Could not urinate readily when bladder become too full, because she was “too nervous” Had to wait for relaxation, aggravated if any person was stirring about nearby.
Dizziness.
Numbness of hands while lying at night or if fingers are flexed for any length of time.
Sharp pains darting all through her.
Flush of heat after rising to urinate at 4-5 A.M. Ambra 1m. relieved at once. Requested same medicine six weeks later, after having been “strung up” because of domestic affairs.
XVI.
Boy who had been exposed to pertussis while a severe cough had been going a week. Worst spells in the late evening, aggravated by physical activity and indoors.
The spells were exhausting.
White, stringy phlegm, difficult to remove. Soon after one dose of Ambra 1m. the cough disappeared, but returned three weeks after the first prescription. Also presented a peculiar papulomacular rash on the body. A repetition of the 1m. cut short further symptoms.
XVII.
Little girl with whooping cough, aggravated in the evening and by lying, ameliorated in the open air. Choking when getting out phlegm. Irritable: orange-colored mucus in stools.
Mag. phos. 9c. relieved nicely, but for ten days only. Then had hard spells at night and spells during sleep, better hot applications to chest, hard tight-sounding.
Frequent voiding of urine in great quantities; often ineffectual urging.
Ambra 1m. improved nicely a few days, then was aggravated after having wet feet. A dose of the 40m. then completed the cure within a week.
XVIII.
A young lady was chilled on a long ride while menstruating. Menses had been suppressed, but appeared as usual at the next period, except for a tendency to stop and start.
What troubled the lady most, however, was swelling of the lips, which appeared as the menstruation was checked. At one time one-half the lips would be swollen, at another time the other side. At times all swelling would be gone. At other time the entire lips would be swollen. Of course such a phenomenon in a young ladys lips was a condition which very properly called for an attitude of distress, especially as she could never tell when the lips were going to be swollen, or which side was to become distorted next. The only thing upon which she could depend was that both lips would be equally swollen, either on one side or the other, in the morning.
After a few weeks, notwithstanding the use of epsom salts and other laxatives and appropriate moral persuasion by her physician, the lips continued to be swollen all the time. In addition, itching began and white wheals appeared transiently in various places. The lady then lost her appetite and temper and became quite tired. “The homoeopath” was called in and Ambra 1m. was prescribed. It cured overnight.
XIX
Lady losing sleep, since worrying about a slight illness of her husband.
Headache and head hot, worse after sleeping.
When attempting to sleep, saw herself doing things and other visions. Sleepiness in the evening, but sleepless after retiring.
Flushed face and brilliant eyes while relating symptoms. Symptoms worse when thinking of them.
Ambra 1m. and 40m., two months apart, greatly increased her stock of endurance, besides erasing the other symptoms.
XX.
Old lady disturbed every night with cramps in thighs, calves, feet and occasionally in the neck.
Dizzy spells.
Ambra 1m. cured ( A year previous Cicuta vir. had cured a serious attack of stiff neck, accompanied with spasms extending to the throat and chest.).
XXI
Ambra was needed in the course of treatment of a chronic coryza.
Nasal stoppage worse from any excitement, heat, draft or smoke, be sneezing.
Cold air stinging the membranes.
When coughing sensation as though something hit the bladder, with consequent loss of urine.
Ambra improved for a month until the patient was caught in the grippe epidemic.
XXII
A man of sixty-three fell twenty-five feet, landing on his left shoulder. No serious immediate effects, but had not felt well for several months after. He is a man on whom incidents long past are continued as vivid reality and these symptoms persisted.
Coldness; impossible to keep warm.
An indefinite pain in the right abdomen, with an internal cold sensation.
Urinary urging imperative.
Cough, gagging and vomiting of breakfast.
Aggravated before a storm.
Indolence.
Ambra 1m. cured. Then he strained the right side of the abdomen. Return of internal coldness.
Nervous and worried. Repetition of the 1m. cured.
XXIII.
Woman tired out with the care of a large family.
Numbness for two months, worse in the hands, but also goes to head and entire body; aggravated after inaction, picking up things, standing. Drops things. Hands feel paralyzed when sitting.
Weakness, worse hurrying, worse if many people are about, from any confusion or activity.
Dizziness when moving, relieved by lying.
Slow steady reaction from Ambra 1m. with splendid ultimate result.
XXIV.
A woman had been subject for many years to copious menstruation and metrorrhagia of all degrees and at all seasons. She was of the stout, florid type which has low arterial tension. Trillium and Pulsatilla had done most good, but temporarily only. a late marriage was contracted. The condition became so bad that she was confined to bed much of the time.
Ambra 1m. was given. She continued flowing hard for a week, then it suddenly ceased and has been normal the last four months, the longest period in fifteen years.
Born in Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA on 20 Oct 1871 to Royal Edmund Hayes and Harriet E Merriman. He had at least 4 sons and 1 daughter with Miriam Martha Phillips. He lived in Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States in 1880. He died on 20 July 1952, in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.