July 16th, 1906.-Rx Scirrh. 100, three doses to go over the month.
August 9th.-Has been more conscious of the lump. The side aches. She feels darts of pain in it. I found the lump not altered
in size, but tender. A gland also was felt in axilla. Period absent since June 17th. Excessive flushes.
Rx Conium 100.
August 23rd.-Has been better. Flushes better. Tumour smaller. Breast much softer. Has felt pain through the chest.
Repeat.
September 28th.-Still better. Tumour smaller.
Repeat.
October 30th.-Better, but still has a sensation in the tumour. There is very little of it now, but it is still tender.
Repeat.
March 27th.- Breast flatter; much less tender. Repeat.
She continued on this medicine for several months, improving all the time. April 25th, 1907.-Has had a good deal of worry. An unusual exertion of the arm-drawing a cork-caused pain in the breast, but for the most part she forgets it altogether. The cheloidal tumour is gradually getting smaller.
Rx Scirrhin. 100, six doses in two months.
June 25th.-Sensation all gone from tumour. All that is left of it is a pea-like nodule. Has a good many flushes.
Rx Conium 100, four doses in six weeks; followed by Scirrhin. 100, the same period.
She continued with these remedies
unchanged till February 1908, when the tumour was found to have entirely disappeared.
CASE XVII.-Tumour of Left Breast.
Mrs T., 45, dark, consulted me on February 20th, 1907, about a lump which she had discovered in the left breast. She had good health generally, though never very strong; had had an attack of haemorrhage, lasting three days, apparently from the respiratory passages, a year before. Her father had died of phthisis at the age of 39. The lump in the breast she had only just discovered. She had been vaccinated as baby, and had
“awful marks” as a result. At 7 and 14 she had been vaccinated again, but it only took slightly. Periods had always been scanty. has herpetic eruption in the hair some years ago, and it has returned. A number of superficial naevi- “canceroderms” -about the body. I found both breasts considerably indurated in the upper segments, and a small hard nodule on the axillary margin of the left breast. A small gland was felt in the discovery of the nodule which had alarmed the patient.
Rx carcinosum 100, three doses to go over the month.
April 11th.-Nodule entirely disappeared.
The indurated condition of the upper parts of the breasts still remained, but there was no sign of the nodule and there has been no return of it, as I ascertained quite recently.
