TUMORS

“Calcarea fluorica in lumps and chronic hard swellings in the female breasts.”

I know whereof I speak when I state that these swellings can be easily handled with this remedy.

Mrs. C., age 52, came to me badly alarmed because a leading surgeon had said that she had a cancer of the breast and must have it cut out immediately. After a careful examination of the breast, and taking her history, I said to her, I believe I could remove the hard lump with medicine. After a few moments’ thought she said, “Go to work on it.” I made a 4-oz. solution of the remedy by putting some of the 3x tablets into 4 oz. of soft water, and told her to keep the swelling wet most of the time with it, which she did. Internally I gave her 3 cones of the 3x every three hours, and had her report in one week. The one week’s treatment had reduced the lump one-fourth and she now fully believes that she is going to recover, which she did in six weeks’ treatment.

CASE 2. – A lady friend of the above, 42 years of age, presented herself for treatment for a hard lump that had been growing in her right breast for three or four years. It was painful, and she was unable to use her arm for any length of time without the whole organ becoming sensitive and painful so as to prevent her from sleeping. She was a dyspeptic, and after correcting this trouble she received the same treatment as the above, and fully recovered in three months.

This remedy has never failed me in hard swelling of the jaw caused by toothache or injury, and for chaps and cracks of the lips. I used it in one case of rapid decay of the teeth, where the enamel scaled off, and obtained very good results. (O.A. Palmer, M.D).

Dr. Mossa reports an interesting case in the Berliner Zeitschrift where Silicea 30 produced and cured cystic growths. A carpenter showed a swelling in the left bend of the elbow that had been there for over one year. It was soft but recently had become painful. Silicea 30 twice daily stopped the pain after three days, but a ganglion appeared at the back of the left hand, size of a hazel nut. In ten days’ further treatment with Silicea, both cysts disappeared.

William Boericke

William Boericke, M.D., was born in Austria, in 1849. He graduated from Hahnemann Medical College in 1880 and was later co-owner of the renowned homeopathic pharmaceutical firm of Boericke & Tafel, in Philadelphia. Dr. Boericke was one of the incorporators of the Hahnemann College of San Francisco, and served as professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. He was a member of the California State Homeopathic Society, and of the American Institute of Homeopathy. He was also the founder of the California Homeopath, which he established in 1882. Dr. Boericke was one of the board of trustees of Hahnemann Hospital College. He authored the well known Pocket Manual of Materia Medica.

W.A. Dewey

Dewey, Willis A. (Willis Alonzo), 1858-1938.
Professor of Materia Medica in the University of Michigan Homeopathic Medical College. Member of American Institute of Homeopathy. In addition to his editoral work he authored or collaborated on: Boericke and Dewey's Twelve Tissue Remedies, Essentials of Homeopathic Materia Medica, Essentials of Homeopathic Therapeutics and Practical Homeopathic Therapeutics.