CURE OF A BACKWARD CHILD


That is what homeopathy does in a backward child, and this is not an isolated instance. Father was not best pleased about trusting his one and only precious son to the mercy of a mere woman. Mother prevailed, however, and father now sings quite a different song.


THE door of my consulting room opened gently, and on lifting my head I saw a gun pointing at me. I ducked my head and no, it was not somebody after my hard-earned shekels, I saw the grinning face of a mischievous little imp of a boy friend of mine peering above the toy gun. I fully entered into the game and pretended to be alarmed, while he made a pretence at firing at me the whole time his mother was talking to me.

What a difference in this boy of four, I thought, in the last six months ! Then he would hide his face and not look at either friend or foe, a doctor was anathema to him, not a word could be got out of him, certainly I should never have expected him to ask me to play with him.

His medical history is very interesting. About 18 months ago his mother brought him to me just after an attack of some childish infectious disease which confined him in a fever hospital for six months. I fancy it was diphtheria followed by scarlet fever, or the other way about, no matter. Anyway her own general practitioner had alarmed her by enumerating all the evil complications he might have as the result of all this, heart and kidney disease and goodness knows what else !.

Father was not best pleased about trusting his one and only precious son to the mercy of a mere woman. Mother prevailed, however, and father now sings quite a different song.

I found some unresolved pneumonia, right-sided, and the boy very disagreeable, would not be examined even, cough worse in the early morning between 3 and 5 oclock. Kali carbonicum 30 was given to the child, and some unmedicated tablets to keep father quiet. Next week saw a great improvement in the physical condition of the child. He had a repeat of the Kali carbonicum two or three weeks later, and began to improve visibly, put on weight, his weight at that time was less than it had been a year before.

By the by, I forgot to mention that he had already attended a well-known childrens specialist for six months the previous summer and had received his pet brand of emulsion gallons of it without the slightest effect on his weight or his nerves.

He was 26 lbs. in October, 1933, and has gained 8 lbs. in the following six months, not bad for a child who had refused to gain anything on malt and cod liver oil emulsion.

But there was no improvement in his nervous condition. He would not look at strangers, would not play with other children, a most irritating child to deal with. Psycho-analysis was suggested by somebody. I think. Probably he would have landed in a child guidance clinic later on. Suddenly on seeing the child after a little interval it flashed across my mind, of course, he is a Baryta carbonica nature.

There was the timidity, the hiding, the fear of strangers. So he promptly got a course of Baryta carbonica 6 night and morning for some weeks. That was about four months ago, then an interval of weeks on nothing, and then a dose of Baryta carbonica 1m one month ago. No further medicine has been required since, he has gained 3 lbs., his mentality is that of normal boy of four, full of fun and mischief, and everybody is pleased.

That is what homoeopathy does in a backward child, and this is not an isolated instance.

He weighs now nearly 35 lbs., which is excellent for a child of this age, and the difference in his mentality !.

Nature possesses vastly greater powers than Art in curing diseases. SIR JOHN FORBES, Nature and Art in the Cure of Diseases.

Dorothy Shepherd
Dorothy Shepherd 1885 – 1952 - British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy. Graduated from Hering College in Chicago. She was a pupil of J.T.Kent. Author of Magic of the Minimum Dose, More Magic of the Minimum Dose, A Physician's Posy, Homeopathy in Epidemic Diseases.