On examination we found the following: Pain beginning at the crest of the right ilium and extending in a fine line toward the umbilicus, of a burning character when not active, but in action it became a severe cutting, excruciating, increasing in intensity as it approached the umbilicus. Thinking of the pain would reproduce it if quiescent or decidedly aggravate it if in action, as also would sour fruit or sugar, and it was decidedly < on motion or exertion. The abdomen was extremely sensitive and a fine streak of red marked the course of the pain. The patient had always been sensitive to cold air. We placed 15 drops it out.
He was given one dose. In fifteen minutes, the time we expected to give the second dose, he showed signs of improvement. After thirty minutes and against our better judgment we gave a second dose to assuage his pleading. In just forty-five minutes from the first dose he was in a sound, peaceful, quiet, natural sleep from which he did not awake until 7 A.M. the following morning, when he awoke refreshed, got up, shaved, ate breakfast, and was the first patient at the office that day. There has been no return of the pain.
In the first case homoeopathy triumphantly did what all other methods failed to do in a chronic condition. In the acute case homoeopathy accomplished in just forty-five minutes what modern homoeopathy aided by allopathy failed to do in seventy-two hours.
In conclusion, ladies and gentlemen, an ignorant mans idea of an intelligent man is one who criticises his equals and his superiors and who enlightens his inferiors, and as your inferior we are here to be enlightened.
