About four years later her husband became involved in some heavy financial trouble and his creditors harassed him all the time, causing him to lose his job and his home. Constant worry over this condition and the fact that he seemed unable to improve his condition much, developed in her a neurosis to the point of mild insanity. Her physician failed to relieve her, so she was sent to Cincinnati to consult a specialist, who ordered her into a hospital for an operation; but they, having no money and not being much in sympathy with operations, pressed him to know what he was operating for.
He admitted he could find no pathology upon which he could base his treatment, but thought that an exploratory incision might reveal some damage done at childbirth which would help him. When she reported to me I found her very nervous and carrying a big bottle of Bromides and phenobarbital. In discussing her trouble she would burst out crying and then look up with a smile and say “Why do I do this?” She was despondent, disgusted with life yet afraid to die, and to mention death or read of one in the papers would upset her for days.
Oversensitive and somewhat peevish. Could not sleep and would get up at night and someone would take her out for a walk. She was given Passiflora for a few days until I could study her case further, and then she was given Aurum Metallicum 1 M Three doses cured her completely in three weeks.
Case IV. A tall dark- haired female age 28 married about ten years ago and became infected by her young husband with gonorrhoea. She later submitted to a double salpingectomy. Following this she had several attacks of mania for which she was treated by several different physicians who wanted to send her to the state hospital. The parents objected and worried along with her for around three years, giving her bromides, and as her brother was troubled with some nervous condition and in the habit of taking phenobarbital they gave her large doses of it, but as soon as the hypnotic effect wore off she was the same as ever.
The night I called she was having one of the most violent attacks I have ever seen, raving, cursing and using the foulest language that I have ever heard coming from any womans mouth. She would kick, scratch and bite, tore off every stitch of clothing she had on and got away from the family out on the street and they had to resort to an automobile to catch her. One minute she was cursing and the next praying and singing, using her hands, swinging in rhythmic motion to her music (if you could call it that, for it was composed of words with no meaning). Her husband told me that at these times she had an irresistible desire for intercourse.
I recognised Stramonium as her remedy but did not have it in my case, so I gave her the next best, which was Hyoscyamus. This did little good and she raved on. I drove home and got Stramonium 1 M and went back and got one dose down her by placing same in her drinking water. She soon went to sleep and when she awoke the following morning she was normal and has remained so ever since, something over one year.
Case V. Mrs H., a childless woman age 45, who had a hysterectomy about ten years before for a fibroid, discovered a tumor in her left breast which was discharging through the nipple. She consulted a surgeon who advised an operation at one, but at my request she deferred the operation for some medical treatment. Examination revealed no pathological condition except a tumor about the size next to the sternum, and a bland discharge from the nipple. Some pain which was worse by sitting up and moving about, and was better by lying on her stomach. I gave her Phytolacca 12x which she took night and morning for about six months. The condition completely disappeared and she has remained well to date- a period of about three years.
