A good night’s rest following, and have felt much brighter and generally better ever since the first day. (Healing). “I know several localities in South America, Africa and Spain where the marsh miasma has unquestionably arrested and cured that fatal scourge of the human race, phthisis pulmonalis, without any other treatment or restriction in food or drink. And why should not the climate of the fen lands of Lincolnshire, in the neighborhood of Spalding, prove as curative an agent for this disease as the climate of so many foreign regions where patients go and die, deprived of all the comforts of home? Penzance, among the British localities, is reported to be superior to nine- tenths of the places to which patients are sent. Penzance, then, and Spalding should be particularly studied by medical men and recommended to consumptive individuals who wish to enjoy the benefits and advantages of a national place of relief, if not of cure.”
C. F., age 28, a Kansas volunteer, after a week or ten days of rainy and chilling weather in camp, came home sick. Had a chill, followed by fever. Aching all over body; nausea continuous, vomiting bile and retching. Wants cold drinks. Can’t eat anything; vomits everything, except once he could eat raw tomatoes. Craves sour. Tongue white and thickly coated. Lips parched dry. Urine highly colored, like strong tea. Retching and gagging from hawking mucus. Ipecac cm. Nausea some better. Vomited twice since yesterday. Thirsty, would like much cold water, but is fearful to drink, yet it does not sicken. Slight dizziness, especially on rising up or on raising head. No appetite; aversion to food, thoughts of it sicken. Costive. Feels very weak and languid. Mouth very dry; saliva pasty. Skin dry all over; no sweat at all. Bryonia, 9M.
No nausea; sight of food does not nauseate now, but the thought of his army life gags him. Mouth very dry, subjectively, but really moist. Thirsty, but desires less quantity.
Very weak and tottering. Great uneasiness through abdomen, a sense of heaviness. Has eaten nothing but drinks some cherry juice. Throat dry and sense of slight drawing. Face, eyes and skin very yellow. Constipation; vomited bile; skin very dry. Aside from nausea seems better. Malaria off., 1M.
Feeling better generally. No nausea. Has eaten twice for the first time. Bowels sluggish; no sweat; skin dry and yellow; feels weak; mouth less dry. Sac. lac.
Much better. Less thirst. Has eaten with relish. Mouth less dry. Slept all night. No sweat, but skin some better in color. Sac-lac. Generally improving. Had a good dinner yesterday and breakfast this morning with much relish. Feels like getting up. No nausea. Less yellow. Doing well. Weak and totters yet. Appetite improved; eats with relish. Tongue cleaner. Bowels moved normally. Mouth dry, at times with plenty of saliva. Skin yellow and dry; no sweat. Malaria off., 1M.
Doing finely. Walked a mile to the office. Yellowness of eyes and skin fading. Rapid restoration to better than usual health.
R. A., age 22, another soldier boy, with similar symptoms to the above, was promptly cured by Malaria off.; no other remedy given.
Mrs. S. A. H., age 63, sick for some days. Shooting pains all over in the muscles; bones ache. High fever during the night.
Restless tossing about. Thirsty for lemonade; not so much for water. Diarrhoea; five or six stools this morning; no pain; weakness in bowels; tenderness in right iliac region; stools watery, thin, yellowish, somewhat foul. Bitter taste; mouth parched; tongue white. Ravenous appetite for some days past; none now. Dizziness on rising. Head feels badly, as though it would ache. Pulse 98. Skin hot and dry. Restlessness most marked in the arms, tossing them about. Very stretchy and gaping. Malaria off., 1M. Relieved and up and about next day.
M. H. age 16. “Dumb ague” a year ago. Last four days has been very tired and languid. Backache in lumbar region, shoots up the back; worse when first lying down, then gets better; worse after walking; better lying on the abdomen. Bowels loose yesterday, but no stool to-day. Aching through forehead and temples. Feels well on rising in the morning, agg. after being about for awhile. Agg. towards evening. Last fall had slight chills and fever; no sweat. Yawning. “Malarious feeling” Poor appetite. Thirsty all the time. Malaria off., 6M. Improvement at once, and in a few days said she felt no further need of medicine. M. H. age, 12, sister of above. Peevish for a few days. Last night had severe frontal headache. Restless, tossing all night. Pain in chest and upper abdomen; worse breathing; may be from indigestion. Fever during the night and also this morning. Pulse 112, soft and yielding. Tongue white, with brown streak down the middle. Malaria off., 6M. Prompt cure. M. B., age 13, each evening, about dark, getting earlier each day, he will be chilly with flushes of heat, great desire for fresh air and cannot breathe on account of pain in the liver; worse lying down, must jump up; better from hard pressure on region of liver; during the day has no trouble and no tenderness. Seems entirely well, except that he is getting weaker. Slight fever for a couple of hours in the evening; raves, sings and talks all night; restless. Appetite variable; craves potatoes, apples and beefsteak. Tongue about clean. Malaria off., 1M. The next morning at breakfast with the family, the first time in several weeks; much better in every way, and had no trouble with the liver the next evening following the remedy. Cure rapid and remains. G. C., age 28, ague every other day, icy cold from hips down, chilly all over; agg. about the trunk, and general sweat, but slight. Begins about noon. Used to have ague often and long at a time when living in Missouri, and had it very hard on the Pacific coast, and is now run down. Feels languid, weak and drowsy between attacks; unable to be up. Pulse weak. Very poor appetite. Foul breath. Flashes of heat all the time. Very thirsty. Has taken much quinine. Dizzy when up, with nausea. Has taken salts for constipation. Stool hard, bleeding after stool, at times. Intense headache, as though it would burst. Malaria off., 1M. No chill next day, except the soles of feet felt cold, almost numb. No fever, except very slight on back for a few moments. Sweat over body. Dizzy when up, with some nausea. “Feels wonderfully better; did not think one could feel so much better so soon.” Head is heavy and aches some. Thinks it is from the quinine he took. Bowels have moved twice, thin, watery, foul odor. Urine smells very strong and is very red some days. Short, hacking cough for some days; better today; not so languid and weak. Is sitting up, which he could not do before. Missed two or three chill days, and made general improvement, so as to be able to go home, hence went from under my supervision.
F. B., age 80, very active. Three times, one week apart, has had “dumb ague, ” feeling bad all over, head feels thick and mean, bones ache some, no chill but profuse sweating. Sweats very easily and profusely on least exertion. Right knee weak and painful, worse when bending down to work and raising up; must help himself up. Dizzy when getting up in the morning and on rising up. “Thirst like a horse.” Sleepy, falls asleep reading. Has had chills and fever several times. Malaria off., 6M. Prompt relief.
Three months after he came for help. “Feels bilious, ” as though he was “going to pieces.” Feels tired, uncomfortable. No pain, but very languid; don’t want to move, listless. “Feels malarious.” No chill, no fever. Dizzy when getting up, must steady himself before starting to walk. Sleep and drowsy when reading or sitting quietly. Malaria off., 6M. Prompt relief and no return in eight months.
L. H., age 50, for three weeks has had pain in the right side of back, about the floating ribs (posterior aspect of liver), hurting through the right side; aching, worse sitting, lying a long time, possibly in the evening; better from walking a little.
Had something similar four years ago, and was sick for a long time. Feels weak and languid. Good appetite, eats a good deal without inconvenience. No trouble with the urine or bladder. Constipation. Drawing or puckering feeling in the region of the liver, a kind of cramping. Tongue coated slightly yellowish-white. Had malaria and ague badly years ago; took lots of quinine. Had “dumb ague” badly; took ironwood tea. Has used much Mercury and physic. Malaria off., 6M. Reports himself a great deal better, “The drawing feeling let go within three hours and has not returned.” Pain in posterior aspect of liver much better.
Could hardly walk to office before, but now “feels as if he could walk all over town.” A month later, after hard work and picking up potatoes, he felt some trouble in the liver, which was relieved by the same remedy.
Mrs. H. H., age. 36, is feeling “malarious, ” feels depressed and languid. Is sleepy all the time; can go to sleep standing. Had a “dumb chill” eight days ago, and again in one week. Occasionally has a sudden cold spell at night. Back seems as though it would break; pain goes into the hips. Limbs get numb and cold. Frequent spells of headache, forepart of head. Malaria off., 6M. Soon feeling much better and over the trouble.
