary for the removal of the exciting cause,
together with the therapeutic indications of remedies that will
remove the predisposing cause. In this, she surpasses all other
systems of medicine in the world; but when brought face to
face with the problems of State Medicine, the responsibility
is too great for homoeopathy to reach forward and demand rec¬
ognition until she has supplied her men with such knowledge of
sanitation as will place them upon a level with other practition¬
ers of the healing art.
The followers of Hahnemann can well afford to surrender the
department of preventive medicine to others, because their su¬
perior knowledge of curative medicine gives full scope for the
profitable employment of their time and talents, but that is a
selfish position to take and accounts for the limited recognition
given the “school” in public affairs.
To day, State Medicine or Sanitary Science is very indiffer¬
ently taught in the majority of the homoeopathic institutions, it
becomes a part of the curriculum, because State laws compel the
same. It should be made one of the prominent chairs, occupy-
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ing not less than two years, with ample laboratory experimenta¬
tion. The student who is trained in pure homoeopathy would
then be able to go before any examining board upon his own
merit without seeking the “boosting” support of “partisan” sec¬
tarianism.
A surgeon is a surgeon and if he does not add to his knowledge
of surgery, an equally exact knowledge of the practice of homoeo¬
pathic principles, he has no business to try to force himself into
any department of public practice upon the specious plea that he
is a “homoeopath” and as such entitled to a piece of the public
“pie.”
It will be noticed that nearly all the hue and cry about non¬
representation of the “homoeopathic school” came from zeal¬
ous partisans who have gained greater notoriety in other fields
than in their advocacy of homoeopathic principles, and that the
appointments did not go to those who were demanding recognition
of sect, but were given to those who would present the least di¬
vergence from the established routine of medical service.
The emergencies of army service, especially in the hands of
volunteer physicians do not furnish an ideal opportunity for test¬
ing the efficiency of remedies employed in strict accord with the
law of similars. Every line of service must be in harmony with
every other and the isolated homoeopathic physician or surgeon
would be helpless and at the mercy of his superiors. Greater
complaint would be made than has been made during the past
three months, which is useless.
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Journal of Homoeopathies—October.
1. Petroleum . Kent.
% Phytolacca . Kent.
8. Sabadilla. KENT.
4. Schrankia Uncurata. YlNGLlNo.
5. Proving of Jelly Fish. Berridge.
6. Proving of Rhus toxicodendron . W. D. Young.
7. Lectures on Homoeopathic Philosophy. Kent. '
8. Laws of Potency Exemplified. Underwood.
9. Clinical Cases, Farrington, Linnaeus Smith, Musson Jr., W. D.
Young, F. H. Lutze.
1. —Petroleum is one of the much abused remedies. It is used extensively in
the oil regions for both externally and internally, both man and beast. It is a
counter irritant, and produces characteristic eruption on the skin, somewhat re¬
sembling turpentine. It also produces a peculiar confusion and mental disturb¬
ance, with characteristic imaginings in which people are supposed to be near by
who are not at all present. The skin symptoms are very similar in many re¬
spects, to salt rheum and other eruptions about the hands. It is suitable
where there are cracks about the ends of the fingers and on the backs of
the hands. The skin is rough, ragged, cracks and bleeds, the tissues are
hardened, and this cracking is due to the indurated condition of the skin. All
eruptions have a tendency to itch excessively and the cracking is kept up until
the surface bleeds, is sore, raw', and a tendency of the excoriated parts to be¬
come cold or to have a cold sensation. Petroleum resembles Graphites , Carbo
vegetabilis and other carbonaceous substances. There is a hyper sensitiveness
of the senses of hearing, touching, and smelling. The muscles of the body are
inclined to that bruised feeling somewhat resembling Arnica , but it involves
especially the joints, it is sore to the touch aggravated by motion. There is a
peculiar vertigo noticed while on ship board, or riding in a carriage, or in any
rapid moving vehicle due to errors of accommodation, and must notbe mis¬
taken for vertigo and seasickness due to disturbances of the sympathetics ystem
or involving the stomach which are very frequently met by the use of Tabacum .
2. — Phytolacca is decidedly a glandular remedy. The glands become in¬
flamed and hard. It produces violent sore throat with inflammation of the
glands of the neck, particularly the submaxillary and parotid glands, but the
action of this remedy seems to center in the mammary glands. Soreness and
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lumps in the breasts from each cold, damp spell; becomes chilled and sore
breasts result; sore breasts in connection with the menses; a nursing woman is
exposed to cold, the breast inflames, and the milk becomes stringly and hangs
down from the nipple; coagulated milk. Almost any excitement centers in the
mammary gland; fear or an accident, lumps form, pain, heat, swelling, tume¬
faction, and even violent inflammation and suppuration. During lactation milk
becomes scanty, thick, unhealthy, dries up too soon; very closely resembles
Mercurius and other preparations of mercury, and has been proven a very val¬
uable antidote in mercurial affections, having the characteristic indications of
phytolacca.
&•—Sabadilta resembles Laclusis in the fact that it goes from left to right,
but it differs from La thesis in that it is a cold patient, sensative to cold atmos¬
phere, cold room, cold food etc. Wants to be well wrapped up, hot drinks to
warm the stomach, sensitive to catarrhal condition which wants hot air. Saba -
dilla is a very sensitive to odors and exposure, is liable to rose cold in June and
hay fever in August. It is always ameliorated by heat.
4. —Closely related to the sensitive plant, the peculiarity being that the
slightest touch will cause the leaves to shrivel up, or contract on themselves and
remain so for several hours. A patient of a shrinking sensitive nature, when
coming in contact with strangers especially, might receive great benefit from the
action of this remedy, in other words might be very senstiive to its action and
'produce characteristic provings. It is a remedy v^ell worth giving a thorough
test.
5. —Dr. Berridge relates a case of a lady while bathing who was stung by a
jelly-fish on the front of the right arm, near elbow. She perceived a tingling in
the spot like “pins and needles.” Then the part became red, swollen, burning
and hot to touch and also a red spot on front of right forearm near wrist. She
also felt a tingling in back of head aiid in legs like electricity. For half an hour
she felt very ill and thought she would have to go to bed; restless, could not
keep still; cross and could not be spoken to.
6. -1 >r. Wm. D. Young reports the following eye symptoms occurring in a
woman, age 50 years, sensitive to this drug who received one dose of the 12
decimal for rheumatic stiffness in the ankle following a Pott’s fracture. Red¬
ness of the conjunctiva, especially in the morning, with burning; soreness in and
around right eye. Difficulty in opening lid in the morning seemingly from
weakness, not from agglutination. Sharp pains running in the head. Pain in
ball on turning eye. Vision confused in the morning on awaking especially
double. This last symptom was very marked, occurring every morning on
awaking for ten days continuously.
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7#— A series of lectures by Prof. J. T. Kent, upon the Organon. The lec¬
ture includes § 85 and § 86, and shows how people suffering from one form
of disease have protection from other forms. He says we find in every epi¬
demic a large proportion of the inhabitants escaping infection, and upon in¬
quiry ascertained the fact that those who escaped are not always free from dis¬
ease, do not possess a great vitality, but on the contrary they may be really in¬
valids, having consumption, Bright’s disease, diabetes, etc. The inquiry nat¬
urally is raised, why is it these people are protected from immunity? The
answer given, is because the epidemic is dissimilar to that of the disease al¬
ready contracted, and the one to which they were exposed. From this is
demonstrated the fact, that the employment of remedies dissimilar to that of
the diseased condition can never cure. That they may by virtue of their strength
for the time being transplant the original trouble, but assoon as their effects have
disappeared from the system, the old disease reasserts itself. He also shows
in this lecture that when two similar diseases come together, they may.unite and
the one eliminate the other from the system, and from this illustration demon¬
strates the law of similars, whereby the remedy selected for the purpose of pro¬
ducing a similar disease to that already existing, is capable of eliminating that
disease from the system, and therefore the Organon is always profitable to
every reader.
S »—The greatest discovery made by Hahnemann was the releasing of the
inherent force, energy or dynamis of matter by trituration of solids or succession
and dilution of liquids. It is imperative that all conceptions of the vital force
be divorced from its material environment if we would enter into the spirit of
Hahnemann’s philosophy. All force is invisible, imponderable and immeasur¬
able. Electricity, steam and life itself are common every day manifestations of
this force when liberated.
9.—Chronic Malaria—Calc.'c. 6m, one dose. Chill comes with every
thaw and warm spell in winter, or spring; chill commences in the back, goes up to
the head; generally better in warm room; in summer, red lips; headache bet¬
ter from hard pressure; head throbbing, sometimes a dull ache; haemorrhage
from throat, blood light red, throat raw, gurgling in throat, salty taste; con¬
stipated; menses irregular, profuse and dark; leucorrhcea dark yellow; cough at
nights, worse when it thaws, better in clear, cold weather, worse in damp
weather; wants air; wants the neck warmly covered, fever 2 to 8 p. m.; better
sitting; fond of eggs; cold, moist feet.
Enureses—Natrum mur. cc. Wets the bed at night, has frequent desire
to urinate during the day; urine burns, smarts and excoriates; stains brown;
worse from heat; incontinence, with tenesmus; tonsils enlarged; drinks much;
better out of doors.
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Gonorrh<kal Rheumatism—Pulsatilla. Woman aged 52 years, dark
hair and eyes, of medium build, widow. Twelve years ago contracted gonorr¬
hoea from her husband, which was never treated and gradually ceased to trouble
her. Two years later was taken with rheumatic stiffness and pain in right knee,
probably of gonorrhoeal origin. She has had pain y stiffness and difficulty in
walking a good deal of the time since.
She now, Jan. 21st, has “severe” pain (no other description could be gotten)
in this right knee, swelling and contraction of the tendons on back of that knee
so badly that it prevents her from putting foot to floor to walk. Her pains are
worse in the evening before midnight, and better in the kitchen by the stove,
nevertheless she is chilly a good share of the time. Her food bothers her, by
belchings, tasting of the food, especially after fat food. Puls . 1000, Skinner,
two powders at intervals of 2 hours, then Sac, lac.
North American Journal of Homoeopathy-September.
1. The proof of the laio of Similia from tin Electro- Chemico physiological
Standpoint . Prof. E. H. S. Bailey.
2. A Consideration of Remote and Immediate Premonitions of Death. Chas.
W. Winters, A. B., M. D.
51. Home Treatment of the Insane. William Morris Butler, A. M., M. D.
4. How shall we recognize the Uric Acid Diathesis , and what are our best
Agents for Combating it ? ALICE FRENCH Mills, M. D.
5. Calcaria Arsenica. P. C. MajUNDER, M. D.
6. A Peio Hints on Urinalysis . H. R. Faringer, M. D.
7. Vaginal Hysterectomy. Geo. W. Roberts, M. D.
8. Atresia of the Vagina. STEPHEN H. Knight, A. M., M. D.
1.—This was one of the most interesting papers read at the recent meeting
American Institute, and is worthy of more than an excerpt. After laying as a
foundation, the fact that scientists are continually prying into the mysteries of
life and formulating first one theory after another with the knowledge that they
all come short of the full explanation of the phenomenon, but aid in general
investigation he takes up the matter by asking the question: How does a solu¬
tion conduct electricity ? Grolthers assumes that it is carried bodily by particles
(ions of Faraday) of dissolved substances from one pole to the other. These
ions are broken up, independent, dissociate molecules which are demonstrated
to be very sensitive to the slighest impression. The greater the dilution, the
greater the number of ions, hence the greater the dissociation, consequently
the greater the activity in order that the impulse be conveyed.
Arrhenius in 1887 announced that molecules in solution were divided into two
classes—the inactive particles which take no part in conducting the current until
it has been broken up into ions,and the active which already act in solution as ions.
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This is demonstrated in chemical reactions by the fact that no action takes place
between substances as a whole, but only between the ions of the substances .
2. Only dissociated substances act as germicides, i. e. the solution of substances
be they never so powerful produces no effect unless in a state of ionization.
When the material substance has been dissociated by means of trituration
with some inert substance or dilution in some liquid form, the ions are easily set
free and we have the process of complete ionization perfectly exemplified when
a potentized remedy has been placed in a fluid like water or placed dry upon
the tongue coming in contact with the saliva. These ions are easily absorbed
by the mucous surface and taken into the system where they act in accordance
with their peculiar power. When diluted with mineral acids it has been found
that the ionization is quite complete even in solutions that are not very dilute,
but as we progress in the direction of weaker acids and bases and organic acids
the ionization is not as complete in ordinary solutions, that is dilution must be
carried further to obtain complete dissociation. On the other hand neutral salts
are most completely dissociated and hence can be given in more concentrated
solutions to produce the same effect. Again the authority states that solutions
of very difficult soluble substances may be completely ionized. This is of the
greatest importance as it will clear up a point that has been often misunderstood.
It is to be noted that the statement is not made that there are more ions in a di¬
lution, but the proportion of ions to undissociated molecules is greater in the di¬
lution and it follows that as the condition of complete ionization is gradually
reached, it might be possible that the system would be more susceptible to the
dissociated particles than to the same particles when mixed with a lot of mole¬
cules that act in a different way. Just why the particles, with their peculiar elec¬
trical condition do act upon the system therapeutically in such a way that “like
cures like,” we may not be able to see, but we can understand that in this con¬
dition more than in any other there must be a state of energy, such as is most
favorable to absorption and to subsequent therapeutic action.
*2,—To estimate the remoteness or nearness of death, it is essential io possess
an acquaintance with a fundamental basis of strength and endurance. This is
found in the heart because it can be measured.
In computing this unit of vitality, four points must receive the most profound
consideration. These points are:
First, absolute size of the heart.
Second, thickness of its walls.
Third, action of the valves which control its elasticity.
Fourth, time elapsing between an aortic closure of the impact of the radial
pulse and the time elapsing between the closure of the same valve and the im¬
pact of the posterior tinial pulse. As the results of repeated experiments where
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this unit of strength is perfect, and not interfered with, the subject may be sure
of prolonging his life for eighty years. But many complications enter into the
problem, and knowledge of these complications rests upon a fifth point which
may be known as the measure of cardiac susceptibility to shock. This is shown
by the tumult, varying in degree, produced by a moderate blow over the heart,
and by its action under sudden excitement induced by the examiner as he may
devise.
Having a thorough knowledge of the five points, making up the unit, the
observing physician can make a quite certain prediction with reference to the
probability of death from pneumonia, typhoid fever, diphtheria, etc. A
thorough study of this question cannot fail to bring forth results that will be not
only desirable but of great scientific value.
3.—Insane hospitals are a necessity and are designed to give protection to
the state, the community, the family and finally but not least to the individual.
They are suited for the unfortunates who can have nothing better.
Home treatment is natural, logical and best when practicable . The environ¬
ment must be favorable; the means and opportunities for complete rest, isola¬
tion from all disturbing influences must be at hand; the patient must have the
undivided care of one who is congenial, intelligent, kind, watchful and full of
tact. There must be an abundance of good air and light. Agreeable com¬
panionship, pleasant surroundings, regular exercise in open air when possible
should be provided. When these necessities cannot be provided it is important
that such a “home’* be secured and of equal importance that the patient be re¬
garded simple as a sick person, requiring the closest of attention from the medi¬
cal adviser and nurse. He thus retains all his natural and acquired rights, and
when cured can resume his proper position w ithout being subjected to the dis¬
trust which hangs over one who has had a public commitment.*
<4. —Uric acid diathesis is due to faulty elemination rather than excessive forma¬
tion. It is recognized by muscular pains, headaches, mental and physical de¬
pression or weakness, high pressure in the blood vessels, gout or rheumatism
with deposits of sodium urates about joints. When in excess it appears in urine
as red sand or may accumulate in bladder in the form of calculi.
Symptoms are anorexia, discomfort after eating, flatulence, pyrosis and per¬
sistent constipation; sense of heat and burning after urinating, frequent urina¬
tion with pain over region of kidneys. Pulse irregular and intermittent; in¬
creased arterial tension with palpitation. Great depression of spirits with gen¬
eral sense of weariness and inaptitude for efforts of any kind; sleep restless and
unrefreshing; vertigo, tinnitus aurium, muscular pains, cramps, headache, neu¬
ralgias of different parts of the body, spinal irritation, vaso motor disturbances,
nsomnia, general nervousness. Migraine-persistent sick headache.
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Causes. 1. Defective action of nervous system. 2. Too much food in
bad combination. 8. Gastric dilation. 4. Duodeneal atony. 5. Intestinal tor¬
pidity. 6. Defection elimination.
Cure. Remove exciting cause; give abundance of pure water; study individ¬
ual for constitutional predisposition and select remedy covering case.
15.—Proved by Constantine Hering in 1848. Valuable in marked intermit¬
tent and remittent fevers.
Chilliness over back towards arms and chest. It originates inwardly with
sensation as if skin and adjoining parts were hot (congestive chill).
Fever— afternoon—sensation as if abdomen were puffed up. Thirst for cold
water; heat in chest with palpitation. Night sweats after 8 a. m.
Young man, robust frame but much reduced. Had been diagnosed phthisis
pulmonalis. Pulse small but frequent; glow of heat over whole body; burning
of eyes, soles and palms; chilly and sleepy afternoons; thirst with disgust for
food; diarrhoea, worse morning; copious night sweats latter part of night.
Cai.c. ars. 80, twice daily for one week.
O.—Normal specific gravity, color and reaction not a sufficient test without
being sustained by chemical tests. Samples should always be taken from the
entire amount for 24 hours, total amount noted. Source of albumen must be
determined by the microscope. Per oxide of hydrogen will determine presence
of pus by effervescence. Where pus and albumen both exist, the pus must be
filtered out. Microscope and centrifuge necessary for determining hyaline and
granular casts. Alkaline urine should be acidulated by acetic acid when using
Estach’s albuminometer and reagents. Estimates of urea a<certained by elimi¬
nating all other abnormal constituents e. g. Specific gravity of 1080; albu¬
men and sugar absent; chlorides, phosphates and sulphates normal; urea in¬
creased from 8 to 10 grains per ounce.
7. —The modern surgeon often finds himself more skilled in the technique of
an operation than in that knowledge which determines in what class of cases it
is indicated. “It costs many human lives to make a good surgeon and even in
the hands of a good surgeon it costs many human lives to perfect the technique
of any particular operation and to limit its applicability. No better illustra¬
tion of the necessity of this warning is needed than the statement that one of
our oldest surgeons and gynecologists, a man with more than a national reputa¬
tion has to his credit less than one hundred vaginal hysterectomies, while a
young man, in the same city, whose operating experience covers a period of less
than five years boasts of having done more than one hundred operations of this
character.
I^et us question indications for the removal of the uterus by the vagina. In
cancer of the uterus when uncomplicated and uterus is freely movable. Involv *
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ment of vaginal walls or broad ligament countre-indication. Presence of senile
or intra-mural fibroids small enough to pass through vagina and causing suffer¬
ing by pressure. Prolapsus of uterus when perineorrhaphy, pessaries and ab¬
dominal fixation have failed. Statistics show a mortality of 1.7 by ligature,
2.3 by clamp, and 5.2 by enucleation. (Mechanical means must be employed
where the trouble is purely mechanical e. g. in a prolapsus when all support has
l>een removed and in a fibroid where the injury comes from the pressure, etc.,
it is proper to perform such operation as the circumstances may indicate,
but removal of the uterus in uncomplicated epithilioma could only be justified
in the absence of a thorough knowledge of the value of remedies when selected
in strict accord with the law of similars, for the reason that the causes which
make epithelioma or carcinoma possible are dynamic in origin and cannot be re¬
moved by the knife.—E d.)
H.—This malformation is seldom noted by the ordinary physician until the
time of puberty when suffering incident to delayed menstruation calls attention to
the abnormality. The comparatively simple operation is not without its dangers
for besides the danger from injury to adjacent organs comes the possible fatal
issue from the rupture of the over distended tubes. Again great danger lies in
the peculiar susceptibility of the exposed walls of the vagina, uterus and tubes
to infection.
(Accompanying this malformation will however be a history of other defor¬
mities which should lead the observing physician to carefully trace out every
peculiar and persistent symptom to its logical cause.—E d.)
Measles and Smallpox are not on the outside. Man is protected on the out-
side, and is attacked from the inside when there is susceptibility.
There are degrees in susceptibility. The Old School calls a certain kind of
susceptibility “Idiocyncrasy,” though they have failed to find out what this is.
Think how susceptible a man is to sickness, when the Rhus vine will poison
him when he is on the windward side, half a mile away.
An individual will be susceptible to nothing else; gross, coarse, vigorous in
constitution; yet there is one thing he is susceptible to, and that is what he
needs.
The signs are visible, but the Esse is invisible.
The tendency of the human inind to run after things visible, that can be felt
with the fingers, leads one to adopt foolish theories like the Bacteria doctrine
and the Molecular theory.
A physician above all men if not in .ocent should be anything else but a doc¬
tor. A bad man has only coarse, vicious ideas of the human heart.
The time may come when Homoeopathy of the purer kind will be popular,
but it is a very long time ahead.
— Kent's Aphorisms and Precepts.
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flMecellang.
Uremia in the Procesa of Child Bearing. Dr. Henry F.
Lewis, in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and
Children says that primiparae are three times as liable to eclampsia as multi-
parae. Puerperal toxemia occurs more often in very young or in very elderly
primiparae, in twin pregnancies, and other conditions in which there is an ab¬
normal distension of the uterus and abdomen. In general he states that out of
10,000 pregnant women 500 will have albuminuria, of these 500 sixty will have
eclampsia; and of these sixty 12 will die.
Modified Milk. Dr. Edward Hamilton, in American Journal of Ob¬
stetrics , gives the following requirements for a perfect modified milk: 1—alka¬
linity and body-temperature, 2—sufficient quantity, 3—proper proportion of
constituents, 4—digestibility, 5—freshness, sterility, and cleanliness, 6—absence
of adulteration. If artificial feeding is unsuccessful the cause may be traced to-
one of the following conditions: 1—the intervals of feeding are irregular and
usually too frequent, 2—the amount of milk at each feeding is too great for the
gastric capacity, 3—the percentage of the elements is too high, 4—the nipples^
bottles, and milk-containers are not kept clean, and 5—the milk is contami¬
nated, adulterated, or stale.
Delivery of Twins After the Death of the Mother. A re¬
markable case is reported in l.e Obstetrique of a woman who was admitted ta
the University of St. Vlandimar for eclampsia. Upon examination she was
found to be a primipara and the condition of the heart and lungs made death
appear inevitable. Upon examination it was found that the os was but little
dilated and the attendant decided upon immediate operation, consequently the
cervix was incised laterally with scissors. While the forceps were being applied
the mother died, within three minutes, the first child was delivered in a state of
asphyxia; and within eight minutes after the death of the mother the second
child was likewise delivered. Both were speedily restored to life and an ulti¬
mate recovery followed.
Milk, Its Absorption, Versus, its Digestion. Taking advant¬
age of the true fact that fresh, alkaline milk can be assimilated when injected
into a vein without going through the process of digestion and absorption, to¬
gether with the additional fact that after food passes from the stomach the mucus
membrane returns to its natural alkalinity, Dr. Buckley, of N. V., has demon¬
strated that fresh, alkaline milk, free from all impurities, may be absorbed-
through the walls of the stomach without going through the usual process of co¬
agulation and digestion, thus saving much work and avoiding the disturbances
due to fermentation. The milk enters the blood current more quickly and in no
way disturbs the appetite for regular meals, even increasing the latter. This is
a valuable discovery, if true, and may be put to practical use in the cases of in¬
valids who are suffering from derangement due to abnormal digestion.—
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Acute Qui nine P < on. Dr. Titlow reports an interesting case
of susceptibility to quinine. After taking less than half of one grain the face
became badly swollen and the body was covered with an erythema resembling
measles. There was intense itching and burning which persisted for about
twenty-four hours. The patient had had three similar attacks following the ex¬
ternal use of quinine.— Medical Record.
Appendicitis, Complication of the Pregnant State. Dr.
Marx presents five cases in American Journal of Obstetrics for August, illustrat¬
ing this complication, but considers that at best appendicitis is rare during preg¬
nancy. During pregnancy the enormous congestion of the entire vulvo-vagino-
uterine tract, which is readily reflected upon the entire intestinal system, caus-
^g, as it does, plethora followed by torpor of the gut, with the subsequent
marked constipation, plainly acts as an exciting cause of appendicitis. The
diagnosis is necessarily most difficult. In this as in all other forms of disease
manifesta* ion, the frequency depends more upon constitutional causes than up¬
on the normal conditions incident to pregnancy and must be met in the same
way as in idiopathic attacks.
Vaginal Examinations and Vaginal Douches in Normal
Labor. Dr. Geo. P.* Shears utters a protest against the indiscriminate use of
douches after normal labor.' He says that it is impossible for the physicians to
improve upon the methods employed by Nature for the cleansing of the vaginal
canal, and presents what is already known that the vaginal secretions are nat
urally adapted to the destruction of bacteria, and when let alone will protect the
uterus from infection of almost every kind. He also protests against the fre*
quent and unnecessary examinations and manipulation prior to and during the
process of labor, because any advantage gained is more than offset by the dan¬
gers from infections. With reference to douches following labor, they should be
limited in all cases to such conditions as give positive evidence of infection from
some septic material from without. We can heartily endorse every statement
made by the doctor in regard to this unnecesssary medical interference with na¬
tures methods for the healing of the tissue. — American Journal of Obstetrics.
Inverted Typhoid Fever (?) 1 )r. Goltman reports the case of a boy,
fourteen years of age, of a highly nervous temperament who was attacked with
a chill followed by an increased flow of urine. The next day he had another
severe chill followed by a high fever. Quinine was pushed to cinchonism and
the doctor was astonished at the persistence of the fever. A test was made for
the plasmodia malaria and failing to find them tested the blood for the typhoid
bacillus by the Widal reaction. Finding that, he knew that he had typhoid fever
to deal with. The treatment was now adapted to the form of fever and in three
days the temperature became characteristic and this was followed by the pecu¬
liar rose colored spots on the abdomen. Following this the temperature be¬
came higher and remained so for three weeks. This was then diagnosed as
atypical form brought about by malarial infection. The question would natur¬
ally be raised whether the entire trouble was not due to mal-treatment from the
beginning, because the latter state of the disease was in all probability chargable
to the cinchonism and the almost constant purgative by salts.— Medical Record .
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Cornell’s New Microscopist. Miss Agnes M. Claypole, a graduate
of Buchtel College, Akron, O. and holding the degree of Master of Science from
Cornell, has been appointed to the position of assistant iu microscopy, histology*
and embryology in the Cornell University Medical College. Miss Claypole
comes from excellent teaching stock. Her father, for a number of years, pro¬
fessor of natural sciences in Buchtel College, and one of the most eminent scien¬
tists of the state of Ohio is a typical Scotchman with all the tenacity of purpose
for which that race is noted, and his daughter has been literally brought up in
the investigation of scientific questions. She will undoubtedly prove a valuable
accession to the laboratory force of this prominent University. It is a great in¬
ovation for this institution, but cannot fail to be the forerunner of repeated ex¬
periments of a similar character in the future.
Paronymoug Plurals. Dr. Gould in the Philadelphia Medical Jour-
mi! is giving some practical suggestions to writers in general. He says, “One
wonders why it is considered better English to ape the language from which
words have been derived by grafting upon the acclimatized word the foreign
and illogical form plural. Those who should be or pretend to be, concerned
for the purity and logicality of our tongue are frequently the worst enemies of
purity and simplicity, delighting in the hodge-podge and outlandishness. There
are even those now who contend for lentes, atlantes , anamalia etc., instead of
lenses , aliases , and animals, and they would certainly stickle for irides, enema to ,
carcinomata, fasciae , etc., instead of the shorter and more idiomatic, more nat¬
ural, and in every way better, irises . enemas , carcinomas, fascias. It is the hy¬
pocrisy of culture, the ignoramuses’ pretense of classicism, which keeps up the
delusion that the straight-forward English formation is less worthy than the
transplanted variety.
The American Monthly Review of Reviews for October gives
special attention to the developments of the past month in international politics
and to the lessons of the Spanish-American War. The editor, in the depart¬
ment of “The Progress of the World,” discusses the attitude of the Spanish
people toward peace conditions, the new relations between Germany and Eng¬
land, the Czar’s proposition for disarmament, the Dreyfus case in France, Eng¬
land’s reopening of the Soudan, and other serious problems confronting the
European powers. Important contributed articles review President McKinley’s
course in the conduct of the war to a successful close and the deficiencies in our
administrative machinery revealed by the fatal delays and break-downs in the
medical and subsistence departments of army management.
Two of the contributed articles deal with the serious lessons of our recent war
with Spain. Dr. Carroll Dunham presents a calm and exhaustive survey of
the nation’s experience of the past six months in its medical and sanitary as¬
pects. He shows where the failures in army administration occurred and what
steps should be taken to prevent the recurrence of such costly mistakes. Lieut.
John H. Parker, of the Thirteenth Infantry, who commanded the Gatling guu
detachment at Santiago, explains from an officer’s point of view the nature,
cause, and bearings of some of the defects revealed in the course of that cam¬
paign, and also summarizes the advance in our knowledge of the value 'of ma¬
chine guns in battle as compared with heavy artillery.
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Professional Secrecy. The question of professional secrecy was re¬
cently involved in a suit instituted in a New York court to recover $2,500 damages
from the village of Oneida for injuries sustained by a fall due to a defective
sidewalk, tfce plaintiff charging that she had sustained a hernia and prolapsus
uteri. The jury rendered a verdict against the village and the case was ap¬
pealed. In the higher court the plaintiff’s physician was subpenxd to testify
that the hernia obtained prior to the accident, the appeal being based upon the
alleged improper exclusion of that evidence. The chief judge settled the matter
in favor of the plaintiff by deciding that a “physician who is called upon to
treat a patient at childbirth, and while doing so, and as a necessary incident of
his investigations to enable him to act in that capacity, discovers a physical ail¬
ment in his patient, cannot be permitted to testify with respect to such ailment,
notwithstanding it was a matter about which he was not consulted and for which
he did not present*.’'
A New Bacillius in Milk. While experimenting with milk in the
laboratory of Dr. Piorkowski, Berlin, a new bacillus was discovered. In the
agar plate cultures it formed brown granular colonies, which grew well in glyce¬
rine agar at 87 degrees C., presenting a white appearance, confluent in the middle
and punctate at the margins, and becoming yellow and slimy in three or four
days. When milk was treated with this bacillius and kept at 37 degrees C. for
48 hours it was coagulated, and had a strong acid reaction with a peculiar sour
smell. The appearance of a culture kept in bouillion for 24 hours at 37 degrees
C. was constant and typical, that fluid being slightly turbid and with consider¬
able flocculent deposit on the bottom and sides of the tube. The bacillus could
be stained with the ordinary aniline colors, but not with Gram’s solution.
Cover-glass preparations stained with methylene blue showed great similarity to
the diphtheria bacillus and the pseudo-diphtheria bacillus of Lceffler and von
Hofmann respectively —Deutsche Mtuficinischc Wochcnschrift.
Poisoning: from Agraricus Muscarius. Dr. D. W. Prentiss
presents five cases of poisoning from eating toadstools, in the
Philadelphia Medical Journal for Sept. 24th. From these we
gather the following symptoms some of which already appear in
the symptomotology of this valuable anti psoric.
Symptoms of poisoning usually appear in from half an hour to an hour after
eating the mushrooms, though sometimes a longer period of 12 hours or more
elapses before the actual symptoms of poisoning appear. The symptoms usual¬
ly begin with more or less violent colic, attended with vomiting and subsequent
diarrhcea, the dejecta containing debris of the mushrooms. There is also con¬
tracted pupils and salivation.
To these symptoms cerebral disturbances are added; the patients feel as if
drunk and become violently excited. Some suffer from disturbed vision—they
see things dimly as though wrapped m a mist. This dimness of vision may
amount to blindness. Visions float before the eyes. Attacks of epilepsy and
trismus may occur. Then a state of drowsiness gradually sets in, in which the
excitability of the reflex nerves is more or less retarded or quite abolished.
The pulse becomes slow and threadlike, with constricted arteries. Respiration
is generally short and stertorous, the pupils are dilated as death approaches, the
extremities and face are cold, and death may supervene from progressive loss
of heart-power.
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Complexion and Diet. Hot milk is the newest panacea for all com¬
plexion ills. If the face be wrinkled, sallow, freckled or otherwise afflicted, hot
milk, says the enthusiast over this new remedy, will produce a cure. Converts
declare that the face, after being washed with hot milk at night, feels wonder¬
fully refreshed, while the skin soon becomes very white and soft. They also
claim that a generous quantity of milk poured into the bath is positively magi¬
cal in removing fatigue.
Fruits, being refreshing, nourishing, appetizing and purifying, have a great
effect on the complexion. Crapes and apples are very nutritious; grapes gener¬
ally agree with the most delicate people, as they are very easily digested. Black
grapes are fattening. Apples are more easily digested when baked and eaten
with cream, and many can partake of them in this way who could not eat them
raw.
Oranges, lemons and limes affect most directly the complexion, and are es¬
pecially good if taken before breakfast. Ripe peaches are easily digested, but
are also fattening. Strawberries, containing a larger percentage of iron than
any other fruit, enrich the blood.
All fruit with firm flesh—such as plums, apples and cherries—should be
thoroughly masticated; otherwise they will cause indigestion. The skin of raw
fruit should never be eaten, and small fruit should have all impurities removed
by wiping or washing. Acid fruit should not be eaten with farinaceous food
unless the digestion is very good.
The most recent and popular fad in the way of diet is the “non-breakfast
diet,’* and it already has numerous adherents in both this country and England.
A well-known woman said the other day that not a morsel was cooked in her
home any day in the year until the noonday meal. Her children went off to
school, her husband to his business, and even the maid, who had become a con¬
vert, went through her morning duties, all without breaking their fasts. The
theory on which these two meals a-day folk base their conduct is that, no work
being done after the late and hearty dinner, and little tissue waste following
during the hours of sleep, the body has sufficient energy stored from the even¬
ing meal to meet the demands of the next forenoon’s work. To take a hearty
breakfast, they claim, is simply to provide a surplus of supply, and by just that
much overtax the system. The elimination, therefore, of these 366 meals a year
means conserving of energy which in the aggregate is very valuable. They say,
too, that after the first week or two it requires no effort to begin the day with¬
out food, and even the aromatic Mocha steaming through the house produces
no effect upon their resolution. M. D.
Relation ot* the Great Neuroses to Pelvic Disease. Dr. F.
X. Dercum in American Gvnaco/ogy and Obstetrics Journal , suggests a new
nomenclature for the old terms of neurasthenia and hysteria. For neurasthenia
he prefers the far more expressive name of fatigue-neurosis. The symptoms re¬
solve themselves into sensory, motor, general somatic, psychic disturbances, all
of which are expressive of chronic fatigue. To these primary symptoms of
neurasthenia are added other symptoms, which he designates as secondary or
adventitious symptoms. It is extremely probably that these common sensations
(pressure, constriction, fulness, heaviness, throbbing) are, many of them if not
all, the result of various intra-cranial circulatory disturbances, and are not di-
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rectly fatigue sensations. The two cardinal conditions of the fatigue-neurosis
are persistent nervous weakness together with increased nervous irritability; that
is, increased reaction of the organism to impressions from without. Thus, a
woman with a lacerated cervix will not be conscious of her defect as long as her
general health remains good. Not infrequently she fails to seek medical advise
for the pelvic condition until neurasthenia has become established. Hysteria,
Dercum calls the psycho neurosis . It presents a syndrome that is as fixed and as
definite as that of any other disease. The physical symptoms present in it are
dominated by mental phenomena, themselves the result of a genuine and pro¬
found affection of the cerebral centers. Like neurasthenia, the symptoms con¬
sist of sensory, motor, general somatic and psychic disorders. The disease may
exist independently of any local disease, pelvic or otherwise. There is no rela-
tion between pelvic disease and hysteria, even when the affections coexist; and
while in hysteria there is increased reaction to external impression, this reaction
is purely psychic. The pain-areas of hysteria bear no relation to disease of the
deeper structures. The idea of curing neurasthenia or hysteria by operations
upon the pelvic organs must be absolutely abandoned. Nervous symptoms
symptomatic of and directly due to pelvic disease are admittedly small in num¬
ber. They consist of pains within the pelvis itself; pains referred to the lower
portion of the back, to the sacrum to the hips or thighs, and very rarely of sac¬
ral neuralgia and pain in the sciatic distribution.
Children’s Brain Celis. How much happier the lives of the thou¬
sands of children entering school this month would be if only women—mothers
and teachers—better understood the nature and limitation of their brain cells.
Such knowledge is to be had, as very important experiments and deductions
have recently been made by scientific investigators; but it always takes an un¬
reasonable length of time for such knowledge to become general.
After 25,000 tests by the best educators in America it has been absolutely
demonstrated, for instance, that the length of time that a child 0 years of age
can concentrate its mind does not exceed seven minutes, and that all efforts to
confine its attention upon one subject beyond this limit are worse than useless.
This power of concentration increases slowly. At the age of 8 a child’s atten¬
tion may be easily held ten minutes; at the age of 12 his mind should not be
riveted upon one subject longer than seventeen minutes. It is therefore a great
mistake to keep a child of this age, say, at the piano more than fifteen minutes;
after a change of occupation another quarter of an hour’s practice will be of in¬
calculably more benefit than the attempt to continue work after brain and nerves
have become fatigued.
Indeed, most of the inattention and restlessness of children may be explained
upon the physical basis. A boy’s brain, for example, undergoes a certain
shrinkage at the age of 14 or 15. It actually weighs less than at the age of 12
and 13. This fact explains the carelessness, laziness and general unreasonable¬
ness of boys of this age. Statistics show that a large proportion of boys leave
school at about this time. It is altogether probable that if parents and teachers
realized that the proverbial lawnessness of boys of 14 merely evidenced a tem¬
porary condition of brain cells more of them would be patiently guided through
the period, to take up their studies a year or two later with renewed interest.
The same tests have conclusively proved that the brain of a child is always
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most active between 8:80 and 11*30 in the morning. All lessons, therefore, re¬
quiring the exercise of their reasoning power—such as arithmetic and grammar
—should be at this hour. It has been further deduced that the average child,
unhampered by grades and systems, may have easily mastered his arithmetic by
the time he is 12 years old.
Scientists have also discovered that if the brain centers governing the motor
nerves remain undeveloped until the age of 16 there is no chance whatever of
any later development, which fact is a powerful argument in favor of manual
training in the public schools. The majority of children are so active that they
develop their own brains and nerves to a certain extent along these lines.
Where they fail to do so we get the tramp and the sloven. It is a physical im-
possibillity to acquire skill and dexterity in any art unless the foundation has
been laid in tl\e formation of brain cells and the training of the motor nerves
before the age of 16. D. T. D.
Welsbach Gas Mantle. The chemicals constituting the incandescent
mantle of the Welsbach gas burner are principally the oxides of zirconium,
lanthanum, thorium and yttrium. The mantle is made by first impregnating a
woven fabric with a chemical compound containing salts of the above metals.
In lighting the first time, the fibrous substance is consumed, leaving behind the
fragile cone of the above oxides, which when heated to intense whiteness by the
gas flame underneath, shines with great brilliancy.
Fragmentary Proving of Trional. Dr. Gierlich presents
the following effects of Trional upon a beer drinker who suffered
from insomnia and acquired the habit of using morphine in small
quantities without control! ng the insomnia. Trional is a syn¬
thetic derivative, said to possess the properties of a powerful
hypnotic. We do not know the cause of the insomnia, neither
do we have an accurate idea of mental or physical condition
prior to the taking of the Trional , but it suggests a remedy worthy
our study in connection with conditions resembling locomotor
ataxia . He took 15 grains every night for 2 months.
In a few days his speech was also affected, he staggered as he walked and re¬
quired a support. The movement resembled those in ataxia, with trembling of
his hands, feet and facial muscles.
At the end of a month he found he had some difficulty in writing.
He complained of a sensation of oppression, buzzing in his ears and spots be¬
fore his eyes, while his spirits and mind were profoundly depressed and weak¬
ened.
Several times he had involuntary micturitions and evactuations.
In speaking he transposed letters and syllables, and his writing was incoherent.
With the suppression of the Trional gradually all these symptoms passed away
in the course of three weeks, but not until the fourth to fifth week could he
write as before the attack.
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Significance of Sadden Drowning. Dr. T. A. Sraurr, Otta¬
wa, Ill., presents the following explanation of the phenomena of
persons suddenly drowning without a struggle or an out-cry, in a
recent number of the Medical Brief\
“The normal heat of the blood is about 98 degrees. As it rises above this,
*wc rapidly approach the danger line. In summer the temperature of our lakes
and streams rarely goes above 70 degrees, while in sun exposure it often runs
up to 110 or 120 degrees. Your expert swimmer has his blood heated by exer¬
cise to a temperature above normal. It is driven from the very extensive capil¬
lary circulation of the skin, as it is shown by the shriveled, pale appearance of
the skin of any one long in the water. The vessels of the brain and head are
relaxed by the intense heat of the sun and invite the tidal wave of dangerously
overheated blood driven from the skin circulation. With what result ? An
absolute stagnation of the cerebral circulation, and death by sun or heat apop¬
lexy. No warning, no muscular cramp, no outcry for help, no struggle—the
victim just sinks like a plummet, rarely coming again to the surface, and is
found where he sank, every muscle relaxed, the face calm and composed as if
asleep, the skin of the body shriveled and pale, the neck, head and face livid.
“Teach this to the people and they will promptly recognize the great risk,
which no amount of good health or other favorable conditions can in any way
lessen, and will see to it that the present rate of accidental drowning is soon re¬
duced by 50 or 75 per cent.’*
In proportion as man think against anything, his country, God, his neighbor,
he wills in favor of himself. Therefore this forms man into the nature of his
affections.
It is an injustice to one’s self to remain in bigotry, indolence and hatred.
When Psora had become a complete ultimation of causes, it became con¬
tagious.
Thus man wills against everything but himself. In proportion as he does
this he becomes a form of hatred, or a form of self love; he is that. Allow
this to proceed and ultimates must result.
Thus man is what he wills. As his love is, so is his life. When man thinks
about the neighbor, he wills one of two things,—he wills good to his neighbor
or the opposite.
Now in proportion as man falsifies truth or mixes or perverts truth; in pro¬
portion as he mixes willing well with willing evil so does he adulterate his
interiors.
Everything that is a thing, has its aura or atmosphere. So as a race or class,
the entire human race has its atmosphere or aura.
This aura becomes intensified with the growth of evil in the interior man.
The human race exists as a changed Esse.
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Book Reviews .
»ooh ’Reviews.
Itepertory of Homoeopathic Materia Medica—Stomach *
and Abdomen. By Prof. J. T. Kent, Philadelphia. Sold by subscription
only.
This Repertory becomes of greater value with each additional
fascicl^. That which has already appeared makes an elegant
volume of about 500 pages of about the size of Allen's Hand
Book; and gives the possessor an idea of the great practical utility
that will come from the use of the work when completed.
The profession will owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. Kent, which
can never be repaid in money, for the time spent in preparing this
wonderful labor saving key to our voluminous materia medica.
The Change of Life in Women and the Ills and Ailings
Incident Thereto. By Compton Burnett, M. D. Boericke & Tafel,
Publishers, Pp. 185, $1.00; by mail $1.06.
There are two periods in life of every woman when the ob¬
serving physician may almost completely transform the invalid
into a creature of health and happiness—changes incident to
puberty and the menopause.
The physician who can thoroughly comprehend the signifi¬
cance of the varied ailments so prominently brought forward at
these times is a master of his profession. In no one will we find
greater originality in the handling of the subject than the author
of this valuable book.
The Hahnemannian is better equipped for these emergencies
than anyone else but this book will find a place in the office of
every one who has an opportunity for knowing of it because it,
like Jahr's Forty Years Practice , is practically indispensable.
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Th* H ah nem an n ian
Advocate
. A MONTHLY IIOMCEOPATHIC MAGAZINE.
Vol. xxxvii. Chicago, November 15, 1898. No. 11
Institutes or flDefctcfne.
SPIRIT OF THE HOMCEOPATHIC MEDICAL
DOCTRINE.*
SAMUEL HAHNEMANN, M. D.
It is impossible to divine the internal essential nature of dis¬
eases and the changes they effect in the hidden parts of the body,
and it is absurd to frame a system of treatment on such hypoth¬
etical surmises and assumptions: it is impossible to divine the
medicinal properties of remedies from any chemical hypothesis
or from the smell, color, or taste, and it is absurd to attempt,
from such hypothetical surmises and assumptions, to apply to
the treatment of diseases these substance, which are so hurtful
when wrongly adminstered. And even were such practice ever
so customary and ever so generally in use, were it even the only
one in vogue for thousands of years, it would nevertheless con¬
tinue to be a senseless and pernicious practice to found on empty
surmises our idea of the morbid condition of the interior, and to
attempt to combat this with equally imaginary properties of medi¬
cines.
Appreciable, distinctly appreciable to our senses must that be.
* This essay appeared in a journal twenty years ago, in those momentous days
(March, 1813) when the Germans had no leisure to read and still less to reflect
upon scientific matters. The consequence of this was that these words were
not listened to. It may now have more chance of being perused, particularly
in its present less imperfect form. [From vol. ii, 3rd edition, 1888.]
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which is to be removed in each disease in order to transform it in¬
to health; and right clearly must each remedy express what it can
positively cure, if medical art is to cease to be a wanton game of
hazard with human life, and to commence to be the sure deliver¬
er from diseases.
I shall show what there is undeniably curable in diseases, and
how the curative properties of medicines are to be distinctly per¬
ceived and employed for curative purposes.
* * * *
What life is can only be known empirically from its phenom¬
ena and manifestations, but no conception of it can be formed
by any metaphysical speculations a priori; what life is, in its ac¬
tual essential nature, can never be ascertained or even guessed
at, by mortals.
To the explanation of human life, as also its two-fold condi¬
tions, health and disease, the principles by which we explain
other phenomena are quite inapplicable. With nought in the
world can we compare it save with itself alone; neither with a
piece of clockwork, nor with a hydraulic machine, nor with
chemical processes, nor with decompositions and recompositions
of gases, nor yet with a galvanic battery, in short with nothing
destitute of life. Human life is in no respect regulated by purely
physical laws, which only obtain among inorganic substances.
The material substances of which the human organism is com¬
posed no longer follow, in this vital combination, the laws to
which material substances in the inanimate condition are subject;
they are regulated by the laws peculiar to vitality alone, they are
themselves animated and vitalized just as the whole system is
animated and vitalized. Here a nameless fundamental power
reigns omnipotent, which abrogates all the tendency of the com¬
ponent parts of the body to obey the laws of gravitation, of mo¬
mentum, of the vis inertia , of fermentation, of putrefaction, &c.,
and brings them under the wonderful laws of life alone,—in other
words, maintains them in the condition of sensibility and activity
necessary to the preservation of the living whole, a condition al¬
most spiritually dynamic.
Now, as the condition of the organism and its health depend
solely on the health of the life which animates it, in like manner
it follows that the altered health, which we term disease, consists
in a condition altered originally only in its vital sensibilities and
functions, irrespective of all chemical or mechanical considera-
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tions; in short it roust consist in a dynamically altered condition,
a changed mode of being, whereby a change in the properties of
the material component parts of the body is afterwards effected,
which is a necessary consequence of the morbidly altered condi¬
tion of the living whole in every individual case.
Moreover, the influence of morbific injurious agencies, which
for the most part excite from without the various maladies in us,
is generally so invisible and so immaterial, * that it is impossible
that it can immediately either mechanically disturb or derange
the component parts of our body in their form and substance,
or infuse any pernicious acrid fluid into our blood-vessels where¬
by the mass of our humors can be chemically altered and de¬
praved—an inadmissible, quite unprovable, gross invention of
mechanical minds. The exciting causes of disease rather act by
means of their essential properties on the state of our life (on
our health), only in a dynamic, very similar to a spiritual, man¬
ner; and inasmuch as they first derange the organs of the higher
rank and of the vital force, there occurs from this state of de¬
rangement, from this dynamic alteration of the living whole, an
altered sensation (uneasiness, pains) and an altered activity (ab¬
normal functions) of each individual organ and of all of them
collectively, whereby there must also of necessity secondarily
occur alteration of the juices in our vessels and secretions of ab¬
normal matters, the inevitable consequence of the altered vital
character, which now differs from the health state.
These abnormal matters that show themselves in diseases are
consequently merely products of the disease itself, which, as
long as the malady retains its present character, must of neces¬
sity be secreted, and thus constitute a portion of the morbid
sign (symptoms); they are merely effects, and therefore manifes¬
tations of the existing internal ill-health, and they do certainly
not react (although they often contain the infecting principle for
other healthy individuals) upon the diseased body that.produced
them, as disease-exciting or maintaining substances, that is, as
material morbific causes, f just as a person cannot infect other
* With the exception of a few surgical affections and the disagreeable effects
produced by indigestible foreign substances, which sometimes find their way in¬
to the intestinal canal.
f Hence by clearing away and mechanically removing these abnormal mat¬
ters, acridities and morbid organizations, their source, the disease itself, can just
as little be cured as a coryza can be shortened or cured by blowing the nose fre¬
quently, and as thoroughly as possible; it lasts not a day longer than its proper
course, although the nose should not be cleansed by blowing it at all.
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parts of his own body at the same time with the virus from his
own chancre or with the gonorrhoeal matter from his own urethra,
or increase his disease therewith, or as a viper cannot inflict on
itself z fatal bite with its own poison.
Hence it is obvious that diseases excited by the dynamic and
virtual influence of morbific injurious agents can be originally
only dynamical derangements (caused almost solely by a spirit¬
ual process) of the vital character of our organism.
We readily perceive that these dynamic derangements of the
vital character of our organism which we term diseases, since
they are nothing else than altered sensations and functions, can
also express themselves by nothing but by an aggregate of symp¬
toms, and only as such are they cognisable to our observing
powers.
Now, as in a profession of such importance to human life as
medicine is, nothing but the state of the diseased body plainly
cognisable by our perceptive faculties can be recognised as the
object to be cured, and ought to guide our steps (to choose con¬
jectures and undemonstrable hypotheses as our guide here would
be dangerous folly, nay crime and treason against humanity), it
follows, that since diseases, as dynamic derangements of the vi¬
tal character, express themselves solely by alterations of the sen¬
sations and functions of our organism, that is, solely by an aggre¬
gate of cognisable symptoms, this alone can be the object of
treatment in every case of disease. For on the removal of all
morbid symptoms nothing remains but health .
Now, because diseases are only dynamic derangements of our
health and vital character, they cannot be removed by man
otherwise than by means of agents and powers which also are
capable of producing dynamical derangements of the human
health, that is to say, diseases are cured virtually and dynami¬
cally by medicines.*
These active substances and powers (medicines) which we
have at our service effect the cure of diseases by means of the
* Not by 1 means of the pretended solvent or mechanically dispersing, clearing-
out, and expulsive powers of medicinal substances; not by means of a (blood-
purifying, humor-correcting) power they possess of electivly excreting fancied
morbific principles; not by means of any antiseptic power they have (as is effect¬
ed in dead, putrifying flesh); not by any chemical or physical action of any im¬
aginable sort, as happens in dead material things, as has hitherto been falsely
imagined and dreamt by the various medical schools.
The more modem schools have indeed begun in some degree to regard dis-
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same dynamic power of altering the actual state of health, by
means of the same power of deranging the vital character of our
organism in respect of its sensations and functions, by which
they are able to affect also the healthy individual, to produce in
him dynamic changes and certain morbid symptoms, the knowl¬
edge of which, as we shall see, affords us the most trustworthy
information concerning the morbid states that can be most cer¬
tainly cured by each particular medicine. Hence nothing in the
world can accomplish a cure, no substance, no power can effect
a change in the human organism of such a character as that the
disease shall yield to it, except an agent capable of absolutely
(dynamically) deranging the human health, consequently also of
morbidly altering its healthy state.*
On the other hand, however, there is also no agent, no power
in nature capable of morbidly affecting the healthy individual,
which does not at the same time possess the faculty of curing
certain morbid states.
Now, as the power of curing diseases, as also of morbidly af¬
fecting the healthy* is met with in inseparable combination in all
medicines, and as both these properties evidently spring from
one and the same source, namely, from their power of dynami¬
cally deranging human health, and as it is hence impossible that
they can act according to a different inherent natural law in the
sick to that according to which they act on the healthy; it fol¬
lows that it must be the same power of the medicine that cures
the diseases in the sick as produces the morbid symptoms in the
healthy.f
Hence also we shall find that the curative power of medicines,
eases as dynamic derangements, and their intention, loo, is to remove them in
some sort of dynamical way by medicines, but inasmuch as they fail to perceive
that the sensible, irritable, and reproductive activity of life is in modo et quali-
tate susceptible of an infinity of changes, and as they do not regard the innu¬
merable varieties of moibid signs (that infinity of internal alterations only cog¬
nisable by us in their refiex) for what they actually are, to wit, the only unde-
ceptive obj *ct for treament; but as they only hpothetically recognise an abnor¬
mal increase and decrease of their dimensions quoad quanlitatem , and in an
equally arbitrary manner confide to the medicines they employ the task of
changing to the normal state this one-sided increase and decrease, and thereby
curing them; they thus have in their mind nothing but false ideas, both of the
object to be cured and of the properties of the medicine.
* Consequently no substance, for example, that is purely nutritious.
f The different result in these two cases is owing solely to the difference of
the object that has to be altered.
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and that which each of them is abie to effect in diseases, expres¬
ses itself in no other mode in the world so surely and palpably,
and cannot be ascertained by us by any purer and more perfect
manner than by the morbid phenomena and symptoms (the kinds
of artificial diseases) which the medicines develop in healthy in¬
dividuals. For if we only have before us records of the peculiar
(artificial) morbid symptoms produced by the various medicines
on healthy individuals, we only require a series of pure experi¬
ments to decide what medicinal symptoms will always rapidly
and permanently cure and remove certain symptoms of disease,
in order to know, in every case beforehand, which of all the dif¬
ferent medicines known and thoroughly tested as to their pecu¬
liar symptoms must be the most certain remedy in every case of
disease.*
If then we ask experience what artificial diseases (observed to
* Simple, true, and natural as this maxim is, so much so that one would have
imagined it w uld long since hive been adopted as the rule for ascertaining the
curative powers of drugs, it is yet a fact that nothing the least like it has hither¬
to been thought of. During the several thousands of years over which history
extends, no one fell upon this natural method of first ascertaining the curative
powers of medicines before giving them in diseases. In all ages down fo the
present times it was imagined that the curative powers of medicines could be
learned in no other way than from the result of their employment in diseases
themselves (ab usu in morbis); it was sought to learn them from those cases
where a certain medicine (more frequently a combination of various medicines)
had been found serviceable in a particular case of disease. But even from the
efficacious result of one single medicine given in a case of disease accurately de¬
scribed (which but rarely happened), we never can know the case in which that
medicine would again prove serviceable, because (with the exception of dis¬
eases caused by miasms of a fixed character, as smallpox, measles, syphilis, itch,
&c., and those arising from various injurious agencies that always remain, the
same, as rheumatism gout , &c.), all other cases are mere individualities, that is
to say, all present themselves in nature with different combinations of symptoms,
have never before occurred, and can never again occur in exactly the same man¬
ner; consequently, because a medicine has cured one case we cannot thence in¬
fer that it will cure another (different) case. The forced arrangement of these
cases of disease (which nature in her wisdom produces in endless variety) under
certain nosological heads, as is arbitrarily done by pathology, is an ureal human
performance, which leads to constant fallacies and to the confounding together
of very different states.
Equally misleading and untrustworthy, although in all ages universally prac¬
tised, is the determination of the general (curative) actions of medicines from
special effects in diseases, where in the materia medica—when, for example, in
some cases of disease during the use of a medicine (generally mixed up with
others) there sometimes occurred a more copious secretion of urine or perspira-
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be produced by medicines) can be beneficially employed against
certain natural morbid states; if we ask it whether the change to
health (cure) may be expected to ensue most certainly and in
the most permanent manner:
1, by the use of such medicines as are capable of producing in
the healthy body a different (alloeopathic) affection from that ex¬
hibited by the disease to be cured.
2, or by the employment of such as are capable of exciting in
the healthy individual an opposite (enantiopathic, antipathic)
state to that of the case to be cured.
3, or by the administration of such medicines as can cause a
similar (homoeopathic) state to the natural disease before us (for
these are the only three possible modes of employing them), ex¬
perience speaks indubitably for the last method.
But it.is moreover self evident that medicines which act hetero¬
geneously and allceopathically , which tend to develop in the heal¬
thy subject different symptoms from those presented by the dis¬
ease to be cured, from the very nature of things can never be
suitable and efficacious in this case, but they must act awry,
otherwise all diseases must necessarily be cured in a rapid, cer¬
tain and peimanent manner by all medicine, however different.
Now, as every medicine possesses an action different from that
of every other, and as, according to eternal natural laws, every
disease causes a derangement of the human health different from
tion, the catamenia came on, convulsions ceased, there occurred a kind of sleep,
expectoration, &c.—the medicine (to which ihe honor was attributed more than
to the others in the mixture) was instantly elevated to the rank of a diuretic, a
diaphoretic, an emmenagogue, an antispasmodic, a soporific, an expectorant,
and thereby not only was a falhuiuni cau.ue committed by confounding the word
during with by t but quite a false conclusion was drawn, a particulari ad univer-
saU % in opposition to all the laws of reason; indeed the conditional was made
unconditional. For a subst. nee that does not in every case of disease promote
urine and perspiration, that does not in every instance bring on the catamenia
and sleep, that does not subdue all convulsions, and cause every cough to come
to expectoration, cannot be said by a person of sound reason to be uncondition¬
ally and absolutely diurelic, diaphoretic, emmenagogue, soporific, antispasmod¬
ic, and expectorant! And yet this is what the ordinary materia medica does.
Indeed it is impossible that in the complex phenomena of our health, in the
multifarious combinations of different symptoms presented by the innumerable
varieties of human diseases, the employment of a remedy can exhibit its pure,
original medicinal effect, and exactly what we can expect it to do for derange¬
ments of our health. These can only be shown by medicines given to persons
ir. health.
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that caused by all other diseases, this proposition contains an in¬
nate contradiction ( contradictionem in adjecto) f and is self-dem¬
onstrative of the impossibility of a good result, since every given
change can only be effected by an adequate cause, but not per
quamlibet causam. And daily experience also proves that the or¬
dinary practice of prescribing complex recipes containing a va¬
riety of unknown medicines in diseases, does indeed do many
things, but rarely cures.
The second mode of treating diseases by medicines is the em¬
ployment of an agent capable of altering the existing derange¬
ment of the health (the disease, or most prominent morbid
symptom) in an enantiopathic , antipathic , or contrary manner (the
palliative employment of a medicine). Such an employment, as
will be readily seen, cannot effect a permanent cure of the dis¬
ease, because the malady must soon afterwards recur, and that in
an aggravated degree. The process that takes place is as fol¬
lows:—According to a wonderful provision of nature, organized
living beings are not regulated by the laws of unorganized (dead)
physical matter, they do not receive the influence of external
agents, like the latter, in a passive manner, but strive to oppose
a contrary action to them.* The living human body does in¬
deed allow itself to be in the first instance changed by the action
* The expressed, green juice of plants, which is in that state no longer living,
when spread upon linen cloth is soon blanched and its color am ihilated by ex¬
posure to sunlight, whereas the colourless living plant that has been kept in a
dark cellar, soon recovers its full green color when exposed to the same sun¬
light. A root dug up and dried (dead), if buried in a warm and damp soil,
rapidly undergoes complete decomposition and de truction, whilst a liv.ng root
in the same w arm damp soil sends forth gay sprouts.— Foaming malt beer in full
fermentation rapidly turns to vinegar w h n exposed to a temperature of 96 de¬
grees Fahr. in a bottle, but in the healthy human stomaih at the same temper¬
ature the fermentation ceases, and it soon becomes converted into a mild nutri¬
tious juice. — Half decomposed and strong smelling game, as also bet f and other
flesh meat, partaken of by a hcabhy individual, furnfch excrement with the least
amount of odor; whereas cinchona-bark, which is calculated powerfully to
check decomposition in lifeless animal substances, is acted against by the in¬
testines in such a manner that the most fetid flatus is developed.—Mild carbon¬
ate of lime removes all acids from inoiganic matter, but when taken into the
healthy stomach sour perspiration usually ensues.—Whilst the dead animal fibre
is preserved by nothing more certainly and powerfully than by tannin, clean
ulcers in a living individual, when they are frequently dressed with tannin, be¬
come unclean, green, and putrid.—A hand plunged into warm w'ater becomes
subsequently colder than the hand that has not been so treated, and it becomes
colder in proportion as the water was hotter.
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of physical agents; but this change is not in it as in inorganic
substances, permanent (—as it ought necessarily to be if the
medicinal agent acting in a contrary manner to the disease should
have a permanent effect, and be of durable benefit—): on the
contrary, the living human organism strives to develop by an¬
tagonism* the exact opposite of the affection first produced in it
from without,—as for instance, a hand kept long enough in ice-
cold water, after being withdrawn does not remain cold, nor
merely assume the temperature of the surrounding atmosphere,
as a stone (dead) ball would do, or even resume the temperature
of the rest of the body, no! the colder the water of the bath was,
and the longer it acted on the healthy skin of the hand, the more
inflamed and hotter does the latter afterwards become.
Therefore it cannot but happen that a medicine having an ac¬
tion opposite to the symptoms of the disease, will reverse the
morbid symptoms for but a ver> short time,f but must soon give
place to the antagonism inherent in the living body, which pro¬
duces an opposite state, that is to say, a state»the direct contrary
of that transient delusive state of the health effected by the pal¬
liative (and corresponding to the original malady), which con¬
stitutes an actual addition to the now recurring, uneradicated,
original affection, and is consequently an increased degree of the
original disease. And thus the malady is always certainly aggra¬
vated after the palliative—the medicine that acts in an opposite
and enantiopathic manner—has exhausted its action.J
In chronic diseases,—the true touch stone of a genuine heal¬
ing art,—the injurious character of the antagonistically-acting
* Th'S is the law of nature, in obedience to which the employment of every
medicine produces at first certain dynamic changes and morbid symptoms in the
living humau body (primary or first action of the medicines ), but on the other
hand, by means of a peculiar antagonism [which may in many instances be
termed the effort of self preservation], produces a slate the very opposite of v the
first [the secondary or after action ], as for instance, in the case of narcotic sub¬
stances, insensibility is produced in the primary action, sensitiveness to pain in
the secondary.
f As a burnt hand remains cold and painless not much longer than w-hilst it
remains in the cold water, but afterwards feels the pain of the burn much more
severely.
f Thus the pain of a burnt hand is subdued by cold water quickly, it is true
but only for a few minutes, afterwards, however, the pain of the burn and the,
inflammation become worse than they were previously [the inflammation as the
secondary action of the cold water makes an addition to the original inflamma-
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(palliative) remedy often displays itself in a high degree, since
from its repeated exhibition in order that it should merely pro¬
duce its delusive effect (a very transient semblance of health) it
must be administered in larger and ever larger doses, which are
often productive of serious danger to life, or even of actual
death.*
There remains, therefore, only a third mode of employing
medicines in order to effect a really beneficial result, to wit, by
employing in every case such an one as tends to excite of itself
an artificial, morbid affection in the organism similar (homoeo¬
pathic), best if very similar , to the actual case of disease.
That this mode of employing medicines is and must of neces¬
sity be the only best method, can easily be proved by reasoning,
as it has also already been confirmed both by innumerable expe¬
riences of physicians who practise according to my doctrines,
and by daily experience.f
It will, therefore, not be difficult to perceive what are the laws
of nature according to which the only appropriate cure of dis¬
eases, the homoeopathic, takes place, and must necessarily take
place.
The first of these unmistakable laws of nature is: the suscepti¬
bility of the living organism for natural diseases is comparably less
than it is for medicines.
A multitude of disease-exciting causes act daily and hourly
upon us, but they are incapable of deranging the equilibrium of
tion of the burn, which is not to be eradicated by cold water]. The trouble¬
some fulness of the abdomen in cases of habitual constipation appe rs to be
removed, as if magically, by the action of a purgative, but the very next day
the painful fulness returns together with the constipation, and becomes worse
afterwards than before. The stupified sleep caused by opium is succeeded by a
more sleepless night than ever. But that the state that subsequently occurs is
a true aggravation, is rendered evident by this, that if we design again to em¬
ploy the palliative [e. g. opium or habitual sleeplessness or chronic looseness of
the bowels), it must be given in a stronger dose, as if for a more severe disease ,
in order that it should produce its delusive amelioration for even as short a
period as before.
* As, for instance, when opium is repeated in always stronger doses for the
suppression of urgent symptoms of a chronic disease.
f I may adduce merely a few examples from daily experience; thus, the burn¬
ing pain produced by the contact of boiling water with the skin, is overpowered
and destroyed, as cooks are wont to do, by approaching the moderately burnt
hand to the fire, or by bathing it uninterruptedly with heated alcohol (or turpen¬
tine), which causes a still more intense burning s-nsation. This infallible mode
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the health, or of making the healthy sick; the activity of the life-
sustaining power within us usually withstands the most of them,
the individual remains healthy. It is only when these external
inimicil agencies assail us in a very aggravated degree, and
we are especially exposed to their influence, that we get ill,
when our organism has a particularly impressionable, weak side
(predisposition), that makes it more disposed to be affected by
the (simple or compound) morbific cause in question, and to be
deranged in its health.
If the inimical agents in nature that are partly physical and
partly psychical, which are termed morbific noxae, possessed an
unconditional power of deranging the human health, they would,
of treatment is practised anti found to be efficacious by lacque*ers and others
engaged in similar occupations. The burning pain produced by these strong
spirits und their elevated temperature then remains alone present, and that for
but a few minutes, whilst the organism, homceopathically freed by them from
the inflammation occasioned by the burn, soon restores the injury of the skin
and forms a new epidemis through which the spirit can no longer penetrate.
And thus in the course of a few hours , the injury caused by the burn is cured
by a remedy th .t occasions a similar burning pain (heated alcohol or turpentine),
whereas if treated with the ordinary cooling palliative remedies and salves, it is
transformed into a bad ulcer and usually continues to suppurate for many weeks
or months with great pain. Practised dancers know from old experience that
those wh > are extremely healed by dancing are very much relieved for the first
moment by s ripping themselves and drinking very cold water, but thereafter
infallibly incur moital disease, and they do not allow persons excessively heated
to cool themselves by exposure to the open air or by taking off their clothes,
but wisely administer a liquor whose nature is to heat the blood, such as punch
or hot tea mixed with rum or arrack, and in this manner walking at the same
time gently up and down the room, they rapidly lose the violent febfile state
induced by the dance. In like manner no old experienced reaper, after inor¬
dinate exertion in the heat of tae sun, would drink an)thing in order to cool
himself but a glass of brandy; and before an hour has elapsed, his thirst and
heat are gone and he feels quite well. No experienced person would put a
frost bi'ten limb into warm water, or seek to restore it by approaching it to the
fire or a hot stove; applying to it snow, or rubbing it with ice cold water, is the
well known homoeopathic remedy for it. The illness occasioned by excessive
joy (fantastic gaiety, trembling restlessness and uneasiness, palpitation of the
heart, sleeplessness) is rapidly and permanently removed by coffee, which causes
a similar morbid affection in persons unaccustomed to its use. And in like man¬
ner there are many daily occurring confirmations of the great truth, that nature
intends that men should be cured of their long standing diseases by means of
similar affections of short duration. Nations, for centuries sunk in listless
apathy and serfdom, raised their spiiit, felt their dignity as men, and again be¬
came free, after having been ignominiously trodden in the dust by the western
tyrant.
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as they are universally distributed, not leave any one in good
health; every one would be ill, and we should never be able to
obtain an idea of health. But as, taken on the whole, diseases
aie only exceptional states of the human health, and it is neces¬
sary that such a number of circumstances and conditions, both
as regards the morbific agents and the individual to be affected
with disease, should conjoin before a disease is produced by its
exciting causes, it follows, that the individual is so little to be af¬
fected by such noxce, that they can never unconditionally make him
illy and that the human organism is capable of being deranged to
disease by them only by means of a particular predisposition.
But it is far otherwise with the artificial dynamic agents which
we term medicines. For every true medicine acts at all times,
under all circumstances, on every living, animated body, and ex¬
cites in it the symptoms peculiar to it (even in a way perceptible
to the senses if the dose be large enough) so that evidently every
living human organism must always and inevitable be affected by
the medicinal disease and y as it were t infected, which, as is well
known, is not the case with respect to natural diseases.*
All experience proves incontestably, that the human body is
much more apt and disposed to be affected by medicinal agents
ami to have its health deranged by them, than by the morbific
noxae and contagious miasms, or, what is the same thing, that the
medicinal agents possess an absolute power of'deranging human
health, whereas the motbific agents possess only a very condi¬
tional power, vastly inferior to the former.
To this circumstance it is owing that medicines are able to
cure diseases at all (that is to say, we see, that the moibid aflfec
tion may be eradicated from the diseased organism, if the latter
be subjected to the appropriate alteration by means of medi¬
cine); but in order that the cure should also be fulfilled, to wit,
a stronger dynamic affection permanently txtinputshes the weaker
in the living organism, provided the former be similar in kind to
the latter ; for the dynamic alteration of the health to be antici¬
pated from the medicine should, as 1 think 1 have proved, neither
differ in kind from or be allceopathic to the morbid derangement,
in order that, as happens in the ordinary mode of practice, a still
* Even the pestilential diseases do not affect every one unconditionally, and
ihe other diseases leave many more individuals unaffected, even when all are
exposed to changes of the weather, of the seasons, nnd to the influence of many
other injurious impressions.
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greater derangement may not ensue; nor should it be opposite to
it, in order that a merely palliative delusive amelioration may
not ensue, to be followed by an inevitable aggravation of the
original malady; but the medicines must have been proved by
observations to possess the tendency to develop of itself a state
of health similar to the disease (be able to excite similar symp¬
toms in the healthy body), in order to be a remedy of permanent
efficacy.
Now, as the dynamic affections of the organism (caused by
disease or by medicine) are only cognisable by the phenomena
of altered function and altered sensation, and consequently the
similarity of its dynamic affections to one another can only ex¬
press themselves by similarity of symptoms; but as the organism
(as being much more liable to be deranged by medicine than by
disease) must yield more to the medicinal affection, that is to say,
must be more disposed to allow itself to be influenced and de¬
ranged by medicine than by similar natural morbid affection, it
follows undeniably, that it will be freed from the natural morbid
affection if we allow a medicine to act on it, which, while differ¬
ing * in its nature from the disease, resembles it very closely in
the symptoms it causes, that is to say, is homceopathic; for the
organism, as a living, individual unity, cannot received two sim¬
ilar dynamic affections at the same time, without the weaker
yielding to the stronger similar one; consequently, as it is more
disposed to be more strongly affected by the one (the medicinal
affection), the other, similar, weaker one (the natural morbid af¬
fection) must necessarily give way; and the organism is there¬
fore cured of its disease.
Let it not be imagined that the living organism, if a new simi¬
lar affection be communicated to it when diseased by a dose of
homceopathic medicine, will be thereby more seriously deranged,
that is, burdened with an addition to its sufferings, just as a leaden
plate already pressed upon by an iron weight is still more severe¬
ly squeezed by placing a stone in addition upon it; or as a piece
of copper heated by friction must become still hotter by pouring
* Without this difference in the nature of the morbid affection from that of
the medicinal affection, a cure were impossible; if the two were not merely of a
similar, but of the same nature, consequently identical, then no result (or only
an aggravation of the malady) would ensue; as, for example, if we were to
touch a chancre with other chancrous poison, a cure would never result there¬
from.
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on it water at a more elevated temperature. No, our living or¬
ganism does not behave passfvely, it is not subject to the laws
that govern dead matter; it reacts by vital antagonism, so as to
surrender itself as an individual living whole to its morbid de¬
rangement, and to allow this to be extinguished within it, when
a stronger affection of a similar kind, produced in it by homoeo¬
pathic medicine, takes possession of it
Such a spiritually reacting being is our living, human organism,
which with automatic power expels from itself a weaker derange¬
ment (disease), whenever the stronger power of the Homoeopathic
medicine produces in it another but very similar affection; or in
other words, which, on account of the unity of its life, cannot
suffer at the same time from two similar general derangements,
but must discard the primary dynamic affection (disease), when¬
ever it is acted on by a second dynamic power (medicine), more
capable of deranging it, that has a great resemblance to the
former in its power of affecting the health (its symptoms).
Something similar takes place in the human mind. *
But as the human organism even in health is more capable of
being affected by medicine than by disease, as I have shown
above, so when it is diseased, it is beyond comparison more af-
* For example: a girl plunged into grief by the death of her companion, if
taken to see a family where the poor, half-naked children have just lost their
father, their sole support, does not become more sorrowful from witnessing this
touching scene, but is thereby consoled for her own smaller misfortune; she is
cured of her grief for her friend, because the unity of her mind cannot be af¬
fected by two similar passions at once, and the one passion must be extinguished
when a similar but stronger passion takes possession of her mind, and acts as a
homoeopathic remedy in extinguishing the first. But the girl would not be tran¬
quillized and cured of her grief for the loss of her companion, if her mother
were angrily to scold her (heterogeneous , allaopathic influence], but on the con¬
trary, her mind would be still more distressed by this attack of grief of another
kind; and in like manner the sorrowing girl, if we were to cause an apparent
but only palliative alleviation of her grief, by means of a gay entertainment,
would subsequently in her solitude sink into still more profound sadness, and
would weep much more intensely than previously for the death of her friend
[because this affection would here be only of an opposite, enantiopathic char¬
acter].
And as it is here in psychical life, so is it in the former case in organic life.
The unity of our life cannot occupy itself with, and receive, two general dyna¬
mic affections of the same kind at once; for if the second be a similar one, the
first is displaced by it, if the organism be more energetically affected by the
latter.
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fectable by homoeopathic medicine than by any other (whether
alloeopathic or enantiopathic) and indeed it is ajfectable in the
highest degree; since, as it is already disposed and excited by the
disease to certain symptoms, i* must now be more susceptible of
the altering influence of similar symptoms (by the homoeopathic
medicine)—just as similar mental affections render the mind
much more sensitive to similar emotions—hence only the small¬
est dose of them is necessary and useful for their cure, that is, for
altering the diseased organism into the similar medicinal disease;
and a greater one is not necessary on this account also, because
the spiritual power of the medicine does not in this instance ac¬
complish its object by means of quantity, but by potentiality
and quality (dynamic fitness, homoeopathy),—and a greater dose
is not useful , but on the contrary injurious , because whilst the
larger dose, on the one hand, does not dynamically over* power
the morbid affection more certainly than the smallest dose of the
most appropriate medicine, on the other hand it imposes a com¬
plex medicinal disease in its place, which is always a malady,
though it passes off after a certain time.
Hence the organism will be powerfully affected and taken pos¬
session of by the power of even a very small dose of a medicinal
substance, which, by its tendency to excite similar symptoms
can outweigh and extinguish the totality of the symptoms of the
disease; it becomes, as I have said, free from the morbid affec¬
tion at the very instant that it is taken possession of by the me¬
dicinal affection, by which it is immeasurably more liable to be
altered.
Now, as medicinal agents do of themselves, even in larger
doses, only keep the healthy organism for a few days under their
influence, it will readily be conceived that a small dose, and in
acute diseases a very small dose of them (as it ought evidently
to be in homoeopathic treatment), can only affect the system for
a short time; the smallest doses, indeed, in acute disease, only
for a few hours; and then the medicinal affection substituted for
the disease passes unobservedly and very rapidly into pure health.
In the permanent cure of diseases by medicines in living or¬
ganisms nature seems never to act otherwise than in accordance
with these her manifest laws, and then indeed she acts, if we
may use the expression, with mathematical certainty. There is
no case of dynamic disease in the world (excepting the death
struggle, old age, if it can be considered a disease, and the de-
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struction of some indispensible viscus or member), whose symp¬
toms can be met with in great similarity among the positive effects
of a medicine , which will not be rapidly and permanently cured by
this medicine . The diseased individual can be freed from his
malady, in no more easy, rapid, certain, reliable and permanent
manner, by any conceivable mode of treatment,* than by means
of the homoeopathic medicine in small doses.
* Even those striking cures which occur in rare instances in ordinary practice,
take place only by means of a homoeopathically appropriate medicine, which
forms the chief agent in the receipt, into which it has been accidentally intro¬
duced. Physicians hitherto could not have chosen the medicines hoinoeopathi-
cally for diseases, as the positive effects of the medicines [those observed from
their administration to healthy persons] had not been investigated by them, and
accordingly remained unknown to them; and even those which have been known
otherwise than by my writings, were not regarded by them as capable of being
utilized for treatment,—and moreover, the relation of the effects of medicines
to the symptoms of the disease they resemble [the homoeopathic law of cure],
which is requisite in order to effect radical cures, was unknown.
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CALCAREA CARBONICA, LIME.
SAMUEL HAHNEMANN, M. D.
Lime when potentized belongs among the most effective anti-
psoric remedies, especially in cases where the following symp¬
toms are prominent:
Dejection; inclination to weep; lack of cheerfulness, with
heaviness of the lower limbs; anxiety when sweating; restless
anxiety; anxiety; shivering and horror when evening approaches;
anguish, excitable by thoughts; anxiety after hearing of cruelties;
nervous excitation; timidity; fits of despondency about shaken
health; sensitive peevishness; self-will; indifference; difficulty
in thinking; long-continued numb feeling of the head, as if a
board was before the head; dizziness and trembling before
breakfast; vertigo when going up stairs; vertigo when mounting
high, e. g. y on the roof; heaviness and pressure in the forehead,
so that he has to close the eyes; headache from reading and
writing; headache from overlifting; boring in the forehead, as if
the head would burst; beating headache in the occiput; throb¬
bing in the middle of the brain; hammering headache after
walking in the open air, compelling him to lie down; headache
and humming in the head, with heat of the cheeks; icy cold in
the right side of the head; evening-sweat in the head; falling out
of the hair . Pressure in the eyes; burning and excoriation of the
eyelids; burning and cutting in the eyes during reading by candle¬
light; cutting in the eyelids; stitches in the eyes; itching of the
eyes; closing of the eyes by suppuration; suppuration of a fistula
lachrymalis; lachrymation in the open air or in the morning;
quivering in the upper and lower eyelids; agglutination of the
eyelids every morning; obscuration of the sight when reading;
obscuration of the eyes after eating; dim vision, feathers before
the eyes; dim-sightedness as from gauze; mist before the eyes,
when straining the eyes and reading; long-sightedness, he cannot
read without convex spectacles; dazzling of the eyes by a bright
light. Stitches in the ears; running of pus from the ears; crack¬
ing in the ears, when swallowing; throbbing in the ears; ringing
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in ears; humming before the ears; roaring in the ears; rushing
in the ears, with hardness of hearing; thundering in the ears;
obstruction in hearing; hardness of hearing; sore nose; obstruc¬
tion of the nose with yellow, fetid pus; bleeding at the nose; bad
smell and fetor from the nose; smell of dung before the nose.
Faceache; itching and eruption of the face; freckles on the cheeks;
itching and itching pimples in the whiskers; eruption on the
mouth; pain in the glands of the lower jaw; toothache, when¬
ever drinking something cold; drawing toothache, with stitches,
day and night, renewed by cold and by warmth; toothache, like
digging and soreness; difficult teething of children; painful sen¬
sitiveness of the gums; stitches in the gums; gum boils; bleed¬
ing of the gums; dryness of the tongue , at night, or in the morning
on awaking; aphthae under the tongue; accumulation of mucus
in the mouth; hawking up mucus; constriction in the throat;
bitter taste in the mouth in the morning; lack of appetite; lack
of appetite, with constant thirst; aversion to his customary smok¬
ing of tobacco; aversion to warm food; long-continued aversion
to meat; hunger immediately or soon after eating; voracious
hunger in the morning; she cannot eat enough, she cannot get
it down; after meals, heat; eructation after eating; bitter eructa¬
tion; water brash; weakness of digestion in the stomach; pres¬
sure in the stomach , fasting and after eating; nocturnal pres¬
sure in the scrobiculus cordis; stinging pressure in the stomach
after eating; cramps in the stomach; pinching and cutting in
the scrobiculus cordis; during pressure in the stomach, a press¬
ing out under the last rib; inability to bear tight clothing over
the scrobiculus cordis; swelling of the scrobiculus cordis, with
pressive pain; the scrobiculus cordis painful to the touch; ten¬
sion in both hypochondria; pressive, lancinating colic, without
diarrhoea; colic in the epigastrium; in the afternoon, cutting and
-griping in the abdomen, with vomiting of food eaten at dinner;
coldness in the abdomen; inflation and hardness of the abdomen;
obstruction of flatus; pressure of flatus to the abdominal ring, as
if hernia was about to come; constipation; costiveness; stool
scanty and hard; stool twice a day; frequent, continual soft
stool; involuntary discharge of foaming stool; during stool pro¬
trusion of the varices of the rectum, with burning pain; after the
stool, lassitude and feeling as if bruised all over; itching of the
anus; ascarides in the rectum; burning in the urethra; too fre¬
quent urination; hamaturia; flow of blood from the urethra;
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wanton, lewd ideas; lack of sexual instinct; deficient sexual
power; lack of pollutions; too brief erections during coitus;
stinging and burning in the male genitals during the emission of
semen in coitus; pressive pain in the vagina; pressure upon the
prolapsed womb; stitches in the os uteri; itching on the pudenda
and anus; distended veins on the labia pudendi; after-pains or
milk fever after parturition; bloody flux from the uterus; (sup¬
pressed menses;) menses too early and excessive; during the
menses, cutting in the abdomen and griping in the sacrum;
Jeucorrhcea before the menses; leucorrhcea , like milk, in jets;
burning, itching leucorrhcea; during the flow of leucorrhcea, itch¬
ing on the pudenda.
Frequent sneezing; troublesome dryness of the nose; constant
coryza; delayed flow of the coryza; dry coryza; dry coryza in the
morning; stoppage of the nose; ulceration of the larynx; hoarse¬
ness; mucus on the chest; evening-cough in bed; night-cough
during sleep; cough in the morning; dry cough; yellow fetid ex¬
pectoration; during cough, pressure on the stomach; arrest of
breathing in stooping; pressure on the chest; stitches in the side
of the chest on moving; stitches in the left side, on bending to
that side; burning in the chest; pricking stitches in the muscles
of the chest; palpitation of the heart , also at night; pain in the
sacrum; pain as of a sprain in the back; stiffness and rigidity in
the nape of the neck; swelling of the cervical glands; goitre;
pressive pain in the right upper arm; nocturnal drawing and
tearing in the arms; sudden exhaustion of the arms, like paralysis;
dying off [numbness] in the hands on grasping; swelling of the
hands; sweat of the hands; arthritic nodosities on the wrists and
the joints of the fingers; formication as from going to sleep of
the fingers; numbness of the fingers and sensation as if they
were dead, also in the warmth; awkwardness of the fingers; fre¬
quent paralysis of the fingers; heaviness of the legs; stiffness of
the legs; cramps in the legs; going to sleep of the legs in sitting;
ulcers of the legs; stitches in the thigh on treading; distended
veins in the thighs; stitches in the knees, when standing and
fitting; stitches and tearing in the knee; drawing pain in the
knee, when sitting and walking; swelling of the knee; red spots
on the legs; burning of the soles of the feet; swelling of the
soles; coldness of the feet, in the evening; foot-sweat; dying off
[numbness] of the feet, in the evening; sensitiveness of the big
toes, corns; pains in the corns; going to sleep of the limbs;
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cramps in the arms and legs; pain as of bruising in the upper
arms, also in the middle of the thighs, on going up stairs; tear¬
ing in the limbs, in the arms and legs; tendency to strain one¬
self, making the nape of the neck rigid and stiff, with headache;
tendency to strains, with sore throat thence; great fatness and
corpulence with youths; exhaustion from speaking; lack of
strength , lassitude; lassitude in the morning; great exhaustion
after every little walk; attacks of epilepsy at night during full
moon, with cries; great fatigue from moderate walking in the
open air; copious perspiration on moderate exertion of the
body; great sensitiveness to cold; tendency to take cold; visible
twitching in the skin, from the feet up to the head, causing dizzi¬
ness; dry feeling in the skin; roughness of the skin, as if covered
with miliary eruption; bran-like covering of the skin; furuncle;
warts; drowsiness in daytime; drowsiness early in the evening;
frequent waking up at night; insomnia; at night, tossing in bed;
thirst at night; at night, pressure in the scrobiculus cordis and
rising from there to the larynx and the head; nocturnal pain in
the back and in the arms; nocturnal asthma; nocturnal palpita¬
tion of the heart; heat and anguish at night; horrible fantastic
visions before going to sleep, in the evening in bed; anxious
dreams; fantastic exaltation and delirium at night; chill in the
morning after rising; frequent rushes of heat; rushes of heat
with palpitation and anguish of heart; tertian, evening fever, at
first, heat in the face then chill.
Calcarea when potentized has a long-continued action. When
Nitric acid given previously, though selected apparently pro¬
perly, yet acts in some respects unfavorably, then Calcarea may
generally be profitably employed; so also any unfavorable effects
of Calcarea, even when selected apparently homoeopathically,
may be neutralized by following it with Nitric acid, and the
effects will be changed into favorable ones. Especially is
nausea, produced by Calcarea, removed by smelling of Spirits of
Nitre; this is almost a specific and much more effective than
smelling of Camphor. There are, however, troublesome effcts
which call for the smelling of Nux vomica . Calcarea is fre¬
quently used after the use of Sulphur , also when the pupils of
the eyes are apt to dilate.
If the catamenia usually come several days before the period
and excessive, Calcarea is frequently the indispensable curative,
and the more so, the more abundant the flow. But if the menses
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always appear at the right period or later, even if the menses are
profuse, Calcarea is yet but rarely useful. Calcarea can rarely
be advantageously repeated with older persons, even after other
intervening medicines, and very rarely, yea, hardly ever, can its
doses be repeated at once, without injury. But with children,
when it is indicated by the symptoms, it may be repeated several
times, and the younger they are, the more frequently.
REPERTORY OF NEW REMEDIES.
M. E. DOUGLASS, M. D., BALTIMORE, MD.
PROF. OF PHARMACY, DERMATOLOGY AND MEDICAL DISEASES OF WOMEN,
SOUTHERN HOMCEOPATHIC COLLEGE, BALTIMORE, MD.
Sleep.
Abnormal —A. sleep, when caused by worms; also such symp¬
toms at night as grinding the teeth, wetting the bed,
crying out in affright etc. Santon.
Afternoon —Went to sleep in his room in- the a., very uncom¬
mon; awoke with bitter mouth and pain in bowels.
Diosc.
Apathetic —He sits in a dull, a. or drowsy condition, and fre¬
quently gives a prolonged )*awn. Atrop.
Asleep —He falls suddenly a. at intervals of a few minutes.
Brom. of Potass.
When awakened she fell a. again directly. Chelid.
Falls a. late at night; restless, cannot sleep. Diosc.
Falls a. in chair, in the day time. Myrica.
Awakes —A. at four a. m., with soreness, not a pain, in the left
side of the abdomen, painful to pressure. Calab. bean .
Awakens —A. at a. m. with a cramp pain in the head, extending
from the right side to the left side. Lachn.
Awaking —On a. he cannot remember what he has dreamed.
Chelid.
On a. pain under the hypochondria. Cistus.
On a. labored cardiac action. Lycopus.
Sneezing, on a. from sleep. Lycopus.
Languid on a. and unrefreshed. Ptelea.
Awoke —A. at five a. m., and could not sleep again; bed feels
hard. Pago.
A. with a dull, hot, constricted feeling in the head.
Carb. ac.
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Bites —While sleeping he often b. into the point of his tongue,
so that it is sore the following day. Therid .
Cannot —She c. get to sleep for a long time, then sleeps well.
Chelid.
Chair —She slept all night, and would often fall asleep in her c.,
and in most uncomfortable positions. Brom. of
Potass.
Coldness —Sleep prevented by a sensation of numbness and c.
in lower extremities. Chelid.
Comatose —Dull, heavy, c. sleep. Atrop.
C. condition lasting for days, ending in fatal cerebral
congestion. Chlor. hydr.
C. slumber; while sleeping has wild dreams, and sore¬
ness as if in great distress. Doryph.
Coma—S tupefaction, with confusion of ideas, followed by c.
state. A esc. gl.
Tendency to c. Brom. of Potass.
C. alternating with convulsions and moaning. Solan.
Confused —No sleep, with a flow of c. ideas until five in the
morning; all night very restless, frequently waking
fatigued from lying in one position. Cedron.
Cough —In the night, in bed, short c., with sore throat, followed
by coryza. Lachn •
Crazy —Inability to sleep, with wild feeling in the head, as if she
would be c. Lil. tig.
He fears he is becoming c., and that he may get up and
do some mischief. Calab. bean.
Cries —Grinding of the teeth during sleep, moans and cries.
Brom. of Potass.
Deep —D. sleep, with red, bloated face. Atrop.
Sleep d. and heavy, awaking with racking frontal head¬
ache, aggravated by rolling the eyes upward. Ptelea.
Delirium —D. during sleep. Cactus gr.
During restless sleep, light d. manifested itself. Santon.
Very restless, talking, moving, with some d. Pilocarp .
Desire —D. to sleep before the proper time. Rumex.
Roused from sleep early in the morning by great d. for
stool. Diosc.
Irresistible d. to sleep. Calab. bean.
Diarrhoea —Offensive d. awakening from sleep. Lith. carb .
Disposition —D. to sleep, a sort of stupor. Gels.
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Great d. to sleep, with entire loss of mental and physi¬
cal energy. Corn. cir.
Disturbed —Sleep d. and unrefreshing. Ailanth.
Sleep at night d. by all sorts of dreams. Iberis.
Sleep d. by the pains in the feet and sacrum. Lith. carb.
Sleep d. at night; bad dreams and frequent waking.
Myrica.
Sleep is often d. by awaking with headaches or frequent
inclination to pass water. Puls. nutt.
Sleep d. by dreams of falling from a great height. Solan
Dreams —Uneasy sleep, with frightful d. Asclep. tub.
Awoke with frightful d. and severe crampy pains in the
metatarsal bones of both feet. Badiaga.
Very restless sleep, with frightful d. Bapt.
D. of being bound down with a chain across his mouth.
Bapt.
Sleeplessness, disturbed d., starting as from fright, fol¬
lowed during the day by lassitude, want of energy.
Bi-sulph. of Carb.
Night terrors of children; horrible d. Brom. of Potass.
He d. that he is a lion. Calab. bean.
Sound sleep with melancholy d. Can. ind.
D. of danger and of perils encountered. Can. ind.
D. of dead bodies. Can. ind.
Vexatious d. Can. ind.
Prophetic d. Can. ind.
Voluptuous d., with erections and profuse seminal
emissions. Can. ind.
D. of fire; so vivid was the d. that he was awakened.
Carb. ac.
Had a great many d., some amorous, others I was un¬
able to recall. Carb. ae.
D. of quarreling with a dead sister and other dead
friends, cried about it and awoke with a nightmare,
and sensation of a stone on the stomach. Cedron.
Restless sleep, full of d. Chelid.
D. of a journey, remembering most minute particulars.
Chelid.
D. of corpses and burials. Chelid.
Sleep full of lascivious d., with emissions of semen.
Diosc.
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Dreams —Comatose slumber; while sleeping has wild d., and
screams as if in great distress. Doryph.
Sleep disturbed by d.; am in trouble all night. Fago.
D. that everything goes wrong. Fago.
Great sleeplessness till twelve at night, then restless
sleep; with terrifying dreams. Doryph.
Sad dreams full of graves. Guaraea.
Sleep at night disturbed by all sorts of d. Iberis.
Restless and continually turning in bed, with ludicrous
d. Iberis.
Very restless night, with horrid d. Iberis.
Restless sleep at night, with disturbed d., followed by
perspiration. Lachn.
Restless every night, with bad d. Iris v.
Amorous d. during sleep. Iris v.
Sleep unrefreshing, broken by disagreeable d., with
great irritability in the evening. Lit. tig.
Voluptuous d., tenesmus (versical) and erection which
subsides after urination, on awakening. Lith. earb.
Restless sleep, with anxious and sad d. Lobel. infl.
D. of enormous bugs, which attacked his head, and
which he killed with much difficulty. Myriea.
Wakefulness and vivid d. from the fever and excite¬
ment. Oleum jec. as.
D. of seeing objects in the room during sleep. Oleum
jee. as.
Restless at night, with inability to sleep, frequent d. of
a gloomy character, rousing me from sleep; worse
about midnight. Plant.
Restless sleep, with every variety of fanciful d., with
grinding of the teeth. Plant.
The highest degree of restlessness at night, with the
most vivid, congruous, and coherent d., also incoher¬
ent d., also incoherent and disgusting d., all in rapid
succession. Plant.
Sleep disturbed at night; bad d. and frequent waking.
Myriea.
Restless sleep, with unpleasant, laborious and fatiguing
d., and waking unrefreshed. Polyg.
Sleep sound, but haunted by frightful d. Ptelea.
The sleep is broken and restless, and disturbed by
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frightful and annoying d., waking in a profuse per¬
spiration. Ptelea.
Sleep restless, and disturbed by d. and by drooling of
saliva. Ptelea.
Unquiet sleep with d. of danger and trouble. Rumex.
D. of a frightful and disagreeable character. Sang. can.
D. of sailing on the sea. Sang. can.
Sudden waking up from disagreeable d. Scutell.
Nightly restlessness; wakefulness from frightful d.
Scutell.
Sleep disturbed by d. of falling from a great height.
Solan.
I). of snakes; frequently awaking in fright. Solan.
Sleep, with prolonged amorous d. Sumbul.
Unpleasant dreams not frightful. Sumbul.
Dreaming of ridiculously unnatural things in early
morning sleep. Tanac.
Unrefreshed by sleep at night; confused d. Sulph. iod.
Long and dreamful mid-day sleep; d. of journeys in dis¬
tant regions, and riding on horses. Therid.
Some sleep every night, but has frightful d. of being on
the water. Ver. vir.
Restless nights, and frightful d. of being drowned.
Ver. vir.
Restless sleep at night on account of voluptuous d.,
without, or frequently with, emission of semen. Bism.
Fantastic d. Penth.
Voluptuous d. and increased sexual desire, sympathetic
with urinary excitement. Penth.
Dreamy —D. sleep, with early waking. Lycopus.
Drooling —Sleep restless, and disturbed by dreams and by d. of
saliva. Ptelea.
Drops —D. to sleep while sitting up; a headache comes on when
retiring, which is unusual. Fago.
Drowsiness —Extreme d. Brom. of Potass.
D. in the forenoon, even while riding or working.
Calab bean.
Great d. after dinner; sleeps good, and sleeps just as
well at night as if he had not slept in the afternoon.
Calab bean.
Very great d., and disposition to perspire. Corn. cir.
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Drowsiness —D. and long, sound sleep. Gels.
Languor and d. when trying to study. Gels.
D., with and after headache. Myriea.
Languid and drowsy, by day, and bitter taste in mouth.
Ptelea.
Unusual d. all day, with general malaise and headache.
Stell.
Dryness —Sleeplessness, with continually increasing d. of the
throat. Lachn.
Must get up in the night on account of d. in the throat.
Cist us.
The dryness in the throat worse after sleeping. Cistus.
Emissions —Sleep full of lascivious d., with e. of semen. Diosc.
Restless sleep at night on account of voluptuous dreams,
without, or frequently with, e. of semen. Bism.
Excitement —Awakened by unusually strong sexual e. Card. ac.
Exhilaration—E. of all the faculties, followed by strong desire
to sleep. Thasp.
Fatigue —A general feeling of f. after awaking, if the sleep has
exceeded more than six hours, and a general weak¬
ness of body and mind. Cedron.
Feverish —Heavy sleep, with f. feeling on waking. Bapt.
Frightened —Wakes f.; paralyzed with fear. Card. ac.
Good — G. and long sleep during the night. Bi-sulph. of Card.
Grinding—G. of the teeth during sleep, with moans and cries.
Brom. of Potass.
Groaned —G. much in sleep. Eriod.
Headache —H. better after sleep. Badiaga.
Waking with severe headache, in a child. Brom.of Potass.
Heavy —H. sleep during the night. Ailant.
Dull, h., comatose sleep. Atrop.
H. sleep, with muttering, incoherent talking. Atrop.
H. sleep, with feverish feeling on waking. Bapt.
Slept h.; awoke sore all over, especially legs (gluteal
muscles), back, chest and arms. Card. ac.
Inability—I. to sleep, with wild feeling in the head, as if she
would be crazy. Lil. tig.
I. to sleep for a long time, eyes wide open; at length
went to sleep lying on the back with the knees drawn
up. Lil. Hg-
Inclination — I. to sleep, but can find no rest. Coca.
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Irritable —Nervous and i ; on rising in the morning. Iberis.
Lassitude —Extreme 1., sleepiness and yawning, could hardly
keep awake at four p. m. Fago.
L. of the whole body without inclination to sleep. Solan .
Midnight —Cannot sleep after m. Baft.
Moans —Grinding of the teeth during sleep, with m. and cries.
Brom. of Potass.
Moaning— M. during the night. Eriod.
Motion —Can only get to sleep by keeping the hand or foot in
m. Apiol.
Nervous —N. and irritable on rising in the morning. Iberis.
Nightmare —N. of killing snakes; of seeing soldiers; of food.
Ptelea.
Dreamed of quarreling with a dead sister and other
dead friends, cried about it and awoke with a n., and
sensation of a stone on a stomach. Cedron.
N. every night as soon as he falls asleep. Can. ind.
Numbness —Sleep prevented by a sensation of n. and coldness in
lower extremities. Chelid.
Pain —On awaking p. under the hypochondria. Cistus.
Wakes with dull pressing p. in the stomach. A esc. hip.
Palpitation —In the night p., lying on the right side. Badiaga.
Prevented —Sleep p. by a sense of numbness and coldness in
lower extremities. Chelid.
Quarreling —Dreamed of q. with a dead sister and other dead
friends, cried about it and awoke with a nightmare,
and sensation of a stone on the stomach. Cedron.
Quiet —Q. sleep, apparently natural. Chlor. hydr.
Restless—R. cannot sleep before one and two a! m., or if she
falls asleep before midnight she wakes at that time,
and then cannot sleep till daylight. Apiol.
R. night, could lie only a short time in one position, on
account of the soreness of the muscles and whole
body. Badiaga.
Sleeps well till two a. m., then very r. till morning.
Bapt.
Very r. sleep, with continual rolling about in bed; par¬
ticularly with the head. Bi-sulph. of Carb.
No sleep, with a flow of confused ideas until five in the
morning; all night very r. f frequently waking fatigued
from lying in one position. Cedron.
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Restless —R. sleep, full of dreams. Chelid.
R.; screaming, noisy in sleep. Chlor. hydr.
Falls asleep late at night; r. cannot sleep. Diosc.
Great sleeplessness till 12 at night, then r. sleep, with
terrifying dreams. Doryph.
R. and continually turning in bed, with ludicrous
dreams. Jberis.
Very r. night, with horrid dreams. Iberis .
Restless sleep at night, with disturbed dreams, followed
by perspiration. Lachn.
R. every night, with bad dreams Iris v.
Anxious and r. at night. Lith. carb.
R. sleep, with anxious and sad dreams. Lobe/, infl.
R. night, with tossing about. Myriea .
R. at night, with inability to sleep, frequent dreams of
a gloomy character, rousing me from sleep; worse
about midnight. Plant.
R. sleep of children, with whining at night. Podo.
R. sleep, with unpleasant, laborious and fatiguing
dreams, and waking unrefreshed. Polyg.
The sleep is broken and r., and disturbed by frightful
and annoying dreams, waking in a profuse perspira¬
tion. Ptelea.
Sleep r., and disturbed by dreams and by drooling of
saliva. Ptelea .
Sleep r., dream-haunted, v/ith pain in liver on awaking.
Ptelea.
Very r., sleeping only a few moments at a time. San/on.
During r. sleep, light delirium manifested itself. Santon.
R., sleepy, but cannot sleep. Tanac.
R. nights, and frightful dreams of being drowned.
Ver. vir.
R. sleep at night on account of voluptuous dreams,
without, or frequently with, emission of semen. Bisrn.
Very r., talking, moving, with some delirium. Pilocarp.
R. and unrefreshing sleep. Viburn.
Restlessness —Restlessness. Picric ac.
Nightly r.; wakefulness from frightful dreams. Scutell.
Great r. at night, with a dry, hot skin. Rhus ven.
The highest degree of r. at night, with the most vivid,
congruous, and coherent dreams, also incoherent and
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disgusting dreams, all in rapid succession. Plant.
Some throbbing of the arteries at night, and r. until 12
or 1 in the morning. Plant .
Frequently in the evening, in bed, r. and excitement till
toward midnight, preventing sleep. Chelid. -
Roused—R. suddenly from sleep with slow but hard beating of
the heart. Diosc .
R. from sleep early in the morning by great desire for
stool. Diosc.
Screaming —Restless; s., noisy in sleep. Chlor. hydr .
Semi-consciousness —He awakes before midnight, in a state of
s.; with inability to move; palpitation of the heart,
slow deep, labored and intermittent breathing, and a
feeling as if he were dying. Can. ind.
Sexual —Awakened by unusual strong s. excitement. Carbo. ac.
Sleepiness —Yawning and stupefying s. A esc. hip.
Great s. in the morning or forenoon; s. the whole day;
but this is not refreshing. A riant.
After drinking a glass of wine great s., with fullness of
the head. A i/ant.
Great s., with profuse sweating. Apoc. and.
S. , or drowsiness with inability to sleep. Atrop.
Great s. the whole day, but at night restless sleep.
Bi.-sulph of Carb .
Excessive s.; day s. Can. ind.
S. with yawning, and stretching, and languor: Chelid.
Extreme lassitude, s. and yawning; could hardly keep
awake at 4 p. m. Fago.
Intense s., especially between 11 a. m. and 2 to 3 p. m.
Tanac.
In the morning, a few hours after rising, an excessive s.,
but after eating he was unable to take an accustomed
nap. Bism .
S. with chills. Iris v.
Sleeplessness—S. at night from restlessness, and on account of
a sensation of firm pressure on the chest, with hurried
breathing. Pilocarp.
S., from nervous excitation. Sumbul.
S. at night, waking with fright as if he would fall.
Sang, can .
S. from pleasant thoughts crowding on the mind. Scutell.
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Sleeplessness —S. Sticta, Canchal . .
S., almost total, from harassing pain in the back; worse
in early morning. Ptelea.
S., with exhilaration of nervous system, in evening.
Myrica.
S. after 3 a. m., with general prostration, Oleum jec . as.
S. during dentition. Gels.
S. from nervous irritation. Gels.
S., with continually increasing dryness of the throat.
Lachn.
Great s. till 12 at night, then restless sleep, with terrify¬
ing dreams. Doryph.
S. from nervous irritation. Cimic.
S. of children during teething. Cimic .
S. during convalesence from acute diseases. Brom. of
Potass.
S. without apparent cause; or from pulsations at the
stomach, or in the ears. Cactus gr.
S. disturbed dreams, starting as from fright, followed
during the day by lassitude, want of energy. Bt-sulph.
of Carb .
Persistent s. Ars. of Cop.
Sleepy —Incessant yawning; feel languid and s. Carb. ac.
S. condition; she falls asleep as she sits; lethargy in the
day time in j^nndice and hepatic congestion. Chelid.
Stupid and s. feeling, with nausea, etc. Corn. cir.
S. and weak during the day, with dull pains in the head,
back and limbs. Corn, cir.
Very s. after eating. Still.
Dull and s. Still.
S. all the afternoon, could not apply herself to any¬
thing; 2 a. m. awoke with hiccough, lasting an hour.
Tanac.
Very s., especially in a close, warm room. Tanac.
S. after breakfast, before the chill; sleeps throughout
the whole day. Therid.
S. after dinner. Viburn.
Somnolence —S., with dreams. Guaraea .
S., during which he is conscious of all his actions, such
as coughing, spitting, etc. Chlor. hydr.
Soporific —S. sleep, extremely distressing, paleness of the face.
Calab. bean.
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Sore —Slept heavy; awoke s. all over, especially legs (gluteal
muscles,) back, chest and arms. Carb. ac.
Sound —S. sleep with melancholy dreams. Can. ind.
Unusually s. morning sleep, with difficult, weary wak¬
ing. Gels .
Sleep s., but haunted by frightful dreams. Ptelea .
Sleep s., but unrefreshing. Picric ac.
Starting—S. of the limbs while sleeping, which awoke him,
when he feared he would have a fit. Can. ind.
Stupefaction —S. with confusion of ideas, followed by coma.
A esc. gl.
Stupor— A kind of s. resembling that of typhoid fever. Brom.
of Potass.
S., with muttering and loud rumbling in the bowels.
Doryph.
S. attending the fevers of children. Gels.
Deep apoplectic s.; coma and torpor, attended with
fevers. Solan.
Swallowing —In the night s. of saliva on account of dryness.
Cistus.
Sweating —Great sleepiness, with profuse sweating. Apoc. and.
Profuse perspiration, partly dispelling the drowsiness.
Calab. bean.
Woke up in the middle of the night and found that he
was bathed in perspiration. Carb. ac.
Restless sleep at night, with disturbed dreams, followed
by perspiration. Lachn.
Night sweats attending suppurations. Cistus.
Less sleepy than usual, with night s. Oleum fee. as.
The sleep is broken and restless, and disturbed by
frightful and annoying dreams, waking in a profuse
perspiration. Ptelea.
Talking —T. during sleep. Can. ind.
Teeth —Grinding of the teeth during sleep, with moans and
cries. Brom. of Potass.
Grating and grinding of the teeth while sleeping. Can.
ind.
Terrors —Night t. of children; horrible dreams. Brom. of Potass.
Night t., especially in teething children. Chlor. bydr.
Night t. in children. Solan.
Throbbing —Some t. of the arteries at night, and restlessness un¬
til 12 or 1 in the morning. Plant.
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Twitching —Spasmodic t. during sleep. Thasp.
Uneasy —U. sleep, awaking with sharp, darting, stiching pain
low in uterine region, lasting until dressed. Tanac.
U. sleep, with frightful dreams. Asclep. tub .
Unrefreshing —Sleep disturbed and u. Ailant .
Sleep u., broken by disagreeable dreams, with great ir¬
ritability in the evening. Lit. tig.
Unrefreshed by sleep at night; confused dreams.
Sulph. iod.
Unquiet —U. sleep with dreams of danger and trouble. Rumex .
Wakes —After falling asleep w. repeatedly during the night with
terrible thoughts. Calab. bean.
He w. before midnight overcome *with dreadful sensa¬
tions; imagines he is going to be choked; cries and
moans for some time, when all the objects in the
room appear double their respective sizes, and he
falls asleep again. Can. ind.
W. often during the night. Carb. ac.
Wakeful —In the evening not drowsy as usual, but w. Calab . bean .
Wakefulness —W. and vivid dreams from the fever and excite¬
ment. Oleum jec. as.
Unnatural w.; sleep disturbed by colic. Santon.
Waking —W. with dull frontal headache. Myrica.
On w., labored cardiac action. Lycopus.
W. in a gloomy state of mind, unrefreshed. Myrica.
A feeling of fatigue in the morning. Podo.
A feeling in the morning on w. as of great loss of sleep.
Solan.
At night, frequent w. in sleep as from fright. Bism.
Felt as if I had not been asleep, on w. in the morning.
Trifol .
Worse —All the symptoms w. after smoking. Doryph.
Yawn —He sits in a dull, apathetic or drowsy condition, and fre¬
quently gives a prolonged y. Atrop.
Yawning— Y. and stupefying sleepiness. Aesc. hip.
Incessant y.; feel languid and drowsy. Carbol. ac.
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Cott’ea Tosta—Headache.
H. W. PIERSON, M. D., CHICAGO.
PROF. INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE AND CLINICAL MEDICINE, DUNHAM MEDICAL
COLLEGE, CHICAGO.
Mrs. D., aged 40. Married.
Headache—forehead to occiput.
Scalp sensitive to touch—must take out hair-pins.
Pulling—dragging.
<noise, motion, jar, stooping.
<before and after menstrual period.
<[physical fatigue or mental anxiety.
>strong coffee.
Coffea tostcfi™ , one dose, produced slight aggravation for an
hour or two, followed by a gradual improvement in physical
strength and nerve control. Coffee was prohibited. The greater
part of the cure -came from the removal of the exciting cause
while at the same time Coffea in its potentiated form removed
the dynamic effect and at the same time that craving for coffee
which could not be resisted.
Pulsatilla—Headache.
Miss E., aged 18, full form, happy disposition, but cross and
irritable when sick.
Headache—forehead, left side.
<3 to 4 hours after eating.
<nights after hearty dinner.
<close room—must have good ventilation.
<lying down with head low.
<stooping or when moving eyelids.
>pressure—bandage rung out in cold water.
>going to window and letting cold air blow on her.
Pain usually followed by griping, tearing pains in stomach
with sour or bilious vomiting which might relieve head¬
ache, or, the pain might extend down into abdomen—
cramping, pinching, colicky, followed by diarrhoea.
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Sepia—Uterine Displacement.
Mrs. S., aged 37. Brunette. Married. Three children, all
living.
Mentally sad, despondent, cries easily, thinks she can
never get well and has been told that nothing short of
an operation can do her any good.
Headache—dull, frontal; almost constant for part of two
years.
Heat—vertex, <when on feet much—shopping.
Sick headaches—empty gone sensation in stomach with
nausea, <odor from cooking.
Stomach—sensitive to pressure.
Faint, all gone feeling with nausea.
<3 or 4 hours after eating—feeling as if stomach was
coated with mucus.
Bad effects from over-lifting.
Abdomen—Feeling of weight low down with backache.
Dragging sensation—feeling as if everything would come
down; must sit down and cross legs.
<standing—shopping.
>walking fast.
Menses regular but sometimes scanty, pkle and painful;
or dark, slimy and more profuse.
<when keeping still, <nights.
Feeling as if uterus pressed upon rectum.
Feels better when flow profuse.
Examination showed repaired perineum but uterus enlarged
and prolapsed with slight retroversion. No adhesions.
Sepia'" m , one dose.
The examination showed conclusively that the physical con¬
dition was not enough to account for all or even a majority of
the subjective symptoms manifest, hence no mechanical manipu¬
lation could remove the apparent suffering of this woman. The
exciting cause was practically absent, consequently we must at¬
tribute the disturbance to causes from within— fundamental or
predisposing (§ 5). “The outwardly reflected picture of the in¬
ternal essence of the disease*’ (§7) pointed to Sepia and under
its influence the vital force was brought into harmony with the
organism over which it has control and we find a disappearance
first of the despondent mood. The pain seemed to gradually
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disappear from the head with the amelioration of all the other
symptoms. This was followed with a profuse leucorrhoea, yellow
and thick in character, which kept up for nearly two months but
giving no discomfort other than that due to the napkin. This
gradually disappeared but was followed by an itching eruption
all over the body calling for Sulphur which worked a complete
transformation of the mental and physical character.
Pulsatilla —Conjunctivitis.
Miss A., aged 6. Bright, happy, healthy looking child. Had
complained of occasional attacks of granular conjunctivitis for
nearly three years.
Lachrymation profusion—<daytime; <open air-wind.
Lids—itching, burning.
<evening; <warm room; <draught.
>cold, >cold application.
Frequent rubbing of lids.
Discharge thick, bland.
<night—agglutinates eyes.
Sight—dim in artificial light.
Photophobia slight.
General aggravation in warm, close room.
Pulsatilla <*, one dose about once in two weeks for a period of
three months, was followed by a complete disappearance not
only of the eye symptoms but of a chronic nasal catarrh, thick
yellowish green in character.
Pulsatilla— lnsipient Phthisis.
Miss B., aged 26. School teacher. Full form, fair complex¬
ion, red cheeks, mild, gentle disposition. Sensitive nature.
Nose bleed—frequent as a child.
Menses irregular, scanty, painful.
Intermittent <day—almost none at night.
Cough <before menses or when menses delayed or
suppressed.
Lungs—Burning sensation in middle of sternum extend¬
ing up to throat. Increase in intensity until lungs feel
full with some interference with respiration. There is
a faint, weak feeling from head to foot with nausea,
gagging, slight cough, followed by hemorrhage—warm,
bright red blood.
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Cough—tickling behind sternum, also in throat.
<talking; <laughing; <after eating;
<inspiration; <going from cold into warm room.
<night; <before menses.
<setting up;
Expectoration thick, greenish yellow, offensive; tastes
like old catarrh.
The record showed many symptoms throughout the body
calling for other remedies but under the action of two doses of
PulsatilloP m repeated at intervals of twenty* seven days, the hemor¬
rhages ceased and the menses became more profuse and brighter
color. The cough almost entirely ceased and severe rheumatic
pains, similar to those which had troubled her for ten years
previous to the bronchial irritation, came back with great vio¬
lence. This was met with Sulphur followed by Kali card .,
which effectually removed all tendency to persistent rheumatic
inflammation. An occasional dose of Pulsatilla has been in¬
dicated during the past two years but she is now practically a
strong, healthy woman and was not obliged to leave the trying (?)
climate of Chicago for a single day on account of her health.
Sulphur—Epilepsy from Suppressed Erection.
Mr. W., aged 12. Spare, tall, inclined to walk stoop-shouldered.
Slow, stupid at times. Seemed to be half-asleep. Any unusual
motion or sound caused him to start as in fright. This was fol¬
lowed by spasmodic twitching of muscles of the entire body.
When disturbed was irritable and very obstinate.
Spasms were usually brought on by over-exertion, getting over¬
heated, eating too much sweets or getting very angry. Seldom
a day passed that he did not have one or more attacks.
Eyes staring, set, with twitching of muscles of face, arms and
hands. This rapidly passed into a profound paroxysm which so
exhausted the boy that he would sink into a heavy slumber with¬
out regaining consciousness. Frothing at the mouth was of very
rare occurrence. Inquiry into the case revealed the fact that
several years before he had a persistent eruption which had been
suppressed by fumigations with Sulphur .
His record shows the following characteristic sjmptoms:
Stupid, indolent, tired.
No desire for anything only to be left alone.
Obstinate and irritable when disturbed.
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Easily startled—nervous.
<heat—sudden noise or motion.
Headaches, with vertigo.
<heat.
Eyelids red and irritated on margins.
Tendency to pinch them between thumb and finger.
Eyes hollow, sunken, dull.
Dark rings around eyes.
<after spasm.
Appetite ravenous.
Craving for sweets, which always disagree.
Diarrhoea—frequent attacks; very offensive.
< mornings.
Constipation alternated with diarrhoea..
Skin dirty, dry and offensive odor.
Parents dreaded to give him a bath because he resisted
and it was apt to be followed by a spasm.
Sulphur**** % one dose.
No effect was noticed for nearly two weeks when an eruption
appeared upon all parts of the body. This was followed almost
immediately by a clearing up of the mental dullness, a natural
appetite and normal stools.
The eruption remaiued out for nearly two months, character¬
ized by intense itching <heat.
The spasms ceased within ten days after the appearance of '
the eruption and after a period of nearly two years shows no
signs of return.
The boy has received four doses of Sulphur in the past two
years and is now a bright, active child with a clean, healthy
skin and gives evidence of becoming a healthy man.
Sepia - Bryonia.
FRANK R. WATERS, M. D.
PROF. PHYS. DIAG. AND DISEASES OF THE THORAX, DUNHAM MEDICAL COM.KGE.
Mr. P., aged 24. Dark complexion.
Aug. 2, 1898.
Headache, heavy between eyes.
Dizzy—bending over.
Aches back in eyes.
>fresh air, < jar.
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Constipated with large stool or entire inaction.
Mouth tastes hitter.
Hungry but afraid to eat because it is so heavy in re¬
gion of stomach and uncomfortable.
<warmth and pressure.
Palpitation of heart.
Region of bladder tired and heavy pressing.
Sediment brickdust adheres to vessel. Has emissions
at night, generally weak—hard to hold head up.
Br/° m
Sept. 15, ’98.
General improvement. No change in urinary symp¬
toms. Still adheres to vessel. Awakens early in
Sepia 10m morning and has to arise to urinate.
Oct. 20, 98.
Feels perfectly well except has not gotten quite strong
as yet.
Sepia—Belladonna.
Miss F., aged 20. Light complexion.
Sept. 22, ’97.
Has been under continuous treatment for two years, and given
up as incurable by Old School physicians. The case had gotten
so that she would become unconscious at menstrual periods.
There were constant throbbing pains in head <from motion,
dizzy on stooping over. Was a bookkeeper and carried heavy
books. Heavy sensation in region of pelvis. Menstruation
scanty, too short; two or three hours, <from jarring. Better
out doors. Had a severe chilling while sleighriding.
Bell i0m several times before menstrual periods.
Improved very much. Sensation of heaviness in region of
pelvis continued. Examination disclosed prolapsus and anti¬
version. There was a brown saddle over nose.
Se/fia Mm .
Marriage was not fruitless. Is feeling excellent at this date.
Lachesis—Malignant Pustule.
Mr. P. Spare built. Office man.
March 10, ’98.
Anaemic. Bad color—face.
Boil on right leg about two inches above ankle.
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Boil on third toe left foot, second joint.
Pains on walking.
Hot, red, throbbing.
Bell**.
March 11, 98.
No improvement.
Boils are now quite blue.
CEdema of dorsum of foot.
Feels exhausted.
Lach l0m .
Color of pustule improved in a day and rapid improvement in
every way took place.
Arnica-Neuralgia.
July 15, ’98.
Mrs. Q , aged 28. Light complexion. Several years ago was
kicked and abused by a heartless husband; received a severe
kick in left side, also in right breast. While in the east this
summer, either from the dampness or salt air, an excruciating
neuralgia commenced in the breast and side.
Arnica I0,n .
(See answer below).
My Dear Doctor:—I wish it was within my power to express
my gratitude to you for the relief your medicine has given me.
I had not had a moment’s rest from the pain in my breast since
I came east until I received your medicine. I put the powder
upon my tongue and “waited,” as directed, and up to date have
not had a pain and the swelling is all gone also. My heart is
much stronger and oh, Doctor! I do feel so very thankful to you.
A gentleman who was present laughingly asked in about ten
minutes if the pain was gone and I said yes. He said, “that
beats anything I ever heard of; that Doctor is a witch.”
Your sincere friend, Mrs. Q.
Jaboraiuli Sweats at Night and When Sleeping.
C. B. STAYT, M. D.
1‘ROF. PHYSIOLOGY, DI NHAM MEDICAL COLLEGE, CHICAGO.
.Called to see Mr. D., aged 28. He had been sick about ten
days with malarial fever. Was convalescing, but troubled with
profuse sweating, so as to soak through night shirt, sheets and
even the comforter.
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Things turned black before eyes when stooping.
Eyes pain, smart and burn.
Headache severe, especially after using eyes.
Vertigo.
Face red.
Pain in stomach.
Urine dark color and scanty.
Pain in legs.
Sleep heavy.
Other remedies had been tried but failed. Jaborandf* m re¬
lieved at once and cured.
DON’T.
Dr. Luther C. Toney, offers the following valuable suggestions.
Don’t permit a syphilitic to marry before seven years. Gonorrhoeaics either.
Don’t fail to first try Chismore’s or Nitze's method of extracting papilomata
or other benign tumors from the bladder.
Don’t forget that the litholopaxy tube (and evacuator), large (29 and 80
French), straight, open at both ends, is surest and safe to remove foreign bodies
from the urethra and bladder.—(Horwitz).
Don’t think that gonorrhoea is not more dangerous to women than syphilis,
and that the superficial egotist who improperly treats a case, and then imagines
his work can be undone in half the time he consumed, should be relegated to
any place but a lunatic asylum. These are the “doctors” who cut strictures in¬
discriminately, large or small, which are often only erosions, gaping glands, or
granulations, or perhaps papillomata. These are the “genito urinary surgeons”
who never examine the secretions under the microscope, who scorn the use of
the endoscope or cystoscope, and who never read a journal in any language es¬
pecially devoted to genito-urinary work, and whose libraries are often wanting
in the essentials of modern literature and science, and yet such “timber** are al¬
ways gleeful and joyous in their ignorance, “Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis
folly to be wise.”
Don’t forget that digital chancres are especially dangerous. That they are most
common among doctors. That general practitioners are usually the victims.
Fournier’s statistics of 49 cases, 30 occurred among physicians. That the rea¬
son that specialists in venereal diseases, who are most exposed to contact with
syphilir, are rarely contaminated, is because they recognize the danger and take
greater precautions. That many well attested local epidemics of syphilis have
originated from the chancre on the finger of an accoucheur. The historial epi¬
demic of St Euphemie, originated from the chanore on finger of a midwife, and
50 women were the immediate victims. The epidemic of Brives (1874), re¬
ported by Bardinet, where 81 cases of syphilis, and 4 deaths, were traced to a
midwifery chancre. Lastly, the accoucheur should discontinue his practice
when once a chancre appears. Also the surgeon. Va|»or of ammonia tells of
skin breaks. Soap and water is superior to antiseptics as a wash after handling
syphilis.
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MIND.*
K. O. AUSTIN, M. D., CHICAGO.
Mind, as shown to mind is the manifestation in the physical of
different psychometric elements in the unseen , and the recorded im¬
pressions of past and present received from the external or material
world .
We shall first consider two of the primary elements of the
mind in their state at the time of birth. The infant is, then, in
a rudimentary'state of mental consciousness.
It has these two elements to begin with: A physical brain,
and its duplicate, permeating it, in the unseen. (I purposely
avoid names. It is the conception we want, and not names which
different minds attach different meaning to.)
You will remember that the physical body has its double or
invisible counterpart; that each cell of the body has its corre-
sponding cell in the invisible or etherial “double”; and that this
“double” is not spirit.
I said that the infant has a physical and an etherial brain,
which, at the time of birth, may be considered almost a blank,
having received no conscious impressions.
In the sense that it receives and retains impressions we may
compare it with a senitive plate in photography.
The infant, then, at the time of birth may be said to have no
mind, but only this fundamental element of mind, the sensitive
plate or sphere, the visible and invisible brain.
As the infant grows it receives impressions from different
sources on the sensitive sphere, whose receptivity is increased
by use, and whose other qualities are enhanced by practice
in conformity to physical laws. Different attributes become
manifest, as the sensitive sphere develope, and becomes more
capable of receiving, and in this manner the formation of that
manifestation in matter known as mind is made. Through pre¬
natal influences, both psychometric and physical, and through
psycho-magnetic conditions created by planitary positions at the
time of birth, the sensitive spheres acquires the property of re-
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ceiving or rejecting, retaining, associating and assimilating im¬
pressions in a way peculiar to itself. Through these factors the
individuality of mind is formed.
We next come to the consideration of the different elements
making impressions on this sensitive sphere, the visible and in¬
visible brain.
First, there are the impressions from the external world, reach¬
ing the sensitive sphere through the five senses.
Secondly, the sensitive sphere is impressed by thoughts from
others, or emanations from other minds.
Those who live solely on the mental plane, receive all their
ideas from the two mentioned sources—the external world,
through the five senses, and thoughts from others. In other
words, their senitive sphere cannot receive impressions from the
other sources which I shall mention. This state, of course, I
do not mean to say, is absolute in anyone.
Thirdly, the higher and Ihe lower self act on the sensitive
sphere of the mind.
Higher and lower self are distinct entities and not part of the
same ego, but express in matter through the same material in¬
strument, until, in rare cases, a development has been attained
through which the lower with the elements it attracts is removed
and have no further effect on the mind. We shall learn more of
this later.
The higher self and lower self \ as a rule, determine the quality
of other unseen elements gaining access to the mental sphere of
the individual.
Fourthly, the impression from different psychometric elements,
or intelligences in the unseen, outside of, or distinct from, self.
You see, then, that the mind is in itself not an entity, but only
an expression of different elements acting on its sensitive sphere,
the visible and invisible brain.
Hence the definition: Mind as known to mind is the manifes¬
tation, in the physical of different psychometric elements in the
unseen, and the recorded impressions of past and present re¬
ceived from the external or material world.
A change of the elements influencing the sensitive sphere, or
an alteration of the association or grouping of impressions al¬
ready left there give rise to the myriad moods of mind.
Th^ brain being acted upon by different influences it comes
in contact with, it is impossible for anyone, without special de*
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velopment, to know when he is exactly himself. In other words
no one can know, without special unfoldment, the difference be¬
tween the soul ego and some other intelligence acting on the con¬
sciousness. That is the reason why person's minds are so change¬
able. They change with the alteration of the psychic elements
they come in contact with. The problem of life is to known self.
In order to know self you must be true to self, and being true to
self you will be true to God and man. “Above all to thine own
self be truef says Shakspeare.
A specially bright, or advanced intelligence may, independent
of a process of reasoning, impress the sensitive sphere with
thoughts and ideas of a lofty character, which is not experienced
in the consciousness at other times. This- state has given rise
to a conception, among some persons, of a subjective and an ob¬
jective mind.
The ordinary every day activities, or what they term intellect¬
ual processes of mind, they designate as manifestations of an ob¬
jective mind, and the mentioned lucid state, operations of a sub¬
jective mind. As must be clear to you from the facts we have
gone over, what they term subjective and objective minds are
only different states of the same principle.
Pain and suffering, nervous derangement, depressing emotions,
grief and chagrin are often thrown on the consciousness by un¬
seen intelligences through the mental sphere. At the start, be¬
fore the condition becomes rooted in the physical, brilliant re¬
sults can be obtained by hypnotism in these cases, as by that
agency the cause can be removed.
In hypnosis the mind sphere is controlled by one of the
psychometric elements of the hypnotist. This may be either his
ego or some intelligence closely entering his aura and guiding
him in his work. >
In many instances insanity is due to a disordered outside ele¬
ment acting on the mental sphere; and with sufficient ps>cho-
metric force applied in the right direction, the offending element
may be removed, and the abused mind restored to self.
Many cases of drug habit or dipsomania are due to the same
cause and can be cured on the same principle.
In order to become master of the science of healing, a physi¬
cian must be able to analyse the mind of his patient. Under-
standing the elements acting on the mental sphere of a patient,
the physician can apply his force in the right places, and govern
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the unseen conditions,—which in most cases is necessary in or¬
der to retain the patient, and to cure.
If elements opposed to you are allowed to act too strongly on
the mental sphere of a patient you will have no success with the
case. For, even if your remedy removes the causes and condi¬
tions of pain and other sensations in the physical, the opposing
elements in the unseen may throw on the consciousness, every
subjective symptom your remedy acted. Upon the affliction
of the unseen double is, in such cases, never reached until the
opposing element is removed or made inert.
The identity of the invisible counterpart of the physical body,
or what I have in this lecture termed “double,” will be discussed
in future. Our next subject will be Thought .
THOUGHT.*
K. O. AUSTIN, M. D., CHICAGO.
There are two main sources of thought: The external or ob¬
jective world, and the unseen or subjective world.
These two worlds interblending through the medium of our
consciousness, we think as the sensitive sphere, or brain, is im¬
pressed, and know as we perceive or as impressions, become clear.
The sensitive sphere opens a communion between the visible
and invisible worlds. The result is thought.
Our ego , or self, depends upon the materia! consciousness for
its thoughts or perceptions of things in the objective world;
knowledge of the unseen world it receives independent of the
material expression. So, the material expression, or physical
body, is to our unseen being, relative to the objective world,
what the eyes are to our sense of sight.
As, when losing the eyes, you are blind, so, when losing the
earth expression you cannot perceive things of the external
world, except as your disembodied self takes on matter through
which you conceive of matter, or, as your disembodied self may
perceive of material things through coming in contact with other
human organisms.
You see, then, that the intelligence beyond clay has to take on
the conditions of the material in order to think or know any¬
thing about the material, and equally essential it is for the un¬
seen intelligence to bring to the physical consciousness some of
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the conditions of the plane of the unseen world before it can, in
the earth expression, think or know anything about the plane
known to us as not material.
When I say, that our ego depends on the material conscious¬
ness for its thoughts or knowledge of things material, do not
thereby form the conclusion that the higher self is limited in its
knowledge of the objective world to the experiences of the earth
expression you now possess. Were such the scheme of life,
there could be very little progression. The higher self has the
benefit of past experiences through earth embodiments.
Reviewing the elements of the mind we find in them the origin
of thought. We have, then, as elements impressing the * ‘sensi¬
tive spere” and originating thought: The external world,
thoughts from others, higher and lower self, and other psycho¬
metric elements, which now may be specifically designated as dis¬
embodied intelligences.
We shall next consider some of the properties of thought. As
I suppose you all know, thought can be transferred from one in¬
dividual to another, so you can make a person think as you wish,
if your power of concentration is sufficient, and provided he is
open to your influence for this purpose.
Thought transference is the language of the unseen world,
and it could be made the language of persons in the material if
the proper psychic and magnetic conditions were observed. A
person of any observation or sensitiveness, at all, who has had a
close friend, must have experienced the reality of thought trans¬
ference. For details of scientific experiments demonstrating the
subject, I will refer you to “The Proceedings of the Society for
Psychical Research” which is kept at the Reference Room of the
Chicago Public Library. You will find a treatise on this subject
in almost any of the yearly reports, I think.
It is a fact that we are constantly influenced by each others
thoughts, and thoughts are a great source of happiness or dis¬
comfort, depending on their quality.
One of the greatest accomplishments on earth is to have the
psychic prescriptions developed so keenly that you are capable
of receiving the slightest vibrations of thought, and at the same
time be able to govern their influence on you, to keep it from in¬
juring or interfering. There is a class of people in East India
who have reduced thought transferences to great perfection.
With them it takes the place of ordinary conversation.
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Telepathy has long been an established feet in India. At the
time of the English invasion of that country, the arrival of the
British was known all over the land inside of a few hours. There
re no telegraphs connecting the different places at that time,
and the English knew, the only way they could have spread the
news so quickly was by means of telepathy.
Do not let me shock your serene comprehension, when I un¬
reservedly state that thought is the strongest force known.
Thought governs and moulds matter, creates new forms, and
commands other forces to obey.
The earth expression, through which I speak, was formed by
the thoughts of my ego. (It was the best I could do under the
environments.)
The physical form is moulded by the thoughts of the ego, tak¬
ing on the earth expression, or by the thoughts of the ego of the
mother, as the case may be, depending on the degree of advance¬
ment of the soul embodying.
It takes a long time to materialize a complete human form
through the common genisis of conception, birth,^and growth to
adult life. The form is proportionately durable.
The ego, or unseen intelligence, whether embodied or disem¬
bodied, can through thought produce a human form in a few
minutes, just like the one it took years to form, the only differ¬
ence being, that the form made in a few minutes also disinte¬
grates in a few minutes, or in rare instances, may be held by the
unseen for a half hour.
The adepts of India, through secluding themselves from con¬
tact with the uninitiated world; excluding from the consciousness
the thoughts sent out by others; governing sense, and thereby
excluding disturbing impressions from the objective world; over¬
coming the lower self and outside elements in the unseen which
may operate on the consciousness, give the higher self free and
unimpeded exercise over the material consciousness, and hence,
the power of thought of the ego becomes manifest on the materi¬
al plane in an unusual degree. They can through conscious
thought take on a material form at a distance from their physi¬
cal body of every day use. Also, they can precipitate writing on
slates or paper at a distance from their physical expression, but
knowing, in the consciousness, the things transpiring. Our ego
can do the same thing, only we cannot, generally, follow the pro¬
cess by the consciousness.
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We have the same forces that the adepts have, by which to
produce the effect of thought in matter, and can secure the same
results if we make the conditions. The same kind of particles
of matter contained in all we see, exist in the atmosphere; in aft
attenuated form* and through the vital elements of our bodies,
unseen intelligences can by the force of thought combine the
atoms and molecules in assorted quality, proportion and density,
equal to our ordinary physical bodies, and individualize through
them.
Through the power of thought, and as rapidly as thought, ob¬
jects can be dematerialized at one place and materialized again
at another place hundreds of miles away. These are facts which
have been demonstrated to me hundreds of times
As I have said before, the results I have had would not serve
as demonstrations for everyone; because, unless you have gone
through a special development, you have to acquiesce to the con¬
ditions of the one who has fitted himself for the realization of
such results.
Special conditions are required for the accomplishment of any¬
thing.
We can also secure writing on slates or paper, precipitated
by thoughts from the unseen. I have an old specimen with me,
secured under test conditions. Almost anyone can secure proofs
of this character.
Seven years ago, I obtained, alone, communications on slates
from unseen intelligences. Some were of those who had laid
aside or separated from their earth expression, and, one, acting
independent of its yet living human body, the vital cord, or ray
being held intact, while acting at a distance from the body.
In hypnotism, thought is the main force operating. The con¬
centrated thought of the hypnotist is transplanted on the sensi¬
tive sphere of the subject, and matter obeys the impression. No
oral suggestions need be made when the best conditions are pre¬
sent. This fact is the foundation of “Christian Science” healing.
No fad ever sprung into existence without some principle of
truth beneath it..
The trouble is, enthusiasm is as great an obstacle to judge¬
ment as prejudice is; and when certain people receive certain
truths, they think they have the whole truth. The maxim “a
little knowledge is a dangerous thing” applies to these cases.
Remember that thoughts form a creation in your aura which
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attracts and strengthens its own element in the unseen; and the
thoughts you think will impress others who is within your sphere.
If the thoughts are low, mean, degrading they will attract that
element in the unseen and strengthen it. If discouraging or
cowardly the affinity is'attracted and brings failure.
The one whose thoughts are hateful, envious, fault finding,
strengthens the undeveloped elements, and creates a psychic in¬
fluence which poisons the world.
Such a person is a menace to earth, no matter if his acts are
such that he is deemed by men the greatest philanthrophist that
ever graced the sod. Yet'he has to be allowed experiences in
matter, in order to advance.
If the thoughts are lofty and aspiring, they generate force for
an exalting element, which will raise the world upward and on¬
ward.
The responsibility of thought is such that it is worth watching.
Allowing the thoughts to wander, which is a very common habit,
leaves chaos in the unseen. One advantage about it is, it
leaves some persons harmless.
Cure rests in the degree of susceptibility.
Remedies operate by contagion. He caught the disease, and catches the
cure.
Dynamic wrongs are corrected from the inside.
Principle teaches you to avoid suppression. A Homoeopath cannot tempor¬
ize. Those sufferings are necessary sometimes to show forth that patient’s
sickness so that a remedy may be found.
The affections in a very large degree make the man.
You must see and feel the internal nature of your patient as the artist sees
the picture he is painting in oil. He feels it. Study to feel the economy, the
life, the soul.
If Homoeopathy does not cure sick people you are to despise it.
You cannot depend on lucky shots and guess work, everything depends on
long study of each individual case.
This opens a field of tedious labor, and many failures, but if once in awhile
you succeed in curing one of these lost ones it pays.
Memorizers have not perception; they can only remember what they see,
and they do not see much.
Memory is not knowledge uutil it is comprehended and used; then grows the
ability to see.
— Kent' s\Aphorisms~ and Precepts .
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COMPULSORY VACCINATION IN THE PUBLIC
SCHOOLS*
ANGUS ROY SHANNON, ESQ., CHICAGO.
In Illinois and many other states, this tyranny, as generally
practiced, is illegal. As the law stands in these states, under
normal conditions, no existing power can compel the vaccination
of a child as a pre-requisite to his entrance into the public
schools.
The writer is aware that the facts herein presented are old and
may have been long known to a great number of medical men.
If this be so, those knowing doctors deserve censure for not
having made use of their imformation. It is hoped that those
to whom these facts now first come, will not be derelict in their
duty. The law is a most powerful ally and to ignore it in this
fight against individualism will be to indict an irreparable injury
upon mankind.
The following facts are given as they exist in the State of
Illinois, except as otherwise specified: The State Constitution
provides that “the General Assembly shall provide a thorough
and efficient system of schools, whereby all children of this state
may receive a good common school education,” and the Legisla¬
ture, pursuant thereto has enacted, among other provisions, that
the proper officers “shall establish and keep in operation * *
* * * * a sufficient number of free schools for the ac¬
commodation of all children in the district over the age of six
and under twenty-one years, and shall secure to all such children
the right and opportunity to an equal education in such schools.”
Nowhere in this law is vaccination made a condition precedent
to admission to the public schools. Therefore, as their author¬
ity for compelling vaccination, Boards of Education or School
Directors have acted upon orders from the State Board of
Health or some city Board of Health. The State Board of
Health has declared the following orders:
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“ Resolved , That by the authority vested in this board, it is
hereby ordered that on and after January 1, 1882, no pupil shall
be admitted to any public school in the state without presenting
satisfactory evidence of proper and successful vaccination;**
followed by that of January, 1894:
“Resolved , That the power of the State Board of Health under
the law creating said Board of Health, to order the vaccination
of all school children is clear and unquestionable. The conse¬
quent duty of the Board of School Directors to see that such
order is strictly enforced in their respective districts is equally
clear, and the said order of the Board of Health is their suffi¬
cient authority for so doing.”
The power which the board insists is so “clear and unques¬
tionable,” must arise, if at all, from Section 2 of the law which
created the board, for the other Sections of that Act, detail
specific powers and duties given to the board, and in none of
them is the subject of vaccination mentioned. Section 2 pro¬
vides:
“The State Board of Health shall have general supervision of
the interests of the health and life of the citizen of the state
* * * * shall have authority to make such rules and reg¬
ulations, and such sanitary investigations as they may from
time to time deem necessary for the preservation or improve¬
ment of public health; * * * * * and it shall be the duty
of all officers and employees of the state to enforce such rules
and regulations, so far as the efficiency and success of the board
may depend upon their official co-operation.”
This Section, when read alone, certainly seem broad enough
to confer the power, but under fixed legal rules and principles.
Section 2 must be construed as a part of the whole Act and in¬
stead of enlarging the powers of the board as given in the other
Sections, is controlled and modified by them so completely that
under it, no powers can be claimed except such as are necessary
for the enforcement of the board's defined Tights and duties,
which are purely administrative. Any orders broader than the
powers and duties conferred on the board are void because they
are legislative in their nature. There is but one law-making
body for the state, and it, the legislatune, cannot delegate its
power, except as the Constitution authorizes, in the case of cities.
Therefore the State Board of Health derives no power under
Section 2, to compel vaccination, and hence this authority of
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Board of Education fails. The other authority, the City Boards
of Health, have issued orders compelling vaccination, like in
nature to those of the State Board. For this authority they
have cited that clause of the “City Inchrporation Act,” which
reads as follows: “To do all acts, make all regulations which
may be necessary or expedient for the promotion of health or
the suppression of disease.” But the Supreme Court has ruled
here as it did in the construction of Section 2 of the State Board
of Health Act, and has denied the power. It declared in 1897
that there was no existing law under which public school child¬
ren, as a class, could be compelled to submit to vaccination.
Under present conditions, therefore, opponents of vaccination
hold the vantage ground. It remains to be seen whether or not
they will maintain their position. Ere long there will be an
agitation of this matter and the advocates of the custom will
have prepared them a bill authorizing compulsory vaccination.
If such a bill is passed, and its constitutionality is tested, the
chances are that it will be held constitutional as have similar
laws in New York, Connecticut, California, and some other
states; to opponents of vaccination, who live in states where no
such law has been enacted, no more apt words can be addressed
than “an ounce of preventative is worth a pound of cure.” It is
their bounden duty to know their legislators, to vote for only
such candidates for the General Assemblies of their several
states, as will pledge themselves to vote against any bill com¬
pelling the vaccination of public school children; it is their
bounden duty to proselyte, vigorously and constantly. They
must remember that they are in the minority and hence, though
the right is with them, they must exercise great effort if they
will prevent adverse legislation. Their task is the harder, their
watchfulness should be the greater, because while compulsatory
vaccination of public school children as a class is illegal, there
is a power under which state or local boards of health, under
certain circumstances, can compel the vaccination of all mem¬
bers of the general public . That power is the general police
power of the state. It can be invoked when, but only when,
necessity demands. The necessity would be held to exist when
small-pox was prevelent in the community or there was reason¬
able grounds for the belief that it would appear. Concerning
this use of the general police power of the state and also the
construction of laws compelling vaccination as being constitu¬
tional, it may be said that both rest upon a false foundation—
weak ground—namely, the faith of the majority that vaccination
is the preventative of small-pox. Break this faith, supplant this
ignorance by knowledge, and the police power can never again
be thus invoked; the courts will reverse their own decisions.
To accomplish this, but one thing is needed—work.
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STATE MEDICAL LICENSURE.*
H. M. PAINE, M. D., WEST NEWTON, MASS.
KLASoNS WHY THE ELEVATION OF THE STANDARDS OF MEDICAL
LEARNING CANNOT BE ACCOMPLISHED UNDER THE
DIPLOMA SYSTEM.
The object, for the attainment of which State Medical Ex¬
amining Boards are established, is that of elevating the standards
of medical learning, in order to* exclude numbers of illiterate
practitioners , who, under the diploma standard\ are admitted to
practice.
These illiterate practitioners get into the ranks of the medical
profession because^ and only because, the faculties of certain
medical colleges, having legal authority to exercise the right of
private judgment in the matter, see fit, under cover of expediency
or necessity , to fix a minimum standard of acquirements so low t as
to become a standing disgrace to the profession, and constant
menace to public welfare.
It has been repeatedly found to be a useless waste of time and
effort, to try to induce the faculties of medical colleges to raise
minimum standards that have been approved by their private
judgment, and endorsed by their official acts.
In fact, methods for elevating low standards through the in¬
strumentality of the colleges themselves were faithfully tried in
New York State, for more than thirty years, viz., from 1850 to
about 1882. Every possible measure and expedient that could
be devised by the brainest men in that state was resorted to,
without any substantial progress being made; on the contrary,
matters seemed to be growing worse and worse year by year.
It was found that any method for striking at the root of the
evil, would invoke the appointment of an authority with power
of control; that is, authority to designate those of the individual
members of a class of students who should , end those who
should not , receive the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
It can be readily seen that censorship so radical in form would
be regarded as an unwarrantable interference with the exercise
of the right of private judgment; and, if enacted into law, would
speedily be repealed. This method, therefore, that of control-
ing the action of medical college faculties, was reluctantly
abandoned.
•Read before the Illinois Homoeopathic Medical Association, Sept. 8, 1898
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CENSORSHIP OK MEDICAL COLLEGES — REGULATION OF I HE
DIPLOMA—THE ILLINOIS PLAN.
Finding, at length, that censorship of some kind must be de¬
vised and enforced, a plan was selected for shearing off from the
degree a portion of its licensing privileges.
This plan is partial in its action, being limited to the exclusion
of all the graduates of all medical colleges that fall below a cer¬
tain standard of requirements, as to time spent in study, and the
number and length of the lecture terms.
Moreover, this procrustean plan is manifestly unjust , in that
its application, being based on the length of the terms of study
instead of actual knowledge possessed by the applicant, excludes
many graduates who, by reason of having had satisfactory pre¬
liminary educational qualifications, are competent and thorough¬
ly qualified to enter on practice.
This, the so-called Illinois plan, was inaugurated a dozen or
more years ago, by the late Dr. Rouch.
THE UNRELIABILITY OK THE SINGLE (DIPLOMA) TEST.
The Illinois plan, although admittedly an improvement, and
better than none at all, fails just where all plans have failed that
provide for a single examination by a self-interested faculty.
It is indeed a singular fact that, notwithstanding the claim re¬
peatedly made, to the effect that the lengthening of terms of
study and of lectures to four years, would establish satisfactorily
high minimum standards, such a result, indicated by recent ex¬
aminations, has not been attained.
These conditions of illiteracy actually seem to thrive under
the fostering wings of the very measures designed to aid in their
prevention.
Furthermore, it has been established, beyond all question, that
just so long as the single standard is retained, that is, the diploma
standard alone , such standard being left to the judgment of an
interested and indulgent faculty , just so long will doubt , perplexity
and unreliability prevail.
THE DUAL TEST THE ONLY RELIABLE METHOD KOR PERMANENTLY
ELEVATING THE STANDARDS OF. MEDICAL LEARNING.
At a still later period, the conviction having become general
in this country, that an additional test of scholarship other than
that afforded by the diploma must be applied, members of the
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profession at large, taking the matter into their own hands, in¬
augurated the system of State medical licensure , which, since
about 1885, has been gradually growing in favor, and seems to
be far more effective in the work of elevating minimum standards
than any other instrumentality yet devised.
This second test of medical scholarship, applicable to diplo¬
matized candidates only , in order to be made effective, must of
necessity be applied by an authority other than, and wholly dis¬
sociated from, any responsible connection wdth a teaching
faculty.
To retain in the membership of a State Examining Board
those who are identified with teaching interests , is plainly a farci¬
cal act; completely at variance with the principle involved, and
one that would render the elevating forces of the measure wholly
nugatory. Hence, proposed laws for establishing State Exam¬
ining and Licensing Boards, should contain a clause debaring
members of a teaching medical faculty from appointment to
positions therein.
The method, therefore, by which a minimum standard of edu¬
cational requirements is to be permanently elevated and main¬
tained, at as great a degree of uniformity as is practicable, is that
of establishing State Medical Licensure, the essential principles
of which are:
First. The transfer of the right to practice from the diploma
to the state license; and
Second. The establishment of the dual test of scholarship,
the second and last being applied by state authority, established
under the auspices of the profession at large , appointed for that
special purpose.
REASONS FOR DEMANDING A SEPARATE HOMEOPATHIC EXAMINING
BOARD.
The first question confronting those who have in hand the
work of compiling a proposed medical law 'for establishing state
medical licensure, is, shall there be a single board so constituted
as to represent the several schools equally or unequally; oi shall
each school have its own board?
In behalf of the single board system, it is claimed, by repre¬
sentatives of the old school, that the time has arrived at which
there is so great a degree of liberality extant, as to warrant the
laying aside of all distinctions into schools by name, and to
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prompt educated medical men to meet on common ground, in a
single examing board, for promoting interests mutually helpful to
each other.
In the absence of appreciable proof, showing that the recogni¬
tion of a school by a distinctive name has ever, in the slightest
degree, produced harmful results, such reasoning has little force.
In the absence also, of tangible evidence showing any form of
-substantial advantage to the public or to the profession, that is
inherent to the single board system, and that cannot be secured
by the separate board system as well or even better, the force of
such reasoning dwindles into mere sophistry, and is not worthy
of serious consideration.
Then too, any possible advantages that are claimed in behalf
of the single board, are of secondary importance compared with
the benefits to the homoeopathic school derivable from the fact
that, by means of a separate board of its own, it will stand be¬
fore the public as abundantly competent to establish and carry
forward to completion its own educational work, untrammeled by
any outside assistance or interference.
These benefits are important ones, as contributing a recog¬
nized force of appreciable value, in promoting the progress, pres¬
tige and influence of the homoeopathic as a distinct and reliable
school of medicine; all of which will be almost if not wholly lost ,
while, at the same time, nothing whatever of value will be gained
by association in a single examining board.
In New York state, experience has established the fact, that
the representatives of each of the boards greatly prefer to con¬
duct their own examining work separately.
THK SINGLE EXAMINING BOARD SYSTEM CONSTITUTES A MENACE
TO HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGES.
The claim has been repeatedly and forcibly maintained, that
the influence of the single board system will surely prove pre¬
judicial, in the long run, to the permanance and growth of
homoeopathic medical colleges.
Under the diploma standard, the single board system does not
constitute a source of danger to the homoeopathic school, the
reason being, that the homoeopathic student has nothing to fear,
provided he can produce a diploma from a college showing com¬
pliance with a recognized standard of requirements, the medical
college being on trial, not the individual candidate.
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The condition, however, is a widely different one when the
student, after graduation, must present himself instead of his
diploma for examination.
The conditions, in that case, are sufficiently different to prove
at once a source of benefit to the stronger , and an element of
danger to the weaker schools represented in such single examin¬
ing board.
The homoeopathic student will instinctively dread an examina¬
tion by a board, the majority of the membership of which, by
previous training and association, he is not in touch, and on
whom he cannot depend for needed sympathy or timely assist¬
ance.
The result of this feeling of doubt and insecurity cannot be
other than prejudicial to the homoeopathic school; and, indeed,
such an effect is now being witnessed in several states where
single State Examing Boards have existed long enough to furn¬
ish data bearing on this matter.
Whether this assumption of actual danger is well founded or
not, it is plainly evident that a union with other schools in a
single board, involves a risk which the representatives of the
homoeopathic school need not> and ought not to take; one that
should prompt us, with most decided vigor, to select, adopt and
demand , a separate homoeopathic examining board.
If I was a member of a faculty of a homoeopathic medical
college, I would fight a bill providing a single examing board to
the last extremity; hence I do not wonder that the faculties of
such medical colleges are earnestly antagonistic thereto.
Provide an arrangement, however, by which homoeopathic
students can be examined exclusively by homoeopathic examiners ,
and the members of homoeopathic college faculties will cordially
accept the services of such an authority, as one furnishing the
best evidence of high grade work on their part.
A SINGLE BOARD HAVING SEPARATE SECTIONS, PROPOSED FOR
ILLINOIS.
It is alleged, by those who are competent to decide, that a
provision of the Constitution of the State of Illinois, would pro¬
hibit the formation of separate and independent examining
boards, designated by a special name, such as have been or¬
ganized in a number of other states. This is a condition, it is
claimed, which necessitates the establishment of a single examin¬
ing board.
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Assuming that separate examing boards, as such, are barred by
constitutional prohibition, it would seem that this obstacle can
be overcome by an arrangement by which a central, single board
can bfe divided into sections; the board, as a whole , to supervise
and conduct portions of the work in which all are equally inter¬
ested, and leaving to each of the several sections, representing
the different schools, the entire charge of the examination and
rating of its own candidates. >
Such a plan will provide:
First. For placing the administrative functions and clerical
management of the work under the supervision and control of
the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. By this plan the
appointments can be much more easily kept out of the degrading
influence of machine politics.
Second. The Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the
chairmen of the several sections, ^o constitute the central or
governing board.
Third. The entire supervision, control and rating of its own
examination papeis, by each section respectively.
Fourth Entire uniformity as to the application of tests of
scholarship, the question papers at each examination to be ex¬
actly alike.
This plan provides for joint membership in a single board,
each member bearing equal responsibility with every other mem¬
ber, the administration being conducted by a single responsible
head, viz , the superintendent and chairmen of the several sections',
yet resolving itself into different sections for purposes of special
work.
To such an arrangement, it would seem, there cannot possibly
„ be any constitutional prohibition.
A PROPOSED SINGLE HOARD, HAVING SEPARATE SECTIONS; EACH
SECTION lO REPRESENT ONE OF THE SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE.
Form of proposed sections of a medical bill designed to meet
the constitutional requirement in the State of Illinois, by estab¬
lishing a single examining board, so constructed as to conduct
its examining work by sections; such sections to represent, each
separately, one school of medicine; each section to have juris¬
diction over its own candidates; yet each to conform to a
uniform standard of acquirements.
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ORGANIZATION.
Section-. The Illinois State Board of Medical Examiners
shall consist of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction,
and of seven representatives of each legally constituted State
medical society or other organized school of medicine that may,
by whatever name, acquire a legal status; such board, for ex¬
amination purposes, to be divided into sections , each section to
represent one school of medicine; the membership of such sec¬
tion to have exclusive control of the examination, rating, and
approval or rejection of all applications for license presented
to it.
Section-. Each of the legally incorporated State medical
societies and organized schools of medicine specified in section
-of this act, shall annually elect twice as many nominees for
appointment to membership in its section of the State board as
are to be appointed thereto; the lists of such nominees, properly
certified, to be furnished to the State Superintendent of Public
Instruction without unreasonable delay.
The nominees to membership in the State board shall be
legally qualified physicians, who have had an experience of at
least five years in active practice. Membership in a teaching
faculty, or proprietorship in any secret device or method of
treatment, shall constitute a disqualification for appointment.
Section-. The Superintendent of Public Instruction, on
receiving certified lists of nominees from such legally constituted
State medical societies or organized schools, shall, without un¬
necessary delay, make appointments from such lists as are re¬
quired to establish the section of the State board representing
such State medical society or organized school; and, subse¬
quently, from time to time, fill any vacancies occurring therein.
The first appointments to membership in a section shall be so
madeas to provide for a term of service of one, two and three
years; and thereafter appointments are to be made for a term of
three years.
Understand the remedy first, the keynotes last.
Every ignorant man thinks that what he knows is the end of krtowledge.
What aoDears to he intuition comes from using that which is in the unde^
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EMtortal.
SPIRIT OF HOMCEOPATHY.
It must seem like threshing over old wheat to have the two
leading articles in this issue copied from the works of Samuel
Hahnemann but they were reprinted for a purpose. About
fifteen hundred homoeopathic physicians read this issue of the
Hahnemannian Advocate for the first time and it was desirous
that they should know what we mean by being an advocate of
Hahnemannian principles. It is a question whether more than
three hundred physicians in the United States are familiar with
this—one of the strongest of the Lesser Writings of Hahne¬
mann—while, like all of his writings, it will bear reading at least
once a year. Almost everything mentioned is to be found in
the Organon of the Healing Art , which should be studied until
the reader could quote section and the number of the same in
any discussion which might arise.
Some people are homceopathists by nature and the compre¬
hension of the dynamic force, or vital energy in disease and in
the remedy comes without effort. They have almost an intuitive
knowledge of the remedy to be selected in any given case but as
a rule there is a screw loose somewhere, and while they may
make brilliant cures they will be found visionary and impractic¬
able.
Hahnemann may be taken as a model for a homoeopathic
student of medicine. He brought to bear upon the subject a
mental discipline second to none in Europe and still it took many
years of hard study before he was willing to submit his work to
the criticism of his confreres. Nearly twenty-five years followed
before he became convinced of the truth of his own conclusions
so that whenever you read a passage from any of Hahnemann's
later writings you may know that it was only given out after he
had subjected it to every test known to science.
It is therefore profitable study for any man to carefully analyze
these writings in the light of the scientific knowledge of the
present century, hence this article is commended to every reader
of the Advocate.
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MEDICAL LEGISLATION.
In an article entitled, “State Medical Licensure,*’ published in
this number, the author, who has had an experience of many
years in connection with legislation in the state of New York
in behalf of homoeopathic interests, presents a clear and forcible
argument in support of the dual test of scholarship.
The plan outlined presents a system to be conducted under
the auspices of the educational department of the State, thereby
freeing it from political embarrassment; is wholly under the con¬
trol of the organized profession; is elastic enough to take in all
sects recognized legally by a distinctive name, yet so rigid as to
require all to cpme up to the same standards of medicallearning;
affords full protection to homoeopathic medical college inter¬
ests, and embraces other desirable features that forcibly com¬
mend it the thoughtful consideration of the whole profession.
The so-called “regulation of the diploma”—the Illinois plan—
has been adopted by eleven states, and in sixteen other states the
possession of a diploma prior to a state examination is required,
making twenty seven in all in which some system of state super¬
vision has been established. We may be satisfied with the pres¬
ent law, but it is not wise or prudent for us to close our eyes to
the fact, that this movement is slowly and surely advancing,
year by year; is being adopted state by state; and is even now at
our very doors; and is being carried forward in this state by a
corps of competent, zealous, and energetic old-school physicians,
who are so thoroughly organized, and have entered on the work
so systematically, as almost certainly to insure the passage of
some bill this coming winter.
It is also to be considered, in this connection, that all the bills
thus far drafted under old-school auspices, are faulty in two par¬
ticulars, viz., constituting the Governor the appointing power , there¬
by making this board a part of the political machine, and, the
establishment of a single, mixed, board, so constructed as to repre¬
sent, more or less unequally, the several schools of medicine.
These two objectionable features however, have not been ap¬
proved by the homoeopathic school. In all cases in which
homoeopathic physicians have exerted their influence with suffi¬
cient vigor and directness, the bills have been changed so as to
place the administration of the law under the Department of Ed¬
ucation, where it properly belongs; and provision has been made
ior separate examinations by the representatives of the several
schools.
The homoeopathic school of medicine has always led in every
movement looking to the real elevation of the standard of medi-
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cal education, and now that the time seems ripe for further legis¬
lation in this state, her legislative committee will do well to
promptly call a meeting in conjunction with a similar committee
appointed by the Chicago Homoeopathic Society and prepare a
bill which shall seek to weed out the incompetents by compelling
the medical schools to be thorough instead of pretending to live
up to the minimum requirements of the State Board of Health.
This can only be accomplished by the supervision of a State Ex¬
amining Board, but each school of medicine should have abso¬
lute charge of its own supervision.
Having prepared a bill that is incapable of misconstruction,
absolutely fair to all concerned and showing on its face the single
purpose of raising the educational standard, we can join forces
with all other organizations, seeking the same end, and secure all
that we ask for without any political lobbying.
The homoeopathic profession in this state therefore, are con¬
fronted by a condition, the question for them to decide being, on
one hand, an examining board in which their influence and work
will, at best, be handicapped by neutral, rival and often antago¬
nistic influences; and on the other, a board so constructed as to
permit each school to have exclusive jurisdiction over its own
candidates.
The work of the homoeopathic committees on medical legisla¬
tion, in order to attain success, should be entered on at once, and
should be prosecuted with the utmost zeal, energy and persever¬
ance; the part of the profession being to respond promptly to its
calls for information and assistance, and manifest hearty co¬
operation by furnishing sufficient funds for meeting all necessary
incidental expenses.
PERSONALS, NEWS ITEMS, ETC.
Dr. J. A. Knox has moved from Adair to Stewart, Iowa.
Dr. A. K. Crawford is still in California trying to get enough
vitality to stand the severity of the rapidly approaching winter.
Dr. F. J. Soule is now located at the beautiful city of Mon¬
mouth, III. He was formerly located at Watertown in the same
state.
Dr. D. A. Foote of Omaha congratulates the editor of the
Hahnemannian Advocate upon the rich material provided its
readers every month. He knows a good thing when he sees it.
The Southern Homoeopathic Medical Association had a pleas¬
ant meeting in Birmingham, Ala., on 8th, 9th and 10th of this
month. The attendance was smaller than usual because of the
distance from the larger cities of the north, east and west.
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Dr. Rose Winkler of New York City, a graduate of the class
of ’98, Dunham, has received the appointment of Resident Physi¬
cian in the Woman’s Hospital of Philadelphia—one of the
largest hospitals in the world under the strict employment of
pure homoeopathy.
Dr. Julia Holmes Smith of Chicago did not succeed in secur¬
ing the University Trustee plum at the recent election because
she had too high a fence between her and the aforesaid plum,
but she had the satisfaction of knowing that over 1000 doctors
helped tear down the fence.
Hahnemann Hospital was the recipient of a benefit, Saturday,
Nov. 12. A game of foot ball between the Chicago Athletic
Association and a team selected from different clubs. A news¬
paper in this city questions whether the ‘‘benefit” was ^o be in
the form of money or broken bones, etc.
Canada is soon to come into the college ranks with a strictly
homoeopathic college. Toronto possesses enough Hahne-
mannians to thoroughly equip the Departments of Theory and
Practice and Materia Medica. They will receive a right royal
welcome from the colleges who hold high the banner of pure
homoeopathy.
The Hahnemann Medical College of San Francisco will re¬
turn to their old plan of summer session instead of making their
sessions conform to that of the usual college year. Their ses¬
sions will begin in July and close in February. It would seems
as though they had simply lengthened out the course to eight
months. This is a good move provided they increase the
amount of homoeopathy.
The fifteenth annual meeting of the Northern Indiana and
Southern Michigan Homoeopathic Medical Association was held
in Elkhart, Ind., on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 1898, in the parlors of
the Century Club, Dr. T. C. Buskirk in the chair.
Members present: T. S. Hoyne, Chicago; M. H. Criswell,
Edwardsburg; W. B. Kreider, Goshen; T. C. Buskirk, White
Pigeon; R. L. Stine and Martha V. Thomas, South Bend; and
A. L Fisher, Porter Turner, R. L. Lockwood and H. A. Mumaw,
Elkhart.
The following papers were read and fully discussed by all the
members present: “A Surgical Case,” by Dr. John Borough;
“Gunshot Wounds,” by Dr. H. E. Kinyon; “The Heart Cough,”
by Dr. T. C. Duncan, Chicago (read by Dr. Fisher); “Melilotus,”
by Dr. G. W. Bowen, Ft. Wayne (read by Dr. Hinsdale). "Over¬
dose of an Analine Compound, and its Antidote,” by Dr. A. L.
Fisher; “Three Cases of Typhoid Fever,” by Dr. W. B. Hins¬
dale; “Diagnostic Points of a Congested Eye,” by Dr. W. B.
Kreider.
Dr. W. H. Thomas read a carefully prepared report on the in-
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ception and progress of the Clark Homoeopathic Hospital ready,
for occupancy in December next, and a source of gratification
to the citizens of Elkhart and the homoeopathic profession in
general.
OBITUARIES.
DR. J. HEBBR SMITH.
J. Heber Smith, M. D., of Boston, died in that city of heart disease Sunday
morning, Oct. 38. He was born in Bucksport, Me., Dec. 5, 1843, and was the
son of Rev. Joseph Smith, a somewhat widely known Methodist clergyman of
New England.
In early life Dr. Smith was prevented by ill health from completing a classi¬
cal course at Harvard College for which he was prepared. His health after¬
wards improved and he entered with enthusiasm upon the study of medicine.
He was graduated at the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in
March, 1864, as the valedictorian of his class. Almost immediately he entered
upon a successful practice in Melrose which continued till 1882, when he re¬
moved to Boston, where he had been often previously called in consultation,
and where he had since continued in practice.
In 1873, on the foundation of Boston University School of Medicine, Dr.
Smith became one of its original members as professor of materia medica, a
position he filled with great ability to the present time. Since 1879 he had
been one of its excutive committee and its secretary. As a professor for more
than twenty-five years he seldom failed to promptly meet its requirements.
His lectures were carefully prepared and filled with important information.
His manner was attractive and impressive and not one of the many hundred
who have been his pupils but appreciates the valuable instruction received from
him.
As a physician he was devoted to the interests of his patients, and he will
long be enshrined in their memory. For more than thirty years he had been
an active member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, the Massachu¬
setts Homoeopathic Medical Society, of which he was president in 1884, and
of the Boston society, to all of which he contributed valuable papers. He had
also been a member of many other societies and associations.
The following resolutions, which had been prepared by a committee previous¬
ly appointed, were read by Dr. Sutherland and unanimously adopted by a
rising vote:
J. Heber Smith, physician, medical teacher, friend, having been called by
the dispensation of the Eternal Wisdom from his earthly labors, his surviving
colleagues bn the Faculty of Boston University School of Medicine mourn his
death, honor his memory and hereby testify to their deep appreciation of his
quarter of a century’s unremitting, steadfast and faithful labors in behalf of the
School. In class-room, in business meeting, in social gathering, his clear and
efficient teaching, his words of counsel, and his genial presence will be sadly
missed. His strong individuality, his unfailing cheerfulness, constant good-
humor and pungent wit, united with his scholarly attainments, made him a
convincing personality. His patient and uncomplaining submission to life long
infirmity, his sympathetic and keen appreciation of the sufferings of others, his
energy and forgetfulness of self in ministering to the necessities of others will
linger as an example to be imitated by all whose good fortune it was to know him.
To his family and relatives we extend our sincerest sympathy for a bereave¬
ment which is an affliction shared by all who were numbered with his friends.
J. P. Sutherland,
H. C. Clapp,
J. W. Hayward,
Committee .
The following members of the Faculty acted as honorary pall-bearers: Drs.
Talbot, Sutherland, Conrad Wesselhoeft and H. C. Clapp.
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DR. JOSEPH SIDNEY MITCHELL.
Dr. Joseph Sidney Mitchell, president of the Chicago Homoeopathic Medical
College died at his home, 2954 Prairie avenue, Chicago, Nov. 4, 1898, aged 59
year. His death was sudden, resulting from the rupture of a blood vessel near
the heart during a coughing spell. He had been ailing for several weeks but
was able to leave his home every day and a fatal termination of his illness was
not looked for.
Born at historic Nantucket, Mass., in 1889, Dr. Mitchell spent his boyhood
there and received his elementary education in the schools of the town. Later
he fitted for college in the high school of Boston, and in 1859 entered Williams
College, from which he graduated four years later with the degree « f bachelor
of arts. Having completed the regular collegiate course, he at once entered
upon his professional studies in Bellevue Medical College, w'hose diploma was
conferred on him in 1865.
He became a convert to homoeopathy shortly after graduation and soon after
his arrival here was honored by appointment as lecturer on surgical and patho¬
logical anatomy in Hahnemann Medical College. In 1870, while still a young
man, he was given the chair of theory and practice of medicine in that college.
In 1876 Dr. Mitchell was one of the incorporators of the Chicago Homoeo¬
pathic College and remained her president until the day of his death.
In 1893 he was president of the World’s Congress of Homoeopathic Physi¬
cians and Surgeons and his presidential address was one of the finest papers
presented at any of the congresses of that notable year.
His sterling worth made him appreciated wherever he might go and by rea¬
son of his interest in old Nantucket he was elected president of its Historical
Society.
EUGENE WILLIAM SAWYER, JR.
An almost indispensable assistant to his father, Prof. Eugene W. Sawyer, his
previous training in the regular army, causes him to respond to the earliest call
of his country.
He enlisted as private in the famous First Illinois but was rapidly promoted
to the highest rank of non-commissioned officers and took his position at the
front before Santiago.
These trying experiences together with the system of routine medical treat¬
ment resulted in the typo-malarial fever so prevalent throughout the army.
Once placed in a hospital he was completely lost to his comrades and friends.
One day, word came that he had been “picked U P” at the landing of Montauk
Point by Mrs. John A. Logan and spirited off to Newport where his father soon
found him. As soon as he could be moved he was taken to his friends in
Lowell, Mass., where he lingered between life and death until Oct. 81st.
The following resolutions adopted at a called meeting of the Faculty of Dun¬
ham Medical College expresses the sentiments of all who are acquainted with
the father in his bereavement.
Whereas, The Faculty of Dunham Medical College has learned with pro¬
found regret of the death at Lowell, Mass., of Eugene William Sawyer, Jr., a
soldier of the United States, who died of disease contracted while in the mili¬
tary service of his country, be it
Resolved, That we tender to his father, our colleague, Eugene W. Sawyer,
M. D., our deepest sympathy in the irreparable loss of his only son, and that
we assure him of our united esteem and earnest condolence.
Resolved \ That a copy of these resolutions be properly engrossed and prompt¬
ly forwarded to Prof. Sawyer.
Temple S. Hoyne, M. D., Dean.
H. W. Pierson, M. D., Secretary.
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Vol. xxxvii. Chicago, December 15, 1898. No. 12
Socfety Heporte.
CENTRAL NEW YORK HOMCEOPATHIC MEDICAL
SOCIETY.
Rochester Club, Rochester, N. Y., June 23, 1898.
The meeting of the Central New York Homoeopathic Medical
Society was called to order at 12.00 m. Dr. V. A. Hoard in the
chair.
Members present: Drs. Carr, Grant, Hoard, Kaiser, Johnson,
Leggett.
Visitors present: Drs. Tretton, Howland, Beebe, Walter.
The minutes of the March meeting were read and approved.
There was no report from the board of Censors.
The Organon, Sections 257-258 was read by Dr. Tretton, and
^ short essay upon the same was read by Dr. Carr.
Sec. 257. The true physician will take care to avoid making favorite
remedies of medicines, the employment of which he has, by chance, perhaps
found often useful, and which he has had opportunities of using with good ef¬
fect. It he do so, some remedies of rarer use, which would have been more
homoeopathically suitable, consequently more serviceable, will often be neg¬
lected.
Sec. 258. The true practitioner, moreover, will not in his practice with
mistrustful weakness neglect the employment of those remedies that he may
now and then have employed with bad effects, owing to an erroneous selection
(from his own fault, therefore), or avoid them for other (false) reasons, as that
they were unhomoeopathic for the case of disease before him; he must bear in
mind the truth, that of medicinal agents that one alone invariably deserves the
preference in every case of disease which corresponds most accurately by simi¬
larity to the totality of the characteristic symptoms, and that no paltry prejudi¬
ces should interfere with this serious choice.
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“To be fore-warned is to be fore-armed.” In these sections
our wonderful guide and teacher warns us against serious errors
into which we all are apt to fall. We are often told that this or
that remedy is a certain specific for this or that disease; that it
has been used in many cases with satisfactory results, etc. We
are told that Belladonna is all sufficient in the treatment of la-
grippe, and that Mercurius is a specific for dysenteria.
Now the argument of these sections is against this very habit
of prescribing for a disease. Once allowing ourselves to begin
the habit, it will be but a short time before we shall have formed
another, viz: that of advertising, to our co-laborers, our specifics.
This routine habit soon blinds us to other remedies, which, if
compared with our specifics , are found to be much more closely
in accord with the sickness. This error is not only avoided by
carefully writing out the history of the physical conditions of the
patient, from his birth to the time of taking the case, with espec¬
ial record of the acute attack.
Many times, when listening to the general description offered
by each patient that comes into my office, a remedy impresses it¬
self upon my mind, which entirely disappears upon a closer
study. Usually before the history of the patient is complete.
As many times have I had a feeling of intense gratification toward
the immortal Hahnemann for his careful and special instruction
in this particular.
The more we accustom ourselves to the habit of fully writing
out our cases, the less apt shall we be to fall into errors of the
kind described. Again, the history and study of the case is not
only an aid to the selection of the remedy, but, if by chance we
are disappointed in the result of the first selection, we can the
more readily detect a mistake, and correct it by the more similar
remedy. In this manner doubt is quickly dispelled and the effi¬
caciousness of the measure quickly shown.
Also, when constantly upon the alert, mistakes more rarely occur.
Much more could be said upon this subject, but I will leave
that for the discussion, reminding you that we are often inclined
to abuse remedies when the abuse should be heaped upon our¬
selves for bad selection. A. B. Carr.
The subject was presented for discussion.
Dr. Grant wholly agreed with Dr. Carr as to the need for care¬
ful record of a case. He said that the physician was much more
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likely to prescribe effectually—although without a record his
mistakes were much less likely to stare him in the face. He
knew many physicians who had favorite remedies for certain dis¬
eases and thought that the advertisements of the pharmacists
showed that there was a demand for specifics.
Dr. Johnson said that the key note of Dr. Carr’s paper was
the danger of routine practice. He thought that the mind of
man was so constructed that it was liable to run in a groove. He
could see the usefulness of a groove under certain conditions, but
considered it bad practice when carried to its ultimate end, as in
this instance. He believed that each physician had his favorite
remedy in an epidemic, with which, he was apt to cut a groove
by its too frequent application. This occurred because of his
more perfect knowledge of the remedy and his ability to use it
more cleverly than those remedies he knew less well. As an in¬
stance in point, Dr. Johnson told how he himself had gotten in¬
to a groove, through an effectual prescription of Rhus tax., in an
appendicitis which had recurred five times. He said that, now,
his first temptation, when called to a case of appendicitis, was to
bend all the symptoms of the case to the symptoms of Rhus tox .
Dr. Kaiser mentioned a case of asthma that had greatly puz¬
zled him until he had its entire history , when he found that the
patient had had a thorough drenching at the age of twelve.
Dr. Carr, concerning the genus-epidemicus , said, that the rea¬
son that one remedy was so often indicated throughout an epi¬
demic, was because all the symptoms of that epidemic agreed
with similar symptoms of the epidemic remedy, and that varia¬
tions from that remedy, were caused by the individuality, or dis-
crasia, of the patient.
A letter was then read from Dr. Morgan of Waterbury, Conn.,
further illustrating this subject.
Waterbury, Conn., April 26, 1898.
Dear Doctor Leggett: The habit of routine prescribing at
which § 257 is aimed, is apt to infect us all unless we exercise
great care to prevent.
I remember years ago, while in charge of the Onondaga Co.
Orphan Asylum, that in order to avoid the annoyance of being
summoned to attend cases of croup, at inconvenient times, by
the matron, Mrs. L., I gave her instructions how to administer
Boeninghausen’s famous five (5) powder prescription, viz: one of
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Aconite , two of Spongia , and two of Hepar s. all 20 °. It the at¬
tack began with fever, give the powder of Aconite , if followed by
hoarse dry cough— Spongia f and repeat in three hours if neces¬
sary, using Hepar if the cough became loose and hoarse.
This routine practice seemed to control every case until one
of membrane croup occurred; that one we came very near losing,
but it finally, slowly convalesced under Bromine , which probably
would have controlled the case more speedily, from the begin¬
ning, if the proper simillimum had been chosen.
Similar blunders occur in the careless treatment of scarlatina,
many practitioners, regardless of symptomatic peculiarities, be¬
ginning with Aconite , and following with Belladonna , not realiz¬
ing their mistake until they find the malady steadily progessing,
with its severity unchecked. The same tendency, to follow in
ruts and grooves, occurs in the treatment of tonsilitis, the sloven¬
ly practitioner jumping to Belladonna with little or no critical
observation of symptoms, when Lachesis , Lycopodium , or some
other remedy would be the proper simillimum, and result in a
speedy cure.
So, in fevers, so called homceopathists begin treatment in
nearly all fevers with Aconite , even when that remedy may actu¬
ally be contra-indicated, and when they fail, they impute their
lack of success to the inefficiency of homoeopathy.
I remember hearing Dr. Lippe remark with characteristic en¬
ergy “to give Aconite in the early stages of typhoid fever is an al¬
most criminal blunder and certainly renders the case more diffi¬
cult to handle.”
Aconite , is never indicated either in early or advanced stages
of typhoid or typhus. Instances in illustration might be multi¬
plied almost indefinitely were it necesssary, but it seems to me
that no member of your excellent society is likely to be unsound
enough in his medical philosophy, to need cautioning in this di¬
rection.
Every case of sickness should be examined as though no simi¬
lar case of disease had ever before existed. Such a procedure
kills routinism in the egg —before it has time to hatch .
§ 258. A fruitful source of unjust prejudice against a well
chosen remedy occasionally comes from the use of an unreliable
preparation of medicine.
I remember one time, (when in consultation with our old friend
and colleague, Dr. Lyman Clary) advising the use of Lachesis ,
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in a case, when he remarked that he had no confidence whatever
in it; had used it time and again, and never had a decent cura¬
tive response from it; but after getting a graft from one of Dr.
Herring’s 30th, he changed his verdict.
Quite a similar incident occurred one time, in my association
with Dr. Carroll Dunham. He manifested some surprise at
hearing me say that Dulcamara had disappointed me oftener
than any other remedy; indeed, it had never amounted to any¬
thing in my hands.
He advised me to get another supply, from another pharmacy,
which being done ended my disappointment with Dulc . Again,
for a long time, I had no success with Kali ^/ 20 °, but upon re¬
placing it with a fresh supply from another source, I had no
more trouble.
Another fruitful source of prejudice comes from the pernicious
habit of alternation.
When the physician who indulges in this bad habit fails to get
good results, he unjustly charges the responsibility where it does
not belong, or to a lack of efficiency in our law of cure.
If on the other hand he is lucky enough to occasionally suc¬
ceed in this shot-gun practice, he never learns anything from
such experience. He cannot tell which, if either, of the reme¬
dies has been efficacious, and in fact might as well have given
•“Humphrey’s Specific.” He might as well have followed the
popular lead of many modern allopathic practitioners, who now¬
adays depend so largely upon pharmaceutical preparations of
the wholesale druggist, of which they know nothing definite.
No practitioner who fails to individualize his cases, deserves the
success which gives us confidence in homoeopathic therapeutics.
A. R. Morgan.
Dr. Carr thought our disappointment in remedies could often be
traced to that very source, i. e.; unreliable preparations. Dur¬
ing his early practice, he had often been disappointed in the use
of a certain medicine. Perhaps this was partly due to ignorance,
but having replaced it, it had since been a firm reliance in the
time of need.
Dr. Johnson asked if we should ever say that Aconite was never
indicated in typhoid or typhus fever.
Dr. Leggett reminded him that the inception of typhoid and
typhus fever in no way resembled the inception of Aconite.
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Dr. Carr thought “never” was a good expression as it had put
one student on guard.
Dr. Howland thought that many cases of fever were cured too
quickly by the homoeopathic prescription, to diagnose them as
typhoid. She thought a true homoeopath did not often see cases
of typhoid, or pneumonia, because of the early cure.
Dr. Carr believed that the early use of cathartics in typhoid
always resulted in intestinal hemorrhage.
Dr. Tretton asked for experience in the preventative treat¬
ment of scarlet fever.
Dr. Carr said that hfs experience taught him that after the ad¬
ministration of the homoeopathic remedy there was no further
contagion. If there occurred contagion, it had a cause previous
to the administration of the remedy.
Dr. Hoard always feels safe from further contagion in diphthe¬
ria, erysipelas, &c., after the remedy homoeopathic to the case
has been adminstered.
Adjourned.
The meeting was again called to order by Dr. Hoard at 2:1 f>
p. m.
Dr. W. W. Johnson read a paper on
Adjuvants.
To the young homoeopath desiring to practice pure homoeopa¬
thy, the subject of adjuvants is, at first, a perplexing one.
Having no desire to sai! under false colors he fears to use any¬
thing but the indicated remedy lest he be accused of masquerad¬
ing under a name. Nothing can take the place of the well-se¬
lected remedy. Unfortunately there is no royal road to its selec¬
tion.
Nothing but painstaking, conscientious work lies before him
who would honestly succeed in the only rational system of medi¬
cine ever discovered. But while I believe, most emphatically,
in the single remedy, I do believe that there are certain things we
may use to assist in the cure or relief of disease. Let me hasten
to disclaim any belief in the efficiency of blisters, counter-irri¬
tants, liniments and such. They are pernicious in their action
and blind the physician to the real progress of the disease.
The condition to which we, as physicians are called oftener
than any other, is constipation. We often make brilliant cures
(that is a cure with the first prescription)—we oftener don’t.
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In the case of a baby what shall we do? An adult c-n go for
a week or two but a baby can’t. What shall we do for the im¬
mediate relief of the baby? Understand that in the considera¬
tion of all these cases, the well selected remedy takes first place.
As adjuvants we find a hundred different things good, bad and
indifferent.
This is the course I pursue: I regulate the diet. If the baby
nurses, look after the mother’s diet as well as health. If the baby
be bottle fed, as constipated babies usually are, see that the milk
is not too rich in casein. If it is, dilute with water and add a
little cream if necessary. This alone will stop all the trouble in
some cases.
In an older child supply fresh fruit, or stewed dried fruits, or
thin juices. See that bands and clothing are not pinned too
tight. Loosen the clothing and knead the bowels gently, this
will excite peristaltic action.
One of the common adjuvants of this condition is the soap pen¬
cil. The term explains itself; but its use is not wholly without
harm for I believe the alkalies of the soap have a tendency to
paralyze the rectal muscles. In tough, unyielding cases I have
been in the habit of furnishing my families with a small hard rub¬
ber syringe, and directing 10 to 20 drops of pure glycerine to be
injected when the rectum seems packed. This will generally
produce an evacuation in from 1 to 3 minutes. I never have
seen any bad results follow its use, and in one case, in a young
infant, it had to be persisted in for 5 weeks before I could find
the remedy. In adult cases I believe the most important thing
is to impress on the patient the advantage of absolute regularity
as to time of stool.
Many cases need nothing else. The most good I think comes
from a small injection of plain water, taken at night and retained.
Next to constipation we are very often called on to allay
pain.
So brillliant have been the result of pure homeopathy in allay¬
ing pain that it would seem almost useless to speak of adjuvants
in this trouble. I have related to this society how, in my own
case, the single dose of Chamomilla c,n stopped the most excru¬
ciating pain in two or three minutes.
I saw one case of appendicitis, with extreme pain, put to sleep
so quickly by a single dose of Rhus tox m that the friends thought
morphine had been given. Another case of appendicitis, which
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was in allopathic hands, had to be chloroformed to keep him in
bed, the pain was so extreme. This case came under my care
on account of the allopath being out of town, and the patient be¬
ing in such horrible suffering that the friends dared not wait. I
gave Rhus tox m in water, a teaspoonful every 15 minutes, and in
45 minutes the patient was asleep. In such cases as these, ad¬
juvants are useless, but unfortunately we can not always be so
happy in the selection of the remedy.
The great adjuvant at our hand for the relief of pain is heat—
dry or moist. Dry heat is the best for it can be applied in a
much higher degree. It should always be applied with wool, or
the hot water bottles. I prefer the wool, as I can get a more
pungent heat in this way. It also makes a good deal more work
for the friends, and this is not the least important thing in the
cure of some cases. Try it on your next case of pneumonia or
pleurisy.
In your rheumatic cases you will find it of value, though in
these and all neuralgias I am in the habit of using static electric¬
ity, which, I find, is not merely adjuvant, but a curative power,
restoring the normal function in apparently the same manner as
the simillimum.
It will be remembered that Hahnemann cured a case of paraly¬
sis with galvanism and the remedy, but always regretted that he
had not used the remedy alone.
However, electricity plays an important part in the nourish¬
ment of paralyzed muscles until the disordered nerve centers are
healed.
Nothing can help a muscle whose nerve is actually dead, but
sick nerves may be helped by remedies, electricity, heat or cold,
and massage.
In the fevers, the most valuable adjuvant is the frequent baths.
There is no advantage in having the water cold, the tepid water
is best and produces no shock. When in the treatment of a case
of eruptive fever, the eruption does not come out, as it should,
try the pack, hot or cold—a sheet wrung out of hot or cold water,
wrapped around the patient, and then a heavy blanket on the
outside, left on 15 or 30 minutes.
In croup have plenty of water vapor in the room, it makes a
decided difference.
The adjuvants I have named, I believe an honest homeopath
can use, and I believe them to be of great help when intelligent-
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ly employed. One helpful feature in their use not to be de¬
spised is their moral effect on the patient and friends.
W. W. Johnson.
Dr. Carr thought Dr. Johnson’s methods helped out wonder¬
fully in cases where the friends needed treatment. He had
found sweet oil better in constipation than glycerine, because of
its nutrient property. It had proved efficient, under his prescrip¬
tion, in atony of the rectum, of both old and young. One to
two ounces of olive oil injected into the rectum and retained
over night had often proved satisfactory.
Electricity he had not used. Had always found the homoeo¬
pathic remedy sufficient. He preferred dry applications of heat,
but had some misgivings concerning moist heat in cro.up. He
favored the bath in fevers, considered it to be only good nurs¬
ing. Of the pack he could speak with personal knowledge, his
mother had saved him many times in his youth from croup by
means of the wet pack.
Dr. Hoard objected to the warm water fearing suppression of
symptoms. His experience in constipation led him to depend
upon the remedy. If the patient was made sick by the long in¬
terval, so many more symptoms, and so much quicker relief.
Dr. Tretton.said that vapor inhaled, in croup, did relieve the
system which seemed at that time, to require moisture. He had
given a patient Sulphur in a case where there were no noticeable
symptoms of bowels. The patient afterward said that he had
not been as constipated in years, but was finally relieved with¬
out changing the medicine.
Dr. Johnson said that the subject had been advanced for just
this discussion and he had been glad to get the opinion of so
many members.
Dr. Leggett thought it was well to remember that we treated
the patient and not the constipation.
Dr. Howland then read a paper on
Psora.
The paper was opened for discussion. After a brief discus¬
sion, Dr. James H. Beebe read a paper upon
Mercury, as used in Dentistry.
I am not here to advocate any special theory or pathy. This
article will be decidedly non partisan. My object is to bring to
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your notice pathological conditions induced, as I honestly be¬
lieve, through the indiscriminate use of mercury by the dental'
profession. Many physicians see cases of neuralgia and nervous
difficulties, that are extremely obsure in their origin. Perhaps
this article will disclose a cause, and so be of service; for I be¬
lieve that few recognize the deleterious effects of mercury in the
mouth. The ordinary wear upon an ordinary amalgam filling
will defuse into the system in one day a larger amount of mer¬
cury than is given by homoeopathic physicians in their medi¬
cines.
My experience in this matter has been a little singular, and
my change from a mercury user, to one who abjures it in toto ,
was due to a case of must rather than inclination. I was, by cir¬
cumstances over which I had no control, forced into a partner¬
ship with a gentleman who was an avowed enemy to mercury,
and from the beginning of that partnership was obliged to stop
the use of mercury, even against my judgment. As a child is
sometimes'trained as it should go, and does not depart from it,
so I have been trained, and hope I may never depart from my
antipathy for mercury in dental practice.
Some years ago my partner was living in an adjoining city, and
was operating for a homoeopathic physician. Up to this time he
had been a user of mercury, and knowing this school of physi¬
cians abhor mercury in all its forms, jokingly told the physician
that he did not think much of his homceopathic principles, for
he had his mouth full of mercury. On explanation that the
large amount of amalgam fillings, in his mouth, were composed
of mercury, it was decided to remove them, and waich the re¬
sult. The physician had complained of throat trouble, that he
believed was, with other symptoms, due to mercury. Where he
had acquired mercurial poison he did not know until then. The
mercurial fillings were removed, and the trouble shortly disap¬
peared. Front that time Dr. Walter never put in an amalgam
filling, or made a red rubber plate.
My earliest acquaintance with trouble arising from mercury in
the mouth, was some twenty years ago. It was from a red rub¬
ber plate in the mouth of a patient of my preceptor. From that
I learned that some persons could not endure red rubber, and
when I found such cases, I replaced the red plate with one made
of black rubber, but it was not until 1886 that I came into the
light and liberty of the truth.
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Up to this last date I had been in (our different locations, and
had always been troubled with cases of neuralgia, general nerv¬
ous conditions, stomachic troubles, together with some con¬
ditions that were unaccountable. In my new surroundings I
found that these cases were very few, and usually occurred
in persons who were not regular patrons of the office. It was
the practice of some of your school to send patients to us for the
removal of mercury, and the substitution of other fillings and
dentures, so gradually the light dawned upon me. Among the
cases presented by the homoeopathic patients were nervous pros¬
tration, weak eyes which lenses could not help, sore throats,,
weak conditions of the stomach, general debility, and even ecze¬
ma of the lower extremities, to say nothing of pyorrhea alveolaris y
and sores upon the lips, gums and mouth.
Many of these cases I have seen relieved, readily, by removal
of the mercury, while others have taken time. Perhaps right &t
this point it may be proper to inform you of the materials with
which mercury is used.
The amalgam fillings are often called silver, platinum, or gold-
alloy; or simply alloy fillings, and are composed usually of % to-
*/j of metallic mercury. These names, other than the proper
one of amalgam, are used by persons who wish to convey the
idea that they are using a material next in value to gold, and we
often have our quacks charging different prices, according to the
name the patient selects, but it is all the same material. Its skin
is black, hair wooly, therefore—African. An alloy is com¬
pounded usually of about sixty parts of tin, and forty parts of
silver, and in some cases one or two parts of gold and platinum
are added; the latter metals are supposed to give strength and to
prevent shrinkage. This alloy is cut up, either by a file or other
suitable tool, into fine shavings, or fillings; a requisite quantity
for the filling to be made is usually placed in the palm of the
hand, and a little mercury is added and worked into the fillings,
by a finger of the other hand. Mercury is added from time to
time until the mass has become a plastic, putty like substance,
which, while yet soft, is packed into the cavity, and smoothed as
well as may be. This finishes the work, unless it should be de¬
sired to finish still further by polishing after the filling has hard¬
ened. Many operators endeavor to get rid of all the mercury
by compressing the mass with pinchers while it is held in the
folds of a piece of linen or chamois skin. Here we have a
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material in the mouth that would make an excellent element in a
galvanic battery.
Another form of amalgam, that has happily dropped otitof use
was the mixture of the mercury with pure metallic copper. A
most beautiful preparation of poisonous material. It was sup¬
posed that the salts resulting from the action of the oral fluids
upon this combination would destroy the germs of decay, and
render the tooth immune from further destruction. Antimony
and Cadmium have also, at times, been added to the alloy, but
perhaps the only metals now in general use, are alloys of tin and
silver, with, as above stated, a little gold and platinum.
The rubber dentries, (we come now to the ones that are be¬
lieved by the anti mercury crank to be injurious) are those com¬
posed of red rubber. The trouble here lies in the coloring mat¬
ter, which in some cases, consists of thirty-three per cent of Chi¬
nese vermillion, sulphuret of mercury. ' This is supposed by
many to be inert, insoluble, and harmless, and it is the roost so
of any of the mercurial salts. Still, I can not think that even the
most ardent advocates of mercury, would care to take a small
dose of Chinese vermillion, used as a paint pigment, to produce
most pronounced effects on the arms and hands of the workman
using it.
There is another matter which I wish to mention in this place.
I had a case, a while ago, where the patient could not wear a
rubber plate of any kind, on account of its irritating effect on
the lips and parts surrounding the mouth. This was due, (ac¬
cording to her homoeopathic physician), to the sulphur of the
rubber. It is a “lone fisherman” in my practice and I should
like to know more about it. Certainly there were no complaints
when the plates were made in the old fashioned way, entirely of
gold and porcelain. You, who have more intimate knowledge
of medicine and therapeutics, v/ill be able to state, more con¬
cisely than I, what the effect of such materials may be. When I
first started out, as an objector to mercury, I kept a record of
cases that came under my observation, and with your forbear¬
ance, I will read some of them from that record.
Mr. J. came to the office Aug., 1886. Large quantities of
amalgam fillings. Came for repair on old fillings and for new
ones as well. Told him nature of amalgam and its effects. He
decided to have them removed. At time of first visit, complain¬
ed of eyes, throat and sleeplessness. Eyes looked like those of
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a bummer; throat (as he expressed it) had a lump in it. Had
tried glasses for eyes but could find none that helped him. In
three months his eyes demanded no treatment and his glasses
were discarded. His throat trouble gone and he slept well.
Probably glavinism.
Mrs. W., of Rochester, came to the office in June, 1886. Been
wearing red rubber plate. General debility; inflamed throat and
oesophagus; deranged stomach, and corners of mouth'sore. Ap¬
pearance that of a living skeleton. Amalgam removed and black
rubber plate substituted for the red. No particularly marked
improvement under a year. The throat gained, however, but at
the end of the year was well, as were the corners of the mouth.
Jan., *88, was in the office. Still far from a well woman but
greatly improved in general health. Could eat anything. Stomach
gave no trouble; throat well; mouth well and a firm believer in
the deleterious effects of red rubber and amalgam.
J. (lawyer), was in the office April 14, 1888. Stated he had a
singular experience in the matter of dentistry. Said he was
troubled a while ago with most acute neuralgic pains in head.
Went to his dentist, and had some teeth on upper jaw removed.
Said teeth being loose and perfectly sound. Received no relief
as the dentist had prophesied he would not. Went to Dr. B.
and asked him if he had anv amalgam in his mouth. Told him
he had; went back to dentist; dentist tried to discourage him,
and dissuade him from having fillings removed. Patient insisted
and they were removed; in an hour from the time the fillings
were out, his pain had ceased and there had been no recurrence.
Dr. R. came to the office sometime in Aug., 1888. Had been
suffering for years, complained of dizziness and swimming of vi¬
sion. The least excitement caused, as he expressed it, a darting
up in front of face. Had for several years been unfitted for his
profession. Was in office Dec. 20,1888. Mentioned voluntarily
that he had not been as well in years as he was that fall, preced¬
ing the latter date. Had addressed a meeting, lately, that he
said would not have dared to do had he been in his former con¬
dition. Would not say that it was the removal of the five amal¬
gam fillings that had caused his convalescence, but said that he
was certain that he was better, and that the mending commenced
soon after the fillings were removed. Eyes at the former date
had an uncertain and vague expression which had entirely dis¬
appeared.
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Dr. H., of Cincinnati, was one of the great amalgam fillers and
always used the hand in mixing; complained of a great deal of
rheumatism which was greatly aggravated by change of weather.
Finally died; cannot say as it was caused by amalgam.
“Without for a moment disparaging the value of amalgam as a
stopping material, Mr. H., said that in some rare instances he
believed they were the cause of intractable and irritable sores
upon the lips, gums, and cheeks. He spoke simply as an ob¬
server, not knowing the chemical composition of these stoppings,
many of which he was told were secret preparations; but he had
certainly seen ulcers, that refused to yield to treatment, disap¬
pear after the removal of discolored amalgams. He had always
been careful to eliminate the probability of roughness of the
stopped tooth, being the cause, and had never seen ulcers where
gold fillings had been employed. He quoted the case of an
American physician who presented a number of ulcers which
several physicians had pronounced syphilitic; the patient, how¬
ever, stoutly maintained that he had never had syphilis, or a
symptom of it, and that all his children were perfectly healthy.
Mr. H. finding that he had several amalgam fillings, which had
been inserted in America, ordered their removal, which being
done, the ulcers rapidly disappeared.— (Extract from London
Lancet .
One of the most remarkable cases of mercurial action, not on
the system, but on gold placed in close contiguity to a large
amalgam filling, was that seen in the mouth of C. M. W.
I placed a gold crown on a second lower bicuspid. Said crown
being made from the coin. Immediately in the rear of the
crowned tooth was a large amalgam filling which composed the
crown of the sixth year molar. Six months after the crown was
set, the gold, of which it was composed, commenced to turn dark
until it was the color of oxidized silver, and nearly as black as
the amalgam filling itself.
April 1, I removed the amalgams, and am watching the result.
There has been no indication of a return of discoloration.
Jan. 24, 1896. About a year ago, Mrs. B., came to the office,
directed by Dr. J. She had a large number of amalgam fillings,
and was troubled with an eruption around the oral cavity; taking
the form of pimples and redness of the skin covering the whole
of the chin. After the removal of the amalgam, there was for a
time little improvement, but the unsightliness gradually disap-
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peared, and may now be considered cured, though occasionally,
under certain circumstances, there will be slight returns of the
former conditions.
Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 14, 1888.
Drs. Walter 6° Beebe —Gentlemen: Enclosed pleased find
draft for $55.00. I have to thank you for the comfort I now
have. You may remember my mentioning that, in winter time,
I was troubled with eczema on the calf of the leg. Since the ex¬
traction of the soft filling it has entirely disappeared; a great re¬
lief. I thought it my duty to dose myself, sometimes, on account
of it. Yours very truly,
Buffalo, N. Y., April 10, 1888.
Dear Dr. Walter : A patient has just sent in word at the last
hour that she is ill, and so I will devote that hour to answering
this morning’s letters. My mail is always a heavy one, and
usually it is not attended to until evening.
You ask me why certain effects of mercury are sometimes seen
in patients. Mercury is, with lew exceptions, the most powerful
of the metallic poisons. Its toxicological possibilities are wond¬
erful. Combinations with other substances develop characteris¬
tics that are amazing. Analagous combinations develop the
most diverse substances. For instance: Mercurous Chloride
(Mg'* C7 S ) is Calomel, which is largely used as a medicine and
is a very effective cathartic.
Mercuric Chloride (Hg Cl 2 ) is Corrosive Sublimate, a poison
so virulent that it has given its name to a whole class of toxico¬
logical agents. Now there is only this difference between the
two substances; one proportion of mercury. In the mouth we
meet all manner ot substances that are under the most favorable
conditions for uniting with mercury if it is present. The combi¬
nations of mercury are very unstable, and under the influence of
heat any free mercury is readily sublimated. So here we have,
—if mercury be present in the mouth,—all the conditions that
might form deleterious compounds. That free mercury is inert,
as has been frequently asserted, is not so, for we all know what
are the dangers to which workers in mercury, especially in the
mines, are liable.
Some persons are exceedingly sensitive to the action of mer¬
cury, as some are to every poisonous article. Some can handle
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Rhus tox. (poison ivy), others are violently affected by the mer¬
est contact. Now about the use of mercury in the mouth, I be¬
lieve it is too powerful an agent to be used without the most ex¬
treme care. Most persons will not be affected by a moderate
amount of amalgam fillings, while others cannot bear even ont
such filling. It may be used in moderate amounts in most cases,
but the dentists should exercise care.
Its effects, so far as I am aware, are constitutional, and not
very often local. It produces its characteristic periosteal effects
in the mouth, and upon the mucus membrane. You know what
they are. There may be cases where it produces local irritation
and soreness, but I have not seen one in which the difficulty could
not be properly attributed to something else. Pharyngeal and
laryngeal complications are quite possible.
I have under treatment now, a patient, the most of whose teeth
are well filled with gold, but in some difficult location amalgam
was inserted. In every one of the teeth so filled is periosteal
trouble, and there has been ever since they were so filled. Peri¬
osteal difficulty about the roots of the teeth, in mouths in which
there is a great deal of amalgam, is often seen, and is indicated
by swellings of a hard character, opposite the roots (indurations)
without any pain, which gradually increases, and unless the amal¬
gam is removed, will result in necrosis.
You may ask why I ever use it then. Chloroform, and other
anaesthetics, are useful in their way but I would not use the min-
discriminately to every one, without examination. Chloroform
and amalgam are both of great service if judiciously employed,
but either is capable of great mischief if given to the wrong person..
Ever yours, in haste,
W. C. B.
Submitted by James H. Beebe, D. D. S.
The paper was presented for discussion.
Dr. Carr said he was glad of an opportunity to hear the paper,,
and pleased to have the father of it—Dr. Walter—present at the
discussion. He said that Dr. Waiter had spoken to him, more
than twenty years ago, on the subject of mercury as used in
dentistry. He had been much interested in the effects of its use,
and of the results of its removal in cases poisoned by it. He
showed that during the past ten years the results of the use of
mercury had been much more thoroughly watched by both phy-
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simians and dentists. He mentioned a paper, by Dr. Taft, in a
late number of the International Dental Journal , which had been
read and discussed by a Dental Society. He said the subject
was handled in a manner that showed an understanding of
Hahnemannian Homoeopathy. He pointed to the fact; that the
discussion following Dr. Taft's paper showed that some of the
members still cling to old treatment, and could see only the ma¬
terialistic side of the question.
Dr. Walter recommended the reading of the only work on this
subject that was worth perusal. He said the work was in Dr.
Beebe’s office. Dr. Walter then mentioned the case of a lady
who, from first suffering frightful neuralgias had gone into nerv¬
ous prostration, that had confined her to her bed for four years.
Her physician could do nothing for her. Finally a friend, hear¬
ing her symptoms, asked if she had amalgam fillings and sent her
to Dr. Walter. Dr. Walter took out 6 amalgam fillings. The
patient said she was free from pain before leaving the office.
Dr. Walter found many cases of amaurosis that had been caused
by amalgam fillings. He had fought mercury in the mouth 40
years. He had used it 7 or 8 years before he knew its deleteri¬
ous effects. He said that many dentists knew its effects, but con¬
tinued to use it. He mentioned one dentist who had observed
many cases of necrosis of the jaw. In one case there had been
need to remove one half the jaw because of the presence of one
amalgam filling.
Dr. Walter said that sometime it seemed as if the good Lord
sent all such cases to him.
One woman, having lost a filling, came to him to have it re¬
placed. He found a mouth full of amalgam that had been pres¬
ent eight years. The woman had continued doctoring, without
benefit. She was frightened when told all must come out, but in
a month she was as well as ever, even able to discard glasses.
Dr. Walter did not claim that every disease of the stomach and
throat were attributable to amalgam fillings &c., but said that
those fillings caused many throat and stomach troubles that could
not be cured until the amalgam &c., was removed. If he found
unmanageable cases, he offered to take the amalgam out, and if
the patient was not helped, to fill again with gold free of charge.
Dr. Carr found that many old school physicians now sent their
unmanagable patients to a dentist for the removal of amalgam
fillings and red rubber plates. He thought that such observa-
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tions showed the principle upon which the Hahnemannian
homoeopath worked.
Dr. Howland asked the dentists what cheap filling could take
the place of amalgam.
Dr. Beebe said cement and pure tin, the latter put in like gold
filling. He said that it wore less well, but answered in many
cases.
The Secretary was bidden, as the hour was late, to crave Dr.
Stow permission to hold his paper for the September meeting.
The essayist were left for appointment by the president.
Adjourned.
S. L. Guild Leggett, Sec’y.
It is an injustice to Science to practice wuiiout exact kiiowie^-c ana
for what you do. The whole world is but a swirl of this round-about innerti*
ance of belief instead of knowledge.
The Hoimeopathic remedy only becomes Homoeopathic when it has estab¬
lished its curative relation; the relation between two dynamic influences.
Experience teaches the Allopath to give Muriatic acid in Germany for Ty¬
phoid Fever, Nitric acid in England, cold bathing in Paris for the same. This
is the doctrine of the Old School by “experience.”
Man must be studied as he is, as he was, everything of man and of the humah
race in general, in order to understand disease.
When you have discovered that this Life Force resides in a simple substance
you see at once that death is not an entity. The body has no life of its own
and therefore it cannot die.
Psora is the evolution of man’s will, the ultimate of his sin.
This outgrowth, which has come upon man from living a life of evil willing,
is Psora.
That changes in the body correspond to wrong thinking is true. The fault
of the world today, is reasoning from externals. Man elected in the early part
of his history to think from lasts to firsts, and thereby lost his ability to know.
One sick man is to be treated, not the disease.
Therefore there is no death, but we do observe and perceive that there is a
separation of things, of one that is alive from another that never was alive; a
disiunction of that which lives from that which neve»* 15*-**^
— Kent's Aphorisms and Precepts .
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CASES ILLUSTRATIVE OF HCLMCEOPATHIC
PRACTICE.*
SAMUEL HAHNEMANN, M. I).
Many persons of my acquaintance but half converted to
homoeopathy have begged of me from time to time to publish
still more exact directions as to how this doctrine may be actu¬
ally applied in practice, and how we are to proceed. I am
astonished that after the very peculiar directions contained in
the Organon of Medicine more special instruction can be wished
for.
I am also asked, “How are we to examine the disease in every
particular case?” As if special enough directions were not to
be found in the book just mentioned.
As in homoeopathy, the treatment is not directed towards any
supposed or illusory internal causes of disease, nor yet towards
any names of diseases invented by man which do not exist in
nature, and as every case of non-miasmatic disease is a distinct
individuality, independent, peculiar, differing in nature from all
others, never compounded of a hypothetical arrangement of
symptoms, so no particular directions can be laid down for them
{no schema, no table), except that the physician, in order to
effect a cure, must oppose to every aggregate of morbid symp¬
toms in a case a group of similar medicinal symptoms as exact
as it is, to be met with in any single known medicine, for this
doctrine cannot admit of more than a single medicinal substance
(whose effects have been accurately tested) to be given at once
(see Organon of Medicine, § 271, 272).
Now we can neither enumerate all the possible aggregates of
* From the Reine Arzneimittellehre , pt. ii, 3d. edit. 1833. [The cases here
given originally appeared about 1817 in the first edition of the R. A. M.
but the notes and most of the preliminary matter are of the date we have given,
and we may therefore consider the whole to represent Hahnemann’s opinion
and practice, with the exception of the dose in these two cases, of the latter
period.]
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symptoms of all concrete cases of disease, nor indicate a priori
the homoeopathic medicines for these (a priori undefinable) pos¬
sibilities. For every individual given case (and every case is an
individuality,differing from all others) the homoeopathic medical
practitioner must himself find them, and for this end he must be
acquainted with the medicines that have till now been investi¬
gated in respect of their positive action, or consult them for
every case of disease; but besides this he must do his endeavor
to prove on himself, or on other healthy individuals, medicines
that have not yet been investigated as regards the morbid altera¬
tions they are capable of producing, in order thereby to increase
our store of known remedial agents,* so that the choice of a
remedy for every one of the infinite variety of cases of disease
(for the combating of which we can never possess enough of
suitable tools and weapons) may become all the more easy and
accurate.
That man is far from being animated with the true spirit of
the homoeopathic system, is no true disciple of this beneficent
doctrine, who makes the slightest objections to institute on him¬
self careful experiments for the investigation of the peculiar
effects of the medicines which have remained unknown for 2500
years, without which investigation (and unless their pure patho¬
genetic action on the healthy individual has previously been
ascertained) all treatment of disease must continue to be not
only a foolish, but even a criminal operation, a dangerous at¬
tack upon human life.
It is somewhat too much to expect us to woik merely for the
benefit of such self interested individuals as will contribute noth¬
ing to the complete and indispensable building up of the indis¬
pensable edifice, who only seek to make money by what has
been discovered and investigated by the labors of.others, and to
furnish themselves with the means of squandering the income
derived from the capital of science, to the accumulation of
which they do not evince the slightest inclination to contribute.
All who feel a true desire to assist in elucidating the peculiar
effects of medicines—our sole instruments, the knowledge of
which has for so many centuries remained uninvestigated, and
* Before the discovery of Homoeopathy, medicinal substances were known
only in respect to their natural history, and besides their names nothing was
known regarding them but their presumed qualities, which were either imagin¬
ary or altogether false.
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which is yet so indispensable for enabling us to cure the sick,
will find the directions how these pure experiments with medi¬
cines should be conducted in the\Organon of medicine , § 118—
142.
In addition to what has been there stated I shall only add, that
as the experimenter cannot, any more than any other human
being, be absolutely and perfectly healthy, he must, should slight
ailments to which he was liable appear during these provings of
the powers of medicine, place these between brackets, thereby
indicating that they are not confirmed, or dubious. But this
will not often happen, seeing that during the action upon a pre¬
viously healthy person of a sufficiently strong dose of the medi¬
cine, he is under the influence of the medicine alone, and it is
seldom that any other symptom can show itself during the first
days but what must be the effect of the medicine. Further, that
in order to investigate the symptoms of medicines for chronic
diseases, for example, in order to develop the cutaneous diseases,
abnormal growths, and so forth, to be expected from the medi¬
cine, we must not be contented with taking one or two doses of
it only, but we must continue its use for several days, to the
amount of two adequate doses daily, that is to say, of sufficient
size to cause us to perceive its action, whilst at the same time
we continue to observe the diet and regimen indicated in the
work alluded to.
The mode of preparing the medicinal substances for use in
homoeopathic treatment will be found in the Organon of Medi¬
cine , § 267—271, and also in the Chronic Diseases. I would only
observe here, that for the proving of medicines on healthy indi¬
viduals, dilutions and dynamizations are to be employed as high
as are used for the treatment of disease, namely, globules mois¬
tened with the decillionth development of power.
The request of some friends, halting half-way on the road to
this method of treatment, to detail some examples of this treat¬
ment, is difficult to comply with, and no great advantage can
attend a compliance with it. Every cured case of disease shows
only how that case has been treated. The internal process of
the treatment depends always on those principles which are al¬
ready known, and they cannot be rendered concrete and defin-
nitely fixed for each individual case, nor can they become at all
more distinct from the history of a single cure than they pre¬
viously were when these principles were enunciated. Every
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case of non-miasmatic disease is peculiar and special, and it is
the special in it that distinguishes it from every other case, that
pertains to it alone, but that cannot serve as a guide to the
treatment of other cases. Now if it is wished to describe a com¬
plicated case of disease consisting ot many symptoms, in such a
pragmatical manner that the reasons that influence us in the
choice of the remedy shall be clearly revealed, this demands de¬
tails laborious at once for the recorder and for the reader.
In order, however, to comply with the desires of my friends in
this also, I may here detail two of the slightest cases of homoeo¬
pathic treatment.
Sch-, a washerwoman, somewhat above 40 years old, had
been more than three weeks unable to pursue her avocations,
when she consulted me on the 1st of September, 1815.
1. On any movement, especially at every step, and worst on
making a false step, she has a shoot in the scrobiculus cordis,
that comes, as she avers, every time from the left side.
2. When she lies she feels quite well, then she has no pain
anywhere, neither in the side nor in the scrobiculus.
3. She cannot sleep after 3 o’clock in the morning.
4. She relishes her food, but when she has eaten a little she
feels sick.
5. Then the water collects in her mouth and runs out of it,
like the water-brash.
6. She has frequently empty eructations after every meal.
7. Her temper is passionate, disposed to anger.—Whenever
the pain is severe she is covered with perspiration.—The cata¬
menia were quite regular a fortnight since.
In other respects her health is good.
Now, as regards symptom 1, Belladonna , China , and Rhus
toxicodendron cause shootings in the scrobiculus, but none of
them only on motion , as is the case here. Pulsatilla (see Symp.
387) certainly causes shootings in the scrobiculus on making a
false step, but only as a rare alternating action, and has neither
the same digestive derangements as occur here at 4 compared
with 5 and 6, nor the same state of the disposition.
Bryonia alone has among its chief alternating actions, as the
whole list of its symptoms demonstrates, pains from movement
and especially shooting pains, as also stitches beneath the
sternum (in the scrobiculus) on raising the arm (448), and on
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making a false step it occasions shooting in other parts (520,
574).
The negative symptom 2 met with here answers especially to
Bryonia (558?); ew medicines (with the exception, perhaps, to
Nux vomica and Rhus toxicodendron in their alternating action—
neither of which, however, are suitable for the other symptoms)
show a complete relief to pains during rest and when lying;
Bryonia does, however, in an especial manner (558, and many
other Bryonia symptoms).
Symptom 3 is met with in several medicines, and also in
Bryonia (694).
Symptom 4 is certainly, as far as regards “sickness after eat¬
ing,’’ met with in several other medicines (Ignatia, Nux vomica 9
Mercurius, Ferrum , Belladonna , Pulsatilla , Cantharis ), but
neither so constantly and usually, nor with relish for food, as in
Bryonia (279).
As regards symptom 5 several medicines certainly cause a
flow of saliva like water-brash, just as well as Bryonia (282); the
other, however, do not produce the remaining symptoms in a
very similar manner. Hence Bryonia is to be preferred to them
in this point.
Empty eructations (of wind only) after eating (symptom 6) is
found in few medicines, and in none so constantly, so usually,
and to such a great degree, as in Bryonia (255, 239).
To 7.—One of the chief symptoms in diseases (see Organon of
Medicine , § 213) is the “state of the disposition,” and as Bryonia
(778) causes this symptom also in an exactly similar manner—
Bryonia is for all these reasons to be preferred in this case to all
other medicines as the homoeopathic remedy.
Now, as this woman was very robust, and the force of the dis¬
ease must accordingly have been very considerable, to prevent
her by its pain from doing any work, and as her vital forces, as
has been observed, were not consensually affected, I gave her
one of the strongest homoeopathic doses, a full drop of the pure
juice of Bryonia root,* to be taken immediately, and bade her
* According to the most recent development of our new system the ingestion
of a single, minutest globule, moistened with the decillionth (x) potential de¬
velopment would have been quite adequate to effect an equally rapid and com¬
plete recovery; indeed, equally certain would have been the mere olfaction of
a glgbule the size of a mustard seed moistened with the same dynamization, so
that the drop of pure juice given by me in the above case to a robust person,
should not be imitated.
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come to me again in 48 hours. I told ray friend E., who was
present, that within that time the woman would be quite cured,
but he, being but half a convert to homoeopathy, expressed his
doubt about it. Two days afterwards he came again to ascer¬
tain the result, but the woman did not return then, and, in fact,
never came back again. I could only allay the impatience of
my friend by telling him her name and that of the village where
she lived, about three miles off, and advising him to seek her
out and ascertain for himself how she was. This he did, and
her answer was: “What was the use of my going back? The
very next day I was quite well, and could again commence my
washing, and the day following I was as well as I am still. I am
extremely obliged to the doctor, but the like of us have no time
to leave off our work; and for three weeks previously my illness
prevented me earning anything.”
W-e, a weak, pale man of 42 years, who was constantly
kept by his business to his desk, came to me on the 27th of
December, 1815, having been already ill five days.
1. The first evening he became, without manifest cause, sick
and giddy, with much eructation.
2. The following night (about 2 a. m.) sour vomiting.
3. The subsequent nights severe eructation.
4. To-day also sick eructation of fetid and sourish taste.
5. He felt as if the food lay crude and undigested in his
stomach.
6. In his head he felt vacant, hollow and confused, and as if
sensitive therein.
7. The least noise was painful to him.
8. He is of a mild, soft, patient disposition.
Here I may observe:—
To 1. That several medicines cause vertigo with nausea, as
well as Pulsatilla (3), which produces its vertigo in the evening\
also (7) f a circumstance that has been observed from very few
others.
To 2. Stramonium and Nux vomica cause vomiting of sour
and sour-smelling mucus, but, as far as is known, not at night.
Valerian and Cocculus cause vomiting at night, but not of sour
stuff. Iron alone causes vomiting at night (01, 62), and can also
cause sour vomiting (66), but not the other symptoms observed
here.
Pulsatilla , however, causes not only sour vomiting in the even-
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ing (349, 356) and nocturnal vomiting in general, but also the
•other symptoms of this case not found among those of Iron .
To 3. Nocturnal eructations is peculiar to Pulsatilla (296,
297).
To 4. Fetid, putrid (249) and sour eructations (301, 302) are
peculiar to Pulsatilla .
To 5. The sensation of indigestion of the food in the stomach
Is produced by few medicines, and by none in such a perfect
and striking manner as by Pulsatilla (321, 322, 327).
To 6. With the exception of Ignatia (2) which, however, can¬
not produce the other ailments, the same state is only produced
by Pulsatilla (39 compared with 40, 81).
To 7. Pulsatilla produces the same state (995), and it also
causes over-sensitiveness of other organs of the senses, for ex¬
ample, of the sight (107). And although intolerance or noise is
also met with in Nux vomica , Ignatia and Aconite , yet these
medicines are not homoeopathic to the other symptoms and still
less do they possess symptom 8, the mild character of the dis¬
position, which, as stated in the preface to Pulsatilla , is particu¬
larly indicative of this plant.
This patient, therefore, could not be cured by anything in a
more easy, certain and permanent manner than by Pulsatilla ,
which was accordingly given to him immediately, but on account
of his weakly and delicate state only in a very minute dose, /. e .,
half a-drop of the quadrillion^ of a strong drop of Pulsatilla .*
This was done in the evening.
The next day he was free from all ailments, his digestion was
restored, and a week thereafter, as I was told by him, he re¬
mained free from complaint and quite well.
The investigation in such a slight case of disease, and the
choice of the homoeopathic remedy for it, is very speedily effected
by the practitioner who has had only a little experience in it, and
who either has the symptoms of the medicine in his memory, or
who knows where to find them readily; but to give in writing all
the reasons pro and con (which would be perceived by the mind
in a few seconds) give rise, as we see, to tedious prolixity.
* According to our present knowledge and experience the same object would
have been attained by taking one of the smallest globules of pulsutilla x (de-
cillionth potency) and with equal certainty a single olfaction of a globule the
size of a mustard seed of the same potency of pulsatilla.
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For the convenience of treatment, we require merely to indi¬
cate for each symptom all the medicines which can produce the
same symptoms by a few letters, e. g., Ferr., Chin., Rheum.,
Puls.), and also to bear in mind the circumstances under which
they occur, that have a determining influence on our choice and
in the same way with all the other symptoms, by what medicine
each is excited, and from the list so prepared we shall be able to
perceive which of the medicines homceopathically covers the
most of the symptoms present, especially the most peculiar and
characteristic ones,—and this is the remedy sought for.
Aesculus—Hemorrhoids.
H. W. PIERSON, M. D., CHICAGO.
PROF. INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE AND CLINICAL MEDICINE IN DUNHAM
MEDICAL COLLEGE.
Mrs. J., age 47. Housekeeper, mother of seven children.
Small, spare, dark. Had been sick for years with “stomach
trouble” and “piles.”
Weakness—back, arms and legs.
Difficult getting up or down, feeling of weakness with a
dull aching through hips < walking or attempting to
change position.
Stomach.
Nausea with sour or bitter eructations.
Pressure as from a stone, < after eating, < when con¬
stipated.
Heartburn, < about 3 hours after eating.
Distress has been almost constant for years for which
she has taken almost everything.
Very sensitive to least pressure.
Abdomen.
Marked throbbing of abdominal aorta (throbbing of
vessels throughout the body with evidence of venous
obstruction).
Tender on pressure—flesh seemed sore.
Liver—frequent attacks of congestion with pain between
shoulders.
Biliary colic, when overtired, with heavy dull ache in
region of gall bladder.
Rectum —Almost constant sense of uneasiness.
Itching, burning, sense of fulness not relieved by stooL
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Feeling as if “rectum would come out” if persisted in
efforts to force a stool, not relieved by stool.
Hemorrhoids.
Full, as if rectum had been forced down—for years.
> steady, gentle upward pressure.
Dark brown or blue—generally internal or blind.
Cannot sit down or walk without great pain.
Must frequently get into knee chest position and use
gentle pressure.
< stool.
Stool changable—either bilious diarrhoea or hard, dry,
large stool.
Female Organs .
Uterus inflamed, retro-verted.
Soreness with dragged down feeling.
< when obliged to be on feet.
Leucorrhoea—thick and acrid, but not very profuse—
offensive.
Back, weak, easily gives out.
The general history showed a woman who had passed through
many hardships and had lived a life of suffering both mental
and physical. She was thoroughly “broken down,” a prema¬
turely old woman. At the age of forty-six she was placed in a
“home” and for the first time in over twenty-five was in condi¬
tion where medicine could be permitted to act. Under Nux
vomica , Sulphur and Aloes there was but little improvement in
the physical condition.
A thorough study brought out the picture of Aesculus and three
doses of 1000th potency, given at lengthened intervals, was fol¬
lowed by such a wonderful improvement in her general condi¬
tion that after a restful period of a little over six months, she
voluntarily gave up her “home” and accepted the more inde¬
pendent position of ‘‘housekeeper” for a small family.
The question may be raised whether the “cure” be not due to
the changed position, freedom from anxious care etc., instead of
the medicine. To this it may be stated that for over eight
months she had the necessary rest and was under the action of
other remedies without any marked improvement; that practically
the same symptoms were present when the Aesculus was pre¬
scribed as when she first received Nux vomica , provided she
would exercise much; that nearly four years have passed without
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any serious return of the old suffering; that she does her work
with greater comfort and ease than at any time in her life.
CASES FROM. NOTE BOOK.
LEWIS WHITING, M. D., DANVERS, MASS.
Sepia—Headache.
Mrs. -, aged sixty-nine, for sixty years past has been sub¬
ject to severe paroxysms of hemicrania, the attacks coming on at
irregular intervals, but always continuing nine days to the hour.
The pain being “as if from a severe blow with the palm of the
hand, upon the left parietal portion of the head, which then
grasped the hair and pulled it out by the roots; 0 this pain being
repeated at intervals of thirty seconds for the whole period of
nine days and nights.
Gave her Sepia hhm (F) potency; one to be taken at the time
{5 p. m.) and if she noticed any effects from it, eithei for better
or for worse, not to take second one; but that if she should not
notice any effect, to take second one the next morning, and the
third one at bed-time the next night.
Called on her again on the morning of the third day, when she
reported, that within fifteen minutes after having taken the first
powder, the pain had ceased entirely, that she passed a very
pleasant evening, slept all night, and ate her breakfast next morn¬
ing with no recurrence of pain. ,
A family council was now held, and it was agreed that the ef¬
fect of the one powder was wonderful, as nothing that she had
ever taken during the sixty years had ever had any effect, and all
agreed that as one powder had so much effect, she should take
the others and thus make a permanent cure of her headache.
Upon this reasoning, she took the conditioned morning powder
and almost immediately the shocks commenced in the right side
of the head; this was a new experience to her, for till now, she
had never had the pain in the right parietal region, it had from
the first always affected the left side only.
At five in the afternoon she took the third powder and the pain
changed from the right parietal to the occiput.
But during the night, the shocks of pain resumed their former
location, in the left side of the head, when it continued its nine
days’ term, minus the fifteen hours’ remission given by the first
powder.
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Three years later; I am informed that she has since died from
cancer of the stomach, having had several attacks of the hemi-
crania, which were instantly relieved by one dose of Sepia.
Aloe—Diarrhoea.
Mrs.-, age forty. Morning diarrhoea for many years past,
comes on every morning after arising and continuing till 10 a. nu
Stools yellowish, thin, fecal, accompanied by much flatus, and
an immediate irrepressible desire for stool; can not delay one
minute. Alar 30 was prescribed for the case, a powder dry on
tongue night and morning. Having taken only four doses of the
Alee, the stool became of normal consistency, and the case be¬
came one of scabies over the entire body. Upon inquiry it was
ascertained that she had itch when about ten years of age, and
that it was treated d> inunction of sulphur and lard, and she was
of opinion that the diarrhoea had been her constant companion
since about that time, a period of thirty years. She received no
further medicine and in three days time the power of the drug
that had produced the scabies had also effected a cure of the
same, with no return of diarrhoea.
Chronic Lead Poisoning—Secale
Mrs.-, age thirty, has been under heroic treatment for two
years for “Consumption of Bowels” and not expected to recover.
From her apparent condition one would not think her capable of
living four weeks. The case has the following symptoms for
study:
Stools painless, frequent, night and day, fecal, frothy,
< from movement.
After stool, great debility.
Sense of weakness in abdomen.
Foul taste in morning.
Bad odor of breath in morning, disgust for cold water.
Cold ankles.
Menses too profuse; of bad odor; can not bear heat
from the stove.
After a careful analysis, and finding all of the symptoms under
Plumbum it was given in 200th potency for four days without ap¬
parent effect. Feeling confident that it was a Plumbum case,
the thought came to me that possibly it was pathogenetic.
Further investigation was accordingly made with ill success for a
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time; they had no lead pump; the water for family use was all
dipped from a spring near the house; she had never used hair-
wash, or cosmetics. But on examination of a peck-basket of
empty bottles and pill boxes, the contents of which she had taken
into her stomach, we found a large number of pill boxes all bear¬
ing the same number. Taking one of the boxes to the druggist
whose name was on the cover, it was found that each pill should
have contained one-eighth grain Plumbi ac., the same quantity
each of Opii and Capsicum , and for the second time we felt cer¬
tain that we had the solution of the case in our hands. On again
referring to our analysis we found that we had twelve of the four¬
teen symptoms also under Secale. This drug (in the 30th to the
200th potency) was accordingly selected as the andidote to this
case of lead-poisoning, and with complete success, for in four
weeks’ time instead of being “under the sod,” she was well ad¬
vanced to convalescence. And three years later she gave birth
to a fine, healthy boy, who is now ten years of age and apparent¬
ly as likely to attain his expectancy of life as of any of his class.
Sulphur.— Dysentery.
K. O. AUSTIN, M. D., CHICAGO.
PROF. MENTAL THERAPEUTICS, DUNHAM MEDICAL COLLEGE.
Boy—aged 4 years.
Dysentery —two weeks standing.
Getting pale, weak and emaciated.
Stools —generally liquid, greenish, and containing un¬
digested food.
Passages —commences at 4 a. m.; five or six stools be¬
tween 4 and 9 a. m. Tenesmus and urging.
Ears and lips very red at times.
Peevish.
Sul. cc in half glass of water; teaspoonful hourly for 8 hours.
Every symptom left inside of 24 hours.
Arsenicum.—Diarrhoea.
Girl—aged 18 months.
Diarrhoea —for two days, with much restlessness and
prostration. Rapidly sinking strength.
Stools —thin, and very offensive, accompanied with
flatulence.
<after midnight.
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>quieter from hot clothes applied over abdomen.
Coldness of wrists.
Vomits—can bear nothing on stomach.
Ars. cc , followed by immediate relief. Was well the next day.
Quinine.
Mrs. A.—aged 40.
Ulcers —chronic, of five years* standing. Both legs,
continuous ulcer. Does not suppurate. Patches be¬
came dry and scaly at times.
Itching <in warm weather.
Tried many kinds of local applications without im¬
provement.
Headaches —chronic, <in open air. Vertigo.
>by bandages round head, or pressure.
Menses —profuse, dark clotted blood, and bearing down
pain, with backache.
Asthma —constriction round chest with wheezing res¬
piration; has to sit up in chair at night when attack
starts.
Has taken inordinate quantities of Quinine . One of her
former physicians used it on the table as an every day article of
diet, and thought he fattened on it. He recommended it to his
patients as a food that could not be partaken of too freely.
China Sulph. cc
On the first week after administering the remedy, the patient
declared she was going crazy. There was a severe aggravation
of every symptom. She was given the assurance that, if she
followed the rules, she could be considered pre-eminently sane,
and that, after the tempest she would land in a haven of quiet
and rest. She listened to sage advice. The second week she
began to get better. Third week gave China Sulph Qm . In six
weeks from time of first dose the legs were entirely healed . Head¬
ache and asthma were better. Psorin ha removed asthma for
two months. She then fell into her old habit of drinking beer
and whiskey, and ceased coming for treatments.
Carbolic Acid.
Mrs. D.—aged 29—pregnant.
Neuralgia —supraorbital, left side; <mornings.
Dreams —amorous, sometimes of danger, others, can¬
not recall.
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Cough —mornings, sometimes ending in vomiting.
Slight nausea, mornings.
Pain —in hips and sacrum, <in left hip. Tending to
oedema of feet and legs.
Numbness of lower extremities.
Has used Carbolic acid injudiciously. Carbolic acid :c every
fifteen minutes until neuralgia left, which it did inside of one
hour. Did not return.
Pain in hip improved, but lingered for ten days. A vescicular
eruption developed over the body. The nausea and cough dis¬
appeared, also the characteristic dreams. Carbolic aci(P m was
given one week subsequent to the 200th potency.
Hypnotism.
Mrs. P.—aged 36.
Was called in great haste, she thought she would die.
Temperature 103.5.
Pulse 120.
Severe pain in abdomen.
Hysterical. Feels pains all over, cannot bear it. Asks for
something to relieve her at once, and tosses about in bed, de¬
claring she cannot stand it a minute longer. I could not think
of an indicated remedy at once, but proceeded to hypnotize her.
She was easy , and fell asleep in eight minutes. She was kept
under the influence about 17 minutes. Suggestions were made
that she would feel perfectly well; that every trouble was being
removed while she remained in that state. Pulse and tempera¬
ture came down to normal, and every discomfort vanished inside
of 17 minutes. She smiled and said, “It is wonderful ."
Hypnotism.
Mrs. H.—aged 28. Mediumistic.
Can communicate with spirits. Went to see some people on
business. Came back with headache, vertigo, mental and nerv¬
ous depression, nausea and vomiting. Hypnotism removed the
trouble in 10 minutes. No medicine was given.
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Saw Palmetto—Prostatic Enlargement.
W. E. REILY, M. D., BOWLING GREEN, MO.
In view of the vagueness and absolute uncertainty of anything
in the old school in the treatment of prostatic troubles, I desire
in this paper, to give a few cases illustrating the action on Saw
Palmetto .
It has been said that out of every ten men, nine have prostatic
enlargement at some time between the ages of thirty-five and
seventy-five.
Boocock's proving vide, “Hale's Saw Palmetto"—shows that
the symptoms of this remedy corresponds almost exactly with
most of the prostatic troubles and especially to the condition of
nerve irritation preceding prostatic hypertrophy. There is that
same irritation of the neck of the bladder with difficulty in void¬
ing urine; a sense of weight, usually accompanied by coldness of
the adjacent parts with loss of sexual desire. Sometimes there
is loss of prostatic fluid, at other times only the bladder symp¬
toms. I can best illustrate what I want to say by drawing on my
case book.
The following cases illustrate three of the most frequent phases
of prostatic troubles in which Saw Palmetto has been uselul in
my hands.
Case I. Mr. J., age 56. Occupation, banker.
Previous history good until about six years ago when he first
began to notice an extraordinary frequency in urinating which
became so annoying that he finally consulted a physician who
treated him for a long time with only temporary relief. He then
went from one doctor to another with no better results and finally
becoming despondent and thoroughly discouraged began the
usual round of patent medicines. After a period of three years
of such experimentation he gave the whole thing up in utter des¬
peration and as a dernier resort , came to me saying he had de¬
cided to try homoeopathy.
On December 28th I made a careful study of the case, finding
the following characteristics:
Very despondent.
Irritable.
Sympathy seemed to anger him.
Great tenesmus in the neck of the bladder with heavy,
aching pains with sense of coldness extending into the ex -
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Occasionally, sharp pains would extend upward into the
abdomen and down the thighs, especially the left, which
had been amputated at about the middle third, because
of a gun-shot wound at the battle of Vicksburg.
Appetite capricious.
Constipation chronic.
Urine normal in every particular except frequency.
Sleep greatly disturbed by frequency of micturition.
I gave Nux vomica , Gelsemium , Cimici/uga and other remedies
which seemed indicated with very little improvement until finally
I came across the pathogenesy of Saw Palmetto which so im¬
pressed me with the similarity of its symptoms to those of the
case in hand that I decided to give it a trial. I gave a 5 drop
doses of the tincture night and morning.
The result was all that I could desire. The improvement was
steady from the first, the uncomfortable symptoms gradually dis¬
appearing until after eight weeks the tenesmus was all gone, the
appetite was good, the bowels regular, the patient could sleep
eight or nine hours without interruption and could hold his urine
four or five hours during the day. With the disappearing of
these symptoms went a yery aggravation form of eczema on the
hands of many years duration which I failed to mention in the
previous history.
Case II. Mr. M., age 45. Occupation, Superintendent of
County Hospital.
Previous history good. Had been suffering for about a year
with gradually increasing frequency of desire to urinate.
Very despondent.
Mind distressed.
Appetite capricious.
Little sexual desire, the indulgence of which is followed
by dragging pains in the small of the back, some tenes¬
mus of the bladder, but more trouble to get the water
started.
Stream small and lacking in force.
Coldness of external genitals, with some pain of a dull
aching character in the region of the prostate and ex¬
tending to thighs and abdomen.
I gave Saw Palmetto 5 drops night and morning. Symptoms
gradually improved until after three weeks there was no vestage
of trouble whatever, nor has there been any return.
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Case III. Mr. E., age 35. Occupation, real estate and loan
agent.
Previous history good.
Had been troubled with frequency of urinating for about
a year and a half.
Heavy dragging pains in the region of the prostate and
extending into back and thighs.
Considerable loss of prostatic fluid at times.
Urine normal.
Pain in back much worse after coition.
Sexual desire very much impaired.
Prescribed Saw Palmetto 5 drops night and morning, effecting
a perfect cure in two weeks.
I neglected to say that in‘each of these cases there was a se¬
vere headache on the top of the head, and many symptoms of
gastric catarrh all of which disappeared under the administra¬
tion of Saw Palmetto.
I have also had remarkable success with this' remedy in cysti¬
tis both acute and chronic and have found it frequently indi¬
cated in ovarian troubles.
(It is a most valuable addition to our armamentarium and wor¬
thy of more thorough proving and clinical observation.— Ed. )
TABES MESENTERICA; SYMPTOMS, DIAGNOSIS AND
TREATMENT.*
C. H. HOLDEN, M. D., NASHVILLE, TENN.
This is a disease of childhood occurring between the ages of
three and ten, but is very important not so much on account of
its frequency as from the difficulty of differentiating it from
other abdominal diseases.
Symptoms. —The general symptoms are those belonging to the
general disease, for the mesenteric glands are only one of many
organs, the seat of tubercle, although they may be more pro¬
foundly affected than other parts of the body.
There is usually emaciation, as there is in all cases where tu¬
bercles are present.
The appetite is good, sometimes unusually keen; thirst moder¬
ate; tongue pale, clean and slimy. Diarrhoea may be present
particularly if tubercular ulceration of the bowels complicates
* Read at Southern Homoeopathic Society, Birmingham, Ala.
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the case. Vomiting is a rare symptom. The local symptoms
are the only ones of any value in the detection of tabes mesen-
terica.
The abdomen is at first unchanged in shape and even as the
disease advances does not necessarily become more prominent.
On the contrary, the abdominal wall is often retracted and when
swollen may be soft and easily depressed, although it is tense
at times from the accumulation of flatus.
The wall may also be tense when the size of the glands is very
considerably increased. The degree of tension of the parietesis
very important as regards the detection of the enlargement.
If the tension is very great u moderate enlargement may es¬
cape notice, the resistance of the abdominal walls preventing the
glands being reached by the finger. The situation of the tumor
is about the umbilicus; swelling irregular, size varies, may be as
large as a foetal head.
When the mass is large it can best be detected by pressing the
abdominal wall inward toward the spinal column.
When the mass is small the parietes should be grasped by the
fingers and thumbs of two hands and pressure thus made later¬
ally, from the sides towards the centre thus grasping the tumor
between the fingers.
This method of examination if the abdomen is flaccid enables
one to detect a mass the size of a nut.
The mechanical pressure from these enlarged glands may give
rise to ascites from interference with the portal circulation if
pressure is made at the hepatic notch.
From pressure upon the nerves, cramps in the legs may occur.
Friction of the enlarged glands against the peritoneum lining
the abdominal wall may cause peritonites.
The course of this disease is slow, but its duration is difficult
to estimate because of the obscurity of the earlier symptoms.
Children do not necessarily die, with proper care and treat¬
ment they often recover.
Diagnosis .—Only by the sense of touch can the diagnosis of
tabes mesenterica be satisfactorily made.
To hold the mass between the fingers and thumb is the only
positive proof of its presence.
Enlargement of the abdomen is no evidence of glandular en¬
largement, for flatulent distension, we find frequent in badly fed
children and intestinal disorders not malignant.
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Moreover in tabes raesenterica the abdominal wall is more of¬
ten ret acted than expanded.
In all chronic diseases, tubercular or otherwise, wasting is gen¬
erally present and diarrhoea is not confined to tubercular mesen¬
teric glands. These symptoms may be present but they are not
a result of the above lesion and either alone or combined are
useless as indications of this lesion.
When the superficial veins are distinctly seen to ramify on the
abdominal wall and to join similar veins on the thoracic parietes,
Tabes should be suspected, but nothing more than suspicion is
permissible; for any interference with the portal circulation wiil
produce the same result, and when the abdomen is tense it is ex¬
tremely difficult to exclude hepatic disease. Even when by di¬
rect exploration the existence of a tumor has been ascertained,
we have still to satisfy ourselves that it is formed by enlarged
glands.
Fecal accumulation in the colon. Tubercular masses attached
to the omentum may simulate this condition.
Fecal accumulations are distinguished by the absence of ten¬
derness.
The situation , instead of the umbilical region, usually occu¬
pied is the transverse or descending colon.
The shape of the mass is elongated, the long axis being in
the direction of the long axis of the bowel in which it is con¬
tained. In doubtful cases a positive opinion should be reserved
until the effect of a good warm water enema is obtained.
Between tubercular masses attached to the omentum and tu¬
bercular mesenteric glands the distinction is often very difficult,
particularly if the tumor is in the umbilical region.
When in the omentum the masses are more superficial, less
nodular and they have better defined edges than when the glands
themselves are diseased.
A cancerous pancreas has offered some resemblance to the
tumor of tabes mesenterica, but should be excluded by the pres¬
ence of vomiting, jaundice and abdominal pains. The only
two affections which are apt to occasion a swelling solely, or at
least principally, limited to and perceptible in the umbilical re¬
gion are the one under consideration and a movable kidney.
The indicated remedies I will mention in the order of their im¬
portance. Sulphur is our mainstay, provided we use it in the in-
cipiency of the disease.
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I find most excellent results from the use of Sulphur high if
you have a Sulphur child, morbid emaciation, voracious appe¬
tite, child shrivelled, skin hangs in folds, discolored, coarse with
offensive odor and the venous stasis so marked in this remedy*
Iodine is indicated where there is great nervous irritability, the
child is only apparently comfortable while eating, emaciating ra¬
pidly, diarrhoea with an aggravation of all the symptoms when
subjected to a vitiated atmosphere. This latter symptom dem¬
onstrates the importance of giving these little sufferers fresh air
and sunlight. Our most hopeless cases we find in the slums of
large cities where the environment and inheritance develop and
foster depravity of system.
Iodine high in these cases with properly prepared food and pure
air will make wonderful change if not always a cure.
Calcarea Phos™* in these children who are weak minded, show¬
ing imperfect growth of tissue finds its place as a tissue builder,
and aids materially in a palliative way in our worst cases, where
in the hopeful cases it lends conspicuous help.
Baryta Carbonica has marked mental and physical weakness,
this with a bloated face and abdomen, painful digestion, offen¬
sive sweat on the feet, has met with some success in my hands*
In all these cases too much attention can not be given to the
surroundings and too much stress laid on the diet and regulation
of the bowels.
I have seen so many cases neglected where the remedy failed,
where if with that indicated remedy intelligent directions as to-
diet with pure air to breath had accompanied it, a renewal of
life and oftentimes a useful one would have been the result.
I know of no more interesting study and no better test of his
or her mental status and patience than success in the treatment
of Wasting Diseases of Children.
kvery scientific man today is trying to find something he can claim as his-
own. Such a man cannot understand Homoeopathy. He worships himself.
Has dwelt on the externals so long that it is impossible for him to think ration¬
ally.
The physician who violates his conscience, violates his ability.
Man’s unbelief and opinion do not affect truth. The experience which the
Homoeopath has, is experience under law and confirms the law.
What matters it what people think of a just man? His reputation will take
''are of itself.
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ANIMAL MAGNETISM.*
K. O. AUSTIN, M. D., CHICAGO.
We shall, to-day, take up the subject of animal magnetism.
This magnetism is not like that of the magnet. It does not at¬
tract iron or steel. Animal magnetism is material. It has
color, odor, and weight. It differs in every individual in some
respects, so that, on a path beaten by thousands, a dog can
trace his master. On everything we touch, we leave a magnetic
impress. You are attracted by some persons, repelled by others;
calmed by some, made restless and uneasy by some. These are
all magnetic conditions. The different kinds of magnetism have
an affinity or repulsion for each other.
Animal magnetism is the medium through which thought
operates. Through magnetism thought produces material effects.
The magnetic aura is changed by thought. Its color and other
properties become altered. Love produces a pink color, lust a
deep red, and hatred a dirty red color. Jealousy makes a yel¬
low color. Unselfish thoughts, virtue and benevolence, blue.
Thoughts of a lofty spiritual character renders the magnetic aura
pure white.
These colors are best seen after the eyes have rested in a dark
room for a time. They are seen by the physical eyes in their
normal state. It is in the nature of every human being to dis¬
cern them. But the refined, subtle, perceptions are suppressed,
due to perverted ways of living. The use of liquors, tobacco,
drugs in the crude form, and the prevalence of secret vices de¬
stroy the finer attributes.
As the old medical education becomes revolutionized, and
people learn how to live, men will be restored to the heritage of
his higher nature.
You, who are gaining advanced medical knowledge, and learn
how to remove the effects of old school errors, not only qualify
yourselves to restore comfort to suffering humanity, but you can
place them in possession of gifts they did not know they owned.
The magnetic aura alters by disease. It changes in quantity
and quality.
The day may not be distant when diseases will be diagnosed
by the condition of the magnetic aura.
Hahnemann advocates the application of magnetism or mag¬
netic passes, after everything else fails. He refers to many re-
• Extracts from Lectures delivered at Dunham Medical College.
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markable “apparent cures/* as he calls them, through magnetic
or mesmeric passes.
His expression “apparent’* is significant. I do not think that
disease was ever entirely or permanently cured by magnetic or
mesmeric treatments. It will suppress, or place the pathologi¬
cal condition in a latent state. It may remove the unseen as¬
pect of disease; but the deranged condition in the physical neces¬
sarily remains, though made so inactive that the patient may for
a long time think himself cured.
You know the high potency medication, as taught here, is re¬
quired for the removal of the effects of drugs taken in the crude
form. Until that is done, there can be no sound cure. Mag¬
netic, hypnotic or mesmeric treatments cannot remove the ef¬
fects of crude drugs, nor natural miasms. There are many mag¬
netic healers and hypnotists in the field who do much good.
They are in advance of the old school practitioner; for they sel¬
dom can do harm.
Magnetism is the material through which our bodies were
made, and it is a part of the element which holds body and soul
together through life. Nutrition is converted into magnetism,
and then appropriated by our unseen being.
Animal magnetism is therefore, a powerful therapeutic agent,
and every physician should know something of its laws and use?.
In fact there is no disease ever cured without animal magnetism
as an auxilary. Magnetism will have the quality which your con¬
centrated thought produces.
This is one of the secrets of hypnotism. Magnetize your pa¬
tient, and while doing so concentrate your thoughts on giving a
soporific effect. If you are strong enough, your patient will fall
asleep under your influence. Concentrate your thoughts on re¬
moving pain, and the pain will leave, if you have the power.
In hypnotism the first thing done, is to displace the patient’s
own magnetic aura, and imbue him with your own.
Your ego, or some outside intelligence aiding you, will hold
the unseen being of the patient in a subjective state. Your
magnetic aura, then, has no resistance. It will have the influ¬
ence or effect your thoughts and suggestions give it.
If you wish to remove pain you can do so; you can reduce
fever in a few minutes, produce anaesthesia if you wish. Many
major operations have been performed painlessly through this in¬
fluence.
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’ To reduce fever from 105 to normal in five minutes is nothing
new through this agency. I have done it in one case, where I
found it difficult to choose the indicated remedy. She had no
recurrence of the fever inside of a week. After that time, I do
not know, for they secured another physician. Her husband
was an old time minister of the gospel, and objected to this power
of the devil, except where it is absolutely necessary for the pur¬
pose of saving life. (This was exactly the substance of his rea¬
soning).
If you look in the August number of the Advocate, you will
find report of a case where I succeeded in saving life, after the
process of death had began, through hypnotism.
I shall in the future take up hypnotism as a special subject.
Animal magnetism is one of the main elements in hypnosis.
Hence, this digression. Animal magnetism can be used for the
purpose of developing latent psychic powers within us. It can
be used for the purpose of strengthening the expression of the
ego in the consciousness. The one who undertakes this kind of
work must be thoroughly qualified, or else he is liable to do
more harm than good.
Animal magnetism is concentrated into poles at different parts
of the body. The head and extremities are the strongest cen¬
ters. The hands are stronger than the feet. From these parts
the aura can be seen projecting like flames. Like the flame of
a candle, it is deflected when blowing on it.
Over the pic of the stomach is another strong magnetic flame.
In magnetizing a patient it is, therefore, best to place your hands
on these centers. The lips are a strong magnetic center, which
explains the magic power of the kiss. The eyes another strong
magnetic center, and through the eye you can project strong
magnetic force without contact.
Animal magnetism may be transferred into liquids, cloth, and
•other substances. The magnetic flame can be seen from articles
magnetized. Contact is the quickest means of magnetizing an
•object. It can be done by close approximation; but this takes
longer.
Placing the hand over a glass of water, for a while, the water
become magnetized. After a time the force becomes weakened
and entirely dissipated from articles charged, as far as physical
perceptions can detect.
Magnetic force can be conducted in bodies; all solid and fluid
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bodies conduct magnetism to unmeasured distances. Some sub¬
stances are better conductors than others. It seems that the
denser a body is the better it conducts.
The conduction of magnetism is effected much more slowly
than electricity, but faster than heat.
Between the years 1840 and ’50, (I think,) a German by the
name of Reichenbach made exhaustive experiments with the
magnetic forces, in conformity t) approved scientific methods.
He calls this force “od.” Rediscovered many facts relating
to the subject, and his book is interesting. It can be had at the
public library. '
In conclusion, I will say, that in all vital and chemical pro¬
cesses there is manifestation of magnetic force of some kind.
It is present in plants. It appears in every place where there is
the magnetism of the iron magnet. You know the earth and
other planets are huge magnets. And that space is filled with
ether which transfers light from the sun to the planets, and from
planet to planet.
This peculiar magnetism, which accompanies ordinary terres¬
trial magnetism, is also transferred with it from planet to planet.
The influence of each planet differs, and their power over psychic
and physical conditions on the earth varies with their position
relative thereto. The moon; especially, has a strong effect on
disease and on susceptibility of a patient to a certain remedy at
a certain time of the day and of the month. There is much
room for study in this line.
THE “DOUBLE.”
K. O. AUSTIN, M. D., CHICAGO.
The “double” is the exact counterpart of the physical body.
It is both the same and in every way appears as the physical.
Except when touched it cannot be distinguished from it. When
the physical body and its double are not separate, we see only
one body. For that reason, I have called this counterpart of
the physical, the unseen or invisible double.
The double is separable from the physical body, and may ap¬
pear at distances from it. It is, then, visible and presents the
appearance I have described. If you were sufficiently developed,
you could go in the double to different places at will. This is a
very common accomplishment in India. Among us it is more
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rare. It is not so uncommon, however, for a person’s double to
appear at places away from the body, unconscious to him.
Intelligence may and may not be transferred to tlie double.
But intelligence has never lodgement in the double. It is trans¬
ferred, as I said, like on electric wires from a battery.
When the consciousness acts through the double there is al¬
most a total absence of it in the physical.
Among occultists in India, it is common to go in the double
to places distant from the material body for the purpose of giv¬
ing or receiving information.
In reference to the composition of the double very little can
be said. There is nothing in the material to compare with. It
is not matter. It is as obvious to the sense of sight as the ma¬
terial body; yet, put your hand through it, and you can feel
nothing. It is made up of a subtance known to our unseen be¬
ing, but the knowledge is not brought down to the physical con¬
sciousness.
It is often vaguely referred to as etherial on account of its
property of passing through any material substance as though
there was nothing there;—as, going through a brick wall, for in¬
stance, as though the wall is nothing but air—yet, we know, were
it composed of ether we could not see it.
About 4 s little can be said of the function of the double. It
serves, sometimes, to connect the material consciousness with
unseen intelligences. In those who have advanced sufficiently
to be able to project the double and follow it with the conscious¬
ness, it, of course, serves the estimable inconvenience of saving
time and car fare in some instances.
Physical derangement may be acquired through the double;
especially nervous trouble.. The double being injured by ad¬
verse psychic element throws the condition back on the physical
Conditions of the physical also react on the double. At time of
death, when the vital principle has run to a close, the double
shares the fate of the physical. It is no more.
THE VITAL PRINCIPLE.
K. O. AUSTIN, M. D., CHICAGO.
We sh;ill next consider the vital force or principle.
The vital principle is that part of our being which maintains
the process of animal life. The body, of itself, is an inert frame
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of matter. Adding the vital principle we have the animate body
with the different functions of animal life.
It is the force which, in itself, connects our unseen being with
our material expression.
Our unseen being is separable from the body and the vital
principle. Outside intelligences can take the position relative to
the vital principle that our own unseen being naturally holds,
and operate through the brain and nervous system.
The individuality, in such states, is entirely changed, and the
person, after being restored to the normal condition will not be
conscious of what had transpired.
Such conditions are known as trance. There are different de¬
grees of it. Disembodied intelligences can take on disease con¬
ditions from the vital principle of one person, and throw it back
on the vital principle of another Many a sensitive and sympa¬
thetic physician, after his visit, feels as the patient did. To the
relief of his patient he has taken on the disease.
Th is conditon, however, is not necessary. With sufficient
power and advancement those in the unseen can avoid throwing
disease conditions back on the vital principle of mortals. They
can even prevent contageon of the most virulent diseases, if giv¬
en the conditions.
Insanity often occurs through influences in the unseen reach¬
ing the consciousness through the vital principle. This form of
insanity is termed obsession. It is often mistaken for a purely
nervous, or, what they term mental derangement. It is never
cured by treatment founded on false diagnosis except by acci¬
dent.
The susceptibility to every disease condition in pathology can
be thrown on the vital principle by unseen intelligences.
Through this source, violent symptoms may become manifest
in a sensitive patient inside of a few minutes, and often puzzles
the physician.
This feature of the etiology of disease will become more and
more recognized in the future, especially in great psychic centers,
like Chicago.
The sensitive friend, grieving over the departed, will often feel
as the deceased did. The grief, or intense thought, of the friend,
brings the one who left the body, close, and may throw the dis¬
ease from which it passed out, on the vital force of the friend.
Until the development has been attained, through which that
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part of the unseen being which is most closely connected with
the vital principle, becomes cognizant of its ego, the unseen being
is apt to retain the disease conditions under which it left the
body until it can throw it off by connection with some other vital
force and material organism. That is, the disembodied intelli¬
gence cannot again come in contact with vital force, without
bringing the conditions under which it left its own vital force.
This is a state similar to that of the unseen intelligence who
can take away disease conditions from the vital principle of a
patient, but has no power, or knowledge to throw it off again, ex¬
cept by leaving it with some other vital principle, making the
physician feel as the patient, as I have spoken of before. As far
as I know, at present, the vital principle is not separable from
the material body consistent with life.
It is partly magnetism, but is also made up of other elements.
It is not spirit, nor spirit-like. At death it returns to the ele¬
ments, like the material body which it animated.
j ucre are two worlds; the world ot thought, or immaterial substance, and
the world of matter or material substance.
Name everything that is, or moves; it is sustained, from, and by power of
this Primitive Substance. We do not argue that this is first power, but this is
first substance.
Susceptibility is only a name for a state that underlies all possible sickness
and all possible cure. .
Now when a person becomes sick, he becomes susceptible to a certain remedy,
which will affect him in its highest potency; while upon a healthy person it will
have no effect.
When the dose is too large to cure, man receives it as a sickness.
If it were not icr the Simple Substance, such states as antipathy, sympathy,
Jr affinity, could not be. It is the sphere of Homoeopathy to deal with these
things; to glean what is ihe real Esse and existence.
What reason has man to say that Energy or Force is first? Energy is not
energy per se , but a powerful substanee. The very Esse of God is a scientific
study.
Bodies are not drawn together by means of their bodies, but by means of
their Primitive Substance.
The Simple Substance is the means of identification in nature. The mineral,
the oak, the wheat, are all identified by their Primitive substance, and exist,
€>nlv. because of their Primitive Substance, which makes them what they are.
— Kent's Aphorisms and Precepts .
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State Medicine.
State flDefcicine.
FORM OF A PROPOSED MEDICAL BILL FOR THE
STATE OF ILLINOIS.
H. M. PAINE, M. D , ALBANY, N. V.
Form of a proposed medical bill designed to meet the consti¬
tutional requirement in the State of Illinois, by providing a single
examining board so constructed as to conduct its examining
work by sections , such sections to represent, each separately , one
school of medicine; each section to have jurisdiction over its
own candidates, yet each to conform to uniform standard ac¬
quirements.
The provision for making it a part of the state educational
system, imparts standing, character and dignity, and secures ef¬
ficiency, thoroughness and uniformity of administration.
By requiring appointments to be made from lists of nominees
selected by the State Medical societies respectively, its admin¬
istration is placed under the control of the legal representatives
of the whole profession.
DEFINITION OF TERMS.
Definition of words and terms as used in this bill.
“Superintendent,” means State Superintendent of Public In¬
struction.
“Board,” means Illinois State Board of Medical Examiners.
“Physician,” means physician and surgeon.
“Medicine,” means medicine and surgery.
“Section,” means that portion of the membership of the board
representing, for examination purposes, one school of medicine.
“Medical examiner,” means a member of the Illinois State
Board of Medical Examiners, or of any of the sections thereof.
“Medical society or association,” means any State or other
medical association, known by a distinguishing name, that has
acquired a legal status under the general law or by a special act
of incorporation.
“Medical school,” means any legally incorporated medical
college or medical department of a university, having power to
grant degrees or certificates in medicine.
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AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A STATE BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS—
DEFINE ITS POWERS AND DUTIES—PROVIDE FOR THE EXAMIN¬
ATION AND LICENSING OF PRACTITIONERS OF MEDICINE
AND SURGERY—AND OTHERWISE REGULATE THE
PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.
Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Illinois , represented in
the General Assembly , as follows:
ORGANIZATION.
Section 1. That a board of examiners, to be known as the
“Illinois State Board of Medical Examiners,” shall be estab¬
lished, such board to consist of the State Superintendent'of
Public Instruction, and of seven representatives of each incor¬
porated State Medical society; such board, for examination
purposes, to be divided into sections y each section to represent
one school of medicine; the membership of such section to have
exclusive control of the examination, rating, and approval or
rejection of all applications for license presented to it.
Section 2. Each of the incorporated State Medical societies,
and organized associations specified in section one of this act,
shall annually elect twice as many nominees for appointment to
membership in its section of the State Board as are to be ap¬
pointed thereto; the lists of such nominees, properly certified,
to be furnished to the State Superintendent without unreasonable
delay.
The nominees to membership in the board shall be legally
qualified physicians, who have had an experience of at least five
years in active practice. Membership in a teaching faculty, or
proprietorship in any secret device or method of treatment,
shall constitute a disqualification for appointment.
Section 3. The State Superintendent of Public Instruction,
on receiving certified lists of nominees from such legally con¬
stituted State Medical societies or organized associations shall,
without unnecessary delay, make appointments from such lists
as are required to establish the section of the State Board rep¬
resenting exclusively, such State Medical society or association,
and, subsequently, from time to time, fill vacancies occurring
therein.
In case of failure of any such medical society or association
to furnish lists of nominees, the Superintendent shall appoint a
section to consist of members in good standing of such societies
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or organized association, such nominees having been previously
approved by a majority vote at a meeting of the board.
The first appointments to membership in a, section shall be so
made as to provide for a term of service of one. two and three
years; and thereafter, appointments are to be made for a term
of three years.
Such appointees shall qualify themselves for office by taking
the usual oath, administered by the Secretary of State, who
shall furnish such appointee with a properly engrossed certificate
of appointment.
The Superintendent may, on the recommendation of the
board, remove any member of any section for misconduct, in¬
capacity or neglect of duty.
Section 4. Within thirty days after the appointment of at
least two sections of such State board, such appointees shall
meet, at the call of the Superintendent, at which meeting an
organization of the board shall be effected by the election, from,
its own membership, of a President and Secretary, both of whom
shall hold office until the next annual meeting of the board, and
until their successors are elected and qualified.
The Secretary shall also act as Treasurer, and shall file with
the Superintendent a bond in the sum of five thousand dollars,
conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties.
ADMINISTRATION.
Section 5. The board is authorized to make and adopt such
rules and regulations, not inconsistent with law, as may be
needed in performing its duties and in transacting its business;
such duties being the establishment and maintenance of thorough
tests of medical scholarship, including that of regulating and
controling the minimum standards of educational requirements
deemed to be essential, on the part of medical students, prior to
an entrance of such students on the study of medicine; the
length of term of study and of attendance on medical lectures;
the possession of the degree of Doctor of Medicine or its equiv¬
alent; the establishment of standards of acquirement for recent
graduates, and those who have been in active practice less than
five years, in seven of the principal departments of medical
learning, viz., anatomy, surgery, obstetrics, medical chemistry,
physiology and hygiene, pathology and diagnosis, and practice,
including therapeutics and materia medica, and such other sub-
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jects as the board may determine; the establishment of special
standards of acquirements for applicants who have been engaged
five or more years in reputable practice; also for those who, for
other reasons, in the judgment of members of a section, the
board may, on appeal, act in conjunction with such section, in
cases of doubt regarding the qualifications of any candidate.
Section 6. The board, or a committee thereof, shall have
power to administer oaths in taking testimony, or in any matter
within its jurisdiction; it shall prescribe the duties of its offi¬
cers, and of the officers and members of the several sections; it
shall adopt and have a common seal; it shall determine the time
and place for holding its regular and special meetings, and give
due notice thereof; select the date for the termination of its
fiscal year; and take such further action as may be required for
the proper and faithful administration of the provisions of this
act.
Section 7. The board shall establish, and give suitable notice
of the times and places at which examinations are to be held;
supervise and conduct such examinations; establish the fees to
be paid by applicants for a license; issue licenses to practice to
such applicants as have passed a satisfactory examination, con¬
ducted by the board, or by one of the sections thereof; or have
been approved by the board without such examination; or have
received a license to practice issued by boards of medical ex¬
aminers of other states, after having passed a satisfactory ex¬
amination under tests equal to the standards approved by the
Illinois board; such licenses to bear the signatures of the Presi¬
dent and Secretary of the board, the Secretary of State, and the
seal of the Illinois State Board of Medical Examiners.
Section 8. The boards shall receive the funds accruing there¬
to, and pay out of such fund the office expenses of the board;
the traveling and other incidental expenses incurred by mem¬
bers of the board, and by members of the several sections
thereof; and all other expenses incurred in connection with the
faithful administration of the provisions of this act; and in lieu
of any compensation, the surplus to be disbursed pro rata, ac¬
cording to the number of examinations made by the respective
sections of medical examiners.
Section 9. The board shall employ such clerical assistants as
may be required in order to prevent fraud or collusion on the
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part of the candidates; enter and preserve all necessary records;
prepare and issue all necessary circulars, blanks, manuals, and
other printed matter, required by the satisfactory administration
of the provisions of this act.
Section 10. Official records of the proceedings of the board,
and of the several sections thereof, shall be entered for perman¬
ent preservation, for a period to be determined by the board, in
books provided for that purpose, the records, including the ex¬
amination papers, to be open to inspection under regulations
approved by the board.
It shall preserve a complete file of all applications for license,
together with the correspondence and other records relating
thereto; a record of its transactions shall be published as a part
of the report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, which
report shall include a statement of all funds received and dis¬
bursed; and an official list of all physicians on whom it has con¬
ferred authority to enter on practice under the provisions of this
act.
Section 11. Candidates for a license, before admittance to
.an examination, must furnish credible evidence of having re¬
ceived the degree of Doctor of Medicine, or an equivalent
thereof, from a medical college or school of recognized stand¬
ing, after having complied wdth the educational requirements to
be established from time to time by the board; such educational
requirements to include studies preparatory to an entrance on
the study of medicine, and also such as have been pursued sub¬
sequently thereto; also furnish evidence of good character; of
having attained the age of 21 years, and of having paid the ex¬
amination fees required by the board.
Applications for an examination shall be made in writing, and
in a form prescribed by the board.
Section 12. All examinations provided for in this act shall be
conducted under the rules and regulations prescribed by the
board, such rules to provide for a fair and impartial examina¬
tion.
The license issued by the board shall be constructed in such a
form as may be determined by the board in accordance with the
provisions of this act.
Any willful violation, on the part of an applicant, of any of
the rules and regulations governing examinations, shall be con-
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sidered sufficient cause for refusal by the board to issue a license
to such applicant.
Before any license is issued it shall be numbered and recorded
in a book kept in the office of the Superintendent, and its num¬
ber shall be entered on the license, such record to be open to
public inspection, and in all legal proceedings, shall have the
same force as evidence that is given to a record of conveyance
-of land.
Section 13. Every licentiate in medicine, on receiving a
license to practice in this State, shall present such license for
registration in the office of the County Clerk of the county
where such practice is to be conducted; together with the name,
residence, place and date of birth of such licentiate, and the
source, number and date of such license to practice, to which
statement of facts every licentiate shall make affidavit, which
affidavit shall be preserved on file in a bound volume, to be kept
for that purpose.
Such affidavit shall show that such licentiate is the person
named in such license, and had, before receiving it, complied
with all requisites as to attendance on lecture terms and amount
of study and examinations required by the provisions of this
act, and by the rules established by the board.
The County Clerk shall, on making such registration, enter on
such license, under his own signature and date, the words:
“Registered in the office of the County Clerk of-county,
as authority to practice medicine in the State of Illinois.”
The County Clerk shall return to such registered licentiate the
original license, together with a certified copy of such affidavit
endorsed thereon, such County Clerk to'make. a total charge not
to exceed one dollar for such registration and certificate.
Section 14. On removing to another county the licentiate
shall procure from the County Clerk of the county in which reg¬
istration was first effected, a certificate, verified by seal, showing
fact of such registration; such certificate to be registered in the
office of the County Clerk in which such licentiate intends to
practice. The county clerk of such county to make a charge
not to exceed fifty cents for such certificate.
The board may refuse to issue a license provided for by this
act, for persistent inebriety; the practice of criminal abortion;
and conviction for any offence in criminal proceedings; provided
that the applicant shall have had opportunity to appear before
the board, personally or by counsel, to show cause why the board
should not finally refuse the granting of such license.
PENALTY.
Section 15. All persons, not being lawfully authorized to prac¬
tice medicine within this state at the time of the taking effect of
this act, who shall continue such practice in violation of its pro¬
visions; and all who shall enter on practice without first having
complied with its requirements; and all who shall buy, sell or
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fraudulently obtain any medical diploma, license, record or regis¬
tration; or by false or fraudulent representation shall obtain prac¬
tice or money or any other thing of value, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be punished for the
first effence, by a fine not less than one hundred dollars, or by
imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not less than thir¬
ty nor more than ninety days, or by both fine and imprisonment;
and for each subsequent offence, the penalty shall be double'that
of the preceding one.
Section 16. All suits for the recovery of the several penalties,
prescribed in this act, shall be prosecuted in the name of “The
People of the State of Illinois,” in any court having jurisdiction,
and it shall be the duty of the State Attorney of the county where
such offence is committed, to prosecute all persons violating the
provisions of this act, upon proper complaint being made. All
penalties shall be paid into the treasury of the State Board of
medical examiners.
Section 17. Any person shall be regarded as practicing medi¬
cine within the meaning of this act, who shall use or advertise
the title of doctor of medicine, or of any title designed to show
that the person assuming or advertising in such a manner as to
convey the impression that such person is a legal practitioner of
medicine, or of any of the branches thereof; provided, that noth¬
ing in this act shall be constructed to apply to the practice of
dentistry or pharmacy; to gratuitous service, or the administra¬
tion of domestic or family medicines in cases of emergency; to
medical students who prescribe or operate under the direction of
registered physicians; to midwives who lay no claim to tne title
of physician or doctor; to clairvoyants or persons practicing
hypnotism, magnetic healing, mind cure, massage, so-called
Christian science, or any other method of healing, if no drugs or
medicines of any kind are employed, nor surgical operations per¬
formed, provided such persons do not violate the provisions of
this section relating to the use of the title of doctor or physician;
nor to lawfully qualified physicians of other States or countries
meeting legally registered physicians in this State in consulta¬
tion, or any physician residing near the border of a neighboring
State, and duly authorized under the laws thereof to practice
medicine therein, whose practice extends into this State, who
does not open an office or appoint a place to meet patients or
receive calls within this state; or any physician duly registered
in one county called to attend isolated cases in another county;
or to commissioned surgeons in the United States government
service in the discharge of their official duties.
Section 18. This act shall take effect from and after the first
day of July, 1900.
Section 19. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent or in conflict
with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.
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CMtorial.
INFLUENCE OF STATE EXAMINING BOARD§ UPON
MEDICAL EDUCATION.
State Examining Boards that do not go behind the returns
have no influence upon medical education.
So long as medical colleges possess the right of conferring the
degree of Doctor of Medicine upon any candidate who complies
with their requirements, great lack of uniformity will be manifest
in the qualifications of those assuming the rights and privileges
•of a physician and surgeon. A man may have spent five years
in a thoroughly equipped medical college and because of a nat¬
ural inaptitude for medicine be anything but a safe man to be
•entrusted with the lives of others even though he has a diploma.
Another man by virtue of special talents in that direction may
•have acquired wonderful skill in the treatment of the sick by
means of careful reading, patient experimentation and close ob¬
servation without spending one day in any medical college.
So long as State Boards of Registration prescribe minimum
requirements for matriculation and curriculum and do not use the
privilege of thorough and frequent inspection, the standard will
be no higher than said minimum requirements call for, because
those who appreciate the value of high requirements will seek the
institutions in which all are compelled to possess the qualifications
of the scholar, knowing their opportunities for development will
not be limited, while the illy prepared candidates will gravitate
toward those states and institutions which cater to their limited
abilities, regardless of medical standards or expedients.
Some colleges have voluntarily raised the standard of their re¬
quirements regardless of all medical legislation, as fast as they
could be sustained by public sentiment, but for every college
taking such a position, there are nine who feel compelled to listen
to the appeal of every student coming to them, short handed, in
order that their classes may be full and their treasury contain
•enough money to meet current expenses.
No college can give adequate instruction, unless properly
equipped; but there is no power to prevent any legally chartered
nstitution conferring the degree granted by the charter; conse-
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quently some means must be devised outside of the medical col¬
leges for maintaining a high standard by the providing conditions
which will restrict the practice of medicine to those who are
competent.
Several plans have been put into operation, but none have
proven entirely satisfactory.
In some states, e. g. Michigan. Any person who shall have
practiced medicine continuously in this state for five years and
who is practicing when this act shall take effect shall be deemed
qualified to practice medicine in this state after having registered
in the office of the County Clerk as provided for in this act.
Every graduate of any legally authorized medical college shall
be deemed qualified, etc.
It can be seen at a glance that this offers no protection to the
profession, or the public, and the stand is as low as can well be
imagined; every man driven from other states finds a haven in
this, and other states offering similar inducements, and from
thence they can matriculate in many colleges as a “Practitioner”'
and enter the senior class tvithout preliminary examination and
come up for graduation after one year's study.
In Texas, the presiding judges of district courts, appoints a
District Examining Board of not less than three members, who
shall be graduates of some college recognized by the American
Mfdical Association.
All applicants for certificates of qualification must be examined
by this board whether they have a diploma or not, and a singu¬
lar feature lies in the fact that no examination is required in
Theory and Practice or Materia Medica. This resolves itself into
a f.irce in which parties directly interested may bar any one, at
their pleasure from practicing in that judicial district, and works
an injustice because physicians going from other states are de¬
cidedly “rusty” upon the very branches required by the examin¬
ing board.
On the other hand, Montana has a law which practically pro¬
hibits a homoeopathist or an eclectic from locating in that state.
Seven learned, skilled and capable physicians are appointed by
the Governor with the advice of the senate without respect to
schools.
The examination shall be both scientific and practical upon the
following branches to-wit: Anatomy, physiology, chemistry, his¬
tology, materia medica, therapeutics, preventive medicine, prac-
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tice of medicine, surgery, obstetrics, diseases of women and
children, diseases of the nervous system, diseases of the eye and
ear, medical jurisprudence and such other branches as the board
shall deem advisable . The diploma must come from a legally or¬
ganized college in good standing with the American Medical As¬
sociation. Every member of the faculty must be graduates of
colleges in good standing. In addition to all of the above re¬
quirements he must give evidence of having attended four courses
of lectures if he graduated after July, 1898.
Four members must consent to the granting of the license and
at present there are six graduates of* Tegular” colleges upon the
board, simply because the State Medical Society put through just
such a bill as pleased them, having no organized opposition.
In New York we have another form of Medical Licensure.
Nominally controlled by the three schools of medical practice,
but in fact the whole machinery is run by one man—the Secre¬
tary of the Board.
The Regent's examination for matriculation is a move in the
right direction. Questions are sent the principal of every high
school in the state and any candidate can go to any principal, at
the stated times, and take the examination. He can use the cer¬
tificate in almost any medical college in the U. S.; but the exam¬
ination lor license is not so simple and the faults will be cor¬
rected without doubt.
Sixty questions are prepared by each board upon the following
branches to-wit: Anatomy, physiology and hygiene,chemistry,sur¬
gery, obstetrics, pathology and diagnosis (one hundred and eighty
questions on each branch); these are sent to an editing commit¬
tee (or are supposed to be so sent) who turns them over to the
Secretary of the Board. He makes up a set of questions from
this list which must be answered by every candidate, regardless
of school of practice. To this is added fifteen questions upon
therapeutics, materia medica and practice prepared by the mem¬
bers of the school of practice the candidate may elect.
By this arrangement every graduate from homoeopathic col¬
leges may be examined upon all the minor branches by questions
prepared any other board than their own. In other words, no
vantage is gained by the three board system over the single board
law prevalent in the majority of the states. We have been in¬
formed that there has not been a meeting of the entire board for
several years, thus preventing any rotation of office among the
different boards.
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In Pennsylvania, the objectionable features of the New York
law have in a large measure been eliminated and still we find very
serious complaints coming from the Hahnemann College of
Philadelphia.
A careful study of the Medical Law of Pennsylvania , cannot
fail to convince the reader that it actually succeeds in securing
the very highest standard of medical education to be found in
any state of this Union and that the logical result will be shown
in a higher percentage of college graduates in the matriculants
of her colleges than can be found elsewhere, unless it be Massa¬
chusetts. It may be noted that Pennsylvania has but six medi¬
cal colleges.
Illinois possesses natural advantages over that of all other
states so far as location and clinical facilities are concerned.
Her medical students exceeds that of any other state in numbers;
Her colleges are large and finely equipped. In her faculties will
be found men of international reputation, but the laws of the
state, while pretending to be very thorough, only succeeds in
making the colleges promise to be thorough and then take their
word for it. Pennsylvania has but six medical colleges, all
thoroughly established and richly endowed. There is little com¬
petition except in the curriculum, each one being compelled to
corneas near the standard adopted by the State University as pos¬
sible. This state of affairs being encouraged by the State Medical
examinations.
In Illinois, we have seventeen medical colleges which in and of
itself constitutes a dangerous menace to the maintenance of a
high standard of medical education. The competition naturally
is very great and every means resorted to that can be legitimate¬
ly employed for the matriculating of a new student. No one is
more familiar with this state of affairs than the prospective
student.
It is an exception to the rule for a student to inquire with ref¬
erence to the facilities for thorough,practical work, on the con¬
trary he acts as though he was conferring a favor and wants to
know what inducements can be offered in the way of reduction of
fees, opportunities for acting as assistant to some member of the
faculty (and receive pay for the service rendered) or squeezing
him through within a shorter time than the published require¬
ments of the college called for, etc. This is a sad commentary
but unfortunately only one-half of the story has been told.
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The “Illinois plan” was considered a great step in the right di¬
rection and has undoubtedly accomplished much for the eleva¬
tion of the standard of medical education, but in view of the fact
that nine colleges, organized in Illinois since 1891, have been rec¬
ognized by the State Board of Health radically changes the situ¬
ation and some safeguards other than the college diploma is
needed. Just what that safeguard should be can only be deter¬
mined through such aggitation as will bring the many phases of
the situation to the surface.
COLLEGE POLITICS.
Dr. Frank Kraft resigned his position as Professor of Materia
Medica in the Cleveland Homoeopathic Medical College. Of
course he did, no self respecting man could do differently. He
was decidedly out of place in such an institution. He is one of
those “cranks’* who did not know that Hahnemann’s Organon of
Ihe Art of Healing had become absolute in the modern “up to
date” homoeopathic college, and, because he was a crank, per
sisted in promulgating its teachings, not only from the college
rostrum but through the columns of the medical press. He
even had the audacity to commend a college in a neighoring city
who was so impolitic as to publish in their official catalogue that
“ The great object of this Institution shall be the education of the
student in the science and art of medicine and surgery in accordance
with the doctrines promulgated by Samuel Hahnemann in his Or¬
ganon of the Art of Healing and the Chronic Diseases; the Thera¬
peutic belief and practice of each and every member of the Faculty
shall be expressed in the formula li Simitia Similibus Curantur"; no
palliative treatment or repressive measures will be advocated or
employed in any of the lectures or clinics of this College; Surgery
has its legitimate sphere of action for the meeting of strictly me¬
chanical conditions .”
More than that, his public criticism of an effort made to disci¬
pline this offensively pugnacious little college brought down up¬
on his head the wrath of one of the promotors of the scheme by
which the two Cleveland colleges were made one, and from that
day his doom was sealed.
The colleges were not consolidated in the interest of homoeo¬
pathy Wt for the purpose of making one strong medical school.
Surgery has been made the chief corner stone and nothing has
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been left undone that would contribute to this end. Naturally
the medical or minor department would have to be pruned down
so its teachings would not conflict with the mechanical or scien¬
tific? department. Homoeopathy was thus lost to sight, and ac¬
cording to current report, is only a lingering memory in the hearts
of those who are too timid to breath a word of protest.
The consolidation opens up the new year with marked har¬
mony in the faculty, hospital and dispensary well filled but nearly
one hundred less students that were drawn to the Forest City by
the rivalry ot two institutions, and unless there is a decided mod¬
ification of their present plan, the coming year will show no aug¬
mentation of their present numbers. Students who propose be¬
coming physicians have urgent need not only of a thorough
knowledge of materia media but of the rules governing the selec~
tion and employment of remedies according to homoeopathic
principles.
HDontbls "Review.
Journal of Homoeopathies-November.
1. Kali Ltiehromieum. Kent.
2. Magnesia Carbonica . Kent.
3. Organon. £ 44 et seq. Kent.
4. Sketch of JIahnemann s Life. Cameron.
5. Mal nutrition—Clinical Case. Cooper.
1. Mucous membranes —inflammation, discharge thick, tough or tenacious;
ropy or stringy; sticky like glue; yellow or yellowish green. Hard crusts or
plugs—tinged green, brown with bloody edges; offensive.
Perforating ulcers—soft palate, vulva, nasal septum, root of nose, vulva, etc.,
ragged, deep.
Pain burning, smarting with great soreness of parts.
Wandering, shooting, tearing. Worse cold; worse beer-drinking. (AIocs,
Sulphur)\ better eating; better heat.
Eruptions, scaly, pustular, papular, boils, carbuncles.
Eczema with characteristic discharge.
Follows Arsenicum and J.achesis.
2. Deep and long-acting like Sulphur.
I^ains violent, follows course of nerves, shooting, tearing, rending, cutting.
Face, left side worse night; better constant motion; must walk floor.
Eruptions—dry, scaly, dandruff-like.
Teeth roots —left side—burn, shoot, stab, tearing.
Worse change in weather; worse before and during menses.
Worse during pregnancy (China). Hollow teeth unusually sensitive; roots.
(Ant. cr.) dentine.
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Marasmus with tuberculous tendency—emaciation with ravenous appetite for
milk\ meat, etc. Stools consisting of white potter’s clay (undigested milk).
Head depression in occipital bone as if from atrophy of cerebellum (especially
noticed in illegitimate offspring). Perspiration sour, cannot wash away odor.
Diarrhoea stool green, floats like frog-spittle, sour, frothy.
Adult—pale, waxy, sickly, sallow, lax muscles, tires on least exertion, looks
as though going into decline.
Worse change of weather; worse before and during menses.
Violent craving for meat. Similar to Arsenicum and Calc. carl*.
3. Drug poisoning not always due to crude drugs.
Oversensitive patients develop drug diseases when the potentized remedy is
persisted in after a curative dose has been administered. Symptoms of original
disease may disappear during the progress of the dissimiliar drug disease.
Higher potencies must be avoided in the extremely sensitive.
In $$ 46 Hahnemann gives examples of cures made by Nature.
Local applications should be avoided because if they effect any change you
are unable to determine what the indicated remedy is doing. If it produces no
change it becomes useless. It is important to know what the case calls for.
In $$ 63 and § 64 Hahnemann treats of the primary and secondary action.
Either is curative. It is only necessary to know the double action and act ac¬
cordingly.
4. A very interesting sketch but containing nothing new.
J>. A series of pictures in case of an infant, an emaciated, poorly nourished
victim of ignorance of even the simplest laws of dietetics. An “ adopted ”
illegitimate child.
(a) Borax. Extremely nervous, starts at slightest noise. Frightened look
when laid down on bed; convulsions for three weeks, caused by striking of
clock or least noise; cries before urinating; mouth sore from nursing bottle;
could not nurse.
(b) l'eralrum all*. Eyes glassy and rolled up; unconscious; head and feet
drawn back; face pale, drawn about nose and mouth; nostrils dilate and slow
stertorous, difficult breathing; constant motion of arms and feet; thumbs
clinched in hands; expired air cold as ice; skin cold like ice.
(c) Arsenicum. The improvement following the Veratrum was destroyed by
the mother giving large quantities of milk.
Restless; vomiting everything taken into stomach; twitching and trembling
of whole body; hand in constant motion; wanted to be carried about; suppres¬
sion of urine. Stool green, slimy or white and curdy (undigested milk) watery,
offensive.
(d) Sulphur. Emaciation; head sunken on vertex; hunger but vomiting
milk in five minutes; stool white and crumbly or yellow like dirty water. In¬
dicated remedies act hut a short time. Cured.
(This case is reported in this form because the whole picture seems to call for
one remedy throughout— Magnesia Carhonica .—Ed.)
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flMscellang.
A Procedure for Removing Foreign Bodies from Be¬
neath the Nails. Nouveaux remedes for August 24th calls attention to
this procedure: Soften the nail by applying to it a ten-per cent, solution of
caustic potash, scrape away the softened portion with a piece of glass, repea 1
the potash application and the scraping, and the foreign body is exposed and
can easily be removed.
Christian Science Consistency. A remarkable evidence of the
want of consistency displayed by the Christian scientists is shown by a lawsuit
referred to in the New York Times for November 25th. It appears that a man
having fallen into an unprotected areaway “believed himself,” according to the
jargon of these mountebanks, to have sustained certain injuries and was attend¬
ed by one of the practitioners of this cult, and “cured” by his ministrations.
This beautiful specimen of consistency thereupon brought an action in the dis¬
trict court of Des Moines, Iowa, to recover damages against the owner of the
areaway for contributory negligence in the production of something which, ac¬
cording to his own theory, could not possibly ever have existed outside of his
own imagination—viz., the injury. This was the view the judiciary took, and
the litigant got only derision in place of damages when the verdict assured him
that injuries which could be cured by Christian science must have been too
trivial to be estimated even in cents. — (A r . Y. Med. Journal .)
Statistical Value of Hospital Records. Dr. Conrad Wessel-
hceft in New England Medical Gazette calls the attention of the medical profes¬
sion to the fact that clinical records of hospital in general as so kept up that no
real value can be attached to them in estimating the relative value of different
forms of medication in the treatment of the sick and suggests that the time has
been reached when there will be found physicians of sufficient knowledge and
leisure to take the daily reports from a large hospital and fill out the necessary
data for determining quite accurately the value of the form of medication , in ad¬
dition to that of good nursing, thorough sanitation, etc.
In addition to the usual columns in hospital registers, he adds:
1. Length of time of present illness before admission to hospital.
2. Sanitary condition prior to admission to hospital.
3. Length of time under treatment.
4. Date of first improvement.
5. Medicine and dose when improvement was noticed.
Common Errors in Dealing with Pulmonary Tuberculo¬
sis. Dr. Frederick I. Knight (Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Nov. 17)
points out five very common errors made by general practitioners as regards pul¬
monary tuberculosis. He first calls attention to the failure to make an early
diagnosis. The reasons suggested are the tendency of the patient to make light
of small ailments and of the physician to avoid making a careful physical exam-
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ination whenever slight ailments, such as persistent cough or haemoptysis, pre¬
sent themselves. If the physician is a personal friend as well as the medical ad¬
viser, he may shrink from a knowledge of the results of a physical examination.
Again, complaints of fever are apt to be put off by a suggestion of a “touch of
malaria. *• 2. Another fault lies in failure to admit the gravity of the situation
as soon as discovered. The author quotes Niemeyer as saying that the danger
of a consumptive patient is that he become tuberculous. Dr. Knight would
amend this, in the light of modern pathology, by saying that the danger a tuber¬
culous patient is that he become consumptive— i. e. % as he explains it, subject to
secondary infection. He thinks it better that the patient should be at once in¬
formed of the gravity of the situation so as to enlist his thorough cooperation in
the efforts at recovery. 3. Dr. Knight criticises the tendency while temporizing
to resort to treatment that is not only useless, but at times positively injurious.
In this category he stigmatizes the routine use of cough syrups, cod liver oil,
creosote, etc., in the following terms: “Cough syrups, cad-liver oil, and creo-
sota do a large share in hastening the decline of patients. If any sedative is re¬
quired, it should be given in as simple a form as possible, and without syrup.
I do not mean to say that cod-liver oil never does good, for there are patients
who can take and assimilate it with ease, and greatly to their benefit, but it is
cruel to prescribe it in a routine way without selecting cases and watching ef¬
fects. Who has not many times seen patients with thickly coated tongues
swallowing large doses of oil faithfully three times a day, eructating it all the
time, and capable of assimilating neither that nor any other food ? Neither do
I deny that creosote does good in some cases in modifying the bronchial secre¬
tion and improving digestion, but I believe that large doses, as a rule, take away
the appetite and do more harm than good. It, like cod-liver oil, should be ad¬
ministered tentatively.” He also protests against a routine^ethod of prescrib¬
ing whisky and other alcoholic stimulants, as tending to depress the vital forces.
Patients in a febrile condition are also sometimes ordered to take exercise when
they should be compelled to rest. 4. The indiscriminate sending of patients
away from home is objected lo—e. g., when the time of their stay is necessarily
short, or when they are moribund, or when their means are such as to entail less
advantages than they could attain at home. Moreover, when a removal is indi¬
cated, it should be carefully considered, and clearly located “for reasons.” 5.
The last error is the omission of sufficient medical supervision. Constant
watchfulness is necessary in this disease.— (A\ Med. Journal.)
»ooft 'Reviews.
Repertory of the Symptoms of Rheumatism, Sciatica, etc.,
by Alfred Pulford, M. D. B. B. Krammes, Tiffin, O., Publisher.
211 pages. Price §1.75.
The value of a repertory depends upon three factors: reliabili¬
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subjected to a thorough test during the past two months and has
proven a reliable guide. Minor criticism might be found in the
arrangement but they are insignificant when contrasted with the
very excellent plan of arrangement.
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The plan begins with Aggravation and Amelioration and then
considers each part of the body as though it stood alone. By
this plan the symptoms become complete so far as location , sen¬
sation and modality is concerned.
There are over 200 pages in this little work and the possessor
will have reason for Deing very grateful to the author for pains¬
taking work.
Renal Therapeutics. Clifford Mitchell, A. M., M. I)., Chi¬
cago. Bcericke & Tafel, Philadelphia, Publishers. 365 pages,
cloth, $2.00, net; $2.16 by mail.
If the author had named his book Renal Diseases instead of
Renal Therapeutics, it would have received a strong endorse¬
ment from every reviewer, for his presentation of the etiology,
pathology and diagnosis is all that could be desired. We might
go farther than that and highly commend his dietetics and gen¬
eral sanitation; but when an author puts out a work on Thera¬
peutics and on the title page states that he is a professor in a
homoeopathic college he becomes a* sectarian and should be held
to a strict account for his teaching.
A homoeopathist may analyze all forms of treatment for the
purpose of showing the effects produced but he should demon¬
strate the fact that remedies selected in accord with the law of
similars will invariably do better work than when selected from
any other standpoint. This the doctor has neglected to do; on
the contrary he has, as a rule, carefully considered everything,
prophylactic and palliative, but homoeopathic indications have
been dismissed with general suggestions.
The physician as well as the student in medicine will find
much that is of great practical value, in spite of the criticisms
above enumerated, because of the simplicity of style so charac¬
teristic with those who are thoroughly conversant with their
subject.
The mechanical work leaves nothing to be desired.
Comparative Materia Medica, by H. Gross, edited by Con¬
stantine Hering. Boericke & Tafel, Publishers, Philadelphia.
520 pages, $6.00, net, in half morocco.
The present generation of medical men (and women) and
especially the medical student is indebted to these enterprising
publishers for the re-production of this valuable work.
There is no better or truer way for the getting at the true
genus of a remedy than that of comparison. No one appreciates
this fact more than the student of materia medica. To him
there seems a wonderful sameness in all of the remedies under
consideration and much confusion arises because of the inability
to find some basis or center from which to reach out and grasp
the salient or characteristic feature of each particular remedy.
After the knowledge of remedies have somewhat crystalized
and the student is able to classify remedies somewhat similar in
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^character it becomes of the greatest importance that he be able
to make a differential diagnosis of such similar remedies as may
seem indicated in any given case. This differentiation is most
admirably carried out in Gross' Comparative Materia Medica.
As a rule, the comparison of any two remedies is limited to one
page.
His plan is to begin with the generalities. These are fol¬
lowed by a comparison between the characteristics of the skin,
also fever (which includes the three stages of chill , heat and
sweat). This is separated from the second division by a rule.
Below this rule, the points of difference begins with the mind,
according to Hahnemann’s plan. A third division is then
formed by another rule. This section includes the aggrava¬
tions and ameliorations and all other modalities and condi¬
tions.
The fourth division contains the very essential boiling down
of the whole study of two remedies and shows by contrast the
predominant features of the two remedies under consideration.
As an illustration we select the generalities between Calcarea
and Silecia.
1.
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4.
5 .
6 .
7.
8 .
9.
10 .
11 .
12 .
Calcarea.
Apoplexia sanguinea. 1.
Complaints (constriction, etc.,) 2.
predominant in internal parts.
Want of irritability. 3.
Obesity or emaciation. 4.
Rending pains upward. 5.
Pains pressing inward. 6.
Itching, better scratching. 7.
Pulse frequent and full, often 8.
trembling.
Sweat on front of body. 9.
Heat, with inclination for unccn•• 10.
ering.
Dreams of dead people, fire, quar- 11.
rel and disputes, etc.
Sleepless, worse before midnight. 12.
Silecia.
Apoplexia nervosa.
Complaints, (constriction, etc.,)
predominant in external parts.
Increased bodily irritability.
Emaciation.
Rending pains downward.
Pains pressing outward.
Itching unchanged or aggravated
by scratching.
Pulse frequent, hard but small:
often irregular.
Sweat often confined to back part
of body.
Heat, with aversion to uncovering.
Dreams of thieves, water, busi¬
ness, etc.
Sleepless, worse after midnight.
Rectum, Urinary Organs and Genitalia. Repertory of the
Homoeopathic Materia Medica , by J. T. Kent, M. D., Editor and
Publisher, 2009 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Every promise has been redeemed and we can now see the
beginning of the end of this truly great book. Over 700 pages
have already appeared and from present indications the entire
work will be completed by the first ol next April.
Nature has so planned that many of the evidences of disease
shall be made manifest at the orifices of the body. Likewise in
the provings of remedies we look to these same openings for
their expression. It is for these reasons that the present fascicle
has been eagerly anticipated by every subscriber to the book.
The Repertory of urine symptoms alone would be worth the
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subscription of this part, e. g. Under Albuminous we have
first every remedy that has caused albumen in the urine. This
is followed by the differentiation: After abuse of alcohol;
amaurosis; chronic; from exposure to cold and dampness; after
diphtheria; consecutive to heart disease; during insanity; during
menses; during pregnancy; after scarlet fever; in syphilitics.
The same commendation is particularly applicable to the
analysis of Menses. The arrangement throughout the Reper¬
tory is to go from the general to the particular, and when the
reader has become accustomed to the general plan of the author
it becomes almost a Concordance as well as Repertory.
Undoubtedly the orders for the work will be greatly increased
when it becomes an assured fact and enough can be delivered to
make it of immediate utility.
History of the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital
of Philadelphia. Thomas Lindsley Bradford, M. D. Boericke
& Tafel, Publishers, Philadelphia. 904 pages, $3.50. By mail,
$3.76.
The history of this college is the history of homoeopathy in
America for the past fifty years. No one but a Bradford could
build such a history because no other man in America has the
material at hand or the inclination to collect such material, so
while this history is something for which the Alumni of “Old
Hahnemann” have reason for being proud, every believer in the
immortal truths of Homoeopathy will find much of both interest
and profit.
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street.
The following taken from the first Announcement is of inter¬
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“Students who have attended a full course of lectures in another medical
school can, after attending the winter course of this college, graduate next
spring if their attainments justify.”
Fees for a full course, $100.00.
Practical Anatomy, $10.00.
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Another feature of special interest is a biographical sketch of
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The second half of the book is devoted to the origin and de¬
velopment of the Hospital and the Alumni Association.
The first class graduated six candidates March 15,1849. The
largest class (77) was in 1893. The total number of graduates,
2372.
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nected with the Battle Creek Sanitarium, and have borne the tent of many years’ practical use by thou¬
sands of persons both sick and well. Prominent among the many different foods may be mentioned*
GRANOLA—A highly nutritions and toothsome food, which has proved a boon to thousands or n-
valids and persons with weak digestion, and is invaluable to travelers and excursionists who often need
to carry the largest amount of nutriment in the smallest bulk.
GKANOSS—A food cure for Conutipaiion. Crisp, delicate, delicions. Everybody likes it.
CARAMEL-CEftEAL is not a food, out is the most delicious substitute for the Coffee Bean which
baa yet been discovered, and contains none of its harmful properties.
For handsome illustrated catalogue and price list address,
BATTLE CBEEZ SANITARIUM HEALTH FOOD CO..
BATTUE CREEK, MICH.
THE ALMA, Alma, Mich.
Consulting Physicians and Surgeons
General Disease
WM. K. QUINE .Chicago
I. H. BAN FORTH . ..Chicago
FRANK BILLINGS. Chicago
E. L. SHURLY. Detroit
G H. FUERBRINGER.Saginaw
J. B. GRISWOLD.Grand Rapids
Surgery
JOHN B. HAMILTON.Chicago
D.W. GRAHAM .Chicago
THEODORE A McGKAW.Detroit
G. K. JOHNSON.Grand Rapids
Gy nan oology
JAMES H. ETHERIDGE....Chicago
HENRY T. BYFORD.Chicago
H. W. LONGYEAR...Detroit
EUGENE BOISE .Grand Rapids
Nervous Disease
H. M. LYMAN . Chicago
D. R. BROWER. Chicago
RICHARD DEWEY.Chicago
W. J. HERDMAN.....Ann Arbor
Eye and Ear
BOERNB BETTMAN.Chicago
Nose and Throat
E. FLETCHER INGALS.Chicago
Pathology
HENEAGB GIBBES. Ann Arbor
Medioal Superintendent
ELMORE S. PETTYJOHN, M. D. I
In writing to advertisers please
Situated in the Heart of the Mich¬
igan Resort Country. Two distinct
and valuable mineral waters, excellent
cuisine, modern canveniences. An excel
lent climate for convalescents.
Doctor:— No doubt you often find cases
of “Neurasthenia* 1 which are difficult to
care for at home. We wish to call your
attention to the excellent facilities for tak¬
ing care of them as well as of all Obstinate
Chronic, Liver, Kidney, Stomach and Bow¬
el Diseases, at THE ALMA, Alma, Mich.
In addition to ordinary medical treatment
Slectra, and Hydro-Therapeutic with
Massage are prescribed by physicians and
anministered by trained nurses. Regula
ted diet, complete rest, Swedish move*
ments, etc.
We protect the physician’s interest and
extend to them and their families a liberal
discount. The Michigan Central Railroad
runs a Through Sleeper for Alma, Mich.,
leaving Chicago every Monday and Thurs-
dav evenings.
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mention the Hahnemanian Advocate.
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We have provided a HOME where physicians may send their so-called
incurables, and be sure they will receive the
FuU Benefit of a Strict Application of the
Underlying Principles of Homoeopathy
Arrangements can be made whereby the patient will remain under our care
for a month or so, and then return to the family physician with such in¬
structions as will enable him to complete the work.
Address for particulars
H, W. PIERSON, M. D. f
64th Street and Stewart Boulevard, Chicago*
A HANDSOME MOROCCO POCKET CASE
-CONTAINING-
One Hundred and Fifty Vials
--FILLED WITH-
Thoroughly Tested Poteotized Remedies
CASE NO. 1— A complete every day working case, consisting of one to three
grafts of eighty-four different remedies, carefully selected as the result of
long experience, and ranging from 200 to CM potency. Sent prepaid to any
part of the United States for $10.00.
CASE NO. 2 —Contains one hundred and fifty different grafts, ranging from
40M to CM. Sent prepaid to any part of the United States for $12.00.
For particulars, address
HAHNEMANN PUBLISHING CO.,
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(HONUEOPATHIO.)
Openfthroughout the yetr, FACULTY. Pbyaiciana may enter at any time.
MATERIA MBDICA-Dra. T. F. Allen, A. R.
McMlchael. B. Barncb. 8. Carle ton.
8URGBRY- Dra. Wm. Todd Helmnth, Wm. H.
BUhop C. W. Cornell, Geo. T. Stewart, Wm.
T. Helmnth, Jr.
PHYSICAL, DIAG.—Dra. J. W. Dowling. A. R.
M cMichmeL
BYB-Dr. Chaa. Deady, F. H. Boynton.
BAR—Dr. Geo. W. McDowell.
GYNAECOLOGY-Dra. Wilfred G. Fralick, Brie
▼on der Golts, W. F. Honan.
SKIN— Dr. Henry M. Dearborn
NOSE AMD THROAT-Dra. Malcolm Leal. Chaa.
B. Teeta, A. W. Palmer, W. B. Delabarre.
MBNT. & NBRV. DI8.—Dr. J. T. O'Connor.
GBNITO-URINARY—Dr. B. G. Carleton.
BACTBRIOLOGY Dr Bmanuel Baruch.
MICROSCOPY—Dr. W. I Pierce.
TIMOTHY W. ALLEY, AM., M.R., £LD.. FreaT.
AMKMLL R. XeMICHJEL . AM., M.JD , Dt on.
For annonneementa addreea
CHARLES MARY, M. B., Secretary,
HO Wee* 48th 8t. % Yew Tor*.
Southern Homoeopathic
Medical College and Hospital,
LEADING FEATURES.
College building containing every modern convenience. Excellent equipment
and facilities for medical teaching. A four year's graded lecture course of six
months each. Materia Medica teaching based on pure pathogenesy. Practical
laboratory work. A hospital under care of the College faculty affording ample
opportunity for surgical and bedside study. Daily clinical instruction in every
specialty. Abundance of out-door and dispensary work. Special practical
work under the supervision of the Faculty.
Men and women admitted on equal terms.
For Annual Announcement, giving full information as to college regulations,
fees, etc., and the advantages of Baltimore as an educational centre, address
HENRY OHANDLKE, M. D., Dean, 1013 Linden Aye.,
BALTIMORE, MB.
METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL POLYCLINIC
OF NEW YORK CITY.
During the Season of 1897-98 Clinical Instruction will be given at the Hospital by
the following members of the Medical Board:
VlMITlfttt PHYMlClAiCN.
EGBERT GUERNSEY, M. D. JOHN H. DEMAREST. M. D.
ALFRBD K. HILLS, M. D. B. GUERNSEY RANKIN, M. D.
H. M. DEARBORN, M. D.
ARTHUR L. ROOT, M. D.
TI8IT1NU StRUKONM.
HOMBR I. OSTROM. M. D. CLARENCE W. CORNELL, M. D.
CLINTON L. BAGG. M. D. WILFRED G. FRALICK, M D.
Qtnito-Urinary BUKK G. CARLETON, M. D. Eye and Bar CHARLES C. BOYLE, M. D
AUXILIARY VINITINtt BOARD.
WM. F. HONAN. M D. JOHN W. DOWLING, M. D. GOVS C. HARRINGTON, M, D
ARKBLL R. McMICHABL, M. D WALTER S. MILLS, M. D.
J. T. O'CONNOR, M. D . Neurologist. EDWIN G. OGDEN, M. D., Pathologist
CHAS. B. TBETS, M. D., Laryngologist and Demonstrator of Internal Medicine.
FRANCIS M. FRAZER, M. D.. Electrician EPHRAIM D. KLOTS, M. D., Curator.
GEO. T. STEWART, M. D., Chief of Staff.
For Prospectus, etc., address
0HA8. 0 BOYLE* M. D. y Secretary, 49 West 37th St., New York Oity.
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The leading Medical College of the West. Thorough and Practical instruc¬
tion in evqry department of medicine., Clinical Material abundant. Fees low.
For announcements or other information, address
E. C. SWEET, M. D. Registrar,
70 STATE STREET. CHICACO, ILL.
HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE OF MISSOURI.
Oldest College In the Moutliwest^Incorporated 1997.
Instruction thorough in all departments, embracing a graded course of Didactic and
Clinical Lectures, with practical microscopic work in Laboratory, Dispensary, and Dia*
•acting Room. Regular Clinics from every practical chair.
For Announcements and further particulars address
WM. C. RICHARDSON, M D , Dean, 304 N. 8th St., St. Louis, Mo., m
L. C. McELWEE, M.D., Registrar, 215 S. Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, Mo.
Hahneman Medical College and Hospital
OIF 1 CHICAGO.
The Largest and Best Equipped Homoeopathic College
in the World.
Thirty-Ninth Annual Session Will Open Sept. 13,1898.
The.College Curriculum embraces the following features:
1— A four-years’ graded Collegiate Course.
2— Hospital and Dispensary Clinical Instruction by the College Staff.
3— Fourteen General Clinics and Sixty Sub-clinics each and every week
of the session.
3—Actual Laboratory Instruction in thoroughly Equipped Laboratories
The buildings are all new, commodious, and fitted with everything which thir¬
ty-six years of experience can suggest. Heated by steam, lighted electricity, and
modern in every particular. The hospital has 12 wards, 48 private rooms, 6 oper¬
ating rooms, 6 ‘‘foyers” for convalescents, an Emergency Examining and Operat¬
ing Room, Reception Room, Office, etc., all under the immediate charge of the
College staff. The new College Building has large, well-equipped Anatomical,
Physiological, Pathological, Chemical, Microscopical, Biological and Bacterio¬
logical Laboratories, Cloak Room, Smoking Room, Ladies’ Parlor, and Toilet
Rooms.
For announcement and sample copy of Clinique, address
C. H. VILAS, M. D., Dean. JOSEPH P. COBB, M. D., Registrar,
2811-13 Cottage Grove Avenue.
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Organon OF THE
Healing Art
Dudgeon's Translation is
conceded the most accur¬
ate of any edition now
in print . . .
HANDSOMELY PRINTED AND BOUND.
PRICE, ONE DOLLAR, POST PAID
TRADE SUPPLIED.
The Treatment of
Artificial or
Drug Diseases tu Bo*et v of
' = Hom(zopathicians
At their regular meeting for 1896 thoroughly discussed
every phase of this question; and the report of this
meeting gives the most comprehensive view of this
important subject to be found in print.
A handsomely bound copy of the entire transactions of this
society for the year 1896 will be sent postpaid for One
Dollar.
A or either of the above address
Hahnemann Publishing Co.
STATION O, CHICAGO.
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Handsome Descriptive Book, “MANITOU AND THE MOUNTAINS,” sent free
on application. Address,
JOHN SEBASTIAN, G. P. A., C. R. I. & P. R’y, Chicago.
Sanitarium Resorts
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Room Sleeping Car from Chicago to Malvern (Hot Springs.)
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the World’s Greatest Sanitarium, call on or address Robert Somerville,
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