In the first and fifth case the tissues affected were the brain and nervous system. The cause in the first case was flu; in the second case was flu; in the second case, emotion-stock. Vision was affected in both cases. In the first there was general trembling and weakness of all muscles in addition to weakness of the recti muscles.
However, there was no disturbance of the sphincters in his case, as was found in case five. Case one was a healthy man, normal except overworked, when he contracted the flu. Case five was a tabetic, the shock only produced an aggravation of the paresis. Because of the paretic condition, Gelsemium only relieved the patient of the effect of the shock. It did not cure him of his incurable condition.
The location in Case II was the seal organs. The vertigo was reflex from a curable condition of those organs and Gelsemium permanently cured the patient.
The blood was the location in Case III, also a curable condition. The source or cause in case four was the liver- catarrhal congestions-which readily yielding to Gelsemium Let us now sum up the above in four statements to guide us in the study of a symptom.
1st. Make the patient’s entrance complaint the ranking, or as Prof. Garth Boericke calls it, the determining symptom, which in the illustrative cases was Vertigo. This word instantly brings to mind from thirty to forty drugs from which to select our remedy.
2nd. First our which tissue or organ of the body is affected. To ascertain this is nearly as important as to get the symptom correctly.
3rd. Ascertain how the implicated tissue or organ is affected, i.e., whether irritated, inflamed, functionally changed or structurally changed.
4th. Get the best possible conception of the modalities.
By the above method we get a very fair idea of not only a symptom, but of the group of symptoms of which the one under consideration is a part-the most important part.
