The patient then went through his yearly winter catarrhal troubles, gastric and bronchial, and spring had arrived before we could again definitely get to the ulcer. But the results had been good. The patients vitality had become more enlivened and his mental outlook as well. This was shown also by increased activity in the ulcer. It suddenly enlarged, spread much faster, the crusts were thicker, now reddish. It was sensitive to the least touch, sore, throbbing, stinging, especially when crusts were forming. Throat dry, parts felt stuck together.
Nitric acid 10M. Sk. was allowed to act eight months. By that time an old eczema had returned about the eyelids with fine yellow scales and a crack in the external canthus of the right eye. Graphites 10M. went good two months and the base was healed, white, dry, but spreading on one side, the irregular, elevated rim moving to the right.
February having come again the patient slumped with tiredness and gripy symptoms. Nux Vomica and Bryonia in turn acted well, the ulcer improving famously after Bryonia. This last winter his annual illness were slight and cleared up easily with Kali carb. 1000. Only S.L. since last February, all healed and smooth with a ….slight rim of flat fibrous tissue remaining on a part of one side.
The interest here is that because a trace of a rim remains it cannot be called a cure. I would like to raise the question whether any cure is complete, vaccinosis for instance, as long as any scar tissue whatever remains.
XV.
A man of 21 had a soft tumor of the vocal cord removed by a specialist after my treatment had failed to effect much benefit locally although Phosphorus had brought out positive improvement in the general condition. The operation was successful but the tumor promptly returned.
Because the tumor was reported to be a soft one Thuja, Carbo veg. and Rumex were given over a period of three months with some improvement in resonance at least from the latter remedy, then Sulphur, based on a few of its classic symptoms which had come up, brought positive improvement. The 5M. was given and followed later by the 50M. Five months from the first prescription of Sulphur an oblong piece of cartilaginous tissue about 3×1 m. was expelled. Slight huskiness remains but no trouble since, that is, the last twelve years.
XVI.
A man of 52 had an epulis removed from the left gum, then the adjacent tooth extracted and the alveola curetted. But the growth returned on the gum and filled the resulting cavity besides. It had been bleeding every one to three days for a year when he came to me.
Symptoms: Dizziness rising from stooping. Tired in the morning. Aversion to salt. Craving sweets.
Graphites 1M. stopped the aching and bleeding and the little bunch reduced until one day a piece of bone was jammed into it while eating. Graphites repeated did nothing. Neither did Thuja. Seven months passed and the growth had then become tender, denuded on its upper surface and casting off foul smelling pus. Classic constitutional symptoms had developed for Sulphur.
The 10M. ran ten months, repeated, ran seven months. The tumor was now sore again, bled a little at times, with a resurgence of sort tissue on the side of the gum. Mercurius vivus 1000 was given (unfortunately no reasons for the selection were recorded) with good effect, stopping the bleeding and reducing the growth by one half. The same remedy and potency were repeated after nine months, then the 10M. after twelve more months. Eight months after that no abnormality could be seen or felt. Over five years treatment in all.
So far so good. But what about the health of these patients? Obviously, the physical and mental condition of patients treated solely with medicines is uniformly better than it could possibly be by any local treatment. Moreover, the suffering of patients treated by surgery, x-ray and radium is much greater.
Some time, thousands of years hence, when the glitter of manual science has been dispelled by the demands of popular disillusion so that medical perception will have a mind to go beyond the material sense and to deal with what it sees there, these facts will be respected, just as it now considers more carefully whether, in the individual case of infection, it is better to refrain from entering the abdominal cavity.
Tumor is but an incident in the whole life of a patient. I cannot better discuss this than by referring to a report entitled Carcinoma: An Observation, read before this Association in 1915 by Dr. Patch, the discussion which followed and to many other cures reported in our literature.
The gist of the matter is as follows:.
Tumor is a constitutional condition culminating in local manifestation.
This local manifestation is but evidence of vital energy to remove cellular precipitation to the farthest distal point possible.
Inference with this vital procedure can only do harm.
Success with medicine can be attained only by close symptomatic and dynamic adjustment of remedies to patients.
One remedy is seldom sufficient to cure.
Complementaries and proved sequences are of great importance in second and subsequent selections, but must be controlled as nearly as possible by the principle of individual similarity of symptoms.
That Hahnemanns directions concerning the treatment of chronic disease and management of remedy selection and action in relation to miasmatic infection must be adhered to because they conform to ever present phenomena of natural principles manifested in the reactions of living beings.
WATERBURY, CONN.
DISCUSSION.
DR. TAPLEY: I understood Dr. Hayes to say he thought cancer was curable by the internal remedy.
Some twenty years ago there was a journal published called The Journal of Homoeopathics. Probably some of you men remember it. In that journal, I read an article by Bernard Finke, who stated that a party with a wart on the end of his nose has been cured in three weeks by Causticum CM. About that time, an old fellow about eighty came in with an immense seed wart on the tip of his nose, and he told me it had been there for thirty years. I didnt ask him any questions. I had an office full of people, but I gave him Causticum 50M., three powders, one each night. He took them, and in two weeks the wart dropped off. He lived to be eighty-seven, without any recurrence. You would never know he had had a wart there.
A man from Oakland came to me with an ugly looking ulcer on the right side of his tongue which was burning, stinging and smarting. Two surgeons in San Francisco told him his tongue must be amputated, that that was the only thing that could be done. I quizzed him as well as I could, and got indications for Lycopodium. At the time, I told him I would not take the case unless he would have the amalgam taken out of his lower teeth, and substitute a black rubber plate for the red vulcanite plate he had.
He went across the street to the dentist and was told that I was a crank and didnt know what I was talking about. He came back, and I politely told him that since he would not follow my advice the only thing he could do was to get the best surgeon he could find in the United States. He had plenty of money. He went back to Oakland mad because I wouldnt give him anything:.
Pretty soon I got a letter stating that he had followed my advice …. and had had the amalgam removed and had substituted an up-to-date plate for the old red, vulcanite rubber plate, and asking if I would give him a remedy. I sent the remedy, Lycopodium 1M., one dose, and plenty of Sac.lac.
To cut a long story short, when he went back, the son took him to a surgeon. A microscopical examination was made and he was sent to a pathologist, who told the son that unless the tongue was amputated he would die in three months.
He had the amalgam removed, the plate removed, he took his remedy, and in less than three months he was well as he ever was, and five years later he never heard from his tongue.
Another case was a woman who had been treated by radium. The scar would not heal, but commenced to spread. The doctor told the son she would live about three months. She took Cadmium sulph. 50M. All her life she had been cooking her food in aluminum utensils, and eating milk gravies. The milk gravy was made from flour, milk, and the fat or burnt animal charcoal in in the bottom of the frying pan. She took the Cadmium sulph. and the ulcer commenced to heal. I used calendula externally, and she is doing her work and has gained about ten pounds, and feels as well as she has felt for years.
Lycopodium. In looking over the records of many years ago, my father found that Aconite was the remedy most often prescribed, and Lycopodium second. Since then it fell into disuse as we seldom prescribe it for several years, but it is again returning to use. Very useful in bed-wetting, especially if the urine is dark, and stains. Sand in urine. Muddy complexion, feels lame and sore; < 4 to 8 p.m. Whooping cough, > from a sip of cold water. Rumbling in bowels. Hungry, but soon satisfied. Fan- like motion of alae nasi. Music causes sadness. Dreads being alone. Laughs and cries at the same time. Obstinate, arrogant; memory weak; misapplies words; stupid, dull. – V.M. JOHNSON,M.D.
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.