This case reminds me of a statement I heard Dr.Charles B.Gilbert make more than once. He said future generations would class tuberculosis as sycotic. There is a good deal of tuberculosis in this patients family.
CASE 3.
Miss B.P., a patient of mine since 194 at which time she was 14 years old. Only glimpses of the history can be given.
She belongs to a family full of mixed miasmas,very difficult to treat. Her father had epilepsy. Temperamentally she is the odd one of the family, inclined to withdraw,to be silent, to make blunt,offending remarks,misunderstanding and misunderstood.
Difficult concentration. Memory poor.
Cannot recite in school; mind goes blank.
Irritable. Self-centered.
Feeling as if nothing is worth while.
Depression, marked before menses.
Menses late, scanty.
Face flushed and then very pale.
Hands and feet icy cold.
Piles bedclothes on all year around.
Dreams much, busy, tiring dreams, often when half awake.
< a.m., very hard to get up,slow, fussy.
Constipation chronic. Haemorrhoids which bleed.
Vision blurred occasionally. Eyeballs burn after using eyes.
Numbness of the finger tips extending down dangers.
Scalp very scaly,dry, Stays, abscesses, Pustules.
Cracks behind ears.
This patient went stumbling on, not succeeding at anything, until she fell madly in love with a soldier who went to France. She married him on his return, only to find later that he became insane at times, when he would desert her. She discovered a fresh infection of syphilis., 1921-22 found her in Reno seeking a divorce,and while her she became infected at least once more,having the initial lesion and the eruption.
Mentally she grew gradually worse. Her mind would go blank for a moment. She became more indicative and mean saying horrid things. Her nights were terrible, sleepless,and filled with thoughts which frightened her.
Her head was full of distressing confusion with areas of pressure, she complained that she could not think,could decide nothing.
August 1924 she began to notice slight dragging in left leg.
June 1925 there was a left sided paralysis which cleared gradually.
The felt arms has been heavy ever since and muscles of hand somewhat wasted.
This experience made her bitter against all the world and she retired more than ever from people,spending most of her time in bed, not caring to try to take any place in the home.
The mind and heard grew worse.
For remedies, I began way back with Sulph. followed by Calc. carb.and much later by Ferr.
In 1914 Dr.Kent advised Calc. Phos. as long as it would hold and then Tub. Tub.was finally followed by Med. When paralysis came, Lach., was chosen by Dr.Dienst and myself working independently.
In 1926 I first gave her Syphilinum and have kept her on it since. She was sure for a long time it did no good but her family began to see a change. Very gradually mental characteristics dating back to girlhood have become softened and lessened., She has ceased to complain of her head all the time, has left her rooms efforts to he helpful, has ventured out along,and has welcomed guests in the home. She has a better color and expression than of many years. She will not admit much of this but actions speak louder than words.
An incurable patient may have the remaining years order life made much more nearly horrible than seemed possible five years ago. However, she still rails at her doctor and says she is disappointed in Homoeopathy.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Topical applications are neither philosophical or safe. The symptom may be driven away by an un homoeopathic means while the disease which caused it still exists in the individuality, ready to break out at the first opportunity. Again,the means employed may be profoundly Homoeopathic,and in virtue of that homoeopathicity, may drive of the symptom to which they are applied; and yet not be sufficiently attenuated to make a lasting impression on there gained vitality and the disease consequently is not thoroughly naturalized. The applied remedy is not fully absorbed, and consequently is not dynamized, as all things must be which enter the personality-American Homoeopathic Review, 1859.
