When the period is unduly prolonged, in nine cases out of ten it is no longer an ovulation at all, but there is something wrong with the person, which wrong should be set right in lieu of making efforts to stop the bleeding.
Case of Precancerous Uterus and Abdominal Tumour After the Menopause
The name of the precancerous uterus is not an accepted nosological entity, and what I really mean is cancer; only as patient has got quite well, some other name must be found, and whatever its nature, certainly it was a case of greatly diseases womb coming after the menopause. So much is quite certain.
In the region of the pancreas there was a swelled mass. Patient is a maiden lady of fifty- two years age, and came to me in the spring of 1893, saying she had changed several years ago, and now for the past five years has an ill- smelling copious discharge from the vagina, principally thick, mattery, and yellow. After using Sul., Urtica ur., Trifol.,.etc.., I on June 22 prescribed Aurum mur. nat. 3x, five drops in water night and morning, which was continued for nearly four months, and the discharge slowly diminished, and in October had ceased. In November the discharge had returned, the right breast swelled up very considerably and was tender, and Tub, t. C… was given for several months, and then Aurum for a number of months, and patient was discharged cured in April,1896. Patient’s mother died of cancer of the womb, and a sister of cancer between uterus and rectum.
Prolapsus Uteri of Many years’ Standing
A widow lady, fifty -seven years age, was conducted to me by her sister on October 9, 1888, suffering from prolapsus uteri of many year’s duration; the exact number is not noted. She is obese and scant of breath. Cannot move about without her pessary, which she, however, only wears by day, and places it in position herself. Flushes, leucorrhoea, and occasional bleeding from womb
R Tc Helonias dioica 3iv. Five drops in water night and morning.
November 27th – Thuja
December 29th.- Can now go about without pessary without any particular inconvenience.
R. Helonias doicia 0.
February 2nd, 1889. – “I have felt wonderfully easy without any pessary.”
R Rep.
April 11th. – “I can walk quite well without knowing anything is wrong.” Leucorrhoea pretty bad at times..
R Aletris farinosa 0, 3iv.. Five drops in water night and morning.
May 14th. – Was quite well, but has now a little intravaginal pressure again, which she thinks has come from overstretching.
R Sabina 3.
September 26th. – Complains that the Sabina does not suit her so well as the former drugs; womb coming down on overexertion, but now when it does it is much softer than it used to be.
R Helonias doicia 0, which finished the cure.
Seven years later, September, 1896; this lady came into see me the other day, and tells me she continues quite well in all respects, and is very active on her feet, as she now keeps her bachelor son’s house in the country. Has never used pessary since November, 1888; but during the whole of the internal I have heard from her at odd times, and have, time and again, repeated the remedies before- named whenever overexertion, etc., had produced discomfort of slight relapses.
Pruritus
After the menopause (and also before it), but particularly as the turn of life approaches, and often for many years after it, the peculiar irritation known as pruritus or itching is apt to become very troublesome indeed; it is located mostly in the vagina, vulva, or anus, or thereabouts. It is often accompanied by eczema, and may be symptomatic of internal disease. It is usual to order soothing applications for this ailment, and their name is indeed legion.
Is the treatment of pruritus by soothing applications efficacious and rational? It is neither.. I grant that a little Calendula ointment, lanoline, or vaseline, or the like, do ease for the time, and that, perhaps, harmlessly, and that is no small boon, as it allows patients to get to sleep. But when it comes to forcibly lulling sensation of the parts with active sedatives, I believe such a proceeding to be very harmful.
A proper course of homoeopathic treatment commonly suffices for its cure, but not always; there are some obstinate cases that defy all known efforts at cure. The very largest amount of success is obtained when we abstract ourselves from the name of the ailment and study the constitutional bearings of the case, and treat the woman’s organism on general principles. Here the totality-of-the-symptoms principle works exceedingly well, particularly where the pruritus seems to exist by itself without any diagnosable anatomical pathological basis.
Taken by itself, the most frequently successful remedy in my hands is Caladium seguinum, about the fifth dilution. It almost always does some good. Sepia comes next, but personally I generally have recourse to nosodes before I can really and radically cure it.
Sometimes the spleen is at pruritus vulvae, and when the irritation is at the seat the liver may require attention. Some people find that pruritus ani will depart when the usual nightcap on retiring for the night is omitted.
Cases of pruritus vulvae are sometimes due to tight-lacing – in fact this is pretty frequently the case in ladies of full habit and slightly disposed to gout; if such patients happen to lie abed for any trifling indisposition they are not troubled with pruritus, as the viscera are thereby relieved from pressure. A lady consulted me not long since for a tumour in the vagina: it was a vaginocele about the size of a Tangerine orange. “And is not strange,” said she, “the lump goes away very often when I stay in bed for a day or two, but it is generally there soon after I have properly dressed,” i.e., when she had put on her stays. I explained the matter to her, and recommended a discontinuance of the lacing; but I hear from her husband that she laces tighter than ever, and, of necessity, the vaginocele persists. Most commonly there is a pathologic quality underlying the pruritus, such as gout, scrofula, eczema, when, of course, we must look away from the symptom pruritus, and attack the said pathological quality
Post-Climacteric Cataract
There are many kinds of cataract in quality and in causation,- even senile cataract is of different pathology in different cases.
In spite of jibes, and jeers, sneers, and snubs from many very superior persons whose world is spectacles, I still maintain that many cases of cataract can be cured by medicines.
Difficult task? Oh, yes, very; but difficult does not spell impossible. Cataract in woman at and after the change of life is, probably, the least difficult of any to cure with medicines. My plan is to subject by high dilutions, and when this seems to have done all that can be achieved, I put patients on small material doses of uterine remedies, principally Pulsatilla 0, in from five to ten- drop doses once or twice a day.
The result is often very satisfactory Thus, some time since a clergyman in Bedfordshire wrote to me that his wife’s vision was returning and begged me to continue my treatment. The cataract was almost ripe of the left eye; it began about the change of life, and has taken ten years to get mature. When I first undertook the case I gave as my opinion that no medicines would do any good, because the lady is a great weeper: she will shed tears in abundance on any occasion of the least excitement, and I thought it hopeless to expect lenses to clear under such circumstances.
Tearfulness is an admitted indication for Pulsatilla. I saw this lady not long since and asked her how she could see. “oh, very much better, thank you.” With the naked eye, and to a casual observer, the cataract is now not visible, whereas formerly all her friends knew quite well that she had “something in the eye,” and now her intimates remark to her that “that thing in your eye is gone.”
The lens is not clear when duly examined, but it is clear enough for fair vision, which is not a bad result for a lady verging on sixty-six.
Chlorosis considered as Menstrual Auto Infection
M Charrin regards chlorosis as a menstrual auto- infection.He says that the poisonous qualities of the blood serum is at its highest pitch just as the period is coming on, and he calls attention to the well-known fact that suckling women who happen to menstruate while suckling, are apt to give their babies diarrhoea or skin eruptions. But M. Charrin’s work is so important from my own standpoint that I give the notice of it as I find it in La Semaine Medicale, viz.:-
“Au moment 1.ou les regles vont survenir, la toxicite du serum est en croissances;les nourrices qui, par hasard, conservent leurs menstrues, a ce moment plus qu’a tout autre donnent des diarrhees, des eruptions a leurs nourrisons; a ce moment, egalement, chez de nombereuses femmes, la fievre, I’herpes ne sont pas rares; puis l’ecoulement se produit et tout rentre dans l’ordre; les migraines cessant, les douleurs musculaires disparaissent, l’appetit revient, les signes d’empoisonnement s’evanouissent.
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.