COLIC: Veratrum has cutting pains as from knives in the abdomen; there are no such pains in Arsenic; Cuprum presents colicky pains, but they are spasmodic.
ANXIETY AND RESTLESSNESS:Both the troubles are present in these three remedies, but in Arsenic they are exhibited with considerable force and intensity and the patient is so very anxious and restless that he cannot rest in any place, changes his place continually; wants to go from one bed to another and lies now here, now there.
BURNING: Burning may or may not be present in Veratrum, but it is ever a concomitant symptom of Arsenic; Cuprum does not develop this symptom.
THIRST: Both in Arsenic and veratrum excessive thirst for cold water is present. In Veratrum the patient drinks large quantities of cold water at a time, but in Arsenic the patient drinks often but little at a time, and the water so drunk is immediately expelled and < vomiting and purging. In Cuprum the patient desires warm food and drink and the drinks descend into the oesophagus with gurgling noise and when he takes cold water, the vomiting is > by it.
CRAMPS: If the cramps to on increasing and are found to be a prominent feature of the case or are converted into general spasms or into convulsions, preference should be given to Cuprum.
The symptomatic difference of these remedies mentioned above are not always clearly understood ad sometimes it becomes difficult, nay impossible, to do so. It is therefore or paramount importance on my part to lay down some general rules for the application of these remedies.
1.When vomiting and purging are most prominently marked and they are very copious Veratrum should be administered.
2.When vomiting and purging exist with troublesome cramps Veratrum should be alternately given with Cuprum.
3.When the vital powers sink rapidly, Arsenic may be given, but if the above symptom be accompanied by severe vomiting and purging, Arsenic should be alternated with Veratrum.
4.Mild and sporadic cases of cholera require the aid of Veratrum; but the cases arising from miasmatic influences or assuming the type of malignancy or epidemy need the help of Arsenic.
The practitioner is requested however, to hunt out the field of symptomatology before the any remedy.
BHOWANIPORE, CALCUTTA.
Hahnemann did not live in vain. “This is the thing I was born to do,” wrote Samuel Daniels, in his exquisite poem Musophilus. Daniels was one of the greatest English poets, and as a writer of sonnets ranked second only to Shakespeare. And since it has been said that upon no other great man save Napoleon have more odes been written, and none more beautiful, than upon Hahnemann, we cannot do better than to transcribe one of these, the classic sonnet written in Hahnemanns memory and delivered at Dresden August 10, 1843. It was written by his sincere friend and disciple, Rummel, and remains one of the finest of all tributes to the greatness and grandeur of Hahnemann.
TO HAHNEMANN.
Truths weary teacher, wouldst thou rest in sleep?.
The brightning dawn already gilds the cloud.
That hangs from nights dark mantle like a shroud.
Thy scattered votaries, disheartened, weep,. And standing by, faint-hearted vigil keep;.
Thou whose sad exile from the Fatherland.
Should shame their indolence: lift u thy hand.
And thunder forth thy exhortations deep.
Arouse in them new courage, strength to find,.
Destroy their fear, and pride that leads a far,.
That with thy laurels theirs be intertwined;.
Shed oer their heads the halo of thy star.
Hold out of them thy friendly hand once more-.
Then will thou sleep, as in the days of yore.
The thing that Hahnemann was “born to do” was to fashion in his earthly life such an edifice of strength and beauty that it would endure throughout all time, even to the life to come. There was beauty, purity and nobility in such a life; and here, as Wordsworth has said:.
. . . music dwells.
Lingering and wandering on as loath to die.
Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof.
That they were born for immorality.
-B.C.WOODBURY, M.D., Pacific Coast Journal of Homoeopathy, 1934.
Corresponding Member of the British Homeopathic Society, French Homeopathic Medical Society, and Hahneman Institute of Brazil.
AUTHOR OF “CHOLERA AND ITS HOMEO. TREATMENT,” “PLAGUE AND ITS PREVENTION AND HOMEO. TREATMENT," “ CHOLERA AND ITS PREVENTION AND HOMEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS,” “DIABETES AND ITS HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT” AND OF A HOMEOPATHIC CHARACTERISTIC MATERIA MEDICA, IN BENGALI ; EDITOR OF THE INDIAN HOMEOPATHIC REPORTER.