A feature of this cure was the enormous quantities of turbid urine passed following the remedy. It has the appearance of stale beer of a greenish cast and looked as if mixed with corn meal. It was astonishing to me how nature, under the stimulus of the homoeopathic remedy, absorbed the contents of that cyst and sent it through the blood stream to be eliminated by the kidneys, and then repaired the damaged tissues. What is this subconscious intelligence behind it all? What is the source of this occult phenomena? Is it any wonder that the pure in heart worship God?.
Mr. E.D.H., president of a large publishing house, never had any respect for homoeopathy until his young son was abandoned by his old school physician who said, “We have done all that can be done.” The child was three years old and had digestive disturbances. The entire digestive system from mouth to rectum seemed affected with ulcers which abscessed about anus externally. He was but a skeleton, a pitiful sight to see. He was in a state of coma when I first saw him. But let the father tell the story in a letter sent to a mutual friend. “To me the homoeopathic method of treating disease with sugar powders was the most absurd doctoring and impossible of any curative virtue, so it was in utter abandonment that I let my wife call in a homoeopath for my son after repeated urgings of a neighbor friend.
It was about 8 p.m. when the homoeopathic physician arrived and asked some fool questions, after which he dissolved a few pellets of what appeared to be sugar in a half glass of water. He told me to give a teaspoonful every half hour and to continue doing so until my son showed signs of awakening and then cease giving the medicine. I knew it was hopeless as the boy was expected to die any minute; in fact, Mrs. L., a friend of my wife, left the house, afterwards saying she could not bear to see him die.
My wife was much exhausted from night watching and constant care, for she would not trust him to the care of a trained nurse nor anyone else, but I prevailed on her to retire, telling her I would stay with the boy and give the medicine, which I did until about eleven – when I fell asleep, dead to the outside world. It was daylight when I awakened and felt the terrible remorse of my negligence and of letting my child die like that, but imagine me being greeted with a weak, Hello, Daddy, as I approached my boys bed. What a thrill! I asked Doctor Schwartz on his arrival that morning what he had given and he replied, Oh, just a little weak chamomile tea. ” (Chamomilla 200 B. & T.). The boy had a rapid recovery and is now a health grown man.
Mr. T.E.W., age 35, weight 140. I was called in consultation to an interior town where I found patient in private hospital, well managed. The case was one of septicaemia following pneumonia with pleuritic effusion. The septic serum was surgically drained several days previously from right chest, from which a very offensive discharge still gurgled out at every respiration. The patient was cyanotic and in a comatose state. The surgeon and attending physician said there was no hope for his recovery and that if homoeopathy could save him I should by all means prescribe a homoeopathic remedy.
The stench was so fearful that even with the windows and door open for ventilation the nurse had to be relieved every little while. We are told that the odorous discharge is not so dangerous as the non-odorous-which must be terrible indeed. However, I recalled a similar odor in an operated case of psoas abscess which recovered under Calcarea carbonicum. I gave this patient one dose of Calcarea, 500 potency (B. 7 T.). This was about 5 p.m. The next morning at 8 when I returned there was no change, so I gave one dose of Natrum sulphuricum, 200, which I repeated at 10 a.m. At 3 p.m., when I returned with the brother, the patient recognized his brother and sister. From this time he had a steady but slow recovery.
After a month he was taken home and continued on the Natrum sulphuricum at about five-week intervals in an ascending series of potencies. He is a farmer and has enjoyed good health now for three years. It would be interesting to know whether the Calcarea established a basis for the Natrum sulphuricum to act on or whether the Natrum sulphuricum did the work alone. I gave him the latter because he looked like a liver patient to me. I believe the Sulphur salt alone did the work.
Miss Adeline P. was brought to my office in a rolling chair unable to use her lower limbs and she did not have much use of her arms. She had had various electrical, medical, and mechano- therapeutic treatments without benefit. I found her an extremely sensitive, nervous Natrum muriaticum type of girl, age 20, a thin brunette. A history of fright influenced me in selecting Opium 23M (Finke). Within two months she was able to walk to my office. A second dose of the same potency was followed a month later by Natrum muriaticum, which I gave in an ascending series over a year of continuous treatment to build up her constitution. The treatment was somewhat empirical but not without some basis. At any rate she was able to continue her violin studies after being restored as a worthy member of society.
Miss X., well nourished brunette, age 20, inclined to be corpulent, but now extremely emaciated after two months of suffering in the hospital from which she had returned two weeks prior to my attendance. This was a case of septic rheumatism. Suffering terribly. Very tearful. Left knee badly swollen and ankylosed. The skin over the knee was a light mahogany color and dappled. The discoloration may have been due to light treatments for “she had all done that was possible for her” by her various experts who attended her at the hospital. Temperature of 103. Knee as sensitive Lachesis and Arnica, which remedies have no relation to sycosis.
So sensitive to touch that it was only with great difficulty that the bed linen could be changed. The prognosis of all physicians was unfavorable. Medorrhinum 10M (Kent) gave her the first nights comfort and sleep she had in many weeks. She gained rapidly so that she was able to come to office after four weeks. A slight return of pain in the knee and a return of the discharge called for a second dose of Medorrhinum. She has had no further treatment now for two years. The ankylosis did not respond to the remedy.
Dr. Z., age 25, weight 160. History of gonorrhoea suppressed by injections the summer previously. No apparent discomfort for a year until, when overheated, he jumped into the river for a swim, after which he sat on the bank for an hour. The result was, that the following day he had inflammatory rheumatism in both feet and ankles, which has now continued six months in spite of much treatment by various faculty professors. They left him on crutches. Or rather, he left them. Two doses of Medorrhinum, six weeks apart, entirely restored him to health and he has had no further trouble the past thirty years. A feature of this case was that there was no apparent relief from first dose, but quick relief and cure after a second dose. The discharge was never re- established however.
Mr. T.A. tall, lanky brunette, age 30, much emaciated since septic rheumatism had made him a cripple on crutches. Had professors from colleges both in Philadelphia and Chicago treat him without benefit. He was advised to seek a milder climate, so he came to Houston two years ago. Medorrhinum 10M, twice repeated two months apart, enabled him to follow his profession, and one dose of same remedy in 50M potency (Kent) completed the cure.
Mr. W., a heavy set, well nourished, dark-complexioned, intelligent Austrian. History of suppressed chancre twenty years ago. Frequent attacks of so-called rheumatism. A neuritis particularly in middle of left thigh. Spent thousands of dollars for various hospital treatments. I was called to the house to lance an extremely painful and swollen gland in the left inguinal region that had to balanced every few years. Inflammation in solved the surrounding tissue so that he could not use his left thigh without great distress. He was in bed.
I gave him one dose of Mercurious iodatus ruber 500 potency (B. & T.). The next morning he came to my office in perfect comfort but anxious, opening the conversation with the question, “What kind of damn dope was that you gave me last night?” To which question I replied, “What makes you think it was dope?” He answered, “I was in bed for two days suffering without relief and then half hour after you gave me that powder last night I was able to join a card party at my home. My friends said it must be powerful dope that you gave me.” He was able to straighten out his leg and sit in a card game without inconvenience. I then asked him if he had ever taken “dope.” He replied that frequently he had been given morphine for pain.
Then I asked, “Do you feel dopey this morning as you usually do when you have taken morphine?” and he replied, “No, I feel fine, but how can it act so quickly if it isnt dope?” The began the homoeopathys usual task of instructing the patient in homoeopathic principle – a job that the American Institute of Homoeopathy should do for the laity, a job the Texas Homoeopathic Medical Association should take to heart. We need publicity. We need a campaign of education to checkmate the fallacies of our college biologists and A. M. A. newspaper propaganda. Let us get abroad our own band wagon.
