HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES AS A PREVENTION TO SPECIFIC SURGICAL CONDITIONS AND THEIR USE AFTER



I have had two striking examples of the verification of a peculiar symptom representing Lachesis. One was in a patient suffering from puerperal convulsions, the symptom being intense rigor with the patient begging to be held by attendants, and in one instance begging that somebody sit on his chest and on his legs. The patient was permanently cured by six doses of the 4M. potency.

The same symptoms was present in a patient suffering from a septic gallbladder, and the cure as prompt.

ACUTE SUPPURATIVE MASTOIDITIS.

Capsicum: Swelling and pain behind the ear. Burning and stinging in the ear. Sensitiveness, especially at the tip of the mastoid.

Belladonna: The symptoms are too well known for detail.

Ammonium picricum: Boring pain extending to ear, orbit and jaw.

A careful study along the lines suggested in this paper will spare many a patient a more or less serious surgical operation, and redound to the honor of Samuel Hahnemann and to the credit of the homoeopathic school of practice.

SEATTLE, WASH.

C.P.Bryant
C. P. BRYANT, M. D.
Seattle.
Chairman, Bureau of Surgery