Abdominal symptoms are mostly grumbling pains, or colicky cutting pains. These are relieved by the passage of a hard, costive stool, but soon followed by dull distress in the bowels. Constipation, rather than diarrhoea, is the rule, the stools being dry, black, and lumpy.
In the chest there is a sharp tearing in the left side from the top down to the sixth or seventh ribs, which is worse when breathing; or sudden, flying pains from heart to stomach, so severe as momentarily to suspend respiration.
In the limbs Ustilago causes rheumatic pains described as dull, aching, drawing, sticking, cutting or flying. The upper extremity and the right side are most frequently affected. There are hypertrophy and loss of the nails, the latter, according to Clarke, being a keynote for Ustilago.
Upon the skin, besides the loss of hair and nails, Ustilago shows its power in pustular eruptions, scald-head, and various forms of eczema. As a rule the Ustilago skin is dry and hot and congested.
In general Ustilagos complaints are worse from motion, walking, touch, pressure, rising, riding, in a warm room and in the open air.
In closing I desire to express my appreciation for the manner in which this paper has been accepted. I realize that it has many shortcomings, in excuse for which I plead a brief and very recent acquaintance with Ustilago. Perhaps I have spent too much time on unimportant symptoms to the neglect of more useful ones. However, I have spent too much time on unimportant symptoms to the neglect of more useful ones. However, I have attempted to cover in some detail those pertaining to the female organs of generation, for it is here, I believe, that this remedy exhibits its greatest powers.
Allan D. Sutherland was born in Northfield, Vermont in 1897, delivered by the local homeopathic physician. The son of a Canadian Episcopalian minister, his father had arrived there to lead the local parish five years earlier and met his mother, who was the daughter of the president of the University of Norwich. Four years after Allan’s birth, ministerial work lead the family first to North Carolina and then to Connecticut a few years afterward.
Starting in 1920, Sutherland began his premedical studies and a year later, he began his medical education at Hahnemann Medical School in Philadelphia.
Sutherland graduated in 1925 and went on to intern at both Children’s Homeopathic Hospital and St. Luke’s Homeopathic Hospital. He then was appointed the chief resident at Children’s. With the conclusion of his residency and 2 years of clinical experience under his belt, Sutherland opened his own practice in Philadelphia while retaining a position at Children’s in the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department.
In 1928, Sutherland decided to set up practice in Brattleboro.