CC Liver Disease. CC
(48) Case. – R., lad, aet. 12, living at Park – gate. He suffered for some time from constipation, loss of appetite, dirty looking complexion, emaciation, frontal headache going round to the back, sleepiness towards evening and, first thing in the morning, urine thick, with nasty smell.
Excepting the “nasty” smell, which the body could not define, I find these symptoms in the pathogenesis of Natrum muriaticum in Allen’s Encyclopaedia of Pure Materia Medica and numbered respectively 529, 353, 251, 885, 64, 970, 561.
Therefore, Natrum mur. 6, and that six grains in water, forenoon and afternoon. After taking 24 powders he returned, cured of all the symptoms except the odor of the urine and the emaciation, and “feeling very much better.” The prescription was repeated and the patient did not return. His father subsequently informed me that the cure was complete. (Burnett.)
CC Suppressed Intermittent Fever. CC
(49) Case. – April 21, 1878, John H -, aet 29, seaman, had fever and ague two or three times a day, with watery vomiting, in Calcutta, in September, 1877. Was in Calcutta Hospital three weeks for it and took emetics, quinine and tonics. Left at the end of the three weeks cured, but before he was out of port the ague returned, or he got another, and he had a five months’ voyage home to the port of Liverpool. During the first three months of this homeward voyage he had 2,3,4,5 attacks a week, and took a great deal of a powder from the captain, which, from his description, was probably Cinchona bark; then the fever left him and the following condition supervened, viz.,” pain in right side, under the ribs; cannot lie on right side; both calves very painful to touch, they are hard and stiff; left leg semiflexed, and he cannot lie on right side; both calves very painful to touch, they are hard and stiff; left leg semi flexed, and he cannot stretch it.” In this condition he was two months at see, and two weeks ashore; and in this condition he comes to me, hobbling with the aid of a stick and in great pain from the moving.
Urine muddy and red; bowels regular; skin tawny; conjunctiva yellow. Drinks about three paints of beer daily. I recommend him not to alter his mode of life till he is cured and then to drink less beer.
The former part of the recommendation he followed, as I learned from his brother; of the latter part I have no information.
Therefore ordered Natrum mur. 6 trit., six grains in water every four hours.
April 27. Pain in side and leg went away entirely in three days, and the water cleared at once; but the pain returned on the fourth day in the left calf only, which today is red, painful, swelled and pits. He walks without a stick. Continue medicine.
May 4th. Almost well; feels only a very little pain in left calf in walking. Looks and feels quite well, and walked into the room with perfect case without any stick.
He thinks he had a cold shake a few nights ago.
He continues to perspire every night; ever since he got the ague the sheets have to be changed every night.
Continue medicine.
May 11th. Quite well. No medicine.
July 20th. Continues well. (Burnett.).
Characteristics
Resume.
1. Melancholy; depressed; sad and weeping; consolation aggravates.
2. Great emaciation, even while living well; shows most in the neck.
3. Anaemia, with bursting headaches, especially at the menses; also school girls’ headaches.
4. Great dryness of mucous membranes from lips to anus; lips dry and cracked, especially in the middle; anus dry, cracked, fissured, costive.
5. Heart palpitates, flutters, intermits, throbs violently, shaking the whole body, (<) lying on left side.
6. Itching eruptions, dry or moist, (<) at the margins of the hair.
7. Modalities: (<) 10 to 11 A.M. (many complaints), especially malarial affections: lying down, especially on left side; (heart) heat of sun, or heat in general; (exercise) abuse of quinine or nitrate of silver.
I have selected more than the usual number of causes under this remedy because it is such a “Stunner” to the old school and I like to “rub it in.” Again, m as I wrote in my “Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics,” “there is no remedy in the Materia Medica, I think, that so disgusts the advocates of the low potency, and low only, as this one. The unquestionable cures of the most obstinate cases of intermittent fever with the 200th potency demoralizes them. That people eating salt in appreciable quantities right along and can’t live without it don’t get well on it, and do get well on the same thing potentized, does not hold to reason, the microscope, molecular theory, spectrum analysis or anything else scientific (so called), not being able to discover any material in the dose But there stand the cures, like the blind man whom Jesus healed. it is a hard thing to be confronted by such facts against our prejudices.”
Any school of medicine, or any physician in any school of medicine who refuses to accept such testimony of the power of this remedy, even in the potencies, to cure the sick (and there are many other remedies equally convincing) has no right to lay any claim to being scientific, or even reasonable.
