Pelvic Cellulitis


Pelvic Cellulitis. PELVIC CELLULITIS

Case I. Mrs. L, age 36, had been in bed with pelvic cellulitis. She apparently had been a sufferer, notwithstanding amp……


PELVIC CELLULITIS

Case I. Mrs. L, age 36, had been in bed with pelvic cellulitis. She apparently had been a sufferer, notwithstanding ample medical attention. There was much tumefaction of the abdomen and great tenderness of all the pelvic organs, and the tenderness extended to the abdominal tissues and viscera. There was enlargement of the uterus and ovaries with erosion of vaginal portion of the uterus and anterior wall of the vagina. Hot douches per vagina and hot hops constituted her only possible comfort, when her abdomen had cooled from the absence of the hops, pain became unbearable, so she lived and so she was dying. Every change to cold increased her suffering.

Her bowels were constipated, her menses came too soon and her feet were always cold and felt damp. The evidence of her suffering was ample. Her mental state was gloomy. The hop poultices and hot injections were discontinued and she was placed in warm clothing. Calc-c., 85 m, one dose, was given.

No more medicine was needed. She was able to work in four months and is now perfectly well. Three days after taking the medicine her menses came on with profuse flow and increase of pain; at the proper time the flow ceased and all the tenderness and previous suffering passed away.

James Tyler Kent
James Tyler Kent (1849–1916) was an American physician. Prior to his involvement with homeopathy, Kent had practiced conventional medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. He discovered and "converted" to homeopathy as a result of his wife's recovery from a serious ailment using homeopathic methods.
In 1881, Kent accepted a position as professor of anatomy at the Homeopathic College of Missouri, an institution with which he remained affiliated until 1888. In 1890, Kent moved to Pennsylvania to take a position as Dean of Professors at the Post-Graduate Homeopathic Medical School of Philadelphia. In 1897 Kent published his magnum opus, Repertory of the Homœopathic Materia Medica. Kent moved to Chicago in 1903, where he taught at Hahnemann Medical College.