Cases
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(30) Case. – Miss Anna Tanner, age 20, got creeping chilliness or shivering in the evening, rapid swelling of tonsils with pains shooting up into parotid and ears; great redness of the parts (tonsils and uvula); difficult swallowing; drinks escape by the nose; horribly offensive odor of the breath; flabby tongue, showing imprint of the teeth; high fever and thirst; perspiration profuse but affords no relief. Seems as though the tonsils must suppurate. Here is a typical case of tonsillitis. Mercurius vivus (Fincke) c. m. in solution was followed with rapid and complete subsidence of all these symptoms and rapid recovery without suppuration. I have cured many such cases with the same potency of this remedy. (So have others.) (Nash.)
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(31) Case. – Sore throat commencing a few days after entering a cotton mill. Utterances very thick, speaking seemed painful; in course of ten minutes expectorated six or eight times a mouthful of glairy mucus; intense dull, heavy aching in both tonsils, and a similar pain in small of back; hawks continually; little sleep for three nights, and feels unable to work longer; ulcerated swollen tonsils, about quarter of an inch in depth and width; tonsils purple and hard; whole buccal cavity purple; uvula purple and enlarged, and appears as if twisted on itself, turned much to the left side; tongue twice normal thickness, purple on sides and beneath, and dorsum covered with a thick yellow coat to within one – half an inch of tip, which is dry and swollen; breath extremely fetid. Pseudo – homoeopathy had failed. Ordered Mercurius iod. flav. c. m. every hour. About fifteen minutes after first dose entire relief to back and throat, and went to sleep; was wakened by his mother to give second dose (never wake patient on whom the homoeopathic remedy has induced sleep, nor repeat the dose so long as such a marked improvement continues). Soon after taking it pain returned with greater severity than ever, lasting till morning, and so bad that he walked the floor, groaning from pain the whole night; the pains lessened about 9 A.M.; the hawking and spitting ceased about noon, and now (twenty four hours after first dose) patient feels quite well and tonsils, etc., look much better; in forty – eight hours cured.
Dr. I. himself had angina with such intense suffering, especially continuous aching, dragging pain in tonsils and small of back, that there had been no sleep for nine six hours; eating was impossible, and speech was so indistinct and so painful that he used gestures, prostration from the pain and loss of sleep; tongue coated yellow. Mercurius iod flav. 30 and other drugs had done no good. Took Mercurius iod flavus c. m., in twenty minutes slept, and woke free from pains, and in forty – eight hours was well. (M. Preston.)
CC Eczema CC
(32) Case. – A young girl aged about 14 came to me with a pustular eruption in the left leg extending from the ankle to the hip; the pustules were filled with yellow matter, and were in size from a millet seed to a pea. When the larger ones had broken and discharged they ran together and left a red, raw, sore surface. Various domestic lotions and ointments had been applied with no good effect. The leg was drawn up so that the girl walked on the toes on that side. The symptom that led to the prescription was that the pain, itching and burning were all greatly aggravated in the warmth of the bed and at night.
Mercurius solubilis 2 m, Jenichen, promptly relieved the suffering, and in a few days the patient was cured. (Nash.)
I have cured several similar cases. (N.)
CC Dysentery CC
(33) Case. – Mrs. H., aged fifty, fair complexion, tall and lean, of nervous temperament, has had diarrhoea and colic for a week. Now has eight or ten bloody mucous discharges daily with colic and tenesmus. Mercurius cott. cured in three days. (C.
Wesselhoeft.)
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(34) Case. – Miss P., aged 13, sick a week without treatment; ten or twelve stools daily, beginning at 4 A.M. and continuing all day, but worse at night; slimy mucus and blood, with tenesmus during and after stool and some griping before and after stool; much thirst and little appetite. Mercurius sol. 200, every four hours, cured in two days (J. B. Belladonna)
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(35) Case. – G., tailor, past sixty. Troublesome itching of body and limbs. Skin covered with rusts and papulae. Eruption first appeared over two years ago as very small elevated spots on back of wrist, gradually extending to the other parts of the body. Itching so intolerable it almost sets him crazy if he gets a little warmer than usual while at work. When he first gets into bed the cool sheets feel so nice he goes right to sleep, but after sleeping about half an hour he is awakened by this awful itching and has to get out of bed and walk the floor until the sheets get cool again. Mercurius viv. 200 relieved very much, and Mercurius viv. 30 m completely cured all except a slightly troublesome itching in the daytime while at work. Sulphur 55 m completed the cure. (Dr. H. N. Martin.)
CC Pleuro – Pneumonia. CC
(36). Case. – mrs. Ed. Kinney, age 35, with severe attack of pleuro – pneumonia, after taking Aconite followed by Bryonia rather routinely than otherwise, after a few days presented the following symptoms: Severe pain through the lower right chest, high fever with thirst, and profuse and persistent sweating, which does not relieve. Tongue moist, flabby, showing indentations of teeth. Cough with expectoration of rusty or blood streaked mucus. All worse at night.
Mercurius viv. 6th, once in two hours, brought prompt relief and rapid and perfect recovery. (Nash.)
This case ought to have received the Mercurius before, but this was in the early days of my practice when routinism is quite natural to the young man who has not been taught to individualize so strictly.
CC Syphilis CC
(37) Case. – Mrs. X., seen June 9, 1903. Chancre on chin; accidental inoculation from husband, who had the same on his chin, but was not diagnosed, and was followed by the usual secondary symptoms. Chancre of Mrs. X was of seven weeks’ duration; indurated edges, yellowish base size of a fifty cent piece, surrounded by red inflammatory area. Submaxillary glands swollen. Throat sore. General aggravation at night. Had received Mercurius sol 30 and 200, one dose each, at intervals of three weeks with very slight relief. Throat now aggravated; burns like a hot iron. Mucous patch on right side. Pain extending to ear and down neck to clavicle. Submaxillary gland still swollen.
Secondary roseola on skin of trunk and limbs. Pain (<) right side.
Chancre discharges a yellowish pus from centre; is a trifle softer around edges. Mercurious iodatus flavus 200, one dose (B. & T.) June 16. Much relief. Throat much relieved and chancre healing. Glands smaller. Placebo given.
June 28. Throat almost well; chancre almost healed; roseola fading; placebo.
July 6. Chancre healed, nothing but a hard lump remains.
Throat a little (<) on the right side, and glands more swollen. Mercurius iod. flav. 500, one dose (B. & T.)
July 16. Throat entirely well. Submaxillary glands less swollen. Placebo.
August 7. Lump on chin gone and discoloration fading. Placebo.
September 15. Two small ulcers on inside cheek. Placebo.
September 29. These ulcers refuse to heal, but are not very sore. Mercurius iod. flav. 45 m. (Fincke), one dose.
October 15. Ulcers healed. No symptoms. Placebo.
May 14. 1907. There have been no syphilitic symptoms since, and no discoloration or scar visible at site of chancre. No hair was lost. Time of cure, four months. (R. F. Raue.)
Dr. J. B. Garrion remarks that, “If we can learn to believe that homoeopathy presents a better and quicker manner of curing syphilis than any other, we will not resort to the methods that have been tried and retried for centuries with disappointment. We must not think that we have prescribed homoeopathically merely because we have given a remedy that is said by the text books to be valuable in such cases, but must work out the case carefully, using our repertories and trying to be sure that we have arrived at the similimum Let me also say that if we may have a feeling that we are not able to select the remedy to our satisfaction, do not hesitate to call to our aid a specialist in homoeopathic therapeutics, just as we expect to be called in to aid the general practitioner when our specialities are involved. it will redound to our credit and to the school we represent.” These are true words and sound advice. The surgeon and the specialist can do better surgical and special work in conjunction with skilful homoeopathic prescribing than any other way. Without such medication he can do no better work than his allopathic neighbor, and need not claim to (N.)
Here are seven cases given under Mercurius. They might be multiplied by seven, as might every one of our polychrest remedies. But we must not linger too long on one, and will subjoin our resume:
1. Swollen, flabby tongue, taking imprint of teeth; gums also swollen, spongy or bleeding; breath very offensive.
