Fever: The temperature was 105.4.
Respiratory Organs.: Physical examination denoted pronounced signs of consolidation of both the lungs; auscultation displayed fine mucous rales over the affected areas; the respiration was 51 per minute and the pulse was 146; the breathing was hurried and labored; the cough was incessant, dry and caused severe pain, so much so that she winced and cried.
Abdomen: There was distension.
Mental Symptoms: The patient was restless and slightly delirious.
Tongue: There was a thick, brownish coating on the tongue.
Stool: The patient was passing watery, mucous and blackish, offensive stools.
I prescribed Tuberculinum 200, and asked the father to give one dose when the temperature began to decline.
6 P.M.- The temperature now was 104.4, and Tuberculinum 200 was given.
8 P.M.- The patient began to perspire copiously.
11 P.M.- The temperature came down to 102.4, which it had not done at any time before. OCTOBER 30th, 1920, 8 A.M.
I was sent for in haste. On my arrival at the patients house I found the girls temperature to be normal, i.e., 98.6 and found her to be sleeping quietly.
2 P.M.- I went to see her again at 2 P.M., when I found her to be much better than before. The temperature was still 98.6; the cough was much less frequent; the respiration was almost normal, and the pulse was normal; she did not experience any pain while coughing, and did not pass any more offensive or loose stools.
Placebo was continued.
OCTOBER 31st, 11 A.M.
There was no further rise of temperature, and there was no difficulty of breathing; the condition of the lungs was much better; she had passed a normal stool; the tongue was clear; in short, the patient was cheerful and playing when I visited her.
No more doses were required to complete the cure.
The girl made a splendid recovery within a week.
The grand characteristic symptoms which call for the administration of Tuberculinum in pneumonia, are, in my opinion, oppression of breathing and mucopurulent, viscid or rust-colored expectoration. Difficulty in breathing resulting from bronchial and pulmonary obstruction produced by a superabundant secretion from the mucous membrane is wonderfully relieved by Tuberculinum. In some cases, a single dose of Tuberculinum is a quite enough to do away with these symptoms. It is also a sovereign remedy in influenzal pneumonia, relieves the weakness, mitigates the cough; improves the appetite, stops the perspiration and braces up the whole organism.
The above nine cases reported by me will prove the usefulness of Tuberculinum in pneumonia and show without any shadow of doubt, that it is capable of curing pneumonic cases without a very short time. Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction and I am bold enough to say, that if the monster of this fell malady has ascended the culminating height of its destruction and if death knocks at the very gate of life, it can still be asserted without any fear of contradiction that Tuberculinum will undoubtedly carry off the palm of victory by bringing about a happy amelioration of all the principal agonizing symptoms.
With the extraordinary swiftness of the prophets gourd, the almost dying embers of vitality are sometimes rekindled. The one criterion for judging value is beautifully expressed in the proverb: “The proof of the pudding is in the eating thereof”- that is to say, once satisfied with results we put no questions as to the why and wherefore. The above cases surely answer the purpose for which they are recorded, if they lead my colleagues of the International Hahnemannian Association to investigation the subject for themselves.
Before I conclude I cannot but entreat them to test the efficacy of Tuberculinum in pneumonia and then to publish their valuable experiences.
Corresponding Member of the British Homeopathic Society, French Homeopathic Medical Society, and Hahneman Institute of Brazil.
AUTHOR OF “CHOLERA AND ITS HOMEO. TREATMENT,” “PLAGUE AND ITS PREVENTION AND HOMEO. TREATMENT," “ CHOLERA AND ITS PREVENTION AND HOMEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS,” “DIABETES AND ITS HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT” AND OF A HOMEOPATHIC CHARACTERISTIC MATERIA MEDICA, IN BENGALI ; EDITOR OF THE INDIAN HOMEOPATHIC REPORTER.