Since that time I have saved others. In another case of trouble of the bladder, a record of which you will find in this mouth’s Review, the child a boy of two or three, had tubercular disease of the bladder. That was diagnosed by Reginald Harrison, who assisted me, and the child was cured of it by Calcarea alone. The mother was given it, and and the next child was perfectly healthy. Another child was born rachitic. The mother was treated in the same way, and the next child was born perfectly healthy; the third child, the mother not having received treatment, was born rachitic. During the fourth pregnancy I had full away, and treated the mother in the usual way, and the fourth child was absolutely healthy.
J.H. HENRY, M.D., of Alabama: I am very glad to be here to day, to see this question discussed in the light of Homoeopathy. Take a series of abortions in a family; we commenced with our remedies as high as the thirtieth, and we followed Hahnemann’s treatment. I will say, I have seen more fatality with men who offered thousands of dollars for the cure of their children, and where every single rule of hygiene was carried out family and die, one after another, with every hygienic principle carried out for years.
I remember one case, where a man says to the doctor, “Here is a check for a million dollars if you will cure my last child.” Every sanitary measure was carried out, but the child died. Coca is the remedy that it seems to me the Homoeopathic physicians have forgotten. Muller, of Leipsic, published in the British Journal, of October, 1857, 49 pages upon Coca., and he expresses the opinion that, in the nervous diseases of children, it is one of the most potent remedies. He speaks of the benefit of dropping it in the eye, and producing a partial deadness. The allopathic physicians have taken that up, and published it as something new.
J.W. WHITMAN’S M.D., of South Carolina: Every one has a hobby, but you havn’t hit my hobby, and that is diet. What is medicine if we don’t have food? If the mother does not have the proper nutriment for her child, what can we expect of the child? I think we should look to the table for a great deal of benefit, as this is lost sight of more than anything I know of.
W.P. McCRACKEN, M.D.: I beg your pardon for rising again. I would like to say one word to then philosopher who has come very near to the Creator in his work. I would like to suggest to him that it he would teach the husband of a pregnant woman how to control himself, it is a surer preventive of evil than Mercurius.
A.M. DUFFIELD. M.D: There is one point that I would like to speak of that has not been mentioned, and that is pre-natal treatment for easy child-birth. There are some children who are born with very little vitality, when treatment has been employed to prevent hardening of the foetal bones. I wish to add my word to warming in carrying this treatment out. I had, two years ago, a little one come to this world, and it has been sick ever since. The starving of the osseous tissue has had such an impression upon its body that it will never amount to anything. The treatment, prior to labor, had the desired effect. In two cases, prior to this, the mother was a great suffer, but in this third case the mother abstained from all those articles of diet which would favor osseous development, and the result to the little one was starvation.
