Late in the autumn of 1925 she had a marked return of the oedema, until the abdomen and both arms and both mammae were so filled with water that I thought her days were numbered.
Her greatest agony was from pains in the right shoulder and arm. These pains were so severe that they nearly drove her insane. The thought came that she would soon pass away, and I would turn to something for immediate relief. I gave strontium carb. the 200th, four powders, daily. I kept her on this remedy in ascending potencies through the winter and early spring with some improvement in oedema and pain. While the large spot on the left tibia had practically healed, the growths from the knees down seemed to multiply.
The toenails turned a golden yellow in color and looked as if they were ready to drop off. So on April 25, 1926, I returned to thuja the 200th in water, one dram every six hours. On May 8, 1926, I found the limbs greatly reduced in size, the arms practically normal, also the body, and my patient much quieter mentally. For previous to this she had shown symptoms of mania. The marked discoloration of the limbs was growing paler and the growths deeply red were turning white. This looked very encouraging.
I continued the thuja every eight hours and early in June found my patient very much better. The dropsical condition had practically all disappeared. The excrescences were growing less in size, the respiration, which was very difficult during all of these years, was very much better. She was now able, with the assistance of the nurse, to walk from the living room and her bedroom to the bathroom.
She felt so vigorous that she also walked into the dining room and took one meal a day there. On the 15th of June I found the conditions rapidly improving. My patient could talk with vigor, enjoyed company, and could lie down to sleep for six hours at a time, the first in three years. The mental and physical condition was so markedly improved that I now gave thuja the 500th, one dram every twelve hours, and am watching results.
