DR. STEVENS: I am grateful for the suggestions. I meant to have spoken of one thing. Dr. Stearns said to me yesterday, I think, that as a routine thing he had Arnica prescribed after every operation, that he preferred it to Aconite because it not only relieved the shock, but it helped the injured tissues in every case.
As far as Hypericum is concerned, I am very glad to know of the case that Dr. Green speak of. I have used it in several cases of fracture of the hip, where the pain was intense, and I think it helped greatly, and in one case of woman 75 years of age, who had a fracture of the hip, I gave Symphytum. She was a woman in very delicate health. The surgeon really resented keenly, I think, my insistence on having her put into a cast, because he thought she would die anyway. she is walking now, with her leg just as long as the other leg, and it was a most marvelous recovery. I am sure Symphytum helped her very much.
Speaking of Ledum, in some cases we have that symptom of great aggravation from heat had relief from cold. I remember this comparatively mild case, but a friend of mine had gotten a blister on her heel from walking. I was called to see her about two oclock in the morning, because she was suffering such intense pain from that blister. I started to bandage it with some sort of dressing, and she pulled it off. She couldnt endure the heat of the dressing. Ledum relieved her in a very few minutes.
