I have not had a clean record with appendicitis, but I will stake that record against Dr. Bond’s or any other homoeopathic surgeon’s record. I don’t believe anyone has a 100 per cent record. Mine is 99 per cent.
I have seen plenty of these cases. Bryonia 10,000. will clear up what looks like an acute appendicitis in nine cases out of ten, I am sure. You fellows who don’t have enough nerve to do that are missing a good bet.
DR. W.W. SHERWOOD [Santa Monica, California]: I would like to make one observation: In the cases that are our regular patients, for whom we have prescribed for a period of months or years, I don’t think we see any development of appendicitis. The cases I see, at least, are those I have never seen before. The people I take care of right along don’t develop appendicitis. I think that is probably true of the experience of the rest of you.
DR. BOND (Closing): I agree thoroughly with Dr. Sherwood. The cases we are in the habit of prescribing for ourselves seldom, if ever, come in with appendicitis. it is only the transient trade that drops in on us once in a while who have it.
Speaking of a typical case of appendicitis. Dr. Dixon, we have to be constantly on the lookout for retrocaecal appendicitis, wherein the pain is higher up under the right hypochondrium. That is a tricky case.
When there is any doubt that we are not right, I am the first one to operate. Patients have told me that they have been in ill health all their lives, with abdominal pain, and that surgeons have cured them by removing a long, twisted, kinked appendix located behind the caecum, pointing toward the liver, or it might even point down in the pelvic cavity. There, again, I believe there is distinctly a field for a surgeons in such a case. I don’t believe any remedy would ever touch that kind of condition.
In answer to Dr. Smith, we do not feel we are taking chances with them, Dr. Smith, because if at any time I am a bit shaky on the subject I have plenty of consultation. However, the patient is receiving a remedy all the time, nevertheless. usually, then, if the case seems clear, the surgeons does not have anything further to do other than take out the appendix.
I don’t follow with appendectomy later because my patients never seem to need it, If it kept recurring, I might operate, I think one case did go somewhere else and have her appendix out because the attacks did keep on recurring.
