Hard mass in abdomen, extending from lower end of sternum to umbilicus, and a smaller one in right iliac fossa.
Vaccinated twice. Second took very severely.
Sept. 29, 1939. Thuj. 30 (1), 200 (1), 1M. (1), four hourly.
NOv.1. First few nights restless; slept nine or ten hours every night since. Morning vomiting first week; almost none since.
Appetite improving last fortnight. Discomfort ceased. Can rise from bed and stand unaided.
Dec 15. Steady progress. Up six hours a day. Eats anything.
March 8, 1940. Severe headache one night, > epistaxis. Since then very much better and stronger. Can rise and dress herself and walk about the house. Old precancer symptoms returning, bronchial spit and slight eczema. Owing to war conditions I have not seen this patient since September as she lives some fifty miles from Edinburgh. I therefore cannot report on the abdominal condition.
5. Haemorrhoids.
J.W.F. 42. Piles and bowel prolapse began during the last war, attributed to sitting on damp ground. Since 1934. he has many remedies but only temporary relief. Vaccinated thrice, all normal course.
Oct. 17, 1939. Thuj. 30 (1), 200 (1), 1M. (1), once a day.
March 8, 1940. Steady improvement till a week ago. Bowel prolapse cured. Piles slightly worse again. Repeated Thuja.
6. Recurrent pneumonia.
Miss A. 23. Very subject to colds. Pneumonia every winter for the last ten years or more.
Vaccination at six months, took very severely and was followed by bronchitis.
July 25, 1939. Thuj. 30 (1), 200 (1), 1M. (1), twenty-four- hourly.
Dec 11. Acute bronchitis, cleared up under Ars. alb. in a week.
No pneumonia.
Jan 1. 1940. Another cold same as in December but shorter duration. No pneumonia.
7. Contracture.
Miss G. 48. Last twelve months, mid and ring fingers of left hand curl in and can only be straightened by force. Pads of three fingers in palm swollen and tense. First noticed after a fall downstairs. On general symptoms Caust. was given. It roused severe reaction but no subsequent amelioration.
Vaccinated thrice, all took very badly.
May 1, 1939. Thuj. 30 (1), 200 (1), 1M. (1), twenty-four-hourly.
May 29. Initial aggravation, improvement last five days; finger much less inclined to curl in. Swelling and tension gone from pads.
July 19. Fingers worse last ten days. Repeated Thuja.
Oct. 9. Slow progress up to a week ago. Mid finger wakes her with a sensation as if enormously swollen and prickling. Hand, spastic grip. Thuj. 200 swollen (1), 1M. (1), once a day.
Nov. 15. Hand hardly workable. Patient encouraged to stick it.
Jan. 12, 1940. Hand kept locking constantly; spastic, day or night; felt twice its usual size; tingling extended up arm. This week pain and swelling decreasing.
March 25. Hand improved gradually. Pain, swelling and tingling gone. Ring finger will straighten unaided; mid-finger not quite straight yet. Fingers still curl up at the sight of the typewriter.
Prior to consulting me, patient had been examined by a surgical specialist who said he could do nothing for the fingers.
I could multiply cases, but have tried to pick unusual ones, and have recorded enough to show that when success on more ordinary lines evades one, it is worth while following the teaching given by Hahnemann in his Chronic Diseases, and enquiring into the patients past in order to eliminate the morbific tendencies left in the system by cowpox vaccine or exanthemata.
I leave it to others to decide whether or not these influences are the direct cause of subsequent ailments acute and chronic. So many factors go to the formation of a symptom-complex (complex indeed!) that it is difficult correctly to apportion blame. Nevertheless, until these influences are traced to their source and eliminated by their nosodes, they form an impassable barrier to permanent cure. EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND.
