SUNDRY POINTERS

Originally published in "The Homoeopathic Recorder, Vol XXVI, Lancaster, Pa., 1911."  

Edited by: Dr. Ravinder S. Mann

 Dr. A. D. Hard, of Marshall, Minn., has a paper in Medical 

Times, March, on  “Thiosinamine in Senility.” He claims that 

this drug acts “as a resolvent of indurated flesh.” He concludes 

by suggesting “that Thiosinamine be given in one-tenth grain 

doses three times a day for the purpose of staying the hand of 

time and keeping a man from growing old.” One-tenth grain 

is to be found in the 1x tablet triturates of Thiosinamine. 

Dr. Miller (British Hom. Jour., Mar.) on “symptoms” men- 

tions some invaluable ones but deeply hidden, not easily confessed 

by the patient, perhaps not fully realized save in a shamefaced 

way. Among such mentioned is a presentiment of death, Apis; 

lack of natural affection, Sepia and Phosphorus; lurking impulse 

to kill those nearest and dearest, Phosphorus and Nux vomica, 

and a suicidal prompting in China. This class, as said before, 

is hidden but very valuable when discovered by the man who 

knows the deeper working of his Materia Medica. 

Crataegus oxyacanth. as a “Heart Remedy” — I cannot speak too 

highly of Crataegus as a remedy in affections of the heart, as it 

positively has no reaction. Its action is similar to Strophanthus, 

but it has not the disagreeable taste of the latter drug. In a few 

days Crataegus favorably influences the whole of the nervous 

system, increasing the appetite and improving nutrition and 

assimilation, its influence benign mainly on the sympathetic and 

solar plexus. It is gentle in its action on the cardiac organ, 

prompt and strengthening. In one case in which it was admin- 

istered the patient was irritable, wan, and of a melancholic dis- 

position. After a few day’s treatment with Crataegus, these symp- 

toms were greatly modified and, shortly afterwards, disappeared. 

It is a safe heart remedy, and the best results are obtained from 

the 6 tincture, which I have always found to act quickly and 

consistently. — Kopp, in Homoeopathic World. 

The following is from a paper by Dr. E. R. Waterhouse 

(Eclectic) in Clinical Reporter for March: “These friends” (the 

homoeopaths) “have told us that Belladonna in very small doses 

acts as a prophylactic against scarlet fever. I will say that I 

have watched this for more than twenty years, and have given 

it to children where there were cases of the scarlet fever in the 

house, and in no case have these children contracted the disease. 

Only a few weeks ago I had a case of scarlet fever where there 

were four other children in the house, together with the mother 

and father, and none of them had ever had the disease. They all 

got the Belladonna except the father, who would not take the 

medicine, and in due time he had scarlet fever, but none of the 

others did.” 

In an old note book we find, under Cicuta virosa: “Considered, 

says Lilienthal, almost a specific in epidemic meningitis cerebro- 

spinalis,” but where, and when he said it is not given. 

Spigelia, as all homoeopaths know, is often a wonder worker 

in the most painful cases of neuralgia, so that the following from 

the official journal A. M. A. is curious reading: “Therapy, the 

only therapeutic use for Spigelia, is to promote the removal from 

the intestine of the round worm, and occasionally to aid in the 

removal from the rectum of the pin-worm.” They have much to 

learn about medicine. 

Dr. C. J. Junkermann, of Cleveland, O., in Jour. A. I. H., says 

that Ruta graveolens is very useful in “patients who have a ten- 

dency to the formation of deposits in the periosteum, in bone, in 

tendons, about joints, over-straining of tendons in the places 

where they are weak, will form nodules, lumps, bunches or little 

tumors in the tendons. I will include also gradual increasing 

contraction of the flexors, so that the hand becomes permanently 

flexed, or the foot becoming flexed so that the sole becomes more 

concave and the toes drawn under from over-straining and vio- 

lence to the contractors and flexors.” Presumably it is used ex- 

ternally and internally. 

Dr. F. C. Richardson (N. E. Med. Gaz., May), writing of 

poliomyelitis, says that the medical treatment must be symptom- 

atic. The remedies he found to be most useful in the cases he 

treated were Gelsemium, Belladonna, Eupatorium and Helle- 

borus. 

Dr. E. X. Ritter, Williamsport, Pa. (Med. Summary, April), 

praises the effects of Apocynum in sciatica and neuralgia, lumbar 

and crural. He gives several cases, pain in left sciatic nerve, in 

right leg, and in back which were relieved by half a dram of 

Apocynum in four ounces of water, teaspoonful doses every few 

hours. 

Dr. J. H. Allen, Chicago (The Clinique, April), says that 

Arsenicum iod. has helped him in cases of large, hard glands, in 

tubercular glands and in tertiary syphilis, ulcers, hard and carti- 

laginous-like, sallow and tired, heavy feeling in legs. 

Dr. J. W. Miller, of Miami College (Therapeutic Gazette), 

writing of eczema of the palms, after giving the usual salves, etc.,. 

adds that great benefit is derived from soaking the hands in hot 

water. Internally, we may add Skookum chuck 3X (medical lake 

salts)  have often proved to be very effective in eczema and kin- 

dred skin ills. 

Mercurius cyanide, according to Dr. J. H. Clarke, is “a very 

efficient prophylactic in diphtheria.” He also says that it acts 

better in the 30th than in lower potencies. Some years ago a man 

in New York who had been poisoned with Merc. cy. was treated 

by the doctors for diphtheria at first, before they discovered what 

he was suffering from. 

Mezerenm is said to be a good antidote to mercurial poisoning. 

There is probably no drug in the materia medica that produces 

so complete a picture of the worst sort of “fits” as does OEnanthe 

crocata. The numerous poison cases from the roots on record 

seem to prove that. Curious to relate a practitioner not long ago 

said, “OEnanthe crocata? Never heard of it.” Yet a case of epi- 

lepsy, or any kind of “fits,” should never be given up until this 

drug is tried. 

“It (Oleander) will be found to be, if not a complete remedy, 

yet an indispensable intermediate remedy in some kinds of mental 

derangements, e. g., absence of mind.” — Hahnemann. 

“Belladonna will dry the mother's milk, and when it is given 

directly after confinement it will often prevent or retard the flow. 

When we wish to dry the flow of milk, as in cases of death of the 

child, or at weaning time, the application of an ointment contain- 

ing Belladonna will accomplish it in short order with no detri- 

mental effect.” — Dr. E. R. Waterhouse, Eclectic Medical Journal, 

May. 

Dr. C. R. Green, Troy, N. Y., contributes a paper to Am . A. 

J. of Hom., for May, on “The Third Action of Hepar Sulphur 

Calcarea in Suppuration.” After quoting various text-books — 

Hughes, Farrington, Nash, Boericke and Goodno — on the drug 

when given high aborting, and low hastening suppuration, he re- 

lates a number of cases, where pus had formed, operation being 

either unadvisable or refused, where the drug in the 3X caused the 

pus to be absorbed, cure following. The cases, four in number, 

included one in the neck, the throat, hand and wrist from gonor- 

rhoea, and a case of appendicitis where patient refused to be 

operated on. 

Dr. A. J. Howe, one of the old eclectics, said that a lotion of 

Thuja was good for anal protrusion. Apply externally. 

Dr. W. M. Gregory, Berea, O. (Medical Summary, May), 

writes of Calendula, of which he accidentally heard somewhere : 

“First, it will absolutely prevent the formation of pus in lacerated 

wounds and burns ; second, it is of the most helpful things in 

the world to relieve pain; third, it is a truly wonderful remedy to 

promote healing and prevent sloughing.” 

“In chronic cases we often find the patient complaining of pain 

in the cervical region, with a tendency for the head to draw 

backward, with nervousness. Here the field is most its own, as I 

know of no other remedy that is so certain in its action. In 

slender, pale-faced girls between the ages of twelve and twenty, 

losing flesh, morning cough, irregular appetite, and even in a few 

cases so far as to have the hectic fever; nervousness, nervous 

chills, etc., when the patient is tall and bloodless — it seems that it 

is in this class of patients that the results have been best. In 

these cases also there may be scant menstruation or neuralgic 

dysmenorrhoea. In cases, old or young, where there seems to be a 

lack of red blood, here is the picture for Gossypium:” — Dr. 

O. C. Baird, Chanute, Kansas, in N. E. M. A. Quarterly. 

“Agnus castus tincture, one-half teaspoonful in 

a half glass of water, teaspoonful every hour, never fails to estab- 

lish the flow of milk after child-birth.” — Dr. S. A. Bass, Wichita, 

Kans. 

“I have absolutely cured numerous fibroid tumors 

of the breast by the internal use of  Thyroidin 2x.” — 

Dr. E. J. Burch, Carthage, Mo. 

The alkaloid of the fountain of youth has been discovered in 

Thiosinamine, as, according to Dr. Hard, Medical Times, one- 

tenth grain three times a day will “stay the hand of time.” The 

drug is said to soften indurated flesh, hence it ought to do the 

same to the hardening tissue of age, so runs the argument. If 

you want to stop the clock of time better use the 1x tablet trits., 

as these represent exactly 1/1o grain. 

“Cundurango 30 will relieve the sharp cutting pain in cancer, 

a dose every half hour for a few doses. It takes the place of 

morphine." — Dr. Rhoda Pike Barstow, Irving Park, III., con- 

tributed. 

Dr. W. Banta, Calistoga, Calif., tells of a man he treated for 

scorpion bite in a finger. The treatment was Echinacea applied 

undiluted to the bite and a teaspoonful of the drug in water in- 

ternally, at once followed by another later, divided in twenty drop 

doses, every two hours during the remainder of the day. By 

night he was well on to recovery. In contrast to this he tells 

of another case treated at a sanitarium whose hand was swollen 

enormously, the patient was unconscious for four days, and had 

a crippled hand afterwards. 

The quickest relief for haemorrhoids is in Aesculus and Hama- 

melis Suppositories. 

This has been verified. Sore throat from inhaling cold air. 

Throat insufferably dry, Cistus Can. 

A small cut or injury becomes very much swollen and inflamed, 

sometimes discolored. In such cases Pyrogen will help. 

In cases of ulcerated teeth do not forget that ancient standby 

Heckla lava. 

Do not stick too close to the idea that the Pulsatilla patient 

must be a mild blonde, or the Sepia one a snappy brunette, and 

so with others. 

“Prickly heat,” perspiration, itching, Ledum. 

Mr. W., aged JJ, consulted me about “discomfort in his ab- 

domen,” and headache. He said : “I have a feeling that I want 

to keep passing a motion, and when I try to do so I cannot. I 

feel as if someone has pushed something lumpy up my back pas- 

sage.” He further said, “I do not mind my other troubles, so 

long as you get rid of this feeling for me;” I ordered Sepia 30. 

Two doses were sufficient to cure him entirely of this discom- 

fort. — MacCandlish, H. W., July. 

With a history of gonorrhoea think of Medorrhinum 30. 

When at a stand-still in heart cases do not be afraid to “try” 

Crataegus ox. in 5 drop doses of the tincture. It is not a poison 

like Digitalis, Nitro glyceriiie, etc. 

While the reader may never be called upon to treat a case of 

beri-beri it may be interesting to know that Dr. J. N. Majumdar, 

of Calcutta (Indian Homoeopathic Review, July) says that “Rhus 

tox. generally is our principal remedy.”' There are other reme- 

dies, of course, that may be called upon according as the symp- 

toms develop. 

Dr. S. C. Paul, in Indian Homoeopathic Review, July, makes 

the following peculiar distinction between the homoeopathic prep- 

arations of Tuberculinum and Bacillinum, in tuberculosis, derived 

from his experience as a practitioner, namely, that Tuberculinum 

acts well where the climate is dry and Bacillinum where it is wet 

and in marshy districts. 

On arterio-sclerosis. Dr. J. Herbert Moore in the discus- 

sion said : “To my personal knowledge and in my experience 

Plumbum from its pathology seems to take the lead” — i. e., in the 

therapeutics of this disease. The general opinion seemed to be 

that therapeutics in this condition are of little avail. 

In a general discussion of tonsils, adenoids and goitre (Iowa 

Hom. Jour., Nov.), Dr. Nettie Campbell told of a bad case in a 

young child which improved under Tuberculinum and Malan- 

drium. She also praised Baryta carb. in tonsillar 

troubles, curing cases in which it had been said that nothing but 

an operation would avail. Other doctors also praised the action 

of this remedy, but some maintained that it was a waste of time 

to do anything but operate. Burnett said that Bacillinum once 

a week should always be considered in tonsil cases. 

Our old friend, Stacy Jones, says in Medical Genius: “Con- 

vulsions. Spasms of all kinds. Epilepsy. The one grand mas- 

ter remedy is Melilotus. Adult 1 drop of the tincture every 5 

minutes during an attack.” If everything has failed this hint 

may be useful — if not it will be no worse than what has preceded. 

The same quaint authority says: “The acetate of copper, in 

minute doses, stands in the front rank of remedies for heart 

trouble with anguish and oppression, and rigid spasm.” Now in 

his dosage “minute” stands for the 2x on the average. 

According to Clarke's big Dictionary of M. M., “slag,” or, as 

it is known in homoeopathic pharmacy, Silico-sulpho-calcite of 

alumina, did one thing for a prover that was rather satisfactory 

to him, namely, it produced no symptoms, but “it cured him of 

flatulent distension in the evening and an oppressive feeling over 

the heart.” It has also cured housemaid's knee and also “a 

dreadful anal itching, piles and constipation as if by magic.” in 

one prover it produced “soreness of the anus,” but “his general 

health was much improved by it.” Slag seems to be a useful but 

little known remedy. It is generally used in the 3X and 6x trit- 

uration. 

Formica rufa has been commended by several homoeopaths in 

the past, notably Dr. R. M. Cooper, for nasal polypi. Some 

cases are on record where, after several operations, where the 

polypi returned, this remedy cleared away the trouble and others 

where it obviated an operation. It was used from the 2x up. 

GLEANED POINTERS

Originally published in  "The Homeopathic Recorder, Vol. XXVI, Lancaster, Pa. 1911". 

Edited By: Dr Ravinder S. Mann

Dr. J. V. Mott, Amelia, O. (Ec. M. J., Jan.), writes of Sumbul 

in asthma which gives prompt results, almost as much so as 

morphine, without the danger. He gives big doses, a dram, 

in hot water, and “it is a horrible dose, but the patient is glad 

to take it for the expected relief.” “Continued in small doses, 

it will cure most cases of asthma, if the disease begins before 

middle life.” 

Dr. Simpson (Hom. World, Jan.) reports case of a married 

Woman, age 35, very much troubled with sudden, urgent desire 

to urinate, the urine often escaping involuntarily. “Over the 

region of the bladder a dull pain was mostly present,” worse by 

standing or walking; no mal-position. Equisetum hyemale 6 

effected a complete cure. 

Dr. B. C. Woodbury, Jr., Portsmouth, N. H. (N. Am. J. 

Hom. j February), reports a case of sciatica of twenty years 

standing, always worse in wet weather, entirely cured by Rhus 

tox. 200. 

A case of intercostal neuralgia following a bruise cured 

by Ranunculus bulb. 3X. 

Also, Silicea mariana 3X has proved itself of service in consti- 

pation, with inactivity of the rectum with receding stool (Silicea 

and Natrum mur.) . 

“Given a pain in the region of the kidneys, and I always think 

of Agrimonia as the remedy. In my practice I have seen wonder- 

ful results from it, in cases of months' and years' duration, and 

when everything had failed. I have found other uses for it, but 

this has been so prominent that I always associate the medicine 

and the position of the pain.” — Scadder. 

The Agrimonia here referred to is Agrimonia eupatoria. Used in 

small material doses. 

Among the old-timers it had great repute as a remedy for kidney 

and bladder diseases. There is no proving but it has been used 

by some Homoeopaths after the methods of Burnett. 

Dr. Ashley B. Palmer, Seattle, Wash. (Pacific Coast J. of Hom.), 

reports a case of anterior poliomyelitis in a baby aged under two 

years. Gelsemium in this case had a quick and favorable action, 

though he gave other remedies, Aethusa, Kali phos. and Helle- 

bore for certain symptoms,  “but, in the main, I am staying by 

Gelsemium, for I see a constant improvement”. 

For sudden, sharp pains in any part just recall Kali carb. 

 Dr. Royal E. S. Hayes, Farmington, Conn. (Med. Advance, 

January), says that “Nux vomica appears to be the ‘ineffectual 

Effort’ remedy.” “Ineffectual effort is a general characteristic,” 

with excitement, irritability, etc. 

Dr. G. W. Harvey, Millville, Cal. (Cal. Ec. Med. Jour., Febru- 

ary), finds that Bryonia is as sure a prophylactic in measles as 

Belladonna is in scarlet fever, Echinacea for diphtheria, Pulsa- 

tilla for whooping cough, and “malaria is prevented and the pa- 

tient made immune in any climate by Arsenicum iodide 3X.”

Dr. Truman Coates, Oxford, Pa., in a letter mentions the case 

of a man, deaf for years, who complained much of noises in his 

ears, indeed more of than that of the deafness. He received 

Thiosinamine 2x tablets, and in a week his whole condition was 

much improved ; the noises no longer bothered him, and he could 

hear better. Some bad weather threw him back, and he came 

back for more of the “same medicine.” 

A correspondent of the Homeopathic World, February, tells of 

a lady who suddenly “became stone deaf.” A London specialist 

pronounced the case to be hopeless, but under Pulsatilla nutall- 

iana her hearing was restored and has remained for eight months. 

The correspondent got the hint from Clarke's Materia Medica, 

who credits it to Burnett. 

According to Burnett, 5 drop doses of Chelidonium is about 

the best “liver medicine” going — if one may drop into the ver- 

nacular. 

Granatum has been reported as a remedy of use where persist- 

ent vertigo is the most marked feature of the case. 

In cases where there is great difficulty in retaining the urine, 

day and night, the first remedy to be thought of is Ferrum phos. 

It has given relief in many cases of inability to retain the urine. 

A CAUSTICUM CASE

Originally Published in "THE Homoeopathic Recorder,Vol. XXVI Lancaster, Pa., February, 1911 No. 3"

By R. F. Rabe, M. D., New York. 

The case to be recited presents nothing unusual or new, but is 

reported from the standpoint of the materia medicist or pre- 

server rather than from that of the gynecologist. Hence, to a 

certain extent at least, the criticism of the latter concerning the 

omission of exact diagnosis is disarmed, although technically 

entirely justifiable. 

Mrs. X, age 22, married three years. Before marriage had 

always had very profuse and prolonged menstrual periods, 

although these were invariably on time. Careful homoeopathic 

treatment seems never to have corrected this Menorrhagia. 

Shortly after her marriage at 19 years, a miscarriage, or rather 

an abortion, occurred at the end of her first month of pregnancy. 

So far as known, this was not artificially induced. She subse- 

quently became pregnant again and went to term, giving birth to 

a healthy child. 

After the abortion, as well as after the birth of her baby later 

on, the menorrhagia continued in spite of careful homoeopathic 

prescribing at the hands of good men, together with local treat- 

ment and curettage. The baby was nursed for three months, 

but since the menstrual periods continued during lactation, the 

latter was abandoned. 

The condition of the patient as noted at the time of my first 

examination of the case was as follows : Menses usually four 

to five days late, lasting eight to nine days and very profuse. 

The patient is irritable, apprehensive, fearful, and will not go 

to the theatre for fear of fire or something happening. Sleep is 

unrefreshing. No appetite, but craves acids. Perspires easily, 

formerly was troubled by offensive foot-sweat. Axillary sweat 

of an offensive odor. Sweaty palms. Attacks of mental de- 

pression, coming at no particular time. Is inclined to constipa- 

tion. After the abortion had symptoms of uterine prolapse, that 

is to say, bearing down sensations, but has had nothing of this 

since the birth of the baby. Has occasional waves of heat through 

the body. Face pale, yellowish, sickly in appearance. Patient 

maintains that she always feels better in rainy weather. 

It will be observed that in addition to the menorrhagia we have 

also a pronounced neurasthenia of the common type to deal with. 

It will be further noted that the taking of the case reveals numer- 

ous symptoms which have absolutely nothing to do with the 

menorrhagia per se. For example, the general amelioration of 

the patient in w r et weather seems absurdly irrelevant to the gyne- 

cologist, but to the materia medicist offers the open sesame to 

the cure of the patient. Unfortunately for the prescriber, a 

bimanual examination was not made, so that he is deprived of 

any corroborative evidence which such an investigation may have 

afforded. This is the weak point in the presentation of the case. 

Although the needful remedy was at once apparent, to prove the 

correctness of choice a rapid repertory analysis was made. 

By taking the most obvious as well as the most characteristic symp- 

tom of the case, we find that fourteen remedies are credited in 

the repertory with the production of cure of late and profuse 

menstruation, Of these, six are especially important. They are 

carbolic acid, causticum, kali carbonicum, kali iodatum, phos- 

phorus and silicea. 

Of the entire fourteen, twelve produce the symptom of mental 

depression, another characteristic of the patient. 

Of these twelve, eleven are especially to be noted, and of these 

again, but two, causticum and phosphorus have the further peculiarity of causing a state of apprehension or fear. 

Of these remaining two candidates for selection, but one, causti- 

cum, is credited with the modality, general amelioration in wet 

weather. 

Hence, if the logic of the analysis be correct, if the technique 

of selection be without flaw, the choice of remedy must be mathe- 

matically certain. A reference to and study of the pathogenesis 

of causticum shows the contention to be justified. 

Since the administration of this remedy in two single doses, 

at an interval of about three weeks, the patient has improved in 

clear general health, the fear and apprehensiveness have been 

almost overcome, and the menstrual periods are more nearly 

normal in amount than they have ever been. Cure seems assured. 

Repertory Analysis 

Menses late and profuse (Kent, p. 724, 2d Ed.) — Carb. ac, caust., 

chol., cur., dulc, ferr, Kali c, kali iod., lach., nit. ac, phos., 

sil., staph., vib. 

Mental depression (p. 75) — Caust., chel., dulc, ferr., kali c., kali 

iod., lach., nit. ac, phos., sil., staph., vib. 

Apprehensive (p. 45), fear that something will happen — Caust., 

phos. 

Amelioration in rainy weather (aggravation in dry weather), 

p. 13 19 — Caust. 

THERAPEUTIC POINTERS

THE

 Homeopathic Recorder

 Vol. XXVI Lancaster, Pa., January, 1911 

Edited By : Dr. Ravinder Singh Mann

THERAPEUTIC POINTERS 

McCandlish, Hom. World, reports a case of a woman aged 23, 

who since her eighteenth year, had suffered horribly from dys- 

menorrhea, so much so that she would scream with pain. Allo- 

paths and Homoeopaths could give no relief, until he carefully 

took the symptoms, worked them out in the repertory, and was 

surprised to find the result was "Apis." which remedy completely 

cured the patient. 

McCandlish, Hom. World, tells of a "large, hard, tense red 

scar" on a woman's breast from an operation, which, under 

Phytolacca 1. became more like the surrounding skin. 

McCandlish, Hom. World,reports a case of a ten-year-old 

girl discharged as incurable from hospital. She had from birth a 

weakness of the ankle joint, which caused her to drag her right 

foot along the ground when walking ;latterly the weakness began 

to spread up the leg. Conium 30 morning and night, enabled 

her to walk and run “quite nicely now when she likes and when 

she knows she is being watched.” The italics seem to indicate a 

queer mental state. 

McCandlish, Hom. World, reports a case of a man aged 43, 

suffering from itching anus, which was moist, wet, edematous 

and sore. Anacardium 30, morning and night, cured the case. 

Hom. Monthly, November, reports several cases in which 

blood was passed from internal parts by mouth or rectum in 

which Calendula Q. ten drops in half a tumblerful of water, tea- 

spoonful doses of the latter, acted in a most gratifying manner. 

The diseases were tuberculosis, cancer, disease of the bowels, 

etc. The indication is the passing or coughing of blood. Calen- 

dula is a wonderful but little known remedy. 

Dr. Williams (Medical Record) says that the pulp of a ripe 

pineapple applied to a boil will establish drainage in a short time. 

It seems to digest the necrotic head. This seems to be on the 

same principle by which it clears away the membranous throat 

deposits in diphtheria. 

Dr. D. W. Dimock, Brockton, Mass. (Medical World), advises 

as a “mother's friend” the application of ‘olive oil’ over the 

lower abdomen, around and over the vulva and perineum every 

night on retiring" for pregnant women. Keep this up every 

night for months before confinement. One woman who had 

always suffered agonies before had such an easy delivery after 

doing this that she named the girl baby born ‘Olive.’ 

Dr. Geo. D. Scott (Therap. Gaz., Aug.) advises the use of 

fruit juices in the diet of infants : cooked fruit juices are nourish- 

ing and mildly laxative. Perhaps a little fresh juice of ripe 

fruit would also be beneficial. 

Dr. McCandlish, Hom. World, tells of a woman with pains in 

her legs that had been getting worse for three years ; worse in 

the morning so that she dreaded to get up ; neither bone nor joints 

were affected: remedies, including liniments, did no good. On 

the theory that the seat of the trouble might be the facise and 

muscle sheaths. Dr. McCandlish prescribed Phytolacca 1. In 

seven days the pain had entirely disappeared. 

Dr. Ashley B. Palmer, of Seattle, Washington, reports a case 

of anterior poliomyelitis in Iowa Hom. Journal, December. It 

was first treated, but not recognized by an allopath who gave 

castor oil. When seen by Palmer the paralysis was established. 

Case made complete recovery under Gelsemium in rather high 

potency, with some other inter-current remedies as indicated. 

But Gelsemium seemed to be the remedy for the central disease. 

Dr. Lewis Robinson, of Carmel, Maine, writes that he has used 

Crataegus extensively in heart murmurs with excellent results. 

Dr. A. L. Fisher writes of Arnica oil that “it is of great value 

in stopping the falling out of the hair, a serious thing for those 

afflicted, and for which Arnica oil was recommended many years 

ago. I have used the preparation for this trouble many 

times with excellent success, in fact, not a failure.” If we re- 

member aright it was either Dr. Clifton or Dr. Ussher who first 

wrote of this use, in Homoeopathic World, fifteen or twenty years 

ago. 

It should be remembered that an important indication for 

Rumex crispus exists when there is a lacerating pain under the 

clavicle, especially when there is hawking. It should be espe- 

cially kept in mind when the pain is in the breast, in the upper part 

of the lobe of the lung forward, or in the region of the left 

shoulder. — Pop. Z. f. H. 

Caulophyllum is useful in inflammatory rheumatism of the 

wrist. There is sharp pain in the hand and in the finger joints, 

especially in the second joint when closing the hand, and the 

joints are stiff. — Pop. Z. f. H. 

“Cancers — epithelioma — yield very rapidly to the local and in- 

ternal administration of Echinacea. Carcinomas can be arrested, 

the odor destroyed, and the patient made comfortable under its 

use, and I believe that many cures have been and will be effected 

by its use in this most loathsome of all diseases.” — Holmes' 

Eclectic Quarterly, Dec. 

We have often been called to a case which looked to the pa- 

tient and friends that appendicitis was in full blast. The intense 

pain, hardly endurable, with these cases of intestinal colic, I have 

seen them fade away by giving 15-drop doses of Dioscorea in hot 

water every ten, fifteen or twenty minutes. — Dr. F. R. Crowell, 

Lawrence, Mich., in Ec. M. Dec. 

“My first knowledge of the use of Variolinum was given to me 

by that close student and staunch Homoeopath, the late Dr. 

Martin Deschere, of New York. He told me of his experience in 

an epidemic of small-pox in Hoboken, N. J., in the first years of 

his practice. Quarantine was not really attempted at that time, 

and cases were all treated in their own homes. He told me that 

he had small-pox in over one hundred families, and that he used 

Variolinum as a prophylactic in every instance upon those who 

were exposed and did not have a second case in any family where 

the Variolinum was given at once.” — John B. Garrison, M. D., 

in North Am. J. of Hom. 


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STAPHISAGRIA

THE

 Homeopathic Recorder

 Vol. XXXII Lancaster, Pa., January 15, 1917. No. 1

STAPHISAGRIA

By Dr. J. C. Fahnestock, Sea Breeze Ave., Palm

Beach, Florida.

Staphisagria has quite a wide sphere of action among acute as well as chronic sickness. 

In a few words I shall call your attention to just a few of the prominent conditions of this most valuable remedy. Staphisagria is rich in mental symptoms and it is all important that they are well understood. I say important — for it is the mental symptoms or the impressions that are made upon the mind that in turn are reflected to different parts of the body that gives us the proper knowledge for a definite selection of Staphisagria. You will read in the mental symptoms, "Great indignation about things done by others or by himself." 

"Grieves about consequences." 

You will see by this expression that Staph,  is suitable to cases brought on by pent up anger, or grief, and often a silent "grouch" runs through the case. 

Patients requiring Staph,  are very irritable, excitable, at the same time not boisterous, at least it is rarely shown, and with this irritability, fatigue, which is due to his pent up emotions. 

A slight insult causes a regular breakdown, goes all to pieces, they will tell you of troubles, silent troubles, which  has unfit them for business,  can't sleep, trembles all over, brain fag, exceedingly nervous, prostration and headache. Just think how often you have found such cases in sexual perverts, those that constantly dwell on sexual subjects and how greatly improved by Staph. 

Staph, is sometimes called the "newly wed remedy." Some women suffer severely after the first coition, not only bodily, but mentally, with a constant urging to urinate. 

Last summer a newly married widow (young) came to my office and complained bitterly of a constant desire to urinate. "Why, I am obliged to urinate every ten or fifteen minutes day and night - for the last two weeks." Any pain? "No, just have to go all the time." Staph. 30 promptly cured. 

(Burning in the urethra when not urinating often points to-  Staph.) 

In young women the suffering is bodily and mentally and quite often by questioning closely you will find the external genitals have always been sensitive and especially when sitting. 

External parts are so sensitive can scarcely wear  napkin during the menses. It does not stop here, but there may be inflammation of the ovaries with stinging, burning, and a pressing down sensation. 

Often found in those that masturbate, and they constantly dwell upon sexual subjects. In just such subjects Staph, is golden. 

In babies a mental condition that is not pent up is frequently found, the baby gets angry, which is followed with screaming, ugly, pot-bellied children, and especially when they suffer with their teeth, which turns black, gums swollen, tender to the touch, Staph, is a  Godsend to these little unfortunates.  (They generally have a history.) 

There is a nervousness that runs through all the complaints that requires Staph.; the nervous system is in a constant fret. 

Don't forget the  state fret. Troubles  that are brought on by supposed wrath or insult and is followed by a constant fret. 

After anger or insult often comes on a colic or diarrhea, which I have seen promptly stopped with Staph. 

When symptoms agree you will  find Staph, frequently required for the after effect of sexual excesses, self abuse, etc. 

There is often  found hardenings of certain  tissues, styes, which leaves hard nodosities (chalazion), hardening of ovaries, testicles, prostatic glands, of ton-sils. Arthritic nodosities. 

Just take an hour off each day for a week and read what wonderful things Staph, can do. 

Some Interesting Cases by Baillie Brown

 “Some Interesting Cases” were published in “The Homeopathic Recorder”

Vol. XXV Lancaster, Pa., February, 1910 No. 2. (Page 57)

Edited By Dr. Ravinder S. Mann

Some Interesting Cases

By Baillie Brown, A. B., M. D.

And first let me say that I consider HOMOEOPATHY a gift of 

GOD to sick and suffering humanity and our law of cure a 

DIVINE LAW. We are prone to speak of Similia similibus 

curantur as “Hahnemann's law,” forgetting that this wonderful 

Homeopathic Law of cure is only after all GOD’S Law which 

Samuel Hahnemann was graciously permitted to discover. 

Case 1

Miss R , a Russian Jewess, was brought to my office 

by her intended husband and a Jewish Rabbi with the following 

interesting history. One afternoon some 5 or 6 months previous, 

while walking across the Brooklyn Bridge with her intended hus- 

band, she suddenly stopped and clapping her hands to her head 

declared that “his mother had struck her over the head with a 

wooden club.” The intended husband remonstrated and tried to 

show her that they were quite alone, but she kept reiterating that 

“his mother had struck her with the wooden club.” She was 

brought to her home and physician after physician was summoned, 

but all failed in disabusing her mind of the peculiar hallucination 

or in any way improving her health, which continually kept grow- 

ing worse, until finally their little savings were all used up, after 

which she was taken to the various city dispensaries, but in every 

instance without any improvement or amelioration of her condi- 

tion either mentally or physically. The family physician was 

again consulted and on his advice the papers were all made out 

for a commitment to an institution. Before taking her away at 

the final request of the Rabbi she was brought to my office “to 

see if Homeopathy might be able to do anything” in her case. 

On being led into my office I noticed the following: she immedi- 

ately sank into a chair and was in but a few moments asleep — her 

hair was disheveled ; shaking her I asked through the Rabbi, who 

acted as interpreter, if her mouth was dry and if her tongue seem- 

ed to stick to the roof of her mouth and she nodded assent. On 

turning to consult my Hering’s Condensed Materia Medica and 

while the intended husband, and Rabbi, were looking over the 

volumes on my library shelves she slipped from the office and was 

gone. The two men hastily picking up their hats hurried out of 

my office and caught her almost a block away, and pulling and 

dragging finally brought her back into my office. She then began 

to cry. She looked thin and frail and her face wore an expres- 

sion of much suffering. I was informed that it was next to im- 

possible to get her to partake of food in any form of any kind. 

I had noticed as the men led her into my office a staggering gait. 

But I thought I saw enough to pick as her remedy Nux moschata. 

Accordingly I made up three (3) powders of Nux moschata in 

the 1000th potency B. and T., one of which I placed on her tongue 

in my office, and giving the other two powders to her intended 

husband, ordered that one powder should be placed on her tongue 

in just 72 hours and the other on the third day following. The 

following is the report of the Rabbi : “Miss R seemed to grad- 

ually improve from the moment you put the powder on her tongue. 

Indeed she seemed so much improved in 72 hours that we thought 

it hardly necessary to give her the second powder, but decided 

to obey your instructions, which on doing she clapped her hands 

to her head and declared that something had snapped on the in- 

side.” Immediately she was her old self again — declared she had 

never had such silly hallucinations as her friends informed she 

had been suffering from for seven months — began to eat — and in 

two weeks gained seven pounds — in three months was happily 

married and is at last accounts perfectly well and happy. 

Case 2

Mrs. D, a colored woman aged 40 years, mother of 

four children, had been taken to the local hospital during my sum- 

mer vacation and delivered of a dead fetus. They kept her a 

week or so and then sent her home in an ambulance, telling her 

“she would probably never be a well woman again, as her womb 

HAD GROWED TO HER BACKBONE.” She suffered in 

agony until she heard that I had returned from my vacation, when 

she immediately sent for me to come and see her. Before I had 

time to ask her any questions or examine her or even to find a 

chair to sit down on, she burst out with, “O Doctor, It is so miser- 

able — It is so thirsty — It  burns so here (pointing in the neighbor- 

hood of McBurney's point) — It is so restless and O Doctor, I just 

can’t bear them hours of one, two, three to come — cause them is my 

worstest hours.” It is needless to say that in a jiffy I had ordered 

a glass of water and a teaspoon, into which glass I dropped a few 

drops of Arsenic 30. The next day she sent me her blessing and 

a dollar, and said she was able to do her own washing in the 

next morning. The third teaspoonful of Arsenic 30 had in only 

nine hours effected a happy cure. 

Case 3

Mr. C , a young Russian Hebrew, was brought to 

my office by the same Rabbi as in Case 1. The Rabbi informed 

me that “he was tormented with a peculiar hallucination, viz., 

that every time he looked in a looking glass he failed to recognize 

himself but saw the form and visage of another man.” Like the 

woman with the issue of blood in the N. T. Scriptures he had 

spent all his living upon physicians, neither yet had he been healed 

of any. Before proceeding to question him further I thought I 

detected the smell of musk about him, and found sure enough 

that he was in the habit of carrying a little vial of musk essence 

in the pocket, which he occasionally touched with his tongue. I 

took the vial of musk from him, throwing it into my waste-paper 

basket, gave him a good lecture on the enormity of “musk tasting” 

and prepared him a tiny vial of pellets medicated with Moschus 

30, ordering two pellets to be taken occasionally, with the result 

that in a few days his “peculiar” hallucination completely disap- 

peared and he improved wonderfully in health the following 

month. 

Case 4

The little six-year-old daughter of very poor but re- 

spectable parents. Was called in the 

morning to see the child, which the messenger informed me was 

“very sick.” But being a very busy day I was unable to get to 

the little patient until late in the afternoon. On reaching the bed- 

side I beheld a very sick child indeed, tossing about from place to 

place on the parents' bed, continually demanding “a drink, mama.” 

On inserting my two thermometers into the little one's rectum I 

found a temperature of 106. On examination of the right lung 

I discovered consolidation over two-thirds (lower). She was 

constantly scolding “the naughty pains around her heart. It was 

informed by the mother that they thought she would die” right 

after dinner (1 P. M.)." The symptoms pointed so unmistak- 

ably to Arsenicum, although I recalled that Nash in “How to 

Take the Case” speaks of Arsenicum as specially called for in 

“Upper Right chest troubles” that I decided then and there to 

give Arsenicum in the 1000th potency, one dose from my buggy 

satchel on her tongue, and warning the mother to give absolutely 

nothing else in the shape of medicine I left, promising to call the 

next morning. The next morning I made my call at about ten 

A. M. and found the little miss playing on the floor with her dolly 

and contentedly munching a crust of dry bread. The tempera- 

ture, taken in the rectum, was normal and THE CONSOLI- 

DATED LUNG QUITE CLEAR. I asked the mother to mi- 

nutely describe what happened after I gave the medicine the after- 

noon before (between 4 and 5 P. M.). She said baby seemed to 

get much worse and the fever higher until about 11 P. M., when 

she called for the “pottie” and from that until 2 A. M. the mother 

was kept busy emptying pot after pot of slimy stools. At 4 A. M. 

the child fell into a peaceful and refreshing slumber and awoke at 

9 A. M., evidently feeling as well as ever. 

I INFORMED A BROTHER NEW YORK HOMOEOPATHIC 

PRACTITIONER OF THE MARVELOUS ACTION OF THE INDICATED 

REMEDY IN THIS CASE AND LOOKING ON ME WITH 

A LOOK OF PITY HE RESPONDED, “FOR GOD'S SAKE. 

DOC, DON’T REPEAT THAT PIPE DREAM TO ANYONE 

ELSE.” 

-88 Bowers Street, Jersey City, N. J., January 26th, 1910.