CLINICAL CASES By C M Boger

THE

 HOMOEOPATHIC RECORDER

Vol. XXXVII. Philadelphia, July 15, 1922. No. 7.

CLINICAL CASES

C. M. Boger, M. D., Parkersburg, West Va.

Case 1. 

Intermittent fever for two years. Patient aged 71 : 

confined to bed. Every day between 3 and 4 p. m. first 

a crawling here and there over body, then drowsiness ending 

in stupor during which a violent shaking chill comes 

on. In spite of its violence the shaking doesn't awake her 

from the stupor. 

She received a dose of Opium 12 late in the evening and 

early in the morning for five days, then Sac Lac, whereupon 

the chills ceased for over a week but came on again in an  

irregular and milder form. She again received Opium 12 as  

before. This cured the case. 

Case 2. 

1. Chronic dysmenorrhoea. Menses early, scanty and 

painful. The pains come and go quickly < left side. 

2. Chilly and nauseated ; she lies on abdomen ; > belching. 

3. Aggravation Lying on Left side. From anger. 

4. The heart misses beats. 

5. Dyspnoea < excitement (Amb. Ars. Coc-c. Ferr. Pul. 

Sep.) ; or from anger (Arn. Ars. Rhus-t. Stap.). 

6. Frontal and occipital headache. 

7. Bad taste in a. m. 

8. No inclination to sweat or cold sweats. 

9. Jerks and starts in sleep. 

10. Sore over kidneys. 

Arsenicum mm. a single dose cured. 

Case 3. 

1. Lumps drop from posterior nares < after breakfast. 

2. Profuse, thin, brown leucorrhea. 

3. Dull ache over left ovary. 

4. Frequent scanty urine. 

5. Flatulence during the menses. (Kali-c. Kre. Mag-c. Nat-c. 

Phos. Vespa.) 

One dose of Vespa 1m. cured. 

Case 4. Arthritis deformans

A physician ordered antiseptic injections for foul lochia, 

some months afterward arthritis deformans slowly developed 

with the following symptoms: 

1. Sore epigastrium, < coughing. 

2. Stiff on lying down; > continued motion. 

3. First one joint then another gets stiff and puffy. 

4. Emaciation. Weakness; < epigastrium, then ravenous 

hunger. 

5. Menses too early. 

6. Internal trembling, < before and during menses. Sense 

of swelling all over. 

7. Dreams causing fear; of falling; of accidents. 

8. Chloasma on face. 

9. A little food fills her up; craves acids. 

Puls 12 a single dose. 

Improved slowly for seven months and now at the end of 

thirteen months remains well and strong. 

Case 5. 

1. Aching and coldness along spine. 

2. Cramp in bowels then dark, thin, diarrheic stools. 

3. Spells of general aching,.

 Polyporus off.  three doses cured. 

Since then patient has undergone a great change and is in 

better health than for years. 

Case 6. 

1. Secretions, urine and leucorrhea all cause itching. 

2. Offensive, sticky, raw axillae; fingertips sting, burn and 

crack. 

3. Before menses the face swells, pains, gets rough and the 

eyes sting, burn, itch and the tarsi turn red. 

4. Piles which burn and crack. 

5. The feet sweat and smell. 

6. Violent eczema of palms with many cracks. 

One dose of Sulfur acting for four months removed 

every symptom except the leucorrhea which grew steadily 

worse. She now received a single dose of Medorrhinum 

and within a very few weeks reported herself pregnant for the 

first time, after many years of married life and the leucorrhea 

gone. 

Case 7. 

Patient had been under local treatment for seven 

weeks for suppuration of the left ear with sharp shooting 

and violent throbbing, radiating pains with anorexia and 

sleeplessness. Aggravation at 4 p. m. and all night. A 

single dose of Asafoetida cleared everything within a week, 

since which she remains well. 

Case 8. 

1. Sore at left angle of mouth. 

2. Hard breathing as if he were breathing through a metallic 

tube, seeming to start from abdomen. Fears his breath 

will stop. Throat feels scraped and burns. 

3. Burning over kidneys. 

4. Follicular pharyngitis. 

5. Restless feet; rocks hard; is nervous. 

6. Ravenous hunger with sour belching; but very weak and 

exhausted. 

7. Weeping attacks; sits with head in hands. 

8. Amelioration; cool air. 

9. Neuropathic inheritance. 

10. Urine and heart normal. Merc-cor C. M. later followed 

by the MM has slowly made him a ruddy, healthy looking boy 

full of vim and vigor. 

SOME CASES OF RHEUMATISM By Dr. Mossa

 The

 Homoeopathic Recorder

Vol. XX, Lancaster, Pa., January, 1905  No. 1

SOME CASES OF RHEUMATISM

By Dr. Mossa, Stuttgart

Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from Allg. Hon. Zeit.

Edited By Dr. Vandana Patni

Gnaphalium

A servant girl, twenty-nine years of age, had suffered much 

ever since her ninth year from rheumatism. This pain roved 

about in all the joints, sometimes in the fingers which are red and 

swollen, then again in the shoulders or the loins. She cannot 

sleep at night. The joints are stiff and sore and hard to move. 

The mother-tincture of Gnaphalium, ten drops a week, continued 

for two months, brought remarkable relief. In the course of two 

months she was freed from all pains, except a slight aching in the 

back (Cartier). Gnaphalium is generally most useful in non- 

inflammatory rheumatism, and still more in nervous rheumatism 

and in gouty myalgia. 

Kalmia Latifolia

A school boy, ten years of age, had an attack of rheumatic fever, 

lasting thirteen days. Acute pains in the shoulder-joints and in 

the upper arm, jumping from one side to the other; penetrating 

lancinations in the cardiac region, worse at night; thirst for large 

quantities of water; great restlessness. Pains darting through 

the intercostal muscles in the left side, worse while breathing; 

the tongue, red in the middle, with a red triangular spot on the 

tip; the joints neither reddened nor swollen. Temperature higher, 

respiration 48-60 ; the cardiac pains worst while lying down. The 

boy had had a similar attack the year before, which had been less 

painful, indeed, but which under allopathic treatment had lasted 

six weeks and a half, and had left behind a deficiency of the 

valves. On giving him Kalmia latifolia the pain disappeared in 

two days. 

Medorrhinum

This remedy is according to J. H. Allen most effective in rheu- 

matism after gonorrhoea, especially when the small joints are 

affected. The gonorrhoea in such cases has often been quickly 

repressed. Whenever in rheumatism the joints, especially those 

of the fingers and toes, or the knee joint, are swollen, we should 

think of Medorrhinum; for there is usually a specific infection pres- 

ent. This remedy has cured gouty exudations, extending to the 

whole of the body. The patients in such cases have hardly any 

use of the joints affected (similarly as Rhus in muscular rheuma- 

tism). It is worse in cold weather, better when it is warm.

Winter is always the worst season with such patients, especially 

when it is cold and moist. They complain of heaviness of the 

limbs while walking, as if the limbs would refuse their service. 

In Arthritis deformans, this crux for patients and physicians, 

Dr. Bonino has found the best results from a weekly alternation 

of Causticum and Thuja. In pronounced gout Urtica urens has 

been most serviceable.