Can’t eat enough to satisfy; as hungry after meals as before.
Sensation as if breath would leave her, when lying down: must get up and walk.
When walking, seems to be walking on air: when lying, does not seem to touch the bed.
Intense, unbearable aching of spine: aches from base of brain to coccyx. Very sensitive to touch and pressure.
His other important points, we have already indicated.
But in his Materia Medica of the Nosodes he writes, in regard to Lac caninum, “Like Lachesis, and many other well-known polycrests in the Materia Medica, this remedy met most violent opposition from ignorance and prejudice. It was for years looked upon as one of the novelties or delusions of those who believed in and used the dynamic remedy; yet its wonderful therapeutic powers have slowly but surely overcome every obstacle.
It was successfully used by Dioscorides, Rhasis and Pliny in ancient times. Sammonicus and Sectus praise it in photophobia, otitis and other affections of the eye and ear. Pliny claimed that it cured ulceration of the internal os. It was then used as an antidote to many deadly poisons.
The use of the remedy was a revived by Reisig, of New York, who, while travelling in Europe, heard it lauded as a remedy for throat diseases, and on his return used it successfully in an epidemic of malignant diphtheria. He called the attention of Bayard, Wells and Swan to the wonderful results he obtained during that epidemic, and induced them to give it a trial.
Reisig potentized it to the 17th cent. from which the potencies of Swan and Fincke were prepared. The profession is indebted to the indefatigable labour of Swan for it provings, which were made from the 30th, 200th and higher potencies. The provings of this remedy have placed it among the polycrests of our school and verified and confirmed the clinical accuracies of the observers of ancient times.
Dr. Allen gives striking cases of its power even in what we have called “Chronic Diphtheria”, i.e. “never well since diphtheria.”
NASH tells that he had thought it disgraceful to try to foist dog’s milk on the profession, as a remedy, but after accumulated evidence, he tried it on a case of rheumatism, wandering from joint to joint, that had resisted Puls, and where it not only wandered, but crossed to and fro, in the manner of Lac caninum And the case cured very quickly. Then a case of scarlatina with side- to-side-and-back pains and throat trouble, and again Lac caninum scored over Rhus, which had seemed indicated. Then a bad case of tonsillitis, choking and struggling in effort to swallow, where alternate sides were worse, and again Lac caninum cured within thirty-six hours.
Then he got three clerks in a store to prove it:–in the 200th potency, taken two-hourly. They all got sore throats, one with patches on both tonsils.
Nash finds it especially useful not only for the inflammatory affections that alternate sides; but also for breasts and throats that get sore at every menstrual period; in mastitis, the great indication being they cannot bear a jar; has to hold them up when stepping and going down stairs.
KENT, in his small Lecture on Lac caninum says, All the milks should be potentized, they are our most excellent remedies, they are animal products and foods of early animal life, and therefore correspond to the beginnings of our innermost physical nature. If we had provings of monkey’s, cow’s mare’s and human milk, they would be of great value. Lac defloratum has done excellent work and so has this remedy. Lac caninum is in its beginnings yet, although it has made some marvellous cures. It is deep-acting and long-acting; the provers felt its symptoms for years after the proving was made. It abounds in nervous symptoms. The mental symptoms are prolonged and distressing. It makes ulcers very red, and has cured such ulcers: ulcers are dry, glistening, as if covered with epithelium. An important remedy in complaints following badly treated diphtheria, in paralysis and other conditions dating back to diphtheria oversensitive hyperaesthesia of skin and all parts. It makes women violently hysterical, and causes all sorts of strange and apparently impossible symptoms. For example, a woman lay in bed with fingers abducted, and would go wild if they touched each other:–not worse from hard pressure, but she would scream if they touched. This state is difficult to cure outside Lac caninum and Lachesis.
A strange and peculiar vertigo: as if floating in mid-air, or not touching the bed.
Then, the changing sides: in throats, rheumatic affections, headaches and neuralgias. Ambulating erysipelas attacks first one side, then the other, then back again inflammatory sore throats do the same.
Full of imaginations, and harassing, tormenting thoughts. No reality in the things that be : thinks that everything she says is a lie. (Compare Alumina.) she is not herself, and her properties not her own–as wears somebody else’s nose. And so on:-we have already emphasized most of the points. Putrid mouth. Wherever there is mucous membrane, there will be exudate: a grey, fuzzy coating, like that piling up on the tongue. We have already given the characteristic symptoms of throat, mammae, etc.
BLACK LETTER SYMPTOMS
Swallowing very difficult, painful, almost impossible.
Soreness of throat begins with a tickling sensation, which causes constant cough; then sensation of lump on one side, causing constant deglutition; this condition entirely ceases, only to commence on the opposite side, and often alternates, again returning to its first condition; these sore throats are very apt to begin and end with the menses.
Tonsils inflamed and very sore, red and shining, almost closing throat; dryness of fauces and throat; swelling of submaxillary glands.
Diphtheritic membrane white like china; mucus membrane of throat glistening as if varnished; membranes leave one side and go to the other repeatedly. Desire for warm drinks, which may return through the nose. Post-diphtheritic paralysis.
Serviceable in almost all cases where it is required to dry up milk.
When walking seems to be walking on air: when lying does not seem to touch the bed.
Erratic disposition of symptoms: pains constantly flying from one part to another.
Great fear: of falling downstairs: of inability to perform duties. Fear of death, with anxious face.
Wakes distressed: must rise and occupy herself. Fear she will be crazy: that any symptom is some settled disease: that everything she says is a lie: that she is looked down upon by everyone: that she is of no importance: that she is dirty: that she wears someone else’s nose: that she sees spiders.
That she is surrounded by myriads of snakes. Some running like lightning up and down inside skin; some inside feel long and thin. Fears to step on floor lest she should tread on them, and make them squirm and wind round her legs. (Compare Arg-nit., Sepia) Fears to look behind her lest she should see snakes: is seldom troubled with them after dark.
On going to bed, afraid to shut her eyes lest a large snake should hit her in the face (compare Belladonna). Has most horrid sights presented other mental vision (not always snakes). Horribly afraid they will show themselves to her natural eye. Fear lest pimples would prove little snakes, and twine and twist round each other.
Feels that she is a loathsome, horrible mass of disease: could not bear to look at any part of her body, even hands, as it intensified the feeling of disgust and horror.
Could not bear any part of her body to touch another; could not bear one finger to touch another (>) If she could not get out of her body, she would soon become crazy.
Feels that heart or breathing would stop; frightens herself, which makes heart palpitate. Fancies he is going out of his mind.
Looks under chairs, table, sofa, expecting some horrible monster to creep forth: feels that it would drive her mad. Not afraid in the dark: only imagines she sees them in the light.
Feels that she is going to become unconscious:wakes with sensation of bed in motion.
Dreamed of a large snake in her bed (Bell)
Dreams often that she is urinating: wakes to find herself on the point of doing so. (Sep).
