Art work has done a great deal for her. Now ceramics; teaching too.
Headache in very early childhood associated with vomiting or vomiting with no headache. Depended on emotions almost entire. Now menstrual: 24 or 36 hours before; 2 or 3 days after; first one the more severe. Starts late P.M., lasts all night. Over left eye, sometimes in eyes, sometimes extending to left occipital.
Eczema in right popliteal space. In childhood, probably suppressed.
Colitis and appendicitis while in college (operation).
Tension always very strong; ever present, preventing sleep for long periods.
Went to two doctors for psychoanalysis: with one of these so tense she cracked up; sent to hospital with encephalitis; there 7 weeks. From this time, headache localized more left forehead.
Scar tissue in left eye, said might be congenital.
Lack of vital heat marked; worse drafts, wet weather, winds. Colds seldom. Cold feet and hands.
Appetite good. Aversion sweets. More salt lately.
Naturally quick-motioned, decisive; emotions have prevented this trend.
Changing pains shoulders, arms, legs, back.
Heart action and respiration definitely affected by emotions.
Likes the open air but reluctant to get started. Wants air fresh inside.
Hay-fever in the spring for 16 years. Sneezing a lot; itching eyes, mouth, ears including Eustachian tubes. This relaxes her.
Cyst behind left ear infected (penicillin and injections) then surgery.
Pain between scapulae occasionally. Rx Sulph. 10M.
May 9: General feeling of vigor and for most part relaxation. Hay-fever milder all the time; 1 or 2 days less than for very long time. Sleep better and sounder except last two nights.
Old symptom: “indigestion” after 3 days lasting off and on for 2 days. Nausea, not quite to vomiting. Stools a little loose.
Menses during the week: headaches severe for one day (like her migraine when a child). Slight vertigo a few times.
Sensation burning around the rectum.
May 23: Wonderful so far as hay-fever is concerned; almost entirely free all the time since the medicine.
June 10: Almost no hay-fever at all; thinks it miracle. Some spots of itching and very scanty eruption bends of elbows, under knees, across upper arms, under mammae, etc.
Sleep better than can remember, sometimes nightmare. Has stood her work better than ever before.
Headache much less; slight after menses. Menses: last period the first without drugs to help; very several hours.
On going to sleep a great sinking from which must pull self back to consciousness with great effort, then it is gone. Comes again with the relaxation.
June 19: Been having spells of severe neuralgic pains, so bad almost faints. Menses due in about a week and always bad pain then.
July 15: No pain with last menses: aphthae on lip at that time. Headache back again lately; now apt to be before menses instead of following.
August. 21: Last menses more painful, not so bad as at the worst; headache lighter. Generally going backward to some extent. No new symptoms. Rx Sulph. 10M.
Sept. 12: Fairly well; nothing new. A few slight colds, chronic nasal drip. Last menses: had headache before. Eczema tries to come out but does not. Aching much less.
Sept. 19: One of her severe headaches starting. Rx. Sulph. 2c. Oct. 18: Violent headache with menses which are on now; bad as ever.
Oct. 23: Headache for the last 5 months just at start of menses; type migraine; last one just recently worst of all; in bed all day, could not navigate; nausea and vomiting toward end of the day, then better. Always starts over the left eye, ext. across forehead and down under eye.
Sharp, throbbing sensation, squeezing coming and going. Next day worn out from it. Used to have this type in childhood.
Lack of vital heat marked.
Worse before thunderstorm, better after storm breaks.
Emotional trend upward, though still has ups and downs.
Now. 24: Menses on time and no headache until nearly over when came on with same fury. All worn out after whole day of headache and not recovered yet. To have relatives over Thanks giving; dreads it. Feels quite unequal to things. Rx. Sulph. 50M.
Jan 15, 1953: Better on the whole. Last two menses: no headache, and one on now and a threatening, slight. None of the old depression. Taste such as had with the bad vomiting but none of that. Much gas in spells.
Feb. 17: Menses: interval 31 days this time; pain abdomen severe for several hours. Headache threatens but does not develop. Menstrual pain accompanied by chills.
Chills frequently when trying to sleep.
Twitching eyelids. Lachrymation, especially left eye.
Nasal drip mind.
Aching in arms lasted 2 days, worse left.
Sleep good for her until the last few nights.
Gradually going backward in the last 6 weeks; hay-fever time not far off. Rx. Sulph. 50M.
Mar. 16: Chronic troubles quieted down; last menses decidedly better. Now attacks of “Flu” for several days and cannot throw it off. Fever, no perspiration or chill. Aching all over, racking cough. Rx Kali bi. 2c.
Mar. 23: Feeling very tired and chronic symptoms returning, more superficial ones. Rx Sulph. CM.
Apr. 2: Pain region right sacroiliac comes and goes, interferes with moving about, especially stooping, leaning forward, extending down right leg at times. Stiffness there on first motion, better afterward; also acute pain.
Symptoms in general less severe and a general uplift since the Sulph.
Apr. 7: Feels better in general, except for headache with periods.
Pain in back gradually better; spine sore for 2 days after days. Still more tendency not to place foot squarely down, as if something wrong, back crooked, e.g. Sharp pains occasionally moving about her body, soon gone.
Warmer most of the time now but chilly spells, hands and feet clammy.
Very much better in general; can face things better. No smoking for 3 days; feels freer, much deeper respiration, more relaxed.
Bad symptom on falling asleep that used to have in childhood; also waking with a jump after falling asleep.
May 15, 1953: Has had wonderful month or more, practically without symptoms. Now with menses some headache and old pains accompanying sense of great weariness and inability to carry on well. Rx Sulph. CM.
The patient was born into a unhappy family full of nervous tensions; all this made a deep impression which has never been forgotten for she has been oversensitive all her life. This case (a very cooperative patient) represents opening the door with one remedy given in a series of 4 potencies over a period of 13 months. It is not finished but a long distance on the way. The patient is delighted and so is the doctor for that distance on the way. The patient is delighted and so is the doctor for that awful baffled look is gone for good, given way to serenity with the consciousness of being equal to what comes. The battered body is upright now and energy is really enormous.
1726 EYE STREET, N.W.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
