May 24th. – She now consents to have her long-worn pessary removed.
Rx Thuja 30.
June 2nd, Her pessary having been removed causes her no inconvenience, and there has been no show. She is stronger; is worse in the summer than in the winter; she is unable to lie on her left side.
Rx Tuberculinum test. C
July 20th. – Complains of muddle-headedness.
Rx Spirit. gland. querqus 0, Ten drops in water night and morning.
August 27th. – The pain in her left side rouses her from sleep at night, enabling the wind to pass, and then relieving said pain.
Rx Fraxinus Am 0.
October 21st,1898. – Has done her much good; she has had one proper period, but no “Show”.
Rx Thuja 30.
November 15th. – The flatulence wakes her up, and her breath is very foul. Medorrhinum 1000. After which she was very much better, and no longer roused by flatus.
P.S. – Roused from sleep is a thoroughly reliable keynote for Medorrhinum I observed it pathogenetically on myself first, and have verified many times.
Some Phthisis Manifestations at the Change of Life
There are many cases that baffle the best unless aetiologically regarded. Thus, three weeks ago, a lady who had formerly been cured by Bacillin. of pulmonary haemorrhage and loss of flesh, sent me an urgent request to cure her incoercible vomiting, saying :- “I have been so well, and am expecting to be confined in about a month, but latterly I have been constantly vomiting, until I am now losing flesh, getting so thin, and can keep nothing but a little brandy on my stomach; please send me something to stop my vomiting, for nurse says the baby will be dead if this goes on much longer.” The vomiting was worse in the afternoon, and there was some fever and hectic flush.
It seemed to me probable that the intrapelvic congestion had a dash of the consumptive quality about it, and so I dissolved ten globules of Bacill. C. in four drachms of spirit of wine, and directed her to take five drops in water every four hours.
A fortnight later she wrote me – “Oh, that marvellous medicine, I only vomited once after the first dose.”
The same idea often helps in climacteric troubles; thus, Mrs.X., forty -seven years of age, came under my care on July 24th, 1896, telling me- no, that was not the way it came about, for previous to that her husband had visited me, telling me his wife’s life was despaired of on account of such severe anaemia, due to severe floodings coming on at regular intervals like a period, and lasting from six to seven days. “My wife is drained to death by it, and our family doctor gives very little hope of her; she is now almost always confined to her bed, and iron tonics no longer do her any good.”
“Yes, we have had several other medical gentleman to consult with Dr. C., but they give me but very little hope, and I don’t think there is anything more hat can be done, she is so short of breath that she cannot even stand.”
After a few months’ treatment this lady came to London for some social functions, and after a further year’s treatment she was practically well, and away in the Welsh hills with her husband on a holiday. After two-thirds of the period she was on Bacill. or Tuberculinum test.30,C., and also had MedorrhinumC., Thuja 30, Sabina 30, and each a mouth of Urtica urens 0, Prunus Virginiana 0, and Salix nigra 0 ( ten drops of either two or three times a day, for their organopathic effects).
Consumptively disposed ladies are very apt to have floodings at any of their congestive functions, and they frequently increase in severity as the time of the change comes on. Thus, this lady was in the habit of menstruating very freely, but after forty years of age it slowly became worse and worse, till the thing could only be termed periodical floodings, resulting in alarming anaemia. The florid, freely menstruating lady of thirty is very apt to be drained almost to death by forty or so, unless the blood-taint be wiped out before, by, say Bacill. or other such remedies. Let me further illustrate.
The Pessary Craze
A lady, just over forty years of age came under my observation in November 1896 for enlarged womb, excessive periods, foul, putrid leucorrhoea. “I am in an awful state, I’m going rotten, I am sure I am! ”
Here we have an example of a very fine, rosy person, exceedingly good-looking (by the way a kind of good-lookingness which I have come to regard as almost pathognomic of consumptiveness), who had had very free periods from a sappy state of the uterus; and now that the change is looming, her troubles are all accentuated; and as her very religious husband has for years been doing what Onan did, the womb has become so heavy that most of the leading homoeopathic physicians and gynaecological surgeons have been ordering injections, douches,…… “Dr. X. ordered me very hot water injections for the whites, and he also put in a pessary, but could not get one to fit comfortably then. I have had six or seven, and this one hurts terribly.”
Now this lady was of the thriving consumptive build (tall and large, lax, rosy, full-bodied, soft-mannered, good-looking, languid, often tired), readily parting with blood, and come now to the threshold oft he climaxis, her accumulated troubles were threatening to wreck her altogether. She sought the help of Homoeopaths, who did not reckon with her constitution, who moreover regarded her “three times vaccinated” as as additional proof of her good health, and whom commended the Onan-like withdrawals (what Onan did, not Onanism so-called), as “so prudent and considerate you know.” My own diagnosis in this case was – 1.Hereditarily Consumptive;2. Vaccinosis; 3. Thickening and enlargement of the womb from genesiac fraud. This poor lady formerly had piles, for which she sought the advice of a prominent follower of Hahnemann, who……. oh yes! he did, cut them off!
Was your operation for piles successful?
Yes, very.
But I thought you said that you have now bad bleeding piles?
Yes, so I have; they came again two or three years after they were operated on.
And you are constipated, are you not?
Yes, but my doctor has ordered remedies for that.
So here we have in a middle-aged lady, still well-nourished and fresh-looking –
a. Operation for piles.
b. Enemata for constipation
c. Hot water and medicated vaginal injections for the whites.
d. A fine choice of pessaries to prop up an enlarged womb, and the result? In the patient’s word: “I am going rotten.”A little further on such idiotic lines of treatment, and then the diagnosis of cancer of the womb would have to be made, and then an operation would be performed, and then the whole crowned by a widower’s tears and the regrets of her motherless children.
But was there any alternate?
Yes, that lady is now cured by common-sense homoeopathic treatment. The Tuberculin ( 30,C., CC.)cured the consumptiveness; the antisycotic Thuja 30, Sabina 30, Cupress law 30, Medorrhinum1000, cured the whites, and organ-remedies brought down the uterus to its present moderate size and bulk; and Mrs.X. is at this moment spinning about on her bike a free and happy woman.
It was Fraxinus Am,0, ten drops in water night and morning, that reduced the womb in size the most promptly. (See my organ Diseases of Woman) Everything is relative and comparative; given an enlarged uterus, it is better to prop it up with a comfortable pessary than to let it flop down on the floor of the pelvis and protrude; but inasmuch as the too heavy organ goes down by reason of its bulk and weight, it must follow that if this bulk and weight be sufficiently reduced th organ will rebound to its old place and need no pessary to prop it up. I addition to this, we have to bear well in mind that the pessary as a foreign body is, as such, highly objectionable in the parts, and is in fact filth producing, making the poor sufferer shrink from her very self by rendering what should be sacrosancta veritable cloaca. Interfaces et urinas mascimur is right enough, because natural but we may fairly stop at that.
Post- Climacteric Dyspepsia
Mrs. N., fifty-two years’ of age, mother of four children, and having two miscarriages, came under my observation in June,1897.She has been twice vaccinated, the last time at twenty-one unsuccessfully. Has had dyspepsia for many years, much more severely since she changed. The bowels are very tender to the touch: the urine ill-smelling (“fishy”). Her flushings are distressing and like waves of heat. She is now very thin, but used to weigh 11 st. Suffers much from “yellows”(i.e., yellow leucorrhoea), and has twice had polypoid growths taken from womb.
Rx Thuja 30.
July 9th.- The right side of tongue is much thicker than the left. Sinking, empty feeling.
Rx Scirrh. C,
August 10th. – Pretty bad flushes.
Rx Trit, 3x, Ovary Extract, gr. vj. One powder at bedtime, which very greatly relieved the flushes.
The influence of the thuja 30 on the dyspepsia, and that of the Ovary Extract on the flushes, was marked and incontestable
Patient remains under treatment.
Eczema and Warts
A lady of fifty – four years of age, consulted me on August 24th, 1896, telling me she was suffering from a nasty eruption on the scalp, with great loss of hair. and quite a number of raised warts on her hands, four of which warts were large ones, and these had been there for three years. She changed two years ago.
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.