MY TEN MOST IMPORTANT REMEDIES IN FIFTY YEARS PRACTICE

After experience with disagreeable Nux vomica and Chamomilla patients. in comes relief and enjoyment in the person of Phosphorus. The slender, delicate, sensitive and thoroughly cooperative, he is apt to enjoy plenty of ice water. Here it is well to keep to the 30th, to begin with, as we may run into a real aggravation otherwise. Phos. is a great remedy.

Natrum Sulphuricum

Put on your rain coat and rubbers. Here comes Glaubers Salt (Sal Mirable). A shorter word for Nat. s. is wet. So much so that one needing it may be upset even by eating plants which thrive near water. he is also disturbed by residence in damp cellars, on marshy ground, from spring weather or change from dry to wet weather. It leads all others in Von Grauvogls hydrogenoid constitution, meaning too much fluid in the blood and tissues.

OTITIS MEDIA

Mental betterment is an outstanding indication of favorable remedial action. Where the cause of continued vexation and mental turmoil cannot be removed, do not expect cure. Ingestion of noxious substances through alimentary or respiratory tracts or skin must be eliminated, if present – lead, arsenic, phosphorus, sulphur, mercury, sewer gas, or whatever. Errors of diet must be righted.

ACUTE MASTOIDITIS

Our state of mind during the days immediately following the insane single dose on the tongue! ! An intravenous injection would have looked better. Doing nothing and it may go bad but it did not go bad; came through as well as under surgery better if you count hospitalization, operative fee and at least two weeks layoff from work. And the ear dried up; we hardly expected that, And last, but not least, improved health, the sense of well- being, an improved man.

HOMOEOPATHIC TECHNIQUE

It is a rule, however, among homoeopaths and allopaths alike that they give too much medicine. It is like the man described in the Scripture of old, he thinks he will be heard by much praying. So when you have the similimum, as a rule one dose will be sufficient.

TWO CASE REPORTS

It was about eleven oclock and I thought I would go up. I gave a dose of Mercurius sol. CM., and I didnt hear anything more from him for about two weeks and then she called again and said he seemed to have a swelling over his right, that is, the first ear, that I hadnt seen, so I went up and sure enough there was a fluctuating swelling just above or just behind the ear and well up above the mastoid.