The former family physician was called in attendance. Threatening mastoid symptoms appeared, which were not controlled and all preparations were made for an operation.
Instructions had been left that I call as soon as I returned, which I did. Under these trying, circumstances, I quietly and carefully studied all phases of my previous record, and fortunately was able to gather a few of the primary symptoms of the throat infection. I decided on the biniodide of Mercury, one dose of the 50M., with an urgent request the family wait another twentyfour hours, which resulted in a rapid cure of the condition.
The mother of the patient pleasantly remarked afterward, “The family saved a fee of 500”.
DR. PULFORD: I would like to interpolate by way of parenthesis that you can do a great deal in septic conditions both before and after surgery with Hepar sulphur and Silica. I have been able to stave off a lot of operation, and I have been able to save a lot of limbs after the operation, when the surgeon could not heal them up.
One particular case came about two or three weeks ago with the large finger of the left hand swollen almost to the size of the wrist, and all black. It was surprising what Hepar Sulphur did for that case in two weeks.
DR. GOBAR: Seeing that surgery out there yesterday recalled to my mind an incident that I had of an old man about eighty years of age. He had gangrene of two fingers of the left hand. He had a bad heart murmur, and his general condition was very bad. I did not know what to do. He had the left-sided condition and the blueness and distress. I put him on Lachesis. I dont remember the potency. I think it was about the 200th. I thought there wasnt very much I could do anyway, and let it ride.
The next day I went back, made a complete amputation of those fingers, and they healed in just a few days. He lived for about a year and a half after that.
DR. BRYANT: I accept Dr. Moores criticism with apologies. However, I have only one excuse to make, and it is probably a poor one. That is, the records of potencies were sacrificed in the interest of brevity. I would like to add that my instruction was under Dr. Walter James; he took me as a raw recruit. Dr. Moore and I both graduated at Jefferson, so there is an added reason for accepting his criticism. Dr. James taught me that anything under the thirtieth potency really was of no value. As I look back upon his instructions, I think his reasons were good. I use the low potencies at times, the 3x. or 6x. He made the statement to a friend of mine, “If I can keep that boy (and I was twenty-eight years of age then) on the thirtieth or above, he will never become a mongrel.” So I am still using the thirtieth and above.
Seattle.
Chairman, Bureau of Surgery