LIMITATION OF THE HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDY IN SURGERY



Fluoric acid: Especially dental, but also of long bones with thin, excoriating discharges.

Calcarea carb: Especially of the vertebrae. Sour sweat. Obesity. Waxy, white complexion. HYPERTHYROIDISM OR TOXIC THYROID

Amylenum nitrosum: Deep facial flushing. Pulsation all over body. Anxiety as if something might happen. Must have fresh air. Throbbing in head. Bursting out feeling in ears.

Kali iodatum: Fright at every trifle, every little noise. Starting, apprehensive. Excited, quarrelsome. Eyeballs painful on movement. Throat swelling of thyroid gland with sensitiveness to touch and pressure. Choking in trachea. Irregular action of the heart and pulse, with tensive pain across chest, especially affecting right ventricle, which gradually becomes dilated. Tremor of limbs, tearing above right malleolus. Gait disturbed. Emaciation. Marasmus. Nervous mobility. Trembling. Subsultus tendinum.

Lycopus: Increased mental and physical activity in evening. Vertigo. Pressure in forehead. Eyes feel full and heavy. Constriction across lower half of thorax. Quick, weak pulse, occasional haemoptysis.

Ferrum: Confusion and heaviness in the head; vertigo. Epistaxis. Constrictive sensation in the throat. Oppressed, short breathing.

Hypericum: Apprehensive, Mental excitement. Great heaviness in the head; confusion, vertigo. Dryness of the lips and mouth. Great thirst, desire for warm drinks. Anxiety in chest in forenoon with short breath. Palpitation, pulse rapid and hard.

Baryta iodata: Glandular enlargement and new growth, on indications suggested by its two elements.

Bromine: Symptoms are those of Iodine with the exception that it is used in a blonde patient of thin muscular fiber and pink skin.

Duboisinum: Excitable. Dizziness. Pupils widely dilated. Ringing in ears. Throat dry. A rapid pulse; faintness.

Natrum mur.: Palpitation, hearts pulsations shaking the body. Shortness of breath on least exertion. Lachrymose, worse with sympathy. Emaciation of throat; craves salt.

Iodine: Confusion of head. Anxiety, fear, shuns people. Restless agitation. Feeling of depression above eyes. Protrusion of eyeballs. Salivation. Pyrosis. Inflation of abdomen.

Belladonna: Palpitation of the heart, increased by exercise. Pulsation of the larger arteries. Irritability of the heart. Thyroid enlargement. Eyeballs appear to become increased in size. Eyelids do not close, even in sleep. Excitability. Irritability. Depression.

ACUTE SUPPURATIVE MASTOIDITIS

Capsicum: Swelling and pain behind the ear. Burning and stinging in the ear. Sensitiveness, especially at the top of the mastoid.

Belladonna: The symptoms are too well known for detail.

Ammonium picricum: Boring pain extending to ear, orbit and jaw.

A careful study along the lines suggested in this paper will spare many a patient a more or less serious surgical operation, and redound to the honor of Samuel Hahnemann and to the credit of the homoeopathic school of practice.

C.P.Bryant
C. P. BRYANT, M. D.
Seattle.
Chairman, Bureau of Surgery