A very striking case of heart disease following faulty skin treatment will be found on page 283. I would give a very interesting cure described by Dr. J. Compton Burnett, in his book Fifty Reasons For Being A Homoeopath:.
“Rheumatic Endocarditis in the Course of Rheumatic Fever: I was fetched one day in February by a gentleman in the City to see his wife, a lady of about 55 or 60, who was lying very dangerously ill at the end of the third week of rheumatic fever. Suddenly patients condition and become very alarming on account of the rheumatism having apparently seized upon the heart.
I found this condition: Patient was propped up in bed and breathing very hurriedly, the lips bluish, tongue dry and coated, anxious expression of face, puffy under eyes, moist bubbling sounds all over chest, with cough, pulse rapid, compressible and intermittent, action of heart floundering, loud endocardial noises, slight dropsy of feet, not appetite at all, could just suck a grape or sip tea, profuse perspiration, limbs swelled and painful, the joints almost as firmly locked as if ankylosed, cannot move hands or foot for pain from the swelled, inflamed state of the joints, flesh of hands puffy, bones of hands swelled, almost immovable, and tender.
I ordered Aurum foliatum (pure lead gold), 2nd trituration, very frequently. Why did I order Aurum? Because it affects the heart and respiration (if taken experimentally by provers) very much like they were affected in this patient, and because, moreover, it produces profuse perspiration, profound weakness, lack of appetite and great anxiety. Then the bones were greatly affected.
February 18th, a little easier; February 19th, better in all respects; February 20th, considerable improvement in the action of the heart, breathing comfortable, is out of danger. February 22nd, continued improvement; February 24th, quite comfortable. Continue the Aurum and take Natrum sulphuricum, 6th trituration in alternation with it. My reason for alternating was that I thought it imprudent to leave off the gold, and yet Natrum sulphuricum was now indicated. March 2nd, is up sitting by the fire. Appetite good. March 6th, heart, joints, bones and hands free from rheumatism, is sitting by the fire quite comfortably, appetite good, tongue moist but slightly furred, feet swell a little towards evening.
When I saw patient first, I gave a bad prognosis, and, had it not been for the gold, I fear it would have been realized. Patients recovery was complete.
In therapeutics I have a great fondness for certain remedies, one of which is gold. The allopaths say gold is no medicine at all because it is an insoluble metal. That is what the best professors of Materia Medica taught me. It is fundamentally false all the same.”.
Homoeopaths have used triturated gold, made soluble, or colloidal, by vigorous trituration, for more than a century and have produced innumerable miracle cures with it.
Among the large number of heart remedies used by the followers of the new science of healing there is Cactus grandiflorus, which produces in provers a curious symptom of severe and most painful constriction which they often describe as a sensation similar to the heart being grasped by an iron hand or the chest being compressed with an iron hoop, etc.
That is an important “keynote symptom”. If it is noticed in a patient, immediate relief and cure may be effected by a small dose of Cactus, even if Morphia and all the other orthodox pain-controlling remedies have failed. Perhaps the most excruciating pain known to medicine is the pain of Angina Pectoris. Dr. Thomas C. Duncan described in his Handbook of the Diseases of the Heart the following striking case cured by Cactus:.
“While a young physician, thirty-two years ago, I was called to a severe case of angina pectoris. The case was in a large boarding-house where there were several young ladies– one of whom was especially interested in him. It seems that he would be taken and writhe in agony. He said that his heart felt as if gripped in a vice, and the only relief the allopath physician could afford was by morphine, hypodermically, and then chloroform. The result was that he would be laid up for several days. Between the severe attacks and severe treatments he was fast being used up.
One day I rashly said that if there was any truth in Homoeopathy that Cactus ought to control the attacks. This was welcome news. In a few days, while vaulting over a low fence to get a childs ball, an attack was precipitated and I was sent for in haste. My Cactus was a fresh, reliable preparation that I had it in my hand as I entered the house, ordering half a glass of water on my way to the room. I found an athletic man being held on the bed by four persons.
His eyes were closed, face pale with a most anxious, fearful expression; head well thrown back and he was clutching at his left side (precordial region) as if too loosen the grasp of a monster. He was tossing from side to side as if in the greatest distress. I fixed Cactus 3x in water, and with the greatest difficulty succeeded in prising open his jaws sufficiently to get a teaspoonful in his mouth. In a few moments he was evidently easier. Next day he was up and came to my office to get some of that wonderful remedy that had stopped the attack so promptly. Six months after I learned through his affianced that he had no more attacks.”.
Occasionally a very serious case recovers, not because of the medicine given but because the physician uses common sense. Dr. J. H. Nankivell described in Vol. 21 of the British Journal of Homoeopathy the following amusing cure:.
“About twenty years since, a farmer, aged 74, who had been a free drinker, suffered an attack of apoplexy. He rallied, but was hemiplegic (paralysed) on the left side. He was kept low, and had the usual allopathic treatment. At the end of three weeks his condition was not much changed; he appeared to be getting weaker; he took but very little food, and was only able to express his wanted by signs; he was extremely irritable, and seemed to be much in want of something which he could not explain.
Writing materials were placed before him, and he wrote thus –Beeeee. He was asked if it was beer. He signified his assent by the most lively and grotesque pantomime, and was soon supplied with a reasonable amount of his favourite beverage. No mill effects followed, but, on the contrary, he rapidly improved in health and strength, and was able to speak, although indistinctly. He survived two years; and then had a second apoplectic attack, which proved fatal.”.
James Ellis Barker wrote a very large number of books, both under the name James Ellis Barker and under his real German name Otto Julius Eltzbacher, The Truth about Homœopathy; Rough Notes on Remedies with William Murray; Chronic Constipation; The Story of My Eyes; Miracles Of Healing and How They are Done; Good Health and Happiness; New Lives for Old: How to Cure the Incurable; My Testament of Healing; Cancer, the Surgeon and the Researcher; Cancer, how it is Caused, how it Can be Prevented with a foreward by William Arbuthnot Lane; Cancer and the Black Man etc.