On February 20th, 1929 she was given a dose of Lachesis 10M, and again on April 24th. The mind cleared and her general health steadily improved. October 12th the neuritis returned, with aggravation from cold and damp weather and relief on continued motion. Rhus 10M acted at once, but had to be repeated on December 20th. January 14th, 1930, there was a slight return of the mental symptoms which was a slight return of the mental symptoms which was promptly relieved by another powder of Lachesis 10M. February 4th. Hot flushes passing upwards; wakens at 3:30 a.m. and cannot sleep again. Sulphur 10M.
Mrs. G. is now to all appearance well. Her mind is clear; she was has no pain, and her only disability is deafness, which is of years standing.
Another triumph is added to the long list of triumphs for homoeopathy!.
CHICAGO, ILL.
DISCUSSION.
DR. J.W. WAFFENSMITH: It is always to listen to paper from Dr. Farrington and I certainly want to thank the doctor for this most instructive paper. The doctor, in the presentation of his papers, is always foursquare for homoeopathy. I believe we should make a collection of all such papers so that whenever a question comes up we will ave evidence from different sources concerning the effects of some of the treatment that patients are today receiving.
DR.C.M. BOGER: This paper furnishes the best evidence for the existence of this Society and its purposes. In every decade since the advent of homoeopathy, had had to contend with some overwhelming method or practice in the old school, which in itself threatened to engulf homoeopathy. The things which threaten to engulf it now are the use of serums and sense less operations, especially on the tonsils and other glands. The people are being overwhelmed with advice from school examiners and public health officers, etc., who instruct them and which way they should go, under the guise of making them stronger and healthier. Often the result is a distortion of the vital economy and an injury to the vital forces as we know when we come upon cases that have been mutilated in this way.
DR. H.A. ROBERTS: I have very much interested in this paper because I recently had an innocent appearing proposition handed to me which resulted very disastrously. I had a patient whom I had treated several months before, soon after her baby was born. It was purely a Lachesis situation. She had trouble with one of her teeth and had it extracted unbeknownst to me. Two days after the extraction the dentist called me up and said, “I wish you would go with me to see this woman and help me stop the bleeding”.
It was bleeding very profusely. I said, “Why havent you plugged it”?.
He said, “I couldnt. I tried my best that I couldnt plug it”.
I said, “All right, I will go right up with you”.
I went up and administered some Lachesis 200 and in less than five minutes we had the haemorrhage controlled. He then plugged it deeply with cotton but he neglected to take the plug out and a day or so later the haemorrhage started up again. He became scared and sent for a prominent New Haven dentist who came right out, unbeknown to me and gave her a horse serum injection. I knew nothing about it until two days afterwards when he called me up and asked me to see this lady again.
I wish you could have seen her. She was so covered with urticaria and so oedematous about the face, especially about the lips that you wouldnt have recognized her. I gave her a dose of Aconite because Aconite stuck out all her. She said, “Doctor, I am dying”. She kept saying that over and over again. Aconite controlled that itching very promptly and by the next day the swelling had gone down. Two days after that there was a repetition of the thing only worse than it was before. I said, “What is the matter with her”? It seems she had two injection of horse serum, one after the other, two days apart. Then came the sequela. We reverted right back to the Lachesis cleared her up, but I want to tell you right now that horse serum and human serum do not go together.
DR.J.W. WAFFENSMITH: What was the potency of the first Lachesis?.
DR. H.A ROBERTS: Two hundredth.
DR. J.W.WAFFENSMITH: And the second time you gave her a repetition>.
DR. H.A.ROBERTS: Yes.
DR. A.PULFORD: When I first started practising medicine I bought some drugs from a reliable house (in their own estimation). How reliable you may judge for yourselves. I needed some Mercurius corrosivus and in those days I though that 6x was a wonderfully high potency, so I bought a pound of 6x, Instead of giving me a pound of 6x potency they gave me a pound of the crude drug. The results was that I gave to the patient that needed it 15 grains of this crude drug. After a little while the man came back complaining, and of course i did the wrong thing as a vary ignorant man will do. I gave him water and something else to throw it out.
The consequence was that after he began to vomit blood and mucous membrane I gave that man a dose of 6x Hepar sulphur. I am now speaking of that you call antidoting, in order to get back to the elimination of the drug diseases. That man promptly became well. I started in to figure out that proposition. I had always been under the impression that if you put two or three drops of prussic acid on the back of a mans tongue it was all over with the man if it was pure stuff.
Yet we hear that the hedgehog can drink enough prussic acid to kill a regiment of soldiers, and get away with it. There is not enough difference between the hedgehog and man for that difference to exist.
The point is that in drug diseases the drug gets into the system and the blood. It is not the thing that nature intended. that no poison should be retained, because we are eating poison all the time, but it is passed out of the system. The reason for this is that the secretions cannot operate on the force contained within the drug container, and the proper remedy to fixes the condition in the system that the can no longer be acted on by the secretions and it passes out, and that is the way it works with the hedgehog. The hedgehog cannot operate on the container, the force known as prussic acid, to liberate it and therefore it passes out. This explains why we can get away with these things with our homoeopathic remedies whereas the old school could not do it.
DR. H. FARRINGTON: It is amazing how men who spend hours in careful diagnosis, using instruments of precision and al known methods, observing closely every little detail and symptom, can give these powerful agents and not be aware of the after-results, as in the case of this old lady who was given the streptococcus serum. The second physician was quite well informed on the case and should have taken warning. It is always amazing and difficult to understand why physicians will continue to give a drug to oversensitive like these and not realize that the external manifestations are merely Natures effort to protect the internal organs.
It is the mental capacity which measures our value to society and it is by the quality of its action that our deeds are weighed. By it aid we achieve the greatest of attainments and through its mischievous cunning the vilest criminal pursues his course. Its capabilities of development for good and bad are immeasurable, and the variety of its performances is unlimited. Is there, however, any one line of action of greater importance than all others, and upon which they must depend? At the risk of contradiction I will assert that it is memory.
By it is mediation upon, and devotion to, the Divine Creator possible; through it we recall the sufferings of our scientific researches, and even the humblest deeds of our daily life, are accomplished.
As homoeopathicians, the abnormalities of brain action present our most important remedial indications, and while too much neglected are really unfailing “guiding symptoms”. I needed, a medicine that has not the pathognomonic conditions will often cure when mental aberrations call for its administration.- WM.JEFFERSON GUERNSEY, M.D., 1895.
