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Faithful to the law of cure, the new school physician began his work by giving Pulsatilla, which was similar to may of the symptoms present and antidotal to quinine. Improvement was soon manifest, but the whole case had been reached. Scanty urine presently became an urgent symptom, almost amounting to complete suppression. The remaining symptoms have not come to my knowledge.

Apis was given. A deluge followed. In the midst of the deluge two dense, black stones, each kidney- shaped and so large as to cause difficulty in passing through the urethra, plunged into the receiver, one right after the other. Had the soil and grit taken into the stomach during months of drinking bad water made a report in the form just detailed-a stone from each kidney? The pathologist will answer in the negative, perhaps. He may think he knows. I do not know.

I do know that the virus of a bee, following Pulsatilla, not only restored the virus of a bee, following Pulsatilla, not only restored the urinary function, but brought the stones form the kidneys to the bladder and thence expelled them. Was the attending physician prescribing for gravel, for stone in the kidney, for stone in the bladder? None of this per se. He prescribed for all the symptoms he could find in the case. It turned out that a part of the case was stone. By virtue of similarity with Apis, the whole case, including stone, was cured.

II.

One brisk September morning I was summoned in haste to see Mr.—, who thought he was having gall stone colic. He had been the subject of nephritis, but not under my observation of late. Other physicians had led him to believe that my diagnosis and requirements were unnecessarily rigid. We were having a few days of quite cool weather.

I found him in great agony, but bearing up under it with the fortitude of a heroic family. He was bathed in cold sweat; head, back and extremities cold. Pain felt mid-day between umbilicus and right anterior spine; then transferred to right lumbar region; thence downward and forward to bladder and right testes, with desire to urinate; then shifted to stomach, with nausea; continuous hard pain, emphasized with additional, very sharp, paroxysmal pain, coming and going quickly. Palpation revealed nothing more of importance. He was lying upon his back with thighs and legs flexed.

Patient was put to be with hot blankets and bottles. He did not receive opium or anything else to deaden pain. It is scarcely necessary to tell my Hahnemannian reader that immediately I dissolved in water a few pellets of Belladonna, two hundredth centesimal potency, and gave a teaspoonful every five minutes. After the fourth dose he felt a trifle better.

The intervals between doses were lengthened to ten minutes and then to fifteen as he steadily improved, and so on. I left him to see a very sick man. Upon my return the medicine was stopped, there being no further need of any. All discharges during the next twenty-four hours were submitted to examination by a pathologist, who found abundant grit in the urine. A prescription for the whole case was then made.

This is a familiar picture. Belladonna has never failed to relieve quickly for me, in similar case, even when the concretions were so large that they distended the ureters. The similar medicine is as much superior to the benumbing drug as light is to darkness.

The attacks are not only made shorter and less violent by the similar, but the subjects of all the trouble are advanced toward, not kept back from, complete cure. Even though a skiagraph reveals stone in the kidney which must be removed by operation, the same sort of prescribing is needed before, at and after operation-not only to make that speedily successful, but to prevent recurrence of the malady.

C.M. Boger
Cyrus Maxwell Boger 5/ 13/ 1861 "“ 9/ 2/ 1935
Born in Western Pennsylvania, he graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and subsequently Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia. He moved to Parkersburg, W. Va., in 1888, practicing there, but also consulting worldwide. He gave lectures at the Pulte Medical College in Cincinnati and taught philosophy, materia medica, and repertory at the American Foundation for Homoeopathy Postgraduate School. Boger brought BÅ“nninghausen's Characteristics and Repertory into the English Language in 1905. His publications include :
Boenninghausen's Characteristics and Repertory
Boenninghausen's Antipsorics
Boger's Diphtheria, (The Homoeopathic Therapeutics of)
A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915
General Analysis with Card Index, 1931
Samarskite-A Proving
The Times Which Characterize the Appearance and Aggravation of the Symptoms and their Remedies