Mr. Alumina sympathizes with Mr. Plumbum in his attacks of constipation for he too has the difficult, hard, knotty stools. He also has the constriction of the rectum and tenesmus and he also has the colic.
Mrs. Platina also has much sympathy with Mr. Plumbum in these attacks. She thought she knew just what that colic and obstinate constipation were. She had shooting pains, in the rectum before stool which she thought quite equal to Mr. Plumbum’s painful retraction of anus. Even the stupid Mrs. Opium sympathized with Mr. Plumbum in his bowel trouble.
The Plumbum children have terrible convulsions. Most children will have one convulsion and be quite satisfied with the commotion that the one causes. Not so with Mr. Plumbum’s children; they will have four or five paroxysms a day! They utter frightful shrieks and bite their tongues during the paroxysms and will remain unconscious sometimes an hour after the paroxysm is over. Sometimes they utter deep moans towards the end of the convulsions and sometimes the convulsions alternate with pains in the limbs, stomach or bowels. The limbs of one of the children were paralyzed after an attack of convulsions and one of the children was injured at birth, the occiput was too much depressed and lock- jaw followed.
Mrs. Opium is very sorry for the plumbums. She thinks she understands all about convulsions for her own children have both tonic and clonic spasms. The children of Mrs. Opium lose consciousness during convulsions; their pupils become contracted; their breathing is heavy, spasmodic.
Sometimes there is sobbing and rattling with deadly paleness of face and body. They were often caused by fright and often come during sleep. They go into the spasm with a scream and fall into a long lasting deep sleep as soon as the convulsion is over. Mrs. Opium is too stupid to see that there is any difference between the convulsions of the Plumbums and her own children, and if she could see a difference, she wouldn’t admit it.
Mr. Plumbum has suffered much and now he is old before his years, emaciated, paralyzed. His is a history of going from bad to worse and it will continue in the same direction as long as he remains in the world.
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.