The indications were for Belladonna and he received Belladonna thirtieth, with the injunction he should cease the remedy as soon as the result came, but he didnt, and for the first three days he received wonderful relief, but after that he had wonderful aggravation. He came back at the end of the week and he got a dose of Belladonna 10M. It was still indicated. He said the next morning he felt something give way in both renal regions and he went to work the following morning and worked like a horse all week long with any inconvenience.
He came back on Saturday and I gave him a dose of placebo, and the following morning, Sunday morning, he went to the urinal and passed a stone pretty near half an inch long, rough as could be, without any particular pain, and all the inconvenience there was was the passing of blood; two hours later he went and passed the second stone and hardly realized that he had passed anything. Those stones were just a rough and rugged as they could be.
DR. C.P. BRYANT: I want to report two cures I have had, and this is a co-incidence, they both happened to be by Phosphorus. One was a patient operated on on the right kidney and a large stone removed. Both kidneys were to be operated. His recovered was so slow and his suffering so great that he came to me he would die before he would have that second operation; never would submit to it, and asked me what I thought I could do.
He gave a nice clear picture of Phosphorus, the restlessness and apprehension, craving for sour things, and craving for salty things, so I went to work and the upshot was that in a very short time we had the stone out of the other kidney and I said, “Now take that to the surgeon —” (he happened to be a surgeon I knew in my own city)” — and tell him he got 400 for the operation and I got 7 dollars for the other one”.
The other case I have to report was a hotel case. I was called in an emergency and when I got to the room, the patient said, “Give me a hypodermic and give it to me quick. I have had this stone for a good many years and it is trying to get into the ureter and cant get down”.
“It is entirely up to you,” I said, “and I have the hypodermic, but lets try something else; that is not what I want to do”.
“How long will it take?”.
“I dont know”.
I used Ocimum canum, and while I was there he passed the stone. I have heard from that man a good many times since.
There is one danger about all these kidney stones. I happened to have a patient with a stone that completely filled one kidney, started at the calices and extended into the kidney substance, and the kidney was a complete, calcareous mass, and the other kidney also had a stone, and in a case like that it is extremely dangerous to suggest any operation for the good kidney. He had only one kidney.
The same is true of the gallbladder stones.
I suggested to the patient that he be not operated on and he said the surgeon wanted to operate, with a large stone in there the size of a guinea egg.
I said, “If you want me to do it, I will be glad to operate on you, but I dont think the stone will ever produce symptoms”.
It was found accidentally during an x-ray examination. The patient didnt have sufficient faith in me. He went to the University of Pennsylvania and got the same advice there, so we are justified sometimes in leaving stones in.
DR. FARRINGTON: There is not very much for me to say except to point out the fact that in these cases the homoeopathic indications were clear enough so that the similimum could be found and the stones came apart or were dissolved, and passed away. That is different from giving a remedy which relieves the pain in the passing of a stone through the ureter.
What Dr. Bryant has just said reminds me of a case I am treating now, a man forty-eight years of age, who has a stone which is apparently the size and shape of the pelvis of his right kidney. When he came to me he had distress. He had a very few symptoms. His urine was loaded with blood, pus, and albumin, and had a great deal of those little shreds that show that the man has had suppressed gonorrhoea before.
All of these symptoms have cleared up under the action of the medicines I have given him, but the stone remains there in its place and I have not been able to do anything to budge it. He has been told he wouldnt live two weeks if he had not been operated upon and it is now two years and he is better health than he was before.
I feel that unless I can get some symptoms to reach back and take out the old sycotic condition, I will not help him.
