However it was, we must admit that our young prescriber showed the Lippe like skill, It is said that the celebrated French painter Vollon had such off-hand skill with the brush that he could, with one sweep, produce a fish or similar single object that would be a masterpiece. In like manner with the second prescription, at least, the doctor seized on what he had of symptoms that was representative, with its background and without working up a headache over it picked the prize remedy from the group without benefit of elaborate procedure. This is as it should be for great numbers of cases. And experience and practice widens the scope of this method greatly.
Concerning the man who had his finger opened I would like to attract the attention of the profession to the inanity of spreading infection by forcing the products of infection into the lymphatics with the knife. Why do not some of our keen eyed pathologists watch that process and tell the profession just what goes on after the knife has been thrust into the bed of inflamed infected tissue. The practice seems contrary to the allopathic theories of infection and deductions of pathology. Besides, it should be apparent to any or all that the natural effort to focalize needs inter-vesicular pressure to effect softening and complete elimination and evacuation; and that this desirable pressure is considerably lowered at the point where it should occur and raised outside the original area.
Each case report has points of interest. Sepia will probably do well for the man with the cough. The phrase “regardless of the point of distribution” did not escape notice.
Here again is illustrated the truth that the best prescriptions are based on the symptoms that are most symbolic of the individual vital pattern.
