Incipient phthisis in a boy aged 7; loss of flesh; great prostration; morbid timidity; glands of groins and on both sides of neck very much enlarged and indurated, particularly glands over apex of right lung; as he had suffered much from vaccination, Thuja 30 and Sabina 30 were first given, then Tuberculinum. Burnett.
Nocturnal perspirations; notched incisors; indurated glands everywhere, very large and numerous; drum bellied; grinding of teeth at night; great susceptibility to taking cold; perspiration agg. at back of lungs and on head; big head, with bulging forehead; subject to attacks of fever and diarrhoea. – Burnett.
Incipient tubercular disease; restless at nights; sleepless; grinds teeth; tendency to diarrhoea; want of appetite; foul breath; notched teeth; pain after food; vomiting of food; indurated glands; strawberry tongue; naughty; very irritable temper; puny growth; very thin; girl, aged 6. – Burnett.
A nasty little cough, for seven weeks; much expectoration; pains in right lung; evening fever; liver and spleen enlarged; cough morning after breakfast; neck slightly goitrous; eats hardly and breakfast. – Burnett.
Cough, amel. 6 A.M.; notched incisors; thin and puny; cervical and inguinal glands much enlarged and indurated; strawberry tongue; girl, aged 7. – Burnett.
No respiratory sounds at top of right lung, and vocal resonance slightly increased; pain in left side; profuse perspiration; girl, aged 18. – Burnett.
Much fever, agg. evening; restless and terribly irritable; much depressed and in almost constant agitation; tongue very red; chronic diarrhoea; has lost fourteen pounds during last six weeks; has no appetite; evacuations discharged from bowels as from a pop-gun. – Burnett.
Bad cough of about twelve months duration: expectoration of blood; one of apices was audibly diseased; has had pneumonia; chest flat; respiration accelerated; tanned unduly in sun.
Burnett.
Anemic, sickly, pale; profound debility; dyspnoea, cannot mount or hurry; menses irregular. – Burnett.
Lady, aged 26, in first stage of consumption; dyspnoea and rapid breathing; loss of flesh, greasy, dingy skin. – Burnett.
Stout man, bright, florid complexion, mother died of phthisis, with which disease her sister is suffering; gets pneumonia very often in cold weather; hence travels from place to place to avoid colds; cough much, brings up much phlegm; perspired profusely and drank great quantities of fluids; wretched sleepless nights, with almost constant fever; glands of neck much enlarged. – Burnett.
Complains that she has been in consumption for many years; is very thin and consumed with fever; lungs very flat; respiration almost imperceptible; fever; poor appetite; languid. – Burnett.
Ringworm on scalp; lymphatic glands everywhere palpable; ribs very flat; strawberry tongue, bad cough, agg. at night; although 11 years old she had practically no teeth, they were rudimentary, and not above level of gums. – Burnett.
Pronounced phthisical habit; severe piles; constipation; brown cutaneous affection on abdomen. – Burnett.
In September, 1905, I was called to see a little Irish girl, named Mary Gilbert, ten years of age, who was suffering with what I thought was an attack of pneumonia, temperature 104, a dry cough with severe pain in chest. I treated her with the usual remedies, Belladonna, Bryonia, etc., with only an apparent amelioration of symptoms. But the child lost flesh and seemed to develop an empyema. About the third week there was a profuse discharge of foul smelling pus-like matter, greenish in color, from mouth. The family had been named by the “household angel” that the child would die-three successive raps on the door at midnight had given the warning. They administered holy water and asked for a consulting physician. Dr. Pugh, who had attended the mother a year previously, in pneumonia, of which she died, was called, made a careful examination and left the following note: “I think you are completely right. She has I think some empyema on right side (not much), but she has pulmonary tuberculosis of both lungs. I doubt that the hospital would do any good.” (Sgd.) Dr. Chas. E. Pugh.
I had thought of sending her to the hospital as she had the poorest of care at home; but the doctor said it was of no use, nothing could save her. I quite agreed with him, but bethought myself of Tuberculinum. Here was a chance to try it, surely it could do her no harm. She was given a number of doses of the 200, and alter higher potencies till I reached the cm., and with continual improvement. The cough diminished, the hectic spots left her cheeks after a number of weeks, but before the real spring came she was a plump and rosy child. All this, too, in a cold, bad winter and with the most unsanitary surroundings.
The child had previously had what I thought at the time were tubercular abscesses, from enlarged cervical glands at the base of the neck.
The family openly said her recovery was a miracle due to prayers to St. Anne, and it was a miracle, only the saint was Tuberculinum. I heard from little Mary this week and she is well, and I mean cured, restored to robust health, not in the least a puny child.
I always hesitate to use the remedy first hand, but have a number of times used it after other remedies failed, and with success, especially where there was a tubercular tendency. – Scholes.
Heart
Palpitation early in morning.
Sensation of heaviness and pressure over heart.
Palpitation with cough and sticking pain in lungs.
By deep inspiration severe palpitation.
Aching in heart.
Palpitation in night agg. when raising himself up.
Palpitation with pain in the back.
Death from paralysis of heart. – Libhertz.
Back and neck
Glands in neck and scars swollen and very tender, various lupus points about them showing yellow fluid under epidermis.
Scars in neck softer and flatter; no lupus nodules now perceptible.
Glands cannot now be felt, except the largest, which is now reduced to size of a pea.
Cervical glands much smaller.
Aching like needle-pricks in the back.
Prickly feeling in skin of back.
Weakness in lumbosacral region.
Sticking pain over both scapulae; pain in region of spleen; vague pains in back and on chest, with sensation of pressure.
Sticking in back.
Pain in back with palpitation. (Sensation on his back as if the clothing were moist. – Bac.) Three red patches on left side of back became much deeper.
Violent reaction, during which pains in loins agg. by pressure; (case of Addison’s of sacrum greatly improved. – Pick.
Tuberculosis of sacrum greatly improved. – Kura.
Large boil on back of neck, intensely painful, discharge of green pus and did not heal for two months.
Beating, throbbing pain under inferior angle of right scapula.
Severe pain in left trapezius muscle, from nape of neck to occiput.
When waking after first sleep at 3 A.M. neck and back stiff and painful, wears off during the day.
Unable to turn the head to the left, and when turning to the right, the left side is painful.
Wakened at midnight with twitching at angle of left scapula; passed to right scapula and down the right arm like a convulsive tremor shaking the arm.
Indurated cervical glands.
Lump, size of a walnut on cord of neck, is movable and occasionally itches. – Rose.
Upper limbs
Aching in forearms; vague, stitching pain.
Diminution of inflammation above elbow-joint; disappearance of abscess over olecranon; sinus connected with radius discharging freely a thick yellow pus.
Sensation of luxation with severe pains in right carpal joint; agg. by effort to move it; ceasing by rest.
Trembling of hands.
Hands and arms so weak am unable to write; must support right wrist with left hand in raising a cup or glass to my mouth; and passing dishes at table.
Unable to dress myself from weakness of the arms.
Lower Limbs
During night pain referred to right knee; right leg rotated in and flexed slighted at hip and knee; movement of right hip-joint free; 1 P.M., left hip much more painful and tender, more flexed, abducted and rotated out (disease of left hip in girl of five.).
Aching in the hip-joints.
Pain right knee without swelling (Heron, a non-tubercular case).
The knee became easily movable and could be bent to a right angle (tuberculous affection of right knee.).
Swelling and tenderness of both knee-joints.-Heron.
Sensation of formication in arms and legs.
Great weakness in limbs after dinner.
Sensation of fatigue and faintness in all limbs.
Pain in limbs, fatigue (3 to 4 h. after injection).
Pains in limbs (2nd d.).
Pains in ulnar nerve and calves of legs and knee, left great toe much affected, and became very red and turgid.
Trembling of limbs (in an alcoholic).
Twitching in the limbs.
Dull pain in bones, aggravated from walking and much worse every afternoon and evening.
Left leg painful on walking, must keep weight off it as much as possible; worse sitting than when walking, but pain always worse after exercise.
Severe pain across sacrum, as if parts were massaged with a fist.
