Another peculiar thing was the way his balance was disturbed. Whenever the fish stopped to rest a moment as he frequently did, his tail would slowly go up and his head down until almost standing on his head. Then with conscious effort he would wriggle into the correct position and start again on his usual routine. This tipping up and getting righted again was going or repeatedly. Another noticeable thing, although probably explainable by the general weakness was, that whereas this fish had always been the boss of the flock, now he was taking no notice of the other fish nor they of him.
Instead of sharply sending away other fish who came near, now when they bumped into him he accepted it as his own lookout. His courage was gone as well as his energy. So, waiting for him to come to a standstill I let a powder of Baryta carb. 1m settle down to him. That he “took” it I know for some of the granules were sucked in and spit out again. The next day that fish was a little better, keeping his balance better. he improved a little each day until in about two weeks he was as lively as ever and is now king of all he surveys once more.
I once cured a goldfish of tumour on the head that a man who knew fish said was always fatal but have forgotten what remedy was used and could not locate the record.
A dozen or so years ago I received a drooping rose with Gelsemium. For quite a while after that we used to amuse ourselves by feeding that remedy to various kinds of flowers both cultivated and wild, and comparing them with controls. The flowers treated with Gels. not only endured a week or so longer than the others, remaining more stiffly erect, full-leaved and dense in colour, but the aroma from them was much stronger.
There was no apparent difference in the effect of different attenuations used. The next years and once a few years later when I tried it the prescription would not work, so propaganda plans which I had made for the phenomenon went to smash. But of course this failure also corresponds with natural law. I will leave the cause for you to calculate. The reasons could be stated in different ways but they would all illustrate the same principle.
From Homoeopathic Recorder, January 7th, 1938.
Waterbury, Conn.
In the Discussion Dr. UNDERHILL, JR. said : .
This paper shows what can be done by very acute and astute observation of objective symptoms. So many times homoeopathic physicians feel when they are up against a case where the patient is unconscious, or where they have a child who cant express his symptoms in words, that here is great difficulty in arriving at the correct remedy; but there, without any subjective symptoms of any kind, purely objective, Dr. Hayes scored a marvellous percentage of cures, and that should be an inspiration to us all.
DR. MOORE : In Montreal the snow is about four feet deep, and a man whose interest was biology and whose special interest was fish, went to call on a friend living about a block or so away. The temperature was very, very low and when he entered this home, the young lad there said to him, “I have a sick goldfish. What can be done about it ?”.
This man s aid, “I will take care of it”.
When he finished his visit, because it was so cold, he didnt carry the fish in the container, but he wrapped it in his handkerchief and put it in his pocket. he was an absent-minded professor and as he walked along the street he took out his handkerchief to blow his nose, and the fish went into the snow, and he went to get it and he was fussing around in the snowbank when a policeman came up and said, “What are you doing here ?” He said, “I am looking for a goldfish.” The policeman said, “All right, but I wish you would accompany me to the psychopathic hospital”.
This man was very angry and he got up and began to berate the policeman and finally he saw a flicker in the snow and he reached down and picked up the goldfish and said, “There !” And the policeman s aid, “Come-I will go along with you.” (Laughter.).
DR. GRIMMER : All jokes aside, this paper shows not only the power of observation of the doctor, but also it shows a wonderful interpretation, a reading between the lines. He got the homoeopathic indications from these dumb things because he interpreted the language of nature, and that is a beautiful illustration.
As Dr. Underhill said, we se babies, we see unconscious folks, and a good many would throw up their hands and say that there are no symptoms and there is no use. That illustrates that there is a use, if we observe and if we recognize that underneath that law some of the things we can see that are left to see, are very guiding, whatever they may be in the unconscious or in the baby, and those who have studied babies can readily recognize that which Dr. Kent so ably stated, that there are Phosphorus babies and pulsatilla babies, and Chamomilla babies (one you want to spank and the other you feel sorry for, for they just start to cry alone). It is these things that are valuable.
The doctor has knocked into a cocked hat the idea so often fired at us, that mental suggestion cures your cases. I am sure he didnt suggest anything mentally to the fish.
DR. DIXON : The point that I want to talk about is the scope or the breadth of the homoeopathic horizon in this case-the limitations of homoeopathy, and we hear so much about it, and it is very well defined with so many of our homoeopaths, but the vision can extend even to a moribund goldfish, if the training has been there.
$ LITTLE CASE
[Little Case].
Homoeopathy By Dr M L Tyler.
# 1938 Dec Vol VII No 12.
^ Tyler M L.
~ Cases.
` Calc.
A DOCTOR kindly sends us this LITTLE CASE :.
Terrier, suffering from cysts between toes for two years, very crippled at times.
Before I learned to treat the patient, I followed veterinary books which recommended Merc., Graphites and Silica. Only temporary improvement because I did not obey the Law. Then the patient was studied.
Very happy nature, always playful. Excitable, hysterical. .
Very chilly, will sit against radiator .
Overwhelming de sire for sweets which always aggravate cysts. Great desire for water, will sit in the river on a cold day.
Skin suppurates after cut,. bruise, or bee sting.
Cysts always worse after running about in wet grass, etc.
The chilliness and desire for sweets were so outstanding that they were used to throw out all remedies not common to both. Remedies in low type were ignored.
Am-c. Calc. Carb-v. CHIN. kali-c. Nat-c plb. rheum. rhus sabad. sep.
Excitement calc. chin. nat-c sep.
Mirth. calc. NAT-C.
Hysteria calc. kali-c nat-c. plb. rhus SEP.
Unhealthy CALC. carb-v RHUS Sep . skin.
Worse wet applications AM-c CALC. kali-c RHUS sep.
Worse sweets. (am-c.) (calc.) (nat-c).
Calc. 200, three doses six hourly. Cysts much worse for a week, then slowly disappeared.
Cysts returned on holiday due to running about in wet grass. Repeat : complete cure.
The symptoms were so outstanding that all low grade remedies could be ignored.
Not the value of Clarke;s statement that only positive symptoms should be considered. Calc. has dread of bathing and is not affectionate, which the dog is, yet it cured.
[It is interesting and instructive to see that, in the treatment not only of dogs, but of canaries and fish, the consideration of mental and leading characteristics in sickness, will give very magic results. In the canary,phosphorus symptoms, as-desire for large quantities of cold water; lying on the right side; sleepiness; weakness; comfort in warmth, in hum,an sympathy and handling, were marked:-for the person who could appreciate and use them:-ED].
$ MORBILLINUM
[Morbillinum].
Homoeopathy By Dr M L Tyler.
# 1938 Dec Vol VII No 12.
^ Tyler M L.
~ Materia Medica.
` Morbill.
The Virus of Measles.
DRUG PICTURES : 84.
WHAT we are trying to say here is merely tentative. But one has a feeling that the least one can do is to throw out suggestions, trusting that they may, if fertile, germinate in even unforseen quarters and bear fruit to the common good. This has happened every now, when one has joyfully discovered that it is not only “curses and chickens that come home to roost”. But-the seed must be good, and the soil on which it falls, propitious, or-“nothing doing !”.
In the past one has foolishly despised MEASLES; scarcely troubling to record its occurrence in the patients past History : for has not nearly everyone had measles ? but now, at long last, Morbillinum, with like remedies of “childish diseases”, begins to loom up very big through the mists, in the treatment of Chronic Diseases. So much so, indeed, that one sets ones teeth and determines that, please God, one will not have any more Old Chronics. Sounds fantastic ?-extravagant ? We shall see !.
Homoeopathy has been taunted before now with its very moderate or non-success in the treatment of certain baffling disease : and the fact that they are equally baffling everywhere else is no excuse. And now, it is just here that one is glimpsing a faint dawning of day, even in regard to the most terrible and baffling of them all. Hence this pointing finger, trembling with hope.
Hahnemann's three major publications chart the development of homeopathy. In the Organon of Medicine, we see the fundamentals laid out. Materia Medica Pura records the exact symptoms of the remedy provings. In his book, The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homoeopathic Cure, he showed us how natural diseases become chronic in nature when suppressed by improper treatment.