CANCER



CASE V. Female, age 70. Severe lancinating pain in the left hypochondrium with profuse bright red haemorrhage. Nodular mass present. Kali carb. 30 controlled pain and bleeding.

CASE VI. Cancer of face. Morphine, given before I treated the patient, no longer relieved the intense burning pain. The pain was relieved by heat. Arsenicum alb. 30 brought complete relief which lasted until the end.

CASE VII. Female, age 72. Cancer of the liver. Nodular growth in the abdomen. Large doses of codeine given by previous physician produced unpleasant results. Chelidonium tincture, gtt. vii in half glass of water, teaspoonful in repeated doses, completely relieved the pain.

I improved the general condition of another liver case with Hydrastis 3x. The characteristic mucous discharge from the nose and throat was present.

CASE VIII. Female, age 65. Very malignant carcinoma just above the left breast. Constitutional involvement, no hope of recovery. Had x-ray treatments. Various remedies were given at different times according to indications. The lancinating pains were controlled by Conium 3. Aconite 3 often relieved the intense fear and restlessness. Later, when she became weak, Arsenicum 3 accomplished the same.

Sometimes Ignatia 3x was given for the hysteria. Mental symptoms developed. I prescribed Stramonium 3 with perfect success. The chief symptoms were great loquacity and desire for light, she wished the light left on all night. She gradually grew weaker but did not suffer. The homoeopathic remedy prevented this. Finally she passed peacefully to her final rest.

Some years ago it was believed, by many that cancer developed more readily in those suffering from acidosis. This conception has been reversed, those suffering from alkalosis are more prone to the disease. A slight acidosis is beneficial. I read an interesting article in the January, 1934, number of the Medical World on the acid treatment of cancer.

In conclusion, I wish to assert that although we cannot claim a universal cure for cancer, much can be done therapeutically for those suffering from this disease. Dr. Buckley, for many years connected with the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, believed in treating the patient rather than operating. Although not a member of our school, he possessed considerable knowledge of the homoeopathic principles. He had a vast experience with cancer.

DISCUSSION.

DR. GRIMMER: I want to commend the Doctors position. I am in agreement with him, especially in the proposition that homoeopathic treatment and remedies are the only things that will help to solve the cancer question.

The Doctor paints an entirely different picture from our friends of the old school. He does bring hope; at least if the case is so far advanced that we may not cure them, we can relieve their sufferings and give them a peaceful ending, without the massive doses of morphine or drugging, or the other methods the old school has to employ.

We should not criticize them for giving the things they do, when they havent the weapons we have to deal with. The only criticism I have to offer against the old school is the position they take in the face of their dismal failures. They still brand anybody else who is practicing differently, who doesnt subscribe to their methods, as a quack and a charlatan, until one wonders just who the charlatans are.

The question of potency does not need to disturb us so much. There is no doubt cures have been made with remedies from the tincture to the highest potencies. It is the question of the remedy, and every doctor must be the best judge of what he prefers to use from his experience in this work.

I think that some of our homoeopathics, notably Dr. Stearns and others, are on the road to increasing our valuable remedies for these conditions. I think we will get more searching remedies, remedies that will probably take care of cases farther advanced than we now can hope to do with our present group, because with this work we are dealing more directly with the vital processes which are, after all, more important than any chemical change that can take place, or any change of tissue.

That is where it begins; that is where the beginnings of this work are in the vital forces, and even the old school has become convinced of the inherited tendencies of families. There can be no question that cancer is an inherited condition that is handed down from generation to generation and some families are much more susceptible to the influence.

Now, the homoeopathic remedy is the only one that can reach down into the germ of the chromosomes and change inherited tendencies.

There is one more thought I want to leave and that is the power that homoeopathic remedies have if we could get our patients early enough. The real cure, the real future of homoeopathy is putting that patient in such a state of health that cancer cannot attack him, and I believe that is possible. I know it is possible from my observations, personally, and from talking with a great number of good prescribes who keep records. I know there isnt one case in a thousand who has the advantage of good homoeopathic prescribing, that will develop cancer, even in cancer families.

DR. V. E. BALDWIN: Dr. Grimmer has given you an incentive to give homoeopathic remedies. Perhaps I can recall to him several years ago I had a case with osteosarcoma behind the ear, developing secondary to an operative mastoid. I used at his recommendation Calcarea natrum fluor.

The girl had been an invalid and had spasms of a serious type and following the operation had a growth around the mastoid; that patient got sound and well and since then has been married and become the mother of children, and is in rugged health; although she has a hole back there where the old operator left, it, the other part is well.

In the last ten years I have had, I expect, as large an opportunity as anyone in my territory to prescribe for these patients because they have stayed by me. I will not take up your time but will tell you remedies and I have pictures and records with me at my hotel, of some hundred or more patients I have treated for cancer, who are at least on the way to Wellville; some are dismissed and consider themselves well.

The remedies I have used; Calcarea iodide, and I want to say this: In any type of malignancy that as hardness or involvement of glands, that case nearly always needs some form of the iodide, Cadmium iodide, Calcarea iodide, Aurum iodide, Conium and Phytolacca, for these types with glandular involvement, and especially a great deal of hardness in it.

Then there is Cadmium sulph., Calcarea fluor., and Calcarea sulph. and Hepar sulph., and Phytolacca, especially for those who have softer tissue, especially in the abdomen or along the alimentary canal.

Cadmium sulph. has been remarkable in the recovery developments in most any types of malignancy that involves the alimentary canal. It hardly ever fails to give you some help and relief along that line, especially if the liver is involved.

You will be surprised how much Chionanthus will help you, in a higher potency, by the way, or Chelidonium, beginning in the lower potency and going upward. It has been tremendously helpful and I believe I have positively cured cases with the use of these remedies.

I want especially to mention this matter: So many patients come to you sent by other men, or from other institutions who claim to have cancer, who really dont have cancer. They have some form of tertiary syphilis or some outbreak of a syphilitic miasm, and in several instances I have had patients referred to me who were positively cured by Syphilinum.

Then there are Arsenicum iodide. and Phytolacca, and Asterias rubens, in those cases where you suspect malignancy, which may not be that, but tuberculosis.

I have a picture of a patient with me, here. This patient came to me with a whole breast involvement, not deep, superficial, clear out under the arm and across the breast bone. You could never two or three layers with your hand. She had been to Indianapolis and was tested out at a laboratory and they said she had cancer. She got well on Asterias rubens. It took two years, but I stuck to it to the end, and she was cured finally by the action of that remedy.

I have a patient coming to me who had radium used over the abdomen and developed a radium burn which the doctor who had been using the radium said he thought had turned into cancer. This is over two years ago. This patient got Phosphorus C.M. in the beginning, with some improvement.

I learned something in working on that patient. She wanted something to relieve the burning. She had become intolerant to the touch of her clothes over it, and Phosphorus didnt relieve it at all, so I tried several kinds of ointment. Every time I tried an ointment with a mineral in it, I dont care what it was, it irritated the surface and made the trouble worse.

I finally saturated cloths with pure tincture of Calendula, and you would be surprised what happened. She got along fine and a little later I gave her a series of radium from the 30 up to CM., and that woman is perfectly comfortable, the redness is gone and she seems to be recovered.

Daniel E S Coleman