The scar over the armpit was so hard it was pulling her arm down, and the other breast was involved, full of lumps, and at times it would bleed and pain her terribly. Many, many remedies had been used on herD Lachesis being one and, finally, the case got so bad that it looked like Silicea, but Silicea never did anything. That was one of the last remedies I gave her, and I gave her the CM after she had been through all the other potencies, but I never could get much help out of Silicea.
Finally, in desperation, I took her to Dr. Holcombe, of Kokomo, and he looked at it and said it was Carbo animalis, one of Dr. Griggs’ old remedies, and here is the prescription he gave her; Carbo animalis, one thousandth potency, morning and night, for five doses, and then he said, “Silicea does seem to be indicated, an earmark, scar contractions, hardness. It is all right to give her Silicea 6X, three times, every three hours.” She has done amazingly well on that.
She is better than she was three months ago, when she was biting her finger-nails with pain, and she hasn’t had any more pain since. The glands are going down in the neck.
In cancer we have to be heroic and we can’t be afraid to use our tools.
DR. STEVENSON: How do you feel about biopsy spreading cancer?
DR. BOND: I would never do a biopsy upon cancer patients, and I never would operate on these cases. They have their cancers and live longer without surgery.
DR. STEVENSON: Don’t the surgeons try to talk you into biopsy?
DR. BOND: They would if I let them; but surgeons don’t come into my cases very often in cancer unless the patient takes it on his own or her own to consult somebody. I usually find this: If they want surgery in the first place, they won’t rest unless they do get it.
DR. A. C. NEISWANDER: Have you had any experience with surgery, x-rays and the hormone therapy? Have you ever tried to treat any in the breast, particularly, that way?
DR. BOND: You have to carry on the best you can, even though they are messed up. In a great many cases, if they can get some action, in spite of all the things they have had for instance, if they had had x-ray treatment just start out with a high potency of x-ray to antidote the x-ray.
DR. SUTHERLAND: It does, too.
DR. BOND: Fifty thousandth potency, and then your field is cleared and you can go ahead with remedies. If it is a desperate case, I wait a week or ten days.
DR. NEISWANDER: Do you try to antidote the hormone therapy?
DR. BOND: If I can find out the particular hormone they have been abusing, or the particular hormone that has been abusing them, I get it. We inveigle the original doctor some way and we got a sample of it. We don’t know the name of it. Roger Ehrhart potentizes it for us. I have Theelin and a number of those drugs in my office. Allopathic drugs, all run up to the 50M, even Nature’s Remedy, and all those things are potentized, and I have Oxythine, and Milk of Magnesia.
DR. SHUPIS: Now, I don’t like to prolong this, but the late Dr. Hayes had some of these cases, and I inherited several of his cases of carcinoma of the breast and he had them over ten years on homoeopathic remedies, and there are two that are alive today, and one patient that he had died after eleven years, who was well enough so that she wanted to play golf in her last year. I also had a case, a Grade 3 carcinoma of the caecum, with obstructing symptoms, and the surgeon took out the mass, and the prognosis was very poor.
I had Dr. Sosnitz, in New York, run it through his little machine and he gave a very grave prognosis on the case. She was a farmer and she got out and worked in the fields and got a rupture in the incision. She came in to see me about a month ago. Incidentally, Dr. Sosnitz said she had carcinoma of the right breast, but I didn’t feel anything and neither did the surgeon, but she came in with what looked like an angry breast. I would suspect a carcinoma with metastases.
She said she didn’t want any surgery, and I gave her Rheum and I gave her Cadmium 200., and it cleared up in a week.
DR. R. S. FARIS: (Richmond, Va.): I want to commend Dr. Bond upon his use of specialists in special cases. He spoke about one patient with pain in the back. In a case of that kind I think very often it is wise to refer them to an osteopath. If you know your osteopath, that is all right,because there are times when osteopathy comes in handy.
When I first started practicing I was fortunate, I believe, in having rather close contact with an osteopath, who is also a surgeon, and I was his anaesthetist and did his laboratory work for him, and saw him give lots of osteopathic treatments. He later asked me to give the treatment. Of course, I had the anatomy from my own medical training, but he taught me the manipulation, and it has been of wonderful value.
There was a man who came to see me who was a sergeant in the army. He was being transferred from some point in Ohio to Richmond, and he was driving through in his car and in the early evening he got a little sleepy, and when he woke up, he was down in the ditch with three broken ribs and his car smashed to pieces. They took him to the little hospital in Amherst, Virginia. He was there two months and, as soon as he could leave, he was taken to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, and there he had dozens of x-rays.
It was about two years after this accident when I saw him for the first time, and when he came in, he told me the only way he could get out of bed in the morning was slowly to go over on his stomach and then twist himself around so his knees and legs would drop off the bed, with his arms still resting on the bed and then he could push himself up, resting on his knees, and from there gradually get into an erect position. He complained of pain about the mid-dorsal region and this homoeopathic general practitioner began going up and down his back a little, rather intelligently, and there were evidently two slips there, close together, and I was lucky enough to get two lovely “pops” that we like to hear, when the bones go back into place.
After the treatment, I told him to come back in two days for another treatment, and he did. He came in and informed me that for the first time in some months he had been getting out of bed in the last two days in the manner he ought to, the way he normally and formerly did, and I gave him a slight treatment.
Those two bones had been out of place for two years, and he had been through his own specialist and Walter Reed, and all that sort of truck, and his back still hurt, but the one osteopathic treatment put the spine in shape and the pain left him, and that was what was hurting him.
Now, lots of bone specialists won’t recognize that, and they will let a patient go on and maybe offer to operate and take out the bone, but that is not necessary.
That reminds me of another case. The first man was cured so far as pain in his back was concerned. He went around normally. The other one I happened to think of had a lumbosacral slip, and he worked in a tobacco factory, and he had reported down to the factory hospital. The doctor in charge finally told him the one thing to do was to operate, that they would have to take a piece of bone out of his shin, and cut a groove in the side of the spinal column and insert this piece of shin bone so as to immobilize the lower part of the back.
Well, that didn’t appeal very much to the patient. He had a simple lumbosacral slip, and one treatment put that back in place and knocked the surgeons out of a beautiful operation, because with the bones in line, the trouble was gone no more pain. So, an osteopath and I am not one can often pick up things of that sort which some of our celebrated bone specialists pass over.
