Her head was pulled downward and to the left. This was worse when tired and seemed to be associated with the strabismus. A specialist in childrens eye work diagnosed Vertical Strabismus and would not operate because of the thymus. We have been waiting three years now for him to change his mind and during that time the torticollis and strabismus have much improved, helped on on doubt by the indicated remedy which was of course Calcarea carb.
It is a terrible loss to the children of the present day that they are unable to receive good homoeopathic prescribing. Surgery is splendid when needed. The advances in modern medical treatment for acute cases at times appear to be curative, or at others suppressive; but nothing yet conceived can compare with the indicated similar remedy.
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.
DISCUSSION.
DR. WILLIAM P. MOWRY [Detroit, Mich.]: I should like to ask if you remember why you gave the Belladonna and followed it up with Sulphur. Why didnt you give Sulphur first?.
DR. MCLAREN: Well, I like Belladonna, the CM to start with. It is a congestive remedy, an acute remedy. The people lived in Halliburton where there are many cold winds; it is a bleak and barren country, and the mother wrote that the child was having this pain in her eye. It was undoubtedly a Sulphur case from the first. I knew it was, and I was going to give it, but they were complaining that the child was having these pains, and they were probably congestive pains because there was too much pressure. The child had great big eyes, with hardly any pupil at all. The child did not have the pain all the time, therefore I figured that it came on at intervals and that Belladonna was the remedy. I may have been wrong, Doctor. I dont know.
DR. LUCY S. CLARK [Cleveland, Ohio]: Why didnt you receive the potency, lower it for the acute and raise it for the chronic?.
DR. MCLAREN: When I was a little boy, my father got some remedies from Dr. J. D. Terrell, of Toronto, and Belladonna CM was among them, and I used that, have used it all my life, and he gave me a few remedies, and also I got a few from Dr. Grimmer, in Chicago. I think I worried him in my student days getting remedies from him, but father said to me, “That potency of Belladonna is a jewel.” I never give any other Belladonna because it always works.
DR. T. K. MOORE [Sharon Center, Ohio]: How old is the potency of Belladonna that you have? Do you have the same, the original?.
DR. MCLAREN: It is the Terrell remedy. I dont know whether he made it himself. He gave grafts of it to my father and my father gave grafts to me, and when Terrell died, I went to buy his remedies and Mrs. Terrell said she wouldnt sell me the remedies, but the desk with the remedies in it, so I was delighted to buy the desk, and she didnt bother to take them out, so I got back to the original CM my father started with.
DR. MOORE: How old was that potency?.
DR. MCLAREN: It must be seventy years old, if it is a day. It does well.
DR. WAFFENSMITH: Have you studied Kali carb. in that type of case? DR. MCLAREN: No, I havent.
DR. J. GEORGE SOMMER [Philadelphia,.]: Are those homoeopathic remedies you have mentioned? You have not gone outside the inorganic group?.
DR. MCLAREN: No.
DR. SOMMER: I would recommend you try Tuberculinum. You are still sticking to the inorganic group, but since it is not adequate to cover the organ, I recommend you try Tuberculinum in the 30th and if that further prostrates the patient, try Syphilinum, and then go back to the indicated inorganics.
DR. MCLAREN: Thank you very much. I wanted help. That is why I put it in. DR. GRIGGS: I would give that child a few doses of Proteus. I have seen intermittent claudication cleared up with Proteus.
DR. MCLAREN: Thank you very much.
DR. GRIMMER: And another thought, in cases that do not react because of lack of vital energy, Opium with the paralytic cases.
DR. GRIGGS: In painless cases?.
DR. GRIMMER: It is a remedy to study. I dont say give it, but study it, at least.
DR. MCLAREN: Thank you very much indeed.
