SCARLATINA


Hahnemann taught the efficacy of smell doses. He showed that when drugs are prescribed according to the homoeopathic law, it is indispensably necessary that the doses be small, and that infinitesimal doses are more efficacious than large ones.


Around the age of three years, Frederick, son of a wealthy manufacturer in Dr., Ohio, had an attack of measles. The father, a highly prejudiced disciple of allopathy, had the very best allopathic talent he could possible get. Under scientific medicine the boy struggled through with the trouble and was let with a souvenir in the form of chronic otitic-otorrhoea. In other words he would have frequent recurrent attacks of otitis followed by otorrhoea lasting until the next attack of otitis. The boy showed a strong tubercular tendency complicated with a sycotic dyscrasia as shown by his serrated irregular teeth. This condition of otitic-otorrhoea continued unabated until about two years ago, when, while on visit to Chicago, he came down with the following symptoms:.

A sudden violent fever, 104, body scarlet red, hot, fairly sizzling the hand, and dry, great thirst, great restlessness, starting in and on going to sleep, throbbing carotids, cold hands and feet, photophobia, and dread of least jar. Again the very best allopathic skill was sought. The boy was given antipyretics and aspirin for the pains all of which left their deep impress on the otitic-otorrhoea. The case was diagnosed scarlet fever. The boy lay for seven weeks in an extremely precarious condition, but finally they got his temperature back to near normal, but he was left in a dilapidated state, every little cold and every little error in diet died the boy up, his ears either aching or discharging continuously.

About a year ago the mother was referred to us for herself and was completely converted to homoeopathy, but not the father. She finally persuaded her husband to let put the two boys under our care. This he promised to do for a period of three months.

The history of Frederick strongly pointed to Mercury which he received in a single dose of the 1M, and which brought prompt relief, all going along merrily until March 14th, when the telephone bell rang and an excited voice announced to us that Frederick had come down just as suddenly and as violently as he had done in Chicago. They immediately called in their family doctor who pronounced it a severe case of scarlet fever, but she would not let him prescribe for the boy. Though we could not spare the time to visit the boy the insisted that we treat him by telephone.

Who could have missed Belladonna in such a case? He was given a single dose of the cc. For three days it worked wonderfully, the rash well under way, when the boys bowels took a sudden notion that they wanted to move. The boy got up out of his warm bed, eluded the nurse and went to the bathroom that had just been aired out and was quite cold. Here the boy got a severe chill, the rash promptly receded and the whole picture changed. He became quiet, irritable, did not want to move or be moved or spoken to. Wanted something but did not know what, tongue changed from a strawberry to a thick white coating, the temperature shot back to 104 but this time the skin lost its sizzling dry heat for one at time quite moist, differentiating it from Bell.

Here a single dose of Bryonia cc promptly brought back the rash in such profusion covering the entire body. A second dose of Bry. would have carried the case to completion but through some unaccountable source or reason the boy got a second chill. Here the scene completely changed again. The temperature shot up again to 104, the became delirious, nose bled, picked his fingers, lips and nose until they bled, bored into and into the sides of the nose continually, the urine almost dried up. A single dose of Arum tri. cc and in 24 hours the urine was quite profuse, the delirium and picking stopped and progress went on to completion without further doses or mishap.

The completes our 46th year in the treatment of scarlet fever with an unbroken line. What other method of medical healing could have enabled any one to accomplish such a record but homoeopathy?.

TOLEDO, OHIO.

Hahnemann taught the efficacy of smell doses. He showed that when drugs are prescribed according to the homoeopathic law, it is indispensably necessary that the doses be small, and that infinitesimal doses are more efficacious than large ones.- CARROLL DUNHAM, M.D., 1864.

Alfred Pulford
Alfred Pulford, M.D., M.H.S., F.A.C.T.S. 1863-1948 – American Homeopath and author who carried out provings of new remedies. Author of Key to the Homeopathic Materia Medica, Repertoroy of the Symptoms of Rheumatism, Sciatica etc., Homeopathic Materia Medica of Graphic Drug Pictures.