These cases were all treated in hospital allopathically over long periods, without success. They were referred to me to try out my “crazy system” (Homoeopathy) on them. Here there are only we two allopaths who openly advocate Homoeopathy, and half a dozen allopaths who secretly tinker with tissue remedies.
So, whatever success U may have had with these cases, proves that even we allopaths can do more good than we do at present, if we take an intelligent interest in other methods of therapy. My methods may be peculiar; but that is due to my insufficient knowledge of Homoeopathy and my inability to shake off completely the twenty years of allopathic hospital training I received.
1. J. M.S., age 52, came with severe dyspnoea. 16.3.39-Had to rest every five steps and breathe heavily. Was many years compositor in Railway Press; now proof reader. Previously several bouts of diarrhoea ( no blood). Treated in hospital. Diarrhoea stopped and bleeding piles developed. Suppressed by Ayurvedic treatment. All this-seven years ago, Rheumatism developed and treated with Gardan (Bayer). Rheumatism disappeared like magic. 14 days later, Civil Surgeon gently hinted. “Heart was weak”. 9 Emetine injections (why?). No. relief. Another course of Emetine! (Again why?) Dyspnoea increased. Was given long leave as “heart patient”. Admitted into hospital several times. Came to me 5 years after beginning of heart trouble on 16.3.39.
Dyspnoea mornings on washing the face, gets anxious, as if he would faint, breaks into sweat, wakes up from sleep with a start as if suffocated, must sit with legs crossed and body thrown forward and drawn in large quantities of fresh air. During attacks, does not know how he is going to get another breath. Appetite, but easily surfeited; feels he must vomit if he eats more.
Clinical. Teeth, pyorrhoea, gingivitis, (lead and mercury poisoning, former, vocational as compositor; latter, a gift from Ayurveda on the decline). Heavily pitted smallpox scars all over body. Heavily built, short squat, flabby.
Heart. Hypertrophic dilatation to the right, apex beat 22 below and 2 lateral to the normal position, Apex sound conducted to axilla, loud hissing systolic murmur, sharp clicking 2nd sound, mitral insufficiency with incomplete compensation, heavy hypertrophic dilatation to the right. Pulse 92, heart and pulse beat synchronous, full, bounding, irregularly intermittent.
Liver, 4 fingers below costal arch, hard regular margin, whole surface tender to pressure, gall bladder not palpable. (No history of Alcohol, Malaria, Dysentery or Lues, no abortions or generalised glands). Abdomen, soft, slightly costive with fecal lumps in the felt iliac, no spleen.
ALLOPATHIC DIAGNOSIS.
Rheumatic endo-and myocarditis, secondary congestive enlargement of the liver.
What worried me was the etiology of the rheumatic attack. Was it due to checked diarrhoea, suppressed haemorrhoids, accidental wettings, dental pyorrhoea ( to which we allopaths attach such importance) or to all of them. I asked him to come the next day since I was not clear. The next day he volunteered an important piece of information which gave me a clue. Inspite of his own massive bout of smallpox, from which he recovered completely, and which to the best of our knowledge is the best proof of immunity, Govt.
Service Regulations demand repeated periodic vaccinations against smallpox! His statement is illuminating since it serves to show up the ravages of this vaccination craze that has become an official sacred institution of official medical bureaucrats that forget nothing old and refuse to learn anything new. 14 days after the last vaccination which did not catch on, he developed a rash on he body. This was treated with sulfur ointments.
The rash was “cured”. Exactly 14 days later he developed acute polyarticular rheumatism. Gardan (bayer) was given with “magical” results. So magical that rheumatism disappeared and exactly 14 days later dyspnoea walked in! A false diagnosis was made and two courses of Emetine made confusion worse confounded. I did not worry about other indications. A single dose Thuja 200 was given as a test.
Next day he came walking to my room and said he had slept soundly all night and even on his back. Given 7 placebo and asked to come after 7 days, if nothing untoward happened. On the assumption of a sycotic and hydrogenoid constitution he was given Nat. Sulf 200, 3 doses one every fourth day. A month after beginning of treatment, the clinical findings were: heard clear systolic beat with a slight suggestion of presystolic murmur (elicitable only on careful auscultation). A reduplicates second sound.
He walks a mile without dyspnoea, but slight nausea on cleaning his teeth. Liver one finger below costal margin, tender to pressure, pain at angle of Rt. Scapula. Chelidonium 6, 6 doses were given. Appetite improved and liver receded. As support, Crataegus O., 1 drop daily was given. 45 days after beginning of treatment, I certified him fit for resuming duties as proof reader. This is a classical case of Anaphylactic Shock to Vaccinosis.
2. Mr. A.K., age 72, referred to me Dr. P., hospital eye specialist with a foreign qualification 4 months of severe orbicular eczema, affecting both sides, covering eyelids, eyebrows and extending to the anterior margins of both ears. Itching severe, surface raw with slight secretion, pains like needles stitches; patient thin, old, emaciated, very chilly very sensitive to cold draughts and slightest gusts of cold air. All cooling things disagree, milk, cucumber, melons, oranges, curds etc.
Hospital skin specialist treated him with all types of ointments, 4 months without success. Handed over to hospital opthalmologist who refused the case as not coming within his jurisdiction. DR. P. referred the case to me for my “crazy system of treatment”. The modalities and the type of lesion pointed to Hepar. Sulf. I advised Dr. P., to begin with one dose Hepar 200. Within 4 days, the single dose of Hepar 200 cleared the case completely.
I saw him after 7 days and found not the slightest trace of his previous lesions. From force of habit, the old gentleman demanded his daily medicine. He was given weekly rations of unmedicated sugar tablets, each time varying in colour and shape, and he feels much better each time the colour and shapes of the tablets are changes. Shows the advantage of constitutional treatment before going to particulars.
[ We go 10 particulars 10 differentiate and select from two or more constitutional remedies indicated in any case. (L.D.D.)].
Mrs. B., age 30. a children, last child 8 months old. Since then fever and cough with large quantities of curdy white sputum, Occasional streaks of blood in sputum. Mouth raw, tongue peppery red with small naked eminences (Moellers glossitis type); very sensitive, giddy, very weak since last delivery. Mother died of T.B. Hospital diagnosis T.B. (Sputum Report. “Acid fast” bacilli found in small numbers). Advised to enter hospital. Patient reluctant. Clinically I found extensive damping of Rt lung, apex clear, coarse moist rales, vocal fremitus and resonance altered, left lung much less involved, apices both sides clear.
Husband with a history of malignant G.C. urethritis, and G.C. arthritis, she herself with a severe, acrid leucorrhoea, burning during micturition since marriage. Was this a case of sycotic phthisis? Ever since I studied this question I began to suspect that a large percentage of case that we allopaths have until now condemned as suspected T.B., may not have been T.B. at all, but more probably old unresolved pneumonias, sycotic or syphilitic phthisis. We allopaths know how difficult the clinical diagnosis between the tubercular and syphilitic lung can be. I put her to the test. One dose of Thuja brought on a very severe reaction.
A latent G.C., arthritis broke out and subsided. Fever rose to 103., sputum profuse patient exhausted. I did interfere. Two weeks later, Medorrhinum M.; one month later on repertorising, Pulsatilla came through. 3 doses Puls. 200. 2 hourly. Exactly 2 months later there was not more cough, no fever, no leucorrhoea. And the patient, a small frail woman, began to blossom out, and I was able to assure her that she had not R.B. A bottle of good old De John. Cold Liver Oil was given and she has gained 13 pounds in weight. I examined her lung on 23 September and found both sides as normal as one could reasonably hope for. Post Menstrual smear showed a few leucocytes and secondary organisms.
A classical case of sycotic phthisis.
These few cases just serve to show that we allopaths will do well to widen our horizon which at present does not go beyond the tip of our noses. Some more experience, and I hope to do a little better than at present in the homoeopathic treatment of cases.
