TWELVE EAR CASES.
P. St., eight years, girl. Otitis media purulenta.
Since seven days profuse discharge from the right ear. One week sulfadiazine without improvement. Ten days following the sulfa treatment dry wipes; no improvement.
Pulsatilla 200, one single dose. One week afterwards considerably improved. After two weeks Silica 200, one single dose. Improvement continues, dry after one week. Three weeks afterward still dry.
M.B., 14-months-old girl. Otitis media purulenta.
Right ear began to discharge one day prior to admission. Sulfathiazole and dry wipes for one week. Discharge changing between profuse and moderate. Two weeks following sulfa drug no change.
Pulsatilla 200, one dose. One week later discharge very scanty; two weeks later dry.
Left ear began to discharge. Pulsatilla 200, one dose. Next day discharge from the left ear scanty, left ear dry within a week. After three weeks observation discharged, ears dry.
C.M. 14-months-old girl. Otitis media purulenta.
Discharge started one week prior to admission, from the left ear. Sulfathiazole for five days. No improvement. Twenty-four days dry wipes, no change.
Kali bichromicum 200, one single dose. Within a week discharge becomes scanty. With in the next two weeks, in spite of a profuse nasal discharge, dry. Discharge three weeks later, ear dry.
V.D., three years, boy. Otitis media purulenta chronica.
First admission Nov. 11, 1942, with profuse discharge from the right ear for past two months. Sulfathiazole treatment, dry wipes. Ear still running when discharged.
Second admission February 18, 1943; has been treated by the doctor of the City Mission with sulfathiazole without success. X- ray show mastoid involvement. Again sulfathiazole treatment. On discharge both ears still running.
Third admission Nov. 5, 1943. Two months previously mastoid operation performed on the right ear; purulent discharge still continuing. Also removal of tonsils and adenoids had no influence on the discharge.
Psorinum 200, Tellurium 30, did not influence the discharge.
Jan 5, 1944, Hepar 200. Five days later discharge almost completely gone.
Jan. 14, 1944, Silica 200, one dose.
Jan. 19, 1944, both ears dry. Five weeks later discharged, both ears dry.
P.L., 10-months-old girl. Otitis media purulenta.
Began five days prior to admission in the left ear. Dry wipes, nose drops for two weeks; discharge still profuse.
Kali bichromicum 200, one single dose. After ten days only slight discharge. Psorinum 200, one single dose. After two weeks, when leaving the hospital, still moderate discharge.
G.M., 8 1/2 years girl. Otitis media chronica.
Running ears on and off for three years. Two days prior to admission pain in right mastoid and discharge. Diagnosis: chronic mastoiditis.
Nov. 10, 1943. Psorinum 200.
Nov. 26, 1943. Tellurium 30, one dose. Discharge decreasing up to Nov. 28, when dry. Three weeks later discharged, ears dry.
A.M., eight years, girl. Otitis media purulenta chronica.
X-ray shows clouding of the cells of the left mastoid.
Admitted April 3, 1944. Three weeks later still profuse discharge from the right ear, in spite of local treatment.
Pulsatilla 200, one single dose. One week later no discharge.
E.R., four years, girl. Otitis media purulenta chronica.
Child has had a mastoid operation and sulfa drug treatment before. Discharge started again three days prior to admission from the right ear. After giving one dose of Pulsatilla 200 ear became dry the next day.
J.T., two years, boy. Otitis media purulenta chronica.
Right ear began to discharge two weeks prior to admission. Pulsatilla 200 given four days after admission. Ear dry within a week.
J.M., three years, girl. Otitis media purulenta chronic bilateralis.
Has had a mastoid operation performed on the right ear. Discharge continued nevertheless and did not stop until Psorinum 200, one single dose, had been given.
Returned after having had chicken-pox with a discharge from the left ear. Kali bichromicum, Pulsatilla, Silica, given in single doses of the 200th potency failed. Having observed the child going into a tantrum, one dose of Hepar 200 was given. Within a week discharge became very scanty. Shortly afterwards ear dry.
P.H., seven years, boy. Otitis media purulenta.
Left ear began to discharge three weeks prior to admission. Two and a half months of conservative treatment. (dry wipes, etc.) without considerable change.
Feb. 2, 1944. Kali bichromicum 200 one single dose. Three days afterwards ear dry.
Six weeks late acute cold with profuse nasal discharge, right ear began to discharge. Kali bichromicum 200, one single dose. One week later no discharge. One month later the child left the hospital, both ears dry.
J.L., seven years, boy. Otitis media purulenta.
Left ear had been discharging for several weeks. Extremely profuse discharge pouring our of the left ear and hanging down in yellow strings. Discharge so strong that the nurse cannot keep the ear clean. Kali bichromicum 200, one single dose. The next day ear nearly dry. After three days no discharge whatsoever. After observation of two weeks child discharged, ear dry.
A CASE OF PAN-SINUSITIS.
E.D., five years, boy.
Admitted to the hospital with intermittent high temperature, going up for several weeks to 102 degree and higher. X-ray shows clouding of all sinus cavities. The child received three full courses of sulfa drug treatment and in addition three full courses of penicillin injections. During each course the temperature went down only to return immediately afterwards. No change; moreover, a pneumonic infiltration developed in addition.
Now one dose of Pulsatilla 200 was given according to the symptom picture. No more temperature thereafter, the pneumonic infiltration dissolved, and the child was discharged as cured after two weeks observation. New York, N.Y.
DISCUSSION.
DR. GUTMAN (before reading his paper): I was asked for a paper and I feel it my duty to give some sort of report about what has been done by the Bureau of Research of the Foundation. It actually belongs in the field of clinical medicine, but as it is work done by the Bureau of Research, it fits well also in the Bureau of Philosophy.
Not long ago at a meeting of our society, the outline of my program for Homoeopathic research covering sixteen points, was presented. Unfortunately, only one of these points, the least important one at that, has been discussed, and finally one speaker declared that homoeopathic research is not needed; all that we know and do is based exclusively on homoeopathic research done by our predecessors and the fathers of our science.
To deny the necessity of homoeopathic research means to dig into the gold mines of our great forefathers without ever adding to their hard-won treasures. I consider it an obvious obligation to contribute and not only to use and to rest comfortably on the laurels of others and just say that we dont need homoeopathic research.
Now, the work which has been carried on up to now has been done without any money, so we have to follow a certain plan. I just mentioned a few points and we, will go in more detail only in one point.
First, there is material of a proving done by a group. it is old material. There were twenty provers. I do not want to disclose as yet a remedy which is very promising, clinically used, but not yet proven, for this reason that I still hope to find provers among you which will complete the proving, as these provings were done with low potencies and I want to complete it with provings done with high potencies.
Secondly, research was carried on along the lines of homoeopathic vaccination, not yet finished, still going on.
Third, research was done in th field of clinical investigation, in the field of the potency problem.
Finally, work has been done long the line of what I should cell comparative therapeutics-I mean by that, at our college, at the Flower Hospital, and at the Metropolitan Hospital, I tried to get cases which were treated unsuccessfully allopathically; there is lots of chance to get cases like that, but I dont get them so easily; and then to prepare, if possible, statistics.
It is rather difficult to get the material. Dr. Benson, from our pediatric department, finally gave me the cases of chronic or acute discharging ears.
Now I should like to give you a short report on twelve ear cases.
I want to just remark that I have to go into this work without any Homoeopathic information whatsoever. The case histories have nothing of this sort and I have just to feel my way, guided by appearance and behavior of the child when I approach the child, and by the objective character of the discharge. That is the only thing; then I have to give the remedy and then all the doctors wait to see immediate success, so one has to be very short.
Dr. Gutman then read his paper and added the following:
I want to add to this list a case:
In one case I called myself because I wanted to do something. This was a premature-born baby with spasm and protracted vomiting. They operated on this child, and the poor worm survived it, but still vomited, though not as violently, but did not gain and was in poor condition. One dose of Aethusa cynapium 200 was put on the tongue and the next day there was no more vomiting.
