P P Wells POWER OF THE SPECIFIC REMEDY. This case takes additional interest as an illustration of the power of specific remedies to cure the class of diseases we have been considering, when we remember it had been fruitlessly treated allopathically and mechanically, for ten years, and after this mechanically ten years more.
The distension and movements in the abdomen are more in the left side and along the track of the colon, increased after food. Great repugnance to free air, which not withstanding ameliorates the sufferings. Cutting and pinching pains in the rectum and loins. Heaviness, weariness and numbness in the thighs.
Medical writers from the time of Hippocrates have prated of dysentery, and the variety of opinions they have entertained is but little less than the number of writers by whom the subject has been discussed. Three thousand years have not sufficed to settle the question for all, whether it be really a disease of independent existence, or whether it be only an adjunct of some other more general form of evil.
The case, from beginning to end, was of a kind to exclude all possible doubt as to any one of the facts here stated. It is given as a representative of a class which bears important testimony as to the nature of that power which relieves pain and cures disease. That testimony declares plainly, it is submitted, that this power is a force, and is not matter.