February 14, 1933. Sneezing. Dry throat and nose. Inflammation of the tonsils until gums. Bad taste. Two hours after breakfast, depression, swooning and feeling like vomiting. Blisters with itching on left forearm and back. The stings have left. General condition better. Better appetite and better digestion. The bowels function normally, a little burning bladder and urine a little cloudy. Is more lively, with exception of today as he is feeling a little sad. Some sweating during the night. Placebo. February 20, 1933. On the 16th the pain is not so very intense in his top stomach, in the morning he suffers of muscle pains in his arms.
He is getting thin. Since four days he had no bowel movement. Hard pain in his abdomen. The digestion has been discomposed. He is hardly able to throw off the gases. Trying hard to make his bowels move, they seem as if closed up. His father tips have begun to swell up again. He has a heavy head, the inflammation of his tonsils and disappeared. He nose is very dry. Sour taste. Urine heavy. Bad taste and bad odor to his mouth. Yesterday cold showers in the afternoon. Very nervous, desperate, lazy, feeling like fainting, sleepiness at noon, wants to sleep in the street. Natrum phos. 60x., six pellets once and Placebo.
February 28, 1933. Muscle pains have disappeared. Better digestion. Normal evacuations. Pain at right side of abdomen (this pain presented itself after appendix operation which had taken place some months ago). Many gases which can easily be thrown off. Dim sight. Has not thought about committing suicide any more. Better appetite and better assimilation. He is not so weak any more. Heavy dreams between 3 and 5 in the morning: an animal in the shape of a sponge which clings to his back; that he was being taken prisoner and had to kill himself firing a bullet into his right temple. Placebo.
March 13, 1933. Yesterday he felt again stings in the ends of his hands, but very light; intestines clogged, the foregoing days they had been working well. Light vomiting during day. In better spirits than yesterday. For three days itching of elbows, he has now an eruption of blisters. Hot waves at noon and at night. Heavy urine since yesterday. The sores of his feet disappear and there is not so much itching. No headaches since yesterday, and no drowsiness, shivering and bad feeling. Placebo.
The patient has not come back to consult us, for which we feel sorry as we feel that our prescription of Natrum phos. improved his health and if we did not repeat it in the last consultation it is because we never repeat the doses of the medicine nor do we change it until we are not sure of what happens.
The Homoeopathic Recorder Vol. LVII., No. 7.
