So, we shall see-even twenty years late.
Case No. 7- Now I will give you just one brief one, which is neither “Outside” nor ” inside.” A kid was brought to us who had had a sore throat, temperature of 104. He was seven years old, I guessed, and his father had had rheumatic fever. I didnt like it. He had symptoms, vaguely. His right leg, behind the knee, bothered him a little, so I gave him a dose of Rhus tox. 200., and we did his blood count, and it didnt show much-it didnt show what it ought to have shown.
His urine was all right, and I said, “Bring him back in two or three days”.
His mother brought him back and said, ” This child has a lump which I discovered when I bathed him. It is behind his knee, a little on the outside. ” I felt a lump and I thought, “Oh-Oh!” It was as big as a pullets egg. It was as hard as a stone. It had a ridge in it like serrated rock. If I ever felt a really cancerous growth, that was it. He had a couple of little almond glands in the groin, none elsewhere, and he had seen a surgeon who told the mother he should go instantly to the hospital and have the lump out; that it was a sarcoma of the bone. I thought it might be that, too.
She was very homoeopathic and she said, ” I want you to try with the remedy”.
I said, “If you promise me I will see this child regularly and often, if the family is willing, I will take a chance, but I warn you, I dont know”.
She said, “He has the following mentals: he is the devil temperamentally. He is cross. He is ornery, and thrashes around. I cant do anything with him. He weeps. He has a big, square, Calcarea-looking brow”.
I looked up in the Repertory for lumps in that position, stony hardness- Calcarea fluorica – and I gave him, sort of pathologically, Calcarea fluorica 10M, one dose. That was last November (1952). He have never had another dose of medicine, and when he was seen this May, neither my associate nor I could find many lump whatsoever. His mentals cleared first, and the lump stopped growing but did not decrease. We have seen him every two weeks through the winter and the lump has gone steadily and slowly down. In April I could find it only if knew I was looking for it. In may it was gone.
I wish someone would tell me whether it was a sarcoma.
