I gave her Kali cyanatum first, because she had no marked symptoms for a remedy and I couldnt see any reaction to it after leaving it on a long time and repeating it. I finally gave her Radium brom. We got marvelous results. She had from 10M. to Cm. potency until she was restored. Two others were restored very promptly that had the same general outline on the tongue. Of course Radium 30th was given in one case, in another case 200th, and they likewise cleared up very promptly.
DR. ALFRED PULFORD: I have never had very much experience with Radium, but I think I can give you something on the other side. It is a very, very deep acting agent. I had a case of a bad throat. He was doing fine under Mercurius 200th, occasional doses. The man was advised to go to Chicago and have a local radium treatment. He was an extremely fine looking fellow. He weighed about 160 pounds. He came to the office and said, “Would you do it?”.
I said, “I wouldnt to it”.
He went and talked to the man again, and he came back and said, “I think you are pretty much mistaken; I have decided to do it.”.
They inserted a tube of radium in his larynx, and about two days later he came into the office and said, “I went, and I am tickled all over to think that I went. I feel immense”.
I said, “Be careful”.
He said, “They gave me twice as much as they gave any other patient they had. I just feel fine”.
He went back twice, I think. The next thing I knew they had recommended him to some allopathic physician there in Toledo. From 160 pounds he dwindled down to 60. They burned out his larynx, and he died the most horrible death of anybody I know.
DR. BENTHACK: Dr. Emil Schlegel says he cannot deny that there is much harm done but very few are cured when they use it locally. Some people can stand a much bigger dose.
DR. MCFALL: I would like to ask if it is dangerous to keep low potencies of Radium with other potencies.
DR. PANOS: The paper was too short. It is self-evident that it took quite a bit of work to bring it down to the most important points.
A few years ago I read a paper near Chicago on the radium dial. I had a luminous watch. I thought if that was strong enough to emanate light, there was a possibility such a strong agent would affect the patient. I sent a patient to Dr. Grimmer for a test, and found it was a very interfering agent both to the action of the homoeopathic remedies and to health.
I wish Dr. Campbell would pay more attention to the matter of dials. It reminds me that I read of experiments conducted in some astern college a few years ago whereby certain individuals could kill yeast by just pointing their finger over it.
The dial certainly will have some effect on the blood.
DR. ROBERTS: Radium is third from the highest elements as to its atomic weight, as I told you the other day. Uranium, thorium and radium is the order; destructive elements all through; destruction to the point where they add to the destruction of things that they come in contact with. In my talk with Dr. Dieffenbach, who undertook the proving of this remedy, he said if you have any friends, dont let them prove the remedy. He proved it almost twenty years ago, and is still suffering from the results of it.
As I said, destruction is the very essence of radium; it destroys the things that it comes in contact with, and it reacts on the individual who retains those troubles long afterward. Therefore, its very essence and deep action comes into the miasmatic classification, syphilitic primarily, which is pre- eminently destructive.
DR. FARRINGTON: I have had some experience with Radium in the last twenty years, having cured three or four cases of arthritis, one of them the deforming type in a woman about fifty years of age, whose hands were affected. The joints were swollen and the tendons contracted. This condition had persisted for two or three months. The first thought was that she needed Rhus tox. because the stiffness was much worse when she got up in the morning, or when she was quiet for a little while and started to use the hand, and relieved by continued motion. It was also worse in damp weather. Radium brom. 30th made a complete cure; her fingers became normal and perfectly supple.
I have used it in one or two cases of skin eruption, one notable case in a girl who had a terrific dermatitis of five or six years duration. At all times her skin was rough and scaly, but she would have sudden exacerbations; without warning she would begin to leak all over the body. The serum seemed to pour right through the skin so as to wet her clothes. At the same time she had intolerable itching, and her only relief was to rush to the bathroom, fill the tub with hot water, and get in. She would sit there and soak for a while and then in a little while the top of the water would be floating with grimy scales. I was there one time when it was almost continuous right straight across.
She also had some thyroid involvement and swelling of the thyroid and swelling of the glands under the axilla. Radium brom. 30th, 1000th, 50,000th, gave her great relief. It did not entirely cure the eruption. I followed with the thyroid in the 30th and higher potency, and which also has a similar set of symptoms, especially on the skin, and that has produced a remarkable change for the better.
Eczema worse in winter I think is not recorded, but you notice in Dr. Campbells paper he mentions that one of his cases which had scaly eruptions and cracks in the palms of the hands was worse in winter.
Where lymphatic glands are greatly involved, you want to think of Radium iodide, as mentioned in this paper. Any remedy that will cure a cyst is important and deserves consideration.
Finally, I would like to ask what experience any of you have had in curing radium burns.
DR. CAMPBELL: What Dr. Pulford said about the use of radium and the way it was given there I think is perfectly true, and what we as homoeopaths know is that the power of any agent to do harm is in direct proportion to its power to do good when it is used homoeopathically.
As to the danger of keeping potencies of Radium brom., with your other remedies, I dont think there is any. We have had Radium brom. that has been right in with the others for a good many years, and it has never affected it.
I deliberately made the paper short and included only the essentials, because it is so well presented in the 1928 copy of the Recorder and in Dr. Clarks little monograph on the subject. They are well worth looking up.
Another interesting feature of that proving, that from the 6x and 12x the urine of all the provers was radio-active when tested electroscopically. It apparently affected not only the blood but the whole organism.
Another use I have made of Radium brom. was in the two cases of diabetes in elderly ladies. When I tested the urine of one of them, it just about turned solid and brick-red. She had had this condition a long time and had all the classical symptoms. I very much doubted my ability to deal with her. She wasnt an easy woman to deal with, but she absolutely insisted that I treat her, and she wouldnt go to the hospital to have her diet regulated, and so on.
It was just after I had been reading the article, so I made some alterations in her diet, but not grave enough to account for the change that appeared later. I merely restricted her intake of carbohydrates somewhat. The next time she came to the office, a month later, her urine was absolutely, sugar-free, and has remained so until this day, and that was, I would say, nearly two years ago.
The other was a very old lady in her eighties whom I was called to see. She had a tremendous abscess just over one eye. It had spread down and involved the upper lid. I couldnt even pry the eye open, and it was away down here on the face. From what her daughter told me, I was very suspicious of diabetes in the case, so I tested her urine also and it was just full of sugar.
Remembering my experience with the other, I gave her Radium brom. 30th, altered her diet somewhat, with the result that the abscess very quickly came to a head and discharged through four or five different openings, and her urine became entirely sugar-free; but on increasing her diet a little more, there were faint traces of sugar appearing. I dont think that the change in diet in either case was sufficient altogether to account for the urine becoming sugar-free.
Dr. Calvin B. Knerr asks the Editors to make the statement that the sketch of his life and work, recently published in the Recorder, was prepared without his knowledge by Ralph Proctor Earle, M.D.
Dr. Earle, during his course of study at Hahnemann College, Philadelphia, came to know and appreciate Dr. Knerrs work for homoeopathy, and to some extent to participate in it.
Dr. Knerrs forthcoming book on the life of his beloved preceptor, that master of homoeopathy, Constantine Hering, throws but a faint shadow of the understanding exposition Dr. Knerr has devoted to the history of homoeopathy in the Hering era.–H.A.R.
