December 4th.-She weighs 8 st. 13 lbs., or 1 1/2 lbs. more than last time. The hectic flush is gone. I continued with the virus.
January 1st, 1890.-She weighs 9 st. 2 lbs. Is weak, much indigestion, worse at 6 P.M.
Thuja occid. 30, as I considered the virus had done its work, and her two vaccinations had to be reckoned with.
January 29th.-Weight 9 st. 7 lbs., and her indigestion is much better. But there is a little hectic flush again, and hence I hark back to the virus (C.)
Feb. 12th.-She weighs 9 st. 9 1/2 lbs., and is vastly improved. “That medicine tried me a good deal, but I am quite another woman.” Hydrastis 0.
March 14th.-She weighs 10 st. but still has dyspepsia, which I think may be from the old typhoid, and hence ordered Pyrogenium 5 as before.
April 8th.-She weighs 10 st. 2 lbs. and is doing well.
CASE XXVI.
A single lady of 26 came to me in November, 1889, in the first stage of consumption; both her sisters and her mother are said to be in consumption, and both parents of her mother died of consumption.
Beyond dyspnoea and rapid breathing the physical signs were but few: just loss of flesh and a greasy, dingy skin. She had two months of the virus followed by Hydrastis canadensis 0, etc., and was discharged cured in the following May. She is now plump, well, and thriving, so her brother tells me.
CASE XXVII.
A city merchant, single, 28 years of age, came to consult me early last summer for incipient consumption. His mother had died of consumption; his brother is far gone of the same malady. He had an eruption in the skin over the larynx, and his general state was so distressed that I began the treatment with Zincum aceticum 3x, five drops in a tablespoonful of water every three hours. This cured the eruption, and I then noted that his skin was very dusky; he had long had chronic diarrhoea. Moist rales all over the chest, with pretty free expectoration. For the state of bowels I gave Iris versicolor 30, and that cured the chronic diarrhoea, but the expectoration was very profuse. He had been formerly operated on for fistula. The bacillic virus continued for two months quite cured him, and he put on some 8 or 10 lbs. in weight. He continues well, and with my approbation has now married.
Second Edition : He continues well, and his wife has presented him with a fine healthy boy.
CASE XXVIII.
A Country gentleman brought, or rather sent, his little 7 year old daughter to me on October 4, 1889, for treatment for incipient consumption; the cough was at its worst at 6 A.M. Notched incisors; very thin and puny, her cervical and inguinal glands very much enlarged and indurated; strawberry tongue. She was three months under the bacillic virus, the doses at eight day’s intervals, and got quite well. She continues thriving. She also had Thuja afterwards.
CASE XXIX.
A young clerk, 34 years of age, was sent by his employer to me in the early spring of 1890 to be treated for consumption. He was dusky, pigeon-breasted, and ill-conditioned, but had only been acutely ill for three weeks. The haemoptysis was very bad; respiration rapid. His father had died of lung disease. He was put on Acetum lobelia, which did good palliatively, and then on the bacillic virus (C.), which did no good whatever, and he died in a very few weeks. This is quite in accordance with my other experience, when the consumptive process is in full blaze the virus is unavailing.
CASE XXX.
An Oxford student of 22 years of age was sent by his widowed mother to me two years ago, for a little insignificant cough, rapid respiration, and attacks of feverishness. He was not emaciated, but listless, apathetic, and always tired; withal of a very sweet disposition, and had all his life been timid and retiring. I treated him to the very best of my ability, and with great care, with our usual remedies, and with the bacillic virus, and sent him to places which are supposed to be good for this malady. He did not suffer, but slowly died; his life went out, as it were, from utter weariness. I have his photograph before me, taken just before he died, and he, in it, does not even look ill. Perhaps it was thus to be.
CASE XXXI.
A gentleman, well over fifty years of age, whose only brother had died of phthisis pulmonalis, and whose father’s three sisters had also succumbed to the same malady, came to me early in the year for severe haemorrhage from the bowels, cough and emaciation. It was the great loss of flesh that alarmed him. Under the virus he put on flesh, the cough and haemorrhage ceased; he looks years younger, and is now well up to work and actively engaged in his profession. He ceased to lose flesh after the second dose of the virus. He continues under my care for a skin affection, and for prolapsus recti.
CASE XXXII.
A city gentleman, married, 30 years of age, came to me at the beginning of April, 1890, for an affection of his right knee. In 1877, he was kicked on the knee by a horse, which knocked him over. The knee remained swelled, and ever since he has had intermittent attacks of pain in it. He had been to a London hospital, and preparations were being made for an operation. A friend persuaded him to come to me as one known to be averse to operations. The operation was considered to be imperative, because of the supposed tuberculous nature of the knee swelling. This was pretty certain as most of his brothers and sisters had died of tuberculosis-in fact, of fifteen, ten had thus died; and he himself has expectorated clots of blood, and suffered from exhausting sweats.
Two months of the bacillic virus cured him completely, the last vestige of tenderness and swelling, however, disappearing under Bellis Perennis 0, six drops in a tablespoonful of water continued for a month.
CASE XXXIII.
A married lady, about 30 years of age, came under my care some six years ago, sent to me by a colleague in the north. She had long been in consumption, and her husband had taken her to almost all the renowned health resorts in Europe, but the disease progressed. Finally a warm house was built for her on the Surrey Hills, and I paid visits to her at short intervals for some four years, With the aid of the bacillic virus, and Phosphorus, Bryonia, Scilla, Ceanothus, Iodium, Calcarea phos., Calcarea Sul., the Hypo- phosphites, Ant. tart., and some others, including Churchill’s inhalations, Terebinth, etc., I several times thought to win. I got two successive cavities to heal up, but the third, deep in the base of the left lung, refused to heal, and the poor lady, weary and worn, died of exhaustion.
CASE XXXIV.
An unmarried lady, 29 years of age, whose sister had just died at the age of 30 of consumption, and whose mother had also died of the same malady at the age of 39, was brought to me by her father early in April 1889. She was considered a hopeless case, and my hopeful prognosis was not credited. The disease was principally confined to the right lung, and the cervical glands on this side could be felt like marbles. She is thin, skin dingy and dirty looking, ill smelling and greasy, and there was a good deal of acne of the chest. The bacillic virus, with Thuja and Hydrastis, enabled me to discharge her cured in four months.
CASE XXXV.
The little son of a distinguished clergyman, 2 1/2 years old, was brought to me on May 9th, 1889, for feverish attacks that were clearly pointing to tuberculosis, evidenced by the strawberry tongue, the indurated glands, and pining state generally. The bacillic virus, followed by Thuja and Baptisia, was followed by perfect recovery and in three months he was discharged in rude health.
CASE XXXVI.
A babe of 18 months, whose sister I had formerly cured with the bacillic virus of a tuberculous affection of the eye, was, in consequence thereof, brought to me in May, 1889, for soft bones and nocturnal restlessness, with pallor and thinness. I knew the family well for years, and thus was quite sure that the child was necessarily born with a tuberculous tendency. And the virus cured her right off in six weeks, and her poor digestion was then righted by Pulsatilla, and she continues ever since to thrive, and her bent bones have hardened and become straight.
A first cousin was formerly under me with tuberculosis of the meninges, but as I then knew nothing of the virtues of the bacillic virus, she was cured by me of her symptoms, and then died of the disease, viz., tuberculosis.
CASE XXXVII.
A lady brought her baby boy to me at the beginning of May, 1885, She had four children. One died at birth, and the other two died of tubercles of the brain. Patient’s scalp was the seat of a good many scabs; his forehead bulged; very bad nights all his life, and he is peculiarly fond of salt. I had him rubbed with oil, after the manner of the old practitioners of renown; Psorinum 30 did him much good, and rather ameliorated the nocturnal diarrhoea, and his head seemed to bulge rather less.
And after he had also been under Calcarea Carb. 30 a very severe pustular eruption came out on his scalp, with much relief to his general condition. But very suspicious pyrexia occurred at frequent intervals. Here followed Thuja 30, but nothing was really adequate till I gave the virus 30 in infrequent doses, by which he was metamorphosed into a healthy boy; fever, feverishness, calling out in his sleep, and grinding his teeth, all disappeared. He pined a little in 1888 in the spring; a fortnight of the virus quickly righted that, and beyond Calcarea phos. he has needed nothing else.
Burnett was one of the first to speak about vaccination triggering illness. This was discussed in his book, Vaccinosis, published in 1884. He introduced the remedy Bacillinum. He authored twenty books, including the much loved "Fifty Reason for Being a Homeopath." He was the editor of The Homoeopathic World.