It is possible that if prescribed, in this case, as single dose of Nux vomica 30 or 200, I would have cured the woman without any aggravation.
Case XIV Non-motivated antipathy against some persons. Physical awkwardness. Cured by Natrum muriaticum 25.
M.X., 46 years, having the symptoms of the beginning of paralysis, experienced against some persons a non-motivated antipathy and which was against this habit formerly. He has become awkward as regards his limbs. I gave him Natrum muriaticum 25, once a day for six days: 15 days afterwards, he experienced the disappearance of his antipathies and also his physical awkwardness. I gave him the medicine without his knowledge.
Case XV
Wickedness and antipathy of a girl against her mother whom she beats. Cured by Natrum muriaticum 200.
Mlle X. who had been well educated and well brought up came to me because of pains in the heart, had impulsions to suicide being drowned in water or by taking poison, which I cured by the help of different medicines. Besides, she had an antipathy and wickedness against her very good mother. Even she used to beat her mother. After having prescribed to this girl many remedies without result, I gave her without her knowledge 6 to 7 globules of Natrum muriaticum 200, in a soup. Since then that girl has not beat her mother and on the contrary had much affection for her.
Among the subjects of cases already related here, the observation XVI is the only one where ther were some symptoms of folly, because there was delirium of persecution, believing always watched, spied, followed. Different remedies while maintaining the amelioration of the character, retard indefinitely the evolution of character, retard indefinitely the evolution of the folly, as will explain to us later on Dr. Maudsley.
Case XVI A young girl of 17 years, apathetic in body and mind and too slow in her work. Cured by Calcarea carbonica 300.
A young nurse of children, aged 17 years, was so much apathetic in body and in mind and so slow, so much less alert to her daily needs, that she was about to be dismissed. I gave her without telling her why, Calcarea carbonica 300 once a day to be taken for three days. At the end of a week, she became lively, alert, more intelligent and ready to give service. That amelioration persisted for 8 to 10 months.
Case XVII A young man of 16 years very slow in his work. No success with Calcarea carbonica 300. Cured by Sulphur 300.
A young man of 16 years, attacked by pulmonary tuberculosis, after a overwork and insufficient food, was very laborious but very slow in his work. I ameliorated much the condition of his body by the help of Calcarea carbonica 300, taken 6 doses in 6 days and by an adipogenous regime which increased his weight by 150 grams a day; about two months later on I gave him without telling him why, Sulphur 300, once a day for 5 days. This remedy made him lively, alert in his work, which helped him to do more work during the same time. Calcarea carbonica which was so well successful in this condition of the preceding case, was not useful in this case.
Case XVIII A gentleman of 52, was very lively in his young age, became very slow. Cured by Sulphur 200.
M. X… was in his youth alert and so lively that his friends nicknamed him RAPID to avoid the trouble of pronouncing his name difficult to articulate. A chronic sickly state, some moral causes and age had contributed to make his liveliness to disappear. At the age of 52 years, he consulted me. I gave him without success many medicines. Finally I gave him 6 to 7 globules of Sulphur 200, to be taken once. A month afterwards he said to me: “It seems to me that this medicine has given me back my liveliness for which I was nicknamed `Rapid’ in my youth.”
Case XIX, XX
Two young girl who gave themselves upto onanism. Cured by Origanum majorana 4.
12 years ago, in the first part of my clinical talks I devoted three chapters to the exposition of the treatment of genital passion. I cited among other cases the of a young girl of 20, who used to masturbate, doing everything to stop this temptation, and with this aim she gave herself up to daily act of fervent devotion in order to strengthen her desire, and all these were unsuccessful because everything she falls back to her bad habit. She was radically cured of that really irresistible genital impulse by Origanum majorana. This medicine had been discovered and used in similar cases by the late canon of Cesoles, founder of a hospital for orphans in Nice, called by his name as Hospital of Cesolines.
The two young girls of whom I am going to speak, gave themselves up equally to onanism, tool no doubt the same means as that of the said young girl, before consulting me.
Two years ago, the one of them was in a boarding house of the aim to check the propagation of that vicious habit among the others asked me if could not cure her. I prescribed her to that end 6 to 7 globules of Origanum majorana 4, dissolved in 4 teaspoonful of water of which one teaspoonful is to be taken at every two days interval. This treatment had such a durable effect that the mother superior of the same convent sent me the following year an other boarder whom I cured with Origanum administered in the same manner.
After having done the experiments, I have seen that some psychic states could not be cured by the medicines and was possible to cure by other means. In order to give some good explanations on this point, I had to go out of the field of contemporary medicine of which the the masters who being diverted from the tendencies of the ancient doctors, restrict more and more form their teachings to specialisation. Many times it is proved to be a development, but it also becomes very often dangerous when they forget the whole for the part only. We have very frequently the occasions to experience this danger. We homoeopathic doctor, consulted by out patients in whom specialisation or specialists have made a vain treatment of the local affection-the leaves dry away from the tress. We then cure these patients, because we treat the disease-the runk, the roots and the tree-which produce the the local affection. As for example being afraid of the danger of some specialities in medicine, I will cite the following fact. A single made house has within it some women in whom has developed madness after cauterisation off matrices by famous specialists.
Case XXI
A young woman, attacked suddenly by a fit of erotomania. Cured by Platina.
A young lady, of good manners, was suddenly attacked by erotomania, which was persisting already since many days without any amelioration. Then her husband, according to my advice, gave her a single dose of Platina 30. The cure of that erotomania took place the same day and the cure lasted for 7 to 8 years.
If the intervention of the doctor were asked for in similar cases, he could stop the impulse to debauchery of the one or the other of the couple and, so, prevent some scandals which make the families desolate, and would thus stop the separation between husband and wives which would have happened to the detriment of them and above all to the detriment of their children
Case XXII
A very timid lady, wanting in self-assurance. Cured by Carbo vegetabilis 30.
A lady of 35 years was timed and wanted self-assurance so much so that she was ways late to take a decision in her household affairs, which caused conjugal discord.
The 21st August, 1875: I prescribed her Carbo vegetabilis 30 to be taken once a day for six days. Her self-assurance returned towards the third day, which disappeared on the 5th day, then came back anew, augmented progressively up to the 11th October. This remedy has also singularly provoked an appetite for soups which are well digested and taken with preference to al other foods.
The 23rd November 1875, I prescribed a new dose of Carbo vegetabilis 30 to be taken for six days, once a day. Some times afterwards the woman said to me: “Now I have sufficient self- assurance, and I can take decision easily for household affairs and thus can prevent some discussions with my husband”.
Case XXIII
Miss X.. aged 23, in a drawing room, became stiff in her movements and attitude, the face became purple almost blue, and all these because she was very much intimidated and wanted self- assurance. Also she seemed to be less beautiful and less intelligent than when she was in her family.
The 30th May 1875: I prescribed her Carbo vegetabilis 30 to be taken three times a day for two days.
This remedy very often repeated, diminished still more the self- assurance for the first ten days. Then the self-assurance developed on the 11th day and was maintained. On the 30th day the assurance developed still more and since then it increased gradually to such a point that the woman said: “I have now the natural self-command and not exaggerated which has astonished the whole family. Now with strangers I am at ease as well as with my parents”.
This medicine, or others appropriate for each individual might give sufficient self-control to some timid young people who should undergo a competitive examination and who sometimes fail, not because of the want of knowledge, but by the want of self- command and lose thus 6, 12, 18 months of their lives to learn again the subjects of examination that they already know. Some of them who fail in the examination, have their carrier completely broken not because of little education, but by a loss of self- command which prevent them to say or write that they know.
Gallavardin set up a homeopathic Dispensary for the cure of alcoholics, often working in conjunction with priests, and he wrote several books on this subject.
Jean Pierre Gallavardin wrote Psychism and Homeopathy, The Homoeopathic Treatment of Alcoholism, How to Cure Alcoholism the Non-toxic Homoeopathic Way, Repertory of Psychic Medicines with Materia Medica, Plastic Medicine, and articles for The British Journal of Homeopathy, On Phosphoric Paralysis, and he collated the statistics on pneumonia and other cases for the United States Journal of Homeopathy, and he contributed widely to homeopathic publications.