I gave him Pulsatilla, of which he took two or three doses before retiring. The next day we met on the street and with a smile on his face he said. “Your know I was in your office last night and:” (stroking his head) “that pains is all gone,” Pulsatilla stopped the pain, and that with Nux vomica cured within a very few weeks.
I mention this case to gain an opportunity to say something on this subject.
We see and hear so much about this disease that is commonly called sinus disease, and judging from what we see and know in our cities and vicinities, their must be tens of thousands of cases every year; every large majority are treated locally, paying a good free and getting for the most part very indifferent results; and not a few of these cases are told that they can be helped but cannot be cured. I have personal, positive evidence of this fact.
But the most distressing part of it all is the fact that many, if not most, of our homoeopathic specialists are giving this local treatment, and some of them exclusively-this without any internal medicine.
One man, after having had two or three prescriptions was told that local treatment was necessary, and that the fee would be three dollars, three times a week. He drove thirty-five miles to get homoeopathic medicine and was cured for three or four dollars Case after case like this can be recalled.
But I fear I am taking too much of our time and am not going to leave you in very good spirits by speaking of all the unfortunate things that have come to us to hinder the work of carrying on in what I think will prove finally to be one of the greatest gifts of God to humanity, excepting that of the great, the super-Man of Nazareth. My great regret is that I shall not be permitted to work in this great cause for another score of years. [Dr.Overpeck was permitted to work for only a “score of weeks” longer. He died October 8, 1934. Readers of the RECORDER will recall Dr.Overpecks great interest in the development of backward children, and the good work he has done for them, not only himself, but in stimulating others to study out these cases- ED.
HAMILTON, OHIO.
If we thus carefully examine our patients there will be found little or no trouble in finding the similimum. The necessity for close and careful examination of patients is well known to all Homoeopathic physicians, yet numbers of case are reported in which the examination has been poorly made. We read numerous cases reported in journals in which no clear indications are given for the remedies selected. Indeed, in many such cases, any one of a dozen remedies is equally called for. When we
remember that in some cases the choice between two remedies is decided by one symptom, the necessity for this this careful examination which Hahnemann advises becomes apparent.
Thus a case is recalled in which a very careful prescriber had given Arsenic in a case of gangrene when the sufferer would not allow himself to be covered. The doctor over looked the fact that the Arsenic patient wants to be covered. The Arsenic did no good; a physician was called in consultation, and Secale was given with benefit-Homoeopathic Physician, 1887.
