MAY 31 -“I am much better”. How do you know? “because the sweating at my seat I had so many years has gone”.
Complains that in warm weather he is apt to get dry eczema of the hands. Since taking the Pyrozenium his skin has assumed a cleaner aspect.
Thuja 30 in infrequent dose.
June 29- Discharged thick matter and blood soon after beginning with the powders. The fistula still discharge, and there is a good deal of sclerosed tissue at its bottom and around it. Patient is dusky and drowsy.
R Nux vomica 1, five drops in water night and morning.
August 7, Perfectly well of the fistula, and of the circumjacent telar sclerosis. Just before the fistula began to heal up definitely, a small calculus -hard and sharp, size of a pea -was passed from it with much pain, or rather it pained very much, and on feeling the part he discovered the calculous formation and removed it, and brought it to me.
CASE OF POITRINARY FISTULA.
This designation of connection with connection with chest symptoms seems to me convenient, and I accordingly coin it.
A city gentleman, single, thirtyfive years of age, came to me on march 4, 1889 for fistula-in ano and chest. He informed me that he had much expectoration of phlegm all his life, but for the past two years the same had becomes bloody For a number of years, under homoeopathic treatment with benefits, he had maintained his ground and even gained a little in strength and bulk. Present weight ten stone, i found his throat studded with tubercles, his lungs very flat, vocal resonance much increased at both apices, and all down apices and all down the left side of the thorax; he is very short-winded, coughs, and expectorates almost incessantly; his skin is dingy, dusky and greasy; the glands of his neck hard, though small the phlegm is thick, yellow-green. For the past two years has been suffering from fistula. Under my treatment the old fistula dried up, but then (Ap.9.) A new one formed on the other side. Previously he had been twice cut for fistula. This needless torture I was able to spare him.
April 29 – Perineal abscess reopened, burst discharged very freely, and has now all healed.’
May 13 – fistula quite well.
August 9.- fistula continues well. Patient himself much better and stronger, and remains under treatment for his throat and chest. Patient received some nosodes- Thuja 30, Hydrastis can 0, Nux vomica 1x and Dulcamara 0.
I have myself not met with many cases of fistula in the very young, but here is no.
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.