LITTLE CASES


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. 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.


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”.

Margaret Lucy Tyler
Margaret Lucy Tyler, 1875 – 1943, was an English homeopath who was a student of James Tyler Kent. She qualified in medicine in 1903 at the age of 44 and served on the staff of the London Homeopathic Hospital until her death forty years later. Margaret Tyler became one of the most influential homeopaths of all time. Margaret Tyler wrote - How Not to Practice Homeopathy, Homeopathic Drug Pictures, Repertorising with Sir John Weir, Pointers to some Hayfever remedies, Pointers to Common Remedies.