A PATHOGENETIC AND CLINICAL PROVING OF THYMOL



“4. I have had only one night emission in two weeks and had no pain.

“5. I void urine once during the night and not nearly so much at a time, and I finish clean now without any dribbling.

“6. When I am not very constipated I have no more of the gray mucous discharge when my bowels move.

“7. I have gained four pounds.

After the report Dr.Bayley asked the patient to see me explaining to him that it was I who suggested the medicine which had helped him so much. He agreed to this and after a long talk I went with him to see Dr.William C.Hunsicker, Sr., for an examination which was very unsatisfactory as the patient was so hypersensitive and unreasonable that Dr.Hunsicker with the utmost patience and gentleness could not satisfactorily feel his prostate and vesicles and would not make a diagnosis except to say the prostate was soft, congested and swollen, a condition common to that type of patient. Two months later Dr.Bayley said the man was gaining in weight and much better in every way, in fact he had the aspect of a normal well man.

This case verifies part of the pathogenesis of Thymol and proves it to be of value when indicated in controlling pathological seminal and prostatic emissions, prostatorrhoea, some types of prostatism and benign congestions of the male urological tract.

An important clinical observation has proved that Thymol is useless in acute pyogenic infections of the prostate such as Streptococcus, Staphylococcus, Colon Bacillus or Gonococcus. It apparently helps only benign congestive states due to sex abuse and here it is a prompt and curative drug. It is to be regretted that the prostate and vesicles of the provers were not examined before or during the proving, but they would not submit to it. The provers told me that before beginning the proving they had a seminal emission about once every three or four weeks usually followed by a sense of experienced during the proving.

Dr. Oliver Sloan Haines who watched the proving, cured a very severe case of gastric dyspepsia which had gone the rounds of medical advisers with Thymol 3x and Eucalyptus tincture alternately. The very foul eructations were permanently cured. Dr. Haines also sent me the abstract of a case of a young man who had nine nocturnal seminal emissions in two weeks, who was also mentally irritable, headstrong and very depraved. After using Thymol 3x for two months there were only three emissions and general improvement both mentally and physically.

The female genital organs: The provers were perfectly normal in every way before the proving. After the persistent use of Thymol 1x and 2x for three weeks they developed dull pain in both ovaries, a sore aching pain worse just before and during the menses, also acute drawing and crampy pains in the uterus, associated with a dull but severe aching in the back at the lumbosacral joint. The menstrual flow was scanty for two days then became rather profuse with small clots and crampy pain.

The drug was stopped and the next month the flow was perfectly normal, no pain of any king. I then persuaded both provers to try high potencies the 200. and 1000. These preparations developed very little pain but the flow was slow and protracted lasting over a week. This was followed with five days of a very scanty, thin, watery, brownish-stained or blood-tinged discharge with some slight odor. This symptoms has proved most valuable and has high curative value.

Thymol has proven highly curative in my hands in simple congestive dysmenorrhoea in young girls and a clinical fact to be observed is that I never relieved a case with the low dilutions but have seen prompt and positive results from the higher potencies in diseases of the female organs. Further to illustrated the clinical value of Thymol I will quote from a case of the late Dr.J.Lewis Van Tine, who was much interested while I was making this proving. He had a case of an old lady nearly 80 years of age in whom he had diagnosed carcinoma of the uterus.

The chief symptoms were debility, marked cachectic look, dull soreness over the uterine region, cervix was indurated, hard and nodular and there was also a constant, watery, brownish, blood-tinged discharge,very offensive in odor, and somewhat scanty, that had persisted for months. Dr.Van Tine had prescribed Carbo animalis, Conium, Pyrogen, Kreosote, etc.

I suggested that he try out my Thymol which he agreed to do in the 200. and 1000. potencies, with the result that at the end of two months the discharge ceased completely as well as the odor. On local examination, however, there was no change in the uterine pathology, but the patient looked better, felt better, had no pain and no discharge, also gained a little weight. I feel that there are further possibilities with this drug in the treatment of diseases of the female genital organs.

This proving represents the effects of Thymol in alcoholic potencies on healthy human beings.

Analyzing its symptomatology, this drug should prove a useful remedy in serious gastric conditions and in some of the diseases of the male sex organs brought on by sexual abuse.

The provers have been thanked years ago for their grace of perseverance and personal sacrifice. Only those of us who have conducted a systematic proving can appreciate the amount of labor demanded in such work. I hope it will prove to be some practical value to the profession and new symptoms be added through experience.

I am still working with the higher potencies on two volunteers and I shall in the near future present the symptomatology according to the Hahnemannian anatomical scheme.

Please accept my humble effort in developing another working tool in the materia medica. The profession is asked to put it to the test in suitable cases and report the results. Only in this way can we make our Materia Medica a practical and useful working instrument.

PHILADELPHIA, PENNA.

William B. Griggs