The precancerous Bleeding Womb at the Menopause
There are a large number of cases of bleeding from the womb at, and about, and after the change of life that come before me that are almost always considered by me as incipient cancer. That they are cancer in the early stage I have no doubt whatever, but inasmuch as they get well, often very quickly, under the use of Gold and other remedies, I will content myself with speaking of them as the precancerous bleeding womb.
Mrs. W., forty- four age, mother of nine children and had also four miscarriages, came under my observation at the end of the year 1891. She had for the past five or six months considerably bleeding from the parts on and off all the time, but particularly excessive about the period. Some years ago patient vomited a good deal of blood. She is very weak and anaemic, and is, in the opinion of her own doctor, suffering from incipient cancer of the womb. Her mother died of cancer of the womb at seventy – one, and one of her sisters died of internal tumour at fifty.
R Aurum muriaticum 3x, 3iv. Three drops in water three times a day.
Feb. 9th, 1892.- Patient is very lavish in her praise of this medicine. “Oh, I am so much better, the bleeding had gone.” She feels very much better in herself; the tenderness of the womb has gone, and it is now normal top the touch. To go on with the medicine for some time.
I never heard any further of the case, and I should not have narrated it at all, were it not that it is only one of numerous cases of the kind that have come under my care, and of which many have promptly got well under the action f Aurum.
The precancerous Bleeding Womb
Some years since, Mrs. E., sixty years age, was taken suddenly with haemorrhage from the womb, an fainted while on a visit to the house of a patient of mine. the local doctor (a very experienced all-round learned practitioner ) was hurriedly sent for, and declared it cancer of the uterus. It transpired that attacks of bleeding had been the rule with her for years past, which her anaemic, cachectic look fully corroborated;the bleeding were very ill-smelling, spoken of as “fleshy”, like “cold soup.” patient had a large blood bleb on lower lip of long standing. The diagnosis being called in question, a second opinion of the chief surgeon of a well-known cancer hospital was sought, and he fully confirmed it. The lady returned home and had the infirmary doctors of her native city to see what thy thought of the case, and they agreed that it was cancer, and recommended immediate operation.
“No,” said patient, “I’ll not be cut about; I have seen enough of that. If i’m to die, I’ll die!”
I put her on Aurum, as in the previous case, and in three months she was seemingly quite well
Three years later she had bleeding again, and the same remedy again put her right
Two years after this she had another relapse, the smell being very y bad.
The same remedy was again ordered, and again it put her right, and so she continued when I last heard from her. She must now be about seventy years of age..
September 23rd, 1896.- I happen to have just received a letter this very day from this lady’s friend, from whom I enquired about the patient’s state last Tuesday. She says :- “Mrs. E. came to see me to-day; she is a good deal better, and seemed in good spirits.”
December 23rd,- She writes:- “I am a good deal better; all discharge has ceased”
Spring of 1898. – On enquiry I hear : “Mrs. E. continuous well.”
Neurasthenia at the Menopause
A maiden lady, forty-three years of age, came under my observation on january 19th, 1892, telling me of her painful nerves and flushes that have troubled her ever since, she changed. She gets gouty swelling of the feet, and has whites. Is much given to sleeping draughts. The womb is somewhat large, the pain in the feet considerable, depriving her of sleep. On condition that she abjures sleeping draughts once and for all, I undertake her case. This is an invariable condition with me, as it quite impossible to really cure people who take hypnotics.
I gave Fraxinus Americanus 0. Ten drops in water at bedtime.
March 3rd, -Has done her much good; womb is lighter and she is better able to do her work. She sleeps now quite well without any sedative, a sure proof that the neurasthenia was here primarily a womb ailing.
Flushes no better; skin very irritable; costive.
R Tc, Urtica ur 0 Five drops in water night and morning
March 31st- “The first bottle suited me better for nervousness; flushes much better; general health also”
Followed a month of Fragaria vesca 0, and then Fraxinus Americanus 0, when patient had nothing further to complain of beyond her hard lot in life, for which latter I, however, know no healing herb
General Break-up at the Menopause – Ulcerated Womb
Weak constitutions often break up at the change of life, particularly if there is any great trial failing to their lot, which in this life is common enough. Such a case came under my observation in the spring of 1893.
Mrs.. X., aged fifty- two, mother of six children, tells me she has been ailing very much ever since the change; the womb is ulcerated; she is “nothing but skin and bones;” chronic cephalalgia, insomnia; she retches and vomits; she complains of “whirlings like windmills in her head.”
Her physicians have practically given her up, and they all have put her on sleeping draughts and ” soothing injections.”
“My husband is died,” said she, “and I am, as;you see, not far from it, and I do not care to live any longer except for my dear children; my poor darling who has gone home would like me to try and live for our children’s sake.
I consented to treat her on condition that she should give up all narcotics and all local messings for the internal ulcerations
Her grief was the very first point to consider, and this with the vomiting, more than justified my first prescription, Ignatia amara 1X, 3z ss; five drops in water three times a day. This having done good, the primary constitutional blight had to be seen to, as this it was that produced the extreme emaciation: one of her sisters had died of phthisis, and hence I ordered Bacill. CC.
Then followed Pulsatilla 0, Nux I, Quassia 0; and patient’s digestion and general condition were much improved., But the nervous symptoms were very distressing: almost complete adynamia. Several months under Kali phos., 6 trit., and then a short course of Cypripedin 3x.
September 27th,- “i am fatter; my nerves feel better, and altogether I feel stronger.”
R Scutellarin 3x.. Six grains dry on the tongue twice a day…
October 25th.- nearly well of all her nerve troubles; sleeps; however, very badly
R Bacill. C.
After this patient never looked back, and she is to-day in a good, healthy, plumb condition, and, humanly speaking, good for another quarter of a century.
In grave, complicated cases it is best to pick out the central points in them and start from them. Thus in the foregoing case, there were– I, grief; 2, consumptiveness; 3, neurasthenia – and from these out the therapeutic efforts were directed.
The totality of the symptoms principle was here not the best, because of the several different causations of the symptoms which were thus of different pathological qualities.
At the change of the life it is well to keep the fundamentals of the basic constitution of the person well and fixedly before one’s mind, and in the second place construct a history of what the individual has gone through, and the separate, mentally, the various groups of symptoms and cure them groupwise and not altogether – only thus is success in grave life- threatening cases possible.
Retardation of the Menopause.
If not infrequently happens that when the time has arrived for the period to cease, it will not do so; that is to say, there is bleeding but no true ovulation, and this is disease. When ladies over fifty years age say to us chirply – “Oh, I have not changed yet!” the statement is commonly of some gravity. The period due to an ovulation is health; the quasi- period is only haemorrhage of the same nature, as, for instance, the bleeding from haemorrhoids or from the lungs, and each kind of haemorrhage has a pathological quality of its own. Thus, when a consumptive person bleeds at one time from the lungs, at another from the haemorrhoidal veins, and at another from the vagina, the haemorrhage is in each case presumably of the same pathological quality.
Mrs. G., fifty years of age, mother of six children, came to me on September 22, 1892, telling me she was still regular, but the flow was very excessive. Close enquiry showed that the thing was not an ovulatory period, but an habitual periodical haemorrhage. With her first child patient had had white – leg (phlegmasia alba dolens), which left leg still swells and troubles her. Those conversant with this form of leucocytosis will not marvel when I say that after a three month’s course of Thuja 30, Sabina 30, and Cupressus Lawsoniana 30 (each one month by itself)patient’s left leg became comfortable, and her periodic bleedings from the uterus ceased.
Burnett was one of the first to speak about vaccination triggering illness. This was discussed in his book, Vaccinosis, published in 1884. He introduced the remedy Bacillinum. He authored twenty books, including the much loved "Fifty Reason for Being a Homeopath." He was the editor of The Homoeopathic World.