You can imagine her emotions when she compared what we had done and what the surgeon had done. She wanted to pay us a great deal more than we asked. We insisted that she pay the small price that the clinic demanded of everybody, and assured her that as physicians, we could take nothing else. She could hardly get over the fact that for a few cents she was able to receive work so much superior to that the great surgeon had done.
Dont forget Lac can. in those cases where first one breast is involved, then the other. You may have to use Lycopodium or Lachesis, of course. These are both among the list of Dr. Kents high grade cancer remedies.
The list is available in the repertories and I dont believe you want me to take the times to read it. I mentioned Silicea. There is Arsenicum, Cadmium, Mercurius cor., Phosphorus. Kali bi. is more often indicated in the true stomach ulcer; I have not found it markedly indicated in the true cancer, but if related it undoubtedly would come in; but Arsenicum goes all through the cancer study.
Wherever cancer forms in the body, you cannot ignore the pathogenesis of Arsenic. It has everything that goes with cancer, but it is more especially indicated, in my experience, in the gastric, intestinal and skin cases, in the gastric and intestinal cases, Arsenic is a banner remedy. You all know the indications; they are > by warm drinks and < by cold drinks, and of course they have the weakness. Warm drinks are almost the only thing they can tolerate the every reverse of Phosphorus, and Phosphorus is more likely to give haemorrhagic tendencies.
Mercurius cor. has a distinct symptomatology of it own and it is a banner remedy. I have over looked it many times when it might have been the better remedy, and undoubtedly we would get better results if we did not so often ignore it.
Here is another thought; if you can get the closest remedy on your first prescription and do not have to try too many remedies until the case is mixed, you are infinitely better off and there is a much better chance for the patient. That is why it is so necessary to get the indications, meager though they be.
We all know the poisonous effect of Merc.cor. and what it does to the intestinal tract and to the vital organs. You all know the coated tongue, the offensiveness and the sweating.
Another remedy that I see Dr. Kent has ignored, but that sometimes rewards the physician who uses it, is Plumbum. I have seen some wonderful work done with Plumbum where we had the characteristic constipation, weakness and emaciation.
Dr. Kent praises Alumina very highly and mentions it frequently. It has much of the symptomatology of Plumbum. The doctors who have been telling us so much of the dangers of aluminum know what they are talking about, it is an insidious and injurious thing. It may take years for the Alumina constipation to be developed, but in a susceptible patient it will develop, and you will have the true picture of cancer the anaemias, the neuralgias, the peculiar type of constipation, the semi-paralysis that goes with it. The best results, in my experience, are with Alumen and Aluminum silicata, and I have frequently found them useful.
In the bladder cancer we have one of the very difficult cancer. There are some unique remedies in this group. A few are not mentioned in the general group, but most of the general group run through in conjunction with some of these others. There are thirty-four in this group. We find Apis, Argentum met., Arsenic, Arsenicum met., Asterias (which is a sea remedy and is also a good breast cancer remedy if the indications are there), Aurum ars., Badiaga, Belladonna whoever thought of Belladonna in cancer?
But Belladonna is deep enough to take care of some cancers if we have the indications; dont ignore it. We are prone to think of remedies by their depth, but Dr. Farrington has ably spoken of the chronic side of Aconite and Belladonna. Belladonna is a remedy that may prove useful; it may not cure the case, but it will so pave the way that another remedy, probably some of the Calcarea salts, will follow.
Bromium, Bufo I have had some interesting experiences with Bufo, the venom of the South American toad. I saw a late case of cancer where the breast was entirely involved. The women was in a low state, apparently dying, and under Bufo she got up around; the breast opened up, discharged and sloughed away, much as the case did for Dr. Kent under Silicea. The woman lived four years, but finally died of cancer without much pain or trouble, but she was bed-ridden for quite a while.
Carbolic acid, Congo red, in black type. I have inserted a remedy here only for your consideration and study. It was one used by the late Dr. Abrams of San Francisco, Congo red, it is a dye, nevertheless it is a powerful remedy in breast cancer and in some of the bladder conditions.
Condurango, Graphites, Hepar, Hydrangea, Lycopodium, Mercurius and Mercurius iodatus flavus, Nitric acid, Oxalic acid not mentioned by Dr. Kent, but I have found it useful in some cases where the pain is extreme.
Phosphorus, Phytolacca, Psorinum, Sanguinaria, Sepia, Silicea and Sulphur. There are two more I would like to add to that list: Thuja and Sabal serrulata.
Sabal serrulata, as you know, has a wealth of severe urinary symptoms. Dr. Boger once made the statement that it is a splendid remedy in cancer of the prostate.
For skin cancer we have only sixteen remedies listed by Dr. Kent, but remember that that does not limit the prescriber, however, those are the remedies to be studied first. If you can get the symptoms, you can safely give any remedy that is truly indicated. Argentum nit., Arsenic., Arsenicum iodatum, Bufo, Chromium, Hydrastis, Kreosotum, (another carbon), Lachesis; and when we come to take up the female genitals we find that Kreosote and the carbons, every single one of them, go through in heavy type. Phosphorus, Phytolacca, Sepia, Silicea, Sulphur.
One remedy under the rubric of cancer of the sternum is Sulphur. A remedy that goes farther than Sulphur in that condition, in my mind, is Arsenicum sulph. rub.
Fungus haematodes: Arsenic, Calcarea, Carbo animalis, Carbo vegetabilis, Kreosote, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Mercurius, Natrum mur., Nitric acid, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Sepia, Silicea, Sulphur, Thuja; and add to that, Sabal.
Now the cases of the gastrointestinal tract. We have a number of remedies there, additions to what we have in our repertories and literature, that I have proved clinically. I wish I had more symptoms but I can only give the symptoms that we have, and some of them are very meager.
Dont forget the Cadmium salts. I still get a lot of good from them, and I am happy to say that I have had half a dozen men come to me at different conventions. One said, “Doctor, I want to thank you for giving me those Cadmium salts, I cured fifty cases of ulcers of the stomach and intestinal tract, and some cancer, with Cadmium since I read your article.” I warned them against giving anything like that in a routine way.
There are two preparations that I have found most applicable, Cadmium ars. and Cadmium phos. They correspond to those cases that have the glandular involvement, and they are very good remedies. In fact, it will reward you to study most of the Cadmium salts. Cadmium iodide is a remedy that will frequently right a case that has been burned to a chip with radium.
Cancer of the penis, four remedies: Arsenic, Belladonna, Carbo animalis, Carbo sulph. Those are often indicated. There are a few more: Chromium, Phosphorus, Phytolacca, Silicea, Spongia, Thuja.
Epithelioma: Carbo animalis, Phosphorus.
Scirrhus: Carbo animalis, Aluminum.
Cancer of the testes: Spongia. I have found Oxalic acid far superior, especially when accompanied by great pain.
Cancer of the uterus: we have fifty remedies and there is no use of repetition, but we have the carbons, the Arsenicums, Bufo. Chromium, all running through the same list. There may be a few additions here and there, but they are very few and in a low grade.
Cancer of the vagina: Kreosote. Dont misunderstand me that that is only remedy, but that comes from Dr. Kent.
Cancer of the larynx is interesting. There are not many remedies: Arsenic, Nitric acid, Phosphorus, Sanguinaria, Thuja. Cancer of the axilla: Asterias.
Cancer of the tongue and throat give plenty of trouble. We certainly can do better than operate I was surprised to find the number of remedies Dr. Kent had gathered, and of that group we find Apis, Aluminium, Arsenicum. So it does good to write papers on such remedies: Apis, Arsenic, Aurum, Benzoic acid, Calcarea carb, Carbo animalis, Causticum, Conium, Crotalus horridus, Hydrastis, Kali chloricum; Kali cyanatum has quite a reputation in the literature as curing several cases, and it is a good remedy Lachesis Muriatic acid, Nitric acid, Phosphorus, Phytolacca, Sepia, Silicea, Sulphur, Thuja. To that list I have added Radium brom. I have had more satisfying results with Radium brom. in these conditions than with any other remedy.
In his book The Collected Works of Arthur Hill Grimmer, Grimmer spoke out against the fluoridation of water and vaccinations. Grimmer wrote prodigeously, Gnaphalium, Homeopathic Prophylaxis and Homeopathic Medicine and Cancer: The Philosophy and Clinical Experiences of Dr. A.H. Grimmer, M.D.