HIGH SPOTS

HIGH SPOTS. There is nothing as keenly refreshing in pure Hahnemannian practice as figuring out the remedy and knowing that it is the one. But, due to either the inability of the patient to express himself or the prescribers shortcomings in eliciting a history or perhaps a meager, inadequate knowledge of the Materia Medica or perhaps some other reason this thrill is not as common as desired.

A CASE OF POISONING BY DIGITOXIN

A CASE OF POISONING BY DIGITOXIN. Great urge to escape from the house saying, “What are you trying to do, keep me in jail? I want to go out.” On several occasions tried to escape through the cellar door. According to his son, who restrained him, he showed “lots of strength”.

SOME VERY RECENT CASES

SOME VERY RECENT CASES. Comparing the rubric on amelioration by passing flatus, Boenninghausens Therapeutic Pocket Book, 1845 edition, lists Phosphorus under”Wind, after breaking ameliorated” in the second highest degree. In the 1891 edition of the same book by Dr. Timothy Field Allen under ameliorations, flatulent emissions, Phosphorus is listed in the third highest degree or, if you will, the second lowest degree.