Sarat Chandra Ghose Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction and I am bold enough to say, that if the monster of this fell malady has ascended the culminating height of its destruction and if death knocks at the very gate of life, it can still be asserted without any fear of contradiction that Tuberculinum will undoubtedly carry off the palm of victory by bringing about a happy amelioration of all the principal agonizing symptoms.
CEPHALANDRA INDICA. Since the introduction of three new homoeopathic remedies to the homoeopathic world, i.e. Ficus religiosa, Nyctanthes arbortristis and Justicia adhatoda, I could not take up the cause of any new indigenous drug for several obstacles.
The symptomatic difference of these remedies mentioned above are not always clearly understood ad sometimes it becomes difficult, nay impossible, to do so. It is therefore or paramount importance on my part to lay down some general rules for the application of these remedies.
There was dryness of the air-passages; excoriated sensation in the upper chest; great weight on chest; these was extreme difficulty in breathing and sharp, cutting, lancinating pains in the left side of the chest; so that he could not lie on this side; the act of coughing caused pains in distant parts, especially the head and abdomen; the bronchial respiration was attended with crepitation and rattling.