(b) CONSTANT.
(c) DULL.
(d) SHARP.
(e) OCCIPITAL.
(f) INTERMITTENT.
(g) NOCTURNAL.
(h) Worse after sleep.
(i) Hammering.
(j) Vertical.
WARM IN THE HEAD. THE FACE IS RED, HOT AND SWOLLEN. SWEATING OF THE HEAD.
(5) Puffy, especially under the left eye. An amaurosis of left eye (upper field). Imperative rubbing of the eyes. FEELS FULL IN THE EARS, worse in the afternoon. Throbbing ears and ear noises.
(6) NOCTURNAL RHINORRHOEA, and rhinorrhoea after sleep in the morning. SNEEZING, worse in a draught, and it affects the sleep at night. EPISTAXIS; PROFUSE, bright red and symptom relieving. Lips broken out. LEFT-SIDED SORE THROAT. WORSE ON SWALLOWING FOOD OR DRINK. PERSISTENT MORNING HOARSENESS. BURNING IN THE THROAT. A DRY, TIGHT COUGH, nocturnal.
(6) HARD, THUMPING PALPITATION, WORSE ON LYING, and SLEEP- PREVENTING. SHARP PAINS IN THE LEFT CHEST, and CONSTRICTION OF THE WHOLE CHEST. Heavy in the right chest. CENTRAL OR ENTIRE BACKACHE, CONSTANT. WORSE ON MOTION. A blown-up tensive feeling in the right axilla. A shoulder soreness ( also a squeezing pain). THE HANDS ARE STIFF IN THE MORNING. TINGLING HANDS. WEAKNESS, of extremities, especially the LEGS, NUMB FEET. Sciatica favours the right side. It is a sharp or dull descending leg pain with knee stiffness and ankle soreness, worse on pressure.
(8) Fever and chills. Fever, then sweat. THE SWEATING IS MATUTINAL, AFTER SLEEP, GENERALIZED and PROFUSE. Axillary sweats and sweats after the general heat. GENERALIZED NIGHTLY CHILLINESS. THE THIRST IS WORSE IN THE MORNING, with DRY MOUTH AND DRY THROAT, with FEVER IN THE AFTERNOON.
(9) BITTER MORNING TASTE. MORNING BELCHING. EATING PRODUCES EITHER AGGRAVATION OR AMELIORATION. MORNING NAUSEA. Craves ice- cream. THE UPPER ABDOMEN IS INVOLVED. A TENDER GALL BLADDER AND KNIFE0LIKE STOMACH PAINS or DRAWING BELLY PAINS, worse on an empty stomach. Burning in the epigastrium. DIARRHOEA. IT IS PAINFUL AND IMPERATIVE. OFFENSIVE FLATUS. The stool is clay- coloured.
(10) ASTHMA WORSE IN THE MORNING. BETTER FROM INGESTION OF FOOD. DYSPNOEIC ON EXERTION. A MORNING WEAKNESS. WORSE UPON AND AFTER EXERTION. BETTER AFTER REST. THE SKIN IS RED and IT IS MOST IN THE DAYTIME. AN AGGRAVATION BY TOUCH. ITCHING OF THE SKIN in various areas.
$ LITTLE CASES
[More Little Cases -2].
Homoeopathy By Dr M L Tyler.
# 1938 Oct Vol VII No 10.
^ Tyler M L.
~ Cases.
` Phos.
PNEUMONIA. Phos. 10m. 6 doses.
Keith W., age 18.
August 14th, 1938. Sent in by local doctor, with the following:-.
“Became ill morning of the 12th. C/o headache and backache. Temp. 101. Continued more or less the same till this morning, the 14th, when definite signs of pneumonia (left base) were present. Temp. 101; Pulse 84; Resp. 40”.
On admission, August 14th:-.
“Prostration.
Skin feels hot and burning.
Chest feels as if a weight on it.
Cyanosed.
Thirsty for cold drinks.
No sputum: too hard to get it up.
Feels sick.
Alae nasi flapping.
Tongue dirty: brown.
Wants company, Phos. 10m. 2 doses 1-hourly; 2 doses 2 -hourly; 2 doses 3-hourly.
Two days later, was reading the paper, and very well”.
$ TYPHUS
[Typhus].
Homoeopathy By Dr M L Tyler.
# 1938 Oct Vol VII No 10.
^ Tyler M L.
~ General Topics.
` ==.
RESULTS OF HOMOEOPATHY IN THE MISSION FIELD.
A MISSIONARY writes from Marrakech, June 4th, 1938:–.
“You may have noticed that we have had a severe epidemic of Typhus here for the last six months. It is now dying down, I am happy to say. I enclose the official statistics which will show you the rate of mortality. They include all patients seen and cared for by a numerous staff of doctors in two very large hospitals. You will notice that the percentage of deaths is very high among Europeans. [ We are asked not to publish these statistics.].
“But my chief reason for sending this is to tell you that one of our lady workers here, who holds only her S.R.M. has treated forty-seven cases in all, without losing a single case, and she used Rhus tox. 3x, 40 mins. in 2 ozs. water, given in teaspoonful doses every two hours.
Her cases ranged from old age of infancy, from the well-to-do to the very poorest of the people. She had no assurance that the treatment would be carefully carried out, as the poor people have no idea of doing things as we do them. In spite of all this every case got over the fever. Temperature was sometimes as high as 105.6, pulse 130. She never saw a patient in state of coma; the temperature generally began to drop after the tenth day.
“Having only a very limited knowledge of homoeopathic treatment, she wonders if it would have been any better to have used a higher potency, in cases where the patient had been ill for ten or fourteen days before she saw her. Several of such cases died, but that was not the fault of the treatment, as they were too far gone before she saw them. The forty-seven cases were cases in which she had a fair opportunity.
“Many years ago we began to use some homoeopathic drugs, which we found very good especially for children. The more I have seen the effects of such drugs, I am convinced that there is a value in them which is little dreamt of by Allopaths. At the beginning of the epidemic here, Miss E. began to use Rhus tox. just by way of experiment.
Then some one sent her a copy of the Organ of the B.H.A.(“HOMOEOPATHY”). In it she saw that away back in the Napoleonic wars Hahnemann had used this very drug with marvellous results. This confirmed her in using it. Certainly, were I down with Typhus, I would insist on being treated in this way. French doctors confess that they have nothing of any real value. They just give injections to keep the heart going until the fever passes”.
$ KREOSOTUM
[Kreosotum].
Homoeopathy By Dr M L Tyler.
# 1938 Oct Vol VII No 10.
^ Tyler M L.
~ Materia Medica.
` Kreos.
A product of distillation of Wood Tar.
DRUG PICTURES: 82.
ANOTHER of the “offensive” drugs. Its vile odours are those of putridity. “Putrid odour from the mouth. Diphtheria with terrible fetor oris. Decomposition of mucous membrane, throat. Cadaverous smelling vomiting. Putrid stools. Urine fetid. Putrid state of the womb after childbirth. Leucorrhoea; putrid, acrid. Lochia; blackish, lumpy, very offensive; excoriating. Septic pharyngitis, with softening and degeneration of mucous membrane of larynx, and especially of oesophagus. Gangrene of lungs. Putrid fever. Tendency to decomposition”.
Putrid, then, and ACRID. Excoriation of mucous membranes generally.
Withal, rapid emaciation. One of the drugs of despairing conditions. But it alleviates, and when things have not gone too far (symptoms agreeing) may cure.
One has personally experienced the great value of Kreosotum in a few striking cases not easily forgotten. As, for example:.
Some twenty years ago an old woman was brought into our hospital, dying of bronchitis, with fearful smelling breath and sputum; it was almost impossible to go near her screened bed. Two or three doses of Kreosote 200 entirely changed the picture rapidly: and she made a good recovery.
Again, in cancer of the uterus, especially of cervix, with terrible offensiveness and bloody, fetid oozings, Kreosotum has at least palliated and made the neighbourhood of the patient bearable.
One has also used Kreosotum in potency for wee children on the indication; “teeth decay as soon as erupted”.
BLACK LETTER SYMPTOMS.
Chronic swelling of eyelids and their margins: agglutination of lids.
Lupus on NOSE: left side.
Bad odour from decayed TEETH.
Toothache; extending to temple and left face; drawing, extending to inner ear and temples: caused by caries.
Teeth show dark specks and begin to decay as soon as they appear.
Gums: bluish-red, soft, spongy, easily bleeding, inflamed, ulcerated, scorbutic.
Putrid odour from MOUTH.
VOMITING: of sweetish water: undigested food. . . . with dimness of vision; of large quantities of sour, acrid fluid, or white, foamy mucus.
Water, after it is swallowed, taste bitter.
Painful hard spot at, or to left of stomach.
Frequent urging to URINATE, with copious, pale discharge; at night, cannot get out of bed quick enough.
Urinates six or seven times a day, always with great haste, and always passing a great deal.
Smarting and burning in pudenda during and after micturition.
LEUCORRHOEa of a yellow colour, also stains linen yellow, with great weakness of limbs.
Leucorrhoea, if white, has odour of green corn.
Burning between pudenda after urinating.
Soreness between pudenda, with burning biting pains, as if little children.
Violent itching of vagina; obliged to rub it. Posteriorly there is smarting; external genitalia swollen, hot and hard.
On urinating,vagina pains as if sore; in the evening.
Violent itching and biting between the labia; she could not refrain from rubbing.
Corrosive itching between pudenda and in vagina; so that she was obliged to rub them; with a feeling of burning and swelling in the pudenda.
Scirrhus of vagina, painful to touch.
Inveterate ulcers on neck of uterus.
Severe headache before and during menses.
Her haemorrhage seems to pass into a corrosive, ichorus discharge, and then to freshen up again and go on.
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.