HAMAMELIS: Passive haemorrhage with anaemia; flow steady and slow, blood of dark color, no uterine pains; flow only during the day, none at night; bearing down pains in the back.
IPECACUANHA: Profuse bright, gushing, with nausea; increased with every effort to vomit; gasping for breath; stitches from navel to uterus; coldness of skin which is covered with cold sweat.
SABINA: Painless loss of dark red blood immediately after parturition, especially in plethoric women with habitual menorrhagia and tendency to abortion.
SECALE: Painless flood in feeble, cachectic women; general coldness which patient feels too warm and does not wish to be covered; haemorrhage passive, dark colored and continuous, seldom clotted and sometimes offensive; the slightest motion aggravates the flow, particularly where weakness is not due to loss of blood.
LOCHIA, ACRID.
KREOSOTE: Offensive black clots mixed with water; excoriating lochia almost ceases to flow, then freshens up and becomes more profuse and bloody; and again almost disappears, to return again and again. Low spirited.
SILICA: Discharge excoriates; after pains are in the hips; pure blood flows every time the baby nurses.
LOCHIA, HOT AND SCANTY.
BELLADONNA: Flow feels hot to the parts; flushed face and injected eyeballs; pain in uterine region comes and goes suddenly.
LOCHIA, OFFENSIVE.
BELLADONNA: Discharge very offensive and feels hot while being passed; fever with thirst and delirium; unrefreshing sleep; cannot bear the slightest jar of her bed.
CARBOLICUM ACIDUM: High fever alternating with chills of short duration followed by profuse sweat, with restlessness; craving for food and drink.
BAPTISIA: Lochia acrid and fetid; great prostration; distended abdomen, fullness, flatulence, rumbling, feels as if vomiting might relieve; sharp shooting pains in the bowels.
KREOSOTE: Stitches in vagina, proceeding from the abdomen, causing her to start with every pain; putrid, excoriating lochia, repeatedly almost ceasing only to start up again; lochia blackish and lumpy.
SECALE: Strong tendency to putrescence; discharge of sanious blood, with tingling in legs and great prostration; lochia dark and very offensive; burning fever interrupted by shaking chills; cold limbs; cold sweat over whole body; gangrene.
URINARY RETENTION OR SUPPRESSION.
ARSENICUM: No sensation or desire to urinate and no power to do so on account of atony of the bladder; seems to have lost all control over power to emit.
CAUSTICUM: Retention of urine with frequent and urgent desire to urinate, but occasionally a few drops pass off involuntarily.
ARNICA: Retention of urine with urging to urinate, with sore, bruised feeling of the parts from mechanical injury; constant dribbling of urine after delivery.
NUX VOMICA: Painful and ineffectual desire to urinate, pain being burning and tearing; retention of urine with frequent desire for stool.
It is presupposed that the general symptoms of the various remedies mentioned are already known, as this paper is dealing just with the particular symptoms under the various headings.
Since not very many different remedies are mentioned, I shall feel slighted if someone does not take me to task for failing to mention his “pet” remedy for some of these conditions. RICHMOND, VA.
DISCUSSION.
DR. CARR: I might mention a remedy in pernicious vomiting and that is Symphoricarpus racemosa. I had that demonstrated in my own wifes case, and Dr. Fahnestock at the time this must have been twenty-five years ago was called from Piqua. I was practising in Greenville at the time and he came with a thirtieth potency in his vest pocket. I told him I had failed on the remedies and he administered Symphoricarpus racemosa, and she went on to full term.
There is another remedy and that is Cadmium sulphate, especially when the nausea is very intense, on just touching of the lips when trying to drink or eat anything. That will correct the condition very quickly.
DR. VAN NORDEN: While at Childrens I had charge of the Maternity Department there, thirty mothers and thirty babies under my care at one time, and we had quite a number of cases of retention of urine, and the doctor on service there sort of ridiculed it. I said, “How about a remedy?” and suggested the use of Apis.
He said, “That is a mechanical condition. Medicine wont do any good there”.
I said, “Suppose you try it”.
Well, I suppose I had in that year probably thirty to forty cases of retention of urine and there wasnt one case that Apis didnt relieve inside of an hour.
DR. STEVENS: I was only wishing this paper of Dr. Faris would be published for a textbook for obstetricians. It seems a pity not to have the whole thing together in some easily available form.
DR. SUTHERLAND: That would be very helpful to some of us who believe that homoeopathy in obstetrics is really useful.
