The following day at the same hour, the child was sitting up on the bed and asks for eating, drinking and trying to stand up. Temperature 37*.5. General condition perfect.
Auscultation reveals numerous humid rales at the base of the lung. Among complete absorption of the seat. The whooping cough which became weakly reactive was cured in a week.
After one month I was called urgently for the same patient. It has cold, having escaped from the maternal care and without being properly dressed, in the dry cold weather. Temperature 40.*5 Redness of the face, thirst, agitation. Auscultation: tubular sound at the base of the right lung. No rales.
Treatment: Aconite 6, every two hours.
The next day the temperature is 37*.5. The sound disappeared within 48 hours. No more complication.
Conclusion.
We have said that we have selected from among our cases, those that are more interesting and grave. Personally I have the custom to relate not only my successes but also my failures. As regards the field of the disease of the respiratory system of infants, we should say that during our three last years of practice we had not the occasion to deplore a single death. We have not kept a mathematical statistics of our cases but we think that among more than one hundred cases there was not even a single failure. At the beginning of our homoeopathic practice we never regretted for being faithful to homoeopathy. We were particularly impressed by the quality of results which encouraged us to learn carefully and completely the Materia Medica, in order to become better therapeutists.
Finally let me summarise the advantages of homoeopathy in the treatment of pulmonary diseases of infants.
1. Foresee and prevent the disease, knowing the ground.
2. Treatment with the maximum chance of success.
3. Treating the convalescence, avoid the metastasis, and morbid transfer and prepare for a future of excellent health.
4. Homoeopathy helps to possess a general theoretical idea and practical as well, in order to formulate a prognosis with the maximum accuracy.
Bernoville was a major lecturer in homeopathy, and he was active in Liga Medicorum Homeopathica Internationalis, and a founder of the le Syndicat national des médecins homœopathes français in 1932, and a member of the French Society of Homeopathy, and the Society of Homeopathy in the Rhone.
Fortier-Bernoville wrote several books, including Une etude sur Phosphorus (1930), L'Homoeopathie en Medecine Infantile (1931), his best known Comment guerir par l'Homoeopathie (1929, 1937), and an interesting work on iridology, Introduction a l'etude de l'Iridologie (1932).
With Louis-Alcime Rousseau, he wrote several booklets, including Diseases of Respiratory and Digestive Systems of Children, Diabetes Mellitus, Chronic Rheumatism, treatment of hay fever (1929), The importance of chemistry and toxicology in the indications of Phosphorus (1931), and Homeopathic Medicine for Children (1931). He also wrote several short pamphlets, including What We Must Not Do in Homoeopathy, which discusses the logistics of drainage and how to avoid aggravations.
He was an opponent of Kentian homeopathy and a proponent of drainage and artificial phylectenular autotherapy as well.