And then it came to me that I had put in my duffle bag some white arsenic for taxidermy purposes and perhaps that might help. Anyway, I put a good sized powder of it in half a pint of water, shook it until I thought it was pretty well dissolved, put twenty drops of that in a glass of water and administered a teaspoonful (all she could take) every hour. This was about 11 a. m. By 6 p.m. she seemed a little brighter and slept between 9 and 12. The next morning she took nearly a cupful of venison broth and retained it, and had no more nausea but improved steadily though very slowly, so at the end of six days she could sit propped up in bed.
An occasional dose of that same Arsenic was given over a period of ten days and she made a good recovery. Her baby, a boy, who must have weighed nine pounds, took condensed milk and water from the start and thrived on it.
We cannot believe all previous physicians were misled with a blind faith when we refer with profit to that curative work. So long as we find patients relieved and cured of their constitutional defects it is a major hazard to decry all that is not in literal accord with modern so-called rational interpretation. A beginner in homoeopathy needs the balance that study of the old masters affords. Whatever is false, time will safely discard; but to disregard all because of some admitted errors in damaging to our cause and to the patients under our care.–RAY W. SPALDING, M. D., before the Eastern, 1929.
