This message made it clear to me that this was another case of pleurisy. I had a better chance with him than I had had with the miller because I could start treatment immediately with a bag of the hot mashed potatoes and Bryonia mother tincture, 5 drops in a tablespoonful of water to be taken once an hour. Having taken two doses of Bryonia my friend fell asleep. He also fell into a profound and most beneficial perspiration which welled up from every pore. His breathing became gradually more normal. I stayed with him till 12 oclock midnight. As he continued sleeping peacefully I went home, having left for him 5 drops of Bryonia in a glass of water with instructions that he should start on the mixture only the next day, taking a tablespoonful every two hours.
The next day after school I went to my friend in the afternoon. He looked very happy and called out to me: “Well, Wiener, I have had enough of bed, I am getting up.” Of course I would not allow that, but on the following morning he got up without asking my permission, he attended school as usual, and, like the miller, he has had not a single relapse. Relapses are almost unknown in the case of homoeopathic treatment.
The examples given, to which I could add any number of similar ones, show how Bryonia acts in ordinary uncomplicated pleurisy if that remedy has been selected in accordance with its leading symptoms.
