“The irritation of the system may go so far that chills or chilliness develop, with fever and perspiration following. There is an aggravation towards evening, and aggravation in bed”.
“The skin is very easily affected. Erythematous, papular and vesicular dermatitis, with burning like fire”.
I have produced these conditions in provings with the potentized X-Ray. Also old, seemingly cured eruptions may return.
“Much more serious are the changes in the skin and all other tissues produced by the crude X-Ray”.
“These salient points follow very closely the known effects of the X-Ray irradiation on the tissues and functions of the body as we know them after a lapse of 55 years after their discovery”.
In the biological consideration of radiation and the effects upon the various tissues of the body, we now know there is not a single tissue that is not affected, so that when the homoeopathic systematology states that it affects and irritates all tissues, we know that to be a fact. That it depresses their functions, we know to be true. It does cause mental depression. I verified this when the potentized X-Ray was given to one of my provers, who was a very alert and happy young Jewish man. The mental depression was extremely marked, and there was general depression, prostration, exhaustion and languor.
I should like to call special attention to the three degrees of its effect on the skin:.
(a) Erythema.
(b) Vesiculation. This is a painful stage.
(c) The last stage being the destruction of the skin tissues with a resultant radioactive ulcer of a markedly violent type, which resists even good treatment.
X-Ray radiation markedly affects glandular function, both as regards inhibition and their destruction.
I shall now offer a proving of the potentized X-Ray made by three provers. The provers consisted of two men and one woman. They were each given the same thorough preliminary physical examinations as were used in the making of my other provings in the Constantine Hering Laboratory.
The male provers developed the most severe and constant mental symptoms, namely, mental irritability, mental depression, misanthropy; did not want to see anyone, nor talk to anyone.
One female prover developed mental symptoms during her menstrual period, which was quite profuse and unusual. She told me she felt she would like to kill someone.
HEAD:.
All the provers developed headache; pains were always either in, or about the temples. The female prover developed a violent sick headache on the second day of the menses, with bursting frontal headache and vomiting. This was relieved rather promptly by applying a hot water bag.
In all provers, many of the headache pains seemed to go into the neck. Stiffness developed on both the right and left side of the neck. This was worse at night; sudden “cricks” in the side of the neck were particularly felt when lifting the head from the pillow. I believe this remedy, potentized X-Ray, can be safely put under the “stiff neck” Rubric in any repertory.
EYES:.
The eyeballs felt sore to touch.
EARS:.
There was a sensation of fulness in the ears with buzzing noises also in the ears.
NOSE:.
A sensation of vapor of sulphur in the nose and throat, with much sneezing.
MOUTH:.
The teeth were covered with a grayish-green slime. This developed in a patient who was being treated for acne vulgaris of the face with crude X-Ray.
STOMACH:.
Appetite markedly diminished. All provers seemed to desire sweets. The male provers had a decided aversion to meat. Some nausea developed, and I might mention that a patient, who was receiving X-Ray treatment for a fibroid tumor of the uterus, always developed intense nausea some hours after treatment; intense nausea with vomiting and often a profuse, loose stool.
URINARY ORGANS:
Vesical tenesmus.
HEART AND LUNGS:.
Wandering, sticking pains in the chest; worse on the right side. Stitching pains in the right upper chest, going through to the upper part of the scapula. One prover developed a cough in the morning, with raising of greenish, tough mucous; palpitation of the heart, the heart sound keeping him awake while lying on the left side.
BACK:.
Backache was observed in the morning after waking. Prover was lame and stiff and the pains centered over the sacroiliac region.
UPPER EXTREMITIES:.
Tingling as of an electric current felt in the forearms, wrists and fingers. A grating or crackling is heard in the shoulder joints, as well as other joints in the body.
LOWER EXTREMITIES:.
Pain in the sciatic nerve beginning in the right hip and going down the thigh; worse on walking.
SLEEP:.
Kept awake by the heart sound while lying on the left side. Sleepy, but unable to sleep; sleep is not refreshing; dreams all night. There was also produced a general tight feeling, a persistent exhaustion and languor, with some trembling of the limbs. From my observation, I believe the mental and physical aggravations are more marked towards evening.
SKIN:.
The potentized remedy did not bring out any skin symptoms on the provers. The skin symptoms that are so persistent and serious were all brought out by the application of the crude ray which I have mentioned in another part of this paper.
The potentized X-Ray produced very few symptoms in my provers, but patients suffering with various diseased conditions who had been given the X-Ray, brought out many clinical symptoms.
Finally, I must attest to the genuineness of the fact that many old and suppressed symptoms have been brought to the surface by the deep acting potentized X-Ray. Although this proving in potency does not seem to be very extensive, it was carried on for over a month, but the symptoms developed were all genuine and, clinically, many of them have been removed by the potentized remedy. Only by continued observation and the use of the potentized X-Ray can we enrich our symptomatology, and it is hoped that my humble effort may inspire the profession to further investigate this specific remedy.
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.
