Guy Beckley Stearns PHOSPHORUS. Mental keenness, susceptibility to weather changes, and chronic painless diarrhoea are all keynotes for Phosphorus. This remedy was given in high potency, doses not being repeated as long as improvement continued. All symptoms improved and now, fifteen months later, the anginoid symptoms are gone, there are only two stools a day, and he can do a normal days work without headache or other distress.
THE APPROACH TO REALITY. Here are four approaches to reality. Had he known of them, Lippe could have made his prescription of Lac can. with whichever he chose to use. There was an objective relation between the drug and the impotent patient. Any approach to reality should have indicated the relation. Lippe solved the problem by a study of the symptoms. He might have observed the autonomic responses.
A drug proving is a living picture of the autonomic response to the drug which is being proved. A patients symptoms are a living picture of the autonomic effort to recover. To find a method of curing, it is certainly better to use the evidences of the efforts of the living body to cure itself than the pathological evidences, which represent failure of recovery.
In two other cases, normal conditions were established after two or three months of treatment, but they were then lost sight of. In two other cases the sugar was reduced but went up again because of indiscretion in diet. The two other cases showed little, if any, improvement. In those cases which improved, thirst and polyuria diminished. The sense of well-being increased and the patient put on weight.
HOMOEOPATHY IN SURGERY. “Phosphorus given in single dose of high potency the day before an abdominal operation, will prevent nausea and other distress after operati…
Sobel not only discovered these two effects, but he demonstrated, by means of transillumination an effect in the capillaries of the ears and webs of the fingers; by direct observation, variation in the calibre of the veins on the back of the hand; by means of the fluoroscope, alteration in amplitude of the heart-pulsations; by direct observation, movements in the fine reticulations of the skin and changes of shade of coloured pigments when they are rubbed on the skin.
HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES IN SURGERY. Aconite is preferred by some instead of Arnica. A differential point would be Arnica where there is more of a shock to the tissues, a depression of the forces due to direct injury, a reaction asthenic in type; Aconite where the reaction is more sthenic, the shock being more mental. The location and character of the operation would be influencing factors.
HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES IN SURGERY. Calendula succus is very efficient as a would dressing for all sorts of lacerations, preventing suppuration and hastening healing. It is called a homoeopathic antiseptic. As a matter of fact, it is not antiseptic but probably stimulates granulation. It is recommended topically in erysipelas.
In another case, the mother had been obliged to wean her baby because her milk did not agree with the child. She had plenty of milk and more in the right breast than the left. A month later a lump came in the right breast. The lump was a little sensitive to touch and became quite hard. The left breast began to waste. She said that her nipples were very sore and cracked before the baby was weaned.
It has long been my ambition to collect samples of all of the elements which are procurable and to begin systematically to prove them. The elements being available and the provings having been started might encourage the continuation of the provings through the next generation until they are completed.
In the case of a patient who has never been prescribed for, this classification cannot be utilized in the old intuitive method of prescribing until some constitutional remedy has been definitely worked out. Once a patient has been established in a group, the remedies, in that group should always be studied when a prescription is required. If it be not found there, study the related or neighboring groups and, if it be no there, consult the whole materia medica.
Probably the physical laws governing high dilutions differ from those which govern crude solutions as much as the laws governing high-frequency electricity differ from those governing low-voltage direct currents. Since the laws governing them are not known, a discussion of the physics of high dilutions must be merely suggestive.
To one who understands the homoeopathic principle and how to prescribe remedies in accord with it, it is amazing that there can be a group of physicians who know nothing about it and, what is worse, do not care to know about it. Yet it is a fact that the physicians who approach only from the clinical angle are oblivious to the fact that there can be a science of therapeutics more difficult and comprehensive than the clinical science with which they are familiar.
Consider the usually accepted concept of why drugs are given, based as it is on active physiological response and represented by the nomenclature of drug-classification such as anodynes, sedatives, cathartics, and so forth. Consider the size of the dose, limited as it is b y lethal possibilities. With but few exceptions, drugs are given with no curative intent but for palliative purposes only.
Members of the Foundation for Homoeopathic Research have, for four years, been experimenting with certain radiant qualities of homoeopathic remedies. Occasionally,by-products of this work develop in the form of isolated happening that carry a suggestion nor directly to the immediate experiment. The three cases presented apply to this point.
The remedies which most prominently cause aggravation before the menses and which are also worse from warmth in general are: Lach.covered the case. Improvement began with the first dose of the 10m. and all symptoms vanished after the second dose,which was given six weeks later. The sad part of this case is that a keynote of Lyc. is that during the labor-pains the woman must “keep constantly in motion.”