DR. BOND; In the 1M.
DR. CARL H. ENSTAM [Los Angeles, Calif.]: Where there any characteristic symptoms of the epidemic in Indiana at that time?
DR. BOND: That looked like the characteristic epidemic remedy, as far as I could determine.
DR. R.S. FARIS [Richmond, Va.]: Did you use the 1M as the preventive?
DR. BOND: Yes.
DR. FARIS: Give it more than once? Did you repeat it as a preventive?
DR. BOND: As a rule, I just gave one powder. Sometimes I gave three or four powders, with instructions during an epidemic to take a repeat on it in a couple of weeks, if the epidemic was still raging.
DR. A.W. HOLCOMBE [Kokomo, Ind.]: It seems to me that I am monopolizing a good deal of time here. I have seen but two cases of polio, one a young fellow about fourteen years old, and I have forgotten now what I gave him because that was fifty years ago, but he still has a little limp.
But what I want to tell you more about is a homoeopathic doctor over at Monticello, a town about forty-five miles northwest of me. He is a very busy man. I had a patient from there that came over about every three or four weeks, a lady optometrist.
One time she came over and I said, “How is Doctor So-and-so?”
She said, “Doctor is paralyzed.”
I said, “How long ago has that been?”
“He has been in bed for weeks. He had polio. He cant move, cant get out of bed.
“Well,” I said, “you have his wife call me up and let me find out about it. Homoeopaths are too scarce in Indiana to have them laid up. They have to get out and do their business.”
She called me up. I went over and I said, “Have you any Lathyrus?”
She said, “No. What is it?”
I said, “It is my prescription for you husband.”
I sent her the thirtieth. I think I sent five powders to take night and morning. Always give an odd number of doses.
I said, “You report to me in about two weeks.”
Well, in two weeks she called me up and said the doctor was resting better and he could move his limbs a little bit in bed; he couldnt get out of bed, however. So I sent him five powders of Lathyrus 200th, and that got him out of bed.
Then a little later I gave him 1000th and, later, the 10,000th. The last time I heard he was out doing his work just as well as he ever did.
It is wonderful what Lathyrus will do in the case of polio. Gelsemium is good in polio, if it covers the condition.
DR. ALLAN D. SUTHERLAND [Brattleboro, Vt.]: Mr. Chairman, I have had two cases of polio, and my record is extremely poor.
The first case was a married woman with five children, who developed the disease and became completely paralyzed from her waist down. At the same time she began to miscarry, being about five months pregnant. Nux vomica helped her through that rather trying time. She is still paralyzed; has had two pregnancies since, which have had to be terminated by caesarean section, because she has absolutely no abdominal muscles at all. We felt she wouldnt be able to carry through the second stage of labor successfully with no abdominal muscles since she has a little difficulty even in delivering a stool. But she is cheerful and relatively happy and thinks she is lucky to be alive, because she was really quite sick.
The second case was a fourteen-year-old girl who developed, first, paralysis in the limbs and eventually a paralysis of the diaphragm and chest muscle, and expired. The homoeopathic remedy seemed not to help. It was probably the fault of her homoeopathic physician rather than of the system under which he practised, and he felt pretty badly about that.
DR. BOND [closing]: I have nothing much more to say except there are, of course, other good remedies. Lathyrus has just been my champion remedy most of the time.
I did have one case that came in with very high, burning fever and responded very nicely to Belladonna, and no further remedy was needed. I am still waiting for that Curare case when we get a bulbar type of polio. $ Sulphur [Sulphur].
The Homoeopathic Herald By Das N C.
# 1953 Nov Vol 14 No 8.
^ Jacob Genis.
~ Materia Medica.
` Sulph.
On studying Sulphur one finds that each writer enlarged upon that part of its vast symptomatology that appealed to or impressed him most. So we find in Kent his “ragged philosopher” concept overshadowing many of the other fine mental symptoms of this great remedy. Nash, on the other hand, accentuates its characteristic burning.
It is easy in treating on a remedy like Sulphur to become somewhat of a philosopher onself, because, to this writers mind, there is no other remedy in the materia medica, that provides one with better food for thought. Writing the symptomatology of Sulphur, one virtually writes the story of Mankind, more or less. Portions of the Sulphur picture are to be found amongst the “highest” and the “lowest.” In it is written the story of the different stages of the evolution of Man.
The study of Sulphur leads one immediately to observe its very well-marked essentials, viz. (a) Its rather outstanding and definite mental symptoms; (b) very characteristic skin reactions; (c) secretions, and exudations; (d) tissue reactions; and (e) its circulatory disturbances.
In dealing with anybody, proper relations should start with proper introduction. Sulphur should, I think, always be introduced first of all by its rich mental symptomatology.
When meeting the Sulphur individual anywhere there is immediately to the knower of mankind a striking personality, whether he is a chatterbox from the “back streets,” a socialite, a university professor, a poet, a philosopher, a scientist, a religious dignitary, an iconoclast, a recluse or merely a hobo, or the “dirtman” or street cleaner. He is, on closer study, always a singularly “different” type, and is often revered or despised by his fellow men because of this difference. Whether he is of the lowly group or of the higher, he always insists on having his own ideas about things, and says so; or he stays silently aloof from the world around him.
Masculinity is a strongly-marked feature of this personality; not the so-called “he-man” variety, but rather does this individual give this impression through the uttered word, his reserve, or his appearance, which, even in rags, may have an air of philosophic nobility.
Sulphur is seldom concerned with what the world around him thinks of him; he is more concerned with what he thinks of the world. So, if he is gifted and developed personality, he could quite easily become the great and revered leader. Or again, if he should be the lower type of mentality, he may be nothing more than an egoistic chatterbox and nuisance.
It has been said that the Sulphur individual is selfish, and this is true, but in this writers experience, more in so far as his opinions, his concepts, and his accomplishments are concerned. As far as his worldly goods are concerned, he may be most generous and unselfish. This is the type who could probably sell what he has and give it to the poor so that he could follow a great ideal, even as many of the worlds great religious leaders, reformers, philanthropists artists, scientists and philosophers have done. Sulphur is always somewhat of an iconoclast and fanatic.
There is a certain degree of perseverance about Sulphur which deserves mention, because it is quite unusual. He can seldom persevere when it comes to hard physical expenditure of energy, but can reveal an amazing doggedness when it comes to a mental pursuit.
Sometimes, and especially when his line of thinking delves into the greater mysteries of existence and being, this can lead to often apparently foolish conclusions of a supposed solution of these mysteries, or else end in aimless brooding and speculation. This maze of contradictory possibilities may drive him into deep religious or philosophic melancholia and despair, or else he may become cynical and atheistic, or again he may meekly decide to accept the whole business as Fate, Karma, or the will of God and not to be questioned.
The Sulphur personality is often endowed with an amazing memory, but, strangely enough, not for the names of other people, unless they are authorities on his own particular interests. This may be due to the fact that he considers few people important enough to remember their names at all.
Sulphur is usually a dirty persons, not very careful about washing and changing clothes; as a matter of fact, there may be a distinct aversion to washing, and many Sulphur skins are aggravated from washing. And yet, on the other hand, this individual may make a fetish of cleanliness. To some Sulphur types filthy smells, or places, or talk may be very obnoxious, although the opposite may be just as true.
Amongst Sulphur types one may find the practitioners of a very ancient form of autotherapy, namely the taking internally of their own urine and faeces for medicinal purposes. Or these people may be advocates of such practices. And again young children may eat the dried secretions from their noses or excreta. Sometimes these same practice are observed amongst the demented.
With some of these people, organized education means nothing. They are either too lazy to study or believe that education is not such a wonderful asset at all. They often suffer from what one may term the “arrogance of ignorance.” Yet with many more there is a great thirst for knowledge, but often their studies concern subjects not ordinarily followed, or lead into the extraordinary, the abstruse, the peculiar. The philosophic student will usually follow up one of the mystic or esoteric branches of philosophy.
