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started on the right, moving to the left. He eats, drinks small quantities of cold water, which relieve. One cheek is pale, the other red. He does not move, no sweating, cold feet, jerks when falling asleep and has continuous eructations.

Fever with no thirst, better for cold drinks. White membranes on tonsils, no sweat, cervi-

cal glands, cold feet during fever, jerking when falling asleep makes it difficult to distinguish between Lyc. and Lach. Evolution from right to left is in favour of Lyc. ; but there is the unusual symptom of continuous eructations during fever (p. 491 Kent's Repertory). Lachesis 7c, every 2 hours is given; child sleeps and wakes up next day cured.

Conclusion. Lachesis: tonsillitis can evolve from right to left. On other occasions this symp- tom of eructations during fever was observed with Lach. as the remedy, so Lach. should be 2nd degree on p. 491.

Stomatitis due to injury Pierre C., two years, injured his upper lip after a fall. Haematoma of upper gum and upper lip oedema. Mouth ulcer left, inner cheek, 38~ clear water running out of nose. He took Arnica.

Four days later upper gums are swollen, red, suppurated and bleeding. White tongue coating with blisters on the palate, tongue and chin, temperature 40~ refuses to eat and drink for three days. The mother insists that the gingivitis started in the area of the injury before spreading.

Ten remedies have bleeding and swollen pain- ful gums; only Calc. carb., Merc. sol. and Staph. have blisters in the mouth as well. Staphisagria 15c, 3• granules/day, was given because of injury cause. Next day: no more fever and pain disappeared.

Conclusion: Always listen to people. Secondly, this child started with a watery nose with mouth ulcer. The injury had modified the symptomatology and decreased the child's defences, so Staph. was given.

Cahiers du Groupement Hahnemannien 1988 25:68--69

Homoeopathic remedies for childhood obesity JACQUES LAMOTHE Obesity in children remains a serious medical condition. Homeeopathic doctors view obesity as a difficult problem to treat. They usually prefer to deal with other complaints, including the opposite condition, the thinness of children,

because homceopathy can act on the roots (heredity, constitution or chronic affections). As for obesity, the most common cause is psycho- somatic, and it is therefore advisable to use drugs of such aetiology.

A list of twenty hom0eopathic drugs taken from Kent's Repertory, Dr Schmidt's Obesity and Barthel's Repertory gives: Ant.crud., Apis, Bar-c., Calc., Calc-s., Caps., Carbo veg., Ferr., Graph., Lach., Lyc., Med., Nat. mur., Nux mosch., Op., Puls., Sepia, Sulph., Thuja. Among these three are particularly important: Capsicum, Ant. crudum, Pulsatilla. Capsicum especially, and Ant. crudum to a lesser extent, appear to be real anorexic anti-depressant homceopathic drugs, with quick and long term results. Pulsatilla is less often prescribed. INDICATIONS Capsicum: Secondary obesity due to bulimia, with thin legs; the child is fat, clumsy and home- sick with red cheeks. Antimonium crudum: Secondary obesity due to bulimia in a bad tempered child with skin complaints. Pulsatilla: May be helpful in children who are affected by maternal separation. The obesity is not always associated with bulimia; it is of a gynoid type.

Homeopathie 1988 4:27-36

Kents Repertory--Lepi or Lept? A. WEGENER Checking every entry in the Repertory, the author found Lepidium mentioned 38 times, with the source not traceable (Allen, Hering) in three instances. There were 137 entries for Lep- tandra, with the source untraceable for twelve of these. Checking against the sources (Allen's Encyclopedia, Hering's Guiding Symptoms) has shown that six of the 137 Leptandra entries should be for Lepidium. These are: --Mind, Anxiety on waking (page 8). - -Fear on waking (page 47). --Mind, Thoughts of disease (page 87). - -Head, Pain, evening (page 134). - -Head, Pain, pressing, Forehead (page 192). ---Sleep, Dreams, sad (page 1243).

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Diseases of the kidneys and urinary tract W. BUCHMANN Diseases of the kidneys and urinary tract respond well to hom0eopathy. With chronic