CAUSES AND CLASSIFICATION

There was dilatation of the right side, displacing the apex, feebleness of action making no perceptible impression on the chest walls, indicating degeneration rather than hypertrophy. She received benefit from Arsenic 3, and Digit.1. Some months afterwards she had an attack of bronchitis, and I put her on the Iodide with Bryonia after Hepar and Kali bichrom. had done some good. The improvement became more rapid, and soon she was what she considered well. The following year in another attack I again treated her with the Iodide with the same result-improvement both of the heart and lung symptoms. She said the Iodide seemed to “soothe her to sleep.” In the early part of 1883 she had another attack. She was then out of the reach of homoeopathy, and she did not recover. I heard that she died quite quietly and painlessly.

John Henry Clarke

John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica