Mrs. L. S. 39, 1 child.
Sept. 29, 1924. Epileptic fits-at least once a week.
It rises quickly from bed, loses consciousness.
Has “gone off” if worried. Gets attack, if she hurries.
In attack “goes stiff and black.” Enuresis once or twice.
L. leg gets numbed.
Convulsions as a baby; consumption of bowels as a baby.
Aura. Before attack ears feel numbed and funny.
(Worse) for anions: they mean an attack in the morning.
Drops in sleep.
Twice vaccinated, the last took badly.
Numbness ears-worse for anions-drops in sleep. The queer characteristic symptoms of the case are Thuja symptoms.
The vaccinations gave the casting vote. Thuja 10m one dose.
One month later. No attacks. Used to get them if she hurried; has hurried and no attack.
Another month. No attacks. Feeling V.M.B.
Another month. No attack, but feeling less well. Her second dose, Thuja 10m.
Again 3 months later. M.B. all ways. No attacks.
Again, a month later. Had burnt her leg and had had a fall. No attacks.
Nine months after her first Thuja. No attacks: “Doesn’t have them.” Seen one more,”comes for a cold. Still no attacks.’
Here there were epileptic fits,”at least once a week,” and after the first dose of Thuja 10m they entirely ceased for the ten months she was under observation.
“I don’t have them now.’ B.P., 23 years old.
To cure BOILS ate a nutmeg 8 months ago. Ground it up and ate it on bread and butter.
Symptoms of poisoning were severe… She was said to have “nearly died.”
Never well since. Very nervous. Gets the symptoms back.
And now (8 months later).
Tired. Frightened (? of what).
Dreams and nightmares… aeroplane crashes: being chased. Indigestion.
Skin oily all over, head, face, back-greasy.
Drops in sleep.
Sweat axilla, and a number of other symptoms (those given are Thuja symptoms).
Twice vaccinated: second did not take: first only slightly. Thuja 1m, 10m, 50m. One each morning for 3 days.
In three weeks, distinctly better. Able to do more. No nightmares. Giddy attacks less frequent.
Still tired: “needs something to enable her to play tennis.” No medicine.
In seven weeks. “I am a different person, and you’d hardly recognize me. Playing tennis daily :-almost my own self.”
Think Thuja would have cured those boils, and she would have been spared months of illness (which she said “had cost them 100 pound,” and all the misery).
M.C. 50 years old.
Headaches all her life. Burnett at times for Nat. mur. 200. “But the only thing for them is aspirin” (Unable to earn her livelihood).
Binding headaches.
“Nerve breaks down,” then gets violent headache with vomiting. Has been treated with injections. Plenty of symptoms,
BUT
Vaccinated 3 times. Last took very badly. Laid up with it. Delirious. So, Thuja 1m, 10m, 50m, one each morning for 3 days.
A month later. Only one headache, not a bad one.
Feels better. Putting on weight.
Not half so tired with journey or exertion.
But is breathless “as when vaccinated.”
And,”bones have been aching as when vaccinated.” No med.
Another month, THUJA Cm. One dose.
Another 3 1/2 months. Headaches M.B. and M.B. in self. Has put on 8 lb. “?needs no more powders? So much better that she hopes that she hopes to get to work soon.” (She was a worn-out and broken-down missionary.)
She had, what most of these Thuja patients have, half-asleep sensations of dropping into a bottomless pit.
Miss D. 39. Nov. 1928.
Nurse at one of the big hospitals.
Severe attacks of ASTHMA for 2 years. Attacks last 3-4 days, when she can hardly breathe.
It started from inhaling sulphur fumes.
Plenty of symptoms: and vaccinated 5 times, last did not take.
Here I feel very virtuous, because her symptoms worked out to Thuja; Sulphur coming in next best, and being very tempting, from the aetiology. Thuja 10m. one dose.
Two months later, No asthma at all since powders. Gets colds, but no asthma.”
Not heard of for 3 1/2 years. Then someone’ phoned from her hospital, would I see her, she had asthma: and she came along at once (This was in Feb. 1932).
“Why did you not tell me that you had asthma again?” She said she had been perfectly well till to-day. Thuja 1m, 10m, 50m, one each morning for 3 days.
That was nine months ago. Not heard of since.
R.H. 19.
Gets discharge between, or instead of, menses. Vague symptoms….. But-vaccinated once, 18 months ago. It kept her at home from work for 14 days with a very high temperature: though the arm was only red for one day, and it did not take. “The doctor said it took internally.”
Worse in every way since vaccination. Thuja 1m, 10m, 50m, one each morning for three days.
A month later, the doctor who sent her up wrote. “Miss H. is cured.” And her mother wrote 6 months later,”She is quite well and jolly. She had been so unlike herself in her behaviour to me, that I had remarked to folks, I wondered if it were the vaccination, as one does hear rumours of these different injections altering people’s temperatures; so I was of course very delighted with your point of view that the vaccination had upset her in other ways, as confirming mine. I lost my previous baby-a lovely boy-through vaccination.. and my mother lost a boy from trouble set up by the same, so there is a susceptibility in the family it seems.”
