During the winter 1889 and 1890, our first gripped year, Ferrum phosphoricum was sick. His symptoms were very like his old catarrh of the chest. He was much prostrated by the sickness and never seemed to fully recover though he was able to be up and about. As time went on, it was noticed that he was nervous and was growing weaker day by day. Profuse night sweats seemed to weaken him. He was restless at night, tired and wanted to lie down during the day. There was a short, day hacking cough, vomiting of food after eating.
Instead of the pretty bright red cheeks the face was pale and sallow, excepting in the afternoon or during the pain, then the old flush returned. Remembering his old hemorrhagic nature, for he has bled from nearly every orifice of the body, we are not surprised to learn that the cough brought up bright clear blood or that on every exertion or on going into cold air, the sputa became blood streaked. No diagnosis is needed to reveal the meaning of it all. That dread disease, tubercular phthisis which so quickly killed the father and mother, was palliated from time to time in Ferrum phosphoricum, but the end was inevitable. Ferrum phosphoricum was innocent victim was surely dying. Who was the murderer? Was it the generation of ancestors whose ignorance piled up psora mountains high to await him? Was it his father whose sin cursed him with sycosis? Was it the nurse who suppressed the eye troubles or was it the physician who in stupidity and ignorance could not find the remedy though nature screamed it at him all through a life suffering.
Is not the physician responsible for all the unnecessary suffering which comes after nature has once spoken plainly the remedy? If some wise physician had given the baby, Ferrum phosphoricum – the correct remedy – the vital force would have been turned into order and he would have escaped from his inheritance. What a cry goes up from the suffering little ones against those physicians, who having eyes see not, and ears hear not what nature is telling them! When wisdom can redeem suffering humanity, what punishment is great enough for the sin of ignorance in those whose ignorance adds to the already too heavy burden of the innocent victims?.
She was one of the first students to graduate from the Philadelphia Post-Graduate School of Homeopathy and served at the school as Clinician, Professor of Children's Diseases and Professor of Repertory. She taught from 1933 until her health failed. She also taught Pierre Schmidt how to use the repertory.
Her accomplishments include being one of the founders of the American Foundation of Homeopath. She was a frequent contributor of articles, many of which are printed in the Homeopathic Recorder. She died on May 7, 1931.