In these cases there is always a rather fast pulse, which is soft and thready. And, as I mentioned before, there is a very marked aversion to movement of any kind; it increases their respiratory distress, and it also increases their nausea. You will always find a certain amount of air hunger; the patients are more comfortable if there is fresh, circulating air, although they do not like a definite draught.
Mentally, the Lobelia patients tend to be rather depressed; they want to be left quiet, they do not want to be disturbed. There is one other Lobelia symptom which sometimes crops up, and that is that in these pneumonic attacks the patients quite frequently complain of very violent sacral pains. They have a good deal of respiratory distress, and one’s tendency is to prop them up a bit, but if one does one often finds they complain bitterly of this sacral pain and extreme sacral tenderness.
You will see that here you have a very definite symptom picture which is difficult to cover without Lobelia, so although it is comparatively rarely indicated you do want to know it.
He wrote a number of books: Children's Types, Digestive Drugs, Pneumonias
Douglas Borland died November 29, 1960.