No one of these four cases cited was of a kind to permit of scientific proof of my veracity because of the fact that laboratory methods were useless to me and were apt to mislead me. The last cited had a distinct sociological aspect. In concluding this paper I wish to cite three cases all of which are of prostatic pathology, occurring in males of sixty years or over. The first is a case of W.W. who had for three years had attacks of urinary retention of an acute nature, with haematuria and dysuria and concomitant hypertension.
Of late these attacks were occurring each month, and it was during the first one for which I attended him that I left him with a tied in catheter. The prostate was very large and tender causing constipation. Temporizing I gave him a nephritic diet and 6x Glonoin for one week. Because of his ravenous hunger, internal throbbing, angina referred to left hand. I prescribed Iodine 12X. Two years later I said good-bye to him with a knowledge that he had had no subsequent attacks and had not missed a days work since my first visit.
The second case was that of J.G. This was his first attack. His prostate also was large and tender and hard. He complained of dysuria with great straining causing lachrymation, sudden urging and testicular burning. Clematis erecta in the 500th potency gave no relief. Being of an aggressive, impatient disposition I took this man to the hospital where he was subjected to four operations in all, and now, six months later, is on his death bed. The diagnosis was carcinoma. It will ever remain a question in my mind whether W.W. would have gone the same way as J.G. had I had him operated. Perhaps it will never be known what nature of growth existed in W.W.
The third case is that of F.S. who came to me each week for several months for catheterization, a practice which had been stimulated by my predecessor and persisted in for about one year. The prostate here was tremendous and rapidly growing for I could not help but notice that a deeper insertion was required each month or so in order to evacuate the urine. Always there was blood. Constipation was severe. Browsing through ancient papers I came across a note on Hydrangea arbor. and, as the old man presented no well defined symptoms, I essayed this remedy which has only sketchy provings.
It was given in the 2x, six drops twice a day. From that day to the day I left my practice I had no occasion to attend this patient, and whether the gland was a cancerous one or a benign one I have no way of telling. It was sufficient to give me thought, however, when I reminisced. Subsequent successful treatment of additional prostatic cases have led me to believe that much can be done for them by conservative medication but I would hesitate to say that by medicines we can check cancerous growths of this organ, since it is obviously very difficult to obtain proof of that assertion.
In closing I would like once more to emphasize my unalterable opinion that little is to be gained by a simple presentation of a case. One cure or a number of cures is insufficient to establish a substantial deduction, and especially is this so, if, in our periodic publishings, we exercise no method or system. Such a method merely leads to haphazard confusion. Yet a case when presented, if accompanied by an exposition on the part of the author of his reasoning, can be extremely instructive, and if, such a case was accompanied by a series of similar cases t provide a paper which took care to point out the items of similarity, those of dissimilarity tending to a harmonious development of a theme, I feel sure that excellent material which is now wasted would be utilized to greater advantage.
CODYS, QUEENS, N.B., CANADA.
Quantitatively, assimilation is molecular, and depends upon the fineness and infinitesimality of matter and motion both of the drugs and the concerning organs- Homoeoleptomeria.
Assimilation by the organism is quantitatively carried on and mediated by the elementary organs and imperceptibly fine and delicate conduits in the organism.
Accordingly, a corresponding fineness of the drug-matter is required, proportionate to the assimilability of the organs.
The crude and massive form of the drug is not such as to admit of the required assimilation.
The required fineness and assimilability of the drug matter is obtained by potentization.
The quality of the remedy thus obtained is necessarily molecular and infinitesimal.-B. FINCKE, M.D., 1862.
