DEAR MR. BARKER, – I am sending you a little account of the cure of a very severe pain I had had for months, by one dose of Lycopodium 200. On August 1st, 1934, I consulted you about this pain, and one or two slighter ailments. The pain began about a year ago, and was like a crick in the side, which I did not think much of. Some weeks later, it came again, and the time between the attacks became less and less, until I had it about every ten days, when I first went to you. You gave me various remedies from time to time, including Lycopodium 12x, but with little result.
The intervals between the attacks became shorter, and the pain lingered on for about two days after the worst was over, until, if I had two clear days free from it, I was thankful. It would gradually spread all over the right side, from above the waist to about three inches below the top (ridge) of the pelvis, back and front, and when it was at its worst I could not rest in any position, and at the first moment would go to bed. Only once or twice there were actual stabs of pain, and it was not at all neuralgic, but a dreadful wearing pain, not however amounting to agony.
You thought it might be accounted for by the presence of stone in the kidney or gall bladder, and advised my having X-ray photographs taken. I therefore went to a hospital as an out- patient, and the very kind and able surgeon there thought the same. I had thirteen photographs taken, but they showed nothing. He then advised me to go into hospital to be under “observation”, but I was afraid they would wish for an operation, and I had to give lessons also. So I did not go.
On October 30th you sent me some Lycopodium 200, with instructions to take three pilules once a week. So I took a dose on November 1st. The next day, I had a touch of pain, but from that day to this, January 4th, 1935, I have been absolutely free from it, grace a Dieu. As there was no return of the pain, I did not take another dose. The cure was done with just that one dose. It all seems most wonderful to me.
I feel like someone in a book. Really I never thought you could cure me, or that anyone could. so there was no “faith” in the matter. I had become very thin indeed, but immediately the pain stopped I began to regain my lost weight, and everyone says how well I am looking. They think it very marvellous. May your shadow never grow less, as they say in Ireland.
