CHEST: In anginal pains after Aurum met. had finished its course. pain in arms, first right then both with arteriosclerosis < with any physical activity. Effort pains < walking. Full sensation toward epigastrium. “Feels gas push toward axillae.” Gas discomfort under sternum > with eructations with sensation of congestion < walking. Pains in either side, < lying. Wheezing when first lying down.
COUGH: Cough, < morning, first lying, rising in the morning,> in open air. Fine result in chronic bronchitis. Thick sticky mucus. greenish expectoration.
BACK: Lumbar crick worse on left side extending to leg < rising after sitting, constant dull ache, < first motion, > continuing; the attack preceded by bilious vomiting and much belching. (With this and other sciaticas, brilliant result.) Back and entire spinal area especially, pains so “could scream”, always worse at 9 to 10 a.m., > during warm weather, < mornings until “loosened up”, during damp or cold weather, > lying, (Sulphur failed) – extending to hips. Sciatic pain from right iliosacral joint to leg six weeks, worse 3-4 a.m. < after being about, > heat, hard dull ache in spells, throbbing, > lying on back, > when the thigh and leg is extended. The aggravation begins in the evening about 4-6, > by heat (Kali bi. failed). Stiffness of cervical region.
UPPER EXTREMITIES: Neuritic pain in right arm extending to the hand, shoulder, neck, < during cold, raw weather, mornings and 4 p.m. Pain in joints; shoulder, down arm, soreness of joints. Fingers pain as if blood crowded them. Fingers blanch.
LOWER EXTREMITIES: Pains in thighs before menstruation clots pass. Hips ache. Toes sore as if crowded. Feet cold; cold and burning. Legs cold. L. extremities weak as if patient would fall.
JOINT PAINS: Joints pains are < motion but compels to walk though quiet during sleep, < 4 p.m., when rain came; > mornings, warm days; desires warmth but it does not relieve. Feels better walking except the joint pains.
SLEEP: Late falling asleep. From worry; from thoughts. Sleepless after eating hurriedly or too much. Delayed by tight sensation in cardium and below as if hindering respiration with a band sensation. Waking frequently. Sleepiness after meals.
CHILL AND SWEAT: Sensitive to cold and heat. Sun heat aggravates. Spells of heat with exhaustion. Heat flashes. Feels < during hot weather but the evening air chills. hot flashes < after eating. Wakes in a sweat.
SKIN: Red blotches when excited. Eczema rubrum painful, burning, weeping, causes shivering. Papular rash after fish.
GENERAL: Faint spells (frequent with this remedy). Faint spells after dinner. Little weak spells. Little sinking spells. Four or five weak spells per day with heart pounding in ears. Faintness with darkened vision. Quivering; with lifeless sensation in extremities and faintness (calculus pains). Faintness from hot weather, fully conscious. Weak spells from any extra (home) work. Drags about with effort, so weak. Tries easily. Exhausted easily, for instance by talking to a deaf person. languid, desires to lie down. Tired in the morning. Exhausted by any excitement. Weariness in warm weather. Feels better walking except joint pains. Trembling (anxiety). Jerking; always upward, < when excited or tired. Better in general in open air. restless; wants to travel or keep going.
Studying this personal experience a little we find that location is quite marked. More symptoms are here allotted to abdomen or stomach, mind, solar or so-called general effects than to any other regions. next comes heart and head. This accords with the resume given by Dr. Dishington. More often than otherwise the Dysentery patient will complain about abdominal or stomach symptoms and next probably, of heart sensations. This does not mean that these are most significant as to choice but reference to these locations is one of the things to remember.
The mental symptoms as given so marked that Dysentery must be one of the remedies to be compared when any of them occur. We find faint or weak spells, fear, excitability, irritability, low spirits, flatulency and exhaustion, relief from open air in a large percentage of these patients. Fear or anxiety, et cetera, “hits the stomach” is frequently heard.
The spaces taken up by MIND, HEAD, ABDOMEN, BACK, EXTREMITIES AND GENERAL could have been enlarged greatly by including the many repetitions which occurred in my practice. But it will do as well to mention that fact here, separately.
Dysentery, as the reader will have already perceived, is essentially a psoric remedy. It falls naturally into a group to be compared with Sulphur, Calcarea, Phosphorus, Lycopodium, Psorinum and others.
WATERBURY, CONN.
DISCUSSION.
DR. GRIMMER: That is valuable contribution to our literature, bringing this remedy to our attention. We do need to know good remedies or how to select proper remedies in cases of dysentery, especially the amoebic form. I have handled quite a few cases in the last few years, and I have hit on one remedy that has helped me out very much, after other seemingly pretty good homoeopathic remedies have failed. That is Arsenicum bromatum. It has really cleared some cases very promptly after I have failed to find other carefully selected remedies.
I think we are indebted to Dr. Hayes for this excellent presentation of a new remedy. I have not used it, and I know nothing of it, but I shall certainly get some of it and commence working with it.
DR. HURD: I happened to be in England at the homoeopathic National Convention. Of course, these remedies were brought out at that time very specifically in their indications, and people in Glasgow, particularly Dr. Patterson and Dr. Dishington and Dr. Grant, had evidently used it very considerably. So I was interested in the doctors paper. I have not had any great experience with it myself, although in those cases I have used it it is of advantage and benefit to the patient in some peculiar conditions. I was unable to reach that benefit with other remedies.
DR. HUBBARD: I would like to commend Dr. Hayes, not only for having brought this remedy but that he has given us the complete picture of that remedy, and yet it was easy to follow. It makes me think more than ever that he ought to come back and teach materia medica.
As he gave the paper, I instantly saw what I have not seen in a year and a half, that I have a patient who is just screaming for that remedy, and I shall go home and administer it. It is simply uncanny how it fitted in, which shows you that he gave a real picture.
DR. DIXON: I think that is another demonstration of what we gain by coming to these postgraduate courses like our convention here. I, too, like Dr. Hubbard, have written the initials of one of my patients that I am going to hurry home and give a dose of Dysentery compound to.
I have used it rather indifferently, because of ignorance of the real picture of the drug, I think, but I know it is going to help this case, and if I am able to help a desperately sick man, just because I came up here, these meetings are certainly worth while.
DR. HAYES: I am glad if these ten pages have been of any help to anyone.
I began using this remedy in the 30th potency. After while I tried the 200th, then the 1M., then the 10M. I find that the 1M. and the 10M., yes, and the 50M., work much better with this nosode than a lower potency.
Born in Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA on 20 Oct 1871 to Royal Edmund Hayes and Harriet E Merriman. He had at least 4 sons and 1 daughter with Miriam Martha Phillips. He lived in Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States in 1880. He died on 20 July 1952, in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.