HEPAR SULPHURIS CALCAREUM



Dr. Ward, as you know, is the dean of homoeopathy on the Pacific Coast, a man we all love and look up to. He taught in the Pacific Coast College for thirty years or more, and he saw me when I attempted to take a trip to europe some years ago with our homoeopathic society. I was taken sick there and finally fell into the hands of Dr. Ward. I had a septic gallbladder. I got a great deal of help in San Francisco and finally got down to Coronado a month later. Here I took sick again because I had changed the remedy so many time my brother-in-law said, “I am going to find a homoeopath here”. I didnt believe there were any, but we got Dr. Paul Hemas; he came in and found me lying in bed. I had just persuaded my brother to sit down on my abdomen, because I was shaking with such violence I couldnt keep the covers on, and every shake seemed to increase my chill. My son was lying across my chest, and I had asked someone to sit on my feet.

That chill is typical of Lachesis, and when Dr. Paul Hemas, past seventy years old, came, in, he said, “There is one of the guiding symptoms for Lachesis. I might have given you Hepar over the telephone”.

That is what made me think of it, that violent chill in which the patient asks to be sat upon and held, and you cant hold them tight enough. The strange coincidence was I went back to Seattle and had a patient on whom I had promised to do a caesarean section. Four days later she developed the chill, and, thinking I was going to have a bad case of puerperal sepsis on my hands I heard the nurse say, “There is something the matter with the chill patient. She has asked me to sit on her chest.” I gave Lachesis and in two hours the was gone, the temperature was down, and the patient made an uneventful recovery.

DR. CAMPBELL: I wanted to add one word about the value of Hepar in suppurating pyelitis, with chill.

I went into the Medical Arts Building one night, going up to the office to do some work, and the girl at the switchboard asked if I would go to see a patient. Somebody had telephoned and wanted a doctor and didnt care who was sent.

I went to see woman and found her in bed with a temperature of a hundred and something, very cold, chilly, shivering, and a pain in her back, and burning on urination. There was no doubt of the diagnosis and on account of the chilliness I gave her Hepar. She recovered very quickly, and as I grew to be better acquainted with her, I learned she had had this condition for some years, with frequent, periodical attacks, and had had her bladder washed out innumerable times, with great pain and discomfort and very little relief.

She is now an ardent homoeopath and very grateful for what it had done for her.

Kenneth A Mclaren