His vertigo was ameliorated when he closed one eye, the one afflicted with a paretic internal rectus muscle. He was a man of brilliant mind and he had become exceedingly loquacious. Lachesis administered in the twenty-fourth potency was followed by a prompt and complete clearing up of all symptoms. After that experience I could not lose him as a patient. He would come to see me for all kinds of complaints in spite of my efforts to refer him to better men for particular ailments.
Another case of vertigo after resisting all forms of treatment over prolonged period, cleared up promptly after one dose of Conium in the thirtieth potency.
The next is one of pure fraud, practised by the writer. After hearing the details I ask for your leniency in judging me because of the good that was done. In the spring of 1912 I was called in to see a very desperate case of vertigo in a woman forty-three years of age. The gentleman who called me was an authority in the old school ranks of national and international reputation.
He invited me to see the case as a consultant to determine the cause of the vertigo; however, knowing that I was a homoeopathic graduate he let it be known from the start that he did not care for any therapeutic suggestions. Included in the examination was a refraction of the patients eyes under homatropine as a cycloplegic. During the post-cycloplegic check up, the eye muscle balance was tested and a slight imbalance uncovered. I naturally studied the case most carefully, desirous of leaving a good impression on the old school authority, who had called me in.
The vertigo was so pronounced, at least according to the patient and her sister who was in attendance, that she had to have someone to hold her head fixed with the hands when making the slightest motion. She was rich in symptomatology. The old school doctor was giving her massive doses of iron, hypodermically. I saw the patient about six times at intervals of a few days. By the fifth visit I was satisfied that the totality of symptoms matched up with Theridion. The next question to arise was how was it to be administered. The mere suggestion of a homoeopathic remedy would have spelled “exit” for the prescriber.
I decided to put one drop of the thirtieth potency in water and have it used as an eye lotion. After several months the patient had the family call up for more eye drops. Boric acid solution was sent. The patient insisted that these last boric acid drops did not answer the purpose, since they did not stop the vertigo as the first had done. I then sent more Theridion, which did the trick. This experience was repeated twice after that. On one occasion boric acid was sent, followed by the report that it did not help her vertigo.
A second supply of boric acid was sent purposely, to eliminate any possible guess work on the part of the patient. She called up again to tell of my second mistake. Theridion was then sent. The following day she reported that there was decided improvement after using the first drop. I have seen this patient regularly every three years to refract her eyes and she has had no vertigo for the last eight or nine years and is able to go about with as much comfort as her arthritis will permit.
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS.
Running through the entire group of cases reported there are to be found certain common factors. These are: (a) Bonafide ailments of a rather severe character with demonstrable objective manifestations; (b) improvement that was prompt (within twenty minutes in most cases); (c) results that were lasting.
In none of the cases can the satisfactory results be explained upon any other basis than the action of the homoeopathically prescribed remedy. Faith was excluded in every case.
Psorinum as a remedy for neuritis is not so far fetched when we consider the fact that neuritis is frequently of focal infection origin in which the infecting micro-organism is the staphylococcus which happens to be also the particular germ common to all original stocks from which Psorinum is prepared. On the other hand, how to account for the rapid and lasting improvement of neuritis from the administration of a single dose of Psorinum in the thousandth potency is almost beyond comprehension.
Did the Psorinum act as a remedy homoeopathic or isopathic to the case? It would seem to be isopathic, but not necessarily so since the case referred to here was one in which neuritis was due to the yellow staphylococcus about a tooth socket, whereas, the lesion from which the Psorinum is prepared is more likely to be the common skin variety the white staphylococcus. Careful laboratory control is the only key to the correct answer of this question.
Nux vomica is not a drug that one would think of “off hand” as a remedy for nasal polyps. In fact, it was not prescribed for the nasal symptoms per se, but for other symptoms tangent to the particular condition for which the patient came. This experience would be less valuable if it were merely an isolated one, but since having seen many others of a more or less similar character, it then takes on the proportion of corroborative experience.
