34. Anecdote.- While-waiting towards, evening at the office of Dr. Hlbg, there came running in, the wife of a neighbour, a cabinet-maker, who years ago had been a prover of Nux Moschata. She wanted the doctor to go with her at once, for she said: “My husband fell down while working and lies on the floor in convulsions, the children screaming.” She came near screaming herself, when she heard the doctor was out. But here is a doctor! said Mrs. Hlbg. Having become a foreigner in the fatherland, and knowing the personal hatred of Dr. Tr., who that same day had been seen walking intimately over the bridge with the Coroner, a Dr. S-r, a man so fond of persecuting others, that he had a Rabbi arranged for murder, because a little boy died after circumcision, this and the possibility of the cabinet-maker dying in convulsions and thus getting me into trouble, kept me from going with the woman; but I but the following questions – “What ailments has your husband been liable to?” “None, he has always well, never had a spasm in his life.” “What has happened today, before he fell?” “Nothing at all!” “What did he say, what were has last words?” Sobbing, she answered: “after hurrying from the supper table to his bench, he said I must finish his coffin today and I want to go to bed as soon as I can?” “He lost sleep last night,” she said, “he had to keep the watch in a house of mourning” Immediately a dose of Coccul was ordered. As soon as Dr. Hlbg came home, he hastened there, and found the man in bed asleep. His wife had with much difficulty poured the powder, dissolved in water, into his mouth. The convulsions ceased soon after; he became conscious, asked “what is the matter?” and went to bed. He was well next day and nearly a year after he had not had another fit. Compare Hahnemann’s Materia Medica, Vol. l., p. 506. 507 symptoms Nos : 440 and 454.- C.HG.
